NYT: Biden Is Trying to Get TikTokers and "Influencers" on His Side But They Don't Trust Him and Think He's Cringe

More humiliation of a senior with dementia.

And the new Mrs. President Wilson is allowing this.

On a Friday afternoon in late April, President Biden brought celebrities and elite social media influencers together for a White House reception. Fran Drescher and David Cross mingled with Ilona Maher, a rugby star, and V from @underthedesknews, at a mixer meant to generate warm feelings and badly needed pro-Biden content.
Jonathan M. Katz, an independent journalist and sharp critic of the administration, was shocked to get an invitation. When he met Mr. Biden, he pointedly asked about military aid to Israel and suggested he was supporting a "genocide." Mr. Biden answered politely, but then appeared to grow impatient. "I know you're a typical press guy," he said. "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone." Aides then ushered Mr. Katz away.
The episode, which Mr. Katz recorded on video and shared with his roughly 100,000 followers, was one in a series of Mr. Biden's awkward attempts to manufacture online enthusiasm for his candidacy.
For months, the president's campaign has watched as its rival, Donald J. Trump, has surfed on his popularity among the very online. Mr. Trump's supporters produce an endless stream of memes, videos and adoring posts -- all essentially free advertising -- that reach an increasingly crucial slice of voters.
Mr. Biden and his allies are working furiously to build a comparable online army, trying to persuade, or in some cases pay, people to sing Mr. Biden's praises to their large followings. They are finding that social media feeds are difficult territory for an 81-year-old president whose policies on Gaza and immigration are unpopular on the left.
"It's clear we have to use influencers or creators as a way to reach the future of the progressive movement," said Brian Rolling, co-founder of MurMur Impact, a group that has worked with liberal causes on mobilizing Gen Z voters. "But we talk to a lot of young people and they're just not on board with Biden."

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Priorities USA, a super PAC supporting Mr. Biden's campaign, has pledged to spend at least $1 million on influencers, some of whom will be paid to share talking points online.

This is a special usage of the word "some." They mean "all" but want to preserve the illusion that a couple of people are repeating their talking points because they actually believe them.

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $150,000 in March to hire an influencer marketing agency. And in late April, the Biden campaign -- which said it does not pay influencers for content -- paid almost $2 million to retain Village Marketing, an influencer agency, to help run its social media outreach program.

They're lying. They pay these companies knowing that the companies always pay "influencers" to advertise whatever product is being sold. Biden is paying a front group to pay off influencers, and even he knows that.

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Polling suggests Mr. Biden is struggling with [younger] voters. In a recent NBC poll, Mr. Biden held a commanding advantage among voters who regularly consume traditional news. But Mr. Trump led decisively those among those who said they rely primarily on social media for information, an advantage that stretched to more than 25 points among those who follow no political news at all.
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That project, however, has been difficult for Mr. Biden.
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The enthusiasm gap is measurable, particularly on TikTok.
Since February, when the Biden campaign officially joined the platform, it has posted more than 200 times and garnered just over 375,000 followers. Mr. Trump joined TikTok less than two weeks ago but has already accumulated 6.2 million followers.
"They're inviting a few people to the White House, they're doing dinners," said Grace Murray Vazquez, vice president for strategy at the social media marketing agency Fohr, which said it did work with the Biden campaign in 2020 but has not been contacted to do so this year. "It's a drop in the bucket."

Meanwhile, Trump is doing interviews with influencer-turned-WWF-"Wrestler" Logan Paul.

Below: Granpa Felonyfingers tells a TikTok influencer "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone," then adds "I've got a good arm, man, I can throw a long way."

He's literally always lying, bragging, and boasting. It never stops. There is no off-switch on his absurd delusions of hyperpotency. He's like a Kim Il-Jong.

Joe Biden gets mad at TikTok star during White House influencer party, threatens to throw his phone before aides intervene pic.twitter.com/n8xrWvqztX
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 14, 2024

He's always threatening to beat people up, "take 'im behind the woodshed," and challenging people to push-up contests. Now he's claiming he's got a MLB gun on him.

Meanwhile, he can't even stand for ten minutes without trying to sit down on an invisible chair.

He's a bully now and always has been. He's just an absurd, delusional bully. That doesn't mean the intent to bully isn't there.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 14, 2024 06:31 PM (8RNuU)

2 They are a horrible family. I feel sorry for him that they are using him but I also know he's evil.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:32 PM (bS+DD)

3 Oh, there's some enthusiam.
Depends, Ensure,

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 06:33 PM (ynpvh)

4 Throw a smartphone at them, Joe!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:33 PM (ZdexC)

5 Bad Grandpa !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 14, 2024 06:33 PM (NtVYv)

6 What's wrong with his chin?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 06:34 PM (Akjoo)

7 2 They are a horrible family. I feel sorry for him that they are using him but I also know he's evil.
Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:32 PM (bS+DD)

He's too evil to feel sorry for

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (Akjoo)

8 Who the hell picked that tie for him?
Brutal.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (W/lyH)

9 6 What's wrong with his chin?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 06:34 PM (Akjoo)

That's the LEAST of what's wrong.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (ynpvh)

10 Mr. Biden answered politely, but then appeared to grow impatient. "I know you're a typical press guy," he said. "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone."

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Hey! I agree with FJB about something

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (Ka3bZ)

11 Good, he is a untrustworthy bastard who is only out to do what's good for himself

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)

12 Ofc he has a good arm, he beat out Staubach for the Qb job at Navy

Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (FQmDC)

13 4 Throw a smartphone at them, Joe!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:33 PM (ZdexC)

Well, better option than shooting a shotgun through the door.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh)

14 Granpa Felonyfingers tells a TikTok influencer "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone," then adds "I've got a good arm, man, I can throw a long way."
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So, that means he trusts him a lot?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (hYDNe)

15 I noticed that he did a creepy pause thing again where he tried to remember what he was going to say.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (RLLZj)

16 I can't even feel sorry for that buffoon. He was evil from day one, and now he's demented and evil. I can't imagine why "young people" don't come running to support him.

Oh wait, yes I can.

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (9Eyyt)

17 He's tired of Jill he wants another German Shepherd.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (Iynsv)

18 15 I noticed that he did a creepy pause thing again where he tried to remember what he was going to say.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (RLLZj)

Maybe he was just listening to the earpiece.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh)

19 Kind Moral Decent Joe has brought norms back to the White House.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:37 PM (lX8VI)

20 And I'm sorry I missed the gainzzz thread because I have a non-health related gainzzz to report. Actually, it is mental health-related.

You know those annoying ads on YouTube with sweaty overweight women in tight exercise clothes proclaiming that they don't just sweat under their arms, they sweat "everywhere?" And they pull out their waistband and aim the deodorant down? I finally figured out how to make them go away!

While the ad is running, pause it, then go to the three dots in the upper right corner. Click, and you can block that ad and it won't play again. It works. You'll have to do it several times because they have several versions of ads, but it really works. I feel like a new person. Mental health restored.

Because I love you all, I had to pass this on.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:37 PM (bS+DD)

21 I'M NOT LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE, BUSTER!

I DON'T CARE IF WE HAVE TO BRING IN THE ARMY TO KEEP US IN POWER!

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden! at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (uxCna)

22 8 Who the hell picked that tie for him?
Brutal.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (W/lyH)

That would be Dr. Jill's impeccable taste at work, I suspect. Who else wants to get close enough to him to tie that?

Posted by: tcn in AK, hail to the thief at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (9Eyyt)

23 Logan Paul is wrasslin now?

Egad. I don't hate the Paul brothers, but I sure do hope Tyson knocks the snot out of Jake.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (dGCAG)

24 So, that means he trusts him a lot?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (hYDNe)

LOL the fact that you can follow that thread is a little worrying but nice one

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (lX8VI)

25 Because I love you all, I had to pass this on.
Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:37 PM (bS+DD)
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I've tried that with Biden ads. It doesn't seem to work.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (hYDNe)

26 Mr. Biden answered politely, but then appeared to grow impatient. "I know you're a typical press guy," he said. "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone."
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Ahhh...here we see the whole point of this vignette.
It lets 'ol Joe tell the press they ain't on his side, while of course, everyone knows that they are.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (W/lyH)

27 Thank you bluebell!

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (RLLZj)

28 When does gramps start flinging poo? Hopefully, he'll fling it during the debate.

Posted by: Beartooth at June 14, 2024 06:39 PM (ivVQZ)

29
LOL the fact that you can follow that thread is a little worrying but nice one
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (lX8VI)
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It's in the nic.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:39 PM (hYDNe)

30 This may be my perception but I have been noticing more and more often that biden is not wearing a tie in the videos I see of him. As I said it may just be my perception but to me that indicates a serious loss of motor skills. Tying a tie is a basic function and once your brain starts losing it, those skills are among some of the first that you lose.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:39 PM (QNSds)

31 I've tried that with Biden ads. It doesn't seem to work.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (hYDNe)
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Keep trying it. Do it every time you see one. It will only work for that particular ad you are watching at the moment, but you have to catch them all.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (bS+DD)

32 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 16h
JUST IN - NASA administrator says 'at least a trillion' other planets like Earth could exist in universe, Fox News reports

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 14h
Logan Paul asked Trump about aliens -- "Am I a believer? No, I probably can’t say I am,” Trump said. “But I have met with people that are serious, people that say there are some really strange things that they see flying around out there.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (ZdexC)

33 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 16h
NEW: Donald Trump says the existence of aliens is believable, says he has talked to pilots like "Tom Cruise but taller" who told him about UFOs they saw.

"I've met with pilots like beautiful Tom Cruise, but taller. Handsome, perfect people."

"There was something that was round in form and going four times faster than my super jet fighter plane."

"You have no idea how many times I'm asked that question."

"I've never been convinced... But a lot of people believe that it's true. A lot of very good, solid people believe it's true."

"You have the deep state and you do have a deep state and certainly they could [be withholding information], but I don't think on this subject."

"I was interested in it 'cause I've been asked so many times and I, I talk to people that have said that they've, you know, it was a sighting and it's very believable. It's very possible that there is something."

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (ZdexC)

34 Things were better in the White House when I could watch my dog Commander bite Secret Service agents over and over again, and laugh and laugh.

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (uxCna)

35 Threaten the people you're trying to wine n dine.
That's a sure way to influence Influencers Joe!

Keep it up and I'm sure you'll get all the way to 200,000 followers!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (pUmP9)

36 I noticed that he did a creepy pause thing again where he tried to remember what he was going to say.
Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:36 PM (RLLZj)

Yup, he's been making canned answers for decades now, and always has a "I have a good arm" comments ready, for when someone points a camera or mike in his direction.

But he doesn't have "dog faced pony soldier" available all the time, and it takes longer to find the right cliche these days.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 06:41 PM (dGCAG)

37 This may be my perception but I have been noticing more and more often that biden is not wearing a tie in the videos I see of him. As I said it may just be my perception but to me that indicates a serious loss of motor skills. Tying a tie is a basic function and once your brain starts losing it, those skills are among some of the first that you lose.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:39 PM (QNSds)
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Pssst, Joe. Clip ons.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:41 PM (hYDNe)

38 Again, there is tape going back to his very first run for office of him being a doofus jerkwad to a voter asking him a question he didn't want to answer.

I still can't believe this vicious, pedophile, lunatic was the one The Junta chose to install.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:41 PM (XV/Pl)

39 6 months and Bribe'em will be shuffled off into the dust bin of history. Unfortunately the damage he has done will around for a long time.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 14, 2024 06:41 PM (7iAr4)

40 They are a horrible family. I feel sorry for him that they are using him but I also know he's evil.
Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:32 PM (bS+DD)

He's too evil to feel sorry for
Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 06:35 PM (Akjoo)
***

And he's not getting any of my Cougar Gold cheese!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 06:42 PM (W/lyH)

41 Falling asleep

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 06:42 PM (fwDg9)

42 Keep trying it. Do it every time you see one. It will only work for that particular ad you are watching at the moment, but you have to catch them all.
Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (bS+DD)
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Like a really awful form of Pokemon, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:42 PM (hYDNe)

43 He's a bully AND a COWARD.

He knows goddamn well that the Secret Service would never, EVER allow one of these fights he's so fond of challenging people to, to ever take place.

It's the coward's bluff.

'Oh you wanna step outside?'

YEAH I DO,

Smugly : 'Oh well, sorry, the Secret Service can't allow that, but just know that if we DID step outside I'd beat you up'.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 14, 2024 06:42 PM (setIA)

44 One of the newspeak labels that makes me want to hurl is "influencer". What the hell is an "influencer"? Goebbels was an "influencer".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2024 06:43 PM (mH6SG)

45 Yup, he's been making canned answers for decades now, and always has a "I have a good arm" comments ready, for when someone points a camera or mike in his direction.
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I read that as, "points a camera or a nuke."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:43 PM (hYDNe)

46 I saw Demented & Evil open for Seals & Croft at the Whiskey in '87.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:43 PM (+myjY)

47 He's as tough an old coor as he is evil, I'll give him that

I didn't figure he'd last this long.
.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:43 PM (RLLZj)

48 I finally figured out how to make them go away!
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Don't feed them??

Shiv them in a changeroom and blame a tranny 'guy'??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:43 PM (ZdexC)

49 Maybe if Creepy Pervy would play the sax on a late night show the kids will think he is cool.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM (cOq4q)

50 JUST IN - NASA administrator says 'at least a trillion' other planets like Earth could exist in universe, Fox News reports
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Another word I'm getting sick of.

"Could"

I see it, I tune out. This British nature show just told me the earth "could" warm by 3 degrees in the next 30 years which "could" kill all the coral in the world.

Science also says Karen Gillan "could" show up at my door tonight in that police uniform with the leggings.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM (lX8VI)

51 Like a really awful form of Pokemon, then.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:42 PM (hYDNe)
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Exactly.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM (bS+DD)

52 *coot. Tough old coot.

Geeze

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM (RLLZj)

53 Trying to change it up tonight and have some Whiskey Sours.

Pretty much a disaster.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:45 PM (XV/Pl)

54 Love the way his Step N'Fetchit military aide swoops in with a menacing grin to ward off the evil Influencer.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 14, 2024 06:45 PM (wBaIH)

55 Afternoon.
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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 16h
JUST IN - NASA administrator says 'at least a trillion' other planets like Earth could exist in universe, Fox News reports

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 14h
Logan Paul asked Trump about aliens -- "Am I a believer? No, I probably can’t say I am,” Trump said. “But I have met with people that are serious, people that say there are some really strange things that they see flying around out there.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:40 PM (ZdexC)

I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.

Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2024 06:45 PM (WqCUh)

56 Like Tom Cruise but taller LOL

Posted by: steevy at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (FQmDC)

57 38 Again, there is tape going back to his very first run for office of him being a doofus jerkwad to a voter asking him a question he didn't want to answer.
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I don't work for you!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (ZdexC)

58
"I've got a good arm, man, I can throw a long way."

He almost got signed by the Yankees.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (63Dwl)

59 I don't work for you!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (ZdexC)

GIVE EM HELL, JOE!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:47 PM (+myjY)

60
He's always threatening to beat people up, "take 'im behind the woodshed," and challenging people to push-up contests.

And right there is why he NEVER will agree to stand down from running. He's a dim, but bull-headed braggart.

Jilly shudders at the prospect of returning to her community college to grade papers from stoojents above her in reading and writing skills, so she's a firm, NO, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (xG4kz)

61 38 Again, there is tape going back to his very first run for office of him being a doofus jerkwad to a voter asking him a question he didn't want to answer.
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I don't work for you!!!

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This not a lie. Unless your name is Xi

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (RLLZj)

62 I still can't believe this vicious, pedophile, lunatic was the one The Junta chose to install.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:41 PM (XV/Pl)

Obama didn't "pick" him because he was some nobody. It's no coincidence that his family is at the epicenter of foreign corruption.

Joe was the sign from the Deep State to our enemies that the US was open for business. Twice.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (lX8VI)

63 I've got a good arm, man, I can throw a long way.

Screw you, pal.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (mH6SG)

64 Like Tom Cruise but taller LOL
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That's what I liked too.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (ZdexC)

65 @55

>>I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.

Personally, I don't think there is any other life out there in the Universe, but given the scale of the Universe and the distances between objects, we'll never know if there were.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (XV/Pl)

66 Another word I'm getting sick of.

"Could"

I see it, I tune out. This British nature show just told me the earth "could" warm by 3 degrees in the next 30 years which "could" kill all the coral in the world.

Science also says Karen Gillan "could" show up at my door tonight in that police uniform with the leggings.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM

Poppy cock, I have been assured that all of the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef will be bleached, dead and gone by 2022.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (QNSds)

67 Jilly shudders at the prospect of returning to her community college to grade papers from stoojents above her in reading and writing skills, so she's a firm, NO, too.

She's got at least two more years of sexy fishnets that she hasn't even had a chance to wear yet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (+myjY)

68
Another word I'm getting sick of.

"Could"

Sources say it could happen!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (63Dwl)

69 "I've got a good arm, man"
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*sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (lX8VI)

70 It ain’t easy being old.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (QtnU/)

71 He almost got signed by the Yankees.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (63Dwl)

He found out Yogi Gehrig was going to make 5 grand a year more than him, so he told them to take their corn pops and go jump on a Jew.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (dGCAG)

72 Biden is such a jackass, always has been. Even before the dementia. Go watch some videos of his first run for President telling a reporter how much smarter he is.

Id say Hillary was only slightly more unlikable.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 06:50 PM (wMRY8)

73 Logan Paul is wrasslin now?

Egad. I don't hate the Paul brothers, but I sure do hope Tyson knocks the snot out of Jake.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 06:38 PM (dGCAG)
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Logan is not only wrasslin', he's the United States Champion.

At least until WWE gets bored with his schtick and decides to give it to someone else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 06:50 PM (BpYfr)

74 Every four years we hear that the "youth vote" is going to turn out and be very significant. Has it ever happened?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:50 PM (63Dwl)

75 "I've got a good arm, man"
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*sobs*
Posted by: Michelle Fields at June 14, 2024 06:49 PM (lX8VI)

Oh cry me a river. You've still got three dimensions.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at June 14, 2024 06:51 PM (+myjY)

76 Every four years we hear that the "youth vote" is going to turn out and be very significant. Has it ever happened?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:50 PM (63Dwl)
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What is a "yute?"

Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at June 14, 2024 06:51 PM (hYDNe)

77 I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.

Personally, I don't think there is any other life out there in the Universe, but given the scale of the Universe and the distances between objects, we'll never know if there were.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:49 P

Fermi's paradox. Unless someone figures out a way around the speed of light issue we will never know if we are truly alone in the universe. Maybe if we were a bit closer to the center of the galaxy instead of being stuck way out here in the galactic boondocks it might be different.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:52 PM (QNSds)

78 So, that means he trusts him a lot?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

Yeah, that confused me. If he a a great throw then he's actually saying he trusts him a lot as you said

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 06:53 PM (oaGWv)

79 So, that means he trusts him a lot?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

Yeah, that confused me. If he a a great throw then he's actually saying he trusts him a lot as you said
Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 06:53 PM (oaGWv)

Biden says he could care less about your petty criticisms.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (+myjY)

80 Logan is not only wrasslin', he's the United States Champion.

At least until WWE gets bored with his schtick and decides to give it to someone else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 06:50 PM (BpYfr)

That's how you know it's a serious sport.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (dGCAG)

81 Yeah, that confused me. If he a a great throw then he's actually saying he trusts him a lot as you said
Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 06:53 PM (oaGWv)
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It *is* a pretty clear sign that he doesn't know WTF he's saying.

Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (hYDNe)

82 And didn't actually [almost] prove there are a trillion Earth-like planets out there but just said some version of "there are a trillion-trillion stars out there; and for those like Sol if even just 0.0000001% of them have an Earth-like planet, then that's a trillion!" sort of thing.

And despite the hype over discovering stars with planets around them, none I've seen on, say, NOVA, have had small inner planets with gas giants in the outer system like ours, let alone anything in the Goldilocks' Zone.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (ZdexC)

83 Maybe if we were a bit closer to the center of the galaxy instead of being stuck way out here in the galactic boondocks it might be different.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:52 PM (QNSds)

Maybe we're stuck out here for a reason.

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (xcIvR)

84 I’d love to see Biden throw out a first pitch. It’d sink his campaign.

Posted by: breaking bogey at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (69oK7)

85 "I got a good arm man. I can throw a long way".
He can't even wipe his ass.

Posted by: Lars at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (kJH1Z)

86 The closer Joe gets to influencer, the less likely they are to support him. B

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (JLq/1)

87 Off stern but fair sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:55 PM (hYDNe)

88 Maybe if we were a bit closer to the center of the galaxy instead of being stuck way out here in the galactic boondocks it might be different.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 06:52 PM (QNSds)

Whadda ya mean? Our galactic cluster is one of the most desirable in the entire universe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:55 PM (+myjY)

89 And despite the hype over discovering stars with planets around them, none I've seen on, say, NOVA, have had small inner planets with gas giants in the outer system like ours, let alone anything in the Goldilocks' Zone.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 06:54 PM (ZdexC)
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At least, that we can detect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:56 PM (hYDNe)

90 "I know you're a typical press guy," he said. "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone."

Considering how he won the Heisman for trowing that Hail Mary in 1984, that’s probably pretty far.

Honestly, it was mighty magnanimous of Joey B to allow Doug Flutie to take credit for that throw.

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at June 14, 2024 06:56 PM (Y2NGV)

91 @77

>>Maybe if we were a bit closer to the center of the galaxy instead of being stuck way out here in the galactic boondocks it might be different.

Ersatz Ford Prefect: We can't stop here, This is Vogon Country.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 06:57 PM (XV/Pl)

92 Whadda ya mean? Our galactic cluster is one of the most desirable in the entire universe.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 06:55 PM (+myjY)
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Fourth planet in the Goolagong System. The Sweetheart of Space Sector Five. It ain't much, but it's home.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:57 PM (hYDNe)

93 I thought being mean to the press was fascist tyranny

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:58 PM (lX8VI)

94 Joe talks like his dentures are about to fall out and he is trying to catch them before they do. But he has implants but he forgot I guess.

I like how his old man hair looks glued on in the back...which it is.

The sooner Joe and all the old farts in warshington dc pass on the better.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

95 I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.
Posted by: Robert

____

Trump has this nasty habit of becoming Establishment Insider as soon as he gets the trappings of power.

I mean he choked revealing JFK documents where every single person is dead and the Cold War is over. Seemed a simple layup to me.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 06:59 PM (wMRY8)

96 Fourth planet in the Goolagong System. The Sweetheart of Space Sector Five. It ain't much, but it's home.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 14, 2024 06:57 PM (hYDNe)

Rustic feel, a blank canvas ready for the vision of a committed do-it-yourselfer!

Posted by: Century 21 Local Cluster at June 14, 2024 06:59 PM (+myjY)

97 20
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Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 06:37 PM (bS+DD)

Thanks bluebell. If I could, I'd squeeze some of the blackberries ripe on my canes out to ya.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

98 We're only out here in the boondocks because the mice insisted.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 07:01 PM (RLLZj)

99 Jilly shudders at the prospect of returning to her community college to grade papers from stoojents above her in reading and writing skills, so she's a firm, NO, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 06:48 PM (xG4kz)

I wish. If you think the execrable, pompous, nouveau riche Obamas were insufferable, just wait until Biden is an ex-president. He and his manipulating whore wife will want to remain in the limelight.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 07:02 PM (d9fT1)

100 95 I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.
Posted by: Robert

____

Trump has this nasty habit of becoming Establishment Insider as soon as he gets the trappings of power.

I mean he choked revealing JFK documents where every single person is dead and the Cold War is over. Seemed a simple layup to me.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 06:59 PM (wMRY

He listened to the wrong people. Who would've believed the DOJ and other Gov't agencies were out to get him at the time? Well, apparently he didn't.
Since when do Gov't agencies have veto power over a President's declassification order?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:02 PM (ynpvh)

101
A: wheep, wheep, wheep!

Q: What was the last sound heard by Rachel Corrie?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 07:03 PM (xG4kz)

102 I've been saying it for a few years now but if anyone is going to give a definitive answer on UFOs it's going to be Trump.

Personally, I don't think there is any other life out there in the Universe, but given the scale of the Universe and the distances between objects, we'll never know if there were.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

That's always been my belief. I had an astronomy professor who poo-pooed the idea of UFOs. Said our solar system is a minute grain of sand on an unimaginably huge beach. No reason any other "civilization" would zero in on us. He didn't believe aliens either. I kind of think he voiced these opinions early in the quarter so as to shut down all the dreamers in class that wanted to talk about science fiction rather than astronomy.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:04 PM (oaGWv)

103 "He's a bully now and always has been. He's just an absurd, delusional bully. That doesn't mean the intent to bully isn't there."

I'll be the judge of what is and is not intent, pal.

Posted by: James Comey at June 14, 2024 07:04 PM (x5Ry2)

104 Thanks bluebell. If I could, I'd squeeze some of the blackberries ripe on my canes out to ya.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:00 PM (ynpvh)
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You're welcome, Jim! Lucky you to have all those blackberries. You should make a pie.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:04 PM (bS+DD)

105 How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?

Posted by: Uncle Brandon at June 14, 2024 07:04 PM (llON8)

106 Since when do Gov't agencies have veto power over a President's declassification order?
Posted by: jim
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They don't, we hear over and over that all of these people "made" Trump do these things, but it's basically whoever last talks to Trump.

My understanding is Mike Pompeo convinced him not to release them.

I dont even care about the JFK story, but I would think something like that was tailor made for Jump to just release to the public. Only some Deep State types that are probably long dead would really not want it released.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 07:05 PM (wMRY8)

107 "I know you're a typical press guy," he said. "I trust you as far as I can throw your phone."
____
It seems he still has SOME functioning synapses.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (1bNHn)

108 He almost got signed by the Yankees.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I didn't know the Yankees were one of the teams with the hot-dog-costume racers.

Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (DgGvY)

109 Space is big, mind boggling big

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (fwDg9)

110 The young ones don't like the smell of decomp and shit.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (aFNOf)

111 104 Thanks bluebell. If I could, I'd squeeze some of the blackberries ripe on my canes out to ya.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:00 PM (ynpvh)
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You're welcome, Jim! Lucky you to have all those blackberries. You should make a pie.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:04 PM (bS+DD)

In the aforetime I used to make blackberry jam (SEEDED). Jam NOT jelly; had the fruit pulp in it but removed the seeds.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (ynpvh)

112 Joe's got a pretty good arm. He was going to be a football player, you know.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

113
They don't, we hear over and over that all of these people "made" Trump do these things, but it's basically whoever last talks to Trump.

My understanding is Mike Pompeo convinced him not to release them.

I dont even care about the JFK story, but I would think something like that was tailor made for Jump to just release to the public. Only some Deep State types that are probably long dead would really not want it released.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 07:05 PM

This really is not about the jfk documents, the cia/ic has already sanitized anything of value and that stuff is long gone, it's about the people Trump trusted during his first administration that were advising him. I seriously doubt he will make the same mistakes this time around.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 07:07 PM (QNSds)

114 If really like Joe to shuffle into an audience and challenge someone to fisticuffs.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (JLq/1)

115 For the record, I dont believe our government has some secret department that knows about aliens or has extraterrestrial tech. You couldnt keep something like quiet with that many government workers.

There's probably has been info gathered thats classified, but I dont buy into the Area 51 stuff.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (wMRY8)

116 If Trump reduced the State Department by 80-90 percent would any taxpayer care?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (aFNOf)

117 Trying to change it up tonight and have some Whiskey Sours.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Way back when I was young and was living my best life in Calgary I could be found in a place called the Long Bar after work, sipping southern comfort sours, blended, so so good. Thanks for the nice memory even if your whiskey sour wasn't.

Posted by: old chick at June 14, 2024 07:09 PM (F3Dlr)

118 Used this type of rotary mill to remove those nasty seeds:

https://shorturl.at/BGRK4

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

119 In the aforetime I used to make blackberry jam (SEEDED). Jam NOT jelly; had the fruit pulp in it but removed the seeds.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (ynpvh)
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I bet that was great. I love blackberry jam. I love pretty much all berries.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:10 PM (bS+DD)

120 The young ones don't like the smell of decomp and shit.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (aFNOf)

Plus, other than the Student Loan Scam, which the utes all know is a scam from start to finish, the utes of today ain't getting no free shit from Uncle Sugar down the road.

They know it is all Doo Doo, unlike previous generations which swallowed the federal lies, bribes and graft hook, line and sinker.

So no love for Big Brother.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 07:10 PM (R/m4+)

121 116 If Trump reduced the State Department by 80-90 percent would any taxpayer care?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (aFNOf)

He needs a Milei.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

122 Threatening to fight someone ought to be like a contractual offer that someone can accept and turn into a binding, enforceable contract.

Posted by: Tired of listening to this blowhard at June 14, 2024 07:11 PM (vuTmn)

123 If Trump reduced the State Department by 80-90 percent would any taxpayer care?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (aFNOf)
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I sure would. I'd be overjoyed. They are the worst.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:11 PM (bS+DD)

124 Biden was the right age to replace Mickey Mantle.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (1bNHn)

125 There ain't no space aliens. Or Bigfoot or Nessie or fairies or ghosts or none of that shit. Reality is pretty boring, actually.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

126 The Supreme Court shot down a challenge Friday by illegal immigrants who said they weren’t properly served their court summonses in a ruling that heads off chaos in the deportation system.

5-4

Gorsuch sided with the commies.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (aFNOf)

127 @117

>>Thanks for the nice memory even if your whiskey sour wasn't.

For the last several years, I've concentrated on one drink, The Gimlet, I can dial them up in any volume and any profile on command.

When I decide to freelance, it's typically sub-optimal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (XV/Pl)

128 Trying to change it up tonight and have some Whiskey Sours.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Lord it's been a while since I had a whiskey sour. Used to be my husband's go to drink back in the 70's. Mine was a Harvey Wallbanger.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (oaGWv)

129 JUST IN - NASA administrator says 'at least a trillion' other planets like Earth could exist in universe, Fox News reports
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Another word I'm getting sick of.

"Could"

I see it, I tune out. This British nature show just told me the earth "could" warm by 3 degrees in the next 30 years which "could" kill all the coral in the world.

Science also says Karen Gillan "could" show up at my door tonight in that police uniform with the leggings.
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 06:44 PM (lX8VI)

Well that's quite the number but since we have detected a crap ton of galaxies that might leave about 100 or so in the 100+ billion stars in the Milky Way,

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

130 119 In the aforetime I used to make blackberry jam (SEEDED). Jam NOT jelly; had the fruit pulp in it but removed the seeds.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:06 PM (ynpvh)
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I bet that was great. I love blackberry jam. I love pretty much all berries.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:10 PM (bS+DD)

It was. So flavorful. We would can GALLONS every year. But wifey got sick, I got sick, and well...haven't done it in at least 15 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

131 I love pretty much all berries.

*blushes*

Posted by: dingleberries at June 14, 2024 07:13 PM (vuTmn)

132 125 There ain't no space aliens. Or Bigfoot or Nessie or fairies or ghosts or none of that shit. Reality is pretty boring, actually.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

There is stuff out there, just not (most) of that stuff.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

133 For the last several years, I've concentrated on one drink, The Gimlet, I can dial them up in any volume and any profile on command.
When I decide to freelance, it's typically sub-optimal.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (XV/Pl)

This is how.

Manhattans and Martinis. I leave the rest to the professionals.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

134 Threatening to fight someone ought to be like a contractual offer that someone can accept and turn into a binding, enforceable contract.
Posted by: Tired of listening to this blowhard

Duel at dawn. Choose your seconds.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:15 PM (oaGWv)

135 Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

Well, there are estimated as many galaxies out there as there are stars in the Milky Way. That's a sh!t-ton of stars. So, with the numbers so large, you will have some planets in a "habitable" zone. The Universe is a BIG place.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

136 He listened to the wrong people. Who would've believed the DOJ and other Gov't agencies were out to get him at the time? Well, apparently he didn't.
Since when do Gov't agencies have veto power over a President's declassification order?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:02 PM (ynpvh)

I think people are reluctant to accept that Presidents do NOT run things.

These people have all kinds of ways to keep the elected officials from getting too uppity. They get them to stay in their lane all kinds of ways. Not least of which is probably scaring them with real or made up stuff about little green men.

The cliche is, the American people can't handle the truth, so we must protect them from it. No, the American people would rise up and put your heads on pikes if they knew the truth. So you make up whatever you want, to keep those meddling pols from getting too close to the truth.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:15 PM (dGCAG)

137 Threatening to fight someone ought to be like a contractual offer that someone can accept and turn into a binding, enforceable contract.

Posted by: Tired of listening to this blowhard at June 14, 2024 07:11 PM

Like dueling was back in the day. You wrong someone and if they challenge you, you either accept the duel or be labeled a sniveling coward in public and shunned by everyone from that point on.

Andrew Jackson did it and took a bullet for his troubles but he killed the man who made rude comments about his wife. He was a bully, but he stood by his word and his morale's.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 07:16 PM (QNSds)

138 If Trump reduced the State Department by 80-90 percent would any taxpayer care?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (aFNOf)

Well the first thing we would need to do is put most of them out in the other countries rather than sitting here playing politics (badly). We could then inform all the nations that calls to have the idiots recalled and fired would be encouraged.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:16 PM (eoQWY)

139 "There is stuff out there, just not (most) of that stuff.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Well I ain't never seen it and until I do, that's my reality.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

140 134 Threatening to fight someone ought to be like a contractual offer that someone can accept and turn into a binding, enforceable contract.
Posted by: Tired of listening to this blowhard

Duel at dawn. Choose your seconds.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:15 PM (oaGWv)

How about some sloppy seconds, big boy?

Posted by: Stormy Daniels at June 14, 2024 07:17 PM (ynpvh)

141 Well, there are estimated as many galaxies out there as there are stars in the Milky Way. That's a sh!t-ton of stars. So, with the numbers so large, you will have some planets in a "habitable" zone. The Universe is a BIG place.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

Well somebody might, but we likely wouldn't. Just the trillion number is supposed to make it seem common. Instead, it just shows they made up a bad number.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:18 PM (eoQWY)

142 There ain't no space aliens. Or Bigfoot or Nessie or fairies or ghosts or none of that shit. Reality is pretty boring, actually.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

There is stuff out there, just not (most) of that stuff.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

Yeah, the rich and powerful might not be harvesting and consuming the adrenochrome from the children they're f**king... but they most certainly ARE f**king those children.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:18 PM (dGCAG)

143 Please note that I said "pretty much."

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:18 PM (bS+DD)

144 The dueling tradition requires honor, which is in short supply nowadays.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

145 139 "There is stuff out there, just not (most) of that stuff.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Well I ain't never seen it and until I do, that's my reality.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

The way it usually is. Are you from Missouri, by any chance?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:19 PM (ynpvh)

146 One thing that gives me great comfort is that absolutely no one loves Joe, particularly those closest to him.

He's just a tool or a wallet or an assailant. No one loves him.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at June 14, 2024 07:19 PM (UfRqq)

147 Well somebody might, but we likely wouldn't. Just the trillion number is supposed to make it seem common. Instead, it just shows they made up a bad number.

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There are no bad numbers. Just misunderstood numbers.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 07:19 PM (RLLZj)

148 For the last several years, I've concentrated on one drink, The Gimlet, I can dial them up in any volume and any profile on command.

I've never had a gimlet, or a martini or manhattan.
Reminds me I used to enjoy drambuie for a nightcap.

too much, actually.

Posted by: old chick at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (F3Dlr)

149 147 Well somebody might, but we likely wouldn't. Just the trillion number is supposed to make it seem common. Instead, it just shows they made up a bad number.

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There are no bad numbers. Just misunderstood numbers.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 14, 2024 07:19 PM (RLLZj)

There are negative numbers.
Imaginary numbers.
Irrational numbers.
Complex numbers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (ynpvh)

150 For the record, I dont believe our government has some secret department that knows about aliens or has extraterrestrial tech. You couldnt keep something like quiet with that many government workers.

There's probably has been info gathered thats classified, but I dont buy into the Area 51 stuff.
Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 07:08 PM (wMRY

That is my same rule on various JFK theories. Too many people could have made too much money these last 50 years to keep things quiet.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (eoQWY)

151 I was told there would be no maths.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (mH6SG)

152 If Trump reduced the State Department by 80-90 percent would any taxpayer care?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

No.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (WXNFJ)

153 And they keep courting the youth vote.

From Gateway Pundit....

BREAKING: House of Representatives Passes Bill for Mandatory Military Registration of Young Men Between 18 and 26

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (jvJvP)

154 I had a glass of Costco's best Kirkland Pinot Grigio tonight. Not too bad.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (oaGWv)

155 150
...
That is my same rule on various JFK theories. Too many people could have made too much money these last 50 years to keep things quiet.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (eoQWY)

That's why the secret to keeping a secret is killing everybody else that knows that secret.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (ynpvh)

156 153 And they keep courting the youth vote.

From Gateway Pundit....

BREAKING: House of Representatives Passes Bill for Mandatory Military Registration of Young Men Between 18 and 26

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (jvJvP)

And the wimmins in that age range? I mean, the Military takes all sexes and "genders"...Make Registration REAL for all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

157 58
"I've got a good arm, man, I can throw a long way."

He almost got signed by the Yankees.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 06:46 PM (63Dwl)

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

Before he was a politician, he developed his arm muscles by competing in arm-wrestling competitions (when not long-haul trucking). He had to win the International Arm-Wrestling Championship to save his relationship with his son, Beau.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (F4bAW)

158 That is my same rule on various JFK theories. Too many people could have made too much money these last 50 years to keep things quiet.
Posted by: Oldcat
___

I mostly believe the predominant explanation. Left-wing idiot that had defected to the USSR shot him. Something a modern Antifa or Palestinian sympathizer would do today if they could get close to a President.

Posted by: Blago at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (vqk3P)

159 Consider:
To my knowledge, the Chinese spyware doesn't allow bots; a favorite of celebrities and politicians to boost their follower count.

So: Chinese spyware is more honest than American social media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (NorFG)

160 Tippecanoe and Biden too!

And people say we can't meme.

Dickweeds.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 07:24 PM (woPEM)

161 President CringeBully

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2024 07:24 PM (iziT8)

162 Leaving Costco today I notice a woman with four cases of wine and one carton of shrimp bites something or other. She saw me looking and said "What? I have my protein in there!"

Which one of you 'Ettes was this?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:24 PM (WXNFJ)

163 "Are you from Missouri, by any chance?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

Nope. Never seen it either so I'm not even sure it exists.

Posted by: fd at June 14, 2024 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

164 156 153 And they keep courting the youth vote.

From Gateway Pundit....

BREAKING: House of Representatives Passes Bill for Mandatory Military Registration of Young Men Between 18 and 26

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (jvJvP)

And the wimmins in that age range? I mean, the Military takes all sexes and "genders"...Make Registration REAL for all.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

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um.... isn't that the Selective Service? Didn't we do this a loooooong time ago?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:25 PM (F4bAW)

165 162 Leaving Costco today I notice a woman with four cases of wine and one carton of shrimp bites something or other. She saw me looking and said "What? I have my protein in there!"

Which one of you 'Ettes was this?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:24 PM (WXNFJ)

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Shoulda said "Just wondering if you wanted some help finishing off that wine"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:26 PM (F4bAW)

166 That is my same rule on various JFK theories. Too many people could have made too much money these last 50 years to keep things quiet.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:20 PM (eoQWY)

Or, the people who know contribute highly to the hundreds of different conspiracy theories, help write books, make movies, and otherwise make money on the various lies and distortions and half truths.

Hide the real truth in plain sight. Your government killed your President. Simple as that.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:26 PM (dGCAG)

167 Missouri is more of a mood than a state.

Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2024 07:26 PM (iziT8)

168 56 153 And they keep courting the youth vote.

From Gateway Pundit....

BREAKING: House of Representatives Passes Bill for Mandatory Military Registration of Young Men Between 18 and 26

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (jvJvP)

And the wimmins in that age range? I mean, the Military takes all sexes and "genders"...Make Registration REAL for all.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

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um.... isn't that the Selective Service? Didn't we do this a loooooong time ago?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:25 PM (F4bAW)

Well I had to register back in the 70s after it had been turned off for a few years. Never heard it was turned off since.

Don't think it will impress the Russian fleet offshore of Florida much.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

169 Leaving Costco today I notice a woman with four cases of wine and one carton of shrimp bites something or other. She saw me looking and said "What? I have my protein in there!"

Which one of you 'Ettes was this?
Posted by: Tonypete

That's funny because I bought a bunch wine and a big...is there anything at Costco that isn't big....shrimp cocktail tray when I was there last Sat.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 07:27 PM (oaGWv)

170 Or, the people who know contribute highly to the hundreds of different conspiracy theories, help write books, make movies, and otherwise make money on the various lies and distortions and half truths.

Hide the real truth in plain sight. Your government killed your President. Simple as that.
Posted by: BurtTC

Isn't there some 'conspiracy theory' surrounding the invention of the term 'conspiracy theory'?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:27 PM (WXNFJ)

171 That's why the secret to keeping a secret is killing everybody else that knows that secret.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (ynpvh)

Which mostly worked for the mafia. Problem is, the government are better crooks than the crooks are.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:28 PM (dGCAG)

172 That's funny because I bought a bunch wine and a big...is there anything at Costco that isn't big....shrimp cocktail tray when I was there last Sat.
Posted by: Tuna

I'm not following you around.

Honest.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:28 PM (WXNFJ)

173 Or, the people who know contribute highly to the hundreds of different conspiracy theories, help write books, make movies, and otherwise make money on the various lies and distortions and half truths.

Hide the real truth in plain sight. Your government killed your President. Simple as that.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:26 PM (dGCAG)

hey my mom didn't vote for him.

Also never heard why the government would want to shoot someone who was gungho on military spending and going to VietNam.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 14, 2024 07:29 PM (eoQWY)

174 Isn't there some 'conspiracy theory' surrounding the invention of the term 'conspiracy theory'?
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Ancient aliens, man.

Posted by: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos at June 14, 2024 07:29 PM (woPEM)

175 Isn't there some 'conspiracy theory' surrounding the invention of the term 'conspiracy theory'?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2024 07:27 PM (WXNFJ)

I believe so. Not sure if it was invented by CIA or not, but if let's say Bill Buckley came up with it, then yeah, that's CIA.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:29 PM (dGCAG)

176 Missouri is more of a mood than a state.
Posted by: eleven at June 14, 2024 07:26 PM (iziT

If humidity is a mood, then sure.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 14, 2024 07:30 PM (dGCAG)

177 That's why the secret to keeping a secret is killing everybody else that knows that secret.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (ynpvh)

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As they say, "Three people can keep a secret, so long as two of them are dead"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:30 PM (F4bAW)

178 You had me at "Fran Drescher."

Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at June 14, 2024 07:31 PM (T9nL7)

179 um.... isn't that the Selective Service? Didn't we do this a loooooong time ago?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:25 PM (F4bAW)
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Yes. My boys had to register.

Posted by: bluebell at June 14, 2024 07:31 PM (bS+DD)

180 Yeah, all of you are right...as usual.

Register everyone.

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:31 PM (jvJvP)

181 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

182 Big Tinfoil invented conspiracy theories!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 07:32 PM (ZdexC)

183 From Gateway Pundit....

BREAKING: House of Representatives Passes Bill for Mandatory Military Registration of Young Men Between 18 and 26

Posted by: Stateless at June 14, 2024 07:21 PM (jvJvP)

And the wimmins in that age range? I mean, the Military takes all sexes and "genders"...Make Registration REAL for all.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

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um.... isn't that the Selective Service? Didn't we do this a loooooong time ago?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2024 07:25 PM

Yes it is already the law, all this new bill does it make registration automatic, they don't need to actually go to the website and register.

It's hype, nothing really new.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 14, 2024 07:32 PM (QNSds)

184 I think the mob with Deep State help killed JFK.

No one else could have done it and then done away with all involved, with some not even knowing why.

I bet there are folks shitting in nursing homes right now who were involved in some form or fashion and have no idea.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 07:32 PM (R/m4+)

185 Home! Throwing dinner together for the kidlette and me - veggie soup (bone broth base) and grilled Swiss on amaranth/ whole grain;/whole wheat bread.

Also, Biden is a jerk. He always has been.

Posted by: Piper at June 14, 2024 07:34 PM (pZEOD)

186 Leaving Costco today I notice a woman with four cases of wine and one carton of shrimp bites something or other. She saw me looking and said "What? I have my protein in there!"

Read this comment to spousal unit. She said she saw a man with an empty baby stroller load it with Miller Lite and head to the register. Somewhere there is an abandoned baby, with no beer to cry in.

Posted by: dadgum stuff and things at June 14, 2024 07:36 PM (5WfW1)

187 NOOD EVERYONE
I am feeling lonely upstairs

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 07:36 PM (fwDg9)

188 Two bigfoot encounters. Sort of.
One in Dog Valley Ca. Big campground. 11 pm Memorial day 1995. Dog saw it first. It was squatting. Stood up and walked off. Probably 10 witnesses to that one.
I don't discount it may have been someone in a Ghillie suit fucking with us.
Second was Dec 31, 1996. Cousin and I out wheeling in the snow at the Carson River in CC Nevada. Huge system had just dumped feet on us. We are cruising the trails in his step dads Ranger.
I look out the side and see foot print in the snow. We stop.
We get out. They are bigger than my Sorel snow boots and I can barely jump between the steps. As we are looking at these another truck comes up the trail who had been following them from another part of the river. He says they dive back into the river and come out a few times where he was coming from.
We follow to a part where the river is shallow and wide at a 90 degree turn. The tracks go into the river and come out on an almost cliff on the other side. Whatever walked up the other side.
It started raining and the great flood of 97 happened the next day. We almost didn't get out as the slush formed.

Posted by: Reforger at June 14, 2024 07:41 PM (xcIvR)

189 We would gladly eat the guy for you.

Posted by: Biden's Cannibals at June 14, 2024 07:46 PM (5WHGw)

190 If you

Posted by: Biden's Cannibals at June 14, 2024 07:48 PM (5WHGw)

191 "Mx. Szolek-VanValkenburgh did not receive an invitation but said they would not have accepted if they had."

The honorific and pronoun say it all, no?

Posted by: Ash is a damn robot! at June 14, 2024 08:15 PM (p2DNF)

192 Well, they sure as shit won't me paying ME, that's fer damn sure!

Posted by: trusted influencer at June 14, 2024 08:24 PM (2C8PU)

193 He's always threatening to beat people up, "take 'im behind the woodshed," and challenging people to push-up contests.

Just once, I wish someone would say something like "Fine. Let's step away from the Secret Service detail for a few minutes. When we're done, Beau will tell you where you went wrong."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 14, 2024 08:37 PM (lXCUP)

194 "30 This may be my perception but I have been noticing more and more often that biden is not wearing a tie in the videos I see of him. As I said it may just be my perception but to me that indicates a serious loss of motor skills."

Could be, but he could always get a staffer to tie a tie for him. I suspect it's a calculated move to appear younger. And like the Dems paying "influencers" to try to make biden look cool, it's clearly working, right?

Posted by: sf44 at June 15, 2024 12:22 PM (XxAmA)

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