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What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election? A Regulatory Onslaught
Follow us on Instagram: @Cutjibnewsletter TIP JAR : Your support helps keep the lights on and is truly appreciated. Note: We are on Stripe, not PayPal. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 06:54 AM (O7YUW) 2
Its Hump Day
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 06:54 AM (gbOdA) 3
Sponge,
Posted by: French Jeton at August 21, 2024 06:55 AM (nqPiZ) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2024 06:55 AM (BO83Q) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 06:56 AM (u82oZ) 6
Thanks JJ!!!
Posted by: Rasmus at August 21, 2024 06:57 AM (pUTfs) 7
Morning again all.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 8
This comment is so high up the stack it will be missed but-
every nation that has ever been, was built on indigenous lands. Human beings have been displacing other human beings since our ancestors first came down from the trees. It's what we do. This 'stolen lands' bullshit is virtue-signalling writ large. There endeth the lesson. Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 06:58 AM (/7KEl) 9
I need a drink.
Posted by: Commah Lah at August 21, 2024 06:58 AM (DobEs) 10
Hell is the place I want leftist and islamists to pass through on their way to greater retribution
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 06:59 AM (3OQQc) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ) 12
"And there you have it folks, America is an illegitimate nation built on stolen land."
No good is served by stirring up old conflicts of the past. Politicians that are doing this are attempting to keep the population at each other's throats so they won't turn on those very politicians that keep making their lives miserable. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 07:00 AM (O7YUW) 13
{{{Ben Had}}}
🐴 🎼 🎶 Good Evening! ♩ ♫ ♬ 🎶 You are too kind. I want to end them, and have the Red Army of Berlin, 1945 say, "Whoa, dude. That is too harsh." They have earned their hatred from civilization lovers. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ) 14
12 Thank you, J.J.
May your appetite improve and a NYC bagel place open in your local area. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ) If I had a million or so, I'd open a Jewish deli and bagel joint myself. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 07:01 AM (x0n13) 15
Its goal was to establish that Australians were foreigners and had to follow aboriginal laws and culture. 50 years later the practice, grounded in ‘decolonization’ has been widely adopted by American leftists and their ruling party.
Slavery is back on the table! Since the Indians practiced that as part of their culture. When are we going to admit that Dems are the party of slavery and just end them forever?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:02 AM (u82oZ) 17
Kickstarter for JJ's Deli.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:03 AM (3OQQc) 18
'How can we sleep when our beds are burning?'
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:03 AM (/7KEl) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:04 AM (1Nxff) 20
Good morning JJ and horde
Seems like it should be Friday already Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2024 07:04 AM (IQuQN) 21
rickb223
We've know this since LBJ. But self-delusion makes them seem, in their own minds, to be the good guys. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:04 AM (u82oZ) 22
I had to laugh when I read that apparently Obama talked about the " cult of personality " of Trump. Really !! Media put a halo behind pictures of Obama and I knew a woman who had a little shrine to Obama in one of her china closets. Also. Michelle Obama talking about the evils of generational wealth. Ad if they made all their money through legitimate means and hard work, people
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 07:04 AM (32soK) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:05 AM (u82oZ) 24
NaCly, dearest. Good morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:05 AM (3OQQc) 25
FenelonSpoke
Sent a text to your phone that would be of interest to FenelonSpouse. And how about that stolen school bus, in NJ, by a Hamas supporter? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ) 26
Morning Horde. Hope you are feeling better, JJ.
One thing gets me about the "stolen land" BS. What about Manhatten? Peter Muniut paid good jewelry for it. So it's not stolen. That the Brits took it from the Dutch, and we from the Brits, well, that's just squabbling among white folx. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:07 AM (1bNHn) Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 21, 2024 07:07 AM (Ydd86) Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:08 AM (u82oZ) 29
- What the heck caused these cones to align on Mars?
Hint - It's a one word answer. And not a "what" but "Who." Posted by: TeeJ at August 21, 2024 07:08 AM (aCV/b) 30
I saw Dyspeptic Duo of Division and Deviltry open for Twin Temple at Dante's in 2019.
/Of course, not really ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 07:08 AM (1HSEr) 31
Time for work preps.
Have a great day, everyone. May you have a smile on your face to make the few that notice wonder. Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:09 AM (u82oZ) 32
Speaker after speaker warned that Donald Trump, a relative moderate on social issues, was going to ban in vitro fertilization, even though the former president has explicitly rejected any limits on fertility treatments.
______ But of course, media fact checkers were all over them for this, right? Right? Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:09 AM (1bNHn) 33
17 Kickstarter for JJ's Deli.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:03 AM (3OQQc) I have to learn how to mass produce bagels. And bialys! And run a business! In a market where a Jewish deli does not have much of clientele! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 07:09 AM (x0n13) 34
In Canada, we had claims that there were a bunch of mass graves of indigenous children at what were the residential schools. This was further spun to make people believe that if those were graves, they must be kids, and of course they must all be murders. Because of course they were.
Have any of the alleged graves been exhumed for a proper forensic analysis to look for foul plan? NOT A ONE. Gee, here we are two years later, and no effort has been made (or has been permitted to be made) to test those claims. Meanwhile, over a hundred churches were burned in response to the claim: https://tinyurl.com/2s4c3j7e And the Prime Minister went and kneeled on the lawn of one of these schools holding a teddy bear as a photo-op, shortly after the initial claims were coming out. This, of course, only stirred things up MORE. Socialists. *spit* They always bring misery and pain, and try to dress it up in rainbows and unicorn farts. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 07:10 AM (O7YUW) 35
. . . Michelle preemptively accused anyone who opposed the Dems presidential nominee Kamala Harris of being driven by racism and misogyny — basically, the same con the Obamas ran when they were in the White House.
______ In my personal memory this goes back to 1964, when LBJ did the same. They never think of a new idea. But the country will never be healthy so long as the like of you and me are in it. I think that's what they really mean. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:11 AM (1bNHn) 36
JJ, you build it they will come! Pastrami and cheeses!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:11 AM (3OQQc) 37
the president doesn't have the power to ban anything, including a medical procedure
why is this so hard for those people to understand #rhetorical Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:11 AM (/7KEl) 38
The Biden junta's policies amount to lifetime costs of nearly $50,000 per family.
------------- "But wages have gone up $100 per year!" /Excellent rant per usual, JJ ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 07:13 AM (1HSEr) 39
Kevin McCarthy spent $3 million trying to unseat Matt Gaetz here in District-1, Florida primary.
Final vote result: Gaetz - 70% Dommick - 30% Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2024 07:13 AM (Y1sOo) 40
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)
Thanks. I will look for it. Sometimes texts don't teach me. I hope yours did. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 07:13 AM (JcRly) 41
U.S. Intelligence Officials Say Iran Hacked the Trump Campaign
That means it was US Intelligence Officials that hacked the Trump Campaign. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 21, 2024 07:13 AM (Cp1vk) 42
The Indians killed , raped, and burnt each other. They failed to unify the continent. Thus, they were overtaken.
Like gravity it’s inevitable. Posted by: Redenzo at August 21, 2024 07:15 AM (HKvWX) 43
Actualy Getzobu'lak, the indigenous name for the planet Earth was stolen from the Getzobs by the Frume who relocated humans here because they were causing such a problem on the Frume home planet.
Posted by: pawn at August 21, 2024 07:17 AM (QB+5g) 44
What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?
_______ Fails to mention a general strike by the populace. SF and NY may get very hungry. I also wonder if Macron and Starmer may not have helped us some. Especially the latter, who is setting a fine example of what they'd be willing to do. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:18 AM (1bNHn) 45
What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?
Had I the talent, I could have written that substack. It says exactly what I have been saying for the last three years. FML. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 21, 2024 07:19 AM (Q0kLU) 46
How is your new fence line coming along? Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2024 07:05 AM (u82oZ) The new fence along the front is put in and looks nice. The first problem is that the wood from the old fence is still sitting on the ground. The second problem is that the temporary fence (100 feet of 5 foot welded wire and posts) has yet to be removed. And I'm not sure if they're going to remove any of this. The arrangements were confused. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:19 AM (1Nxff) 47
"What the heck caused these cones to align on Mars?"
The server hosting that article ( behindtheblack.com ) appears to be someone's personal web server off their connection off a residential ISP. It's either overloaded, or someone did something nasty to the server because it appears offline right now. Bookmark it and try it again in a day or two. Alternatively, Run a google search on the phrase: aligned cones on mars You'll get articles from the USGS (United States Geological Society) and some universities. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 07:19 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:20 AM (1Nxff) 49
"What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?"
Things rock on until it breaks. It's like a strange sound coming from your car's engine. It still runs fine and maybe is getting a little louder until one day, BLAM. Posted by: fd at August 21, 2024 07:22 AM (vFG9F) 50
Rasmussen tracking poll 3 day average: Trump 52% Harris 42% Rass thinks it may be an outlier and the margin is more likely Trump plus 3. / I'm not so sure I agree. People may have taken a good look at Harris/Walz and decided no fvcking way. Trump 52% beats the cheat with ease. Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 07:22 AM (RKVpM) 51
Peace is not the normal state of mankind. Never has been.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:22 AM (3OQQc) 52
'What's Wrong With October 7?' DNC Protester Admits 'Every "Palestinian" Supports Hamas'
______ The ones in Chicago and their supporters do. But just last week Front Page did a story about those in Gaza who were sick of Hamas. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:23 AM (1bNHn) 53
>What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?"
--- Don Black turns his back on the world, goes dark Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:24 AM (/7KEl) 54
The ones in Chicago and their supporters do. But just last week Front Page did a story about those in Gaza who were sick of Hamas. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:23 AM (1bNHn) They're longing for new leaders dedicated to wiping out the Jewish state. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:25 AM (1Nxff) 55
Morning Horde , thx JJ hoping your strength improves day by day. So the Dems announced with glee that so far 25 abortions have been performed at their mobile gas chamber, excuse me, abortion RV. Definitely sick people.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:25 AM (qKpsC) 56
52 'What's Wrong With October 7?' DNC Protester Admits 'Every "Palestinian" Supports Hamas'
______ The ones in Chicago and their supporters do. But just last week Front Page did a story about those in Gaza who were sick of Hamas. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:23 AM (1bNHn) Democrats and Muslims will fight until the last of the cannon fodder fall. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 07:25 AM (x0n13) 57
Those sandrats that are sick of the hamassholes ought to think about picking up a rock and beating the shit of them.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:26 AM (3OQQc) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 21, 2024 07:27 AM (5hfjS) 59
>But just last week Front Page did a story about those in Gaza who were sick of Hamas.
--- I don't think there is enough of these to make a difference Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:27 AM (/7KEl) 60
If you're having trouble understanding just what's going on at the DNC, Here's an equation that'll help: https://tinyurl.com/yretd4ah The math checks out! Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 07:28 AM (eDfFs) 61
Gov. Andy Beshear Appears to Wish JD Vance’s Relatives Get Raped and Impregnated
_______ Maybe, since such thoughts didn't bother Democrats like Dukakis, he assumed that Republicans are cool with it too. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:29 AM (1bNHn) Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:29 AM (HnUIn) 63
Land acknowledgements are a form of historical revisionism, like the 1619 Project and destroying Columbus statues, that are paving the way for delegitimizing America.
++++ Also of maximally vain and empty virtue signaling. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:30 AM (HnUIn) 64
59 >But just last week Front Page did a story about those in Gaza who were sick of Hamas.
--- I don't think there is enough of these to make a difference Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:27 AM (/7KEl) They don't count. It's the ones in Dearbornistan, Hamastramck and at Columbia U. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (x0n13) 65
Of course to underscore the searing hatred of this nation, its founding, history and heritage as well as those who wish to try to restore and preserve it, no better dyspeptic duo of division and deviltry than the Obamas to spout their own vitriol at us.
++++ The Party is leaning fairly heavily on Obama at the moment. Someone so awful might truly be the best they have. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (HnUIn) 66
Over at Insty:
'Protesters in Chicago chant “Long live the intifada” and “Out of your house, out of your home, we’ll bring the war home.”' Shouldn't it be 'to your home'? It's kind of sloppy. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (y31cs) 67
Also of maximally vain and empty virtue signaling. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:30 AM (HnUIn) Show us how sincere you are. Evacuate Manhattan. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (1Nxff) 68
Will this year’s convention, in Chicago, just as in 1968, yield a similar result?
______ I confess I am not following so closely as in 1968. But so far I've seen nothing close to the earlier case. I fear we have been anticipating a bigger gift than we're going to get. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (1bNHn) 69
Shouldn't it be 'to your home'? It's kind of sloppy. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:31 AM (y31cs) Another indication, if more were needed, of how far the American educational system has fallen. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:32 AM (1Nxff) 70
What the heck caused these cones to align on Mars?
______ We're on Mars for like 5 minutes and we're already putting up traffic cones? Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2024 07:33 AM (fs1hN) 71
First Day Of DNC Protests Dubbed ‘Mostly Peaceful’ As Cops Repel Rioters Who Broke Barrier
_______ Shouldn't they call it "Mostly Joyful" this time around? Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:33 AM (1bNHn) 72
If we all just identify as Indians I don’t see a problem.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump Vance 2024 at August 21, 2024 07:34 AM (55boN) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:34 AM (1Nxff) 74
"No good is served by stirring up old conflicts of the past. Politicians that are doing this are attempting to keep the population at each other's throats so they won't turn on those very politicians that keep making their lives miserable."
------- This right here. America has a lot of problems. And they are virtually all self-inflicted. It's a damn shame. Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:35 AM (EHNgd) 75
The muslim rioters do not have a point for one simple reason: This is America, not Israel, not Palestine. It's not our job to figure out your government. Go over there and protest or fight. Maybe we need to find another hobby rather than governing one moderately insignificant nation thousands of miles from our shores.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:35 AM (iFMeW) 76
@22/FenelonSpoke:
Whatever the left believes, whatever they're engaged in doing that is wrong or hurtful, you can be assured they're aggressively accusing their opposition of those very things in order to deflect attention from themselves, and of course to stir up trouble for their opposition and keep them on the defensive, wasting valuable time and energy countering those accusations. It happens so often that I know I've occasionally become desensitized and numb to it to the point I forget that's what they're doing, and then I remember and have that "Oh yeah. This again" moment of realization. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 07:36 AM (O7YUW) 77
Another indication, if more were needed, of how far the American educational system has fallen.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:32 AM (1Nxff) An old Dennis Miller bit (paraphrased): 'Is it nuclear or nucular? I'd hate to spend the last few seconds of my life caught in a semantics debate.' Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:36 AM (y31cs) 78
I caught the rerun of Barky's speech last night. The Dems were drooling, more than usual, but he's definitely lost a few miles off his fastball. The usual strategic halting wasn't there amongst other things.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:36 AM (qKpsC) 79
39 Kevin McCarthy spent $3 million trying to unseat Matt Gaetz here in District-1, Florida primary.
Final vote result: Gaetz - 70% Dommick - 30% Posted by: one hour sober --------- The lesson is that spending a lot of money in politics does guarantee a win when the opposing candidate already has a strong public persona. McCarthy was and is a perfect example of GOPe donor driven small ball politics that has quite literally no future forward due to Democrats moving so far left that voting becomes a means of survival for the Right. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (kW+z9) Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (kW+z9) 81
Disappointment among the protest organizers. They over bought the amount of signs.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (3OQQc) 82
"McCarthy was and is a perfect example of GOPe donor driven small ball politics that has quite literally no future forward due to Democrats moving so far left that voting becomes a means of survival for the Right."
He's probably angling for an MSNBC contributor position. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (Ectld) 83
Re: Cones.
Karst topography. Either that, or Plagioclase. It's always Plagioclase. Sometimes Feldspar Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (EHNgd) Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (/7KEl) 85
Divide and Conquer.
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (i0F8b) 86
Dammit spending a lot of money does NOT guarantee . . . . Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (kW+z9) If we had an Edit function, half the fun of this place would disappear. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (1Nxff) 87
Last night I had a minor epiphany.
The last 3 election cycles, the Democrats have perfected the art of ballot harvesting. Likely voter models are kind of pointless, because Democrats make sure registered voters vote, even if they don't know it. There is a massive downside risk to this. This puts the total pool of Democrat votes at a fixed number because they stop bothering to have a message to attract new voters. They have stopped growing, and they don't know how to reverse that trend. They only know identity politics. When that doesn't work any more, they have no fall back. Democrats are dying as a party. Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (5p7BC) 88
81 Disappointment among the protest organizers. They over bought the amount of signs.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (3OQQc) Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (y31cs) 89
Walz lies about everything. He lied about his football coaching, his DUI, his military service, his support of killing born-alive abortion victims, and even how his children were conceived.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (UJ6vE) 90
What's Trump up to? Anyone know? Notthebee had a couple good posts on him this week. Where's the rally this week?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:39 AM (Ectld) 91
1968 Humphrey won some historically Dem states, George Wallace got some electoral votes in Dixie, and Nixon won everything else
including California Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:39 AM (/7KEl) 92
65 Of course to underscore the searing hatred of this nation, its founding, history and heritage as well as those who wish to try to restore and preserve it, no better dyspeptic duo of division and deviltry than the Obamas to spout their own vitriol at us.
++++ The Party is leaning fairly heavily on Obama at the moment. Someone so awful might truly be the best they have. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) ======= He never was that popular in the first place despite the endless media worship. In electoral politics, he was a disaster for the Dems and has essentially hollowed them out to the point where they are all urban/inner suburb creatures in deep blue constituencies. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:39 AM (kW+z9) 93
Rifts Emerge Between Establishment Media, Democrats as DNC Problems Turn into Debacle
_______ Much as I hate the Dems, the MFM comes off worse here. They sound like 5 year-olds who want their ice cream NOW! They should be spanked and sent to bed. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:40 AM (1bNHn) 94
If we had an Edit function, half the fun of this place would disappear.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ======== True that. But still, I hate it when I leave out a key word that totally reverses what I meant to say. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:41 AM (kW+z9) 95
Trump/Vance will be in Asheville today and Trump will be in Arizona on Friday.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 21, 2024 07:41 AM (Y8lzz) 96
If we had an Edit function, half the fun of this place would disappear.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (1Nxff) --- Only the COBs can be trusted with such awesome power... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 07:41 AM (7fElN) 97
@84 Humphrey won Texas because the Dixiecrats still liked Johnson and didn't vote for Wallace, who took Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. After Nixon won in 68 the Dixiecrats shifted to the Republicans in 1972
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:42 AM (qKpsC) 98
Thanks, Nigel.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:42 AM (Ectld) 99
Walz lies about everything. He lied about his football coaching, his DUI, his military service, his support of killing born-alive abortion victims, and even how his children were conceived.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (UJ6vE) ++++ He's Joe Biden. They are the same person. He's a boring, dishwater dull Party Man from the Interior (Biden was from Delaware, of course, but he claimed PA to pretend to be Midwesternish) with a track record of destruction mixed in with failure who has no personality and who lies about everything, selected to offset a bombastic radical and smooth the ruffled feathers of the rubes and be the "adult in the room." The Harris-Walz campaign *is* the Obama-Biden campaign, just without the spit and polish. Like many productions, the sequel is not as good as the original. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:42 AM (HnUIn) 100
Vance will be in GA tomorrow.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at August 21, 2024 07:43 AM (Y8lzz) 101
91 1968 Humphrey won some historically Dem states, George Wallace got some electoral votes in Dixie, and Nixon won everything else
including California Posted by: Don Black ========= Humphrey went from far behind Nixon to damn near winning the race. Nixon did the play it safe and be vague about policy campaign and just about lost because of it. There is no safe lead in politics is the lesson. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:43 AM (kW+z9) 102
True that. But still, I hate it when I leave out a key word that totally reverses what I meant to say.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:41 AM (kW+z9) ++++ Learn to do it on purpose and you can make a fortune writing ballot languauge... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:43 AM (HnUIn) 103
90 What's Trump up to? Anyone know? Notthebee had a couple good posts on him this week. Where's the rally this week?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:39 AM (Ectld) According to the schedule I am looking at: North Carolina today and then Arizona on Friday. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:43 AM (y31cs) 104
"Does anyone have a good answer to this?" - Hat Tip to commenter Beyond Norman Parameters - jjs
What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election? - That's an interesting article. From it: "As horrible as the last four years have been for America, they were nowhere near as bad as a Civil War would have been." Maybe. In the short term, sure. There's not as much bloodshed. But in the long term all it did was calcify the arteries and make the heart attack get closer. Without helicopters, our best case scenario is probably crumbling from within like the USSR so that we can form into homogenous tribes, because I have little in common with Californians who don't speak English, don't care to learn English, and who haven't the slightest idea what American values are. For that matter I doubt I have much in common with 20% of Charlotte or Asheville. It has nothing to do with skin color BTW. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 07:44 AM (cMJiJ) 105
90 What's Trump up to? Anyone know? Notthebee had a couple good posts on him this week. Where's the rally this week?
Posted by: Ribbed --------- This is the time to figure out what the campaigns consider crucial territory for them by seeing where they go. Ignore the state and national polling until much later. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:44 AM (kW+z9) 106
>Democrats are dying as a party.
--- disagree. they have captured the media academia the administrative state the entertainment industry Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (/7KEl) 107
For Years, Tim Walz Lied About How His Children Were Conceived, All To Attack Pro-Lifers Over IVF
________ He got another guy to do the work. Neighborly. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (1bNHn) 108
After Nixon won in 68 the Dixiecrats shifted to the Republicans in 1972 Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:42 AM (qKpsC) And shifted back to Carter in 1976. But that was pretty much the end of it. With Reagan, it was a Republican Solid South. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (1Nxff) 109
Learn to do it on purpose and you can make a fortune writing ballot languauge...
Posted by: Joe Mannix ====== Heh. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (kW+z9) 110
JD Vance was in Kenosha yesterday. Little Winger saw his motorcade when he was sitting in the drive-through lane at Culver's.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (SfhV1) 111
"This is the time to figure out what the campaigns consider crucial territory for them by seeing where they go."
Pennsylvania makes me nervous because it is so close and it's run by Dems. Plus Philadelphia. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (Ectld) 112
You can steal our land, but you’ll ever steal the spirit of our people.
Posted by: Liz Warren at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (55boN) 113
NYT suggested Walz might have merely mixed up the terms after “entering a world of dizzying and occasionally awkward medical terminology.”
The STFU about things you do not understand. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (gbOdA) 114
Humphry had nice things to say about Amendment 2 iirc, he was old school in that sense.
Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Dan Moynihan. An extinct species of Democrat Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (EHNgd) 115
110 JD Vance was in Kenosha yesterday. Little Winger saw his motorcade when he was sitting in the drive-through lane at Culver's.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (SfhV1) Cheese curds DO make politics more bearable. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (y31cs) 116
Without the teachers union and AWFL's , what would be the core of their party?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (PNdCh) 117
It doesn't matter that they lie, because it's what the people that they lie to WANT TO HEAR.
Posted by: XTC at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (UnA8+) 118
JD Vance was in Kenosha yesterday. Little Winger saw his motorcade when he was sitting in the drive-through lane at Culver's.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (SfhV1) ++++ I'm surprised that Vance had a motorcade. "Make him walk unescorted through the bad part of town - and take his shoes away first" seems more the USSS' speed... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (HnUIn) 119
If you missed the tech thread go treat yourself to the comment of the month at #54. Do not take a sip of coffee as you read.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (3OQQc) 120
disagree. they have captured
the media academia the administrative state the entertainment industry Posted by: Don Black ====== All of those institutions are dying. Traditional media is down to an aging boomer audience, academia is losing a truly massive number of students now, the administrative state employment has nowhere to go but down as the money has run out, and the entertainment industry giants are all in severe financial crunches. We are approaching a singularity in the not so distant future where everything will be different after we go through it--politics, society, etc. Some of us may not survive it. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (kW+z9) 121
For Years, Tim Walz Lied About How His Children Were Conceived, All To Attack Pro-Lifers Over IVF We've allowed ourselves to be persuaded that IVF is some neat, precise procedure. Maybe someday it will be. But it isn't now. It's messy and wasteful. For each successful birth, how many don't? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (1Nxff) 122
Democrats are dying as a party.
- I don't know if it's dying so much as it is "trying to achieve their final form" of communism. It's also interesting that the (R)s are being dragged kicking and screaming into a device to attempt to stop them. All they had to do was keep pretending and moving slowly to the left and everything would've eventually worked out for them. But something about 2030 is *extremely* important to them. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 07:49 AM (cMJiJ) 123
Without the teachers union and AWFL's , what would be the core of their party?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 07:48 AM (PNdCh) ++++ Urban cores and a chunk of the major suburbs. The Democrats are the party of high-density Urban America and academia (and, as you mention, government unions and employees). Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 07:49 AM (HnUIn) 124
>>The lesson is that spending a lot of money in politics does [not] guarantee a win when the opposing candidate already has a strong public persona.
Posted by: whig It didn't help McCarthy's cause any that his hand-picked challenger to Gaetz, Aaron Dommick, is a carpet-bagger who works for the state of Missouri, filed his election papers using a Missouri driver's license, and is a supporter of DEI initiatives and BLM. That shit isn't going to fly here in District 1. Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2024 07:50 AM (Y1sOo) 125
Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Dan Moynihan. An extinct species of Democrat Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:46 AM (EHNgd) Scoop was sound on foreign policy. The pickled Mick sot Moynihan made nice noises and returned to the Dem reservation each and every time. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:50 AM (1Nxff) 126
I guess I haven't paid close enough attention, but I did not know that Trump is proposing to end taxes on Social Security earnings.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 07:50 AM (SfhV1) 127
106 >Democrats are dying as a party.
--- disagree. they have captured the media academia the administrative state the entertainment industry Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:45 AM (/7KEl) The 'voting' mechanisms. Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 07:50 AM (i0F8b) 128
Was it Strom Thurmond who tapped a gal on the way to the Electric Chair?
True Story. That's your government employees at work. Goolag and Bing won't bring up this Did You Know? Fact. He had "known" this gal before, and he gave her a ride to her execution, in more ways than one. Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:51 AM (EHNgd) 129
at least I got my name right
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 07:51 AM (/7KEl) 130
What the heck caused these cones to align on Mars?
Hint - It's a one word answer. And not a "what" but "Who." Posted by: TeeJ We are from France - Beldar Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 07:51 AM (S+6+B) 131
The lesson is that spending a lot of money in politics does {not} guarantee a win when the opposing candidate already has a strong public persona. ...
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:37 AM (kW+z9) ++++ Tell me about it. My ass *still* hurts. Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at August 21, 2024 07:51 AM (HnUIn) 132
Jesse Helms? My memory isn't what it was.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:51 AM (EHNgd) 133
The Hump led the opposition to the filibuster in the Senate for the Civil Righs bill so was doomed in the South. Still the highest elected (half) Norwegian in American history.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump Vance 2024 at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (55boN) 134
Here's something I disagree with the "Postcards from Barsoom" guy:
and that their leader is determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by, for instance, declaring that he wants lots of immigration because AI is coming (no, that didn’t make sense to me, either). Ackshewallee, it makes perfect sense. As he often does Trump is short-handing a concept because he considers his audience intelligent. Here's a longer explanation of what he meant: We're often told by Our Betters that we "need" all of these 3rd world illegal aliens because...Americans won't dig their ditches, won't pick their fruit, won't harvest their vegetables, won't be their maids, or their nannies, won't drive their Ubers or taxis, won't mop their floors, won't make them sheep's eye tacos at three in the morning and if Americans will do these things they don't do them cheaply enough. The coming of efficient AI and robotics, in particular, mean that we do not need to import 3rd world "help" at all. The coming of AI/robotics ultimately means that all the minimum wage jobs, all the grunt work, a lot of the working and middle class jobs at all levels are going to disappear (con't) Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (eDfFs) 135
All they had to do was keep pretending and moving slowly to the left and everything would've eventually worked out for them. But something about 2030 is *extremely* important to them.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 07:49 AM (cMJiJ) No patience. They want to achieve it in their life times. They believe they have reached the critical mass where they can be open and proud and 'authentic.' Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (y31cs) 136
"I did not know that Trump is proposing to end taxes on Social Security earnings."
It's a pretty stupid system when the government writes a check and then skims from the top of it. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (Ectld) 137
> Democrats are dying as a party.
-------- As are Republicans. But as an ideology the Democrats are thriving. And they control the levers of power. And pretty much all the national level institutions. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG) 138
"But something about 2030 is *extremely* important to them."
I agree about the 2030 date. All their project deadlines are targeted at it. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:53 AM (Ectld) 139
Harris’ word salad is so far fairly clear: Vote for us to save democracy both in the U.S. and around the world.
We have failed for around the last 35 years (1989) trying to help build democratic nations and what make her or anyone think we are going to succeed this time. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 07:53 AM (gbOdA) 140
For Years, Tim Walz Lied About How His Children Were Conceived, All To Attack Pro-Lifers Over IVF
We've allowed ourselves to be persuaded that IVF is some neat, precise procedure. Maybe someday it will be. But it isn't now. It's messy and wasteful. For each successful birth, how many don't? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh - And I'd argue that it's much more damaging to women. They're convinced to pursue meaningless toil and waste their childbearing years in order to save up tens of thousands of dollars so that they can later spend those years of saving money on IVF after they've passed their prime. And they've been convinced that this toil and waste of years and their own personal resources is "healthcare." It really is brilliant. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 07:54 AM (cMJiJ) 141
Watch: DNC Women's Caucus FORGETS THE WORDS To the National Anthem In Ear-Splitting Attempt
______ She could at least have fudged in "the Myrtles of Venus and Bacchus's Vines". Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:54 AM (1bNHn) 142
Without helicopters, our best case scenario is probably crumbling from within like the USSR so that we can form into homogenous tribes, because I have little in common with Californians who don't speak English, don't care to learn English, and who haven't the slightest idea what American values are. For that matter I doubt I have much in common with 20% of Charlotte or Asheville.
It has nothing to do with skin color BTW. Posted by: Moron Robbie ========= Yes, that is the end result of massive illegal and legal immigration and identity politics. You move to a political system that is autocratic because the disparate parts no longer agree on the common good of the nation--only for their particular bailiwick. The truth behind the Globalists is that a denationalized system that they are trying to build will not have any popular legitimacy and trying to transition to such a system will inevitably lead to anarchy, death, slavery, and destruction. Nation states existed for a reason and that was to stop the endless and pointless wars in Christendom and between rival nobles. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:55 AM (kW+z9) 143
78 I caught the rerun of Barky's speech last night. The Dems were drooling, more than usual, but he's definitely lost a few miles off his fastball. The usual strategic halting wasn't there amongst other things.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:36 AM (qKpsC) Agree. In fact, I thought that Michelle delivered her speech better than Barack did his. Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2024 07:55 AM (Ku6F8) 144
Moynihan was my senator and his views on welfare breaking down the African American family were brilliant. However when he was asked why he wouldn't get rid of those programs causing the breakdown, his response was "because my big Irish heart won't let me" FU Dan
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:55 AM (qKpsC) 145
136 "I did not know that Trump is proposing to end taxes on Social Security earnings."
It's a pretty stupid system when the government writes a check and then skims from the top of it. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 07:52 AM (Ectld) I think you mean 'awesome.' - Accountants. To be fair, we have come a long way to taking money only once. We tax it like fifty times. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 07:56 AM (y31cs) 146
The coming of efficient AI and robotics, in particular, mean that we do not need to import 3rd world "help" at all. The coming of AI/robotics ultimately means that all the minimum wage jobs, all the grunt work, a lot of the working and middle class jobs at all levels are going to disappear
------------ This has been common knowledge for oh, 30 years now. I suppose it is somewhat encouraging that people are starting to notice, and that the subject is being brought up for discussion. Maybe some more studies are necessary before we can draw any conclusions however. Another few decades and perhaps, a consensus can be reached amongst stakeholders. Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2024 07:56 AM (EHNgd) 147
Watch: DNC Women's Caucus FORGETS THE WORDS To the National Anthem In Ear-Splitting Attempt Auditions for a new National Anthem https://youtu.be/t5I7RD857AM?feature=shared Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:57 AM (1Nxff) 148
Happy 1 day before the DNC shitshow is over and campaign can begin in earnest !
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 07:57 AM (V13WU) 149
I looked at the article where Walz "misspoke" about IVF...I hope his "wife" is careful not to leave Walz alone with their children.
Having Kamala a heartbeat away from the presidency is bad enough. Walz appears to be worse than Kamala. I lived in MN for a couple of decades and remember the experience fondly. My children were born there, as a matter of fact. Now? No way I'm going back. Any state which will elect that loon Walz has gone off the deep end. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 21, 2024 07:57 AM (tT6L1) 150
Greg Price @greg_price11
Reporter: Kamala attacked you for being in Howell, Michigan because it's associated with white supremacy. Trump: "Who was here in 2021? Reporter: "Joe Biden" Trump: "Thank you." johnny maga @_johnnymaga Trump just DESTROYED the fake news A Reporter asked why he was visiting a town that has “links to White supremacy” Trump’s response: “Who was here in 2021?” Reporter: “Joe Biden.” Trump: 😆 *Police Officers erupt in applause* https://tinyurl.com/bdd7k6yt 29 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 07:57 AM (c39uV) 151
126 I guess I haven't paid close enough attention, but I did not know that Trump is proposing to end taxes on Social Security earnings.
Posted by: grammie winger ========= Yep. Trump actually views the tax system as a way to help people rather than punish them. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:57 AM (kW+z9) 152
It's CA Lt Gov Eleni Kounalakis; allegedly a best friend of Kamala.
Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital Compilation of the redhead lizard tongue lady from the DNC. https://tinyurl.com/ycyujmf7 23 seconds Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 07:58 AM (c39uV) 153
Ages ago, the great prophet, Benny Hill, did a routine saying something like "Boeing? What kind of a name is that. Sounds like part of the airplane fell off."
70s maybe. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 07:58 AM (1bNHn) 154
Michael Whatley @ChairmanWhatley Aug 20
The @GOP and @PAGOP just secured another major election integrity victory. After a court battle, a Pennsylvania judge affirmed that incomplete mail ballots without required "secrecy envelopes" will not be counted. This is a big win for mail ballot safeguards. DC_Draino @DC_Draino Another huge victory against election fraud in PA by the @GOP & @RNCVoteProtect This is on top of the fact that the RNC has surpassed its goal of recruiting 100,000 poll watchers, poll workers, and legal experts for the election They’re already over *150,000* (!!) Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 07:59 AM (c39uV) 155
78 I caught the rerun of Barky's speech last night. The Dems were drooling, more than usual, but he's definitely lost a few miles off his fastball. The usual strategic halting wasn't there amongst other things.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 07:36 AM (qKpsC) He was pimping Harris/Walz, rather than himself. Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 07:59 AM (i0F8b) 156
144 Moynihan was my senator and his views on welfare breaking down the African American family were brilliant. However when he was asked why he wouldn't get rid of those programs causing the breakdown, his response was "because my big Irish heart won't let me" FU Dan
Posted by: Smell the Glove ========= He wanted to still be a senator is the real reason. See a lot of politicians in the past that had sound views on subjects but did not follow those views in office. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 07:59 AM (kW+z9) 157
The report found that the president, his family, and their associates capitalized on Biden’s occupation of high public offices to rake in $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014.
----------------------- Other corrupt politicians live like plutocratic billionaires. Obama, just as one example, owns mansions in Hawaii, Kalorama, Marthas Vineyard , Manhattan and even Chicago. He travels to his yacht vacations (and everywhere else) on private jets. But Biden, small-minded as ever, only collected $27 million? His whole extended family doesn't work; they all live off of what Joe gets paid on the side. If that's the full amount of his corruption, it's embarrassingly small. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 08:00 AM (OdwzK) 158
But something about 2030 is *extremely* important to them.
They're old. Look at all the players in key positions. They're all scared shitless to lose power to the next generations. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:00 AM (dVxi/) Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 21, 2024 08:01 AM (tT6L1) 160
The report found that the president, his family, and their associates capitalized on Biden’s occupation of high public offices to rake in $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014.
- I'm not a tax attorney, but isn't this illegal in a few ways? Oh well, no big deal. You'd better not forget the 0.25% interest on that $342 in your kid's savings account, though. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:01 AM (cMJiJ) 161
(con't)
...a lot of the working and middle class jobs at all levels are going to disappear from human hands and minds. It's going to be hard for many/most Americans outside of Our Betters to have a good job or a job at all. AI is coming whether we want it or not. And that means we don't need to bring people in who literally have no skills that a machine can't do. These illegal aliens are obsolete, so to speak the minute they cross the border. This is also why Our Betters at DAVOs/WEF talk of "needing" to eliminate most of the human race. They literally don't think we'll be anything but useless feeders, but that's a discussion for another time. TL/DR- AI/Robotics will eliminate the jobs for which the illegal aliens crossing our border are suited for. We literally don't need them at all. They will simply over-run our welfare roles. Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 08:02 AM (eDfFs) 162
122/Moron Robbie: "I don't know if it's dying so much as it is "trying to achieve their final form" of communism. ...
Mass murder and starvation? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:02 AM (O7YUW) 163
My pussy was once grabbed by Benny Hill. Oh, what a night!
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at August 21, 2024 08:02 AM (vFG9F) 164
Tom Elliott @tomselliott
THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF. Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.” ----- Unrolled thread with all links: https://tinyurl.com/mtnuns8a Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:03 AM (c39uV) 165
Tom Elliott @tomselliott
Here’s Walz two weeks ago in Philadelphia talking about IVF: “This gets personal for me and my family” Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope.” Here’s Walz recently in Arizona telling the same story, this time while pretending to cry: “I’m not crying you’re crying” And here’s the New York Times today admitting the truth: “Unlike in vitro fertilization, the procedure used by the Walzes does not involve freezing embryos, so it has not been targeted by anti-abortion leaders.” Walz Family Fertility Journey Ran Not Through I.V.F. but Another Common Treatment Unlike in vitro fertilization, the procedure used by the Walzes does not involve freezing embryos, so it has not been targeted by anti-abortion leaders. nytimes.com Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:03 AM (c39uV) 166
My pussy was once grabbed by Benny Hill. Oh, what a night!
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe Late November back in 63...
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DP Moynihan: Defining Deviancy Down
How We've become accustomed to alarming levels of crime destructive behavior. https://tinyurl.com/2d36wddk Dan would have been aghast these days Posted by: McCool at August 21, 2024 08:03 AM (Vm5ir) 168
What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?
----- Been saying all of this since The Steal. Trump is not a "vanguard of liberty". Also, CW2.0 is the only way we remove the socket from the wrench and spin the tyranny bolt out of our freedom holes. I love that he points out the obvious truth - Civil War is horrible, but better than what is clearly racing toward us on the communism train. Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 21, 2024 08:04 AM (PCXpA) 169
TL/DR- AI/Robotics will eliminate the jobs for which the illegal aliens crossing our border are suited for. We literally don't need them at all. They will simply over-run our welfare roles.
- Spoiler alert: We already don't need them at all. No and low-skilled people have been conditioned to believe that some jobs are beneath them, and the same people conditioning them to believe that reinforced the notion with handouts. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:04 AM (cMJiJ) 170
>The report found that the president, his family, and their associates capitalized on Biden’s occupation of high public offices to rake in $27 million from foreign individuals and entities since 2014.
The report went on to mention they got away with it. Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:04 AM (/7KEl) 171
DC_Draino @DC_Draino
Another huge victory against election fraud in PA by the @GOP & @RNCVoteProtect This is on top of the fact that the RNC has surpassed its goal of recruiting 100,000 poll watchers, poll workers, and legal experts for the election They’re already over *150,000* (!!) Posted by: andycanuck --------- It is key to get these rulings in advance but the judge has to apply sanctions immediately on the Dems when they ignore the law. That is go to jail, directly to jail and stay there until they comply with the contempt of court ruling. In PA 2020, the assholes in Philadelphia stiffed the US Supreme Court by throwing all the ballots together despite a clear ruling that they could not do that. To prevent a repeat, they go to jail for contempt of court and any other Dem officeholder must go to jail that tries to help them do this. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:04 AM (kW+z9) 172
Big Mike is a Gorilla
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:05 AM (YCxFk) 173
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2024 08:06 AM (bEb2S) 174
> Also, CW2.0 is the only way we remove the socket from the wrench and spin the tyranny bolt out of our freedom holes.
----- but our liberty threads are stripped Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:06 AM (/7KEl) 175
It's National Spumoni Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 08:07 AM (NpAcC) 176
162 122/Moron Robbie: "I don't know if it's dying so much as it is "trying to achieve their final form" of communism. ...
Mass murder and starvation? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:02 AM (O7YUW) But they get nice summer homes and cars- until they get caught up in an intraparty purge. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 08:07 AM (y31cs) 177
"How I will get tough on crime." Article on Trump's thoughts in today's NY Post:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3rxkfp Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 08:07 AM (LAZA1) 178
I would celebrate if I knew what that was
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:08 AM (/7KEl) 179
What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?
Part, but not all, of why they'll get away with it are all the Republicans that still place their faith in elections - and insist you do as well. What will all these new poll workers do when the same wild eyed fat guy applies forcibly removes them from the Philly counting room - before he starts covering the windows ? Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:08 AM (dVxi/) 180
> TL/DR- AI/Robotics will eliminate the jobs for which the illegal aliens crossing our border are suited for. We literally don't need them at all. They will simply over-run our welfare roles.
-------- I think we're a long way, decades perhaps, from that scenario. The AI/Robotics thing. The illegals are already overrunning the welfare system. I seriously doubt a quarter of them will ever get deported if it comes to that. Probably less than 5%. Unless the situation here becomes a lot less to their liking. A civil war would make this place really unattractive to foreigners. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (Q4IgG) 181
@172 Jonah, you are insulting gorillas, he's a man , just a man
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (qKpsC) 182
This is also why Our Betters at DAVOs/WEF talk of "needing" to eliminate most of the human race. They literally don't think we'll be anything but useless feeders, but that's a discussion for another time.
Can't wait until they try to figure out how AI farms, ranches & gets food distributed. Much less anything else.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 183
Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (53oGX) 184
Happy for Gaetz. McCarthy is a pro trumper, but fell into the nice guy trap as Speaker
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (YCxFk) 185
we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked.
- Again, this is brilliant. Put it off, ladies. All of the stress, worry, sleepless nights, arguments, the small fortune wasted... Your regional manager at Staples who doesn't know your name appreciates it. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (cMJiJ) 186
fiery red and orange sky this morning
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl) 187
Culver's burgers are the best
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (YCxFk) 188
Morning JJ. Thanks for everything
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:10 AM (YCxFk) 189
I flipped on the TV last night and Michelle Obama filled up my screen. Luckily I was able to flip the channel before eye damage occurred.
So I have idea what she said to the convention of ghouls and murdering terrorists-supporting teachers union hacktivists. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 08:10 AM (2h5OL) 190
96 If we had an Edit function, half the fun of this place would disappear.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 07:38 AM (1Nxff) --- Only the COBs can be trusted with such awesome power... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 07:41 AM (7fElN) ______ Yes, we all know you will abuse it wisely. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:10 AM (1bNHn) 191
181. LOL!!
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:10 AM (YCxFk) 192
Culver's burgers are the best
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (YCxFk) He also went to Tenuta's, if you are familiar with that wonderful deli. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (SfhV1) 193
DC_Draino @DC_Draino 1h
Biden “won” Virginia in 2020 (with Covid mass mail-in ballots) by 10 points A new left leaning poll has Kamala ahead of Trump by only 3 points That alone is very bad news for Dems, but it gets worse The poll’s margin of error is 4.5%, which means Trump may actually be in the lead Add in Gov. Youngkin’s election reforms and Trump has a VERY good chance of flipping Virginia red in November https://tinyurl.com/2xdjswzr link with charts Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (c39uV) 194
... This is also why Our Betters at DAVOs/WEF talk of "needing" to eliminate most of the human race. They literally don't think we'll be anything but useless feeders, but that's a discussion for another time. ...
Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 08:02 AM (eDfFs) ++++ I think that particular pathology is non-economic. Our depraved and evil elite don't want to kill people off because they're economically useless, but because that elite is depraved and evil. They're death-eaters. Death for its own sake. Whatever justifications they provide - the climate, the economy, perverse notions of justice, etc. - are just window-dressing. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (HnUIn) 195
172 Big Mike is a Gorilla
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:05 AM (YCxFk) "Goonie Goo Goo!" - - Aunt Bunny Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (x0n13) 196
They always call trump a Nazi, even though he has Jewish Grandchildren. Amazing
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (YCxFk) 197
Can't wait until they try to figure out how AI farms, ranches & gets food distributed. Much less anything else.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (j2eAj) --- They'll have small "boutique" farms/ranches that produce exclusive food reserved only for them. The rest of us get to subsist on Soylent Green. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (7fElN) 198
Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (v6JzV) 199
I flipped on the TV last night and Michelle Obama filled up my screen. Luckily I was able to flip the channel before eye damage occurred. I just watched the ball game. Astros got let down by their bullpen and lost 6-5. But Seattle lost as well, so they're still up by 5 games. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (1Nxff) 200
"We've allowed ourselves to be persuaded that IVF is some neat, precise procedure."
In truth, many embryos are created only to be destroyed. Very evil indeed. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (JVCkA) 201
Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 1h
Joe Biden lies about the circumstances of his son’s death. Kamala Harris lies that she has children with Doug Emhoff. And Tim Walz lies about how his children were conceived. Something not right with these people. Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC 1h Tim Walz Said His Kids 'Were Born Through' IVF. It's a Lie Walz fundraised off his "family's IVF journey," and in a video released by the Harris campaign, said: "My kids were born through that way." But his wife conceived through a different procedure. Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC 1h This is the fertility treatment version of saying you served in Afghanistan when you really only served in Italy. ==== BTW, it was the IUI technique. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (c39uV) 202
193. Yes Andy, but NOVA always counts last. Just like Cook County IL
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (YCxFk) 203
Do not forget that the Chocolate Savior was so bad in 2010 that Bill Clinton had to fill in for him after we took Congress. I'll never forget the forlorn way he walked off the stage.
Bill was POS, but he wasn't a total bore like Barack. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:13 AM (1bNHn) 204
Big Mike is a Wookie.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2024 08:13 AM (JVCkA) 205
New York Post @nypost
Biden staying at $37M ranch of donor ‘friend’ whose links to prez drew ethics concerns trib.al/JdRdov7 Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta For at least 17th time, @JoeBiden is staying for free at billionaire donor’s mansion & if he follows practice, won’t disclose, even though ethics experts say it’s unlawful. Dems & media allies are fine w/ this. And Biden has audacity to propose S. Ct. ethics reform! What a joke. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:13 AM (c39uV) 206
189 I flipped on the TV last night and Michelle Obama filled up my screen. Luckily I was able to flip the channel before eye damage occurred.
I record Gutfeld and when I went to play it the lovefest had just ended and a Fox panel was going orgasmic over Michellee, Barack, and The Nanny screwing Second "Gentleman"... If I didn't know it was Fox I would have thought I had MSNBC on... Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (IyPmt) 207
What will all these new poll workers do when the same wild eyed fat guy applies forcibly removes them from the Philly counting room - before he starts covering the windows ?
Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:08 AM (dVxi/) ----- If he had any balls, he'd do what they should've done the first time. Chain the doors shut and strike a match. Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (PCXpA) 208
More and more I see Harris and Walz I see throw away, and purpose is too protect down ballot
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (YCxFk) 209
fiery red and orange sky this morning
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl) ***** Sailor's warning. Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (NpAcC) 210
@164/andycanuck: "ince IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF."
"Figaro no yours. Figaro come from the milkman." -- Luigi Finucci in "Oscar" Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (O7YUW) 211
Francis Brennan @FrancisBrennan
🚨FLASHBACK 🚨 Kamala Harris said it was "outrageous and a stain on our national character" when the Trump Admin was accused of not being able to account for 545 illegal immigrant children. As border czar Harris has lost OVER 290,000 illegal immigrant children. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (c39uV) 212
When they steal the election we'll go online to complain and vote harder next time.
Posted by: brak at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (qWicm) 213
Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 1h
🚨 KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL This is the highest capital gains tax in history. The plan also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals, signaling a significant shift in tax policy aimed at the wealthy. Source: Watcher Guru Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 24m This is financial rape. Ernest Goes Online @Papadop25039911 1h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays 45% will destroy lives. Work an entire life to finally have a single stock options payout and Kamala takes half plus state tax. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 50m Don't forget estate taxes and inflation. They're taking it all. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (c39uV) 214
I just watched the ball game. Astros got let down by their bullpen and lost 6-5. But Seattle lost as well, so they're still up by 5 games.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:12 AM (1Nxff) ------------- I watched Cleveland destroy the Yankees. Very satisfying. Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (2h5OL) 215
Big Mike railing against "those who take too much". This coming from two grifters who own a huge waterfront estate in Hawaii, a huge waterfront estate in Martha's Vineyard, a huge mansion in Kalorama, DC, and a huge home in Chicago. Fuck them both. And their 'Kids".
Posted by: Hope and Chains at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (CV8a5) 216
They'll have small "boutique" farms/ranches that produce exclusive food reserved only for them.
The rest of us get to subsist on Soylent Green. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (7fElN) ++++ They won't be that small. Red China has this system in place *today.* They've had it for years. The masters of the CCP - the power center of the Party - have parallel infrastructure. There are farms, transportation systems, supermarkets, etc. that exist solely for the Inner Party. They ruthlessly control quality and availability for the Party masters, and no outsiders get access to that parallel system. The rubes cannot step foot in the Party supermarkets, and the Party farms' produce doesn't find its way into the non-Party supply chains. The rubes - even Party member rubes - get to play the lottery and wonder if they are getting real food or chemical trash. The Inner Party gets good stuff, reliably. It's good to be the king. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (HnUIn) 217
New York Post @nypost 2h
Time cuts 22 staffers at magazine, cites ‘significant challenges’ in media industry trib.al/8tTB2Nr TheTexasOne @TexasRepublic71 4h BREAKING: Anheuser-Busch laying off hundreds in Massachusetts, GoPro slashing 15% of workforce, GM gets rid of 1,000 engineers Disclose.tv @disclosetv 3h NEW - Feds face "up to a million" US jobs "vanishing" in what may be the largest downward revision in 15 years — Bloomberg Eighth Century Woodchipper 🌳🪓 @BonifaceOption 4h They have done every Soviet-style lie they can to tell everyone the economy is doing great. But eventually you cannot conceal reality. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (c39uV) 218
175 WTH is spumoni?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (v6JzV) 219
The plan also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals Guess what? You're going to be a high-net-worth individual. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:16 AM (1Nxff) 220
206. Faux sucks. Have not watched since they fired Tucker, and they have already called AZ for Kameltoe
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:16 AM (YCxFk) 221
> As border czar Harris has lost OVER 290,000 illegal immigrant children.
-------- I think the feds know exactly who they were sold to... Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 08:16 AM (Q4IgG) 222
218 175 WTH is spumoni?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (v6JzV) Italian ice cream. Three flavors. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:17 AM (x0n13) 223
218 175 WTH is spumoni?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (v6JzV) From wiki: Spumoni (sg.: spumone) is a molded gelato made with layers of different colors and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts. It comes from the Italian word spuma, meaning 'foam'. It's ice cream. Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 08:17 AM (y31cs) 224
Bubba was one of the last "rational" Dems. He was willing to work with Newt on welfare reform and balancing the budget. His foreign policy and personal behavior sucked but he did do some good. The Dems nowadays would gut him like a trout if he suggested welfare reform or balancing a budget
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 08:17 AM (qKpsC) 225
Too many people only focus on PDT's rally schedule. When I attempted a search I did find a schedule of his events, mostly rallies and the visit to Howell MI. Nowhere did I see the other campaigning events that have been done or are in the works. Where are his press conferences, his interviews listed? He spent 2.5 hours talking with Musk and that didn't come up on ddg. Actually I had to scroll down through numerous mentions of the dnc convention before I found what I asked for. I had Trump in the search not the dnc. Because you aren't a political junky and follow every minute of his campaign like some here do, you wouldn't know that he's tirelessly campaigning.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 21, 2024 08:17 AM (2NHgQ) 226
Judge Merchan’s Daughter Reportedly Caught Concealing Work for Harris Campaign
'Why are you and Loren Merchan using the same office for Authentic Campaigns and Avalanche Acquisitions while you’re still working for the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden?' Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 21, 2024 08:17 AM (h70ss) 227
As border czar Harris has lost OVER 290,000 illegal immigrant children.
Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:14 AM (c39uV) ------------------ They aren't lost! We sold them to pedophiles and slave runners! Posted by: US Government at August 21, 2024 08:18 AM (HD3Ny) Posted by: Anita Dickenme at August 21, 2024 08:18 AM (YQ2Mz) 229
I've been warned
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:18 AM (/7KEl) 230
TNR: Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention. As Americans tune in to watch Harris receive her party’s nomination, they should trust their own eyes—especially as D.C.’s chattering class tries to gaslight them.
I was watching PBS and their pundits. What the hell David Brooks was going on about? Why anyone would have him on as a talking head. Remember his "Bidens Economy" meme about the high cost of airport burgers and whiskey shots. PBS WAS my trusted TV station. Their talking heads yammered over speakers, including Senator Warnock. I was so angry. Today I watched Warnock's magnificent speech online, which made me even madder that some yoinks talked over it. I had MSNBC on. Rachel, Chris, Jen, Stephanie, Lawrence compared last night to the RNC. "Joy and excitement" were adjectives stressed last night lacking at the other's convention they said. I saw smiles on their faces as well. All mentioned "what a deep bench the Democrats have". The DNC has a YouTube livestream. No bullshit, just the actual event. Watching bullshit artists explain the performance is like science fiction theater 3000 but without the irony. Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (ycI94) 231
Used to be a great Gelato place in Brooklyn called Spumoni Gardens. Wonder if it's still in business. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13) 232
It's amazing that the Democrats feel so free to sling and hurl the most vile and vicious invective up to and including the desire to see the daughter of your opponent raped and it's simply eaten up by their cultists and the press with nary a care in the world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (XV/Pl) 233
213. GOP needs to hammer the fact that Kameltoe cannot get her Soviet programs thru the Senate. After picking up Manchin's seat, and really having no GOP seats at risk. We could lose every toss up seat and still be 50-50
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (YCxFk) 234
yesterday they (bo and spouse) were dog whistling to their minions to cause riots, and become violent in november. over and over , how it was going to be close, and how the polls will be disappointing and how they are counting on them.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (V13WU) 235
And J.J. That piece from Barroom is too depressing for 5:00 AM
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (IyPmt) 236
JJ, are you a Yankees or Mets fan? Giants or Jets?
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (YCxFk) 237
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1) 238
Ugh.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1) 239
@MarioNawfal
🚨 KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL This is the highest capital gains tax in history. The plan also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals, signaling a significant shift in tax policy aimed at the wealthy. ... Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (c39uV) ++++ Cranking the rate up that high is a fascinating idea in terms of market liquidity, and that might actually be the point of it. The benefit - such as it is, which it isn't - of the capital gains tax is that it is lower than the income tax for most people. If you can, it behooves you to hold onto a position for at least a year because then you'll pay the capital gains rate rather than having it be taxed as ordinary income. The highest income tax bracket is 37%, which is lower than the new capital gains rate. There is no point (outside of dividend yield and actual long-term investment) to holding a position if they do this. You'll get screwed *harder* if you hang on to a position you don't absolutely *need* to retain. You're better off selling and taking the tax hit as ordinary income. Should cause liquidity to surge if they do it. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn) 240
I heard Bernie announce that public school teachers need a raise to oodles of applause. I laughed. Then I went to bed.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (FmapG) 241
I'm tired.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1) 242
My pussy was once grabbed by Benny Hill. Oh, what a night!
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe Late November back in 63... Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 08:03 AM (j2eAj) I thought the lyric was "late December back in '63." Doesn't matter. I still don't like the song. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 21, 2024 08:20 AM (Q0kLU) 243
218 175 WTH is spumoni?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (v6JzV) ****** 3 layered Italian ice cream. Like a gelato with fruits and nuts. Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (NpAcC) 244
Off course they are going to steal the election again. It worked so well in 2020 and nobody got punished, except us.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (JVCkA) 245
Guess what? You're going to be a high-net-worth individual.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:16 AM (1Nxff) ++++ Not on day 1. But eventually, yes. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (HnUIn) 246
@238/Sponge: Have some coffee. Everything is better after coffee.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (O7YUW) 247
OK, I'll come out and admit it, I'm the one lining up the cones on Mars. I do it to mess with the space nerds. I need a new hobby.
Posted by: Zombie Ray Walston at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (CV8a5) 248
It's amazing that the Democrats feel so free to sling and hurl the most vile and vicious invective
They cheer on rioting. Burning of property. Looting. We haven't even got to the 60s bombings yet. Name calling is the least of the problem. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:22 AM (dVxi/) 249
@8
>>This 'stolen lands' bullshit is virtue-signalling writ large. In the most technical of senses, the land wasn't stolen, it's still where it always was. But I want to see those deeds and property line surveys the injuns have filed with the township tax surveyor proving it was their land. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 08:22 AM (XV/Pl) 250
I keep thinking of the 'He hates these cans!' for some reason when the Mars cones thing is mentioned.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2024 08:22 AM (y31cs) 251
Never saw spumoni with fruits and nuts ! it was always 3 layers of ice cream. that is it.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 08:23 AM (V13WU) 252
We could lose every toss up seat and still be 50-50
————- It would be very unbecoming to stop the march forward to collectivism and societal decay. Posted by: Mitt Romney at August 21, 2024 08:23 AM (Y8lzz) 253
Cloward Piven may work in the case of a town where the more and more are added to welfare rolls or public housing to the point the county or state then HAS to throw funds at the problem.
But in the case of a country like the USA there is no rescue, there is no bailout, there is no saving overlord to bring in a new source of funds or solutions. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:23 AM (gbOdA) 254
And let's go ahead and call an "unrealized capital gains tax" what it is: expropriation without compensation.
It's right in the name. Unrealized. That is, not yet real. If a gain has not been made real - that is, it is unrealized - it does not exist. Taxing it is taxing something that doesn't exist yet. It's taxing a hypothetical. But it will force realization to pay the tax. Should also be good for liquidity. For a while. Until the markets die. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:23 AM (HnUIn) 255
10 AM this morning should be fun for the economy and the Biden/Harris ticket . A revision downward of up to 1 million jobs is expected from the last year.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 08:24 AM (qKpsC) 256
252. Romney retiring is a pickup too. Murk and Collins are pretty good on tax issues, awful on everything else
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:24 AM (YCxFk) 257
"Never saw spumoni with fruits and nuts ! it was always 3 layers of ice cream. that is it."
That's Neapolitan. Came in a box and my mom would slice it so we each got all three flavors (Choc. Vanilla, strawberry). Happy times. Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2024 08:24 AM (JVCkA) 258
Sean channels BEN!
The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee Democrats Install Breathalyzer On Kamala Harris’s Microphone buff.ly/3ylRxBd Sean Davis @seanmdav It’s funny because she drinks too much. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:24 AM (c39uV) 259
and I thought gelato was a sports car
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (/7KEl) 260
If he had any balls, he'd do what they should've done the first time. Chain the doors shut and strike a match.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus - Do you offer a newsletter? Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (cMJiJ) 261
255. Deep state will threaten Fed Board to do 5 full point rate reductions before the vote
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (YCxFk) 262
@254/Joe Mannix: "Taxing it is taxing something that doesn't exist yet. It's taxing a hypothetical."
It's bald-faced theft. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (O7YUW) 263
You can put Regional Manager for Blockbuster or Radio Shack on your resume.
You can never be checked. Follow me for other Job Hunting tips.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 264
KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL
== how many in the country even know what a capital gain is? Tim Walz does not. And those who heard about it , think it does not affect them, just those mythical trilionbillionmillionaires Bidet was talking about. Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 08:26 AM (V13WU) 265
Deep state will threaten Fed Board to do 5 full point rate reductions before the vote
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (YCxFk) ++++ They'll make noise about it. Not *that* extreme, but along those lines. I don't think the Fed is going to do it, but the Party is absolutely going to demand it. They give one pity cut of a quarter point, but the Fed is not omnipotent and the bond market is still going maintain price level unless the Fed also does QE again to just force things down, which I don't see happening right now. What if the Fed threw a rate-cut party and nobody showed up? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:27 AM (HnUIn) 266
They ruthlessly control quality and availability for the Party masters, and no outsiders get access to that parallel system. The rubes cannot step foot in the Party supermarkets, and the Party farms' produce doesn't find its way into the non-Party supply chains.
The rubes - even Party member rubes - get to play the lottery and wonder if they are getting real food or chemical trash. The Inner Party gets good stuff, reliably. "It's called wine. Not very much gets to the Outer Party, I'm afraid." - O'Brien Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 21, 2024 08:27 AM (Q0kLU) 267
It's bald-faced theft.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (O7YUW) ++++ Yes. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:27 AM (HnUIn) 268
before mocking Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” by gesturing with hands to signify a small length.
------ When we go low, they go high!!! Posted by: ... at August 21, 2024 08:28 AM (4DWWO) 269
Just had an iced coffee, Bialetti brewed, with a square of Swiss 85% cocoa dark chocolate.
Next up: swimming! War is hell. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2024 08:28 AM (BO83Q) 270
10 AM this morning should be fun for the economy and the Biden/Harris ticket . A revision downward of up to 1 million jobs is expected from the last year.
Posted by: Smell the Glove To be followed by multiple cries for an emergency Fed meeting to lower rates. It's bs. The financial world knows the numbers are crap when they are released. Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (MMu89) 271
@238/Sponge: Have some coffee. Everything is better after coffee.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 08:21 AM (O7YUW) Working on that as we speak. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (Zz0t1) 272
The Biden junta's policies amount to lifetime costs of nearly $50,000 per family.
Sorry but this is way, way below the real number. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (oZhjI) 273
Watched The Homesman last night. I wished I hadn't once it was over. I love Tommy Lee Jones but a movie featuring Tommy and directed by Tommy is a train wreck. TJM will likely correct me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (FmapG) 274
It's bald-faced theft.
All taxation is. The taxes that pay for the things you don't like - and the things that you do. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (dVxi/) 275
197 Can't wait until they try to figure out how AI farms, ranches & gets food distributed. Much less anything else.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 08:09 AM (j2eAj) --- They'll have small "boutique" farms/ranches that produce exclusive food reserved only for them. The rest of us get to subsist on Soylent Green. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 08:11 AM (7fElN) _______ There are too many Boomers for that. They'll have to make us into Soylent Grey. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:30 AM (1bNHn) 276
The illegals are already overrunning the welfare system. I seriously doubt a quarter of them will ever get deported if it comes to that. Probably less than 5%.
Unless the situation here becomes a lot less to their liking. A civil war would make this place really unattractive to foreigners. Posted by: Martini Farmer ===== The money is gone. Whoever becomes prezzie in 2024 is going to face that stark conclusion regardless of what they say now. Trump's plan, as it was in 2016, is a desperate attempt to have national GDP grow faster than the debt level which was working until Covid in 2020. Kamala doesn't have a plan which means a bad financial crunch is baked into the cake. Like a family, you cannot simply borrow one third of your spending as we are doing without bankruptcy. Total budget was 6 trillion plus, the tax revenues are 4 trillion, and that leaves 2 trillion to be covered by borrowing. Now, one trillion is spent on interest currently of that six trillion and that cost rises faster than any tax revenues would and massive tax increases/spending cuts will tank the economy depressing tax revenues. Bad place to be for an economy. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:30 AM (kW+z9) 277
There are too many Boomers for that. They'll have to make us into Soylent Grey.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:30 AM (1bNHn) ++++ *snort* Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:30 AM (HnUIn) 278
To be followed by multiple cries for an emergency Fed meeting to lower rates. It's bs. The financial world knows the numbers are crap when they are released.
Posted by: Sock Monkey ======= An emergency meeting is probably is not going to happen for the remainder of August because revising past stats is not an emergency nor is a drop in stock prices. Most likely interest rate cuts come in September. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:31 AM (kW+z9) 279
before mocking Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” by gesturing with hands to signify a small length.
------ Trump should open his next rally with video of Owebama working out in the gym in Poland........ https://youtu.be/CmxjP0XeXAA?t=9 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:32 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13) 281
Now, one trillion is spent on interest currently of that six trillion and that cost rises faster than any tax revenues would and massive tax increases/spending cuts will tank the economy depressing tax revenues. Bad place to be for an economy.
Sounds like a mandatory conversion into a national myIRA is just what the doctor will order. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:33 AM (dVxi/) 282
TJM will likely correct me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (FmapG) "It IS other people's jobs to tell you what to think, after all." - - - - Mika Slutzinski Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (Zz0t1) 283
So the government wants almost half of your returns. And to think that this is money that you saved in many cases after taxes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (gbOdA) 284
It's right in the name. Unrealized. That is, not yet real. If a gain has not been made real - that is, it is unrealized - it does not exist. Taxing it is taxing something that doesn't exist yet. It's taxing a hypothetical.
But it will force realization to pay the tax. Should also be good for liquidity. For a while. Until the markets die. Posted by: Joe Mannix 1. I would like to see how much tax credit I get for a loss instead of a gain. Oh, yeah. It isn't indexed for inflation. 2. Mathematically, it means they take all of your investment eventually. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (1CwGo) 285
Abortion on ballot in Montana and AZ? Tester always finds a way
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (YCxFk) 286
“Stop killing women in Gaza!”
Anti-Israel Protesters Storm DNC Women’s Caucus Meeting ----------- What is a woman? Everybody seems to know again. Posted by: ... at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (4DWWO) 287
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom Obama: "We can secure our borders without tearing kids away from their parents." The DHS Inspector General revealed today that 291,000 children who crossed the border illegally under Border Czar Kamala are unaccounted for. https://tinyurl.com/yc58mpp5 Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (NpAcC) 288
It's bald-faced theft.
All taxation is. The taxes that pay for the things you don't like - and the things that you do. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:29 AM (dVxi/) - This is more than that. The word is confiscation, of your home, your land, your accounts, whatever it takes. Because so many people will not be able to afford it. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2024 08:34 AM (BO83Q) 289
So the government wants almost half of your returns. And to think that this is money that you saved in many cases after taxes.
Posted by: rhennigantx No, they want all of it. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (1CwGo) 290
What if the Fed threw a rate-cut party and nobody showed up?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) ======= Market has already factored in reductions in September. If the Fed does not drop interest rates, then that would be the surprise. There is no longer enough time to cut rates and have the economy respond as the Dems think (they are illiterate on economic matters anyway). The guidance today from Lowes and Home Depot indicate consumer retrenchment from big spending at those stores because consumers have cut back. That happens when consumers are tapped out. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (kW+z9) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (x0n13) 292
They'll have small "boutique" farms/ranches that produce exclusive food reserved only for them.
The rest of us get to subsist on Soylent Green. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirre Those farms/ranches will have to be in urban areas because us rural folk will express our opinion. Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (MMu89) 293
278. Yes Whig, problem is that 90% of Wall Street donations went To Hillary and Biden. They are crony capitalists who love Big Govt to take care of social issues.
Fu##rs hate Trump, but want tax cuts if he wins Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:36 AM (YCxFk) Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:36 AM (gbOdA) 295
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom Obama: "We can secure our borders without tearing kids away from their parents." The DHS Inspector General revealed today that 291,000 children who crossed the border illegally under Border Czar Kamala are unaccounted for. https://tinyurl.com/yc58mpp5 Posted by: redridinghood At some point, you have more 10 yr olds than you can screw.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 296
At some point, you have more 10 yr olds than you can screw.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 08:37 AM (j2eAj) The HELLS you say! Posted by: Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:37 AM (Zz0t1) 297
The plan also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals
Guess what? You're going to be a high-net-worth individual. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:16 AM (1Nxff) YAY!!! ... ... ..oh.. Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 08:38 AM (eDfFs) 298
No, they want all of it. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (1CwGo) The Democrats believe that all money belongs to the government, which will let you know how much they'll condescend to let you keep. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 08:38 AM (1Nxff) 299
Sounds like a mandatory conversion into a national myIRA is just what the doctor will order.
Posted by: Who Cares -------- Still not enough. We are going to crash and crash hard. Something like the Great Depression redux as the Western Governments have essentially taken their central banks out of the game now by continuing massive spending and killing their economies via welfare spending and regulations. So, govt debt will be extinguished either by stiffing creditors which kills future borrowing by that govt or by inflating the debt away which destroys the government by essentially making all their government spending worthless to its recipients. Fire or ice-pick your doom. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:39 AM (kW+z9) 300
Obama: "We can secure our borders without tearing kids away from their parents."
- I still don't care. Should a bank robber be given hundreds of thousands of dollars and sent home to be with his family because he has kids? Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:40 AM (cMJiJ) 301
I'm working at spending our accumulated wealth before we die. It seems to be working. Taxes next year are going to be a bitch tho'.
This is out of necessity. Not ours. The kids. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 08:40 AM (Q4IgG) 302
The DHS Inspector General revealed today that 291,000 children who crossed the border illegally under Border Czar Kamala are unaccounted for.
- And I'd bet money 50%+ of them are sex slaves. We can't talk about that, though. Because racism or something. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:40 AM (cMJiJ) 303
Do you offer a newsletter?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 08:25 AM (cMJiJ) ------- Been thinking about a YT/Rumble channel. I racked up a pretty good following on TT with 80% lower build instruction videos before I got busted and banned for the 3rd time. Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 21, 2024 08:41 AM (QrlDN) 304
293 278. Yes Whig, problem is that 90% of Wall Street donations went To Hillary and Biden. They are crony capitalists who love Big Govt to take care of social issues.
Fu##rs hate Trump, but want tax cuts if he wins Posted by: Jonah ======== The big GOP donors probably won't get much tax relief other than a continuation of the Trump tax cuts. The techlords that have switched to the GOP side will simply get less regulation (see Musk and Space X, Thiel, etc. ) and not tax cuts. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:41 AM (kW+z9) 305
Fire or ice-pick your doom.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:39 AM (kW+z9) ++++ Which is how I think we might get a crack-up. When the checks from the US Treasury start bouncing, shit comes unglued pretty fast. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn) 306
293 278. Yes Whig, problem is that 90% of Wall Street donations went To Hillary and Biden. They are crony capitalists who love Big Govt to take care of social issues.
Fu##rs hate Trump, but want tax cuts if he wins Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:36 AM (YCxFk) _______ To be fair, some of them aren't giving out of enthusiasm for the Dems, but as protection money. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (1bNHn) 307
If unrealized gains are thrown on the table, unrealized losses will be dragged there too. The financial world would prefer that those stay buried.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (MMu89) 308
I'm working at spending our accumulated wealth before we die. It seems to be working. Taxes next year are going to be a bitch tho'.
This is out of necessity. Not ours. The kids. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 08:40 AM (Q4IgG) No no. Vox Day says that's being a boomer dick. You must stop spending money on your boomer self and leave it to your kids. They deserve it. Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (0eaVi) 309
As border czar Harris has lost OVER 290,000 illegal immigrant children.
Look JAck, they're not 'lost', they're 'free-range' children. Unlike the ones Drumpf held in cages. Posted by: Joey Briben at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (Vm5ir) 310
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To be fair, some of them aren't giving out of enthusiasm for the Dems, but as protection money. Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (1bNHn) They're paying for the exception clause written into every bill. See: Owebamacare and GE Posted by: Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:44 AM (Zz0t1) 311
Still not enough. We are going to crash and crash hard.
I'm not arguing that any of it will work. Just pointing out all the futile things they'll try. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:44 AM (dVxi/) 312
And there you have it folks, America is an illegitimate nation built on stolen land.
And our government is an illegitimate one built on stolen money. OUR stolen money. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:44 AM (v6JzV) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:44 AM (Zz0t1) 314
"You are going to earn $100,000 next year, so here is your tax bill to pay now".
Makes just as much sense. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 08:44 AM (qZ+fb) 315
As border czar Harris has lost OVER 290,000 illegal immigrant children.
-------- Like I said; they're not lost. The feds know exactly who they were sold to. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG) 316
Wonder if it's still in business.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13) It is... Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2024 08:45 AM (K+UlC) 317
"McCarthy is a pro trumper, but fell into the nice guy trap as Speaker"
I disagree. McCarthy's "nice guy" routine was to con the rubes. He's trash. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 08:45 AM (Ectld) Posted by: Ghost of John Gotti at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (Vm5ir) 319
yep
Posted by: Jonah at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (YCxFk) 320
Which is how I think we might get a crack-up. When the checks from the US Treasury start bouncing, shit comes unglued pretty fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) =========== Yep. That is when the WEF neo feudalists will make their move and try to dispense with popular governments. That is why the WEF seems to be putting the foot to the floor on illegal immigration flows, endless spending on green nude eels, etc. Conclusion is they want the governments of the West to go over the cliff. A starving, frightened, and panicky populace is a lot easier to control than right now. Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) 321
317 I disagree. McCarthy's "nice guy" routine was to con the rubes. He's trash.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 08:45 AM (Ectld) Everyone is trash. There's no Ol' Blood 'n Guts Wartime General coming. Posted by: XTC at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (UnA8+) Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (Ectld) 323
If unrealized gains are thrown on the table, unrealized losses will be dragged there too. The financial world would prefer that those stay buried.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 08:43 AM (MMu89) Asset values will crash first - then losses will become more valuable - everything will meet in the middle. Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (K+UlC) Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (RKVpM) 325
Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) This is the only way to be sure. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (Zz0t1) 326
Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) ++++ The latter. Doing it in secret accomplishes little. Dealing with Davos calls for "shock and awe." Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn) 327
Which is how I think we might get a crack-up. When the checks from the US Treasury start bouncing, shit comes unglued pretty fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix Japan raised their prime rate, and the carry trade caused the US market to dump. We are already at the tipping point. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 08:48 AM (NdM8G) 328
"Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there."
I think taking out Soros in his own home with a SEAL team would get the message across. Posted by: Ribbed at August 21, 2024 08:48 AM (Ectld) 329
.@MichelleObama says her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more than they needed."
Says lady with $65 M book deal Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:49 AM (gbOdA) 330
Which is how I think we might get a crack-up. When the checks from the US Treasury start bouncing, shit comes unglued pretty fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn) I believe it was the 19th century English agitator William Cobbett who said you can't make a rebel out of a man with a full stomach. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (Q0kLU) 331
@MichelleObama says her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more than they needed."
Says lady with $65 M book deal Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:49 AM (gbOdA) All they have is lies and propaganda. They live and breathe it every day. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (Zz0t1) 332
The latter.
Doing it in secret accomplishes little. Dealing with Davos calls for "shock and awe." Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn) --- Sometimes it's about sending a message. One that future generations who even *think* about global tyranny will still have nightmares about. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN) Posted by: runner at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (V13WU) 334
Big Mikes have a penis, Baracks have a vagina. So sayeth the Lord.
Posted by: The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (2xmUx) 335
MichelleObama says her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more than they needed."
So, keep enough for a baloney sandwich, and give the rest to who? Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (SfhV1) 336
318 KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL
That's one hell of a vig ! Posted by: Ghost of John Gotti at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (Vm5ir) G D and local bookies settle for 10 points. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (gbOdA) 337
Big Mikes have a penis, Baracks have a vagina. So sayeth the Lord.
Posted by: The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle at August 21, 2024 08:50 AM (2xmUx) We rate this statement as True. Posted by: Mirror Universe Snopes at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (Zz0t1) 338
While reading the article at "what happens when the democrat party steals this election", it I remembered the old comment that you can tell who is in charge by who you are not allowed to criticize. It is so true when look g back at how nobody was allowed to question the results of the 2020 election. It has been said that the 1st amendment is protected by the 2nd amendment. That must not be true, as I feel we have lost our freedom of speech.
Posted by: Chillin the most at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (AhKLt) 339
335 MichelleObama says her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more than they needed."
Then Darlin, they'd be suspicious of you Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (IyPmt) 340
307 If unrealized gains are thrown on the table, unrealized losses will be dragged there too. The financial world would prefer that those stay buried.
Posted by: Sock Monkey Essentially, the Great Reset is going to be economic--not Green. The Great Reset aka rectification is coming where accumulated lies in balance sheets get revealed. Bad economic times strip all the pretty tinsel away that hide the rotten foundations beneath for corporations and governments. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (kW+z9) 341
Doing it in secret accomplishes little. Dealing with Davos calls for "shock and awe."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn) A beautiful MOAB. The best! Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 21, 2024 08:51 AM (exSdN) 342
Does Kamala even know what unrealized capital gains means? I highly doubt it - someone should ask her to explain why a 25% tax on this is a good thing.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 21, 2024 08:52 AM (ZtyUu) 343
I saw One Hell of a Vig open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in 2015.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:52 AM (Zz0t1) 344
>>> Conclusion is they want the governments of the West to go over the cliff. A starving, frightened, and panicky populace is a lot easier to control than right now.
Old & Busted: Bush Driving the Economy into the Ditch. New Hotness: Thelma, Louise, & the WEF Driving the West into the Grand Canyon. >>>Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 08:52 AM (1HSEr) 345
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 08:52 AM (1HSEr) Speaking of, I see cutjibnewsletter.com is back online. Congrats, Dildo!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:53 AM (Zz0t1) 346
Final scorecard for McCarthy’s “revenge tour” against the eight Reps who voted for his ouster:
1 - 7 Spending all that PAC money, which should have been used against Dems in the primary, to punish those who booted him and that is the result. Nice work, Kevin. Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2024 08:53 AM (Y1sOo) 347
it's good to be reminded of how horrible the Obamas are
btw if they steal 24, step one is leave your blue state, or a state with a weak Governor. I'm hoping to do this even if they let PDJT win, but if not, just pack up quick and freaking go. Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (s3qiR) 348
Grammie, Hope Rev is recovering. Prayers sent for both of you. How is your son? If I remember correctly, he had medical difficulties a while back. Hope the Culver report from Kenosha means he is better.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (zudum) 349
Getta you red-hot tutsi-frutsi ice a cream!
Posted by: Chico Marx at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (CV8a5) 350
Gutfeld lost me when I heard him talking about the misplaced empathy of the Left and how it led them astray into bad ideas and extremism. Empathy? It's the same misconception as they want "equality of outcome."
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (Izpx/) 351
That article about what to do when they still it again was excellent, also had 2 cool pieces of digital artwork in it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (CIS44) 352
Spending all that PAC money, which should have been used against Dems in the primary, to punish those who booted him and that is the result.
Nice work, Kevin. Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2024 08:53 AM (Y1sOo) He lived and took it up the ass from a libtard douchebag. He should be laughed out of everywhere and everything for the rest of time. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (Zz0t1) 353
@276
>>Trump's plan, as it was in 2016, is a desperate attempt to have national GDP grow faster than the debt level which was working until Covid in 2020. Kamala doesn't have a plan which means a bad financial crunch is baked into the cake. This is impossible with legitimate sorcery. Our current debt to GDP is 123pct, to simply get it to under 100pct, you would have to grow the economy by 25pct, in very short period of time, while passing revenue neutral budgets. To get our debt to GDP back to what it was in 2004, just 20 years ago, you would have to grow the economy 115pct. It's not a question of when all the spinning plates come crashing down, it's simply which clown get left holding the bag. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 08:55 AM (XV/Pl) 354
>>>Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there.
the problem with this idea is a lot of those mofos might already even be dead! they will lie about that. if Soros Sr is dead, we won't know until it's useful for us to know. Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 21, 2024 08:55 AM (s3qiR) 355
Hope the Culver report from Kenosha means he is better.
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (zudum) Hi Mrs JTB! Yes, both Rev and my son are doing much better. Thanks be to God. Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (SfhV1) 356
Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) From time to time, I've thought Putin might do this to flip the script. Most of his problems literally come from that collection of pumpkin heads. If he wants to clean up his image in the world over night, that'd do it. Buuuuut, frankly Davos/WEF are waging merciless warfare on the US and other Western States and more importantly, their citizens. Full on destruction is fully justified. Maybe declare war fifteen seconds before the nukes drop. But, that's all just a dream. A beautiful, beautiful dream... Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (eDfFs) 357
"Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope"
Notice how Walz does NOT come right out and say they did IVF themselves. He only says that it's a "personal issue" for them and that they went through "years of fertility treatments" without specifying what those treatments were. A great example of a statement that is misleading but not technically false. Posted by: Secret Square at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (9WuX0) 358
KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL
That's one hell of a vig ! Posted by: Ghost of John Gotti at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (Vm5ir) ---------------- Tax protester Irwin Schiff didn't call it the Federal Mafia for nothing back in the 70s ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (1HSEr) 359
Hi Mrs JTB! Yes, both Rev and my son are doing much better. Thanks be to God.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (SfhV1) Amen. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:56 AM (Zz0t1) 360
1 - 7
Spending all that PAC money, which should have been used against Dems in the primary, to punish those who booted him and that is the result. Nice work, Kevin. Posted by: one hour sober Which one did he get booted? Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (CIS44) 361
Empathy? It's the same misconception as they want "equality of outcome."
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2024 08:54 AM (Izpx/) WITH OPM Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (gbOdA) 362
>>When it was former president Obama’s turn, he lamented the ugliness of modern American politics before mocking Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” by gesturing with hands to signify a small length.
Where's Nikki Haley! Nikki, we need you your Hall Monitor skills here, STAT!! You need to scold TFG for not discussing the issues!!!!! Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (Pijte) 363
342 Does Kamala even know what unrealized capital gains means? I highly doubt it - someone should ask her to explain why a 25% tax on this is a good thing.
------ She kept on repeating it as is her wont when she's discussing something she knows nothing about. I can't find it now but I saw a tweet saying something like, "Someone taught Kamala a new phrase!" Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (c39uV) 364
The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope"
Did you have a 2nd child and name them Change? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 08:58 AM (Zz0t1) 365
The latter.
Doing it in secret accomplishes little. Dealing with Davos calls for "shock and awe." Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn) --- Sometimes it's about sending a message. One that future generations who even *think* about global tyranny will still have nightmares about. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel Drop a cannibalistic tribe of pygmies into the meeting and chain the doors shut. Live stream it.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 366
Hump Day already and I haven't booked a cabin for the weekend. Good news, though, Biden/Harrisnomics has made demand go down 30-40%. Should be able to get a last-minute deal for me and my fat Fani.
Posted by: Nathan Wade, HornDog at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (CV8a5) 367
I saw Collection Of Pumpkin Heads open for .38 Special at Viking Hall in '82.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (1HSEr) 368
Our current debt to GDP is 123pct, to simply get it to under 100pct, you would have to grow the economy by 25pct, in very short period of time, while passing revenue neutral budgets.
To balance the budget - you have to willingly let go of American Empire. Massive cuts to social spending AND the massive military. Neither side will budge - those are their sacred cows. So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (dVxi/) 369
330 Which is how I think we might get a crack-up. When the checks from the US Treasury start bouncing, shit comes unglued pretty fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn) ----------------- Simple fix - cancel EBIT cards and count the corpses of 7-11 clerks. Self cleaning oven. Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (FmapG) 370
KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL
If Kamala Toe "wins" I guess its time to blow my retirement funds on hookers and blow. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (oZhjI) 371
[IVF] is personal for my wife and I.
Hey, douchebag, how about making basic grammar a personal issue? Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (v6JzV) 372
>>KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL
HISTORIC!! It's Historic! That's how you know it's Awesome! You can't hate the propagandists enough. Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (i0F8b) Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (Y1sOo) 374
... Our current debt to GDP is 123pct, to simply get it to under 100pct, you would have to grow the economy by 25pct, in very short period of time, while passing revenue neutral budgets. ...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 08:55 AM (XV/Pl) ++++ These are different things. Total debt load vs. annual change. The total debt load is there, and acts as a constant weight - a weight that gets heavier as interest rates rise. But the debt needn't be paid off to eliminate the problem. It *does* need to be reduced, but the first thing to do when you realize you're drowning is to stop collecting rocks. That's what Whig is driving at. We *must* bring the deficit (debt growth) down to below the relative level of economic growth absent that debt. In other words, "this year's deficit *must* be a smaller number of dollars than this year's GDP growth." That's how you make progress and have a hope of getting things under control. I don't think Trump can do it, but that probably *is* the plan and it isn't irrational. Getting the problem contained is different from solving the problem as such. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (HnUIn) 375
To balance the budget - you have to willingly let go of American Empire. Massive cuts to social spending AND the massive military. Neither side will budge - those are their sacred cows.
I'd also like to see "seizing the assets of Junta members" thrown into the mix. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (oZhjI) 376
Where's Nikki Haley! Nikki, we need you your Hall Monitor skills here, STAT!! You need to scold TFG for not discussing the issues!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (Pijte) She's only there to police Republicans. Policing Democrats is "not who she is". Posted by: ... at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (4DWWO) 377
Local media in West Tennessee is reporting this morning that there are now further delays to beginning EV manufacturing at Ford's "Blue Oval City" project.
Posted by: Bert G at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (VARTN) 378
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Posted by: ShainS ======= I'm old school. When someone tells me they want to kill me or whether they say we need to get rid of 90 percent of the population, I believe them. That makes it righteous self defense to remove such people from this plane of existence. Ideally, governments are there to protect the people but as we have seen, governments have decided to protect the WEF and its horrid followers rather than their own native populations. So, a decent leader of a country would protect and defend the Constitution of the US from such depredations. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:01 AM (kW+z9) 379
"Mostly peaceful protests"? No such thing, ANY protest ceases to be peaceful the first time physical violence occurs, it then becomes a riot, susceptible to whatever riot control procedures are in place. to be used as applicable.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 21, 2024 09:01 AM (hKoQL) 380
@368
>>So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel. In this scenario, who is Thelma and who is Louise? Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (XV/Pl) 381
I don't think Trump can do it, but that probably *is* the plan and it isn't irrational. Getting the problem contained is different from solving the problem as such.
he might not (or might) be able to, but he is aware of this and is talking about having serious advisors on it. if there's a solution, it will be found - doing it, that will be rough with the Beast of FedGov still extant. Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (s3qiR) Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (Pijte) 383
To balance the budget - you have to willingly let go of American Empire. Massive cuts to social spending AND the massive military. Neither side will budge - those are their sacred cows.
So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel. Posted by: Who Cares at August 21, 2024 08:59 AM (dVxi/) ++++ Eliminating CMS will balance the budget tomorrow. Well, nearly. Social Security is still in deficit, but that is a fairly manageable problem. CMS is not. Medicare and Medicaid are eating the budget. But yes, definitely a sacred cow and will *not* be fixed. There are a few ways to fix it, and the government will choose "none of the above" for the next few years until state finance is actually threatening imminent collapse. Then it will pick the worst possible solution to the problem by nationalizing the medical industry and imposing rations. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn) 384
The only material thing electing Trump does is slow the roll of the malefactors who are running us into the meat shredder.
That's what happened from 2016 to 2020 but you see how they "recovered". By taking out humans by the millions and subjugating the rest. Posted by: ... at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (4DWWO) 385
It's not a question of when all the spinning plates come crashing down, it's simply which clown get left holding the bag.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 08:55 AM (XV/Pl) -------------- Like a good game of Musical Bears ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (1HSEr) 386
So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel.
In this scenario, who is Thelma and who is Louise? Posted by: Thomas Bender Well Geena was hotter, so shes the (R). Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (CIS44) 387
We *must* bring the deficit (debt growth) down to below the relative level of economic growth absent that debt. In other words, "this year's deficit *must* be a smaller number of dollars than this year's GDP growth." That's how you make progress and have a hope of getting things under control.
I don't think Trump can do it, but that probably *is* the plan and it isn't irrational. Getting the problem contained is different from solving the problem as such. Posted by: Joe Mannix If Trump can't do it, no one on the left has a chance.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 388
if there's a solution, it will be found - doing it, that will be rough with the Beast of FedGov still extant.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (s3qiR) ++++ The solution is cutting medical spending. That isn't going to happen in a vacuum. It will happen under the auspice of nationalization. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:03 AM (HnUIn) 389
If Trump can't do it, no one on the left has a chance.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 09:03 AM (j2eAj) ++++ Nobody in the main Party/Government system has a chance. They don't even want a chance. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:04 AM (HnUIn) 390
I don't think Trump can do it, but that probably *is* the plan and it isn't irrational. Getting the problem contained is different from solving the problem as such.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) ======== Yes. To stop the bleeding, real cuts to government spending and something like the Erhard's German economic miracle after WWII are needed. The elites (and probably a lot of the welfare recipients) are not on board with cutting their government cheese and that makes growing the economy faster than debt hard to pull off. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:04 AM (kW+z9) 391
356 Personally, if I was Trump, I would instigate a secret assassin team via drones and take the WEF mother humpers out one by one. Or simply nuke Davos when they are all there.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 08:46 AM (kW+z9) Prioritize media over "WEF mother humpers." Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2024 09:04 AM (Izpx/) 392
Ideally, governments are there to protect the people but as we have seen, governments have decided to protect the WEF and its horrid followers rather than their own native populations.
The whole idea of the Bond franchise was the British government thwarting...and killing...the people involved in WEF type organizations. Hell, sometimes working with the then enemy Russians (it was the cold war) to do so. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (oZhjI) 393
So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel.
In this scenario, who is Thelma and who is Louise? Posted by: Thomas Bender I know that we are the T Bird. Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (cF45P) 394
Eliminating CMS will balance the budget tomorrow. Well, nearly. Social Security is still in deficit, but that is a fairly manageable problem. CMS is not. Medicare and Medicaid are eating the budget.
====== While it wont solve the problem, eliminating the fraud in the -care -caid systems would take steps to managing the problem much more reasonable. But as too many wet their beaks in this trough it will never happen. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (CIS44) 395
At some point, you have more 10 yr olds than you can screw.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices We shall fuck children to the end, we shall fuck in France, we shall fuck on the seas and oceans, we shall fuck with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall debauch our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fuck on the beaches, we shall fuck on the landing grounds, we shall fuck in the fields and in the streets, we shall fuck in the hills; we shall never surrender, Posted by: Joe "Churchill" Biden at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (JCZqz) 396
It has been said that the 1st amendment is protected by the 2nd amendment. That must not be true, as I feel we have lost our freedom of speech.
people have too much to lose to risk it all by using the 2nd the govt is on its way to take all of that away though Posted by: brak at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (NGHTx) 397
The solution is cutting medical spending. That isn't going to happen in a vacuum. It will happen under the auspice of nationalization.
Posted by: Joe Mannix ======== Most likely but within that nationalization will be massive cuts in payments to the medical and pharma industry. Since a lot of that spending is on people and drugs, then that is where the cuts will fall. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:06 AM (kW+z9) 398
Well, if we nuke India, Africa and China we save the planet and control immigration.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (FmapG) 399
Trump and Vance in NC today.
They are tireless. Because it can't be said enough, as Jackstraw says, Trump knows more about vote fraud past, present and future than all of us here--Do you think he'd be going through all this if he didn't think he was certain to win? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (2R87q) 400
393 So we'll run the bitch over the cliff - both sides with a death grip on the wheel.
In this scenario, who is Thelma and who is Louise? Posted by: Thomas Bender I know that we are the T Bird. Posted by: Thomas Paine ======= The American public is locked in the trunk. GOP and Dems in Congress are Thelma and Louise. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (kW+z9) 401
While it wont solve the problem, eliminating the fraud in the -care -caid systems would take steps to managing the problem much more reasonable. But as too many wet their beaks in this trough it will never happen.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:05 AM (CIS44) ++++ It's marginal. Don't get me wrong, I think tackling fraud is both good and necessary, but it isn't nearly enough. The programs are simply too expensive. The product they buy is too expensive (that *can* be solved, but would upset too many balances of power and money), the quantities of product they buy are untenable and the cashflow to pay for it is laughably inadequate. CMS is fundamentally broken. The waste, fraud and abuse are a comparatively small part of the problem. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (HnUIn) 402
Most likely but within that nationalization will be massive cuts in payments to the medical and pharma industry. Since a lot of that spending is on people and drugs, then that is where the cuts will fall.
For a long time insurance has hidden the massive increase in costs in healthcare. But thanks to Obamacare insurance pays for less and less...unless you are on government funded health insurance of course. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (oZhjI) 403
Then it will pick the worst possible solution to the problem by nationalizing the medical industry and imposing rations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn) -------------- At least no one is proposing nationalizing the food industry and imposing rations. Oh, wait .... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (1HSEr) 404
>>Where's Nikki Haley! Nikki, we need you your Hall Monitor skills here, STAT!! You need to scold TFG for not discussing the issues!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 08:57 AM (Pijte) >>She's only there to police Republicans. Policing Democrats is "not who she is". OK, let's get Ben Shapiro!! Yeah, that's the ticket! He's always Johnny-on-the-spot crowing about what is and isn't appropriate for political discussion. Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 09:08 AM (Pijte) 405
396 It has been said that the 1st amendment is protected by the 2nd amendment. That must not be true, as I feel we have lost our freedom of speech.
---------------- Pro Tip - IEDs are not mentioned in the Constitution. Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 09:08 AM (FmapG) 406
Most likely interest rate cuts come in September.
Posted by: whig The hue and cry will be there but hopefully the fed stays the course. They want a quick fix, in their eyes, to the mess they have created. Fed will, or at least should resist. An emergency meeting will add volatility to an already volatile market. Dropping rates now isn't going to alleviate the pressure on the CR market. That soup has already boiled, it just hasn't hit the table. Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 09:08 AM (MMu89) 407
Most likely but within that nationalization will be massive cuts in payments to the medical and pharma industry. Since a lot of that spending is on people and drugs, then that is where the cuts will fall.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:06 AM (kW+z9) ++++ Certainly. Insofar as there *is* a medical and pharma industry by the end of it, anyway. And insurance, of course. That's where the post-nationalization bloodbath begins. When it happens, it's the insurance companies that will be expropriated and eviscerated first. In typical American fashion, *one* of the insurance majors will probably survive as an outsourcing partner for the new system. My bet if it happened today would be on UHC or Kaiser, but don't rule out BlueCross. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (HnUIn) 408
OK, let's get Ben Shapiro!! Yeah, that's the ticket!
He's always Johnny-on-the-spot crowing about what is and isn't appropriate for political discussion. Posted by: Lizzy And his sister has enormous hooters! Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (v6JzV) 409
Then it will pick the worst possible solution to the problem by nationalizing the medical industry and imposing rations.
It will be hilarious to watch "Now the government will pay for all the healthcare you need peons!" morph into "Well you don't really need healthcare anyway peons - you aren't the beautiful people. Here are some pain pills" Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (oZhjI) 410
@374
>>But the debt needn't be paid off to eliminate the problem. It *does* need to be reduced, but the first thing to do when you realize you're drowning is to stop collecting rocks. Much like money doesn't exist till it's "created," the debt is similar in a way, it's a ledger entry, that can technically be crossed out and any old number could be written down. But the system operates under the illusion that everything is orderly and on the level. If you start f**king with that, everything starts to break down. Basically, I thought what the masterminds and lunatics had in mind during The Plandemic was the Great Reset where they could could rejigger the global financial system to a baseline that was reasonable and manageable going forward, but it turns out, The Plandemic was simply an operation to dislodge Orange Hitler from the Oval Office. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (XV/Pl) 411
Because it can't be said enough, as Jackstraw says, Trump knows more about vote fraud past, present and future than all of us here--Do you think he'd be going through all this if he didn't think he was certain to win?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice ======= Trump has no choice in the matter any longer. The Dems will pursue him until his death with lawfare, trying to bankrupt him by seizing assets, assassins, etc. The Dems, like the Roman Senate of old, have created a Rubicon situation for Trump where he has to beat and then destroy them so that he and his family can live. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (kW+z9) 412
For those interested in something different, Trump did an hourlong interview with Theo Von, a comedian and massively popular podcaster.
If you don't know Theo, he's a bit out there but hilarious. His audience is basically younger males. At the beginning, Trump mentions how Barron is a big fan of Theo's. Worth checking out on YouTube. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 21, 2024 09:10 AM (KbCG3) 413
If the pharmaceutical industry didn't spend a trillion dollars on advertising the price of drugs could be cut in half. That could be accomplished in early 2025. If the politicians were serious about cutting the price of drugs. Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 09:10 AM (RKVpM) 414
We currently borrow and spend $1.00 to get $0.33 in growth. Mutiplied by $1 trillion. As I've posted here before.
Holy Sustainability Batman! Posted by: Ignoramus at August 21, 2024 09:10 AM (loBTD) 415
Trump and Vance in NC today.
They are tireless. Because it can't be said enough, as Jackstraw says, Trump knows more about vote fraud past, present and future than all of us here--Do you think he'd be going through all this if he didn't think he was certain to win? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 09:07 AM (2R87q) -------------- "But, but ... Trump needs to stick to talking only about policies and the issues or I'm a gonna wet my panties again! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" -- GOPee (establishment eunuchs) Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:11 AM (1HSEr) 416
Clown World ™
@ClownWorld_ California 0% down payment loans for migrants while citizens get left behind. The California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to participate in the state's zero down, no payment home loan program despite saying it would create “significant cost pressures” Your elected officials hate you. Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 09:11 AM (NpAcC) 417
It has been said that the 1st amendment is protected by the 2nd amendment. That must not be true, as I feel we have lost our freedom of speech.
people have too much to lose to risk it all by using the 2nd the govt is on its way to take all of that away though Posted by: brak When THEY have nothing left to lose, THAT'S when things get spicy.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 418
We currently borrow and spend $1.00 to get $0.33 in growth. Mutiplied by $1 trillion. As I've posted here before.
I get your point, but I suspect those trillions spent by fedgov are mostly retarding actual economic growth. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:12 AM (oZhjI) 419
Good to see court and administrative decisions which could help in limiting the fraud in upcoming elections. Pennsylvania and Georgia are looking better , Wisconsin still likes thievery Michigan is difficult given the three maoists ladies in charge, Nev appears to be heading toward rational behavior and Arizona is schizophrenic. Three of those states going Trump gets him elected
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 09:12 AM (qKpsC) 420
And insurance, of course. That's where the post-nationalization bloodbath begins. When it happens, it's the insurance companies that will be expropriated and eviscerated first. In typical American fashion, *one* of the insurance majors will probably survive as an outsourcing partner for the new system. My bet if it happened today would be on UHC or Kaiser, but don't rule out BlueCross.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) ==== Economic theory would predict an oligopoly. Easier for gubmint to manage an tight oligopoly than a monopsony. If you keep three corps, it is easier to threaten one of them. Same trick as UAW and the three automakers. Target one and make the rest fall in line. Would not work with only one target. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:12 AM (kW+z9) 421
That could be accomplished in early 2025. If the politicians were serious about cutting the price of drugs.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 09:10 AM (RKVpM) ++++ If the politicians were serious about cutting the price of drugs - the price of everything in the medical industry, for that matter - they would force the issue of price transparency. Every market demands price discovery, and price discovery is contrived away in the American medical system. That is the single most important thing in my estimation. There is more that needs to happen, but forcing price transparency - and therefore price discovery and competition - is step zero. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn) 422
The California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to participate in the state's zero down, no payment home loan program despite saying it would create “significant cost pressures”
If there was an opposition party they would get audio of some CA solon bragging about this and then follow it up with a bunch of younger voters asking when housing is so expensive. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (oZhjI) 423
OMG! Obama went there, implies TSF has a small peeenis.
Watch his hands in the video! Barack Obama implies Trump has a small dick at the DNC: His weird obsession with crowd sizes. Stormy Daniels confirmed that fact. That probably explains some of his hatred towards her. She picked the small one (prop from her interview on Jimmy Kimmel) https://tinyurl.com/3e969edn One line did quadruple duty: 1) "weird" 2) crowd size 3) TCF's accordion hands and of course 4) the OP's point. Obama is the greatest orator of our time and would win the next 100 elections if he could run in them. That is going to leave a mark. On shit....I just looked up and MSNBC Chyron was: Michelle Obama slams Trump for "Going Small" and how can the orange turd really respond to that??? Seriously how can he?? HE CAN’T. Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (JCZqz) 424
Michelle preemptively accused anyone who opposed the Dems presidential nominee Kamala Harris of being driven by racism and misogyny — basically, the same con the Obamas ran when they were in the White House.
-- That worked on McCain. That worked on Romney. They were pussies. Kamala ain't black. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (2R87q) 425
For those interested in something different, Trump did an hourlong interview with Theo Von, a comedian and massively popular podcaster.
If you don't know Theo, he's a bit out there but hilarious. His audience is basically younger males. At the beginning, Trump mentions how Barron is a big fan of Theo's. Worth checking out on YouTube. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer He came from Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (CIS44) 426
Re: Unrealized gains
Not a long cry from them requiring you to pay taxes on assumed profits when you apply for a business license. What's the difference? It's all just paper, why can't it be taxed? Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (KbCG3) 427
407 Most likely interest rate cuts come in September.
Posted by: whig It won't matter; it's too late in the game. There's nothing they can about inflation or public perception of the economy. Right now it's about Harris hagiography and Trump/Vance calumny. Toward that end, Biden will step down in October to coronate Harris, with all the attendant media hysteria. That's the least dangerous possibility. WW III is the other. Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (Izpx/) 428
It will be hilarious to watch "Now the government will pay for all the healthcare you need peons!" morph into "Well you don't really need healthcare anyway peons - you aren't the beautiful people. Here are some pain pills"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (oZhjI) --------------- Am I the only one that heard that in DogEater's voice? Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (1HSEr) 429
Who the f*** is this Trump insider Grisham that was badmouthing Trump at the DNC last night? Never heard of her and I'm betting every word she said is a lie or distortion.
Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (GUOwU) 430
I hear they are gonna be re-adjusting the jobs numbers we' ve been fed all these months down.... I guess the Market will celebrate because it means the economy is actually more in the toilet than the Gov. has said... Crummy economy means interest rate cuts ! yeah....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (IyPmt) 431
If the pharmaceutical industry didn't spend a trillion dollars on advertising the price of drugs could be cut in half.
That could be accomplished in early 2025. If the politicians were serious about cutting the price of drugs. Posted by: Divide by Zero Why are drug costs outside the country dirt cheap? Because the US funds the R&D.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 432
So Kamala wants 3 million new houses over four years. Private sector build about 1.5 million/year at the current rate.
I think what she is talking about in putting low price properties into upper middle class communities. This put the burden to pay for the roads and schools on someone other than the national government. It also put (D) voters in (R) counties. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (gbOdA) 433
The income tax on a portion of social security was a way to make benefits needs-based through the back door, which I like.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (55boN) 434
377 Local media in West Tennessee is reporting this morning that there are now further delays to beginning EV manufacturing at Ford's "Blue Oval City" project.
Posted by: Bert G at August 21, 2024 09:00 AM (VARTN) --------- WSJ has story that Ford has cancelled electric SUV project and is taking a $1.9 Billion charge. It will also scale back other all electric vehicles. Yowza. Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (G0vdT) 435
Gresham is a slightly less good looking Cassidy Hutchinson
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (qKpsC) 436
I get your point, but I suspect those trillions spent by fedgov are mostly retarding actual economic growth.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:12 AM (oZhjI) ++++ The math says, "yes." If $1 in new deficit spending results in $1.05 in new GDP, then it was additive. If $1 in new deficit spending results in $0.90 in new GDP, then it was subtractive - it acted as an anchor and dragged things down. Of course, the economy is complicated and so we have to look at correlation rather than direct flow and categorization of every dollar, but we've been upside down since 2020. The deficit growth is now eating the economy. It hasn't been contributing much in real terms for a long time, but it's now actively devouring the host. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (HnUIn) 437
Re: Stephen Green on what a vile man Joe Biden is. The scumbags who have insisted Biden is a decent man need to experience disgrace.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (FfSAJ) 438
I think what she is talking about in putting low price properties into upper middle class communities.
Yep, in my blue state the state government is busy doing everything it can to make the redder locales build slums for the illegals so they can move them out of the big blue shitholes Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (oZhjI) 439
426 For those interested in something different, Trump did an hourlong interview with Theo Von, a comedian and massively popular podcaster.
If you don't know Theo, he's a bit out there but hilarious. His audience is basically younger males. At the beginning, Trump mentions how Barron is a big fan of Theo's. Worth checking out on YouTube. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer He came from Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (CIS44) Didn't know about that until recently. Boggles my mind. His stories are amazing. Have no clue how his brain works but it's not the same as other brains for sure. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (KbCG3) 440
The key to the election will be Pennsylvania. If Trump wins that state, he has a chance in other states like Georgia and Michigan.
Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (Oy/m2) 441
Why are drug costs outside the country dirt cheap? Because the US funds the R&D. Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM That and only the USA and New Zealand allow pharmaceutical advertising. The other 150 or so countries? Illegal. Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (RKVpM) 442
Why are drug costs outside the country dirt cheap?
Because the US funds the R&D. Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (j2eAj) China, India, and Africa I bet have not spent 1 half of a percent of what the US does on medical research. PS If there are 6 Chinese students or researchers in your lab, 2 are stealing secrets. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA) 443
Taxing unrealized capital gains would instantly crash the economy like a giant sucking sound even Kommie-la's never heard before.
But for the America- and West-hating Nihilistic Death Cult, this is a feature and not a bug ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (1HSEr) 444
PS If there are 6 Chinese students or researchers in your lab, 2 are stealing secrets.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA) ---------------- Huh. My over/under would have started at 5 ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (1HSEr) 445
PS If there are 6 Chinese students or researchers in your lab, 2 are stealing secrets.
Posted by: rhennigantx Probably all 6 are. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (v6JzV) 446
OMG! Obama went there, implies TSF has a small peeenis.
Watch his hands in the video! Barack Obama implies Trump has a small dick at the DNC: His weird obsession with crowd sizes What's the weird obsession with Obola and penises?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices 447
Taxing unrealized capital gains would instantly crash the economy like a giant sucking sound even Kommie-la's never heard before
Taxing income to begin with is BAD. You are incentivizing people to not work. But taxing people on phantom gains is insane Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (oZhjI) 448
If $1 in new deficit spending results in $1.05 in new GDP, then it was additive. If $1 in new deficit spending results in $0.90 in new GDP, then it was subtractive - it acted as an anchor and dragged things down.
Of course, the economy is complicated and so we have to look at correlation rather than direct flow and categorization of every dollar, but we've been upside down since 2020. The deficit growth is now eating the economy. It hasn't been contributing much in real terms for a long time, but it's now actively devouring the host. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:15 AM (HnUIn) JM I think that since CV it has worked out to be around 70 cents on the dollar. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (gbOdA) 449
He came from Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:13 AM (CIS44) Didn't know about that until recently. Boggles my mind. His stories are amazing. Have no clue how his brain works but it's not the same as other brains for sure. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer And 4 seasons of "The Challenge" Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (CIS44) 450
449 OMG! Obama went there, implies TSF has a small peeenis.
Watch his hands in the video! Barack Obama implies Trump has a small dick at the DNC: His weird obsession with crowd sizes Maybe compared to Michele's Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (IyPmt) Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (FmapG) 452
OMG! Obama went there, implies TSF has a small peeenis.
Watch his hands in the video! Barack Obama implies Trump has a small dick at the DNC: His weird obsession with crowd sizes. - Not realizing that the idiot Trump has managed to get THEM to draw attention to Karmella's crowd sizes and the media manipulation. What an dummy that Trump guy is. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (cMJiJ) 453
ha
Huh. My over/under would have started at 5 ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (1HSEr) Probably all 6 are. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2024 09:18 AM (v6JzV) Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (gbOdA) 454
Why are drug costs outside the country dirt cheap?
Because the US funds the R&D. Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 21, 2024 09:14 AM (j2eAj) ++++ Only sort of. State interference is the bigger problem. Broadly, assume that Pfizer has a drug that India wants for its state medical system. Pfizer says, "we'll sell it to you in quantity for $0.25 per dose." The Indian medical system then says, "we'll pay you $0.08 per dose." Pfizer says, "no sale." India then says, "sell it to us at our price, or we'll violate your patent and produce it ourselves domestically. Get your $0.08 or get nothing because we are the law here and your patent will be found to be invalid." So Pfizer sells for $0.08 and takes the difference out of *your* ass. This happens all the time and is one of the reasons domestic drug costs are high. It's not the whole problem - I doubt it's even the dominant problem - but it's real. And the solution to that problem is not economic, but political. This is one of the reasons we have a State Department. When shit like this happens, it is a nation-state action that should be met with a nation-state action. Tariffs, excises, etc. as retaliation. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (HnUIn) 455
Not realizing that the idiot Trump has managed to get THEM to draw attention to Karmella's crowd sizes and the media manipulation.
What an dummy that Trump guy is. Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when women's jobs were genuinely important? at August 21, 2024 09:19 AM (cMJiJ) For one to play the Jedi Mind Trick, one must be a Jedi. The Dems are not Jedi. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (Zz0t1) 456
@441
>>The key to the election will be Pennsylvania. If Trump wins that state, he has a chance in other states like Georgia and Michigan. Technically, the only states he needs to win are GA, VA, and NV. And prospects in both GA and VA are looking up as both states have had a recent spate of election integrity initiatives which bode well. NV has an ostensible Republican Governor that can be leveraged to make sure, as much as you can, that the elections are on the level. As has been noted, MI has legalized vote fraud and Pa has over 700k registered inactive voters on it's vote rolls that can be leveraged to generate any number they need to fortify the election. Wisconsin is a basket case, so I'm not putting too much faith there. Nope, Trumps path runs through the states I mentioned. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (XV/Pl) 457
430 Who the f*** is this Trump insider Grisham that was badmouthing Trump at the DNC last night? Never heard of her and I'm betting every word she said is a lie or distortion.
Posted by: Ripley ===== Most of the anti Trumper types came from the Comms office. Grisham was WH press secretary very briefly and was Melania's Chief of Staff. Scaramucci was another as was Omarosa. From Wiki Grisham began voting in Arizona as a registered Democrat in 1997. So, we get a dog returning to its vomit. This is the sort of professional douchebag Uniparty apparatchik infesting politics. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (kW+z9) 458
"What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?"
He's right, nothing. Last time they at least pretended the election was legitimate. This time they're going to steal it right in front us and dare us to stop them. And, of course, we won't. They know we know they know. They disbarred our lawyers for challenging the last election and locked up the protesters, peaceful or not. Last time the FBI sat on evidence their candidate took $10M to fire Shokin for Burisma. What will they do this time? We are in deep Maduro territory now. Posted by: TallDave at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (LXyJ7) 459
@368/Who Cares: "To balance the budget - you have to willingly let go of American Empire."
Classic monkey trap. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (O7YUW) 460
Before there was pharmaceutical advertising direct to "consumers," big drug companies advertised by many means to doctors. After TV, that was cut back somewhat. Don't get cocky.
When there's that much money in circulation, funds will be distributed, by fair means or foul. One advertising rule is not going to shut off the tap. Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 21, 2024 09:21 AM (zdLoL) 461
Before there was pharmaceutical advertising direct to "consumers," big drug companies advertised by many means to doctors. After TV, that was cut back somewhat. Don't get cocky. ...
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 21, 2024 09:21 AM (zdLoL) ++++ Pharma sales whores are the stuff of legend. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn) 462
417 Clown World ™
@ClownWorld_ California 0% down payment loans for migrants while citizens get left behind. The California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to participate in the state's zero down, no payment home loan program despite saying it would create “significant cost pressures” Your elected officials hate you. Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2024 09:11 AM (NpAcC) So glad we escaped that stupid state this year. Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (ZtyUu) 463
> PS If there are 6 Chinese students or researchers in your lab, 2 are stealing secrets.
-------- True story: 2 Chinese researchers in my lab. Husband and wife. We pulled some sensitive hydrological data from the Naval Postgrad School for research purposes. They scarfed the datasets, put it all on a SSD and went back to China. Only one came back and the stupid lab director allowed her to resume work. But I was racist for pointing out the theft. Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (Q4IgG) 464
Basically Obama is fantasizing about having gay sex with Trump. He's written about those gay sex fantasies before
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (qKpsC) 465
This 3 million new houses is aimed at colonizing the red states.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (7PziG) 466
"To balance the budget - you have to willingly let go of American Empire."
Since the Empire mostly exists at this point to make the Junta wealthy and spread Big Gay I can't say it would be a hard decision... Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (oZhjI) 467
213 Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal 1h
🚨 KAMALA BACKS BIDEN'S HISTORIC 44.6% CAPITAL GAINS TAX PROPOSAL This is the highest capital gains tax in history. The plan also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals, signaling a significant shift in tax policy aimed at the wealthy. Source: Watcher Guru Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 24m This is financial rape. Ernest Goes Online @Papadop25039911 1h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays 45% will destroy lives. Work an entire life to finally have a single stock options payout and Kamala takes half plus state tax. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 50m Don't forget estate taxes and inflation. They're taking it all. Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 08:15 AM (c39uV) ++++++++++++++++++ Guess what? If they are able to impose these taxes on the 'wealthy', in the following election cycle the Dems will campaign again on Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share! That rube-pleasing cry will always be a core Democrat campaign tool. Democrats push-through tax increase after tax increase yet never make the wealthy pay their fair share. Which they never define. It's clever and evergreen propaganda aimed at rubes and MSM. Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (aBgBM) 468
How many times was it proven that the Trump tax cuts benefitted the lower and middle class MORE than it did million and billionaires?
Yet the left continues to f*ck that chicken. #BarrelMouthTrigger. Do us all a favor, weird sock. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (Zz0t1) 469
436 Gresham is a slightly less good looking Cassidy Hutchinson
Posted by: Smell the Glove ==== You violated AOS style manual that henceforth, Cassidy Hutchinson is to be referred to by her real name--Madison Cornbread. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (kW+z9) 470
For one to play the Jedi Mind Trick, one must be a Jedi. The Dems are not Jedi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect! Posted by: Fredobama at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (JCZqz) Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (/7KEl) 472
Guess what? If they are able to impose these taxes on the 'wealthy', in the following election cycle the Dems will campaign again on Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share! That rube-pleasing cry will always be a core Democrat campaign tool. Democrats push-through tax increase after tax increase yet never make the wealthy pay their fair share. Which they never define. It's clever and evergreen propaganda aimed at rubes and MSM.
Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (aBgBM) ++++ Spoiler Alert: everybody is "wealthy" now. Except *actual* rich people who *also* are high-level Party Men. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn) 473
Ford is canceling plans for a large electric sport-utility vehicle and expects to take $1.9 billion in related special charges and write-downs, as automakers continue adjusting their EV plans because of softer-than-expected demand.
Softer-than-expected demand is a cute way of saying nobody is interested in EVs. Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (Oy/m2) 474
The California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to participate in the state's zero down, no payment home loan program despite saying it would create “significant cost pressures”
--------------- Making NINJA* Loans Great Again! [*No Income, No Job or Assets? No Problem! The 2008 Financial Meltdown says "Hi!"] Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (1HSEr) 475
He's a closet homosexual.
Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2024 09:23 AM (/7KEl) ++++ I never saw the point in building a closet out of clear glass, but here we are. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn) 476
Wisconsin is a basket case, so I'm not putting too much faith there...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 09:20 AM (XV/Pl) ---------- Heed this warning. Oh, and did anyone see our idiot Gov announce the WI delegate vote last night at the convention. What...a...Putz. Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (G0vdT) 477
He's a closet homosexual.
I'd say its more of the media holding a towel around him while he's playing doctor with Reggie then a full on closet to be honest. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (oZhjI) 478
I sort of remember Obama being an admitted homosexual.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - What about the confirmed snipers on the 2nd floor overlooking the shooter? at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (Yh0oe) 479
459. NV has among the most fraud riddled voting process. Highly unlikely Trump will carry NV.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (7PziG) 480
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I never saw the point in building a closet out of clear glass, but here we are. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn) Well, his 'wife' has a dick, so....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (Zz0t1) 481
Apparently, the DNC in Chicago is the place Democrats don't want to give antifa space to destroy. Imagine that.
@jsolomonReports · 1m Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld) 482
449 OMG! Obama went there, implies TSF has a small peeenis.
Watch his hands in the video! Barack Obama implies Trump has a small dick at the DNC: Given Trump's successes across the board of life, his lovers, wives and robust progeny, Obama's passive-aggressive implications can only be seen as miserable envy. Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (Izpx/) 483
Making NINJA* Loans Great Again!
[*No Income, No Job or Assets? No Problem! The 2008 Financial Meltdown says "Hi!"] Posted by: ShainS -- Ko It's okay, they'll just bundle those in with high value mortgages and sell them to other servicing companies. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (CIS44) 484
Also that's an old sock. Let's let Magic Johnson keep everyone encouraged for this upcoming election instead.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - like Magic Johnson always said - Stay positive! at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (Yh0oe) 485
@470 so I'm getting an embarreling warning. What a way to start Hump Day
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (qKpsC) 486
... Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld) ++++ And how many have already been released? My money is on at least 50. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn) 487
@480
>>NV has among the most fraud riddled voting process. Highly unlikely Trump will carry NV. Well, then he's probably not going to win, so we best start making plans. Go long on palm sized smooth stones. Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (XV/Pl) 488
>>Most likely but within that nationalization will be massive cuts in payments to the medical and pharma industry. Since a lot of that spending is on people and drugs, then that is where the cuts will fall.
Back when the Obamacare legislation was making it's way into law, I saw a CSPAN interview w/the director of Arlington Hospital (in VA) discussing the possible impacts. He said that his two biggest expenses are equipment and personnel. If for some reason they are not maintaining an operating profit, he has to make a choice on what to cut back. Not personnel, but equipment. So, hypothetically, instead of purchasing 4 MRI machines, he buys 1, and instead of replacing it every 4 years, he waits 8 years (these are my made up numbers to reconstruct his point, so don't take them literally). That in turn, impacts the MRI manufacturer, as they are now losing sales, and they don't upgrade as often, or even go out of business. Now imagine the same with other treatment innovations. Then with cutting personnel costs, it's gets even worse. . . Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (Pijte) 489
High Net Worth = Anyone who works and pays taxes to fund the welfare state and all its perversions and venality. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (x0n13) 490
Spoiler Alert: everybody is "wealthy" now. Except *actual* rich people who *also* are high-level Party Men.
If you read the arguments leftists are making for this crap nominally the drive to tax unrealized gains is to hit people like Bezos. Of course Bezos owns the politicians talking about this so you know that nominal argument is bullshit or else Bezos would be removing those congressmen... Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (oZhjI) 491
@jsolomonReports
· 1m Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld) Only 70? That # seems low......should be MUCH higher. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (Zz0t1) 492
469 How many times was it proven that the Trump tax cuts benefitted the lower and middle class MORE than it did million and billionaires?
Yet the left continues to f*ck that chicken. #BarrelMouthTrigger. Do us all a favor, weird sock. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (Zz0t1) The top 1% now pay 45 to 48% of all income taxes. Bottom 45% effectively ZERO. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:27 AM (gbOdA) 493
"Now the government will pay for all the healthcare you need peons!" morph into "Well you don't really need healthcare anyway peons - you aren't the beautiful people. Here are some pain pills" Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (oZhjI) Isn't this Canada and the UK? Two years wait for a knee replacement? But we'll off you on demand. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2024 09:27 AM (1Nxff) 494
Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld) ++++ And how many have already been released? My money is on at least 50. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a The DA already said no one arrested this week ar the protests would be charged. So I'd go with 70. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:27 AM (CIS44) 495
474 Ford is canceling plans for a large electric sport-utility vehicle and expects to take $1.9 billion in related special charges and write-downs, as automakers continue adjusting their EV plans because of softer-than-expected demand.
Softer-than-expected demand is a cute way of saying nobody is interested in EVs. Posted by: dantesed ======== It is situations like this where we can see behind the curtain as to the government-corporate-media hype machine. They failed. All the positive advertising in the world and fake news articles plus government and corporate assholes could not foist EV's on the American people (or even in Euroland). The dog won't eat their shitty dogfood. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:27 AM (kW+z9) 496
Pharma sales whores are the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn) --------------- I personally knew (and wanted to know in the Biblical Sense) one and saw a number of them back in the day. All. Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. Mannix. Babes. Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:28 AM (1HSEr) 497
@482/Ordinary American: "Given Trump's successes across the board of life, his lovers, wives and robust progeny, Obama's passive-aggressive implications can only be seen as miserable envy.
Once again, it's projection on their part; their "big tell". Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 09:28 AM (O7YUW) 498
The top 1% now pay 45 to 48% of all income taxes.
Bottom 45% effectively ZERO. Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2024 09:27 AM (gbOdA) I'm not the top 1% and I PROMISE you I do NOT pay zero........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:28 AM (Zz0t1) 499
>>And how many have already been released?
>>My money is on at least 50 I doubt any of them will actually face charges. Still, it was somewhat satisfying watching the Chicago PD smacking them around last night, something the antifa scum was clearly not used to. Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:28 AM (LkLld) 500
Over 70 arrested in Chicago after pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:25 AM (LkLld) ---------------- Defund the Chicago Police! Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (1HSEr) 501
493
"Now the government will pay for all the healthcare you need peons!" morph into "Well you don't really need healthcare anyway peons - you aren't the beautiful people. Here are some pain pills" Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (oZhjI) Isn't this Canada and the UK? Two years wait for a knee replacement? But we'll off you on demand. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ======= But it works both ways--I suspect that the UK's ending trans-ing kids is because of the accumulated medical costs over their expected lifetimes. Not because it was the right thing to do. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (kW+z9) 502
Softer-than-expected demand is a cute way of saying nobody is interested in EVs. Posted by: dantesed It doesn't help when the EV's you build are unmitigated shit. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (Zz0t1) 503
Where's Dave in FL to talk we away from the cliff ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (IyPmt) 504
On the plus side, Obama's homo-erotic fantasies about Trump don't seem to include rape until the Gov of KY.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (oZhjI) 505
Pharma sales whores are the stuff of legend.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn) --------------- I personally knew (and wanted to know in the Biblical Sense) one and saw a number of them back in the day. All. Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. Mannix. Babes. Posted by: ShainS -- Komm My first job out of school was at a Pharma BioScience company. Can absolutely confirm. Posted by: BruceWayne at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (CIS44) 506
High Net Worth = Anyone who works and pays taxes to fund the welfare state and all its perversions and venality.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2024 09:26 AM (x0n13) ++++ It could end up that way, yeah. But that isn't what it means today. What it means today is "people with little or no debt." You earn $75k. You own your house that is worth $500k. You have no mortgage and you have a $50k emergency fund in the bank. Your retirement is worth a quarter million bucks. You have no auto loans. Your net work is $800k. Your buddy earns $150k. He owns a house that is worth $1.2 million but he only has $1.15 million in equity. His emergency fund is $10k. His retirement is worth a third of a million. He has two nice cars but the notes on both of them exceeds the market value of the vehicles. His net worth is about $350k. You're richer than him. If the "high net worth" cutoff is half a million, you're rich and he isn't. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn) 507
501 493
"Now the government will pay for all the healthcare you need peons!" morph into "Well you don't really need healthcare anyway peons - you aren't the beautiful people. Here are some pain pills" Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:09 AM (oZhjI) Isn't this Canada and the UK? Two years wait for a knee replacement? But we'll off you on demand. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ======= But it works both ways--I suspect that the UK's ending trans-ing kids is because of the accumulated medical costs over their expected lifetimes. Not because it was the right thing to do. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (kW+z9) I heard it's pretty easy to get euthanasia in Canada though. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (eYoxG) 508
Where's Dave in FL to talk we away from the cliff ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2024 09:29 AM (IyPmt) He would only be repeating what he's already been saying for a few weeks now. The polls are shit. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:30 AM (Zz0t1) 509
I'm not the top 1% and I PROMISE you I do NOT pay zero........
Same here and taxes are my biggest expense by far. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:30 AM (oZhjI) 510
>>It is situations like this where we can see behind the curtain as to the government-corporate-media hype machine. They failed. All the positive advertising in the world and fake news articles plus government and corporate assholes could not foist EV's on the American people (or even in Euroland). The dog won't eat their shitty dogfood.
Ford might also be watching the election and betting that Trump is going to win. Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2024 09:30 AM (LkLld) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 09:30 AM (O7YUW) 512
Sigh, $0.05m in equity. Ugh. Need more coffee.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn) 513
NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2024 09:31 AM (Zz0t1) 514
(Alternatively "Let's Screw, My Finger's Tired")
We were a better country when ciggies could advertise, and lawyers couldn't. Posted by: Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco at August 21, 2024 09:31 AM (EHNgd) 515
477 He's a closet homosexual.
I'd say its more of the media holding a towel around him while he's playing doctor with Reggie then a full on closet to be honest. Posted by: 18-1 ======== Media likes to watch--the perverts. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:31 AM (kW+z9) 516
ctHARRIS:: forWAR'd the new name for War on Normal People, where the Will of the People is Absolute, and in Evidence Everywhere, yet EXISTANT in NO ONE.
https://tinyurl.com/3wzkn648 Who wouldn't sign on to that? Why would they do that? A: Greater Evil always destroys it's maker. LIBs. PROUDLY doing unto their own People, PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries -- requiring YOU to not only Sponsor your Adversary, but ACTIVELY DEFEND them as well. Why shouldn't they be empowered to decide Who Must Be Sacrificed so that 'they' (the desperate and deliberately evil) may live? Lest we forget: I believe in evil and I think that there are evil people in the world. -- Hillary'93 The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people" -- Clinton'93. We can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." -- Arch-traitor Bill Clinton'93 "We tax everything that moves, and everything that doesn't"-- Hillary'09 "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory" -- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 on travel in Red China "We're going to take things from you in the name of the Common Good" -- Hillary'07 Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 21, 2024 09:31 AM (ng5Kc) 517
Continued. . . his point was that we don't just have rationed care, but the care itself becomes inferior, because the engine of innovation for equipment, treatments, drugs, has been stalled. If hospitals aren't buying it, it doesn't get made.
We've been accustomed to this environment where there's always a new drug, a new surgery, some new approach that's been pioneered in America. That stops, fast. You start getting the same care as your grandparents, and not even at the same level of quality. Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2024 09:32 AM (Pijte) 518
I know plenty of lefty LIVs making a solid six figures that:
1) Demand the rich be taxed more 2) Claim they are already tapped out and can't pay any more And these people pull the D lever on a regular basis... Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:32 AM (oZhjI) 519
If we crack down on the pharma industry, where will all the leggy pharma reps going to work? There's only so many poles down at the strip club.
Posted by: legs, Boobs, Lingerie at August 21, 2024 09:32 AM (CV8a5) 520
Yep, in my blue state the state government is busy doing everything it can to make the redder locales build slums for the illegals so they can move them out of the big blue shitholes
Posted by: 18-1 Construction in the bedroom community down the road was going gangbusters until recently. New homes were eating up the agricultural land on the fringes in big bites. That was being outpaced by apartment construction in the core. Apartments are still popping up. Single family housing has slowed to a snails pace. In five years, apartment capacity has increased at least ten fold. The percentage of English second language students in the local SD has risen above 30%. Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 09:33 AM (MMu89) Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 21, 2024 09:33 AM (c39uV) 522
The top 1% now pay 45 to 48% of all income taxes.
Bottom 45% effectively ZERO. --------------- Do away with Income Taxes. Fund everything via sales tax with only the states being allowed to collect them. States get a say on what portion of their tax goes to DC. All of a sudden Deep State shrinks and dies. Posted by: Pudinhead at August 21, 2024 09:33 AM (FmapG) 523
503 Where's Dave in FL to talk we away from the cliff ?
Posted by: It's me donna ====== Brief appearance up thread. Posted by: whig at August 21, 2024 09:33 AM (kW+z9) 524
If we crack down on the pharma industry, where will all the leggy pharma reps going to work? There's only so many poles down at the strip club.
Honestly there are plenty of other industries where "beautiful, charming, youngish" are all going to help your sales rep get some older guy to sign on the dotted line. But if there weren't? These type of women usually marry some alpha. They'll just do it a bit younger like they did 40 years ago. Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:35 AM (oZhjI) 525
@488 and 518 (Lizzy): Then with cutting personnel costs, it's gets even worse. . .
Welcome to provincial health care in Canada. When I was a child, the hallways of hospitals always had doctors and nurses walking from one place to another. It quieted down a bit at night, but during normal business hours, hospitals were bustling with activity. Now? The waiting room for the ER is full, there's maybe 1 or 2 doctors on duty (if you're lucky, and you won't be) and the wait is at least six hours, often a lot more. What struck me while on one of those long waits was how utterly empty the halls were. I kept expecting tumbleweeds. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2024 09:36 AM (O7YUW) 526
https://x.com/Dave_in_Fla Engineer, data junkie, annoying regular at Ace of Spades /(His description on Twitter/X) Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2024 09:39 AM (RKVpM) 527
388 The solution is cutting medical spending. That isn't going to happen in a vacuum. It will happen under the auspice of nationalization.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2024 09:03 AM (HnUIn) That clashes with the "TROON ALL THE KIDS!" agenda. Posted by: XTC at August 21, 2024 09:41 AM (UnA8+) 528
518 I know plenty of lefty LIVs making a solid six figures that:
1) Demand the rich be taxed more 2) Claim they are already tapped out and can't pay any more And these people pull the D lever on a regular basis... Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2024 09:32 AM (oZhjI) 6 Figure Lefties think they're "The Poor" because they don't have Elon Musk money. Posted by: XTC at August 21, 2024 09:42 AM (UnA8+) 529
Kamala won't agree to a debate that occurs before Trump's sentencing in the NY Kangaroo Kourt Felonies case. That is because she knows the Klown Kar Kourt is going to send him to prison, and nobody has to debate a felon in prison. That is the Democrat game plan. She knows she would be beaten like a rented mule in a debate with Trump, so she has no intention of actually being involved in any such thing.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 21, 2024 09:44 AM (Da7Vv) 530
GM, all, and thanks, J.J.
WH Briefing Room: June 11, 2024, FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Proposal to Prohibit Medical Bills from Being Included on Credit Reports and Calls on States and Localities to Take Further Actions to Reduce Medical Debt American Rescue Plan funds are being used to eliminate an estimated $7 billion in medical debt for up to nearly 3 million of Americans; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) proposal would ensure that no Americans have medical debt on their credit reports, down from 46 million in 2020. ----- So, ARP funds were also used to save more than 1 million pensions under the Butch Lewis Act. "Prior to the enactment of the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program as part the American* Rescue Plan Act of 2021 the PBGC’s Multiemployer Insurance Program was on a path toward insolvency as early as 2026. Forget reality & long term solutions. Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 21, 2024 09:47 AM (NFX2v) 531
Newsweek, August 14, 2024: Millions of North Carolinians with medical debts will see their accounts cleared following action from state legislators.
"Medical debt dating back to January 1, 2014, will be wiped for all Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as medical debt deemed uncollectible for all patients who have an annual income at or below at least 350 percent of the federal poverty level. Past medical debt that exceeds 5 percent of a patient's annual income will also be forgiven." NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Nearly 50,000 people in New Jersey will have $100 million in medical debt erased, Governor Phil Murphy said on Tuesday, in one of the largest cases of a state providing direct relief to people unable to pay medical bills. 13 hours ago "Murphy allocated $550,000 in federal American Rescue Plan funds and partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a non-profit that buys unpaid medical bills from hospitals at a discount, to execute the one-time debt abolishment." -- But the Trump administration quietly spent (+/- 10) billions in hospital funds on Operation Warp Speed & made the S list. -- WaPo, June 27, 2024, Soaring U.S. debt poses risks to global economy, IMF warns Yay, Harris!! Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 21, 2024 09:47 AM (NFX2v) 532
168 What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?
----- Been saying all of this since The Steal. Trump is not a "vanguard of liberty". Also, CW2.0 is the only way we remove the socket from the wrench and spin the tyranny bolt out of our freedom holes. I love that he points out the obvious truth - Civil War is horrible, but better than what is clearly racing toward us on the communism train. Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 21, 2024 08:04 AM (PCXpA) If i read it correctly--and the article ought to be required reading for The Horde--the author floats secession as a path out of being ruled by out and proud thieves, criminals and communists. Civil War Happens if you stay in --or possibly if you get out. Communism , and worse, is a given if you stay in. Sporty, spicy and no great options when they steal this 'election'. Posted by: Voter theater. at August 21, 2024 09:54 AM (FCPbW) 533
Thanks for the interesting and helpful commentary, Kris. I loved the sun in the picture as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 10:20 AM (x0aeq) 534
So apparently Chuck Schumer did a speech referring to the "dark carnage" of Trump, WT
Heck was he talking about ?!! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 10:26 AM (UbL19) 535
Wrong place for posts, Sorry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2024 10:34 AM (0UeGh) 536
534 So apparently Chuck Schumer did a speech referring to the "dark carnage" of Trump, WT
Heck was he talking about ?!! Posted by: FenelonSpoke It's hard to say what's truly wrong with Schumer but, whatever it is, it's no small thing. Greg Price @greg_price11 What in the world is Chuck Schumer doing (See short video clip.) From Trump War Room 9:28 PM · Aug 20, 2024 Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 21, 2024 10:48 AM (NFX2v) 537
Those farms/ranches will have to be in urban areas because us rural folk will express our opinion.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 21, 2024 08:35 AM (MMu89) The feds will come in en masse, kick you off your land and take over. Soviet style. Bet on it. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 21, 2024 11:19 AM (iODuv) 538
“Does anyone have a good answer to this?”
We do. But we can’t say a thing without Hoyt and Correreia sliming us as “glowies”’, ie. traitors towards our own people. So good luck I guess and thanks for all the fish. Yes the Marxists are going to come at you sideways to get the guns. They are many things but stupid is not one of them. Because we have told the enemy that we will only attack if provoked, they can ensure we never attack at all. The 2nd Amendment is an illusion, it’s like thinking you have a spare tire when you don’t - you are willing to endure trials you normally wouldn’t, because you think you have a fallback plan. In the last century, over 120 million humans found themselves on the wrong side of Marxism. The lucky ones died in front of firing squads instead of being murdered by starvation or gulag. Do we really think we’re smarter than them? Posted by: Fen at August 21, 2024 03:48 PM (iqxAx) 539
And the problem isn’t Trump’s lack of military leadership experience, the problem is what the Founding Fathers always feared most - the people have gone sour, They are no longer worthy of a Republic. And I’m talking about the Right too. You can’t even find the will to stand up for a Marine falsely accused by an immigrant, so how can you be expected to save the Republic?
I’m inside Antifa (sabo because the GOP is impotent) working my way to a seat on their Guillotine Cmte. I can promise you Ace, there will be no Vichy Republicans on my watch. The likes of Kristol and French will get a pass to the front of the line. I’ll do my best to look out for you guys, it’s the least I can do for you opening my eyes to all the Failure Theater and Graceful Surrendering. Posted by: Fen at August 21, 2024 03:50 PM (iqxAx) 540
BTW, have you seen Ted Cruz’s latest campaign ad? Is there any doubt that his opponent is right out of Central Casting: “my generation will tear down that racist border wall bwahahaha!” (twirls mustache)
But our savior, Ted Cruz is going to fix the border crisis. He’s been in office since 2013, 10+ years . TED CRUZ SEASON XI This time it’s series!!! Posted by: Fen at August 21, 2024 04:05 PM (iqxAx) 541
“ the author floats secession as a path out ”
The marxists are control freaks. They will never leave us alone. Ever known a wife-beater that let his wife run away and divorce him? Posted by: Fen at August 21, 2024 04:09 PM (iqxAx) 542
“It doesn't help when the EV's you build are unmitigated shit.“
That randomly blow up and burn for days. Whoever turned on the simulation sequel to the movie “Brazil”, knock it off already Posted by: Fen at August 21, 2024 04:25 PM (iqxAx) Processing 0.08, elapsed 0.093 seconds. |
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