Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They <i>Don't Know</i> if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan

Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan

What would you say you do here?

Despite years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program, the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research that could make pathogens more dangerous or deadly, the Pentagon's chief watchdog declared in a stunning new warning to policymakers.
"The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.
...
The findings show the Pentagon has done little to improve transparency on a critical security issue in the two years since the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, first raised concerns that defense officials could not account for how biological research funds sent to China were being used....
The latest inspector general report also adds to momentum in Congress to formally ban the Pentagon from funding "gain-of-function" research in foreign countries, a goal that has increased in priority now that some members of the U.S. intelligence community like the FBI believe the COVID-19 pandemic began with a virus leak inside a Wuhan lab doing research funded by U.S. tax dollars. Gain-of-research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility and virulence among other things.

Anthony Fauci has a different definition of "gain of function." It's whatever he says it is, or isn't.

Speaking of Fauci, he finally admitted that school closures weren't an example of Civil Servants Sending Their Best.

Don't praise him for his honesty -- even in this admission, he lies, and pretends he was trying to re-open schools.

Yeah, so was Randi Weingartner.

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci has finally conceded that it was a mistake to keep schools closed as long as they were during the coronavirus pandemic.
"How long you kept it was the problem, because there was a disparity throughout the country," he told CBS News in a recent interview promoting his new book. "If you go back and look at the YouTube, I kept on saying, 'Close the bars, open the schools. Open the schools as quickly and as safely as you possibly can.'

(Files missing)

Deborah Birx has already admitted -- bragged, in fact -- that she wrote the "guidances" for re-opening so severely that it justified keeping the schools closed and made any governor re-opening them look like a dangerous maniac.

But initially to close it down was correct. Keeping it for a year was not a good idea."
As was clear at the time and as has been confirmed through academic research, school closures were generally associated with the power of teachers unions above all else.
As noted by Anthony Lynch at National Review, "Lengthy school closures contributed to generational learning loss, reflected in the generational declines in reading and math test scores observed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress's report card. The learning losses particularly impacted minority and lower-income students unable to afford tutors and other online educational resources. Academic rebounding from the lost learning could take as long as five years."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:11 PM

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1 But people who homeschool are weirdos.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

2 In an ideal world, he'd be begging for handouts at stop lights.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (99eI0)

3 We’ve investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (u73oe)

4 TOP MEN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (N1tpc)

5 Shocked!

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (fpVC1)

6 Modified limited hangout.

Mistakes were made.

Let's not dwell on the past.

This is no time for partisan politics.

At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (Q0kLU)

7 Wait, what! I don’t know what to do now, do I yell SPONGE?

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (pZEOD)

8 Why does the government get to audit themselves?

Literally no other organization, including the Church, gets that luxury.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (hDQ7j)

9 Gosh, it's almost like CR's are designed to make it impossible to account for anything.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

10 Another failed audit, but you plebes and proles better not fail to include that cash you got from your auntie on your form 1040...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (MeG8a)

11 honestly, knowing the govt as we do at this point, i'm not entirely SURE they WOULD know if they found gain of function anywhere...

there's incompetence, then there's govt...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (nXhwP)

12 Wait, what! I don’t know what to do now, do I yell SPONGE?
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SPONGO!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (7fElN)

13 F Faucii

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (XlPmJ)

14 But people saved money and accumulated wealth during covid.

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (AwYPR)

15 Hang Fauci, Weingarten, and FJB!

Posted by: Bat Boy at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (V5BDR)

16 "But initially to close it down was correct."

==================

No, no it really wasn't you rat-faced liar.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (i7Q7S)

17 How high is he on the Belloc-inspired "Longed to see him hanged" list?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (1bNHn)

18 People should be SHOT for how they stole children's futures.

But no one will even be fired for it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (N1tpc)

19 Hi Ace
Happy Tuesday.
Did you see J.D. Vance seems to be moving up in the Veep stakes?
His competition Rubio and Burghum. Can't see either being compatible with Trump. Burgum for Rnergy and Rubio for Homeland Security.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (t/2Uw)

20 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM

Funny how they turned out to be right.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (ewjUl)

21 Went to the Doctors yesterday and they still have the little circles to stand on 6 feet apart for check in

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (Akjoo)

22 Good afternoon Ace.

Posted by: Dad of Six at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (VpZau)

23 So, the Pentagon is admitting to a loss-of-function.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (w9Wax)

24 People should be SHOT for how they stole children's futures.

But no one will even be fired for it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (N1tpc)

(I should note that public schools are generally designed to steal children's futures. But the COVID transgressions were even worse.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (N1tpc)

25 I imagine I'm one of the few here with direct experience as both a recipient and an advisor on dispensing DoD research dollars. I am unable to envision a scenario in which "there's no tellin' where the money went" is plausible. This is a coverup, but you knew that already.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (xCA6C)

26 21 Went to the Doctors yesterday and they still have the little circles to stand on 6 feet apart for check in
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (Akjoo)

Walgreens near me still does too.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (N39Ws)

27 I've got a great idea: Make every department in government put together a budget and submit it to Congress. Make Congress vote on each and every budget.

..I'd also like to be 29 again.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 12:16 PM (tT6L1)

28 The US and China unleashed a virus on the world voluntarily, that killed millions of people. Not to mention the endless damage from the fauxcine.

And most people at this point are like "eh" while nothing has been done to correct a damn thing and they're still lying to our faces about all of it.

Millions. A genocide in our midst but who's on Dancing With the Stars and what did Tay Tay say. Strange times indeed.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 12:16 PM (ugRIO)

29 If you don't support their budget that includes giving money money to China, then, you hate the military. I think we are past the point of who works for who in this country. The politicians certainly won't get the Pentagon under control.

Posted by: ryukyu at June 25, 2024 12:16 PM (hR0kJ)

30 Fauci belongs in prison entertaining convicts better endowed than hisself.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 12:16 PM (pohLc)

31 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

Only the ones who make kale smoothies!

Posted by: spindrift at June 25, 2024 12:17 PM (OguvZ)

32 Plausible deniability means it has to be at least believable.

This ain't it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 12:17 PM (Q4IgG)

33 In one of the buildings I work in they waxed the Mega Safety Direction Arrows of Peace into the floor essentially permanently.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (ugRIO)

34

"The learning losses particularly impacted minority and lower-income students unable to afford tutors and other online educational resources. "

And they laughed.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (et1vG)

35 Plausible deniability means it has to be at least believable.

This ain't it.

Indeed.

Posted by: That guy who always says indeed. at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (xCA6C)

36 It's not just thar these "civil servants" made mistakes (oopsie!), it's that they also abused the power of government to get people fired or deplatformed for questioning those mistakes and that those "mistakes" had devastating effects on people's lives.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (M+gBW)

37 "Went to the Doctors yesterday and they still have the little circles to stand on 6 feet apart for check in"

=========

The liquor store closest to my home still has the directional arrows on the floor and the cashiers stand behind plexiglass.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (i7Q7S)

38 I have a basic question about this type of funding. Why is the Federal Gvernment allowed to send billions of dollars to First World countries? This makes no sense to me. Especially a country like China which is in direct competition with us. And why is the government allowed to send money to help out the Taliban?
It seems there should be some basic rules about sending money to places hostile to the US. You know, like Iran.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)

39 Oh yeah. Fauxcine. Faucine. Huh.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (ugRIO)

40 How is it possible, that billions of dollars just fucking disappear. I 've had enough of this shit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (ewjUl)

41 In an ideal world, he'd be ~~begging for handouts at stop lights.~~ bound and gagged while stripped naked, staked in the noon sun while thousands of sand fleas, chiggers, mites, ticks, and other associated pests bite, sting, and infect him until he dies and nothing of his corpse remains but sun bleached bones...
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (99eI0)

FTFY

but i'm not advocating for that, just saying fantasy is an awesome thing....

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (nXhwP)

42 Aren't a few trillion just "Missing", which means either covert operations, or wars, college debts paid, support for NGOs moving illegals, etc. Or Graft ... aka THEFT by the Kleptocracy?

How long have they been funding bio-weapons, and doing in in enemy territory, like China of all places. Who knows, maybe CIA was behind the lab leak, but then China sent their infected around the world.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (Cus5s)

43 28
Millions. A genocide in our midst but who's on Dancing With the Stars and what did Tay Tay say. Strange times indeed.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 12:16 PM (ugRIO)

Infuriating, isn't it. Is it people already forgetting about those dark times? Or is it people with the attitude of "nothing I can do about it"?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (N39Ws)

44 >>Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan

Well, how about Ukraine or Somalia?

I swear, give me full and unfettered access to the Sentinel and Trident database and I will get some motherf**king answers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (XV/Pl)

45 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

46 What news of JT?

If you're lurking out there, be well sir!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (4XwPj)

47 Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

48 The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories

Look, if you want to produce weapons of mass destruction for use against the US and the West...that's none of our business. Here's your blank check!

Posted by: DoD at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (+j7Fj)

49
*What would you say you DO here?*

I'm the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Assistant Undersecretary Deputies.

Posted by: And stuff at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (dg+HA)

50 The learning losses particularly impacted minority and lower-income students unable to afford tutors and other online educational resources.

--

According to equity, the right way to remedy this is to make it harder for those who were unaffected the least.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (hDQ7j)

51 What news of JT?

If you're lurking out there, be well sir!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (4XwPj)

He's reportedly quite ill and prayers are requested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

52 The Norwegian government on Tuesday signed a deal to store 30,000 tons of grain in facilities across the country.

Sweet!

Posted by: Brown Norway Rats at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (w9Wax)

53 Randi and the sawed off poisonous lawn gnome, Fauci, are both cut from the same totalitarian cloth.

Yet, they still walk free.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (tT6L1)

54 44 I swear, give me full and unfettered access to the Sentinel and Trident database and I will get some motherf**king answers.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: julian assange, noted guilty person at June 25, 2024 12:20 PM (sGtp+)

55 "The US and China unleashed a virus on the world voluntarily, that killed millions of people"

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Yet the biggest threats to America are veterans and old ladies who pray outside abortion clinics.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 12:20 PM (i7Q7S)

56 wake me when the Crimes Against Humanity trials start.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2024 12:20 PM (iD+t2)

57 In an ideal world, [Fauci]'d be begging for handouts at stop lights.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024

***
Will Do Gain-of-Function For Food

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (J2vNu)

58 50 The learning losses particularly impacted minority and lower-income students unable to afford tutors and other online educational resources.

So they're telling us that minority and low income students are stupid by virtue of being minority and low income ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (Akjoo)

59 Parents who home-schooled their kids were not only weirdos but no doubt exhibited white privilege (!) The entire laptop class who could work from home during the "pandemic" also were largely privileged people of pallor. Funny how those people were not subjected to classist epithets.

Posted by: fly gal at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (HjfbW)

60 I'm the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary for Assistant Undersecretary Deputies.
Posted by: And stuff at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (dg+HA)
-------------

Great, you can work with us!

Posted by: Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (tT6L1)

61 But I wore such cute scarves!

Posted by: Team Birx at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (dg+HA)

62 Sigh. This is all pointless. Sure, it can be argued that some people did something, or didn't, whatever. The main point is that taking these actions set the stage to allow us to ensure the election of the hardest working, most intelligent, most moral President in the history of the United States since 2022.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (U7wke)

63 Why do we give ANY money for ANYTHING in China?? I’m a simpleton so maybe someone can use small words to explain why anything in China would justify us giving it even one penny…. You’d think, oh I don’t know, that the Chinese government would fund stuff in China. Not like we’re besties either….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (SlNuN)

64 The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.

Whoops!
Whoopsie!

Posted by: Chuck C at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (yOPBE)

65 @40

>>How is it possible, that billions of dollars just fucking disappear. I 've had enough of this shit.

Because the money doesn't actually exist, it's all largely digital and gets passed around more than a truck stop lot lizard. And when they need actual physical cash, someone calls the FED and orders up some pallets of cash that then get shipped to some distribution silo or silos to be doled out to whatever entity needs it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:22 PM (XV/Pl)

66 The liquor store closest to my home still has the directional arrows on the floor and the cashiers stand behind plexiglass.
Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024

***
My local Dollar Tree stores only ditched the plexiglass early this year, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:22 PM (J2vNu)

67 Making young Americans even dumber was not a bug but a feature.

Vote democrat youngster.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2024 12:22 PM (17s+e)

68 But I wore such cute scarves!
Posted by: Team Birx at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (dg+HA)

You lied to the President of the United States to push your agenda. You should never see the light of day again either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

69 Literally no other organization, including the Church, gets that luxury.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously

Depending on the jurisdiction - Internal Affairs of the Popo.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2024 12:23 PM (WXNFJ)

70 So they're telling us that minority and low income students are stupid by virtue of being minority and low income ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (Akjoo)

You're either white or poor, my word as a Biden.

Has he stopped using that phrase since Hunty? I believe he has. I guess the Biden name just doesn't carry the respect it used to.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ugRIO)

71 I credit the supermarket directional arrows and six-foot spacing at checkout with my remarkable health and vitality. That, and Geritol.

Posted by: Myron Floren Groupie at June 25, 2024 12:23 PM (V5BDR)

72
>>How is it possible, that billions of dollars just fucking disappear.

It's a write off, Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at June 25, 2024 12:24 PM (dg+HA)

73 Let me get this straight. Our government sends thousands of guns across our borders to drug cartels and various criminal elements and loses track of them

Our government sends billions of tax dollars around the world and loses track of it.

I'm sensing a pattern here......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

74 You're either white or poor, my word as a Biden.

Has he stopped using that phrase since Hunty? I believe he has. I guess the Biden name just doesn't carry the respect it used to.
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024

***
If he says it during the debate on Thursday night, I'll . . . well, I don't drink. I'll throw a slipper at one of my cats, how's that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (J2vNu)

75 Depending on the jurisdiction - Internal Affairs of the Popo.
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm not saying that they can't do an internal investigation, I'm saying that nobody considers an internal investigation sufficient to address widespread and systemic problems in an organization.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (hDQ7j)

76 Apropos of nothing, my backhoe dolly has arrived.

Yay.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (XV/Pl)

77 The civil servant who lied to PDT about WuFlu information was Dr. Deborah Birx ex-CDC hack made W.H. WuFlu chief.

On February 27, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence appointed Birx to the position of White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator.

Birx led the creation of a reopening plan presented by Trump on April 16, 2020, with voluntary standards for states to end coronavirus lockdowns.[31]

Jul 17, 2022
Dr. Deborah Birx admits being deceitful when recommending Covid strategies to Trump
"I couldn't do anything that would reveal my true intention," she writes, "to use the travel ban as one brick
in the construction of a larger wall of protective measures we needed to enact very soon."

https://tinyurl.com/ymbv7mcc
Post Millennial

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (ZdexC)

78 The covid scam broke many brains…. I saw a mom with two children in the airport this morning…. She had both these kids wearing masks. They were around 10 I’d estimate …. Insanity

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (SlNuN)

79 I think the solution here is to find out the dollar amount of the money they can't track and reduce their budget by that amount.

I bet they'd be able to find it then.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (hB7mE)

80 Mystery budgets were funner back when we could joke that they were going to find Area 51 and aliens.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (hDQ7j)

81 Don't worry, I'm sure the tax dollars spent outside the US will be returned to us. Just look at all of the labor we're paying to import!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

82 Ohh they did it alright

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (wKStU)

83 George W. Bush Institute
In March 2021, Birx joined the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, as a senior fellow, working on initiatives
to reduce health disparities and prepare for future pandemics.[58][59][60][61]

Career health officials like Dr. Deborah Birx circumvented Trump's instructions to moderate COVID lockdowns.
Environmental Protection Agency lawyers pursued cases against fossil fuel producers and withheld the information from Trump appointees.

https://tinyurl.com/y2w27efc
Frontpage Magazine

NEW: Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreyatucker Mar 30, 2024
So get this. The day that Trump announced travel restrictions, March 12, 2020, that very day the CDC made a change on its website to say that the way to deal with Covid is: mail-in voting!!
The CDC!
Don't tell me that this is not a gigantic racket/coup.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 12:27 PM (ZdexC)

84 Is EVERYONE in government a piece of shit?

I'm beginning to believe government ethics training isn't effective.

Off topic but CNN could be on the hook for a billion dollars for malicious defamation via an article on PJMedia (couldn't link).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 25, 2024 12:27 PM (VLzPv)

85 The liquor store closest to my home still has the directional arrows on the floor and the cashiers stand behind plexiglass.

Is it really, really thick plexiglass?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2024 12:28 PM (/y8xj)

86 wake me when the Crimes Against Humanity trials start.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Piss on trials.
Just declare open season.
No daily limits. No bag limits.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:28 PM (1UfpD)

87 Someone needs to introduce a bill in congress that says the largest percentage in any department in the federal gov can't come up with an itemized accounting for is the percentage that ordinary citizens can be off by on their taxes before they are assessed penalties.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 12:28 PM (hDQ7j)

88 What would you say you do here?
.......

Cross dress at work and watch porn.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:29 PM (v0R5T)

89 For years I've been convinced that our little experiment in self governance is over, washed away in a sea of corruption.
I'd like to think otherwise, but so far I have no evidence to the contrary.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 12:29 PM (MeG8a)

90 All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

* projectile defecation in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at June 25, 2024 12:30 PM (zdKst)

91 Is EVERYONE in government a piece of shit?
.......

Well, they are mostly Democrats living off our tax dollars, so yeah.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:30 PM (v0R5T)

92 You people are just bigots, you see.

"Star Wars: The Acolyte" Showrunner Says Critics Describing Witch Coven As Lesbians Are “Not Really Paying Attention”, Claims Series Is “The Most Important Piece Of Art That I’ve Ever Made”

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

93 Afternoon ace. Every one of the scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration, who were then flamed by Fauci, are better scientists than Fauci. He's a world class bureaucrat who protected his turf and his actions viciously.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (N+p0+)

94 Of course they funded gain of function research, they just don't want to admit how many billions of $$$$ they gave to the chinese government to conduct research that is illegal in the United States.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (QNSds)

95 40 How is it possible, that billions of dollars just fucking disappear. I 've had enough of this shit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (ewjUl)

"Hey, stuff happens. Also, we noticed your tax payment was $3.27 short. Don't make us send an armed agent to your door." -- Your government

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (KbCG3)

96
Lesbians In Space!

Posted by: A tale as old as time at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (dg+HA)

97 The liquor store closest to my home still has the directional arrows on the floor and the cashiers stand behind plexiglass.
*
Is it really, really thick plexiglass?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2024

***
Thick enough that when the idiots were wearing their face diapers (and too many people here talk as if they've got a thumb shoved in their mouths), I couldn't hear or understand 'em. I'd step over and talk past the edge of the plexi to get their (annoyed and panicked) attention. They hated that -- especially since I didn't wear the Rag of Submission. (Heh, heh, heh. . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:32 PM (J2vNu)

98 "Star Wars: The Acolyte" Showrunner Says Critics Describing Witch Coven As Lesbians Are “Not Really Paying Attention”, Claims Series Is “The Most Important Piece Of Art That I’ve Ever Made”

Yes, I believe that.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)

99 Someone needs to introduce a bill in congress that says the largest percentage in any department in the federal gov can't come up with an itemized accounting for is the percentage that

their annual budget is reduced for the next fiscal year.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:32 PM (1UfpD)

100 Mystery budgets were funner back when we could joke that they were going to find Area 51 and aliens.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously
.......

They found Area 51 in Montana but they can't find the millions of aliens.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:33 PM (v0R5T)

101 So, the Pentagon is admitting to a loss-of-function.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (w9Wax)

Yes, in Pentagon CYA speak.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at June 25, 2024 12:33 PM (K861k)

102 Is EVERYONE in government a piece of shit?
.......

Well, they are mostly Democrats living off our tax dollars, so yeah.
Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:30 PM (v0R5T)

And the others are Republicans. So.... yeah.

Posted by: InZona at June 25, 2024 12:33 PM (g6tlb)

103 Finland begins Bird Flu shots.

Soon.

Posted by: It's happening at June 25, 2024 12:33 PM (HHeVI)

104
Some people may have done some things.
Mistakes may have been made.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.

Posted by: MSM at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (zdKst)

105 “The Most Important Piece Of Art That I’ve Ever Made”

Yes, I believe that.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)

She unfortunately misspelled 'shArt.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

106 So, the illegal alien who viciously raped and murdered a 12 yearold child gets bail. 10 million dollar bail but still, granted bail. While J6ers held for 3 years Pretrial without bail in a jail where they have been abused, tortured, denied medical tretament.
I fear our country is no more.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)

107 How many lamp posts are in DC? As king for a friend.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (wRpxi)

108 @92

>>"Star Wars: The Acolyte" Showrunner Says Critics Describing Witch Coven As Lesbians Are “Not Really Paying Attention”, Claims Series Is “The Most Important Piece Of Art That I’ve Ever Made”

In a just world, Leslie Headland, Harvey Weinstein's Former Personal Assistant, would be unemployed and unemployable, instead, it is even money she will replace Kathleen Kennedy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

109 Its all part of the Clinton Global Initiative.
If my memory serves me the transfer (theft/sale) of vital US science and engineering resources 'initiated' during the Clinton administration.

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (o3Uyl)

110 Lesbians In Space!
Posted by: A tale as old as time at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (dg+HA)
......

Starliner still stuck at the Space Station?

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

111 Tommy Robinson goes to Canada to speak at a convention and is immediately arrested for an "outstanding immigration warrant."

Trudeau's Gestapo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

112 The people who move money around inside federal bureaus/departments/agencies are never elected. Neither are their supervisors. The guy/gal in charge isn't either. They are appointed. By career criminals to keep doing criminal things.

But, yea, vote or something to fix it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Q4IgG)

113
"Inspiring Success Stories of Lesbian Educators"

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (xG4kz)

114 "The US and China unleashed a virus on the world voluntarily, that killed millions of people"

Well, they re-labeled the flu, but they did unleash "health care" upon the world that killed and will kill millions.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Fr3vV)

115 The covid scam broke many brains…. I saw a mom with two children in the airport this morning…. She had both these kids wearing masks. They were around 10 I’d estimate …. Insanity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (SlNuN)

I see masks nearly every day here in MA. No delineation by age, either - young, old, middle-aged - still with the slave mask on.

I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Q0kLU)

116 Piss on trials.
Just declare open season.
No daily limits. No bag limits.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:28 PM (1UfpD)

Hello Fren...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (K861k)

117 103 Finland begins Bird Flu shots.

Soon.
Posted by: It's happening at June 25, 2024 12:33 PM (HHeVI)

Slow learners, eh?

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2024 12:36 PM (Sf2cq)

118 For some kids, the first full, normal school year was 3rd grade.

Posted by: InZona at June 25, 2024 12:36 PM (g6tlb)

119 Wasn't Rumsfeld talking about the Pentagon losing track of $2.3 trillion $ the day before OBL flew an airliner into the Pentagon right where they were trying to figure out where the money went?

There was a cool Kitty History on YouTube that mentioned it.

Posted by: torabora at June 25, 2024 12:36 PM (0Gnoc)

120 How many lamp posts are in DC? As king for a friend.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (wRpxi)
......

We can make up the shortage with overpasses.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

121 Be positive! At least there's no evidence that the DOD left vast stockpiles of Bat Flu in Kabul during the Afghanistan Bug-out!

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)

122 Say, what time is today's Star Trek symposium?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 25, 2024 12:37 PM (zdKst)

123 Peter Zeihan provides background on why the Uke strike on the Deep Space Communications complex was so important.

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

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (xCA6C)

124 115 The covid scam broke many brains…. I saw a mom with two children in the airport this morning…. She had both these kids wearing masks. They were around 10 I’d estimate …. Insanity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (SlNuN)

I see masks nearly every day here in MA. No delineation by age, either - young, old, middle-aged - still with the slave mask on.

I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Q0kLU)

There's only two outcomes for these kids:

1. They become fearful of the world around them and spend each day in anxiety thinking they'll catch the flu and die.
2. They feel like an outcast and are embarrassed but powerless.

Either way, they gonna grow up funky.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (KbCG3)

125 I see masks nearly every day here in MA. No delineation by age, either - young, old, middle-aged - still with the slave mask on.

I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024

***
"Do you have any idea how stupid you look in that thing?"

Posted by: Stuff Wolfus Never Gets to Say at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (J2vNu)

126 I was in CT this past weekend. My sisters still think the vaccine was essential and kept people from dying and that the boosters keep you from getting a serious case. When I asked if they had read any of hte recent research, one sister said she ooulw only believe somethingif the Official CDC issued it.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (t/2Uw)

127 How many lamp posts are in DC? As king for a friend.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (wRpxi)
......

Plenty of trees along the National Mall, Constitution Ave and Independence Ave. Don't forget the Cherry Trees around the Tidal Basin!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at June 25, 2024 12:39 PM (K861k)

128 111 Tommy Robinson goes to Canada to speak at a convention and is immediately arrested for an "outstanding immigration warrant."

Trudeau's Gestapo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

And it's his first trip to Canada. They also haven't told him what he did wrong.

Posted by: ryukyu at June 25, 2024 12:39 PM (hR0kJ)

129 I should have added that they are a lost cause.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:39 PM (t/2Uw)

130 So, the illegal alien who viciously raped and murdered a 12 yearold child gets bail. 10 million dollar bail but still, granted bail. While J6ers held for 3 years Pretrial without bail in a jail where they have been abused, tortured, denied medical tretament.
I fear our country is no more.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

It wasn't rape-rape. Or murder-murder.

Posted by: Whooptie at June 25, 2024 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

131 There's only two outcomes for these kids:

1. They become fearful of the world around them and spend each day in anxiety thinking they'll catch the flu and die.
2. They feel like an outcast and are embarrassed but powerless.

Not to worry. We're here to direct you at every step of your life.

Posted by: Big Government at June 25, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

132 I was fairly well trained in government auditing standards, and requirements for grant recipients.
Calling be on this one.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (4780s)

133 There's only two outcomes for these kids:

1. They become fearful of the world around them and spend each day in anxiety thinking they'll catch the flu and die.
2. They feel like an outcast and are embarrassed but powerless.

Either way, they gonna grow up funky.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (KbCG3)

You forgot 'turned trans.'

The parents are obviously broken and will be guilted into destroying their children's lives in horrific ways.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

134 I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM

Ace does this with some comments, as well.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (zdKst)

135 Our Feral Government is run by maniacs and incompetents.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (UV+mb)

136 https://youtu.be/0-Lvv1f5Qu4?si=O_Vx1ea8iFeoco5R

Kitty History it's SFW

Posted by: torabora at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (0Gnoc)

137 I see masks nearly every day here in MA. No delineation by age, either - young, old, middle-aged - still with the slave mask on.

I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Q0kLU)

You see them everywhere at Logan airport.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 25, 2024 12:41 PM (N39Ws)

138 My sisters still think the vaccine was essential and kept people from dying and that the boosters keep you from getting a serious case. When I asked if they had read any of hte recent research, one sister said she ooulw only believe somethingif the Official CDC issued it.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024

***
Since I haven't seen him in six months or more, I have no idea if the BernieBro in my former writing group still believes all that. Considering he once parroted to me the MSM line that "It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated," I suspect he does.

Posted by: Stuff Wolfus Never Gets to Say at June 25, 2024 12:42 PM (J2vNu)

139 I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM

Ace does this with some comments, as well.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (zdKst)

I presume he always does it with mine.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:42 PM (Q0kLU)

140 My faith in the US Governement is restored. Praise Allah.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Z8Yh2)

141
I presume he always does it with mine.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:42 PM (Q0kLU)

You haven't lived until he's written a screed about you saying things you've never said or implied, ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

142 Wasn't Rumsfeld talking about the Pentagon losing track of $2.3 trillion $ the day before OBL flew an airliner into the Pentagon

Good ROI for a few plane parts scattered around, huh? We even got to start a bunch of wars!

Posted by: The Pentagon at June 25, 2024 12:43 PM (0ljUU)

143 People wearing masks are not protecting themselves from viruses, they are signaling their membership in the cult of government. Proud, non thinking tools of oppression. They are sick, sick people and will require removal from any position of power, including the right to vote.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 12:43 PM (pohLc)

144 I was in CT this past weekend. My sisters still think the vaccine was essential and kept people from dying and that the boosters keep you from getting a serious case. When I asked if they had read any of hte recent research, one sister said she ooulw only believe somethingif the Official CDC issued it.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 12:38 PM (t/2Uw)
.......

http://tiny.cc/d1etyz

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

145 Yeah, they know. They just don't want you to know that they know.

Posted by: pookysgirl, beyond cynical at June 25, 2024 12:44 PM (XTmxn)

146 The number of "modified limited hangouts" that Jack Smith has retreated to are staggering as we inch closer and closer to the truth:
Trump took ordinary, unclassified personal items and docs when he left.
The media hysteria machine manufactured a outlandish claim--without evidence-- that Trump took classified docs.
Fear and panic grip the IC as they are actually so sloppy, they have no idea who has what docs.
The IC colludes with the Archives, plants low-level innocuous and outdated classified docs in a second trach of boxes slated to be delivered to Mar y Largo.
After delivery, they gin up the unlawful possession entrapment investigation.
Trump's lawyers agree to segregate and securely store the docs.
The DC grand jury is about to expire, but due to cooperating, they fear agreement will be reached--but date to be set AFTER the GJ retires. Plus, if agreed, Trump's lawyers will review on-site, in-loco what is "classified."
Thus, the raid-- to seize the planted docs, add the classified markings, whisk them away before anyone can see them, ramp up the media with calculated highly-damning leaks of the photos, get the valet to flip and the rest of the dominoes follow.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 12:44 PM (5rKCH)

147 You forgot 'turned trans.'

The parents are obviously broken and will be guilted into destroying their children's lives in horrific ways.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

I remember when all of this was just getting started, had to take my daughter to the pediatrician. Woman walked in with her two very little kids and they all had masks on. Again, this was early, early.

The kids kept playing with the masks, as kids do. Mom finally gave up and said they could just take them off.

Which is not exactly a thing you'd be all passive about if you actually believed something to be deadly. Wonder if that thought occurred to her at all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:44 PM (KbCG3)

148 I'm conflicted on the Assange matter. He probably got a lot of Undercovers and/or informants killed, but after what we've seen our intelligence community does I'm not sure I can get that upset. He was basically tortured in public for fourteen years so he has been punished.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 12:45 PM (N+p0+)

149 122 Say, what time is today's Star Trek symposium?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

if you're talking about the falcon heavy launch, i think it's scheduled for sometime around 4:45 eastern.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:45 PM (sGtp+)

150 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution rag released a likely voter poll with Trump leading Biden +5 in GA.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)

151 Again, the problem with a government with zero accountability is at the heart of our mess.

Imagine if the parties were reversed; a bio-tech company sends funds to a shady 3rd party for 'research,' but the 3rd party has been known to break laws. The bio-tech company can't claim ignorance. The Feds would shut their ass down if not prosecute the principles for finance, reporting violations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 25, 2024 12:46 PM (IG4Id)

152 I beleeb you hab my stabler.

Posted by: General Milton at June 25, 2024 12:46 PM (Ybyk2)

153 The kids kept playing with the masks, as kids do. Mom finally gave up and said they could just take them off.

Which is not exactly a thing you'd be all passive about if you actually believed something to be deadly. Wonder if that thought occurred to her at all.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024

***
It might have been that she was cowed by her own peer group of AWFLs. If she'd gone against the Fauci Wisdom by allowing her kids to breathe free air, her neighbors might have excommunicated her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (J2vNu)

154 135 Our Feral Government is run by maniacs and incompetents.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at June 25, 2024 12:40 PM (UV+mb)

Lets see.....
It is impossible to fire anyone. Even for cause. Thanks goes to unionizing the government workers. And they know it. They can openly disregard any direction given by the administration because they know in 4 or 8 years the leaders will change out.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (N39Ws)

155 121 Be positive! At least there's no evidence that the DOD left vast stockpiles of Bat Flu in Kabul during the Afghanistan Bug-out!

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (sGtp+)

156 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

157 NeverTrump political consultant Joel Searby was arrested by police on charges related to attempting to meet up with and molest a 15-year-old boy. Searby ran Evan McMullin’s independent 2016 campaign for president in a last-ditch effort by NeverTrumpers to stop Donald Trump, including the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, according to the Washington Post.

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

158
They should have spent that gain of function money on Joe Biden !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (NtVYv)

159 I posted this yesterday, but we're not participating in any NIH funded research anymore. In six years, they've gone from being the Gold Standard to be deserving of hanging from lampposts.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2024 12:49 PM (wBaIH)

160 @146

>>Trump took ordinary, unclassified personal items and docs when he left.
The media hysteria machine manufactured a outlandish claim--without evidence-- that Trump took classified docs.

The whole concept of classified documents does not apply to a President of The United States, there is no declassification authority above him and any documents he took are ipso-facto declassified.

The lawfare being waged against Trump is mosterous.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:49 PM (XV/Pl)

161 >>>Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan

Yawn. The auditors didn't find the records because they intentionally did not look in the folder they know the records are in.

Reference: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", from the "Satires," written by Juvenal, an ancient Roman poet.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2024 12:49 PM (5fDan)

162 NeverTrump political consultant Joel Searby was arrested by police on charges related to attempting to meet up with and molest a 15-year-old boy. Searby ran Evan McMullin’s independent 2016 campaign for president in a last-ditch effort by NeverTrumpers to stop Donald Trump, including the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, according to the Washington Post.
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

I read part of an article on that. That is one sick MF

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 12:49 PM (NtVYv)

163 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Well, you'd know if it was the other way around, wouldn't you?

Posted by: pookysgirl, obviously not a dude at June 25, 2024 12:50 PM (XTmxn)

164 Lets see.....
It is impossible to fire anyone. Even for cause. Thanks goes to unionizing the government workers. And they know it. They can openly disregard any direction given by the administration because they know in 4 or 8 years the leaders will change out.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Imagine a clandestine team that goes around quietly and permanently removing those that disregard a legal directive. Extrajudicially.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:50 PM (1UfpD)

165 Oh come on; the DOD knows better than to send the $$$ directly; you always use intermediaries.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

166 "The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.

Sure they did, they just didn't put it in those words or phrases. Not even the IG could find it as they didn't know where it was hidden. The proverbial needle in a haystack labeled quite differently than its actual use for funding. It would be too easy to dismiss this as just another example of incompetence but rather, another corrupt Government agency.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (oiNtH)

167 163 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Well, you'd know if it was the other way around, wouldn't you?

Posted by: pookysgirl, obviously not a dude at June 25, 2024 12:50 PM (XTmxn)

Only if he connects his sore ass with it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

168 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution rag released a likely voter poll with Trump leading Biden +5 in GA.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 12:45 PM

They always over sample democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (QNSds)

169 Imagine a clandestine team that goes around quietly and permanently removing those that disregard a legal directive. Extrajudicially.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:50 PM (1UfpD)

Do you perhaps send out a circular around the holidays?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (VGRuw)

170 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

? Oversharing?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (xCA6C)

171 166 "The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.

Sure they did, they just didn't put it in those words or phrases. Not even the IG could find it as they didn't know where it was hidden. The proverbial needle in a haystack labeled quite differently than its actual use for funding. It would be too easy to dismiss this as just another example of incompetence but rather, another corrupt Government agency.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (oiNtH)

You follow the money from where it got to Wuhan BACK to the DOD.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

172 170 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

? Oversharing?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (xCA6C)

In 20 years, if he sees a girl with brightly colored hair, he might wonder if he f**ked a parrot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

173 SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - GOES-U - LC-39A
Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 25, 2024
Launch Time: 5:16 p.m. EDT, 21:16 UTC, 23:16 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/jSRo1H73O9g

Posted by: Ciampino - Colon - farming butt? at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (qfLjt)

174 So you think maybe Biden got new plugs and some Botox this week?

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

175 Then it's a yes.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (ytSiK)

176 The US Surgeon General has declared gun violence a "public health emergency". Pre-debate fodder.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)

177 The whole concept of classified documents does not apply to a President of The United States, there is no declassification authority above him and any documents he took are ipso-facto declassified.

The lawfare being waged against Trump is mosterous.

The typical rejoinder to that is along the lines of "there's a process even the president must follow, and he didn't". I have no idea how true it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

178 If you ever want to be completely disgusted, horrified, and embarrassed, watch the people at a teacher's union strike.

If your kids are in public schools I'm sorry for you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (JeYYB)

179 The Law of Lincoln has many unexpected surprises. Its like it entitles endless brinksmanship.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (n17eQ)

180 NeverTrump political consultant Joel Searby was arrested by police on charges related to attempting to meet up with and molest a 15-year-old boy. Searby ran Evan McMullin’s independent 2016 campaign for president in a last-ditch effort by NeverTrumpers to stop Donald Trump, including the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, according to the Washington Post.
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (RHGPo)
______

Searby was really sleazy and really really good at grooming. Knew exactly what to say. He's totally done this before. Oh, and he's married.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

181 173 SpaceX - Falcon Heavy - GOES-U - LC-39A
Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 25, 2024
Launch Time: 5:16 p.m. EDT, 21:16 UTC, 23:16 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/jSRo1H73O9g

Posted by: Ciampino - Colon - farming butt? at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (qfLjt)

If many families' surnames came from the occupation they were involved in (e.g. smith), what job was Cristobál Colón's (aka Christopher Columbus) family involved in?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

182 6 Modified limited hangout.

Mistakes were made.

Let's not dwell on the past.

This is no time for partisan politics.

At this point, what difference does it make?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (Q0kLU)

Yes this happened and its a good thing it did!

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (53oGX)

183 The whole fvcking thing was a part of Get Trump.
Completely asinine.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (gxokI)

184 Project 2025, announced this week it had the backing of 100 conservative groups,including the most established and well-funded institutions inside Washington
There are four areas of focus for the project, per the outlet:

A database of conservatives and Trump loyalists to quickly stock the executive branch.
Preemptive training for those appointees so they can immediately take action once they take office.
An aggressive policy agenda to begin implementing on day one.
A 180-day playbook for Trump’s second term.
“The administrative state is, at best, completely out of touch with the American people and, at worst, is weaponized against them. We will soon embark on a historic reform of the federal government to get it once again to work for the American people. With our 100-member strong coalition, we have the momentum as we begin this critical year,” the outlet noted.

The 180-day playbook comprises a “transition plan” for each federal agency to be executed promptly upon Trump’s assumption of office. The Project 2025 policy agenda, although not obligatory for Trump, encompasses an intricately outlined set of reforms for numerous agencies, including those unfamiliar to most Americans.

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (o3Uyl)

185 The typical rejoinder to that is along the lines of "there's a process even the president must follow, and he didn't". I have no idea how true it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

Yet, they fail to mention that of the vice president.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (KbCG3)

186 Only if he connects his sore ass with it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)
......

Coulda been the Taco Bell.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

187 180 NeverTrump political consultant Joel Searby was arrested by police on charges related to attempting to meet up with and molest a 15-year-old boy. Searby ran Evan McMullin’s independent 2016 campaign for president in a last-ditch effort by NeverTrumpers to stop Donald Trump, including the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, according to the Washington Post.
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (RHGPo)
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Searby was really sleazy and really really good at grooming. Knew exactly what to say. He's totally done this before. Oh, and he's married.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

Now we know what's in a Evan McMullin sandwich...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (ynpvh)

188 He's totally done this before. Oh, and he's married.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

It's an eminence front.

It's a put on......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

189 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

? Oversharing?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (xCA6C)
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Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

190 I remember when all of this was just getting started, had to take my daughter to the pediatrician. Woman walked in with her two very little kids and they all had masks on. Again, this was early, early.

The kids kept playing with the masks, as kids do. Mom finally gave up and said they could just take them off.

Which is not exactly a thing you'd be all passive about if you actually believed something to be deadly. Wonder if that thought occurred to her at all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

I happened to be in a Whole Foods in Texas, where masks were optional. Watched the father of a three year old who kept playing with the mask take him outside and spank the crap out of him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (lTGtQ)

191 Parisians are planning to protest the Olympics by pooping in the Seine River

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Well, the Europeans generally and the French particularly are more sophisticated than we are.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (L/fGl)

192 I've taken to loudly snorting in derision and rolling my eyes whenever I see someone wearing them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Q0kLU)

You see them everywhere at Logan airport.

I don't know about anyone else, but I wear a mask whenever I'm on a plane so my sinuses don't dry out.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (hB7mE)

193 31 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

Only the ones who make kale smoothies!
Posted by: spindrift at June

Haha!

AC guy on the roof. Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (CM7zZ)

194 186 Only if he connects his sore ass with it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)
......

Coulda been the Taco Bell.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

Exactly what I mean.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

195 >>>"But initially to close it down was correct. Keeping it for a year was not a good idea."

TWO WEEKS TO FLATTEN THE CURVE

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (NHMTR)

196 Fauci retired with a great pension

Birx has a great sinecure… in Texas of all places!!

Who said crime doesn’t pay??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (xT8gx)

197 The federal Reconciliation in Place Names Committee, a subcommittee of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, is recommending Secretery of the Interior Deb Haaland submit a request to the Biden administration to change the name of "the sacred geographic feature in Wyoming known as 'Devils Tower'" and the unincorporated community surrounding it to Bear Lodge, which is what it was called by American Indians before it was Devils Tower.

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (RHGPo)

198 193 31 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

Only the ones who make kale smoothies!
Posted by: spindrift at June

Haha!

AC guy on the roof. Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (CM7zZ)

For Piper,
AC guy on the roof >>> Fiddler on the Roof

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

199 68 But I wore such cute scarves!
Posted by: Team Birx at June 25, 2024 12:21 PM (dg+HA)

You lied to the President of the United States to push your agenda. You should never see the light of day again either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

Why is it illegal to "lie" to the FBI (Michael Fynn) and as a result get hounded mercilessly, yet to lie/mislead/block the President was ok?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (QGaXH)

200 Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock dead at 49: Lead singer who battled with substance abuse passes away

https://mol.im/a/13567145

Posted by: Ciampino - Colon - farming butts? at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (qfLjt)

201 The state of Illinois is running an ad campaign in Texas where it's the "center of everything" and shows two lesbian broads roaming around, doing things.

Yeah, way to know your audience, Illinois. Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Parisians are planning to protest the Olympics by pooping in the Seine River

How could you tell the difference?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (Q0kLU)

203 Heal up, JT!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (xcxpd)

204 196 Fauci retired with a great pension

Birx has a great sinecure… in Texas of all places!!

Who said crime doesn’t pay??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (xT8gx)

The criminals that run the Gov't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

205 1 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

Piper has forgotten to include a snark tag. Let's see if anyone notices.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (NHMTR)

206 202 Parisians are planning to protest the Olympics by pooping in the Seine River

How could you tell the difference?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (Q0kLU)

that shit's just in-Seine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

207 I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Well, you'd know if it was the other way around, wouldn't you?

Posted by: pookysgirl, obviously not a dude at June 25, 2024 12:50 PM (XTmxn)

Only if he connects his sore ass with it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)
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You all do know I was joking to make fun of the Pentagon, right?? See my comment above.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

208 Hunter Biden's law license suspended in DC after conviction on gun charge

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (RHGPo)

209 on't know if I fucked a dude or not.

? Oversharing?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:52 PM (xCA6C)
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Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (iFTx/

Now now, honest mistakes happen.

Posted by: Eddie murphy at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (OiAR7)

210 Mistakes were made.

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Viruses were released.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

211 Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock dead at 49: Lead singer who battled with substance abuse passes away

https://mol.im/a/13567145
Posted by: Ciampino - Colon - farming butts? at June 25, 2024 12:58 PM (qfLjt)

Wife mentioned that this morning. Said I like the song. guess I'll have to look it up and pay tribute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

212 The federal Reconciliation in Place Names Committee, a subcommittee of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names,

Posted by: SMOD

I'm glad that while we are going into debt at the rate of a trillion dollars every three months, we have the foresight to not shut down this vital government program.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (lTGtQ)

213 The typical rejoinder to that is along the lines of "there's a process even the president must follow, and he didn't". I have no idea how true it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

It’s not true. Period. The prez has ultimate class/declass authority. If the prez dreams in his head a doc is unclass, then it’s unclass. Period

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (xT8gx)

214 207
...
You all do know I was joking to make fun of the Pentagon, right?? See my comment above.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

Too late to fix that now. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

215 196 Who said crime doesn’t pay??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:57 PM (xT8gx)

Dunno. Not sure anybody did say that.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (NHMTR)

216 I happened to be in a Whole Foods in Texas, where masks were optional. Watched the father of a three year old who kept playing with the mask take him outside and spank the crap out of him.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 12:56 PM (lTGtQ)

I'll kill you if you don't wear this mask is one way to approach it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (KbCG3)

217 I have a lot of labels for GW, none of which are flattering, but, traitorous jackass wasn't on my GW Label Bingo Card.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (tT6L1)

218 Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Murdering Houston Teenager Wore ICE Ankle Monitor During the Attack

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

219 Elric, thanks for clearing that up.It had serious effect on my image of you. (-:

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

220 Way off topic... but lordy did you see that footage of Travis kelcey on stage with Tay Tay.

Squeeeeeeeeeeee. Went the crowd.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (OiAR7)

221 1 But people who homeschool are weirdos.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (pZEOD)

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Huh?

No, no they're not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (JeYYB)

222 213 The typical rejoinder to that is along the lines of "there's a process even the president must follow, and he didn't". I have no idea how true it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

It’s not true. Period. The prez has ultimate class/declass authority. If the prez dreams in his head a doc is unclass, then it’s unclass. Period

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (xT8gx)

How to quickly get kilt:
AS President, I declare declassified all gov't info collected showing each of the Dems and most of the Repubs in Gov't are dirty and traitors...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

223 Ah...Ok. I do know that song...and do like it.

Was at a battle of the bands show and one of the bands covered it. Did a good job. But, hadn't thought about that song in a LONG time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

224 Way off topic... but lordy did you see that footage of Travis kelcey on stage with Tay Tay.

Squeeeeeeeeeeee. Went the crowd.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (OiAR7)
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I wonder how many of the squeeing "adults" were pushing 40?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:02 PM (tT6L1)

225 > The US Surgeon General has declared gun violence a "public health emergency". Pre-debate fodder.

We'll see how hard they try to flex that muscle. The last "public health emergency" stomped all over our rights. If they push that hard or harder on guns being a "public health emergency," things could get really real.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 01:02 PM (Odg76)

226 218 Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Murdering Houston Teenager Wore ICE Ankle Monitor During the Attack
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

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If you need to wear a fucking ankle monitor you get shipped back to the shithole you're from.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:03 PM (JeYYB)

227 @177

>>The typical rejoinder to that is along the lines of "there's a process even the president must follow, and he didn't". I have no idea how true it is.

Classification is for everyone except the President, it doesn't apply to him, there is no declassification authority above the President Constitutionally.

Robert Barnes when he was on Viva Frei gave the best explanation of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCDVOmGPlo&

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:03 PM (XV/Pl)

228 213 It’s not true. Period. The prez has ultimate class/declass authority. If the prez dreams in his head a doc is unclass, then it’s unclass. Period
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (xT8gx)

Having recently retired from that world (I had 'tickets') I can affirm LVP's statement. The whole 'scheme' is based on EO's - what one President did the next can undo with a wave of the hand. And only the President.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:03 PM (QGaXH)

229 226 218 Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Murdering Houston Teenager Wore ICE Ankle Monitor During the Attack
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (RHGPo)

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If you need to wear a fucking ankle monitor you get shipped back to the shithole you're from.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:03 PM (JeYYB)

Recover the ankle monitor...by placing him in an aquarium filled with piranhas.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

230 >the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research...
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yeah right
they know
they f***ing know

Posted by: Don Black- great cars, great prices, easy credit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (/7KEl)

231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (JeYYB)

232 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (JeYYB)

Taylor's entire career was built around the pursuit of a man.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

233 228 213 It’s not true. Period. The prez has ultimate class/declass authority. If the prez dreams in his head a doc is unclass, then it’s unclass. Period
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (xT8gx)

Having recently retired from that world (I had 'tickets') I can affirm LVP's statement. The whole 'scheme' is based on EO's - what one President did the next can undo with a wave of the hand. And only the President.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:03 PM (QGaXH)

except we're in a post-Constitutional Republic phase.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

234 I'm glad that while we are going into debt at the rate of a trillion dollars every three months, we have the foresight to not shut down this vital government program.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (lTGtQ)

Eventually every placename in the US will be changed to some name no one has used in 200 years (or possibly ever), at great expense, and exactly zero lives will be improved.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

235 232 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (JeYYB)

Taylor's entire career was built around the pursuit of a man.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

The patriarchy would enjoy a good f**k. Bring me a sammich afterwards, would you hon?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (ynpvh)

236 Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"

I try not to judge or make assumptions.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

237 232 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (JeYYB)

Taylor's entire career was built around the pursuit of a man.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

Her kelcey breakup song is gonna be EPIC HELLA LIT AF

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (OiAR7)

238 231

that didn't happen

Posted by: Don Black- great cars, great prices, easy credit at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (/7KEl)

239
It’s not true. Period. The prez has ultimate class/declass authority. If the prez dreams in his head a doc is unclass, then it’s unclass. Period
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:00 PM (xT8gx)

One would think so, but didn't the senior IC chair commandos withhold documents from Trump? Putting the bureaucrats above the commander-in-chief for classification authority would be unconstitutional and a national security disaster.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (rj6Yv)

240 honestly, knowing the govt as we do at this point, i'm not entirely SURE they WOULD know if they found gain of function anywhere...

there's incompetence, then there's govt...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Case in point - yesterday I took my Father-In-Law to the nearest city land-fill to drop off a few items that my MIL decided were no longer needed during spring-cleaning.

The land-fill was open and fully-staffed. We drive up to the checkpoint and wait for one of the staff to emerge. After an interminable period, a guy comes out and explains that we can't unload anything, because the land-fill doesn't have the equipment or the personnel to move it to the dumping ground proper.

It takes a few minutes on the drive back to explain things to my FIL, who is ninety and nearly deaf. After he is able to piece it together, he asks, "Why is the land-fill open if nobody is able to dump anything?" Why, indeed? That's government in a nutshell right there - we're open and getting paid for being here, but you can't actually use our services.

Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (ENHQb)

241 except we're in a post-Constitutional Republic phase.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)
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yeah, some of PDT's EO's overturning Barack EO's were challenged in court and I believe some of Barack's EO's were allowed to stand.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (tT6L1)

242 Based on the clips I've seen, Taylor Swift does some pretty sketchy devil shit during her costumes.

Weird how so many of them do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (JeYYB)

243 There was a leak in 2021 from the DoD that showed at the time they knew:

1) COVID came from the Wuhan lab
2) The clot shot does nothing positive
3) IVM is effective if given early

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (oZhjI)

244 Not costumes, CONCERTS.

Shiiiiiit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (JeYYB)

245 233 except we're in a post-Constitutional Republic phase.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

Hi Jim. Getting warm down your way? Seems like summer has arrived here in OC.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (QGaXH)

246 If I was Fauci, that little rat, I would be in hiding. There must be tons of people who want his pelt

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (NtVYv)

247 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.
Posted by: Seems Legit

The irony of this is rather astounding

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (CM7zZ)

248 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

You Swifties need help.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:04 PM (JeYYB)

Link? Seems unlikely.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (NHMTR)

249 Dad?!

Posted by: Harry Sisson, butt baby at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (Ybyk2)

250 236 Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"

I try not to judge or make assumptions.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

Sometimes you just gotta live with the roasting.

Posted by: That guy what once said 18 year old Mel Gibson was undesirable hot looking at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (OiAR7)

251 > Hunter Biden's law license suspended in DC after conviction on gun charge

Remarkably, Hunter Biden is not the most embarrassing Yale Law graduate.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (Odg76)

252 Undesirable = understandably

Posted by: That guy what once said 18 year old Mel Gibson was undesirable hot looking at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (OiAR7)

253 Elric, thanks for clearing that up.It had serious effect on my image of you. (-:
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)
_______

Some of you really thought I was serious?? Yikes.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

254 234 Eventually every placename in the US will be changed to some name no one has used in 200 years (or possibly ever), at great expense, and exactly zero lives will be improved.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (VGRuw)

Try to find anything on Google maps - especially outside the US!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (QGaXH)

255 238 231

that didn't happen
Posted by: Don Black- great cars, great prices, easy credit at June 25, 2024 01:06 PM (/7KEl)

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Was I a victim of AI videos???

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (JeYYB)

256 Based on the clips I've seen, Taylor Swift does some pretty sketchy devil shit during her costumes.

Weird how so many of them do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (JeYYB)

She sold her soul YEARS ago. Seems Kelce needs a taste of that sweet Satan nectar for his career too.

Enjoy the pits of Hell when you get there, deniers. The Lord forgives, but you must be pure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

257 If I was Fauci, that little rat, I would be in hiding. There must be tons of people who want his pelt

He has bodyguards because he whines about getting death threats.

My motto has always been, don't threaten - do.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (Q0kLU)

258 253 Elric, thanks for clearing that up.It had serious effect on my image of you. (-:
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 25, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)
_______

Some of you really thought I was serious?? Yikes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

Not me.

I thought you were hacked...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (KbCG3)

259 Some of you really thought I was serious?? Yikes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
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I think we just understood it was probably during your experimental phase.

NTTAWTWT.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (tT6L1)

260 Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"

Seems the delivery of said joke was.......off......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

261 Remarkably, Hunter Biden is not the most embarrassing Yale Law graduate.

Hillary? BJ?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (xCA6C)

262 Some of you really thought I was serious?? Yikes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
----
Well, you didn't provide pics (thank goodness) so I guess it's reasonable to assume that it may not have happened as described...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (7fElN)

263
Link? Seems unlikely.
Posted by: m at June

It is a line in one of her songs, but a chant of it is pretty ironic as without the patriarchy she wouldn’t have most of her songs.

Or her stage set.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (CM7zZ)

264 Perhaps, if the DoD wrapped all of their money in PRIDE wrappers, then it would be easier to determine if it goes to China

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (RHGPo)

265 The funny thing is Elric, it was a pretty good joke once you explained you're not a fag.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (JeYYB)

266 Her kelcey breakup song is gonna be EPIC HELLA LIT AF
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

He Made a Pass At a Cheerleader Whose Backfield Was In Motion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (L/fGl)

267 245 233 except we're in a post-Constitutional Republic phase.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

Hi Jim. Getting warm down your way? Seems like summer has arrived here in OC.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (QGaXH)

Will be cooler today, maybe 80°F or 82°F. I heard so many complaining how hot it was yesterday (85°F or 86°F with 60% humidity). I grew up in the desert, so that's nothing (except I live in an air-conditioned house here now. LOL)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

268 In my defense, Tay-Tay said that the lyric would be
"Fuck the Patriots"

Bitch set me up.

Posted by: Travis Kelsey at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (w9Wax)

269 I will admit, I didn't have "I got drunk and might'a f*cked a dude" on my AoS comment bingo card.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

270 259 Some of you really thought I was serious?? Yikes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
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I think we just understood it was probably during your experimental phase.

NTTAWTWT.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (tT6L1)

Well I thought you were serious!

Posted by: That guy in vegas at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (OiAR7)

271
Elric feels the full fury of Russian disinformation.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (j4U/Z)

272 Based on the clips I've seen, Taylor Swift does some pretty sketchy devil shit during her costumes.

Weird how so many of them do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (JeYYB)
________

It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

273 If I was Fauci, that little rat, I would be in hiding. There must be tons of people who want his pelt

He has bodyguards because he whines about getting death threats.

My motto has always been, don't threaten - do.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:09 PM (Q0kLU)

He just can't shut up and go away. Narcissist all the way. Delusional

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (NtVYv)

274 Biden took classified documents and stored them in a ridiculous open location.

Hillary distributed classified docs unsecurely to anyone that wanted to see them and stored them on a personal server and then said she didn't know that "C" meant Confidential.

We are up against the vilest of the vile of the scuzziest of scum.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (ugRIO)

275 260 Dude, it was a joke -- a JOKE -- on the Pentagon not knowing if they funded gain-of-function. Like "how could you not know??"

Seems the delivery of said joke was.......off......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Funny how one comment can spawn a whole litany of responses.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (QGaXH)

276 I'm not linking shit, but I watched a video of a crowd yelling "fuck the patriarchy."

And if the demographics of her concerts are what I think they are, it happened.

Now, I could be a sucker for AI.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (JeYYB)

277 263
Link? Seems unlikely.
Posted by: m at June

It is a line in one of her songs, but a chant of it is pretty ironic as without the patriarchy she wouldn’t have most of her songs.

Or her stage set.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (CM7zZ)

She could always take the surname of her mother (i.e. her maternal grandfather)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

278 231 At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy" which I assume is a line in one of her songs.

we talkin' one at a time or a giant orgy?

*shifty eyes*

asking for a friend.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (sGtp+)

279 I work in a bldg where I have to see on meet and ghwb everyday I go into work.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (mu1lz)

280 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

"I'm an attention whore? Well at least I know I didn't get fucked by some dude in Vegas." - Kelce, just waiting for the opportunity

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (KbCG3)

281 Top. Men.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (aFNOf)

282 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere" In Airlock....The astronauts "were not in any danger", reports NASA.

.. I don't think Boeing will ever be invited back to the ISS

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

283 > Why is the land-fill open if nobody is able to dump anything?" Why, indeed?

Maybe the situation was temporary. If so, it wouldn't make sense to shut down everything.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (Odg76)

284 263
Link? Seems unlikely.
Posted by: m at June

It is a line in one of her songs, but a chant of it is pretty ironic as without the patriarchy she wouldn’t have most of her songs.

Or her stage set.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:10 PM (CM7zZ)

Or her career since her dad funded it.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (CM7zZ)

285 I'll bet the teachers won't want to close schools again, because now they're hot and heavy on transing kids. That's a hands-on job.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (w6EFb)

286 I mean, Swift DOES look like former Satanic princess Zeena LaVey....

https://is.gd/AYUwFX

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

287 > At a concert, Taylor Swift got the whole venue to yell "fuck the patriarchy"
-----------
I'll have to check my schedule to see if I can "fit her in."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (Q4IgG)

288 Will be cooler today, maybe 80°F or 82°F. I heard so many complaining how hot it was yesterday (85°F or 86°F with 60% humidity). I grew up in the desert, so that's nothing (except I live in an air-conditioned house here now. LOL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

92 here in north Texas now on the way up 97. I did my daily jog at 6am to avoid the heat and it was still 78 with humidity so high I didn’t know whether to swim or jog. Just miserable… but better than waiting until after work to test the 97!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (xT8gx)

289 @274

>>We are up against the vilest of the vile of the scuzziest of scum.

And neither of them had inherent constitutional declassification authority.

If Trump wins, he better go after all of these f**king animals and put their asses in the ground.

Legally of course, not extra-judicially in say, a drone strike.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (XV/Pl)

290 271
Elric feels the full fury of Russian disinformation.
Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (j4U/Z)

Or he felt up a Russian furry. Dunno. Got started drinking early today as well.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)

291 272 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.

where's 4chan when you need them?

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (sGtp+)

292 The funny thing is Elric, it was a pretty good joke once you explained you're not a fag.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (JeYYB)
_________

Thanks. I kinda thought it was obvious, but now I see by not including Ace's subject matter headline in my comment made it more ambiguous than necessary. This would have worked a lot better:

"Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan"

Yea, and I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

293 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere" In Airlock....The astronauts "were not in any danger", reports NASA.

.. I don't think Boeing will ever be invited back to the ISS
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (RHGPo)
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* The Wolowitz Zero-G Waste Distribution System has entered the chat*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (3Fz6p)

294 People on the Left suddenly forgot that the H1N1 pandemic was more dangerous to young ,healthy children than it was to senior citizens and that schools remained open throughout the two years of the pandemic.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (SHMXB)

295 274 Biden took classified documents and stored them in a ridiculous open location.

Hillary distributed classified docs unsecurely to anyone that wanted to see them and stored them on a personal server and then said she didn't know that "C" meant Confidential.

We are up against the vilest of the vile of the scuzziest of scum.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (ugRIO)

She had staff REMOVE classification markers before sending it to her toilet server.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (ynpvh)

296 "Literally Water Everywhere"

But not literally everywhere, actually.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (ugRIO)

297 > My motto has always been, don't threaten - do.

Tuco?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (Odg76)

298 276 I'm not linking shit, but I watched a video of a crowd yelling "fuck the patriarchy."

And if the demographics of her concerts are what I think they are, it happened.

Now, I could be a sucker for AI.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (

Wait wut.... you don't wanna wife me up?

Posted by: 40 year old wammens wunnering where alla good men are at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (OiAR7)

299 Here at CNN, we know Eric was serious.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

300 I'm gonna go out on a limb and suspect the astronauts who rode the Starliner to ISS are now thinking they were lucky to make it. And there's no way they'll get back in Starliner for the ride home.

I think Starliner will be kicked loose to burn up on re entry so Elon can rescue the astronauts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (tT6L1)

301 92 here in north Texas now on the way up 97. I did my daily jog at 6am to avoid the heat and it was still 78 with humidity so high I didn’t know whether to swim or jog. Just miserable… but better than waiting until after work to test the 97!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

100+ for the next two weeks. And Britain is crying because their heat wave is hitting 80. Our overnight low was 83.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (1UfpD)

302 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

"I'm an attention whore? Well at least I know I didn't get fucked by some dude in Vegas." - Kelce, just waiting for the opportunity
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (KbCG3)
______

The odds are very high that Kelce has experienced another guy's dick in one way or another.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

303 299 Here at CNN, we know Eric was serious.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

Leave it up to Tapper to get the name wrong.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (KbCG3)

304 282 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere" In Airlock....The astronauts "were not in any danger", reports NASA.

.. I don't think Boeing will ever be invited back to the ISS

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

Was the water yellow or brown?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

305 292 I kinda thought it was obvious, but now I see by not including Ace's subject matter headline in my comment made it more ambiguous than necessary. This would have worked a lot better:

"Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan"

Yea, and I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

Is ... is Elric saying that he's gay?

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (NHMTR)

306 @295

>>She had staff REMOVE classification markers before sending it to her toilet server.

Even better, she had underlings without classification authority transcribe classified documents from air-gapped systems, which literally proves intent.

But any who, no reasonable prosecutor or some such.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (XV/Pl)

307 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere"

I know the feeling.

Posted by: The Ancient Mariner at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (OguvZ)

308 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM

Thank you! Her stans remind me of Disney adults, like, aren't you too old for this?

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (8c7iY)

309 Congressman Jim Banks demands House leadership file Amicus Brief to Supreme Court in support of Steve Bannon.

We are waiting, Mike Johnson, do something.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (aFNOf)

310 Now this is funny about Taylor Swift:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/732397958135124847/

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

311 299 Here at CNN, we know Eric was serious.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

------

I effing laughed out loud.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (JeYYB)

312 "...change the name of "the sacred geographic feature in Wyoming known as 'Devils Tower'" and the unincorporated community surrounding it to Bear Lodge, which is what it was called by American Indians before it was Devils Tower."

I doubt they called it "Bear Lodge" since that sounds vaguely English. But would that have been the Arapaho, Arikara, Bannock, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Sheep Eater, Sioux, Shoshone or Ute tribe? Did they all call it the same thing?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (VGRuw)

313 Jamal 'Fireman' Bowman on track to be primaried out of office today in NYC

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (o3Uyl)

314 286 I mean, Swift DOES look like former Satanic princess Zeena LaVey....

https://is.gd/AYUwFX

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Just looked her up. Apparently she married an ogre or something, as her surname is now Shreck.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

315 303 299 Here at CNN, we know Eric was serious.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

Leave it up to Tapper to get the name wrong.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 01:16 PM (KbCG3)

Hahahahahah. Horde.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (NHMTR)

316 @305

>>Is ... is Elric saying that he's gay?

No, I think he's saying he likes show toons and isn't above macraming a sweater.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (XV/Pl)

317 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed, will-do-anything-for-fame people on the planet. If it suddenly became trendy to eat shit, the two of them would be first to social media with videos of them eating shit.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:12 PM

Thank you! Her stans remind me of Disney adults, like, aren't you too old for this?
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (8c7iY)
__________

"Too old?? This is about me, isn't it?"

-- Madonna

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

318 Funny how one forms a mental image of the posters after reading their comments for a while. Elric will only be seen doing one thing in my mind's eye now, forever.

Posted by: Happy Harry at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (V5BDR)

319 If Trump wins, he better go after all of these f**king animals and put their asses in the ground.

Like the sick joke of "Lock her up!" I'm going to predict that, if Trump wins, the 'elder statesmen' of the GOP will pressure him to let bygones be bygones, since nothing will be served by indulging in tit-for-tat partisan politics.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (Q0kLU)

320 Maybe the situation was temporary. If so, it wouldn't make sense to shut down everything.
Posted by: bonhomme

The guy told us to check back in a week or two weeks later. There's another municipal land-fill about twenty-five miles away, but we were informed that there were no guarantees there either (and that one is not in a nice part of town).

Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (ENHQb)

321 I like that a white guy bought her song catalogue under her nose in an upfront legal transaction and she got pissy about it. I assume partially because it showed how dumb she is other than her entertaining specialty.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (SHMXB)

322 290 271
Elric feels the full fury of Russian disinformation.
Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (j4U/Z)

Or he felt up a Russian furry. Dunno. Got started drinking early today as well.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)

Garrett's gonna get jealous if these comments keep up. At least no crocs were used...AFAIK.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (ynpvh)

323 Today will go down as the day Elric should've socked Hunter Biden, but didn't.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

324 288 92 here in north Texas now on the way up 97. I did my daily jog at 6am to avoid the heat and it was still 78 with humidity so high I didn’t know whether to swim or jog. Just miserable… but better than waiting until after work to test the 97!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (xT8gx)

I live near the beach where it also stays pretty cool - but gets a little humid this time of year - but this week I've been traveling 50 miles inland to Upland because M-I-L was in hospital - it was 100 there each day. The temperature goes up pretty dramatically as soon as you get more than a couple of miles from the beach.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (QGaXH)

325 Just saw the video. Tiny URL not working or I would link. She is not chanting, she is singing the line in her song and everyone sings it with her.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (CM7zZ)

326 kind of a different Pentagon version of the old Steve Martin Joke.

IRS: Sir, you haven't filed your taxes for 8 years.

Steve Martin: I forgot.

Posted by: DAN at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (rn2/h)

327 292 The funny thing is Elric, it was a pretty good joke once you explained you're not a fag.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (JeYYB)
_________

Thanks. I kinda thought it was obvious, but now I see by not including Ace's subject matter headline in my comment made it more ambiguous than necessary. This would have worked a lot better:

"Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan"

Yea, and I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe. MAYBE. Someone would have quoted it without the first part anyway. Morons, man.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

328 In an ideal world, he'd be begging for handouts at stop lights.
Posted by: NR Pax

Picturing Fauci on the street corner holding up his cardboard sign, "Will torture your dog for food".

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 25, 2024 01:20 PM (8M9QV)

329 Like the sick joke of "Lock her up!" I'm going to predict that, if Trump wins, the 'elder statesmen' of the GOP will pressure him to let bygones be bygones, since nothing will be served by indulging in tit-for-tat partisan politics.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (Q0kLU)

He's already said that going after her would've divided the country even more and he ran as a uniter, not a divider.

I'm afraid there won't be any consequence for the Biden regime should he win in November for the exact same reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

330 313 Jamal 'Fireman' Bowman on track to be primaried out of office today in NYC
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (o3Uyl)

And straight into Bellevue.

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (NHMTR)

331
Why are you people so obsessed with these petty matters so far in the past?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (MoZTd)

332 Funny how one forms a mental image of the posters after reading their comments for a while. Elric will only be seen doing one thing in my mind's eye now, forever.
Posted by: Happy Harry at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (V5BDR)

Listening to the Village People?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (Q0kLU)

333 92 here in north Texas now on the way up 97. I did my daily jog at 6am to avoid the heat and it was still 78 with humidity so high I didn’t know whether to swim or jog. Just miserable… but better than waiting until after work to test the 97!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

100+ for the next two weeks. And Britain is crying because their heat wave is hitting 80. Our overnight low was 83.
Posted by: rickb223

Southern New Mexico is having its annual June climate crisis with the high today expected to hit 104 degrees. In fact it is so hot here every June that Pride Season is postponed until October.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (W3n7o)

334 296 "Literally Water Everywhere"

But not literally everywhere, actually.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (ugRIO)

Short of a completely-filled space aquarium...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)

335 "Literally Water Everywhere"

But not literally everywhere, actually.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (ugRIO)

We really need Doof to come clear this whole thing up, literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

336 Short of a completely-filled space aquarium...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)
------------
That would be frickin' awesome. Would the fish know which way is up?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (3Fz6p)

337 Kelce is a woke dude down with kneeling and BLM. I don't have any good thoughts for him.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (SHMXB)

338 292 The funny thing is Elric, it was a pretty good joke once you explained you're not a fag.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:11 PM (JeYYB)
_________

Thanks. I kinda thought it was obvious, but now I see by not including Ace's subject matter headline in my comment made it more ambiguous than necessary. This would have worked a lot better:

"Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan"

Yea, and I had a real drunken bender in Vegas once. I don't know if I fucked a dude or not.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

Don't worry Mr. Blade, most of us here can't remember one day to the next who said what...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (QGaXH)

339 Picturing Fauci on the street corner holding up his cardboard sign, "Will torture your dog for food".
Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 25, 2024 01:20 PM (8M9QV)

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Alternate sign:

Will do what is necessary for a happy ending in any bathhouse.

IYKYK Elric, I'm looking at you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (JeYYB)

340 307 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere"

I know the feeling.

Posted by: The Ancient Mariner at June 25, 2024 01:17 PM (OguvZ)

One of my faves.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

341 New one: Immigration

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (xCA6C)

342 92 here, 94 high. 60% humidity.

I feel really bad for the guys on the roof fixing my AC.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (CM7zZ)

343 Like the sick joke of "Lock her up!" I'm going to predict that, if Trump wins, the 'elder statesmen' of the GOP will pressure him to let bygones be bygones, since nothing will be served by indulging in tit-for-tat partisan politics.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

No doubt but there motivation is fear of their complicity being exposed.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (8M9QV)

344
Don't worry Mr. Blade, most of us here can't remember one day to the next who said what...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (QGaXH)

Except where a guy admits they might've banged a dude.....that's got staying power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

345 It's the trendy thing to do. Like lesbian space witches. And Taylor Swift -- and her attention whore fake boyfriend -- are the most status-obsessed

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I have a coworker who is a Swifty psychopath. In her 30s and still managed to recently get married. Fuckless simps again enabling this shit

Without even knowing what her husband looks like, I judge him to be a cross between Whaleberg and Gayvid Frenchie

Simps and soys and all the gay boys are the ruin of society

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (DBZuM)

346 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere"

Bah. You have people for that.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (MZXFo)

347 Is the line "fuck the patriarchy" being sarcastic or ironic?

She's a tool.

Like her "boyfriend."

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2024 01:24 PM (JeYYB)

348 @301

>>100+ for the next two weeks. And Britain is crying because their heat wave is hitting 80. Our overnight low was 83.

The issue is most Europeans don't have air conditioning in their homes so there is no respite from the heat.

But yes, 80 degree weather while not optimal isn't 90 plus heatwave temps you get in the US.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:24 PM (XV/Pl)

349 I live near the beach where it also stays pretty cool - but gets a little humid this time of year - but this week I've been traveling 50 miles inland to Upland because M-I-L was in hospital - it was 100 there each day. The temperature goes up pretty dramatically as soon as you get more than a couple of miles from the beach.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (QGaXH)

I bought a fan. It works fine. I'm a fan of my fan.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)

350
But yes, 80 degree weather while not optimal isn't 90 plus heatwave temps you get in the US.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 01:24 PM (XV/Pl)

__________

Look at the latitudes of American cities vs. European cities.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 01:25 PM (MoZTd)

351 So the Kenya protest finally made the news, but only because an Obama got tear gassed

https://t.ly/vZDrB

Posted by: Ciampino - they're like vermin at June 25, 2024 01:25 PM (qfLjt)

352 NOOD crime

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 01:26 PM (7fElN)

353 329 Like the sick joke of "Lock her up!" I'm going to predict that, if Trump wins, the 'elder statesmen' of the GOP will pressure him to let bygones be bygones, since nothing will be served by indulging in tit-for-tat partisan politics.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 01:18 PM (Q0kLU)

He's already said that going after her would've divided the country even more and he ran as a uniter, not a divider.

I'm afraid there won't be any consequence for the Biden regime should he win in November for the exact same reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

On the contrary, punishing those that committed such crimes is necessary to teach some hard lessons. The punishments will continue until morale (of the US citizens) improves.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

354 Of course the Left forget all the other relatively recent European heat waves. I need to look up exactly when it was but I can remember when French senior citizens were reported to be dropping like flies during one heat wave.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 01:26 PM (SHMXB)

355
The issue is most Europeans don't have air conditioning in their homes so there is no respite from the heat.

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That's why thousands die when they get a real heat wave.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 01:26 PM (MoZTd)

356 336 Short of a completely-filled space aquarium...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)
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That would be frickin' awesome. Would the fish know which way is up?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (3Fz6p)

Well, it would be hard to tell which ones died...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:27 PM (ynpvh)

357 It’s in her song All Too Well, about Jake Gyllenhal. It’s the 10 minute version. The line is:
are “And you were tossing me the car keys, ‘f**** the patriarchy’ key chain on the ground.”

It could be a nod to the hypocrisy of it.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:28 PM (CM7zZ)

358 341 New one: Immigration

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (xCA6C)

NOOD, man NOOD.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:28 PM (ynpvh)

359 344
Don't worry Mr. Blade, most of us here can't remember one day to the next who said what...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:22 PM (QGaXH)

Except where a guy admits they might've banged a dude.....that's got staying power.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

Maybe he just slipped an fell on it? Well, the other guy laying on the floor with a chub....could happen anywhere

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 01:28 PM (OiAR7)

360 282 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere" In Airlock....The astronauts "were not in any danger", reports NASA.

.. I don't think Boeing will ever be invited back to the ISS

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

What? Where they counting ballots?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

361 325 Just saw the video. Tiny URL not working or I would link. She is not chanting, she is singing the line in her song and everyone sings it with her.
Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 01:19 PM (CM7zZ)

Thank you, Piper!

Posted by: m at June 25, 2024 01:34 PM (NHMTR)

362 Space Walk Postponed After Leaks Cause "Literally Water Everywhere" In Airlock....The astronauts "were not in any danger", reports NASA.

.. I don't think Boeing will ever be invited back to the ISS

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

Was the water yellow or brown?
Posted by: jim

If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 01:40 PM (1UfpD)

363 350 Look at the latitudes of American cities vs. European cities.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 01:25 PM (MoZTd)

'changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes....'

J. Buffett

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 25, 2024 01:43 PM (QGaXH)

364 Initially closing down until we had an idea of the severity of covid was okay. Imagine Captain Trips speed and lethality instead of aggravated flu.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 25, 2024 01:44 PM (hKoQL)

365 I can’ recall whether your daughter spent the night here Saturday. Captain, Sir.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2024 01:45 PM (o2ZRX)

366 How to read government... If the answer is not an unequivocal: "No. We did not do that".
Then, they did it.

Posted by: Augusto Perez at June 25, 2024 03:07 PM (6l4uP)

367 What's in all those Chem Trails they spray us with?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 25, 2024 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

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