THE MORNING RANT - Kamala Harris & Tim Walz: Old School Communists Who Must Be Defeated

Kamala Harris just made her first huge campaign blunder this past week when she proposed price controls on groceries.

There was predictable push back and mockery from those of us on the right, pointing out that Kamala is openly proposing communism.

“In American cities, this Harris policy has created joyful phenomenon of ‘bread lines’ bringing people together to dance, sing, connect.” https://t.co/VzIH4KYgfu
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 15, 2024

But Harris’ advocacy of Soviet-style price controls has also received extensive pushback from her allies in the left-wing media, who are now alluding to the fact that the price controls she is proposing on food have a spectacular history of failure. The organs of the left understand that the promise of turning the United States into Venezuela is political suicide, and they want to stop Kamala from getting irreparably labeled as the proud and out communist that she is.

These outlets include CNN: “Harris’ plan to stop price gouging could create more problems than it solves”

…and even The Washington Post: “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?”

It is probably worth noting, however, that the Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Amazon also owns the Whole Foods grocery chain. I choose not to shop at Whole Foods because I don’t wish to pay a sanctimony premium for my groceries. But Bezos might rightly fear that Kamala’s price-enforcement commissars won’t understand Whole Foods’ strategy of pricing its organic groceries as an exclusive, luxury item for affluent consumers.

Beyond this proposal for Soviet economics, the Democrats’ entire ticket is saturated in communism. The media has been lavishing praise on Tim Walz for his lack of investments, and for his possessing little accumulated wealth. In response, Jeffrey Carter just wrote an exceptional essay at his Points & Figures blog pointing out that Walz’s rejection of wealth accumulation is a scary indication of his status as a communist true believer. Walz’s indifference to personal investments indicates that he believes in full reliance on government to provide for everything he and his family need.

I have excerpted some of this essay below, but I encourage you to read the entire thing, which concludes with this ominous observation, “The fact Walz doesn’t own anything doesn’t make him objective. It says he is sinister. He relies on the government for his sustenance and therefore will do everything in his power to make sure the government expands and exerts control over its minions in order to make sure he stays comfortable.”

”The Mother's Milk of The State; Tim Walz Is A Communist Investor” [Points & Figures – 8/08/2024]

Yesterday the investments of the Governor of MN and presumptive hard left-wing Democratic VP pick Tim Walz were released to the public. Predictably, PRAVDA raved about them. At the Free Press, Suzi Weiss said it was “refreshing” that Walz didn’t have wealth from stocks, bonds, or some other source.
The fawning left-wing rag Axios ran an article on Walz's investment acumen.
• His disclosures, both from his final year in Congress and his time as Minnesota governor, also show no mutual funds, bonds, private equities, or other securities.
• No book deals or speaking fees or crypto or racehorse interests.
• Not even real estate. The couple sold their Mankato, Minnesota, home after moving into the governor's mansion, for below the $315k asking price).

Carter points out that while we certainly don’t want elected officials engaging in insider trading on individual stocks, the rejection of investments in index funds and even US Treasuries is extremely revealing about Walz.

Let me get this straight. Walz relies on the mother’s milk of taxpayer dollars to fund his life. He only depends on the “state”, or government.
That’s communism. That’s what people in communist countries do. The state provides for you. You have no worries at all. Of course, then you are subject to what the state says it will do for you. Except in Walz's case, since he is pulling the levers of power he will be taken care of.
Why isn’t he betting on America like his fellow Democrat Warren Buffett says to do? Not one US Treasury instrument in his personal portfolio. Any respectable finance professor from the elite business schools in the US down to the worst community college in the US would agree that US Treasuries are “risk-free assets”.
Does Walz not have any appetite for risk and what does that tell you about him as a person and decision maker?
He doesn’t even own an index fund of American stocks. Why is he selling the future of America? Why is he so pessimistic about America? The American stock market has created the ability for more people to create more wealth for themselves than any other economic engine on earth. Without it, small businesses wouldn’t thrive the way they do.

Communism is literally on the ballot this election.

It’s time for the Never-Trump charade to end. Any “conservative” who still seeks a Trump defeat to “save conservatism” is enabling our country’s descent into Venezuelan destitution. You only have to vote for communism once before you find yourself in a situation that you can’t vote your way out of. We cannot allow that to happen.

With both individuals on the Democrat ticket being proud and open communists, a vote for Trump is now a vote to save our country. The Trump-haters can start on day one of Trump’s final term to strategize the post-Trump future of the Republican Party, but we must all unify now to defeat the ~~Khrushchev/Chavez~~ Harris/Walz ticket.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:02 AM (v6JzV)

2 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)

3 Ehhh, Walz might be an old-school communist. Harris isn't. She's a new-school communist. She's all about high tech fascism and wokism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (HnUIn)

4 Missed it by that much

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)

5 Hey, what happened to my FIRST!?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (v6JzV)

6 OK, it's back now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (v6JzV)

7 Riots every night?....or just one big one?

Posted by: BignJames at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (AwYPR)

8 hey

Posted by: doug at August 19, 2024 11:03 AM (8/lc0)

9 Signs at the D convention - "Chicago Democratic Socialists". True story.

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (V13WU)

10 But Harris’ advocacy of Soviet-style price controls has also received extensive pushback from her allies in the left-wing media, who are now alluding to the fact that the price controls she is proposing on food have a spectacular history of failure
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Only because they did it wrong. They were impure. The purity of *our* Socialism and our level of technology assures success where others have failed!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

11
Walz has been sucking on the public tit all his life, I take it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (1Nxff)

12 Put some clothes on, ya nudists.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (UnA8+)

13 Price controls are meaningless without production controls. To really achieve price control, we just need state control of the means of production!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

14 …and even The Washington Post: “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?”

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Kamala , don't listen to those losers at WaPO ! Double Down on this winning agenda !

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2024 11:05 AM (V13WU)

15 Whatever else can be said about AI art, it certainly produces adorable burros.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 19, 2024 11:05 AM (s9EYN)

16 Potato Head Walz has investments. They're just not in his name. No way a democrap can spend 20+ years in politics and not accumulate extensive wealth through graft and corruption. If Bernie the Avowed Commie can do it, this sad sack scumwipe surely can.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

17 Put some clothes on, ya nudists.
Posted by: XTC

Book thread was yesterday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

18 I choose not to shop at Whole Foods because I don’t wish to pay a sanctimony premium for my groceries.
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"Sanctimony premium" is a nice phrase. I shall file it away for future use.

Something to consider: how much of the price of your final goods from any location or supplier consists of the Sanctimony Premium? If you shop at Kroger, you're still paying it - they're still woke, still activist, still nasty - but you're just paying a smaller premium as a percentage of goods price.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (HnUIn)

19
I'll never meet my sweet little babushka until there are breadlines first!

Kammunist, take me away!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (xG4kz)

20 Communism is literally on the ballot this election.

Why is everyone getting so excited about this?

Posted by: FDR / Wallace at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (xCA6C)

21 If you love what we've done with the Border, wait 'til you see what we do with the Food Supply!

Posted by: Illuminati/Harris '24 at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (pIfcn)

22 Price controls are meaningless without production controls. To really achieve price control, we just need state control of the means of production!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

NOW you're getting it! Simple, right?

Posted by: Timmeh! Walz at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (5AVMW)

23
If Bernie the Avowed Commie can do it, this sad sack scumwipe surely can.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

Maybe he's just stupid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (1Nxff)

24 but we must all unify now to defeat the Khrushchev/Chavez Harris/Walz ticket.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (L5vNm)

25 Whatever else can be said about AI art, it certainly produces adorable burros.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

The one on the left looks more like a Przewalski's horse.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (v6JzV)

26
You guys mind if I hang around for this discussion?

Posted by: Benito Mussolini at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (RKVpM)

27 Yesterday the investments of the Governor of MN and presumptive hard left-wing Democratic VP pick Tim Walz were released to the public. Predictably, PRAVDA raved about them. At the Free Press, Suzi Weiss said it was “refreshing” that Walz didn’t have wealth from stocks, bonds, or some other source.
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Kamala Harris is Obama.
Walz is Biden.

This is *exactly* the same thing they did in 2008. Joe Biden was upright and righteous and honest - after all, he's the poorest man in the Senate! He's good 'ole Lunch Bucket Joe, working man - working for *you.*

Now it's Walz. They just dusted off the old manuals and are running the documented procedures.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

28 Walz has been sucking on the public tit all his life, I take it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a

And receiving cash and gifts from the Chi-Coms

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (CIS44)

29 "I choose not to shop at Whole Foods because I don’t wish to pay a sanctimony premium for my groceries."

I went to a WF once. Once. It was the most pretentious place on the planet. Walked right out.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

30 When her announced plans fail to move the needle for her, the MFM will make them disappear.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:08 AM (aD39U)

31 I was surprised to learn that I am worth more than Tim Walz, but I suppose that it could be argued that a sea cucumber is worth more too.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:08 AM (vFG9F)

32 Price controls are meaningless without production controls. To really achieve price control, we just need state control of the means of production!

And, of course, those who resist are wreckers, hoarders, and kulaks, and will be dealt with. IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:08 AM (xCA6C)

33
At the Free Press, Suzi Weiss said it was “refreshing” that Walz didn’t have wealth from stocks, bonds, or some other source.

He has, however, a gushing and, to him, refreshing tap on the Stolen Valor Reserve.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (xG4kz)

34 Potato Head sold his home for $300k+. Where did the money go?

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

35 price controls, one of the pillars of Central Planning !

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (V13WU)

36 Walz has been sucking on the public tit all his life, I take it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (1Nxff)

Looks like....I see Minn. also has a 16% death tax.

Posted by: BignJames at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

37 Whatever else can be said about AI art, it certainly produces adorable burros.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 19, 2024 11:05 AM (s9EYN)

Ditto. Those are way too cute to be Democrats.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (JCLJi)

38 I was surprised to learn that I am worth more than Tim Walz, but I suppose that it could be argued that a sea cucumber is worth more too.
Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:08 AM (vFG9F)
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That doesn't bother me as much as when I learned that I - a well-to-do but nonetheless unremarkable W2 employee - had enough money to buy John Bolton.

If you're going to sell me into slavery for the purpose of your own evil and comfort, at least have the decency to command a higher price than the political equivalent of a ham sandwich.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)

39 Potato Head Walz has investments. They're just not in his name. No way a democrap can spend 20+ years in politics and not accumulate extensive wealth through graft and corruption. If Bernie the Avowed Commie can do it, this sad sack scumwipe surely can.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

This. Dig deeper. This guy is a democrat, therefore a thief.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2024 11:10 AM (g8Ew8)

40
Potato Head sold his home for $300k+. Where did the money go?

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

Irate parent?

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:10 AM (RKVpM)

41 This is *exactly* the same thing they did in 2008. Joe Biden was upright and righteous and honest - after all, he's the poorest man in the Senate! He's good 'ole Lunch Bucket Joe, working man - working for *you.*

You used a "g" on the end of "workin". No workin' man would do that. Report to the the camps for reeducation, you bloodsucker.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:10 AM (xCA6C)

42 Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (RHGPo)

43 We are still dealing with the after-effects of our last large-scale experiment in price controls.

One of the reasons that the medical sector is so fucked up and expensive - expensive to the point that we're actively destroying the economy for it - can be traced back directly to WWII price controls (well, wage controls - but wages are just the price of labor).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

44 Kamala Harris is Obama.
Walz is Biden.

This is *exactly* the same thing they did in 2008. Joe Biden was upright and righteous and honest - after all, he's the poorest man in the Senate! He's good 'ole Lunch Bucket Joe, working man - working for *you.*

Now it's Walz. They just dusted off the old manuals and are running the documented procedures.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)
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I agree. But it won't work and isn't working. I doubt even Obama could play the Obama-Biden playbook in 2024. It was moldy by 2012. It's maggot-stained by now.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

45 You used a "g" on the end of "workin". No workin' man would do that. Report to the the camps for reeducation, you bloodsucker.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:10 AM (xCA6C)
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Yes, I just outed myself as one of the Dread Bourgeoisie. Sad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

46 He needs to subscribe to Eyepatch McCain's stock pick newsletter

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (25k9m)

47 I agree. But it won't work and isn't working. I doubt even Obama could play the Obama-Biden playbook in 2024. It was moldy by 2012. It's maggot-stained by now.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)
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Have Harris or Walz talked about the "kitchen table" yet?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)

48 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (ZANHd)

49 Only because they did it wrong. They were impure. The purity of *our* Socialism and our level of technology assures success where others have failed!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

Apparently socialism only works when it is done perfectly (which is impossible). Capitalism works even when done poorly.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (VGRuw)

50 BurgerMeister Meister Burger has no assets of any kind? Those forms require you to list "other assets" as a catchall. He must be hiding something. Maybe a lithium mine in China.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (wGerL)

51 no offense but

Is America dumb enough to elect her?
Could that happen?

Posted by: Don Black at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (/7KEl)

52 And when the Democrats steal this election as well, we'll all be well and truly screwed.

Detroit has just made sure that only 10% of their poll watchers are Republicans.

Michigan will be stolen once again- even if Trump overcomes the legalized fraud at the ballot dumps, Detroit is ready to tip the scales with even more.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (N1DT3)

53 According to what I saw, his net worth is somewhere between $110K and $330K , not including his $800K pension.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (vFG9F)

54 Yes, I just outed myself as one of the Dread Bourgeoisie. Sad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Well, at least you're not a Millennial...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

55 You only have to vote for communism once before you find yourself in a situation that you can’t vote your way out of. We cannot allow that to happen.--

Vote your way in. Shoot your way out.
That's the way it works.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (FCbAQ)

56 Commie Mark Hamill alienates MAGA at a convention. Clip on Valliant Renegade's channel.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (ufFY8)

57
Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (RHGPo)

I'm sure at the end he was 100% for full-term abortions and chopping the cocks off teenage boys. He was a piece of filth.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (1Nxff)

58 Burros can be stubborn, but they are hard working and loyal. Very few Democrats can claim that.

Posted by: Expelled From Kibbutz at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (CV8a5)

59
Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88

He will however be voting for Harris in November.

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (RKVpM)

60 I personally have no problem fencing in the shitholes and instituting price controls for 20 or so years. Problem solved.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 19, 2024 11:14 AM (FmapG)

61 The organs of the left understand that the promise of turning the United States into Venezuela is political suicide,

It's more than political suicide. It will physically end democrats for two generations.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:14 AM (PiUts)

62 Have Harris or Walz talked about the "kitchen table" yet?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)
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Under their regime, who can afford a kitchen table? Or a kitchen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 19, 2024 11:14 AM (7fElN)

63 58 Burros can be stubborn, but they are hard working and loyal. Very few Democrats can claim that.
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Maybe the Donkey Party will put on a great Donkey Show?

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 19, 2024 11:14 AM (FmapG)

64 The sports world is mourning the passing of golf legend Chai Chai Rodrigweeze, dead at 88.

Posted by: Les Nessman at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (xPJvm)

65
It's more than political suicide. It will physically end democrats for two generations.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:14 AM (PiUts)

Not before they physically end millions of us non-Democrats.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (1Nxff)

66 Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy

Seriously? I thought he died years ago...

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (OUMaO)

67 Here’s the stark reality. Suburban women are pulling Kamala across the finish line in places like NC, and making it close in other states like Florida and Georgia. These women don’t care about the economy. They don’t care about the border invasion. They don’t care about the growing use of government against the people, nor do they have any affection for The Bill of Rights. They’re not smart enough to realize abortion is now a states rights issue. They are not smart enough to know what comes next from a person like Kamala. After all, she’s a “woman”. More importantly a woman of color.

So it’s not so much about “Trump Hate”, by suburban women- that’s just a excuse for their lack of intellect, affinity for group think, and bowing to the shibboleths of their liberal friends.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (pcNL9)

68 He must be hiding something. Maybe a lithium mine in China.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (wGerL)

What's the Chinese word for "dacha"?

Posted by: BignJames at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (AwYPR)

69 Under their regime, who can afford a kitchen table? Or a kitchen?
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NO GAS STOVES!

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (FmapG)

70 Marxists gonna Marxist.
Again, I suspect Kameltoe is just a flesh puppet for someone else, telling her what to say. The Democrats are riddled with Marxists and now they're in power. And they want to stay there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

71 >> It’s time for the Never-Trump charade to end. Any “conservative” who still seeks a Trump defeat to “save conservatism” is enabling our country’s descent into Venezuelan destitution.

Sadly, this will never happen. Trump broke many people irreparably… they are gone. Adam Kinzinger (good republican) is speaking at the DNC. Liz Cheney will crawl over glass to vote Harris… I don’t understand the never-Trump phenomenon but it is real…. I still run into ordinary folk… never all that political, who think Trump is icky. Didn’t Ron White say “you can’t fix stupid”?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (/DBoU)

72 Detroit has just made sure that only 10% of their poll watchers are Republicans.

have the put up the paper board blocking the windows where they are counting yet? might as well do that now

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (25k9m)

73 I saw a clip on X on the DNC protestors - fat white chick with nose rings, red and purple hair screaming like she is demon possessed. Yikes.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (ZtyUu)

74 Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy

Seriously? I thought he died years ago...
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (OUMaO)

Just his career.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (aD39U)

75 In Kamala's America, price controlled vegetables eat you.

So where is the lie in Waltz's investments. I know he's lying. Someone needs to figure out how.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (Ectld)

76 68 He must be hiding something. Maybe a lithium mine in China.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (wGerL)

What's the Chinese word for "dacha"?
Posted by: BignJames at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (AwYPR)

Van Cou Ver

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (xcxpd)

77
I went to a WF once. Once. It was the most pretentious place on the planet. Walked right out.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq.

I see that you had never visited the Berkeley Co-op (or whatever they style themselves now, if they still exist). That place and its denizens had a lock on this nation's National Pretentiousness Reserve.

It probably suffocated to death under its mountains of smugness. It was equally likely to have shattered into several contending factions over who would become the most communist, ever.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (xG4kz)

78 Apparently socialism only works when it is done perfectly (which is impossible). Capitalism works even when done poorly.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 19, 2024 11:12 AM (VGRuw)
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Capitalism is non-utopian. Non-utopian systems do not all work, but *no* utopian system works.

Socialsim is utopian. It shall be - must be - perfect if it is to succeed. It is thus doomed to failure. Man has not only fallen, he isn't smart enough to see all consequences of every action or inaction. Reality cannot be modeled and planned. Aspects of it can be, but not all of it in omnibus across all dimensions including time.

Good systems acknowledge the inevitability - and even the frequency/commonality - of failure and tries to survive it. Bad systems demand an absence of failure, and externalizes failures onto enemies (hoarders and wreckers and kulaks and MAGAts).

Most systems are bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (HnUIn)

79 According to the leftist media, Tim Walz is America's dad. Thing is, I know lots.of dad's who are really stupid.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 19, 2024 11:17 AM (uV5B0)

80 " see that you had never visited the Berkeley Co-op. That place and its denizens had a lock on this nation's National Pretentiousness Reserve."

And has a suspicious lack of deodorant.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:17 AM (B0mGw)

81 Never been in a Whole Foods. Not planning to.

Posted by: Cranky Old Codger at August 19, 2024 11:18 AM (CV8a5)

82
Apparently socialism only works when it is done perfectly (which is impossible).

You can pull it off in a homogeneous culture with uniform interests. However, there are very few monasteries left.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:18 AM (1Nxff)

83 42 Phil Donahue, talk show and Democrat icon, dead at 88

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 19, 2024 11:11 AM (RHGPo)

Good. Moar.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

84 Challenge people with opportunity brought about by effort and principled behavior and you will never win an election. Offer people excuses for their laziness and revenge against the people who do better than they and you will have power over them. Hate and revenge buy votes.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at August 19, 2024 11:18 AM (iJVoP)

85 81 Never been in a Whole Foods. Not planning to.
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Some of the choices are nice. The pretentiousness get thick pretty quickly, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (FmapG)

86 Here’s the stark reality. Suburban women are pulling Kamala across the finish line in places like NC, and making it close in other states like Florida and Georgia. These women don’t care about the economy. They don’t care about the border invasion. They don’t care about the growing use of government against the people, nor do they have any affection for The Bill of Rights. They’re not smart enough to realize abortion is now a states rights issue. They are not smart enough to know what comes next from a person like Kamala. After all, she’s a “woman”. More importantly a woman of color. ...
Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2024 11:15 AM (pcNL9)
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This happened with Hillary!, too. It is so, so stupid. Kamala - like Hillary! - is not a woman. Her genitals are irrelevant. She is a sexless creature of power. She is no more a woman than Hillary! is, or Pelosi. She is no more a woman than McConnell or Schumer are men. Sex is irrelevant at that level of Party politics. You're a creature of raw power, or you're not in the game.

That Kamala - unlike Hillary! - also happens to be stupid is just the shit icing on the garbage cake.

But "sisterhood" or whatever, I guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

87 I believe there are people who are just too stupid to understand 'price controls' and communism. They'd only come to realize how horrible those are after they've been subjected to them for a period of time.

Of course there are those that would think otherwise. Those people don't deserve to breathe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (Q4IgG)

88 So where is the lie in Waltz's investments. I know he's lying. Someone needs to figure out how.
Posted by: Ribbed

From News Nation:

"The couple took home a combined $166,719 in 2022, with just over $51,000 of that coming from Gwen Walz’s income as an educator and the rest from Tim Walz’s salary as governor. He has had a pay bump since then, his salary going from $116,000 to $149,550.

The majority of the Walz’s assets are in savings and pensions. They have a 529 college savings plan for their children and hold life insurance policies along with four pensions between them. He is also likely to be eligible for federal retirement plans.

A 2019 disclosure estimated the pensions to be worth $81,000 to $215,000 and a federal retirement plan for his years of service in Congress could earn a federal retirement benefit of $55,000 per year.

It’s possible Walz could have invested in a 401k-like Thrift Savings Plan, but that is unknown since it’s not required to be disclosed."

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (vFG9F)

89 77
I went to a WF once. Once. It was the most pretentious place on the planet. Walked right out.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq.

I see that you had never visited the Berkeley Co-op (or whatever they style themselves now, if they still exist). That place and its denizens had a lock on this nation's National Pretentiousness Reserve.

It probably suffocated to death under its mountains of smugness. It was equally likely to have shattered into several contending factions over who would become the most communist, ever.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (xG4kz)

I find this also true of Trader Joes...or Aldi West, as I call it.

Whole Foods (and Amazon Fresh) does have good food though. Just need to decide if its worth it instead of hitting Safeway.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (xcxpd)

90 Seems to me, Walz is an old school Democrat. And the old school needs a new roof.

Posted by: Lou Costello, 1952 at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (CV8a5)

91 I also believe a lot of people are waiting to see how this election plays out. If states like NC go for Democrats, the influx of people will stop. People who are moving want to know the state they are joining is solidly behind their personal beliefs. If NC goes for Democrats, it just becomes South New York.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (pcNL9)

92 "Challenge people with opportunity brought about by effort and principled behavior and you will never win an election. Offer people excuses for their laziness and revenge against the people who do better than they and you will have power over them."

This is what comes of abdicating the education system and the culture wars. What you're saying isn't true, but it takes work to build a healthy, thriving culture.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (Ectld)

93 Kamala Harris just made her first huge campaign blunder this past week when she proposed price controls on groceries.

----------------

Future Starvers of America hardest hit.

Old &: Busted: Free Shit Army (FSA).
New Hotness: Future Starvers of America (FSA).

Make The Holodomor Great Again!

OUT: Stagflation.
IN: Starveflation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (t3hlM)

94 I suppose it's possible that Walz is just really dumb and fiscally irresponsible.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (vFG9F)

95 Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America!

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:21 AM (t3hlM)

96 Future Starvers of America hardest hit.

Old &: Busted: Free Shit Army (FSA).
New Hotness: Future Starvers of America (FSA).

Make The Holodomor Great Again!

OUT: Stagflation.
IN: Starveflation.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:20 AM (t3hlM)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (xcxpd)

97 You can pull it off in a homogeneous culture with uniform interests. However, there are very few monasteries left.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:18 AM (1Nxff)
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No you can't. You can make it take longer to fail, or more effectively maintain power through total brutality, but you cannot make it work.

Sweden couldn't make it work.
North Korea can't make it work.
Cuba can't make it work.

There is no level of homogeneity or common interest that can make it work. There is only *one* scale at which "communism" can even sort of work - and at which it routinely does, though it also fails at that scale all the time - and that is the family.

Families tend to be cooperative and communal. People make sacrifices for family they would *not* make for a stranger. People will accept unfairness to support their own blood. Scale it up beyond that and it collapses. Even the Israeli kibbutzim mostly failed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (HnUIn)

98 "I suppose it's possible that Walz is just really dumb and fiscally irresponsible."

These truths we hold to be self evident...

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (B0mGw)

99
Commie Mark Hamill alienates MAGA at a convention. Clip on Valliant Renegade's channel.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

He had better watch himself. We are fast approaching the time of year when bags of suet with raisins for eyes like him are hung up to feed overwintering birds.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (xG4kz)

100 I think we're being unnecessarily harsh on Mr. Walz. He may not be a complete Communist. It's possible that he's also too lazy and stupid to make investments. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (xCA6C)

101 Good systems acknowledge the inevitability - and even the frequency/commonality - of failure and tries to survive it. Bad systems demand an absence of failure, and externalizes failures onto enemies (hoarders and wreckers and kulaks and MAGAts).
Most systems are bad. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (HnUIn)

Much too long to get into in a little gray box, but I remember an economist from Indiana named Campbell had a brilliant analysis of why central planning would never work. It was because the people in Moscow had no idea what was going on because every layer below them had an incentive to sandbag their numbers, overproduce their assigned quotas, and barter the surplus to other collective enterprises. So the tractor works would produce extra tractor parts and trade them with the collective farm for some extra radishes and potatoes. All across the economy, Moscow had no idea what was actually being produced and consumed.
https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/1163.html

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (r5tfK)

102 >>> 55 You only have to vote for communism once before you find yourself in a situation that you can’t vote your way out of. We cannot allow that to happen.--

Vote your way in. Shoot your way out.
That's the way it works.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 11:13 AM (FCbAQ)

We *used* to think this wasn't true...

Posted by: Venezuela at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (FnneF)

103 11 - Walz has been sucking on the public tit all his life, I take it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:04 AM (1Nxff)

You make that sound like a bad thing.
Schmuck Schumer

Posted by: BUTCH at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (0APJ3)

104 The media has been lavishing praise on Tim Walz for his lack of investments

If the Republican VP candidate spoke Russian, had taught in Russia, and had visited Russia 30 times, you think that the media would notice?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (uxCna)

105
I went into a Whole Foods once. Only thing I looked at was their seafood which seemed appropriately priced. The store was humongous and I have no issue with walking but I find huge grocery stores annoying.

"Toilet paper? Oh, that's in the first aisle, one quarter mile straight ahead on the left."

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (RKVpM)

106 Without the market setting prices, the value of anything is unknowable.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (aD39U)

107 ‘ The organs of the left understand that the promise of turning the United States into Venezuela is political suicide’

I know it’s obvious to everyone here but our democrat opponents operate from within a bubble.
It’s about darn time that we benefited from it

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (jbnUc)

108 "I think we're being unnecessarily harsh on Mr. Walz. He may not be a complete Communist. It's possible that he's also too lazy and stupid to make investments. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
Posted by: Archimedes "

I would like to hear about his charitable contributions.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (vFG9F)

109 "If the Republican VP candidate spoke Russian, had taught in Russia, and had visited Russia 30 times, you think that the media would notice?"

Trump had an ally fly over Russia and that's all we heard about for months.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (B0mGw)

110 As someone once said, "Democracy is like a train. When you get to your desired stop, it's time to get off."

Meaning we're only one election away from tyranny. Choose wisely.

Posted by: RS at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (E7m29)

111
I would like to hear about his charitable contributions.
Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (vFG9F)

No one is stingier with his own money than a progressive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (1Nxff)

112 “ But "sisterhood" or whatever, I guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)”

If you don’t have the intellect and the ability to cut through the bs, on both sides, and determine exactly where each path will take you, maybe you shouldn’t be voting at all. Democrats have told you for the last four years where they are taking you. They have no limits and putting them in charge will only embolden and hasten their pace. It’s clear as day on issue after issue they will use the power of government to force their agenda on the American people. The COVID scam where they forced people to take the vaccine, forced them out of jobs, and destroyed people’s livelihoods to wasn’t that long ago. That was just a preview of what’s to come.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2024 11:24 AM (pcNL9)

113 Much too long to get into in a little gray box, but I remember an economist from Indiana named Campbell had a brilliant analysis of why central planning would never work.

That was Hayek's basic point - central planners will never have enough information.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (uxCna)

114 “In American cities, this Harris policy has created joyful phenomenon of ‘bread lines’ bringing people together to dance, sing, connect.”

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Old &: Busted: Fweedom From "Job Lock!"
New Hotness: Fweedom From "Food Lock!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (PBEFk)

115 106 Without the market setting prices, the value of anything is unknowable.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (aD39U)

And that's where the Central Committee steps in....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

116 Families tend to be cooperative and communal. People make sacrifices for family they would *not* make for a stranger. People will accept unfairness to support their own blood. Scale it up beyond that and it collapses. Even the Israeli kibbutzim mostly failed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Define family.

Mom & dad & brother & sister?

Because I have cousins that can suck hind tit. I have friends I'd help before some "family".

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (PiUts)

117 As someone once said, "Democracy is like a train. When you get to your desired stop, it's time to get off."

Erdogan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (uxCna)

118 Missed last thread but wanted to say that Corporations didn't create the nightmare that is today's HR but rather the government did with the vast number employment related laws and regulations.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (B1dzx)

119 "Sanctimony premium" is a nice phrase. I shall file it away for future use.

Something to consider: how much of the price of your final goods from any location or supplier consists of the Sanctimony Premium? If you shop at Kroger, you're still paying it - they're still woke, still activist, still nasty - but you're just paying a smaller premium as a percentage of goods price.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:06 AM (HnUIn)

Although in the case of Whole Foods you're paying what amounts to "prestige" pricing, for the bag and the honor of being seen there.
Much like the BMW badge on your car, or the little horse on your polo shirt.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (FCbAQ)

120 You will own nothing and you will be happy.

Walz Economic Forum

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

121
Then when you finally get to the front of the bread line, you'll be told there's no bread because spirited urban youths have made off with all of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (1Nxff)

122 Vote your way in. Shoot your way out.

Day 1, kamala executive order:

QUICK GRAB ALL GUNS

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (L5vNm)

123 Walz has investments. Lots of them. Worth millions.

They are held in China. So, of course they're not revealed in public searches here.

My theory.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (Q4IgG)

124 78 Most systems are bad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:16 AM (HnUIn)

Compete or Die.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (UnA8+)

125 Obama's ol man a commie
Harris' ol man a commie
Buttigeg's ol man a commie

I think I see a trend here...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (W/lyH)

126 I feel so picked on today! First HR and now Whole Foods.

Our Whole Foods closed, but I liked their salad bar, it was really great. I shop a lot at Fresh Market to supplement my Hungry Root order, which, if you want to laugh, auto corrected to hungry toot. I also get a lot of produce at our farmers market. We go through a lot of produce in this house.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:26 AM (pZEOD)

127
I think we're being unnecessarily harsh on Mr. Walz. He may not be a complete Communist. It's possible that he's also too lazy and stupid to make investments.

He and Bernie are two brothers from different mothers, you say?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (xG4kz)

128 "If the Republican VP candidate spoke Russian, had taught in Russia, and had visited Russia 30 times, you think that the media would notice?"

Somebody noted that Waltz had the classic profile of someone recruited as a Chinese spy in college.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (uxCna)

129 94 I suppose it's possible that Walz is just really dumb and fiscally irresponsible.

100 I think we're being unnecessarily harsh on Mr. Walz. He may not be a complete Communist. It's possible that he's also too lazy and stupid to make investments. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

We have achieved consensus!

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

130 Re Walz: What is the present value of his government pensions?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (rJ48h)

131 I doubled Biden's estates in Macau. Walz turned ... for much less.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (aD39U)

132 I find this also true of Trader Joes...or Aldi West, as I call it. ...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (xcxpd)
++++
Did you know that this is literally true?

Aldi - the original German discounter - split in the sixties, IIRC. Each founding brother took a chunk of the business. It became Aldi North (Aldi Nord) and Aldi South (Aldi Sud). Both thrived and expanded.

When expanding into foreign markets, they divvied up countries. "Aldi" in France is Aldi Nord. "Aldi" in Italy is Aldi Sud.

The US was too big and the market too fractured to do that. In the US, Aldi Sud broke in first and took the "Aldi" name. When Aldi Nord entered a couple of years later, they couldn't use the Aldi name. They chose "Trader Joe's" instead.

Aldi Nord is the weak sister domestically. Trader Joe's is much smaller than the domestic Aldi brand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

133 I'll tell you who is charitable. Donald Trump. He even donated his salary as President to charities. You never hear about that. You never hear about Joe doing it either.

I think I remember seeing that the Bidens gave about $40K 2022-2023. I don't know what Trump gives away, but I'm sure it's millions and a lot with no fanfare at all.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (vFG9F)

134 >>> With both individuals on the Democrat ticket being proud and open communists, a vote for Trump is now a vote to save our country.

If DNC boots those two and inserts a more 'mainstream' team,
They are still the same machine that thought they were acceptable to their platform. They are turning down the rhetoric.

Endgame remains the same - totalitarian government with them in charge.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (cOq4q)

135 Commie Mark Hamill alienates MAGA at a convention. Clip on Valliant Renegade's channel.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

He had better watch himself. We are fast approaching the time of year when bags of suet with raisins for eyes like him are hung up to feed overwintering birds.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (xG4kz)

He's a Cis Het White Male. He's already marked. If he's honest, he feels it too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (xcxpd)

136 Are all fags drama queens?

Is it too early to hate everyone?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (CO5FX)

137 That Harris and the Dems gets literal support from the communist workers parties in the US in general elections is of course ignored by the Left when trying to push back on the communist label.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (B1dzx)

138 Morning.

I don't think that Walz's lack of investments prove he's a communist. It seems instead that it's evidence that he lacks an understanding of how money works and how to make it work for him. So definitely a true blue lefty.

Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (1Yy3c)

139 "I'll tell you who is charitable. Donald Trump. He even donated his salary as President to charities. You never hear about that. You never hear about Joe doing it either."

It's not a charity unless it's taken by force.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (Ectld)

140 116 Define family.

Mom & dad & brother & sister?

Because I have cousins that can suck hind tit. I have friends I'd help before some "family".
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (PiUts)

My father was very much "Every man (and woman) for him (or her) Self.

His brother and sister aren't like that, but I also think they might not have got as much help from my grandparents as he did.

I think he feels some shame over that, over not being self-made.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (UnA8+)

141 It’s possible Walz could have invested in a 401k-like Thrift Savings Plan, but that is unknown since it’s not required to be disclosed."

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:19 AM (vFG9F)

Ah. An undisclosed 401(k), and 4 gubmint pensions for life. That is not a bad plan.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (wGerL)

142 Vote your way in. Shoot your way out.

Day 1, kamala executive order:

QUICK GRAB ALL GUNS
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

Pro tip: grabbing them by the business end is bad juju.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (PiUts)

143 Did you know that this is literally true?

Aldi - the original German discounter - split in the sixties, IIRC. Each founding brother took a chunk of the business. It became Aldi North (Aldi Nord) and Aldi South (Aldi Sud). Both thrived and expanded.

When expanding into foreign markets, they divvied up countries. "Aldi" in France is Aldi Nord. "Aldi" in Italy is Aldi Sud.

The US was too big and the market too fractured to do that. In the US, Aldi Sud broke in first and took the "Aldi" name. When Aldi Nord entered a couple of years later, they couldn't use the Aldi name. They chose "Trader Joe's" instead.

Aldi Nord is the weak sister domestically. Trader Joe's is much smaller than the domestic Aldi brand.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

I did know. Thanks to the Fat Electrician.
It's still interesting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (xcxpd)

144 >>> 128 "If the Republican VP candidate spoke Russian, had taught in Russia, and had visited Russia 30 times, you think that the media would notice?"
==
Somebody noted that Waltz had the classic profile of someone recruited as a Chinese spy in college.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (uxCna)

Ha, even Eric Swallwell held out for some poon.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (FnneF)

145 Its tongue bath time for the media and the Kamala ticket. So much about what Kamala will do for us, it all sounds wonderful. I don't know if I can contain myself with excitement for the future. (actually I'm kind of depressed, but I still remember Hillary was far ahead in the poles in 2016)

Posted by: Colin at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (e8qy3)

146 I mean, how hard is it to figure out Kamala has changed her positions on almost every issue she has firmly held for at least ten years in the last few weeks.

You might as well write “stupid” on your forehead.

But, woman!!

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (pcNL9)

147
The difference between Walz and the rest of us is that he's one book deal from rolling in it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:30 AM (1Nxff)

148 Are all fags drama queens?

Is it too early to hate everyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (CO5FX)

Yes.

No.

Posted by: Robert at August 19, 2024 11:30 AM (1Yy3c)

149 Much too long to get into in a little gray box, but I remember an economist from Indiana named Campbell had a brilliant analysis of why central planning would never work. It was because the people in Moscow had no idea what was going on because every layer below them had an incentive to sandbag their numbers, overproduce their assigned quotas, and barter the surplus to other collective enterprises. So the tractor works would produce extra tractor parts and trade them with the collective farm for some extra radishes and potatoes. All across the economy, Moscow had no idea what was actually being produced and consumed.
https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/1163.html
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:22 AM (r5tfK)
++++
This is a basic premise from Mises and Hayek. They called it the "Socialist Calculation Problem." Even *if* your economic commanders are all intelligent, honest, reasonable, rational and free of any personal ambition or conflict of interest - even if they are perfect men, in other words - it is *still* impossible because value discovery is still imperfect and, in fact, made worse under socialism due to the lack of effective signaling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

150
”The Mother's Milk of The Police State; Tim Walz Is A Communist Investor” [Points & Figures – 8/08/2024]

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:30 AM (5ZI3r)

151 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Must be a thing with German brothers ( see Addidas and Puma)

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (B1dzx)

152
Is it too early to hate everyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Hate has no alarm clock

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

153 Walz' govt pension must be uuuuge! he has no need for IRAs or similar.

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (V13WU)

154 >>> 136 Are all fags drama queens?

Is it too early to hate everyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (CO5FX)

It is NEVER too early to hate everyone!

I'll come sit by you and we can drink some (more) Hate Covfefe.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (FnneF)

155 Speaking of foreign grocery stores, we suddenly have a Lidl now.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:32 AM (UnA8+)

156 "I mean, how hard is it to figure out Kamala has changed her positions on almost every issue she has firmly held for at least ten years in the last few weeks."

This is really easy to rebut.

"Nuh uh."

Posted by: Democrat Voters at August 19, 2024 11:32 AM (Ectld)

157 Define family.

Mom & dad & brother & sister?

Because I have cousins that can suck hind tit. I have friends I'd help before some "family".
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:25 AM (PiUts)
++++
Depends on the person, of course. And it often doesn't apply at all. Plenty of people hate their families, or hate certain members of them.

Something loosely definable as "socialst-ish" *can* work at family scale, but it doesn't have to and often doesn't. But it absolutely can *not* be scaled beyond that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)

158 Just finished my baked beans and Nathan's hot dog. Piper has to chime in with Hungry Toot. And HR is a tool of the devil.

Posted by: Opinionated, And Always Right at August 19, 2024 11:32 AM (CV8a5)

159 I did know. Thanks to the Fat Electrician.
It's still interesting.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 19, 2024 11:29 AM (xcxpd)
++++
Who is the Fat Electrician?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:32 AM (HnUIn)

160 Aldi Nord is the weak sister domestically. Trader Joe's is much smaller than the domestic Aldi brand.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)
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My observations is that TJ tend to be in urban areas whereas Aldi is in rural or suburbs. My other observation is "Trader Joe's" is a stupid name that has all the wrong connotations for supermarket. It's just unappetizing and so generic it could apply to anything.

It never ceases to amaze me how often companies screw up the name of their brands.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

161 136 Is it too early to hate everyone?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 19, 2024 11:28 AM (CO5FX)

Hate is what makes us human.

Hate is what makes us aim to be superior to others.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (UnA8+)

162
The Aldi's in my 'hood is maybe 1/4 the size of the Trader Joe's I visited in my daughters 'hood. Trader Joe's had a lot more variety. I don't need a lot of variety. It's nice if you want some weird ethnic food from some corner of the world but I don't.

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (RKVpM)

163
Who is the Fat Electrician?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

He is Everybody ... and Nobody

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (xG4kz)

164 Is Chicago on fire yet or are the "mostly peaceful" protesters even lazier than those slackers at Columbia?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (FnneF)

165 Bill Clinton went to the Soviet Union when he was at Oxford. Wouldn't be surprised if he was recruited.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (B1dzx)

166 It never ceases to amaze me how often companies screw up the name of their brands.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

167 Trump to charity: Here's a million dollars.

The Media: That's not Trump's money. It's from his foundation!

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:34 AM (vFG9F)

168 Bill and Hillary to charity: Here's a million dollars.

The Media: *swoon*

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:34 AM (vFG9F)

169 122 Vote your way in. Shoot your way out.

Day 1, kamala executive order:

QUICK GRAB ALL GUNS
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THERE IS NO MORE APPROPRIATE TIME TO USE YOUR GUNS THAN WHEN SOMEONE COMES TO TAKE THEM.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (uV5B0)

170 158 Just finished my baked beans and Nathan's hot dog. Piper has to chime in with Hungry Toot. And HR is a tool of the devil.
Posted by: Opinionated, And Always Right

Oh dear heavens, that meal. 😂. Maybe and apple and some carrots? As I said below, HR allows me to live my fitness guru to the stars lifestyle, along with my love for the patriarchy. But I have a feeling most haven’t ever had HR like J.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (pZEOD)

171 Remember when the Clinton Foundation was going to step in and help Haiti? Fun times.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (IHRQq)

172 Without the market setting prices, the value of anything is unknowable.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:23 AM (aD39U)

It's much better to have a system where the "market" sets the price, but we get to set the value of money.

Posted by: Fed Bankers at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (FCbAQ)

173 The difference between Walz and the rest of us is that he's one book deal from rolling in it.

And, like Whole Foods, the product is mostly for show. You put a book "written" by Walz on your coffee table; unread of course.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

174
It never ceases to amaze me how often companies screw up the name of their brands.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

When a company merger occurred, there was a contest for the employees to come up with a new name (my suggestion was "Elvis"). Instead they ended up just making the two names into a single name. Idiots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (1Nxff)

175 I didn't like Whole Foods because it's just another grocery store. I had been going to a small local store called Natures. It was actually relaxing to shop there.

Here I shop at Mr K's and can do Dillons (aka Krogers) if I go to the big city. It'll do. I wish I could find a farmers market but that would probably mean a trip to the city. I'm happy I can get raw milk.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (dDSBl)

176
Is Chicago on fire yet or are the "mostly peaceful" protesters even lazier than those slackers at Columbia?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

** as whiny as you can imagine **

"Where's our breakfasts? We have a MEEEEEEEEAL plan!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:36 AM (xG4kz)

177 Bill Clinton went to the Soviet Union when he was at Oxford. Wouldn't be surprised if he was recruited.
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (B1dzx)

The real William Blythe died in a Siberian Gulag in 1979.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 11:36 AM (aD39U)

178 It is amusing that Trader Joe's charges a pretense premium for their products and their own target market wants price controls to destroy it.

Won't just be prices.
Raisens, apricots, dates, pineapple will be just 'dried fruit' at the same price regardless of variety. OK, it will the lowest cost variety.

One my not like Trader Joe's. But variety, next after pretense, is what makes them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 11:36 AM (cOq4q)

179 166 Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August

Their speculoos peanut butter has crack in it. I am sure of it.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:36 AM (pZEOD)

180 Walz' govt pension must be uuuuge! he has no need for IRAs or similar.

Here we go.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:36 AM (xCA6C)

181 174 When a company merger occurred, there was a contest for the employees to come up with a new name (my suggestion was "Elvis"). Instead they ended up just making the two names into a single name. Idiots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (1Nxff)
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Well, we were Pathway Technologies, and then we merged with E-Tech Solutions. So, I guess we'll now be Path-E-Tech Industry Solutions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

182 It never ceases to amaze me how often companies screw up the name of their brands.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)
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The name is still dumb and who knows how much more of a following the stores would have if it had a better name. "Trader Joe's" sounds to me like a slave auction.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

183 Anytime you forcibly take from the producers and give it to the non-producers you are going to have issues.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (B1dzx)

184 166 Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August

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There's one Peloton instructor who mentions Trader Joe's in almost every class she teaches.

It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

185 The fawning left-wing rag Axios ran an article on Walz's investment acumen.

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Ace hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (5ZI3r)

186 This busty brunette already can't afford intact clothing, and so is extremely troubled by the notions of price controls making the problem even worse:
http://tiny.cc/kb1izz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (HnUIn)

187 Their speculoos peanut butter has crack in it. I am sure of it.
Posted by: Piper

*cookie butter has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (CIS44)

188 I don't need a lot of variety. It's nice if you want some weird ethnic food from some corner of the world but I don't.

But...the best asafoedita comes from Penzey's! Anything else smells like s***!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

189 If DNC boots those two and inserts a more 'mainstream' team,

The party will disintegrate.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (PiUts)

190 Axios: Politico for Kidz

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (aD39U)

191 There's one Peloton instructor who mentions Trader Joe's in almost every class she teaches.

It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
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See Also: cultish devotion to "In-N-Out Burger"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

192
The Democrats run criminal regimes. They've stolen close to the limit of what is possible without collapse, with their courts and law enforcement making their theft legal.
It won't be easy to take anything back.

They've put y'all back in chains.

Posted by: Auspex at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (j4U/Z)

193 If it's true that Walz was recruited by the Chinese then it's only logical to presume he's got a small fortune tied up over there for when he retires.

Retires to China.

I don't for a second believe a politician hasn't accumulated wealth from being in office. The political system in the country seems to do this automatically.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)

194 "If DNC boots those two and inserts a more 'mainstream' team,"

Is that still an option?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (Ectld)

195 Check it out: "Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation" 🥴

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I guess killing babies is killing babies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

196 Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August

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There's one Peloton instructor who mentions Trader Joe's in almost every class she teaches.

It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
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I think I see your problem

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

197 186 This busty brunette already can't afford intact clothing, and so is extremely troubled by the notions of price controls making the problem even worse:
http://tiny.cc/kb1izz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August

Whoever did her lips needs to be fired.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (pZEOD)

198 191 See Also: cultish devotion to "In-N-Out Burger"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

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See...now that's weird.

When Burger King is right there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

199 "If DNC boots those two and inserts a more 'mainstream' team,"

Is that still an option?

IMHO, it is not. They're stuck with these two assclowns.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

200 191 See Also: cultish devotion to "In-N-Out Burger"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

That's more "Haha, you suck, you're on the East Coast, you can't get it!".

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (UnA8+)

201 Anytime you forcibly take from the producers and give it to the non-producers you are going to have issues.
Posted by: polynikes

The producers will get tired of it and either Go Galt or end the non producers.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:40 AM (PiUts)

202 196 I think I see your problem
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

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Eh. I like some of them. Besides, their classes keep me getting progressively swol and sexy.

I could replace them with some other app thing, but Dolley's gonna pay for the subscription no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

203 *points at eye, points at you*

Posted by: The Burger King at August 19, 2024 11:40 AM (aD39U)

204 Axios: Politico for Kidz
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (aD39U)
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After their big layoff, their product has not diminished in quantity or quality, nor has it improved.

Imagine being unarguably demonstrated as dead weight at *Axios.* That has to be a hit to the ole' ego. Being dead weight at, say, Procter and Gamble is still being dead weight a company that makes things people want. But being dead weight at an outfit like Axios? Oy, that's gotta hurt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

205 "Instead they ended up just making the two names into a single name. Idiots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hmm. I wonder what the two names were. Idaho Patriots? Ideal Riots?

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (vFG9F)

206 Is it too early to hate everyone?
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Depends. I tend to recommend first, make sure caffeine levels are optomized and well into the green (and stabilized) before making such determinations. Coffee, after all really isn't for me, it's for *you*, I like to remind people.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (o3xwr)

207 And, like Whole Foods, the product is mostly for show. You put a book "written" by Walz on your coffee table; unread of course. Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

I have a suspicion that most of the "book deals" never actually result in enough published books to justify the advance, and are not intended to. They're just money laundering, like Hunter's artwork. You will never see a Walz book on anyone's coffee table, even at the Walz's house.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (r5tfK)

208
This busty brunette already can't afford intact clothing

Elaine: “The worst place in the world. With devils, and those caves, and the ragged clothing. And the heat — my God, the heat!”

Puddy: "It's gonna be tough."

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (RKVpM)

209 The left: There is no inflation anyone that claims there is, is a science denying racist.

Also the left: We need price controls to deal with the out of control hyper inflation

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (oZhjI)

210 Board member of major Christian ministries tells "Evangelicals for Harris" that he wants abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare" 🤨

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'Cause that's worked out so well.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

211 Imagine being unarguably demonstrated as dead weight at *Axios.* That has to be a hit to the ole' ego. Being dead weight at, say, Procter and Gamble is still being dead weight a company that makes things people want. But being dead weight at an outfit like Axios? Oy, that's gotta hurt.

You have no idea.

Posted by: 90% of the old Twitter work force at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)

212 >>> 166 It never ceases to amaze me how often companies screw up the name of their brands.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Hasn't hurt Trader Joe's. It isn't as big as Aldi, but has an oddly fanatic following throughout the land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

Do I count as a fanatic if I go to TJ's whenever I'm in the vicinity, but I haven't been on a day trip to DFW for um... a couple years I think??

Their frozen veggies ingredients are almost always "this veggie" and not "this veggie, soy protein, xanthum gum, some made up shit, some other made up shit, trumpasofhsdgjbn;Jzure, yet more made up shit, etc". I like the variety of frozen goods, coffee bakery items etc; notice I'm *not* talking about staples though...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (FnneF)

213 Walz finances would be more believable if he had even a small cash account.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (7PziG)

214 Mark Hamill also charges $400 for him to just a sign a photograph of him.

If you want a comic or maybe a poster or Blu-ray box signed, add another $100.

Hey Mark, share the wealth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (Dw7ic)

215 Used to go to Trader Joe's a lot when I lived in Cali since it was near. The one thing I liked was the store was small and I could get when I needed quick. Can't say the same about H-E-B - it is huge! at least i get my steps in while grocery shopping.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (ZtyUu)

216 O/T -- The DNC Final ~~Solution~~ Master Platform begins with a #Woke "land acknowledgment."

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (5ZI3r)

217 See Also: cultish devotion to "In-N-Out Burger"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

That's more "Haha, you suck, you're on the East Coast, you can't get it!".
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (UnA8+)

Ironic that In nOut is the most non woke franchise out there now. ( Screw you traitor Chick Fil A)

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (B1dzx)

218 I have a suspicion that most of the "book deals" never actually result in enough published books to justify the advance, and are not intended to. They're just money laundering

Yeah, you're right. Still, some copies will make it onto coffee tables.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (xCA6C)

219 There is only ONE way to stop the prices increases that are killing all of us. STOP THE SPENDING.

And that will not bring prices down, it will just stop them from increasing more.

The longer you wait to stop the spending the higher prices will be. FOREVER

Because every dollar we let Harris give to an illegal has to come from somewhere.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (oZhjI)

220 Beb. Gotta go check on the beef jerky. Bought an electric smoker from Sam's a couple of years ago. Making jerky. Want to buy s meat slicer so I can cut my own roasts as thin as I want.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (PiUts)

221 I just want an H-Mart where I live, damn it.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (UnA8+)

222 212 Their frozen veggies ingredients are almost always "this veggie" and not "this veggie, soy protein, xanthum gum, some made up shit, some other made up shit, trumpasofhsdgjbn;Jzure, yet more made up shit, etc". I like the variety of frozen goods, coffee bakery items etc; notice I'm *not* talking about staples though...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:41 AM (FnneF)

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My frozen bags of broccoli, Great Value brand, from Wal-Mart are just broccoli.

I eat that shit every damn day now. Add some lime juice and some pepper. It's the only major source of carbs I get in a day. And it's not even that many carbs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

223 I have a suspicion that most of the "book deals" never actually result in enough published books to justify the advance, and are not intended to. They're just money laundering

Speaker Wright got in trouble for something like this...but that's back when the government was willing to occasionally investigate a Democrat.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (oZhjI)

224 I wonder what "2 buck Chuck" is going for at TJs these days?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (CIS44)

225 There's one Peloton instructor who mentions Trader Joe's in almost every class she teaches.

It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)
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See Also: cultish devotion to "In-N-Out Burger"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)
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Everything is fiercely tribal in a way that didn't exist a few decades ago. Personally, I never understood it. I don't care about brands or brand loyalty or anything other than choosing products based on their value and quality. There are certain brands I like and buy because they have consistently impressed me. But if something better comes along, then I will go with that. I owe companies diddly squat.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

226
Check it out: "Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation"

What -- they're going head to head to pile up dead babies against piled up rubble and then see whose pile is admired most by the cognoscenti?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (xG4kz)

227 61
‘ It's more than political suicide. It will physically end democrats for two generations’

From your keyboard to God’s eyes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

228 "Mark Hamill also charges $400 for him to just a sign a photograph of him."

How much to blow me?

Posted by: What I Would Ask at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (vFG9F)

229 221 I just want an H-Mart where I live, damn it.
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (UnA8+)

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Shop smart.

Shop S-mart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

230 "Board member of major Christian ministries tells Evangelicals for Harris that he wants abortions to be safe, legal, and rare"

Your church: We need another course on Dave Ramsey's finance classes and also, being a servant leader means doing everything your wife or kids demand regardless of the outcome.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (Ectld)

231 Kamala says "Food desert."

Lizzo shows up, "where's the food dessert?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (Dw7ic)

232 The real Joe Mannix wasn't a success until he left corporate Intertech and became a self-employed gumshoe. I think Peggy had a lot to do with it. He was knocked unconscious 55 times and shot about 20 times. Tough cookie.

Posted by: What CTE? at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (CV8a5)

233 Piper, I got a reply from the staffing agency as to why I was not hired for the position I interviewed for last week.

The position called for very specific experience that I do not really have (but was sure I could learn fairly quickly). Seems they went with someone who did have that experience.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (v6JzV)

234 I have an Aldi and Trader Joe within a couple of miles from my house. I've never set foot in either one.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (B1dzx)

235 We don’t have a Trader Joe’s and just got an Aldi. I am surprised about the TJs given the market. Publix owns the mainstream scene here.

J needs to zip it and get off the phone. It’s B12 shot day!

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (pZEOD)

236 225 Everything is fiercely tribal in a way that didn't exist a few decades ago. Personally, I never understood it. I don't care about brands or brand loyalty or anything other than choosing products based on their value and quality. There are certain brands I like and buy because they have consistently impressed me. But if something better comes along, then I will go with that. I owe companies diddly squat.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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We've replace America's religion with Folger's.

Let's see if they notice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

237
Because every dollar we let Harris give to an illegal has to come from somewhere.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (oZhjI)

The incentives to spend are much greater than the incentives not to.

One day there will be a reckoning all politics at this point is based on the idea that today is not that day.

Posted by: blaster at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (V5dm6)

238 It is entirely possible that Walz is also stupid.

Anyone who begins a career...anywhere...and doesn't shelter at least a pittance in 401(k) or IRA accounts is ignorant of reality.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (d9fT1)

239 Peloton instructor

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Put your feet on the pedals. Now go round and round.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

240 When Kamala trotted out this turkey of a plan she said price gaging not gouging....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (IyPmt)

241 225 Everything is fiercely tribal in a way that didn't exist a few decades ago. Personally, I never understood it. I don't care about brands or brand loyalty or anything other than choosing products based on their value and quality. There are certain brands I like and buy because they have consistently impressed me. But if something better comes along, then I will go with that. I owe companies diddly squat.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

People have been conditioned to believe "If you don't like what I like, then you don't like me".

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (UnA8+)

242 I just want an H-Mart where I live, damn it.

You are wise.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

243 239 Peloton instructor

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Put your feet on the pedals. Now go round and round.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

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Mine are:

Put your hands on the weights. Pick them up and put them back down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

244 When Kamala trotted out this turkey of a plan she said price gaging not gouging....
Posted by: It's me donna"

Sounds like she gagged.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (vFG9F)

245 Geez they're really leaning into the pearl necklace on Kamala. It's on her poster.

Democrats fucking despise humanity. They think sleeping your way to the top is "empowering" as long as you're a Marxist.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (JrF6z)

246 My frozen bags of broccoli, Great Value brand, from Wal-Mart are just broccoli.

I eat that shit every damn day now. Add some lime juice and some pepper. It's the only major source of carbs I get in a day. And it's not even that many carbs.

Damn, dude, hell isn't going anywhere, why get an early start?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (xCA6C)

247 71
‘ Didn’t Ron White say “you can’t fix stupid”?’

Ron would know. Isn’t he a democrat.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

248 233 Piper, I got a reply from the staffing agency as to why I was not hired for the position I interviewed for last week.

The position called for very specific experience that I do not really have (but was sure I could learn fairly quickly). Seems they went with someone who did have that experience.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024

I am glad you got that feed back. You never know when someone doesn’t turn out. We will keep praying. I would have a job potential for you if you were in Boston, but who wants to live in Boston?

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (pZEOD)

249 The real Joe Mannix wasn't a success until he left corporate Intertech and became a self-employed gumshoe. I think Peggy had a lot to do with it. He was knocked unconscious 55 times and shot about 20 times. Tough cookie.
Posted by: What CTE? at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (CV8a5)
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Peggy made it possible.

Upright, hard working, fiercely loyal, decent looking, honest and not afraid to either call me on bullshit *or* ride along with it when necessary. Without her, I never would have made it.

*Everyone* needs a Peggy in his life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (HnUIn)

250 "she said price gaging not gouging...."

Don't waste time wrestling with the pig. That's the troll bait.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (Ectld)

251 http://tiny.cc/kb1izz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August

Whoever did her lips needs to be fired.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:39 AM (pZEOD)

It's the ubiquitous dumb girl look.
She's prolly very happy with how it turned out, and it doubles as a red flag for every savvy suitor.

Posted by: Fed Bankers at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (FCbAQ)

252 246 Damn, dude, hell isn't going anywhere, why get an early start?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (xCA6C)

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You know what's hell?

Microwaving this chicken instead of reheating it in the oven.

Dry as shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

253 Thx buck
In Soviet Kamala/Walz America breadlines eat you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (gXGVH)

254 Trader Joe's is awesome. I wish there were one near me. I've got two Safeways and two Whole Paychecks much closer than TJ's. Some of the best Scotch deals I've gotten were at TJ's.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (KAi1n)

255 248 - Bulg, doors will open. Patience is hard, but it will happen.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (pZEOD)

256
Board member of major Christian ministries tells "Evangelicals for Harris" that he wants abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare"

He closed out his remarks with a fervent appeal for "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (xG4kz)

257 "You only have to vote for communism once before you find yourself in a situation that you can’t vote your way out of. We cannot allow that to happen."

We may have already crossed that Rubicon, with the Biden Cheat. But yes, the new commies would be even worse.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (Cus5s)

258 Woot! Coming along nicely.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (PiUts)

259 They think being a human trash receptacle for men is "liberating" as long as you get something in return. It's fascinating when you dig into their "ideology".

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (JrF6z)

260 Kamala still has a gag reflex?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (Dw7ic)

261 Apollo astronauts were generous in providing autographs, but after a while, any celebrity gets tired of people merely obtaining them for flipping or re-sale.

One of the last straws was a fellow who claimed to be a schoolteacher and wanted autographs for every single pupil in class. He bragged about it online, he was no teacher, there was no class, and snagged about 30 autographs.

And that, as they say, was the end of that.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (o3xwr)

262 I don't know if having a love for a certain restaurant is cultish. I think it's just normal when it comes to food.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (B1dzx)

263 People have been conditioned to believe "If you don't like what I like, then you don't like me".
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
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Or "you're stupid and wrong."

I have a friend who doesn't like chicken. Unusual, but okay. Whatever. He doesn't like chicken. Hates it. Avoids it.

He says he's allergic to it. He isn't. It came out once. He says he's allergic to it because he got tired of people hurling abuse at him for having the temerity to dislike chicken.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:47 AM (HnUIn)

264 "he got tired of people hurling abuse at him for having the temerity to dislike chicken."

Seriously, Joe. What's wrong with your friend? Is he some sort of closet perv? Who doesn't like chicken? And you're friends with him.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:48 AM (Ectld)

265
I would have a job potential for you if you were in Boston, but who wants to live in Boston?

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM

Not Dave Loggins' girlfriend. She said no, would you come home to me?

Posted by: Skunk Anti-Defamation League at August 19, 2024 11:48 AM (RKVpM)

266 Seriously, Joe. What's wrong with your friend? Is he some sort of closet perv? Who doesn't like chicken? And you're friends with him.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:48 AM (Ectld)
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I never claimed to man of quality.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:48 AM (HnUIn)

267 Kamala is allergic to chicken but definitely not to cock.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (JrF6z)

268 242 You are wise.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

I have to cross state lines to get to the one closest to me.

It's worth it just to get the tea I like.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (UnA8+)

269 264 "he got tired of people hurling abuse at him for having the temerity to dislike chicken."

Seriously, Joe. What's wrong with your friend? Is he some sort of closet perv? Who doesn't like chicken? And you're friends with him.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:48 AM (Ectld)

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I know he would love it if he tried it from my favorite place. We have to go to my favorite place, and he has to have some chicken.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

270 "I never claimed to man of quality."

Just clowning.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (Ectld)

271 Is it just me or does Tim Walz sound like low-T Cave Johnson?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (D7oie)

272 He says he's allergic to it. He isn't. It came out once. He says he's allergic to it because he got tired of people hurling abuse at him for having the temerity to dislike chicken.

You can tell him we're okay with it.

Posted by: The chickens at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

273 The prepared food at Whole Foods is delicious. I just ignore the people.

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (25k9m)

274 272 You can tell him we're okay with it.
Posted by: The chickens at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

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"Fuck yoooooo!"
-The cows

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

275 "You can tell him we're okay with it."

We're not.

Posted by: The Cows from Chickfila at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (Ectld)

276 Just clowning.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:49 AM (Ectld)
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Clownin' back

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)

277 Everything is fiercely tribal in a way that didn't exist a few decades ago. Personally, I never understood it. I don't care about brands or brand loyalty or anything other than choosing products based on their value and quality. There are certain brands I like and buy because they have consistently impressed me. But if something better comes along, then I will go with that. I owe companies diddly squat.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

People have been conditioned to believe "If you don't like what I like, then you don't like me".
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (UnA8+)
__

Yea, it's like their whole identity is based on the brands. They take it personally if you like a competitor. It's tribalism at its most feral. "Oh, you don't think 'In-N-Out' is the best burger ever? Then fuck you, you're not in my tribe." In some ways, I actually like this behavior. It instantly "outs" the assholes who I want to avoid anyway.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

278 Didn’t Ron White say “you can’t fix stupid”?’

Ron would know. Isn’t he a democrat.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

It seems so.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (B1dzx)

279
People have been conditioned to believe "If you don't like what I like, then you don't like me".
Posted by: XTC

That is true far more often than not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (xG4kz)

280 225 Everything is fiercely tribal in a way that didn't exist a few decades ago.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

When I'm watching my TV
And a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me

Posted by: Rolling Stones at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (VGRuw)

281 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Must be a thing with German brothers ( see Addidas and Puma)
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (B1dzx)

Ha!
Both are HQ'd in Herzogenaurach. I was stationed there on my first tour to Germany. Wonderful little city and the feud is real.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (W/lyH)

282 Kamala 2024: Let's Venezuela the US!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

283 Boston is great.

Except for the prices. And the people. And the weather. And the traffic. And the taxes. And the politics.

Other then that it is just wonderful.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (oZhjI)

284 243
Mine are:

Put your hands on the weights. Pick them up and put them back down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO

This is great this works for you! I am different, I would rather fold laundry than go to a gym, and you know this is what I do. Group fitness keeps me accountable, interested and the variety is so necessary for my adhd brain. I wouldn’t trust myself to do peloton, either, I need to go where I am supposed to be, and sweat my tail off.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (pZEOD)

285 For comparison. About 10 or so years ago.

Stan Lee was $75.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were $80 each.

My Yoshitaka Amano autograph? Buying a con badge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (Dw7ic)

286 You know what's hell?

Microwaving this chicken instead of reheating it in the oven.

Dry as shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

Wrap it in aluminum foil before you microwave it.

Posted by: The Burger King at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (aD39U)

287 255 Thank you, Piper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (v6JzV)

288 283 Boston is great.

Except for the prices. And the people. And the weather. And the traffic. And the taxes. And the politics.

Other then that it is just wonderful.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024

Hence why I live here and he travels there. 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (pZEOD)

289 Pfft. We ain't giving up power, especially to you mouth-breathing troglodytes.

Posted by: DNC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Big Penguin, LLC at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (Xnrdt)

290 When I'm watching my TV
And a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarettes as me

Satisfaction level:
[ ] Satisfied
[X] Unsatisfied

Posted by: The chickens at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (xCA6C)

291 The 9th Circuit, for no reason other than politics, just reversed a lower courts decision that effectively would shut down the chinook fishery in Alaska. The final decision won’t come until after the election. Let that sink in and realize they are trying to keep seats for Democrats in Alaska.

They are pulling out all the stops and trying to fool as many people as they can.

Posted by: Truthbomb at August 19, 2024 11:51 AM (FwedH)

292 Is it just me or does Tim Walz sound like low-T Cave Johnson?

Tim Walz has more Testosterone in his smoothies then most horses have in their whole bodies!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (oZhjI)

293 "Ron would know. Isn’t he a democrat."

If you pick your comedians based on their politics, you're stuck with Kvon and Tim Hawkins. They're all Democrats or butt sex and pot libertarians.

Posted by: The Cows from Chickfila at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (IHRQq)

294 >>> 222
==
My frozen bags of broccoli, Great Value brand, from Wal-Mart are just broccoli.
==
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

I think I noticed the contrast when my nearest big box grocery store was a King Soopers and for whatever reason they had more of the "add lots of crap" brands. New place has several options with more normal choices.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (FnneF)

295 Blah

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (IHRQq)

296 284 This is great this works for you! I am different, I would rather fold laundry than go to a gym, and you know this is what I do. Group fitness keeps me accountable, interested and the variety is so necessary for my adhd brain. I wouldn’t trust myself to do peloton, either, I need to go where I am supposed to be, and sweat my tail off.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (pZEOD)

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I'm kind of surprised that I've kept it up for so long, to be honest.

I have so many failed attempts at regular routines, but I've kept this one for more than a year and a half (except the month or so when we moved last year, which was another kind of physical).

I take Second Junior to daycare, and it's just workout time. MiL is here this week, so I don't have to take him to pre-school, and I wondered if I'd actually do the workouts. I did. Who am I?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

297 I wonder what "2 buck Chuck" is going for at TJs these days?

$3.99, according to TJ's website. To transport and bottle and label that stuff from Chile, there can't be more than 3 cents worth of wine in there.

Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (pJkex)

298 "That means you don't like me!"

Once in a while I'll run into the type (online mostly) when pointing out a factual error, he will ask "You calling me a liar!?"

Um, no. Lying is when someone claims something that he knows is not true. "It's not a lie if you believe it", is sort of true, if you squint.

Modern education stripped out all of the classical traditions of inquiry and Reason, and as should be no surprise, are not taught to think any longer.

They can't separate ideas from personalities. Principles before personalities. This is beneficial from their perspective, because their ideas suck, and always will. So if you can't pound the law, pound the table. "Mob rule" is the most effective way to turn the existing system.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (o3xwr)

299 Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

Posted by: Ash at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (wGerL)

300 Again I think food preference and its advocacy is no different than the movies, music , etc debates.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (B1dzx)

301 I have an Aldi and Trader Joe within a couple of miles from my house. I've never set foot in either one.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:44 AM (B1dzx)

I go to Aldi before Thanksgiving to buy their frozen pie crusts, which I think are quite good. That's it.

And TJs is just a few miles away, but the parking lot is an unmitigated disaster...soccer moms and Karens fighting for spaces. I don't bother, since the only thing I really like is their Tahini.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (d9fT1)

302 285 For comparison. About 10 or so years ago.

Stan Lee was $75.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were $80 each.

I got Joe Montana's signature... On an excuse note for his Daughter... I used to teach at a Catholic Girls school and she was in my class... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (IyPmt)

303 >>> 297 I wonder what "2 buck Chuck" is going for at TJs these days?
==
$3.99, according to TJ's website. To transport and bottle and label that stuff from Chile, there can't be more than 3 cents worth of wine in there.
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (pJkex)

Good thing inflation has been crushed, Comrade!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (FnneF)

304 Put your feet on the pedals. Now go round and round.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Seriously, who needs an "instructor" to ride a damn bike.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (v6JzV)

305 Gen. Honeree, "stuck on stupid."

Alas the General is a Democrat.

Self-awareness fail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (Dw7ic)

306 Some of the best Scotch deals I've gotten were at TJ's. Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM (KAi1n)

They do have Two-buck Chuck.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (r5tfK)

307 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Must be a thing with German brothers ( see Addidas and Puma)
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 11:31 AM (B1dzx)
_______

"Fucking amateurs!"

-- Mughals

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

308 He closed out his remarks with a fervent appeal for "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Will the Dems redo Carter's "Hubert Horatio Hornblower!" moment?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (KAi1n)

309 Priorities, dude. Priorities.

UK to release criminals from jails to make room for anti-immigration protesters and mean tweeters: "Operation Early Dawn"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:54 AM (L/fGl)

310 301 And TJs is just a few miles away, but the parking lot is an unmitigated disaster...soccer moms and Karens fighting for spaces. I don't bother, since the only thing I really like is their Tahini.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (d9fT1)

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Their frozen garlic naan makes a very good and quick pizza crust.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

311 Californians: In-N-Out is the best thing ever!!!!

Texans: What-a-burger is better

Liberals in Texas: In-N-Out is the best thing ever!!!!

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 11:54 AM (25k9m)

312 I would have a job potential for you if you were in Boston, but who wants to live in Boston?

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:46 AM

Live there? Hell no. I just work there and it's annoying.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2024 11:54 AM (ZANHd)

313 This is great this works for you! I am different, I would rather fold laundry than go to a gym, and you know this is what I do. Group fitness keeps me accountable, interested and the variety is so necessary for my adhd brain. I wouldn’t trust myself to do peloton, either, I need to go where I am supposed to be, and sweat my tail off.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM

Consider a personal trainer or coach?

Coaches, especially old-school ones, can be quite motivational.

Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (Xnrdt)

314 >>> I mean, how hard is it to figure out Kamala has changed her positions on almost every issue she has firmly held for at least ten years in the last few weeks.

I want her to compare/contrast.the caste system with racism and why one appears acceptable to her.
I want her to denounce her family.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (cOq4q)

315
Once in a while I'll run into the type (online mostly) when pointing out a factual error, he will ask "You calling me a liar!?"

No, you're too stupid to be liar -- you're an idiot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (xG4kz)

316 The smart Europeans left for the colonies. The smart colonists crossed the Appalachians.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (DTXZY)

317 Will the Dems redo Carter's "Hubert Horatio Hornblower!" moment?

Heh. I'd forgotten that one.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (xCA6C)

318 @18-1, you got it just right (apologies, Piper). My take on Boston would be that it would be a great place to live, but only if you had sufficient income. Without a certain level of wealth, your life would really suck.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (r5tfK)

319 Joey has been yelling some version of "Hubert Horatio Hornblower" for years.

They claim it is only a stutter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (Dw7ic)

320 There's always going to be *something* someone else doesn't like that you like.

If I knew someone that had all of my tastes I would be severely creeped out. I am a fucked up person, I don't want to hang out with another me.

Long as we share a sense of humor I'm good. If you get offended easily, I don't have time for that.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (JrF6z)

321 318 @18-1, you got it just right (apologies, Piper). My take on Boston would be that it would be a great place to live, but only if you had sufficient income. Without a certain level of wealth, your life would really suck.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (r5tfK)

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Same with Hawaii and...probably every blue enclave.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

322 >>Live there? Hell no. I just work there and it's annoying.

Under Mumbles Menino it was a fantastic place to live but they've gone full communist now.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (LkLld)

323 A "sanctimony premium". Love it. I agree. I refuse to shop any place the female cashiers have more facial hair than I do

Posted by: ombudsman at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (/jCTW)

324 Once in a while I'll run into the type (online mostly) when pointing out a factual error, he will ask "You calling me a liar!?" ...
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (o3xwr)
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LOLYUP.

No, I wasn't calling you a liar. I said you're wrong.

But you immediately asserting that I called you a liar makes me reassess my position and yeah, now, I *am* calling you a liar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (HnUIn)

325 320 Long as we share a sense of humor I'm good. If you get offended easily, I don't have time for that.
Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (JrF6z)

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This offends me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

326 I think America is too far gone to save, there is a clear majority of lunatics who are going to keep voting for this sh*t until everything falls apart and there simply are not enough conservatives who give enough of crap to get off their asses and vote.

The KY Governors race completely black pilled me on the conservative, Republican vote.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)

327 Because every dollar we let Harris give to an illegal has to come from somewhere.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (oZhjI)

That's the problem, the money comes from nowhere with no value behind it. They are printed or just "deemed" to exist and are put on the ledgers, and Treasuries are issued with no value, and the value of dollars already created is now less.
Printing is inflationary, and what we are doing is pretty much going to be hyperinflationary real soon.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (D7oie)

328 Kamala has a lot of positions.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (JrF6z)

329 TJM

People not liking Prometheus offends you. ^_-;;;

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Dw7ic)

330 328 Kamala has a lot of positions.
Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (JrF6z)

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I don't get it, but I find it offensive nonetheless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

331 It's tribalism at its most feral. "Oh, you don't think 'In-N-Out' is the best burger ever? Then fuck you, you're not in my tribe." In some ways, I actually like this behavior. It instantly "outs" the assholes who I want to avoid anyway.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

Yeah, those guys are jerks!

-harley guy who won't ride with bikes of another brand-

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (FCbAQ)

332 There are a lot of old Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans who dislike chicken. Norway never had a Frank Perdue or Colonel Sanders and the only chicken they ever got was when an old laying hen stopped laying and they killed it and boiled it. We never served chicken if my Mom-in-law was coming over.

Posted by: Head Cluck at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (CV8a5)

333 This offends me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

That's why you're an asshole. Well one of the many reasons.

By the way, on the real, Jackie Brown has really grown on me.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (JrF6z)

334 What are you, an idiot?

Don’t call me an idiot, Dixon.

I didn’t call you an idiot. I asked if you was an idiot. It was a question.

Posted by: Random Movie Quotes at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (IHRQq)

335 329 TJM

People not liking Prometheus offends you. ^_-;;;
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Dw7ic)

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Prometheus >>>> Alien Romulus

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

336 Kamala has a lot of positions.

More than the Kama Sutra

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Dw7ic)

337 314 I want her to compare/contrast.the caste system with racism and why one appears acceptable to her.
I want her to denounce her family.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (cOq4q)

I want her to commit seppuku live on camera.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (UnA8+)

338 The smart Europeans left for the colonies. The smart colonists crossed the Appalachians.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 19, 2024 11:55 AM (DTXZY)

Mine wound up in Missouri and became nominal subjects to the King of Spain -- for a while.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (D7oie)

339 333 By the way, on the real, Jackie Brown has really grown on me.
Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (JrF6z)

=======

Because it's great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

340 @brak, the Supreme Court recently heard a case where a man had a "no firearms" restraining order and violated it by firing up a Whataburger. In Texas, that was a line crossed that was unforgivable.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (r5tfK)

341 What a Burger, after you’ve had a kolach for breakfast.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (kmK04)

342 Joe Biden, Jill Biden And Hillary Clinton Among Anticipated Speakers At DNC Day 1

-
Like Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

343
This offends me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles

I don't get it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (xG4kz)

344 Does Mrs. Emhoff shop at Whole Paycheck?

Posted by: Jeff B. wonders at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (DobEs)

345 336 Kamala has a lot of positions.

More than the Kama Sutra
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (Dw7ic)

EWWWWW

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (IyPmt)

346 "Prometheus >>>> Alien Romulus"

I hear herpes is better than syphilis, too.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (Ectld)

347 After seeing the trailer I decided Romulus was a skip.

There really is no terror seeing face huggers in the light skittering.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (Dw7ic)

348 I refuse to shop any place the female cashiers have more facial hair than I do
Posted by: ombudsman at August 19, 2024 11:57

You do realize that after one more facelift, that'll be me?

Posted by: Nancy P. at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (Xnrdt)

349 Because it's great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

Last time I watched it I finally really enjoyed it. Forster is excellent and it's probably Jackson's best role.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (JrF6z)

350 Posted by: The Cows from Chickfila at August 19, 2024 11:52 AM (IHRQq)

Off the top of my head. Adam Carolla, David Spade, Billy Gardell, Tim Allen , Dennis Miller, Jeff Foxworthy and Nick DiPalo.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (B1dzx)

351 We never served chicken if my Mom-in-law was coming over. Posted by: Head Cluck at August 19, 2024 11:58 AM (CV8a5)

Was she comin' round the mountain?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (r5tfK)

352 214 Mark Hamill also charges $400 for him to just a sign a photograph of him.

If you want a comic or maybe a poster or Blu-ray box signed, add another $100.

Hey Mark, share the wealth.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (Dw7ic)

Their are only 2 cast members left that are alive. and I am glad I got a Poster signed by Vader, R2D2,C-3PO, Chewbacca, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamil and Harrison Ford. I am Glad I got it, good memories.

I hear that they are rumored to reboot the entire Star Wars Franchise because it's so toxic right now.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (ALsxG)

353 @339

>>Because it's great!

It's actually not.

I think everyone just like it when Melanie gets shot and finally shut the f**k up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2024 12:00 PM (XV/Pl)

354 Congress last passed a real budget in 07. Who thought this could go on for nearly 20 years?

Posted by: Crazytown! at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (CV8a5)

355 My grandfather raised his own chickens during the Depression.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (v6JzV)

356 Long as we share a sense of humor I'm good. If you get offended easily, I don't have time for that.
Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 11:56 AM (JrF6z)

======

This offends me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 11:57 AM (GBKbO)
***

That's because you are easy.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (W/lyH)

357 Point being politics has very little to do with being funny as a comedian. If you won't listen to a comedian based on their politics, you're pretty much the butt of the joke.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (Ectld)

358 228
‘ How much to blow me?
Posted by: What I Would Ask

If he said yes, would you pretend your dick is a light saber?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (jbnUc)

359 Hey! Jill says tonight in my swan song, whatever that is. I do like gooses though. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (vFG9F)

360 344 Does Mrs. Emhoff shop at Whole Paycheck?
Posted by: Jeff B. wonders at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (DobEs)

Apparently they can't navigate a Sheetz convenience store.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (N39Ws)

361 Their are only 2 cast members left that are alive. and I am glad I got a Poster signed by Vader, R2D2,C-3PO, Chewbacca, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamil and Harrison Ford. I am Glad I got it, good memories.

Ford, Hamill, and Jones? That's 3.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)

362 Sounds like she gagged.
Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 11:45 AM (vFG9F)

I would have thought with her background and supposed experience . . . You know, she would have done better in that speech.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

363 If you won't listen to a comedian based on their politics, you're pretty much the butt of the joke.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:01 PM (Ectld)

Leftard comedy is very rarely comedy. Message comedy is fucking stupid.

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (JrF6z)

364 Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (rJ48h)

365 Silly Rabbit. Price controls will come with electronic biometric purchase cards. You will prepay for your bread. White or fake wheat bread. Your choice! And retina scan at checkout.

only Party members will be permitted to shop at Whole Foods.

Posted by: torabora at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (hPuWo)

366 Texans love their Whataburger. Of course it's owned by some Chicago outfit now and the quality went south, but it still has its fans.

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (25k9m)

367 You forget David Prowse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (Dw7ic)

368 I hear that they are rumored to reboot the entire Star Wars Franchise because it's so toxic right now.

You know who they should get to head that thing up? Kathleen Kennedy! It can't miss!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:03 PM (xCA6C)

369 364 Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (rJ48h)

That's awfully expensive for target practice

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 12:03 PM (IyPmt)

370 368 I hear that they are rumored to reboot the entire Star Wars Franchise because it's so toxic right now.

You know who they should get to head that thing up? Kathleen Kennedy! It can't miss!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:03 PM (xCA6C)

======

Doomcock's been floating that rumor for literally years.

He just reupped it is all.

15% chance of happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

371 Some person in the very liberal town near me had a Biden/Harris sign in their yard even after Biden decided/was told not to- run again. I laughed almost everytime I saw it. Instead of removing that sign they placed stickers on top of the Biden part of it for the D Senate candidate and some other person running locally. Another person in my town still has a Biden Harris-"Unity over division" sign up. I roll my eyes.

Makes me admire the guy in the town living a little further on than the "re-stickered " Harris sign who has a big Trump/Vance banner out. It's the only R sign which I've seen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2024 12:03 PM (dTTBf)

372 "Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?
Posted by: mr tmz "

I'll give you $20 if you throw in the Baby Yoda.

Posted by: Guy on Pawn Stars at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (vFG9F)

373 Snow White > Heaven's Gate

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (Dw7ic)

374 We don't need no stinkin' budget!

Posted by: Congresscritters at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (DobEs)

375 Mark Hamill? Mark Hamill? Doesn't ring a bell.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (FfSAJ)

376 J.K Rowling wasn't going to redo Harry Potter until the main 2 Stars Stabbed her in the back and denounced her and They tried to get the other Cast members to do the same. So her replacing them is revenge and she no longer needs them for promos she will use the new kids.

I do like the Kid who played Malfoy he's done some really good movies and I really liked him in Risen

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (ALsxG)

377 Does Mrs. Emhoff shop at Whole Paycheck?
Posted by: Jeff B. wonders at August 19, 2024 11:59 AM (DobEs)

Party members have maids do the shopping.

Silly Rabbit

Posted by: torabora at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (hPuWo)

378 You forget David Prowse.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (Dw7ic)

Juliette Prowse > David Prowse

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

379 318 @18-1, you got it just right (apologies, Piper). My take on Boston would be that it would be a great place to live, but only if you had sufficient income. Without a certain level of wealth, your life would really suck.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

No apologies needed! I refuse to live there. I live in Alabama.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (pZEOD)

380 379 No apologies needed! I refuse to live there. I live in Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 12:04 PM (pZEOD)

======

Dolley and I met in Alabama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

381 369 364 Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (rJ48h)

That's awfully expensive for target practice
Posted by: It's me donna
________

We're filing a grievance.

Posted by: Stormtroopers Local #15234 at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (24LU/)

382 I just want an H-Mart where I live, damn it.
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 11:43 AM (UnA8+)

I love Super H-Mart.

Sadly, the closest one is 40 minutes from where we live now.

When we lived in Northern Virginia, we shopped there all the time.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (N1DT3)

383 Texans love their Whataburger. Of course it's owned by some Chicago outfit now and the quality went south, but it still has its fans.
Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (25k9m)

Even with a slight drop in quality it's still better than the competition. It's all relative.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (B1dzx)

384 Board member of major Christian ministries tells "Evangelicals for Harris" that he wants abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare" 🤨

Sunday's sermon was about this, how American culture at large thinks the church has nothing important to say anymore because the church decided that its job wasn't important enough to be done by righteous men who would speak the whole of the gospel and call out sin where they saw it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (hB7mE)

385 376. Nah. JK will re do the whole universe every 15 years for the nine figure payoff.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (7PziG)

386 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (rfB6S)

387
only Party members will be permitted to shop at Whole Foods.
Posted by: torabora at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (hPuWo)

In New Soviet America, for is much like dark humor.

Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (FCbAQ)

388 Speaking of Star Wars, Ubisoft is laying off 45 people just before the release of Star Wars Outlaws.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (Dw7ic)

389 Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (rJ48h)

That's awfully expensive for target practice
Posted by: It's me donna
________

We're filing a grievance.
Posted by: Stormtroopers Local #15234 at August 19, 2024 12:05 PM (24LU/)
***

I chuckled.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

390 I love Super H-Mart.

I didn't even know that was a thing. Where is there one in Fairfax Co.?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

391 Whatever else can be said about AI art, it certainly produces adorable burros.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

I saw Adorable Burros open for Government Mule at The State Theater in '99.

Posted by: mikeski at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (DgGvY)

392 I hear that they are rumored to reboot the entire Star Wars Franchise because it's so toxic right now.

You know who they should get to head that thing up? Kathleen Kennedy! It can't miss!
Posted by: Archimedes at

Shawn Levy (Deadpool 3) is currently making one, Im sure itll get shelved

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (CIS44)

393 summa beach! Food, not for.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (FCbAQ)

394 With the death of Phil Donahue, I am reminded of the time he had Milton Friedman on his show. I think that this is even more relevant today and should be required watching in schools. It starts off with a discussion of Friedman's book 'Freedom to Choose'.

https://tinyurl.com/m37cu2xj

Posted by: Cheri at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (oiNtH)

395 You haters will apologize to me next year when Corvette Summer II becomes a blockbuster.

Posted by: Hamill Enterprises, Inc. at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (CV8a5)

396 "Leftard comedy is very rarely comedy."

I find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

397 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?

Posted by: Why not? at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (DobEs)

398 Seriously, who needs an "instructor" to ride a damn bike.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 11:53 AM (v6JzV)

"Look, I will yell at you for a 20 minutes for free!"

-- Nicole Arbour

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (D7oie)

399 J.K Rowling wasn't going to redo Harry Potter until the main 2 Stars Stabbed her in the back and denounced her and They tried to get the other Cast members to do the same. So her replacing them is revenge and she no longer needs them for promos she will use the new kids.

I do like the Kid who played Malfoy he's done some really good movies and I really liked him in Risen
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Good for her!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (PiUts)

400 I love Super H-Mart.

I didn't even know that was a thing. Where is there one in Fairfax Co.?

I shop at the H-Mart in Burke, and according to the website, it is a Super. I did not know that.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (xCA6C)

401 366 Texans love their Whataburger. Of course it's owned by some Chicago outfit now and the quality went south, but it still has its fans.
Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (25k9m)

Didn't the Family Sell? I wonder if this will be like Donatos Pizza when they sold to McDonalds for 300 million and they used cheap ingredients and the quality went south and the Family bought it back for 100 Million and are still running it,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (ALsxG)

402 I'd rather spend $400 on Mozzarella Sticks at Sheetz than spend it on Mark freaking Hamill.

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (UnA8+)

403 Mark Hamill, senior citizen, driving an electric Corvette who gets stranded 50 miles from anywhere when his 'vette's Lith-Ion battery catches fire.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (Dw7ic)

404 Just like Barky The Ho had 2 Marxist parents, lived in foreign countries

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (rfB6S)

405 I do like the Kid who played Malfoy he's done some really good movies and I really liked him in Risen
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Pretty much everyone in Risen is excellent.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (v6JzV)

406 >>> 366 Texans love their Whataburger. Of course it's owned by some Chicago outfit now and the quality went south, but it still has its fans.
Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (25k9m)

I thought it was Minnesota? Whataburger is still one of the better fast food places, but I prefer In-N-Out, and there's a micro chain here in ETex that is better than any of the places people brag about. So there.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (FnneF)

407 397 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?
_____

I'll support that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM (24LU/)

408 I find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

For instance?

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:09 PM (B1dzx)

409 I'm non-political, which is why I've been voted the slowest-rising comedian in America since 1962.

Posted by: Ronnie Schell at August 19, 2024 12:09 PM (CV8a5)

410 Didn't the Family Sell?

from wiki:

Family-owned by the Dobsons until 2019,[7] the chain is now managed by the private equity firm BDT & MSD Partners; the Dobson family still holds a small stake.

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (25k9m)

411 Was Gwen Walz's bra designed by that FSU bridge engineering company?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (Dw7ic)

412 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?
_____

I'll support that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM

Cross your heart?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (ZANHd)

413 Excellent rant, Buck. Thank you. This type of discussion may even eventually get this across to some of the millions who (1) simply always punch the D ticket because that is what you do, (2) those who just loathe Trump and are planning to vote D out of that rage, and (3) those who vote D out of emotion (LIVs) who are uninformed and what little information they absorb comes from the MSM, friends who hate Trump, late night comedians, etc.

Posted by: RM at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (WXucK)

414 397 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?
Posted by: Why not? at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (DobEs)

Why?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (N39Ws)

415 Rebooting Star Wars now means making it more woke, not less. Kennedy will not admit defeat.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (iFMeW)

416 Just like Barky The Ho had 2 Marxist parents, lived in foreign countries
Posted by: Skip

2 divorced marxist parents.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (PiUts)

417 408 I find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

Gutfeld has one on a lot who is pretty funny.. Jamie Lithgow.. Probably misspelled last name

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (IyPmt)

418 Funny video at NY Post showing a woman in China being attacked in a restaurant by a manti shrimp she's trying to dip in hot oil then eat. Serves her right /s

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (gXGVH)

419 Burke, VA: center of the AWFL universe.

Posted by: Have you had your latest booster? at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (DobEs)

420 Rebooting Star Wars now means making it more woke, not less. Kennedy will not admit defeat.

They'll have to pay people to go see it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (xCA6C)

421 You forget David Prowse.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:02 PM (Dw7ic)

Lucas did him Dirty by not letting him be the Face when they finally took the Helmet off, The Documentary on Him is good and they redid the Vader scene with David Prowse but couldn't show the footage.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (ALsxG)

422 John Lithgow can be pretty funny in movies.

"Monkey boys!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (Dw7ic)

423 I still like Whataburger. There's even a few in Missouri around KC, so the Texan in me stops off there when I'm over that way.

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (25k9m)

424 Just like Barky The Ho had 2 Marxist parents, lived in foreign countries
Posted by: Skip

2 divorced marxist parents.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (PiUts)

Don't forget his communist mentor who also probably had his way with him,

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (B1dzx)

425 Walz certainly WILL 'rely on Government' for his needs. He'll get a pension from his schoolteaching days, a pension from his Minnesota government days, and a Congressional pension, PLUS Social Security paid at the highest rate.

Not bad for a Marxist.

Posted by: dad29 at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (3LFpo)

426 "Mark Hamill, senior citizen, driving an electric Corvette who gets stranded 50 miles from anywhere when his 'vette's Lith-Ion battery catches fire.
Posted by: Anna Puma "

Then gets picked up by a pink Cadillac convertible full of trannies.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (vFG9F)

427 Burke, VA: center of the AWFL universe.

I don't know about the center, but they are thick on the ground.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

428 412 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?
_____

I'll support that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2024 12:08 PM

Cross your heart?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
____

We should lift and separate it from this thread. D-cuple it, in other words.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (24LU/)

429 "Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?"

Nope, because I couldn't open the link which was provided.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (dTTBf)

430 "For instance?"

Tim Allen's standup. It's amusing the first time and wears out quick.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (iFMeW)

431 find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

For instance?
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:09 PM

Lindsay Graham.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 19, 2024 12:12 PM (a3Q+t)

432
I hope Chicago stocked up on Rape kits for the DNC convention.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (+oR7L)

433 "Instead they ended up just making the two names into a single name. Idiots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hmmm..
Kamawhal

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (cOq4q)

434 Posted by: dad29 at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (3LFpo)

And the wife's teacher pension. And he likely has a Fed Thrift Savings Plan (gubmint 401(k)) that is not required to be disclosed.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (wGerL)

435 397 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?

I think Piper brought it up earlier this morning.

Posted by: If I recall correctly at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (DobEs)

436 headed to Vegas.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (vFG9F)

437 I don't know Kathleen Madigan's political bent because she never does political comedy but she definitely does moron comedy. It's almost like reading the comments.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (B1dzx)

438 Try again

Kamawalz

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (cOq4q)

439 "Instead they ended up just making the two names into a single name. Idiots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hmmm..
Kamawhal

Timala?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:13 PM (xCA6C)

440 Don't forget his communist mentor who also probably had his way with him,
Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (B1dzx)

Frank Davis - who was either his real dad or his gay "dad".

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 19, 2024 12:14 PM (RXJdG)

441 Walz certainly WILL 'rely on Government' for his needs. He'll get a pension from his schoolteaching days, a pension from his Minnesota government days, and a Congressional pension, PLUS Social Security paid at the highest rate.

Not bad for a Marxist.
Posted by: dad29 at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (3LFpo)

Add up the income from those and figure out what level of savings and investment would garner that at say, a constant no risk return of 5.5%

Dudes living a millionaires life.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 19, 2024 12:14 PM (FCbAQ)

442 Timmah Tampon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:14 PM (Dw7ic)

443 Kablabla

Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM (UnA8+)

444 363
‘ Leftard comedy is very rarely comedy. Message comedy is fucking stupid.’

If it’s plain old comedy, I’m pretty forgiving but leftists can’t STFU for very long about their politics.
It’s what makes them so GD wonderful.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM (jbnUc)

445 Kablabla

Spock, "ah the Great Old One who never shuts up."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM (Dw7ic)

446 The GOP, Congressional Republicans and NRSC should publicly rebuke all never Trumpers as communism enablers. I won’t hold my breath.

Posted by: TC at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM (e1jrp)

447 Kablabla
Posted by: XTC at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM

Kablablabla

Posted by: Greta at August 19, 2024 12:15 PM (ZANHd)

448 Interesting that none of my newz feeds have any info on the DNC convention. I get other leftist garbage, but no stories about the convention.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

449 More than the Kama Sutra

How much for an autographed copy of The Kamala Sutra?

Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (5IEcl)

450 I read this morning that two! Republicans! will speak at the DNC this week. Adam Kinzinger and Ana Navarro. LOL!! Wow, they managed to snag two big R's at their event. Take that Donald Dump! Pro-tip for the DNC: Keep plenty of Kleenex on hand for Kinzinger who is prone to crying jags, and keep Navarro away from the backstage buffet.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Cheri at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (oiNtH)

451 Did a shelving accident take out the Ewok?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (Aoykm)

452 How much for an autographed copy of The Kamala Sutra?

$20, same as at the truck stop

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (Dw7ic)

453 390 I love Super H-Mart.

I didn't even know that was a thing. Where is there one in Fairfax Co.?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

There is one at 11200 Fairfax Blvd , 22030. It's pretty good, and has a food court.

Posted by: Moki at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (wLjpr)

454 Saw "ALIEN: Romulus" this weekend.

No real Spoilers; Still a bit kinda sorta spoilery.

Basically, it took bites out of the first 4 ALIEN movies, and blended them together, ultimately, focussing most heavily on 1 & 4.

And, unfortunately, Romulus is being used as a bridge to bring Ridley Scott's terrible "Prometheus" crapola back into play, so expect that as the next movie.

On the upside: TJM will be thrilled.

I rate the ALIEN movies in the order 1, 2, 3 Romulus, 4, rest of the crap.

Romulus starts out great but surprisingly loses steam when it should just get going. The Xenomorph itself plays a shockingly reduced role, which IMO is a mistake.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (eDfFs)

455 Interesting that none of my newz feeds have any info on the DNC convention. I get other leftist garbage, but no stories about the convention.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2024 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

Check out Second City Cop. He's doing updates.

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (89Sog)

456 "If it’s plain old comedy, I’m pretty forgiving but leftists can’t STFU for very long about their politics."

You always have to pick and choose. I turn the channel or stop the video or whatever if they start glorying in abortion or getting too preachy or graphic about gay stuff. But comedy is funny when it pushes boundaries. The ability to do that to someone who disagrees with you and make them laugh is an art.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (Ectld)

457 I'm sad. William "Porkins" Hootkins, died in 2005.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (aD39U)

458 I didn't even know that was a thing. Where is there one in Fairfax Co.?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

It's officially called "H Mart", but several of the very large stores in Fairfax get referred to as "Super H Mart" because they were so massive.

The one we always went to was on route 50, just off of 66 in Jermantown.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (N1DT3)

459 I find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

Most comedians aren't funny. Conservative comedy is message comedy too!

Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (JrF6z)

460 I love Super H-Mart.

I didn't even know that was a thing. Where is there one in Fairfax Co.?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

There is one at 11200 Fairfax Blvd , 22030. It's pretty good, and has a food court.
Posted by: Moki at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM

*fistbump*

I love the one near me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (ZANHd)

461 Timmah Tampon?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:14 PM (Dw7ic)

Timmy fallz down the well

(It would be demeaning to the Dem candidate for President to speculate if she ever had the nickname "Lassie")

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (D7oie)

462 454 On the upside: TJM will be thrilled.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (eDfFs)

=========

Not really:

https://is.gd/DElIfK

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

463 417 408 I find a lot of conservative comedians come across as tired or dry. Not all, but a lot do. It's personality and delivery.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:07 PM (Ectld)

Gutfeld has one on a lot who is pretty funny.. Jamie Lithgow.. Probably misspelled last name
Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 12:10 PM (IyPmt)

Ace Posted a video on the Guy that made fun of Gretta Thunburg, I don't he's conservative but Will Franken is very funny
https://tinyurl.com/yc6yfk4u

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (ALsxG)

464 There is one at 11200 Fairfax Blvd , 22030. It's pretty good, and has a food court.
Posted by: Moki at August 19, 2024 12:17 PM (wLjpr)

That's the one. Moki beat me to it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (N1DT3)

465 I've been listening to Dave Attell on a pandora comedy channel. Dirty witty humor like ace but because he doesn't have ad sponsors to worry about a little more perverted. Hilarious.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (B1dzx)

466
‘376 ‘J.K Rowling wasn't going to redo Harry Potter until the main 2 Stars Stabbed her in the back and denounced her..’

Ha! I would go see that if that’s the reason.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

467 There are two WF's I frequent. Prices are not bad. Sure, there are masks and tackle boxes roaming around

Posted by: Jamaica at August 19, 2024 12:19 PM (IG7T0)

468 Funny video at NY Post showing a woman in China being attacked in a restaurant by a manti shrimp she's trying to dip in hot oil then eat. Serves her right /s
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 19, 2024 12:11 PM (gXGVH)
___

Seems staged. The camera is somehow locked down on that exact position, like it was set up there on a tripod ahead of time. It isn't the usual cellphone video where someone is holding the camera. Plus, the woman is completely over-reacting.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 19, 2024 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

469 435 397 Can we talk some more about Gwen Walz' bra?

I think Piper brought it up earlier this morning.
Posted by: If I recall correctly at August

That was very early. And just as I am of their policies, not at all supportive.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (pZEOD)

470 There's an H Mart out here in Chantilly, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (v6JzV)

471 @454 I want to check it out; reviews on youtube were better than I expected (the bar is really low at this point though)

Posted by: brak at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (25k9m)

472 Most comedians aren't funny. Conservative comedy is message comedy too!
Posted by: ... at August 19, 2024 12:18 PM (JrF6z)

Conservative comedy is non political which makes it conservative comedy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (B1dzx)

473 Board member of major Christian ministries tells "Evangelicals for Harris" that he wants abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare"

Amazing how the Democrat position of a decade or two ago become the "right wing" positions of today isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)

474 "I read this morning that two! Republicans! will speak at the DNC this week. Adam Kinzinger and Ana Navarro."

No Liz Cheny, truest conservative in America (TM)?

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (iFMeW)

475 O/T here's a funny.

Just found out from one of my sisters that the number of times she's been flashed is seven.

Seven times! And in only one incident, the flasher tried speaking to her.

He approached her in a wide sidewalk in a big city park, coming from the other direction, member out and proud from way out at fifty paces or more, him wanking, and when closing in, asked "Hi, do you have the time?"

Posted by: Mr Gaga at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (veWuN)

476 Tim Walz seems like a weirdo to me.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (FfSAJ)

477 There is one at 11200 Fairfax Blvd , 22030. It's pretty good, and has a food court.

Posted by: Moki

Thanks. I'll check it out sometime to see how it compares to mine.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (xCA6C)

478 After Aliens, there are no sequels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (Dw7ic)

479 Occasionally I come across explicitly leftwing comedy and it just...isn't funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (oZhjI)

480 there simply are not enough conservatives who give enough of crap to get off their asses and vote.

I feel this frustration. According to the usual voting returns, Leftists outnumber conservatives 2 to 1 in my town, partly because of the university students who for some godawful reason are allowed to vote in local elections, and partly because 75% of the potential conservatives in town are under 18.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (hB7mE)

481 @454

>>Check it out.

Alien is one of the best horror films ever made, Aliens is one of the best action adventure films ever made, there is really no point of making any other films after those two.

Perhaps an unexplored direction could be Aliens as a buddy road flick, ala Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (XV/Pl)

482 Ridley Scott has lost the plot, I think most of his movies now STINK, they look Great but the story is terrible or slow as mud.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (ALsxG)

483 Tim Walz is definitely weird. In the traditional sense.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (Ectld)

484 Board member of major Christian ministries tells "Evangelicals for Harris" that he wants abortions to be "safe, legal, and rare"

Amazing how the Democrat position of a decade or two ago become the "right wing" positions of today isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM

Y'all know I was lyin' 'bout that, right?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (ZANHd)

485 Vote Tamale and Kamale!

walz looks especially odious, considering this is the "best" choice they can come up with? I suppose the calculus is when elections are cheated none of the old metrics and triangulation applies.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (o3xwr)

486 Who would pay $400 for a signed picture of Mark Hamill?
Posted by: mr tmz

Have him sign a goat.cz (or whatever it was) pic.
He'd prolly do it for $400.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (cOq4q)

487 there simply are not enough conservatives who give enough of crap to get off their asses and vote.----

You think all those Dem voter numbers are Dems getting off their ass to vote?

Posted by: polynikes at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (B1dzx)

488 Doug Emhoff: boxers or briefs?

Posted by: Political underwear thread! at August 19, 2024 12:22 PM (DobEs)

489 Y'all know I was lyin' 'bout that, right?

Me too!

Posted by: Board member of major Christian ministries at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (oZhjI)

490 I feel this frustration. According to the usual voting returns, Leftists outnumber conservatives 2 to 1 in my town, partly because of the university students who for some godawful reason are allowed to vote in local elections, and partly because 75% of the potential conservatives in town are under 18.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (hB7mE)
++++
That should be forbidden, and it's blatant fraud that it isn't.

Most college students on campus are *not* residents. Some are, and if it's a commuter college then it's more likely, but most traditional on-campus college students are from out of town. Their cars are registered at home. They sign 9-month leases. They go home for the summer or on breaks. They are *not* residents. They should be voting absentee in their actual residency districts, not at college.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)

491 Lol....

From deadline...

View’s Ana Navarro Shares Excitement Over Hosting Night Two Of DNC Recalling Fleeing Communism As A Little Girl

Posted by: Stateless at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (jvJvP)

492 Doug Emhoff: boxers or briefs?
Posted by: Political underwear thread

Thong

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (hB7mE)

493 Perhaps an unexplored direction could be Aliens as a buddy road flick, ala Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (XV/Pl)

AvP? that isn't what Alien versus Predator was?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (D7oie)

494 Tim Walz is definitely weird. In the traditional sense.

That's very judgemental of you

Posted by: Catherine the Great at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (oZhjI)

495 View’s Ana Navarro Shares Excitement Over Hosting Night Two Of DNC Recalling Fleeing Communism As A Little Girl
Posted by: Stateless at August 19, 2024 12:23 PM (jvJvP)

The irony

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (IyPmt)

496 "That's very judgemental of you"

Is judgemental bad? I'm in full support of making judgments about people.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (Ectld)

497 They are *not* residents. They should be voting absentee in their actual residency districts, not at college.

I suspect most of them that actually vote are voting in both.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (oZhjI)

498 NOOD DAY ENDING Y

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (HnUIn)

499 Or they could go look at all the Dark Hose comic stories about Alien, perhaps find something in there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 19, 2024 12:25 PM (Dw7ic)

500 I suspect most of them that actually vote are voting in both.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:24 PM (oZhjI)
++++
I would be shocked if this was rare.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 19, 2024 12:25 PM (HnUIn)

501 Amazing how the Democrat position of a decade or two ago become the "right wing" positions of today isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)

--------------

Sullivan's Law meets Overton Window.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 19, 2024 12:25 PM (YOmit)

502 451 Did a shelving accident take out the Ewok?
Posted by: Jak Sucio

No, hehad a post ready to go, but it was upstaged by the Gwen Walz bra-ha-ha.

Posted by: Sag-Guard at August 19, 2024 12:25 PM (CV8a5)

503 Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2024 12:20 PM (pZEOD)

You would think someone who has money would be able to get decent clothes (somebody said she was dressing down in her regular clothes, not undergarments) and a good bra, Is dressing plainly supposed to convince anyone that she's "of the people"? Her husband made -what was it ?) 20 trips to China. He's sold out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2024 12:25 PM (dTTBf)

504 Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 19, 2024 11:42 AM (ZtyUu)

Does that mean you're in Texas now? How do you like it here?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (s9EYN)

505 Ewok's awake.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (ZANHd)

506 HMart in Hicksville is a trip, like, going to Korea or Chinatown

Posted by: Jamaica at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (IG7T0)

507 Doug Emhoff: boxers or briefs?
______

Butt plug.

*kicks rock dejectedly*

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (24LU/)

508 And to think the the Free Market Grocery store ended the USSR as Yelstin realized that the Soviet planned economy could never ever provide this level of food for the Soviet Citizen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (gbOdA)

509 @480

>>I feel this frustration.

The maximum GOP vote in KY is 1.3M which Trump got in 2020, and yet just two years later only 620k could be bothered to show up to vote for Cameron, who somehow got 820k to show up to vote for him in 2019 for AG.

I don't hear shit about Beshear being a name and good old boy that Kentuckians just luv.

The guy has governed like a leftists loon that the legislature has to regularly pimp slap, but them bubbus sure do love that guy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

510 Gwen Walz bra-ha-ha

Well done!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 19, 2024 12:26 PM (dTTBf)

511 They should be voting absentee in their actual residency districts, not at college.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yuuuup.

I'm sure that it's ironic or something that the University has more stringent requirements for establishing in-state residency than the City has for voter registration.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 19, 2024 12:27 PM (hB7mE)

512 466
‘376 ‘J.K Rowling wasn't going to redo Harry Potter until the main 2 Stars Stabbed her in the back and denounced her..’

Ha! I would go see that if that’s the reason.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 19, 2024 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

She was dead set against doing a series for a Long time and then they had the Reunion show or something and Ema Watson leading the Charge along with Daniel Radcliff wanted others to denounce trans women can't be female. Then HBO came to her with an Offer to remake the books into a series and she said yes. She doesn't need the money and Why not cut off their money, it would be the best revenge.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 19, 2024 12:32 PM (FCrpy)

513 Gwen Walz is not a bag lady who can’t afford undergarments. This campaign has designated her to be the one to appeal to that specific group of older, frumpy cat moms and made her dress in that hideous “outfit.”

Posted by: EveR at August 19, 2024 12:33 PM (Z/h4+)

514 We really really really need to push back against the Snob Factor. My parents' old neighborhood, which used to be Country Club Republicans, is now Country Club liberals because the Left has succeeded in making conservatism look low-rent.

So much of what this is motivated by is sheer snobbery. "All the Best People vote for the Democrats, Muffy! Republicans are just so TACKY."

Posted by: Beverly at August 19, 2024 12:34 PM (Epeb0)

515 Just found out from one of my sisters that the number of times she's been flashed is seven.

Seven times! And in only one incident, the flasher tried speaking to her.

He approached her in a wide sidewalk in a big city park, coming from the other direction, member out and proud from way out at fifty paces or more, him wanking, and when closing in, asked "Hi, do you have the time?"
Posted by: Mr Gaga at August 19, 2024 12:21 PM (veWuN)

Is she hot? (the Horde asked me to find out. Honest)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 19, 2024 12:39 PM (iODuv)

516 It would be ironic if the left's push to get illegals to vote worked against them because Kamala promoted the same sort of price controls which caused them to flee places like Venezuela.

Posted by: Thatch at August 19, 2024 12:41 PM (Q8BOb)

517 Not exactly Communists, they're Red Fascists.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 19, 2024 12:43 PM (yitpj)

518 Did Walz happen to visit Manchuria?

Hello President Walz.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 19, 2024 12:52 PM (Z8Yh2)

519 Pretty sure Walz also gets cash bribery money from the CCP, which of course he would not declare on taxes or keep in a US bank. Might have a foundation somewhere, though.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at August 19, 2024 01:05 PM (sF8WE)

520 "I play the stock market of the mond, and I advise selling short!"

-- Ellsworth Toohey, from "The Fountainhead"

Posted by: Isophorone at August 19, 2024 01:48 PM (42qwK)

521 Senator McCarthy warned us about these Commie Scum time to heed his warnings

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 19, 2024 04:28 PM (wGqjj)

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