Things fall apart

Serene Moonlight in Arizona

How about those opening ceremonies?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Let's hit some thoughts on current Olympic culture:

Golden calf
Really?
Of course they did
Mike Lee

And how about that pale horse?

Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.
Galatians 6:7-8
Harrison Butker

It's a spiritual war, even if you're not religious.
Logan Lancing

This is like the opposite of the Avengers. https://t.co/nw07eMBe0o
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 26, 2024

Meanwhile, in The Bronx:

#ICYMI: Bronx Friday Sermon: Christians Cannot Fill Their Churches with ‘Regular People,’ So They Are Letting the Homosexuals In; Allah Made the Muslims His Chosen People and This Is Giving the Jews Acid Reflux; Zionists Own Hollywood – Don’t Fall in Their Trap pic.twitter.com/a9iq0tRRrv
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) July 26, 2024

Back in Paris, courtesy of a friend:

And his connection to Olympic sports is????
to put it bluntly, he's a dope ambassador. So the Olympics is now about lbgt etc. and potheads. The left ruins. . . everything.

Who is watching the sporting events?

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WEEKEND

Nice short video on good intentions vs. incentives with that C.S. Lewis quote on moral busybodies at the end.

When you have a little time, read this great post and the links from Sgt. Mom:

Revenge, as the old saying has it, is a dish best served cold. And revenge may not be the only – or the most dangerous – platter best dished up chilled. That would be the dish of anger – that ice-cold, sullen reservoir of fury in the hearts of every right-of-center, non-elite, law-abiding flyover-country middle American with Tea Partyish inclinations … a dish of anger ready to serve up in the wake of a just-barely unsuccessful political assassination attempt this last weekend.
You see, there is a considerable difference between hot fury and cold. . .

The linked story about Old San Francisco is especially interesting.

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Quotes

Wretchard is on a roll:

A republic was a type of govt where majority rule was checked by sacred tenets derived from God or civilization embodied in a constitution. "Our democracy" is a type of government without sacred tenets where you make the right choice once and never again.
The operational difference is that a republic is always limited in principle, by something external, even if that external power is vague. "Our democracy" by contrast is limited only by what the vanguard can get away with.

Someone please get Trump posting on X again. pic.twitter.com/03whimdJO4
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) July 26, 2024

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Music

I wonder how Beethoven did this ...

Simply magnificent!pic.twitter.com/DbHOxq2Rzn
— Figen (@TheFigen_) July 25, 2024

It's part of the Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement. Piano Sonata No.14 "Moonlight" in C sharp minor, Op.27-2 III Movement : Presto Agitato.
Nice performance of the 3rd movement at the link above, especially toward the end, which doesn't seem as "agitato" to me as the very beginning of the movement.

Such was the furor of the Moonlight’s finale that several of the piano strings snapped and became entangled in the hammers during the work’s premiere. Indeed, in the declining years of his hearing, Beethoven was known to play with a heavy hand, likely so that he could better hear the music.

And here's the entire Sonata. Of course, the first movement is the one that most people learn if they start to play Beethoven, and the one that evokes moonlight:

admired particularly for its mysterious, gently arpeggiated, and seemingly improvised first movement. The piece was completed in 1801, published the following year, and premiered by the composer himself, whose hearing was still adequate but already deteriorating at the time. The nickname Moonlight Sonata traces to the 1830s, when German Romantic poet Ludwig Rellstab published a review in which he likened the first movement of the piece to a boat floating in the moonlight on Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne. Beethoven dedicated the work to Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, a 16-year-old aristocrat who was his student for a short time.
The Moonlight Sonata was structurally and stylistically remarkable in its day. . .

Without the fancy graphics, or much facial expression

Here's a photo of a hotel on Lake Lucerne. Those little windows in the roof are typical of Switzerland. Often opened during the day, at least in the summertime. This photo was taken during the cold season, hence the lack of window boxes.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, July 20, Poor Joy Reid had to diversify her conspiracy theories because of the assassination attempt

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:09 AM

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1 Derp

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 11:10 AM (elaR+)

2 Morning.

Willow'd...

426 Someone give me the TLDR on what happened at the olympics why they’re deleting videos?
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:09 AM (2beCy)

Rampant degeneracy.

I don't understand why something like the Olympics is copyrighted at all. It's a worldwide event paid for with host country taxpayer money. Seems to me that shit be automatically public domain.

Fuck the IOC.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:14 AM (Z2yLo)

3 Wow. Read the whole thing first.

Posted by: Cosda at July 27, 2024 11:14 AM (YCdJ9)

4 >>And how about that pale horse?

Video has been removed for supposed copyright infringement.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2024 11:14 AM (LkLld)

5 That's one wicked spliff, Snoop!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:14 AM (kpS4V)

6 Snoop Dog, drag queens, and a mockery of Christianity. WTF has happened to the Olympics?

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 11:15 AM (16NmB)

7 I've walked that bridge at Lake Lucerne. Beautiful place.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (LkLld)

8 Feel sad for a French woman posting on X. She said "Please don't hate us. It's the elites in the cities that support this."

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (xjTDL)

9 I came.
I saw.
I derped.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (elaR+)

10 They do things like that at the Olympics for the same reason US professional sports do: the fans keep tuning in. At some point, the fans just have to admit to themselves that they're okay with it, because they are.

Posted by: Eyeballs and Dollars at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (sUiRt)

11 More likely, the event itself isn't copyright, but it depends on whose recording is being re-broadcast. Find another video and use that.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (I8Xka)

12 Glad I will not watch a second of it

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (fwDg9)

13 "Snoop Dog, drag queens, and a mockery of Christianity. WTF has happened to the Olympics?"
*********
Wasn't it started by pagan Greeks? They had better taste but still pagan.

Posted by: Cosda at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (YCdJ9)

14 Probably willowed, so I'll bring it up.

424 I think Merchan is going to be forced to grant a new trial on 9/8. The SCOTUS ruling was pretty black letter on use of presidential acts in a criminal trial, meaning the Hope Hicks testimony is inadmissible.

If he ignores the ruling, SCOTUS is certain to grant an injunction.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:18 AM (5p7BC)

15 Girthy!
Thanks KT!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 11:18 AM (fcgJ5)

16 I plan to install a ceiling fan and if I don't electrocute myself, spray for termites.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 11:18 AM (elaR+)

17 What's weird isn't that they did this, what is weird is they think this won't ever, ever cause any sort of problem for them.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (I8Xka)

18 Feel sad for a French woman posting on X. She said "Please don't hate us. It's the elites in the cities that support this."

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (xjTDL)

Yeah, I've heard if you wanna' see France, don't go to Paris.

Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

19 If you look at the tranny last supper, look to the left and you might notice the seven or eight year old girl in yellow.

Fucking sick.

I'm less bothered by the tranny shit than most people here but making kids part of their sickness is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (Z2yLo)

20 Snoop Dog, drag queens, and a mockery of Christianity. WTF has happened to the Olympics?

It's an infection, and like all infections, it wants to spread.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (xCA6C)

21 Shallow. Don’t dive headfirst.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2024 11:20 AM (LHPAg)

22 I love France, I hate Paris.

Seems most of France agrees.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:20 AM (5p7BC)

23 The only redeeming feature is that by the next Olympics, this will all be old hat and passe'. You can only shock the squares for so long. I don't want to know what their next thing will be.

Cannibalism?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)

24 If anything, the blasphemy at the Olympics should have opened the eyes of everyone not willingly blinded that Satan is no longer hiding. He is out of the shadows and openly opposing Christ.

Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2024 11:21 AM (bVhJi)

25
It is said of the Moonlight Sonata that you should not play the 1st movement until you can play the 3rd movement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 11:22 AM (1Nxff)

26 Europe as a whole is a decadent cesspit of degenerates. Honestly maybe replacing these people with the turd world will be an improvement.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at July 27, 2024 11:22 AM (55boN)

27 I don't want to know what their next thing will be.

Cannibalism?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)

It's never too soon to encourage these degenerate fucks to eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:23 AM (Z2yLo)

28 Cannibalism?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
----

Maenads!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:23 AM (kpS4V)

29 At the end Celine Dion sang some french song and belted it halfway to Bordeaux. Pretty impressive. I thought she wasn't doing well health-wise, but I guess she's doing better.

But no one gives a shit about that, because they had to do their little "LOL we hate Jesus" tapdance and wreck things for everyone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:23 AM (BAEGB)

30 I’ve never watched the opening ceremonies for any Olympics. It always seemed incredibly boring to me… a bunch of athletes parading down the street waving. I don’t watch the Rose Parade either (growing up my sisters would insist on watching that new years morning… I just wanted to get to the football games). So I’m glad to say I missed whatever nonsense occurred….. I do enjoy track and field and wrestling so I’ll try to watch those events….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (xT8gx)

31 As disgusting as the opening of the Olympics was part of me is glad they did it. The insane left has been hiding their perversion behind "inclusion" and insisting that was all it was about and if you disagreed you were a fascist, racist, white supremacist blah blah blah.

Now the mask is coming off. They don't want inclusion, they want to dominate us with their sick, twisted bullshit. Let's see how that works out for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (LkLld)

32 I would put it down to Cultural Marxism and Marx's goal to destroy western civilization

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (fwDg9)

33 I'll bring this up as well in case CBD pops in...

300 In case CBD is lurking...

Listening to the podcast right now and your conversation about election systems and election integrity...

Remember we had a discussion similar to this after the 2022 election.

I was listening to Poso on Tucker and he said something that is pretty profound.

"The point of a system is what the system does"

In his point he was talking about Communism. If the result of Communism is the murder of 100 million people, it's because the intent of Communism is the murder of 100 million people.

But it applies the things like election systems as well. If the result of an election process is lack of transparency, integrity, and simplicity, that is because that is the point of the system. The people running out don't want transparency, integrity, and simplicity.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (5p7BC)

34 What offended me most was how sloppy that Can-Can kickline was!

You can do better, France!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (kpS4V)

35 Cannibalism?
Posted by: Archimedes

Bestiality?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (elaR+)

36 Olympics?
Never heard of them

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at July 27, 2024 11:25 AM (ufFY8)

37 After the real Last Supper the guy in the middle was executed the next day. Will the big fat tranny get the same treatment?

Posted by: Cosda at July 27, 2024 11:25 AM (YCdJ9)

38 I regret that I can boycott the Summer Olympics only every four years.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (iQ6pU)

39 that Satan is no longer hiding. He is out of the shadows and openly opposing Christ.
Posted by: Jmel at July 27, 2024 11:21 AM (bVhJi)

His three helpers:
the deliberately all-in
the mentally ill
the simple and easily led

There's some overlap in that Venn diagram.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (4lnL8)

40 34 What offended me most was how sloppy that Can-Can kickline was!

You can do better, France!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:24 AM (kpS4V)

Hooo-ey, that was horrendous. They kept looking at each other and shrugging... GF and I were like "Maybe they actually want this to be terrible for some reason?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (BAEGB)

41 Yeats was a proto-commie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (IG4Id)

42 Olympics?

Never heard of them

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at July 27, 2024 11:25 AM (ufFY

Hey! Where ya been!?!

Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (AwYPR)

43 Instead of a can-can, would you say it was more of a can't-can't?

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:27 AM (Z2yLo)

44 Glad I will not watch a second of it
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (fwDg9)

Fist bump.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:27 AM (dOXkF)

45 Wasn't it started by pagan Greeks? They had better taste but still pagan.
Posted by: Cosda at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (YCdJ9)
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At least to the Greeks the games were sacred and not to be messed with.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at July 27, 2024 11:27 AM (3Fz6p)

46
Europe has succeeded in de-Christianizing itself and has 90% fewer Jews than a century ago. And instead of some humanist utopia, it's now a demographically-doomed backwater.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (1Nxff)

47 It is said of the Moonlight Sonata that you should not play the 1st movement until you can play the 3rd movement.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And every goth says, "Screw you man~!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (IG4Id)

48 There was a black biological woman with a blonde glued-on beard in that little "runway show" travesty...

It's insane how boring and pedestrian "high fashion" has become. They've made the preposterous quotidian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (BAEGB)

49 Feel sad for a French woman posting on X. She said "Please don't hate us. It's the elites in the cities that support this."

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 11:16 AM (xjTDL)

Yeah, I've heard if you wanna' see France, don't go to Paris.
Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

This is true. Parisians are asshoe.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)

50 It's so dark here I can't see a thing.
Be the God of darkness they said.
It will be awesome they said.
What BS.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (elaR+)

51 Didn’t even realize Olympiad was happening. So they went full tranny? Nice. Oh well was going to boycott and now will still boycott.

Did a quick check on Reddit they’re over the moon with this. Because it highlights how awesome trannies are and LITERAL fascists are angry.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (2beCy)

52 So, in Paris they just showed their Big Gay Ass to the whole world.
This would explain the flirty tranny/gay menage a trois in the Bibliotheque.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (4lnL8)

53 Also for CBD...

Take New Hampshire off your swing state watchlist and replace it with Maine.

Trump is highly likely to win the state and take 3 EVs from it. His lead in the 2nd district is massive.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (5p7BC)

54 The only thing I'll watch of the Olympics is the golf. Nothing else interests me. I don't care about basketball though I loved the dream team back in the day. Like winter Olympics though, downhill, biathlon, hockey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (9Lk6I)

55
Parisians are asshoe.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (g8Ew

________

I thought the term was Parisites.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (1Nxff)

56 There's some overlap in that Venn diagram.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:26 AM (4lnL

Venn diagrams!! Let me tell you about those….

Posted by: Kackling Kamala at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (xT8gx)

57 "A republic was a type of govt where majority rule was checked by sacred tenets derived from God or civilization embodied in a constitution. "Our democracy" is a type of government without sacred tenets where you make the right choice once and never again.
The operational difference is that a republic is always limited in principle, by something external, even if that external power is vague. "Our democracy" by contrast is limited only by what the vanguard can get away with."

He's so close here, within spitting distance. It's not about making the right choice permanently, it's about BEING RIGHT permanently. They truly feel they are the annointed ones, entitled to rule forever. And "what the vanguard can get away with" is why leninists are like cockroaches - this total focus on constantly evolving their simon-says bullshit. "Progressivism" isn't about progress towards something, it's about having ideological ants in your pants and constantly shifting positions so prog leaders are always jockeying for power, the mooks struggling to keep up, and the proles confused.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (Wnaut)

58 If you look at the tranny last supper, look to the left and you might notice the seven or eight year old girl in yellow.

Fucking sick.

I'm less bothered by the tranny shit than most people here but making kids part of their sickness is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:19 AM (Z2yLo)

Maybe that "girl" is a boy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (dOXkF)

59 The athletes are held hostage to the IOC. They cannot voice their opinions. They cannot disagree. If they do, they will be ejected from competition. Forced compliance. They are not allowed to do anything but nod their heads in approval.

They have trained and sacrificed for decades for this Olympic dream. When they are competing, they are not celebrating the IOC.

BE FAIR. The athletes have no say over what the IOC does.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (HXGNm)

60 If anything, the blasphemy at the Olympics should have opened the eyes of everyone not willingly blinded that Satan is no longer hiding. He is out of the shadows and openly opposing Christ.
Posted by: Jmel

Yes, this. And Jill Biden couldn't WAIT to go.
Open sabotage of the French railway system just prior to the Olympics.
There are a lot of classic Gothic Catholic cathedrals in France. I would not be surprised if one of them gets "burned" this week.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (tjZg/)

61 France is no different than here. You have Paris and the other big cities vs the rest of the country. Just like Red counted vs blue cities here.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (2beCy)

62 Glad I will not watch a second of it
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 11:17 AM (fwDg9)

Fist bump.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:27 AM (dOXkF)

Same here.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (g8Ew8)

63 Paris has been known as an epicenter of degeneracy since before Protestantism was a thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:31 AM (BAEGB)

64 Off cackling sock

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (xT8gx)

65 Yeats wrote the Second Coming in the aftermath of WWI. You could see the old world shattered. Today it's just a world full of assholes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (9Lk6I)

66 Great post KT.

God may have said that he'll never being a great flood to the earth again, to wipe out his wayward children...but he certainly got close to it with that torrential downpour in France yesterday. Like he was trying to flush all of it into the Seine.

(Also God may have said no more floods. He don't say anything about fires, earthquakes, super volcanoes...)

Snoop is one of the few things that is actually fun about the games and works for me. I watched the Olympic trials, and he had family competing. It sounds like his family is a track and field family. He's respectful of the sports, humble, funny, and has a great vibe. So he's better than all the snotty, pretentious NBC hosts combined.

Snoop quote about holding the Olympic torch:
"I look at this as a prestigious honor and something that I truly respect. I would have never dreamed of nothing like this." Snoop > Lebron.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (QAK8m)

67 I was not deliberately watching, Mr. S had it on.
He was deeply bewildered and kept waiting for it to make sense.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (4lnL8)

68 At this moment, at least:

Paris, Texas > Paris, France

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (njExo)

69 The kids are alright:

Trending
#BloodyOlympics
49.8K posts

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (IG4Id)

70 "46
Europe has succeeded in de-Christianizing itself and has 90% fewer Jews than a century ago. And instead of some humanist utopia, it's now a demographically-doomed backwater.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 11:28 AM (1Nxff)"

As long as there are muslims you are likely to never un-muslim Western Europe now. There will not be a repeat of kicking them out of Spain, only... bigger, but executed by pussies. Eastern Europe could have the motivation to do it if they got into tussle (and in the span of a century euros can go to war with/about anything at all), but I don't think they'd have the capability to actually seal the deal and get it done.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (Wnaut)

71 Was the entire thing all about trannies or just a little snippet.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (2beCy)

72 Cannibalism?

Posted by: Archimedes

Morning all.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (8+g7D)

73 The only thing I'll watch of the Olympics is the golf. Nothing else interests me. I don't care about basketball though I loved the dream team back in the day. Like winter Olympics though, downhill, biathlon, hockey
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (9Lk6I)

I’m watching the senior British open right now instead of Olympic swimming…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (xT8gx)

74 I was not deliberately watching, Mr. S had it on.
He was deeply bewildered and kept waiting for it to make sense.

Sense is a bourgeois concept.

Posted by: French "Artiste" at July 27, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)

75 67 I was not deliberately watching, Mr. S had it on.
He was deeply bewildered and kept waiting for it to make sense.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (4lnL

Heh. Same here. GF said the whole thing was boring and dumb, but Celine Dion saved it.

I thought that if they had excised that whole runway bit and everything to do with it, it would have just been boring and dumb. Instead it was boring and dumb with a great big turd in the middle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:34 AM (BAEGB)

76 Cannibalism?

Posted by: Archimedes

Morning all.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Your moment is coming. Congrats!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

77 Hooo-ey, that was horrendous. They kept looking at each other and shrugging... GF and I were like "Maybe they actually want this to be terrible for some reason?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

My thought was "well, they're not the Rockettes, that's for sure."

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM (HXGNm)

78 The French imitate no one and no one imitates the French. Where did I hear that?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM (8+g7D)

79 "BE FAIR. The athletes have no say over what the IOC does.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (HXGNm)"

These don't but future ones will, just as high school athletes already do - the current crop of those knew what they were getting into before they started. The solution to rampant degeneracy is to walk away. It's a game; it's not compulsory, regardless of how much you love doing it.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM (Wnaut)

80 BE FAIR. The athletes have no say over what the IOC does.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (HXGNm)

They could vote with their feet. And their asses. As in: "Feets, get my ass outa here!"

Let world-class athletes form their own "Athletes' World Games", and let the IOC go horsefuck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:36 AM (dOXkF)

81 I refuse to watch the ozempics. Fuck ‘em.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at July 27, 2024 11:36 AM (j9leb)

82 In the '84 L.A. Olympics, Rafer Johnson was on the final leg of carrying the torch. He trotted up the long stairway to the flame, and, before lighting it, turned and held out the torch. He was the embodiment of manliness.

Now, this.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at July 27, 2024 11:36 AM (3Fz6p)

83 The French imitate no one and no one imitates the French. Where did I hear that?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Karl Marx or the other Marx.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:36 AM (IG4Id)

84 Was the entire thing all about trannies or just a little snippet.
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (2beCy)

They had Marie Antoinette's severed head sing while backed by a formerly crushing and brutal death metal band what has since sold the fuck out.

I found audio but I'd really like to see video of this. I'm all in favor of severed heads.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:36 AM (Z2yLo)

85 Totally agree, Nurse.

I've hated the corruption of the venue selection process, the cost overruns, the inconvenience and tax burden to host country citizens, and the increasingly over-the-top opening ceremony circus FOR DECADES. But I still love the competitors.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:37 AM (kpS4V)

86 I was not deliberately watching, Mr. S had it on.
He was deeply bewildered and kept waiting for it to make sense.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (4lnL

Watched Seinfeld on a local channel....they must have a dozen episodes.

Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

87 Yes, he thought Celine Dion was great.
And, the barges/boats were an inventive change-up from the athlete's march. He liked that.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:37 AM (4lnL8)

88 The only thing I'll watch of the Olympics is the golf. Nothing else interests me. I don't care about basketball though I loved the dream team back in the day. Like winter Olympics though, downhill, biathlon, hockey
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 11:29 AM (9Lk6I)

=====

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I just found out one of the guys from the dream team goes to my church (John Stockton). Not being a basketball fan, I had no idea who he was until somebody told me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 11:38 AM (16NmB)

89 Is the Gainzz thread mort on Fridays, or did I miss it? This bugs me more than it should maybe. Wha' happen'?

Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2024 11:38 AM (I8Xka)

90 Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034
Winter games this week.
I can only imagine what opening ceremonies will be like in 10 years. Trannies fucking each other on stage? It’s the logical end game.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:38 AM (2beCy)

91 These don't but future ones will, just as high school athletes already do - the current crop of those knew what they were getting into before they started. The solution to rampant degeneracy is to walk away. It's a game; it's not compulsory, regardless of how much you love doing it.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM

I disagree. These kids have spent their lives training and practicing for what may be the only chance they get to be the best in their field. To tell someone to walk away from their dreams may be easy to say for someone not involved but I have been around some of these people and they could care less what the IOC does, they are just there to win.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2024 11:39 AM (QNSds)

92 He was deeply bewildered and kept waiting for it to make sense.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:32 AM (4lnL

--

Isn't this living in the current timeline in a nutshell?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:39 AM (kpS4V)

93 Your moment is coming. Congrats!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

Lol. Even I don't like what the world is coming too, regardless of my diet preferences. Plus with everyone jumping on the cannibalism bandwagon it's just gonna be another fad diet. Gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:39 AM (8+g7D)

94 Nurse - making them unpaid slaves to the IOC who makes a great deal of money off their exploitation.

Which is not wholely true, since Olympic gold medals in many sports are worth a great deal in endorsements, but sticking to my original point.

The only way to change the system is to take the money from those who control the system. The only way that happens is for people to stop watching.

I am sympathetic to the athletes, but they are hostages to the system.

So I will chose to not watch any of it, including women's beach volleyball. That ceremony was offensive.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:40 AM (5p7BC)

95 These don't but future ones will, just as high school athletes already do - the current crop of those knew what they were getting into before they started. The solution to rampant degeneracy is to walk away. It's a game; it's not compulsory, regardless of how much you love doing it.
Posted by: somedood

This shows me you have no idea what elite competition is. You don't understand the drive or the mindset or the joy.

You don't just stop competing. Or training. Or dreaming.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:40 AM (HXGNm)

96 Cannibal Bob is a hipster!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:41 AM (kpS4V)

97 Well I tried to rund weed trimmer around but string ran out
So it can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

98 I can only imagine what opening ceremonies will be like in 10 years. Trannies fucking each other on stage? It’s the logical end game.
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:38 AM (2beCy)

Kids will be involved. After a post Thomas/Alito court rules there are no age limits.

The Gope will demand a limit of 12 y.o.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 11:45 AM (bILdU)

99 Cannibal Bob is a hipster!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 11:41 AM (kpS4V)

Lol. And soon just another old cannibal lost in the crowd of young cannibals.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:45 AM (8+g7D)

100 Lol. And soon just another old cannibal lost in the crowd of young cannibals.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:45 AM (8+g7D)

But are they fine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:47 AM (dOXkF)

101 Did Snoop Dogg become a French citizen recently?

If not, what was he doing with the torch?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:47 AM (8sMut)

102 I have kids in my life obsessed with swimming, they can spout off times, dates, athletes, etc. so they really want to watch the swim events.

I get Peacock for free, so it's not like I shell out money to let them watch. But I do hate giving NBC the eyeballs.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 11:47 AM (QAK8m)

103 "Donald Trump is literally the only person on Earth who could survive dying in an assassination attempt by centimeters and have people debating that he didn’t get shot badly enough."

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:47 AM (5p7BC)

104 I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I just found out one of the guys from the dream team goes to my church (John Stockton). Not being a basketball fan, I had no idea who he was until somebody told me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 11:38 AM (16NmB)

That is very cool. Stockton was always a solid, classy guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 11:48 AM (HSp7+)

105 "This shows me you have no idea what elite competition is. You don't understand the drive or the mindset or the joy.

You don't just stop competing. Or training. Or dreaming.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:40 AM (HXGNm)"

We're talking about political movements that are trying to cancel/enslave/kill us, pardon me for not giving a shit about peoples' dreams about playing games.

This is a huge part of how we got to where we are in 2024. People fucking around "dreaming" instead of paying attention and taking their opponents seriously.

The topic is directly applicable to HS and college level sports in the US now, particularly for women - with all the tranny bullshit going on the right thing to do is walk away and let the sports die. Sticking around and lending it legitimacy because of "dreams" is the wrong move and is resulting in this being drawn out years longer than necessary.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 11:49 AM (Wnaut)

106 But are they fine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2024 11:47 AM (dOXkF)

How did I not catch that? Moar cawfee.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 27, 2024 11:49 AM (8+g7D)

107 For going on 20 years or so I have used the handle Ruthless, first on Little Green Footballs then here and also other places. Today I was thinking about the state of affairs and realized how appropriate that is, and that we must all become Ruthless. As shown in the post, Muslims apply ruthless methods to the protection of their (fake) religion, and we must apply it against our woke enemies as well if we are to succeed. It is a daunting task for they have a century-long head start on us, but it must be done if civilization is to continue, for otherwise we are doomed to descend into a new Dark Age.

Posted by: Ruthless at July 27, 2024 11:50 AM (l22V1)

108 Commenting Present.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 27, 2024 11:50 AM (xAO8e)

109 All the crap is just a distraction from the athletes. That's why I have a remote control that mutes 99% of the commentary.

I have the ability to filter out the garbage. My approval or disapproval means nothing. I want to see the athletes and celebrate them and admire their dedication and drive. And smile no matter who wins gold. Because that will be the best day of that athlete's life. How cool is that for them?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:51 AM (HXGNm)

110 Leftist politicians across the globe: "We're the sane and normal people, help us fight off the crazy fascist right wing!"

The Olympics: *Literal Freak Show*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 11:52 AM (BAEGB)

111 Off to the garage for a smoke...and another cup.

Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:52 AM (AwYPR)

112 My dad was self-taught on the piano. He loved playing, even though he knew he would never be a concert pianist. He learned the first movement of Moonlight and it remains a very nostalgic piece of music to me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Shopping at Bloodbath and Beyond at July 27, 2024 11:52 AM (Ad8y9)

113 There are Olympics going on?
I'm ignoring the whole thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

114 And of course they had small children up on stage dancing with the trannies.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 11:53 AM (iqZsv)

115 Is pickleball an Oly sport yet?

Posted by: BignJames at July 27, 2024 11:54 AM (AwYPR)

116 We're talking about political movements that are trying to cancel/enslave/kill us, pardon me for not giving a shit about peoples' dreams about playing games.

This is a huge part of how we got to where we are in 2024. People fucking around "dreaming" instead of paying attention and taking their opponents seriously.

The topic is directly applicable to HS and college level sports in the US now, particularly for women - with all the tranny bullshit going on the right thing to do is walk away and let the sports die. Sticking around and lending it legitimacy because of "dreams" is the wrong move and is resulting in this being drawn out years longer than necessary.
Posted by: somedood

Oh blow it out your ass. There is more to life than politics. And more to life than "making a statement." Or "being pure."

You want to take the joy out of everything to make your statement.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:54 AM (HXGNm)

117 Oh blow it out your ass.

Say, you know what would make a great Opening Ceremony...

Posted by: The IOC at July 27, 2024 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

118 They are really going all out on JD Vance. He had a gay friend apparently when he was a never trumper that just released a bunch of private emails between them.

https://tinyurl.com/

Posted by: Spypeach at July 27, 2024 11:56 AM (UuB/1)

119 19 If you look at the tranny last supper, look to the left and you might notice the seven or eight year old girl in yellow.

Fucking sick.

I'm less bothered by the tranny shit than most people here but making kids part of their sickness is beyond the pale.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:19 Agrannies.

Normalizing that perversion at all is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 11:56 AM (iqZsv)

120 John Ekdahl wins the internet today.

He posted satire so good that Poso bought it and reposted it thinking it was real.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:58 AM (5p7BC)

121 As for the olympics, I've always preferred the swimming, diving and gymnastics over the track and field events. Not sure how much effort I'll make to watch them though. We don't have cable, but I think we have peacock. Eh. maybe. Maybe not.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Shopping at Bloodbath and Beyond at July 27, 2024 11:58 AM (Ad8y9)

122 https://tinyurl.com/
Posted by: Spypeach

Might need to work on your tinyurl skillz, ma'am.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:58 AM (IG4Id)

123 This shows me you have no idea what elite competition is. You don't understand the drive or the mindset or the joy.

You don't just stop competing. Or training. Or dreaming.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:40 AM (HXGNm)

Which brings us to the crux of the problem of why no practical solutions are applied: No one wants to make any kind of sacrifice.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew8)

124 120+ comments in, on a mostly sports-related theme, and no mention of the WNBA?

It's like I know you people.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2024 11:59 AM (xAO8e)

125 Might need to work on your tinyurl skillz, ma'am.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:58 AM (IG4Id)

Well, damn, At least I’m not in the barrel I’ll try again

Posted by: Spypeach at July 27, 2024 11:59 AM (UuB/1)

126 "I have the ability to filter out the garbage.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:51 AM (HXGNm)"

It's long past time to stop filtering and start laying waste to things.

I have daughters. I'm not the slightest bit worried about whether sports are around for them to compete in or watch. I am very much concerned seeing lots of women passed over for job offers and promotions because the political commissars in HR want to virtue signal by hiring and promoting freaks instead. We are undergoing a massive purge of (real) women in many professions. I know of companies that claim to be 40% female, but they have like 200 fat men in dresses and about a dozen actual women left.

And this isn't even getting into the minefield of the grooming bullshit any place these freaks are allowed free reign.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 12:00 PM (Wnaut)

127 AFAIK,
There are no tranny athletes competing in the Olympics.

So there is that small win.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 12:00 PM (HXGNm)

128 79 "BE FAIR. The athletes have no say over what the IOC does.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:30 AM (HXGNm)"

I am not saying it would not be heartbreaking to walk away from a lifelong dream, but I question why any Christian athlete would participate after that.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:00 PM (iqZsv)

129 Thanks, K.T., for featuring The Second Coming. I appreciate the link to an a anlysis of it. That helped a lot, though I don't think I'm destined to understand it completely.

Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (M6moH)

130 "Oh blow it out your ass. There is more to life than politics. And more to life than "making a statement." Or "being pure."

You want to take the joy out of everything to make your statement.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2024 11:54 AM (HXGNm)"

That settles it - you just don't realize that you're part of the problem, and I'll say it out loud if whether you're a regular or not.

Posted by: somedood at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (Wnaut)

131 I was a huge Chicago Bears fan as a kid. Early 80s… favorite player Walter Payton (of course) but 2nd favorite was QB Vince Evans because he was so athletic. He never did much in the league…. Fast forward to 2020 and I’m attending John MacArthur’s church in LA (during covid lockdowns). One Sunday I sat right behind a very athletic looking black man who engaged me in conversation…. We get up to sing the first hymn and I notice his name is engraved on the cover of his Bible: Vince Evans. One and the same! I didn’t fan mob him or even tell him he was a childhood hero… just left after the service. But it was a bit thrilling for me.,. Still looked like he could suit up and he’d have been early 60s….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (HSp7+)

132 The College Fix: NIH kicks out scholars critical of gender identity from ‘sex and gender’ event

https://tinyurl.com/4j7m7zf9

Via Instapundit.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (Z2yLo)

133 I question why any Christian athlete would participate after that.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:00 PM (iqZsv)

Consider the possibility that God put them in a place wherein they could have the biggest impact.

Are you really arguing Tim Tebow was BAD for sports because he lived his faith?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (/nCD+)

134 One more try
https://tinyurl.com/3d8n6vnv

It will be interesting to see Vance respond to some of the things that the guy released. He Called Trump a racist and a Demagogue amongst other things. It’s a bummer because a lot of us here were not too fond of Trump in the beginning either so I can sympathize with his change of heart. Let’s hope he can convince those that are skeptical that it’s sincere.

Posted by: Spypeach at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (UuB/1)

135
Consider the possibility that God put them in a place wherein they could have the biggest impact.

Are you really arguing Tim Tebow was BAD for sports because he lived his faith?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (/nCD+)

God works as he will but, as bad as the NFL is, they have yet to openly blaspheme as entertainment before the game.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (iqZsv)

136 The "Can-can" was risque because the dancers wore no underpants.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (+H2BX)

137 14 Sunshine Dave

I agree with your comment, but Merchan could still rule that the erroneous admission of Hicks' testimony was harmless error. He'd rather die than set Trump's conviction aside. He envisions this case as being his ticket to historic immortality.

A related point. In its recent ruling on the J6 cases, SCOTUS strongly criticized the govt for being "imaginative" in its use of criminal statutes & thereby overreaching. If there was ever a case where "imaginative & overreaching" practically leap off the page at you, it is the Braggs case.

One other thing. I've posted this before. Senior DOJ prosecutors do NOT go to a state court to prosecute a state case. Braggs' case isn't Braggs'! It's a Main Justice DOJ production. Ultimately, I don't think SCOTUS will let it stand, if it even gets that far.

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (NLIak)

138 Posted by: Spypeach at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (UuB/1)

IMO the only thing demonstrated by those emails and texts is you’ll meet freaks if you go to Yale Law. Big surprise

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (HSp7+)

139 Does this guy have any good Lockerbie jokes too? https://x.com/marcorandazza/status/1817148687413301704?s=46

Posted by: Tmitsss at July 27, 2024 12:08 PM (VrIzy)

140 That is very cool. Stockton was always a solid, classy guy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 11:48 AM (HSp7+)

Compared to that city named after him. What a dump!

Posted by: Bel Lange, The Outdoorsman at July 27, 2024 12:08 PM (0eaVi)

141 BEST! ONT! EVAH!

Posted by: look whats not at July 27, 2024 12:11 PM (nakGR)

142 Posted by: Tmitsss at July 27, 2024 12:08 PM (VrIzy)

=====

Could that link BE any longer?

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:11 PM (16NmB)

143 God works as he will but, as bad as the NFL is, they have yet to openly blaspheme as entertainment before the game.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (iqZsv)

I'm not even drawing a comparison.

Your question was why a Christian would participate in sports when they've become so twisted.

I suggested that they believe they're doing good. I would bet my mortgage that the number of people converted to Christianity after being exposed to a Christian athlete is greater than zero. That's good. That's victory.

Those conversations likely happened quietly though, without the fanfare of any opening ceremonies, and were therefore ignored by the press - but not by God.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (/nCD+)

144 {4} >>And how about that pale horse?

Video has been removed for supposed copyright infringement.

Did anyone catch what it was before it got smited? K.T., do you remember?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (O7YUW)

145 That Tucker/Posobeic interview is definitely worth watching. It's on You Tube now. I bought his book but haven't started it yet.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (xjTDL)

146 Nick F. makes good videos. I see his YouTube Shorts a lot. I think he's a state rep or senator in a southern or mid-south state.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:13 PM (Sf2cq)

147 The "Can-can" was risque because the dancers wore no underpants.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 12:07 PM (+H2BX)

Ya know, guys, I think maybe we've been too quick to judge these opening ceremonies.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 12:13 PM (Z2yLo)

148

Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
Golden calf

Really?

Of course they did

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

This sculpture of a bull (not a calf) and a deer by Paul Jouve, made in the 1930s, has always been located there near the Trocadero fountains. The scene for the Olympics opening ceremony was simply built around it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (63Dwl)

149 Could that link BE any longer?
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:11 PM (16NmB)

Could I BE wearing anymore clothes? — Joey Tribbiani doing the opposite of Chandler taking his underwear

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (HSp7+)

150 It's simple. He didn't know Trump then. He was fed the lies from the Left. He knows better now. They aren't going after Vance because he still feels that way.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (xjTDL)

151 Mnw - strong chance that Merchan will be told to slow roll everything to keep Trump's support from getting higher. Harris already has a very narrow path to 270. Trump winning while incarcerated at Rikers will destroy down ballot races. Dems are hoping on current polling to hold AZ and OH. Lock up Trump and those seats are gone.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (5p7BC)

152 Sure there were some tasteless and stupid parts of the opening ceremonies, but nothing as embarrassing as what the Canadians have managed to put forth in previous Olympics. I give high marks for the imagination of some aspects of the ceremony, e.g. the torch balloon. I also commend the French for not having all French performers. The top two performances were by Lady Gaga (USA) and Celine Dion (CAN). Dion's was absolutely spectacular.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (0XyCC)

153 Did anyone catch what it was before it got smited? K.T., do you remember?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (O7YUW)

It was a silver mechanical horse with possibly a live human "rider" wearing a pale cloak. It seemed to be suspended over water and I couldn't tell if it was traveling. The horse's legs were moving.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:17 PM (Sf2cq)

154 The "Can-can" was risque because the dancers wore no underpants.
=========================
I thought they wore the equivalent of crotch-less bloomers, so from the side, it appeared to be "modest." Head on, you got to see all the gear. That's why Lautrec sat in front...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 27, 2024 12:18 PM (lPeS+)

155 Someone posted on our neighborhood facebook group about the obscenity of the laft supper pic, and immediately got it guy saying it was fake news. He said people were just looking at one frame to compare it. But to me the whole arrangement looks purposely to mock.

Posted by: Rusty at July 27, 2024 12:18 PM (nrIMb)

156 Isn’t Celine Dion almost dead? I thought she was suffering from some deliberating disease.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:21 PM (2beCy)

157 151 Dave FL

I can't see even Merchan ruling that there are "no issues on appeal likely to result in reversal"*, & that therefore Trump's sentence will not be stayed pending appeal.

*!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:22 PM (NLIak)

158 I love France, I hate Paris.

Seems most of France agrees.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:20 AM (5p7BC)

Paris is a terrible, over-rated city. I have never understood the "charm."

This upcoming trip to France Hubby isn't insisting we go to Paris (to visit relatives) and I am doing the happy dance.

The French countryside is lovely.

Posted by: Ann at July 27, 2024 12:23 PM (4neFu)

159 Could I BE wearing anymore clothes? — Joey Tribbiani doing the opposite of Chandler taking his underwear
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (HSp7+)

=====

LOL, that is exactly what I was going for!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:23 PM (16NmB)

160 Think I'll go for a walk!

Posted by: Celine Dion at July 27, 2024 12:23 PM (2UnvF)

161 There is a case brought by the state of Missouri that this trial is election interference, especially since there is still a gag order in place. That will affect what they do too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 12:24 PM (xjTDL)

162 Remember how a president it was almost killed 2 weeks ago?
Yeah neither do we.
-MSM

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:24 PM (2beCy)

163 Are you really arguing Tim Tebow was BAD for sports because he lived his faith?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (/nCD+)

I have heard this argument from a lapsed Christian who seems to think Christians shouldn't do anything that might be considered uncool.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:25 PM (Sf2cq)

164 Really? France couldn't come up with its own artists and had to farm out to Quebec? France didn't have enough of its own citizens to run the torch relay? Surely it has Olympic and former Olympic athletes who could handle those duties before looking to farm out this duty to Snoop Dogg...

To say nothing of the weirdness of other things during the opening ceremonies...

At least the closing ceremonies will feature
1) The raising of the Greek flag, playing of the Greek national anthem
2) The raising of the tricolor, with the playing of the Marseillaise
3) The raising of Old Glory to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:25 PM (8sMut)

165 He's not entirely wrong about churches filling the pews with homos and other deviants. Got to keep the tithes rolling in. The rest is standard BS.

Posted by: pastor needs a new Hermes strap-on at July 27, 2024 12:26 PM (lRx9h)

166 I was listening to Poso on Tucker and he said something that is pretty profound.

"The point of a system is what the system does"

That's been kind of a mantra for a while now. It neatly disconnects the actual outcome of what the Left does from their pious claims of why they're doing it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2024 12:26 PM (FD5dr)

167 The joke will be on the Cultural Marxists letting Muslims take over

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 12:27 PM (fwDg9)

168 Surfing in...French Polynesia. I knew I would be vindicated some day!

Posted by: Imperialism at July 27, 2024 12:27 PM (lPeS+)

169 Celine suffers from "a rare neurological disorder called 'stiff person's disease.'"

Per Wiki. From my reading, it doesn't sound as if it's fatal.

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:28 PM (NLIak)

170 Per Wiki. From my reading, it doesn't sound as if it's fatal.
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It is FREAKY though. She publicized one of her episodes. It looks terrifying.

Posted by: Imperialism at July 27, 2024 12:30 PM (lPeS+)

171 The top two performances were by Lady Gaga (USA) and Celine Dion (CAN). Dion's was absolutely spectacular.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (0XyCC)

Some people get pleasure and excitement from blood trickling from their ears, I suppose. That happens to me when I listen to the shrieking Celine Dion, but I don't like it. At all.

But that's neither here nor there. Seriously, France had to farm out entertainment to foreigners? They had NOBODY who could handle it? Part of this is seeing what the host country has to offer. Outsourcing the entertainment defeats the purpose. That's behavior I expect from the Los Angeles Olympic organizing committee, because I expect them to be embarrassed and ashamed by their country.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:30 PM (8sMut)

172 Per Wiki. From my reading, it doesn't sound as if it's fatal.
Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:28 PM (NLIak)

Can be quite beneficial for some lucky few.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 27, 2024 12:31 PM (dOXkF)

173 De-sock

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 27, 2024 12:31 PM (lPeS+)

174 >>> Was the entire thing all about trannies or just a little snippet.
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 11:33 AM (2beCy)

Technically it's just a snippet. The opening ceremonies was a sprawling, decentralized event along the seine. You had Lady Gaga and can can dancers in one section of the river, floating heads from the portraits in the louvre, minions stealing the Mona Lisa (since illumination studios is in France), acrobats at Notre dame, a light show at the Eiffel Tower, Celine Dion singing Piaf on the Eiffel Tower, La Marseillaise sung by an opera singer from from the roof of the Grand-Palais, parkour being done on the Paris roofs to get the torch to its location, phantom of the opera in the sewers, the catacombs, the subway, a French rapper singing on a barge in the river, etc.

My fave was the French metal band playing alongside Bizet being sung with a decapitated Marie Antoinette, I think to honor the way their republic was born in a moody, goth way.

It was a lot of stuff.

The drag runway was on one bridge, and meant to show off Paris being the epicenter of fashion. But the fashion show they decided to make will definitely overshadow all the rest.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 12:31 PM (QAK8m)

175 Dang you had so much content I couldn’t even jump in til now!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 12:32 PM (X4/Jm)

176 Can you imagine what the 2028 games will be like in Hollywood? lol.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:32 PM (2beCy)

177 This sculpture of a bull (not a calf) and a deer by Paul Jouve, made in the 1930s, has always been located there near the Trocadero fountains. The scene for the Olympics opening ceremony was simply built around it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 12:16 PM (63Dwl)

I'm sure they didn't choose to hold the opening ceremony in a location featuring a bovine statue that evokes the golden calf idolatry incident.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:32 PM (Sf2cq)

178 My wife put on the opening ceremonies last night. For about 30 seconds of a French rapper. That was enough. We didn’t stay long enough to see the degeneracy I’m reading about this morning.

Posted by: Advo at July 27, 2024 12:34 PM (jO4mz)

179 Thanks LizLem.
In that context maybe everyone is over reacting just a bit? The way it made it out was that the whole show was trannies trannies and more trannies.

Eh it’s still the Olympics and super ghey. 😆

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:34 PM (2beCy)

180 177 I mean, they surely weren't choosing that spot because of the association with golden calf idolatry. They wouldn't do that or pose as the Last Supper to mock religion.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:35 PM (Sf2cq)

181 Some people get pleasure and excitement from blood trickling from their ears, I suppose. That happens to me when I listen to the shrieking Celine Dion, but I don't like it. At all.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:30 PM (8sMut)

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Thank you, I thought I was the only person who didn't like her.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:35 PM (16NmB)

182 Paris is a terrible, over-rated city. I have never understood the "charm."

This upcoming trip to France Hubby isn't insisting we go to Paris (to visit relatives) and I am doing the happy dance.

The French countryside is lovely.

Posted by: Ann at July 27, 2024 12:23 PM (4neFu)

Paris is the New York of France. But I like Paris and wouldn't say no to going back.

It was at a citadel in a French town of 5000 people that, at the age of nine, I experienced one of Those Moments that I referred to earlier. The French countryside and the tree lined roads are something else.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:36 PM (8sMut)

183 The architecture of Paris is cool as are the cafes and shit like that. The people suck. Much like San Francisco, beautiful city with awful inhabitants.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:37 PM (2beCy)

184 I like Snoop. He is actually smart when not high, which makes everyone dumb. I don’t get his connection to the Olympics.

He has kept his marriage together. He is an active parent and grandparent. He made his kids get jobby jobs (2 points if you get that reference) and his wife made them make their beds and do chores. Compare that to the Smith family.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 12:37 PM (p4NUW)

185 The "golden calf" thing could be sheer coincidence and their historical and religious literacy probably isn't sufficient for them to make a deliberate allusion to it. The fag/tranny/pedo Last Supper however is clearly deliberate and malicious.

Posted by: We're gonna need a bigger woodchipper at July 27, 2024 12:37 PM (lRx9h)

186 Who is watching the sporting events?
Posted by: K.T. at 11:09 AM

Not it.
*touches nose with index finger*

I can experience it sufficiently with the snark and sarcasm here on this Smart Military Blog(TM).

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 27, 2024 12:37 PM (MsrgL)

187 Yeah Snoop is the ultimate family man these days which is funny given his claim to fame.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:38 PM (2beCy)

188 175

The world hasn't noticed (or pretends not to), but Hamas is getting the sh*t kicked out of it, now more than ever before. Exponential increase.

That is the only reason there has been recent progress in the negotiations, imo.

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:38 PM (NLIak)

189 One more try
https://tinyurl.com/3d8n6vnv

Posted by: Spypeach at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (UuB/1)

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That's a chick pretending to be a guy, right? But I'm confused because its name is Sofia.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:39 PM (16NmB)

190 39 Kamala LOOOOVES Venn diagrams

Posted by: Marybel Smiles at July 27, 2024 12:39 PM (b2Tnl)

191 163 Are you really arguing Tim Tebow was BAD for sports because he lived his faith?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:03 PM (/nCD+)

I have heard this argument from a lapsed Christian who seems to think Christians shouldn't do anything that might be considered uncool.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:25 PM (Sf2cq)

I am shocked that Tim Tebow wasn't run out of the country by March 2012 given Americans' palpable hatred of him. (I still think he could have been worked with in the QB position and improved - no, he was not perfect. but people act as if he was Jamarcus Russell.) But there is still time. I don't get it. He wears his faith on his sleeve. So what?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:39 PM (8sMut)

192 Going to talk about the Electoral map, because I'm a one trick pony.

The reason Biden was replaced is because he was looking at an electoral blowout, there was no recovery from it. Trump was going to win all the battlegrounds, plus VA, MN, ME-state, ME-2, and NE-2. It also put NM and NH into tossup. Trump would finish with 343-352 EVs. That is such a huge win he would also get both houses and a mandate.

So now we get Harris, who was not Obama's first choice, but someone fucked him from the Biden team by tweeting the Biden endorsement last Sunday.

Looking at polls, Harris dord slight better than Biden. Trump's national lead drops from 3.4 to 2.3. Still a terrible situation, but maybe salvageable. The problem is she does worse with Ind and white working class. This makes winning WI and MI harder than it was for Biden. But they think she runs better in GA and AZ. As I said yesterday, the plan is for her to win GA, AZ, and PA, hold the blue states that were wavering, finish with 274.

Here is her serious problem :

GA polling average - Trump 47.9 Harris 43.1
AZ polling average - Trump 51.1 Harris 44.7
PA polling average - Trump 48.5 Harris 45.9

She has to win all 3 of them.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 12:40 PM (5p7BC)

193 Lady Gaga is a huge LGBT advocate so her appearance is connected to the trannies IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:40 PM (B1dzx)

194 The world hasn't noticed (or pretends not to), but Hamas is getting the sh*t kicked out of it, now more than ever before

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Wasn’t everyone saying this 3-4 months ago too? Remember all those naked pows and how that was proof the end was near for Hamas?

I want nothing more than this to be true. Just skeptical given a few too many boys who cried wolf.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (2beCy)

195 That's a chick pretending to be a guy, right? But I'm confused because its name is Sofia.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 27, 2024 12:39 PM (16NmB)

Sofia is a capital.

Posted by: Bulgaria at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (8sMut)

196 124 120+ comments in, on a mostly sports-related theme, and no mention of the WNBA?

It's like I know you people.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2024 11:59 AM (xAO8e)

Yes, because we're talking about actual sports.

Although...it's quite something to see Caitlyn Clark curb stomping the competition on the floor, despite repeated flagrant fouls from her more melaninated colleagues and DEI zombie referees who don't call them. It really pisses them off that a) they finally have a player in the league who can actually ball and people want to watch, and b) that player is white.

Posted by: Tallest nail always gets hammered down at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (lRx9h)

197 The sloppiness of the can-can is the message from the gay event organizer that the French shouldn't be bothered with their traditions anymore.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (fs1hN)

198 186 Who is watching the sporting events?
Posted by: K.T. at 11:09 AM

For the first time in ages, I was determined to watch at least the American participants because my gkids were interested in some events.
Not now. I choose Jesus.

Posted by: Marybel Smiles at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (b2Tnl)

199
I'm not even drawing a comparison.

Your question was why a Christian would participate in sports when they've become so twisted.

I suggested that they believe they're doing good. I would bet my mortgage that the number of people converted to Christianity after being exposed to a Christian athlete is greater than zero. That's good. That's victory.

Those conversations likely happened quietly though, without the fanfare of any opening ceremonies, and were therefore ignored by the press - but not by God.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (/nCD+)

As I said God works where he may but Christians should NOT be participating in the open mockery of God.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:41 PM (iqZsv)

200
129 Thanks, K.T., for featuring The Second Coming. I appreciate the link to an a anlysis of it. That helped a lot, though I don't think I'm destined to understand it completely.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (M6moH)

I call that the most prophetic piece of poetry our modern culture has ever produced. About a century old now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 12:42 PM (X4/Jm)

201 Lady Gaga looked like a slob with ugly tattoos and the song really sucked.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:42 PM (fs1hN)

202 165 He's not entirely wrong about churches filling the pews with homos and other deviants. Got to keep the tithes rolling in. The rest is standard BS.
Posted by: pastor needs a new Hermes strap-on at July 27, 2024 12:26 PM (lRx9h)

Deviants do not strike me as particularly dedicated tithers. They might be good at getting grants and directing other people's money toward things they want the church to do.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:43 PM (Sf2cq)

203 >>> We're talking about political movements that are trying to cancel/enslave/kill us, pardon me for not giving a shit about peoples' dreams about playing games.

Somedood, I get where you're coming from. I respect your feelings. But I agree with nurse that people are allowed to dream about sport, even in war.

During the depths of the revolutionary war, Washington planned his garden in Monticello, a garden that if he was captured or killed, he'd never see. Dreams are important, they keep us going when everything feels dark.

Besides, sport CAN change the world. Are we not better off for Jesse Owens dreaming he could be an Olympian, and punching Hitler's totalitarian regime in the face at the Berlin games? Or USA hockey bringing us together when they defeated the Soviet Russians?

Sport is a symbol of other things going on in the world. It reflects the best and worst of humanity. The opening ceremonies showed the world both how good and how cringe we can be. Here's hoping the athletes turn things around and show humanity at our best.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 12:43 PM (QAK8m)

204 I used to love Paris. Won’t go anymore , we sold my grandmother’s house there about a year before my mom passed. My last trip to France was right before Covid, I went to Nice. My Uber driver actually told me about Covid and it was being hidden in France, that it was about to explode. I was like okay, sure. Lo and behold, she was right. Anyway, Nice was okay, no where near as pretty as Italy which is, as y’all know, right freaking there. I won’t go back. Italy all day long (sorry friends and family in France), but not France.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 12:43 PM (p4NUW)

205 PredictIt has the race at 50/50 now. Other sites have it around 55/45 Trump. 10 days ago it was 70/30 Trump, against Biden.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:44 PM (2beCy)

206 It really pisses them off that a) they finally have a player in the league who can actually ball and people want to watch, and b) that player is white.
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WBNA: we prefer to bitch and moan about not making any money and how sexist the country is.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:44 PM (fs1hN)

207 192 Going to talk about the Electoral map, because I'm a one trick pony.

The reason Biden was replaced is because he was looking at an electoral blowout, there was no recovery from it. Trump was going to win all the battlegrounds, plus VA, MN, ME-state, ME-2, and NE-2. It also put NM and NH into tossup. Trump would finish with 343-352 EVs. That is such a huge win he would also get both houses and a mandate.

So now we get Harris, who was not Obama's first choice, but someone fucked him from the Biden team by tweeting the Biden endorsement last Sunday.

Looking at polls, Harris dord slight better than Biden. Trump's national lead drops from 3.4 to 2.3. Still a terrible situation, but maybe salvageable.

Here is her serious problem :

GA polling average - Trump 47.9 Harris 43.1
AZ polling average - Trump 51.1 Harris 44.7
PA polling average - Trump 48.5 Harris 45.9

She has to win all 3 of them.

Let's cancel the elections! Who needs elections when we have polls?

(Also, a friendly reminder that hyper-evil rich people DO NOT WORK, NEVER WORK, and need to be brutally, violently killed.)

Posted by: Bulgaria at July 27, 2024 12:45 PM (8sMut)

208 I like Snoop. He is actually smart when not high, which makes everyone dumb. I don’t get his connection to the Olympics.

Yeah, I don't mind him. He's taken the William Shatner route of leaning all the way in to how people think of him anyway, and the concept of a notorious pothead with a torch is amusing for a few seconds.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2024 12:45 PM (FD5dr)

209 Deviants do not strike me as particularly dedicated tithers. They might be good at getting grants and directing other people's money toward things they want the church to do.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:43 PM (Sf2cq)

Maybe, maybe not. Dollars are fungible anyway. But the gheyification of multiple large denominations in the US is undeniable.

Posted by: Circling the drain at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (lRx9h)

210 I can't visit Bulgaria yet. Go away, sock.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (8sMut)

211 185 The "golden calf" thing could be sheer coincidence and their historical and religious literacy probably isn't sufficient for them to make a deliberate allusion to it. The fag/tranny/pedo Last Supper however is clearly deliberate and malicious.
Posted by: We're gonna need a bigger woodchipper at July 27, 2024 12:37 PM (lRx9h)

Also hard to believe the pale horse imagery was a deliberate mockery of God's judgement on sinners. As someone already pointed out, God will not be mocked.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (iqZsv)

212 I had to run into town and get some plastic drainpipe to fix my downspouts. On the way in I passed a modest "Trump parade" of vehicles flying various flags. Maybe about 20 - 30 vehicles.

I passed them coming home too.

People thought is was a funeral and were pulling over...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (Q4IgG)

213 Sf2cq)

I am shocked that Tim Tebow wasn't run out of the country by March 2012 given Americans' palpable hatred of him. (I still think he could have been worked with in the QB position and improved - no, he was not perfect. but people act as if he was Jamarcus Russell.) But there is still time. I don't get it. He wears his faith on his sleeve. So what?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:39 PM (8sMut)

My opinion is that football coaches and scouts are interchangeable with anybody . There are so many bad decisions regard to talent that it’s ridiculous. Tom Brady proved Bill Belichick was just another coach and nothing special.

I came to this conclusion when they basically ignored Doug Flutie because he didn’t fit the prototype QB. Even when he was leading them to the Championship they benched him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (B1dzx)

214 205 PredictIt has the race at 50/50 now. Other sites have it around 55/45 Trump. 10 days ago it was 70/30 Trump, against Biden.

I have a bad feeling about this... Make Kamala slight ahead or slight behind then when she wins they can point to the polls.. The cheat will be covered..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (IyPmt)

215 Did Snoop Dogg become a French citizen recently?

If not, what was he doing with the torch? - Catch Thirty-Thr33

I thought that was a giant blunt.

Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (njExo)

216
Also hard to believe the pale horse imagery was a deliberate mockery of God's judgement on sinners. As someone already pointed out, God will not be mocked.
Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (iqZsv)

They copyright struck it before I got a chance to see it, a nifty little censorship trick. Apocalyptic imagery isn't necessarily mocking even if used in a non-religious context, mostly because it's badass. See, e.g., metal bands. But they could very well have meant it that way. Can't tell though.

Posted by: End times? I hope so at July 27, 2024 12:49 PM (lRx9h)

217 I am not surprised at Kamala’s poll bounce and won’t panic just yet. She hasn’t been out there speaking. Well she did once, and has caused an international kerfluffle. They are madly scrubbing her history, which, if the RNC can keep its act together, will shout from the mountain tops right now, keeping it close to where the nation was mad about them lying to them about Joe. There needs to be nonstop noting they are lying AGAIN, and about what, which is a two for one.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 12:50 PM (p4NUW)

218
Also hard to believe the pale horse imagery was a deliberate mockery of God's judgement on sinners. As someone already pointed out, God will not be mocked.
Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (iqZsv)

Proofreading is fundamental. The above should say hard to believe it WAS NOT deliberate mockery.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:50 PM (iqZsv)

219 Celine Dion's performance was on of the verfy few highlights of the opening ceremonies. Olympic flame cauldron suspended from hot air balloon was cool. Boating the athletes in was creative.

Lots of cringe moments in the rest. Among them was quick camera shot of Jill Biden clapping like a retarded seal when boat carrying US team pulled in, led by equally retarded BLM supporters Coco Gauf and LeBron as flagbearers. Hey Jill, remember you left your pedo husband and meal ticket alone and dying at home?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:51 PM (fs1hN)

220 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (/nCD+)

Same response Jesus gave when asked why he associated with the tax collectors and prostitutes.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:51 PM (B1dzx)

221 Donna if they can't make the polls close the vote fraud won't be believable.
Let them try putting up 80 million votes for the most unlikable woman running. Trump very likely will get more votes than the last time he ran which had more votes than the first time he won.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 12:52 PM (fwDg9)

222 210 I can't visit Bulgaria yet. Go away, sock.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 12:46

J goes to Bulgaria every few months. It’s like going back in time.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 12:52 PM (p4NUW)

223 Yeah Snoop is the ultimate family man these days which is funny given his claim to fame.
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 12:38 PM (2beCy)

His early life was pretty tough. Very tough. Surprisingly, he pulled through it all. Just read his bio on Wiki.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 27, 2024 12:52 PM (iODuv)

224 221 I am sympathetic to the athletes, but they are hostages to the system.

So I will chose to not watch any of it, including women's beach volleyball. That ceremony was offensive.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:40 AM (5p7BC)

People think they can wage a culture war without casualties, which will work out about as well as it does in actual war. And some people don't want to wage war anyway, even if their opponents do.

Posted by: Conservatives in Name Only at July 27, 2024 12:52 PM (TtsS5)

225 205 PredictIt has the race at 50/50 now. Other sites have it around 55/45 Trump. 10 days ago it was 70/30 Trump, against Biden.

I have a bad feeling about this... Make Kamala slight ahead or slight behind then when she wins they can point to the polls.. The cheat will be covered..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (IyPmt)

I have come to the conclusion that it’s ALL BS…. The polls showing Trump as a near-lock and now the polls which show it’s closer. I mean they have to be total BS…. Is there a single retard anywhere in the country who was leaning Trump or undecided with Biden in the race, then they see Harris and they’re like “oh yeah, she’s the one!” I can’t believe such people exist….. these polls are for the sole purpose of pushing a narrative. In fact, I might conclude the polls were manipulated to make Biden’s position look impossible with the sake purpose of pushing him out…

I since I no longer trust vote counting mechanisms I have zero clue what’s gonna happen come Nov 5

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (xT8gx)

226 Dave

Pls never hesitate to discuss the electoral map!

I confess that the post-Biden, now Kamala, polls are giving me wobbly knees.

Not really related much, but... I noticed Harris has just announced (via her spokesperson) that she's done a 180 on fracking. A principled and painful reversal, I'm sure.

Also, her surrogates are explaining that her 2020 recorded comments, in which she supported defunding the police, were 1) taken out of context, and 2) are now inoperative! Hakim Jeffries explained that that all she REALLY meant was that "policing can be both smart AND effective, as all of us believe."

Orwell must be giddy with delight.

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (NLIak)

227 I have a prayer request, please. I am going over with FenSpouse to a do a worship service at the local senior care center. Spouse handles the music. In the past we've had the
excitement of communion cups knocked over by me or a fire alarm and firemen arriving that had nothing to do with me. They are lovely folks and I enjoy being with them. If you could pray it will all go smoothly and they feel the love of Christ, I'd be grateful. Thanks so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (dTTBf)

228 I came to this conclusion when they basically ignored Doug Flutie because he didn’t fit the prototype QB. Even when he was leading them to the Championship they benched him.
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Browns fan here. Stefanik had huge success early with Baker Mayfield (he shouldn't have been playing injured his last year). He made Jacoby Brissette look like a legit NFL starter and had huge success with Joe Flacco (before the playoff flameout). But he somehow struggles with Deshaun Watson. Maybe it's Deshaun. Nah.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (fs1hN)

229 Hello Horde. Just had second breakfast (blueberry pancakes with fresh picked blueberries from my lovely SIL, and a bit of lemon zest, nom nom nom) after a very nice and much needed trail run, my first in #2weeks.

I've never had any desire to go to Paris, or anywhere in France for that matter. Switzerland or Italy, yes please. I want to go before I'm too damn old to hike to all the mountain lakes...

I used to love watching the Olympics but I never turn on the TV anymore. Maybe will look for a few gymnastics highlights afterwards.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (iZbyp)

230 But the gheyification of multiple large denominations in the US is undeniable.
Posted by: Circling the drain at July 27, 2024 12:46 PM (lRx9h)

This is true.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 12:55 PM (Sf2cq)

231 Tebow was a good college quarterback, but the skill set he had did not translate to an NFL drop back passer. He might have been great back in the fifties but not in the modern game. Great person though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 12:55 PM (9Lk6I)

232
129 Thanks, K.T., for featuring The Second Coming. I appreciate the link to an a anlysis of it. That helped a lot, though I don't think I'm destined to understand it completely.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2024 12:01 PM (M6moH)

PredictIt is a snapshot of Hype, not reality. Be careful not to confuse the two.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 12:55 PM (X4/Jm)

233 Also AZ at over 51 for Trump takes it out of tossup range IMO. Color the state pink and stop discussing it in electoral scenarios.

Harris may pick Cooper as a running mate to make a play for North Carolina instead. There is very little polling there because most people are counting it in Trump's column already.

It might be slightly more winnable than MI though. I just don't have any data on it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 12:55 PM (5p7BC)

234
Same response Jesus gave when asked why he associated with the tax collectors and prostitutes.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:51 PM (B1dzx)

Jesus did not participate in the sin of the sinners he associated with. Indeed, the whole point was theybturn away from their sin because of him.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (iqZsv)

235 Also AZ at over 51 for Trump takes it out of tossup range IMO. Color the state pink and stop discussing it in electoral scenarios.
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Not so fast, buck-o

Posted by: Maricopa County Shenanigans at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (fs1hN)

236 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 12:12 PM (/nCD+)

Same response Jesus gave when asked why he associated with the tax collectors and prostitutes.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:51 PM (B1dzx)

Except he was there to proselytize and convert and save, not support their unlawful and degenerate activities. He would not have helped the tax collectors skim off the top, or advertise the prostitutes' wares to prospective johns. And therein lies the difference. Sports Uber alles, to the point of giving support and material to an organization blaspheming the sacred and promoting degeneracy would make one into an idolator and an accessory the evil deeds. All blather around it is rationalization.

Posted by: Big BIG difference at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (lRx9h)

237 Snoopi is smart and funny, but so are a lot of evil people. The pendant of Baphomet was no accident.

Posted by: Marybel Smiles at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (b2Tnl)

238 As I said last night, if y’all aren’t saying Snoooooopppppp every single time, I will be very disappointed. I may need to resurrect my insta reel of my team and I dancing to this in the studio in one of our moments of silliness. And no, it doesn’t look like the Elaine dance. We all have a dance background. Don’t panic.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 12:57 PM (p4NUW)

239 Apologies for snark from Maricopa Cty sock, Mr. Dave in Fla. I always do appreciate reading your analysis.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:57 PM (fs1hN)

240 I thought that was a giant blunt.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (njExo)

That's what SHE said.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 27, 2024 12:57 PM (iODuv)

241 Harris may pick Cooper as a running mate to make a play for North Carolina instead. There is very little polling there because most people are counting it in Trump's column already.
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Do North Carolinians really love Cooper enough to get out and vote for Kamala?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 12:58 PM (fs1hN)

242 Those who are doomed for their perverse actions and behavior often feel compelled to openly mock and ridicule their impending judgement.

They pronounce it upon themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 12:59 PM (X4/Jm)

243 Snoopi is smart and funny, but so are a lot of evil people. The pendant of Baphomet was no accident.
Posted by: Marybel Smiles at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (b2Tnl)

Not that I especially care but where was Snoop wearing a Baphomet pendant? I don't see one in the picture above.

Posted by: Evil demon or misunderstood goat ? at July 27, 2024 01:00 PM (lRx9h)

244 227 I have a prayer request, please. I am going over with FenSpouse to a do a worship service at the local senior care center. Spouse handles the music. In the past we've had the
excitement of communion cups knocked over by me or a fire alarm and firemen arriving that had nothing to do with me. They are lovely folks and I enjoy being with them. If you could pray it will all go smoothly and they feel the love of Christ, I'd be grateful. Thanks so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 12:54 PM (dTTBf)

Dear Lord, please be with FenelonSpoke as she has fellowship with seniors near her today. Please work every minute she is there for good and for Your will. In Christ's name we pray, amen.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 01:00 PM (iqZsv)

245 Posted by: Big BIG difference at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (lRx9h)

How do you know the athletes are not speaking the word to their fellow athletes?

You don’t.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 01:00 PM (B1dzx)

246 227 I'd be grateful. Thanks so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024

You got it! I need these prayers daily. I am a chaos magnet.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 01:01 PM (pZEOD)

247 233 Also AZ at over 51 for Trump takes it out of tossup range IMO. Color the state pink and stop discussing it in electoral scenarios.

Harris may pick Cooper as a running mate to make a play for North Carolina instead. There is very little polling there because most people are counting it in Trump's column already.

It might be slightly more winnable than MI though. I just don't have any data on it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 12:55 PM (5p7BC)

A good verification of all this is to just go ahead and hold the election, just to make sure.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:01 PM (8sMut)

248 You don’t.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 01:00 PM (B1dzx)

Cope harder

Posted by: Fresh cope always satisfies at July 27, 2024 01:02 PM (lRx9h)

249 Let's cancel the elections! Who needs elections when we have polls?
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This is quite literally what the Democrats did last weekend.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:02 PM (5p7BC)

250 Posted by: Big BIG difference at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (lRx9h)

And you sound like a better than thou Pharisee .

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 01:02 PM (B1dzx)

251 The most off-the-wall Snoop Dogg factoid; his enduring friendship with Martha Stewart.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

252 I don't understand why something like the Olympics is copyrighted at all. It's a worldwide event paid for with host country taxpayer money. Seems to me that shit be automatically public domain.

Fuck the IOC.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 11:14 AM (Z2yLo)

Thanks to that trademarking, your taxpayer dollars are NOT going to the USOPC. They make money off of that, and if YOU do not want to spend money on the Olympics here, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO.

You are much better off in this country, as every other nations' Olympic Committees are taxpayer funded.

But hey, don't let those facts go up for your consideration; instead, let your hatred of the Olympics simply grow stronger.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:04 PM (8sMut)

253 Cope addiction is tough.

Posted by: Handful of cope between the ears - relaxing! at July 27, 2024 01:05 PM (lRx9h)

254
Here is her serious problem :

GA polling average - Trump 47.9 Harris 43.1
AZ polling average - Trump 51.1 Harris 44.7
PA polling average - Trump 48.5 Harris 45.9

She has to win all 3 of them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

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Not only that, but according to Charlie Kirk, Lara Trump has tipped the number of registered Repubs higher than registered Dems in AZ.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 01:05 PM (lCaJd)

255 Should a Christian participate? Up to the point that the proceedings become openly blasphemous and mock God, yes. After that point, never.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 01:06 PM (X4/Jm)

256 How do you know the athletes are not speaking the word to their fellow athletes?

You don’t.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 01:00 PM (B1dzx)

God will lead them to the right choices if the pray and read His word. This sure looks like a moment to shake the dust off their feet, however.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 01:06 PM (iqZsv)

257 Do North Carolinians really love Cooper enough to get out and vote for Kamala?
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No.

The Democrats were sitting on a trash hand. Now they have a possible draw to an inside straight, and hope Trump doesn't have a flush, but there are 3 hearts showing on the table.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:06 PM (5p7BC)

258 251 The most off-the-wall Snoop Dogg factoid; his enduring friendship with Martha Stewart.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

Those blunts perfectly accented the living room.

Posted by: Handcrafting at its best at July 27, 2024 01:07 PM (lRx9h)

259 you should not play the 1st movement until you can play the 3rd movement.

The "Piano Hero" lights make me think it's not humanly possible, anyway. Stunning to watch it from that perspective.

Posted by: t-bird at July 27, 2024 01:07 PM (9O5em)

260
Do North Carolinians really love Cooper enough to get out and vote for Kamala?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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No. But the problem is that we have been swarmed by locusts. In the last election, less than 1/2 of the voters were native North Carolinians. The carpetbaggers are smugly certain that they know 'how things ought to be done'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2024 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

261 >>> People think they can wage a culture war without casualties, which will work out about as well as it does in actual war. And some people don't want to wage war anyway, even if their opponents do.

The opening ceremonies felt very Weimar Republic. Glittering, beautiful, decadent. Doomed.

While processing it, my mind flashed to the movie Cabaret, and the Nazi youth singing tomorrow belongs to me. You could easily update the musical to our day, and the Hitler youth was instead a Muslim youth on the streets of Paris.

There surely will be a reckoning on the streets of Paris with the orthodox Muslims and the unorthodox Parisian culture. They are not prepared for it.

Have any of the stricter Asian and Muslim countries condemned the opening ceremonies yet? I can't imagine their anti LGBT laws let them show that on TV.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 01:07 PM (QAK8m)

262 Thanks to that trademarking, your taxpayer dollars are NOT going to the USOPC. They make money off of that, and if YOU do not want to spend money on the Olympics here, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO.

You are much better off in this country, as every other nations' Olympic Committees are taxpayer funded.

Oh, and by the way...the Olympics should actually help your cause. There is one Olympic Committee with almost nonexistent government support. (The U.S. government has allowed the USOPC to trademark "Olympic" to the point where I knew of a HS mascot - the Olympians - forced to change their name.) Every other one has massive government funded or are flat out an arm of the government.

Gee, guess which one of those is far and away the most successful in the Olympics?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:08 PM (8sMut)

263 Snoop wears costumes to his grandchildren’s birthday parties, of whatever the theme is. He does this because it makes the kids happy but also keeps him on the down low so the party is about his grandchildren and not about the parents wanting pictures with him. That is pretty funny and sweet.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 01:08 PM (pZEOD)

264 Dave in Fla — are there real human voters out there who were leaning Trump or undecided and yet now are decidedly for Kamala? Who are these people?? I’m having a hard time believing they exist….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 01:08 PM (xT8gx)

265 I perceive amplified efforts to set Christians at one another's throats. This is part of the attack on our national health and viability. Don't take the bait.

(The attack is not just national, but worldwide and is demonic in nature. "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" -- don't forget this.)

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 01:08 PM (Sf2cq)

266 Morticia - I looked up the numbers there last night.

8/2020 - R+93,000 registrations
8/2024 - R+246,000 registrations

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:09 PM (5p7BC)

267 255 Should a Christian participate? Up to the point that the proceedings become openly blasphemous and mock God, yes. After that point, never.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 01:06 PM (X4/Jm)

Uh oh. The prophet polynikes might call you a better than thou Pharisee for such proscriptions. Your mortal soul is in danger, sir! Mortal danger!

Posted by: Sport over child rape victims, why not God too at July 27, 2024 01:09 PM (lRx9h)

268 X (formerly Twitter) suspended my account for merely describing what I witnessed at the opening ceremony.
And I didn't use any "hate speech".
I described one participant as "obese" which was factual.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 01:09 PM (MeG8a)

269 Drag queen and gangsta Olympics.
This is not sports.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 01:10 PM (HNgM8)

270 Little known fact:Beethoven's last movement was left on a piano bench.

Posted by: Amber Heard at July 27, 2024 01:10 PM (CV8a5)

271 265 I perceive amplified efforts to set Christians at one another's throats. This is part of the attack on our national health and viability. Don't take the bait.

(The attack is not just national, but worldwide and is demonic in nature. "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" -- don't forget this.)
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 01:08 PM (Sf2cq)

On the plus side it's laying bare a lot of hypocrisy and self-delusion.

Posted by: Have to find it before you can cure it at July 27, 2024 01:11 PM (lRx9h)

272 Early on in this thread, the subject of cannibalism came up.

The last section of VDH's most recent book "The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation" concerns the Aztecs in the grip of Cortez.

VDH refers to "Aztec civilization." I think that's too generous. "Empire" is fine. "Polity" is fine too.

Posted by: mnw at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (NLIak)

273 268 X (formerly Twitter) suspended my account for merely describing what I witnessed at the opening ceremony.
And I didn't use any "hate speech".
I described one participant as "obese" which was factual.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 01
Appeal it if that is all you did, probably an over zealous one.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (pZEOD)

274 I lost interest in the Olympics when they brought in the professionals.

Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (i0F8b)

275 My opinion is that football coaches and scouts are interchangeable with anybody . There are so many bad decisions regard to talent that it’s ridiculous. Tom Brady proved Bill Belichick was just another coach and nothing special.

I came to this conclusion when they basically ignored Doug Flutie because he didn’t fit the prototype QB. Even when he was leading them to the Championship they benched him.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 12:47 PM (B1dzx)

I am going to think about that, because to a large degree, I agree. But...I still think a lot of it boils down to just...witchcraft.

One of my favorite examples: Marty Chokenheimer. I pick on him - RIP - BUT the man was a mad evaluator of talent, he got the most out of what he had, and clearly, he could put together a talented team. Consistently hitting 12-4, 13-3 records. THEN...into the playoffs, and John Elway or not, he could not close the sale. I can't help but wonder if he would have been more successful if he were in fact a team's GM or something along those lines. Good at the talent evaluation aspect but could not get it done in the end.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (8sMut)

276 There is some article out saying PA will take weeks to count their votes again. That is not promising news.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (aVudl)

277 Could I BE wearing anymore clothes? — Joey Tribbiani doing the opposite of Chandler taking his underwear

Thanks for reminding me of that. It makes me laugh to this day.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2024 01:13 PM (xCA6C)

278 268 X (formerly Twitter) suspended my account for merely describing what I witnessed at the opening ceremony.
And I didn't use any "hate speech".
I described one participant as "obese" which was factual.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 01
Appeal it if that is all you did, probably an over zealous one.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (pZEOD)

The MiniTru worker who censored you is probably a fatty.

Posted by: Fascist at any size at July 27, 2024 01:13 PM (lRx9h)

279 The "othering" of normals is now standard operating procedure with the left and their alphabet people enablers. Dissing Christians worldwide isn't going to convert anyone. That was never the intent.

The intent was to foment backlash so they could piss and moan about how badly they're discriminated against.

That narrative has probably already taken root in the media.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 01:13 PM (Q4IgG)

280 are there real human voters out there who were leaning Trump or undecided and yet now are decidedly for Kamala? Who are these people?? I’m having a hard time believing they exist….
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Some in the black community in theory and some younger voters.

But it mostly works in Trump's favor. Men, Ind, non-college white, seniors, and never Trump Republicans are more likely to switch from Biden to Trump.

The Yougov poll the Harris campaign was crowing about needed a D+9 sample to get her within 2 of Trump nationally.

Look I don't want to give false hope, operate like we are 3 points down and fight fight fight. But don't buy the MSM hype that the Dems have an unstoppable cheat machine that can't be overcome.

They just admitted to the world last weekend that they don't.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:16 PM (5p7BC)

281 274 I lost interest in the Olympics when they brought in the professionals.
Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (i0F8b)

People bitch relentlessly about that, and I don't disagree. HOWEVER...

Here, again, the IOC. WHO were bringing in professionals first? THE COMMUNISTS. It is worth remembering that one of the things that made the Miracle Team of 1980 so remarkable was that those rag-tag college hockey players went up against a professonal, paid, Red Army hockey team whose job it was, in the Red Army...to play hockey. What did the IOC do about it? Jack shit. Because they sympathized to the commies. Note that the USSR whined and threw a tantrum in the early 1970s about Moscow getting an Olympics and the IOC gave Moscow the 1980 Games...hey, how did THAT turn out??? DO NOT GET ME STARTED on the men's basketball gold medal game in 1972...

Because the IOC let the camel's nose under the tent, it was only a matter of time before other pros jumped in. The whole reason the Dream Team came to be was that USA Basketball got sick and tired of every other Olympic Committee (Commies) sending their pros in and the IOC not doing a thing about it.

(continued)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:18 PM (8sMut)

282 My DIL is helping at the local Dem campaign office and they are sending out letters to Female Repub. . voters saying Trump wants to take away birth control and end in- vitro She posted it on Facebook.. Thank God my son isn't on Facebook.. he's ultra conservative

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 01:18 PM (IyPmt)

283 Dave, thanks for the election analysis!! Appreciated greatly.

There has been a great get out the vote campaign in AZ and PA for republicans. I hope it bears good fruit.

Posted by: LizLem at July 27, 2024 01:18 PM (QAK8m)

284 Committee of Vigilance?

I like Committee of Vengeance better.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 01:18 PM (JvZF+)

285 Good at the talent evaluation aspect but could not get it done in the end.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (8sMut)

Schottenheimer was a good solid coach. He got too conservative in big games. As a result I believe his players tightened up and they’d choke.

I do not agree that Bill Belichick was only average or interchangeable. The game has changed in the last 5 years…. Before that he knew how to coach defense and put together masterful game plans. The game plan he devised to beat the greatest show on turf Rams was a master class. He is beyond his sell-by date now however

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 01:19 PM (xT8gx)

286 @153/Emmie: Thanks!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2024 01:19 PM (O7YUW)

287 So, as much as I LOVE the idea of an all-amateur Olympics (really!) the reality is that a bunch of other Olympic Committees and the IOC do not share this view. And, if they did have a come to Jesus moment and decide to make the Olympics an all-amateur competition, EVERYONE - EVERYONE - has to be on board with it. When all the other Committees call off the dogs, I am 100% down with an all-amateur Olympics. Til then...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:20 PM (8sMut)

288 They need plausibility in one place to grant plausibility elsewhere.

They need fake but plausible polls showing the race close enough so that when they 'win' through fraud the win is plausible.

Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2024 01:21 PM (i0F8b)

289 286 @153/Emmie: Thanks!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 27, 2024 01:19 PM (O7YUW)

You are quite welcome.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 01:21 PM (Sf2cq)

290 I did appeal it and was denied restoration.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (MeG8a)

291 Should a Christian participate? Up to the point that the proceedings become openly blasphemous and mock God, yes. After that point, never.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 01:06 PM (X4/Jm)

If you decide to turn your back on the world you will find the world has moved beyond you, you have very little influence beyond your physical reach, and the powers in the world may very well have decided that you are an easy target for being the next scapegoat.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (D7oie)

292 I do not agree that Bill Belichick was only average or interchangeable. The game has changed in the last 5 years…. Before that he knew how to coach defense and put together masterful game plans. The game plan he devised to beat the greatest show on turf Rams was a master class. He is beyond his sell-by date now however
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2024 01:19 PM (xT8gx)

This I agree with. Tom Landry was an awesome coach who, like Belichick, was passed by as time went on by changes in the game. (He should NOT have been fired. But his time came and went all the same.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (8sMut)

293 Harris won't pick someone who will overshadow her. Cooper night just be perfect.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (9Lk6I)

294 The intent was to foment backlash so they could piss and moan about how badly they're discriminated against.

That narrative has probably already taken root in the media.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 01:13 PM (Q4IgG)

Like how CAIR has their press releases about fear of backlash ready for next week's terrorist attack.

Posted by: Like gun control at July 27, 2024 01:23 PM (lRx9h)

295 Harris will keep going to her safe zones, groups who are DIE and talk in word salad because that's who she is.
The more she talks to people like they are 5yo the more who will be turned off.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:25 PM (fwDg9)

296 Grumpy, I attempted to find a still photo of the horse. Weirdly, I couldn't find anything, but I did find a photo of silver gymnasts that appeared to be in the same setting.

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 01:25 PM (Sf2cq)

297 Donna - they are going to run on abortion yet again. Arguably it worked in 2022. The problem is that general election electorate is very different from a midterm.

With every election cycle I learn more, and that was one of my lessons from 2022.

The abortion message may be effictive down ballot and could keep us from picking up senate seats in AZ and OH if it isn't fought back on.

Trump has the right message and expressed it during the debate. It was overlooked because of the Biden trainwreck. But the senate candidates have to express it too.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:27 PM (5p7BC)

298 282 My DIL is helping at the local Dem campaign office and they are sending out letters to Female Repub. . voters saying Trump wants to take away birth control and end in- vitro She posted it on Facebook.. Thank God my son isn't on Facebook.. he's ultra conservative
Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 01:18 PM (IyPmt)

People should demand proof instead of accepting shit at face value. Because I haven't heard a PEEP uttered about birth control. Or about IVF. Or about much else besides.

One of the best things about the overturning of Roe is the happy thought, in my mind, of 1) abortion not being used as a cavalier method of birth control and 2) people relearning civics and figuring out that the United States has a FEDERAL government, and not, like the Left so badly wants, a UNITARY government.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:27 PM (8sMut)

299 Anyone saying Kumala has no chance is fooling themselves. It’s like Hillary in 2016 was inevitable. Or even more recent how the right was going to win France.

Nothing in politics is certain. And we have 3 months to go which is a lifetime.

Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 01:28 PM (2beCy)

300
If you decide to turn your back on the world you will find the world has moved beyond you, you have very little influence beyond your physical reach, and the powers in the world may very well have decided that you are an easy target for being the next scapegoat.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (D7oie)

If you knowingly participate in activities that call down Judgment, then your beliefs will not protect you from that Judgement. The Almighty does not hand out “oh but I meant well” passes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 01:28 PM (X4/Jm)

301 GARDEN NOOD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (fwDg9)

302 The abortion message may be effictive down ballot and could keep us from picking up senate seats in AZ and OH if it isn't fought back on.

And, upsetting though it might be, you fight it by pointing out the fact that the government in the United States is a FEDERAL one. Thusly, you can go cry to your STATE government about abortion laws. The FEDERAL government stays out. Probem solved.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (8sMut)

303 Jesus has been recast as a sassy, healthy at any size grrrrlboss! Yeahsss, yeahsss!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (Pijte)

304 293 Harris won't pick someone who will overshadow her. Cooper night just be perfect.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (9Lk6I)

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If that's the criterion then Kneepads might consider Mazie Hirono. She's the only politician I can think of who is unequal to the intellectual firepower of our VP.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 01:30 PM (3iMA8)

305 They need fake but plausible polls showing the race close enough so that when they 'win' through fraud the win is plausible.
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62% of likely voters believe there will fraud significant enough to change the outcome of the election.

The plausibly ship has sailed.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (5p7BC)

306 299 Anyone saying Kumala has no chance is fooling themselves. It’s like Hillary in 2016 was inevitable. Or even more recent how the right was going to win France.

Nothing in politics is certain. And we have 3 months to go which is a lifetime.
Posted by: Kumala Word Salad at July 27, 2024 01:28 PM (2beCy)

As Long As The Whore's Name Is On The Ballot, She Has A Chance.

Complacency is a disease that must be inoculated against.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (8sMut)

307 And, upsetting though it might be, you fight it by pointing out the fact that the government in the United States is a FEDERAL one. Thusly, you can go cry to your STATE government about abortion laws. The FEDERAL government stays out. Probem solved.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (8sMut)

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This principle is incomprehensible to the AWFLs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (3iMA8)

308 303 Jesus has been recast as a sassy, healthy at any size grrrrlboss! Yeahsss, yeahsss!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (Pijte)

He's JUST all right.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at July 27, 2024 01:32 PM (8sMut)

309 282 My DIL is helping at the local Dem campaign office and they are sending out letters to Female Repub. . voters saying Trump wants to take away birth control and end in- vitro She posted it on Facebook..
________

Spreading a lie breaks one of the Ten Commandments, no? I'm pretty sure that applies even if you think the lie is in service to what you think is a greater good.

That's not very nice at all. I hope your DIL repents.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 27, 2024 01:32 PM (fs1hN)

310 https://tinyurl.com/3xj7j764

Druze village...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 01:32 PM (JvZF+)

311 I love France, I hate Paris.
__________________

What is it about large cities that makes them hives of degeneracy? Every. Single. One.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2024 01:33 PM (YqDXo)

312 276 There is some article out saying PA will take weeks to count their votes again. That is not promising news.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 27, 2024 01:12 PM (aVudl)

Weeks to count out their votes until they get the desired result.

Posted by: Josef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili at July 27, 2024 01:34 PM (8sMut)

313 If you decide to turn your back on the world you will find the world has moved beyond you, you have very little influence beyond your physical reach, and the powers in the world may very well have decided that you are an easy target for being the next scapegoat.

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We are commanded to be in the world but not of it. We cannot participate in sin.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 01:35 PM (iqZsv)

314 Anyone saying Kumala has no chance is fooling themselves
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To be clear I am not saying she has no chance. She is the nominee of the week because she does have a chance. But it is a narrow path and will require her to perform at a level she never has before.

Or Trump be killed, which remains a possibility.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 01:35 PM (5p7BC)

315 And, upsetting though it might be, you fight it by pointing out the fact that the government in the United States is a FEDERAL one. Thusly, you can go cry to your STATE government about abortion laws. The FEDERAL government stays out. Probem solved.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:29 PM (8sMut)
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This principle is incomprehensible to the AWFLs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (3iMA

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Their failure to grasp this is incomprehensible to me.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2024 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

316 >>Now the mask is coming off. They don't want inclusion, they want to dominate us with their sick, twisted bullshit. Let's see how that works out for them.

THIS

Recalling that very recent elections in France suspiciously won by the same lefties after the "far right" gaining so much support from the people. Think maybe there was a little FU to their version of MAGA - MFGA? Marine Le Pen and all the rest? - embedded in tha opening ceremony.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2024 01:36 PM (Pijte)

317 I described one participant as "obese" which was factual.

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Best song ever.

https://is.gd/xc4jLj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 27, 2024 01:38 PM (L/fGl)

318 And Harris may yet get to the Oval Office before Trump does

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:38 PM (fwDg9)

319 Harris won't pick someone who will overshadow her.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2024 01:22 PM (9Lk6I)
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How about a cardboard cutout?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2024 01:39 PM (YqDXo)

320
Their failure to grasp this is incomprehensible to me.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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It's really quite simple, I think. They are driven by a socio-political idealogy, not by a concern for the well-being of America. Their psyches are so damaged that anything that is counter to that idealogy literally does not make it past their eyes or ears. They are incapable of rational thought processes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2024 01:42 PM (XeU6L)

321 243
https://bestlagos.ng/snoop-dogg-baphomet-necklace-olympics/

Posted by: Marybel Smiles at July 27, 2024 01:45 PM (b2Tnl)

322 My DIL is helping at the local Dem campaign office and they are sending out letters to Female Repub. . voters saying Trump wants to take away birth control and end in- vitro She posted it on Facebook..
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Issues:

Illegal immigration
Inflation
Corruption
Perversion
The Cooch

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2024 01:49 PM (YqDXo)

323 It's really quite simple, I think. They are driven by a socio-political ideology, not by a concern for the well-being of America. Their psyches are so damaged that anything that is counter to that ideology literally does not make it past their eyes or ears. They are incapable of rational thought processes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2024 01:42 PM (XeU6L)
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Insert 19th Amendment rant here.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 27, 2024 01:51 PM (YqDXo)

324 I read the newer version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem

Posted by: Marooned at July 27, 2024 01:54 PM (kt8QE)

325 The Figen clip is really fun. I don't know anything about music, and I enjoyed that a lot.

Posted by: m at July 27, 2024 01:55 PM (64Zez)

326 So Cultural Marxists women are sure all women care about killing off fetuses

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:57 PM (fwDg9)

327 It's about to get real, ya'll

@margommartin 28m
President @realDonaldTrump en route to the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, TN 🇺🇸

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 02:03 PM (IG4Id)

328 Harris doesn't have to win AZ and GA.

She could lose both and go over 270.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 02:08 PM (bILdU)

329 We are commanded to be in the world but not of it. We cannot participate in sin.
Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 01:35 PM (iqZsv)

Why do you still live in the United States then if you believe the Christian athletes should quit the Olympics now because of a decision the governing body made?

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 02:11 PM (pFQ77)

330 Why do you still live in the United States then if you believe the Christian athletes should quit the Olympics now because of a decision the governing body made?
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 02:11 PM (pFQ77)

I believe that is a false premise. You do not choose what country you are born to live in. You do choose to go to a certain event.

Whether or not that makes you known for the company you keep is up to G-d.

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 27, 2024 02:16 PM (89Sog)

331 Readers added context they thought people might want to know

This sculpture of a bull (not a calf) and a deer by Paul Jouve, made in the 1930s, has always been located there near the Trocadero fountains. The scene for the Olympics opening ceremony was simply built around it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

So it's not just blasphemy, it's recycled blasphemy? How apropos.

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 02:16 PM (DgGvY)

332 Posted by: Outside of Life at July 27, 2024 02:16 PM (89Sog

You're not forced to stay in the US.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 02:20 PM (pFQ77)

333 You are correct. Neither are you forced to keep company with satanists. Unless I miss something?

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 27, 2024 02:24 PM (89Sog)

334 I was listening to Poso on Tucker and he said something that is pretty profound.

"The point of a system is what the system does"

That's been kind of a mantra for a while now. It neatly disconnects the actual outcome of what the Left does from their pious claims of why they're doing it.
Posted by: Ian S.

The mantra form, coined by Stafford Beer, is "the Purpose of a system is what it does."

https://is.gd/1zmk96 (wiki)

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 02:24 PM (DgGvY)

335 Cannibal Bob is a hipster!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Is that what you call cannibals who prefer rump roast?

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 02:30 PM (DgGvY)

336 >>> 251 The most off-the-wall Snoop Dogg factoid; his enduring friendship with Martha Stewart.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

Martha 'convicted felon whose crime was lying to the 302 Form Eff.Bee.EYE'(but not insider trading, they couldn't make that stick) Stewart? That Martha Stewart?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2024 02:30 PM (FnneF)

337 Cannibal Bob is a hipster!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Is that what you call cannibals who prefer rump roast?
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 02:30 PM

*groan*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2024 02:31 PM (3crvx)

338 Hezbollah attack on Golan Heights kills 10 Israeli teenagers playing soccer.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 02:32 PM (bILdU)

339 Shits about to become real real.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 02:33 PM (pFQ77)

340 Did Snoop ever take down the Red Baron?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 02:34 PM (63Dwl)

341 Who is watching the sporting events?
Wait. There's sporting events?

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 02:53 PM (AWrpC)

342 338 Hezbollah attack on Golan Heights kills 10 Israeli teenagers playing soccer.
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 02:32 PM (bILdU)

Not good

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 02:56 PM (IyPmt)

343 For me the most insane thing of THIS week was the oppo yapping victoriously about thinking they had proof Trump's ear wasn't hit by a bullet, but by a fragment of teleprompter hit by a bullet. Why would that matter in the slightest to anyone?

Posted by: azjaeger at July 27, 2024 03:00 PM (3/XaG)

344 Took my family on a Europe vacation - mostly to see Omaha Beach, Normandy, Palace of Versailles, so went Paris-Bayeux-Oxford-London. Reversed order of my original plan, but got Paris done first with the Olympics prep. I'll say, been my 2nd time to Paris, and didn't get that bad of a vibe. I know enough French to be polite, and treated in kind by the French. Was much more annoyed with the nanny state vibe all over London. But nothing terribly negative stood out to me in Paris (around 18-20 Jun), other than some bridge closures already due to the Olympics, except one thing - we couldn't see Saint Chapelle due to a national strike.

Posted by: MD_Mike at July 27, 2024 03:07 PM (BouEL)

345 Readers added context they thought people might want to know

This sculpture of a bull (not a calf) and a deer by Paul Jouve, made in the 1930s, has always been located there near the Trocadero fountains. The scene for the Olympics opening ceremony was simply built around it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I did not even see that part though it would not shock me if it were historical blasphemy. What I saw was the here and now blasphemy.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 03:09 PM (iqZsv)

346 310 https://tinyurl.com/3xj7j764

Druze village...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 01:32 PM (JvZF+)

Rebecca Bar Sef commentary:

https://tinyurl.com/3xj7j764

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 27, 2024 03:12 PM (d8zPm)

347 338 Hezbollah attack on Golan Heights kills 10 Israeli teenagers playing soccer.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 02:32 PM (bILdU)

ARAB Children (see link above).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 27, 2024 03:14 PM (d8zPm)

348
ARAB Children (see link above).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 27, 2024 03:14 PM (d8zPm)

They do not consider themselves Muslim but a distinct Religion and are recognized as such by Israel

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 03:28 PM (IyPmt)

349 PETS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 03:32 PM (fwDg9)

350 It matters a bit getting hit by debris or actually hit by a bullet

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 03:34 PM (fwDg9)

351 They do not consider themselves Muslim but a distinct Religion and are recognized as such by Israel

Posted by: It's me donna at July 27, 2024 03:28 PM (IyPmt)

Yes but notice I said "ARAB", which is correct, viz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 27, 2024 03:47 PM (d8zPm)

352 Trump speaking at Bitcoin conference in Nashville. Just started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3La9zQOuA

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 04:01 PM (LyNt9)

353 352 Trump speaking at Bitcoin
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 04:01 PM (LyNt9)

Thanks.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 27, 2024 04:04 PM (d8zPm)

354 Jesus did not participate in the sin of the sinners he associated with. Indeed, the whole point was theybturn away from their sin because of him.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (iqZsv)

Nor did any athletes participate in the sacrilege.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 04:05 PM (/nCD+)

355 Read the Yeats poem in the voice of Geddy Lee.

Posted by: RokShox at July 27, 2024 04:35 PM (2ztDM)

356 I think I'm just going to put down the worry beads.

Harris polling average is the same nationally and only up 1 in PA and AZ and 2 in GA as Biden's as of last week..Trump still leads in every battleground, including over 51% in AZ.

This is the Biden polling average AFTER the debate and after the assassination attempt.

So switching out the candidate has left them worse off than if they had simply refused to debate and did nothing.

*golf clap* well done.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 05:04 PM (5p7BC)

357 Anyone who lives in a country like ours understands the Years poem.

Just waiting for the rough beast over here, boss!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 05:05 PM (0FoWg)

358 Also, if you study Yeats, you find out about "the gyre." It's his weird metaphysical concept of time and history, with two interlocking spirals, kind of like a strand of DNA, but in opposition, so one grows wider as the other grows narrower. It's very odd and mystical and Irish.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 05:11 PM (0FoWg)

359 328 Harris doesn't have to win AZ and GA.

She could lose both and go over 270.
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I've double checked this a couple times. If Harris gives up on WI and MI, they are at 226

AZ gets them to 237
GA gets them to 253
PA gets them to 272

They can't lose any of them.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 05:35 PM (5p7BC)

360 354 Jesus did not participate in the sin of the sinners he associated with. Indeed, the whole point was theybturn away from their sin because of him.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 12:56 PM (iqZsv)

Nor did any athletes participate in the sacrilege.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at July 27, 2024 04:05 PM (/nCD+)

I think they will be if they participate in IOC events.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 05:55 PM (iqZsv)

361 Hezbollah bombs a soccer field in Northern Israel killing 9 children and injuring 36 more.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2024 05:58 PM (5MvGY)

362 Saw that Ben Had.

Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah "will pay a heavy price for this attack, one that it has not paid so far."

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 06:02 PM (LyNt9)

363 Hit post too soon.

"There is no doubt that Hezbollah has crossed all the red lines here, and the response will reflect that," Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israeli Channel 12. "We are nearing the moment in which we face an all-out war."

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 06:03 PM (LyNt9)

364 olddog, unfortunately there are those in the military echelon that are still in proportional response mode. Hamas has already rejected the latest proposals before they have even seen them.
Iran is pushing hard as it can before our elections.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2024 06:09 PM (5MvGY)

365 I just got a 24 hour ban for commenting at YouTube on account of "hate speech". How do I find out what they are actually reacting to?

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 07:11 PM (iqZsv)

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