Early Quick Hits

These are really from last night but this is all still Real News, Mr. President.

Michael Cohen's former lawyer attests that Cohen repeatedly denied that Trump broke any laws when debriefed by DOJ (and Mueller) lawyers in 2018.

"Cohen decided that while he didn't believe the allegation (of the Stormy Daniels story), that he thought the story would be embarrassing for Trump and especially for Melania, so he decided he would take care of it himself."

I forgot to mention this earlier, but in Ed Morrissey's article about this, he mentions that Michael Cohen is pitching around a reality tv show about himself called "The Fixer." Here's the presumably self-funded video teaser he released for this show.

So yes, I'd say he has a strong financial interest in lying to Get Trump.

A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it.

In today's edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.
Remember, California voters have handed the Democrat party full power over the former Golden State. Democrats run everything from the governorship on down. Democrats not only hold majorities in the state legislature, they hold veto-proof majorities. In other words...
Republicans are powerless in California. And so...
According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That's nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02.
Now add 50 cents to those prices.
Tee hee.

The barbarians are ~~at the gate~~ in the castle's throne room.

Washington DC will now demand that day care centers be staffed only by people with a college degree. I assume this is pushed by the teachers unions, who always fight to restrict the number of competitors for jobs in this field. This will drive costs into the stratosphere and make it impossible for most to afford.

Average toddler day care costs in Washington, D.C., exceed $24,000 a year, outstripping expenses in cities like New York and San Francisco. Despite the steep prices, parents such as Megan McCune and Tom Shonosky, who live in a suburban D.C. neighborhood with their children John and Lizzy, believe day care is still worth it.
"They're doing these amazing activities with kids. John's last teacher was planning just all these really stimulating, exciting experiences," McCune says. "That's just not something that we can feasibly do and also have full-time jobs."
But day care might soon become a luxury the couple can no longer afford. In 2016, a regulation was passed mandating that day care workers obtain a college degree. The city's logic is straightforward: If D.C.'s day care staff had college degrees, they could do a better job helping disadvantaged kids climb out of poverty.

This is Reason magazine. Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children.

Among the many things to be despised in these fringy libertarians is their gross petit-bourgeois six-people-living-in-an-apartment downscale elitism. People who don't make enough money to be considered elite pile a lot of importance on credentials, for obvious reasons.

...
After a delay, the rule was finally implemented in December 2023.
Yet contrary to its intended benefits, this regulation could lead to job losses among day care workers, increased operating costs for day cares, and higher tuition for parents.
Ami Bawa, lead teacher and assistant director at a nursery school in northwest D.C., exemplifies the unintended consequences of the regulation. Although she has been working in the field for over 20 years, Bawa may now be forced out of her job. "Even though I have a lot of experiential learning, I don't meet what is now the current standard," she explains.

I don't want to blow your minds or anything, but it turns out Biden's effete gangsters at the DOJ have been illegally punishing whistleblowers.

When they were told to stop, they claimed they stopped -- while continuing to illegally punish them.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed Tuesday officials at the federal law enforcement agency have inappropriately retaliated against whistleblowers by pulling security clearances and implementing other retribution against them.

A lot of guys fired by the FBI or DEA for whistleblowing would get jobs in the private security sector. So these Deep State Nazis yank their security clearances so that they can't get jobs. They want to starve them until they recant.

"The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of concerns that the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has identified regarding the Department's compliance with 50 U.S.C. § 3341 and the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) Security Executive Agent Directive 9 (SEAD 9), which provide protections for federal employees who allege their security clearance has been suspended, revoked, or denied in retaliation for making a protected disclosure," a new OIG memo states. "This concern came to our attention in connection with the OIG's assessment of complaints the OIG received from employees of a DOJ component, alleging that their security clearances were suspended in retaliation for protected whistleblowing activity."
The investigation covered the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Oh, and they suspend them without pay for a year or more.

While crippling their ability to find outside work.

"[A] lack of a DOJ appeal process for employees who allege their suspension of more than 1 year is retaliatory, as required by Section 3341 and SEAD 9, is especially problematic at DOJ components that regularly suspend employees without pay for the duration of the security review process, which can sometimes last years," the memo continues.

I feel bad about blowing your minds again after having just blown your minds, but Biden's Racialist Gangsters in the VA are now denying vocational training and psychological services to white veterans.

DEI Hits the VA: Biden's Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets

'Equity' means realizing 'treating everybody the same might not be enough,' VA official Shawn Liu says
Peter Hasson
May 13, 2024
President Joe Biden's Department of Veterans Affairs is offering race-based training programs and workshops that exclude white veterans--programs that one legal expert says are "of dubious constitutionality and legality."

The programs are taking place in at least four states, a Washington Free Beacon review of online offerings found.
In Battle Creek, Mich., for example, the VA offers a "BIPOC Support Group," an "8-week curriculum designed to provide support for Veterans that identify as people of color/BIPOC, or as multiracial or biracial," according to a program description. The Battle Creek VA also offers a "Race-Based Stress/Trauma and Empowerment" program, a "weekly group, tailored to our Veterans of color, to address race-based stress and trauma in a safe and validating environment."
In Long Beach, Calif., the VA also offers a "Race-Based Stress/Trauma Empowerment Group," which it says is for "Veterans who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and who are interested in addressing issues of race-based stress, trauma, resilience, and empowerment." A similar program in Palo Alto, Calif., invites "Women Veterans of color" to join a "10-week group to explore [the] impact of racism on your well-being."
In Minneapolis, meanwhile, a VA-sponsored "Black Veterans peer support group" welcomes "all Veterans who self-identify as Black" to learn "skills that help protect against the negative impact of racial stress and trauma by increasing feelings of belongingness, connectedness to racial/ethnic identity and empowerment." And the VA's Central Ohio Health Care System advertises a "Minority Stress & Empowerment" group, an eight-week series "open to Black, Indigenous and all Veterans of color who are interested in addressing race-based stress and trauma."
Under Biden, the federal government has made "equity" a guiding principle thanks to a June 2021 executive order instructing agencies to beef up their diversity programming. "Such training programs," the order said, "should enable Federal employees, managers, and leaders to have knowledge of systemic and institutional racism and bias" as well as an "increased understanding of implicit and unconscious bias."
In other settings, however, race-based offerings have landed private entities in hot water. Last year, amid legal scrutiny, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer quietly amended a fellowship program to remove a provision that barred whites and Asians from applying. Now, University of San Diego law professor and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member Gail Heriot is expressing similar concern over the VA's programs.
"It seems like every time you turn around there's another race-exclusive government program of dubious constitutionality and legality," Heriot told the Free Beacon. "Race exclusivity should raise red flags. Yet for the past four years, we've been seeing more and more of this kind of thing."
The VA did not respond to a request for comment.

Of course not. You peons think the government answers to you?

...
The VA has a history of implementing left-wing cultural initiatives under Biden.
In 2021, internal agency training included the "genderbread" diagram, which is also featured in some elementary school curricula. The diagram points to the brain, heart, and pelvic area of a gingerbread "person" to distinguish "gender identity," "sexual orientation," and "biological sex," respectively. The full body of the gingerbread "person" represents its "gender expression," the diagram says.

I can imagine the wounded veterans there thinking, "I got shot the f*** up in Afghanistan so I can sit here and be lectured about my inner gender identity."

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice has won the Republican primary to compete for Joe Manchin's senate seat -- he's retiring -- which essentially wins the race for the GOP. The article claims, a bit prematurely, that this means the GOP will have a "minimum of 50 seats" after the election.

I don't like making bets on what the GOP's minimum performance will turn out to be.

AGAIN: Biden claims that Beau Biden was killed by burn-pits or something and claims that's just like cops being killed in the line of duty.

Biden, at the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, compares the loss of his son to police officers killed in the line of duty pic.twitter.com/OL3NOopqOR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 15, 2024

In case you had any doubts at all, Bill Maher played video of a 2018 interview with Sloppy Daniels in which she was firm on the point that her encounter with Trump was "not a MeToo situation." Now the scabrous whore lies and suggests that Trump physically menaced her into sex by (checks notes) sitting down on a bed, which created a "power imbalance."

Q: "Two times over the past two weeks, the president said inflation was 9% when he came into office. Is the president misleading Americans on that or does he just not realize that inflation was 1.4% when he came into office?"

KJP: "Thank you for the question..." pic.twitter.com/xNoTj1xE7x
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 15, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:35 PM

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1 st?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (YRsIm)

2 2nd?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #05 at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (qfLjt)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (YRsIm)

4 Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson 1h
Harrison Butker's jersey is currently above Patrick Mahomes' in the NFL's bestseller list
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LOL

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (ZdexC)

5 House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Thursday told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that his Committee found new Biden family bank accounts. Comer said the Biden family has dozens of bank accounts and dozens of LLCs without any legitimate business. James Comer told Maria Bartiromo that he issued a subpoena for targeted financial information from a “certain financial institution” related to Jim Biden, Sara Biden and Hunter Biden.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (RHGPo)

6 Washington DC will now demand that day care centers be staffed only by people with a college degree.
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Isn't this racist?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (YqDXo)

7 "Let there be lightface." And there was lightface.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (ZdexC)

8 Senior Navy DEI Chief Admits Wokeness Would Be 'Out The Window' If China-Taiwan War Broke Out

"When China invades Taiwan. None of this is going to matter..."

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (RHGPo)

9 A gallon of gas
Can't be purchased anywhere
For any amount in cash.

Posted by: The Kinks at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (krQz2)

10 A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it.

$2.94/gallon at Sam's in McKinney, Tx.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (yL/az)

11 No character or formatting buffoonery was used by me....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 16, 2024 02:38 PM (YRsIm)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Do not search for "filling up your can with gas" right now.

Posted by: Helpful Hints by banana Dream at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (Y6IkP)

14 $2.94/gallon at Sam's in McKinney, Tx.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (yL/az)
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That's because it's Texas and racist.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (krQz2)

15 Not many dudes can get an actual no-fooling whore to testify in court that just you sitting down in a bed next to a woman is enough to make them involuntarily start fluffing your hog for you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (+yhUM)

16

Biden is an old Commie. A dumb one, but still a Commie.

Just like Ted Kennedy and the other jackass Dems.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (et1vG)

17
According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That's nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02.

Now add 50 cents to those prices.

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$2.89 at Costco in Pearland, TX the other day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (MoZTd)

18 Ace is emboldened today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

19 but it turns out Biden's effete gangsters at the DOJ have been illegally punishing whistleblowers.

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You call that punishing?
- Boeing

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (4curJ)

20 Do not search for "filling up your can with gas" right now.
Posted by: Helpful Hints by banana Dream at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (Y6IkP)

Speaking of butt chugging.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

21 You know what they say. A bold post is the sign of a valiant mind.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:41 PM (8ebbP)

22 Even AP/CP know it's not going well in NYC, local news chyron:

Donald Trump's lawyers will resume grilling Michael Cohen, the prosecutor's star witness, at hush money trial.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:41 PM (ZdexC)

23 California is a mentally ill state.

They're set on making you sorry you ever tried to open a business if you have to close because you can't hire staff from the extortionate "minimum wage" and when you just can't profit above the crime they let happen in their streets.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:41 PM (krQz2)

24 I saw Effete Gangsters open for Psy at the Seoul Olympic Stadium back in 2018...

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 02:41 PM (V13WU)

25 Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state.

That's mentally ill.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (krQz2)

26 >>>21 You know what they say. A bold post is the sign of a valiant mind.

very true. St Augustine, I believe. and thank you for noticing.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (KRtlO)

27 KJP is proof positive women shouldn't swallow woman juice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

28 18 Ace is emboldened today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Looks like he got hold of some extra large ants to arrange his words for him.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (vivhj)

29 I linked this in Pixy's thread, but it's worth a watch / listen if you've got 20 minutes:

Nothing Has Changed Since 1999

youtube.com/watch?v=NkAJtRiOAxk

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (8DAzZ)

30
Harrison Butker's jersey is currently above Patrick Mahomes' in the NFL's bestseller list

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What did he say? Not what sports "journalists" say he said.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (MoZTd)

31 Senior Navy DEI Chief Admits Wokeness Would Be 'Out The Window' If China-Taiwan War Broke Out

"When China invades Taiwan. None of this is going to matter..."
Posted by: SMOD

Too late. You go to war with the trannies that you have.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (rbPQT)

32 Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state.

That's mentally ill.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (krQz2)

How is that even legal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

33 I can't bear to watch KJP. What was her response?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (tT6L1)

34 Washington DC will now demand that day care centers be staffed only by people with a college degree.
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They shouldn't even be asking for a picture ID--because that's racist.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (krQz2)

35 Fluffing Your Hog opened for Breaking Benjamin back in '18.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (2QA3G)

36 I almost went and purchased Butker's jersey, but remembered I hate most sportsbally stuff.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (A2E7p)

37 > A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it.

The eeeeeeeeeeevil oil companies earn less profit per refined gallon of gas than the government takes for taxes. The oil companies take all the risk and do all the work and the government does nothing but take.

But the oil companies are the bad guy.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Odg76)

38 Day Care is another scam to get your kids away from you and your family.

Ceausescu's Children Have Come Home To Roost.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (IebSC)

39 How is that even legal?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's not, but most people leaving the state probably don't have the legal resources necessary to fight it in court.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (BpYfr)

40 Fluffing Your Hog opened for Breaking Benjamin back in '18.
==

Scalpers made a killing on that one.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (V13WU)

41 House Republicans @HouseGOP 4h
🚨FLASHBACK🚨
In February, White House spokesman Ian Sams bragged about Joe Biden not asserting executive privilege during Special Counsel Hur's investigation.

"He had nothing to hide."

Why is Biden hiding behind Executive Privilege now?

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (ZdexC)

42 I don't find minds to be the most efficacious thing to be blown, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Kamala! 2024! 2028! David Hogg 2032! at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (a3Q+t)

43
Looks like he got hold of some extra large ants to arrange his words for him.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (vivhj)

Carpenter ants.

They shelve better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

44 Day Care is another scam to get your kids away from you and your family.

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So is adulthood.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (V13WU)

45 *waves hand dismissively at topics du jour*

I was just discussing phallocrypts with Hogmartin and learned from Wiki that in 1971 the Indonesian government launched "Operation Penis Sheath" to get the New Guinea natives to ditch the koteka and wear shorts and shirt.

I bet the mission patch was interesting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (FkUwd)

46
Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state.

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That's the beauty of Shohei Ohtani's contract. $2 million a year when he's playing for LA, $30 million a year after he retires and doesn't have to live in CA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (MoZTd)

47 Oversight Committee @GOPoversight 3h
It’s worth noting that there are multiple news outlets suing the DOJ under FOIA to get ahold of the audio from President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Hur.

Including:
ABC
AP
Bloomberg
CBS
CNN
WSJ
NBC
Reuters
Washington Post
Univision

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (ZdexC)

48 How is that even legal?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
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MN, decades ago, due to the number of businesses leaving the state, decided to impose a departure tax. Businesses shrugged their shoulders, kept a minimal front office foot print in the state and moved everything else out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (tT6L1)

49 I was just discussing phallocrypts with Hogmartin and learned from Wiki that in 1971 the Indonesian government launched "Operation Penis Sheath" to get the New Guinea natives to ditch the koteka and wear shorts and shirt.

I bet the mission patch was interesting.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (FkUwd)

Haven't heard from him in quite some time.

He doing ok?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

50 A lot of guys fired by the FBI or DEA for whistleblowing would get jobs in the private security sector. So these Deep State Nazis yank their security clearances so that they can't get jobs. They want to starve them until they recant.

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Steve Friend accounts that the FIB relocated one of these guys away from family and friends, and then they didn't let their stuff off the moving trucks and put it into storage and then refused to pay the guy for years. Plus he was still "employed" by the FIB, so they warned him against searching for "outside work".

The FIB is a less lethal mob.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:46 PM (krQz2)

51 Speaking of butt chugging.....

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Nothing will convince me that this isn't part of the whole "gay" pride whatever, same as normal people now thinking anal sex is completely normal and something they should be doing.

I suspect it's all tied to normalizing gay

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:46 PM (8DAzZ)

52 AGAIN: Biden claims that Beau Biden was killed by burn-pits or something and claims that's just like cops being killed in the line of duty.

So I guess that means Joe is admitting that Democrat policies to defund stuff they don't like killed his son.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (dZVON)

53 Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state.

That's mentally ill.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (krQz2)

How is that even legal?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

it isn't but they try all the same.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (eoQWY)

54 Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children.
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No surprise at all. Back in my college days I used to drink with a couple of the guys who have written for them. At least then, they had an excuse.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (1bNHn)

55 Haven't heard from him in quite some time.

He doing ok?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
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Quite well!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (FkUwd)

56 I saw Phallocrypts open for The Bangles at the House of Blues back in 2011 !

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (V13WU)

57 I was just discussing phallocrypts with Hogmartin and learned from Wiki that in 1971 the Indonesian government launched "Operation Penis Sheath" to get the New Guinea natives to ditch the koteka and wear shorts and shirt.

I bet the mission patch was interesting.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (FkUwd)

IIRC the military made them wear shorts at gunpoint, and the tribesmen then wore the penis sheaths under the shorts, peeking out over the waistband.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (D7oie)

58 How is that even legal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
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I don't think it is, but they are in people's new state of residence asking for an agreement to garnish pay.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (krQz2)

59 31 Senior Navy DEI Chief Admits Wokeness Would Be 'Out The Window' If China-Taiwan War Broke Out

"When China invades Taiwan. None of this is going to matter..."
Posted by: SMOD

Too late. You go to war with the trannies that you have.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (rbPQT)

When Desert Storm hit, we were smack in the middle of the 'Total Quality Management' shit.

As my Destroyer left the pier to go to war, the CO came over the 1MC and announced... TQM is suspended until further notice'.....

I told my subordinates 'Welcome back to the Navy..."

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (xaFKb)

60 I was just discussing phallocrypts with Hogmartin and learned from Wiki that in 1971 the Indonesian government launched "Operation Penis Sheath" to get the New Guinea natives to ditch the koteka and wear shorts and shirt.

I bet the mission patch was interesting.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (FkUwd)
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I must admit I'm a little curious how a conversation about "phallocrypts" (whatever that is--we need ace's etymology here!) even got started...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (BpYfr)

61
Quite well!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:47 PM (FkUwd)

That's good to hear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

62 DeSantis signs bill erasing the term 'climate change' from state law. The priority now is to ensure “an adequate, reliable and cost-effective supply of energy for the state in a manner that promotes the health and welfare of the public and economic growth,” as spelled out in a legislative analysis.

“Florida rejects the designs of the left to weaken our energy grid, pursue a radical climate agenda, and promote foreign adversaries,” DeSantis said on X on Wednesday afternoon. The message included a statement reading, “Radical green zealots want to impose their climate agenda on people through restrictions, regulations, and taxes.”

The legislation removes over 50 lines in state law that were established in 2008 under then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist when it comes to addressing climate change.

Maybe he will see the light when his hat is floating.

Really really stupid. It's hard to believe someone with this level of stupidity can be in a position of responsibility.

There! Problem solved! No more worries about Miami flooding because of rising sea levels. He's whistling Dixie past the graveyard.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (JCZqz)

63 "Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state."

This is one of those cases when the Fed should be stepping in, slapping Cali, and reminding them that they only have jurisdiction over the borders and occupants of their own state.

"You can make whatever stupid laws you want for your own state, as long as they don't contravene the Constitution of the United States, but you can't make laws that affect other states or their occupants."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (ou9hh)

64 > This is Reason magazine. Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children.

I've heard the claim a LOT in my lifetime. College makes you more "well rounded." College makes you a better thinker. College makes you a better person.

Does it? They never seem to actually go about proving it.

In the late 30s, a lot of people all over the world claimed that because Germans were well educated and literary, they couldn't be doing what the rumor mills were claiming.

I know, I know. Godwin and all. But I'll also point out some of the biggest monsters today supporting Marxism in its many forms have all the right papers.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (Odg76)

65 If D.C.'s day care staff had college degrees, they could do a better job helping disadvantaged kids climb out of poverty.

If you raise the cost so only upper middle class and higher women can afford day care you've mostly just solved the problem of kids in daycare going on to a life of poverty...just in the opposite way they claim to want to solve it.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (ibTVg)

66 Kyle Becker @kylenabecker 5h
BREAKING.🚨
@COVIDSelect releases testimony of Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH director who ran America's Covid response.

Highlights:
• 6-feet social distancing made up
• Wuhan lab leak not 'conspiracy theory'
• Fauci had agenda to discredit lab leak
• Fauci lied
• NIH risked national security w/ poor Wuhan oversight

https://tinyurl.com/3d2uhman
document screencaps

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (ZdexC)

67 Btw, I think California's idea of taxing former residents would get slapped down HARD before the SCOTUS.

Even by the wise Latina and co.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (krQz2)

68 Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed Tuesday officials at the federal law enforcement agency have inappropriately retaliated against whistleblowers by pulling security clearances and implementing other retribution against them.

This sounds serious!

There will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (xhfG9)

69 >>> 30
Harrison Butker's jersey is currently above Patrick Mahomes' in the NFL's bestseller list

__________

What did he say? Not what sports "journalists" say he said.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (MoZTd)

Ann B's post includes a video link:
Harrison Butker steps to the front - whether he realizes it or not. Butker is now a key leader of the Catholic Remnant.
https://shorturl.at/krtW2

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (llON8)

70 >> >>Yet contrary to its intended benefits, this regulation could lead to job losses among day care workers, increased operating costs for day cares, and higher tuition for parents.

Maybe it will lead to more stay at home moms?
Maybe combined with the remote work option, this could even lead to more homeschooling?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (hagjt)

71 Sure, Reason Magazine. Nothing prepares someone for helping lift others out of poverty like having Daddy pay for a college degree in Early Education.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (oCS0o)

72 Remember in the 60s one wage earner made enough to provide for a whole family with 4 or more kids.

In Soviet America though you need both adults working full time to pay for their one Kyle or Kayleigh...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (ibTVg)

73 Day Care is another scam to get your kids away from you and your family.

Ceausescu's Children Have Come Home To Roost.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Hey, man, wimmens have to climb the corporate ladder and bury themselves in an early grave and shit, bro~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (IG4Id)

74 I must admit I'm a little curious how a conversation about "phallocrypts" (whatever that is--we need ace's etymology here!) even got started...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (BpYfr)
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He's at some sort of curiosity shop and that was one of the items on display (next to a cast of a Bigfoot print).

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (FkUwd)

75 ... so maybe I should just include the direct link ...
https://shorturl.at/mqDKQ

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (llON8)

76 Highlights:
• 6-feet social distancing made up
• Wuhan lab leak not 'conspiracy theory'
• Fauci had agenda to discredit lab leak
• Fauci lied
• NIH risked national security w/ poor Wuhan oversight

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (ZdexC)
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Not a single line is *literally* news to anybody who didn't watch CNN or MSNBC.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (krQz2)

77 In case you had any doubts at all, Bill Maher played video of a 2018 interview with Sloppy Daniels in which she was firm on the point that her encounter with Trump was "not a MeToo situation." Now the scabrous whore lies and suggests that Trump physically menaced her into sex by (checks notes) sitting down on a bed, which created a "power imbalance."

It would have been more believable if she'd said that he sat, she had a PTSD attack, and could do nothing other than strip and emotionlessly fuck him because that was how she had been trained. Of course, the fact that she had previously stated that they hadn't had sex would be problematic but, no doubt, the judge would bar that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (U7wke)

78 Hmmm... Calif Gas Tax... isn't Price Fixing illegal on the Federal Level?

Saying you are raising the price to change behavior to favor electric over IC cars, would be Price Fixing.

But then, Government subsidies are also price fixing... so I guess they are above the law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (xaFKb)

79 > AGAIN: Biden claims that Beau Biden was killed by burn-pits or something and claims that's just like cops being killed in the line of duty.

Not to take the doddering old pedo too seriously, but wasn't Beau a JAG in an office building? Did he ever come within sniffing distance of a burn pit?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (Odg76)

80 Harrison Butker's jersey is currently above Patrick Mahomes' in the NFL's bestseller list

An NPC friend of one my relatives was ranting about this guy and literally ended her rant with "...and during PRIDE MONTH?"

I mean I thought it was a joke on our side not literally what the NPCs are being told to say

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (ibTVg)

81 "A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it."

They're just incentivizing drivers to abandon cars and to take the far more convenient and rapid California High Speed Train Network.

Posted by: gp Decays To Plage at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (MvF+J)

82 Biden won’t seek redactions in special counsel report on his handling of classified documents
Politics Feb 8, 2024 12:07 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will not seek any redactions in a report by the Justice Department special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents, the White House said Thursday, clearing the way for its release.

White House Counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams said the White House had notified the Justice Department that it had completed a review of the report Thursday morning. “In keeping with his commitment to cooperation and transparency throughout this investigation, the president declined to assert privilege over any portion of the report,” he said.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

83 "IIRC the military made them wear shorts at gunpoint, and the tribesmen then wore the penis sheaths under the shorts, peeking out over the waistband."

*golf clap*

"phallocrypts" (whatever that is--we need ace's etymology here!) "

"dick-concealers"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (ou9hh)

84 I was just discussing phallocrypts with Hogmartin and learned from Wiki that in 1971 the Indonesian government launched "Operation Penis Sheath" to get the New Guinea natives to ditch the koteka and wear shorts and shirt.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM

To be fair, while attempting to improve the New Guineaians up to the AoSHQ Book Thread Sartorial Standard, at least they're wearing *something*, unlike some current BT scofflaws.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (a3Q+t)

85 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM (U7wke)

Trump is a germaphobe. Him having sex with a Porn Star?

Not believing it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (xaFKb)

86 Did someone ask for a hog-fluffin' in here?

*cackles*

Posted by: Kamala at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (oqH4h)

87
Hey, man, wimmens have to climb the corporate ladder and bury themselves in an early grave and shit, bro~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop

__________

The most radical thing a young woman can say is, "I want to get married soon, have a lot of kids, stay home to raise them right and love, help and support my husband."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (MoZTd)

88 Saying you are raising the price to change behavior to favor electric over IC cars, would be Price Fixing.

But then, Government subsidies are also price fixing... so I guess they are above the law.

A motivated DOJ could stop all this leftwing state level insanity if it wanted to. You just have to get a president that wants it stopped combined with enough staffing in the DOJ to get it done.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (ibTVg)

89 A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in Cali.
‐------
Under Trump my car only held $40 in gas.
Now it holds $75 !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (riU2q)

90 Joe was always good at making whatever situation about himself. Did Barry learn it from Joe and take it to a new level of self-involvement?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

91 Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

or to paraphrase... we don't need to redact the report we wrote in the first place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:53 PM (xaFKb)

92 You call that punishing?
- Boeing
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (4curJ)

Snort

Posted by: javems at May 16, 2024 02:53 PM (8I4hW)

93 I did mention that California, as an entity, is mentally ill.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:53 PM (krQz2)

94 - Leak all this shit about Wuhan in the "real news"
- Say it was all Trump's fault
- Biden 2024

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:53 PM (+yhUM)

95 i saw stormy dumpster open for a lot of guys waving 20 dollar bills, no refunds after the storm passes over

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (B1FKF)

96 "AGAIN: Biden claims that Beau Biden was killed by burn-pits or something and claims that's just like cops being killed in the line of duty."

I call BS. Nobody went through all the things he claims.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (z+89e)

97 So, yes or no, phallocrypts are an acceptable alternative to pants on the book thread?

Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (/TaR6)

98 I saw Pussy Riot open for Phallocrypts at Lollapalooza in 2015!

Posted by: Musical Moron at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

99 Related question:

Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (VTu1l)

100 "Also, California wants taxes from you for 10 years if you leave their state."

This is one of those cases when the Fed should be stepping in, slapping Cali, and reminding them that they only have jurisdiction over the borders and occupants of their own state.

"You can make whatever stupid laws you want for your own state, as long as they don't contravene the Constitution of the United States, but you can't make laws that affect other states or their occupants."
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (ou9hh)

other states should realize that these payments reduce the taxes they get while they provide all the infrasructure costs and tell CA to piss up a rope.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (eoQWY)

101 Imagine being lumbered with a Psycho Ex Girlfriend that you never even schtupped.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (+yhUM)

102 I remember TQM being pimped by the managerial class when they were trying to corporatize the agencies. We tried to explain that we didn't make widgets. "This isn't about bean counting, it's about accountability and streamlining operations!"

It became bean counting, and they retired to the corporate world.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (FkUwd)

103 You call that punishing?
- Boeing
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (4curJ)
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Exactly.

I saw a meme that was titled: "That face you make as a Boeing whistleblower".

It was a guy on a morgue slab.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (krQz2)

104 Not to take the doddering old pedo too seriously, but wasn't Beau a JAG in an office building? Did he ever come within sniffing distance of a burn pit?

Someone had to destroy evidence.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (dZVON)

105 The trouble with Getting What You Voted For is that it is a recipe for the end of America. TBH, I felt that way when the Lightwalker got reelected. I'm not sure a country which would do that deserves to survive.

Granted, the GOP made it easy.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (1bNHn)

106 >>>Not to take the doddering old pedo too seriously, but wasn't Beau a JAG in an office building? Did he ever come within sniffing distance of a burn pit?

no, he never explains how Beau's stint as a Rear Echelon Mother F***er had him close to burning oil rigs.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (KRtlO)

107 I remember when he wasn't out raping masseuses, Al Gore was telling everyone that when he got elected President of United Evil, Inc. a gallon of gas will cost 7 or 8 bucks a gallon to help cool the earth.

24 years ago.

Good times, good times...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (IebSC)

108 I saw Pussy Riot open for Phallocrypts at Lollapalooza in 2015!
Posted by: Musical Moron at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

Heard the daughter mention the Lollapalooza concert is now a multi day event where they're charging over $300 PER DAY to attend.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

109 remember Joe Biden said he got cancer from oil on his windshields, and a lot of his friends did too

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (KRtlO)

110 DEI Hits the VA: Biden's Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets

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#WhiteLivesDon'tMatterEspeciallySuckerVeterans

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (6uE0M)

111 97 So, yes or no, phallocrypts are an acceptable alternative to pants on the book thread?
Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (/TaR6)
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Yes, as long as you are also wearing shorts. Just poke the gourd through the slot.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (FkUwd)

112 He's at some sort of curiosity shop and that was one of the items on display (next to a cast of a Bigfoot print).
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 02:50 PM

And the next item on display was a Bigfoot phallocrypt found at Oak Island?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (a3Q+t)

113 There is a big yellow and red blob on the radar heading my way.

The weather dramatists haven't begun naming thunderstorms, yet...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (llON8)

114 remember Joe Biden said he got cancer from oil on his windshields, and a lot of his friends did too
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (KRtlO)

The oil fell like RAIN I tell you......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

115 109 remember Joe Biden said he got cancer from oil on his windshields, and a lot of his friends did too
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (KRtlO)

Ah, yes, back in his stint as a long haul trucker.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (+yhUM)

116 I felt that way when the Lightwalker got reelected. I'm not sure a country which would do that deserves to survive.

Granted, the GOP made it easy.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 16, 2024 02:55 PM (1bNHn)

I felt that way too - at the time - but looking back maybe this idiot country sensed something about Mitt Romney. I mean he is a flaming fucktard POS with another flaming skunk bitch as a running mate. So I'm not sure Obama was even actually the wrong choice.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (8ebbP)

117 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger -

=======

We were gonna get a clue,

But then we got high

Posted by: Libertarians at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (EC+k8)

118 A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it.

At a Costco in central Missouri gas is only $3.29, so your story about $5 gas is a lie!

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (xhfG9)

119 remember Joe Biden said he got cancer from oil on his windshields, and a lot of his friends did too

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (KRtlO)

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

Thank goodness he's since cured cancer -- which allows Beau to continue repeatedly living & dying.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (6uE0M)

120 "So these Deep State Nazis yank their security clearances so that they can't get jobs."

========

But never Clapper and the rest of the "50 intelligence officials!!!" who swore Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian Disinformation.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (i7Q7S)

121 >>"It seems like every time you turn around there's another race-exclusive government program of dubious constitutionality and legality,"

check this out: https://tinyurl.com/242zuu3e

" Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked "privacy" bill that will impose race and gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans."

This is scary shit. Link above goes to Reason, about APRA bill

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (hagjt)

122 The most radical thing a young woman can say is, "I want to get married soon, have a lot of kids, stay home to raise them right and love, help and support my husband."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I saw a video with a VERY radical feminist on YouTube not long ago. They were asking why feminists didn't celebrate stay at home mothers more, and wasn't feminism about giving women options and empowering them.

She flat out said no, that was all lies to make it more palatable to normies, and the real goal has always been liberation of women from men. Stay at home mothers are dependent upon men, and therefore wrong. They need careers, money, and freedom from men.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

123 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (VTu1l)
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Because libertarianism assumes that we all live and interact in a system that does not exist, and which has never existed at all.

Posted by: Kamala at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (oqH4h)

124 I wish I could go to sleep until November 6th... then I could decide whether to jump off a building.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (WT4dp)

125 Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy chip challenge died from "high capsaicin concentration".

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (ZdexC)

126 I imagine Trump beating the margin of cheating in November and in December smiling at Joe and saying "Go ahead, Joe. Try to take one document home with you..."

Of course NARA would whine and say that's an illegitimate function of the president to reclassify whatever the other guy takes with him.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)

127 113, lol, just give 'em time ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (tQtDb)

128
The weather dramatists haven't begun naming thunderstorms, yet...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (llON8

It's been rumbling round these parts all day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

129 90 Joe was always good at making whatever situation about himself. Did Barry learn it from Joe and take it to a new level of self-involvement?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

He does it to make himself "relatable"

Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (Sf2cq)

130 I'm surprised ewbtub hasn't dropped the video of Butker's speech.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (llON8)

131 "This is Reason magazine. Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children."

---

Reason magazine thinks everyone smoking dope, and letting illegals flood into the country makes for a better world.

So, yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 02:59 PM (dGCAG)

132 Kyle Becker @kylenabecker 5h
BREAKING.🚨
@COVIDSelect releases testimony of Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH director who ran America's Covid response.

Highlights:
• 6-feet social distancing made up
• Wuhan lab leak not 'conspiracy theory'
• Fauci had agenda to discredit lab leak
• Fauci lied
• NIH risked national security w/ poor Wuhan oversight

https://tinyurl.com/3d2uhman
document screencaps
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:49 PM (ZdexC)

Something everyone knew, but what we still don’t know and when we find out people should literally hang, is who squashed Ivermectin being used as a prophylactic?

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (MNhXM)

133 >>> 124 I wish I could go to sleep until November 6th... then I could decide whether to jump off a building.
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (WT4dp)

no no no

You decide if you should *throw* someone off a building... probably several someones...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (llON8)

134 They need careers, money, and freedom from men.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

Ain't no broke ass betty crocker bitches gonna be shelling out cash monies to support The Cause.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (+yhUM)

135 "Highlights:
• 6-feet social distancing made up
• Wuhan lab leak not 'conspiracy theory'
• Fauci had agenda to discredit lab leak
• Fauci lied
• NIH risked national security w/ poor Wuhan oversight"

===========

But this is why government must determine what is "disinformation"

Nancy Pelosi and the deep state know what is best, dummy!

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (i7Q7S)

136 Something everyone knew, but what we still don’t know and when we find out people should literally hang, is who squashed Ivermectin being used as a prophylactic?
Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (MNhXM)

TRUMP SAID PUT HORSE PASTE ON YOUR DICK TO AVOID PREGNANCY!!!!!

Posted by: Libtards Everywhere at May 16, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

137 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Narcissism. Fart-sniffing ego-baters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2024 03:01 PM (IG4Id)

138 But never Clapper and the rest of the "50 intelligence officials!!!" who swore Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian Disinformation.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:57 PM (i7Q7S)
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That was my concern too!

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at May 16, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)

139 >>> 134 They need careers, money, and freedom from men.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

Ain't no broke ass betty crocker bitches gonna be shelling out cash monies to support The Cause.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (+yhUM)

Don't forget income taxes. Imagine the reeing every time the gubmint loses someone from payroll.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:01 PM (llON8)

140 121 >>"It seems like every time you turn around there's another race-exclusive government program of dubious constitutionality and legality,"

check this out: https://tinyurl.com/242zuu3e

" Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked "privacy" bill that will impose race and gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans."

This is scary shit. Link above goes to Reason, about APRA bill

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (hagjt)

In the before times I used to think that bad things accidentally ended up in bills because the bills were large and no one had time to vet them properly.

But now I know the bills are large so no one has time to vet them properly to find out what bad things are put there on purpose.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 03:01 PM (vivhj)

141 Inflation was already there, except the Biden increased spending and inflation somehow got worse. Must be a coincidence.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (s19xO)

142 " Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked "privacy" bill that will impose race and gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans."

I don't understand how this could pass constitutional muster after the Students for Fair Admissions decision. Yes, they'll ignore it and try to implement it anyway, but it's just to in your face for SCOTUS not to call them out.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (CsUN+)

143 "I don't like making bets on what the GOP's minimum performance will turn out to be."

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Yeah, just when you ask how low can they go, they start digging.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (dGCAG)

144 The “floating pier” built by the U.S. Navy off the coast of Gaza was completed on Thursday, and connected to the shore by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (RHGPo)

145 Probably mentioned
Gas in se Pa is give or take $3.60

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (fwDg9)

146 Could phallocrypts be an expansion of AoSHQ fashion Threads?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (a3Q+t)

147 You decide if you should *throw* someone off a building... probably several someones...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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After awhile it wouldn't even hurt because they'd be piled so high...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (WT4dp)

148 The weather dramatists haven't begun naming thunderstorms, yet...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:56 PM (llON8

There was dew on my grass this morning. I'm going to call it Dew YaWanna.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2024 03:03 PM (CsUN+)

149 Skip that last video.

Unless you want to watch a moot danger lie for 2.5 minutes.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:03 PM (hagjt)

150 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (VTu1l)

to quote Dave Smith: If you are going to decide to be so damned ideologically pure and strict about your actions, you should get out of politics and start a book club.

Unless you are talking about that whole "self ownership and inalienable rights" stuff. In which case you might as well bitch to the Catholics about the Council of Nicea

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

151 TRUMP SAID PUT HORSE PASTE ON YOUR DICK TO AVOID PREGNANCY!!!!!
Posted by: Libtards Everywhere

YOU FORGOT ABOUT INJECTING BLEACH INTO YOUR VEINS THROUGH YOUR NON-N95 MASK!!!!

Posted by: Rabid DU confabulist at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (JCZqz)

152 >>> 147 You decide if you should *throw* someone off a building... probably several someones...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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After awhile it wouldn't even hurt because they'd be piled so high...
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:02 PM (WT4dp)

There you go!!

(I woke up my kitty because I was laughing so much)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (llON8)

153 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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Because they are partial liberals.

And liberals don't understand the main cohesive and Brownian force in societies is Shoulds. Shoulds hold us together, they tell us what to expect from each other. What are responsibility is to another member.

Libertarianism is about limiting the Shoulds on them, but at the expense of demanding that you should want what they want. And you should be dissatisfied if you want anything else.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (krQz2)

154 but it turns out Biden's effete gangsters at the DOJ have been illegally punishing whistleblowers.

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You call that punishing?
- Boeing
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (4curJ)

Heh, exactly what I was thinking.

Underaged sex slaves on Epstein Island have a higher survival rate than Boeing whistleblowers.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (dGCAG)

155 (I woke up my kitty because I was laughing so much)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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How's your "free dog" doing?

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:05 PM (WT4dp)

156 "So, yes or no, phallocrypts are an acceptable alternative to pants on the book thread?
Posted by: PabloD"

Pants, by definition have two legs and are sewn into one garment.

So if you sew two of the phallocrypts together...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 03:05 PM (ou9hh)

157 Jus cuz I know y'all's heads will esplode:

NFL vice president of programming Mike North confirmed to Fox Sports that Swift's schedule played a role in the NFL's scheduling.

She needs your stadium for her show

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (/7KEl)

158 What would this regime do differently if they were not a occupying enemy believing they have conquered a lower caste?

Yet Romney is pissed at Biden--not because of all the Illegal prosecutions of Trump--but because he believes Biden is still better than Trump and should have "been the bigger man" and stopped the Illegal prosecutions he ordered.

It doesn't even enter the mind of that blow-dried retard that the guy that ordered and directed Illegal prosecutions of his political opponents might be the bad guy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (VR3mM)

159 I saw a video with a VERY radical feminist on YouTube not long ago. They were asking why feminists didn't celebrate stay at home mothers more, and wasn't feminism about giving women options and empowering them.

She flat out said no, that was all lies to make it more palatable to normies, and the real goal has always been liberation of women from men. Stay at home mothers are dependent upon men, and therefore wrong. They need careers, money, and freedom from men.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

I grew up in those days and moms were always target number one for Feminists and that's why I hate them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (eoQWY)

160 Oh goody, we should start seeing Gazans coming to America soon

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (fwDg9)

161
NFL vice president of programming Mike North confirmed to Fox Sports that Swift's schedule played a role in the NFL's scheduling.

The NFL can mulef*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

162 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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Because they are partial liberals.

And liberals don't understand the main cohesive and Brownian force in societies is Shoulds. Shoulds hold us together, they tell us what to expect from each other. What are responsibility is to another member.

Libertarianism is about limiting the Shoulds on them, but at the expense of demanding that you should want what they want. And you should be dissatisfied if you want anything else.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (krQz2)

Not true.

What so many don't realize, the Libertarian Party was a poor representative of libertarian thought, because it WAS run by a bunch of lefties who just wanted to smoke dope.

It's not anymore. Those people have been dumped to the curb, which is one reason why, when they were being courted by the RFK Jr. team, to potentially have him be their Prez candidate, the party told him to go pound sand.

You know who's going to be speaking at the Libertarian Party convention next month?

Don J. Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:07 PM (dGCAG)

163 Why are libertarians such... what's the word

clueless fucking morons?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger -
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I had libertarian friends in the 80s.

Back then, the core uniting principle of the party was ....pot. They embraced anyone and their crazy ideas as long as they were in favor of legalizing hemp, for any reason at all.

Sow the weed, reap the bullshit.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:07 PM (hagjt)

164 "So, yes or no, phallocrypts are an acceptable alternative to pants on the book thread?
Posted by: PabloD"

Pants, by definition have two legs and are sewn into one garment.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

So kilts are out?!?!?! TRANSPHOBES!!!!!

Posted by: New Dr. Who, now 5000% more black and queer at May 16, 2024 03:07 PM (JCZqz)

165 The hell i'm cramming my meat and two veg into a little pair of dick pipe pants I don't care what you got going on in that book thread.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (+yhUM)

166 Oh goody, we should start seeing Gazans coming to America soon

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:06 PM (fwDg9)

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

Many are already here.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (6uE0M)

167 When Desert Storm hit, we were smack in the middle of the 'Total Quality Management' shit.

As my Destroyer left the pier to go to war, the CO came over the 1MC and announced... TQM is suspended until further notice'.....

I told my subordinates 'Welcome back to the Navy..."
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:48 PM (xaFKb)

There was an admiral back in the day, I don't recall which one, who came up with the idea for a "mini-overhaul". This was a 3 month period where you spent all your time cleaning and painting. No training, no maintenance - beyond the absolutely critical, just cleaning and painting.

He came to visit Pearl Harbor and visited our sub. We had just finished winning our second consecutive Battle E but had not undergone a "mini overhaul" because we were constantly being sent to see to cover the 688s who were always broken.

The guy reamed our CO and said that if there were a war he wouldn't let us put to see because our bilges were dirty. Idiots like that love peacetime.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (U7wke)

168 Race based government programs are:

Legal [Illegal]

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (IHRQq)

169 >>> 155

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How's your "free dog" doing?
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:05 PM (WT4dp)

He's very sweet and *wants* to be a good boy, but doesn't understand some things.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (llON8)

170 I remember when the job I had, which used to require Grade 12, changed to requiring a degree. Quality of new hires went waaaay down.

Posted by: leber at May 16, 2024 03:08 PM (rovGg)

171 I wish I could go to sleep until November 6th... then I could decide whether to jump off a building.
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (WT4dp)

no no no

You decide if you should *throw* someone off a building... probably several someones...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

NEVER suicide. Always homicide.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (yL/az)

172
You call that punishing?
- Boeing

======

I don't anybody on Boeing payroll did the deed, or even suggested the deed.

However, Boeing makes fun stuff for various Federal drones, who may or may not be collecting some graft, and they may not like peons messing with the Meal Ticket.

Posted by: Libertarians at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (EC+k8)

173 Not true.

Don J. Trump.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:07 PM (dGCAG)
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Okay. Good for them.

It still doesn't mean that they don't tend to be about minimizing their responsibility to society.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (krQz2)

174 Libertarianism is about limiting the Shoulds on them, but at the expense of demanding that you should want what they want. And you should be dissatisfied if you want anything else.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:04 PM (krQz2)

Liberals and Leftists can have a consistent set of principles but Libertarians don't because just saying you should be able to do what you want leads to instant problems that they paper over and quit thinking about.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (eoQWY)

175 "So, yes or no, phallocrypts are an acceptable alternative to pants on the book thread?
Posted by: PabloD"

Pants, by definition have two legs and are sewn into one garment.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

So kilts are out?!?!?! TRANSPHOBES!!!!!
Posted by: New Dr. Who, now 5000% more black and queer "

Ex-sqeeze me, kilts are a men's garment.

So in order to make it transphobic you'd have to ban women from wearing them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (ou9hh)

176 168 Race based government programs are:

Legal [Illegal]
Posted by: Ribbed

Well, that depends. Who are they helping, and who are they hurting?

Posted by: Leftists at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

177 Because libertarianism assumes that we all live and interact in a system that does not exist, and which has never existed at all.
Posted by: Kamala at May 16, 2024 02:58 PM (oqH4h)

Now do God and Faith?

"because Christianity assumes we all live and interact in a system that does not exist . . . " is for some reason not an excuse to walk away from God and faith

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (D7oie)

178 Off sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (EC+k8)

179
NEVER suicide. Always homicide.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (yL/az)

Inappropriate thought question:

Do the homos thrown from the rooftops in islhamic countries repent before they hit the ground?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

180 He's very sweet and *wants* to be a good boy, but doesn't understand some things.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Hmmm... sounds familiar🤔
How old is he?

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (WT4dp)

181 NEVER suicide. Always homicide.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (yL/az)

---
This man knows something.

Posted by: Cthillary in Chap'qua Dreaming at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (krQz2)

182 Christianity assumes man is base and depraved and requires a redeemer and constant admonition and correction. Such a weird dystopian fantasy.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW)

183 Harrison Butker's jersey is currently above Patrick Mahomes' in the NFL's bestseller list

Even if I still followed the NFL and gave even the tiniest shit about KC, I could not buy a Mahomes jersey. He's black, I'm not, and I cannot pretend to be a professional footballer who doesn't look like me.

Those are the rules.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (U7wke)

184 We were gonna get a clue,

But then we got high

The new "Hunter Got High" version is fantastic. Afroman knows *all* the details, it's like he's been reading the HQ.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

185
So in order to make it transphobic you'd have to ban women from wearing them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (ou9hh)

Women pretending to be men to wear a man's skirt.

Have we reached peak stupid yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

186 Don't overanalyze libertarians. They want to get high. That's it. Everything else is fluff.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (EC+k8)

187 It still doesn't mean that they don't tend to be about minimizing their responsibility to society.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:09 PM (krQz2)

Sorry, I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

188 Now do God and Faith?

"because Christianity assumes we all live and interact in a system that does not exist . . . " is for some reason not an excuse to walk away from God and faith
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (D7oie)

Huh?

We *do* live in that system. We live in the grandest implementation of Fuck Around And Find Out that could conceivably exist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (+yhUM)

189 Inflation was already there, except the Biden increased spending and inflation somehow got worse. Must be a coincidence.
Posted by: Eddie Baby

Yeah, but do you know about SHRINKAGE?

Posted by: George Constanza, fictional serial liar at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (vcOmj)

190 Something everyone knew, but what we still don’t know and when we find out people should literally hang, is who squashed Ivermectin being used as a prophylactic?
Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:00 PM (MNhXM)

Just a reminder that NIAID/NIH knew HCQ was effective against coronavirus since 2005 and they knew Ivermectin was effective since 2009.

Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 03:12 PM (Sf2cq)

191 Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed is set in Feudal Japan. Instead of playing as a Japanese character though, you'll be playing as a black man named Yasuke. Yasuke was a real person who lived in that time, but was definitely not a Samurai. IGN and other spokes-holes have been trying to push the lie that Yasuke was a real historical black Samurai.

Nope.

http://tiny.cc/faj4yz

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 03:12 PM (Odg76)

192 Is a phallocrypt where dead dicks are interred? And what if isn't truly dead?

Posted by: It shall rise again! at May 16, 2024 03:12 PM (Wc83a)

193 Yeah, but do you know about SHRINKAGE?
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Nothing an eleven year old with clean hair couldn't fix.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (iFMeW)

194 re "But never Clapper and the rest of the "50 intelligence officials!!!" who swore Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian Disinformation."

actually they said it "sounded like classic russian disinformation" so they were merely expressing their expert opinions without saying it wasn't true. only republicans get in trouble for speaking like that.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (B1FKF)

195 Inappropriate thought question:

Do the homos thrown from the rooftops in islhamic countries repent before they hit the ground?
Posted by: Sponge

Even more inappropriate thought question:

Since they are throwing muzzies of roofs, who cares?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (yL/az)

196 "Women pretending to be men to wear a man's skirt.

Have we reached peak stupid yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden "

I bet there are higher peak stupids we could reach if we really tried.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (ou9hh)

197 TQM and "Team Managment" destroyed GE because then CEO, Jack Welsh, so totally believed in it, he hired the entire idiotic officer corps that implemented it right out of the service.

Posted by: Boswell at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (K+UlC)

198 Now do God and Faith?

"because Christianity assumes we all live and interact in a system that does not exist . . . " is for some reason not an excuse to walk away from God and faith
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (D7oie)
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Belief or non-belief in God and Christ and that your salvation or lack thereof is determined solely by that belief is not comparable, in my opinion, to a political belief system.

Libertarianism relies on an ignorant, misguided view of the society in which we currently live, a society created by man, who is fallible.

Posted by: Kamala at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (oqH4h)

199 i saw stormy dumpster open for a lot of guys
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 16, 2024 02:54 PM (B1FKF)

Lots of people have seen her open for a lot of guys. Just sayin'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (U7wke)

200 The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure used to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency tasked with enforcing consumer finance laws. By a vote of 7-2, the justices reversed a decision by a federal appeals court in Louisiana, which had ruled that the agency’s funding violates the Constitution because it comes from the Federal Reserve rather than through the congressional appropriations process.

.. the grouping of justices defies most guesses

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

201 "because Christianity assumes we all live and interact in a system that does not exist . . . " is for some reason not an excuse to walk away from God and faith

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (D7oie)
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But it does not. Mere Christianity assumes no such thing.

Churches may. "Social Christianity" may. Or in other ways the conventions of Christian groups can assume such systems, but not the orthogonal principle that we are sinners who deserve no mercy, but God has mercy upon us if we believe Christ atoned for our individual sins.

Posted by: Cthillary in Chap'qua Dreaming at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (krQz2)

202 City of Kansas City apologizes after doxing Chiefs' Harrison Butker following faith-based commencement speech
The city, in a since-deleted post, revealed where Butker resides

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (/7KEl)

203

Even more inappropriate thought question:

Since they are throwing muzzies of roofs, who cares?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (yL/az)

You have a point there......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

204 Such a weird dystopian fantasy.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW)

What's your preferred option?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (XkYcA)

205 lol sock off, whoops

Posted by: ballistic at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (oqH4h)

206 Good thing we have a free press that will take this administration to task for it's blatant lies. LMAO!

Posted by: rechill at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (Q1LXu)

207 A century of Arab rejectionism is reason for no two-states -A century of conflict would seem to prove that there is no two-state solution and that it would be a dangerous option to pursue

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

208 Is it raining in the DFW area? It has gotten really dark here but no rain yet.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (WT4dp)

209 >>> 180
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Hmmm... sounds familiar🤔
How old is he?
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:10 PM (WT4dp)

Not sure, maybe as old as a year? But he is so full of energy, I suspect a bit younger, he's still a pup (but *not* a lap dog!

)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (llON8)

210 Don't overanalyze libertarians. They want to get high. That's it. Everything else is fluff.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (EC+k

Not all of them, some want to do things that are criminal now. I remember buying a book from a Libertarian site called "Defending the Undefendable" saying that pimps, prostitutes and counterfeiters were all morally upright jobs by libertarian principles.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (eoQWY)

211 If you guys ever want to hear some interesting (and hilarious) thoughts on relationships and gender roles, just check out some Patrice O'Neal clips on YouTube.

A man way ahead of his time.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

212 City of Kansas City apologizes after doxing Chiefs' Harrison Butker following faith-based commencement speech
The city, in a since-deleted post, revealed where Butker resides
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (/7KEl)

*drops bomb*

*apologizes for dropping bomb before it hits*

*still destroys city below*

*feels fine because apologized*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

213 You know who's going to be speaking at the Libertarian Party convention next month?

Don J. Trump.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:07 PM (dGCAG)

What a dummy.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (8ebbP)

214 Is it raining in the DFW area? It has gotten really dark here but no rain yet.
Posted by: lin-duh

We've had rain on the Dallas North Toll Road since around 10:30.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (yL/az)

215 @FenelonSpoke I'm a baptist. And a sarcastic one at that.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (IHRQq)

216 Is it raining in the DFW area? It has gotten really dark here but no rain yet.

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (WT4dp)

Has been all day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

217 He's very sweet and *wants* to be a good boy, but doesn't understand some things.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Relatable

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (PDruL)

218 I remember buying a book from a Libertarian site called "Defending the Undefendable" saying that pimps, prostitutes and counterfeiters were all morally upright jobs by libertarian principles.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (eoQWY)
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Oh yeah, "sex work".

Libertarians believe that the "principles" of Freedom enshrined in our Constitution truly are a suicide pact--or should be.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (krQz2)

219 This is Reason magazine. Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children.

Reason has always been dumb.

But they were dumb in a different way pre-Obama. They used to at least seem interested in free markets and against overregulation.

They got hollowed out at the same time as conservative publications in that era. There's no way that happened organically. All these magazines and their staffs were bought.

Posted by: Gay for Pay at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (nQ5Xg)

220 I'm starting to suspect they do this on purpose just for clicks.

Why is Uranus On Its Side?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HMd2FyFqk

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (CsUN+)

221 Recently saw I think NY City was awarding construction jobs and no whites allowed

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

222 If you guys ever want to hear some interesting (and hilarious) thoughts on relationships and gender roles, just check out some Patrice O'Neal clips on YouTube.

A man way ahead of his time.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

Yeah, and then he checked out way ahead of his time.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

223 A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in California. That's going to change, though. Because they're slapping a fifty cent per gallon surcharge on it.

Oh yes, Gavin, slap me again!

Posted by: Kali Masochist at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

224 A tiny business in Mexico City is the first ever Mexican taco shop to get a Michelin star
Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over a hot grill Wednesday at the first Mexican taco shop ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide. El Califa de León is the only taco shop among the 16 Mexican restaurants given one star, as well as two eateries that got two stars. Almost all the rest are posh eateries.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (RHGPo)

225 196 "Women pretending to be men to wear a man's skirt.

Have we reached peak stupid yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden "

I bet there are higher peak stupids we could reach if we really tried.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

We, the modern day explorers, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and understanding, but in a totally inclusive and like, non-colonizer way. What new genders and sexualities await discovery? What micro aggressions will be cataloged and legally protected? We'll boldly go where no they/them has gone before!

Posted by: TikTok Zoomers at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (JCZqz)

226 "Good thing we have a free press"

If the press is bought by the government, is it still free?

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (IHRQq)

227 Recently saw I think NY City was awarding construction jobs and no whites allowed
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

I think only black, female owned businesses were allowed to bid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

228 182 Christianity assumes man is base and depraved and requires a redeemer and constant admonition and correction.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW

* looks around*

Yep. Pretty much.

Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (Sf2cq)

229 Why is Uranus On Its Side?

Because it hurts to stand?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (yL/az)

230 "Good thing we have a free press"

If the press is bought by the government, is it still free?

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (IHRQq)
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How much does it cost?

Posted by: Gen-Z at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (krQz2)

231 From the Reason link

>>The city's logic is straightforward: If D.C.'s day care staff had college degrees, they could do a better job helping disadvantaged kids climb out of poverty.

Huh? This is insane and only an idiot could write that. Have they ever had a kid? changed a diaper?
This is DC, with a lot of single moms who need daycare or they can't work. So how does this help them?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (hagjt)

232 Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (IHRQq)

O.K. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (XkYcA)

233 he agency’s funding violates the Constitution because it comes from the Federal Reserve rather than through the congressional appropriations process.

Posted by: SMOD

Javier Milei would simply disband the Fed Reserve thus solving the Gordian Knot.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (aiOam)

234 If you guys ever want to hear some interesting (and hilarious) thoughts on relationships and gender roles, just check out some Patrice O'Neal clips on YouTube.

A man way ahead of his time.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

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A black man named Patrice? There's a Johnny Cash song in there somewhere ...

/thanks -- will check him out.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (d2dRs)

235 "Good thing we have a free press"

If the press is bought by the government, is it still free?

Silly person. Of course.

Posted by: NPR / PBS at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (CsUN+)

236 Libertarianism relies on an ignorant, misguided view of the society in which we currently live, a society created by man, who is fallible.
Posted by: Kamala

Ayn Rand, famous (or infamous) Objectivist philosopher and novelist, greatly disparaged Libertarians (who sometimes claimed her as their own), because in point of fact, Libertarians do not have a guiding set of principles.

Back in the 1990's, I subscribed to "Reason" for years, and read it, and eventually stopped subscribing and reading, because it had become tedious to the point of madness. No values, just liberty. Sure.

Yeah, they just want drugs to be all legalized so they can get high.

An interesting book worth the read is "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World", by Harry Brown (published over 30 years ago), who, I think, has passed away, but who was a somewhat well known Libertarian.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (vcOmj)

237 222 If you guys ever want to hear some interesting (and hilarious) thoughts on relationships and gender roles, just check out some Patrice O'Neal clips on YouTube.

A man way ahead of his time.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

Yeah, and then he checked out way ahead of his time.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

Wah. Freaking guy was a genius. He'd be having a field day today.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

238 Reinstate Pluto!

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (/7KEl)

239 NPR is the most unbiased, professionaly, fair and balanced news source out there.

And we'll fire you if you dare imply otherwise.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (iFMeW)

240 Christianity assumes man is base and depraved and requires a redeemer and constant admonition and correction.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW

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Thus no amount of actual depravity encountered counters that idea.

Thus it does not need an established enforcement against depravity, it just needs believers to be "salt and light" against the depravity that degrades day-to-day living and purpose.

Posted by: Gen-Z at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (krQz2)

241 First time I’ve seen Thomas and Alito on the opposite side of a decision.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (MNhXM)

242 Huh? This is insane and only an idiot could write that. Have they ever had a kid? changed a diaper?
This is DC, with a lot of single moms who need daycare or they can't work. So how does this help them?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (hagjt)

I see those words you're using, but all I hear is transphobia.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (dGCAG)

243 The press is free to shill for anyone they want.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (8ebbP)

244 A black man named Patrice? There's a Johnny Cash song in there somewhere ...

/thanks -- will check him out.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (d2dRs)

Patrice Brisebois was a professional hockey player.

White, tho.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

245 I was turned down for quite a few jobs for not having a degree, even though I had formal training and tons of experience.

Fcku all those people. I make way more than any of them now.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (NtVYv)

246 238 Reinstate Pluto!

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (/7KEl)

What a dog of a dwarf planet.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

247 Javier Milei would simply disband the Fed Reserve thus solving the Gordian Knot.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I would prefer we follow Alexander's lead and just start chopping with a sword.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (JCZqz)

248 "Thus it does not need an established enforcement against depravity, it just needs believers to be "salt and light" against the depravity that degrades day-to-day living and purpose."

Strangely enough, all the way through the Bible, God commends the righteous for punishing the wicked. God is not a libertarian.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (iFMeW)

249 Recently saw I think NY City was awarding construction jobs and no whites allowed
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

I think only black, female owned businesses were allowed to bid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

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Reparations by any other name would smell as foul ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (d2dRs)

250 Huh?

We *do* live in that system. We live in the grandest implementation of Fuck Around And Find Out that could conceivably exist.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (+yhUM)

Libertarianism is seen as a millennial political belief that is both condemned for seeking to solve all the problems in the world while being reviled for not working yet.

I am continually amazed that it is put down as unrealistic because it is feared it will encourage people to do things "that should not be allowed" without consequences, unlike the current system we are under.

Mrs Grundy is alive and baying for blood here, and everywhere.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (D7oie)

251 Buckley is 5.5 months old now. Weighs about 49lbs. Is housebroken and trainable. Very food motivated. Not a lap dog either.
But he still nips at others in the household, jumps on people, counter surfs, pulls hard when on leash, and will chase the cats which they hate but doesn't take the clues of hissing, growling, and swiping... otherwise he's a good dog....🤗🤯

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (WT4dp)

252 .. the grouping of justices defies most guesses
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

This seems to indicate that Chevron is about to get overturned - shortly. The idea of who funds something wasn't the issue, as Justice Thomas seems to indicate, there are lots and lots of organizations that Congress allows or organizes but doesn't fund and that are then funded outside the whims of Congress, and there is simply nothing unconstitutional about that.

But, the idea that a "regulatory body" that has the force of law was established here is what is unconstitutional, since it isn't funded by the tax payers. Thomas is setting this up...you can't have it both ways.

Posted by: Boswell at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (K+UlC)

253 I think one of the parties to the lawsuit was the payday lending industry...

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (V13WU)

254 Yeah, go watch the KC kicker's speech before it gets nuked.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (llON8)

255 Is it raining in the DFW area? It has gotten really dark here but no rain yet.
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (WT4dp)

It's raining ever so slightly north of Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (U7wke)

256 That die anti-white stuff has not hit the VA here in Bonham Texas yet. Iffn it does, I will be filing all sorts of civil rights lawsuits against them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (QNSds)

257 Christianity assumes man is base and depraved and requires a redeemer and constant admonition and correction.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW

I don't see anything that tells me otherwise

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (8ebbP)

258 Yeah, but do you know about SHRINKAGE?
Posted by: George Constanza, fictional serial liar at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (vcOmj)

Yeah, that is why my phallocrypt keeps getting lost down the front of my shorts

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (D7oie)

259 Wah. Freaking guy was a genius. He'd be having a field day today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

I never saw the show at the time, but he was often on Tough Crowd, hosted by Colin Quinn. I saw a clip, Nick DiPaolo was ranting about something or other, and Patrice just sorta got down on the floor, put his elbow down, chin in hand, and just stared at Nick.

Nick is an absolute hoot, and yeah, does cross the line sometimes, but him and Patrice were apparently very close friends.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (dGCAG)

260 A black man named Patrice? There's a Johnny Cash song in there somewhere ...
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*Patrice Lumumba has entered the chat*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (Be/+i)

261 I'm starting to suspect they do this on purpose just for clicks.

Why is Uranus On Its Side?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HMd2FyFqk
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2024 03:16 PM (CsUN+)

I think the really odd bit is that while Jupiter is 0, and Venus is upside down (223), Uranus is 98, IIRC almost all the rest are right around 24 degrees like Earth is.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (eoQWY)

262 Patrice was a regular on Tough Crowd.

Good stuff.

Posted by: Cancelled After a Couple of Seasons Because Of Course It Was at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (nQ5Xg)

263 Fun fact: Pluto has mountains made of frozen nitrogen

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

264 "Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children."

Anyone with an eighth-grade education is an adequate caregiver for children.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 16, 2024 03:25 PM (nLFEI)

265 Libertarianism relies on an ignorant, misguided view of the society in which we currently live, a society created by man, who is fallible.
Posted by: Kamala at May 16, 2024 03:13 PM (oqH4h)

Congrats. You have created an unfalsifiable argument. Please go to the tellers' window to collect your internet.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:25 PM (D7oie)

266 I agree with one libertarian on a few things and that was John Stossel . I think he classified himself as Libertarian?

One interesting stance that he had is that blackmail based on true and accurate information and not obtained illegally shouldn’t be illegal. It’s just a commerce transaction.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:25 PM (MNhXM)

267 Butker lays out the truth bombs, so he has to be silenced.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 16, 2024 03:25 PM (2QA3G)

268 >The city's logic is straightforward: If D.C.'s day care staff had college degrees, they could do a better job helping disadvantaged kids climb out of poverty.

The city's so-called logic talks like a fag and its shit's all retarded.

Posted by: More Idiocracy in action at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (Wc83a)

269 255 Is it raining in the DFW area? It has gotten really dark here but no rain yet.
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:14 PM (WT4dp)

It's raining ever so slightly north of Austin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (U7wke)

Was starting to rain when I left on Sunday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

270 @Kindltot

The real issue with libertarianism is you can't herd cats into a political party. There are a large percentage of libertarians who are just contrarians looking for a hobby. I have no problem with the NAP. Libertarians are unreliable and the ones running things are desperate to be liked by the stoner cool kids they hung out with in high school. The last best candidate they had said government should force Christians to bake gay cakes. Repeatedly. And Reason followed up with a big middle finger to conservatives. They're a clownshow. They deserve the disdain and I hope they enjoy their delusions of relevance.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (IHRQq)

271 I am shocked, shocked that the Department of Justice retaliates against its perceived enemies. Especially the FBI.

Posted by: PG at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (gQbO4)

272 Well familiar with Patrice O'Neil.

That guy was funny and often on point.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (krQz2)

273 And another stupid link sent to me by the computer: "What 55 religious figures looked like according to AI." Yeah, I'll be sure to click that, because they did such a good job with George Washington portrayed as a Black Man/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (XkYcA)

274 259 Wah. Freaking guy was a genius. He'd be having a field day today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

I never saw the show at the time, but he was often on Tough Crowd, hosted by Colin Quinn. I saw a clip, Nick DiPaolo was ranting about something or other, and Patrice just sorta got down on the floor, put his elbow down, chin in hand, and just stared at Nick.

Nick is an absolute hoot, and yeah, does cross the line sometimes, but him and Patrice were apparently very close friends.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (dGCAG)

I saw two tapings of Tough Crowd live when I was in college. Colin Quinn is hilarious. Was such a fun show.

DiPaolo and Patrice could get after it, especially on Opie and Anthony. Then it was always no big deal.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (KbCG3)

275 wow Butker is super impressive

did he go to Benedictine himself?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (s3qiR)

276 Javier Milei would simply disband the Fed Reserve thus solving the Gordian Knot.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I would prefer we follow Alexander's lead and just start chopping with a sword.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 03:21 PM (JCZqz)

Miliei used a nuclear bomb. I think he terminated 66 percent of all government agencies completely, and cut the rest back.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (eoQWY)

277 Yeah, go watch the KC kicker's speech before it gets nuked.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:22 PM (llON

He's a kicker?

Oh, I thought they said he was a football player.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (dGCAG)

278 >>> 273 And another stupid link sent to me by the computer: "What 55 religious figures looked like according to AI." Yeah, I'll be sure to click that, because they did such a good job with George Washington portrayed as a Black Man/s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (XkYcA)

I love that the industry calls AI BS "hallucinating".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (llON8)

279 Kindltot - did you get the book I sent to you a while back?

Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (/TaR6)

280 "I think he terminated 66 percent of all government agencies completely, and cut the rest back."

And recovered his country in under six months.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (IHRQq)

281
Mrs Grundy is alive and baying for blood here, and everywhere.
Posted by: Kindltot

No, Mr, Grundy is sick of paying for all this shit.

FIRST. eliminate all welfare and state subsidies of people "finding out."

THEN, we can talk about legalizing drugs, dangerous activity, wild sex, maybe even open borders.

Libertarian assholes are only worried about the second part. Fuck them. I am sick of their Libertarian fuck-arounds and socialized finding-out.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (hagjt)

282 I forgot to mention this earlier, but in Ed Morrissey's article about this, he mentions that Michael Cohen is pitching around a reality tv show about himself called "The Fixer."
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Could he have chosen a more ironic title?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (d04cU)

283 I suppose I should do some Things I need to do today.

Phooey.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (llON8)

284 NYPost:

Pro-Trump artist releases 100 penis-shaped balloons with faces of Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan on them

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (RHGPo)

285 Wouldn't your degree need to be in Child Daycare (which is offered in college) in order to provide any value to the industry?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (qxzgX)

286 I kind of need to go to The Home Depot but I'm lazy...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (WT4dp)

287 I love that the industry calls AI BS "hallucinating".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (llON

Don't you mean hallucinAIting?

Posted by: Ha ha. I just slay me sometimes. at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (Wc83a)

288 This will drive costs into the stratosphere and make it impossible for most to afford.
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Maybe. Or it's to give jobs to female college grads who feel like they're working beneath their stations. Quit Starbucks and go to work for a day care center. Pay's the same, benefits are better but it *required* that degree and thus is worthy.

Or both. Probably both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (d04cU)

289 Pro-Trump artist releases 100 penis-shaped balloons with faces of Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan on them
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (RHGPo)

So, life imitates Art? Sure.

Posted by: Boswell at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (K+UlC)

290 I suppose I should do some Things I need to do today.

Phooey.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM

There are things I needed to do today, but after playing golf yesterday, my carpal tunnel is REALLY mad, so a few fingers are moderately useless currently.

And the pain causes laziness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

291 284 LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (FQmDC)

292 I think Ive hinted at it but my eldest attends a Catholic LAC here in PA. playing a sport and majoring in applied math/CS dual degree

we have been SO HAPPY so far and I would recommend it to anyone. the STEM there is shockingly good. very under the radar school.

and it's not alone, from talking to other Catholic parents some other smaller private Catholics are really living the faith, teaching very well, actually quite the value, plus no worries about stupid rallies or tent camps etc

they do exist. all three I think are at "under the radar" schools and we're happy with all three of them - the other two (state schools in New England) were more shockingly sensible to be honest.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (s3qiR)

293 An interesting book worth the read is "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World", by Harry Brown (published over 30 years ago), who, I think, has passed away, but who was a somewhat well known Libertarian.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 16, 2024 03:19 PM (vcOmj)

Brown was the LP Presidential candidate for a number of election cycles.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (D7oie)

294 saw two tapings of Tough Crowd live when I was in college. Colin Quinn is hilarious. Was such a fun show.

DiPaolo and Patrice could get after it, especially on Opie and Anthony. Then it was always no big deal.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (KbCG3)

I met and played a pick up game of basketball with Colin Quinn at a gym / tennis complex in Kingston NY. He was at least a B celebrity at the time because of MTV. He was nicer than most celebrities I met there.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (MNhXM)

295 it never occurs to me to think about what religious figures from the Bible looked like except for Jesus and Mary and possibly Joseph, because they have been portrayed so many times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (XkYcA)

296 The last best candidate they had said government should force Christians to bake gay cakes. Repeatedly. And Reason followed up with a big middle finger to conservatives. They're a clownshow. They deserve the disdain and I hope they enjoy their delusions of relevance.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (IHRQq)
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That's what I mean. Their fugue from the bedrock ground of Shoulds means that they can find themselves invoking any shoulds they want for the time.

Bakers SHOULD bake cakes for gay weddings.

There is only one way to fight against incoming Shoulds--and that's by pushing back with Shoulds.

"You shouldn't put your moral system on me!"

Do I already believe that? No. That's someone trying to enforce their moral minimalism on me.

And when people are oblivious they blunder into their own refutations. Simply because it wasn't as rational as they pretended, it was emotional.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (krQz2)

297
So, life imitates Art? Sure.
Posted by: Boswell at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (K+UlC)

Not art because the penises do not have Jesus on them and aren't soaking in a jar of piss.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

298 263 Fun fact: Pluto has mountains made of frozen nitrogen
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

This can't possibly be true. The EU is severely limiting the amount of nitrogen used in fertilizer because nitrogen causes global warming and will kill Gaia so it's better for us to starve. And that just wouldn't make sense if nitrogen could freeze.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (vivhj)

299 288 This will drive costs into the stratosphere and make it impossible for most to afford.
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Maybe. Or it's to give jobs to female college grads who feel like they're working beneath their stations. Quit Starbucks and go to work for a day care center. Pay's the same, benefits are better but it *required* that degree and thus is worthy.

Or both. Probably both.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (d04cU)

All about control and access. We will grant you access but control how and what you do.

Now remember, the first step to any successful daycare is promoting a healthy environment full of gay shit.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (KbCG3)

300 In defense of the guy that stuck the gas nozzle up his butt, maybe he was paying $6 a gallon and it was performance art....

Posted by: Stateless at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (jvJvP)

301 To expand -- the libertarians focus on the freedom side (libertine-ism) because it is unpopular to talk about eliminating transfer payments and the socialization of risk.

They want the Left to love them for being libertines, and they throw bones to the right with their deregulation talk. But they never talk about eliminating payments to illegals, or Section 8, or FEMA,..... that would be unpopular. Without that they are nothing but shit tard commies.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (hagjt)

302 This will drive costs into the stratosphere and make it impossible for most to afford.
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Maybe. Or it's to give jobs to female college grads who feel like they're working beneath their stations. Quit Starbucks and go to work for a day care center. Pay's the same, benefits are better but it *required* that degree and thus is worthy.

Or both. Probably both.

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And ensure that the Right kind of people are raising your kids. If people need a college degree to do the work, it ensures a base level of liberal indoctrination.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (B9Prs)

303 Libertarian assholes are only worried about the second part.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (hagjt)

They are also deeply dishonest or profoundly stupid.

Open Borders or a Welfare State. Pick one. But they pick Open borders before they dismantle the Welfare State.

How the f*ck does that work?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (d9fT1)

304 Fun fact: Pluto has mountains made of frozen nitrogen
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

I've scaled the frozen mountain-tops
Of Pluto's N2 crags
I don't mean to brag
Searching for the Space - Xanadu
Xanadu

Posted by: Neil Peart's long-lost first draft for the epic sequel Space Xanadu at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (OguvZ)

305 Nick is an absolute hoot, and yeah, does cross the line sometimes, but him and Patrice were apparently very close friends.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (dGCAG)
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My favorite Nick diPaolo bit is "I got cock-blocked by a calzone!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (FkUwd)

306 I met and played a pick up game of basketball with Colin Quinn at a gym / tennis complex in Kingston NY. He was at least a B celebrity at the time because of MTV. He was nicer than most celebrities I met there.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:30 PM (MNhXM)

Guy is so underrated as a comic.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (KbCG3)

307 Fun fact: Pluto has mountains made of frozen nitrogen

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

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I once had a girlfriend I could swear was made out of frozen nitrogen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (Yfo3e)

308 In libertarianism, forcing someone to do something against their will is a violation of free association and a low level slavery. It should be obvious that this is an aggregious civil liberties violation, but forget it, he was going to get 1-2% of the vote!

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (IHRQq)

309 Pro-Trump artist releases 100 penis-shaped balloons with faces of Alvin Bragg, Judge Merchan on them
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:29 PM (RHGPo)

Breitbart and Trump taught us how to be like The Left.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (8ebbP)

310 And Reason followed up with a big middle finger to conservatives. They're a clownshow. They deserve the disdain and I hope they enjoy their delusions of relevance.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:26 PM (IHRQq)

I subbed to Reason back in the 90s and oughts when it was somewhat better but they never seemed very libertarian about religion, or flyover country issues, or any of that. Lots of vitriol for them, what they wanted was coercive while what they wanted was freedom.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (eoQWY)

311 305 Nick is an absolute hoot, and yeah, does cross the line sometimes, but him and Patrice were apparently very close friends.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:23 PM (dGCAG)
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My favorite Nick diPaolo bit is "I got cock-blocked by a calzone!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (FkUwd)

Whenever I'm driving I always think of his line, "I was listening to some rap the other day. I had no choice, it was coming out of a Jeep three blocks away."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (KbCG3)

312 Uh, I put my kid in daycare in the DC area years ago and they sure as heck weren’t college educated - likely newcomers iykwim.

Heck, reading Marie Claire at the time, their childcare recommendations to new parents consisted of different ways to hire illegal for cash.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (Hkcdp)

313 Among the many things to be despised in these fringy libertarians is their gross petit-bourgeois six-people-living-in-an-apartment downscale elitism. People who don't make enough money to be considered elite pile a lot of importance on credentials, for obvious reasons.
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"Elite" is a state of mind. A broke, dick-don't-work sociology PhD working at a think tank for $60k in a big city is "elite." Just ask him. He's above you. Better than you. Higher status than you. More credentialed than you. He works in the "knowledge industry" and has had dinner with politicians. Once or twice, he's even been in private conferences with Party movers and shakers courtesy of his boss, and he appreciated it because he didn't have to eat cold ravioli out of a can that night. It's all worth it, because he's better than you.

It doesn't matter that you're a successful engineer or that you own a business and not only have a house, you don't have a mortgage on it. It doesn't matter that you're respected by your neighbors and he isn't. It doesn't matter that if you die, people will notice - but if he dies, nobody will.

He's elite. You're not. It's all mental.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (d04cU)

314 I saw two tapings of Tough Crowd live when I was in college. Colin Quinn is hilarious. Was such a fun show.

DiPaolo and Patrice could get after it, especially on Opie and Anthony. Then it was always no big deal.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:27 PM (KbCG3)

It was a different world.

Today, Crowder has Nick in his stable, along with Alex Jones, and I hate to have to say it, but it takes balls for Crowder to have those guys around.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (dGCAG)

315 That DC law does not surprise me in the slightest, when I worked in the fitness industry they passed a law that all fitness providers, gym owners trainers coaches etc, would have to be certified by the federal government. It was a huge hulabaloo that we all worked very hard to get shut down as it was going to cripple and close gyms. As if the government certification could provide me with any knowledge that I didnt have or couldnt get through my countless hours of training and privae certifications. Oh and to blow your mind ace style, the certification was prohibitively expensive and allowed the government a mechanism to shut down any gym found to be in non-compliance.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (CIS44)

316 Now add 50 cents to those prices.

Tee hee.
........

Really looking forward to it!
I'm paying $5.80 now.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (v0R5T)

317
"They're doing these amazing activities with kids. John's last teacher was planning just all these really stimulating, exciting experiences," McCune says.

Amazing.

Anyone using that word is almost certainly a stoopid douchecanoe who has less understanding of the English Language than a retarded rhesus macaque monkey.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (n+4am)

318 The NFL should have lost all of its remaining politically conservative viewers when they allowed Trannie cheerleaders. Didn’t happen.

I don’t think the NFL condemning Butker will do it either though it should.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (MNhXM)

319 And to a smaller extent Palin too.

That line about the Greek columns being carted back to some studio lot was so perfectly derisive.

In one deft speech, she almost singlehandedly took the air out of the Obama balloon. But McCain wouldn't stand for it.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (8ebbP)

320 I've scaled the frozen mountain-tops
Of Pluto's N2 crags
I don't mean to brag
Searching for the Space - Xanadu
Xanadu
Posted by: Neil Peart's long-lost first draft for the epic sequel Space Xanadu at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (OguvZ)

Well played!!

*suddenly has a craving for honeydew and milk of paradise*

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (PDruL)

321 Jesus was a handsome guy, judging from the pictures I've seen of him

was in pretty good shape too

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)

322 Kindltot - did you get the book I sent to you a while back?
Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2024 03:28 PM (/TaR6)

I did, I owe you an email over it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM (D7oie)

323 today's edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.

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6 Democrat voters statewide will think about maybe considering no longer voting Democrat.

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM (Y6Wgg)

324 Jesus was a handsome guy, judging from the pictures I've seen of him

was in pretty good shape too
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)

He was perfect in every way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

325 Open Borders or a Welfare State. Pick one. But they pick Open borders before they dismantle the Welfare State.

How the f*ck does that work?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 16, 2024 03:32 PM (d9fT1)
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"Reason" is only a suggestion.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)

326 not sure why Jesus came up, but Jonathan Roumie (plays Jesus in The Chosen) did a great commencement speech - for THE Catholic University - worth a listen

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (s3qiR)

327 The NFL should have lost all of its remaining politically conservative viewers when they allowed Trannie cheerleaders. Didn’t happen.

I don’t think the NFL condemning Butker will do it either though it should.
Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (MNhXM)

Likely that most remaining conservative viewers are only interested because of betting

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (PDruL)

328 The legislation deletes more than 50 lines of previous state statutes dealing with climate change. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (HB 1645) on Wednesday that will erase several instances of the words “climate change” from state statutes and restructure the state’s fossil fuel-based energy policy that listed climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions. The priority now is to ensure “an adequate, reliable and cost-effective supply of energy for the state in a manner that promotes the health and welfare of the public and economic growth,” as spelled out in a legislative analysis.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (RHGPo)

329 Heck, reading Marie Claire at the time, their childcare recommendations to new parents consisted of different ways to hire illegal for cash.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (Hkcdp)

File this under sounds too true to not be true.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (8ebbP)

330 >I don’t think the NFL condemning Butker will do it either though it should.

Posted by: polynikes
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the NFL hasn't condemned the guy
this is all the work of woke assholes online

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (/7KEl)

331 For a long time, the Reason comments section was hardcore libertarian that I can respect. Now they spend all their time trying to one up each other with trolling.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (IHRQq)

332
Likely that most remaining conservative viewers are only interested because of betting
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (PDruL)

And fantasy football draft parties.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

333 NFL should have lost all of its remaining politically conservative viewers when they allowed Trannie cheerleaders. Didn’t happen.

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Most nfl viewers are gambling addicts. Nothing will keep them away.

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (Y6Wgg)

334 not sure why Jesus came up,

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (s3qiR)

Kind of his thing.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (8ebbP)

335 All about control and access. We will grant you access but control how and what you do.

Now remember, the first step to any successful daycare is promoting a healthy environment full of gay shit.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (KbCG3)

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Prepping the battle space for when the Feral Government officially takes ownership of all children from birth ... at least the ones that doesn't murder first.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (bS7j7)

336 In 2021, internal agency training included the "genderbread" diagram, which is also featured in some elementary school curricula. The diagram points to the brain, heart, and pelvic area of a gingerbread "person" to distinguish "gender identity," "sexual orientation," and "biological sex," respectively. The full body of the gingerbread "person" represents its "gender expression," the diagram says.
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This could be useful if combined with a Venn Diagram.

The spot at the center - where all three overlap and correlate - is labeled "normal."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (d04cU)

337
the NFL hasn't condemned the guy
this is all the work of woke assholes online
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (/7KEl)

Didn't the Chiefs franchise disown him and state his comments in no way reflect the team mentality?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

338 Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)

I don't know if he was handsome; He was probably fit since he was either a carpenter or a stone mason and he walked almost everywhere.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (XkYcA)

339 "Ron DeSantis signed legislation (HB 1645) on Wednesday that will erase several instances of the words “climate change” from state statutes and restructure the state’s fossil fuel-based energy policy that listed climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions."

I have it on good authority that Desantis is a Soros plant. And by good authority, I mean Trump supporters.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (IHRQq)

340 Likely that most remaining conservative viewers are only interested because of betting
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (PDruL)

And fantasy football draft parties.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes - A subset of betting

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (PDruL)

341 Fun fact: Pluto has mountains made of frozen nitrogen
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:24 PM (/7KEl)

This can't possibly be true. The EU is severely limiting the amount of nitrogen used in fertilizer because nitrogen causes global warming and will kill Gaia so it's better for us to starve. And that just wouldn't make sense if nitrogen could freeze.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 03:31 PM (vivhj)

In grad school the lab had liquid nitrogen on tap. We used it for a super clean vacuum pump to get the bulk of the air in it at the start out easily, just freeze most of it. Succulents are cool when you freeze and shatter them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (eoQWY)

342 It's funny being on a thread with a bunch of people arguing with strawman versions of libertarianism.

Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

343
Yes - A subset of betting
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (PDruL)

And an even bigger waste of time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

344 not sure why Jesus came up,

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (s3qiR)

Kind of his thing.

ded! am ded

wait Im alive again now like Jesus

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (s3qiR)

345 Didn't the Chiefs franchise disown him and state his comments in no way reflect the team mentality?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden a

The nfl released a statement saying he doesnt speak for the league, the chiefs had some bs something or other, and their schedule release video was of him in the kitchen

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (CIS44)

346 previous state statutes dealing with climate change. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (HB 1645) on Wednesday that will erase several instances of the words “climate change” from state statutes and restructure the state’s fossil fuel-based energy policy that listed climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions.

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Weird. I was assured he is a secret liberal who can’t be trusted.

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (Y6Wgg)

347 not sure why Jesus came up,

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (s3qiR)

Kind of his thing.
Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (8ebbP)
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ZZ Top told me that taking care of business was his thing. (When he just left Chicago)

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (krQz2)

348 NFL now has trans cheerleaders?

Of course…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (Hkcdp)

349 Didn't the Chiefs franchise disown him and state his comments in no way reflect the team mentality?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Well they are Indian Chiefs and not Christian.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (eoQWY)

350 Yes. It's a straw man. No REAL libertarian would act like that.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (IHRQq)

351 Here is the full top-10 list of highest-paid athletes:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Soccer): $260 million
Jon Rahm (Golf): $218 million
Lionel Messi (Soccer): $135 million
LeBron James (NBA): $128.2 million
Giannis Antetokounmpo (NBA): $111 million
Kylian Mbappé (Soccer): $110 million
Neymar (Soccer): $108 million
Karim Benzema (Soccer): $106 million
Stephen Curry (NBA): $102 million
Lamar Jackson (NFL): $100.5 million

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (RHGPo)

352 The NFL should have lost all of its remaining politically conservative viewers when they allowed Trannie cheerleaders. Didn’t happen.

the NFL went all in embracing gambling which more than offset any losses

". . . films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their [the proles] minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” -1984

Posted by: brak at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (AR07F)

353 Wait, am I understanding correctly that Stronk and Empowered Feminism means women continue to do the same work they've always done but they do it for someone else's kids so that they have less time to be doing those things at their own home?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (8DAzZ)

354 the NFL hasn't condemned the guy
this is all the work of woke assholes online
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:36 PM (/7KE

You don’t consider the NFLs statement that his speech does not reflect the NFL’s.blah blah blah blah…

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (MNhXM)

355 He's elite. You're not. It's all mental.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:33 PM (d04cU)

My social crowd all seem to be NYC or NYS lawyers at this stage of my life...a more elite mentality you shall never see elsewhere...if they sniff you out as a conservative, they tend to make parties and get togethers, more often than not, like some imaginary court room than a social gathering.

As I told an acquaintance as he got more and more aggressive at a party..."you tend less to ask questions rather than to demand answers..."

Posted by: Boswell at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (K+UlC)

356 Never hired anyone, but if I could I would go for experience over degree

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

357 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But mostly legal weed, all the time.

All. The. Time.

Posted by: members of the Libertarian party at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (mSufQ)

358 Yes - A subset of betting
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (PDruL)
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Sounds like one without Jon Anderson.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (krQz2)

359
He was perfect in every way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM

and yet, so humble...

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (bEb2S)

360 NFL now has trans cheerleaders?

Of course…
Posted by: Lizzy

Panthers had one either last season or the one before

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (CIS44)

361
Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom.
—

Just like us!!!
- GOPe

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (Y6Wgg)

362 It's funny being on a thread with a bunch of people arguing with strawman versions of libertarianism.

Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

I've read libertarian books denying property rights as being coercive.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

363 Christianity assumes man is base and depraved and requires a redeemer and constant admonition and correction.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (iFMeW

That's not how this works....

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (xhfG9)

364 Ribbed, the pro-lockdown, pro civil-rights assault, wing of the LP got voted out, Sarawak et al are now working (mostly) in Democrat think tanks due to that. It was an amazing thing to follow, and a lot of it has to do with the split between those who were actually liberal democrats who wanted a permanent fief of their own to run, and those who really did care about self ownership.

You can call them names and condemn them, but "I don't know but I been told" attitude about anything is what turns you into an NPC.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (D7oie)

365 I about went through the TV when Nikki Haley started pulling that small government, fiscal conservative crap.

20 years of pointless war. 20 years, lady.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (IHRQq)

366 Race based eligibility for federal program is a prima facie violation of the Civil Rights Act.

This is getting repetitive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

367 Here is the full top-10 list of highest-paid athletes:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Soccer): $260 million
Jon Rahm (Golf): $218 million
Lionel Messi (Soccer): $135 million
LeBron James (NBA): $128.2 million
Giannis Antetokounmpo (NBA): $111 million
Kylian Mbappé (Soccer): $110 million
Neymar (Soccer): $108 million
Karim Benzema (Soccer): $106 million
Stephen Curry (NBA): $102 million
Lamar Jackson (NFL): $100.5 million
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 03:38 PM (RHGPo)

Is that per year or contract payout? Because if it's contract payout, it's wrong. There are several baseball and NFL players not listed that earn WELL OVER $100 mil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

368 Jesus was a handsome guy, judging from the pictures I've seen of him

was in pretty good shape too
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)

He was perfect in every way.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

He'll save the children, but not the British children.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (dGCAG)

369 $2.94/gallon at Sam's in McKinney, Tx.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (yL/az)

Got fuel Sunday in Fillmore, UT for 3.23 per gallon, but typical price up the I-15 corridor was 3.69

Finished repairs to the Dixon mower. Got the broken inlet fitting out of the carb. There was just enough meat on the casting to drill and tap it for 1/8" pipe thread. And I found a broken linkage rod in the cone drive, and welded that. Runs like a pup again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (5WIH7)

370 A gallon of gas already costs $5.29 in Cali.
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Under Trump my car only held $40 in gas.
Now it holds $75 !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

That's what I call progress!

Posted by: Gavin McKaren at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

371 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

You forgot weed.

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (xhfG9)

372 Wait, am I understanding correctly that Stronk and Empowered Feminism means women continue to do the same work they've always done but they do it for someone else's kids so that they have less time to be doing those things at their own home?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (8DAzZ)

women with degrees don't have kids anymore. They are looking for Bears in the woods.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (eoQWY)

373
Panthers had one either last season or the one before
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (CIS44)

I believe the LA Rams and New Orleans Saints have had one or two for a couple years now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

374 "I don't know but I been told" attitude about anything is what turns you into an NPC.
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Now look who's straw manning.

I stopped supporting libertarians because of libertarians. Go build a party and stop trying to co-opt everyone else's voters and we'll re-address.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (IHRQq)

375 Is that per year or contract payout? Because if it's contract payout, it's wrong. There are several baseball and NFL players not listed that earn WELL OVER $100 mil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

and lamar is 4th or 5th QB in AAV and well lower in total contract

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (CIS44)

376 I've read libertarian books denying property rights as being coercive.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

Those aren't libertarian books.

Those are books by douchebags who call themselves libertarians.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (dGCAG)

377 Jesus was a handsome guy, judging from the pictures I've seen of him

was in pretty good shape too
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:34 PM (/7KEl)

He was perfect in every way.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Isaiah 53:2 seems to say otherwise.

"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."

Given how God works, that makes sense to me. He wouldn't make Jesus so charismatic and gorgeous that everyone who saw Him would immediately wish to follow Him without having to exercise faith. If you were in tune with God and the Scriptures and good works generally, you would be attracted to His message.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (Odg76)

378 That list of top paid athletes makes no sense.

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (Y6Wgg)

379 50 cents is a lot. Some perspective is called for.

The increase - not the whole thing, just the increase - in CA's gas tax is equal to 1.82x Tennessee's entire gas tax.

The increase in CA's gas tax is equal to 2.73x Colorado's entire gas tax.

The increase in CA's gas tax is equal to 1.5x New York State's entire gas tax.

The increase in CA's gas tax is equal to 1.06x Illinois' entire gas tax.

The increase in CA's gas tax is equal to 1.37x Florida's entire gas tax.

Oy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (d04cU)

380 Ronaldo plays for the Saudi league , they can afford it.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:43 PM (V13WU)

381 Is that per year or contract payout? Because if it's contract payout, it's wrong. There are several baseball and NFL players not listed that earn WELL OVER $100 mil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

and lamar is 4th or 5th QB in AAV and well lower in total contract
Posted by: BruceWayne

Oh and also F1 drivers...

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:43 PM (CIS44)

382 Yes - A subset of betting
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (PDruL)
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Sounds like one without Jon Anderson.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:39 PM (krQz2)

Howe did you know?

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:43 PM (PDruL)

383 My vision for the whole country!

Posted by: Gavin McKaren at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

384 I don't think it's a coincidence that after years of resistance sports betting and weed are now mainstream and pretty much legal everywhere.

Posted by: brak at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (AR07F)

385 Go build a party and stop trying to co-opt everyone else's voters and we'll re-address.
Posted by: Ribbed at May 16, 2024 03:42 PM (IHRQq)

Whose voters?

Who do those voters belong to?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (dGCAG)

386 Mr. Orange will be the featured speaker tomorrow night at the annual MN GOP Lincoln Reagan dinner.

This is further confirmation (at least to me) that Team Trump thinks MN is in play. The mpst recent SUSA (Survey USA) poll had Biden +2 (44-42) in MN. Biden won MN by 7+ points last time.

Posted by: mnw at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (NLIak)

387 Ronaldo plays for the Saudi league , they can afford it.
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:43 PM (V13WU)

So does Jon Rahm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

388 Jon Rahm plays for some pro Saudi/Golf league. They can afford it...

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (V13WU)

389 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC

You forgot open borders. It's kinda a plank in their rules.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (yL/az)

390 Is that per year or contract payout? Because if it's contract payout, it's wrong. There are several baseball and NFL players not listed that earn WELL OVER $100 mil.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

There are several who have double that in guaranteed money alone, not to mention total payout.

Lamar has a 260 million contract, 185 of which is guaranteed.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (eoQWY)

391 ... Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it. ...
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)
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Sort of. Smaller government, limited regulation, personal liberty, unfettered property, etc. is what libertarianism is about. It is not, however, what Libertarianism is about.

The philosophy and the party - like conservationism and the GOP - are nowhere near each other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (d04cU)

392 25% of new cars sold in Cali are evil EVs. The higher the gas price the higher that % will become.

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (Y6Wgg)

393 Stephen Curry (NBA): $102 million
Lamar Jackson (NFL): $100.5 million
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Ha. Some other moron posted that the Brady guy is getting nearly 400M to watch TV and talk about the games.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (8DAzZ)

394 387 Ronaldo plays for the Saudi league , they can afford it.
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:43 PM (V13WU)

So does Jon Rahm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

Love Rahm coming out and saying he switched just for the money. Generational wealth is a powerful thing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (KbCG3)

395 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

---
Right. An over-emphasis on liberty.

The Preamble, cuts liberty in *half*. "Ensure domestic tranquility" gets a full share.

But the Constitution is to "secure the blessings of liberty". Thus it does not say that liberty is a blessing, it does not say that liberty is only blessings, it says that liberty should be leveraged for its blessings.

The goal of "small government" is an ideological one if its too small to "ensure domestic tranquility" to the preferences of the majority in that society.

I've got no reservations about personal property, though. Property is the distribution of power and prerogative.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (krQz2)

396 You forgot open borders. It's kinda a plank in their rules.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (yL/az)

I studied up on them 30 years ago when that wasn't even on their radar.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (eoQWY)

397 Shohei Ohtani just signed a contract worth over $700 mil......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

398 202 City of Kansas City apologizes after doxing Chiefs' Harrison Butker following faith-based commencement speech
The city, in a since-deleted post, revealed where Butker resides
Posted by: Don Black

Funny thing.

Whoopie on the view DEFENDED Butker's freedom of speech. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (EafTE)

399 This busty lady in red sure is glad she doesn't have to buy gas in California:
http://tiny.cc/rcj4yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (d04cU)

400 Lamar has a 260 million contract, 185 of which is guaranteed.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (eoQWY)

And he's still only the SECOND best QB in Ravens history

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (PDruL)

401 25% of new cars sold in Cali are evil EVs. The higher the gas price the higher that % will become.
Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (Y6Wgg)

until they ban you from charging them because the electric grid is shit

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (NtVYv)

402 384 I don't think it's a coincidence that after years of resistance sports betting and weed are now mainstream and pretty much legal everywhere.
Posted by: brak at May 16, 2024 03:44 PM (AR07F)

Old and broken: Bread and Circuses

New hotness: Weed and Sports betting

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (vivhj)

403 Love Rahm coming out and saying he switched just for the money. Generational wealth is a powerful thing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at

you want to give me 100M+$ to play golf, but play less tournaments, get guranteed payouts (PGA you have to make the cut to get paid) and I still get to play the majors? where do I sign?

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (CIS44)

404 Dang. Imagine how bad the economy is for car buyers to have dropped off to the point where EVs can be at 25%, even in California.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (8DAzZ)

405 You forgot open borders. It's kinda a plank in their rules.
Posted by: rickb223

Libertarian Party Platform 3.4 to be exact.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (yL/az)

406 I've read libertarian books denying property rights as being coercive.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

Ah. I see. I suggest you not read any gnostic works since that might lead you to demanding Christians be burned at the stake.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (D7oie)

407 Love Rahm coming out and saying he switched just for the money. Generational wealth is a powerful thing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (KbCG3)

What other reason would there be other than money?

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (Y6Wgg)

408 And he's still only the SECOND best QB in Ravens history
Posted by: Doof a

Third

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (CIS44)

409 Succulents are cool when you freeze and shatter them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (eoQWY)

That's no way to treat undergrads!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (d9fT1)

410 Shohei Ohtani just signed a contract worth over $700 mil......

==

over 10 years....

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (V13WU)

411 >Didn't the Chiefs franchise disown him and state his comments in no way reflect the team mentality?

Posted by: Sponge
---

No. But the NFL statement says the guy's words do not reflect the league's commitment to accepting and accommodating all the various sexual aberrations currently in vogue.

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (/7KEl)

412 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

I've heard libertarians claim that if you don't use force and occupy someone's land, it is wrong to force them to leave.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (eoQWY)

413 342 It's funny being on a thread with a bunch of people arguing with strawman versions of libertarianism.

Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)

We do that because people who purport to be libertarians only advocate that kind of Potemkin libertarianism.

There are virtually no real libertarians in the wild.

Posted by: On The Right, It's Mostly People Contemptuous of Christianity at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (nQ5Xg)

414 This busty lady in red sure is glad she doesn't have to buy gas in California:
http://tiny.cc/rcj4yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (d04cU)

Quality

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (NtVYv)

415 The philosophy and the party - like conservationism and the GOP - are nowhere near each other.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (d04cU)
---
It's analogous to atheists trying to stand on the postage stamp that defines "mere atheism".

The social force of atheism is a lot wider than a simple lack of belief in metaphysical beings.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (krQz2)

416
And he's still only the SECOND best QB in Ravens history
Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (PDruL)

Thank you for your support!

Posted by: Trent Dilfer at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

417 Libertarian is about weed and getting rid of the age of consent, man.

Posted by: Libertarians at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (cTIPa)

418 Those aren't libertarian books.

Those are books by douchebags who call themselves libertarians.
Posted by: BurtTC

I was waiting for this. (while gnawing on my haggis.)

(Oh, BTW, it is hard to argue Chicago School stuff is not "libertarian" and they say some stuff which is just as nuts.)

Posted by: True Scotsman at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (hagjt)

419 Libertarian Party Platform 3.4 to be exact.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (yL/az)

DO YOU KNOW HOW HAPPY IT WOULD MAKE THE LP TO LEARN THAT ANYONE READ THE PLATFORM FOR THE 2016 ELECTION YEAR?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (D7oie)

420 And it still doesn't matter since 50-75% of EV leases and purchases are government/corporate.

Matter of fact that might make the numbers worse. It would be interesting to know actual data on the sales, but that info is locked up tighter than Fort Knox.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:49 PM (8DAzZ)

421 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC

You forgot open borders. It's kinda a plank in their rules.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (yL/az)

No it's not.

Again, for those who have been railing against the Libertarian Party (which is not the same thing as railing against libertarianism), there are solid, clear principles of property rights that are part of libertarianism, and it's easy as saying it, to understand why ANYONE claiming to be for open borders isn't really a libertarian.

You don't have the right to take what's mine. If someone else wants to import your ass, and pay your way, that's between you and him, but crossing the border, and having the government want to take my money to pay for your ass is as clear a violation of my rights as anything.

And it's not libertarianism. Sorry, it just isn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:49 PM (dGCAG)

422 This busty lady in red sure is glad she doesn't have to buy gas in California:
http://tiny.cc/rcj4yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

I'm guessing she doesn't have to buy much of anything wherever she is.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

423 >Whoopie on the view DEFENDED Butker's freedom of speech. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: nurse ratched

THAT is surprising

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:49 PM (/7KEl)

424 I've read libertarian books denying property rights as being coercive.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

Ah. I see. I suggest you not read any gnostic works since that might lead you to demanding Christians be burned at the stake.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (D7oie)

I got there on my own, but I'm content to let God do it as he wills.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:50 PM (eoQWY)

425 407 Love Rahm coming out and saying he switched just for the money. Generational wealth is a powerful thing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (KbCG3)

What other reason would there be other than money?
Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (Y6Wgg)

There's isn't, though some tried to pretend there was.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:50 PM (KbCG3)

426 "dick-concealers"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (ou9hh)

You mean like Kamala's lips?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2024 03:50 PM (5WIH7)

427 (Oh, BTW, it is hard to argue Chicago School stuff is not "libertarian" and they say some stuff which is just as nuts.)
Posted by: True Scotsman at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (hagjt)

The Chicago school is an economics school that focuses on money and how it can be used to manage society. It is not a political organization other than all organizations are political nowadays

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:50 PM (D7oie)

428 Still using the “genderbread” diagram?

They’ve done a 180 since that came out:

Old and busted: biological sex and gender identity are two separate things that don’t have to match.

New hotness: gender identity changes your sex; they are fluid and in unison. If you think you’re a girl then you ARE a girl. If 15 minutes from now you think you’re a boy, then in that moment you ARE a boy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 16, 2024 03:50 PM (Hkcdp)

429 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (d04cU)

Why are so many of these ladies unable to think or articulate out loud an intelligent thought unless their breasts speak for them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (XkYcA)

430 And he's still only the SECOND best QB in Ravens history
Posted by: Doof a

Third
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 16, 2024 03:47 PM (CIS44)

Correct!!
1 - Scott Mitchell
2 - Kyle Boller

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (PDruL)

431 398 nurse

First of all, I hope you're doing well & prospering.

As for Butker, the NFL itself wasn't exactly a profile in courage either: "Butker's views are not those of the NFL, which supports gender equality." (appx what the NFL said)

Posted by: mnw at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (NLIak)

432 Libertarian Party Platform 3.4

Free Trade and Migration
We support the removal of governmental impediments to free trade.
Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries.

Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.

https://www.lp.org/platform/

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (yL/az)

433 Why are so many of these ladies unable to think or articulate out loud an intelligent thought unless their breasts speak for them?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (XkYcA)
++++
Because they know what makes men listen!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (d04cU)

434
over 10 years....
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (V13WU)

Ok, but Lamar Jackson's salary averages out to $54 mil a year. Not $100.

I don't know any endorsement deals he has, but would they be another $50 mil to make that list accurate?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

435 The philosophy and the party - like conservationism and the GOP - are nowhere near each other.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

----------
The purpose of a thing is what it does.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (hagjt)

436 nood

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (8DAzZ)

437 Ok, but Lamar Jackson's salary averages out to $54 mil a year. Not $100.
---------
How does he manage to scrape by?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (Be/+i)

438 Hilarious the left is most upset that the Chiefs guy dissed Tay Tay. 😂😂😂

Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (Y6Wgg)

439 You don't have the right to take what's mine. If someone else wants to import your ass, and pay your way, that's between you and him, but crossing the border, and having the government want to take my money to pay for your ass is as clear a violation of my rights as anything.

And it's not libertarianism. Sorry, it just isn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:49 PM (dGCAG)

I might well subscribe to your program, but I concluded that in reality, libertarianism was not following those rules and was not policing their group adequately.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

440 429 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 03:46 PM (d04cU)

Why are so many of these ladies unable to think or articulate out loud an intelligent thought unless their breasts speak for them?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 03:51 PM (XkYcA)

That's weird. The pics I see don't contain audio.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (KbCG3)

441 >As for Butker, the NFL itself wasn't exactly a profile in courage either
---

gotta protect the bottom line. Don't piss off the advertisers, who are in thrall to the woke mob.

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 03:53 PM (/7KEl)

442 We do that because people who purport to be libertarians only advocate that kind of Potemkin libertarianism.

There are virtually no real libertarians in the wild.
Posted by: On The Right, It's Mostly People Contemptuous of Christianity at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (nQ5Xg)

so you are starting a book club too, or just practicing Saul Alinsky's rules for tying up your opponent?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 03:54 PM (D7oie)

443 Ok, but Lamar Jackson's salary averages out to $54 mil a year. Not $100.
---------
How does he manage to scrape by?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (Be/+i)

First year signing bonus is paid to player as a lump sum in the first year, but counted for cap purposes as spread over a number of years in the contract.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

444 It's funny being on a thread with a bunch of people arguing with strawman versions of libertarianism.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:37 PM (dGCAG)
---
Really? Like libertarians don't contribute to the fears of the left about Theocracy of social conservatives?!

That's the main thing I dislike about libertarians. Is that they are often virtue signaling to the left.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 03:55 PM (krQz2)

445 I've heard libertarians claim that if you don't use force and occupy someone's land, it is wrong to force them to leave.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (eoQWY)

And what do you call that? I know what they want to call it, but what is that?

It's communism. Which, even in the most basic understanding of libertarianism versus other theories, is as close to the opposite side as one can get.

I understand there are many who have soured on the Libertarian Party, and many of their think tanks and authors, but I don't know what else to say, other than those people are frauds, the ones who want you to pay for their abortions and illegals.

It's just as easy to point out of course, the Republican Party, which purports to be about conservative principles, is populated with frauds and liars and perverts and Kansas City Faggots.

Does that make conservatism any more or less valid?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:55 PM (dGCAG)

446 25% of new cars sold in Cali are evil EVs. The higher the gas price the higher that % will become.
Posted by: Montec

News Flash: California Utilities turn off their power grid to prevent forest fires.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 03:56 PM (aiOam)

447 Again, for those who have been railing against the Libertarian Party (which is not the same thing as railing against libertarianism),
Posted by: BurtTC a

I have no problem with the Libertarian Party
Nor, with libertarianism

My beef is with libertarians.
You say they do not support open borders, but in my experience they start with dope, and after a couple tokes are talking about open borders and it goes downhill from there. Maybe I have not met a "true libertarian."

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:58 PM (hagjt)

448 I might well subscribe to your program, but I concluded that in reality, libertarianism was not following those rules and was not policing their group adequately.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

Agreed. And about 2 years ago, those frauds and fart-sniffers were unceremoniously kicked to the curb.

They no longer hold any positions of power within the party, and intellectually, I don't see how or why anyone would want them, because they really are just Democrat Light.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:58 PM (dGCAG)

449 25% of new cars sold in Cali are evil EVs. The higher the gas price the higher that % will become.
Posted by: Montec

News Flash: California Utilities turn off their power grid to prevent forest fires.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 03:56 PM (aiOam)

That's not true. They turn off the grid AFTER the fires start presumably to keep you from getting away.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:59 PM (eoQWY)

450 ""They're doing these amazing activities with kids. John's last teacher was planning just all these really stimulating, exciting experiences," "

One day you are going to find out that your kid is a fucked up.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 03:59 PM (vFG9F)

451 "all" fucked up.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 03:59 PM (vFG9F)

452 Even if I still followed the NFL and gave even the tiniest shit about KC, I could not buy a Mahomes jersey. He's black, I'm not, and I cannot pretend to be a professional footballer who doesn't look like me.

Those are the rules.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 03:11 PM (U7wke)

How lame do you have to be to wear a sports jersey with some mercenary's name on it so you can bask in the "reflected glory"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2024 04:00 PM (5WIH7)

453 My beef is with libertarians.
You say they do not support open borders, but in my experience they start with dope, and after a couple tokes are talking about open borders and it goes downhill from there. Maybe I have not met a "true libertarian."
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at May 16, 2024 03:58 PM (hagjt)

Honestly? I'd start with Tom Woods.

Find one of his books, or listen to one of his podcasts. He's a true libertarian, and about as decent a human being as there is on this planet.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 04:00 PM (dGCAG)

454 Why are so many of these ladies unable to think or articulate out loud an intelligent thought unless their breasts speak for them?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Jeepers, Fen

If you don't like the Mannix girls, IGNORE those posts. Being a scoldilocks is beneath you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 04:00 PM (tH3ut)

455 I've heard libertarians claim that if you don't use force and occupy someone's land, it is wrong to force them to leave.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 03:48 PM (eoQWY)

And what do you call that? I know what they want to call it, but what is that?

It's communism. Which, even in the most basic understanding of libertarianism versus other theories, is as close to the opposite side as one can get.

...other than those people are frauds, the ones who want you to pay for their abortions and illegals.

It's just as easy to point out of course, the Republican Party, which purports to be about conservative principles, is populated with frauds and liars and perverts and Kansas City Faggots.

Does that make conservatism any more or less valid?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 03:55 PM (dGCAG)

Well no, its not Communism. Communism uses social group rights to crush individual rights. This is just hooliganism.

If your group is such a magnet for bad actors that don't obey your principles, it is best to leave the group. I have to deal in the world as it is.

And likewise I am aware of the failings of conservatives and the GOPe and when the bad outweighs the good I divorce my support.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 04:06 PM (eoQWY)

456 DEI Hits the VA: Biden's Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets

To be honest, as a white dude, the last thing I'd want to do is participate in any of the listed programs. Now, if they were offering *valuable* training that excluded whites, I'd find that to be a problem. But sit around and listen to bunch of bullschiff complaining and CRT crap?

No thank you.

Posted by: Simon Jester at May 16, 2024 04:11 PM (BSu3l)

457 Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 04:00 PM (tH3ut)

Hope you are feeling better, nurse.

As far as posting, I will do as I choose. Free speech and all still exists here, I believe, unless people are threatening others. Joe posts so many boobettes I couldn't possibly look at them all-and I don't -or comment on them all even if I wanted to, which I don't.

I am also glad to hear that nobody else but me on this sight ever scolds anybody for anything

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 04:12 PM (XkYcA)

458 Here, boys. Libertarianism is about smaller government, property rights, and personal freedom. That's basically it.

But go ahead, fight your boogeymen.
Posted by: BurtTC

———-

Even Charles Murray has rejected libertarianism.

It’s not a boogeyman to say as a philosophy it doesn’t work. And that’s outside the bait and switch double dealing of capital L libertarian politics.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 16, 2024 04:12 PM (SLYB/)

459 -- This is Reason magazine. Reason thinks that it's "straightforward" and obvious that people with degrees are better caregivers to children. --

Where in the article did you see THAT? I couldn't find it.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at May 16, 2024 04:12 PM (Nmmyc)

460 Site-not sight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 04:13 PM (XkYcA)

461 25% of new cars sold in Cali are evil EVs. The higher the gas price the higher that % will become.
Posted by: Montec at May 16, 2024 03:45 PM (Y6Wgg)

And the sooner the grid there collapses and everybody dies. Yee-haw!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2024 04:17 PM (g0oAz)

462 How could Cohen's lawyer testify against him in Congress, using supposedly confidential lawyer-client conversations? I mean, I'm not sad he did it, but how did he get away with it?

Posted by: PJ at May 16, 2024 04:32 PM (G1dq6)

463 Glad you wised up on libertarians Acer. Now stop linking to and posting crap from garbage libertarians on instapanzy - notably, blueblood Glenn Harlan Reynolds who's been sucking off the government tit his entire career.

Posted by: IggyPop at May 16, 2024 08:49 PM (a5a81)

464 Oh, and they suspend them without pay for a year or more.
----

Oh no. Those bloated tics might have to get real jobs in the private sector. And after they blew the whistle on even fatter tics who were even more corrupt than themselves?! Goodness gracious, this is a travesty.

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