Did You Enjoy the Democrat Media's "Russian Disinformation" Op 2015-2021? Well If You Did, Have I Got Some Great News For You!

The Democrats and the Democrat Media are losing, so they're bringing the Russian Disinformation Op back for the fourth? fifth? election in a row.

Mollie Hemingway:

The media plan to spend the rest of the year framing opposition to Democrats as the result of Russian disinformation, even though it's a lie.

As Joe Biden's presidency fails and his 2024 campaign falters, the media and other Democrats are hitting the big red panic button and bringing back their Russia-collusion hoax for another spin.
Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host who sets Democrat talking points, spent last week claiming Biden's 2024 troubles aren't due to his unpopular policies or lack of mental acuity but rather a secret and nefarious Russian plot to help Donald Trump win the election. Scarborough excitedly claimed Republicans in Congress were working with Russian President Vladimir Putin to help Trump win. Putin endorsed Biden in February, for what it's worth.
Democrats' ability to push their Russia hoax 2.0 is hampered by the previous Russia-collusion hoax they peddled from 2016 through 2019. That lie was exhaustively and painstakingly debunked, but Scarborough has bitterly clung to it and wants to rewrite history.
"One of the maddening things that you will see out there, people talking about the Russian hoax. They keep talking about the Russian hoax," Scarborough said, calling out The Wall Street Journal for its reporting against the Russia-collusion hoax. "Russian disinformation is being spread on the House floor by Republican members. Here we have more reporting of what has never really stopped. That is, Vladimir Putin and Russia are trying to help Donald Trump get elected again! Hoax? There is no hoax!" he shouted.
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The cause of last week's Scarborough hysteria was an anonymously sourced New York Times story describing a single video it claimed had been produced by Russian operatives purporting to be Ukrainians. The video, which may or may not have been watched by any Americans, apparently claimed Ukrainians were being told by the CIA to help Biden win. The anonymous "current and former" CIA officials said this meant Russians were meddling in U.S. elections. The story was exactly like the hundreds of other New York Times stories that ran in the first iteration of the Russia-collusion hoax -- anonymous intelligence sources, lack of substantiation, and outlandish inferences.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., tweeted out a link to the story with the note, "Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. How obvious does it have to be??"
A CIA spokesman told The New York Times the claim made in the video was "patently false" and the "type of disinformation that the intelligence community has long warned about." He added, somewhat hilariously, that "C.I.A. is a foreign-focused organization that takes our obligation to remain uninvolved in American politics and elections very seriously."
Among a wide variety of other domestic-focused activities, CIA employees helped organize the letter signed by former CIA leaders on the eve of the 2020 election falsely claiming that the very real Hunter Biden laptop detailing the corrupt Biden family business was Russian disinformation. That CIA-fueled lie was spread by American media and was highlighted in one of the two presidential debates that cycle. Americans who spoke accurately about the laptop were censored by Big Tech.
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One of the panelists on the Scarborough show last week was Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton's communications director [!!!] ...

"The hardest thing to combat in 2016 was no one believed us. Even after there had been reporting on what Russia was doing in the [Washington] Post, we'd go to the press and say, you know, we think a lot of this is coming from Russia. It was just so fantastic for everyone, that they couldn't really -- you know, they couldn't appreciate that that's what was really happening. Now people do know that," Palmieri said.

They're also creating a pseudo-legal pretext to censor like they've never censored before, of course.

I recently complained that Democrats are constantly pumping out disinformation -- like, specifically, the Michael Brown "Gentle Giant" racial killing hoax -- and when it's proven that they're lying, they do not apologize.

They merely stop repeating the line. For a few months.

Then, once the heat has died down, they begin pushing the lie again.

Remember, this the party that wants to shut down all speech by Republicans they claim is "disinformation."

But their own disinformation? It speaks to a Higher Truth and sparks many Necessary Conversations about race.

I mention this because the left, including the NAACP and congresscriminal Cori Bush, just celebrated Michael Brown's birthday and claimed he was killed by "police violence." Which is a lie -- he was killed by his own violence. He roughed up a much-smaller shopkeeper, and when a cop told him to get his fat ass out of the middle of the road, he started punching the cop through his window and grabbed his gun.

Even Obama's/Eric Holder's DOJ debunked this toxic, racial-strife-making lie.

But it's back, because the left is nothing but disinformation. It's all Marxist mythology, and mythology isn't fact-checkable.

Rep. Cori Bush:

"Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year." pic.twitter.com/dP9YFItWbx
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 20, 2024

Will Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, and Brian Stelter be covering and rebutting this toxic disinformation, or nah?

I'm thinking "nah."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

Comments

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1 first?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:10 PM (d73WM)

2 Wow.
Okay I'll fetch them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:10 PM (d73WM)

3 Will Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, and Brian Stelter be covering and rebutting this toxic disinformation, or nah?

I'm thinking "nah."

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A federal congressman lying and stoking racial strife is local news and not worthy of attention.

Just wait until they find some state senator in Mississippi who says that men are men, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

4
Golly, those Rooskies can get into our IT infrastructure and diddle it like a dollar-a-pop pole dancer, can't they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:11 PM (xG4kz)

5 Russian Disinformation was a buzzword hoax the day it started to be hyped.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:12 PM (d73WM)

6 5 Russian Disinformation was a buzzword hoax the day it started to be hyped.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:12 PM (d73WM)

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"Gosh darn...they tricked us!"
-Congressional GOP, with security clearances

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

7
'Twas jonesin' for Swisher Sweets wut killed Michael!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (xG4kz)

8 Golly, those Rooskies can get into our IT infrastructure and diddle it like a dollar-a-pop pole dancer, can't they?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Sub Feds for Roolkies and I'll agree completely.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (d73WM)

9 OOH! OOH!! I've seen this one before!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (wtvvX)

10 Rootin' for Putin.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (rJ48h)

11 Mmmmm, Russian disinformation tastes like Vodka on a cold winter's night.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (ftFVW)

12 "even though it's a lie"

SOP

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 01:13 PM (AwYPR)

13 Sigh...Off, willowed Commitments sock.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (T+Iwg)

14 The Rooskies jist aren't that good.
Trust me...they are not.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (bvWAj)

15 Russia, Russia, Russia!

Posted by: Jan Brady at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (lTGtQ)

16 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., tweeted out a link to the story with the note, "Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. Trump/Russia. I am a lying idiot. How obvious does it have to be??"

I may have altered that slightly, to make it more accurate.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (1bNHn)

17
Cori Bush is the spokestwat for Poor Mental Health Days

"Live It! Give It!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

18 The Dems keep trying the same old lies, but cons have a shelf life, and I think they're going to find that this one passed it's sell-by date long ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (CsUN+)

19 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.

I know (most) police don't enjoy having to kill someone, but c'mon, they don't take that many days off for mental health, do they?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (ynpvh)

20 "Gosh darn...they tricked us!"
-Congressional GOP, with security clearances
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In their defense they were a bit slow to note they were being lied to by their Fed sources... and by slow I mean completely worthless policing the agencies they fund.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (d73WM)

21 You call it "toxic disinformation".

I call it "Democrat Kaboom".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (wtvvX)

22 This is an empire in steep decline. Which probably means war is next.

Posted by: Max Power at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (Hucnr)

23 These aging lefties never got over the cold war. Funny thing is, they were on the other side back then.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (lTGtQ)

24 Was traveling to St. Louis a lot for work around poor, sweet Michael's death. Was wonderful getting the travel alerts like I was heading to some third world country.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:16 PM (ftFVW)

25 If people were still buying the lie, CNN wouldn't be able to count its viewers with an abacus.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 01:16 PM (CsUN+)

26 20 In their defense they were a bit slow to note they were being lied to by their Fed sources... and by slow I mean completely worthless policing the agencies they fund.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (d73WM)

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"We're supposed to police them? Are you insane? Do you have any idea what's in their folders about us? Most of it isn't even true! I swear!"
-Congressional GOP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

27 20 "Gosh darn...they tricked us!"
-Congressional GOP, with security clearances
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In their defense they were a bit slow to note they were being lied to by their Fed sources... and by slow I mean completely worthless policing the agencies they fund.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:15 PM (d73WM)

Oh! Okay, I know I have a Dem cock in my mouth again. Well, let me tell ya, it's not my fault. I said no with my eyes but accidentally said yes with my lips...for the 1,000th time.

Posted by: eGOP, man! at May 24, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

28 Cori Bush is the spokestwat for Poor Mental Health Days

"Live It! Give It!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

Look up "stunned c*nt" in Urban Dictionary, and you will find her picture.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 01:17 PM (lFzYm)

29 Look, fat! The Russians made the Haitians shit my pants. NO JOKE!

Posted by: Joe "One for the Money, Two for...you know" Biden at May 24, 2024 01:17 PM (nsDX9)

30 Vlad, if you want to pay me to say nice things about DJT, you know where to find me.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:17 PM (MvF+J)

31 Of course they are instructed not to say that the Russian collusion in 2016 stole the election from Hillary. That would be awkward.

It’s just Russian collusion eleventy !!!! like it should stand on its own. Like when they use racist or homophobic /transphobic .

Posted by: polynikes at May 24, 2024 01:17 PM (SHMXB)

32 Starbucks Moscow is gonna be busy.

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (v0R5T)

33 24 Was traveling to St. Louis a lot for work around poor, sweet Michael's death. Was wonderful getting the travel alerts like I was heading to some third world country.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:16 PM (ftFVW)

With so many from 3rd world countries in there now, maybe it's an accurate description.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

34
I know (most) police don't enjoy having to kill someone, but c'mon, they don't take that many days off for mental health, do they?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Poor mental health days are one of the new Metrics of Oppression (MOOs) that race hustlers are trying to bring into vogue to back their demands for more race-based grift.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (xG4kz)

35 Do you have any idea what's in their folders about us?
-Congressional GOP
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Heh, yeah, unfortunately I believe the folders have not be filled with lies.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (d73WM)

36 35 Do you have any idea what's in their folders about us?
-Congressional GOP
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Heh, yeah, unfortunately I believe the folders have not be filled with lies.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (d73WM)

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"They are! I promise! I'm a family man!"
-Congressional GOP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

37 If people were still buying the lie, CNN wouldn't be able to count its viewers with an abacus.

And the Republican candidate wouldn't attract 25,000 people in the South Bronx.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (CsUN+)

38 How old would Ashley Babbitt be today?

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (PSM3P)

39 If Trump is elected, Putin will invade Ukraine!
- Joe Scarborough

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (VXRhG)

40 37 If people were still buying the lie, CNN wouldn't be able to count its viewers with an abacus.

And the Republican candidate wouldn't attract 25,000 people in the South Bronx.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (CsUN+)

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Just imagine how much better it would be with a quality candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

41 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.

I know (most) police don't enjoy having to kill someone, but c'mon, they don't take that many days off for mental health, do they?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Call me old fashioned, but there really isn't such a thing as a poor mental health day, is there? People staying home because they aren't up to the day? And they expect to be paid for it?

I would tell them to buck up and get your rear into work.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:19 PM (lTGtQ)

42 Just imagine how much better it would be with a quality candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

*snort*

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:20 PM (ftFVW)

43 Poor mental health days are one of the new Metrics of Oppression (MOOs) that race hustlers are trying to bring into vogue to back their demands for more race-based grift.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (xG4kz)

When you are batshit crazy and functionally illiterate, every day is a "poor mental health day".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 01:20 PM (lFzYm)

44 The only people the "Russians" were colluding with was the Hillary campaign.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (AwYPR)

45 Psychopaths have mental health days everyday of their lives . And by psychopaths I mean the Left. There are no additional days possible.

Posted by: polynikes at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (SHMXB)

46 Was traveling to St. Louis a lot for work around poor, sweet Michael's death. Was wonderful getting the travel alerts like I was heading to some third world country.

Posted by: She Hobbit

St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (lTGtQ)

47 34
I know (most) police don't enjoy having to kill someone, but c'mon, they don't take that many days off for mental health, do they?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Poor mental health days are one of the new Metrics of Oppression (MOOs) that race hustlers are trying to bring into vogue to back their demands for more race-based grift.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:18 PM (xG4kz)

I was (trying) to make a joke, reversing the black folks and the police on mental health days...seemed to go over flat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)

48 59 meeeeeeeelion mental health days.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (JT6KB)

49 I sigh at the thought of all the gangsta rap and baby mamas the world has been denied because of Michael Brown's untimely demise.

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (o5fwy)

50 When you are batshit crazy and functionally illiterate, every day is a "poor mental health day".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When they're not taking days off I gotta take escape from their bullshit days.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (ftFVW)

51 An internet query tells me there are no streets named after Michael Brown.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (rJ48h)

52 This 50 million health days shit will just become accepted. Like 77 cents on the dollar bullshit. Or how on Super Bowl Sunday every woman is beaten up by her boyfriend.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (JT6KB)

53 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)

I got it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (SHMXB)

54 I wish to congratulate George Floyd and Michael Brown for their extended period of sobriety and non-violence, and to Ted Kennedy for staying on the wagon for a record breaking nearly 15 years. Well done, gentlemen!

Posted by: Hero Worshipper at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (V5BDR)

55 Jorge Floydeo will drown in the Rio Grande thanks to Repubs not passing the Border Bill.

Posted by: El Chucko Schmucko at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (lZVy/)

56 I recently complained that Democrats are constantly pumping out disinformation -- like, specifically, the Michael Brown "Gentle Giant" racial killing hoax -- and when it's proven that they're lying, they do not apologize.

They merely stop repeating the line. For a few months.

Then, once the heat has died down, they begin pushing the lie again.

It won't be long until Decrepit Joe dusts-off the lie that four police officers were murdered in the Capitol on Jan. 6th.

Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (5fDan)

57 51 An internet query tells me there are no streets named after Michael Brown.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (rJ48h)

San Fran has plenty of streets that are brown...does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (ynpvh)

58 56 It won't be long until Decrepit Joe dusts-off the lie that four police officers were murdered in the Capitol on Jan. 6th.
Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (5fDan)

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"That Biden acknowledges their sacrifice is the reason I must vote for Biden."
-Bill Maher

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

59 It's not about anyone believing the bullshit. It's about intimidation.

The words coming out are "the Trump campaign works for Putin."

No voters outside the NPCs believe that but they aren't the audience.

The audience are the people who hear the actual message: "if you put your cash or influence behind the Trump campaign, or G-d forbid you directly work for it, then you better have a stable of top-flight attorneys on speed dial, because we are going to frame you for espionage. And hey - we'll arrest those attorneys, too. Just leave it alone, or else."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (0FoWg)

60 Ah yes. Anyone who doesn't want to get embroiled in a pointless forever war halfway around the world on behalf of people who are not and have never been our allies against a nuclear power....

Has to be a Russian stooge.

Of course. It's perfectly obvious.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (JMAcK)

61 Putin has already publicly endorsed Biden.

Which makes perfect sense - if you are an enemy of the United States, do you want Biden as President or Trump as President?

Not hard to figure out.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (uxCna)

62 Russians hacked the value menu.

Also, Russians hacked your payroll firm.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (hCzfy)

63 And stale, debunked propaganda that is now nearly a decade old will appeal to which new voters?

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (qUkBO)

64 Why isn't Cori kicked out of Congress.. Didn't she illegally pay her husband money for "protection "?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (Akjoo)

65 I mention this because the left, including the NAACP and congresscriminal Cori Bush, just celebrated Michael Brown's birthday and claimed he was killed by "police violence."

Democrats must absolutely loathe those "readers added context" boxes that Musk added to Twitter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (IUd0M)

66 An internet query tells me there are no streets named after Michael Brown.
Posted by: mr tmz

New Orleans remains a Chocolate City, however.

Posted by: Mayor Nagin at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (lZVy/)

67 Okay, nobody panic, but I just got back from the ER.

I'm fine, Lil Pooky is fine (and still giving the ultrasound techs a hard time), and I need a nap (and maybe a good cry) now.

Posted by: pookysgirl, emotionally exhausted at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (dtlDP)

68 So we're supposed to forget Hillary's "reset button" event and Obama saying he'd have more leeway after the election, right?

Trump said putin?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (w67Ex)

69 54 I wish to congratulate George Floyd and Michael Brown for their extended period of sobriety and non-violence, and to Ted Kennedy for staying on the wagon for a record breaking nearly 15 years. Well done, gentlemen!

Posted by: Hero Worshipper at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (V5BDR)

It's been 20,033 days since Teddy drowned anyone. Keep it up, Teddy!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (ynpvh)

70 52 This 50 million health days shit will just become accepted. Like 77 cents on the dollar bullshit. Or how on Super Bowl Sunday every woman is beaten up by her boyfriend.
Posted by: Montec
____

Using the wrong pronouns is LITERALLY genociding trans people.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (VXRhG)

71 Right Cuz Vlad really wants Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (Akjoo)

72
This entire thread has the massive ear marks of Russian disinformation.

Posted by: 51 Proven Liars at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (RKVpM)

73 55 Jorge Floydeo will drown in the Rio Grande thanks to Repubs not passing the Border Bill.

Posted by: El Chucko Schmucko at May 24, 2024 01:23 PM (lZVy/)

They should call it the Boarder Bill instead of Border Bill...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

74 This 50 million health days shit will just become accepted. Like 77 cents on the dollar bullshit. Or how on Super Bowl Sunday every woman is beaten up by her boyfriend.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 01:22 PM (JT6KB)

I mean, there are roughly 50 million blacks in America.

It's not unusual that every single one of them would lay out of work for at least one day using it as an excuse.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 24, 2024 01:26 PM (PSM3P)

75 I betcha every public grade school textbook published in the last five years contains Cori Bush-style encomiums to Brown and laments over the thousands of blacks murdered every year by LE.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:26 PM (MvF+J)

76 Why isn't Cori kicked out of Congress.. Didn't she illegally pay her husband money for "protection "?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM

It's (D)ifferent when they do it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 01:26 PM (3txM7)

77 Putin has already publicly endorsed Biden.

Which makes perfect sense - if you are an enemy of the United States, do you want Biden as President or Trump as President?

Not hard to figure out.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

We L-O-V-E Biden!

Posted by: Gazprom at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM (lZVy/)

78 howdy Ace, Horde

Russians! Besides good music, good literature, and fighting the Nazis, what have they ever done for us?

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM (JcnCJ)

79 64 Why isn't Cori kicked out of Congress.. Didn't she illegally pay her husband money for "protection "?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (Akjoo)

Probably no number of condoms that can protect her husband from her...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM (ynpvh)

80 Russians hacked the value menu.

Also, Russians hacked your payroll firm.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor

Russians hacked you company's email system.
Please send me your passwords to have the accounts recovered.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM (8F31h)

81 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.
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Fine. If you want to do that type of thing we can.

Now do their presence - culturally - in workplaces in general.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:28 PM (w67Ex)

82 67 Okay, nobody panic, but I just got back from the ER.

I'm fine, Lil Pooky is fine (and still giving the ultrasound techs a hard time), and I need a nap (and maybe a good cry) now.

Posted by: pookysgirl, emotionally exhausted at May 24, 2024 01:25 PM (dtlDP)

Rest up. P'sG. Prayers

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:28 PM (ynpvh)

83 Why isn't Cori kicked out of Congress.. Didn't she illegally pay her husband money for "protection "?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM (Akjoo)

You keep using that word.....

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 01:29 PM (AwYPR)

84
Democrats must absolutely loathe those "readers added context" boxes that Musk added to Twitter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM

Democrats before reading 'readers added context' - raging boner.
Democrats after reading 'readers added context' - micro penis.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:29 PM (RKVpM)

85 77 Putin has already publicly endorsed Biden.

Which makes perfect sense - if you are an enemy of the United States, do you want Biden as President or Trump as President?

Not hard to figure out.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

We L-O-V-E Biden!

Posted by: Gazprom at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM (lZVy/)

Hillary was great!

Posted by: ROSATOM at May 24, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

86 Democrats must absolutely loathe those "readers added context" boxes that Musk added to Twitter.

-

these same people are no-joke insisting that "doing your own research" (what normal people used to call reading) is dangerous.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (w67Ex)

87 Do you have any idea what's in their folders about us?
-Congressional GOP
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What ever they want it to say.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (bvWAj)

88 That's 136,986 mental health years in the SI system.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (JSF6W)

89 St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (lTGtQ)

Fuck you! What did we do to be compared with St, Louis? -- the collective third world

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (IUd0M)

90 8 days until Phag Phest '24!

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (o5fwy)

91 The debunking of the russia collusion hoax is just a hoax by russians to deflect from the hoax that the russians pulled off a hoax that the russians interfered in the election.
All news is just hoaxes perpetrated by russian AI. Except this. This is honest truth.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (seACy)

92 84
Democrats must absolutely loathe those "readers added context" boxes that Musk added to Twitter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 01:24 PM

Democrats before reading 'readers added context' - raging boner.
Democrats after reading 'readers added context' - micro penis.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:29 PM (RKVpM)

How my company got it's name...

Posted by: Bill Gates at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (ynpvh)

93 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

94 Which makes perfect sense - if you are an enemy of the United States, do you want Biden as President or Trump as President?

Which implies that both Putin and Xi will try to keep things relatively calm this summer and fall, in order to help Biden. Not delivering the coup-de-grace to Ukraine this summer, for example.

The terrifying thing is what happens if Putin and Xi decide that Trump is likely to win in any case, meaning that they have a six-month window of opportunity before Trump takes over.

China is currently conducting massive military exercises all around Taiwan - if Xi thinks Trump is going to win, why not attack Taiwan next month?

May make for a fun summer.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (uxCna)

95 I would think the Russian government wouldn't want Trump as President, and I would think most people with some common sense would figure that out, out but then again we are talking about leftists .Unlike Biden, Trump doesn't have dementia, doesn't seem to be a poster boy for corruption, he didn't sell- and isn't selling America down the stream as fast as possible, and he actually seems to love America.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (XkYcA)

96 Michael Brown is now in Gangsta's Paradise collecting his 72 virgins.

Posted by: King Coolio's Koran at May 24, 2024 01:31 PM (hCzfy)

97 ...he started punching the cop through his window and grabbed his gun....

What killed him after that was bum rushing the cop with the direct result a 40 S&W rattling around inside his brain bucket.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 01:32 PM (hH1S0)

98 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.

Sheesh! If you're such a wimp you need a mental health day, wait until you discover what starving will do to your mental health.
Now shut your piehole and get back to work.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:32 PM (bvWAj)

99 Has to be a Russian stooge.

Shempka ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 01:32 PM (T4tVD)

100 Econo-lodge dwelling meth whore wins $3 million jackpot. I am sure she will use it to turn her life around.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 01:32 PM (seACy)

101 Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

I don't understand the point of your post. Is it connected to anything that preceded it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (XkYcA)

102 When the legend becomes fact print the legend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (63Dwl)

103 I'm actually kind of shocked that the Democrat-Communists haven't yet tried to hang the rushed, inadequately tested, unnecessary, ineffective, and unsafe COVID vaccine around Trump's neck. The fact that THEY pushed it HARD shouldn't impact their willingness to do a disingenuous 180 since they exist in a jaded marinade of hypocrisy and cynicism.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (qUkBO)

104 95 I would think the Russian government wouldn't want Trump as President, and I would think most people with some common sense would figure that out, out but then again we are talking about leftists .Unlike Biden, Trump doesn't have dementia, doesn't seem to be a poster boy for corruption, he didn't sell- and isn't selling America down the stream as fast as possible, and he actually seems to love America.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2024 01:30 PM (XkYcA)

Automatic disqualifer.

Posted by: The DNC at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (ynpvh)

105 St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.

-

Are there any large or large-ish cities that aren't that way?

Southern cities are a given, but I assume somehow even cities outside of the South are the same. And for the same reasons.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (w67Ex)

106 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.
Posted by: Disgusted
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But that one was from 8th grade.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (hH1S0)

107 100 Econo-lodge dwelling meth whore wins $3 million jackpot. I am sure she will use it to turn her life around.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 01:32 PM (seACy)

I expect an OD in 3...2...1...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

108
Russians! Besides good music, good literature, and fighting the Nazis, what have they ever done for us?

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 24, 2024 01:27 PM

I've read that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in writing was major in favor of Ukraine and Russia reuniting and Putin was a big fan of the author.

Me? A country in the bottom of world GDP has to protect Chernobyl for the next 10,000 years? I wanna read what Solzhenitsyn has to say.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (RKVpM)

109 The Propaganda Ministry reaches the target market they aim for. Idiots, thugs, and democrat voters.

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (o2ZRX)

110 CNN's nauseating display of fealty to the Brown Narrative LIE. 43 secs: youtube.com/watch?v=ha1ljAbOPnY

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (MvF+J)

111 103 I'm actually kind of shocked that the Democrat-Communists haven't yet tried to hang the rushed, inadequately tested, unnecessary, ineffective, and unsafe COVID vaccine around Trump's neck. The fact that THEY pushed it HARD shouldn't impact their willingness to do a disingenuous 180 since they exist in a jaded marinade of hypocrisy and cynicism.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (qUkBO)

I saw Jaded Marinade front for...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

112 102 When the legend becomes fact print the legend.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (63Dwl)

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Which was actually the final nail in the coffin of the memory of the man who actually saved the town in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Ransom Stoddard was the villain of that movie. Wayne should have shot both Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

113 In the Southern cities, you get poverty and violence. In Northern cities, you get poverty and violence with a heaping helping of political fanaticism.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (0FoWg)

114 My late post to previous thread now slightly on topic -

I understand the sentiment. The city people vote for the abuse and the destruction of what was once great.

But a Great America would have sparkling clean cities free from crime, homeless, migrant tent cities and drug addicts. For some reason, the left thinks this is racist.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (VXRhG)

115 I would think the Russian government wouldn't want Trump as President

Removing Biden's restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling would seriously damage the Russian economy - far more than the BS "sanctions" imposed to date, which do more damage to Western economies than to the Russian economy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (uxCna)

116 Also covid came from a wet market and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (19xED)

117 I just looked

St Louis - 300K people

Birmingham - 200K people

Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (w67Ex)

118 Democrats before reading 'readers added context' - raging boner.
Democrats after reading 'readers added context' - micro penis.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

To be fair, the boners may have been raging, but were still quite small.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (ftFVW)

119 19 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.

--

Let's look at the silver lining here.

Posted by: "Martin" syndicators at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (wzAuc)

120 102 When the legend becomes fact print the legend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2024 01:33 PM (63Dwl)

Even our best fictionalized politicians are men with shallow chests.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (KbCG3)

121 117 I just looked

St Louis - 300K people

Birmingham - 200K people

Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (w67Ex)

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The fault of Republican governors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

122 116 Also covid came from a wet market and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (19xED)

When he's not raping his way through department stores.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (KbCG3)

123 116 Also covid came from a wet market and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (19xED)

You expected COVID to come from a dry market?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (ynpvh)

124 This whole topic shows why I was displeased with Megan Kelly's "schooling" Bill Effing Maher. He went away with the continued conviction that he knows the truth, while believing and spouting all these lies.

Michael Rapaport is a much higher life form.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (1bNHn)

125 Shit, The US government does not want Trump as President.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (Z8Yh2)

126 I've read that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in writing was major in favor of Ukraine and Russia reuniting and Putin was a big fan of the author.

Yeah, Solzhenitsyn was abandoned by Western literati when it became clear that he was a Russian nationalist and a devout Orthodox Christian.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (uxCna)

127 122 116 Also covid came from a wet market and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (19xED)

When he's not raping his way through department stores.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (KbCG3)

Well, he has to grab dem p*ssies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (ynpvh)

128 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.
Posted by: Disgusted
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Pan Am smile?

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (2bFN5)

129 Me? A country in the bottom of world GDP has to protect Chernobyl for the next 10,000 years? I wanna read what Solzhenitsyn has to say.
_____

On the other hand, we see an opportunity to really f* with things. It's our primary skill set, actually.
-CIA

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 01:38 PM (VXRhG)

130 The fault of Republican governors.

-

This guy gets it!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:38 PM (w67Ex)

131 Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Asheville was a shithole of dopers sleeping on the streets 25 years ago when I was in the area.

Posted by: ballistic at May 24, 2024 01:38 PM (oqH4h)

132 Me? A country in the bottom of world GDP has to protect Chernobyl for the next 10,000 years? I wanna read what Solzhenitsyn has to say.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (RKVpM)

Probably be easier if the collective west weren't determined to start/expand a war in the area.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 01:38 PM (IUd0M)

133 Asheville was a shithole of dopers sleeping on the streets 25 years ago when I was in the area.
Posted by: ballistic

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Oh man, you should see it now that the locusts have fully taken over.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:39 PM (w67Ex)

134 Cities in Africa I've visited:

Dar Es Salaam (with a group)

Windhök, Luanda, Johannesburg (those with my brother)

I never felt in danger in any of them, and Windhök was probably as clean as it was when it was part of the German Empire.

Unlike Dallas, El Paso, Washington, and Baltimore.

Do I have to reiterate that I'm white?

Posted by: logprof at May 24, 2024 01:39 PM (o5fwy)

135 110 didn't blow the margin. My lucky day!

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:39 PM (MvF+J)

136 128 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.
Posted by: Disgusted
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Pan Am smile?

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (2bFN5)

https://youtu.be/ErhlLDOyEXo

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:39 PM (ynpvh)

137 They're already publishing articles and prepping the battle space for "Chinese and Russian AI stole the election for Drumpf!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 01:39 PM (iPrw4)

138 "Do I have to reiterate that I'm white?"

How DARE you!

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (Z8Yh2)

139 117 I just looked

St Louis - 300K people

Birmingham - 200K people

Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (w67Ex)

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The fault of Republican governors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
*********
Not Asheville NC sez Gubner Cooper.

Posted by: Ragland (Rags) T. Tiger at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (LolQL)

140 Ya gotta figure that, over the years, Donald Trump ran through the radical Leftist society whores of NYC like the Jerome Bettis of wealthy clam smashers. I bet the number is in the hundreds.

Can you imagine the anger and shame those whores must feel, now?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (0FoWg)

141 Why do they even call it "news", since it's always the same old lies.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (1bNHn)

142 This Kos article listing Trump outrageous seems apropos (this is a small excerpt...the list of imagined grievances is significant:

Why is the Guy Who Told Us to Drink Bleach a Step Away from Being President?

-Is credibly accused of sexual assault by more than twenty women (one 14 years old) and found by a jury, twice, to have raped one of them

-Conspired with militia leaders to storm the US Capitol, leading to the death of 5 civilians and 3 police officers

-Gave to Russia at least one spy we know of in an Oval Office meeting

-Called our fallen soldiers buried at Normandy and Arlington “suckers” and “losers” and ridiculed John McCain and every other American POW

-Praised Nazis who marched chanting “Jews will not replace us!” as “very fine people,

-Promises he’ll be a dictator from his first day in office and will bring about a “Unified Reich,”

-Collaborated with Putin to get elected and, when the FBI tried to investigate it, engaged in at least 10 documented felony obstructions of justice

-Tried to get his own vice president assassinated

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

143 141 Why do they even call it "news", since it's always the same old lies.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (1bNHn)

that's how propaganda works?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (ynpvh)

144 Gary Saul Morson has a great retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Gulag Archipelago:

https://tinyurl.com/fn4xj54y

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (uxCna)

145 Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

Wow, that was some projection, wasn't it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:42 PM (ynpvh)

146 142 -Praised Nazis who marched chanting “Jews will not replace us!” as “very fine people,

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

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I'm kind of surprised that they're still including this because of the whole, "We're okay with anti-Semites now," becoming common on the left. Anything to win Michigan, you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

147 Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

All of it a lie

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:42 PM (Akjoo)

148 St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Complete with "safari rules"

Number one being, "Don't get out of your vehicle."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 24, 2024 01:42 PM (iRX3h)

149
I would venture that a high percentage of AoS peeps have read at least one Solzhenitsyn work.

I made it through two. Not exactly the most heart-warming stuff. But reading his work as a young man a good dose of reality slapping me in the face.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (RKVpM)

150 "I wanna read what Solzhenitsyn has to say." We're gonna need an American version of him if we don't get our act together.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (JcnCJ)

151 I have a large number of Ferguson brothers working for me at the White House and they tell me Mike was a good dude. I believe most of what I hear, so Corky Bush is probably right.

Posted by: Joe 75-Cent Biden at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (tThd/)

152 I'm sure Jake Tapper will consider disassociating himself from the Michel Brown lie in a DM if you approach him nicely.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (njExo)

153 Police kiIIing black people is responsible for 50,000,000 additional days of Poor Mental Health Days per year.

***gets out calculator***

Let's see ***carries the 1...*** - over 100,000 people having a "Mental Health Day" EACH DAY, EVERY DAY of the year?!?!?!?

Sounds to me like a lot of people just didn't want to show up at work.

At least use believable numbers.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (SRRAx)

154 Cities in Africa I've visited:

Dar Es Salaam (with a group)

Windhök, Luanda, Johannesburg (those with my brother)

I never felt in danger in any of them, and Windhök was probably as clean as it was when it was part of the German Empire.

Unlike Dallas, El Paso, Washington, and Baltimore.

Do I have to reiterate that I'm white?

--

There are people on youtube that will film "Ten Hours of Walking Through __________ as a Black Man" and have actors touch their hair or act surprised to see an Authentic Black Person and talk to them or say things to them at different points in the filming.

There are no videos of white people walking through Baltimore, Detroit, Birmingham, etc.

There ARE videos of people driving through those places for ten or fifteen minutes. videos where it's routine to see fights, drug use, or adult men taking over intersections with dirt bikes:

https://tinyurl.com/26lopchf

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (w67Ex)

155 149
I would venture that a high percentage of AoS peeps have read at least one Solzhenitsyn work.

I made it through two. Not exactly the most heart-warming stuff. But reading his work as a young man a good dose of reality slapping me in the face.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:43 PM (RKVpM)

"Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch"
parts of "Gulag Archipelago". So yes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

156 If the Dems are bringing back "Russian meddling", then I am bringing back my question:
"What are the Russians doing that is not being done by, say, Mexico or Germany or Taiwan or China or the NYT or WaPo or Poland or Brazil or Zuckerberg or Iran or Kenya or Bezos or Cuba or.....?"

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (TOe+Q)

157 St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (lTGtQ)

...

Wait. You mean it's not idyllic countryside roamed by clydesdales?

I may have to adjust my reality goggles.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (z/ifB)

158 149 I read all of "Cancer Ward." Watched a TGA movie.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (MvF+J)

159 Yeah, it amazes me that Asheville keeps popping up in these endless listicles (prettiest towns in North Carolina, nicest mountain towns, best places to visit, etc., etc.).

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (njExo)

160 -Called our fallen soldiers buried at Normandy and Arlington “suckers” and “losers” and ridiculed John McCain and every other American POW

--

I was a tad irritated at Trump until they got to this part.

TRUMP 2024

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (w67Ex)

161 157 St. Louis IS a third world country. It is like a human zoo for regular people to see what a third world country is like without having to get a passport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 01:21 PM (lTGtQ)

...

Wait. You mean it's not idyllic countryside roamed by clydesdales?

I may have to adjust my reality goggles.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (z/ifB)

Don't drink the Bud Lite; it'll mess you up in that way.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

162 I stand with neo-Nazi Ukraine!

Posted by: Leftard Jews at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (o5fwy)

163 159 Yeah, it amazes me that Asheville keeps popping up in these endless listicles (prettiest towns in North Carolina, nicest mountain towns, best places to visit, etc., etc.).

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (njExo)

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It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

164 They merely stop repeating the line. For a few months.

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They usually don't even do that: see the Charlottesville libel hoax.

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (iPrw4)

165 And the MSNBC is still on Trump's rally, "Trump bombs in Bronx-in area he'll never win." He may not win, but their talking so much about a rally that bombed indicates he probably didn't do that.

Of course the media is still on the football kickers speech too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (XkYcA)

166 "a lot of people just didn't want to show up at work."

I'd call in to the boss, and induce myself to sneeze at the moment he picked up the phone. "Got the sniffles."

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (MvF+J)

167 160 -Called our fallen soldiers buried at Normandy and Arlington “suckers” and “losers” and ridiculed John McCain and every other American POW

--

I was a tad irritated at Trump until they got to this part.

TRUMP 2024
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (w67Ex)

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I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

168 163 159 Yeah, it amazes me that Asheville keeps popping up in these endless listicles (prettiest towns in North Carolina, nicest mountain towns, best places to visit, etc., etc.).

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (njExo)

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It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

I read that as Baltimore...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

169 116 Also covid came from a wet market and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:35 PM (19xED)

You expected COVID to come from a dry market?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (ynpvh)

A damp one, at the very least.

Posted by: Perhaps even moist at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (k3d8O)

170 146 142 -Praised Nazis who marched chanting “Jews will not replace us!” as “very fine people,

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

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I'm kind of surprised that they're still including this because of the whole, "We're okay with anti-Semites now," becoming common on the left. Anything to win Michigan, you know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

Right it sounds like Trump is praising pro-Palestine protestors there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (eYoxG)

171 168 It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

I read that as Baltimore...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

========

I'm bad a geography, but not THAT bad.

Baltimore is near Seattle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

172 There are people on youtube that will film "Ten Hours of Walking Through __________ as a Black Man" and have actors touch their hair or act surprised to see an Authentic Black Person and talk to them or say things to them at different points in the filming.

There are no videos of white people walking through Baltimore, Detroit, Birmingham, etc.

....

There is that one guy who used to do pranks in inner city areas. He gets shot at in at least one of them.

I remember thinking that guy was for sure going to die on camera.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (z/ifB)

173 Yeah, it amazes me that Asheville keeps popping up in these endless listicles (prettiest towns in North Carolina, nicest mountain towns, best places to visit, etc., etc.).

Posted by: Paco

--

They are a tourist town. Pretty much all they produce is "look at this stuff," be it leaves or mountain views or people in wheelchairs that act like dancing monkeys when the city tour buses drive by (that's a real thing).

I assume they pay to be on those lists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (w67Ex)

174 They have to say Russia is meddling because they've backed themselves into a corner where they can't not say it.

Oh, Putin cared in 2016 and 2020 but suddenly doesn't in 2024?

These people are stupid, but I'll give them credit, they're committed to it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (KbCG3)

175 166 "a lot of people just didn't want to show up at work."

I'd call in to the boss, and induce myself to sneeze at the moment he picked up the phone. "Got the sniffles."

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (MvF+J)

I wonder if Kumala used the "sore throat" excuse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (ynpvh)

176 What are the Russians doing that is not being done by, say, Mexico or Germany or Taiwan or China or the NYT or WaPo or Poland or Brazil or Zuckerberg or Iran or Kenya or Bezos or Cuba or.....?"

-----

Like I said upthread - it's not about the logic of the argument. There is no logic to it.

This is about naked intimidation of any prominent Trump supporters. It's a signal to them that they will be hauled up on serious federal felony charges if they have thoughts about getting uppity in the next few months

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (0FoWg)

177 165 And the MSNBC is still on Trump's rally, "Trump bombs in Bronx-in area he'll never win." He may not win, but their talking so much about a rally that bombed indicates he probably didn't do that.

Of course the media is still on the football kickers speech too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
_____

No one said propaganda was easy, sister!

Posted by: So called News Media at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (VXRhG)

178 >>>"Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch"
parts of "Gulag Archipelago". So yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:44 PM (ynpvh)
*******
I have the “Gulag Archipelago “ on my bookshelf. I look at the girth of that book and yeah..no. I have a hard enough time following a AoS thread.

Posted by: Ragland (Rags) T. Tiger at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (LolQL)

179 One of my greatest disappointments over the past 7-8 years or so is just how dumb the propaganda is.
Also, the complete lack of creativity...

It's sort of like they never expected to need more than one or two lines of BS for people vote the way they want.

Posted by: Inogame at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (53oGX)

180 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.
Posted by: Disgusted
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Pan Am smile?

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 01:37 PM (2bFN5)

https://youtu.be/ErhlLDOyEXo
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Ha. For every person that has worked retail.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (2bFN5)

181 I just looked

St Louis - 300K people

Birmingham - 200K people

Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

When I grew up there, St. Louis had 680,000 in the city alone. It is a crying shame to see how far that city has fallen.

That used to be a Leave It To Beaver quality city growing up. I could go anywhere and do anything at 10 without a helicopter parent.

I, personally, wouldn't hesitate to string up or execute every fucking dem that destroyed my hometown. What they have done is criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (8F31h)

182 171 168 It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

I read that as Baltimore...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (ynpvh)

========

I'm bad a geography, but not THAT bad.

Baltimore is near Seattle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

Which is next to where the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (ynpvh)

183 That was easy:

"The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority (TDA) has budgeted more than $100 million to market Asheville just since 2017."

https://tinyurl.com/28kvpdcb

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:49 PM (w67Ex)

184 There is that one guy who used to do pranks in inner city areas. He gets shot at in at least one of them.

I remember thinking that guy was for sure going to die on camera.
Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (z/ifB)

More of those jerkoffs need to be shot for the good of mankind.

Posted by: It's just a prank bro! at May 24, 2024 01:49 PM (k3d8O)

185 I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

He's not tech-savvy is not a good play for the Dems to run given their current candidate.

Joe: I let Hunter handle the tech stuff for me. He's the best!

Posted by: TexasDan at May 24, 2024 01:49 PM (z/ifB)

186 If you look at my graduation pictures I'm smiling. Go figure.
Posted by: Disgusted
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But that one was from 8th grade.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 01:34 PM (hH1S0)
***

Dang. You smart people!
My high school only went to the 6th grade and no one could afford a camera.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:50 PM (bvWAj)

187 One of my greatest disappointments over the past 7-8 years or so is just how dumb the propaganda is.
Also, the complete lack of creativity...
Posted by: Inogame
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Mentioned this before. Back in HS I laughed and incorrectly thought none would fall for such news/propaganda nonsense. I was naive.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (2bFN5)

188 177 165 And the MSNBC is still on Trump's rally, "Trump bombs in Bronx-in area he'll never win." He may not win, but their talking so much about a rally that bombed indicates he probably didn't do that.

Of course the media is still on the football kickers speech too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Bombs ? I don't think so... It was the "Bomb" ? for sure... Evidently it has scared them ...
_____

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (Akjoo)

189
I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

Something about the fact he couldn't use a computer keyboard because of injury they thought worthy of mention. NEWS!

Joe Biden doesn't know what a computer or keyboard is. NOT NEWS!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (RKVpM)

190 179 One of my greatest disappointments over the past 7-8 years or so is just how dumb the propaganda is.
Also, the complete lack of creativity...

It's sort of like they never expected to need more than one or two lines of BS for people vote the way they want.
_____

And that's.....the way it is.
-Walter Cronkite

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (VXRhG)

191 181 I just looked

St Louis - 300K people

Birmingham - 200K people

Asheville - 100K people

And all of them 3rd world cities now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

When I grew up there, St. Louis had 680,000 in the city alone. It is a crying shame to see how far that city has fallen.

That used to be a Leave It To Beaver quality city growing up. I could go anywhere and do anything at 10 without a helicopter parent.

I, personally, wouldn't hesitate to string up or execute every fucking dem that destroyed my hometown. What they have done is criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM (8F31h)

My grandparents spent their golden years in a nice suburb of St. Louis; when my brother took me to visit a few years ago, he told me it was only safe to visit during the daytime...
Rotten apple, rest of barrel. The rot seems to always grow under Dems.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (ynpvh)

192 I've read the first and third volumes of The Gulag Archipelago (the second volume was just so relentlessly full of depravity and despair I couldn't get through it). The third volume offered the occasional measure of hope and relief, featuring, as I recollect, one or more successful escapes.

Robert Conquest's Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps is good, though horrifying, history.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:53 PM (njExo)

193 189
I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

Something about the fact he couldn't use a computer keyboard because of injury they thought worthy of mention. NEWS!

Joe Biden doesn't know what a computer or keyboard is. NOT NEWS!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (RKVpM)

Only means he's in-touch with all those black voters; I mean, they don't even know what a computer is either!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:53 PM (ynpvh)

194 Joe Biden doesn't know what a computer or keyboard is. NOT NEWS!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (RKVpM)

According to democrats, neither do black Americans.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:53 PM (bvWAj)

195 This is real

Walking through Baltimore hoods and alleys at night

youtube.com/watch?v=XRuutSQZrh0

What's weird is to realize how good video game design has become when you watch it. Skip to 4 minutes and watch as you shuffle down the sidewalk and the cripple guy at the intersection turns slowly to look at you.

This is real, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:54 PM (w67Ex)

196 I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
-----,
He had to betray his constituents for them to have strange new respect for him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 01:54 PM (mUnoX)

197 It's not a lie if we believe it, and/or supports our agenda.

We wish you mouth-breathing inbred Deplorables could finally get this through your pointy, misshapen heads.

Posted by: Democrats and the MSM at May 24, 2024 01:55 PM (a3Q+t)

198 196 He had to betray his constituents for them to have strange new respect for him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 01:54 PM (mUnoX)

========

Only after he lost the strange old respect by becoming the Republican nominee for president.

The strange new respect was more of a return to form.

He was a Maverick, after all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

199
It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?

The Biltmore Garage wants a grand, but we ain't got a grand on hand.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 01:55 PM (xG4kz)

200 173 I assume they pay to be on those lists. - Moron Robbie

I hadn't thought of that, but I wouldn't be in the least surprised.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 01:55 PM (njExo)

201 "I, personally, wouldn't hesitate to string up or execute every fucking dem that destroyed my hometown."

I'd settle for stringing up the violent criminals who destroy our towns. The murderers, carjackers, rapists, home invaders, armed robbers. I don't care who they vote for.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (MvF+J)

202 The Dems ruined Denver. It's not as bad as East STL yet, but it will be soon. I'd say it was America's nicest large city 20 years ago. I couldn't have been happier to leave two years ago. Stopped the truck at the city limits to toss those homos one last double-bird.

I don't care though. I don't live there anymore. I'm not a nostalgic person. It's their toilet now. They can choke on the turds. Not my problem, anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (0FoWg)

203 I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
-----,
He had to betray his constituents for them to have strange new respect for him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

No, just no. He should have been jailed for his participation with the Keating 5.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (d73WM)

204 174 They have to say Russia is meddling because they've backed themselves into a corner where they can't not say it.

Meanwhile, in the country of Georgia, they are attempting to pass a law that would require NGOs to disclose the sources of their funding

A Georgian representative says he received a call from an EU official threatening that if Georgia passes the measure that the representative should "remember what happened to Fico (the Slovakian PM who recently survived an assassination attempt), you should be careful."

But we do want any of that foreign meddling going on here in the morally superior, democratic west.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (PSM3P)

205 Do "Mental Health Days" off of work -- subtract from vacation days, or is it just an excuse to get more paid vacation time?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (Cus5s)

206 203 No, just no. He should have been jailed for his participation with the Keating 5.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (d73WM)

========

"That got him in the club more than his daddy being an admiral."
-The Establishment

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

207 I hope PDT has his private security people show up in Cossack uniforms.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (V5eKu)

208 Dang. You smart people!
My high school only went to the 6th grade and no one could afford a camera.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 01:50 PM (bvWAj)

You had a high school? Luxury. Our parents just beat us and called it school. Then beat us more because we couldn't read or write. Then beat us some more for "making" them beat us in the first place. Then beat us again because they couldn't understand why we couldn't read or write.

Posted by: Oh but we 'ad it tough those days at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (k3d8O)

209 203 I remember when the left ridiculed John McCain. They did it for months. On television. Even made fun of the fact that he couldn't raise his arm over his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
-----,
He had to betray his constituents for them to have strange new respect for him.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

No, just no. He should have been jailed for his participation with the Keating 5.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:56 PM (d73WM)

Only one to wriggle out of that noose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

210 John McCain did one good thing 50+ years ago that was the bare minimum of what every male was expected to do and his actions were only unusual because he was a child of status and influence, and how dare you say mean things about your betters.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:57 PM (w67Ex)

211 Do "Mental Health Days" off of work -- subtract from vacation days, or is it just an excuse to get more paid vacation time?
Posted by: illiniwek

I used to call in 'Sick' and then add "of work" when I need a day off, every 'sick' day counted against my vacation days back then.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:58 PM (d73WM)

212 Remember "election interference" is a threat to Democracy.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 01:58 PM (19xED)

213 The Big weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 01:58 PM (CTREE)

214
Despite McCain's infirmities he was still able to give the 'thumbs down' sign. A bit of a "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk" moment.

I should be better and have respect for the deceased. I'll try.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (RKVpM)

215 John McCain did one good thing 50+ years ago that was the bare minimum of what every male was expected to do and his actions were only unusual because he was a child of status and influence
Posted by: Moron Robbie

His *best* thing was getting shot down and he should have called it a day after he was released.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (d73WM)

216 214
Despite McCain's infirmities he was still able to give the 'thumbs down' sign. A bit of a "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk" moment.

I should be better and have respect for the deceased. I'll try.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (RKVpM)

=======

Eh. He was a piece of shit who hated us and worked to make our lives worse, whatever his motive.

I'm not suddenly gonna be nice about him because he died a few years ago, no matter the status of his funeral.

Anyway, Hitler really liked that dog, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

217 So what exactly do you say yo the boss when you come back in after a mental health day? "OK boss. I'm back. I'm over being mentally ill."

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (bvWAj)

218 18-29 year old voter registration by this point in the cycle in Pennsylvania:

2020 D+16
2022 D+4
2024 R+8

https://tinyurl.com/ybrrr49j

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (CsUN+)

219 218 18-29 year old voter registration by this point in the cycle in Pennsylvania:

2020 D+16
2022 D+4
2024 R+8

https://tinyurl.com/ybrrr49j
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (CsUN+)

=======

Just imagine how much better it would be with a quality candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

220 I wonder if you can tell I didn't have a whole lotta love for McCain... Even during his funeral years.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 02:01 PM (d73WM)

221 One of my greatest disappointments over the past 7-8 years or so is just how dumb the propaganda is.
Also, the complete lack of creativity...

It's sort of like they never expected to need more than one or two lines of BS for people vote the way they want.

Posted by: Inogame at May 24, 2024 01:48 PM

Somehow I got on a DNC mailing list, and they only have 6 or 7 foundational begging emails they send. Details vary slightly, such as "who" is "sending" it, the lowest amount they're requesting, etc.

I wonder if these really work, or are just cover for megadonors 'farming' their donations out amongst K's of "microdonors".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 02:01 PM (a3Q+t)

222 John McCain did one good thing 50+ years ago that was the bare minimum of what every male was expected to do

Shoot down five of his own planes?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 02:01 PM (8F31h)

223 I saw one of the funnier signs I've seen at a STL gas station:

"No shirt, no shoes, no pants, no service."

Also, I would bet that MO has the highest concentration of porn stores of anywhere on earth. It's weird.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 02:01 PM (0FoWg)

224 So what exactly do you say yo the boss when you come back in after a mental health day? "OK boss. I'm back. I'm over being mentally ill."
Posted by: Diogenes

Okay Boss, I'm back and I'm sure glad tomorrow is Saturday.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (d73WM)

225 So what exactly do you say yo the boss when you come back in after a mental health day? "OK boss. I'm back. I'm over being mentally ill."
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (bvWAj)

Hey boss, yesterday I wanted to murder you and everyone in this building. I'm better now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (2UnvF)

226 Despite McCain's infirmities he was still able to give the 'thumbs down' sign. A bit of a "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk" moment.

I should be better and have respect for the deceased. I'll try.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (RKVpM)

Why? How does death convert a dishonorable backstabbing shitweasel into a noble figure worthy of respect?

Posted by: Fuck McCain and everyone like him at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (k3d8O)

227
Our parents just beat us and called it school. Then beat us more because we couldn't read or write. Then beat us some more for "making" them beat us in the first place. Then beat us again because they couldn't understand why we couldn't read or write.

If you never heard the words, "I'll give you something to cry about" in your life you're probably on anti-depressants.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (RKVpM)

228 163 It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?! - TheJamesMadison

Ah, yes, the Biltmore. Tickets starting at $80 for the privilege of walking through Vanderbilt's extravagant tribute to personal excess. No, thanks.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 02:03 PM (njExo)

229 The Big weekend is coming The weekend is coming
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 01:58 PM

Merely a gateway into Pride Month.

(You haven't forgotten, have you?)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)

230 Lt Cmdr John McCain, Naval Aviation's answer to Lt JG John Kennedy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 02:03 PM (V5eKu)

231 >>>>His *best* thing was getting shot down and he should have called it a day after he was released.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (d73WM)
********
He should have called it a day after the Forrestal disaster. Preferably at the behest of the UCMJ.

Posted by: Ragland (Rags) T. Tiger at May 24, 2024 02:03 PM (LolQL)

232 228 163 It's right next to the Biltmore! Does that mean nothing to you?! - TheJamesMadison

Ah, yes, the Biltmore. Tickets starting at $80 for the privilege of walking through Vanderbilt's extravagant tribute to personal excess. No, thanks.
Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 02:03 PM (njExo)

=======

Well, it's less deeply offensive than Versailles, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

233 Lady busted for 8th DUI, 0.30 BAC. She catches eleven charges.

Only one month later, she was free, and she killed a guy in a crash, 0.28 BAC.

youtube.com/watch?v=K3PnaUE45TQ

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (MvF+J)

234 213 The Big weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 01:58 PM (CTREE)

We are now ending the longest period between Official National Holidays every year - President's Day (mid-February) to Memorial Day (late May). Over three months. People are ready for a three-day weekend.

Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (5fDan)

235 I saw one of the funnier signs I've seen at a STL gas station:

"No shirt, no shoes, no pants, no service."
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So, the pantsless people have to pump their own gas?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (mUnoX)

236
Merely a gateway into Pride Month

You mean Monkeypox Pride Month?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (xG4kz)

237 So what exactly do you say yo the boss when you come back in after a mental health day? "OK boss. I'm back. I'm over being mentally ill."
Posted by: Diogenes
---------
Hi Boss. Read Clockwork Orange. Feeling different about the world now.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM (2bFN5)

238 John McCain did one good thing 50+ years ago that was the bare minimum of what every male was expected to do

Shoot down five of his own planes?
Posted by: rickb223

If that was true his nickname would be "Ace" McCaine.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 02:05 PM (hH1S0)

239 Left leaning posters on X (there are lots) are posting aerial videos of the rally showing sparse attendance, mere hundreds of people. The problem is that the photo was taken 7 hours before the rally began. This is verified by the meta data in the video.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 24, 2024 02:05 PM (MeG8a)

240 So, the pantsless people have to pump their own gas?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM

One would think being 86'ed from the Book Thread would be punishment enough.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 02:05 PM (a3Q+t)

241
Lady busted for 8th DUI, 0.30 BAC. She catches eleven charges.

Only one month later, she was free, and she killed a guy in a crash, 0.28 BAC.

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 02:04 PM

She's obviously cutting back. Why are you people so judgemental?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at May 24, 2024 02:05 PM (RKVpM)

242 John McCain was a walking example of everything bad about the American political system. The glioblastoma was too good for him. In a just world, he'd have been raped to death by dogs.

There.

Now you don't have to feel bad about anything you say about that old worm buffet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (0FoWg)

243 Joe Biden doesn't know what a computer or keyboard is. NOT NEWS!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:51 PM (RKVpM)

Joe Biden is black? -- Kathy Hochul

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (IUd0M)

244 210 John McCain did one good thing 50+ years ago

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 01:57 PM (w67Ex)

No, it was just under 6 years ago. It only *felt* like the funeral went on for 50+ years.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (DTX3h)

245 225 So what exactly do you say yo the boss when you come back in after a mental health day? "OK boss. I'm back. I'm over being mentally ill."
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (bvWAj)

Hey boss, yesterday I wanted to murder you and everyone in this building. I'm better now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (2UnvF)

Having a plan in place always makes me feel better too.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (eYoxG)

246 If only workers could take mental health days because the boss is batshit crazy.

Posted by: Then again, productivity would cease at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (k3d8O)

247 His *best* thing was getting shot down and he should have called it a day after he was released.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (d73WM)

A member of my family spent a lot of years in the Hanoi Hilton. He will never, ever say anything against a fellow POW. But there is such a thing a faint praise.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (bvWAj)

248 Of course, being pantsless is helpful if you're Gas Station Guy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (a3Q+t)

249
A member of my family spent a lot of years in the Hanoi Hilton. He will never, ever say anything against a fellow POW. But there is such a thing a faint praise.
Posted by: Diogenes

Sorry to hear about your family member... his not saying anything when McCain was brought up speaks to his honor (not McCain' lack of honor).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 02:08 PM (d73WM)

250 I guess pride month is in June because the schools are out, and that makes it easier to find victims by themselves.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM (lTGtQ)

251 John McCain was a shitty aviator and a complete asshole later in life. Fuck him with a flaming cactus.

Posted by: ballistic at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM (oqH4h)

252 Of course, being pantsless is helpful if you're Gas Station Guy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 02:06 PM (a3Q+t)
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That guy was the very definition of "slack-jawed troglodyte."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM (mUnoX)

253 Yeah?

We should carpet-bomb Hanoi for not finishing the job on McCain. He did more damage to this country than Vo Nguyen Giap or Ho Chi Minh ever did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM (0FoWg)

254 We are now ending the longest period between Official National Holidays every year - President's Day (mid-February) to Memorial Day (late May). Over three months. People are ready for a three-day weekend.

Posted by: Gref

Spring. Lots of rain, tornadoes, the return of mosquitos and chiggers, and lack of holidays.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (lTGtQ)

255 NOOD BIDEN LIES!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (d73WM)

256 251 Hate descriptions of McCain as a "fighter pilot". Guy was an A4 driver and wasn't very good as a bomber. Should have been stuck driving the STUF or station U11.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (V5eKu)

257 "slack-jawed troglodyte."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM

Huma!! Write this phrase down!!!

* hic *

Posted by: Hillary! 2024! 2028! at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (a3Q+t)

258 232 - Well, it's less deeply offensive than Versailles, at least. - TheJamesMadison

I much prefer James Deering's estate near Miami, the Vizcaya Palace. Personal excess, to be sure, but, in my opinion, nowhere near the vibes of cartoon capitalist that Vanderbilt gave off.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (njExo)

259 nood

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (MvF+J)

260 219 218 18-29 year old voter registration by this point in the cycle in Pennsylvania:

2020 D+16
2022 D+4
2024 R+8
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 02:00 PM (CsUN+)
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Just imagine how much better it would be with a quality candidate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Considering the quality of most other Republican presidential candidates, you're probably not going to do better than Trump.

Posted by: Jeb!, Haley, Romney, Zombie McCain, John Kasic, Chris Christie, etc at May 24, 2024 02:11 PM (JCZqz)

261 233 Lady busted for 8th DUI, 0.30 BAC. She catches eleven charges.

Only one month later, she was free, and she killed a guy in a crash, 0.28 BA
_____

She was seriously dedicated to her habit. At least she'll be cured. Ironically, when she gets out, the cars will all be either self-flying Teslas or be almost non-existent like in North Korea with 10 lane avenues empty except for the occassional limosine carrying Bill Gates with a girl scout troop of adrenochrome donors.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 02:12 PM (VXRhG)

262
John McCain was a shitty aviator and a complete asshole later in life. Fuck him with a flaming cactus.

Posted by: ballistic at May 24, 2024 02:09 PM

A couple of days before the election he was bragging about being on a carrier, loaded with bombs, with a destination in Cuba.

Bragging about almost starting WWIII in the Cuban Missile Crisis has to be the most insane end to a campaign ever.

I did not vote for the man. I stayed home.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 02:13 PM (RKVpM)

263 John McCain was the only cause John McCain was ever interested in. Not sure how he managed to get people in Arizona to keep rallying around such a preposterous banner.

Posted by: Paco at May 24, 2024 02:14 PM (njExo)

264 Mollie Hemingway, every bit the true American hero Ace is.

Posted by: uniparty Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at May 24, 2024 02:14 PM (gxokI)

265 226 Despite McCain's infirmities he was still able to give the 'thumbs down' sign. A bit of a "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk" moment.

I should be better and have respect for the deceased. I'll try.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 01:59 PM (RKVpM)

Why? How does death convert a dishonorable backstabbing shitweasel into a noble figure worthy of respect?

Posted by: Fuck McCain and everyone like him at May 24, 2024 02:02 PM (k3d8O)

composting?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

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