Why Is This Year's Presidential Debate So Early?

Steve Huntley of John Kass News (dot com) points out that never in history have we had a presidential debate in the beginning of summer. (Summer just started on the 21st.) They're always in the fall, or late August at the earliest.

So why is this one so early?

An easy answer is "because Democrats have turned Election Day into Election Half-Year and so voters need to see the candidates before they begin voting." Which could start, who knows, in July for all know.

But... why would Democrats want a debate to impact voters' decisions? Surely they would prefer if debates were held in September, after most votes had already been cast. Too late for Democrat voters to change their minds.

Huntley speculates:

A debate between the two parties' presidential candidates this early has never happened before. Never.
The explanation is that the Biden campaign, worried about his sagging poll ratings, wants to reassure voters about his age and mental acuity, contrast himself with Trump, and remind Americans that the stakes have never been higher. Meaning the evil orange man might get returned to the White House, and America needs to know how awful he is.
Really, the country needs to hear more Democrat reasons to hate Trump?
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Let's consider another possible motive, one perhaps animating Democrat leaders and party faithful who behind the scenes must be verging on panic over the increasing public perception of Biden as a senile old fool, an 81-year-old man who's doddering, decrepit, feeble in mind and body.
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Influential Democrats might see it as the last chance to save the party in November.
These movers and shakers might figure that if Biden has a crippling debate performance of disconnected ramblings, meaningless utterances, angry outbursts and undeniable mental decline, there's still time to persuade him to drop out and for the national convention in late July to produce a replacement.
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After another recent disastrous poll, analyst Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight declared, "Dropping out would be a big risk. But there's some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk. Are we there yet? I don't know. But it's more than fair to ask."
Suppose the debate turns into a humiliating embarrassment for Biden. Democrats might find themselves at Silver's "there."
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Or maybe you think this scenario of pushing Biden aside might be too cynical or Machiavellian. If so, let's revisit a simple truth: The Democrats' and the hard left's lust for power and their obsession with destroying Trump know no bounds.

Hm. Let me consider this.

Okay, I've considered it. Huntley offers a reason why Democrats might want an early debate, to finally build up the case to pressure Joe Biden to drop out.

But "Democrats" did not agree to to this debate -- Joe Biden did.

How does it help Joe Biden to have an early debate which can give Democrats more ammunition to persuade the party to force him out?

No, I think the conventional wisdom here is right: Biden saw his poll numbers dropping, felt the panic from Democrats and billionaire donors, and figures that he can "reset" the election by... talking about January 6th and Trump's frame-up trials some more.

As if we haven't heard about all that!

But remember, Democrats always claim that the problem isn't their policies, it's just "messaging" and the public's failure to realize how wonderful they are. If they just said the same things louder and more often...

Joe Biden is busy prepping for his debate.

[NYT:]
At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage. At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.
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Some are returning to the fold just long enough to help Mr. Biden prepare: Brian Deese, who left the administration as director of the National Economic Council in 2023, is expected to visit Camp David to help Mr. Biden refine his pitch that the American economy is recovering.

Uh-huh. He's been making that pitch for (checks notes) three years.

As you may have heard, among Biden's preparation: Standing for 90 minutes. He needs to build up the strength to merely stand for 90 minutes.

Though I do wonder, is that just Biden's inner circle leaking that to lower expectations for Biden?

How much lower do they want them?

In more debate tidings: From Archimedes, Jake Tapper is being sued for defamation for up to $1 billion dollars, and a judge has found that the plaintiff has introduced sufficient evidence of actual malice to go to trial.

Remember, the media benefits from a liberal Supreme-Court-declared "law" that you can't sue the media for defamation unless you can prove they acted with "malice," which is either knowledge that what they were reporting was false, or reckless disregard for whether it was false or not.

I sure hope Trump throws this in Fake Jake's face.

The first presidential debate is scheduled for Thursday, and, as of right now, the Biden campaign claims their candidate will show up. I'm not so sure, but I guess we'll see. Interestingly enough, one of the moderators in the debate, Jake Tapper, is the subject of a defamation lawsuit that could cost the network $1 billion.
You may not have heard about it yet, but the Florida First District Court of Appeals recently ruled that plaintiff Zachary Young can pursue punitive damages, along with economic and emotional damages, in a civil trial against CNN. According to Newsbusters, the total damages sought could approach or exceed $1 billion because of Tapper's comments defaming Young's efforts to aid individuals in Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal in 2021.

[Newsbusters:]
For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he's done exactly that. "Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages," Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court's ruling.
The court felt the high bars for actual and expressed malice were met because of internal CNN messages that were extremely vicious toward Young. Correspondent Alex Marquardt, the "primary reporter" expressed in a message to a colleague that he wanted to "nail this Zachary Young mfucker" and thought the story would be Young's "funeral." On that declaration of wanting to "nail" Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: "gonna hold you to that cowboy!"
Alongside Marquardt, CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan, who's a member of CNN's internally lauded "Triad" of editorial, legal, and standards/practices oversight personnel, described Young as "a shit."

I sure hope Trump throws this in his face, too: Tapper whines sanctimoniously about Trump challenging the results of an election, but Jake Tapper previously wrote a book accusing George W. Bush and Republicans of "plotting to steal the presidency."

Props will not be allowed at the debate, so unfortunately Trump cannot just bring this book to the debate and place it on his podium facing the cameras.

By the way, Team Trump, if you bring up the title, Tapper will reply the editor chose the title or some b***shit like that. Be prepared for that, and be prepared to respond that he could have objected if he didn't like the "editor-suggested" title. No author is forced to accept an editor-recommended title.

Tapper himself chose the title because he's a hard partisan selling to a hard partisan audience and he knew a hard-partisan title would help sell books. (Although he doesn't really sell books.)

I thought of a way for Trump to use Tapper's and Bash's bias against them: When they step in to debate Trump and rescue Biden for the third or forth time, he should turn to Biden and ask, "Are you okay with this? Do you need rescuing by reporters? Are you not man enough to debate me yourself?"

And throw in: "If you're hoping this debate will make the public think you're mentally on-the-ball, allowing two partisan Democrat reporters to keep saving you won't help you make that case."

Turn their helpfulness towards Biden into a liability for him. Keep bringing it back to Biden inviting them to help out a Well Intentioned Elderly Man with a Poor Memory.

Tom Elliot has posted a thread of some of former Democrat aide and former spokesman for Handgun Control, Inc. (literally the name of the organization) Fake Jake Tapper.

Below, a couple of the best bites.

2) Tapper is an anti-science mask shamer https://t.co/lJTrahT7h0
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 24, 2024

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Tapper's entire career has been in left-wing politics: Ed Rendell, a Democrat congressional candidate, Handgun Control, Washington City Paper, Salon.com, and his wife works for Planned Parenthood

CNN�s Tapper: Today�s �the anniversary of a day that threatened to end the American experiment in many ways� pic.twitter.com/GelbjmEBlc
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 6, 2023

The "integrity of the election" is precious to you, Fake Jake?

More at the thread.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:33 PM

Comments

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1 Splurst!

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 04:34 PM (vFG9F)

2 Not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 25, 2024 04:35 PM (q8ymT)

3 I heard that there will be no audience and answers to questions will be limited to two minutes and counterpoints to one minute.

What a shitshow.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 04:36 PM (cOq4q)

4 But remember, Democrats always claim that the problem isn't their policies, it's just "messaging" and the public's failure to realize how wonderful they are. If they just said the same things louder and more often...

Remember Miss that most crimes are still committed by native born citizens so you can't blame the president!

Posted by: A Democrat to a tween being raped and murdered by a "refugee" at June 25, 2024 04:36 PM (oZhjI)

5 Why Is This Year's Presidential Debate So Early?
—Disinformation Expert Ace

It has to beat the Luann platter at Lubys.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 04:37 PM (1UfpD)

6 Maybe Biden's rate of decline is so great that it's better to get the debate out of the way while he still can.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 04:38 PM (VGRuw)

7 I think the conventional wisdom here is right: Biden saw his poll numbers dropping, felt the panic from Democrats and billionaire donors, and figures that he can "reset" the election by... talking about January 6th and Trump's frame-up trials some more.

It's stupid, but possible. If Biden meets the low expectations set for him, he'll probably see a small, fleeting boost...and then return to his standard low (and declining) numbers. Even if he appears lucid and in control at the debate, he'll have plenty of frequent, public gaffes afterwards, which will worry even LIVs.

He has everything to lose doing a debate this far out, and nothing substantative to gain.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024 04:38 PM (JCZqz)

8 As you may have heard, among Biden's preparation: Standing for 90 minutes. He needs to build up the strength to merely stand for 90 minutes.

Though I do wonder, is that just Biden's inner circle leaking that to lower expectations for Biden?

How much lower do they want them?

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LOL! Ace typed "leaking". As if tens of millions of eyeballs are going be peeled, waiting for Joe to squat. "Feel better, Joe?"

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 04:38 PM (rj6Yv)

9 " help Mr. Biden refine his lie that the American economy is recovering."

Posted by: That's more like it at June 25, 2024 04:38 PM (vFG9F)

10 I heard that there will be no audience and answers to questions will be limited to two minutes and counterpoints to one minute.

What a shitshow.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

They can't handle Biden standing there for minutes on end going "uuuuuuhhhh".

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 04:39 PM (1UfpD)

11 “Gonna hold you to that, cowboy!”

OMG, how old are these people?!
Idiocracy

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 04:40 PM (Hkcdp)

12 When do the unscrupulous medical people start pumping Joe full of things so that he can rant and talk fast and sound like he did at the "red curtains" speech , suggesting Trump and his supporters are Nazis, or the medical involvement just continues up to "show time"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2024 04:41 PM (XTqiR)

13 Just saw the sidebar.
I will pray to St Raphael the Archangel for JT's healing.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 25, 2024 04:41 PM (Ka3bZ)

14 I have no idea why the debate is so early, but I don't think it's going to make much of a difference. I think we've gotten to the point where Democrats are going to vote for Biden no matter what, not because they want him to be president or believe he'll make it to inaugurate day, but because they want fill-in-the-blank Democrat to be the president. Biden is just a place-holder.

Posted by: bluebell at June 25, 2024 04:41 PM (bS+DD)

15 How does it help Joe Biden to have an early debate which can give Democrats more ammunition to persuade the party to force him out?

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Joe Biden is doing the debate now because Joe Biden is obviously a figurehead at best without any control of his rational faculties and is just doing everything he is being told. You think he remembers when in the election season debates are? I highly doubt he even realizes the debate is early.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 25, 2024 04:41 PM (B9Prs)

16 >>Gupta: “I’ll never understand” why people don’t want to wear masks

Because they did nothing and saved no one. That's why.

Posted by: huerfano at June 25, 2024 04:41 PM (VGOMa)

17 I'm rooting for biden to spontaneously combust.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (g4+28)

18 THIS... IS CNN.

We have standards here. And if they get in the way of what we really want, we have other standards.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (N1tpc)

19 Take a look at Tappers most recent Twitter post. Whenever he started taking fire, he always takes cover behind veterans.

Posted by: Xander Crews at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (rEmVK)

20 6 Maybe Biden's rate of decline is so great that it's better to get the debate out of the way while he still can.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff

That was my guess also

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Ka3bZ)

21 I think the moderators are there at Camp David along with the CNN production staff. They will have everything setup exactly like the debate stage. They will run over their questions how ever many times it takes.

This is a dress rehearsal for a canned show. There will be no surprises from or for *biden.

This is "prep." If Trump isn't prepared to be waxed he's stupid as shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)

22 Note that Young is a U.S. Navy veteran and "reporters" at CNN want to destroy his professional career because he said things about Joe Biden they did not like.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (i7Q7S)

23 Why Is This Year's Presidential Debate So Early?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Because Joe will probably be dead by August.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

24 Influential Democrats might see it as the last chance to save the party in November.

These movers and shakers might figure that if Biden has a crippling debate performance of disconnected ramblings, meaningless utterances, angry outbursts and undeniable mental decline, there's still time to persuade him to drop out and for the national convention in late July to produce a replacement.

That sounds like the most reasonable explanation.

“Gonna hold you to that, cowboy!”

OMG, how old are these people?!
Idiocracy

Was that wrong? Would you have preferred "chief", "hoss", or "Cochise"?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (xCA6C)

25 Has there ever been a Presidential debate where both people have served as President?

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (o3Uyl)

26 Gupta: “I’ll never understand” why people don’t want to wear masks

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Wait, this guy has a medical degree, right? Setting aside the "it's all fake and gay" part of stopping a virus, he doesn't understand how humans communicate and how children learn to form sounds and proper speech?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (b9jZi)

27 From what I have read in multiple articles and have heard on AM talk radio this is joe biden's rubicon.

If he doesn't fvck this debate up he will be on the ticket. If he has a senior moment, freezes up, wanders off topic, can't stand up for 90 minutes or loses his train of though he is going to be off the ticket.

No idea on who his replacement will be if that happens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (QNSds)

28 I'm rooting for biden to spontaneously combust.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 04:42 PM (g4+2

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Happens all the time. It's just not widely reported.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (3Fz6p)

29 The important thing to remember about the debate is that neither candidate is officially a candidate.

This is being done to decide if one or the other needs to be removed before the conventions. One of them would be removed by the DNC, the other would be removed by the FBI.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 04:44 PM (lTGtQ)

30 Gupta: “I’ll never understand” why people don’t want to wear masks.

So sciency!

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (i7Q7S)

31 So will Biden be able to stand for 90 minutes? This is gonna be great!

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (n17eQ)

32 Wait, this guy has a medical degree, right? Setting aside the "it's all fake and gay" part of stopping a virus, he doesn't understand how humans communicate and how children learn to form sounds and proper speech?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 04:43 PM (b9jZi)
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What do you call someone who has a C- cume at med school? Doctor.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (3Fz6p)

33 At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage. At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.

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they are spending a FORTUNE on this

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (V13WU)

34 Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer, a military genius (who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns, to travel light) lost his life along with the whole 7th cavalry.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (MeG8a)

35 So will Biden be able to stand for 90 minutes? This is gonna be great!

Don't forget that Biden's people insisted on two breaks. Trump should just stay onstage, doing stretches and calisthenics.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (xCA6C)

36 From what I have read in multiple articles and have heard on AM talk radio this is joe biden's rubicon.

If he doesn't fvck this debate up he will be on the ticket. If he has a senior moment, freezes up, wanders off topic, can't stand up for 90 minutes or loses his train of though he is going to be off the ticket.

No idea on who his replacement will be if that happens.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I would pay good money to watch Joe wander off away from his podium, go stand in the corner, talk to himself, and then shit himself.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (1UfpD)

37 CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan, who's a member of CNN's internally lauded "Triad" of editorial, legal, and standards/practices oversight personnel, described Young as "a shit."

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I am not going to bother to Google, but I will go out on a limb here and guess Fuzz has a completely punchable/homo face.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (i7Q7S)

38 The purpose of the debate is to give squishy Biden voters a reason to delay dumping Biden. When the time comes, the traps will be sprung and Trump will lose the squishy votes allowing Biden to win by a point or so.
Anything within the margin of error can be sold as a Biden comeback.

Posted by: Jamaica at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (5KunV)

39 Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer, a military genius (who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns, to travel light) lost his life along with the whole 7th cavalry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (MeG8a)
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I was about 1/3 of the 7th, but who's counting?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (3Fz6p)

40 Tapper. Lightweight is an understatement. He relies on the good manners of his subject. Those days are gone.

Unless you are a GOP politician.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (Z8Yh2)

41 I hope they over prep him with drugs

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 04:47 PM (fwDg9)

42
Prayers for J.T.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 04:47 PM (j4U/Z)

43 who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns

And there were three of them.

Posted by: zombie Kenny Rogers at June 25, 2024 04:47 PM (OguvZ)

44 Tapper. Lightweight is an understatement. He relies on the good manners of his subject. Those days are gone.

It doesn't matter. The entire CNN team, and their fellow travelers at the DNC have spent months thinking up gotcha questions.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (xCA6C)

45 "I was about 1/3 of the 7th, but who's counting?"

I stand corrected, he divided his force, yes. Another sign of military genius.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (MeG8a)

46 Recall that his State of the Union was to be the launchpad of his reelection campaign.
The big promises, the recitation if successes, the stirring rhetoric.
Look at how the media all repeated how forceful and great it was.
They had it all Hollywood teed up.
It flopped.
No one was talking about it even 48 hours later.

So, don't go into this debate looking at Biden's last debates-- look at his "big launches." Like his SotU.
This is out-and-out desperation to change the narrative to his issues. After multiple failed--unopposed, uncontradicted--attempts.

Remember: To Democrats their issues are always right, it's the narrative that failed.
And there is one individual who has a unique knack of turning the narrative against them ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (F2AiD)

47 Gupta: “I’ll never understand” why people don’t want to wear masks

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Wait, this guy has a medical degree, right? Setting aside the "it's all fake and gay" part of stopping a virus, he doesn't understand how humans communicate and how children learn to form sounds and proper speech?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong

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He is Gupta. One of the higher castes. That is all you need to know.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (cOq4q)

48 Don't forget that Biden's people insisted on two breaks.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (xCA6C)
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Pit stop, just like at Indy, although in this the quacks will be juicing up Biden instead of changing the tires.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (YqDXo)

49 Biden could vomit on stage, start screaming at the roof that cornpop murdered Beau in the Ford Theater, and collapse in a pool of excrement and vomit, smiling that creepy smile.

CNN will declare him the clear winner of the debate.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (sAmhv)

50 Mod: President Trump, how do you really feel about President Biden?
Trump: I wouldn't f*ck his wife with Kamala's dick. Next question.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 04:49 PM (aFNOf)

51 At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage. At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.

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they are spending a FORTUNE on this
Posted by: runner

It's barely a farthing. Not even a tuppence.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 04:49 PM (1UfpD)

52 where General Custer, a military genius (who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns, to travel light) lost his life along with the whole 7th cavalry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

It was just one company of the 7th. What is forgotten is the battle of the Rosebud, where Crook nearly ended up the same way as Custer. And, because of that battle, Crook wasn't in place to back up Custer.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 04:49 PM (lTGtQ)

53 A article at American Thinker layer out the rules for replacing Sundowner, the Democrat/ Marxists are stuck with him and The Ho unless he drops dead or throws in the towel and resigned

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 04:49 PM (fwDg9)

54 I stand corrected, he divided his force, yes. Another sign of military genius.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (MeG8a)
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Worked for R.E. Lee at Chancellorsville. But yeah, don't do that when you're facing the entire Sioux nation.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:49 PM (3Fz6p)

55 Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer, a military genius (who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns, to travel light) lost his life along with the whole 7th cavalry.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 04:45 PM (MeG8a)
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"Lessee, I've got 250 guys, and there are 5000 Indians who are actually better armed than we are. Let's attack!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

56 Pit stop, just like at Indy, although in this the quacks will be juicing up Biden instead of changing the tires.

I do NOT want to see how they top him off with that big funnel thing they use for gas.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (xCA6C)

57 Has there ever been a Presidential debate where both people have served as President?
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It

There you go asserting facts not in evidence again.
Brandon has not been President he's the Resident.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (UC3nL)

58 Nah, Gupta will never understood why the little people didn’t immediately do as they were told, that they had the impertinence to question The Science (tm).

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (Hkcdp)

59 Biden could vomit on stage, start screaming at the roof that cornpop murdered Beau in the Ford Theater, and collapse in a pool of excrement and vomit, smiling that creepy smile.

CNN will declare him the clear winner of the debate.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (sAmhv)
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I will be curious to see what our Intrepid AoSHQ Liaison brings us from the DU the day after the debate.

Those people are just completely delusional, even more than the MSM, when it comes to declaring FJB as THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVAH!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (7fElN)

60 Tapper. Lightweight is an understatement. He relies on the good manners of his subject. Those days are gone.

Unless you are a GOP politician.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 25, 2024 04:46 PM (Z8Yh2)

He also depends on his fake stern face, his fake stern hair, and his girlish voice.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (rj6Yv)

61 I think the moderators are there at Camp David along with the CNN production staff. They will have everything setup exactly like the debate stage. They will run over their questions how ever many times it takes.

This is a dress rehearsal for a canned show. There will be no surprises from or for *biden.

This is "prep." If Trump isn't prepared to be waxed he's stupid as shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Biden would not be able to remember the scripted responses even if they did that. I think his only hope is the massive gaslighting we're going to see spinning his performance, or if Trump says something, anything, that the media can scream about to the exclusion of commenting on Biden at all.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 04:51 PM (FJBCA)

62 OT: I had to go check Ya Boi Zach's youtube channel to see what ace was talking about when he said Zach had lost his mind... He has certainly lost his perspective. He's calling the normies "anti-SJWs" and now (seemingly) acting as apologist for people he railed about for years. And I see he's already begun to attract the worst kind of new commenters, people who like Disney Star Wars and even the Acolyte. Is a gender transition far off?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 25, 2024 04:51 PM (2xB3Z)

63 "Prayers for J.T."

Amen. Sorry to hear he's having serious medical troubles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2024 04:51 PM (oUxZc)

64 I would laugh if Trump walked over to "Biden" and ripped the mask off his head, Scooby-Doo style.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 25, 2024 04:52 PM (OX9vb)

65 "Lessee, I've got 250 guys, and there are 5000 Indians who are actually better armed than we are. Let's attack!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (YqDXo)
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It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:52 PM (3Fz6p)

66
My guess that the concern of the Biden handlers is having him step into an unfamiliar situation, so all the stage setting at Camp David will put him in a comfort zone.

Disorient the sonofabitch and he's toast.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 04:53 PM (j4U/Z)

67 Gosh, they’re really getting good at movie sets for Biden, eh?
Like, he doesn’t even have to go to the WH or CNN, just tape his remarks and go night night. How long have they been doing this?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 04:53 PM (Hkcdp)

68 At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage. At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.

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I wonder if the actual debate stage will resemble this one. So that he has time to get used to being in an unusual environment that might confuse him during the debate. Can't have him stumbling around up there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 04:53 PM (7fElN)

69 And I see he's already begun to attract the worst kind of new commenters, people who like Disney Star Wars and even the Acolyte. Is a gender transition far off?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 25, 2024 04:51 PM (2xB3Z)

That reminds me ... whatever happened to Drudgereport.com?

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 04:53 PM (rj6Yv)

70 "where did all them goddam Indians COME FROM???"

Posted by: FAMOUS LAST WORDSr at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

71 "Lessee, I've got 250 guys, and there are 5000 Indians who are actually better armed than we are. Let's attack!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:50 PM (YqDXo)
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It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:52 PM (3Fz6p)
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I was surprised to learn that the Indians actually WERE better armed than the cavalry. Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

72 CNN's lawyer looked absolutely foolish in front of these Judges. In part:

Judge Roberts went on to question him about CNN’s use of the term “black market” (both in spoken word The Lead host Jake Tapper and the on-screen chyron). The Judge pressed Tobin on the dictionary definition:

[W]hen they were talking about Mr. Young, they had his picture on the thing and there was a chyron that says he was involved in a black market. And, you know, I've looked in a couple of dictionaries – three or four – and the first definition for black market in all the dictionaries is criminal activity. And you know, if you are accusing someone of criminal activity and they're not involved in a crime, that's usually defamation per se. Correct?

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (oiNtH)

73 "At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage"

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Given Biden's mental state, this may confuse him when he's on the real stage. He may very well be looking around for the aides and lose it.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (i7Q7S)

74 I wonder if the actual debate stage will resemble this one. So that he has time to get used to being in an unusual environment that might confuse him during the debate. Can't have him stumbling around up there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 04:53 PM (7fElN)
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They'll put footprints on the floor so he doesn't wander off in the wrong direction.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

75 Matt Drudge sold the site to a Google-owned company.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (Hkcdp)

76 You know they're going to play games with Trump's audio. They'll make him sound like RFK Jr. with a severe head cold.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (aFNOf)

77 I do not underestimate Bribe'em. The vile meatsack will draw on all the smug condescension that is his second nature irrespective of the drugs.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (8ZuHs)

78 I wonder if Trump is prepping for the debate.

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 04:55 PM (o3Uyl)

79 "Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had."

You're welcome!

Posted by: Canada at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)

80 They’re hoping he does reasonably well so they can cancel any future debates.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (u73oe)

81 Remember:
Biden really, actually believes his own bullshit.
That he is a great debater, that he is popular, that he is smarter, tougher and more clever than everyone.

So he insisted on this debate this early.

But Trump has been out actually campaigning, real-life testing debate topics and responses.
Biden has cold focus groups and lines that are fresh from 2020.

Recall "ultra MAGA Republicans?" That was Biden's idea. That's the lines he'll think are haymakers on Thursday.
And Trump has already been saying, "Excuse me, it's not MAGA, it's make America great, again. And I don't know why anyone would have a problem with that. "

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (F2AiD)

82 They're going to give Biden some kind of physical assistance device he can lean against or sit in under his clothes. From the front, he'd look like he was standing upright.

Perhaps a more modernized version of this thing from Honda that they did a press release about in 2008:
https://is.gd/B7NISc

And when you think about how oddly Biden's been observed walking as of late, one is left to wonder if perhaps they've already done this?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (O7YUW)

83 Probably be a significant delay in the broadcast, maybe half an hour.
If there is a severe 'elderly moment' they can stop the broadcast and claim Trump called it quits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (cOq4q)

84 At least 16 current and former aides
.......

Good place for a Boeing to take a dump.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

85 I don't get this debate hype. The raving lunatic with dementia, a CONvicted felon who lost previous debates and the presidential election is a participant. Chuck Todd thinks TFG has strengths?

They have convinced the public, even some democrats, that Joe is feeble and older acting than Trump. Those who didn't watch state of union. So what will be good is for everyone to see Joe has his marbles and Trump doesn't.

Trump looks 20 years older than Biden, if he isn't wearing make up and his girdle. It would be great if he had 3 days in jail with some pics taken, it would go viral!!

His "strength" is to make too many false assertions to effectively fact-check, so it becomes normalized, and millions of voters won't know fact from fiction.

To paraphrase Paul Krugman in 2000 when Gore debated Bush: If Bush declared the world was flat, media coverage would be "Shape of Earth; views differ."

Lots of speculation whether he'll even show up. There was a reason that he did not participate in his own party's debate cycle. His campaign is awfully worried that Trump can't match Biden, who talks the talk AND walks the walk.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

86 Beau died at the Little Bighorn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (q8ymT)

87 34 Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer, a military genius (who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns, to travel light) lost his life along with the whole 7th cavalry.
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He left his sabers behind as well. Indians move fast and do not get into slobber knocker battles. His problem was breaking his unit into four different units with no idea on what each was to do or how to communicate with them. It was one big Custer Fuck.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (n17eQ)

88 I was surprised to learn that the Indians actually WERE better armed than the cavalry. Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)
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Yeah, the cav had trapdoor Springfields and the Indians had modern breechloaders and repeaters. It's the old government mentality. "Hmmm. We could buy new repeaters at $15 apiece, or we could convert these stacks of muzzleloaders we already have for $5 apiece. Bargain!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (3Fz6p)

89 It seems that Joe will have to do that thing where he leans real close to the microphone and says "Convicted Felon!" in that weird whisper.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (i7Q7S)

90 Probably be a significant delay in the broadcast, maybe half an hour.
If there is a severe 'elderly moment' they can stop the broadcast and claim Trump called it quits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 04:56 PM (cOq4q)
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"We're experiencing technical difficulties ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (YqDXo)

91 It gets really tiring how the deck is always stacked against the R presidential candidate during these clown show debates. Might as well dig up Lenin and Marx and have them as moderators, tape Trump's mouth shut and shine a holographic halo around Biden's head, while propping him up from behind with a hand truck. I don't know why Trump agreed to what will be a sh*tshow of collaborators trying to do one thing: utterly destroy him while propping up the Senile Fool with everything they've got.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mupln)

92 "At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage"

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And since they're "updates" they're paid for by taxpayers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (b9jZi)

93 Can we trust Joe Biden to be a fair moderator between Donald Trump (with one hand tied behind his back) and the entire CNN on-air staff?

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2024 04:58 PM (+j7Fj)

94 > "Lessee, I've got 250 guys, and there are 5000 Indians who are actually better armed than we are. Let's attack!"

It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne. The Army was even more motivated to push them onto reservations and split them up after the battle.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 04:58 PM (Odg76)

95 I was surprised to learn that the Indians actually WERE better armed than the cavalry. Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

Congress gets pretty stingy with public funds during peacetime.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 04:58 PM (rj6Yv)

96 78 I wonder if Trump is prepping for the debate.
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil

He should paint his middle finger blaze orange and have a back flap in his trousers so he can point there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 04:58 PM (aFNOf)

97 Gupta: "I'll never understand" why people don't want to wear masks.

Imagine being this gormless.

Posted by: Full of Gorm at June 25, 2024 04:58 PM (K+3RJ)

98 I was surprised to learn that the Indians actually WERE better armed than the cavalry. Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 04:54 PM (YqDXo)
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Yeah, the cav had trapdoor Springfields and the Indians had modern breechloaders and repeaters. It's the old government mentality. "Hmmm. We could buy new repeaters at $15 apiece, or we could convert these stacks of muzzleloaders we already have for $5 apiece. Bargain!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious

*cough Original intent of 2nd Amendment cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 04:59 PM (1UfpD)

99 >>>53 A article at American Thinker layer out the rules for replacing Sundowner, the Democrat/ Marxists are stuck with him and The Ho unless he drops dead or throws in the towel and resigned

Posted by: Skip

Thank you, Skip. I'll find that.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

100 Did anyone remember to pounce and seize Jake and Dana's bias?

If not, then it's not a true Republican issue.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 04:59 PM (tT6L1)

101 #88

Spot on.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)

102 An easy answer is "because Democrats have turned Election Day into Election Half-Year and so voters need to see the candidates before they begin voting."

I *wish* it was only half a year. It feels like as soon as one ends they start gearing up for the next one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (DRSnL)

103 How much the dem PTB want to shunt mushbrains aside, they can only do that if he agrees. He won’t… dementia makes people more stubborn. There is no way on God’s green earth he’ll step aside even if he defacates in his pants on live TV with the brown sharts dribbling out of his pants on the floor visible for all to see. He could pull a Nadler and still refuse to get out, and the media would praise the wonderful aroma he brought to the debate stage. He’s a stubborn old cuss enabled by many people around him. I’ve been saying for months: the Dems made this bed they’ll have to sleep in it.

BTW…. They’ve already effectively played the low expectations game. Anyone who thinks this old pervert is gonna melt down on stage will be sorely disappointed. Trump I hope is just assuming he’ll be his usual bullying shouting self and “on his game” (as much as he can be)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (xT8gx)

104 Canadian Conservative candidate Don Stewart won a close election on Monday in Toronto-St.Paul’s, taking a seat that has been held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party for the past 30 years. “Before Monday’s vote, a Conservative candidate hadn’t been competitive in Toronto–St. Paul’s since the 1980s.

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (RHGPo)

105 His campaign is awfully worried that Trump can't match Biden, who talks the talk AND walks the walk.
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Yow. Whistling past the graveyard.

He talks the talk - we're just not sure language it's in - and walks the walk. Well, shuffles the shuffle, more like.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

106 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JCZqz)
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You never disappoint!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (7fElN)

107 >>>5 Matt Drudge sold the site to a Google-owned company.

is that confirmed? Let me know where you're getting that. Everyone thinks he secretly sold it to leftwingers but we don't have the proof. Drudge won't say. Probably because the deal hinged on him pretending to still be running the site.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (KRtlO)

108 They’re hoping he does reasonably well so they can cancel any future debates.

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People forget it or don't know, but that happened in 2020 with the foreign policy debate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (b9jZi)

109 Biden would not be able to remember the scripted responses even if they did that. I think his only hope is the massive gaslighting we're going to see spinning his performance, or if Trump says something, anything, that the media can scream about to the exclusion of commenting on Biden at all.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 04:51 PM

Yep, they can have biden repeat his lines 85 times and he is not capable of remembering them without note cards or a teleprompter. There is no way they can "prep" him with the questions and expect him to remember the answers, that simply is not going to happen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (QNSds)

110 DU Transmissionofier: You really do have a talent for finding the crazy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (tT6L1)

111 Gupta: "I'll never understand" why ~~people~~ the untouchables don't want to wear masks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (YqDXo)

112 I was surprised to learn that the Indians actually WERE better armed than the cavalry. Somebody was naughty in selling them more modern weapons the cavalry had.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

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(looks at Ukraine)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (b9jZi)

113 I never thought I'd say this but Biden makes Johnson's bowing out in 1968 look admirable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (n17eQ)

114 Trump should wear aviator glasses during the debate.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (aFNOf)

115 If Trump walks into the stage, greets biden calmly and respectfully, speaks in soft tones, doesn't interrupt and lets biden speak, he will win without having to do much at all. That's the way you disorient biden. He won't know what to do.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (BApYz)

116 Those DU transmissions are a marvel of insanity and delusion.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (mupln)

117 I don't know why Trump agreed to what will be a sh*tshow of collaborators trying to do one thing: utterly destroy him while propping up the Senile Fool with everything they've got.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mupln)
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Perhaps because he knows that they will still fail...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (7fElN)

118 It gets really tiring how the deck is always stacked against the R presidential candidate during these clown show debates. Might as well dig up Lenin and Marx and have them as moderators, tape Trump's mouth shut and shine a holographic halo around Biden's head, while propping him up from behind with a hand truck. I don't know why Trump agreed to what will be a sh*tshow of collaborators trying to do one thing: utterly destroy him while propping up the Senile Fool with everything they've got.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mupln)

Ditto. Just makes no sense to give a drowning, demented puppet a CNN moderated lifeline.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (FCPbW)

119 Yall are underestimating Biden. There's a good chance he will manage to not crap his pants.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (vFG9F)

120 Yep, they can have biden repeat his lines 85 times and he is not capable of remembering them without note cards or a teleprompter. There is no way they can "prep" him with the questions and expect him to remember the answers, that simply is not going to happen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 05:01 PM (QNSds)
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"You know, the thing, man."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

121 >>>OT: I had to go check Ya Boi Zach's youtube channel to see what ace was talking about when he said Zach had lost his mind... He has certainly lost his perspective. He's calling the normies "anti-SJWs" and now (seemingly) acting as apologist for people he railed about for years. And I see he's already begun to attract the worst kind of new commenters, people who like Disney Star Wars and even the Acolyte. Is a gender transition far off?

Yeah, it's something. He did the same thing like six months ago, or a year ago, when he was complaining that people were complaining about Indiana Jones. He essentially told us that WE OWE IT TO HARRISON FORD -- who he seems to think is a real-life hero who is owed our loyalty -- to watch the movie.

He thinks that the ONE THING you're allowed to criticize is comics becuase HE'S obsesed with comics. For all other media, you're supposed to shrug and accept whatever slop they serve you.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

122 Possibly they moved up the debate date because they need to have some sort of confirmation that the retard will be on the ballot. Given how many fake ballots they need, it is going to take a while to print them up, even if only the presidential slot is on the ballot. August might be too late.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (lTGtQ)

123 > It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Custer made so many mistakes, it's ridiculous. His own chain of command told him not to be a dumbfuck and to wait for help. He ignored them. He force marched his people to that location. They were tired. He ignored his scouts. He didn't know who he was fighting or their numbers. He split up his forces. He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

124 Because they are afraid Biden may not live till October ....

Posted by: Steinhofer Jones at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (1t11C)

125 Also, Biden is aging daily. Bigly !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (NtVYv)

126 Trump is not afraid of CNN. He lives for this stuff. That's my President!

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

127 The walk to the Escalade was totally normal, as was the slowly putting on of the aviators when Joe got confused at the paratrooper display.

Yep, Joe's a picture of health and mental acuity!.....in Bizarro world.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (tT6L1)

128 Why do you say Biden agreed to this? He goes where he's told to read from a note card for 30 minutes between naps. He barely knows where he's at. He's getting his 10% for the big guy on the back end and letting Big Mike run the show behind the scenes

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (O5FBL)

129
Yeah, it's something. He did the same thing like six months ago, or a year ago, when he was complaining that people were complaining about Indiana Jones. He essentially told us that WE OWE IT TO HARRISON FORD -- who he seems to think is a real-life hero who is owed our loyalty -- to watch the movie.

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Speaking of Drudge, Disney has DEEP pockets.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:04 PM (b9jZi)

130 105 His campaign is awfully worried that Trump can't match Biden, who talks the talk AND walks the walk.
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Yow. Whistling past the graveyard.

He talks the talk - we're just not sure language it's in - and walks the walk. Well, shuffles the shuffle, more like.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

Look, Fat, I shit the shit. Right down my pantleg and onto the lawn. High-fiber diet, and sphincter with muscles more stretched out than the elastic waistband on a pair of five year old tighty whities. Try and replicate that, Jack. There can only be one.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 05:04 PM (K+3RJ)

131 Trump should wear ~~aviator glasses~~ a kangaroo suit during the debate.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (aFNOf)
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"Sorry, just came from the trial in NYC and didn't have time to change clothes."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

132 His campaign is awfully worried that Trump can't match Biden, who talks the talk AND walks the walk.

I laughed, as "walk the walk" usually implies being a follower of Jesus, but in this case Trump probably doesn't want to literally_ "_walk the walk" that Biden doesand he'd look like and old man with severe balance and mobility problems._________

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2024 05:04 PM (oUxZc)

133 One week of prep = one week to figure out the new drug regiment. If Brandon has a problem with the new regiment, oh too bad we have to replace him now.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (UC3nL)

134 Biden apparently won a debate coin toss and got to pick either (1) which side of the stage he'd be on or (2) who went first and last. He picked (1), which is ... weird. Unless he wants to hide an earpiece and perhaps be closer to the transmitter, depending on how the stage is laid out. I bet there is a curtain about six feet to the side of his podium.

Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (qUkBO)

135 Zach has made about 7,000 videos complaining that Marvel turned third-string C-list hero Iceman gay. And Iceman was never gay, he argues. The Lore shows him being in love with women, including in his private thought-bubbles.

But when Disney LucasFilm changes the lore of Star Wars, he says Shut up you whiny baby nerdz, lore is unimportant and you should just be good little Corporate Consumers.

Again, it's because he cares (obsesses, actually) about Marvel comics and doesn't care about Star Wars. So he rages endlessly about Iceman's sexuality, and tells Star Wars Whiny Babies to just get over it and stop being NERDZ unless you want to get stuffed into a locker.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (KRtlO)

136 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”

Posted by: Dementia Joe at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (RHGPo)

137 I am wondering if we will make it to Thursday morning without a big national crisis requiring Joe's attention Thursday night.

Posted by: Weasel at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (JwHpX)

138 No, PDT should wear a bunny suit like the one that startled Joe at the rope line meet and greet.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (tT6L1)

139 They’re hoping he does reasonably well so they can cancel any future debates.

If he gets to his lectern successfully, they should declare victory and cut the feed.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (+j7Fj)

140 Trump should wear aviator glasses a kangaroo suit during the debate.

Posted by: Maj. Heale

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That big ol' bunny outfit from the Easter a couple of years ago where the specialist in the costume would step over and remove the Potato from conversations telling kids he was going to beat them up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (b9jZi)

141 I think it's important to note how the media is assisting *biden in all this. I'm sure they'd like to do more, but it's already borderline election interference with how this is being setup.

I'd assume if it appears *biden's unable to focus, has issues with the script or whatever they'll sic the FBI on Trump for another trip to the NYC courthouse that will be cause to bag the whole thing.

I mean... it's almost all the Democrats have at this point.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (Q4IgG)

142 the Democrat/ Marxists are stuck with him and The Ho unless he drops dead or throws in the towel and resigned

They can't count on him dying (or making it happen), so it all boils down to making him resign. They have a convincing pitch- announce a major illness, resign for health reasons and "the good of the nation over personal interest", and go down in history as a selfless statesman.

The problem is, Joe's an egotistical, pugnacious asshole, and doubly so in regards to Trump. He doesn't want to lose, or be perceived as losing, to him. But, if he does poorly enough in the debates, looks bad enough in public...party leaders may be able to force the issue. Can you imagine a coup? "Joe, resign in time for us to appoint a suitable replacement, or we 25th your ass, and even if you survive, you lose the election and go down in history as a feeble, weak, loser".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

143 btw, Zach is leading EVS down the same path, defending corporate IPs and telling the fans they have a duty to judge these things without prejudice.

Really? I have a duty to Disney? When did I pick up that obligation?

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:06 PM (KRtlO)

144 I saw Top Gun. Iceman is definitely gay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:06 PM (b9jZi)

145 IIRC, it wasn't even the converted Springfields that gave Custer's troopers the most trouble. It was the ammunition. Mainly, corroded cartridge cases. Investigators found several rifles at the Little Bighorn battle site with jammed cartridges, and evidence of violent efforts to remove the cases. Ammo stuck in leather belt loops for months at a time is not conducive to problem-free extraction.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

146 Yall are underestimating Biden. There's a good chance he will manage to not crap his pants.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (vFG9F)
......

That's why they've been feeding him nothing but soluble fiber and Banatrol this week.

Posted by: wth at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (v0R5T)

147 Biden, who mumbles the mumble AND shuffles the shuffle.

Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (qUkBO)

148 Today 2 CA politicians made public statements detailing their failures at their jobs. Both blamed conservatives and right wingers, who have been in charge of NOTHING in the state of CA for years and years.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (MeG8a)

149 I'm betting Biden is going to try that stupid jog thing he does and try to get over to Trump's side to show he's quicker than Trump.

It's gonna look stupid but he's gonna do it.

But Trump needs to throw off all their timing and show up late.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (F2AiD)

150 It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Custer made so many mistakes, it's ridiculous. His own chain of command told him not to be a dumbfuck and to wait for help. He ignored them. He force marched his people to that location. They were tired. He ignored his scouts. He didn't know who he was fighting or their numbers. He split up his forces. He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM

custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (QNSds)

151 117 I don't know why Trump agreed to what will be a sh*tshow of collaborators trying to do one thing: utterly destroy him while propping up the Senile Fool with everything they've got.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mupln)
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Perhaps because he knows that they will still fail...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 05:02 PM (7fElN)

It's worth checking out Trump's Friday interview appearance on the All In podcast. David Sacks is an open Trumper (who raised money for Biden, but still), Chamath Palihapitiya leans left but feels he was lied to by the media, so he's now an open Trumper as well. David Friedberg and Jason Calacanis are the liberals of the bunch, with J-Cal being far more expressive than Freidberg. He took on all comers, and Trump came off as thoughtful, presidential and confident in his past record and future abilities. J-Cal is now stepping onboard the Trump Train himself, and he's still inclined to dislike the guy. Trump charmed him.

Trump will have no problem against the 3-on-1 that will take place on Thursday. Especially since he knows what to expect after the Chris Wallace performance in 2020.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (Y8+QK)

152 I bet there is a curtain about six feet to the side of his podium.
Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (qUkBO)
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Is that where the guy with all the levers and dials is hiding?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (3Fz6p)

153 >>Why do you say Biden agreed to this? He goes where he's told to read from a note card for 30 minutes between naps.

well his Puppeteers want to keep their Phoney-Baloney jobs, so they wouldn't agree to a debate just to allow the chance to depose Biden.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (KRtlO)

154 "At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions."

Yes. When your student cannot focus well enough to even finish a sentence, the best thing to do is saturate his limited capacity with voluminous, wide-ranging topics and strategies. Really get those withered neurons firing as haphazardly as humanly possible.

I endorse this plan wholeheartedly.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (aXxgO)

155 That big ol' bunny outfit from the Easter a couple of years ago where the specialist in the costume would step over and remove the Potato from conversations telling kids he was going to beat them up.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (b9jZi)

Come on down for the oyster egg roll

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

156 >>>I saw Top Gun. Iceman is definitely gay.

lol

but is it just that you WANT him to be gay, Moron Robbie?

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (KRtlO)

157 {102} ... I *wish* it was only half a year. It feels like as soon as one ends they start gearing up for the next one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2024 05:00 PM (DRSnL)

That pretty accurately sums up how the American election cycle looks from outside the country. It never seems to let up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (O7YUW)

158 Yeah, it's something. He did the same thing like six months ago, or a year ago, when he was complaining that people were complaining about Indiana Jones. He essentially told us that WE OWE IT TO HARRISON FORD -- who he seems to think is a real-life hero who is owed our loyalty -- to watch the movie.

And why did we not have this same duty as to comics?

Posted by: Apart from Zach's Self-Interest at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (K+3RJ)

159 Ace. Sir. Your work with all of this is wonderful. I admire your grit. I will always value your input over any other source.

I really have nothing to add to the debate. I am exhausted. But please, do not take this as a criticism. Never give up. Never surrender. AoSHQ is the only place I visit every day.

Well, the H2. But they're splitters...with kick-ass memes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (hZc6Q)

160 It's SCOAMF all over again

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:09 PM (NtVYv)

161 There was an article today or yesterday in a British tabloid that said the Bidens have taken out a second mortgage on one of their homes every 18 months for the past 20+ years.

Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:09 PM (qUkBO)

162 >>> Ace. Sir. Your work with all of this is wonderful. I admire your grit. I will always value your input over any other source.

Thank you very much, Pug Mahon. That means a lot.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (KRtlO)

163 > custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.

Custer had big political ambitions.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (Odg76)

164 I saw Top Gun. Iceman is definitely gay.

lol

but is it just that you WANT him to be gay, Moron Robbie?
Posted by: ace

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I remember watching the movie when I was young and it was AWESOME.

We re-watched it a year or two ago and dang, the entire thing really is full of homo-eroticism and suggestiveness. I don't know if society/language moved towards that or it was written that way by those Hollywood fellows intentionally, but watch it again if you haven't seen it lately.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (b9jZi)

165 It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Custer made so many mistakes, it's ridiculous. His own chain of command told him not to be a dumbfuck and to wait for help. He ignored them. He force marched his people to that location. They were tired. He ignored his scouts. He didn't know who he was fighting or their numbers. He split up his forces. He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.
Posted by: bonhomme

Pride goeth before a fall.

If only there was a book that had all those old sayings.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (1UfpD)

166
Perhaps there is Another Reason for the early debate:

President Trump's fake "sentencing" fake "hearing" is in a couple of weeks. Maybe the Democrats thought it would help them to do this debacle before the sentencing?

And, perhaps, Trump also wants this debacle, or debate, to commence before...he's wearing an ankle bracelet??

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (R39v+)

167 150 It wasn't so much that as that he didn't believe what his scouts were reporting. Kinda worse, in some ways.

Custer made so many mistakes, it's ridiculous. His own chain of command told him not to be a dumbfuck and to wait for help. He ignored them. He force marched his people to that location. They were tired. He ignored his scouts. He didn't know who he was fighting or their numbers. He split up his forces. He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM

custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 05:07 PM (QNSds)

George A. Custer graduated last in his 1861 West Point class. He was the Goat of the class. And not the good kind, either.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (Y8+QK)

168 but is it just that you WANT him to be gay, Moron Robbie?
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (KRtlO)
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I think you're confusing him with Elric. Something about Las Vegas came up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (tT6L1)

169 It would be hilarious if Trump came out in aviators ... and a giant Sombrero.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (F2AiD)

170 He force marched his people to that location. They were tired. He ignored his scouts. He didn't know who he was fighting or their numbers. He split up his forces. He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

And, most importantly, he and Mrs. George Armstrong Custer, had bad cases of Presidentitis.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (rj6Yv)

171 There was an article today or yesterday in a British tabloid that said the Bidens have taken out a second mortgage on one of their homes every 18 months for the past 20+ years.
Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:09 PM (qUkBO)

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It was Daily Mail. https://is.gd/ZFDqjv

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (DRSnL)

172
But, yes, the timing for the debacle/debate is certainly because of the "sentencing" "hearing" in New York.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (R39v+)

173 So why is this one so early?

Maybe Biden will be reassuring sticking with him means greatness can also be following him and O. In fact, it can be great in the form of O, part 2, and the real Promised Land.
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See Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, already in the spotlight, i.e., WesMoore dot com Endorsements

"We are thankful for the support of this coalition of leaders who are joining Wes Moore and Aruna Miller on this campaign to increase economic opportunity for every family in Maryland. Together, we are turning this moment into a movement.

President Barack Obama
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD-5)
U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD-7)
U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-2)
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-

..." yadda, yadda

And a nice long list of civil society members.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (NFX2v)

174 custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.

Custer had big political ambitions.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (Odg76)

I love custard !

Posted by: Joe Dribbles Bdien at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (NtVYv)

175 Biden's poll numbers a month ago were worse.

If he crackerjacks this debate, people might tune into Sep thinking he had 3 months to improve (and people forgetting June debate)

3 debates within 6 weeks or so, people would have been more sure of their choice after the first debate and no correction possible.

This gives him 3 months to fix his performance

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (JkCto)

176 500 quatloos Joke get a dose of colonoscopy prep Wednesday morning, then they keep him hydrated with soluble vitamins and electrolytes.

The tell will be the week after the debate.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (8ZuHs)

177 I researched this and believe it to be true: Pennsylvania starts voting 50 days before Election Day. I think that is the earliest state and it is closely followed by Virginia and one other (I forget who one of the dakotas I think) at 45 days. We are already within the 90 day mark for voting to start.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (IFNME)

178 Ace, a conservative lawyer on twitter mentioned it a few months after it happened. It wasn’t Robert Barnes,- will have to track it down when not at work. It was some kind of deal that also involved Drudge’s father’s site, and it was a google ads company, iirc. Drudge stayed on but let go of the management. Sorry I don’t have a link handy - this was over a year ago, minimum.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (Hkcdp)

179 He arrogantly assumed the opposition would scatter and flee.
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IIRC, that was because they'd done that in the past. But now they had the entire Sioux nation there, and there was no way they were going to beat feet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

180 >>>We re-watched it a year or two ago and dang, the entire thing really is full of homo-eroticism and suggestiveness. I don't know if society/language moved towards that or it was written that way by those Hollywood fellows intentionally, but watch it again if you haven't seen it lately.

well you know there's a Horseshoe Theory with homosexuality. When things get really manly -- or TOO manly -- suddenly the manly stuff crosses the line and you start thinking, "Wait, this is kinda gay."

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (KRtlO)

181 >>>At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage. At least 16 current and former aides, summoned from Washington and Wilmington, whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions.

If Trump does not have his own film crew they will insert Biden's practice responces into the "live" broadcast and use Trump's actual and claim Trump was incoherent and just spouting nonsense.

The Junta already has a well-done fake oval office and uses it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 05:13 PM (cOq4q)

182 Are you not man enough to debate me yourself?"

please say this

oh the wannabe tough guy will explode with rage no matter how much he is drugged up

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2024 05:13 PM (AR07F)

183 >>>Ace, a conservative lawyer on twitter mentioned it a few months after it happened. It wasn’t Robert Barnes,- will have to track it down when not at work. It was some kind of deal that also involved Drudge’s father’s site, and it was a google ads company, iirc. Drudge stayed on but let go of the management. Sorry I don’t have a link handy - this was over a year ago, minimum.

Yes I think I heard that, maybe I quoted it here. No new news, then.

This is what I believe, just can't get it confirmed.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:13 PM (KRtlO)

184 43 who thought it was a great idea to abandon his Gatlin guns

And there were three of them.
Posted by: zombie Kenny Rogers at June 25, 2024 04:47 PM (OguvZ)

To bad we don't have some... I don't know... GATLING GUNS!!
*gets shot. *dies.

Posted by: Private Jayne Cobb at June 25, 2024 05:13 PM (xcIvR)

185 See Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, already in the spotlight, i.e., WesMoore dot com Endorsements

"We are thankful for the support of this coalition of leaders who are joining Wes Moore and Aruna Miller on this campaign to increase economic opportunity for every family in Maryland. Together, we are turning this moment into a movement.

President Barack Obama
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD-5)
U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD-7)
U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-2)
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-..." yadda, yadda

And a nice long list of civil society members.
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:11 PM (NFX2v)

Wes Moore is the Anointed One for 2024. He's not saying boo until then.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (Y8+QK)

186 thanks for the info, Lizzy.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (KRtlO)

187 well you know there's a Horseshoe Theory with homosexuality.

Posted by: ace

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LOVE IS LOVE

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (b9jZi)

188 custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.
_______________

Again, IIRC, Custer had blotted his copybook a bit earlier and was trying for a big victory that would restore his prestige.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (YqDXo)

189 Hey man, everyone thinks I am really practicing for the debate ???? You zipper-heads are clueless !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am up here at the Camp David Gym Pumping Iron to kick girly guy Trump's Fat Ass man. I just did twenty Bench Reps at 325 and squatted 900 lbs today . Dead-lifting 2,000 lbs and curling 250. So, back off jack because I intend on challenging Homo-Boy Trump to a fist fight at the debate.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (hbjSA)

190 Wes Moore is the Anointed One for 2024. He's not saying boo until then.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (Y8+QK)

2028, not 2024. Drat.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (Y8+QK)

191 137 I am wondering if we will make it to Thursday morning without a big national crisis requiring Joe's attention Thursday night.
Posted by: Weasel at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (JwHpX)

This.

And hi Weasel!!!!

Posted by: Moki at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (wLjpr)

192 I don't know it it means anything but my tweaker buddy in Thurmont MD says someone bought up all the crank in the county.

Posted by: Private Hudson at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (dzZCL)

193 thanks for the tip, Jordan!

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (KRtlO)

194 Someone post the indie movie clip where Tarantino is at a house party detailing exactly why Top Gum is so gay, lol

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (Hkcdp)

195 Kelly McGillis for the guys, bare chested guys on the beach for the gals.

I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (tT6L1)

196 SpaceX Launch in T-11:00 from Cape Canaveral.

https://youtu.be/Jm8wRjD3xVA

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (DTX3h)

197 Tapper will use the various Gag Orders to craft his questions to Trump, hoping he'll get Trump into contempt jeopardy.

Posted by: The Great Oz at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (qUkBO)

198 Ascribing any strategy to either party is a bit of a stretch at this point. Think "random walk" , "brownian motion" or flushing money to someone ?

Posted by: Next2Nothing at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (tA1/w)

199 Posted by: Moki at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (wLjpr)
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Hi Moki!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (JwHpX)

200 We are already within the 90 day mark for voting to start.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (IFNME)
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That's ridiculous. Whatever happened to "Election DAY?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (YqDXo)

201 I am calling on CNN to do a DNA Test on what walks out of Camp David for the debate. It may be a clone or android of Biden.

Posted by: Franklin Stein at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (Mig/N)

202 Some are returning to the fold just long enough to help Mr. Biden prepare: Brian Deese, who left the administration as director of the National Economic Council in 2023, is expected to visit Camp David to help Mr. Biden refine his pitch that the American economy is recovering.

deese? nuts!

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (sGtp+)

203 but is it just that you WANT him to be gay, Moron Robbie?
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (KRtlO)

Well, of course. It's PRIDE MONTH!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (OX9vb)

204 The timing. Hunter's tax evasion case is coming up. This is alot more damning than the gun charge.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (8ZuHs)

205 "But 'Democrats' did not agree to to this debate -- Joe Biden did."

Joe has an overstated value of his self-worth. He's a stubborn, 50+ year old fossil of a politician who has navigated DC his entire life. No one is going to tell him what's best because when he is cogent (even intermittently), he will cling to the ring like a rock-climber to the North Face.

Who actually thinks Joe is receptive to "stepping down"? Not gonna happen because a) he wants control, b) he wants to keep his family out of prison, and c) he's an ornery cuss when sober.

Joe's debating because he thinks he's right. You can't tell him anything because he's been on autopilot for decades.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (aXxgO)

206 "I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.
Posted by: blake"

Nope. I already knew Cruise was a little gay when it came out.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (vFG9F)

207 I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.

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I don't know exactly when it was made, but I'm betting it was smack-dab in the middle of the "stay out of our bedrooms we just want to shove horseshoes up the asses of our special friends when we visit them in the hospital" or whatever their nonsense was.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was an intentionally gay movie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (b9jZi)

208 Pretty sure if you hacked into CNN.com, you could find at least a couple of "news articles" already written about how Biden won the debate.

Posted by: Lesbian Space Witches at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (hqVaF)

209 I fleeced the geezers for $9 today so I refuse to be discouraged by the scheming and plotting of the dems.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (W/lyH)

210 Kelly McGillis for the guys, bare chested guys on the beach for the gals.
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Didn't Kelly McGillis start batting for the other team?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

211 Was telling a friend that I did not intend to watch the debate, but I had a great site to read listener's comments.

The analysis here will be better than anything the media can offer.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (y7DxH)

212 bare chested guys on the beach for the gals.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (tT6L1)

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Mmmm, Rick Rossovich...

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (DRSnL)

213 I look forward to the left attacking Tapper for not cutting Trump's mic enough

he gets one good soundbite and they'll be calling for tapper's head

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (AR07F)

214
Trump can't match Biden, who talks the talk AND walks the walk.

Have you heard him talk?
Have you seen him walk?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 05:18 PM (63Dwl)

215 I do not believe Biden is panicking or was back when he dared Trump to make his day on debating.

I think it's partly vanity/arrogance (neither candidate is short of those) - I don't think Biden was hoping to reset the campaign because he doesn't believe he is losing. I think he thought tjhwn that he could put the election away early. He knew that Trump would be found guilty of felony charges in NY and he thought he could swoop in and bounce the rubble. To this day Biden thinks he can take Trump out back behind the woodshed.

And no matter what his aides think they are assuring him that his raiments are splendiferous.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:18 PM (IFNME)

216 If that Homo Tapper and Cunt Bash give Biden any hard questions I will personally kick their Faggetty Ass back to CNN Headquarters.............

Posted by: Big Mike at June 25, 2024 05:18 PM (Mig/N)

217 I never got the sense that the director of Top Gun, Tony Scott, did anything gay or camp in his movies.

Not saying you're wrong. Just observing.

Tony Scott directed True Romance. Not sure if that was before or after Quentin Tarantino's famous rant on how gay Top Gun was.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

218 but watch it again if you haven't seen it lately.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (b9jZi)

Ugh. I'll keep thinking it was great thanks.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 25, 2024 05:18 PM (kBHM9)

219 Really? I have a duty to Disney? When did I pick up that obligation?
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:06 PM (KRtlO)

It is the same implied consent you gave to pay taxes: You didn't run away fast enough or far enough.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (D7oie)

220 Kelly McGillis for the guys, bare chested guys on the beach for the gals.

I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:15 PM (tT6L1)
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Kelly McGillis: blech
Meg Ryan: cute as hell, but chewed the scenery so much that she is the go-to for How Not To Chew The Scenery.

Top Gun: Maverick was much better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (hZc6Q)

221 He picked (1), which is ... weird. Unless he wants to hide an earpiece and perhaps be closer to the transmitter, depending on how the stage is laid out. I bet there is a curtain about six feet to the side of his podium.
Posted by: The Great Oz

2 reasons proposed. 1- the more traditional "stagecraft" theory is that western audience read left to right, and so naturally gravitate towards the right side of the screen as more comfortable, giving Biden more "eyeball" time.

2- he may have hearing issues, and maybe his right ear is better, so it's good to have Trump on Biden's right, so he can be heard (and countered) more effectively.

3 (bonus)- few people watch the entire debate, so why have the ending (the least watched part)? Anything good will be consumed in clips and compilations after the fact.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (JCZqz)

222 Kelly McGillis for the guys, bare chested guys on the beach for the gals.
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The Kelly McGillis that had to dress like a man to try and seduce Cruz's character?

youtube.com/watch?v=bt8FqaMsYDY

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (b9jZi)

223 I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.

It's a terrible movie.

It's astonishing that someone watched that piece of shit and said "give us another."

Posted by: TJM Probably Has It in 4K at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (K+3RJ)

224 I'm just wondering if the Dems are stupid enough to try to assassinate Trump in their "super speshul closed set with only Dem authorized personnel" on it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (hB7mE)

225 I think reading homo into Top Gun is a stretch for when the movie was made.

lots of straight young guys act a little over the top macho almost gay in all male competitive environments -- sports teams, military, etc,

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (AR07F)

226 George A. Custer graduated last in his 1861 West Point class. He was the Goat of the class. And not the good kind, either.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (Y8+QK)

And the shame is, GAC was a superb cavalry commander during the Civil War. He was, IIRC, one of the first US Army officers to fly aboard one Thaddeus Lowe's observation balloons.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)

227 The debate will be 100% trials and felonies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 05:20 PM (ENQN6)

228 Tony Scott also did The Rock and Crimson Tide, which aren't gay-ish.

He does this in all of his movies: He uses some kind of filter over a lens that only shades the top of it. So you always see these shots of a city skyline or the sky where the sky is strangely yellow or pink at the top.

Pretty sure that's in almost every movie. Maybe not Top Gun.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:20 PM (KRtlO)

229 > IIRC, that was because they'd done that in the past. But now they had the entire Sioux nation there, and there was no way they were going to beat feet.

Sure, but making that assumption without knowing who you're facing is beyond foolish. If he'd taken the time to learn he was facing Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Chief Gall and their warriors, he would have known they wouldn't scatter.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:20 PM (Odg76)

230 Ugh. I'll keep thinking it was great thanks.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm

--

I've started taking that approach with almost all of the old movies I enjoyed. I find that westerns can be watched over and over again, but if there's something like Cemetery Man or Dream With Fishes, leave it alone. Remember how great they were. Never re-watch them.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:21 PM (b9jZi)

231 Tapper will use the various Gag Orders to craft his questions to Trump,

They need a Hawaiian judge on stage to issue gag orders as necessary.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2024 05:21 PM (+j7Fj)

232 These movers and shakers might figure that if Biden has a crippling debate performance of disconnected ramblings, meaningless utterances, angry outbursts and undeniable mental decline, there's still time to persuade him to drop out and for the national convention in late July to produce a replacement.
________
"Persuade" is good.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 05:21 PM (1bNHn)

233 Tony Scott also did The Rock and Crimson Tide, which aren't gay-ish.
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Michael Bay directed "The Rock."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 05:21 PM (3Fz6p)

234 Kelly LeBrock>>>Kelly McGillis

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

235 Does the debate really matter or change any votes??? Everything sucks today, it will suck after the debate, and if Biden wins the Suck will be astronomical.........

So personally I a am not going to waist my time watching this staged circle jerk. I will let Bongino analyze the debate and listen to his thoughts.

Posted by: Frank N. Stien at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (hbjSA)

236 I see TJM has weighed in on "Top Gun."

He likes Prometheus.

'Nough said.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (tT6L1)

237 Nope. I already knew Cruise was a little gay when it came out.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:16 PM (vFG9F)

True. Tom Cruise is short.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (0eaVi)

238 I am wondering if we will make it to Thursday morning without a big national crisis requiring Joe's attention Thursday night.
Posted by: Weasel at June 25, 2024 05:05 PM (JwHpX)

I predict this as they near the first "break." Look for someone to cut in, rush on stage, whisper in Biden's ear and he is hustled off stage looking very presidential.
The camera will cut to Trump who has ben purposely left with no one telling him whats going on.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (W/lyH)

239 I don't know it it means anything but my tweaker buddy in Thurmont MD says someone bought up all the crank in the county.
Posted by: Private Hudson at June 25, 2024 05:14 PM (dzZCL)

Don't look at me.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at June 25, 2024 05:22 PM (v0R5T)

240 I never liked Top Gun. Sometimes I'm put off by a movie if it panders too hard. Top Gun really pandered to young men and their desire to be heroes. It was just too much for me so I didn't believe the movie was "real."

A lot of Tom Cruise movies were like that.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

241 210. Didn't Kelly McGillis start batting for the other team?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

And now she's well into her 60s.

Maybe Blake needs a Snickers bar.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:23 PM (NFX2v)

242 Sure, but making that assumption without knowing who you're facing is beyond foolish. If he'd taken the time to learn he was facing Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Chief Gall and their warriors, he would have known they wouldn't scatter.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:20 PM (Odg76)
_______________

True enough.

Also that the Indians had their women and children there in the camp, so if the warriors booked, they were leaving their families behind.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:23 PM (YqDXo)

243 I look forward to the left attacking Tapper for not cutting Trump's mic enough

he gets one good soundbite and they'll be calling for tapper's head

Posted by: brak at June 25, 2024 05:17 PM (AR07F)

Trump will just keep talking and shouting. Tapper will be screaming "YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!" THIS WHOLE DEBATES OUT OF ORDER!" epic.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 25, 2024 05:23 PM (kBHM9)

244 I watched anexcelent old movie a while back… Midnight Cowboy… really good all the way round..

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

245 "Does the debate really matter or change any votes??"

Probably not. If you haven't made up your mind yet you are so brain damaged you shouldn't vote anyway. We must have the Circus though, the peeps demand it.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (vFG9F)

246 >>>Michael Bay directed "The Rock."

oh i'm such an idiot... yes that was dumb of me.

I guess Michael Bay uses the "tinted sky" trick too.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

247 201 I am calling on CNN to do a DNA Test on what walks out of Camp David for the debate. It may be a clone or android of Biden.

dna test won't catch a clone. well, maybe if they messed up the telomeres.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (sGtp+)

248 It's a terrible movie.

It's astonishing that someone watched that piece of shit and said "give us another."

Posted by: TJM Probably Has It in 4K

Hey, get a load of this guy.

Posted by: Rodney Dangerzone at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (hCzfy)

249 > Didn't Kelly McGillis start batting for the other team?

Wasn't she violently raped by two home invaders? If so, I wouldn't blame her for being put off men for a while.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (Odg76)

250 ace, since you're here, if the mute button is used mainly for Biden in the debate then it should be noted that ellipses called it.

I think it's an interesting hypothesis.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:25 PM (b9jZi)

251 Didn't Kelly McGillis start batting for the other team?

Wasn't she violently raped by two home invaders? If so, I wouldn't blame her for being put off men for a while.
Posted by: bonhomme

___

BORN THIS WAY

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 05:25 PM (b9jZi)

252 I predict this as they near the first "break." Look for someone to cut in, rush on stage, whisper in Biden's ear and he is hustled off stage looking very presidential.
______________

Aide" "Mr. President, we just got a big shipment of chocolate mint ice cream."

Biden: "Excuse me, an important matter has just come up."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:25 PM (YqDXo)

253 244 I watched anexcelent old movie a while back… Midnight Cowboy… really good all the way round..
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

The only X-Rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (Y8+QK)

254 Nope. I already knew Cruise was a little gay when it came out.
Posted by: fd

Tom was always gay. But not me.

Posted by: Fat Travolta at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (v0R5T)

255 Cost of a bag of corn chips is up a dollar from the last time purchased.

Does this have anything to do with the governor of ID turning the water off to farmers of 500,000 acres of planted farmland?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (s4Arc)

256 Sure, but making that assumption without knowing who you're facing is beyond foolish. If he'd taken the time to learn he was facing Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Chief Gall and their warriors, he would have known they wouldn't scatter.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:20 PM (Odg76)

Not to mention that the warriors were the defensive wall between the bluecoats and the women and children. If they had cut and run, they'd never live it down. The moment Custer saw the villages, he knew he was in deep trouble.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (rj6Yv)

257 well you know there's a Horseshoe Theory with homosexuality. When things get really manly -- or TOO manly -- suddenly the manly stuff crosses the line and you start thinking, "Wait, this is kinda gay."

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (KRtlO)
====
What do you expect from the >Navy<??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (RIvkX)

258 but is it just that you WANT him to be gay, Moron Robbie?
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (KRtlO)
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Early versions of Nancy Pelosi's "Sparks of Humanity" most likely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (tT6L1)

259 It's a terrible movie.
It's astonishing that someone watched that piece of shit and said "give us another."
Posted by: TJM Probably Has It in 4K at June 25, 2024 05:19 PM (K+3RJ)

Well, if you check with Pitch Meeting, "Maverick" is actually Star Wars, so there's that...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (y7DxH)

260 McGillis looks like Winston Churchill now…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (PCK5/)

261 The moment Custer saw the villages, he knew he was in deep trouble.
Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (rj6Yv)
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If he saw them. There's a strong possibility that he was one of the first killed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 05:27 PM (3Fz6p)

262 It's looking like this is the perfect weekend to go off the grid.

Thursday morning I am heading to Utah, to visit my son and attend a Christian retreat in the Canyon Lands.

I need this break from the shit-hole world.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at June 25, 2024 05:27 PM (hZc6Q)

263 I rewatched "Captains Courageous" not too long ago. Hoo boy, I'll never look at little feesh the same again.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:28 PM (vFG9F)

264 I hope The Donald shows compassion and concern for Biden. If he does something weird, Trump should be the good father and be kind to the needs for the old timer who is drugged up.

It would be a better look for Trump for any undecided voters and might make him look more Presidential, whatever that entails.

But I hope Biden is all doped up and starts screaming and carrying on like a maniac.

I hope Trump asks him if he has taken any meds before the Debate.

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 25, 2024 05:28 PM (fpVC1)

265 McGillis was left scratched and bruised after being assaulted by a woman who broke into her home on June 17, 2016.

From Wiki.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:28 PM (YqDXo)

266 the Democrat/ Marxists are stuck with him and The Ho unless he drops dead or throws in the towel and resigned

They can just get Biden to "chose" to not run / drop out.
Then they can replace both Joe and the Hoe.
He doesn't have to resign.
And if he drops dead / strokes out the Hoe will still be off the ballot.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 25, 2024 05:28 PM (cOq4q)

267 I have to laugh at TJM. Top Gun made half a bajillion bucks back in the day, I believe. Of course Hollywood, being out of ideas, decided to recycle a money maker.

Somehow, though, they managed to make a much better movie in the process.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:29 PM (tT6L1)

268 I hope The Donald shows compassion and concern for Biden. If he does something weird, Trump should be the good father and be kind to the needs for the old timer who is drugged up.

It would be a better look for Trump for any undecided voters and might make him look more Presidential, whatever that entails.
_______________

It would blunt that "mean guy" persona he has.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:29 PM (YqDXo)

269
265 McGillis was left scratched and bruised after being assaulted by a woman who broke into her home on June 17, 2016.

From Wiki.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:28 PM (YqDXo)

Stupid Tinder!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:29 PM (PCK5/)

270 Ace

One of your very few posts with which I mostly disagree.

I don't think your ideas are sensitive to the "debate" (actually a joint appearance) FORMAT.

Trump will have no opportunity to pose harsh questions to Biden, of the type you posit. If he tries, the mods will cut his mic.

Nor do I think Trump should engage with Tapper about his stupid book, or about all his past leftwing radical bullzh*t.

I think Trump should be very careful to try to direct his answers (if the mods allow him to do so) to his plans for a second term-- for the FUTURE.

If T tries to interrupt Biden, or feuds with the CNNbots, he'll be walking right into a trap.

T's target audience MUST be the persuadables who are uneasy about Trump's (perceived) wildness & unpredictability.

Trump's debate time shouldn't be used to throw red meat to us MAGAns. This isn't a Trump rally at a football stadium in Tuscaloosa. He's got to show the skeptics that he's calm, & that he's focused on things they're concerned about.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 05:30 PM (NLIak)

271 254 Nope. I already knew Cruise was a little gay when it came out.
Posted by: fd
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About 5 seconds of the Risky Business preview.
That was the first time I saw him. Avoided the movie.
Next up was Top Gun and not because he was init.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:30 PM (s4Arc)

272 Hi Joe, I made these Special Brownies just for you.

These were Vince Foster's favorite.

Eat plenty before the debate................

Posted by: Hillary at June 25, 2024 05:30 PM (hbjSA)

273 "At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage."

??? Say what? Is the movie theater inside the airplane hangar? Is the hangar inside the theater? Does Joe need two fake debate stages? If so, why? Is the Junta running simultaneous mock debates using two body doubles of Joe, to decide which is better? Are taxpayers or the campaign paying for all this crap at Camp David, a FedGov facility?

Posted by: Gref, today's Lamont the Dummy at June 25, 2024 05:31 PM (5fDan)

274 270 Ace

One of your very few posts with which I mostly disagree.

I don't think your ideas are sensitive to the "debate" (actually a joint appearance) FORMAT.

Trump will have no opportunity to pose harsh questions to Biden, of the type you posit. If he tries, the mods will cut his mic.

Nor do I think Trump should engage with Tapper about his stupid book, or about all his past leftwing radical bullzh*t.

I think Trump should be very careful to try to direct his answers (if the mods allow him to do so) to his plans for a second term-- for the FUTURE.

If T tries to interrupt Biden, or feuds with the CNNbots, he'll be walking right into a trap.

T's target audience MUST be the persuadables who are uneasy about Trump's (perceived) wildness & unpredictability.

Trump's debate time shouldn't be used to throw red meat to us MAGAns. This isn't a Trump rally at a football stadium in Tuscaloosa. He's got to show the skeptics that he's calm, & that he's focused on things they're concerned about.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 05:30 PM (NLIak)

This. The 'All-In' Trump wins this election in a walk.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 25, 2024 05:31 PM (Y8+QK)

275 Tapper I like you. I'd like you more if you had bigger tits.

Posted by: Joey Choo choo at June 25, 2024 05:31 PM (rkhpv)

276 Only debate concern is Who controls the Mute button.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:31 PM (s4Arc)

277 I am 54 years old. Never watched Top Gun. Never watched hardly any Cruise movies

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (NtVYv)

278 Ten milligrams or so of Valium a couple of hours before the shitshow, er, debate would be a good idea for Trump.. be Mr. Smooth..

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (PCK5/)

279 well you know there's a Horseshoe Theory with homosexuality. When things get really manly -- or TOO manly -- suddenly the manly stuff crosses the line and you start thinking, "Wait, this is kinda gay."

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:12 PM (KRtlO)

So Brokeback Mountain like? Never saw it.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (kBHM9)

280 || That was the first time I saw him. Avoided the movie.

Going to see "Risky Business" for Tom Cruise is gay.

Going to see "Risky Business" for Rebecca DeMornay is not.

Even if you're a girl.

Posted by: moviegique at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (asXVI)

281 Frank N. Stien: "So personally I a am not going to waist my time watching this staged circle jerk..."

I'm skipping it, too. Nothing can alter my position and a) I don't want to watch yet another episode of gas-lighting "moderators", b) giving CNN even a wink of eye is providing aid/comfort to the enemy, and c) anything else I do is more productive.

It'll be scripted, uninformative sh*t-stirring the outcome of which has already been written. The only thing that would change my mind would be if Biden literally keeled over dead during the performance.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (aXxgO)

282 240 I never liked Top Gun. Sometimes I'm put off by a movie if it panders too hard. Top Gun really pandered to young men and their desire to be heroes. It was just too much for me so I didn't believe the movie was "real."

A lot of Tom Cruise movies were like that.
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

No. You. Dint.

Top Gun is one of the Perfect Movies. Exactly what it was meant to be nothing more nothing less. (The Terminator is another.)

My mother was single in the early 60s and spent quite a few Friday nights at the Tyndall AFB O club. She said it was just like that. It was a return to jingoism after a decade or two of American self loathing. The characters were very much like the young men in the military at the time and really captured the swagger of fighter pilots.

I spent many hours on the beach in Florid playing volleyball as a young lieutenant in EOD school. Looking back in our 80s athletic shorts and our fit bodies (yep back in the day) glistening with sweat I wouldn't be surprised if we turned some guys gay just looking at us. To hear us talk there was a lot of references to being homosexual but those were insults.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (IFNME)

283 Hi Joe, I made these Special Brownies just for you.

These were Vince Foster's favorite.

Eat plenty before the debate................

Posted by: Hillary at June 25, 2024 05:30 PM (hbjSA)
_________________

"I'll take them!" - Hunter Biden

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (YqDXo)

284
I sure will be happy when Pride Month is over and you guys aren't talking about homo stuff all the time.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (j4U/Z)

285 I spent many hours on the beach in Florid playing volleyball as a young lieutenant in EOD school. Looking back in our 80s athletic shorts and our fit bodies (yep back in the day) glistening with sweat I wouldn't be surprised if we turned some guys gay just looking at us. To hear us talk there was a lot of references to being homosexual but those were insults.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (IFNME)

This sounds gay

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:34 PM (NtVYv)

286 Will not spend time watching the debate… just get my synopsis - nay, extended post mortem here at the HQ…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)

287 Will not spend time watching the debate… just get my synopsis - nay, extended post mortem here at the HQ…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)
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That's my plan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 05:35 PM (3Fz6p)

288 TCN is not available at hotel rooms anymore so we started watching something called Pluto that had a western, "Cowboys don't cry" a modern Western
that seemed kind of schlocky (so?" So we watched the fine movie " The Great Escape" about the prisoners in a German POW camp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2024 05:35 PM (NvSdF)

289 260 McGillis looks like Winston Churchill now…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024

I can't throw stones...now. 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (NFX2v)

290 This sounds gay
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 05:34 PM (NtVYv)

I assure you we were not.

Well maybe some of the Navy guys....

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (IFNME)

291 284
I sure will be happy when Pride Month is over and you guys aren't talking about homo stuff all the time.
Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (j4U/Z)

Seconded.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (pohLc)

292 First question to Mr. Trump is the following....
Mathematically describe all orbital six quantities, called orbital elements which are following for all objects currently in earth orbit.

Semi-Major Axis, a
Eccentricity, e
Inclination, i
Argument of Periapsis,
Time of Periapsis Passage, T
Longitude of Ascending Node,

An orbiting satellite follows an oval shaped path known as an ellipse with the body being orbited, called the primary, located at one of two points called foci. An ellipse is defined to be a curve with the following property: for each point on an ellipse, the sum of its distances from two fixed points, called foci, is constant . The longest and shortest lines that can be drawn through the center of an ellipse are called the major axis and minor axis, respectively. The semi-major axis is one-half of the major axis and represents a satellite's mean distance from its primary. Eccentricity is the distance between the foci divided by the length of the major axis and is a number between zero and one. An eccentricity of zero indicates a circle.

Mr. Trump you will have two minutes to answer the question ........

Posted by: Hillary at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (hbjSA)

293 Iirc, Kelly Gillis was dating one of the other actors portraying a pilot during filming. Kilmer mentioned it in his recent documentary about his career. It was one of those “huh” moments, guess she wasn’t always gay?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (Hkcdp)

294 Is Zachary Young a public figure? I thought "actual malice" was reserved for public figures, and that if you're just some schmoe, all you have to prove is "reckless disregard for the truth" in a defamation case. Did that change?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (wzAuc)

295 Sorry. Posting from my crummy. Slow I-phone

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (NvSdF)

296 289 260 McGillis looks like Winston Churchill now…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024

I can't throw stones...now. 🤷‍♀️
Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:36 PM (NFX2v)

Eh, I was never much to look at… young, or old, so..

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:37 PM (PCK5/)

297 273 "At Camp David, a movie theater and an airplane hangar have been outfitted with lights and production equipment to create a mock debate stage."

??? Say what? Is the movie theater inside the airplane hangar? Is the hangar inside the theater? Does Joe need two fake debate stages? If so, why?

stereo > mono

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 05:37 PM (sGtp+)

298 208 Pretty sure if you hacked into CNN.com, you could find at least a couple of "news articles" already written about how Biden won the debate.
Posted by: Lesbian Space Witches

No. This. Is. Incorrect. MisInformAt2n...............

Posted by: CNNAI at June 25, 2024 05:37 PM (sAmhv)

299 First question for President Biden is the following........

What is your favorite color and favorite flavor of ice cream ???

Posted by: Hillary at June 25, 2024 05:37 PM (hbjSA)

300 Ten milligrams or so of Valium a couple of hours before the shitshow, er, debate would be a good idea for Trump.. be Mr. Smooth..
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (PCK5/)

They'll say he sparked hot for lipitor if they drug test him, so screw it, why not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:38 PM (BpZ5k)

301 "This sounds gay
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway "

Times were different. A pat on the butt was just a pat on the butt.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:38 PM (vFG9F)

302 Is Zachary Young a public figure?

I had not heard of him before this but I suppose CNN's position would be "he's a public figure because we made him one."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2024 05:39 PM (/y8xj)

303 Insty has an item about Hillarhoid's new book.

Nah, she's not angling for the nomination. No way.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:39 PM (YqDXo)

304 Homos and Lezzos are what? now, 50% of the population?

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

305 I'm sure Shitpants For America is paying for their little shitty shadow puppet show at Camp David, and not the general public fisc. Right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (BpZ5k)

306 The characters were very much like the young men in the military at the time and really captured the swagger of fighter pilots.

"Permission to buzz the tower."

"No."

"Sorry, must do."

"Tarnation, Mavvh boy, you know I can't keep down my ovaltine when you get up to these hijinks!"

This movie is take-the-name-of-the-Lord-in-vain levels of stupid. Audiences should have received a complementary helmet so they didn't injure themselves while watching it.

Posted by: Movies By Retards For Retards at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (8Ttux)

307 Top Gun plays more as a College Frat Boy movie than a British Boarding School where what happens at British Boarding School Stays British Boarding School.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (SjkHR)

308 Mr Trump because it is Pride Month please answer the following Question(s)....

What size dick do you like shoved up your ass and do you scream like pig during this session ????

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (Wb+1f)

309 284
I sure will be happy when Pride Month is over and you guys aren't talking about homo stuff all the time.
Posted by: Auspex

It's the Summer of Pride!!!

Gaze upon my girldick and worship!!

Posted by: Admiral Richard, cosplaying a woman at June 25, 2024 05:41 PM (sAmhv)

310 Tapper himself chose the title because he's a hard partisan selling to a hard partisan audience and he knew a hard-partisan title would help sell books.

I find "hard" intriguing! Anything else hard?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at June 25, 2024 05:41 PM (caIUg)

311 Any fair moderator and we'd get the "I award you zero points, and may God have mercy on your soul" bit after any Biden answer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 05:41 PM (Dm8we)

312 Tarantino clip is frigging hilarious !!

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 05:42 PM (V13WU)

313 Hardleft Limpdick sounds like an obscure Scandinavian playwright.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:42 PM (BpZ5k)

314 287 Will not spend time watching the debate… just get my synopsis - nay, extended post mortem here at the HQ…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)
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That's my plan.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

I get most of my newz from here now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 05:42 PM (sAmhv)

315 Top 2 reasons to watch Top Gun

Meg Ryan
Kelly McGillis

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:42 PM (s4Arc)

316 On Zach:

Earlier I wrote that his position was that NERDZ need to get with Kathleen Kennedy's version of Star Wars or they'll get "stuffed into a locker."

I made that up -- that's the tenor of his recent commentary, but that's not what he actually said.

Until today. I just checked his account, and he is now telling NERDZ to shut up or get stuffed into a locker.

Latest video title:

FUNERAL FOR A FANDOM- Old-School STAR WARS Fans Need To Get Shoved BACK Into Their Lockers

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

317 Merchan lifted the gag order on Trump.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

318 Homos and Lezzos are what? now, 50% of the population?

Posted by: tubal

Just overrepresented in the media, for whom nothing outside their bubble is "correct".

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (OUMaO)

319 A jet is so phallic!

Posted by: Tom Cruise I'm not gay at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (kBHM9)

320 thanks fd

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

321 This movie is take-the-name-of-the-Lord-in-vain levels of stupid. Audiences should have received a complementary helmet so they didn't injure themselves while watching it.
Posted by: Movies By Retards For Retards at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (8Ttux)

It's not Battleship which I also call a Perfect Movie because it's a big dumb movie and never pretends to be anything else.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (IFNME)

322 By September Biden’s mental acumen could have digressed to the point a debate would be impossible.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (SHMXB)

323 292 Horseshit!

Posted by: Trump at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (nvKZ7)

324 Going to see "Risky Business" for Rebecca DeMornay is not.

Even if you're a girl.
Posted by: moviegique at June 25, 2024 05:32 PM (asXVI)

Never looked at a pool table the same way after watching the remake of And God Created Woman.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at June 25, 2024 05:43 PM (gPsAl)

325 314

I get most of my newz from here now.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 05:42 PM (sAmhv)

I have my News watering holes… HQ, Breitbart, Daily Wire ( don’t judge me), Instapundit…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

326 Homos and Lezzos are what? now, 50% of the population?

Each!

Posted by: Hollywood at June 25, 2024 05:44 PM (0ljUU)

327 Looking at a listing of cast and crew, Chuck Yeager is not mention neither is the woman who played his wife or the bartender.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:44 PM (s4Arc)

328 "I'll take them!" - Hunter Biden
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 05:33 PM (YqDXo)

Hands off the brownies!

Posted by: Capt. Barney Miller at June 25, 2024 05:45 PM (0eaVi)

329 First question for Mr. Trump from a person identifying themselves as "Big Mike".....

I heard that you jack off to nude pictures of Whoopie Goldberg in the shower..... Is this true ???

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 25, 2024 05:45 PM (qpLSv)

330 Wasn't she violently raped by two home invaders? If so, I wouldn't blame her for being put off men for a while.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:24 PM (Odg76)

Witness, Top Gyn, The Accused. She had some great movies. That sexual assault probably inflicted some L-T psychological damage.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 05:45 PM (V13WU)

331 Looking at a listing of cast and crew, Chuck Yeager is not mention neither is the woman who played his wife or the bartender.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:44 PM (s4Arc)
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Yeager was in "Top Gun?" I know he was in "The Right Stuff."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 25, 2024 05:45 PM (3Fz6p)

332 top GUN !!

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 05:45 PM (V13WU)

333 Cost of a bag of corn chips is up a dollar from the last time purchased.
Does this have anything to do with the governor of ID turning the water off to farmers of 500,000 acres of planted farmland?
Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 05:26 PM (s4Arc)

Per reports: For the first time in 30 years, Argentina experienced a zero-percent increase in the inflation rates of food and drinks during the third week of June, President Javier Milei confirmed on Monday morning.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2024 05:46 PM (D7oie)

334 🤨

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 05:46 PM (V13WU)

335 Both reasons are not mutually exclusive:Stupid Joe thinks he’s hot to show how spry and mentally competent he is, as opposed to Trump, who is the root of all evil in his and his idiot party’s fevered wet dreams, and the democRats want an excuse to show his senile ass the door. The perfect outcome would be for him to come across as mentally alert-ish, but put his stupidity on full display. He’s not a smart man, so I feel confident that he can live down to these low expectations.

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at June 25, 2024 05:46 PM (e3CH4)

336 Can't Trump just shake the old badtards hand like he's trying to crush walnuts?

Make Biden wince and gave to rub his obviously bruising hand for 90 minutes?

Just a suggestion.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 05:46 PM (OiAR7)

337 330 Top Gyn

That made me laugh.

Posted by: Trump at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (nvKZ7)

338 fd: "Merchan lifted the gag order on Trump."

Fully? Or conditionally?

Because I can envision a "reinterpretation" to invite nuance for a further prosecution when Trump somehow manages to step over a hidden or non-existent line.

As Admiral Ackbar says, "It's a trap!"

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (aXxgO)

339 Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

That is all.

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (89Sog)

340 That made me laugh.
Posted by: Trump at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (nvKZ7)

so ghey

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (V13WU)

341 I think the Taratino clip is Tarantino doing an add lib. Back in the day, he was known for going off on hilarious tangents, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (tT6L1)

342 custer just wanted more newspaper headlines. He was all about his "image" back east. Hubris thy name is custer.

Custer had big political ambitions.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 25, 2024 05:10 PM (Odg76)

He wanted to win early enough for him to get back to the Missouri to catch a steamboat downriver to the nearest rail head, to make it to DC by July 4th, the country's Centennial. Where he pictured himself as being hailed by a hundred thousand people (and voters) or more celebrating the Centennial, as a Conquering Hero.

Posted by: Gref, today's Lamont the Dummy at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (5fDan)

343 Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

That is all.
Posted by: Outside of Life at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (89Sog)
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Bet you're gay.

Posted by: Sir Galahad at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (3Fz6p)

344 Anyone who doesn't like Top Gun is gay.

Posted by: Have we come full circle yet? at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (kBHM9)

345 When there's a bit of a period of dissonance, and a gradual decline into espousing the exact opposite view from what you've always held, it's usually cash or mish.

If there's an overnight volte face with zero explanation or apology, it's blackmail.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (BpZ5k)

346 "Fully? Or conditionally?"

"It frees him to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the criminal trial that led to his felony conviction.

But it keeps others connected to the former president's case off limits at least until he is sentenced on July 11."

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

347 @135 The Lore shows him being in love with women, including in his private thought-bubbles.

--------

And there was an entire issue revolving around the character Northstar, who has been gay since the '80s, revealing to a different character that he's interested in Iceman. But it's obvious to Northstar that Iceman isn't gay, so Northstar won't pursue it. That's literally the entire focus of the issue.

Obviously Iceman was only repressing it. /sarc

Incidentally, that issue was written by Japanese manga-ka Kia Asamiya, who is better known for the manga Silent Mobius.

Posted by: junior at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (4jpeS)

348
If squealing like a little girl and cuddling seems to be the new obsession of the hoard I would suggest skipping the debate and tuning in PBS the next night to watch Brooks and Capehart do their Francis Pangborn imitations while reviewing the candidates pant creases.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (j4U/Z)

349 343 Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

That is all.
Posted by: Outside of Life at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (89Sog)
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Bet you're gay.
Posted by: Sir Galahad

Heh!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

350 Video 10 minutes before the debate regarding President Biden........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ul0thfc_Q

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (hbjSA)

351 307 Top Gun plays more as a College Frat Boy movie than a British Boarding School where what happens at British Boarding School Stays British Boarding School.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 05:40 PM (SjkHR)

Don't count on it.

Posted by: That Las Vegas guy at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (OiAR7)

352 Hope Trump can resist being baited; stays calm and in control.

He's not used to this kind of setting. What he's used to is preaching to a raucous crowd of people wearing red hats.

This would be the world's worst place for him to get all hot-eyed and scream-y.

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (NLIak)

353 Cocktail is wayyyyyyy way gayer than Top Gun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (BpZ5k)

354 Bet you're gay.
Posted by: Sir Galahad at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (3Fz6p)

GFY

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (89Sog)

355 We've been to the Little Big Horn battle site many times. It's a beautiful area, with a military cemetery and many tiny white crosses in the small hills and fields where calvary men died. Coming up over the hill where the Indians were camped, I probably would have made another decision.

Posted by: Megthered at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (49Sxk)

356 I only watched the original Top Gun once… it was meh, not really good, not really bad.. it maybe tried a little too hard…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (PCK5/)

357 >>> Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

So... She never did it for me -- facial structure too severe -- but it's kinda dumb to claim she's "way below average in looks." She's very pretty. Just a kind of pretty that doesn't appeal to me (and others).

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (KRtlO)

358 Lord of the Rings tried to do the love of buddies in battle thing but it crossed the line to gay in a couple of scenes.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (SHMXB)

359 Rebecca DeMornay

Wally! Wally! Wally!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (e4lQj)

360 Both reasons are not mutually exclusive:Stupid Joe thinks he’s hot to show how spry and mentally competent he is

He could have taken the easy way out and actually BE spry and mentally competent, but no!

I'd like him to have some sort of brain hiccup that has him divulging all sorts of information about Washington.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (0ljUU)

361 Let's do a little math. Question, 2min reply, 1 min rebuttal for 90 minutes minus 2 commercial breaks and closing statements works out to maybe 20 or so questions.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (8ZuHs)

362 Can't have a debate in September because that's when they have Joe's catastrophic stroke scheduled.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (8M9QV)

363 273. ??? Say what? Is the movie theater inside the airplane hangar? Is the hangar inside the theater? Does Joe need two fake debate stages? If so, why? Is the Junta running simultaneous mock debates using two body doubles of Joe, to decide which is better? Are taxpayers or the campaign paying for all this crap at Camp David, a FedGov facility?
Posted by: Gref, today's Lamont the Dummy

Yes.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (NFX2v)

364 He's not used to this kind of setting. What he's used to is preaching to a raucous crowd of people wearing red hats.

This would be the world's worst place for him to get all hot-eyed and scream-y.
Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 05:48 PM (NLIak)

You didn't see his speech at the NLP convention, did you.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (D7oie)

365 "... whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions."

Golf carts are racist, used only by white supremacists.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (Cus5s)

366 Never looked at a pool table the same way after watching the remake of And God Created Woman.||

There are some differences to the original, Bridget Bardot version, are there not?

Re: Top Gun

I thought it was "ok" at the time and I've never revisited it. I liked the sequel (even if they were just "doing a Star Wars") because the 35-year time difference gave the whole thing more character.

I might like the original more now because, looking back, I feel like we were spoiled for just sheer technical ability: Making an exciting, yet real-feeling action scene, car chases that used real cars, people who knew how to human--who knew these things were in limited supply.

(They weren't! In the '70s-'90s!)

Posted by: moviegique at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (asXVI)

367 Nood

Posted by: From about that Time at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (4780s)

368 358 Lord of the Rings tried to do the love of buddies in battle thing but it crossed the line to gay in a couple of scenes.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 05:49 PM (SHMXB)

Peter Jackson.

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (PCK5/)

369 I couldn't let the obvious slide, here. PDT needs to avoid being baited because Joe is a master.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (tT6L1)

370 Cost of a bag of corn chips is up a dollar from the last time purchased.

I bought a non-family sized large bag of Doritos for $6 at a Walgreens. Limited time flavor: Fiery Mango. Suckered me with the packing which had a great white shark and an erupting volcano. (Why, yes, I am stoopid.) You know that sickly sweet taste vomit has if you've eaten sweets? Well, add spiciness and you've got it. 0/4 stars. Do not want again.

Posted by: Consumer Reports: HQ Summer Edition at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (8Ttux)

371 Let's do a little math. Question, 2min reply, 1 min rebuttal for 90 minutes minus 2 commercial breaks and closing statements works out to maybe 20 or so questions.
Posted by: Ben Had

You platinum membership card holders get away with alot.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * levitating above the madness at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (8M9QV)

372 Nood

Posted by: From about that Time at June 25, 2024 05:51 PM (4780s)

Noods are gay.

Posted by: Have we come full circle yet? at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (kBHM9)

373 Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

This is wrong.

Posted by: blaster at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (IFNME)

374 fd: "But it keeps others connected to the former president's case off limits at least until he is sentenced on July 11."

So the Judge, as Trump's primary target (along with the DA), is still protecting his own ass? I shan't believe it. I shannot.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (aXxgO)

375 minus 2 commercial breaks and closing statements works out to maybe 20 or so questions.
Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 05:50 PM (8ZuHs)

You misspelled "eight commercial breaks for five minutes each".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (BpZ5k)

376 Well, I won't be tuning in to the debate.
I'm far from undecided.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (MeG8a)

377 "... whiz back and forth on golf carts to join President Biden in strategy sessions."

Whiz back and forth. Got it, coach!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (GN7By)

378 Rebecca DeMornay?

The sassy black lady who works at the book store?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (BpZ5k)

379 I think DeMornay was hot at her peak but I don’t hold it against others who don’t.

I think Lynda Carter was a butterface.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (SHMXB)

380 Whiz back and forth. Got it, coach!
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 05:52 PM (GN7By)
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Not the audience, you fool!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (tT6L1)

381 Gupta saved a friend of mine's life who was afflicted by a mysterious flesh-eating disease. So I give him a pass for that.

Plus Rogan humilated him and CNN live on air over Inervectin.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (wBaIH)

382 sock_rat, I have my cardboard membership card laminated

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 05:54 PM (8ZuHs)

383 339 Rebecca DeMornay is way below average in looks. Was never hot.

That is all.
Posted by: Outside of Life at June 25, 2024 05:47 PM (89Sog)

Honestly man, I don't think braille can do her justice.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 05:55 PM (pohLc)

384 Debate... First bathroom break... Biden leaves the stage, Trump stays at his podium... "Don't you need to freshen up?"... "Naw, it's just a short hour and a half event. I'm good."... Biden returns... "Everything come out OK, Joe?"

Posted by: davidt at June 25, 2024 05:55 PM (SYTee)

385 I think Lynda Carter was a butterface.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (SHMXB)

Lynda Carter looked like a proto-lunchlady. Like a lunch nymph, or lunch metamorph, awaiting maturation into full lunchlady adulthood.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:55 PM (BpZ5k)

386 Plus Rogan humilated him and CNN live on air over Inervectin.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at June 25, 2024 05:53 PM (wBaIH)

Is that when he started growing his hair out?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 05:56 PM (BpZ5k)

387 tubal

Very good.

some of mine are Powerline; Redstate; Breitbart; RCP (Real Clear Politics); Bongino Report; Times of Israel (ToI)

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 05:57 PM (NLIak)

388 Linda Carter had the TV personality of a cardboard box.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 06:01 PM (s4Arc)

389 Kindltot

NLP:

I saw excerpts of it. I thought it was one of his poorer outings. It may have served his purposes, I guess.

What is your point about the Libertarian convention?

Posted by: mnw at June 25, 2024 06:02 PM (NLIak)

390 Top Gun scene at the Happy Riding Club there's an actor playing Yeager.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 25, 2024 06:03 PM (s4Arc)

391
May the Democrats could shift to making the case that a senile, incontinent president is what the country needs.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2024 06:08 PM (dtlw7)

392 355 We've been to the Little Big Horn battle site many times. It's a beautiful area, with a military cemetery and many tiny white crosses in the small hills and fields where calvary men died. Coming up over the hill where the Indians were camped, I probably would have made another decision.
Posted by: Megthered

My impressions too when I visited it once. The terrain kind of rolls with large grassy hills and large valleys. Beautiful area.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 06:24 PM (sAmhv)

393 Seems like the dems know they're going to lose, so they may as well let biden flame out to clear the decks of decrepit oldsters. President Trump will be a one-termer and if they can tip the country into a full-blown depression? Gravy, blame it on Trump and the republicans. Let's face it, Americans are a fairly gullible lot, most will fall for it and be rage-voting dem forever! Especially once one-party rule has been established. It's for the children.

Posted by: Biggyrat at June 25, 2024 06:27 PM (R9dJh)

394 Joe Biden doesn't decide anything at all, except what flavor of ice cream to have next.

Biden did not agree to this debate, his handlers did, and Biden then read the script they handed him.

Posted by: Aarradin at June 26, 2024 01:53 AM (5kvQv)

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