Senate Passes Ukraine Funding Bill

The Senate has passed a substantial $95 billion aid package to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan overcoming strong internal dissent and delays within the GOP-led House.
Key Details:
The bill received overwhelming Senate approval with a 79-18 vote, backed by majorities from both parties despite some vocal opposition.
The package includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $15 billion for Israel, and measures to address Chinese influence, notably involving TikTok.
Critics like Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) expressed dissatisfaction, citing concerns over prioritizing foreign borders over American needs.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a significant $95 billion emergency aid bill aimed at bolstering the defense capabilities of Ukraine and Israel, marking a pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy amid contentious debates. The aid package, designed to address several international and security concerns, passed with a substantial majority, signaling strong bipartisan support despite notable opposition within both parties.

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"I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.

Joe Biden will give a Shpeech -- he doesn't give speeches any longer, only shpeeches -- at 3:45pm.

The Senate also passed a bill mandating the sale of TikTok to non-Chinese-state-security owners.

In a significant move by U.S. lawmakers, Congress has passed a bill that presents the most substantial challenge to TikTok's operations in the United States to date, aiming to address long-standing national security concerns associated with the app's Chinese ownership. The legislation mandates that TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, either sell the app or face a national ban, a decision backed by substantial bipartisan support and reflecting years of mounting scrutiny over the app's data privacy practices.
The bill's passage marks a culmination of efforts to legislate against the perceived risks posed by Chinese technology companies, with TikTok in the spotlight due to its massive user base and cultural influence in the U.S. Critics of the app, including key Senate and House leaders, have argued that ByteDance's ownership could allow the Chinese government undue access to the personal data of American citizens, a claim TikTok has repeatedly contested.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:18 PM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 12:19 PM (pgG81)

2 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

3 SPONGE!!

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 24, 2024 12:19 PM (nXhwP)

4 And yet my sister in law still can't be given a refugee visa to come live here in our guest house....

Posted by: Mishdog at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (duI51)

5 and of course they passed it.

there was never any doubt if they would.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (nXhwP)

6 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage

Oh, Mitch, just STFU and STFD. Nobody cares what you have to say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)

7 Fashionably late.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (c51/r)

8 Good thing we dont have to print money to pay for all this.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (uTFcg)

9 TikTok banned.

eThots hardest hit.

Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (QvxaN)

10 (waves Ukraine flag)

Posted by: Moron Robbie hypothesizes that bin Laden won the heck out of 9/11, didn't he? at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (9Ct69)

11 google is more of a threat than tik tok

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (CIS44)

12 Joe Biden will give a Shpeech -- he doesn't give speeches any longer, only shpeeches -- at 3:45pm.

Wanna bet?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)

13 On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a significant $95 billion emergency aid bill aimed at bolstering the defense capabilities of Ukraine and Israel, marking a pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy amid contentious debates. The aid package, designed to address several international and security concerns, passed with a substantial majority, signaling strong bipartisan support despite notable opposition within both parties.

I remember when they couldn't find $5 billion for the wall.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (pgG81)

14 The Senate has passed a substantial $95 billion aid package to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan overcoming strong internal dissent and delays within the GOP-led House.
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$95 billion.

I remember when that was a lot of money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

15 google is more of a threat than tik tok
Posted by: BruceWayne

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Close, but Google is a fed asset.

Twitter is the target.

Posted by: Moron Robbie hypothesizes that bin Laden won the heck out of 9/11, didn't he? at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (9Ct69)

16 Quite a dangerous precedent being made forcing the sale of Dick Dock, isn't it? Can't see how this is a Constitutional act by Congress. Don't get me wrong, I don't use that platform, but if they can do it to Dick Dock, they can do it to other corporations too.

Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (N39Ws)

17 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage

Oh, Mitch, just STFU and STFD. Nobody cares what you have to say.
Posted by: Archimedes

never seems to glitch when hes talking ukraine money

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (CIS44)

18 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.
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What a dick.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

19 14 The Senate has passed a substantial $95 billion aid package to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan overcoming strong internal dissent and delays within the GOP-led House.
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$95 billion.

I remember when that was a lot of money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

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We couldn't afford $5 billion for a border wall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

20 against the perceived risks posed by Chinese technology companies,

Perceived?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (I6W2K)

21 I wouldnt be surprised if Google gets the TikTok US franchise

Posted by: Jamaica at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (4zk5T)

22 I remember when they couldn't find $5 billion for the wall.
Posted by: rickb223

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IT WOULD WRECK THE ECONOMY!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie hypothesizes that bin Laden won the heck out of 9/11, didn't he? at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (9Ct69)

23 Couldn't they just sell it to DanceByte?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (63Dwl)

24 We don't actually know how much the bill will cost or how the money will be used.

Everything the federal government says is a lie. EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (woPEM)

25 Also, that tiktok bill, i hate the idea on general purpose, and iirc there's some pretty ethically slippery slope shit going on in it as well.

but well, yay more govt power...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (nXhwP)

26 Anything to grind the cash out of the proles bank accounts.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (qZdIZ)

27 Alright, well, the spending has passed. Ukraine will now win the war.

Now, can we focus on the border?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

28 We know they won’t win, so how long do we just throw money at this? Putin must be laughing his patoot off.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 Don't forget about Gropey Joe setting up offices in Qatar and Turkey to assist with importing more Jihadis into what's left of our country.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (UnA8+)

30 Oh, good lord. I can't wait to hear what Brandon's people have to say about Ukraine in his shpeech. Holding my breath for a provocation/escalation, especially with McConnell loudly trashing isolationism.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (0FoWg)

31 12 Joe Biden will give a Shpeech -- he doesn't give speeches any longer, only shpeeches -- at 3:45pm.

Wanna bet?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (CsUN+)

He'll come to the podium around 4:30pm following his afternoon diaper change and Ensure infusion.

Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer) at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (N39Ws)

32 30 Oh, good lord. I can't wait to hear what Brandon's people have to say about Ukraine in his shpeech. Holding my breath for a provocation/escalation, especially with McConnell loudly trashing isolationism.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (0FoWg)

========

"We have launched nukes at Japan for their part in the bombing of Dresden, capitol of Ukraine."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

33 28 We know they won’t win, so how long do we just throw money at this? Putin must be laughing his patoot off.
Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Until DOKTOR Jill owns a 100 Million Dollar Mansion.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (UnA8+)

34 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.

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Not realizing they're reinforcing isolationism.

Posted by: Narrator at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (9Ct69)

35 TikTok banned.

eThots hardest hit.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM (QvxaN)

Would that be a TokTikal error?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (tkR6S)

36 What's the undiscovered and treacherous way the Tik-Tok bill helps the CCP? Or hurts the American citizen?

This would not pass without one or both conditions being satisfied.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (w9Wax)

37 Really, the Republicans should have got something: at least have the US government abandon its lawsuit against Texas, which aims to prevent Texas from defending its own border. Have Mayorkas impeached or resign. Something.
That being written, I hope Ukraine puts the money to good use.

Posted by: PG at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (gQbO4)

38 27 Alright, well, the spending has passed. Ukraine will now win the war.

Now, can we focus on the border?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Not according to Speaker Johnson. There will be no border bill this year, according to him.

Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer) at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (N39Ws)

39 TikTok banned.

eThots hardest hit.
Posted by: mikeski at April 24, 2024 12:21 PM

I see a new Go Fund Me campaign idea...

Penny for your THOTs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (I6W2K)

40 Ukraine, Mykraine gives me a migraine!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (FVME7)

41 A shpeech like this one??

Breaking911 @Breaking911 15m
WOW! Check out the massive crowd that showed up for a Biden rally in Florida 👀

https://tinyurl.com/97aeyabj
13 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (vtyCZ)

42 The bill's passage marks a culmination of efforts to legislate against the perceived risks posed by Chinese technology companies, with TikTok in the spotlight due to its massive user base and cultural influence in the U.S. Critics of the app, including key Senate and House leaders, have argued that ByteDance's ownership could allow the Chinese government undue access to the personal data of American citizens, a claim TikTok has repeatedly contested.
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"Could."

Sure. "Will and does" is more like it. And "cultural influence" should read "cultural cancer."

That said, forgive me for assuming that this isn't what it says it is, and is instead just official censorship for everyone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

43 I see a new Go Fund Me campaign idea...

Penny for your THOTs.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState a

that's called OnlyFans

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (CIS44)

44 Good! The more borrowing and spending on foreign adventures just means all the old timers will have to pay more in medicare and medicaid and I can put their old wrinkled asses back to work at Arby's for minimum wage and they can gum their shift meal.

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (cDEsv)

45 Shfuck Joe Biden

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (wtvvX)

46 Sponsored. Gotsta go.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (0EOe9)

47 We couldn't afford $5 billion for a border wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Sure, but that's not a fair comparison. I mean, needing a refrigerator for a $1,000 might mean that you don't have $100 for a nice dinner out but you spend your money on important stuff first...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (HnUIn)

48 “I think we’ve turned a corner on the isolationist movement,” Senator Mitch McConnell said

Ya got me. The slight scepticism of You Guys having your fingers in every pie worldwide, with pork for cronies and ten percent for the Big Guy, makes me an isolationist.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (z+89e)

49
"I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.

Rounding the corner and heading back to busybodyism.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (63Dwl)

50 What's the undiscovered and treacherous way the Tik-Tok bill helps the CCP? Or hurts the American citizen?

This would not pass without one or both conditions being satisfied.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 24, 2024 12:24 PM

See #15.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (I6W2K)

51 33
Until DOKTOR Jill owns a 100 Million Dollar Mansion.
Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2024 12:23 PM (UnA8+)

Now Zelensky can buy that next mansion in Europe he has his eye on.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (N39Ws)

52 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.

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GFY Mitch

Posted by: Inogame at April 24, 2024 12:26 PM (53oGX)

53 Ya got me. The slight scepticism of You Guys having your fingers in every pie worldwide, with pork for cronies and ten percent for the Big Guy, makes me an isolationist.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM (z+89e)
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Your dictionary is very current.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:26 PM (HnUIn)

54 I don't quite understand what the TikTok stuff is supposed to do. What stops them from selling to another ChiCom shell corp, though maybe one slightly more well veiled? Is Joe Chi Mihn going to send his digs in the Justice Dept after them either way?

Posted by: Flyguy at April 24, 2024 12:26 PM (OYxA4)

55 McConnell mistakes opposition for "isolationists". Name-calling is standard-issue politics, but he can't really believe this.

Spending borrowed money to promote a war the State Department stumbled into, without gaining a single damn thing in return (like even a little bit of face-saving border protection) just grinds his own base into the dirt. He's an open-borders, spendthrift, corporatist, uniparty shitheel.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2024 12:26 PM (g9ZsE)

56 ho hum:

Elections for about half the world's population take place in 2024. But the integrity of these elections is under threat, because WhatsApp isn't doing enough to detect and stop networked disinformation and hate speech on its platform -- which can quickly turn into political violence.

Mozilla is making an urgent call for WhatsApp to implement three simple changes in its product to slow the spread of political disinformation and other harmful content on its platform. Will you add your name to ask WhatsApp to update its product to protect global elections?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (B1FKF)

57 Quite a dangerous precedent being made forcing the sale of Dick Dock, isn't it? Can't see how this is a Constitutional act by Congress. Don't get me wrong, I don't use that platform, but if they can do it to Dick Dock, they can do it to other corporations too.
Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (N39Ws)

Dick Dock? Is that a social media site for grooming trannies?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (tkR6S)

58 Imagine how peaceful it would be if we just gave all the countries money away.

Open the Border for Peace. Empty the Jails for Justice. Drain Fort Knox for the People.

Posted by: The Lump at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (Z8Yh2)

59 54 I don't quite understand what the TikTok stuff is supposed to do. What stops them from selling to another ChiCom shell corp, though maybe one slightly more well veiled? Is Joe Chi Mihn going to send his digs in the Justice Dept after them either way?
Posted by: Flyguy at April 24, 2024 12:26 PM (OYxA4)

=====

It'll probably get bought by some org with direct ties to the IC.

They will then mandate changes to make it more of a spy mechanism while also making the UI worse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

60 $95 billion we do not have, but OK.

We could sell weapons to Ukraine on favorable terms, drill for oil in massive quantities, and sell weapons to Taiwan and Israel as well on favorable terms, but nah.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (uTTG7)

61 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.
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What's your cut?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (7fElN)

62 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 Apr 21
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev comments on passed US military aid to Ukraine:

“They want to continue the civil war of the separated people of our once united country (…

Considering their Russophobic decision I can't help but wish the USA with all sincerity to dive into a new civil war themselves as quickly as possible.

It will, I hope, be very different from the war between North and South in the 19th century and will be waged using aircraft, tanks, artillery, MLRS, all types of missiles and other weapons. And which will finally lead to the inglorious collapse of the vile evil empire of the 21st century - the United States of America."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (vtyCZ)

63 Not according to Speaker Johnson. There will be no border bill this year, according to him.
Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer)

They really do have him by whatever he has in place of balls.

Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (nCaYE)

64 that's called OnlyFans
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 12:25 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (I6W2K)

65 Elections for about half the world's population take place in 2024. But the integrity of these elections is under threat, because WhatsApp isn't doing enough to detect and stop networked disinformation and hate speech on its platform -- which can quickly turn into political violence.

Mozilla is making an urgent call for WhatsApp to implement three simple changes in its product to slow the spread of political disinformation and other harmful content on its platform. Will you add your name to ask WhatsApp to update its product to protect global elections?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (B1FKF)
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Censorship is protection, comrade.
Censorship is safety.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

66 I hope a disembodied brain in a giant exoskeleton rends McConnell limb from limb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (0FoWg)

67 Fuck mcconnel too.

Posted by: The Lump at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (Z8Yh2)

68 re 55: saw eliz warren this morning on for or fox biz, someone caught her somewhere, probably in d.c. and asked her about anti-semitism on college campuses and she only wanted to talk about funding for ukraine.

makes you wonder where to the money going

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (B1FKF)

69 Deep state must have so much dirt on these profligate bastards.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (rJ48h)

70 The Republic is saved

Posted by: brak at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (25k9m)

71 Alternate headline:

Senate votes to fund Ukraine for the next 3 months

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (2UnvF)

72 69 Deep state must have so much dirt on these profligate bastards.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (rJ48h)

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At some point, blackmail just becomes something you and your friends laugh about over drinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

73 Mozilla is making an urgent call for WhatsApp to implement three simple changes in its product to slow the spread of political disinformation and other harmful content on its platform.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM

Number 2 will surprise you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (I6W2K)

74 We couldn't afford $5 billion for a border wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You cut out $90 billion of overhead, overhead is going to get mad.

Enjoy the single tank you'll be able to buy, Zelenskyy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (c5wrR)

75 Elections for about half the world's population take place in 2024. But the integrity of these elections is under threat, because WhatsApp isn't doing enough to detect and stop networked disinformation and hate speech on its platform -- which can quickly turn into political violence.
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WhatsApp just has to bar Demofascists, if political violence is your worry.

Easy-peasy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (g9ZsE)

76 71 Alternate headline:

Senate votes to fund Ukraine for the next 3 months
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (2UnvF)

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Is that the over/under for when the next Ukraine funding bill gets voted on?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

77 They could break up Meta and Alphabet, but as both are racing to jump into bed with government, that won’t happen.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (uTTG7)

78 They could break up Meta and Alphabet, but as both are racing to jump into bed with government, that won’t happen.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (uTTG7)
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Fascism's a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

79 Just once I'd like something unexpected to happen. Something that benefits oour side. Like the case against Trump in New York getting dismissed. Or Biden getting impeached. Or Congress passing a bill to shut down the border. Or Ukraine willing to negotiate a peace treaty. Or Hamas surrendering.
Then I wake up and nothing has changed.
Biden threatening to give amnesty to illegals via executive order.
Biden threatening to declare a climate emergency and become a senile dictator.
Congress given Biden everything he asks for without any limits.
Will we make it to November or is it already too late.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)

80 All of this makes me sad. I understand that there are forces that have their own momentum and cannot be stayed - like time and tide - I don't like it, but cannot stop it, and although resistance is futile, it is necessary nonetheless.

I see no reason to fund Ukraine's war, I really don't like funding both sides of the Israeli war, I see no need to poke China with aid to Taiwan, and I think the only reason TikTok is targeted is because it is not owned by the globalists.

Sad.

Posted by: AK at work at April 24, 2024 12:31 PM (o+IHV)

81 Censorship is protection, comrade.
Censorship is safety.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

From crimethink.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:31 PM (uTTG7)

82 78 Fascism's a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

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"Fascism? That thing where government has little power to stop people from living in unapproved ways?"
-DU, 89.54% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

83 re 65: and freedom. you are only free when you know the truth, and the party is truth

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (B1FKF)

84 Truly we live in an age of miracles and wonders when all of our nation's problems are so completely solved that we can give boatloads of money created out of thin air to other countries that would never give us a dime even if they could.

Posted by: brak at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (25k9m)

85 18 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage.
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What a dick.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

It says something about what they really think of the base voter that he'd continue to keep saying stuff like this out loud.

Posted by: Inogame at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (53oGX)

86 66 I hope a disembodied brain in a giant exoskeleton rends McConnell limb from limb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (0FoWg)

I'd settle for this:

https://mubi.com/en/us/films/fiend-without-a-face

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (wtvvX)

87 Is that the over/under for when the next Ukraine funding bill gets voted on?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

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

Unofficial line, yes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (2UnvF)

88 Something that benefits our side. Like the case against Trump in New York getting dismissed.

You mean like when Trump gets arrested on May 17 for going to Barron's graduation? He's going to win all fifty states.

Posted by: t-bird at April 24, 2024 12:34 PM (c5wrR)

89 We couldn't afford $5 billion for a border wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

Because.

Posted by: U.S. Government at April 24, 2024 12:34 PM (uTTG7)

90 "War without frontier"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2024 12:34 PM (gzX6N)

91 For his last gasp act in the Senate, McConnell is scheming to let the governor choose his replacement, so the Kentucky tradition of uniparty control carries on.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 24, 2024 12:34 PM (g9ZsE)

92 saw eliz warren this morning on for or fox biz, someone caught her somewhere, probably in d.c. and asked her about anti-semitism on college campuses and she only wanted to talk about funding for ukraine.

makes you wonder where to the money going
Posted by: gnats local 678

A lot of this money is kicked back into the US. Sam Bankman Fried (remember him?), was using his crypto-currency firm for money laundering billions in Ukraine back into the US, and a lot of it went right into the DNC coffers. However, this little factoid did not come up in his trial or conviction.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 24, 2024 12:34 PM (vcOmj)

93 mcconnell ain't so bad.
think about romney as repub senate leader

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (B1FKF)

94 Think of the money we’d save by abolishing CBP, ICE, and the Border Patrol. You know the government wants to.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (uTTG7)

95 strong bipartisan support
.......

I think I see the problem here.

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (v0R5T)

96 73 Mozilla is making an urgent call for WhatsApp to implement three simple changes in its product to slow the spread of political disinformation and other harmful content on its platform.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM

Number 2 will surprise you!

it frequently does

Posted by: jerrold nadler at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (v3pYe)

97 Will Puddinhead sign the bill in the Oval Office, the fake Oval Office, or while lying on his back on the Presidential Changing Table?

Posted by: Diaperene Ointment at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (V5BDR)

98 We "couldn't afford" the $5 billion border wall because it didn't include an extra $45 billion in payoffs, kickbacks, bribes, sweetheart deals, riders, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (HnUIn)

99 A lot of this money is kicked back into the US. Sam Bankman Fried (remember him?), was using his crypto-currency firm for money laundering billions in Ukraine back into the US, and a lot of it went right into the DNC coffers. However, this little factoid did not come up in his trial or conviction.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.....

when you consider his 25 year sentence when the prosecution was asking for 50 and he could have had over 100, sure it did

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (CIS44)

100 ...we can give boatloads of money created out of thin air to other countries that would never give us a dime even if they could.
Posted by: brak at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (25k9m)
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Speak for yourself, prole.

Posted by: The Big Guy Makes 10% at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (g9ZsE)

101 Relevant: https://is.gd/StDZgg

(Goes to Xitter, but shows you where your tax dollars are going in UKR)

Posted by: Bert G at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (VARTN)

102 And the money printing goes on.

Posted by: scampydog at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (41CYW)

103 Mitch McConnell is a traitor…not hyperbole.

Posted by: Seems legit at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (JeYYB)

104 re 92: if it's not on cnn or msnbc it's because it's not the kind of truth you need to hear

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (B1FKF)

105 I hope a disembodied brain in a giant exoskeleton rends McConnell limb from limb.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:28 PM (0FoWg)

I'd settle for this:

https://mubi.com/en/us/films/fiend-without-a-face
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 24, 2024 12:32 PM (wtvvX)
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How about ED-209?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (Be/+i)

106 98 We "couldn't afford" the $5 billion border wall because it didn't include an extra $45 billion in payoffs, kickbacks, bribes, sweetheart deals, riders, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (HnUIn)

=======

"It's just the cost of doing government business. It's what we have to do in order to ensure a balanced budget in 50 years."
-Paul Ryan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

107 So who were the 18 who voted against this?

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (N/k1H)

108 The embarrassing thing will be if Ukraine loses the war this summer anyway.

Ukraine has just starting refusing consular services to Ukrainian males living abroad - to have your passport renewed, or to receive any other service from the Ukrainian government, you have to go back to Ukraine, where of course you will be immediately drafted into the army.

The other hot idea that the Deep State has come up with is having NATO troops garrison Western Ukraine, to free up Ukrainian troops for the front.

But these Western troops under no conditions will actually start fighting with the Russians.

Swearsies!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (YAtuc)

109 >>>
Not according to Speaker Johnson. There will be no border bill this year, according to him.
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They got to him solid. He looks like one of the walking dead.
If only our firebrands, seriously, could learn the technique and
turn it on them.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (lCWOD)

110 Anyone want to bet against another multi-billion dollar spending bill for Ukraine next year?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (d9fT1)

111 I'm not great with MATH but 61+16 does not equal 95. So the rest is a slush fund for Congress to reward its syncophants including Hamas?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

112 110 Anyone want to bet against another multi-billion dollar spending bill for Ukraine next year?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (d9fT1)

======

You mean after two more this year, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

113 I'm wondering if the TT thing will be bad for Joe and the Dems. I guess they will blame it on Trump.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (vFG9F)

114 Number 2 will surprise you!

it frequently does
Posted by: jerrold nadler at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM

That took longer than I expected, but we got there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (I6W2K)

115 re 96: likely thread winner

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (B1FKF)

116 Somewhat off topic.
Do you know who Susan Wiles is?
Key top player in the Donald Trump campaign.

Do you know that Susan Wiles works for a lobbying firm called Mercury?
Do you know that Mercury is owned by a large conglomerate called Omnicom, that is a WEF - connected company? They work to spread WEF propaganda and ideas, relentlessly. Omnicom has something like 1500 PR and media companies that they own.

And another funny little factoid. Susan Wiles is the daughter of Pat Summeral, the late football player and CBS Sports commentator.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (vcOmj)

117 Number 2 will surprise you!
---------------
it frequently does
Posted by: jerrold nadler at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (v3pYe)
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that's funny, right there.

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden, America's caregiver at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (g9ZsE)

118 They could break up Meta and Alphabet, but as both are racing to jump into bed with government, that won’t happen.

Meta I'm less worried about than Alphabet. Instagram's still doing OK but none of Meta's other stuff has any real traction. And Zuck's about due to have a run in with what Earth humans call "divorce".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (2ocoG)

119 96 73 Mozilla is making an urgent call for WhatsApp to implement three simple changes in its product to slow the spread of political disinformation and other harmful content on its platform.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM

Number 2 will surprise you!

it frequently does

Posted by: jerrold nadler at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (v3pYe)

You can say that again!!!

Posted by: JOEY S BIDEN at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (wtvvX)

120 By June we'll be seeing stories of Ukraine running low on ammo and the need for an additional $50 billion and if you're opposed you hate freedom and puppies.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (2UnvF)

121 The Republic is saved
Posted by: brak at April 24, 2024 12:29 PM (25k9m)
.......

Yay. Democract too!

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

122 I guess the Duke brothers are running the printing presses.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (gzX6N)

123 "I'm not great with MATH but 61+16 does not equal 95. So the rest is a slush fund for Congress to reward its syncophants including Hamas?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)"

One billion of it is specifically for Gaza.

Posted by: fd at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (vFG9F)

124 The embarrassing thing will be if Ukraine loses the war this summer anyway.

--

This summer?

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (9Ct69)

125 I'm glad they were able to rush through this spending that 70% of Americans don't want. Also, that they were able to spend zero on our border.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (bNZ9K)

126 It'll probably get bought by some org with direct ties to the IC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM

It already has direct ties to the IC. Just not ours.

Posted by: Bert G at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (VARTN)

127 The TikTok precedent is awful, but it is a malign influence and is essentially a tool of the Communists of China.

What should be done about it?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)

128 It's difficult to become enthused about these things for they will continue until Trump is sworn in. They turned Johnson into a zombie they'll do what ever to push and the public is not fed up yet.
Too much Prozac?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (lCWOD)

129 117 Number 2 will surprise you!
---------------
it frequently does
Posted by: jerrold nadler at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (v3pYe)
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that's funny, right there.
Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden, America's caregiver at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (g9ZsE)

And to think of what I had to clean up.

Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (N39Ws)

130 Ukraine is not going to win this fucking war, where is the money going?

And I don’t know the validity but I’ve seen numerous videos of people in Ukraine out celebrating a Friday night. People on the beach. People dancing. Restaurants and bars going full throttle.

Posted by: Seems legit at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

131 They got to him solid. He looks like one of the walking dead.
If only our firebrands, seriously, could learn the technique and
turn it on them.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (lCWOD)
++++
The "technique" is blackmail. Wander off the reservation and nice gentleman from the IC will show you parts - the tame parts - of your dossier and let you know that there is *much* more where that came from.

And since you are a politician and you're among the worst people on the planet, you will immediately guess the things that might be in the pages you didn't get to see. You know what you've done and so you know just how bad your dossier *could* be, but not how bad it actually is.

But you walk away from the meeting knowing that you - and everyone else - must *never* find out how much they know. So you do as you're told, and serve the Party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

132 If SBF was laundering funds from the Ukraine back to the DNC, what are the chances he gets Epsteined in prison?

Posted by: mr tmz at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (rJ48h)

133 >>>>Will we make it to November or is it already too late.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)
**********
Time was I would shake my head at posters who would say “we’re not going to vote our way out of this”. I coming to believe I was wrong. I hope and pray for my children and grandchildren I’m wrong now.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (Z8Xq7)

134 127 The TikTok precedent is awful, but it is a malign influence and is essentially a tool of the Communists of China.

What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)

========

Legislation that says that social media owned by foreign companies must operate their American versions with the same code as they use at home?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

135 And to think of what I had to clean up.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM

Some of us are trying to have lunch, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (I6W2K)

136 ** Deep Inside House SCIF **

Agent Johnson: Speaker Johnson, we're here to deliver a message that it's crucial that you understand how important continuing the warrant program is and making sure that Ukraine is in a position of victory.

Speaker Johnson: Well, there have been abuses of the program and the tax payer is not a bottom less pit of funding and...

The Other Agent Johnson: * Slides dossier of Porn Sites visited by Speaker Johnson and his Teenage Son *

Speaker Johnson:...

Agent Johnson:...

The Other Agent Johnson:....

Speaker Johnson: I understand perfectly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (JIdXK)

137 . Also, that they were able to spend zero on our border.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (bNZ9K)

How else are we supposed to dissolve the people and elect another?

Posted by: U.S. Government at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (uTTG7)

138 111 I'm not great with MATH but 61+16 does not equal 95. So the rest is a slush fund for Congress to reward its syncophants including Hamas?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

Math = islamophobia

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (wtvvX)

139 Relevant: https://is.gd/StDZgg

(Goes to Xitter, but shows you where your tax dollars are going in UKR)
Posted by: Bert G at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (VARTN)

So, as someone said on that X thread, our money's going to make White Russians, not fight Russians.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

140 127 The TikTok precedent is awful, but it is a malign influence and is essentially a tool of the Communists of China.

What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)

By the government? Nothing. Not their place to decide.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (N39Ws)

141 What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)

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Ban it on all government devices, leave the rest alone. If people don't know by now what Tik Tok is, that's their problem.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (2UnvF)

142 Relevant: https://is.gd/StDZgg

(Goes to Xitter, but shows you where your tax dollars are going in UKR)
Posted by: Bert G
........

I think I see a couple potential Mail Order Brides in there.

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (v0R5T)

143 Anyone want to bet against another multi-billion dollar spending bill for Ukraine next year?

A "Continuing Resolution", as it were.

Posted by: t-bird at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (c5wrR)

144 But these Western troops under no conditions will actually start fighting with the Russians.

They really are going to kill us all.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when we had adults in charge, the leadership was acutely aware that we were on the brink of nuclear war, and acted accordingly.

Now, our feckless and incompetent leadership's attitude is YOLO - since they are incapable of envisioning any circumstances where direct combat between NATO and Russian troops could spiral into a nuclear exchange.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (YAtuc)

145 110 Anyone want to bet against another multi-billion dollar spending bill for Ukraine next year?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

January 21, 2025, I'll take that bet.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (lCWOD)

146 Some of us are trying to have lunch, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (I6W2K)

So glad I'm done with my slice of lemon blueberry cheesecake. (Yes, it's a thing, and yes, it was delicious.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, cheesecake connoisseur at April 24, 2024 12:42 PM (dtlDP)

147 The TikTok precedent is awful, but it is a malign influence and is essentially a tool of the Communists of China.

What should be done about it?

Make it socially unacceptable. They pulled that off in 10 years flat with cigarettes.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 24, 2024 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

148 The Ukranian club scene looks just as awful and unpleasant as ours.

#equity

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:42 PM (HnUIn)

149 One billion of it is specifically for Gaza.
Posted by: fd at April 24, 2024 12:38 PM (vFG9F)

Those SWEETHEARTS in Gaza need HOT MEALS!!!

Posted by: Alphabet at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (uTTG7)

150
The TikTok precedent is awful, but it is a malign influence and is essentially a tool of the Communists of China.

What should be done about it?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM

Blacklist at every school would be a good start. Plus, a universal 'opt-in' from every ISP. Confirmed in writing from whoever pays the ISP bill.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (RKVpM)

151 https://is.gd/StDZgg

(Goes to Xitter, but shows you where your tax dollars are going in UKR)
Posted by: Bert G

--

Increased numbers of bars and flourishing nightlife is the prime indicator of war.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (9Ct69)

152 What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)

Just capture all DNS requests for TikTok, and direct them to a "moderated TikTok" run by conservatives. Make it so boring the kids give up on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (tkR6S)

153 [deleted for stupidity] [CBD]

Posted by: Sid, who likes to eat his dog's poop at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (27L/T)

154 That Ukraine sweet, sweet grift. Gotta keep the slop trough full for the political hogs to dip their snouts.

Posted by: Biergood at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (PwgSL)

155 So glad I'm done with my slice of lemon blueberry cheesecake. (Yes, it's a thing, and yes, it was delicious.)
Posted by: pookysgirl, cheesecake connoisseur at April 24, 2024 12:42 PM

Now I want lemon blueberry cheesecake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (I6W2K)

156 This rural redhead is glad she lives on a farm, because that means she might get to keep eating when the Dollar falls apart:
http://tiny.cc/40iuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)

157 Afternoon Ace. Despite the billions we are sending them the Ukes are being ground down. They don't have enough troops and the Russians are breaking through all along the Donbas lines. By the time of the election Ukraine will have lost or they are going to be suing for peace

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (Gp6oP)

158 135 And to think of what I had to clean up.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM

Some of us are trying to have lunch, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (I6W2K)

Indeed.

Posted by: Daniel G�mez del Barrio at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (wtvvX)

159 Vote harder, rubes!

We have military personnel defending the borders of 150 other countries, but not our own.

A homicidal-suicidal death cult, if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (5qKyt)

160 Really, the Republicans should have got something: at least have the US government abandon its lawsuit against Texas, which aims to prevent Texas from defending its own border. Have Mayorkas impeached or resign. Something.
That being written, I hope Ukraine puts the money to good use.

----

Don't you worry, sucker, it will be.

Posted by: Volodomir Z at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (ji3Wy)

161 "Describe it for me. How's it feel?
Posted by: Sid"

It feels like Saturday night at the Manhole Club. See you there again this weekend?

Posted by: Pawl at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (vFG9F)

162 By June we'll be seeing stories of Ukraine running low on ammo and the need for an additional $50 billion and if you're opposed you hate freedom and puppies.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

The US and NATO have subbed in 155 mm artillery for all the Soviet era 152 mm artillery that Ukraine's military was outfitted with prior to the war...which you as a former Army guy probably already know.
And we can't make enough 155 shells for them to fire off, and they have depleted our reserve stocks.
And yes, Ukraine is losing this war, despite all the amazing!!! videos on Youtube that indicate otherwise.

It is sad, but the saddest thing is all the Ukrainians getting slaughtered in combat for a lost cause.

Make peace. Try and end this crazy, brutal war, before NATO and the US get sucked into it, and it becomes something far worse. Despite all the blatherings I see on some parts of the Intertubes, the Russian Army is almost as incompetent as the Ukraine army.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (vcOmj)

163 Posted by: Sid at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (27L/T)

========

Man, you really love helping create an environment where Putin gets richer, don't you?

Raising gas prices to make Putin and Russia insanely rich? What are you, some kind of Putin cockholster?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

164 This summer?

Ukraine is rapidly running out of men to throw into the meatgrinder.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 12:45 PM (YAtuc)

165 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:45 PM (2UnvF)

166 What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2024 12:39 PM (d9fT1)
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Foreign companies can't own American broadcast licenses, so extend and apply that same law to all consumer social media.

Reconstruct American internet switches and lockdown data centers to prevent data from moving offshore in any unauthorized manner.

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden, America's caregiver at April 24, 2024 12:45 PM (g9ZsE)

167 Ban it on all government devices, leave the rest alone. If people don't know by now what Tik Tok is, that's their problem.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:41 PM (2UnvF)

As I like to say:

This TikTok content is sponsored by: the CPC! The CPC! SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:46 PM (uTTG7)

168 And yet ICM, Dora Wings, Zvezda, and Halberd manage to keep producing new tool model kits and conversion kits in Ukraine.

Some war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 24, 2024 12:46 PM (gzX6N)

169 This summer?

Ukraine is rapidly running out of men to throw into the meatgrinder.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

--

Yeah, that was the point of the comment. Ukraine lost this dance off two years ago. IIRC the average age of the dancers on the Ukraine side is 45.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (9Ct69)

170 I knew we were going to get a St. Floyd summer, but I didn’t guess that it would be college support for Holocaust II.
Things are ramping up nicely for the Fall. And the fall. I’m not anxious to get started, but if it’s inevitable, so be it.

Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (nCaYE)

171 I'll take the chick with the glasses drinking out of the red Solo cup at 0:23

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

172 Now, our feckless and incompetent leadership's attitude is YOLO - since they are incapable of envisioning any circumstances where direct combat between NATO and Russian troops could spiral into a nuclear exchange.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

A war with Russia or China (or both, and toss in Iran), would help to cover up for the collapse of our currency.
In case you weren't keeping up, the US Gov is spending $1Trillion in deficit money about every 100 days. And that, kids, is where our great GDP growth is coming from.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (vcOmj)

173 The thing to really dwell on is that after Ukraine is declared lost, we will get to fight over reconstruction/rebuilding aid packages.

This is essentially a lower intensity GWOT 20 year boondoggle that the Uniparty has thrown their muscle behind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (JIdXK)

174 So we've gone from helping the right side win to helping both sides continue the war.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (t/2Uw)

175 152 What should be done about it?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
-------------------------

Many things need to be expatriated, Tictok would be a start.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (lCWOD)

176 And you didn't mention the bit where Speaker Johnson is demanding that the video of all the Congressmen waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House be taken down, and is threatening to fine the Congressman who put the video up on social media if he doesn't remove it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (YAtuc)

177 153 I realize that I don't know what losing feels like. You guys sure do, though. Describe it for me. How's it feel?
Posted by: Sid at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (27L/T)

Don’t know; haven’t lost.

What does sounding like a Brezhnev era apparatchik giving the party line every moment of every day feel like?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (uTTG7)

178 Hunters' getting a bad rep now...

@MrAndyNgo
Photos have emerged of the suspect charged over the violent home invasion of @MayorOfLA Karen Bass. Ephraim Matthew Hunter, a felon and career criminal, was charged with felony burglary and felony vandalism. Unlike the 2022 Nancy Pelosi home invasion by a Canadian illegal alien, this story has not received wall-to-wall coverage.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (IG4Id)

179 The thing to really dwell on is that after Ukraine is declared lost, we will get to fight over reconstruction/rebuilding aid packages.

ONE... TRILLION... DOLLARS!

Posted by: Dr. Evil Biden! at April 24, 2024 12:49 PM (YAtuc)

180 And yes, Ukraine is losing this war, despite all the amazing!!! videos on Youtube that indicate otherwise.

As I was the first to die, I don’t know that and neither do you.

Posted by: The Truth at April 24, 2024 12:50 PM (uTTG7)

181 This is essentially a lower intensity GWOT 20 year boondoggle that the Uniparty has thrown their muscle behind.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (JIdXK)

Funny how Ukraine's Glory became the new definition of American Patriotism the moment our last escapade wound down, innit?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (0FoWg)

182 179 The thing to really dwell on is that after Ukraine is declared lost, we will get to fight over reconstruction/rebuilding aid packages.

ONE... TRILLION... DOLLARS!

Posted by: Dr. Evil Biden!
---------------------------------

So much money
So little time

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (lCWOD)

183 And you didn't mention the bit where Speaker Johnson is demanding that the video of all the Congressmen waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House be taken down, and is threatening to fine the Congressman who put the video up on social media if he doesn't remove it.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Also not mentioned is that displaying foreign flags in the chamber is forbidden. Where are the fines for that?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (bNZ9K)

184 Ukraine is rapidly running out of men to throw into the meatgrinder.

I know of tens of thousands of military age young men willing to emigrate that the media assure me are hardworking folks just looking for a job, maybe we can redirect some of those flights to Kiev?

Posted by: brak at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (25k9m)

185 I realize that I don't know what losing feels like. You guys sure do, though.

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Sid is a sock, but this is a good comment.

It's been decades since America has won and/or American ideals have won. It's a big part of why Trump (and we) are hated.

Like Mitch said, "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement."

They outright reject everything that Americans want.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (9Ct69)

186 78 Fascism's a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

Unfortunately, in 2024, the Left has redefined Fascism to mean "When you don't let your son become a Troon", and ONLY that.

Posted by: XTC at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (UnA8+)

187 ONE... TRILLION... DOLLARS!

Posted by: Dr. Evil Biden!
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So much money
So little time
Posted by: Braenyard

Somebody has to pay for all that....Pizza!

Posted by: Senator Lindsey Graham, now and forever at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (vcOmj)

188 ... because that means she might get to keep eating when the Dollar falls apart:

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"By 2030, you will own nothing, you will transact only in Digital Yuan, and only if you maintain a sufficient Social Credit Score. And you will be happy, if not dead."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (5qKyt)

189
Out: Russian Brides
In: Ukrainian and Russian Brides!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (RKVpM)

190 The outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war was never in doubt. The only question there ever was: How many die before we get there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (2UnvF)

191 Posted by: Sid at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (27L/T)

Ask the Ukrainians what losing feels like, not us.

Posted by: pookysgirl, winning at her personal goals at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (dtlDP)

192 Ukraine is rapidly running out of men to throw into the meatgrinder.
......

Two girls for every boy...

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

193 Joe Mannix, you are posting some lovely gingers today. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 12:53 PM (9yWhg)

194 $95 billion dollars. Divided how many ways?

I'd love to see the ledger sheet on what this money is buying Ukraine. Never happen, but still.

There's probably about $10M per congress person who voted for it. And at that price there's plenty of grift left over.

It's obscene.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)

195
"It's just the cost of doing government business. It's what we have to do in order to ensure a balanced budget in 50 years."
-Paul Ryan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

Them passing a budget would be nice.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Three at April 24, 2024 12:53 PM (uTTG7)

196 So, TikTok in the FUSA either has to been sold or banned. Interesting. So, what about the rest of the world using the app and posting using the Chinese Bytedance's app version, how will that interplay with the "FUSA" version? App updates? Just 2nd order thinking. Glad Rome on the Potowmac is tackling important problems, such as an app, and making sure the grift continues.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (+YRf1)

197 This rural redhead is glad she lives on a farm, because that means she might get to keep eating when the Dollar falls apart:
http://tiny.cc/40iuxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)

Must be wed-head Wednesday, weally...

Posted by: Boswell at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (K+UlC)

198 And yes, Ukraine is losing this war, despite all the amazing!!! videos on Youtube that indicate otherwise.
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As I was the first to die, I don’t know that and neither do you.
Posted by: The Truth

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Of course they are.

They get a few billion here and there to tread water / launder, but there is no possible way for them to win anything with a few large cities' school budgets for a war against Russia.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (9Ct69)

199 Now I believe that democrats will win in November with the largest margin in history, and nobody will dare question it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (bNZ9K)

200 Trillions of dollars being tossed around like candy to the kids at a parade.

Posted by: davidt at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (SYTee)

201 I think TPTB have realized the wheels are coming off sooner than they thought and are acting accordingly. Loot the Treasury via massive spending and kickbacks, get it while it still has some value.

Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (nCaYE)

202 174 So we've gone from helping the right side win to helping both sides continue the war.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2

We are equal opportunity dumb a**es.

Posted by: Piper at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (ZdaMQ)

203 There's probably about $10M per congress person who voted for it. And at that price there's plenty of grift left over.

Some American official flew to Ukraine and literally presented Zelensky with a list of the people in Congress who voted for the aid package.

Hard to be any more obvious.

Posted by: Dr. Evil Biden! at April 24, 2024 12:55 PM (YAtuc)

204 I realize that I don't know what losing feels like. You guys sure do, though. Describe it for me. How's it feel?
Posted by: Sid

Remember that feeling you had when Al Gore lost the presidency? And then the overwhelming grief when Hillary lost?

Yeah? Nowhere near that bad.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 12:55 PM (pgG81)

205 I miss Danger Girl and her gigawatt sanity probe.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (LfcYE)

206 This is essentially a lower intensity GWOT 20 year boondoggle that the Uniparty has thrown their muscle behind.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 24, 2024 12:47 PM (JIdXK)
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So we'll declare victory as we bug out from embassy in Portugal after the Russians finish sweeping over the entire continent?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (HnUIn)

207 Two girls for every boy...
Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

Ukrainian women are CRAZEEEEE! Look, but definitely DO NOT TOUCH. Unless you like CRAZEEEEE.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (+YRf1)

208 BabylonBee: Hillsdale College Reports No Violent Antisemitic Protests For 180th Year In A Row

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

209
One of the sick things in Ukraine is they don't draft until the male is something like 26 years of age. Plenty of time to knock out a couple kids that the grieving widow has to put up for adoption.

Who is it that likes pizza and adopting little kids?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (RKVpM)

210 I think TPTB have realized the wheels are coming off sooner than they thought and are acting accordingly. Loot the Treasury via massive spending and kickbacks, get it while it still has some value.
Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (nCaYE)
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It's looked to me like we've been in the "loot the bitch before it augers in" stage for several years now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:57 PM (HnUIn)

211 The BBC has issued an apology for running a false report on Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling’s comments about transgenders, admitting that its reporting was “inaccurate” while also admonishing its journalists about the “importance of accuracy.”

In its original April 2 story, BBC Scotland reported that police declined to arrest Rowling for describing some transgender “women” as men. Apparently unhappy with the decision, the outlet erroneously claimed that the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 “makes it a criminal offence to make derogatory comments based on disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 24, 2024 12:58 PM (RHGPo)

212 How much funding for a border wall was that big fight over during the early part of Trump's Presidency?

Posted by: davidt at April 24, 2024 12:58 PM (SYTee)

213 Conspiracy Theory: The US is behind TikTok along with China, in a partnership strikingly similar to covid.

The "crackdown" on TikTok will be used to justify cracking down on whatever part of the internet they want to now, just like covid was used to demonstrate the power of government, manipulate people, *and* to "fortify" the election in an election year....

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 12:58 PM (CF4K/)

214 And you didn't mention the bit where Speaker Johnson is demanding that the video of all the Congressmen waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House be taken down, and is threatening to fine the Congressman who put the video up on social media if he doesn't remove it.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Also not mentioned is that displaying foreign flags in the chamber is forbidden. Where are the fines for that?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:51 PM (bNZ9K)

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Rubbing our faces in feces is part of the kink.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 12:59 PM (5qKyt)

215
Make peace. Try and end this crazy, brutal war, before NATO and the US get sucked into it, and it becomes something far worse. Despite all the blatherings I see on some parts of the Intertubes, the Russian Army is almost as incompetent as the Ukraine army.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 24, 2024 12:44 PM (vcOmj)

Eisenhower's warning of the Military-Industrial complex. Seen here recently?

"So is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 24, 2024 12:59 PM (Gnjli)

216 189 Out: Russian Brides
In: Ukrainian and Russian Brides!

you've been peeking at the videos that youtube insists i should watch, haven't you?

Posted by: anachronda at April 24, 2024 12:59 PM (v3pYe)

217 And you didn't mention the bit where Speaker Johnson is demanding that the video of all the Congressmen waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House be taken down, and is threatening to fine the Congressman who put the video up on social media if he doesn't remove it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 12:48 PM (YAtuc)

It was the House Sergeant at Arms who threatened the fine. Apparently, Johnson stepped in and told the fascist bastard to back the fuck off.

He's still a worthless, bought-and-paid for enemy of the country.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 24, 2024 12:59 PM (Q0kLU)

218 What sid likely doesn't realize is that the "wins" that are happening here will make losers of all but the uber rich and powerful, and it is unlikely that sid is either and its life will become less enjoyable because of these "wins".

Posted by: AK at work at April 24, 2024 12:59 PM (o+IHV)

219 New Jersey Rep Donald Payne Jr. has died of heart problems.
He was 65.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (NpAcC)

220 Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
Biden on foreign aid bill: But there's one thing that this bill does not do, border security. You know, just this year, I proposed and negotiated and agreed to the strongest border security bill this country has ever, ever, ever seen. It was bipartisan. It should have been included in this bill. And I'm determined to get it done for the American people. I come back to that in another moment, another time.

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So now he's pointing and laughing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)

221
Now I believe that democrats will win in November with the largest margin in history, and nobody will dare question it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM

I'm seeing some concerning polling, but I know what the fvckers are up to... they know this Ukraine crap fest doesn't sit well with the youth, so I think they've stopped polling them.

They can't pull off the cheat unless the poll numbers are close.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

222 So we'll declare victory as we bug out from embassy in Portugal after the Russians finish sweeping over the entire continent?

A year ago, the argument was that we needed to give billions to Ukraine because the imminent Great Ukrainian Counteroffensive just needed a few supplies to destroy the Russian army, and sweep everything before it.

Crimea by August!

Now, the argument is that Putin's Panzers will quickly blitz to Paris if we don't give money to Ukraine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (YAtuc)

223 Sad I missed the art thread. I would hang that painting and any similar paintings in a heartbeat. Love the impasto style which one could describe as technique used by Van Gogh.

I also like that other posters have the opposite reaction . It’s what makes the world go ‘round.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (MNhXM)

224

Remember that feeling you had when Al Gore lost the presidency? And then the overwhelming grief when Hillary lost?

Yeah? Nowhere near that bad.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2024 12:55 PM (pgG81)

Because Sid doesn’t understand that defeatist cynicism is the arrogance that we know an outcome; we do not. Our creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us. (h/t, Robert W. Pratt)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (uTTG7)

225 Nancy Pelosi says Netanyahu should resign.Calls his Oct 7 terror attack response terrible...

I have alwasy believed that wishing death on people is bad karma but finding it very hard to resist at this stage.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

226 Related to the purported sale of TikTok....
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Legislation cleared by a key House of Representatives committee has fed concerns that drones produced by Chinese company Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) will effectively be banned in the US.

The proposed bills approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 20 represent the latest effort by the federal government and various state governments to restrict the use of DJI drones in the US. There was no dissent on the committee, with all Republicans and Democrats backing the bills, citing national security concerns.
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These are mostly used by hobbyists, but some of the more sophisticated ones are used professionally. Real estate, outdoor gear, automotive, nature, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 01:01 PM (Q4IgG)

227 Is that the over/under for when the next Ukraine funding bill gets voted on?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

11:59 pm on July 3rd, and afterwards they can all wave their foreign flags in the Senate and retire to a nice few days off for the holiday.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 24, 2024 01:01 PM (FCbAQ)

228 Los Angeles County's budget is $43B.

https://ceo.lacounty.gov/budget/

In two years a bunch of 45 year olds with no military training can conquer Russia.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 01:01 PM (9Ct69)

229 I think its the same chick, or her sister,

Posted by: no 6 at April 24, 2024 01:02 PM (PXvVL)

230 Conspiracy Theory: The US is behind TikTok along with China, in a partnership strikingly similar to covid.

The "crackdown" on TikTok will be used to justify cracking down on whatever part of the internet they want to now, just like covid was used to demonstrate the power of government, manipulate people, *and* to "fortify" the election in an election year....

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 12:58 PM (CF4K/)

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Prediction: This will be proven to be yet another Conspiracy Fact in 6 months.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:02 PM (5qKyt)

231 As a conservative, it is mandatory to hate Bitch McConnel's maggoty guts and his worm eaten brain.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 24, 2024 01:02 PM (pohLc)

232 @ChadPergram
Biden on foreign aid bill: But there's one thing that this bill does not do, border security. You know, just this year, I proposed and negotiated and agreed to the strongest border security bill this country has ever, ever, ever seen. It was bipartisan. It should have been included in this bill. And I'm determined to get it done for the American people. I come back to that in another moment, another time. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (FVME7)
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And he will get away with this spin because propagandists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

233 131 They got to him solid. He looks like one of the walking dead.
If only our firebrands, seriously, could learn the technique and
turn it on them.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 12:36 PM (lCWOD)
++++
The "technique" is blackmail. Wander off the reservation and nice gentleman from the IC will show you parts - the tame parts - of your dossier and let you know that there is *much* more where that came from.

And since you are a politician and you're among the worst people on the planet, you will immediately guess the things that might be in the pages you didn't get to see. You know what you've done and so you know just how bad your dossier *could* be, but not how bad it actually is.

But you walk away from the meeting knowing that you - and everyone else - must *never* find out how much they know. So you do as you're told, and serve the Party.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

I'd love to know the full story on what they had on the kid from North Carolina... I respect him for not playing ball but he was a one termer as a result.

Posted by: Inogame at April 24, 2024 01:03 PM (53oGX)

234 I saw Faces in Feces open for John Mellencamp in '88.
They stole the show!

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

235 I also like that other posters have the opposite reaction . It’s what makes the world go ‘round.
Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM

Are you new here?

Posted by: Freddy Mercury at April 24, 2024 01:03 PM (I6W2K)

236 221
I'm seeing some concerning polling, but I know what the fvckers are up to... they know this Ukraine crap fest doesn't sit well with the youth, so I think they've stopped polling them.

They can't pull off the cheat unless the poll numbers are close.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

========

Since public polling is about shaping narratives, it's just a sign that the whole, "Replace Biden with someone else," period is over. Democrats aren't going to replace Biden and everyone knows it now. So, it's time to shape the narrative that Biden is going to win in November.

How is polling supposed to reflect the mood of ballot counters in Atlanta who run the same ballots through the counting machines on repeat?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

237 No Tikky-Tokky, no raundried money!

Posted by: CCP at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (SYTee)

238 Now, the argument is that Putin's Panzers will quickly blitz to Paris if we don't give money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (YAtuc)
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Yeah, which is nonsense.

But given our track record over the past few decades, I have to assume that our engagement in this will lead to the inevitable conquest of Europe by Russia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (HnUIn)

239 Now I believe that democrats will win in November with the largest margin in history, and nobody will dare question it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 24, 2024 12:54 PM (bNZ9K)

Welcome to my world.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (Q0kLU)

240 The "crackdown" on TikTok will be used to justify cracking down on whatever part of the internet they want to now

Next you'll be telling me that the Patriot Act will be used against people other than Islamic terrorists.

I shan't believe it!

I shan't!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (YAtuc)

241 I’m not against the Tik Tok legislation. It’s no doubt a CCP operation. It’s no different to me than my opposition to letting the CCP buy up all our farm land and property next to military installations.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (MNhXM)

242 > @amuse
@amuse
Ukraine: CBS News is reporting that the billions US taxpayers have funneled into Ukraine have allowed the bar scene in Kyiv to flourish - there are now more bars and nightclubs in the capital than before the war began.
____________

Tax $$ @ work

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

243 Donald Payne jr a congressman from Newark died of a heart attack. He and his father Payne Sr have represented Newark since 1989. Their successes are obvious

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 24, 2024 01:05 PM (Gp6oP)

244 Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?"

https://shorturl.at/aiACT

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Pizza and beer, bitch, pizza and beer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 24, 2024 01:05 PM (FVME7)

245 93 mcconnell ain't so bad.
think about romney as repub senate leader
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 24, 2024 12:35 PM (B1FKF)

don't see the difference

except one can still get a stiffy

Posted by: yikes at April 24, 2024 01:06 PM (us2H3)

246 Crimea by August!

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There's an "Amarillo by Morning" parody in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:06 PM (5qKyt)

247 The economy is on fire, low unemployment, everything is coming up roses.
The IMF issued last week a warning to the US that our spending is unsustainable, what do they know. Biden knows that his Presidency is the greatest, so what me worry?

Posted by: Colin at April 24, 2024 01:06 PM (/z/eU)

248 The "technique" is blackmail. Wander off the reservation and nice gentleman from the IC will show you parts - the tame parts - of your dossier and let you know that there is *much* more where that came from.

When the Kennedy Administration came in, one of the first things they were going to do was fire J. Edgar Hoover.

RFK had lunch with Hoover to explain that Hoover was going to resign, and Hoover explained why the Kennedys weren't going to fire him.

Hoover stayed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:07 PM (YAtuc)

249 One of the sick things in Ukraine is they don't draft until the male is something like 26 years of age.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 12:56 PM (RKVpM)

That would explain why they let go of the 17-year-old twins that came to our area. We all were applying American drafting standards by worrying about them, not Ukrainian. It was an American missionary getting things set up, so maybe she was working off of her upbringing or rumors she'd heard. (I'm not sure on her husband's status. He'd be old enough to be drafted, but I know the family had to evacuate the area they'd been living in.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, put some knowledge at April 24, 2024 01:08 PM (dtlDP)

250 >>>I have always believed that wishing death on people is bad karma but finding it very hard to resist at this stage.

Sorry, I'm booked solid until at least June. Have you called Pestilence?

Posted by: Death at April 24, 2024 01:08 PM (CwhoI)

251 Ukraine: CBS News is reporting that the billions US taxpayers have funneled into Ukraine have allowed the bar scene in Kyiv to flourish - there are now more bars and nightclubs in the capital than before the war began.
........

All the Mail Order Brides are going to be alcoholic and pregnant.

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 01:08 PM (v0R5T)

252 When is the last time American flags were waved in Congress?

When is the last time Democrats waved an American flag that enthusiastically?

When is it America's turn?

When do we get representation in the House?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 24, 2024 01:08 PM (yikga)

253 RFK had lunch with Hoover to explain that Hoover was going to resign, and Hoover explained why the Kennedys weren't going to fire him.

Taking a butter knife too a gunfight.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (R4t5M)

254 238 Now, the argument is that Putin's Panzers will quickly blitz to Paris if we don't give money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:00 PM (YAtuc)

and bust through the Marjoe Goiter line

I don't think so !!

Posted by: yikes at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (us2H3)

255 Fuck all of these people with a flaming, salt-crusted cactus.

Posted by: ballistic at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (oqH4h)

256 Welcome to my world.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (Q0kLU)

You kept me sane and honest in 2020. I was completely convinced they didn't have enough cheat to beat Drumpf - not that they wouldn't try their damndest and I did get worried about the mail in as we got closer.

Looking back I don't even know why I thought we would win again. I just thought it was too many millions of votes to overcome but I never accounted for a toilet stoppage.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (CF4K/)

257 All the Mail Order Brides are going to be alcoholic and pregnant.
Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 01:08 PM (v0R5T)
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Then what's the point? I thought you ordered exotic foreign goods because you couldn't get them at home...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (HnUIn)

258 There's an "Amarillo by Morning" parody in there somewhere ...

The Ukes were putting out videos explaining that there was going to be a beach party in Crimea last summer.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kjdsk

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (YAtuc)

259 All Hoover had to do was open up a file he just happened to have handy, and Kennedy turned red, and said to Hoover we love you........

Posted by: Colin at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (/z/eU)

260 Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?"
.......

"Chicks, man."

Posted by: wth at April 24, 2024 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

261 I found the Jackie Lambie clip. WTF is she saying? I cannot grok that accent.

Posted by: The Kite Strings That Bind gp To Earth at April 24, 2024 01:10 PM (MvF+J)

262 The hate that the left has for Netanyahu is in Trump hate territory….. from afar I get the impression that Israel has their own deep state which has NDS every bit as bad as the TDS here. Makes me strongly desire that Bibi defy expectations and remain in office after a successful completion of this war

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 24, 2024 01:11 PM (+r3lU)

263 >>The "technique" is blackmail. Wander off the reservation and nice gentleman from the IC will show you parts - the tame parts - of your dossier and let you know that there is *much* more where that came from.

The problem for the IC is that the rapid devaluing of black mail material - cross dressing? Nah, okay now! Pedophilia - bah, accepted! Porn site visits? What, who cares? Stealing or bribing for $$ - everyone from Punchy on down does this...so accepted!

The IC is running out of useable "material" faster than a toad gets strangled in a Texas rainstorm...

Posted by: Boswell at April 24, 2024 01:12 PM (K+UlC)

264 Not according to Speaker Johnson. There will be no border bill this year, according to him.
Posted by: Biden's Groom of the Stool (diaper changer)

They really do have him by whatever he has in place of balls.
Posted by: RI Red at April 24, 2024 12:27 PM (nCaYE)

I'm not giving him credit for that. If you are being blackmailed, then do what you need to but there's no need for his continual "wartime speaker" and "isolationist" bullshit cracks.

He owns his betrayal and lies now.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:12 PM (eoQWY)

265 247 The economy is on fire, low unemployment, everything is coming up roses.
The IMF issued last week a warning to the US that our spending is unsustainable, what do they know. Biden knows that his Presidency is the greatest, so what me worry?
Posted by: Colin at April 24, 2024 01:06 PM (/z/eU)

=======

Sid calls this winning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

266 Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep he police from arresting them.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (t/2Uw)

267 The hate that the left has for Netanyahu is in Trump hate territory….. from afar I get the impression that Israel has their own deep state which has NDS every bit as bad as the TDS here. Makes me strongly desire that Bibi defy expectations and remain in office after a successful completion of this war
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 24, 2024 01:11 PM (+r3lU)

The left gets in a tizzy whenever a Jew fights back. They don't like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (eoQWY)

268 Israel has more woke factions now than ever before. 10/7 barely moved the needle for them.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (MNhXM)

269 Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep he police from arresting them.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (t/2Uw)

Arrest the professors they are bigger criminals than the rioters.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (eoQWY)

270 When the Kennedy Administration came in, one of the first things they were going to do was fire J. Edgar Hoover.

RFK had lunch with Hoover to explain that Hoover was going to resign, and Hoover explained why the Kennedys weren't going to fire him.

Hoover stayed.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I bet a lot of the stuff Hoover had on the Kennedys related to the old man.

And that Nazi-adjacent woman that JFK had been banging.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (9yWhg)

271
Now, the argument is that Putin's Panzers will quickly blitz to Paris if we don't give money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And then to London via the chunnel.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (63Dwl)

272 The problem for the IC is that the rapid devaluing of black mail material - cross dressing? Nah, okay now! Pedophilia - bah, accepted! Porn site visits? What, who cares? Stealing or bribing for $$ - everyone from Punchy on down does this...so accepted!

The IC is running out of useable "material" faster than a toad gets strangled in a Texas rainstorm...
Posted by: Boswell at April 24, 2024 01:12 PM (K+UlC)
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They can make it an issue by picking up the phone and calling their buddies at a network.

It isn't just the IC, it's everyone. The system runs on blackmail, hate and fear - and everyone plays. Everyone has something on everyone else, but nobody has everything on anyone. Everyone is kept guessing just enough for the web of coercion to continue operating, and as a result essentially everyone is stuck. There is only one single safe play: be a "team player" and do what the Party's top apparatchiks demand (and, of course, to choose *your* apparatchik wisely).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (HnUIn)

273 The problem for the IC is that the rapid devaluing of black mail material - cross dressing? Nah, okay now! Pedophilia - bah, accepted! Porn site visits? What, who cares? Stealing or bribing for $$ - everyone from Punchy on down does this...so accepted!

The IC is running out of useable "material" faster than a toad gets strangled in a Texas rainstorm...
Posted by: Boswell at April 24, 2024 01:12 PM (K+UlC)
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Voters on the right still care about that stuff, even though those are now core Democrat values. That's why it's still an effective blackmail technique against even nominal Republicans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (7fElN)

274 269 Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep he police from arresting them.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (t/2Uw)

Arrest the professors they are bigger criminals than the rioters.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (eoQWY)

========

False.

Set up fences without gates. Let them eat each other. Throw in anyone who wants to join.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

275 253 RFK had lunch with Hoover to explain that Hoover was going to resign, and Hoover explained why the Kennedys weren't going to fire him.

Taking a butter knife too a gunfight.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (R4t5M)

I mean honestly... their mistake wasn't calling some of the old friends of the family and taking care of the problem.. if they had they might have lived...

Posted by: Inogame at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (53oGX)

276 For the people hating on the Republicans getting this passed (and I'm right there with you) Trump was instrumental in getting this through.

Trump could have easily sunk this if he wanted to.

Posted by: Blago at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (wMRY8)

277 I’m not against the Tik Tok legislation. It’s no doubt a CCP operation. It’s no different to me than my opposition to letting the CCP buy up all our farm land and property next to military installations.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (MNhXM)

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Except of course buried in that legislation is language allowing the censorship of any "social media platform" which would include this place.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (5qKyt)

278 Israel has more woke factions now than ever before. 10/7 barely moved the needle for them.]

Not really. The only reason why there is still a Left in Israel is that it is heavily supported with foreign money, from the EU and elsewhere.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (YAtuc)

279 Now, the argument is that Putin's Panzers will quickly blitz to Paris if we don't give money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And then to London via the chunnel.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Good. Maybe Putin will get rid of all the Muzzies and Hindoos.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (9yWhg)

280 One of the great moments in lack of self-awareness occurred last week when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on a podcast produced by a Democratic group called Defending Democracy on Democracy Docket. At one point, Clinton said Trump deeply admires Vladimir Putin because "Putin does what Trump would like to do." Among the things Clinton said Trump would like to do is "imprison his opposition."

At that very moment, Trump was sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, facing a maximum of 136 years in prison on charges of falsifying bookkeeping records of an entirely legal nondisclosure agreement he reached with a porn actress, Stormy Daniels

Posted by: Hillzabub at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (yw35O)

281
Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep the police from arresting them.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM

Put me in boss.

Posted by: Billy Club at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (RKVpM)

282 The problem for the IC is that the rapid devaluing of black mail material
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Still at 100% value with "conservative" voters.
Especially Christian conservatives.
Who still cite, "he said pussy" as a reason not to vote for Trump.
Even after all we've seen the last four years.

And you and I both know it worked in the last few months to break Johnson.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (yikga)

283 TRUMPS FAULT!

DRINK!

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 01:16 PM (9Ct69)

284 266 Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep he police from arresting them.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM (t/2Uw)

And this ladies and gentlemen is why tenure needs to stop.
Arrest them all. Treat them the same as the J6 defendants.
NYU had best terminate the employment of these professors for cause.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 01:16 PM (N39Ws)

285 -

"Senate Passes Ukraine Funding Bill"

Because ... of course they did.

Posted by: Marooned at April 24, 2024 01:16 PM (kt8QE)

286 And that Nazi-adjacent woman that JFK had been banging.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Inga Binga.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:17 PM (R4t5M)

287 "Senate Passes Ukraine Funding Bill and how it's all Trump's fault"

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 24, 2024 01:17 PM (9Ct69)

288 Eff you MAGA -I got my share.

Posted by: Dick Pounder at April 24, 2024 01:17 PM (nvKZ7)

289 And this ladies and gentlemen is why tenure needs to stop.
Arrest them all. Treat them the same as the J6 defendants.
NYU had best terminate the employment of these professors for cause.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 01:16 PM (N39Ws)
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In the backwards system of academia, if they didn't have tenure before, this will guarantee they get it now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 24, 2024 01:17 PM (7fElN)

290 Probably the dumbest "concession" is that some small part of this is considered a "loan".

As if this won't be instantly forgiven, just like student loans.

Posted by: Blago at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (wMRY8)

291 Not really. The only reason why there is still a Left in Israel is that it is heavily supported with foreign money, from the EU and elsewhere.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (YAtuc)

Disagree. Look at what these factions have been doing prior to 10/7 . Why does it matter where they get their funding? Look at Israel durin COVID. Scary.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (MNhXM)

292 -

Google: Ukraine GDP

Result: 160ish billion U.S. dollar equivalent.

Posted by: Marooned at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (kt8QE)

293 Set up fences without gates. Let them eat each other. Throw in anyone who wants to join.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

And a tiger

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (FCbAQ)

294 There's an "Amarillo by Morning" parody in there somewhere ...
Posted by: ShainS
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Parody aside, hadn't watched the vid in a while. There's a lot of the American ethos captured by that video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtVeDaZxAXo

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

295 Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?"
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imagine if someone could project 10/7 footage on the buildings around these idiots.

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (ggOdn)

296 281
Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep the police from arresting them.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM

Put me in boss.
Posted by: Billy Club at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (RKVpM)

No, this is too hard. Like good sheepdogs, we will show the sheep what’s what. We’ll go shakedown drivers for daring to go five over the limit.

It’s for your own good and I want to go home tonight.

Posted by: Hero In Blue at April 24, 2024 01:19 PM (uTTG7)

297 There's an "Amarillo by Morning" parody in there somewhere ...

The Ukes were putting out videos explaining that there was going to be a beach party in Crimea last summer.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kjdsk
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 24, 2024 01:09 PM (YAtuc)

To be fair, there was some time later They sent some speedboats at night, took some film and sped homeward. They got picked up at night and the convoy got shot up by Russian aircraft. They could have just used a beach in Ukraine for the film crew and lied about it.

The obsessive focus on Crimea by part of the leaders has to be the Brits. Nobody else is dumb enough to think it is vulnerable. The dopey US advisers wanted the "drive to the coast" from the southern lines. Actual Ukrainians wanted to fight in the Donbass.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:19 PM (eoQWY)

298 There is only one single safe play: be a "team player" and do what the Party's top apparatchiks demand (and, of course, to choose *your* apparatchik wisely).
---
There is another way.
A way worse than death itself as far as all our politicians care:

Actually be that God-fearing Christian who regularly goes to church that all so many Good Republicans claim every election cycle that they are.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 24, 2024 01:19 PM (yikga)

299 Infuriating.

At what point do we just acknowledge that there is no representation in federal government for the American people.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 24, 2024 01:19 PM (AbL8c)

300 imagine if someone could project 10/7 footage on the buildings around these idiots.

They'd probably cheer. These fucking people are sick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:20 PM (R4t5M)

301 Interview with NYU protester: "I really don't know... [turns to friend] Why are we protesting here?"
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imagine if someone could project 10/7 footage on the buildings around these idiots.
Posted by: jhawk90 at April 24, 2024 01:18 PM (ggOdn)

They would cheer for Hamas even harder. These are not dupes, they know what they are cheering for.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:20 PM (eoQWY)

302 At what point do we just acknowledge that there is no representation in federal government for the American people.
Posted by: DaisyB at April 24, 2024 01:19 PM (AbL8c)

2006?

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 01:20 PM (CF4K/)

303 Ukraine's biggest industry is extorting money from the U.S. government. The extortion takes the form of offshore kickbacks to U.S. government officials, (i.e the carrot,) and proof of said kickbacks, (i.e. the stick.)

Posted by: Marooned at April 24, 2024 01:21 PM (kt8QE)

304 . It’s no different to me than my opposition to letting the CCP buy up all our farm land and property next to military installations.

When WE can buy up all the PRC farm land and buy land next to key military installations, I might be receptive to Chinese property buying here. Til then…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 01:21 PM (uTTG7)

305 The problem for the IC is that the rapid devaluing of black mail material
---
Still at 100% value with "conservative" voters.
Especially Christian conservatives.
Who still cite, "he said pussy" as a reason not to vote for Trump.
Even after all we've seen the last four years.

And you and I both know it worked in the last few months to break Johnson.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (yikga)

I’m as Christian evangelical as one can get…. And I couldn’t care less about Trumps famous pussy utterance. The same is true for my parents and every other Christian conservative I know….. so I really don’t think any politician who’s ready to do the right thing got the country should be concerned about losing Christian votes if some blackmailer reveals they look at porn or whatever…in 1994 maybe; not in 2024

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 24, 2024 01:21 PM (+r3lU)

306 Ron Burgundy mode: ON

@disclosetv
·
23s
NOW - Biden: "Four more years. Pause."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (IG4Id)

307 Oh look, our one trick pony is here.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (2UnvF)

308 Long line of NYU professors lined up in front of encampment on campus to keep he police from arresting them.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 24, 2024 01:13 PM

Arrest for obstruction. Taze them repeatedly if they even open their mouths to object.*

*A Moron can dream, can't he?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (I6W2K)

309 If nothing else, at least they're using out hard earned money to send to Ukraine.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (d2bW3)

310 There is only one single safe play: be a "team player" and do what the Party's top apparatchiks demand (and, of course, to choose *your* apparatchik wisely).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 24, 2024 01:14 PM (HnUIn)

The Dems and the left are rapidly cheapening their leverage - the usual exposure stuff isn't going to be blackmailable fairly soon at this pace - even at the networks - especially at the ones that are openly antisemitic (MSNBC, CNN), employ out and proud gays like Maddow, or use "exposure" artists like Toobin as respected analysts. If these folks have a seat at the table, gets pretty hard for the IC to blackmail others for the same behavior. The only thing that will work soon is videos of some politico actually doing MAGA stuff....

Posted by: Boswell at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (K+UlC)

311 The obsessive focus on Crimea by part of the leaders has to be the Brits.

NOBODY is more obsessive about Crimea than I am!

Crimea by August, baby!

Posted by: General "Baghdad Ben" Hodges, Now Available For Media Interviews! at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (YAtuc)

312 This Congress delivered for its constituents!!

Posted by: Mike Tiny Johnson, Uniparty Speaker at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (GpUII)

313 The obsessive focus on Crimea by part of the leaders has to be the Brits.

They're still PO'd about what happened to the Light Brigade.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (9yWhg)

314 308
Arrest for obstruction. Taze them repeatedly if they even open their mouths to object.*

*A Moron can dream, can't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (I6W2K)

Can we hose them down with firehoses first? Because water and electricity work so well together.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (N39Ws)

315 >>>Oh, Mitch, just STFU and STFD. Nobody cares what you have to say.
Posted by: Archimedes

Agreed wholeheartedly.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (d2bW3)

316 I’m not against the Tik Tok legislation. It’s no doubt a CCP operation. It’s no different to me than my opposition to letting the CCP buy up all our farm land and property next to military installations.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:04 PM (MNhXM)

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Except of course buried in that legislation is language allowing the censorship of any "social media platform" which would include this place.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (5qKyt)

A good chunk of everything our government does is a CCP operation. They have fingers in a lot of pies.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (eoQWY)

317 There's no law that "hurts" China that I can't see myself supporting. TikTok is a cancer, there's zero doubt in my mind that it is a weapon.

It's funny we seemed to understand this with the USSR (and broke them economically) but not Communist China.

The Chinese understood that capitalists will sell the rope to their own hanging.

Posted by: Blago at April 24, 2024 01:24 PM (wMRY8)

318 Hasn't the mob at Columbia U constructed some sort of fence or wall to keep the authorities out?

Why not just blockade it. Cut all utilities to the University. Leave them in there for a couple months.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 24, 2024 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)

319 If blackmail doesn't work, well, unfortunate things start to happen.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:24 PM (R4t5M)

320 imagine if someone could project 10/7 footage on the buildings around these idiots.

They'd probably cheer. These fucking people are sick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 24, 2024 01:20 PM (R4t5M)

I think so too. We can hope that those just there to get out of class and eat pizza would be appalled, but that's just hope.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not an optimist at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM (dtlDP)

321 They would cheer for Hamas even harder. These are not dupes, they know what they are cheering for.

Yeah - one big difference from the earlier "ceasefire" demonstrtauoins, is that they are now openly cheering on 10/7.

Posted by: General at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM (YAtuc)

322 Arrest for obstruction. Taze them repeatedly if they even open their mouths to object.*

*A Moron can dream, can't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (I6W2K)

Send in the flamethrowing robodog.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM (qDyMg)

323 Especially Christian conservatives.

I, personally, don't agree with this. Christians are Christians because they acknowledge that they are sinners. If there is sin in one's life, and there always is, when someone points it out, it can be acknowledged and let go.

This is made more difficult because, as Putin pointed out in the Tucker interview, TPTB own the media and will only allow out what they approve, so one who fights will always be attacked and not allowed to present the other side of the story. Accordingly, someone who is always attacked, I see as someone who is trying to do good.

Posted by: AK at work at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM (o+IHV)

324 I sure hope some of the hundreds of billions we've sent to Ukraine helps out The Ghost of Kiev!
He seems like a scrappy, can-do sort!

Posted by: DaisyB at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM (AbL8c)

325 The obsessive focus on Crimea by part of the leaders has to be the Brits.

They're still PO'd about what happened to the Light Brigade.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM (9yWhg)

That's what happens when you listen to a British officer. I'm sure the Sgt Majors had a different plan in mind, like attack the correct battery...one that the Heavy Brigade of cav did somewhat later.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 24, 2024 01:26 PM (eoQWY)

326 Can we hose them down with firehoses first? Because water and electricity work so well together.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 24, 2024 01:23 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:26 PM (I6W2K)

327 197 This rural redhead is glad she lives on a farm, because that means she might get to keep eating when the Dollar falls apart:
http://tiny.cc/40iuxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
------------------------------------------------

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DizgiA7KySw

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 01:26 PM (lCWOD)

328 Except of course buried in that legislation is language allowing the censorship of any "social media platform" which would include this place.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:15 PM (5qKyt)

I’m not seeing that part of the legislation. I see reference to sites owned by foreign adversaries.

Could you point me in the general direction. Of course I would oppose any language where domestic owned sites could be summarily shut down .

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM (MNhXM)

329
Ron Burgundy mode: ON

@disclosetv
·
23s
NOW - Biden: "Four more years. Pause."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Saute the Marines

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM (63Dwl)

330 Arrest for obstruction. Taze them repeatedly if they even open their mouths to object.*

*A Moron can dream, can't he?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (I6W2K)

Send in the flamethrowing robodog.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 24, 2024 01:25 PM[/]

Flamethrowing robo-dog platoons. Followed by the bath salt gorilla brigades.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM (I6W2K)

331 Saute the Marines
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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Go on...

Posted by: New Guinea Cannibals at April 24, 2024 01:28 PM (wQXfi)

332 "This rural redhead" Very nice pic.

Posted by: The Kite Strings That Bind gp To Earth at April 24, 2024 01:28 PM (MvF+J)

333 Twice in one day. I need more covfefe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:28 PM (I6W2K)

334 Taxation without representation, anyone?

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 24, 2024 01:28 PM (GpUII)

335 329
Ron Burgundy mode: ON

@disclosetv
·
23s
NOW - Biden: "Four more years. Pause."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Saute the Marines
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM (63Dwl)

That's what those cannibals did to his uncle.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 24, 2024 01:29 PM (KbCG3)

336 I caught a cold w/fever, so I'm robotripping on DXM today. Purple drank.

Posted by: The Kite Strings That Bind gp To Earth at April 24, 2024 01:29 PM (MvF+J)

337
Saute the Marines

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM

Sous vide would work, too.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 01:29 PM (RKVpM)

338 Twice in one day. I need more covfefe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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It's 5:00 somewhere, have some booze instead.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 24, 2024 01:29 PM (wQXfi)

339 How many fire breathing Republicans over the years turned out to be spineless stinging jellyfish? Or should I say, how many didn't?

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 01:30 PM (CF4K/)

340 >"I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said
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George Washington was smarter ('Avoid foreign entanglements') than McConnell was or will ever be

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2024 01:30 PM (/7KEl)

341 Four more years *pause*

https://tinyurl.com/2b6vfhna

Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (LkLld)

342 This rural redhead is glad she lives on a farm, because that means she might get to keep eating when the Dollar falls apart:
http://tiny.cc/40iuxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Points for redheadedness even though I don't love her but the photo looks worth painting.

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (CF4K/)

343 Taxation without representation, anyone?

Yes, for quite some time now. Taxation is theft.

Posted by: AK at work at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (o+IHV)

344
George Washington was smarter ('Avoid foreign entanglements') than McConnell was or will ever be

Posted by: Don Black at April 24, 2024 01:30 PM

Interesting. First President, first paleoconservative.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (RKVpM)

345
Four more years *pause*

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (RKVpM)

346 Who is bill?

Posted by: Neil Pye at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (Zz86T)

347 It's 5:00 somewhere, have some booze instead.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 24, 2024 01:29 PM

My employers would likely not approve.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (I6W2K)

348 ---
It's 5:00 somewhere, have some booze instead.

Posted by: screaming in digital
-----------------------------

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and...it's going to get tougher.
Resist, we must.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (lCWOD)

349 Four more years *pause*

https://tinyurl.com/2b6vfhna
Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (LkLld)

Sharp as a tack, Jack!

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (OguvZ)

350 Posted by: screaming in digital

Hey, SiD. It's your day today.

Scream Day, celebrated on April 24, sounds silly at first but the day has its merits. Modern-day hustling has led to a lot of pent-up anxiety and pressure, which we all need a healthy way to channel. While meditation is a go-to way to relax, many psychologists are convinced that there is nothing like good old screaming to let it all out. Releasing built-up frustrations through screaming is surprisingly calming for the brain.
https://nationaltoday.com/scream-day/

Many happy returns!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (9yWhg)

351 Biden speaking now:

"Listen, Fat. This isn't going to cause inflation, that's just dumb. Why? Because we're bringing in tens of millions of newer Americans across the border. Better Americans. That means lower wages. Lower prices. I'm lowering inflammation. Inflation. You heard me."

Posted by: Welcome to Pottersville at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (i9koV)

352 Who is bill?
Posted by: Neil Pye at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM

He's that guy sitting there on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:34 PM (I6W2K)

353
Sharp as a tack, Jack!

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (OguvZ)

+++++

The thumb end.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 24, 2024 01:34 PM (F6UFz)

354 Some photos just have everything, like the Lord himself came down and snapped it:

https://tinyurl.com/y6x2kc5x

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 01:34 PM (CF4K/)

355 349 Four more years *pause*

https://tinyurl.com/2b6vfhna
Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2024 01:32 PM (LkLld)

Sharp as a tack, Jack!
Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 24, 2024 01:33 PM (OguvZ)

He says pause twice.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 24, 2024 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

356 Nood

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2024 01:35 PM (FS8pd)

357 Four more years *pause*

https://tinyurl.com/2b6vfhna

God have mercy on my poor country. I may have to walk around with a piece of cardboard on which is written "Repent! Return to God and pray for mercy!"

Posted by: AK at work at April 24, 2024 01:36 PM (o+IHV)

358 >>> Four more years *pause*

https://tinyurl.com/2b6vfhna

It would have been funnier if the idiots who repeated his chant also said "pause"

Posted by: DJ at April 24, 2024 01:37 PM (uosPt)

359
Points for redheadedness even though I don't love her but the photo looks worth painting.

Posted by: ...
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Good looking lass, points for nice nails, no tats or piercings. You could happily take her to visit the parents before...

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 01:37 PM (lCWOD)

360 I’m not seeing that part of the legislation. I see reference to sites owned by foreign adversaries.

Could you point me in the general direction. Of course I would oppose any language where domestic owned sites could be summarily shut down .

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:27 PM (MNhXM)

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"TikTok's Opponents Want Chinese-style Censorship in America

Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media."

[reason.com:] http://tiny.cc/65iuxz

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:37 PM (NO684)

361 They gave Johnson the ole "Do you want to be the guy that lost europe" speech. He fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

Dumb bastard.

Posted by: The Lump at April 24, 2024 01:39 PM (Z8Yh2)

362 [reason.com:] http://tiny.cc/65iuxz
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:37 PM (NO684)

Reason will talk about something that isn’t weed?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 01:39 PM (uTTG7)

363 You’re an isolationist if you oppose involvement in foreign conflicts that the deep state wants you to support . You’re a neoconservative if you support foreign conflicts the deep state doesn’t want you to support.

Fuck the deep state and any other people who don’t have the intellectual power to evaluate on a case by case basis and can’t support their position other than political teams.

That said , if I didn’t know anything about the Russian/Ukrainian conflict other than who are the biggest supporters of each side , I think I could make a default position .

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:39 PM (MNhXM)

364 Arrest for obstruction. Taze them repeatedly if they even open their mouths to object.*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2024 01:22 PM (I6W2K)

Send in the flamethrowing robodog.
Posted by: nurse ratched

No, we need Lt. John Pike, the hero of UC Davis:
https://tinyurl.com/yfbmspvd
https://tinyurl.com/2j695fcj

I had to search for the name and incident (from 2011!), but you'll all instantly recognize the photo of him calmly walking along and pepper-spraying the protesters sitting peacefully, arms locked, blocking the sidewalk. Absolute legend.

Posted by: Snares, deadfalls and cages are all typed of... at April 24, 2024 01:40 PM (JCZqz)

365 Anyone who thinks the current gov would do something good for America has not been paying any attention. I mean really.

Posted by: The Lump at April 24, 2024 01:40 PM (Z8Yh2)

366 Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:37 PM (NO684)

Thanks Shaun. I’ll read it with as an open mind as I can but admittedly I’m not a Reason fan at all.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:42 PM (MNhXM)

367 Shain. F autocorrect for trying to correct a proper name.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:44 PM (MNhXM)

368 I’m not a Reason fan at all.

Posted by: polynikes
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They become cogent every now and then.
They should do it more often.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 24, 2024 01:44 PM (lCWOD)

369 "I think we've turned a corner on the isolationist movement," Senator Mitch McConnell said about the aid bill passage

Oh, Mitch, just STFU and STFD. Nobody cares what you have to say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 24, 2024 12:20 PM (CsUN+)
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Mitch can say what he wants - but more isolationism is coming, and it will be coming from both sides. We are collectively deciding we don't really need or care about alot of the rest of the world. And we are collectively correct.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 24, 2024 01:46 PM (GZYu7)

370 Thanks Shaun. I’ll read it with as an open mind as I can but admittedly I’m not a Reason fan at all.

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2024 01:42 PM (MNhXM)

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Also not a "Reason" fan, but I'm mobile and it was the first link I could find. There for a number of good articles about it -- more credible sources like Matt Taibbi and others.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 24, 2024 01:48 PM (NO684)

371 Fuck the deep state and any other people who don’t have the intellectual power to evaluate on a case by case basis and can’t support their position other than political teams.

Indeed. Do I want to resort to military options every time? No. Do we need to be vigilant about the outside world? Yes. I will always maintain that if we just opened up our energy sector to more drilling Russia would be too poor to think about invading Ukraine. We can. -and should - use DIME for foreign policy.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 24, 2024 01:58 PM (uTTG7)

372 Only our government should have ‘undue access to citizens’ data’, not foreign governments. Can they even hear themselves?

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 24, 2024 02:15 PM (blTf8)

373 Conspiracy Theory: The US is behind TikTok along with China, in a partnership strikingly similar to covid.

The "crackdown" on TikTok will be used to justify cracking down on whatever part of the internet they want to now, just like covid was used to demonstrate the power of government, manipulate people, *and* to "fortify" the election in an election year....

Posted by: ... at April 24, 2024 12:58 PM

Yep. This combined with what they are doing to Elon Musk and X/Twitter through Australia's WEF-controlled government. The end result will be complete control of the internet by the WEF and complete censorship of anyone not folling the WEF narrative on any issue.

Basically, turn all of western civilization into Communist China.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 24, 2024 02:21 PM (P5BPp)

374 Yep. This combined with what they are doing to Elon Musk and X/Twitter through Australia's WEF-controlled government. The end result will be complete control of the internet by the WEF and complete censorship of anyone not folling the WEF narrative on any issue.

...not following the WEF narrative...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 24, 2024 02:22 PM (P5BPp)

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