The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

What is it? Stupidity? Incompetence? Plain old hatred of America, Western values, and Judeo-Christian morality? Or stark-raving-mad hyper-politicization of everything?

Should we embrace the power of "and?"

Yes...it is "and," but it seems also to be driven by the post-modern disgust for American Exceptionalism and the glory that is this grand country. Every opportunity to debase our culture, to injure our standing, and yes, to threaten our safety is a golden opportunity to achieve for the progressive, post-modernist what they cannot achieve by rational debate and the force of their intellects.

Why? Because their political philosophy has been disproven. Communism has failed. So they will win by destruction of Western culture rather than by convincing the people of the rightness of their positions.

Biden Sent $2.8 Billion in 'Humanitarian Aid' to the Taliban.

Of course he did! Or rather his progressive underlings at the State Department, who never met a moronic program they didn't love!

Here's a doozy!

Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.

Where do they get these idiocies? Sitting around their undergraduate dorm rooms, getting high and saving the world in their fantastically overrated minds?

These are our elites? The best and brightest of Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Stanford? They are poorly educated idiots...drunk on their own self images, and convinced of the rightness and brilliance of their every utterance.

They are wrong, and they are damaging America at the behest of the real evil...those in power who see America's long slide into financial ruin, geopolitical failure, and cultural upheaval as necessary steps in their horrid plan to lower America to the level of the worst Shitcanistan or rabid theocratic hellhole. Only when Americans don't have plumbing and air conditioning and clean food and water will these people be satisfied. Their goal is simple, obvious, and not even a secret.

Their re-imagining of America is its destruction.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 11:01 AM (7UUwE)

2 On a roll

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 11:01 AM (7UUwE)

3 I've arrived.

So, where the hell are we, anway?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (VSht7)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

5 I see that Fisker has applied for bankruptcy during this Best Economy Ever Jack and the highest ever demand for EVs.

Shut up, they/them explained.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (LjVn6)

6 The Cultural Marxists are taking another try at it

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (7UUwE)

7 Leftists: Shitting on America and it's exceptionalism for generations.

You run the education system, you get to teach children whatever you want. They teach to hate everything that makes the west best and America great.

Then we fail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Why is State allowed to have any budget at all. They just seem to attempt to bribe despots and subvert healthy countries with our money?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 20, 2024 11:03 AM (UC3nL)

9 Sent out notifications that the previous conversation is now willowed.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 20, 2024 11:03 AM (VSht7)

10 I see that Fisker has applied for bankruptcy during this Best Economy Ever Jack and the highest ever demand for EVs.

Shut up, they/them explained.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (LjVn6)

You misspelled "the highest government mandating for EV's."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

11 Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.

How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:04 AM (RS6Zy)

12 4 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

Yay!!!!!!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 20, 2024 11:04 AM (VSht7)

13 Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.

The worst move the Bush jr admin made was to tell missionaries to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq. They did it on purpose. Once the two evil regimes were removed, there was a great chance to turn the people away from death to life. But... no.

Thanks, shrub.
(I never thought I'd ever call him that. He made his alliance though, so too bad.)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2024 11:04 AM (0eaVi)

14 Shitcanistan.

I like it. Nicely done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

15 I'm sure the taliban spends our money on schools and hospitals.

Posted by: BignJames at June 20, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

16 How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?

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For one year? Two families, tops.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:05 AM (LjVn6)

17 How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:04 AM (RS6Zy)

How many homeless veterans in America?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.
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I see stupidity has reached a new low with this one.

What kind of genius thinks it's a good idea to go to a remote part of the world where the people have deep spiritual connections to their past heritage and promote "atheism?"

Would they do the same for remote tribes in the Amazon jungle? Why?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:06 AM (7fElN)

19 What is it? Stupidity? Incompetence? Plain old hatred of America, Western values, and Judeo-Christian morality? Or stark-raving-mad hyper-politicization of everything?

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Could it be Satan?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 20, 2024 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

20 I meant single illegal moms.

My calculations were wrong because I forgot to carry the Juan.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:06 AM (LjVn6)

21 What kind of genius thinks it's a good idea to go to a remote part of the world where the people have deep spiritual connections to their past heritage and promote "atheism?"

Would they do the same for remote tribes in the Amazon jungle? Why?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:06 AM (7fElN)

Hee hee.

Posted by: PronHub at June 20, 2024 11:07 AM (0eaVi)

22 I'm actually fine with 500k going to heavily muslham areas and promoting atheism.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

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"Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending."

__________

Because atheism has brought such benefits wherever it was widely encouraged.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:08 AM (MoZTd)

24 It isn't just America. The entire sweep of English speaking countries seem to be going crazy, feeding off each other.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 20, 2024 11:08 AM (NiN7o)

25 I meant single illegal moms.

My calculations were wrong because I forgot to carry the Juan.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Quick! Call nine Juan Juan!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:09 AM (RS6Zy)

26 Bongio going off on Bill O'Reilly... Damn lmao

Posted by: spypeach at June 20, 2024 11:10 AM (UuB/1)

27 8 " They just seem to attempt to bribe despots..."

If only the bribes were an attempt to get them to take actions that were actually in America's interests, instead of undermining us and our allies at every opportunity.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 20, 2024 11:10 AM (VSht7)

28
I'm actually fine with 500k going to heavily muslham areas and promoting atheism.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

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Just so long as they send a bunch of State Department people to promote it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:10 AM (MoZTd)

29 Trust me when I say, getting high has zero to do with it.

It's White Guilt in my opinion.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 20, 2024 11:10 AM (Z8Yh2)

30 ***What is it? Stupidity? Incompetence? Plain old hatred of America, Western values, and Judeo-Christian morality? Or stark-raving-mad hyper-politicization of everything?***

They all on the spoiled boat, Have No Fear, that ship is going to hit the sand pretty soon.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:11 AM (W23tn)

31 I'm convinced that every single foreign "aid" program -- every single one -- is nothing more than graft and money laundering schemes. That $500k "grant" is going right into some Dem donor's pocket and then for a downpayment on a Lamborghini. Not one cent of that money will ever be used for anything in Nepal.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 20, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

32 I'd challenge anyone to find one Republican employed by the State Department.
Day one I would fire the entire department.
Leave the CO of the Marine detachment there in charge.

Posted by: Reforger at June 20, 2024 11:11 AM (xcIvR)

33 How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?

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It really is insane to grasp how easily we're being conquered.

Think about the resources needed for one functioning illegal family over here. Let's pretend they only have two kids in the school system. Not just the money involved per student, but the time and effort taken from English speaking students and dragging the classes down.

Now stop to think about all the abandoned children - be it because Jose and Rose decided they were tired of them, or because the kids are anchor babies and the parents were deported and left the kids - and there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of them.

All in the system. All tying up the foster care network. All consuming resources that are intended for American children, and damaging the services received by Americans.

This can *maybe* continue for 10-15 more years before there's a noticeable shift of some kind.

We're done, folks. American culture is defeated. We've been conquered.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (LjVn6)

34 How many homeless veterans in America?
Posted by: Sponge

Well, we already know from jump street that they wouldn't help vets.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (RS6Zy)

35 Just so long as they send a bunch of State Department people to promote it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:10 AM (MoZTd)

Tranny state dept people

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (0eaVi)

36 Fiskar had made a business out of going bankrupt. Probably got a bunch of subsidies/grants. Somebody got rich and everybody else got screwed.

Posted by: fd at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (vFG9F)

37 Because their political philosophy has been disproven. Communism has failed. So they will win by destruction of Western culture rather than by convincing the people of the rightness of their positions.
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Not to pick nits but their political philosophy was already the destruction of western culture.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (KzrIK)

38 I usually find VDH a bit tedious, but he had a very nice post yesterday that got me thinking about the parallels between the upcoming election and the response to The Acolyte.

VDH:
1) The Left feels it may be heading to an historic 1972 McGovern-like or 1980 Carteresque blowout.
(Ed: It won't be a McGovern-level defeat because CA and NY will still vote Dem)
6) As we watch the Left go through the proverbial cycles of “denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance”, it will increasingly deny the accuracy of supposedly inaccurate swing state polls, then angrily damn the supposedly clueless, deplorable electorate

This is apropos, because there is an equivalence between how the left responds to the upcoming electcoral defeat and the way Disney approaches the utter failure of The Acolyte and its execrable cousins . In both cases, they think the fault lies with the intended audience, who are simply too stupid to understand the left's brilliance. In both cases, they are too stubborn to change course. In both cases, they're steering towards the iceberg and shouting "Ramming Speed!".

https://tinyurl.com/4uh3z6ue
https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64648589/?ref_=tt_nwr_2

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)

39 Not one cent of that money will ever be used for anything in Nepal.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 20, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

I disagree. They're more than happy to use some of that money to promote the destruction of humanity as we know it.

It's the same as all the millions going to Pakistan for the study of trannies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

40 Money changes everything.

As long as it's your money being spent and not mine.

Posted by: Cyndi Lauper at June 20, 2024 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)

41 What a racket

https://www.foxla.com/video/1473517

Posted by: BignJames at June 20, 2024 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

42 Fiskar had made a business out of going bankrupt. Probably got a bunch of subsidies/grants. Somebody got rich and everybody else got screwed.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (vFG9F)

*Solyndra has entered the chat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

43 "How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:04 AM (RS6Zy)

How many homeless veterans in America?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden "

Joe is spending $50 million on "Character Matters" commercials.

Posted by: fd at June 20, 2024 11:14 AM (vFG9F)

44 I'm going to Kathmandu!

Posted by: State Department associate with a bag o' money at June 20, 2024 11:14 AM (6gW4D)

45 Joe is spending $50 million on "Character Matters" commercials.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2024 11:14 AM (vFG9F)

He sexually assaulted his daughter when she was a child. The f*ck knows NOTHING about character.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

46 What kind of genius thinks it's a good idea to go to a remote part of the world where the people have deep spiritual connections to their past heritage and promote "atheism?"

*subtly turns off screen projector images of DuChamp's Fountain (urinal) in Afghanistan.

Posted by: The State Department at June 20, 2024 11:15 AM (xCA6C)

47 I'm convinced that every single foreign "aid" program -- every single one -- is nothing more than graft and money laundering schemes. That $500k "grant" is going right into some Dem donor's pocket and then for a downpayment on a Lamborghini. Not one cent of that money will ever be used for anything in Nepal.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 20, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)
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If any money does get to Nepal, it won't be enough to buy food from a street vendor.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:16 AM (7fElN)

48 Bongio going off on Bill O'Reilly... Damn lmao

Someone still cares about Bill O'Reilly? Other than Bill O'Reilly that is.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 20, 2024 11:16 AM (/y8xj)

49 Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.

Reckless? I find it unlikely that the Constitution even permits the US government spending money, let alone money taken by force from the citizens, to evangelize the de-facto state religion of the globalists.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 20, 2024 11:16 AM (nR2nR)

50 I would LOVE it if Trump brought up the "inappropriate showers with his daughter Ashley wrote about in her diary" during the debate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

51 >>They are wrong, and they are damaging America at the behest of the real evil...Only when Americans don't have plumbing and air conditioning and clean food and water will these people be satisfied. Their goal is simple, obvious, and not even a secret.

Pretty sure our enemies will have started a war on us in our own communities by then.

Carrying over from the EMT:

When a peace-loving civilization indulges its would-be destroyers, it creates a moral imbalance that must end in its own destruction. [We are ] learning at too high a cost that the hardest part of protecting liberal democracy is stopping the wicked before they massacre the pure and the good. - Ruth Wisse

Billions to the freakin' TALIBAN, ffs. . . Unbelievable.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 20, 2024 11:17 AM (cCVOS)

52 Where do they get these idiocies? Sitting around their undergraduate dorm rooms, getting high and saving the world in their fantastically overrated minds?
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From your wallet. This is just fiddling at the edges complaining about a worl-view that's impervious to reason.

The only way you 'fix' this is to make it impossible to waste the money in the first place, but that's unpleasant to Progressive Republicans who deeply believe we really can forcibly extract wealth and successfully redistribute it so long as the right people spend the money on the right causes for the right reasons.

Arguing with Feudalists is always a losing proposition. Convince 'our side' that government cannot solve social and economic problems and then champion the repeal of the 16th amendment. Cut off the flow of wealth at its source.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at June 20, 2024 11:18 AM (ch7mc)

53 We're done, folks. American culture is defeated. We've been conquered.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (LjVn6)
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Demography is destiny, as Mark Steyn likes to say.

The future belongs to those who show up. Americans, Europeans, and Asians are not going to be on that boat if trends continue.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:18 AM (7fElN)

54 >>Mast also criticized the State Department for a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal," which is predominantly Hindu, raising a broader problem of reckless federal spending.

"I wouldn't call it reckless, exactly . . ."
-- Nepali government official who is pocketing the entire $500k for himself and his family

Posted by: Lizzy at June 20, 2024 11:19 AM (cCVOS)

55 ***Their re-imagining of America is its destruction.***

They are so separated from How Stuff Works they don't realize that the result of their dream's best day is wiping their butt with a corn cob.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:19 AM (W23tn)

56 Reckless? I find it unlikely that the Constitution even permits the US government spending money, let alone money taken by force from the citizens, to evangelize the de-facto state religion of the globalists.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

If your country can give money away to people in another country, you are taxed too much.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:20 AM (RS6Zy)

57 "I wouldn't call it reckless, exactly . . ."
-- Nepali government official who is pocketing the entire $500k for himself and his family
Posted by: Lizzy at June 20, 2024 11:19 AM (cCVOS)
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He'll be lucky to get $50K of that money by the time it leaves the State Department's hands...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:20 AM (7fElN)

58 I would LOVE it if Trump brought up the "inappropriate showers with his daughter Ashley wrote about in her diary" during the debate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

I think that would backfire bigly. Ashley has not authorized him to speak for her and it came from her diary. It's not like Juanita Broaddrick who has been fighting against Clinton for decades and trying to get justice for being raped.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:20 AM (KzrIK)

59 So much easier to burn society down, than to build a society up.

The thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy.
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10

Posted by: illiniwek at June 20, 2024 11:20 AM (Cus5s)

60 Insty post a poll that 88% of Dem hill staffers would like to see someone other than Joe.

But that isn't the most worrisome part: 70% of R staffers would like someone other than Trump.

I've long said 99% of elected Republicans get their news from the NYT, CNN and WaPo.
The reason they come off so often so completely clueless as to what the base wants, unaware just how pissed the base is at them, is there:
They don't read or see conservative news and neither does their staff-- they only know what the far-left tells them.
Notice how all of then used Covid as an excuse to stop doing town halls? And none of them have done any since?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 20, 2024 11:21 AM (s+VJm)

61 This is apropos, because there is an equivalence between how the left responds to the upcoming electcoral defeat and the way Disney approaches the utter failure of The Acolyte and its execrable cousins . In both cases, they think the fault lies with the intended audience, who are simply too stupid to understand the left's brilliance. In both cases, they are too stubborn to change course. In both cases, they're steering towards the iceberg and shouting "Ramming Speed!".

https://tinyurl.com/4uh3z6ue
https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64648589/?ref_=tt_nwr_2
Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)
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I think it's mostly just human nature. It's rare for someone to fail catastrophically and take responsibility for it. Close to 100% of the time, that person blames someone or something else, whether as a pure scapegoat ploy or possibly if he really believes it.

We laugh at the spectacular failures of Kathleen Kennedy. Well, she is still running things over there and cashing huge fat paychecks. You think she cares whether this or that hot dumpster fire content is popular or not? Nah. She is laughing all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 20, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

62 Some people take cities and turn them into a pile of bricks. Other people take piles of bricks and build cities. Its not fair!

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 20, 2024 11:22 AM (n17eQ)

63 But that isn't the most worrisome part: 70% of R staffers would like someone other than Trump.

That's because those "R" staffers are really Dems.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:23 AM (RS6Zy)

64 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 20, 2024 11:21 AM (s+VJm)

It's not about where they get their news or who they listen to. They don't like us and only want to know what we want inasfar as they can work to stop it.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:23 AM (KzrIK)

65 50 I would LOVE it if Trump brought up the "inappropriate showers with his daughter Ashley wrote about in her diary" during the debate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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Biggest problem in the debate will be the Mute Button.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:23 AM (W23tn)

66 We're done, folks. American culture is defeated. We've been conquered.

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Demography is destiny, as Mark Steyn likes to say.

The future belongs to those who show up. Americans, Europeans, and Asians are not going to be on that boat if trends continue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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"Nearly half of all Californians speak a language other than English at home, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows."

https://tinyurl.com/26o2e8x2

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:24 AM (LjVn6)

67 Joe is spending $50 million on "Character Matters" commercials.
Posted by: fd at June 20, 2024 11:14 AM (vFG9F)

He sexually assaulted his daughter when she was a child. The f*ck knows NOTHING about character.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

How has Joe demonstrated character?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 20, 2024 11:24 AM (JLq/1)

68 All in the system. All tying up the foster care network. All consuming resources that are intended for American children, and damaging the services received by Americans.

All true. But also true of certain undeniably American demos. There are whole agencies and organizations that exist for little reason than to police the chaos of poor Blacks.

I say none of this to excuse extending this madness to noncitizens. That's piling insanity on insanity. But America chose long ago to never say "no" and to do the "compassionate" thing no matter the cost. Almost all domestic policy is about saving people from themselves at this point, which is about as successful as it always it: not at all.

Posted by: But You Can't Say Any Of This Stuff - Because -ism, -ist at June 20, 2024 11:24 AM (zuGjS)

69 I swear that mute button is there to protect Joe more than anything. I can see them cutting away from Joe when he starts his sundowning and the moderator going to Trump and asking for his response. With no audience there, there is only the Trump campaign's word about what was really happening.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:26 AM (KzrIK)

70 Reduce spending, reduce congressional perks, reduce congressional staff. Congress receives same insurance we do.
Congress receives no pension; they are there to serve.
Reinstate insider trading law on congress.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:27 AM (W23tn)

71 The live chickens were being used to feed the dogs, three German shepherds and an Australian shepherd, according to the Adams County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Most disturbing of all, the pony and bull were suspected of being used for bestiality.

Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:27 AM (RHGPo)

72 ‘ What is it? Stupidity? Incompetence? Plain old hatred of America, Western values, and Judeo-Christian morality? Or stark-raving-mad hyper-politicization of everything?’

All of the above. Plus the unwillingness of the people on our side to make the leftist traitors pay.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 11:27 AM (jbnUc)

73 What a racket

https://www.foxla.com/video/1473517

Posted by: BignJames

Luxury apartments for the poor and homeless?

The descent into a violent hellhole starts as soon as the first tenants move in.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 20, 2024 11:29 AM (hCzfy)

74 Whomever Trump chooses as Veep, I hope that person kicks off the Kumlala debate with a promise America "Can be, unburdened by what has been", just so she doesn't say it. Again.

https://x.com/teamtrump/status/
1801290627184734508?s=12

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 20, 2024 11:29 AM (46jA4)

75 With no audience there, there is only the Trump campaign's word about what was really happening.

There will be cameras aplenty, so many opportunities for cheap fakes.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:29 AM (xCA6C)

76 ‘ What is it? Stupidity? Incompetence? Plain old hatred of America, Western values, and Judeo-Christian morality? Or stark-raving-mad hyper-politicization of everything?’

All of the above. Plus the unwillingness of the people on our side to make the leftist traitors pay.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

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One of the worst parts of it for me was the disclosure two or three years ago that our politicians would sell out for tiny little amounts. 2018 low-mileage good used Honda Civic amounts. Amounts that most people here could go and either check out of their bank accounts or walk out with in the form of a loan without even needing to leave the bank overnight.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:30 AM (LjVn6)

77 >>I would LOVE it if Trump brought up the "inappropriate showers with his daughter Ashley wrote about in her diary" during the debate.

I'd rather see him focus on the laptop. Something along the lines of "In 2020 I asked questions about Hunter's laptop and Joe said it was all Russian disinformation. Now his own DOJ says it's 100% authentic. Joe lied, everyone should read what's in that laptop before making a decision in 20204."

Make it hard for the media to ignore.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 11:30 AM (LkLld)

78 A propos of nothing: from now on we should only call transsexual people "members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority".

Posted by: PG at June 20, 2024 11:30 AM (U644k)

79 Notice how all of then used Covid as an excuse to stop doing town halls? And none of them have done any since?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 20, 2024 11:21 AM (s+VJm)
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I don't know about 99% of elected Republicans, but certainly Republicans at the national level. State-level Republicans are frequently more dialed in.

In MO, we have active Republican reps who are on local talk radio all the time.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at June 20, 2024 11:31 AM (ch7mc)

80 Congress receives no pension; they are there to serve.
Reinstate insider trading law on congress.
Posted by: Braenyard

Ban lobbying for any group, person, or entity that receives a dime from the Feds.

Posted by: Trofim Lysenko at June 20, 2024 11:31 AM (IG4Id)

81
I think that would backfire bigly. Ashley has not authorized him to speak for her and it came from her diary. It's not like Juanita Broaddrick who has been fighting against Clinton for decades and trying to get justice for being raped.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:20 AM (KzrIK)

However, she abandoned the book she wrote and denied it was hers when asked to take possession back by O'Keefe before actually releasing any of the contents, before she admitted it was hers.

Fair game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

82 Notice how all of then used Covid as an excuse to stop doing town halls? And none of them have done any since?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Biden can't do a town hall. No way can his people let him loose.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 11:32 AM (RS6Zy)

83 71
‘ being used for bestiality.’

What the hell does this have to do with Biden giving money to terrorists?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 11:32 AM (jbnUc)

84 I am going to repost something by Devon Erickson on X yesterday because it is exactly on point to this thread.
Part 1: So why do they throw away so much money?
"That's the whole point. Wasting billions is the goal.
All of those billions are "wasted" from our perspective, because they don't actually produce any results, but not from the perspective of the political class, because all that money makes its way into their friends' pockets.

And those friends have ways of showing their gratitude.
10% for the big guy. What you need to understand here is that the entire system of the federal government has been infiltrated and hijacked by those whose only purpose in being there is to steal. The entire goal of the federal government, as an entity, at this point, is to loot what America produces for the benefit of a select group of private individuals.

No organized conspiracy is necessary. Thieves protect other thieves, because anyone who catches and punishes thieves is the common enemy of all thieves.
No organized conspiracy is necessary. Thieves protect other thieves, because anyone who catches and punishes thieves is the common enemy of all thieves.
cont'd

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 11:33 AM (wyMQY)

85 Ban lobbying for any group, person, or entity that receives a dime from the Feds.

It sounds good, but you'd bump up against free speech and "right to petition" problems right quick.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:33 AM (xCA6C)

86 I'd rather see him focus on the laptop. Something along the lines of "In 2020 I asked questions about Hunter's laptop and Joe said it was all Russian disinformation. Now his own DOJ says it's 100% authentic. Joe lied, everyone should read what's in that laptop before making a decision in 20204."

Make it hard for the media to ignore.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 11:30 AM (LkLld)

I'd rather see him bring it ALL to the table.

Joe Biden is an evil, deranged piece of shit never held accountable for ANYTHING he's done his entire life, the LEAST of which is LYING every time he opens his mouth.

But hey. That's not who we are. We turn the other cheek. We take the high road. We don't give an eye for an eye.

So be it. We lose again. YAY!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

87 I think that would backfire bigly. Ashley has not authorized him to speak for her and it came from her diary.
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Why would he need to speak for HER?

He can simply explain the situation from his "I'm taking showers with my daughter who admitted to being groomed by adults to become a sex addict" POV.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:34 AM (LjVn6)

88 Quick! Call nine Juan Juan!
Posted by: rickb223

So me and Marcel Ledbetter were in the bar, and this feller comes in and shouts "Does anybody know CPR?" And Marcel up and says "CPR? Hell, I know the whole damn alphabet!"

And we all laughed, except for this one feller outside.

Posted by: John Drake Is Now Rounding The East Coast Of The Caspian Sea at June 20, 2024 11:34 AM (u/Zei)

89 In MO, we have active Republican reps who are on local talk radio all the time.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at June 20, 2024 11:31 AM (ch7mc)

I'm not sure that counts for anything other than polishing their chops for higher office.
We have that quite a bit in Wi too, and it's ultimately bloviators bloviating with no action behind it.
But it gets lapped up like puppies at a bowl of milk.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 20, 2024 11:34 AM (FCbAQ)

90 kleptocracy, part 2:
It's called kleptocracy. Government by thieves.

There is no way to solve this by working peacefully within the political system. The kleptocrats constitute enough of a majority within the various federal systems that they can bring vast power to bear to make sure the courts can't stop them, the federal -level enforcement agencies work for them, and your vote doesn't matter.

A vote for Donald Trump, at this point, does not raise any strong possibility of cleansing the seat of power from within. By the time the rot has progressed to a sitting administration raising trumped-up charges against an opposition candidate, federal election results don't matter. The bureaucracy is too entrenched.

What a vote for Trump does is raise the level of political infighting, which makes the kleptocracy more visible.

The immediate goal, here, is just that — to raise public awareness of the kleptocracy. Once that awareness reaches a certain level, steps outside the formal political process become feasible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 11:34 AM (wyMQY)

91 The Niall Ferguson piece Ace linked yesterday about how we’re late-stage USSR said at least we aren’t trying to convert the third world to our ideology. I would say this stuff means we definitely are.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 20, 2024 11:35 AM (FD5dr)

92 Gutfeld's monologue last night was pretty good.

https://is.gd/VVbewT

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

93 74 Whomever Trump chooses as Veep, I hope that person kicks off the Kumlala debate with a promise America "Can be, unburdened by what has been", just so she doesn't say it. Again.

https://x.com/teamtrump/status/
1801290627184734508?s=12
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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It's not babble, that's program language to her constituents.
-those chains are gone, go get some-

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:35 AM (W23tn)

94 NATIONAL VANILLA MILKSHAKE DAY

Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

95 Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 20, 2024 11:36 AM (B9Prs)

96 Make it hard for the media to ignore.

Posted by: JackStraw

Agree about bringing up the laptop. Not only has Joe consistently lied about it, but the the fact that the FBI and the media all lied about it for him. Everyone lies to keep Joe afloat.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 20, 2024 11:36 AM (hCzfy)

97 Woe to the nay sayers.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:37 AM (W23tn)

98 I'm not sure going after Biden directly in the debates is the best strategy. It might be better to endlessly make him out to be what he is; a feeble old man who is the puppet of others in the background. You still destroy him as a plausible candidate, without provoking a sympathy vote because you're picking on him and being mean.

Sure, it's stupid that people would think that way. That doesn't mean it won't happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:37 AM (xCA6C)

99 Guess who spun up Fauci's bio-weapons career?

Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright 57m
"And so, Cheney set out in 2003 to find an agency that would not have a biological weapons conventions compliance office that could take the lead and carry out these dangerous and legally questionable projects."

Ebright: "He found one agency and one person willing to take that role, and the agency was the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... and he found Anthony Fauci."

Link to Blaze article in nic

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 20, 2024 11:37 AM (IG4Id)

100 NATIONAL VANILLA MILKSHAKE DAY
Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

Vanilla?

RACIST!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)

101 94 NATIONAL VANILLA MILKSHAKE DAY
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That's Racist!

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (n17eQ)

102 NATIONAL AMERICAN EAGLE DAY

Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

103 Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government?

If not, why not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (Zq25q)

104 NATIONAL VANILLA MILKSHAKE DAY
Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

This calls for video of Paige Spiranac on a bumpy course.

Posted by: spindrift at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (OguvZ)

105 Promoting atheism in Nepal? Wonder whose behalf that donation was for. Are we now just an NGO for the CCP?

Posted by: Ribbed - Still Straight at June 20, 2024 11:39 AM (QLMMy)

106 NATIONAL AMERICAN EAGLE DAY
Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

"We're working on that."

- - - - Wind Farms Built Where Eagles Breed

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government?

If not, why not.

Uh-oh, the peasants are revolting.
Oh, piss boy!

Posted by: The Left at June 20, 2024 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

108 Make it hard for the media to ignore.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 11:30 AM (LkLld)

Easy way to slag Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and impeach their credibilty at the same time - Joe said this knowing it was a lie. You guys repeated it, over and over. Did you know it was a lie, too? What do you say about it now?

Posted by: blaster at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (xhfG9)

109 >a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal
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this has got to be straight-up money laundering

who got that half mil, and why

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (/7KEl)

110 95 Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?

It seems a bit more slothful

Posted by: But that's just me at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (Omr8S)

111 How has Joe demonstrated character?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 20, 2024 11:24 AM (JLq/1)

All kinds of character.

Except the good kind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (n7HB7)

112 Hezbollah Chief Claims 100,000 Ready for Glorious Martyrdom

Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

113
this has got to be straight-up money laundering

who got that half mil, and why
Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (/7KEl)

And why would Nepal, a deeply religious country, not consider this an act of terrorism against their people?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

114 Aren't the atheists in Nepal the communist rebels that murder people on a regular basis?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2024 11:41 AM (oZhjI)

115 >>Guess who spun up Fauci's bio-weapons career?

I've been posting a link to this article for a long time. There's a reason Fauci was the highest paid person in DC. He wasn't just the head if NIAID, he was the head of the bioweapons program. Fauci is part of the CIA/Intel blob.

https://tinyurl.com/2njxbxdy

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 11:41 AM (LkLld)

116 Heritage America: We will make war on our enemies until they relent. We will burn their fields, sack their cities, and ruin their economy.

Soviet America: Will you stop being our enemies if we give you some money? I mean we've got plenty to give so just take some ok?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (oZhjI)

117 109 >a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal
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this has got to be straight-up money laundering

who got that half mil, and why
Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:40 AM (/7KEl)

obviously you're right, this is an out in the open "ha ha look what stupid shit we can put in the budget and no one will call us on it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (wyMQY)

118 >>Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?

It seems a bit more slothful
Posted by: But that's just me

Refractory period?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (IG4Id)

119 Beau Biden lets out a Wilhelm scream every time he dies.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (cf/0E)

120 Ted Cruz's secret playbook found in Senate refectory -- and posted online. Source: Raw Story. Pablo Manríquez, co-publisher of "Capitol Press" and who describes himself on X as a "hill reporter and oil painter," landed on the tranche of briefing papers that contain innocuous information about the weather in New York this week, but also phone numbers and addresses of such notables such as billionaire Ron Lauder and Wall Street scion John Loeb.

"Someone, presumably a staffer, left a folder full of briefing documents on TED CRUZ donors in the Senate Refectory," Manríquez wrote on X. He then posted a thread of some of the senator's detailed itinerary and talking points to schmooze would-be deep-pocketed donors. The thread containing photos of the documents has since been taken down, as the site said they violated X rules.

The documents offer a glimpse into the methods and tidbits that Cruz is prompted to bring up, as well as specific dollar amounts he should seek from each person. The document also coaches him on what to say during the meetups.

DU is bitching that we need more "big money transparency", and "X is compromised because they took the posts down".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

121 The one thing you can't get a Nepalese atheist to stop talking about?

God.

Posted by: Evergreen at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (Omr8S)

122 >>>Agree about bringing up the laptop. ...

Posted by: Grudge Harbor
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_.M. U. T. E. ._call to order, we'll have no more of that or you microphone will be silenced for the rest of the debate.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (W23tn)

123 Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government?

You have to record every transaction, every dollar, every expenditure for seven years. The government has all this data as well but...they can put you in jail if YOU lose any of it.

The government though? Who cares where those trillions go...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 20, 2024 11:43 AM (oZhjI)

124
DU is bitching that we need more "big money transparency", and "X is compromised because they took the posts down".
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 20, 2024 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

And not one Democrat has done anything like that ever in the history of anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Nepal?

Don't they have a dolly llama or something?

Posted by: Not really sure at June 20, 2024 11:43 AM (Omr8S)

126 112 Hezbollah Chief Claims 100,000 Ready for Glorious Martyrdom
Posted by: SMOD

Pussies! Real Muslims would martyr 10,000,000!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 20, 2024 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

127 Fair game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

Fair game but I'm not sure Trump comes out on top vs a victim of an assault, even by his opponent. That's all I care about. Whether it's likely to result in a net win for us.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:44 AM (KzrIK)

128 They want Ted Cruz OUT
They want Matt Gaetz OUT

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:44 AM (W23tn)

129 Fair game but I'm not sure Trump comes out on top vs a victim of an assault, even by his opponent. That's all I care about. Whether it's likely to result in a net win for us.
Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:44 AM (KzrIK)

*sigh*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

130 a $500,000 grant to "promote atheism in Nepal
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this has got to be straight-up money laundering

First: So...how much to get you to do butt stuff?

Later: And that's why we absolutely need to give $500K right away for uh...helping atheists!

Posted by: US Bureaucrat in Nepal at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (oZhjI)

131 They want Ted Cruz OUT
They want Matt Gaetz OUT
Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:44 AM (W23tn)

Not because they actually accomplish anything substantial, but they talk a mean game and sometimes make them feel bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

132 Where do they get these idiocies? Sitting around their undergraduate dorm rooms, getting high and saving the world in their fantastically overrated minds?
++++
From those they admire most in history: powerful colonists.

They are colonists. They are imperialists. They want to colonize other places to turn them into outposts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (C19Uv)

133 What if they have to use a Dragon capsule to bring home the astronauts who flew up to the ISS on Starliner ?

Posted by: blaster at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (xhfG9)

134
Aside from letting Communists/Maoists run/teach at our universities, so that midwits feel like they're "finally learning the TRUTH!!!111!!!" when filled with propaganda.

I believe that it's the extensive "micro-dosing" of psychedelics(LSD, etc) among Our Betters that is to blame for a lot of this.

An uncontrolled chemical affecting thought through random stimulation in the brain, is by it's very nature bound to load you up crazy, random neural connection and hence crazy ideas.

BONUS! These chemical are rarely just pissed right out but hang around for a while within tissues.

Double Bonus! Probably extensive, early grass use is wound up in there as well. I've rarely met a chronic weed user that sounded any way but stupid.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2024 11:46 AM (eDfFs)

135 *sigh*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

Sorry I've disappointed you!

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:46 AM (KzrIK)

136
Don't they have a dolly llama or something?
Posted by: Not really sure

The do have llama dollies who conduct "Llama Dolly Story Hours" for the kiddos.

They are hideous, of course.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 20, 2024 11:46 AM (xG4kz)

137 Hezbollah Chief Claims 100,000 Ready for Glorious Martyrdom
Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

If that's what they want, it would be churlish to deny them it. Nuke Bekaa Valley.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:47 AM (n7HB7)

138 If you passed ten grand your senator would have lunch with you.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:48 AM (W23tn)

139 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 11:48 AM (7UUwE)

140 Lingden raises concern about reports of atheism promotion in Nepal
American envoy Thompson denies claims, clarifying that the US assistance was instead focused on support of marginalised communities.

https://tinyurl.com/4zf9ukw2

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)

141 I believe that it's the extensive "micro-dosing" of psychedelics(LSD, etc) among Our Betters that is to blame for a lot of this.
...

YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake
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And SSRIs for their constituents.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (W23tn)

142 A few months ago read a Fisker was totaled after getting hot on the side. It only wrecked the door but it was impossible to get even that as a new part

Posted by: Skip at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (7UUwE)

143 Gillian Michaels, a gay daughter of a Jew and an Arab, mother of a black (and hispanic) child has had enough of California identity politics. Moving away.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status
/1801589271767199834

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (I7sQX)

144 that link goes to a newspaper in Nepal

we actually did give them half a mil, but it's not clear what for

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (/7KEl)

145 118 >>Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?

It seems a bit more slothful
Posted by: But that's just me

Yes... Went to lunch with my Sister and she had to stop at Target to pick up something and there was no visible LGBTQwhatever stuff anywhere...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (Akjoo)

146 95 Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

I feel it too. But here in Seattle where it's all gay all the time, I don't know there would be much more they could do. But. There are quite a few businesses that have not gone over the top like they have in normal years.

I'm not seeing a ton of rainbow flags on private residences either. This is a fairly significant change.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (1tBIo)

147 Anyone else feel like pride month has been significantly less prideful this year?

It seems a bit more slothful
Posted by: But that's just me

Yes... Went to lunch with my Sister and she had to stop at Target to pick up something and there was no visible LGBTQwhatever stuff anywhere...

"Nothing will happen"

Posted by: The Usual Eeyores at June 20, 2024 11:51 AM (xCA6C)

148 clarifying that the US assistance was instead focused on support of marginalised communities.

https://tinyurl.com/4zf9ukw2

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"marginalized" communities in the view of the U.S., or "marginalized" communities based in reality and the region.

Because I'm betting Christians are persecuted left and right over there, but it went to the people doing it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:51 AM (LjVn6)

149 "Meesa called Jar Jar Binks, they/them, meesa your humble servants!"

Posted by: SMOD at June 20, 2024 11:52 AM (RHGPo)

150 Yes... Went to lunch with my Sister and she had to stop at Target to pick up something and there was no visible LGBTQwhatever stuff anywhere...

"Nothing will happen"
Posted by: The Usual Eeyores

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Yeah, it's so weird that they toned it down in an election year.

Hey , look! Biden drained our oil reserve and gas is slightly cheaper, too!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:52 AM (LjVn6)

151 How many wetbacks could have been helped by $500 large?

Must they decide between one or the other? "Leave No Dollar Unprinted!"

Posted by: t-bird at June 20, 2024 11:52 AM (pJkex)

152 The do have llama dollies who conduct "Llama Dolly Story Hours" for the kiddos.

They are hideous, of course.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

I had to research this...it sounded right up my alley. Instead, I found something for this weekend's book thread...it sounds amazing!

Diary of an S&M Romance, by Dollie Llama. published July 29, 2006

"Diary of an S&M Romance" is the true story of a young widow reclaiming her life in a red-hot world of kinky sex...Dollie Llama explores the complex connections between romantic sweetness and furious, nasty sex. Part introspective journey of discovery, part tender love story. Part manifesto of empowerment, part dirty dirty book. She met her owner on Bondage.com, and now they just can't stop touching each other in special places, and in special ways.

Kudos to Dollie for such openness and courage." --Mistress Genevieve (Lifestyle/professional Dominatrix, Sex Therapist with The Dr. Susan Block Institute)

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 20, 2024 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

153 Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government?
=====

Open The Books has a lot of info. Don't know how much is subscription.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 20, 2024 11:53 AM (MIKMs)

154 150 Yes... Went to lunch with my Sister and she had to stop at Target to pick up something and there was no visible LGBTQwhatever stuff anywhere...

"Nothing will happen"
Posted by: The Usual Eeyores

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Yeah, it's so weird that they toned it down in an election year

I think it was more the bottom line... Money...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (Akjoo)

155 Lingden raises concern about reports of atheism promotion in Nepal
American envoy Thompson denies claims, clarifying that the US assistance was instead focused on support of marginalised communities.

https://tinyurl.com/4zf9ukw2

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:49 AM (/7KEl)
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Nowhere in that article does Thompson explicitly deny promoting atheism. "Marginalized communities" could certainly include atheists in a country that is solid majority Hindu.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (7fElN)

156 139 It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip
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Cheers...clink

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (W23tn)

157 Just wanted to drop in to let everyone know that I am still around. I have been occupied in a bunch of busywork and have not been commenting, mainly because I usually read the site on my phone and don't like the little keyboard. For those of you who are new, I have been around since about 2007 and have attended the TxMoMe and a couple of other get togethers. In fact, I have just signed up for this year's TxMoMe and hope to meet many of you there.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (tMA1J)

158 The US Government using money to promote atheism is a violation of the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (LaNzR)

159
Hezbollah Chief Claims 100,000 Ready for Glorious Martyrdom
Posted by: SMOD

_________

We have 100,001 lampposts in this country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (MoZTd)

160 50
‘ inappropriate showers with his daughter Ashley wrote about in her diary"’

If I were Trump I’d throw this right the fuck out there if Shitpants or anyone else claimed he has a ‘rape conviction’.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

161 I am floored by a lot of things related to wasteful spend, but especially by promoting aetheism anywhere. Why in hades are we involved in this in Nepal? How does this benefit anyone anywhere? Does Hunter lead this project?

Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (p4NUW)

162 It's almost like someone told the alphabet crowd they are turning the moderates/independents away from the democrat party. So, tone it down so we don't lose.

Hard to believe the alphabet crowd would go along with it, but stranger things have happened.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (+xP4Z)

163 Maaybe the Biden administration is reaching out to gay and trans Nepalese

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (/7KEl)

164 In fact, I have just signed up for this year's TxMoMe and hope to meet many of you there.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (tMA1J)

Looking forward to meeting you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 20, 2024 11:56 AM (n7HB7)

165 I've been posting a link to this article for a long time. There's a reason Fauci was the highest paid person in DC. He wasn't just the head if NIAID, he was the head of the bioweapons program. Fauci is part of the CIA/Intel blob.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, looks like the Republic died awhile back.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 20, 2024 11:56 AM (IG4Id)

166 The US Government using money to promote atheism is a violation of the 1st Amendment.

But atheism is a lack of religion, while the 1A addresses "freedom of religion".

*ponders*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:56 AM (xCA6C)

167
Hard to believe the alphabet crowd would go along with it, but stranger things have happened.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:55 AM (+xP4Z)

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Sorry, I was preoccupied. What did you say?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 20, 2024 11:56 AM (MoZTd)

168 Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

Posted by: spindrift at June 20, 2024 11:57 AM (OguvZ)

169 I've been posting a link to this article for a long time. There's a reason Fauci was the highest paid person in DC. He wasn't just the head if NIAID, he was the head of the bioweapons program. Fauci is part of the CIA/Intel blob.
Posted by: JackStraw

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That early 2000s SARS was likely us too, wasn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 20, 2024 11:57 AM (LjVn6)

170 I think the trannypedo stuff has made people more antsy about """Pride""" than past years. It's become a bit more brazen so I think some have decided to keep it on the down low.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 11:57 AM (KzrIK)

171 OK, here's the full text:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Does atheism count?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 11:57 AM (xCA6C)

172 I saw that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:58 AM (+xP4Z)

173 In some ways I have been a fan of giving out money to the furriners, if applied properly. Let's go back to Sadaam Hussein. "Sadaam, your government is toast. Here's the deal. It's going to cost us a bunch of money for an invasion. Instead of that we put you on payroll. Generous payroll. And then, every morning, we send you instructions, easy to keep. And if you don't keep them we kill you".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 20, 2024 11:58 AM (V5eKu)

174 Ruthless, glad that you are doing well.

If you have an iPhone you may be able to get a Bluetooth keyboard.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 11:58 AM (W23tn)

175
If your country can give money away to people in another country, you are taxed too much.
Posted by: rickb223

NO ammount of taxation is going to pay off a 34 trillion dollar debt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2024 11:58 AM (63Dwl)

176 He sexually assaulted his daughter when she was a child. The f*ck knows NOTHING about character.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024
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How has Joe demonstrated character?
Posted by: Northernlurker at June 20, 2024

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He's displayed character, all right. Disreputable character.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2024 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

177 Yes... Went to lunch with my Sister and she had to stop at Target to pick up something and there was no visible LGBTQwhatever stuff anywhere...

"Nothing will happen"
Posted by: The Usual Eeyores

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Yeah, it's so weird that they toned it down in an election year

I think it was more the bottom line... Money...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 20, 2024 11:54 AM (Akjoo)
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I think it depends where you are. The creepy pedophile perversion is still on high display here in NYC. It's especially visible on public accommodations like public transit. Why city-owned, taxpayer-funded, corruption-stained mass transit is busy promoting what amounts to a private concern -- any private concern -- is beyond me.

You know how much we hate the FNM? You know, like hate hotter than nuclear explosions in the bottom-most depths of Hell? Well, New Yorkers should hate the MTA even more.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 20, 2024 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

178 Does atheism count?
Posted by: Archimedes

Are we using reason and wisdom here? Yes, if so.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 20, 2024 12:00 PM (IG4Id)

179 > Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government?
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I'm sure there's a total somewhere, but probably no line items. It'd be embarrassing if line 38390 was "bribe to Joe Politico for blow job" or whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 20, 2024 12:00 PM (Q4IgG)

180 He's displayed character, all right. Disreputable character.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2024 11:59 AM (J2vNu)
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Disreputable would be a step up for Joe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 20, 2024 12:00 PM (tT6L1)

181 My lifestyle is changing and I may be commenting again. Right now my life is in chaos. Heart surgery may be in my future. I am other wise unusually healthy for my are which is mumble mumble older than Vic!

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2024 12:00 PM (tMA1J)

182 >>>@103 Is there a website where we can see a line item accounting of every dollar spent by the federal government? Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 11:38 AM (Zq25q)
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Greetings, Nurse ... Not sure if the data at this link is broken out by line items, but it does provide some interesting totals, categories, etc.:

https://www.foreignassistance.gov/

Posted by: Kathy at June 20, 2024 12:01 PM (p69D5)

183 Posted by: Elric Blade

Public transit here in Seattle is also all decked out in gay crap. But in the private sector, not so much.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 20, 2024 12:01 PM (+xP4Z)

184 Oh gosh ruthless but glad you're doing well otherwise.

Posted by: ... at June 20, 2024 12:01 PM (KzrIK)

185 Oops ... that website is just for foreign assistance (sorry).

Posted by: Kathy at June 20, 2024 12:02 PM (p69D5)

186 >>Yeah, looks like the Republic died awhile back.

And Hunter was invested in a company called Metabiota that tracks virus spreads around the world. They had government contracts to study virus spreads in both Wuhan and in Ukraine.

Mike Benz insists that Hunter isn't just Joe's crackhead bagman but was a CIA asset and that's why he was installed at Burisma. The same Ukrainian oligarch who owned Burisma also owned PrivatBank which was basically a money laundering firm for the world elites. Right after Trump was elected Biden urged the Ukrainian government to nationalize PrivatBank so Trump could not look into it.

We only know the tip of the iceberg of the deep state corruption that has been destroying this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 12:02 PM (LkLld)

187 age not are

Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2024 12:02 PM (tMA1J)

188 Constitutionally speaking, the Government is neutral in questions of religion

be religious, don't be religious, it's your call. none of government's business

in actual practice, we know that some religions are more equal than others

Posted by: Don Black- world class mountaineer at June 20, 2024 12:02 PM (/7KEl)

189 Noodus ace

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 20, 2024 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

190 Does atheism count?
Posted by: Archimedes

Are we using reason and wisdom here? Yes, if so.

You set a high bar.

Nonetheless, I'm going to insist on something more than a naked assertion.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 20, 2024 12:03 PM (xCA6C)

191 Gillian Michaels, a gay daughter of a Jew and an Arab, mother of a black (and hispanic) child has had enough of California identity politics. Moving away.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status
/1801589271767199834
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 20, 2024 11:50 AM (I7sQX)

Did she admit that she helped BUILD that shit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 20, 2024 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

192 I think the trannypedo stuff...

The US Navy's secret Trannypedo was an unmitigated disaster.

It turned out that firing trannies out of submarine torpedo tubes at Russian sea vessels resulted in zero Russian ships being secretly painted with Gay Pride flags.

And 48% the trannies drowning within 2 minutes of being fired from the torpedo tubes. With 52% being eaten by sharks.

And during Pride Month!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 20, 2024 12:05 PM (eDfFs)

193 >>That early 2000s SARS was likely us too, wasn't it?

It certainly seems like a strong possibility.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 20, 2024 12:05 PM (LkLld)

194 185 NO ammount of taxation is going to pay off a 34 trillion dollar debt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 20, 2024 11

No. But I wonder how much we could save if we stopped every stupid study, aid to Hamas, push Ukraine out of the nest, etc. Will it equal the $34T? No. But we have to start somewhere and that looks like a great place to begin. I know first hand the government does not care how much it spends, we need people like me to bargain shop. Defund the FBI and open the Department of Piper Spend Approval.

Posted by: Piper at June 20, 2024 12:06 PM (p4NUW)

195 Posted by: Ruthless at June 20, 2024 12:00 PM (tMA1J)

Great to see you, sir. Been a while.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at June 20, 2024 12:06 PM (xPJvm)

196 But atheism is a lack of religion, while the 1A addresses "freedom of religion".

*ponders*
Posted by: Archimedes
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Take it easy pal, free think will get you into trouble.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 12:07 PM (W23tn)

197 >>>Defund the FBI and open the Department of Piper Spend Approval.

Posted by: Piper
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And fix her A/C.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 12:09 PM (W23tn)

198 two for two, hind tit again

Posted by: Braenyard at June 20, 2024 12:11 PM (W23tn)

199 The US Navy's secret Trannypedo was an unmitigated disaster.

It turned out that firing trannies out of submarine torpedo tubes at Russian sea vessels resulted in zero Russian ships being secretly painted with Gay Pride flags.

And 48% the trannies drowning within 2 minutes of being fired from the torpedo tubes. With 52% being eaten by sharks.

And during Pride Month!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake

You need to rethink what sucess means.
Sounds pretty good. 48% & 52% would be .480 & .520 batting averages in baseball.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 20, 2024 12:15 PM (RS6Zy)

200 The country in a nutshell--the most exceptional nation on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people, governed by the most unique political system in history.

It may also be noticed that throughout our history we have met and overcome issues even more serious than the current mess, with an unbroken record of success to date. There's no reason to believe this won't follow suit.

I need to add it's been my honor to have been born in and live in this exemplary land and would change nothing.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 20, 2024 01:59 PM (hKoQL)

201 Liberal Democrat Stupidity like messsing up Stonehengle like those idiots from Just Stop Oil did

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 20, 2024 04:42 PM (wGqjj)

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