Socialist Dictator Nicolas Maduro Triumphantly Re-Elected In Venezuela In What the Media Is Calling the Freest and Fairest Elections In All of Human History!

Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro was declared the "winner" of the presidential election by the nation's election council on Monday morning. That came after exit polls showed him losing by as much as 30 points. Reports of Maduro's armed thugs closing down polling sites and stealing ballot boxes were prevalent throughout the process, all but confirming that the election was indeed stolen.
What happens next is clear. Maduro will strengthen his grip on power instead of stepping down peacefully. As the saying goes, you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
While this outcome was apparent to anyone with any common sense, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden had different ideas. While the press will no doubt bury the story, the current administration was at the center of this fraudulent election, having handed Maduro sanctions relief in exchange for "free and fair elections."
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It belabors belief that anyone could believe that giving Maduro millions of dollars worth of sanctions relief would lead to him stepping down voluntarily. It's the kind of moronic foreign policy we've seen over and over during the Obama-Biden-Harris years. Obama and Biden did it with Iran while Biden and Harris did it with Venezuela, Russia, and Iran. No lessons are ever learned because these aren't simple mistakes. They are purposeful maneuvers by people with crippling hubris, truly thinking they are smarter than everyone else.

Nonsense! There's not a scrap of evidence to support this Dangerous Conspiracy Theory that sometimes corrupt people stuff ballot boxes to steal elections! You're endangering our precious democracy to even mention such a possibility!

And yet, even Election Perfection Certifier organization CNN says questions are lingering about Maduro's big win.

Criticism is mounting against Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro after deadly protests erupted across the country following its disputed presidential election.
Venezuela's opposition and multiple Latin American leaders have refused to recognize Maduro's victory in the July 28 vote, which was announced by the country's electoral authority - a body stacked with the president's allies.

At least 11 people have been killed in the protests, according to non-governmental organization Foro Penal, and Venezuelan authorities say nearly 750 people have been arrested.
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Meanwhile, an important opposition figure was allegedly kidnapped, according to his supporters, while the country's army, which has long backed Maduro, reaffirmed its support for the strongman.
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Though Maduro had promised free and fair elections, the process was marred with allegations of foul play -- with opposition figures arrested, their key leader banned from running, opposition witnesses allegedly denied access to the centralized vote count, and overseas Venezuelans largely unable to vote.

WHAT, CNN?!! YOU PROMISED US THIS NEVER HAPPENS!!!

The G7 is skeptical.

Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers approved a declaration on Wednesday voicing solidarity with the Venezuelan people and concern about the announced election results, which sparked protests across the South American nation.
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G7 foreign ministers called on "Venezuelan representatives to publish detailed election results in full transparency" and asked "to immediately share all information with the opposition and independent observers," a statement seen by Reuters said.
"We call for maximum restraint and for a peaceful, democratic and Venezuelan-led solution," it added.

Even Maduro's ally, the president of Colombia, is calling for the full release of election records. There's a reason Maduro is refusing, of course.

Pressure kept building against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday, when his close ally Colombian President Gustavo Petro, joined other foreign leaders in urging him to release detailed vote counts from the recent presidential election after electoral authorities declared him the winner.
Petro's comments come as the National Electoral Council, which is loyal to the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, has yet to release any printed results from polling centers as it did in past elections. A day earlier, another of Maduro's allies, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, along with U.S. President Joe Biden called for the "immediate release of full, transparent, and detailed voting data at the polling station level."
The rebukes follow the stunning announcement Monday of Maduro's main challenger, Edmundo González, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, that they had secured more than two-thirds of the tally sheets that each electronic voting machine printed after polls closed on Sunday. They said the release of the data on those tallies would prove Maduro lost the election.

But I don't understand -- all elections are The Cleanest Elections in History.

Aren't they?

Senator Rick Scott has called upon "president" (LOL) Biden to recognize the opposition leader Gonzalez as the true winner of the election.

Good luck with that. For reasons I'm not allowed to mention online, Biden is not keen to have anyone investigate an election's integrity.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is calling on the Biden-Harris administration to recognize Edmundo González as the "legitimate president-elect of Venezuela" after his conversation with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
According to Scott's office, since the election in Venezuela took place, the senator contacted the White House "repeatedly to schedule a call with President Biden."
The Organization of American States (OAS) is scheduled to hold a meeting on Wednesday on the results of the Venezuelan presidential election.
"At tomorrow's OAS special meeting to address the results of the Venezuelan presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration must do the right thing and join other freedom-loving countries in recognizing Edmundo González as the legitimate President-elect of Venezuela," Scott said in a statement after his conversation with Machado.
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"Since the Biden-Harris failed deal with dictator Nicolas Maduro, the regime has grown in strength and our Western Hemisphere has become more dangerous. U.S. adversaries like Russia, China, Cuba, and Iran are active in Venezuela at the dictator's invitation," he added.
Scott argued that Maduro's "massive fraud is a clear result of the Biden-Harris failed appeasement that has emboldened Maduro, who has just issued an arrest warrant for María Corina Machado, Edmundo González, and other opposition leaders."

A commenter linked this story claiming that Maduro had been forced to flee the presidential palace, but I'm not seeing that repeated in any of these other stories, so maybe an erroneous report.

Meanwhile, Venezeula is sending many eager young aspirants to the American Crime Industry, and they bring with them a Diversity of opinions on whether or not American policemen should be murdered.

Members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been given the "green light" to attack and open fire on cops in Denver, a federal memo obtained by The Post reveals.
The gang is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops who were trying to arrest one of its members in June.
"Credible human sources from Colorado provided information on TdA [Tren de Aragua] giving a 'green light' to fire on or attack law enforcement," said the memo, from the Homeland Security Investigations office in Chicago.
"As you may know, we have a TdA presence here in Chicago, so please be vigilant as you encounter TdA members or affiliates during your investigative and operational activities."
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The warning comes as Denver has gotten 42,000 migrants -- more per capita than any other US city -- and many of them are from Venezuela.
The prison gang, whose name means "The Aragua Train" -- a reference to the Aragua region in Venezuela -- has infiltrated the US by sending members posing as asylum seekers across the southern border.
From there, its members have flocked to major US cities including New York, Chicago, Miami and Denver, where they engage in money laundering, gun smuggling, theft and human trafficking, according to reports.

A diversity of young girls imprisoned into sexual slavery is our strength.

Right now, "it's far too easy for criminals to enter the US," a Border Patrol source told The Post.
"We have zero access to other nations' criminal databases and with this administration's uselessness in deterring these criminals, they will keep entering undetected," said the source.
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Earlier this month, the Biden administration designated the gang as a transnational criminal organization and began offering a $12 million reward for the arrests of its leaders.

But let's keep those borders wide-open! As you all know, this rich tapestry of diversity is our strength.

I love when Community Notes teaches journalism-ing to journalists. pic.twitter.com/AuQhzRF1fC
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) July 31, 2024

Hugo Ch�vez's statue was just torn down in Venezuela. The people are rising up.pic.twitter.com/GvzyVUne9M
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 29, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:42 PM

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1 Can't happen here.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2024 03:43 PM (vFG9F)

2 First?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 31, 2024 03:43 PM (2Bo6I)

3 First. Will call others.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 31, 2024 03:43 PM (4780s)

4 Drat. I'll summon the others.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 31, 2024 03:44 PM (2Bo6I)

5 A hole -in -one!
18 times!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 03:44 PM (JfTEZ)

6 Comparison graphs -- USA and Ven. votes
https://tinyurl.com/79e47679

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:44 PM (i0CiB)

7 I thought Maduro is on the run?

Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 03:44 PM (ZtyUu)

8 Ah the old Venezuelan Election Council Gambit… works every time.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 03:45 PM (PCK5/)

9 There was a water leak at a polling station in Caracas. Burst pipe, you know.

Posted by: brak at July 31, 2024 03:45 PM (NGHTx)

10 Then again, he is also on twitter picking a fight with Elon Musk for some asinine reason.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 03:45 PM (ZtyUu)

11 Over cook fish, jail. Undercook chicken, straight to jail. Vote wrong in an election, believe it or not, jail.

Posted by: Flyguy at July 31, 2024 03:45 PM (HA1lM)

12 Parallels, parallels...

Posted by: InZona at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (b626B)

13 After the Junta stole the 2020 election here they also stole the election in Brazil. Why the hell should Maduro feel he can't steal an election as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (oZhjI)

14 Coming to America. (Actually, it's already here.)

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (tf4XU)

15 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Who was the actor who said people criticizing the Venezuelan government should be jailed?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (csKOD)

17 Be nice if he didn't get away with it this time

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (IyPmt)

18 I'm really going to reserve comment on this until I hear what Jimmy Carter has to say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Because Elon immediately called the election fraudulent, immediately, not weeks later.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 31, 2024 03:47 PM (MeG8a)

20 Who was the actor who said people criticizing the Venezuelan government should be jailed?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Sean Penn?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 03:47 PM (v6JzV)

21 Reports of Maduro's armed thugs closing down polling sites and stealing ballot boxes were prevalent throughout the process, all but confirming that the election was indeed stolen.

you misspelled "fortified", h8r

Posted by: people's liberation front of venezuela at July 31, 2024 03:47 PM (oY6Yp)

22 Ace: It belabors belief that anyone could believe that giving Maduro millions of dollars worth of sanctions relief would lead to him stepping down voluntarily.

******

The sanctions relief wasn't to get him to step down voluntarily. It was to allow the sales and purchase of Venezuelan crude oil in order to help lower the price of American gasoline.

The same a draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The "free elections thing" was just cloak this in some high minded rhetoric so it wouldn't stink so badly.

Posted by: EFG at July 31, 2024 03:48 PM (pQ2gM)

23 The military is still behind him for now, as are a bunch of mercs who don’t give a shit about killing citizens. But it would be nice to see another Gaddafi moment.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2024 03:48 PM (7TdnZ)

24 Hugo Chávez's statue was just torn down in Venezuela. The people are rising up.
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Billionaires are not fondly remembered, I guess.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 03:48 PM (krQz2)

25 I miss Chavez the Hugo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

26 I just can't keep from wondering when SloJo and Ho will call for free and fair elections in Ukraine?
Zelenski cancelled them for this year and is in power by force. Seems a little dictatorial to me.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (RkoKz)

27 Too late for the last thread but an eel your intestine that's a moray.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (csKOD)

28 That should be "billionaire socialist Hugo Chavez".

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (krQz2)

29
Venezuelans: kill your Communists. Sat Cong.

Venezuelans in Denver: keep the fucking place. See if I give a shit. SPOILER ALERT: I don't.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (0FoWg)

30
Quick! Roust Jimmuh Carter's old ass out of his coma so he can go to Venezuela to adjudicate how free and open the election was!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (Q5LuK)

31 There's not a scrap of evidence to support this Dangerous Conspiracy Theory
......

so it's true.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

32 How can they know one way or the other? Does it not take 5 weeks to count ballots?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (7PziG)

33 While this outcome was apparent to anyone with any common sense, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden had different ideas. While the press will no doubt bury the story, the current administration was at the center of this fraudulent election, having handed Maduro sanctions relief in exchange for "free and fair elections."
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This sounds a lot like a root cause. Someone should tell Kamal-a.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (FmapG)

34 "Kamala was never the 'border czar.' Her job was to work on corruption and criminality in Latin American countries to reduce the motivation for going to the United States in the first place."

If that is true, then this is her moment to shine.

Why hasn't Kamala endorsed Edmundo González as the winner in Venezuela? Seems like that would be a good way to reduce corruption and criminality in Latin America.

Posted by: Half Dozen at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (ppfCG)

35

Sean Penn?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 03:47 PM (v6JzV)

I was thinking Danny Glover, but meh. No difference.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

36 “Socialism failing to work as it always does, this time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something for free and all of the sudden there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello!”

anyway, 0 and 2

Posted by: Vin Scully at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (NGHTx)

37 Nicolas Maduro? I love this guy!!

Posted by: Barack Obama, yes I am at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (vcOmj)

38 R A W S G L O B A L @RawsGlobal
🚨#WATCH: As a third statue of Hugo Chavez has been knocked down by protesters in Venezuela, this time in Plaza Bolivar, La Guaira, as protests and riots continue in the country after Maduro was declared the winner of Sunday's presidential election.

🚨#WATCH: As another Hugo Chavez statue was knocked down by protesters in Venezuela, this one in Calabozo, Guárico

🚨#WATCH: As protesters knock down a fourth statue of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, this time in Mariara, Carabobo state, amid ongoing protests and riots.
https://tinyurl.com/54r3k3p2
29 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (i0CiB)

39 Hopefully they overthrow Maduro.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (eYoxG)

40 Merry Christmas, Nicolas!

Posted by: Zombie Elena Ceausescu at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (vtRd1)

41 1 Can't happen here.
Posted by: fd at July 31, 2024 03:43 PM (vFG9F)
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Hugo Chavez's statue was just torn down in Venezuela. The people are rising up.
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Unfortunately, the latter cannot.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (1bNHn)

42 I loved it when King Juan Carlos of Spain said to Chavez at some summit, "When are you going to shut up?" (or something like that).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (v6JzV)

43 Kamala will send him flowers for the victory

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (fwDg9)

44 A nationwide strike might work, if any of the Venezuelans had jobs.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (aD39U)

45 I am waiting for all of those military aged Venezuelan males to return and fight for their country's freedom.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (d9LQi)

46 🚨#WATCH: As protesters knock down a fourth statue of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, this time in Mariara, Carabobo state, amid ongoing protests and riots.
https://tinyurl.com/54r3k3p2
29 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (i0CiB)

Now imagine if the Citizenry was armed

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (IyPmt)

47 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (M7/c0)

48 Harris/Maduro 2024!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (BcMd9)

49 Maduro challenged Musk to a fight, and Musk accepted. Gonna be lit.

Posted by: Just the steak, thanks. at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (HOzhd)

50 Why hasn't Kamala endorsed Edmundo González as the winner in Venezuela? Seems like that would be a good way to reduce corruption and criminality in Latin America.
Posted by: Half Dozen

Nicolas Maduro? I love this guy!!

Posted by: Kamala Harris, Veep!!! and a POC at July 31, 2024 03:51 PM (vcOmj)

51 Chavez the Hugo was a hero of profanity. We had different styles, but I recognize a fellow connoisseur when I see one. Also, he faced death like a stoic. A Real Man.

RIP.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (0FoWg)

52 Is there really anybody left in Venezuela?

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

53 30
Quick! Roust Jimmuh Carter's old ass out of his coma so he can go to Venezuela to adjudicate how free and open the election was!
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He got Chavez in. He also sold the Panama Canal for $1 to Panamanians. Pretty sure those Panamanians have nice digs in Manhattan and a lot of money coming in year after year.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (FmapG)

54 39 Hopefully they overthrow Maduro.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 31, 2024 03:50 PM (eYoxG)

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What's most important is maintaining norms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

55 They were so lucky they had a socialist ruler who stole them blind while they starved.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (krQz2)

56 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse

That's what SHE said!!

Posted by: Michael Scott! at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (vcOmj)

57 Is there really anybody left in Venezuela?

they voted remotely from the parking lot of your local Home Depot

Posted by: brak at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (NGHTx)

58 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse

That's what SHE said!!
Posted by: Michael Scott! at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (vcOmj)

RANDOLPH SCOTT!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

59 "Hey Pop!!! Who are we scamming down there in Venezuela these days? I forget!"

"Hehhh? What's a Venzewhatsa? Where's that fucking dog, i want to kick it..."

"... and i gotta give 10% to this piece of sh--"

"HEHHHH?!?"

"Nothing Pop, go back to watching your Stories!"

*drools and snores*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (BAEGB)

60 I guess they ran out of zoo animals to roast...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (MeG8a)

61 Have another empanada, Senor Maduro.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

62 Great Scott!!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (aD39U)

63 Coconut Harris tweet on this was insufferably retarded

Complete inability to read the room, tone deaf and incoherent

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (DBZuM)

64 62 Great Scott!!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 03:53 PM (aD39U)

Tosses toilet paper roll

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (IyPmt)

65 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse

That's what SHE said!!
Posted by: Michael Scott! at July 31, 2024 03:52 PM (vcOmj)

RANDOLPH SCOTT!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Randolph Scott! (hands over hearts)

Posted by: All the Johnsons of Rock Ridge at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (vcOmj)

66 Is there really anybody left in Venezuela?

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Did somebody leave the light on?!

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (krQz2)

67
Tosses toilet paper roll
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (IyPmt)

Are you at a Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

68 Even Maduro's ally, the president of Colombia, is calling for the full release of election records. There's a reason Maduro is refusing, of course.

Oh, ballots? Since he was declared the winner, we destroyed all of them.

Sound familiar?

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (Mp4VO)

69 So will Maduro invade Guyana?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (FmapG)

70 I can take care of Maduro.

Posted by: George C. Scott at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (HOzhd)

71 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse
*
That's what SHE said!!
Posted by: Michael Scott! at July 31, 2024
*
RANDOLPH SCOTT!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024

***
GREAT SCOTT!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (J2vNu)

72
Are you at a Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

No, but I've been to one

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (IyPmt)

73 Great Scott!!
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

"Take that effing Oscar and shove it up your ass!"
-- George C. Scott

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (v6JzV)

74 Chavez was cunning. Maduro is dumber than AOC without the charm and with smaller boobs. He is someone's puppet.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (9IMJI)

75 You know who else was never elected?

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (MNJ3i)

76 Trump was right, Venezuela's not sending their best.

Posted by: pookysgirl, getting kneed and elbowed by Lil Pooky at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (GqUSd)

77
No, but I've been to one
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (IyPmt)

I did as well....once.

Dat shit cray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

78 Calm down everyone. Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters assures us that Maduro is a fine, upstanding fellow and he should be allowed to investigate these shocking allegations of election irregularity!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (PWI4f)

79
Kamala Harris: Just another San Francisco socialist [cackle]

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (rj6Yv)

80 BREAKING: FOX has called Arizona for Maduro!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (iZbyp)

81 I did as well....once.

Dat shit cray.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes it was

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (IyPmt)

82 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper Jul 29
BREAKING - Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro calls Elon Musk his "arch-enemy" and accuses him of planning to invade Venezuela with rockets.
https://tinyurl.com/fy76karj
2:17 minutes; no translation

But from an Ace of Spades commenter:
A quick translation is that Maduro sees social media and smart phones to be virtual radios, coordinating the protests, and because of that he calls Elon Musk their new arch-enemy, because he is trying to force the same Fascism in Argentina and Ecuador on Venezuela, with his economic power backing the fascistic ideology.
He finishes off that they are using social media to blame him and for their failure to win an election and he won't have it, and states we are waiting for you elon Musk, if you mess with me, or Venezuela will will take you. We have no fear
[insert Nelson Muntz "hahah"]
Posted by: Kindltot

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
JUST IN - Elon Musk on fight with Maduro:
'If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela.
If he wins, I give him a free ride to Mars.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (i0CiB)

83 49 Maduro challenged Musk to a fight, and Musk accepted. Gonna be lit.

not certain it's a good idea to pick a fight with a fellow that has a personal fleet of icbms.

Posted by: anachronda at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (oY6Yp)

84 I saw Belabors Belief open for Blind Faith at The Spectrum in '69.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (BcMd9)

85 Wow. Just read the Naomi Wolf essay. She basically stated there is no way in hell the assassination went off without government involvement. I would say her evolution was complete.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (pohLc)

86 Maduro has proved that a humble truck driver can run a prosperous nation into the dirt just as well as any Harvard-trained politician.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (vtRd1)

87 Damn. What kind of weirdo goes around stuffing eels up his ass?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That IS weird. Must be a MAGA Republican!

Posted by: Gaslighting media, now 100% astroturf free! at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (JCZqz)

88 Calm down everyone. Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters assures us that Maduro is a fine, upstanding fellow and he should be allowed to investigate these shocking allegations of election irregularity!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at July 31, 2024 03:55 PM (PWI4f)

And Billy Joe F*cktard from Green Day held up the severed head of Trump at a concert and tossed it into the crowd.

We should really listen to people in the music industry. They really have the smarts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

89 "I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone;
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes like a colostomy . . .

"Dust in the wind;
All they are is dust in the wind. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (J2vNu)

90 WTFF???

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BREAKING: Feds arrest ex-US Green Beret in connection to failed 2020 raid of Venezuela to remove Maduro - AP

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (i0CiB)

91 >>>47 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.

whoops!

Thank you.

Posted by: ace at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (KRtlO)

92 Wow. Just read the Naomi Wolf essay. She basically stated there is no way in hell the assassination went off without government involvement. I would say her evolution was complete.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (pohLc)
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There have been clear signs of that for a while.

But, yeah.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (krQz2)

93
Caracas Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (eDfFs)

94 Lawyer up...

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Senior students at
@KHSIndianNation
have a tradition of painting murals in their school parking spots.

2 students painted pro-Trump murals and were forced by the school to repaint them because they were "inappropriate."

This exact situation happened previously and the school was sued and lost. They reportedly have no rules against politically themed murals.

Why is a photo of Trump and the number 47 inappropriate
@KHSIndianNation

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (TGPs7)

95 Someone had a great response to one of the hacks calling the election a fraud and saying they saw proof the opposition candidate won. (which obviously it is, but still funny) they asked "how did it take us weeks to count votes in America, but the CIA counted all the votes in Venezuela in just hours?"

Posted by: Rbastid at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (3az/n)

96 47 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.

whoops!

Thank you.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (KRtlO)

Meh. They all look alike. It's fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

97 You know who else was never elected?
Posted by: ...

Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler WAS elected as Chancellor of Germany. Then he stopped further elections. Kind of...quit when you're ahead.
I think that guy was a NAZI. Well, NASDP party in Germany back in the 1930's. Kind of a bad guy.

Whatever happened to him?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (vcOmj)

98 Here's hoping the purging fires of liberty spread across South America... and then Central America.

And then...

Posted by: Shenanigans at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (pZ0Mr)

99 He finishes off that they are using social media to blame him and for their failure to win an election and he won't have it, and states we are waiting for you elon Musk, if you mess with me, or Venezuela will will take you.
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Does Maduro know Elon has space ships with lasers?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (FmapG)

100 BREAKING: FOX has called Arizona for Maduro!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 31, 2024 03:56 PM (iZbyp)

Nice.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (MNJ3i)

101 Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler WAS elected as Chancellor of Germany. Then he stopped further elections. Kind of...quit when you're ahead.
I think that guy was a NAZI. Well, NASDP party in Germany back in the 1930's. Kind of a bad guy.

Whatever happened to him?
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He retired to Argentina.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (FmapG)

102 Caracas Harris?

Don't cry for me Venezuela...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (vtRd1)

103 96 47 Rick Scott and Tim Scott are different dudes.

whoops!

Thank you.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2024 03:57 PM (KRtlO)

Meh. They all look alike. It's fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024

One of them is more "tan"

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (IyPmt)

104 In some ways Venezuela is four years behind us.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (cOq4q)

105 You know who else was never elected?
Posted by: ...

Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler WAS elected as Chancellor of Germany. .

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (vcOmj)
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Oh, I meant Biden.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (MNJ3i)

106 I'd enjoy clowning on Venezuela a lot more if our elections didn't have so much in common with theirs.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (LkLld)

107 46 Now imagine if the Citizenry was armed

*sobs wistfully*

Posted by: michelle fields at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (oY6Yp)

108 Here's hoping the purging fires of liberty spread across South America... and then Central America.

And then...
Posted by: Shenanigans

Simon Bolivar is still dead.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (vcOmj)

109 Just wondering - are any of our Democrat Congresscritters asking Biden to recognize Machado? Or is our banana republic content to let their banana republic go unchallenged?

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (ENJDE)

110 Regarding the guy who had an eel and a lemon in his rectum:

When he says "Love is love!"
And gives it a shove

That's a moray!

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (uCfKO)

111 By law, they have to wait for all the mail in ballots, collection boxes, Minnesota Ford Fiesta trunks, hanging chads, and instructions from Jim Clyburn before they can declare a winner. Optional under Venezuelan law is the covering of all windows through which the counting of ballots can be observed.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (7PziG)

112 7 million Venezuelans have come here as refugees.

where do we go?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (s3qiR)

113 #82 Update:
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
NEW: Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro challenges @elonmusk to fight on national television - NY Post

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
BREAKING - Elon Musk has accepted the challenge from Venezuela's Maduro to a fight on national TV: 'he will chicken out'

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (i0CiB)

114 104 In some ways Venezuela is four years behind us.
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You mean they are twenty years ahead of us, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (FmapG)

115 I believe Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, as a result of the Nazis having done so well in the '32 elections. He came to power as a result of elections, but he was not himself elected.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)

116 Be nice if he didn't get away with it this time
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 03:46 PM (IyPmt)
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Be even nicer if TPTB don't get away with it again here either.

Posted by: But it's not looking too good... at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (TNr5t)

117 On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. This marked a significant turning point in German history, as Hitler's Nazi Party had gained popularity amidst economic turmoil and political instability.

The Weimar Republic, established after World War I, was struggling to maintain stability. The Great Depression had ravaged the German economy, and extremist parties, including the Nazi Party, were gaining support. In the 1932 elections, the Nazi Party became the largest party in the Reichstag, with 230 seats and 37.3% of the vote.

Despite losing the 1932 presidential election to Hindenburg, Hitler's popularity had grown, and conservative elites, including former Chancellor Franz von Papen, convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor. This decision was influenced by the political stalemate and the need for a strong leader to stabilize the country. You may now continue.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (aD39U)

118 opposition figures arrested, their key leader banned from running
__________________

So they've been paying attention to American politics.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

119
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary warns that America will turn into Canada if Kamala Harris is elected, says some of his Democrat donor friends are having "buyer's remorse."

O'Leary warned about what could happen when someone with no skills gets into power.

"I ask everybody to look north to Canada. When a young Justin Trudeau swept in, nobody cared about his executional skills or what he'd ever done or anything."

"They just thought he was the it guy. Look at the country now it's, it's wiped out it because it turns out the guy had no executional skills."

"It would be important to leave aside the politics and ask what has Kamala Harris actually done, actually achieved?"

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (TGPs7)

120 Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler WAS elected as Chancellor of Germany. Then he stopped further elections. Kind of...quit when you're ahead.
I think that guy was a NAZI. Well, NASDP party in Germany back in the 1930's. Kind of a bad guy.

Whatever happened to him?
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024

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I thought Hindenburg, the president, appointed AH as chancellor -- that he was not elected by the people.

Oh, he got depressed at some reverses and shot himself, I heard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (J2vNu)

121 Are you at a Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

122 Bad Blue the other night had a selfie while counting votes for Maduro in the background, except every computer screen you can see shows him no better than in the 40% on pie charts

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

123 BREAKING - Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro calls Elon Musk his "arch-enemy" and accuses him of planning to invade Venezuela with rockets.
......

I think Elon's plan is to invade with tricycles and pool floaties.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

124 Surprisingly enough, Adolf Hitler WAS elected as Chancellor of Germany. Then he stopped further elections. Kind of...quit when you're ahead.
I think that guy was a NAZI. Well, NASDP party in Germany back in the 1930's. Kind of a bad guy.

Whatever happened to him?
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 03:58 PM (vcOmj)

That's Socialism. One man, One Vote, Once.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (n7h9X)

125 >>Meanwhile, Venezeula is sending many eager young aspirants to the American Crime Industry, and they bring with them a Diversity of opinions on whether or not American policemen should be murdered.

Understand and accept that the violence is necessary to convince the US public to submit to tyranny. If things on the street are bad enough, we will all demand CBDC, 24 hr. monitoring, restrictions on what we can purchase. ... If it gets bad enough, we will demand the CCCP take over control.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (Y2oVv)

126 I believe Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, as a result of the Nazis having done so well in the '32 elections. He came to power as a result of elections, but he was not himself elected.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)
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He was elected president after chancellor, though. However, the Nazis had basically cleared the board of real competitors.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (krQz2)

127 I believe Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, as a result of the Nazis having done so well in the '32 elections. He came to power as a result of elections, but he was not himself elected.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)

Ja, ja, das ist recht, boobie!

Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (vtRd1)

128

Kamala Harris: Proving to the world that San Francisco's socialists can do to the United States what they've done to the City by the Bay.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (rj6Yv)

129 Naomi Wolf… an indicator that people actually can change, given the proper stimulus…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (PCK5/)

130 87 Damn. What kind of weirdo goes around stuffing eels up his ass?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That IS weird. Must be a MAGA Republican!

this is about jd vance, isn't it?

Posted by: anachronda at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (oY6Yp)

131 Just wondering - are any of our Democrat Congresscritters asking Biden to recognize Machado?
Posted by: bluebell

Why would Biden or any of our Congresscritters care about the San Diego Padres' 3rd baseman? Batting .265 with 16 homers at the end of July is ok but nothing spectacular.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (KAi1n)

132 Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

I'm tempted to watch it

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (IyPmt)

133 Meh. They all look alike. It's fine.

They both shave their heads.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:03 PM (aD39U)

134 This just in: Venezuela is calling for free and fair elections in the U.S.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

135 That's Socialism. One man, One Vote, Once.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (n7h9X)
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That's the way 20th-century liberalism worked

for a party of 9.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:03 PM (krQz2)

136 Obama would pull the rug from under the Venezuelan opposition like he did the Iranians.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 31, 2024 04:03 PM (d9LQi)

137 Naomi Wolf… an indicator that people actually can change, given the proper stimulus…
Posted by: tubal

Dr. Wolf was born and raised in S.F.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

138 132 Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

I'm tempted to watch it
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (IyPmt)

Donna, donna, donna… have you learned nothing from Admiral Ackbar???

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

139 I'm just waiting for Kamala or some top Dem to blame the fraudulent elections on climate change. Or did it already happen and I missed it?

Posted by: Ripley at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (GUOwU)

140 128

Kamala Harris: Proving to the world that San Francisco's socialists can do to the United States what they've done to the City by the Bay.
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Stuffing eels up your ass is hard will to power.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (FmapG)

141 25 I miss Chavez the Hugo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 31, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wait, Chavez wrote prize-winning SciFi?

Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #28 at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (qfLjt)

142 Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

I'm tempted to watch it
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:02 PM (IyPmt)

You'll 50 or so IQ points just by watching it.

Perfect for the upcoming Harris administration.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (eDfFs)

143 137 Naomi Wolf… an indicator that people actually can change, given the proper stimulus…
Posted by: tubal

Dr. Wolf was born and raised in S.F.
Posted by: SFGoth at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

There you go…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

144 I believe Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, as a result of the Nazis having done so well in the '32 elections. He came to power as a result of elections, but he was not himself elected.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Despite losing the 1932 presidential election to Hindenburg, Hitler's popularity had grown, and conservative elites, including former Chancellor Franz von Papen, convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor. This decision was influenced by the political stalemate and the need for a strong leader to stabilize the country. You may now continue.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

True, true. His party, the NASDP, had gotten 41% of the popular vote in the 1932 elections, and by rights, he should have been appointed "Chancellor" in their parliamentary form of government, as his party had the most people in the Reichstag. Most of the German "elites" despised him, but everybody thought that they could "control" him, and the NASDP would be voted out in the next election.
Well, Adolf put a stop to that!

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (vcOmj)

145 I thought Hindenburg, the president, appointed AH as chancellor -- that he was not elected by the people.

Please don't let this balloon into a major dispute.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (vtRd1)

146 Stay strong Venezuela! Don't let Heritage overthrow the govt. Some here support yet another a US/Heritage coup on Venezuela. The US has a long and ugly record in it's dealing in the Latin Americas. This is yet another attempt to control the south as per the US's anti LatAm democracy Monroe Doctrine.

"Venezuela opposition leader Freddy Superlano has been detained, party says." Good! Insurrectionists should be arrested. I wish more were arrested sooner after J6

So any opposition to Maduro are insurrectionists? You have a funny idea of democracy

We've already been down that rabbit hole with your views on Cuba, which you seem to think is a shining Beacon of democracy while the rest of the world thinks is a police state

+1 Seriously, this is Democratic Underground, not Communist Underground.

Maduro is not a strong man or authoritarian leader. If he was, Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires would be supporting him. Instead Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires support Juan Guaido and his pretty young wife.

Blinken is questioning if Maduro actually won. Maduro lacks what Chavez had: massive charisma.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (JCZqz)

147 Donna, donna, donna… have you learned nothing from Admiral Ackbar???
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

Truly. What is once seen cannot be unseen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (aD39U)

148
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
·
Follow
Hugo Chávez's statue was just torn down in Venezuela. The people are rising up.
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They can try but the government and the paramilitary gangs that support Maduro are the only ones with effective weapons.
Rise up, get shot down. See Iran over the past 20 years for a glimpse at how it turns out.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (FCbAQ)

149 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
BREAKING - Elon Musk has accepted the challenge from Venezuela's Maduro to a fight on national TV: 'he will chicken out'

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (i0CiB)

What kind of fight are they talking about? street fighting?

Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (ZtyUu)

150 >>Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!

I'll wait until they offer to pay me to watch to still not watch it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (LkLld)

151 "Complete inability to read the room, tone deaf and incoherent"
__

And yet she's thisclose to becoming CinC of our military and her hand on the nuclear button.

Gives me the warm fuzzies.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (WLslr)

152 hmmm

"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Iran to attack Israel directly in response to the elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday, according to a New York Times report citing three Iranian sources. "

sleep well, dude...

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (V13WU)

153 147 Donna, donna, donna… have you learned nothing from Admiral Ackbar???
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

Truly. What is once seen cannot be unseen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (aD39U)

That bad ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (IyPmt)

154 Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

Couldn't watch it. No better than a teeny bop horror movie where all the participants are retards.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (pohLc)

155 it's me donna...Prometheus is a decent film. It certainly isn't a cinematic tour de force, but, it is entertaining.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (tT6L1)

156 146 +1 Seriously, this is Democratic Underground, not Communist Underground.

Maduro is not a strong man or authoritarian leader. If he was, Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires would be supporting him. Instead Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires support Juan Guaido and his pretty young wife.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (JCZqz)

=========

1. This dude is WAY behind the times.

2. This is where argument by authority gets you: spouting stupid, obviously wrong shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

157 I am goad Ella Emhof was safe and the incident was a whackadoodie who hated the police, not someone targeting her.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (p4NUW)

158 Did Prometheus kill Noomi Rapace’s career??

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

159 I believe Hitler was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, as a result of the Nazis having done so well in the '32 elections. He came to power as a result of elections, but he was not himself elected.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)
____________

Parliamentary system, just like the UK. Nobody voted for the chancellor in Weimar Germany, any more than anyone votes for the PM in Britain. The leader of the party with the greatest plurality of seats is invited to form a government, and becomes the PM.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

160 Maduro is not a strong man or authoritarian leader. If he was, Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires would be supporting him. Instead Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires support Juan Guaido and his pretty young wife.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (JCZqz)
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Stupid, stupid, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (krQz2)

161 Harris is a walking Cultural Marxist, she will not stop any illegals, will stop fuel production, spending will skyrocket
And you ain't seen anything about DIE she lives by

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (fwDg9)

162 Wow. Just read the Naomi Wolf essay. She basically stated there is no way in hell the assassination went off without government involvement. I would say her evolution was complete.

Posted by: Xipe Totec
......

I think Naomi should probably stay in various hotels for a while, paying cash only.
Or maybe take a nice vacation overseas somewhere.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

163 Well, Adolf put a stop to that!
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Spring time for Hitler and Germany,
Winter for Poland and France

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (FmapG)

164 What kind of fight are they talking about? street fighting?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (ZtyUu)

Kung fu fighting!

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (rj6Yv)

165 Or but Anita Dunn the Maoist advisor to the Biden , more likely an Obama plant , is leaving the White House. Rats, sinking ships, some disassembly required

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (4G1pm)

166 The difference the Socialist Party of Venezuela and the Democrat Party is the difference between a modern rat and the prehistoric megafaunal variety. They're the same things on vastly different scales.

But both need to be destroyed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (0FoWg)

167 Kung fu fighting!

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (rj6Yv)

Now I have that song playing in my head, on repeat.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 04:08 PM (ZtyUu)

168 1. This dude is WAY behind the times.

2. This is where argument by authority gets you: spouting stupid, obviously wrong shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Basically, a person who now decides whether a world leader is good or bad based on whether or not Trump supports him.

That's Turbo TDS.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:08 PM (krQz2)

169 They can try but the government and the paramilitary gangs that support Maduro are the only ones with effective weapons.
Rise up, get shot down. See Iran over the past 20 years for a glimpse at how it turns out.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (FCbAQ)
____________

But see also Romania over the past few decades to see a counter example.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

170 Maduro is not a strong man or authoritarian leader. If he was, Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires would be supporting him. Instead Pedo Trump and the Nazi billionaires support Juan Guaido and his pretty young wife.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (JCZqz)
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Stupid, stupid, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Posted by: Axeman

But yet, they do. And..... here we are.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 04:08 PM (vcOmj)

171 Wait, wut? The DUmmies let some posts appear which were almost of the common sense variety? I think DU needs to get rid of their almost sane members in short order.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (tT6L1)

172

All the monkeys were Kung-fu fighting
Those chimps fast as lightning
It was a little bit frightening
They fought with expert timing

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (aD39U)

173 Or but Anita Dunn the Maoist advisor to the Biden , more likely an Obama plant , is leaving the White House. Rats, sinking ships, some disassembly required

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (4G1pm)
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Lizards.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (krQz2)

174 145 I thought Hindenburg, the president, appointed AH as chancellor -- that he was not elected by the people.

Please don't let this balloon into a major dispute.

i don't get it

Posted by: strategic helium reserve at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (oY6Yp)

175 169 They can try but the government and the paramilitary gangs that support Maduro are the only ones with effective weapons....

A cautionary tale about Governments disarming their citizens

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (IyPmt)

176 Good news, everyone! Prometheus is available free on YouTube!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at July 31, 2024 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

If only someone could give us a Review of Prometheus ...

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (V13WU)

177 155 it's me donna...Prometheus is a decent film. It certainly isn't a cinematic tour de force, but, it is entertaining.
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If you want tour de force check out Ghost Ship.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (FmapG)

178 "Venezuela's opposition and multiple Latin American leaders have refused to recognize Maduro's victory in the July 28 vote, which was announced by the country's electoral authority - a body stacked with the president's allies."

Arizona's Republicans and multiple GOP leaders have refused to recognize abortion mouse's victory in the Governor's race...

Posted by: Inogame at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (53oGX)

179 Stuffing eels up your ass is hard will to power.
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Revenge of the unagi!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW - Grilled eel leaves one dead, 140 sick in Japan

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (i0CiB)

180 Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats… that is a truly disturbing thought YD…. good thing they did not have such a creature..

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (PCK5/)

181 Parliamentary system, just like the UK. Nobody voted for the chancellor in Weimar Germany, any more than anyone votes for the PM in Britain. The leader of the party with the greatest plurality of seats is invited to form a government, and becomes the PM.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Once again, true, true, true.
But the "people" knew what and who they were voting for.
So by voting for the NASDP, they knew they were "voting" for Adolf Hitler to be Chancellor.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at July 31, 2024 04:10 PM (vcOmj)

182 Did Prometheus kill Noomi Rapace’s career??

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

Honestly, it should've killed everyone's career.

That was hands down the stupidest movie that I've ever seen. Severely retarded cinema.

Pretty pictures though. If you like pretty pictures with your stupid, Prometheus is your boy.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2024 04:10 PM (eDfFs)

183 Zelenski cancelled them for this year and is in power by force. Seems a little dictatorial to me.

Z-man has a little dick?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 04:10 PM (JfTEZ)

184 I saw Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats open for The Yardbirds in 1965.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (aD39U)

185 What Hitler had going for him was that the leadership of France at the time was about as incompetent as our government is now. No planning, no supplies, no strategy, no organization, no communication, no leadership, no nothing. It was a fucking walkover.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (pohLc)

186 He was elected president after chancellor, though. However, the Nazis had basically cleared the board of real competitors.
Posted by: Axeman

True. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (v6JzV)

187 Zelenski cancelled them for this year and is in power by force. Seems a little dictatorial to me.

Z-man has a little dick?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 04:10 PM (JfTEZ)
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It reaches the piano.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (krQz2)

188 Willowed from the Kumala thread below:

If it wasnt for the Left, Kamala could have been a porn receptacle positioning stand-in.
Posted by: ... at July 31, 2024 01:39 PM (MNJ3i)

She prolly couldn't qualify as anything more than a fluffer.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (JNTt1)

189 Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats… that is a truly disturbing thought YD…. good thing they did not have such a creature..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (PCK5/)

Actually they did, but Noah wouldn't let them on the boat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (vtRd1)

190 182 That was hands down the stupidest movie that I've ever seen. Severely retarded cinema.

Pretty pictures though. If you like pretty pictures with your stupid, Prometheus is your boy.

meh. would've been better in 3d.

Posted by: avatar at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (oY6Yp)

191 Noomi Rapace
Making bruises look good.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (JfTEZ)

192 I think Naomi should probably stay in various hotels for a while, paying cash only.
Or maybe take a nice vacation overseas somewhere.
Posted by: wth

Absolutely! US citizens have so many more protections off US soil!!

Posted by: US killer drone at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (JCZqz)

193 110 Regarding the guy who had an eel and a lemon in his rectum:

When he says "Love is love!"
And gives it a shove

That's a moray!

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (uCfKO)
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Now imagine an ELECTRIC EEL.

Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #29 at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (qfLjt)

194 What Hitler had going for him was that the leadership of France at the time was about as incompetent as our government is now. No planning, no supplies, no strategy, no organization, no communication, no leadership, no nothing.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:11 PM (pohLc)
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Proto-Dems.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (krQz2)

195 Prometheus has almost made Michael Fassbender unwatchable to me.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (aD39U)

196 If the US IC wasn't so busy spying on law-abiding Americans, they'd probably find a way to show Maduro the error of his ways.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

197 @186 actually the French did have a plan it was just a strategic relic spawned by WWI , the Maginot Line. How'd that work out?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (4G1pm)

198 Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats… that is a truly disturbing thought YD…. good thing they did not have such a creature..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (

Oh, but they did.

Enormous rodents (like, the size of elephants) were common in North America until the early human radiations (initially from Asia) eventually systematically exterminated them.

Once upon a time, building-sized rats roamed this land, like ancient Democrats. They should use one instead of the humble donkey - much more fitting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (0FoWg)

199 165 Or but Anita Dunn the Maoist advisor to the Biden , more likely an Obama plant , is leaving the White House. Rats, sinking ships, some disassembly required
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04

She is going to help run the Kamala campaign. Don’t get too excited. Anita Dunn is far from stupid, and I am sure dispatched by Obama to try to keep Kamala from revealing to the world that she absolutely is.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (pZEOD)

200 I could nap or force myself to get up

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (fwDg9)

201 190 Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats… that is a truly disturbing thought YD…. good thing they did not have such a creature..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (PCK5/)

Actually they did, but Noah wouldn't let them on the boat.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 04:12 PM (vtRd1)

Well, he did let ticks on….

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (PCK5/)

202 Enormous rodents (like, the size of elephants) were common in North America until the early human radiations (initially from Asia) eventually systematically exterminated them.

RUS?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (aD39U)

203 I could nap or force myself to get up
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (fwDg9)
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You know my answer!

Posted by: James Brown at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (krQz2)

204 @198 cont, the rest of your point is correct however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (4G1pm)

205 Does Venezuala still have the hottest (and enhanced) beauty pageant contestants or has socialism ruined that too?

Posted by: Ripley at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (GUOwU)

206 186 What Hitler had going for him was that the leadership of France at the time was about as incompetent as our government is now. No planning, no supplies, no strategy, no organization, no communication, no leadership, no nothing. It was a fucking walkover.
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They had a plan - they put their army in tunnels. They also had the most modern tanks and aircraft, but they put their army in tunnels. They were the largest and most modern standing army in all of Europe, but they put their in tunnels.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (FmapG)

207 How bad is Venezuela? Venezuela used to have as part of their community, a thriving baseball industry from which MLB drew some fine talent. Things got so bad under Chavez, MLB pulled out, bankrupting what was a fairly prosperous industry in South America.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

208
Maduro won by 52.1%
_ Biden won by 52.1%

Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:14 PM (w/3ky)

209 @203 just a myth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (4G1pm)

210 199 Prehistoric Megafaunal Rats… that is a truly disturbing thought YD…. good thing they did not have such a creature..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (

Oh, but they did.

Enormous rodents (like, the size of elephants) were common in North America until the early human radiations (initially from Asia) eventually systematically exterminated them.

Once upon a time, building-sized rats roamed this land, like ancient Democrats. They should use one instead of the humble donkey - much more fitting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (0FoWg)

And I bitch about “My” Era…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (PCK5/)

211 203 Enormous rodents (like, the size of elephants) were common in North America until the early human radiations (initially from Asia) eventually systematically exterminated them.

RUS?
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Dire Wolves.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (FmapG)

212 Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (uCfKO)

Very clever.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (dTTBf)

213 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US despite multiple audits and recounts. Almost like no proof of a Last Supper connection at the Olympics.

Posted by: Sid at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (6l41q)

214 Fun fact: Machado translates to axe, and is the lasty name of one of the big bads in Larry Correia's first Monster Hunter novel.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (FnneF)

215 162 Wow. Just read the Naomi Wolf essay. She basically stated there is no way in hell the assassination went off without government involvement. I would say her evolution was complete.

Posted by: Xipe Totec
......

I think Naomi should probably stay in various hotels for a while, paying cash only.
Or maybe take a nice vacation overseas somewhere.
Posted by: wth
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Streisand effect. You can't shut up everyone unless you have something like Stalin's apparatus and that took decades to reach full effectiveness.

We are bad off but not that bad off yet and due to federalism may never be.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (qdbNv)

216 +1 Seriously, this is Democratic Underground, not Communist Underground.
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ROTFLMAO!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (i0CiB)

217 Kamala would want a Prometheus robot abortion machine.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (JfTEZ)

218 He was elected president after chancellor, though. However, the Nazis had basically cleared the board of real competitors.
Posted by: Axeman

True. Thanks for the correction.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Actually, not true. Per Wiki:

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler succeeded him, becoming simultaneously the head of state and government with absolute power.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (v6JzV)

219 We've already been down that rabbit hole with your views on Cuba, which you seem to think is a shining Beacon of democracy while the rest of the world thinks is a police state

+1 Seriously, this is Democratic Underground, not Communist Underground.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (JCZqz)
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How did these comments slip past their filters?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2024 04:16 PM (7fElN)

220 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW - Grilled eel leaves one dead, 140 sick in Japan
Posted by: andycanuck

Some things weren't meant to be eaten.

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:16 PM (Mp4VO)

221 214 Posted by: Sid at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (6l41q)

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Man, it's so weird that there are 300,000 ballots with no images in the Georgia election system from 2020.

Probably fine. Just have the computer recount what was input, and we're good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

222 171 Wait, wut? The DUmmies let some posts appear which were almost of the common sense variety? I think DU needs to get rid of their almost sane members in short order.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Like with Israel, I think DU suffers from its core members being old, white, mainstream (but Left leaning) Dems who see Maduro is a commie dictator, and the growing, younger, radical base of the Democrat party that love Lefty authoritarianism, and hate the US, by any means.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:16 PM (JCZqz)

223 220 How did these comments slip past their filters?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2024 04:16 PM (7fElN)

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Because their terms of service ban badmouthing Democrats, not socialists from other countries.

The former weeds out people who tend to do the latter, but not completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

224 Sounds like the US 2020 election is contagious.

Posted by: just saying at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (Uy/WF)

225 164 What kind of fight are they talking about? street fighting?
Posted by: IC - #FJB at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (ZtyUu)

Kung fu fighting!
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:07 PM (rj6Yv)

It's a little bit frightening...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (xaFKb)

226 214 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US despite multiple audits and recounts. Almost like no proof of a Last Supper connection at the Olympics.
Posted by: Sid
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Ahem, GA Elections Board meeting last night. The mother daughter criminals running ballots through twice just might be headed to prison. Over 300k ballot images missing, 150k missing any signature verification, and documented now that that the dynamic duo as shown on video were in fact scanning ballots multiple times.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (qdbNv)

227 What kind of fight are they talking about? street fighting?
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I suggest those huge Spanish friction-folders they made once on Forged in Fire!

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (i0CiB)

228 @186 actually the French did have a plan it was just a strategic relic spawned by WWI , the Maginot Line. How'd that work out?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (4G1pm)

The Maginot Line worked until Germany broke the law and invaded neutral Belgium and The Netherlands. The Germans were very naughty and what they did was illegal.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)

229 I wish the Venezuelan people a Happy Romanian Christmas if they can pull it off.

Posted by: BrickShy at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (WK0PT)

230 Venezuela was so wealthy it was becoming a first world country.
Predators came in to Venezuela to steal its wealth.
That's what they are doing here.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (w/3ky)

231 It's a little bit frightening...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (xaFKb)
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But fast as lightning!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (tT6L1)

232 227 Ahem, GA Elections Board meeting last night. The mother daughter criminals running ballots through twice just might be headed to prison. Over 300k ballot images missing, 150k missing any signature verification, and documented now that that the dynamic duo as shown on video were in fact scanning ballots multiple times.
Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (qdbNv)

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But if the NYT doesn't report it on the front page for 3 days straight, does it really happen?

Also, where does Rudy Giuliani go to get his reputation back?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (GBKbO)

233 221
Some things weren't meant to be eaten.
Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July

Or put…never mind.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (pZEOD)

234 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US despite multiple audits and recounts. Almost like no proof of a Last Supper connection at the Olympics.
Posted by: Sid

Did your parents have any children that lived.

Was not the title of that presentation at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, "La Cène Sur Un Scène Sur La Seine"?

"the Last Supper on a Span on the Seine

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (Mp4VO)

235 >>> 151 "Complete inability to read the room, tone deaf and incoherent"
__

And yet she's thisclose to becoming CinC of our military and her hand on the nuclear button.

Gives me the warm fuzzies.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2024 04:05 PM (WLslr)

SMH!

Have you seen the claims that in an earlier role (DA maybe?) low-level staffers were told they were *not* allowed to look her in the eye as that was a "privilege" for the higher-ups? Sounds totes normal...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (FnneF)

236 Didn't click on it but a Venezuela influencer was warning not to go Communist
And she looked very nice cutie

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (fwDg9)

237 ***Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro was declared the "winner" of the presidential election by the nation's election council on Monday morning. That came after exit polls showed him losing by as much as 30 points. ***

That's how Obama won his second and third term.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (w/3ky)

238 @229 mrp, the Germans naughty? Haven't you seen Cabaret?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (4G1pm)

239 234 221
Some things weren't meant to be eaten.
Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July

Or put…never mind.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:18 PM (pZEOD)

Could have been worse… hagfish… or pufferfish..

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

240 The Maginot Line worked until Germany broke the law and invaded neutral Belgium and The Netherlands. The Germans were very naughty and what they did was illegal.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)
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And when the sternly worded letter didn't work, Czechoslovakia was broken up.

...okay okay i know that preceded the invasion of Belgium, but, work with me, here!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

241 239 @229 mrp, the Germans naughty? Haven't you seen Cabaret?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:19 PM (4G1pm)

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The future belongs to me those who show up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

242 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

They would hunt them to death, then radiate outward, then rinse and repeat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (0FoWg)

243 The Maginot Line worked until Germany broke the law and invaded neutral Belgium and The Netherlands. The Germans were very naughty and what they did was illegal.

You can't blame them. Invading Belgium is in their blood.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (vtRd1)

244 191 182 That was hands down the stupidest movie that I've ever seen. Severely retarded cinema.

Pretty pictures though. If you like pretty pictures with your stupid, Prometheus is your boy.

meh. would've been better in 3d.
Posted by: avatar

Tell me you've never seen Gigli, without saying you've never seen it. "It's turkey time...gobble gobble ".
https://tinyurl.com/24veyaec

Posted by: Jennifer Lopez at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (JCZqz)

245 Have you seen the claims that in an earlier role (DA maybe?) low-level staffers were told they were *not* allowed to look her in the eye as that was a "privilege" for the higher-ups? Sounds totes normal...
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Hilary had the same rule in the WH.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (FmapG)

246
ANY Democrat calling bullshit on this?

I know, a profoundly stupid question, but let's just leave no doubt that they are ALL Marxists now.

Posted by: Auspex at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (j4U/Z)

247 "No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US despite multiple audits and recounts.
Posted by: Sid"

Just like it will be in Venzuela

Posted by: Ripley at July 31, 2024 04:21 PM (GUOwU)

248 You can't blame them. Invading Belgium is in their blood.
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Walloons scare nobody.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:21 PM (FmapG)

249 Actually, not true. Per Wiki:

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler succeeded him, becoming simultaneously the head of state and government with absolute power.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:15 PM (v6JzV)
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https://tinyurl.com/y8xd5vlj
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On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.
...
Hindenburg died of lung cancer on August 2, 1934. A plebiscite vote was held on August 19. Intimidation, and fear of the communists, brought Hitler a 90 percent majority. He was now, for all intents and purposes, dictator.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:21 PM (krQz2)

250 >>>Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers approved a declaration on Wednesday voicing solidarity with the Venezuelan people and concern about the announced election results, which sparked protests across the South American nation.
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G7's getting shaky, they realize that it can happen to them...and it's close.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:21 PM (w/3ky)

251 Hmm, the Israelis have an excellent HUMIT presence in Iran for sure...

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Iranian Media is reporting that Hamas Chief Political Leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was Residing in a Multistory Residential Guest House used and operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the North of the Iranian Capital of Tehran, when his Bedroom was Directly Struck last night at around 2am by an Air-Launched Missile; with the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhalah also staying in the same Building but on a different Floor.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (TGPs7)

252 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

Them good times. Kill food, eat food, nap.

Posted by: Ogg at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (vtRd1)

253 No audits were allowed; and no real recounts, asshole.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (i0CiB)

254 Elction fraud started waaaay back in the 1800’s… Tammany Hall was a Thing… and, Democrats. Of course.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (PCK5/)

255 Bering Strait. Thanks auto cucumber... I hate you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (0FoWg)

256 I wish y’all could see my cat playing soccer with his little soccer ball. He has been up and down the hallway 3 times with it. It would bring you a little joy if we just had Ace-o-Vision.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (pZEOD)

257 @249 the Flemings though are scary. Filled with phlegm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (4G1pm)

258 Venezuela was for a long time considered the most advanced society in South America.

Then they started eating zoo animals for some reason.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

259 Sorry to repeat, but this is important.

The US is encouraging street violence - riots, no bail, defund police, refusal to prosecute, admitting known criminals at border, open border, refusal to DNA to even investigate people entering, Soros DAs....

This is all an effort to create violence and subvert the public's will to resist with a need for security. This is all planned. Once it is bad enough, we will submit to one party state, central bank digital currency, social credit systems, big tech overlords, even sharia.

There are many unseen hand pushing this, and all with different end goals (cccp, big tech, DNC, sharia, UN,...) but they all agree that the US has to become more chaotic to advance their goals.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (Y2oVv)

260 So glad Sid showed up to tamp down the collective IQ.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (pohLc)

261 "...his close ally Colombian President Gustavo Petro..."

Gusto Gas!

"...opposition leader Maria Corina Machado..."

I really liked her in Total Recall

"...Tren de Aragua..."

It's really good on pizza!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (NMT5x)

262 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US

Damn straight!

Posted by: zombie Joseph Kennedy at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (OguvZ)

263 Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2024 04:21 PM (krQz2)

OK, thanks. I guess we've clarified the heck out of that question.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (v6JzV)

264 261 So glad Sid showed up to tamp down the collective IQ.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (pohLc)

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I thought I was already doing that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

265 @186 actually the French did have a plan it was just a strategic relic spawned by WWI , the Maginot Line. How'd that work out?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:13 PM (4G1pm)

Ackshually, the Maginot line was never breached, so it worked!
Too bad the Germans took Belgium and simply side-stepped the resistance France might have offered (hahaha, I know)

French battle rifle for sale: Never fired, dropped once.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (FCbAQ)

266
How did Maduro pull it off? I gotta take some notes.

-- Josh Shapiro (D) of Harris/Shapiro infamy

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (RKVpM)

267 Almost like no proof of a Last Supper connection at the Olympics.

You're a sock, right?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (dTTBf)

268 Venezuela was for a long time considered the most advanced society in South America.

Then they started eating zoo animals for some reason.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

It was a textbook case of Bad Luck.

Posted by: R. Heinlein at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (vtRd1)

269 263 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US

Damn straight!
Posted by: zombie Joseph Kennedy at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (OguvZ)

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It's such a blanket statement that's so easily refuted. No fraud ever found?

I just need to find one guy who got jailed for voting twice to undo the argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

270 265 261 So glad Sid showed up to tamp down the collective IQ.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (pohLc)

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I thought I was already doing that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

Huh… that’s my Jam too…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (PCK5/)

271 Regarding the guy who had an eel and a lemon in his rectum:

When he says "Love is love!"
And gives it a shove

That's a moray!
Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (uCfKO)

Lol. This place...

Saving my sanity, it is.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (JCLJi)

272 243 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

They would hunt them to death, then radiate outward, then rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:20

I was informed that the native Americans lived in peace and harmony with other tribes and all the animals.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (8c7iY)

273 248
Just like it will be in Venzuela
Posted by: Ripley at July 31, 2024

Guess which voting machines are used in Venezuela?

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (p4NUW)

274 So glad Sid showed up to tamp down the collective IQ.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (pohLc)

When he leaves KOS to work his magic here, the IQ of both places goes down.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (FCbAQ)

275 I just need to find one guy who got jailed for voting twice to undo the argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)
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probably some Right Wing Christian Nationalist who voted twice for Joe. Because of norms.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

276 Them good times. Kill food, eat food, nap.
Posted by: Ogg at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (vtRd1)

Yeah. Except for when you get crushed by a gopher the size of a house.

Posted by: Zombie Oog at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (0FoWg)

277 271 I thought I was already doing that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

Huh… that’s my Jam too…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (PCK5/)

========

AT LEAST YOU KNOW HOW TO READ!

*sobs tearfully but manfully*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

278 >>> 265 261 So glad Sid showed up to tamp down the collective IQ.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (pohLc)

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I thought I was already doing that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

I thought you were an Asshole, but then I saw you claim to be a Dumbass. So are you changing your pronouns or something???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (FnneF)

279 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

But the honorable red man lived as one with nature. Only taking what he needed.

(Yeah. Off the pile at the bottom of the tatanka jump)

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (Mp4VO)

280 Guess which voting machines are used in Venezuela?
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Dominion?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (FmapG)

281 234 221
Some things weren't meant to be eaten.
Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July

Or put…never mind.
Posted by: Piper

Oh, we a know what you were thinking! "Up the anus." Queerphobe! Love is love!!!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (JCZqz)

282 278
AT LEAST YOU KNOW HOW TO READ!

*sobs tearfully but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

Heh

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

283 279 I thought you were an Asshole, but then I saw you claim to be a Dumbass. So are you changing your pronouns or something???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2024 04:25 PM (FnneF)

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You act as though these are mutually exclusive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

284 You would never know USA soccer was playing. Did they sideline the lesbo attention whore?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (d9LQi)

285 257 I wish y’all could see my cat playing soccer with his little soccer ball. He has been up and down the hallway 3 times with it. It would bring you a little joy if we just had Ace-o-Vision.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (pZEOD)

So true! And then the more crass among us could holler SHOW YER TITS!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (pohLc)

286
There's just no place for street fighting man.
No.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (krQz2)

287 You act as though these are mutually exclusive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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next stop: Masshole.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

288 If you told me that Manful Sobbing was the name of some back bench Minister of European Parliament, i would believe you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (BAEGB)

289
+1 Seriously, this is Democratic Underground, not Communist Underground.
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ROTFLMAO!!!
Posted by: andycanuck

Six of one. Seven of nine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (63Dwl)

290 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

They would hunt them to death, then radiate outward, then rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:20

I've read articles debunking that. Personally, I think that it was probably a combination of overhunting and... (cue scary music) climate change.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (v6JzV)

291 Mick Jagger… that geezer’s gonna break a hip onstage this year…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (PCK5/)

292 Who manufactured the voting machines?

Posted by: Deepred at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (NRgOr)

293 Also, where does Rudy Giuliani go to get his reputation back?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Expect lawsuits coming soon and that asshole bankruptcy judge's ruling just might be overturned along with the court mandated defamation payout.

Justice often takes a lot of time to happen while injustice takes hardly any time at all.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (qdbNv)

294 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (Y2oVv)

There is another option that doesn't include submission to tyranny and still solves the problems. That may be equally possible.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (FCbAQ)

295 179 Stuffing eels up your ass is hard will to power.
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Revenge of the unagi!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW - Grilled eel leaves one dead, 140 sick in Japan

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:09 PM (i0CiB)
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Firstly they should have washed it before cooking and eating. Secondly, they forgot the lemon.
Thirdly, 141 people? That's a mighty big eel. If it got stuffed up a fartclam then no wonder someone died. This is worse than the old lady that swallowed a fly (I think she died).

Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #30 at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (qfLjt)

296 273 I was informed that the native Americans lived in peace and harmony with other tribes and all the animals.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes. We sang with the colors of the wind. No war, no taking other’s territories. In fact, it was shocking to learn how or when Apaches honed the art of killing.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (pZEOD)

297 284 You would never know USA soccer was playing. Did they sideline the lesbo attention whore?
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Chick Soccer? That's like Chick Basketball, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (FmapG)

298 273 243 You can actually trace the migrations of humans from the Bering Straight through the rest of North America by the waves of megafaunal extinction.

They would hunt them to death, then radiate outward, then rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2024 04:20

I was informed that the native Americans lived in peace and harmony with other tribes and all the animals.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:24 PM (8c7iY)
The savages crossing our borders today have the same plan for us.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2024 04:28 PM (LHPAg)

299 Have you seen the claims that in an earlier role (DA maybe?) low-level staffers were told they were *not* allowed to look her in the eye as that was a "privilege" for the higher-ups? Sounds totes normal...
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Hilary had the same rule in the WH.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (FmapG)
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Didn't Streisand have the same rule? Although in her case, you could argue it was a humanitarian gesture.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

300 296 273 I was informed that the native Americans lived in peace and harmony with other tribes and all the animals.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes. We sang with the colors of the wind. No war, no taking other’s territories. In fact, it was shocking to learn how or when Apaches honed the art of killing.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (pZEOD)

All was harmonius… and then Comanches..

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

301 Xominion?
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Dammit, now you have just summoned Bino from the dead. Probably has a key text alert running as certain words cause him to pop up.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (qdbNv)

302 280 Guess which voting machines are used in Venezuela?
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Dominion?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024

Ding, dung, ding!

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (p4NUW)

303 Jimmah Carter grunted through his ample teeth that the election was perfectly fine, fair and legal, unlike any Trump win, then lapsed into unconsciousness.

Posted by: Sphynx at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (P6qMv)

304 So true! And then the more crass among us could holler SHOW YER TITS!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:26 PM (pohLc)

Technically she'd already be showing us her pussy

cat.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (FCbAQ)

305 I appreciate the heart-warming tales of grace and upright behavior from duly elected Representatives of the People like Senor Maduro. If fills me with unshakable optimism that the Future of Humanity is in such capable hands! When Kamala is similarly elected, I will know for certain that my decision to stockpile brass and lead as a reserve currency was the correct call!

Posted by: Erik In Texas at July 31, 2024 04:30 PM (iJVoP)

306 Yes. We sang with the colors of the wind. No war, no taking other’s territories. In fact, it was shocking to learn how or when Apaches honed the art of killing.
Posted by: Piper

Hey, my favorite partially Pawnee person!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:30 PM (v6JzV)

307 294 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:22 PM (Y2oVv)

There is another option that doesn't include submission to tyranny and still solves the problems. That may be equally possible.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

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And this is why they hate the 2nd. Their methods are very old and have worked in many places, but never with such a well armed public.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:30 PM (Y2oVv)

308 302 280 Guess which voting machines are used in Venezuela?
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Dominion?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024

Ding, dung, ding!
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (p4NUW)

Really?

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (8c7iY)

309 You would never know USA soccer was playing.

I'd watch, but I don't think I could take the excitement.

Did they sideline the lesbo attention whore?

Could you be more specific? If you mean Rapinoe, she's retired.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

310 I don't get why, when they had a couple million out in the streets, they didn't just go ahead and yank Maduro out and hang him. Next time, I guess . . .

Posted by: Sphynx at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (P6qMv)

311 And this is why they hate the 2nd. Their methods are very old and have worked in many places, but never with such a well armed public.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:30 PM (Y2oVv)

And yet, “stay home or you’re trying to kill grandma” was an unmitigated success.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (9mfKN)

312 110 Regarding the guy who had an eel and a lemon in his rectum:

When he says "Love is love!"
And gives it a shove

That's a moray!

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2024 03:59 PM (uCfKO)

++++

LOL. Priceless.

Posted by: washrivergal at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (s/f3r)

313
Really?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (p4NUW)

314
I'm 100% certain that any search engine that permits you to ask anything about the voting in Venezuela is not going to let you know anything about the voting in Venezuela.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (RKVpM)

315 Hi Bulg!

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (p4NUW)

316 shocking to learn how or when Apaches honed the art of killing.

Well, they didn't have cable, so torturing captives had to suffice for amusement. You can only drink and screw so much.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (JfTEZ)

317 It's such a blanket statement that's so easily refuted. No fraud ever found?

I just need to find one guy who got jailed for voting twice to undo the argument.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I could be tedious and provide copious examples from the EAC report dating back to after the 2000 election. I honestly think Kerry and his media co conspirators was shocked in 2004 by the fact his cheat did not work in Ohio which was the key state in that election.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (qdbNv)

318 And this is why they hate the 2nd. Their methods are very old and have worked in many places, but never with such a well armed public.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at July 31, 2024 04:30 PM (Y2oVv)

And yet, “stay home or you’re trying to kill grandma” was an unmitigated success.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

Yeah, this. Owning weapons is not the same thing as having the will to use them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (v6JzV)

319 Hilary had the same rule in the WH.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (FmapG)

I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to ee or respond to them.

I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.

Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (d9fT1)

320 308 302 280 Guess which voting machines are used in Venezuela?
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Dominion?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024

Ding, dung, ding!
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (p4NUW)

Really?
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It was contracted by the CIA. Romney's son has ownership of the software. Surprise!

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (FmapG)

321 I'm part Lenape.

Those fuckers were all "Hey, what's that, a house? I like it. Wanna marry my daughter? Awesome."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (BAEGB)

322 In a weird turn of events, the leadership of the UAW has endorsed Trump while the rank and file voted for Kamala.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (MeG8a)

323 Smell the coffee?

PJM, electric grid operator held auction for next year - price per megawatt went from $28.92 to $269.92.
Welcome to Bidenomics!

Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (w/3ky)

324 313
Really?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:31 PM (p4NUW)

They didn't even do the math right on their cheat, used even numbers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (8c7iY)

325 Really?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes.
Posted by: Piper at

They were "installed" by the US because they have a known back door. Same with a lot of other countries.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (MGB5H)

326 I'm glad my wife isn't home. She's want to know why I was laughing hysterically.

Muldoon for the levity win.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (tT6L1)

327 'HELP IS ON THE WAY'

That is what my commie former boss bellowed after Biden was installed. He is no longer the boss because of his gaping assholery but is still around because he is very skilled and smart in regard to the job.

Expect even more global instability this year with NO leadership coming out of DC, even if Trump wins. Nothing on Trump, just he will be shived at every opportunity by the Deep State. Assuming he wins and assuming he's 'allowed' into the WH. They already tried to kill him. They'll try again.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (sAmhv)

328 319 I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (d9fT1)

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And for that, he rose in prominence until he could arrange for lax security around a candidate who did represent the American people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

329 The Maginot Line worked until Germany broke the law and invaded neutral Belgium and The Netherlands. The Germans were very naughty and what they did was illegal.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)

There were plans to extend the Maginot line all the way to the channel but money and I think British quarantines to come to France's aid ended the extension.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (BbD72)

330 All was harmonius… and then Comanches..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

331 Firstly they should have washed it before cooking and eating. Secondly, they forgot the lemon.
Thirdly, 141 people? That's a mighty big eel. If it got stuffed up a fartclam then no wonder someone died. This is worse than the old lady that swallowed a fly (I think she died).
Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #30 at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (qfLjt)
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To be fair to the old lady, I think she did swallow a horse at one point...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2024 04:34 PM (7fElN)

332 Mmm, unagi barbecued eel is my favourite 'sushi' dish. Although it's expensive so it's usually not on the daytime specials or buffet menus.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:34 PM (i0CiB)

333 I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to see or respond to them.
_________________

Another humanitarian gesture.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:35 PM (YqDXo)

334 I'm part Lenape.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Is your first name Lenny?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:35 PM (v6JzV)

335 I know the Comanches loved them some torture stakes… the tribe would sit around on a fine prairie evening as a captive or five would be systemetically skinned and generally taken apart… fun for all ages.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)

336 If Maduro had hired Hunter Biden right now anyone that called this election stolen would be getting cancelled.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2024 04:35 PM (oZhjI)

337 Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
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The Apache got their ass handed to them by the Comanche. They don't like to talk about it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (FmapG)

338 PJM, electric grid operator held auction for next year - price per megawatt went from $28.92 to $269.92.
Welcome to Bidenomics!
Posted by: Braenyard at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (w/3ky)
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So they just moved the decimal point? (more or less)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (7fElN)

339 I wish y’all could see my cat playing soccer with his little soccer ball. He has been up and down the hallway 3 times with it. It would bring you a little joy if we just had Ace-o-Vision.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024

***
Little Tatiana the Wonder Siberian would do that too. I'd throw her soft small rubber ball for her, and she'd leap after it, seize it in her jaws, and bring it back to me. Not to please me, you understand; just so we could continue The Game.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (J2vNu)

340 319 Hilary had the same rule in the WH.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:20 PM (FmapG)

I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to ee or respond to them.

I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM

While I bet that felt good it would have been so much more satisfying to tell ol' Hilldawg herself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (8c7iY)

341 Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Apache physical training was beyond world class. They could run distances that would kill a horse.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (pohLc)

342 You would never know USA soccer was playing. Did they sideline the lesbo attention whore?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

What's up with Broad BBall?

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (Mp4VO)

343 Mmm, unagi barbecued eel is my favourite 'sushi' dish. Although it's expensive so it's usually not on the daytime specials or buffet menus.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:34 PM (i0CiB)

Unagi is a heightened state of awareness.
-Ross Geller

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (MGB5H)

344 There were plans to extend the Maginot line all the way to the channel but money and I think British quarantines to come to France's aid ended the extension.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (BbD72)

I read somewhere that the King of the Belgians loathed the French and liked the Germans and wouldn't let the French extend the ML into Belgian territory.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

345 The Apache got their ass handed to them by the Comanche. They don't like to talk about it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024

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The Apache were some of the most feared Indians on the southern plains. But even they were afraid of the Comanche.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

346 296 273 I was informed that the native Americans lived in peace and harmony with other tribes and all the animals.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

Yes. We sang with the colors of the wind. No war, no taking other’s territories. In fact, it was shocking to learn how or when Apaches honed the art of killing.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:27 PM (pZEOD)
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I was told Comanches were the really bad guys.

Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #31 at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (qfLjt)

347 I liked "Kung-Fu Fighting," but "The Hustle" was better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (v6JzV)

348 330 All was harmonius… and then Comanches..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Think that’s correct.. they got pushed out of their territories by more ruthless horse riding tribes.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (PCK5/)

349 Is your first name Lenny?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:35 PM (v6JzV)

I ain't even from Delaware.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (BAEGB)

350 There were plans to extend the Maginot line all the way to the channel but money and I think British quarantines to come to France's aid ended the extension.
Posted by: Beartooth

The French (and later Gen Eisenhower who should have known better) did not think the Ardennes was proper tank country and that was the critical gap that allowed the breakout. The German breakout in 1914 was stymied by stout resistance by the BEF and the Belgiums.

The Belgians folded like a cheap card table in WWII. The Dutch sat out WWI and all the usual tricks like flooding did not stop the German blitzkrieg. Outdated and obsolete weaponry did not help the Dutch.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (qdbNv)

351 I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to see or respond to them.
________________

Passengers passing by should have goosed her.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (YqDXo)

352 Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Apache physical training was beyond world class. They could run distances that would kill a horse.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

*Masai Warriors laughing.

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:38 PM (Mp4VO)

353 342 You would never know USA soccer was playing. Did they sideline the lesbo attention whore?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Rapinhoe aged out.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:38 PM (qdbNv)

354 Apache physical training was beyond world class. They could run distances that would kill a horse.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (pohLc)
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Pffft. - The French Army

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

355 There were plans to extend the Maginot line all the way to the channel but money and I think British quarantines to come to France's aid ended the extension.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (BbD72)
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There were plans to do additional building in the winter of '30-'40, but it turned out to be an extraordinarily cold season such that concrete crystallized rather than setting.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (3Fz6p)

356 The Mandan nation, on the Missouri at what is now North Dakota, Lewis and Clark expedition wintered there.

There were hundreds of people playing a tournament outdoors, in January. They brought a thermometer with them to make observations, and Lewis swore it was -20F below zero, free air temperature. And they were naked, it was a game that would be called LaCrosse today maybe.

They were tough folks back then

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (ix5nG)

357 Comanches were allied with the Kiowa, who were also very badass..

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

358 Passengers passing by should have goosed her.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:37 PM (YqDXo)

Hard retch....

Ugh, it would be like grabbing a water balloon full of spiders and cold schmaltz....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (BAEGB)

359 332 Mmm, unagi barbecued eel is my favourite 'sushi' dish. Although it's expensive so it's usually not on the daytime specials or buffet menus.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at July 31, 2024 04:34 PM (i0CiB)

I still like Escolar ("White Tuna"/"Shiro Maguro") best.

Posted by: XTC at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (UnA8+)

360
PJM, electric grid operator held auction for next year - price per megawatt went from $28.92 to $269.92.
Welcome to Bidenomics!
Posted by: Braenyard

It'll do that when you keep shutting down reliable power plants.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (63Dwl)

361 Remember back about 25-30 years ago when Venezuela was some what prosperous and dozens of major leaguers and prospects were flowing out of there and mlb players were playing in winter there for $$ and to hone their skills?

What happened?

Posted by: Shoot Self In Foot at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (CV8a5)

362 The Apache were some of the most feared Indians on the southern plains. But even they were afraid of the Comanche.

The Comanche were the Spartans of the Americas.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (xCA6C)

363 I was told Comanches were the really bad guys.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Aztecs say hello. Aztecs practiced industrial slaughter while the Comanches were barbarian raiders.

But a Viking versus Comanche might be interesting if you took out horses from teh equation.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (qdbNv)

364 US Capitol Police whistleblower letter to Congress claiming massive corruption at the USCP and other oversight groups regarding intelligence failures and coverups along with whistleblower retaliation over January 6th.

Quite a letter.

https://tinyurl.com/4s4nwj9m

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (LkLld)

365 While I bet that felt good it would have been so much more satisfying to tell ol' Hilldawg herself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (8c7iY)

I doubt very much that would have been tolerated. My guess is that I would have been thrown off the plane.

Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (d9fT1)

366 The Apache got their ass handed to them by the Comanche. They don't like to talk about it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (FmapG)

The Comanche were more like a cartel or a crime syndicate from what I understand. Tough customers.

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

367 303 Jimmah Carter grunted through his ample teeth that the election was perfectly fine, fair and legal, unlike any Trump win, then lapsed into unconsciousness.
Posted by: Sphynx

DU actually posted on this:
The US-based Carter Center deployed 17 experts and observers to Venezuela after being asked to monitor the election by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Carter Center said that it could not "verify or corroborate the results of the election declared by CNE".

The Carter Center also said that the CNE's failure to announce the detailed results by polling station "constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles".
It added that the CNE had "demonstrated a clear bias in favour of the incumbent [President Nicolás Maduro]" and accused the CNE of a "complete lack of transparency in announcing the results"

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (JCZqz)

368 German tanks at the invasion of France were shit. Thin walled Panzer 2 mostly. French had far better tanks, but the germans had radios in their tanks and could call in air support. The fucking French were equipped with carrier pigeons. No shit.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (pohLc)

369 There were hundreds of people playing a tournament outdoors, in January. They brought a thermometer with them to make observations, and Lewis swore it was -20F below zero, free air temperature. And they were naked, it was a game that would be called LaCrosse today maybe.

They were tough folks back then

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (ix5nG)
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A guy on a plane once told me that some of the tribes wintered in the Minneapolis area, which he called the "banana belt."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (YqDXo)

370 357 Comanches were allied with the Kiowa, who were also very badass..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

The knowledge you guys have astonishes me. I have Empire of the Summer Moon on my bookshelves, I think I'm going to read that next. I keep reading beach reads but I really want to read that and learn something.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (8c7iY)

371 PJM, electric grid operator held auction for next year - price per megawatt went from $28.92 to $269.92.
Welcome to Bidenomics!
Posted by: Braenyard

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Anybody who will pay $269.92 for a MW will surely pay $1269.92!

Posted by: Guy at taxi stand at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (Y2oVv)

372 Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Apache physical training was beyond world class. They could run distances that would kill a horse.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

*Masai Warriors laughing.
Posted by: rickb223

Apparently, the Zulus did not use horses against the British. I was astounded when I learned this. I thought everyone, by the 19th century, used horses in warfare. But I guess the Zulus were so badass they didn't need them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (v6JzV)

373 226 214 No proof of election fraud has ever been found in the US despite multiple audits and recounts. Almost like no proof of a Last Supper connection at the Olympics.
Posted by: Sid
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Ahem, GA Elections Board meeting last night. The mother daughter criminals running ballots through twice just might be headed to prison. Over 300k ballot images missing, 150k missing any signature verification, and documented now that that the dynamic duo as shown on video were in fact scanning ballots multiple times.
Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:17 PM (qdbNv)

How does this track with Guliani losing all his money?

Posted by: Inogame at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM (53oGX)

374 371 357 Comanches were allied with the Kiowa, who were also very badass..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

The knowledge you guys have astonishes me. I have Empire of the Summer Moon on my bookshelves, I think I'm going to read that next. I keep reading beach reads but I really want to read that and learn something.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (8c7iY)

You should. Great book. Also a stimulus for other research about the American Indigenous…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM (PCK5/)

375 365 While I bet that felt good it would have been so much more satisfying to tell ol' Hilldawg herself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (8c7iY)

I doubt very much that would have been tolerated. My guess is that I would have been thrown off the plane.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (d9fT1)

She would have had her security tackle you, and you'd be audited and I'm sure other government agencies looking into you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM (8c7iY)

376 There were hundreds of people playing a tournament outdoors, in January. They brought a thermometer with them to make observations, and Lewis swore it was -20F below zero, free air temperature. And they were naked, it was a game that would be called LaCrosse today maybe.

They were tough folks back then
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Tribes in the Andes used to have a fertility ritual in which boys about to become men would race up high mountains, the winners getting ... laid.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:44 PM (YqDXo)

377 The knowledge you guys have astonishes me. I have Empire of the Summer Moon on my bookshelves, I think I'm going to read that next. I keep reading beach reads but I really want to read that and learn something.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Real history of Native Americans often takes a strong stomach. About the same as reading about Genghis Khan and co or the various slaughters in besieged cities in Euroland after they fell.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:44 PM (qdbNv)

378 Aztecs say hello. Aztecs practiced industrial slaughter while the Comanches were barbarian raiders.
Posted by: whig

Interestingly, the languages spoken by the Comanche and the Aztecs were related. Both were part of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:44 PM (v6JzV)

379 366 The Apache got their ass handed to them by the Comanche. They don't like to talk about it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (FmapG)

The Comanche were more like a cartel or a crime syndicate from what I understand. Tough customers.
Posted by: mrp

There's a YouTube channel called "History at the OK Corral" that talks a lot about the formation of the Texas Rangers, and their fights against the Comanche. Pretty brutal.
https://tinyurl.com/yapu5drx

Posted by: Military Moron at July 31, 2024 04:44 PM (JCZqz)

380
You should. Great book. Also a stimulus for other research about the American Indigenous…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM

I'm going to read it next. It's difficult to know which books are a good resource. Any other book recommendations on the subject?

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (8c7iY)

381 While I bet that felt good it would have been so much more satisfying to tell ol' Hilldawg herself.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (8c7iY)

I'll play DA, and suggest that they do preboarding of Hillary so as to avoid congestion, given that she travels with an entourage. I'd also suggest that it must get really old not to be able to go out in public without having people bother you.

OTOH, Hillary is the devil.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (xCA6C)

382 Comanches were allied with the Kiowa, who were also very badass..
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

The knowledge you guys have astonishes me. I have Empire of the Summer Moon on my bookshelves, I think I'm going to read that next. I keep reading beach reads but I really want to read that and learn something.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024

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It is a top-notch book. In 2014 I brought it with me when I drove to Palo Duro Canyon in TX near Amarillo. Palo Duro was where the Comanches had their winter quarters. The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

383
There's a YouTube channel called "History at the OK Corral" that talks a lot about the formation of the Texas Rangers, and their fights against the Comanche. Pretty brutal.
https://tinyurl.com/yapu5drx
Posted by: Military Moron at July 31, 2024 04:44 PM (JCZqz)

Thank you!

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (8c7iY)

384 She would have had her security tackle you, and you'd be audited and I'm sure other government agencies looking into you.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM (8c7iY)
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and CBD would be a household name, rather than just a grumpy cob on a blog in a corner of the internet......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (tT6L1)

385 I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to ee or respond to them.

I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (d9fT1)

Too bad you didn't crop dust her

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (NtVYv)

386 And yet, “stay home or you’re trying to kill grandma” was an unmitigated success.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

That's another good point. The tyranny always comes in baby steps. Each time pushing people to their limits, but never over. When they realize all they have lost, they have no way to fight back.

Venezuelans now realize that they have lost the right to vote -- what can they do about it?

Anyway, it will not be risk free to go full Chavez on the USA.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (Y2oVv)

387 Apparently, the Zulus did not use horses against the British. I was astounded when I learned this. I thought everyone, by the 19th century, used horses in warfare. But I guess the Zulus were so badass they didn't need them.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:41 PM (v6JzV)
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Schiess: How far can you rednecks march in a day?

Jones 593: Oh, twelve, fifteen miles, is it?

Schiess: A Zulu warrior can run - run! - 50 miles, and fight a battle at the end of it!

Jones 716: Well, it's bloody daft savages they must be, if they would run to battle!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (3Fz6p)

388 Aztecs say hello. Aztecs practiced industrial slaughter while the Comanches were barbarian raiders.

Aztecs are pussies.

Posted by: Sgt. Major Basil Plumley at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (xCA6C)

389 The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

Whose Mama was white.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (pohLc)

390 I see Iran is saber rattling regarding Israel

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:47 PM (IyPmt)

391 I used to work in a boatyard that repaired barges . We'd pump out water and bring them into drydock for repairs. Before the torches were brought in we'd have to go into the barge with buckets and scoop out eels, bullheads and other bottom feeders. Some of the guys I worked with told us to save the eels so could fry them up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2024 04:47 PM (4G1pm)

392 How does this track with Guliani losing all his money?
Posted by: Inogame

Damage via lawfare in fending off a libel and slander suit by the Georgia fraud twins that Giulani was not permitted to defend himself in federal court because the trial judge made an extremely technical ruling against him. Then there are the various harassment replacement elector actions that name Rudy as a co defendant. Rudy filed for bankruptcy protection and the bankruptcy judge threw out his petition on technical grounds again.

Guy has been through the wringer and all because he dared to defend Trump.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (qdbNv)

393 380
You should. Great book. Also a stimulus for other research about the American Indigenous…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM

I'm going to read it next. It's difficult to know which books are a good resource. Any other book recommendations on the subject?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (8c7iY)

It’s pretty large but sort of hard to find without digging… oh, if you like fiction about the West, from an Indian, trapper, cowboy perspective try Larry McMurtry… he’s not politically correct, and blunt.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

394 Apparently Kamala engaged in cultural appropriation by faking a southern accent. Not very well, either.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (p4NUW)

395 and CBD would be a household name, rather than just a grumpy cob on a blog in a corner of the internet......
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

And head of the international sous-vide cartel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

396 I see Iran is saber rattling regarding Israel
Posted by: It's me donna

Turkey is also threatening. And they are in NATO for.....reasons

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (MGB5H)

397 The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

Whose Mama was white.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Who was stolen as a child and kept as a slave.

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (Mp4VO)

398 I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to ee or respond to them.

I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo
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Hillary flies commercial?

Hillary can stand up long enough for the rest of the plane to board?

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (iZbyp)

399 I see Iran is ~~saber rattling~~ mouth-flapping regarding Israel

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2024 04:47 PM (IyPmt)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (YqDXo)

400 Remember how leftists drooled over Chavez when he called Dubya the devil at the UN? What a card, that Hugo!

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (HabA/)

401 366 The Apache got their ass handed to them by the Comanche. They don't like to talk about it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 31, 2024 04:36 PM (FmapG)1

Now they have casinos on the same road about a mile apart in Lawton , Ok

Posted by: whelp at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (og5mY)

402 389 The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

Whose Mama was white.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (pohLc)

Fascinating guy… knew when to fold ‘em…

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

403
It’s pretty large but sort of hard to find without digging… oh, if you like fiction about the West, from an Indian, trapper, cowboy perspective try Larry McMurtry… he’s not politically correct, and blunt.
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:4

Thank you, my husband enjoys history too and I know he'd love reading about this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (8c7iY)

404 336 If Maduro had hired Hunter Biden right now anyone that called this election stolen would be getting cancelled.
Posted by: 18-1

If Maduro, like me, is a suspicious man, he should buy a few lucky paintings from this Hunter fella. Guys that buy paintings from him have all sorts of luck working with President Biden and the US government.

Posted by: Don Corleone at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (JCZqz)

405 I'm going to read it next. It's difficult to know which books are a good resource. Any other book recommendations on the subject?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (8c7iY)

I am reading Hell With The Fire Out. It's about the Modoc Indian wars and Captain Jacks last stand. It's pretty good and informative.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (NtVYv)

406 The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

I get him confused with Eli Parker, the Seneca who was on Grant's staff, and was present at Appomattox.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (v6JzV)

407 Apparently Kamala engaged in cultural appropriation by faking a southern accent. Not very well, either.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (p4NUW)
________________

It's the accent of the south of India!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

408 Cortez took his expedition on a more southern route, but scholars think he made it as far as what is now Kansas or Oklahoma. That's difficult to fathom, people really got around even though they didn't have very good transportation.

I read of one later 1840s expedition, the group of about 20 got holed up somewhere in the winter, starving to death. Down to eating leather and what have you. They split up, one group figuring they could get more horses in what is now New Mexico, and they were about 2 states away in Colorado or whatever. If you didn't have a horse, well you start walking. Or post holing through the snow. Just insane stories of deprivation and hardship.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (ix5nG)

409 Fascinating guy… knew when to fold ‘em…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (PCK5/)
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It was interesting to read Quanah died pretty much broke, considering all the opportunities for graft he had.

Weird.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

410 nood
white women for kamala

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (Y2oVv)

411 Check out Sous-Vide for beginners with the Dildo folks. Look for it on the Cooking Channel.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (qdbNv)

412 396 Turkey is also threatening. And they are in NATO for.....reasons
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2024 04:48 PM (MGB5H)

When did the media all decide we have to spell it "Turkiye" from now on?

Posted by: XTC at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (UnA8+)

413 I was on a flight with Hillary, and United let her board first. She stood with her back to the passengers as they walked onto the plane so that she wouldn't have to ee or respond to them.

I sat right in front of the head of her SS detail and gave him an earful about how we fought a war in 1776 to get out from under the thumb of royalty.
Posted by: CharlieGray'sDildo at July 31, 2024 04:32 PM (d9fT1)

I was at conference in Louisville at because the hag was giving a speech at my hotel during the 2008 primaries, I was locked out of the hotel for almost 6 hours.

I knew I should have ran over Bill when he walked past me in Nashua during the 1992 primaries. Would have prevented a lot of our problems.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (BbD72)

414 Harris should name a running mate that is half as smart as Joe Biden. If she were to name Newsom, or some other decent running mate they would give her nothing but retarded , midget, woman ss agents

Posted by: N at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (8XibL)

415 409 Fascinating guy… knew when to fold ‘em…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (PCK5/)
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It was interesting to read Quanah died pretty much broke, considering all the opportunities for graft he had.

Weird.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2024 04:50 PM (tT6L1)

Generous man, caught between two worlds.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (PCK5/)

416 402 389 The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

Whose Mama was white.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:46 PM (pohLc)

Fascinating guy… knew when to fold ‘em…
Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

And he knew when to drop the lance and pick up the blood sucking lawyer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (pohLc)

417 405 I'm going to read it next. It's difficult to know which books are a good resource. Any other book recommendations on the subject?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:45 PM (8c7iY)

I am reading Hell With The Fire Out. It's about the Modoc Indian wars and Captain Jacks last stand. It's pretty good and informative.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 31, 2024 04:49 PM (NtVYv)

Thank you!

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (8c7iY)

418 Quanah Parker was an absolutely fascinating historical figure. "Empire of the Summer Moon" captures this really well. Reminds me I want to read it again.

Posted by: Patton Oswalt, World's Tallest Midget at July 31, 2024 04:51 PM (Ad8y9)

419 How does this track with Guliani losing all his money?
Posted by: Inogame at July 31, 2024 04:42 PM (53oGX)

Telling the truth and defending yourself is no longer a valid excuse for offending Liberals.

Trump cases should have proven that to ya.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2024 04:52 PM (xaFKb)

420 352 Weren't the Apaches the last tribes to acquire horses? Because once they figured out which end of the animal went where, the kill-honing commenced.
Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2024 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

Apache physical training was beyond world class. They could run distances that would kill a horse.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

*Masai Warriors laughing.

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 31, 2024 04:38 PM (Mp4VO)
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Ethiopians laughing at the panting Maasai.

Posted by: Ciampino - Humpday #32 at July 31, 2024 04:53 PM (qfLjt)

421 Remember back about 25-30 years ago when Venezuela was some what prosperous and dozens of major leaguers and prospects were flowing out of there and mlb players were playing in winter there for $$ and to hone their skills?

What happened?

Posted by: Shoot Self In Foot at July 31, 2024 04:40 PM (CV8a5)

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Bidenomics before it was cool.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 31, 2024 04:53 PM (HF85l)

422 You can vote socialism in, but you have to shoot it back out.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 31, 2024 04:55 PM (pohLc)

423 Telling the truth and defending yourself is no longer a valid excuse for offending Liberals.

Trump cases should have proven that to ya.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2024 04:52 PM (xaFKb)

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The Commie judges now don't even allow "deplorables" to defend themselves.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 31, 2024 04:56 PM (HF85l)

424 >>The town of Quanah, not that far away from Amarillo, was named for the famous Comanche cheif Quanah Parker.

The land my town was built on was named after the chief of the Narragansett tribe that inhabited the area. When the Pilgrims first landed he sent them a bunch of arrows wrapped in a snake skin.

William Bradford, governor of the Pilgrim colony at the time sent back a bunch of gunpowder and lead shot. There was peace for a while after that.

Indians of the west get most of the attention but the colonies were damn near wiped out by the Indians around here before there was a west.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2024 04:56 PM (LkLld)

425 "Ahem, GA Elections Board meeting last night. The mother daughter criminals running ballots through twice just might be headed to prison. Over 300k ballot images missing, 150k missing any signature verification, and documented now that that the dynamic duo as shown on video were in fact scanning ballots multiple times.
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Link for that? I can't find anything.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2024 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

426
In a weird turn of events, the leadership of the UAW has endorsed Trump while the rank and file voted for Kamala.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

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I told you he was weird.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at July 31, 2024 05:09 PM (T3es0)

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