Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide His Embarrassing Senility-Exposing Tapes of His Interview with Special Counsel Hur

I can totally understand why Biden chose to hide these damning tapes. But then, I have the mind of a coward, and so I can understand the mind of another coward.

Biden blocks release of damning Hur interview as House prepares to hold Garland in contempt of Congress

The White House has invoked executive privilege to block the release of audio and video from President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, claiming potential misuse for political purposes. The move comes as House Republicans prepare to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over the refusal to hand over the files.
Key Details:
The White House argues that Republicans in Congress only want the recordings to use them for political purposes, with the dispute over access to the recordings central to a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
Garland has advised Biden that the audio falls within the scope of executive privilege, which protects a president's ability to obtain candid counsel from his advisers without fear of immediate public disclosure.
Real Clear investigative journalist Julie Kelly however tweeted, "Joe Biden repeatedly denied Trump's claims of privilege in authorizing NARA to turn over presidential records to Congress. Biden claimed Congress' investigation into Jan 6 "insurrection" outweighed presidential privilege claims...So now House GOP has a framework of recent case law to challenge Biden's privilege claims related to denying Congress the recording of his interview with Robert Hur--by using Biden's own words."

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Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a separate letter to President Biden, advised that the audio falls within the scope of executive privilege. This privilege protects a president's ability to obtain candid counsel from his advisers without fear of immediate public disclosure and to protect confidential communications relating to official responsibilities. Garland argued that the lawmakers' needs are insufficient to outweigh the negative effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.

Note that these tapes are not personal -- they are evidence collected in investigating Biden's illegally-hoarded classified documents, and therefore are the investigatory property of the taxpayers of the US.

In US v. Nixon, the Supreme Court decided that Nixon did not have the right to hide the "Nixon tapes" from the public.

The decision was unanimous, 8-0. Eight, because the chief justice Rehnquist recused himself.

A refresher from Wikipedia. Nixon, of course, made surreptitious recordings of his conversations with his staffers in the Oval Office. I think Nixon did this in the interests of preserving a historical record for posterity.

The Watergate special prosecutor Jaworski demanded Nixon turn over those tapes.

He turned over heavily-redacted tapes.

Jaworski said that was insufficient and brought suit in federal court.

Nixon, of course, also argued that "executive privilege" should shield tapes of him talking with aides.

Hoping that [Watergate Special Counsel] Jaworski and the public would be satisfied, Nixon turned over edited transcripts of 43 conversations, including portions of 20 conversations demanded by the subpoena....
Less than three weeks after oral arguments, the Court issued its decision.
On July 9, the day following oral arguments, all eight justices (Justice William H. Rehnquist recused himself due to his close association with several Watergate conspirators, including Attorneys General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, prior to his appointment to the Court) indicated to each other that they would rule against the president. The justices struggled to settle on an opinion that all eight could agree to, however, with the major issue being how much of a constitutional standard could be established for what executive privilege meant.
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The stakes were so high, in that the tapes most likely contained evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the President and his men, that they wanted no dissent. Despite the Chief Justice's hostility to allowing the other Justices to participate in the drafting of the opinion, the final version was agreed to on July 23, the day before the decision was announced, and would contain the work of all the Justices. The Court's opinion found that the courts could indeed intervene on the matter and that Special Counsel Jaworski had proven a "sufficient likelihood that each of the tapes contains conversations relevant to the offenses charged in the indictment". While the Court acknowledged that the principle of executive privilege did exist, the Court would also directly reject President Nixon's claim to an "absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances."
The Court held that a claim of Presidential privilege as to materials subpoenaed for use in a criminal trial cannot override the needs of the judicial process if that claim is based, not on the ground that military or diplomatic secrets are implicated, but merely on the ground of a generalized interest in confidentiality.
It concluded that "when the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice."
Nixon was then ordered to deliver the subpoenaed materials to the District Court.
Nixon resigned sixteen days later, on August 9, 1974.

This is not exactly on point, because the Nixon tapes were sought in an ongoing investigation, whereas Hur closed the case here.

But the tapes contain the evidence for the public to decide whether Hur was right or wrong to avoid prosecution on the technicality that he's senile and can no longer name the year, even within a span of years, when his son died.

And also: A prosecutor closing a case does not implicate double jeopardy. A Trump prosecutor could reverse the decision. So in a way, this is potentially live case.

Also, executive privilege shields confidential communications with aides. The theory is that you want to have unvarnished conversations with your advisors, and if everyone knows their statements can be divulged by court order, they'll hesitate to give the president their true opinions.

But here, Biden is talking to a federal prosecutor investigating his crimes, not with an aide or advisor he expects to have confidential communications with!

Joe Biden repeatedly denied Trump’s claims of privilege in authorizing NARA to turn over presidential records to Congress.

Biden claimed Congress’ investigation into Jan 6 “insurrection” outweighed presidential privilege claims.

Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed. 3 Dem judges… pic.twitter.com/khlMzR5HdQ
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 16, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:24 PM

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1 position

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! at May 16, 2024 01:26 PM (qfLjt)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

3 First!!

Posted by: jmel at May 16, 2024 01:26 PM (RWHIh)

4 The next non-dem president needs to order the tapes release as soon as elected.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 01:26 PM (aiOam)

5 The White House has invoked executive privilege to block the release of audio and video from President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, ...
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Hilarious.

The collapse stage is a curious thing to live through.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:27 PM (d04cU)

6 You expected anything different?

Posted by: mpfs, ubi porci mali at May 16, 2024 01:27 PM (Q00Hv)

7 Good thing we dodged that Trump bullet, yo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

8 The Biden Tapes!!!!

Make this a slogan for the next 90 days

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 01:27 PM (W/lyH)

9 It concluded that "when the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice."
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But that was different. The target in that case was a Party Enemy. Different rules apply.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:28 PM (d04cU)

10 Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide His Embarrassing Senility-Exposing Tapes of His Interview with Special Counsel Hur

Biden, the actual, does not even know the request was made.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2024 01:28 PM (riU2q)

11 "Good thing we dodged that Trump bullet, yo.
Posted by: Sponge "

The adults are in charge.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

12 The real question is what is Congress going to do about it. Clear Scotus precedent via the Nixon Watergate tapes case, US v Nixon, indicates executive privilege does not apply to cases of criminal investigation. From wikipedia---

"The Court held that a claim of Presidential privilege as to materials subpoenaed for use in a criminal trial cannot override the needs of the judicial process if that claim is based, not on the ground that military or diplomatic secrets are implicated, but merely on the ground of a generalized interest in confidentiality.

It concluded that "when the ground for asserting privilege as to subpoenaed materials sought for use in a criminal trial is based only on the generalized interest in confidentiality, it cannot prevail over the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice."

9-0 that ruling was and in the context of an impeachment investigation into Watergate.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (8QJ54)

13
The adults are in charge.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

Respect for America on the world stage is once again a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Nobody would understand what Joe was saying anyway.

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (v0R5T)

15 Where's Wikileaks when you need them?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (NpAcC)

16 Good afternoon!

Update on the 19-year-old son:
When he walked out of his business class in February because he objected to the emphasis being placed on Black History everything, some of you warned he could fail the class. Sure enough, he did.
He said, "Screw this. I am going to trade school."

Posted by: jmel at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (RWHIh)

17 I guess executive priviledge works wonders if you're a leftist. Not so much if you're Trump.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

18 But the tapes contain the evidence for the public to decide whether Hur was right or wrong to avoid prosecution on the technicality that he's senile and can no longer name the year, even within a span of years, when his son died.
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"The Public" does not matter and so is entitled to nothing. The idea that "The Public" has some kind of say in anything, or some kind of rights, or whatever, is old-fashioned thinking. It no longer applies in the affairs of the United States government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (d04cU)

19 13
The adults are in charge.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 01:28 PM (vFG9F)

Respect for America on the world stage is once again a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

The adult DIAPERS are in charge...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

20 "Respect for America on the world stage is once again a thing.
Posted by: Sponge"

I feel a real sense of security.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (vFG9F)

21 i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (KRtlO)

22
I feel a real sense of security.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (vFG9F)

And QUALITY government provide healthcare plans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Hur heard him hem and haw?

Hmmm...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (991eG)

24 16 Good afternoon!

Update on the 19-year-old son:
When he walked out of his business class in February because he objected to the emphasis being placed on Black History everything, some of you warned he could fail the class. Sure enough, he did.
He said, "Screw this. I am going to trade school."

Posted by: jmel at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (RWHIh)

Too bad he can't sue for his tuition back.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

25 Congress already has the transcript. There's zero real reason to claim executive privilege, as there won't be any new confidential information.

Yes it will be used politically. But executive privilege doesn't get to be used for that reason.

Posted by: ghost pournelle at May 16, 2024 01:31 PM (rwtqo)

26 Have you listened to the Nixon tapes? They're hilarious. Here's a clip where Dick asserts All in the Family is gay propaganda.

http://tiny.cc/s0j4yz

He's right, you know.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:31 PM (Odg76)

27 i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (KRtlO)

Heheheheh.

He said 'anal.'

Posted by: Beavis AND Butthead at May 16, 2024 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

28 15 Where's Wikileaks when you need them?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (NpAcC)

The Gov't has been plugging those up. Ask Julian Assange.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

29 You can get you anal-ysis removed with lasers now I hear.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Y6IkP)

30 25 Congress already has the transcript. There's zero real reason to claim executive privilege, as there won't be any new confidential information.

Thing is, should we trust this is the whole transcript ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Akjoo)

31 The White House has invoked executive privilege to block the release of audio and video from President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur
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Why are there tapes?

This is not snark, it's genuine curiosity. The DoJ - at least, the FBI - doesn't do recordings. Recordings create evidence, and evidence is bad. Evidence needs to be avoided when it comes to the organs of state security. Actual evidence is to be ignored or destroyed, not generated. All generation activities are an act of synthesis.

The FBI doesn't record shit. They use the delightfully mutable and falsifiable Form FD-302 instead.

So why is there a recording to subpoena? Why did the DoJ permit the creation of potential evidence in the first place?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (d04cU)

32 21 i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (KRtlO)

It will go down in the anals of history.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

33 Hur heard him hem and haw?

Hmmm...
Posted by: Muldoon

Har de har har

Posted by: Miklos, contemplating a moderate chuckle at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Mxkdu)

34 17 I guess executive priviledge works wonders if you're a leftist. Not so much if you're Trump.
Posted by: jim
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Heck, lawyer client privilege does not exist for President Trump nor citizen Trump.

Judge Cannon's decision to openly publicize Judge Beryl Howell's dirty laundry order to breach it is most amusing. The Feebs actually used a Trump lawyer as a CI for the search warrant of Mar A Lago in breach of lawyer client privilege.

The lawyer must have told the Feebs that the secrets were in Melania's panty drawers.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (8QJ54)

35 Nixon just needed to burn/destroy the tapes. Didn't even need BleachBit or hammers.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (Cus5s)

36
Yeah, well, Nixon was a crook and Joey is a kindly old man, so, like, case closed, man.

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (j4U/Z)

37 jmel

Good for him. He'll be happier and make good money.

Posted by: mpfs, ubi porci mali at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (Q00Hv)

38 Hi. I'm here for an argument.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)

39 But here, Biden is talking to a federal prosecutor investigating his crimes, not with an aide or advisor he expects to have confidential communications with!
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Who does Hur work for? He works for Biden. All federal employees outside the SCOTUS and the Congress are probably "aides."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (d04cU)

40 "But then, I have the mind of a coward"

Of course you don't. Ace, but I wouldn't take to heart the intermittent posters who mainly seem to be here to insult you. The overwhelming majority of us are very grateful for your intelligence and insights, and someone who was a coward wouldn't provide this place.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (XkYcA)

41 Remember, the transcript WAS released. Just not the audio/video recording. I think this would make it even harder for Biden to hide behind Executive Privilege.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (N39Ws)

42 i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.

Posted by: ace

You beast! I love it!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (v0R5T)

43 34 17 I guess executive priviledge works wonders if you're a leftist. Not so much if you're Trump.
Posted by: jim
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Heck, lawyer client privilege does not exist for President Trump nor citizen Trump.

Judge Cannon's decision to openly publicize Judge Beryl Howell's dirty laundry order to breach it is most amusing. The Feebs actually used a Trump lawyer as a CI for the search warrant of Mar A Lago in breach of lawyer client privilege.

The lawyer must have told the Feebs that the secrets were in Melania's panty drawers.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:32 PM (8QJ54)

Yet the Left keeps exclaiming that there's no dual-justice. Well, maybe they're right; there is NO justice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

44

He graduated top of his fucking class and dont you forget it. Coulda been a top QB in the NFL as well, beat out Staubach.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (et1vG)

45 The FBI doesn't record shit. They use the delightfully mutable and falsifiable Form FD-302 instead.

So why is there a recording to subpoena? Why did the DoJ permit the creation of potential evidence in the first place?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Wasn't FBI interview--it was a special counsel interview and Biden had his own counsel present. No reason for it to be held to be confidential---redacted possibly in places but not wholly privileged either.

Parts of the interview have already been published but the impact of a devastating video tape of a doddering dementia patient Biden is what is being hid.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (8QJ54)

46 The collapse stage is a curious thing to live through.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Standing on Jello is not something I desire to experience.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, pissed and ready to rumble at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (VisPc)

47 > i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.

From the root words anus, which means ring, and lysis, which means to loosen. Loosen up that anal ring, baby!

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Odg76)

48
http://tiny.cc/s0j4yz

He's right, you know.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:31 PM (Odg76)

Heh.

"The last 6 Roman emperors were fags."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

49 38 Hi. I'm here for an argument.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)

That'll be 5 quid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (ynpvh)

50 Wasn't FBI interview--it was a special counsel interview and Biden had his own counsel present. No reason for it to be held to be confidential---redacted possibly in places but not wholly privileged either.

Parts of the interview have already been published but the impact of a devastating video tape of a doddering dementia patient Biden is what is being hid.
Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (8QJ54)
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Yeah, I get that. And it isn't the FBI, no, but it is still the DoJ. I'm shocked they record anything. I'm shocked there's even a stenographer. The DoJ runs on the "trust me, bro" system of evidence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (d04cU)

51 like with Hillary's emails, they don't even expect to find any smoking gun. They want the audio so they can make hay with any Biden stutter or flubs.

I didn't think republicans really thought they would get any national security breach in Hillary's emails. They thought there would be shit in there they could use against her though. Any negative comments about rivals or colleges. Stuff like that.

I'm concerned Mr. Garland would, if the House sent him a criminal referral for contempt arising from this refusal, declare that he must 'be above politics' and start a case against himself, and appoint a special counsel to look into the matter as well, just to be sure.

I wouldn't, having never bought into this notion that Garland feels he must bend over backwards to appear non-partisan.

Love it. Go Joe. Asserting executive privilege is the way to go. They have the information they need from the transcripts. They just don’t or can’t read. Not Joe’s problem.

They have nothing on Biden, so wanted to fabricate something. He returned the docs. End of story.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Yhzwt)

52 We have moved from Calvinball to Bidenball.

Bidenball, like Calvinball, features random and inexplicable rule changes. However, in Bidenball one side can always change the rules and have the other side hauled into court for any and all reasons.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 01:35 PM (vivhj)

53 Hi. I'm here for an argument.
Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)
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NO YOU'RE NOT

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

54 Yet the Left keeps exclaiming that there's no dual-justice. Well, maybe they're right; there is NO justice.
Posted by: jim
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Like Our Democracy, you won't like Our Justice.

Essentially the junta running the country have instituted the divine right of juntas to rule and even use the royal plural to indicate that.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (8QJ54)

55 Standing on Jello is not something I desire to experience.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

Stand?

You rassle in it.

Posted by: Stormy D. at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (Mxkdu)

56 Hi. I'm here for an argument.
Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)
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NO YOU'RE NOT
Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
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YES HE IS

Posted by: Wading in without invitation at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (d04cU)

57 Hi. I'm here for an argument.
Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)
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NO YOU'RE NOT
Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

Well, you can just f*ck RIGHT OFF with that noise.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

58 I had a thought about trade school:

The trades will provide you a good and very reliable income.

The one downside is that they don't provide the social-status that college does.

Now college is mostly bullshit, but college educated women, for example, usually won't date non-college educated men.

So my modest proposal is to encourage trade schools to create joint programs with local colleges, so that electricians and HVAC guys can get the "cocktail party" cliff's notes on "Smart Shit," and therefore get a lot of that social status along with their good job.

believe me, I don't think college is really necessary. But there's a lot of bias against the non-college educated. Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (KRtlO)

59 38 Hi. I'm here for an argument.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)
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No you're not!

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #01 at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (qfLjt)

60 Consequences of having a two tiered justice system.

Best get used to it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2024 01:37 PM (Q4IgG)

61 Standing on Jello is not something I desire to experience.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, pissed and ready to rumble at May 16, 2024 01:34 PM (VisPc)
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It's interesting. It is not desirable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:37 PM (d04cU)

62 Host Bret Baier then cut in to ask, “1968 was in Chicago, the Democratic Convention. Do you think it could look a little like that?”

Phillips answered, “I think it can, and frankly, I think it would be in the best interests of the Democratic Party to forego the convention this year and focus on campaigning. Because I don’t see any way it can be accretive to the mission of winning the next election.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:37 PM (RHGPo)

63 > Yeah, I get that. And it isn't the FBI, no, but it is still the DoJ. I'm shocked they record anything. I'm shocked there's even a stenographer. The DoJ runs on the "trust me, bro" system of evidence.

Obama made it "policy" for the Feebs to record interviews. But there are no consequences if they ignore the policy.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (Odg76)

64 Legal for me but not for thee.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (o2ZRX)

65 Yeah, I get that. And it isn't the FBI, no, but it is still the DoJ. I'm shocked they record anything. I'm shocked there's even a stenographer. The DoJ runs on the "trust me, bro" system of evidence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The video was probably on request of Biden's counsel is my guess. The constant leakage of all sorts of unpleasant details over the years about Biden are probably coming from Obammy loyalists that want the demented old white guy out of office.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (8QJ54)

66 Parts of the interview have already been published but the impact of a devastating video tape of a doddering dementia patient Biden is what is being hid.
Posted by: whig

In addition a person professing to not remember anything while portraying himself as a doddering fool.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (aiOam)

67
Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide His Embarrassing Senility-Exposing Tapes of His Interview with Special Counsel Hur

MASTERSTROKE!

This is why he’s going to win the debate!

It’s all over now, guys.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (jbnUc)

68 I am sure the WH is thinking the tapes show Biden has such a strong and sharp mind it wouldn't be fair to Trump.

Posted by: Weasel at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (JwHpX)

69 No you're not!
Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #01 at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (qfLjt)

It says argument right there on the door.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (8ebbP)

70 >>>From the root words anus, which means ring, and lysis, which means to loosen. Loosen up that anal ring, baby!

haha

The french for ring is "anneau."

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (KRtlO)

71 > Hi. I'm here for an argument.

You're a dick!

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (Odg76)

72 Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: ace

CREDIT FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE

Posted by: University of Miklos at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (Mxkdu)

73 But the tapes contain the evidence for the public to decide whether Hur was right or wrong to avoid prosecution on the technicality that he's senile and can no longer name the year, even within a span of years, when his son died.

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Wait, Beau is dead?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (h4Cdp)

74 Yet the Left keeps exclaiming that there's no dual-justice.

To be fair, we're liars.

Posted by: The Left at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (zMQny)

75 ... So my modest proposal is to encourage trade schools to create joint programs with local colleges, so that electricians and HVAC guys can get the "cocktail party" cliff's notes on "Smart Shit," and therefore get a lot of that social status along with their good job. ...
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (KRtlO)
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It won't work. It isn't about erudition or articulation or social graces. Anyone who wants to can get that by going to a finishing school.

It's about the status, and that's about the paper and external validation. "He's such a well-spoken and well-informed plumber" is still a plumber.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (d04cU)

76 MASTERSTROKE!

This is why he’s going to win the debate!

It’s all over now, guys.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (jbnUc)

Shows how stupid Trump is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

77 He said, "Screw this. I am going to trade school."
Posted by: jmel

Welding was first used in Wakanda as this is where iron and steel were first used.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (riU2q)

78 believe me, I don't think college is really necessary. But there's a lot of bias against the non-college educated. Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: ace
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When food is scarce and expensive and the service industries collapse, there will be a reversion to historical norms.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (8QJ54)

79 Wait, Beau is dead?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (h4Cdp)

Collateral damage at the Hamilton/Burr dual.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

80 >>>It won't work. It isn't about erudition or articulation or social graces. Anyone who wants to can get that by going to a finishing school.

that's not true; do finishing schools still exist? Don't you just know the term from Bugs Bunny cartoons?

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (KRtlO)

81 70 >>>From the root words anus, which means ring, and lysis, which means to loosen. Loosen up that anal ring, baby!

haha

The french for ring is "anneau."

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (KRtlO)

In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

82 The video was probably on request of Biden's counsel is my guess. The constant leakage of all sorts of unpleasant details over the years about Biden are probably coming from Obammy loyalists that want the demented old white guy out of office.
Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (8QJ54)
++++
He's Kalorama's creature. They aren't happy with him, though, to be sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (d04cU)

83 40 "But then, I have the mind of a coward"

Of course you don't. Ace, but I wouldn't take to heart the intermittent posters who mainly seem to be here to insult you. The overwhelming majority of us are very grateful for your intelligence and insights, and someone who was a coward wouldn't provide this place.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (XkYcA

I agree with Fen. And I'm tired of the commenters who just want to dishearten everybody.

Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Sf2cq)

84 I'm not asking for much, I just want to hear FJB go "vroom vroom."

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (xQ/4D)

85 You gotta see this. It's hysterical!

https://twitter.com/LibbeyDean_/status/
1791143992668598678

Posted by: IrishEi at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (3ImbR)

86

SNL made fun of Nixon and the tapes. Dan Aykroyd did a hilarious Nixon.

Will they do the same for old Joe.

But NOOOOOoooooooooooooo

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (et1vG)

87 that's not true; do finishing schools still exist? Don't you just know the term from Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (KRtlO)
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LOL. Finishing schools probably exist, but they're for girls as far as I know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (d04cU)

88 Hi. I'm here for an argument.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (8ebbP)
.......

What's your favorite condiment?

Posted by: wth at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (v0R5T)

89 I agree with Fen. And I'm tired of the commenters who just want to dishearten everybody.
Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Sf2cq)

Amen

Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Akjoo)

90 "Cowardice is happenstance," Scratch [the coyote] said. "Maikoh [a wolf] is stronger than me. I’m no match for him in a fight. Why provoke him? I’m smart to be a coward. Cowards survive. If the roles were reversed, and coyotes were stronger than wolves, then Maikoh would be the coward. See? Happenstance!"

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

91 "my modest proposal is to encourage trade schools to create joint programs with local colleges, so that electricians and HVAC guys can get the "cocktail party" cliff's notes on "Smart Shit," and therefore get a lot of that social status along with their good job."

Yeah, I wonder what memes and talking points actually distinguish the college graduate from the trades guys.

idk, but I think one class could probably get the trades guys up to speed for the cocktail parties. Except that maybe the cocktail crowd is now just Woke, not really educated and elite. It is a big cult for the leftists that are social workers and "educators".

Posted by: illiniwek at May 16, 2024 01:41 PM (Cus5s)

92 They can’t afford to burn down Chicago. They need those 91 million votes.
- Mrs. O’Leary’s cow

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2024 01:41 PM (o2ZRX)

93 Executive privilege can be used to hide Presidential interview tapes, but NOT thing the President talks about to his Lawyers and Political advisors?

Interesting... as Bannon is currently in jail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (xaFKb)

94 The french for ring is "anneau."
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (KRtlO)

Anneau what you mean

Posted by: MAyor Pete at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (NtVYv)

95 >>>Hi. I'm here for an argument.

A five-minute argument or a ten?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (CwhoI)

96 In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Quinceanera at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (CsUN+)

97 "I can totally understand why Biden chose to hide these damning tapes. But then, I have the mind of a coward, and so I can understand the mind of another coward."

----

Sorry, my personal pet peeve, I'm going to do this every time: Joe Biden didn't choose anything. He doesn't choose when to wipe his own arse.

His handlers chose. The same cowards that keep the facade going, pumping this old man with drugs so he can remain sentient for a few minutes at a time.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (dGCAG)

98 Update on the 19-year-old son:
He said, "Screw this. I am going to trade school."
Posted by: jmel at May 16, 2024 01:29 PM (RWHIh)

Ratchet and Phillips head 101 start with a Pride Month introduction this year.

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (j4U/Z)

99 The absurd claim of executive privilege. The privilege exists to protect presidents from undue intrusions on discussions of policy formulation and other strategies connected to the duties of their office. A special counsel investigating criminal conduct of the president does not qualify as an adviser, and depositions on criminal allegations are not at all "advisory" in any sense.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (RHGPo)

100 They have nothing on Biden, so wanted to fabricate something. He returned the docs. End of story.
Posted by: Intercepted DU

Heh!
He returned classified documents that he never authorized to have; but, "he returned them".
What a stupid statement.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (aiOam)

101 92 They can’t afford to burn down Chicago. They need those 91 million votes.
- Mrs. O’Leary’s cow

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2024 01:41 PM (o2ZRX)

They'll still vote, except this time more loyally.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

102 > that's not true; do finishing schools still exist? Don't you just know the term from Bugs Bunny cartoons?

When my mom became an officer in the Air Force, part of her training was to go to finishing school. Fun fact.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (Odg76)

103 Year of the Cat > Year of the Anus

Posted by: Al Stewart at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (2QA3G)

104 "Because of the President’s longstanding commitment to protecting the integrity, effectiveness, and independence of the Department of Justice and its law enforcement investigations, he has decided to assert executive privilege over the recordings," said White House counsel Ed Siskel in a letter obtained by The Hill.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (RHGPo)

105 He's Kalorama's creature. They aren't happy with him, though, to be sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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My guess is that Biden pulled a double cross by staying as Kamala was originally supposed to be prezzie by now. Instead, Biden world dumped all sorts of bad news on the press about Kamala and did literally set her up for failure. Course, she was already more than half the way there anyway.

Typical court politics type stuff but notice that when the junta wants to maintain silence--it can with the willing subservience of the media.

Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (8QJ54)

106 >>>idk, but I think one class could probably get the trades guys up to speed for the cocktail parties. Except that maybe the cocktail crowd is now just Woke, not really educated and elite. It is a big cult for the leftists that are social workers and "educators".

this is what I'm saying -- it wouldn't take much to get someone with an average IQ up to "College Bullshit Level."

A dude I knew in college would read "bluffer's guides" on books. So he could kinda fluently discuss all oft hese major books. Which he had not read.

Which is kinda most people's experience. College students expend a lot of effort NOT reading and NOT learning.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (KRtlO)

107 Ratchet and Phillips head 101 start with a Pride Month introduction this year.

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (j4U/Z)

Giving whole new meaning to 'Reed & Prince.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

108 There's no way a detached and neutral magistrate like Chutkan would reverse herself on the issue of presidential privilege and fail to compel the release of these Biden tapes, so we're almost there!

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (ssz2a)

109 And Biden will be held accountable for this?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

110 Just more proof that Trump is a dummy and we are all cultists, I guess.

Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (xhfG9)

111 There is literally no basis to claim executive privilege. The transcripts are already out there, so there is no information on those tapes that isn't already in the public domain, other than the incompetent manner in which Biden is slurring his words.

Posted by: deadrody at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (OeYsY)

112 100 They have nothing on Biden, so wanted to fabricate something. He returned the docs. End of story.
Posted by: Intercepted DU

Heh!
He returned classified documents that he never authorized to have; but, "he returned them".
What a stupid statement.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (aiOam)

And Trump was SENT classified documents he didn't ask for.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

113 if a trade school wants to try my idea up, I volunteer to lead a literature discussion on "The Hound of the Baskervilles." I'm sure I'll have read it by then.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (KRtlO)

114
Which is kinda most people's experience. College students expend a lot of effort NOT reading and NOT learning.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (KRtlO)

This is true.

Posted by: David Hogg at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

115 What do America's friends see when Joe Biden abandons them ?

AMERICA'S BACK

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

116 Year of Living Dangerously > Year of the Cat

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (CwhoI)

117 Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.

My trade-school associate's degrees were at a community collage and we got internships afterwards. Most of the school fed into the four-year colleges (you saved a ton of money by getting your GE requirements out of the way before transferring to the UC or CS system)

It's nice because you're not isolated from "college", if that's what you eventually choose.

Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (U7Cio)

118 believe me, I don't think college is really necessary. But there's a lot of bias against the non-college educated. Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (KRtlO)

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Interesting idea, Ace. [The other benefit of going to a trade school is that you potentially can become your own boss and/or own your own business -- something difficult for people like with with 4+ year degrees, which I lament to this day.]

Wifey got an Associate's Degree in Data Processing back in the day, and it was immensely helpful for jump-starting a career that eventually led to software systems engineering.

[Ironically, as years went by and her work experience became more-and-more instrumental to her ability to obtain better and higher-paying jobs, companies started refusing to consider her (I'm looking at you, Google) because she did NOT have a 4-year degree -- which is idiocy for someone with even 5 years of work experience let alone 20+).]

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (h4Cdp)

119 In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

So a cumpliano, cumplir+ano without the "ñ" would be a spanish butt celebration. (Seinfeld: Not that there's anything wrong with that)

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (Y6IkP)

120 The video was probably on request of Biden's counsel is my guess. The constant leakage of all sorts of unpleasant details over the years about Biden are probably coming from Obammy loyalists that want the demented old white guy out of office.
Posted by: whig at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (8QJ54)
++++
He's Kalorama's creature. They aren't happy with him, though, to be sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (d04cU)
________

Yea. I think the number one reason Sloppy Joe is still in there is because he's a stooge for Team Gay Dogeater. Team Gay is still very strong and in control of much of the government. They are certainly stronger than Team Whore (backing Kamala) and Team Moist Cigar (backing Hillary and/or Hair Gel).

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

121 He returned classified documents that he never authorized to have; but, "he returned them".
What a stupid statement.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

*returns cash just stolen from the bank*

Posted by: Miklos made a teensy-weensy error, but all fine now at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (Mxkdu)

122 A dude I knew in college would read "bluffer's guides" on books. So he could kinda fluently discuss all oft hese major books. Which he had not read.

This strikes me as dangerously close to the Trumpian debate prep method. It works, until it fails disastrously.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (CsUN+)

123 Good afternoon!

Update on the 19-year-old son:
When he walked out of his business class in February because he objected to the emphasis being placed on Black History everything, some of you warned he could fail the class. Sure enough, he did.
He said, "Screw this. I am going to trade school."
Posted by: jmel

He has the courage of his convictions and in this tough spot, didn't waiver fail or no fail. You've raised a good one! Side note - one of my daughter's friends went to trade school for welding. One year later, debt free, bought a new house, and is kicking ass.

Posted by: Cheri at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (oiNtH)

124 So lemme get this straight.

Brandon gets to assert executive privilege to deflect criminal liability for something he is criminally liable for the secondary reason that executive privilege was never applicable, but Trump is criminally liable for asserting privilege which makes that same something not criminal simply because it's executive privilege?

Posted by: BuddyPC at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (LA7Ep)

125 The larger issue is though, which we call know, do we live in a nation of laws? Are our government employees, are contractors, are personal confidants, are spouses, adult children... are they subject to the laws of the land?

Of course not. Of course those laws CAN be twisted and corrupted, and used as a weapon against the enemies of the state, but there's a word for that.

That word is not representative democracy or republic or land of the free or liberalism or any of the other pretty words that get tossed around all the time.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (dGCAG)

126 "my modest proposal is to encourage trade schools to create joint programs with local colleges, so that electricians and HVAC guys can get the "cocktail party"

Sounds good in theory, but ultimately just gives more money and power to the existing, Leftwing college indoctrination complex. Keep trade schools separate for now, let universities fail, get desperate, and reform before helping them (and their liberal, failing, Leftist students).

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Yhzwt)

127 69 No you're not!
Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #01 at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (qfLjt)

It says argument right there on the door.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:38 PM (8ebbP)
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No it doesn't!

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #02 at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (qfLjt)

128 He returned classified documents that he never authorized to have; but, "he returned them".
What a stupid statement.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 01:42 PM (aiOam)

YEARS later... after showing those documents to many people, knowing they were classified.

Some were from when he was a Senator...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (xaFKb)

129 > In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

Spanish has a lot of English cognates. Hilariously, the Spanish word that sounds like "embarrassed" means pregnant. So every once in a while a new Spanish speaker will mean to say, "I'm embarrassed" but they're unintentionally say, "I'm pregnant." (Estoy embarazada)

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)

130 if a trade school wants to try my idea up, I volunteer to lead a literature discussion on "The Hound of the Baskervilles." I'm sure I'll have read it by then.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (KRtlO)

Nice call-back, boss.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (xPJvm)

131 What do America's friends see when Joe Biden abandons them ?

AMERICA'S BACK

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

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

An untrustworthy enemy.

* and golf clap on the pun *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 01:47 PM (h4Cdp)

132 109 And Biden will be held accountable for this?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

Narrator: He will face no consequences.

Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2024 01:47 PM (xhfG9)

133 >>>My trade-school associate's degrees were at a community collage and we got internships afterwards.

okay, so it would be doable to create a dual degree, a tradesman's certification plus an AA.

Obviously there is a time commitment here but it's only for two years, or maybe it would be three.

A friend of mine went to Stern Business School while working a fulltime job as a risk management analyst at Prudential. This kind of thing can be done, if you just do it for a few years.

(And if you're not me. I'm lazy.)

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (KRtlO)

134 >>> Spanish has a lot of English cognates. Hilariously, the Spanish word that sounds like "embarrassed" means pregnant. So every once in a while a new Spanish speaker will mean to say, "I'm embarrassed" but they're unintentionally say, "I'm pregnant." (Estoy embarazada)
Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)

And the related word for question.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (Y6IkP)

135 119 In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (ynpvh)

So a cumpliano, cumplir+ano without the "ñ" would be a spanish butt celebration. (Seinfeld: Not that there's anything wrong with that)

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (Y6IkP)

Campana = bell
Campaña = campaign

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (ynpvh)

136 Did I see correctly that they found ANOTHER bag of cocaine in the White House?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

137 In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

*********

My former partner in San Antonio had this conversation with a young lad:

¿Quantos anos tiene usted?

Solamente uno, señor

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (991eG)

138 this is what I'm saying -- it wouldn't take much to get someone with an average IQ up to "College Bullshit Level." ...
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (KRtlO)
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Which stops working, immediately, when it comes out that he isn't the product of college bullshit. If you're dating someone - or trying to - and will, and probably fairly quickly. It's damn near impossible to hide that you're an HVAC tech.

I've seen it happen in real time. It was fascinating. When I was maybe a year out of college, I went to a little gathering with some friends. I knew maybe a third of the people there. I ended up in a chat circle with people I didn't know. One dude there was bright, well-spoken, far better informed than most, polite, articulate - the whole nine. One girl was fiercely interested in him because he was also very attractive.

She asked us all what our majors were or what our degrees were in (open up the conversation without asking him directly). When his turn came, he said, "oh, I didn't go to college. I'm working to take over the family business. We make pre-formed concrete." A total flex. Dude had it going on, and knew it.

Shut down. Immediately. No longer interested. Game over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (d04cU)

139 "Interesting... as Bannon is currently in jail."

Navarro is in jail, and they are trying to send Bannon to jail, but he is still out for now (unless he went in yesterday, but he had several more days I think)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (Cus5s)

140 My son who went into the trades makes considerably more money than my college-educated son, with the added bonuses of no student loan debt and no four-year delay in getting started in adulthood.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (CwhoI)

141 134 >>> Spanish has a lot of English cognates. Hilariously, the Spanish word that sounds like "embarrassed" means pregnant. So every once in a while a new Spanish speaker will mean to say, "I'm embarrassed" but they're unintentionally say, "I'm pregnant." (Estoy embarazada)
Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)

And the related word for question.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (Y6IkP)

Well, because the woman that was pregnant (outside of marriage) was indeed embarrassed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (ynpvh)

142 We hold these Truths to be self-Evident: that Joe Biden is a drooling, senile, shuffling, stumbling feeble shell of a man, whose dementia mafkf the soul of a vicious, venal and Corrupt son of a Bitch; that he is merely a puppet of unelected but powerful vefted interefts acting without the confent of the governed; and that this Nation is one red pubic hair from perishing from this Earth.

Posted by: Verily we art fucked at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (Wc83a)

143 believe me, I don't think college is really necessary. But there's a lot of bias against the non-college educated. Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (KRtlO)
_______

There is indeed such bias, but it's mostly by the factions in society that normals most hate. I think the Prime Directive for any young adult is putting themselves in a position to provide for themselves and a family. If a trade school is that ticket, then go for it. Anyone who later looks down on you is not worth your time.

And college is graduating a lot of fucking stupid retards now too.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (iFTx/)

144 >>> Hilariously, the Spanish word that sounds like "embarrassed" means pregnant. So every once in a while a new Spanish speaker will mean to say, "I'm embarrassed" but they're unintentionally say, "I'm pregnant." (Estoy embarazada)

Embarrassed used to just mean "laden with weight" in English too. There is that great quote from someone in the 1920s that goes something like, "No Americans are poor, they are just millionaires temporarily embarrassed by low liquidity."

Embarrassed meaning "weighted with"

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (KRtlO)

145 yes the tapes are prima facie evidents he broke several statutes, why didn't hur prosecute the ghost writer, if Biden was too senile rhetorical

Posted by: no 6 at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (PXvVL)

146 >>> My former partner in San Antonio had this conversation with a young lad:

¿Quantos anos tiene usted?

Solamente uno, señor
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (991eG)

LOL

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (Y6IkP)

147 this is what I'm saying -- it wouldn't take much to get someone with an average IQ up to "College Bullshit Level."

-

Sure, but how do you get women to waste the prime of their mate attracting years while their bodies are most appealing if you don't tie them up in meaningless "studies" majors while their best eggs pass from their bodies AND they take on $60,000 in student loan debt?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 01:50 PM (4curJ)

148 So lemme get this straight.

Brandon gets to assert executive privilege to deflect criminal liability for something he is criminally liable for...

Right. And Trump had to let congress dig through his taxes and financial records, because fuck you.

Posted by: Your Uniparty Betters at May 16, 2024 01:50 PM (Yhzwt)

149 Dow hits 40000!
Capitalists rejoice!

Thanking Trump for giving them that 2 trillion dollar tax cut. They are really going to need it

Posted by: Paul banned at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (c3jbK)

150 Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (KRtlO)

LOL. That hound is in some part of rural Northwestern Canada by now-for years, probably raised pups and grandpups.

. But it was a nice idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (XkYcA)

151 Of course you don't. Ace, but I wouldn't take to heart the intermittent posters who mainly seem to be here to insult you. The overwhelming majority of us are very grateful for your intelligence and insights, and someone who was a coward wouldn't provide this place.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:33 PM (XkYcA

I agree with Fen. And I'm tired of the commenters who just want to dishearten everybody.
Posted by: Emmie

Amen
Posted by: It's me donna

Hmmm. When Mrs. Sock and her sisters start talking amongst themselves in the other room, my BILs and I have learned that ignoring them is to our own peril.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, pissed and ready to rumble at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (VisPc)

152 89 I agree with Fen. And I'm tired of the commenters who just want to dishearten everybody.
Posted by: Emmie at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Sf2cq)

Amen
Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Akjoo)

This!

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (vivhj)

153 right word would be abochornada, embarassed,

Posted by: no 6 at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (PXvVL)

154 Lo siento, hablo solo inglés.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (as3uC)

155 Did I see correctly that they found ANOTHER bag of cocaine in the White House?
Posted by: Sponge
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I think the Capitol this time. I'm surprised they don't find more. But considering who's looking, maybe not a surprise.

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (xQ/4D)

156 115 What do America's friends see when Joe Biden abandons them ?

AMERICA'S BACK
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)
Friends? You mean like Quakers? Look what they did to Nixon.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (o2ZRX)

157 Embarrassed used to just mean "laden with weight" in English too. There is that great quote from someone in the 1920s that goes something like, "No Americans are poor, they are just millionaires temporarily embarrassed by low liquidity."

Embarrassed meaning "weighted with"
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:49 PM (KRtlO)

Did we just get gamesmanned?

Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (xhfG9)

158 They'll release the tapes about the time Mike Johnson releases the rest of the Jan 6th videos, which will be never.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (aFNOf)

159 Spanish has a lot of English cognates. Hilariously, the Spanish word that sounds like "embarrassed" means pregnant. So every once in a while a new Spanish speaker will mean to say, "I'm embarrassed" but they're unintentionally say, "I'm pregnant." (Estoy embarazada)
Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)
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Non-cognates that sound like they *should* be cognates are "false friends."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:52 PM (d04cU)

160 73 Wait, Beau is dead?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (h4Cdp)

Yup. Tragically, he died while attempting to save the workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge immediately before impact by the Dali.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 16, 2024 01:52 PM (DTX3h)

161 "embarrass" is now mostly limited to one meaning, that of feeling awkward or ashamed.

but it used to have a more general meaning:

em·bar·rass
/emˈberəs/
verb

cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
"she wouldn't embarrass either of them by making a scene"

be caused financial difficulties.
"he would be embarrassed by an inheritance tax"

archaic
hamper or impede (a person, movement, or action).

"the state of the rivers will embarrass the enemy in a considerable degree"

from French embarrasser (16c.), literally "to block," from Italian imbarrazzo, from imbarrare "to bar," from assimilated form of in- "into, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + Vulgar Latin *barra "bar" (see bar (n.1)).

Meaning "to hamper, hinder" is from 1680s. Meaning "make (someone) feel awkward" is attested by 1809. The original sense is preserved in embarras de richesse "the condition of having more wealth than one knows what to do with" (1751), from French (1726

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:52 PM (KRtlO)

162 Shut down. Immediately. No longer interested. Game over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (d04cU)

Now she is getting railed by a similar Chad while her soiboi watches in the corner, crying.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 16, 2024 01:52 PM (Q5D0S)

163 Right. And Trump had to let congress dig through his taxes and financial records, because fuck you.
Posted by: Your Uniparty Betters at May 16, 2024 01:50 PM (Yhzwt)

You correctly understand the way it is.

Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2024 01:52 PM (xhfG9)

164 Did we just get gamesmanned?
Posted by: blaster at May 16, 2024 01:51 PM (xhfG9)
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He's very good at it when he chooses to play. Thankfully for my ego, he rarely chooses to play.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:53 PM (d04cU)

165 Ah I've just realized part of what makes ace's writing so recognizable is what he chooses to talk about.

Like if you ever see a paragraph quoted about some dude the author knew one time that had a special way to finagle something with women or getting ahead, with some extremely mundane superpower fueled by something unremarkable, you always know it's ace talking.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:53 PM (8ebbP)

166 thank you, Gentle Readers.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:53 PM (KRtlO)

167 Uh, we had 'Trade Schools' in place for network Engineers... I know... I taught at one. We were VERY successful, and then? Suddenly the Government decided we had to give College Credit for said classes, or no student could get government aid even retraining type support.

Suddenly Colleges had Network Engineering degrees available... even though what we taught in 8 hard core weeks, took at least 2 years (if not 4)...

We went from $1Million a MONTH in delivered training in Denver... to out of business in 2 years.

Fed Government policy Killed the Trade School I was involved in... and that sector if now inhabited by H1B foreigners... instead of Americans.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 01:53 PM (xaFKb)

168 Like Biden's eyes, this is the most translucent administration ever!

Posted by: Lex at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (fMN7A)

169 Hiding embarrassing information from the public? Sounds like election interference to me!

(Where's a good prosecutor when you need one?)

Posted by: Half Dozen at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (eHovo)

170 129 > In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)
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Is the pronunciation different?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #03 at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (qfLjt)

171 'em Beau assed

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (4curJ)

172 jmel

Best of luck to your son !

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (T4tVD)

173 thank you, Gentle Readers.
Posted by: ace

You're supposed to leave us an Exercise.

Posted by: Gentle Readers at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (Mxkdu)

174 >>A refresher from Wikipedia. Nixon, of course, made surreptitious recordings of his conversations with his staffers in the Oval Office. I think Nixon did this in the interests of preserving a historical record for posterity.

Remember, Nixon was taken out by a former naval intelligence officer cum intrepid reporter, the number 2 at the FBI and 7 CIA employees, Trump was taken out by the number 1,2 & 3 at the FBI, the number 1&2 at the CIA, and a host of other deep state operators, including CIA whistle blowers and naval intel officers and prospective Generals of the Ukrainian Army.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (JIdXK)

175 with the added bonuses of no student loan debt and no four-year delay in getting started in adulthood.

Look around, though. UTI (automotive) is a for-high-profit school. (I'm sure there are others). It cost my nephew 41k a year. Now it's 56k a year. That's a lot to pay back when you're starting out at the bottom of the totem pole.

Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (D9hgC)

176 I got my college degree, but while working through college learned a trade that launched my own small business. (small as in mostly just me). Never really tried for a job requiring college.

I did hang out with a lot of college educated over the years, but never made enough money to (comfortably) marry one. Probably because I didn't want to work that hard ... but I did have opportunities.

Maybe a degree helped with that ... coulda just switched to computer science and done the career thing like many of my friends. I instead worked part time most of my working life, did OK, has some fun.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (Cus5s)

177 I miss the days when I thought the stock market was meaningful and had a connection to reality

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (4curJ)

178 Aahn-yo

Ahn-no

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (Q5D0S)

179 170 129 > In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)
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Is the pronunciation different?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #03 at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (qfLjt)

Aye, tis.
año -> anyo
ano -> ano

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (ynpvh)

180 año = year
ano = anus

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Odg76)
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Is the pronunciation different?
Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #03 at May 16, 2024 01:54 PM (qfLjt)
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Yes. ñ is an "ny" sound. "n" is just "n."

Año is pronounced like "ahn-yo"
Ano is pronounced like "ah-no."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (d04cU)

181 136 Did I see correctly that they found ANOTHER bag of cocaine in the White House?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
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No, this time it was in the hallway of the Capitol Police HQ.

Posted by: ballistic at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (oqH4h)

182 Em barr assed...

Aunty Em on Bath Day!

Posted by: Dorothy, killing more witches at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (xaFKb)

183 LOL. Finishing schools probably exist, but they're for girls as far as I know.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:40 PM (d04cU)

Now there are etiquette schools for both men and women. They even do corporate seminars for the new hires. There have always been schools for diplomatic etiquette, that teach men and women how to have difficult conversations without resorting to insults and crude language. They also employ people who teach people how to behave in other nations.

Posted by: GOP sux at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (Zzbjj)

184 Remember, Nixon was taken out by a former naval intelligence officer cum intrepid reporter, the number 2 at the FBI and 7 CIA employees, Trump was taken out by the number 1,2 & 3 at the FBI, the number 1&2 at the CIA, and a host of other deep state operators, including CIA whistle blowers and naval intel officers and prospective Generals of the Ukrainian Army.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (JIdXK)

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (xhfG9)

185 She asked us all what our majors were or what our degrees were in (open up the conversation without asking him directly). When his turn came, he said, "oh, I didn't go to college. I'm working to take over the family business. We make pre-formed concrete." A total flex. Dude had it going on, and knew it.

Shut down. Immediately. No longer interested. Game over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (d04cU)
________

I assume this was a white guy and this was a white girl. The same white girls who will look down their rhinoplastied nose on white guys without college degrees will be the first ones to prove their woke bona fides by fucking some swarthy high-school dropout deadbeat.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (iFTx/)

186 >>> this is what I'm saying -- it wouldn't take much to get someone with an average IQ up to "College Bullshit Level." ...
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:43 PM (KRtlO)

This wouldn't work as well in engineering. But strangely enough, college level engineers, we're talking BS through PhD have to then be heavily deprogrammed to be useful in the workplace. So while it would be hard to quickly educate an avg IQ person up enough to trick a peer working engineer that same no-college person would probably be a much better match for starting than an actual graduate.

I believe engineering would work better as a trade.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (Y6IkP)

187 On another note-Why are Biden's eyes so squinty?. Is this part of whatever cognitive, physical decline which he's going through?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (XkYcA)

188 Biden Asserts Executive Privilege to Hide His Embarrassing Senility-Exposing Tapes of His Interview with Special Counsel Hur
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During PRIDE MONTH?

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (8ebbP)

189 4 Did we just get gamesmanned?

I just like etymology. It's really neat.

above a commenter spoke of "false friends." Often false friends are only "false" because the word has evolved differently in two languages, but the word originally meant the same in both languages.

Like the French "attendre" does not mean "to attend" like a sporting event but to wait or wait upon.

And you might say, those are different meanings, but in English, "attend" used to mean (and still sort of means) to wait upon. Like a servant attending to his master. Or the phrase "I will attend to your every need."

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (KRtlO)

190 The transcripts were already released. This is just the audio or video. Because it’s all about optics.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JTwsP)

191 Aahn-yo

Ahn-no
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 16, 2024 01:55 PM (Q5D0S)

Annyong!

Posted by: Annyong at May 16, 2024 01:58 PM (OguvZ)

192 Embarrassed meaning "weighted with"
Posted by: ace

*******

Well 'pregnant' can also 'loaded with' or 'weighted with', as in "His message was pregnant with meaning."

How 'bout them apples!?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 01:58 PM (991eG)

193 >>>187 On another note-Why are Biden's eyes so squinty?. Is this part of whatever cognitive, physical decline which he's going through?

the theory is -- I would say the fact is -- he's on amphetamines which dilate his pupils. This lets too much light into his eyes. Eyes don't like having bright line shined in them, so he squints to reduce the amount of light, just as you might on a very sunny day.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:58 PM (KRtlO)

194 Biden’s eyes are squinty bc the pep pills dilate your pupils.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (JTwsP)

195 The left: Biden is innocent!

Also the left: See the prosecutor didn't bring charges (whispers: because he's senile)

Also also the left: So obviously we need to elect President Biden unlike that Trump guy who is being charged and hasn't been found senile.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (ibTVg)

196 And you might say, those are different meanings, but in English, "attend" used to mean (and still sort of means) to wait upon. Like a servant attending to his master. Or the phrase "I will attend to your every need."

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (KRtlO)

I really like etymology, too. Insert thumbs up emoji here.

Posted by: JFK at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (xhfG9)

197 Even Anderson Cooper notices Cohen's central claim just got destroyed in court.

http://tiny.cc/p3j4yz

Posted by: bonhomme at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (Odg76)

198 Shut down. Immediately. No longer interested. Game over.
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Wait, she was no longer interested in a guy who was in line to take over a multimillion dollar business which would lead to a life of luxury, and continued searching for an art history major?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (4curJ)

199 I miss the days when I thought the stock market was meaningful and had a connection to reality
Posted by: Moron Robbie -

Bullion is your friend.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, pissed and ready to rumble at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (VisPc)

200 I saw Bright Line Shined open for 400 Blows at Trees in '93.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

201 Oh yeah etymology. I thought it was neat to find out earlier this week where diploma came from.

Diplo is double.

Double what though?

Well it's referring to folding or "doubling" the paper it is on.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (8ebbP)

202 Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:58 PM (KRtlO)

Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (XkYcA)

203 During PRIDE MONTH?

I saw an NPC friend of one of my relatives literally complain about that recent sportsball kicker's speech "...during PRIDE MONTH!?!"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (ibTVg)

204 I assume this was a white guy and this was a white girl. The same white girls who will look down their rhinoplastied nose on white guys without college degrees will be the first ones to prove their woke bona fides by fucking some swarthy high-school dropout deadbeat.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
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She was and he was. No idea her proclivities, though. Didn't know her.

I learned a lot about status at that party, though. I went there right from work and forgot to take my ID badge off. I was still in work clothes. It was 2009 and the economy was a hellscape. That badge might as well have been a 14" cock worn on the outside of my pants. "Oh, so you're a professional?!" is something I heard more than once.

It didn't matter that I was earning like $45k a year and was in debt up to my eyeballs. I had those status markers of "office clothes" and "ID badge." It was, bluntly, grotesque. Not a single one of those girls were attracted to me (I went out on dates with a couple of them - singular dates). They sure were interested in those status markers, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (d04cU)

205
Well 'pregnant' can also 'loaded with'
Posted by: Muldoon

So 'she downloaded a beautiful baby boy yesterday' could mean 'she delivered a beautiful baby boy yesterday'

Good to know!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (aiOam)

206 yes there is a dieresis mark on the word for year anno, something that you have to add to most keyboards,

yes introducing a segment from arrested development showed the absurdity of the whole thing

Posted by: no 6 at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (PXvVL)

207 Hiding the tapes is potentially worse than anything on them politically. Pantload being a senile vegetable isn't even up for debate at this point. People might be willing to live with a senile vegetable calling the shots as long as his "advisors" did a satisfactory job in terms of outcome and controlling him.

But a vegetable that still wants to be "in charge"? Yeah that might cause some hesitation.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (e6ZgY)

208 The transcripts were already released. This is just the audio or video. Because it’s all about optics.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JTwsP)
______\

Weren't the transcripts redacted, though. IIRC. But otherwise, yes -- the actual audio and video will likely prove much more damaging to Biden than the transcripts.

But as I've said before, if I had a dollar for every time an even intelligent professional turned into a clueless idiot when he or she was deposed (by design, of course), then I'd have a lot more dollars than I have now.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

209 190 The transcripts were already released. This is just the audio or video. Because it’s all about optics.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JTwsP)

Mannerisms, tone, and body language are a Yuge part of communication.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (xaFKb)

210 So when a ghey man says anal sex is not embarrassing does that mean he can't get pregnant that way?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (991eG)

211
Judah Bob Hur. Ben's distant descendant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (MoZTd)

212 I plead the Fifth! I don't have to hand over anything that would incriminate me.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (4XbCD)

213 The transcripts were already released. This is just the audio or video. Because it’s all about optics.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Reading the transcripts are dry and boring...
Hearing him slur and bumble around is a totally different optic. If normal people could hear how bad he is they might actually wince!

Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (WT4dp)

214 >>>
Well 'pregnant' can also 'loaded with' or 'weighted with', as in "His message was pregnant with meaning."

>>>How 'bout them apples!?

ah yeah

an interesting series of words which are all related are "charge" and "cargo." To charge means to put something into something else, like boat, and of course cargo is a noun for what is put into the boat.

1650s, "freight loaded on a ship," from Spanish cargo "burden," from cargar "to load, impose taxes," from Late Latin carricare "to load a wagon or cart," from Latin carrus "wagon" (see car).

The French cognate yielded English charge (n.)

there are more words with this car- root. I can't remember them now. But in other languages, when I hear "car-" I can take a guess at what a word means because the root has something to do with freight or carrying weight.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (KRtlO)

215 They sure were interested in those status markers, though.

Que the pictures of a young hot woman with a fat old guy... "He must have a really big...wallet."

Posted by: Obligatory at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (ibTVg)

216 205
Well 'pregnant' can also 'loaded with'
Posted by: Muldoon

So 'she downloaded a beautiful baby boy yesterday' could mean 'she delivered a beautiful baby boy yesterday'

Good to know!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (aiOam)

So then "uploaded" would mean .......

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (N39Ws)

217 I have Fuchs Dystrophy, which causes a foggy condition in my eyes. I squint in bright lights, a lot.

Old people get that condition as well.

Not that I don't think Biden is on several drug cocktails or anything, because he is, I'm sure.

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

218 Did I see correctly that they found ANOTHER bag of cocaine in the White House?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

This business is likely to get out of control, and we'll all be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Rear Adm Painter at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (dGCAG)

219 Ace, while I agree that some kind of dual associates with a trade certification sounds good, I respectfully suggest it not be in "smart shit" for cocktail parties.
I suspect you don't literally mean that, because my fears of what would constitute "smart shit" in the current system (even at decent community colleges) is the same rot that made the 19-year-old walk out of class in the first place.
An associates in business accounting, or some other skill set to augment one's own trade business, amen.
"Smart shit"? very much depends on how it's taught and what it includes (hopefully the hot/crazy graph, and that in spite of what the current spectrum of all unicorn/all the time would have us believe, unicorns do NOT exist)

Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (enw9G)

220 "The Hound of the Baskervilles." I'm sure I'll have read it by then. Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024

Sherlock Holmes? Gay. The English actors portraying him on film for the last 100 years? Gay.

-every English major sophomore in America.

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (j4U/Z)

221 Transcripts don't end up on TikTok

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

222 no thats not the connotation,

you see why Spanish grammar is just a joy,

Posted by: no 6 at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (PXvVL)

223 213
Reading the transcripts are dry and boring...
Hearing him slur and bumble around is a totally different optic. If normal people could hear how bad he is they might actually wince!
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (WT4dp)

And how accurate are the transcripts??

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (N39Ws)

224 During PRIDE MONTH?

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (8ebbP)

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"It's specifically TRANS NATIVE AMERICAN, HAWAIIAN ISLANDER, and ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE Genocide Vengeance Pride Month of Rage, H8R!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (Up5F4)

225 It didn't matter that I was earning like $45k a year and was in debt up to my eyeballs. I had those status markers of "office clothes" and "ID badge." It was, bluntly, grotesque. Not a single one of those girls were attracted to me (I went out on dates with a couple of them - singular dates). They sure were interested in those status markers, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (d04cU)
_________

Dude, dude. Just photoshop yourself holding a $350M lottery check and post it on dating apps. Like that guy did. The girls will be fighting each other to get in line.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

226 So when a ghey man says anal sex is not embarrassing does that mean he can't get pregnant that way?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (991eG)

You're wrong!!!!

Posted by: Chasten Buttigieg at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

227 oh, even the noun "charge," like a "charge" on your bill, is related to the old meaning. It's a burden you must bear.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (KRtlO)

228 And you might say, those are different meanings, but in English, "attend" used to mean (and still sort of means) to wait upon. Like a servant attending to his master. Or the phrase "I will attend to your every need."
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (KRtlO)
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Yeah, English has a lot of those. Multi-use words where one is a cognate and the other is not, or where one falls out of fashion.

"Free" is a hard one. It is both "Liberté" and "Gratis" and it is entirely contextual. Which "free" do you mean? is it "free" as in "free man" or "free" as in "free beer?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (d04cU)

229 pretty sure bear, burden, and birth are all very closely related

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (KRtlO)

230 The problem with adding a "degree" to your trade school credentials so you can appeal to vacuous twits who look at that instead of a man's character, ability to provide and work ethic is that you run a real risk of ending up shackled to a vacuous twit.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:04 PM (vivhj)

231 pretty sure bear, burden, and birth are all very closely related
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:03 PM (KRtlO)

The bear wipes it's ass with the rabbit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

232 >as House prepares to hold Garland in contempt of Congress
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OH NO NOT THAT

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (/7KEl)

233 real risk of ending up shackled to a vacuous twit.
Posted by: Just Lily

Not to mention the debt load incurred as well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (aiOam)

234 What in the world is going on? What's this place coming to? Word etymology is now something to be argued? What's next, probability as defined by quantum physics?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (tT6L1)

235 Can Biden pronounce executive privilege?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (H7ZYY)

236 >>>I suspect you don't literally mean that, because my fears of what would constitute "smart shit" in the current system (even at decent community colleges) is the same rot that made the 19-year-old walk out of class in the first place.

i'm just trying to get trade dues laid

Guys work largely for sex. I'm just trying to make a trade school certificate pay off better in the sexual marketplace.

If trade schools were known as "places where girls are in their sex experimenting phase," all spots would be filled in two days.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (KRtlO)

237 Transcripts don't end up on TikTok
Posted by: ...

Vroom, vroom!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Kulak, pissed and ready to rumble at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (VisPc)

238 223 213
Reading the transcripts are dry and boring...
Hearing him slur and bumble around is a totally different optic. If normal people could hear how bad he is they might actually wince!
Posted by: lin-duh at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (WT4dp)

And how accurate are the transcripts??
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (N39Ws)

As reliable as an FBI form 302

Posted by: Trust the feds! at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (Wc83a)

239 A whole year of anal ? Oh you silly people are just teasing me - Petey Buttguzzle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (aF2b4)

240 If trade schools were known as "places where girls are in their sex experimenting phase," all spots would be filled in two days.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (KRtlO

Literally

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (8ebbP)

241 The transcripts were already released. This is just the audio or video. Because it’s all about optics.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JTwsP)
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Weren't the transcripts redacted, though. IIRC. But otherwise, yes -- the actual audio and video will likely prove much more damaging to Biden than the transcripts.

But as I've said before, if I had a dollar for every time an even intelligent professional turned into a clueless idiot when he or she was deposed (by design, of course), then I'd have a lot more dollars than I have now.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 16, 2024 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

They alter transcripts. So when Biden says "Salute the Marine," or "Pause," if they make a transcript of it, those parts are transcribed as "unintelligible."

Or if he mumbles and stumbles and freezes, the transcript just looks like smooth tempo of words from a sage old man.

Posted by: Rear Adm Painter at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (dGCAG)

242 A whole year of anal ? Oh you silly people are just teasing me - Petey Buttguzzle
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2024 02:06 PM (aF2b4)

Butt Chugging is a thing I read about once. The youth of today are some sick f*cks, I'll say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

243 137 In spanish, the ñ vs n is important:
año = year
ano = anus

*********

My former partner in San Antonio had this conversation with a young lad:

¿Quantos anos tiene usted?

Solamente uno, señor

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 01:48 PM (991eG)
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Was he embarrassed in pseudo-Spanish about that?

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #04 at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (qfLjt)

244 Senator Kennedy is legend.

'If you eat enough shrimp from India, you will grow an extra ear.'

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

245 >>>Can Biden pronounce executive privilege?

esshecuty privage

Posted by: My Words as a Biden at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (KRtlO)

246 Go to bed, Fred, you're dead.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (dGCAG)

247 The bear wipes it's ass with the rabbit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

It this why women say they'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a man? Can't quite figure that one out.

Posted by: Grizzle grizzle! at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (Wc83a)

248 how did you guys get on buttsecks with this topic

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (/7KEl)

249 When Obama left office, he left a personally signed letter to the next President, Donald Trump, sitting on the Oval Office desk.

People should know that this is a document Trump thinks he should be able to keep because it was a personal letter to him, but NARA contests as classified and belonging to NARA.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (krQz2)

250 Que the pictures of a young hot woman with a fat old guy... "He must have a really big...wallet."
Posted by: Obligatory at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (ibTVg)
++++
http://tiny.cc/p4j4yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (d04cU)

251
Butt Chugging is a thing I read about once. The youth of today are some sick f*cks, I'll say.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, by my standards, you are a youth......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (tT6L1)

252 It always got me that the Special Counsel ruled Biden was too Senile to be charged with what he said was an obvious crime but he's not too Senile to be in control of the nuclear codes ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Akjoo)

253 how did you guys get on buttsecks with this topic

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (/7KEl)

Bruh. You new here?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

254 how did you guys get on buttsecks with this topic
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (/7KEl)
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The die came up "buttsex", not guns.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (krQz2)

255 Well, by my standards, you are a youth......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (tT6L1)

I'm older than I look and feel even older than that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

256 "freight loaded on a ship," from Spanish cargo "burden," from cargar "to load, impose taxes," from Late Latin carricare "to load a wagon or cart," from Latin carrus "wagon" (see car).

*******

Good example.,

And the opposite, you can discharge your ship's cargo at the dock. As you can discharge (or unload) a debt.

Oddly though, discharging a weapon is not quite the same as unloading it (although it is in a way).

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (991eG)

257 how did you guys get on buttsecks with this topic
Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (/7KEl)

The real question is how could they not?

Posted by: Archerizing this operation at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (Wc83a)

258 "i'm just trying to get trade dues laid"

Understood.
Believe me, they WILL, with the income, stability, and lack of debt from "higher learning".
They will also have the self-respect that comes from genuine accomplishment.

They will surely get the money-hungry, but will be able to sort through to the better prospects.

Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (enw9G)

259 119 So a cumpliano, cumplir+ano without the "ñ" would be a spanish butt celebration. (Seinfeld: Not that there's anything wrong with that)

si se podrace!

Posted by: friendly neighborhood transportation secretary at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (v3pYe)

260 Jim Jordan: We will hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (aFNOf)

261 It always got me that the Special Counsel ruled Biden was too Senile to be charged with what he said was an obvious crime but he's not too Senile to be in control of the nuclear codes ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Akjoo)
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Remember, in lefty world, Joe is completely trustworthy with the nuclear codes but President Trump will start WWIII!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (tT6L1)

262 252 It always got me that the Special Counsel ruled Biden was too Senile to be charged with what he said was an obvious crime but he's not too Senile to be in control of the nuclear codes ?

.. and I bet VP Harris and the Cabinet have not taken a serious look at the 25th amendment

... this should disqualify all of them from public office

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (RHGPo)

263 People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (vivhj)

264 260 Jim Jordan: We will hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (aFNOf)

Were his sleeves rolled up ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (Akjoo)

265 si se podrace!
Posted by: friendly neighborhood transportation secretary at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (v3pYe)

Sign me up! Wheeeee!

Posted by: Young Anakin at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (Wc83a)

266 Jim Jordan: We will hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (aFNOf)

No. You. Won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

267 If trade schools were known as "places where girls are in their sex experimenting phase," all spots would be filled in two days.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (KRtlO)

Pool Boy Academy taught me all spots to be filled in under an hour of training.

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (j4U/Z)

268 I'm older than I look and feel even older than that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)
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I know exactly what you mean.

Hope to catch you in TX again this year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (tT6L1)

269 Hope to catch you in TX again this year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (tT6L1)

Count on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

270 264 260 Jim Jordan: We will hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (aFNOf)

Were his sleeves rolled up ?
Posted by: It's me donna

They were. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:11 PM (aFNOf)

271 Ace started it:
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i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:30 PM (KRtlO)
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Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:11 PM (krQz2)

272 Wait, she was no longer interested in a guy who was in line to take over a multimillion dollar business which would lead to a life of luxury, and continued searching for an art history major?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 01:59 PM (4curJ)
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Yup.

Well, some kind of major. Pre-formed concrete may be profitable, but it ain't high-status.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (d04cU)

273 263 People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:10 PM (vivhj)

*BUG me!

Curse you autocucumber!

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (vivhj)

274 House Committee on Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., announced a new legislative motion that aims to unveil financial information related to the Biden family.

"This morning, I issued a subpoena for targeted financial information from a certain financial institution related to Jim Biden, Sarah Biden and Hunter Biden. This is a result of many of the documents that Devin Archer turned over," Comer said on "Mornings with Maria" Thursday.

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (RHGPo)

275 Not to mention the debt load incurred as well.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2024 02:05 PM (aiOam)

"Its a write-off Jerry ! They just write it off !"

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (T4tVD)

276 I saw Really Big Me open for Mr. Big at The Starplex in '91.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

277 Jim Jordan: We will hold Merrick Garland in criminal contempt.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 16, 2024 02:09 PM (aFNOf)
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Here's me not kicking that football....

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (krQz2)

278 OT: Norms, restored!

“A black man from New Jersey has been federally charged with threatening to mass murder white people in a genocide-scale shooting rampage. The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (i7Q7S)

279 This Asian lady in a bikini finds it interesting to watch Westerners come to terms with the way the world works in her homeland:
http://tiny.cc/a5j4yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (d04cU)

280 276 I saw Really Big Me open for Mr. Big at The Starplex in '91.

Damn you, sir. Damn you.

Posted by: The Foo Fighters at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (mSufQ)

281 “A black man from New Jersey has been federally charged with threatening to mass murder white people in a genocide-scale shooting rampage. The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (i7Q7S)

Dare I say, COMMIT GENOCIDE!!!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

282 *BUG me!

Curse you autocucumber!
Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (vivhj)
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Great pin, I mean, pun, though.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (tT6L1)

283 Marrying two women is big of me.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:14 PM (krQz2)

284 The election is finis if those tapes are accessed , by whatever means, and played publicly.
The scent of Big Mike coming on the scene is getting stronger .
The tapes really are THE END for Biden.

May seem like a trivial point but that traitor Attorney Hur who covered up/ glossed over these tapes needs to find his worthless ass in Supermax.
Hur needs to be made an example of --- right alongside Garland.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 16, 2024 02:14 PM (s74Xr)

285 220 "The Hound of the Baskervilles." I'm sure I'll have read it by then. Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024

Sherlock Holmes? Gay. The English actors portraying him on film for the last 100 years? Gay.

-every English major sophomore in America.

*ahem*

Posted by: peter cushing at May 16, 2024 02:14 PM (v3pYe)

286 The trades will provide you a good and very reliable income.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM (KRtlO)

Unless you are a citizen and live near the border with "live near the border" currently defined as 400 miles and growing daily.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:14 PM (U7wke)

287 >but he's not too Senile to be in control of the nuclear codes ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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did you see that video couple days ago of Kamala walking out of a restaurant with her takeout food? There was a very serious man walking alongside her with a large square briefcase.

Joe can't be trusted with the nukes.
If we ever launch, they will tell him after.

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:14 PM (/7KEl)

288 IMO I could be wrong it's happened before

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2024 02:15 PM (/7KEl)

289 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 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

290 The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (i7Q7S)

You know, there are a lot of us, so maybe next time don't tell us you're wanting to erase all of us, before you do it. Your chances of success go way down when you do.

Not a great plan.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 16, 2024 02:15 PM (dGCAG)

291 Ettamology: the study of Etta James.

Posted by: Just got here at May 16, 2024 02:15 PM (YVJhL)

292 He has the courage of his convictions and in this tough spot, didn't waiver fail or no fail. You've raised a good one! Side note - one of my daughter's friends went to trade school for welding. One year later, debt free, bought a new house, and is kicking ass.
Posted by: Cheri at May 16, 2024 01:45 PM (oiNtH)

Good lad!
A friends daughter started at age 16 at a fast food burger joint. Worked through high school and while going to a local Community college for an associates business degree and now, a dozen years later, she is a regional director for the same burger joint.
Kinda hawt too.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (W/lyH)

293 People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.
Posted by: Just Lily

********

Ha!
Somebody had to say that! Well done.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (991eG)

294 I wonder how all these people who thing Trump is a legitimate target because Biden retroactively reclassified his documents are going to react if/when again-President Trump does the same.

Somehow, I don't think they will be consistent in anything more than partisanship.

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

295 you see why Spanish grammar is just a joy,
Posted by: no 6 at May 16, 2024 02:02 PM (PXvVL)

Is that pronounced "yoy" or "hoy"?

Posted by: Doof at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (PDruL)

296 A black man from New Jersey has been federally charged with threatening to mass murder white people in a genocide-scale shooting rampage. The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (i7Q7S)

What are they charging him with? Failing?

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

297 do finishing schools still exist?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (KRtlO)

Where do you think chefs learn to place micro-greens or drizzle glaze?

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

298
>>>and the opposite, you can discharge your ship's cargo at the dock. As you can discharge (or unload) a debt.
Oddly though, discharging a weapon is not quite the same as unloading it (although it is in a way).

in french, load a gun would be charger un arme, and unloading it is decharger.

I thought of an Italian word with the "car" -- in YouTube italian lessons, they often say (in italian) you can dowload the lesson from the link below.

The word they use for "download" is scaricare. Caricare is load, scaricare is unload. (In italian, "s-" is a prefix that means 'un." I think the prefix used to be "dis-" but they shortened it to just "s")

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

299 A friends daughter started at age 16 at a fast food burger joint. Worked through high school and while going to a local Community college for an associates business degree and now, a dozen years later, she is a regional director for the same burger joint.
Kinda hawt too.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (W/lyH)

So, you're saying she never ate where she worked, then.......

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

300 >>>People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.

i like putting sugar on a piece of paper and making ants spell words for me.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:17 PM (KRtlO)

301 and the opposite, you can discharge your ship's cargo at the dock. As you can discharge (or unload) a debt.
Oddly though, discharging a weapon is not quite the same as unloading it (although it is in a way).

in french, load a gun would be charger un arme, and unloading it is decharger.

I thought of an Italian word with the "car" -- in YouTube italian lessons, they often say (in italian) you can dowload the lesson from the link below.

The word they use for "download" is scaricare. Caricare is load, scaricare is unload. (In italian, "s-" is a prefix that means 'un." I think the prefix used to be "dis-" but they shortened it to just "s")
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (KRtlO)

ok, now do your penis

Posted by: MAyor Pete at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (NtVYv)

302 do finishing schools still exist?
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (KRtlO)
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Trade schools with carpentry.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (krQz2)

303 The word they use for "download" is scaricare. Caricare is load, scaricare is unload. (In italian, "s-" is a prefix that means 'un." I think the prefix used to be "dis-" but they shortened it to just "s")
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:16 PM (KRtlO)

Scaricare un bowel = take a shit

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

304 The English actors portraying him on film for the last 100 years? Gay.

********

I mean, Basil Rathbone? It's right there in the name.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (991eG)

305 293 People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.
Posted by: Just Lily

********

Ha!
Somebody had to say that! Well done.

i don't get it. is it about the singing fat lady in that drug commercial?

Posted by: anachronda at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (v3pYe)

306 >>>People who confuse etymology with entomology really big me.

i like putting sugar on a piece of paper and making ants spell words for me.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:17 PM (KRtlO)
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That's phase 4.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (krQz2)

307 Trades offer a much better chance to from your own business, as opposed to say a history major graduate.

Posted by: javems at May 16, 2024 02:19 PM (8I4hW)

308 It won't work. It isn't about erudition or articulation or social graces. Anyone who wants to can get that by going to a finishing school.

It's about the status, and that's about the paper and external validation. "He's such a well-spoken and well-informed plumber" is still a plumber.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 01:39 PM (d04cU)

Modern college gals won't date college men either since they don't make 6 figures right now.

Sensible women work differently but it seems that the chance of finding them in college is declining steeply.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:19 PM (eoQWY)

309 i don't get it. is it about the singing fat lady in that drug commercial?
Posted by: anachronda at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (v3pYe)

"I've got Type 2 diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

310 i like putting sugar on a piece of paper and making ants spell words for me.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:17 PM (KRtlO

Antomology

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:19 PM (8ebbP)

311 291 Ettamology: the study of Etta James.

i have degrees in both ettamology and ettamonomy.

Posted by: dr. zoidberg at May 16, 2024 02:20 PM (v3pYe)

312 >>>eradicate

eradicate is almost certainly derived from "rad," meaning root. It must mean "tearing out by the roots." (E = ex.)

yup

late Middle English (in the sense 'pull up by the roots'): from Latin eradicat- 'torn up by the roots', from the verb eradicare, from e- (variant of ex- ) 'out' + radix, radic- 'root'

This is really fun once you know the basics. You just start seeing this everywhere.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:20 PM (KRtlO)

313 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

314 Well, some kind of major. Pre-formed concrete may be profitable, but it ain't high-status.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:12 PM (d04cU)

Around here a high school graduate can walk into a job paying $55k a year to start. Just needs a basic CDC drivers license. The job? Servicing porta potties. Nasty job to be sure but pays very well. They hire a lot of vets and many go on the management positions.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (W/lyH)

315 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

At least it's not math. Then you would be required to lock yourself out of your blog.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

316 Maybe a quick associate's degree program would be a good combo with trade school, to get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 01:36 PM

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Some business training would be a good combo with a trade program. The general objective of most smart people going into trades is to eventually have their own business, as it gets increasingly physically difficult to actually do most trades as one gets older.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (l6L+W)

317
Around here a high school graduate can walk into a job paying $55k a year to start. Just needs a basic CDC drivers license. The job? Servicing porta potties. Nasty job to be sure but pays very well. They hire a lot of vets and many go on the management positions.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (W/lyH)

Best slogan for a portapotty/sewage service I've seen:

We take crap from everybody!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

318 Around here a high school graduate can walk into a job paying $55k a year to start. Just needs a basic CDC drivers license. The job? Servicing porta potties.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (W/lyH)

I'll do it for free!

Posted by: Barry O at May 16, 2024 02:23 PM (8ebbP)

319 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 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

When WW2 started, lots of people died who didn't need to because the military had spent a lot of time beforehand on "none of this is going to matter" stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:23 PM (U7wke)

320 The bear wipes it's ass with the rabbit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

It this why women say they'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a man? Can't quite figure that one out.
Posted by: Grizzle grizzle! at May 16, 2024 02:07 PM (Wc83a)

Winnie the Pooh and Build a Bears are fuzzy and cute. This is the modern gal's idea of what a bear is. I have just as little personal experience with bears as they do, but I have some sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:23 PM (eoQWY)

321 Best slogan for a portapotty/sewage service I've seen:

We take crap from everybody!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
***

Leave the flushing to us!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (W/lyH)

322
I'd like to see how many times Biden said things like "by cracky" and "23 skidoo" in his interview.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (4Aqsh)

323 279 This Asian lady in a bikini finds it interesting to watch Westerners come to terms with the way the world works in her homeland:
http://tiny.cc/a5j4yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 16, 2024 02:13 PM (d04cU)

* cute
* natural bewbs
* no visible tats
* no visible piercings

Approved.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (DTX3h)

324 Winnie the Pooh and Build a Bears are fuzzy and cute. This is the modern gal's idea of what a bear is. I have just as little personal experience with bears as they do, but I have some sense.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:23 PM (eoQWY)

There's that video of the woman that feeds the bull on the beach, then finds out what happens when she stopped feeding it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

325 193
‘ Eyes don't like having bright line shined in them, ’

Hence the aviator sunglasses.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2024 02:25 PM (jbnUc)

326 BREAKING News:

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 02:26 PM (ZdexC)

327 Some business training would be a good combo with a trade program. The general objective of most smart people going into trades is to eventually have their own business, as it gets increasingly physically difficult to actually do most trades as one gets older.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (l6L+W)

But if this school is teaching Black History instead of what is on the name of the course, what education on business will he get there.

He'd be better off saving some money and asking for tutoring from someone actually doing business.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:26 PM (eoQWY)

328 mind of a coward

Keep drumming on the skull marimba and the mind will dissipate.

Posted by: DaveA at May 16, 2024 02:26 PM (PMJuY)

329 There's that video of the woman that feeds the bull on the beach, then finds out what happens when she stopped feeding it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

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The Paolo is, his you say, always hungry and never sated.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (Up5F4)

330 There's that video of the woman that feeds the bull on the beach, then finds out what happens when she stopped feeding it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wild animals are just that -- wild.

They are far, far stronger than us pound-for-pound and can wreck your day in a heartbeat.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (BpYfr)

331 late Middle English (in the sense 'pull up by the roots'): from Latin eradicat- 'torn up by the roots', from the verb eradicare, from e- (variant of ex- ) 'out' + radix, radic- 'root'

This is really fun once you know the basics. You just start seeing this everywhere.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:20 PM (KRtlO)
--
I had a vocabulary class in high school that delved into roots, prefixes and suffixes, as well as sentence-diagramming. I loved it. Everyone else hated it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (xPJvm)

332 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

Make it a feature then!

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (eoQWY)

333 Some business training would be a good combo with a trade program. The general objective of most smart people going into trades is to eventually have their own business, as it gets increasingly physically difficult to actually do most trades as one gets older.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (l6L+W)

I am reminded of the business class scene from "Back To School".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (U7wke)

334 It this why women say they'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a man? Can't quite figure that one out.
Posted by: Grizzle grizzle!

Wanna see a meltdown? When they say they'd rather be in the woods with a bear than a man, tell them, "do you now understand why we don't want men in the restrooms with our daughters?"

The stripping of gears and the slack jawed mouth is epic as they try to process it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 02:28 PM (yL/az)

335 "When China invades Taiwan. None of this is going to matter..."
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2024 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

When WW2 started, lots of people died who didn't need to because the military had spent a lot of time beforehand on "none of this is going to matter" stuff.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 16, 2024 02:23 PM (U7wke)
***

Troops will initially fight the way they have trained. The DEI stuff may go out the window, but not before a lot of blood has been spilled.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:28 PM (W/lyH)

336 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)
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Why? Etymology is a trail of breadcrumbs to how we related concepts contained in modern words.

It is no less than fascinating.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:28 PM (krQz2)

337 --
I had a vocabulary class in high school that delved into roots, prefixes and suffixes, as well as sentence-diagramming. I loved it. Everyone else hated it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (xPJvm)

I always found sentence diagramming fun, for some odd reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

338 Allow me a sylvan verse-a:
A lass took a stroll with her purse-a
Through the forest she walked
hoping not to find cock,
but she didn't mind finding an Ursa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:28 PM (+yhUM)

339 Most community colleges do have trade programs. My husband used to tutor math for the machinist classes at Clark College. But I doubt community college degrees will do the trick.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2024 02:29 PM (yeEu9)

340 i added a little more anal-ysis at the end.

Uhh, where can one find this "anal-ysis", and will it accommodate something dick sized?

Posted by: Barack Obama, Man's Country Lifetime Member at May 16, 2024 02:29 PM (2ocoG)

341 313 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

It takes a brave mind to admit you like wordplay.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:29 PM (vivhj)

342
Best slogan for a portapotty/sewage service I've seen:
We take crap from everybody!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Per Terry Pratchett: "H. King – taking the piss since 1961"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:29 PM (D7oie)

343 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

Anneau you do !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 16, 2024 02:29 PM (NtVYv)

344 so my favorite etymological discovery was realizing that the word "indicate" is related to index -- index finger, the pointing finger, and to indicate is to point at something.

From there you get index as in book index, which of course just points you to the right page. And old tomes used have a drawn hand with a pointing index finger at the start of the index.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:30 PM (KRtlO)

345 211
Judah Bob Hur. Ben's distant descendant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2024 02:01 PM (MoZTd)
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Just the 5th wheel to the chariot.

Posted by: Ciampino - It's not a debate, it's an argument! #05 at May 16, 2024 02:30 PM (qfLjt)

346 And old tomes used have a drawn hand with a pointing index finger at the start of the index.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:30 PM (KRtlO)

Who'd they get to draw the hand?

If we've learned anything from the Morning Art Thread, it's that artists suck at painting hands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

347 there is clearly no executive privilege here. None whatsoever.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 16, 2024 02:31 PM (nLFEI)

348 There's that video of the woman that feeds the bull on the beach, then finds out what happens when she stopped feeding it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wild animals are just that -- wild.

They are far, far stronger than us pound-for-pound and can wreck your day in a heartbeat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (BpYfr)

So are tame animals. We had a cat growing up that was a bit psycho about nail buffing cream. She'd spent a lot of time hanging around with mom while she used the cream and buffed her nails until she had a psychotic break and smacked it. A while later I went to the cat with the buffer in my fist. She smacked it so hard it came right out of my hand and my arm was knocked aside. I stopped bothering her after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:32 PM (eoQWY)

349 there is clearly no executive privilege here. None whatsoever.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 16, 2024 02:31 PM (nLFEI)

BASTA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

350 Hey, you know, maybe the bear doesn't want to eat you.

Maybe he's just been lonely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:32 PM (+yhUM)

351 The study of everything else?

Etceteramology

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:32 PM (991eG)

352 Why does "impregnable" also mean "waterproof" then?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (D7oie)

353 Well 'pregnant' can also 'loaded with' or 'weighted with', as in "His message was pregnant with meaning."

sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace

You know what else can be a burden or cumbersome?
noun
A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
A bundle of sticks tied together.
Burdensome baggage.

Posted by: If I say it, will I be canceled? Okay, it's men riding Vespas at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (JCZqz)

354 I thought privilege was bad these days.

"I claim executive privilege".

"Yeah you do, racist!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (krQz2)

355 Why does "impregnable" also mean "waterproof" then?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (D7oie)

Can't be (easily) filled with water

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (8ebbP)

356 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.

I use etymonline.com every single day. Wish they had one for a few other languages.

Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (pEcHx)

357 You know what else can be a burden or cumbersome?
noun
A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
A bundle of sticks tied together.
Burdensome baggage.

Posted by: If I say it, will I be canceled? Okay, it's men riding Vespas at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (JCZqz)

Faggot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

358 Hey, you know, maybe the bear doesn't want to eat you.

Maybe he's just been lonely.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:32 PM (+yhUM)

He's been in the woods for a while, probably just wants to talk and have a few drinks in a quiet place and is willing to put up with some soft jazz on the sound system and ferns.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (D7oie)

359 Or is it fagot. I don't remember.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

360 The whole bear thing was just female emotionalism.

It was hyperbole captured in a poll.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (krQz2)

361 Word Fact: The root of the word "whoopi" is actually "whoppo", which means retard.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (8ebbP)

362 "impregnable" means you don't make her moist.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (ZdexC)

363 Apparently really stupid women have no idea that their feminine wiles do not work on wild animals.

They evidently believe that animals "know" that they are friends.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (vivhj)

364 There is a big difference between this and Watergate.

The political parties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (FsJLg)

365 Nood

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

366 Can't be (easily) filled with water
Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:33 PM (8ebbP)

Doesn't make sense. Douching is a terribly ineffective form of birth control.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (D7oie)

367 You know what else can be a burden or cumbersome?
noun
A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
A bundle of sticks tied together.
Burdensome baggage.

Posted by: If I say it, will I be canceled?

Oh, a faggot.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (yL/az)

368 359 Or is it fagot. I don't remember.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

One's a thing that makes all kinds of noise when it gets blown by a dude. The other is a woodwind instrument.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (+yhUM)

369 Apparently really stupid women have no idea that their feminine wiles do not work on wild animals.

They evidently believe that animals "know" that they are friends.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (vivhj)
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They believe they are Snow White, or something.

Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (krQz2)

370 Faggot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

In the Cold War the code name for one of the MiG fighters was "Faggot". The names started with F for Fighter. When things got politically correct they tried to pretend there was another code name for it.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (eoQWY)

371 Word Fact: The root of the word "whoopi" is actually "whoppo", which means retard.

Posted by: ... at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (8ebbP)

Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

372 nood

Premature Quick Hits

Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (Y6IkP)

373 Ace said: "Guys work largely for sex. I'm just trying to make a trade school certificate pay off better in the sexual marketplace.

If trade schools were known as "places where girls are in their sex experimenting phase," all spots would be filled in two days"
------------------------------

I think you're right and this is the point that most people miss. Canonically, as in most sexual mating games thought evolution, the male must demonstrate some sort of superiority to get laid. That's the goal as you said, simple.

What's happened since the '70s and went exponential since online dating with Tinder removed the 'hardship' and social stigma of a women seeking sex, is that women are just giving it up wit large to men. Live with your parents and can't string together a sentence? No problem, you're cute enough for tonight and the burden to enter this one-night-stand is nothing. It's frictionless.

It's kinda crazy.

Posted by: TheInverseAgonist at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (sTbTe)

374 Apparently really stupid women have no idea that their feminine wiles do not work on wild animals.

They evidently believe that animals "know" that they are friends.
Posted by: Just Lily

More victims of Disney's evil brainwashing!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

375 Apparently really stupid women have no idea that their feminine wiles do not work on wild animals.

They evidently believe that animals "know" that they are friends.
Posted by: Just Lily at May 16, 2024 02:35 PM (vivhj)
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They believe they are Snow White, or something.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (krQz2)

Snow White was smart enough to find seven experienced dudes when she was lost in the woods.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (eoQWY)

376 The trades will provide you a good and very reliable income.

-

As has likely been noted :

This is the point of opening the borders to the Mexicans.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:37 PM (4curJ)

377 Etymology and punning are merely two sides of the same coin.

Or the left and right hemispheres of a deranged mind.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 02:38 PM (991eG)

378 Speaking of bears...
A bear walks into a bar and orders. "I'll have a rum.....................and coke, please."
Bartender: " Coming right up, but what's with the big pause?"
Bear: "Well, I was born with them."

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 02:38 PM (W/lyH)

379 Apparently really stupid women have no idea that their feminine wiles do not work on wild animals.
-

Someone posted a link of some woman on a beach arguing with a wild bull and trying to get her beach towel from it (or something equally worthless)

Guess what happened.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 16, 2024 02:38 PM (4curJ)

380 The ~~whole bear thing~~ [insert every malady presently visited upon Western Civilization here] was just female emotionalism.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 16, 2024 02:39 PM (caDOG)

381 What's happened since the '70s and went exponential since online dating with Tinder removed the 'hardship' and social stigma of a women seeking sex, is that women are just giving it up wit large to men. Live with your parents and can't string together a sentence? No problem, you're cute enough for tonight and the burden to enter this one-night-stand is nothing. It's frictionless.

It's kinda crazy.
Posted by: TheInverseAgonist at May 16, 2024 02:36 PM (sTbTe)

The real tale is that they have forgotten that men in general never agreed that the burden for one-night-standing is zero. You collect enough bodies and men will just take you and never marry you. All the smart modern women find this inconceivable and will accept endless situationships and ghosting without learning the facts of life.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:40 PM (eoQWY)

382 >>> 324
==
There's that video of the woman that feeds the bull on the beach, then finds out what happens when she stopped feeding it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 16, 2024 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

Wait, she was FEEDING it? I thought it was just interested in her bag for some weird critter reason... I guess FOOD would be a good critter reason

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 16, 2024 02:42 PM (llON8)

383 "The general objective of most smart people going into trades is to eventually have their own business, as it gets increasingly physically difficult to actually do most trades as one gets older." Posted by: Bigsmith

True ... many trades jobs are working for other guys that succeeded. Or for BigContractor ... so always subject to layoffs ... and illegals crowding the field. An economic downturn would sink all boats ... except the super rich, who would buy up ... everything.

Hard sciences are probably still demanding top pay? Or maybe hedge fund traders that scalp their clients, idk.

A golden ticket for average Joe is now a government job with those golden early retirement benefits. Department of transportation is a favorite, with its government unions. Military has become less attractive, except for trannies.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 16, 2024 02:43 PM (Cus5s)

384 >>>Wish they had one for a few other languages.

they do. Go to wiktionary.org. You can search foreign words. The etymologies are brief and not in the conversational tone of etymononline, but they tell you the roots.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:44 PM (KRtlO)

385 Oldcat, Amen!

Posted by: TheInverseAgonist at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (sTbTe)

386 "332 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

Make it a feature then!
Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2024 02:27 PM (eoQWY)"

seconded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2024 02:45 PM (tQtDb)

387 like putting sugar on a piece of paper and making ants spell words for me.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2024 02:17 PM (KRtlO)
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That's phase 4.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2024 02:18 PM (krQz2)

Phase 4 is when the ants make you spell words for them.

Posted by: I welcome our new ant overlords at May 16, 2024 02:51 PM (Wc83a)

388 sorry I will stop, I just really enjoy this.

Like when Gordon Lightfoot sang "The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald "?

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 02:53 PM (T4tVD)

389 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 03:00 PM (RHGPo)

390 Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country. THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW(Unless their Democrat)Biden want to be a Dictator like Clinton(Bill)and Obama

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 16, 2024 04:28 PM (wGqjj)

391 Robert Hur is just another integrity-free DOJ hack.

His Brain Damage-Pardon of Joey Molester was too cute by half.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 16, 2024 10:12 PM (6ORtN)

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