The Perils of Revolution

Remember that the French Revolution ended with an emperor

A comfort to those on the left currently in despair over the election of Donald Trump, and a warning to "our side": Things could have been much worse for the Ruling Class. A REAL Hitler could have emerged to lead the people. Especially if Donald Trump had been defeated.

The conclusion to Angelo Codevilla's great 2010 essay, America's Ruling Class
And the perils of revolution.

How the country class and ruling class might clash on each item of their contrasting agendas is beyond my scope. Suffice it to say that the ruling class’s greatest difficulty — aside from being outnumbered — will be to argue, against the grain of reality, that the revolution it continues to press upon America is sustainable. For its part, the country class’s greatest difficulty will be to enable a revolution to take place without imposing it. America has been imposed on enough.

So, how did the revolution begin?

The real loser was not the puppet, but rather the big government machine behind the puppet pic.twitter.com/QWhzI2kamT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2024

They live in a different world . . .

The Ruling Class sort of put itself into a bind with the constant narrative that Donald Trump was "destroying democracy" by protesting the results of the 2020 election. The widespread riots that many feared did not seem to take place.

Even though:

Kamala Harris said the word "fight" 20 times in her concessions speech.
20 times. I counted.
She also said "and we will continue to wage the fight . . . in the public square".
Impeach her. Their rules, not mine.
Viva Frei (Canadian)

I can hardly wait for the establishment left's fighters to get going again:

Here in the San Joaquin Valley, one talk radio guy who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area had a short segment on election day about 4:00 P.M. Pacific Time concerning businesses which were being boarded up most notably (on the West Coast) in Seattle, Portland and Oakland. He noted that the defenses erected in Oakland were especially remarkable.

But no great conflagration seems to have occurred so far. There has been a lot of huffing and puffing in writing, but where are the organized protests?

Was the first organized march by "New Communists" instead of Democrats?

I ran across a couple of photos on November 7 of "Revolutionary Communists" marching "on 5th Avenue heading to Washington Square".

Not a real big group of marchers. I looked up their website so you don't have to risk getting ads on your computer. . They have addresses and/or phone numbers in NYC, Chicago, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Pretty impressive - giving the dismal quality of their literature. They don't look real scary. But don't underestimate their power. They have endorsements!

These are not ordinary American communists. They are Revolutionary communists who are more scientific than Marx due to some philosophical breakthroughs by their guru, Bob Avakian (B.A.). I was not able to clearly identify these breakthroughs (maybe including feminism and LGBTQ stuff).

Their signs may be a bit misleading. They may give the impression that they are supporting the Democrats, but they say they are exploiting the current moment of division between the leaders of the imperialist USA to accomplish TOTAL REVOLUTION!

Their literature is VERY repetitive and not well-organized, but as far as I can tell, their plan is to overthrow the USA by attracting thousands to be in the Party as the Vanguard of the Proletariat and millions of former "slaves" to be their grateful automatons. THEN they will conquer the whole world and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. This will likely be the easy part, because Russia and China don't have nearly the insight into communism that Bob Avakian does. He cites Soviet and Chinese communists of the pasts and goes beyond them!

I can hardly wait for Soviet Man to appear. That terminology is a little sexist for the RevComs, but the concept has not changed. The key to the appearance of Soviet People etc. is in their literature somewhere. I can just feel it. I know that a lot of people have read something like this in school . . .

The RevComs were brave to choose a well-known part of MAGA Country for their protest like Greenwich Village.

If New York City streets had their own royal court, Broadway would be the old king and Fifth Avenue would be its fabulous queen. Just saying Fifth Avenue evokes glamour, iconic stores, incredible museums, and beautiful parks. Beginning here in Greenwich Village at the entrance of Washington Square Park, Fifth Avenue passes the Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Central Park, the Met, the Guggenheim, Marcus Garvey Park, through Harlem and ends at 143rd Street. This most New York of streets began its life when its first leg from the park to 13th Street was approved by the city on September 27, 1824.

Its bicentennial was this year!

What is often forgotten from Fifth Avenue’s history, however, is that it used to extend south of Washington Square as well, through the South Village all the way to Lower Manhattan. . .
South Fifth Avenue did witness a redevelopment as the area became home to new burgeoning industries, from printing to communications. Oddly, as new cast iron buildings went up to house these new commercial ventures, the numbering started at the north by Washington Square Park with No. 1 South Fifth Avenue, and worked its way south with the numbers going up, in contradiction to the rest of the city’s south to north numbering system. South Fifth Avenue did have its renowned residents for a period, including Nikola Tesla and his laboratory at 33–35 South Fifth Avenue. But it wasn’t to last. Tweed was out, and by 1895 the businesses along South Fifth Avenue had enough of its bizarre numbering scheme, and so petitioned the city to have the name changed once more.

Fifth Avenue will be different under the joyful guidance of the RevComs' Vanguard of the Proletariat!

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An unplug and reboot are needed.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 7, 2024

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Last week's thread, November 2, So many surprises so close to the election!

UPDATE: November 7 piece by VDH validates his comment to me the day before Halloween that he thought Trump would win: Harris Was Always Doomed.

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.
Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.

This piece is full of obvious and common sense reasons why Kamala could not win the election (barring some catastrophe in the final days before the election). It is a nice summary to bookmark, just to keep handy in case you know someone half-way reasonable who doesn't understand how she lost.

VDH was also right about things calming down (in the press, etc.) after the election at least for a little while.

Note: I also learned that AoSHQ has a regular lurker on staff at the Blade of Perseus site. Nice.

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

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Music

Fanfare for the Common Man

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

Posted by: K.T. at 11:13 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning Kt

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 11:18 AM (fwDg9)

2 For the past two years, Dr. Anthony Fauci has received $15,000,000 in taxpayer-funded security services – despite having returned to private citizenship. Open the Books discovered the arrangement within a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Marshals service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) via a Freedom of Information Act request.

Posted by: SMOD at November 09, 2024 11:19 AM (GITLP)

3 And dutifully called em

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 11:19 AM (fwDg9)

4 NYPost:

“Your pocketbook is bad, not because the Bidens did anything. Not because the economy is bad. Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs,” [Whoppi] Goldberg said on the popular program.

Posted by: SMOD at November 09, 2024 11:20 AM (GITLP)

5 VDH was also right about things calming down (in the press, etc.) after the election) at least for a little while.

Trump winning the popular vote was a big deal.

They can't go out and protest the Electoral College, and say that Trump is illegitimate, because he didn't get a majority of the vote.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:21 AM (uxCna)

6 Lizzo: Not only is she a great beauty and a great musician, she also has great penmanship! (Great penpersonship?)

https://is.gd/WVAceF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 09, 2024 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

7 I can hardly wait for the establishment left's fighters to get going again:

I can't wait for the look on their faces when they realize the old catch-and-release approach doesn't fly under Trump.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

8 Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs

This is actually a big argument among the D's - the price of everything has skyrocketed, not because the government has been inflating the money supply, but because evil capitalists are jacking up the price of everything.

Left unexplained is why they didn't do this under evil Trump.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:24 AM (uxCna)

9 @...Fauci oversaw institutional DC's off the books bio-weapons programs. For decades. Of course he's got the highest quality personal protection.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at November 09, 2024 11:25 AM (pXeye)

10 God commentary KT
Still 3//4 way through CJN SPEAKS, still surprising me is how the worst candidate even remotely didn't get stomped 49 -1 in states. The Cultural Marxists have control in most every big urban area and no idea how to break that except show them their Propaganda is BS.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 11:26 AM (fwDg9)

11 Who thinks the left is going to lick its wounds and do some introspection?

Or, perhaps, lash out in unmitigated acts of violence?

All I've heard from them since 5 Nov. is they're going to "fight, resist." I'm taking them at their word and preparing accordingly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2024 11:26 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (WXNFJ)

13 Really enjoyed VDH's podcasts lately -- if he does indeed lurk here, I find his farming anecdotes fascinating. One anecdote he discussed was when he was starting off as a raisin farmer, he complained to a rep from Reagan's Dept of Agriculture regarding the Europeans subsidizing their farmers and driving the California farmers out of business. The Ag rep just shrugged his shoulders and mouthed something about Schoepenhauer's creative destruction. VDH then revisited some of the old farms that were driven out of business -- this guy hanged himself, the other guy blew his brains out, that homestead became a corporate farm.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (YIxO9)

14 Oh, and I saw on X that the 15 million missing Democrat votes from 2020 are missing because 15 million Democrats stayed home to protest Gaza.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (uxCna)

15 Who thinks the left is going to lick its wounds and do some introspection?

Or, perhaps, lash out in unmitigated acts of violence?

All I've heard from them since 5 Nov. is they're going to "fight, resist." I'm taking them at their word and preparing accordingly.

We heard the same thing in 2016. The difference is that people are tired of their nonsense, and Trump is under no illusions what he's dealing with.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

16 GASSSSS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (ejGl1)

17 I’ve been watching CNN and MSNBC the last few days… and I watched Firing Line on PBS last night (Buckley’s old show now hosted by Margaret Hoover)…..

I can say with surety these people are bug nuts insane. I found Firing Line particularly offensive with its faux intellectualism…. Hoover is dumb and she interviewed Jon Meacham (fake historian) who hemmed and hawed trying so hard to not call Trump Hitler while constantly alluding that Trump is Hitler…. He’s dumb too. I cannot believe he really thinks the things he said….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 11:28 AM (6RwsA)

18 Who thinks the left is going to lick its wounds and do some introspection?

Or, perhaps, lash out in unmitigated acts of violence?

All I've heard from them since 5 Nov. is they're going to "fight, resist." I'm taking them at their word and preparing accordingly.

We heard the same thing in 2016. The difference is that people are tired of their nonsense, and Trump is under no illusions what he's dealing with.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

They're busy knitting their pussy and resist hats. They're not very good, so it takes time.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 11:29 AM (VNX3d)

19 Fanfare for the Common Man

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I love that piece but I always listen to it wrong. Commie rat bastard Aaron Copland wrote it to celebrate the new Soviet man but I listen to it as celebrating the John Wayne character man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 09, 2024 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

20 The Temple of Satan, an organization seeking to become Latin America’s first Satanic group with legal religious status, is allegedly growing popular in Chile amidst a decline in faith in traditional religions, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The New Atheists were sure they would turn to science to get their answers.

Posted by: SMOD at November 09, 2024 11:29 AM (GITLP)

21 "Fanfare for the Common Man" was the Rolling Stones intro music on their tour in 1975-76. Very cool. Played as they came on stage, right before Jagger rode bareback on a giant inflatable penis.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at November 09, 2024 11:30 AM (pXeye)

22 If Trump is Hitler where did he park the cocaine filled flying submarine?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 09, 2024 11:31 AM (ejGl1)

23 >>> 8 Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs
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This is actually a big argument among the D's - the price of everything has skyrocketed, not because the government has been inflating the money supply, but because evil capitalists are jacking up the price of everything.

Left unexplained is why they didn't do this under evil Trump.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:24 AM (uxCna)

Silly ARC, TJM explained it. Trump is a tyrant and they were afraid of him, which is why grocery prices will begin to go down again.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:32 AM (zlGo9)

24 I agree with the left that 10+ million votes for the democrat dont just "disappear" from 2020 to 2024

We need to get to the bottom of this

forensic audit for both elections in every state

let's start with Maricopa County

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 09, 2024 11:32 AM (M7vhK)

25 "Fanfare for the Common Man" was the Rolling Stones intro music on their tour in 1975-76.

You can hear it on the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! live Stones album.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:32 AM (uxCna)

26
"But this race is 'tight as a tick' said every talk radio host a week ago.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 09, 2024 11:32 AM (dg+HA)

27 Remember when Canadians were seen as nice guys?

The Canadian government is getting ready to criminalize "denialism" about its Native American school program

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 09, 2024 11:32 AM (L/fGl)

28 "WE ARE THE RESISTANCE!!"
"That's nice, dear. Now make sure you dress warmly. Weatherman says it's going to rain soon."

Posted by: NR Pax at November 09, 2024 11:33 AM (lXCUP)

29 That was an action packed read. Thank you K.T.!

Meanwhile, the blows keep coming. From the People's Voice.

"Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

Griffin made the vow in a video released on social media, promising to take a vow of abstinence in an effort to punish the men of America and show her outrage at President-elect Donald Trump’s re-election.

Describing herself as “shocked and crushed,” Griffin also said she will also eat an “entire key lime pie every day” until there is a Democrat majority House and Senate."

Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 11:33 AM (jvJvP)

30 Who thinks the left is going to lick its wounds and do some introspection?

One big problem with being smarter than everyone else is that it’s a lot like currency unbacked by anything physical: it only works if people other than yourself believe it.

Once the façade crumbles, unless you’re willing to admit that you are not smarter than everyone else, you’re going to fall further and further into irrelevancy.

Currently the (institutional) left is following the path of irrelevancy: so many people now are extremists that they’re the only ones who are not extremists. Which is not only so absurd that (to paraphrase Sowell) only an intellectual could believe it, every time one of them peels off into acknowledging that maybe the extremism is on their own foot, that person, too, becomes an extremist.

They risk becoming one of those insular ancient cities in a Burroughs novel, living in Roman-era technology and believing that they’re so much more advanced than the rest of the world that the rest of the world can be ignored.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (EXyHK)

31 It’s hard to wage revolution when you are raging in your safe space or experiencing mental breaks requiring an inpatient stay.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (pZEOD)

32 Regarding Musk’s tweet on higher ed, now that the election is over maybe he has time to get TITS started… you know, Texas Institute of Technology & Science….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (i5Vkf)

33 My first bigly encouragement this cycle was when Trump went to South Bronx in the midst of a sham trial. My admiration for his guts and political instincts buried the needle.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (Dyy+v)

34 >>> 13 Really enjoyed VDH's podcasts lately -- if he does indeed lurk here, I find his farming anecdotes fascinating. One anecdote he discussed was when he was starting off as a raisin farmer, he complained to a rep from Reagan's Dept of Agriculture regarding the Europeans subsidizing their farmers and driving the California farmers out of business. The Ag rep just shrugged his shoulders and mouthed something about Schoepenhauer's creative destruction. VDH then revisited some of the old farms that were driven out of business -- this guy hanged himself, the other guy blew his brains out, that homestead became a corporate farm.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (YIxO9)

RFK Jr has a recent video out about the collusion of CHYna and some local politician (and other parties no doubt) that crushed most of the local pork farmers in NC, so virtually all of the production is now run in very industrialized style controlled by Smithfield.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (zlGo9)

35 Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM

VDS's farming commentary is very valuable.

Posted by: KT at November 09, 2024 11:34 AM (xekrU)

36 I know people have been minor stressing over the house. Things are looking good, but it is going to take more time.

Republicans need 2 more seats to have the majority.

The two that seem to be next to be called will be Alaska at large (Belich leads by 10K votes) and CO-8 (Evans leads by 2500 votes with 90% reported). AK and CO-8 will be a pickups.

There are also 3 districts in CA and one in AZ where the Republican is leading. CA-41 looks closest to being called with Calvert ahead by 7000 votes and 75% reported).

220 seats is the most likely outcome right now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:35 AM (5p7BC)

37 You have been selected to pick cotton! Our executive slaves will take you to the plantation!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 09, 2024 11:36 AM (ejGl1)

38 >>> 29
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Describing herself as “shocked and crushed,” Griffin also said she will also eat an “entire key lime pie every day” until there is a Democrat majority House and Senate."
Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 11:33 AM (jvJvP)

She isn't doing that already?

... well anyway, it would be funny if people started shipping pies to her.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:36 AM (zlGo9)

39 “Your pocketbook is bad, not because the Bidens did anything. Not because the economy is bad. Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs,” [Whoppi] Goldberg said on the popular program.
Posted by: SMOD

Say what you will about Whoopsie, she's one commie rat ~~bastard~~ bitch who wouldn't look worse if she shaved off all her hair.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 09, 2024 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

40 The two that seem to be next to be called will be Alaska at large (Belich leads by 10K votes) and CO-8 (Evans leads by 2500 votes with 90% reported). AK and CO-8 will be a pickups.

There are also 3 districts in CA and one in AZ where the Republican is leading. CA-41 looks closest to being called with Calvert ahead by 7000 votes and 75% reported).

220 seats is the most likely outcome right now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:35 AM (5p7BC)

That's INSANE that races still haven't been called!
Wow.

Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 11:38 AM (jvJvP)

41 "WE ARE THE RESISTANCE!!"
"That's nice, dear. Now make sure you dress warmly. Weatherman says it's going to rain soon."

I cut the crusts off your grilled cheese. It's in your lunchbox.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

42 >>> 9 @...Fauci oversaw institutional DC's off the books bio-weapons programs. For decades. Of course he's got the highest quality personal protection.
Posted by: occam's brassiere at November 09, 2024 11:25 AM (pXeye)

That POS better not get off with a slap on the wrist.

The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide
https://shorturl.at/4AbFp

includes a link to an archive site of the CDC detail, which can be saved as a PDF

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:38 AM (zlGo9)

43 220 seats is the most likely outcome right now.

Thanks, Dave. That's only 2 votes above the minimum, so it will mean lost of RINO obstruction.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

44 actually it was Schumpteter's creative destruction, but it is descriptive, not prescriptive element in society and the economy

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 11:39 AM (D7oie)

45 lots, not lost.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

46 Dave in Fla, the betting markets (pretty reliable as it turns out) are centering on 220-224 for GOP seats.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:40 AM (YIxO9)

47 "Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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Oh no, Br'er Griffin! Don't throw me into that briar patch!

Posted by: Br'er Rabbit at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

48 This sounds like the 'OMG he's going to ban muhbortion nationwide!!!':
https://x.com/EricLDaugh
/status
/1854994976582602768
Instead, and I hope he's considering it, is simply pulling feralgov funding for any hospitals that perform these Mengele surgeries on children (really should be any at all, but start with a relatively easy win).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (zlGo9)

49 41 I cut the crusts off your grilled cheese. It's in your lunchbox.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:38 AM (xCA6C)

low voice: "thanks, mom."
"Go have fun, sweetheart. And make sure you're home by dinner."

Posted by: NR Pax at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (lXCUP)

50 Say what you will about Whoopsie, she's one commie rat bastard bitch who wouldn't look worse if she shaved off all her hair.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at November 09, 2024 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

someone referred to her recently as "that fat, predator-ass-looking beyotch" which I found delightful

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 11:42 AM (D7oie)

51 RevComs, I like it. They are going to have a hard time finding slaves the next four or eight, maybe twelve years. The riff raff are being sent home and there will be work/jobs/money to be made for everyone.
hahaha, good luck commies

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 11:43 AM (lCWOD)

52 Of course the lefties will use that same most/least educated states graphic and draw the completely opposite conclusion from it.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 09, 2024 11:44 AM (/y8xj)

53 groups to be concerned about:
Deepstate
Antifa
BLM
and
all the assorted jihadis, drug thugs, and embedded enemy soldiers
You know it’s true.

Posted by: Eromero at November 09, 2024 11:45 AM (jgmnb)

54
"Try to be among the first to enter your assigned barracks building. Doing so will improve your chances of getting a top bunk."

Posted by: The Gulag Handbook at November 09, 2024 11:45 AM (dg+HA)

55 ***An unplug and reboot is needed
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What if we all get out of the car and get back in?

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 11:45 AM (lCWOD)

56 220 seats is the most likely outcome right now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:35 AM (5p7BC)

Decision Desk map shows 216-208, with at least 6 races, including the two you mentioned, leaning R.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 11:46 AM (ykfnv)

57 >>> 5
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Trump winning the popular vote was a big deal.

They can't go out and protest the Electoral College, and say that Trump is illegitimate, because he didn't get a majority of the vote.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 11:21 AM (uxCna)

I think it was Stephen Colbert who has already whined about the *majority* voting against (OUR Precious) *democracy*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 11:46 AM (zlGo9)

58 Damn it, I hate when I mix up my philosophers. And I memorized that Monty Python song too.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:47 AM (YIxO9)

59 47 "Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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Oh no, Br'er Griffin! Don't throw me into that briar patch!
Posted by: Br'er Rabbit at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (L/fGl
Does that include Anderson Cooper?

Posted by: Eromero at November 09, 2024 11:47 AM (jgmnb)

60 If Only: Most Harris Supporters Now Want to Move - and 90% to a Different Country

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I think Bob Seger said it best.

Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver better go
Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member better
Better Get out of Denver
Better Get out of Denver

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Outlaw Donald Trump 2024 at November 09, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

61 I think it was Stephen Colbert who has already whined about the *majority* voting against (OUR Precious) *democracy*.

Tell me you don't understand the definition of "democracy" without telling me you don't understand the definition of "democracy".

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:48 AM (xCA6C)

62 Archimedes - Actually, I view it a little differently. Such a small majority gives people like Gaetz a lot of power, because they can hold the hammer of vacating the seat over the Speaker's head.

We know I am an insufferable optimist, but I don't think the RINOs are going to get in the way this time. They can see the mood of the base and realize they can get onboard, or can be replaced by some upstart MAGA non-white in the next round.

Besides, I don't think Trump even needs Congress. 90% of what he wants to do is within his personal authority. The only reason we need to hold the House is to stop the impeachment nonsense.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:48 AM (5p7BC)

63 58 Damn it, I hate when I mix up my philosophers. And I memorized that Monty Python song too

Kant see it.

Posted by: Rousseau at November 09, 2024 11:48 AM (dg+HA)

64 Regarding Musk’s tweet on higher ed, now that the election is over maybe he has time to get TITS started… you know, Texas Institute of Technology & Science….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Isn't he also part of the University of Austin?

Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 11:49 AM (SaTo/)

65 We know I am an insufferable optimist, but I don't think the RINOs are going to get in the way this time. They can see the mood of the base and realize they can get onboard, or can be replaced by some upstart MAGA non-white in the next round.

I, too, am an insufferable optimist. I hope you're right on this.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

66 They can see the mood of the base and realize they can get onboard, or can be replaced by some upstart MAGA non-white in the next round.

That's a good thing about having elections for them all every 2 years. Gee, I wonder if that was by design.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2024 11:50 AM (xCA6C)

67 I will say that if I was a Dem I would be worried about CA-27. Their lead there is under 1000 with only 54% counted.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:51 AM (5p7BC)

68 "Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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Oh no, Br'er Griffin! Don't throw me into that briar patch!
Posted by: Br'er Rabbit at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

Fred Stoller hardest hit.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 11:51 AM (ykfnv)

69 "Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

-
Oh no, Br'er Griffin! Don't throw me into that briar patch!
Posted by: Br'er Rabbit at November 09, 2024 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

Fred Stoller hardest hit.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 11:51 AM (ykfnv)

Planned Parenthood is in shock....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 11:52 AM (VNX3d)

70
Cockeyed optimist?

https://youtu.be/LzsQe5cdkX4

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at November 09, 2024 11:53 AM (dg+HA)

71 Fanfare for the Common Man

Benjamin Franklin wanted out national symbol to be the rattlesnake; quiet, and peaceful when left undisturbed. Disturb it and it will kill you.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 11:54 AM (lCWOD)

72 Bass trombone and tuba blowing out their chops!!!

Good times!!!

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2024 11:55 AM (QB+5g)

73 The FBI stalked and tried to entrap Prof. Codevilla at his speeches.

Then he caught a particularly strong case of COVID.

Then he was run down by an allegedly drunk driver.

No. They assassinated the leading voice of Resistance.

But Justice is Here.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives. at November 09, 2024 11:55 AM (Ndje9)

74 Bass trombone and tuba blowing out their chops!!!

Good times!!!
Posted by: pawn
---
That's what my boys play!

Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 11:55 AM (SaTo/)

75 13 Really enjoyed VDH's podcasts lately -- if he does indeed lurk here, I find his farming anecdotes fascinating. One anecdote he discussed was when he was starting off as a raisin farmer, he complained to a rep from Reagan's Dept of Agriculture regarding the Europeans subsidizing their farmers and driving the California farmers out of business. The Ag rep just shrugged his shoulders and mouthed something about Schoepenhauer's creative destruction. VDH then revisited some of the old farms that were driven out of business -- this guy hanged himself, the other guy blew his brains out, that homestead became a corporate farm.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:27 AM (YIxO9)
_______
I think that was Schumpeter.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 11:56 AM (1bNHn)

76 Damn it, I hate when I mix up my philosophers. And I memorized that Monty Python song too.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 11:47 AM (YIxO9)

Relax, Schumpeter is actually one of the lesser known Austrian school economists.

No one knows who Schumpeter is, besides Notsothoreau, Me and Joel Mokyr.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 11:56 AM (D7oie)

77 Destroy the Four Olds.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 11:56 AM (t1eo9)

78 Malcolm Muggeridge pointed out once that a revolution, as the name implies, revolves right back where it started.

Posted by: Nemo at November 09, 2024 11:57 AM (S6ArX)

79 The only reason we need to hold the House is to stop the impeachment nonsense.

==

We need the house for the funds to deliver the agenda. Like the border.

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 11:57 AM (V13WU)

80 Benjamin Franklin wanted out national symbol to be the rattlesnake; quiet, and peaceful when left undisturbed. Disturb it and it will kill you.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 11:54 AM (lCWOD)

I thought it was the wild turkey, wily, tough and paranoid. It also was red white and blue.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 11:58 AM (D7oie)

81 Kathy Griffin was funny in that one Seinfeld episode where she had a one person stage show all about how Jerry was the devil. It was Seinfeld of course it was funny… probably the only time she’s been funny…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 11:58 AM (+kWhq)

82 >>>Left unexplained is why they didn't do this under evil Trump.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Wrong question is wrong think.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 11:58 AM (lCWOD)

83
Retarded prog sillywomen responses to butt hurt:

- Sex strike
- Topless march

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (EsZUh)

84 Popular on X.

I was at the Barnes & Noble earlier and I asked the clerk if they had Donald Trump's new book on how to deport illegal immigrants.

She immediately said to me. "Get the fuck out of here and don't come back."

I said "Yes, that's the one. Do you have it in paperback?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (+H2BX)

85 THere is a rumor that Elise Stefanic is being looked at as the UN ambassador.

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (V13WU)

86 >>>An unplug and reboot are needed.

>I learned that one from Puffy Combs, but Bill Cosby was the sensei.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (eVr3D)

87 Chesterton's Fence yadda yadda. I mean its shown so often in history over and over, and its part of wisdom to learn that maybe its not going to be better to change something bad, because you might get something even worse. The longer you live, the more times you personally experience and see others find this out, and it starts to sink in.

That's why young people are eager to change and tear things down and older people are saying "well lets hold off and look at this."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (Hh1ER)

88 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (NLkgW)

89 NY - R , that is tough one.

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (V13WU)

90 Kathy Griffin was funny in that one Seinfeld episode where she had a one person stage show all about how Jerry was the devil. It was Seinfeld of course it was funny… probably the only time she’s been funny…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 11:58 AM (+kWhq)

If you get a chance, track down the Norm podcast episode with Fred Stoller.

Stoller is a seriously underrated comic, and he tells the story of having sex with Kathy Griffin. The thing is, I think he's telling the truth, but the way he tells it is hilarious.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:01 PM (ykfnv)

91 Live well and prosper, Senator Mitch! Go for walks. Eat fresh veggies every day.

Because everybody knows what'll happen if any misfortune befalls your senile adz before 2022.

Nice new GOP majority you got there. Be a shame if... you know... anything...

Waiting...

Posted by: Andy Beshear (mnw) at November 09, 2024 12:01 PM (NLIak)

92 etarded prog sillywomen responses to butt hurt:

- Sex strike
- Topless march
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (EsZUh)

and pièce de résistance - the shaved head

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:01 PM (V13WU)

93 It was the turkey, or so I was taught. But then, I was taught that Pluto was a planet.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 09, 2024 12:01 PM (+H2BX)

94 Bass trombone and tuba blowing out their chops!!!

Good times!!!
Posted by: pawn

Hey!! Those chops claimed they were 18!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:02 PM (WXNFJ)

95 91 sb "before 2026"

Posted by: Andy Beshear (mnw) at November 09, 2024 12:02 PM (NLIak)

96 85 THere is a rumor that Elise Stefanic is being looked at as the UN ambassador.
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (V13WU)

No.. We can't afford the loss of any House members

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (IyPmt)

97 I say , give Thune an ambassadorship to the Uk or France and be done with it.

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (V13WU)

98
I thought it was the wild turkey, wily, tough and paranoid. It also was red white and blue.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Yes, he also posited the wild turkey. There's always been a segment of 'that's not who we are' busy softening our sides and smoothing the edges of 'what we are'. We have been given a opportunity of revival.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (lCWOD)

99
and pièce de résistance - the shaved head
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:01 PM (V13WU)

________

And soon to be added: the prophylactic hysterectomy. Yay, us!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (EsZUh)

100 Dems, socialists, commies and illegals.
Deport deport deport.

Canada awaits guys! With its healthcare system.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 09, 2024 12:04 PM (eISTN)

101 Then he was run down by an allegedly drunk driver.
No. They assassinated the leading voice of Resistance.

If there were one person I could believe this to be true of, it would be Codevilla. He knew a lot about the inner workings of the U.S. “Intelligence” community; Informing Statecraft lets a lot of cats out of the IC bag. Its then-reputation for competence is a virtual Potemkin village. Much of its operations are aimed at countering American influence overseas. And the secrecy of its operations are aimed not at America’s enemies but at the American people.

The U.S. has been surprised by every major world event since 1960… It is not too gross an exaggeration that when considering any given threat DIA will overestimate, CIA will underestimate, and INR will blame the U.S. for it… they were willing to examine ways of losing, while it seems never to have crossed their minds to look for ways of winning.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 12:04 PM (EXyHK)

102 Fanfare clip cheered me up. That percussionist on the timpani is intense and focused as hell.

Posted by: Roy at November 09, 2024 12:04 PM (z+ik4)

103 Besides, I don't think Trump even needs Congress. 90% of what he wants to do is within his personal authority. The only reason we need to hold the House is to stop the impeachment nonsense.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 11:48 AM

What can be done by executive order can also be undone by executive order. We just went through that three years ago. We need this stuff to be codified into actual laws written by congress.

And none of this "the secretary may" or "the secretary has the authority to decide" bull$hit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 09, 2024 12:05 PM (QNSds)

104 You know, it's kind of hard to defend against a revolution when your useful idiot foot soldiers get off on being a victim.

I mean that. I'm convinced that a significant number of Harris supporters are reveling in their misery and touting their victim status. To them, this is bliss.

Posted by: Orson at November 09, 2024 12:05 PM (dIske)

105 He can hang out with the Lords and Ladies, live in the Winfield House - 12.5 acres in the best area of London !

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:05 PM (V13WU)

106 I don't think anyone can predict where this is headed. There are conflicting forces with our side. E.g., the idea of class warfare and the idea of nationalism really don't mix. Something the Left discovered to their dismay in 1914.

(Personally, I'm a fan of neither.)

Another thing that bothers me is the nature of what we call our "ruling class". Others have noticed there is something odd about it. There is no clear role, and no really clear criterion for inclusion. It's all about fashion, so far as I can tell. (This was pointed out in a review of one of David Brooks's Bobos books, in either NR or the Spec, back in the 90s.)

Still, there's a lot of good stuff coming, if we don't get sidetracked or beaten by the Resistance. I really hope they can take an axe to the Feral workforce. The idea of Wray and Garland having to mow lawns, in place of the departed yard boy is delightful. (Not so delightful to the AWFLs who have been relying on them for other pleasures.)

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:05 PM (1bNHn)

107 That RevCom movement needs its own theme music. Might I suggest a fine selection from Yoko Ono's library, or perhaps
"Yakety Sax".

Posted by: Roy at November 09, 2024 12:06 PM (z+ik4)

108 Ah, to have that lung capacity again.

Holding your tone, riding that line just below the threshold of blaring.

You can feel the subsonic resonances from your bell in your hands.

Totally electric. It's a total rush.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2024 12:07 PM (QB+5g)

109 The horror! The horror!

POLITICO@politico
Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Outlaw Donald Trump 2024 at November 09, 2024 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

110 Not most educated but MOST INDOCTRINATED states.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:08 PM (17s+e)

111 Sigh - my purplish Portland suburban county moved appreciably towards the Left and the Democrats in the election.

The classic story - people flee Portland, and then vote for precisely the same people and policies that caused them to flee Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 09, 2024 12:08 PM (uxCna)

112 109 The horror! The horror!

POLITICO@politico
Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Outlaw Donald Trump 2024 at November 09, 2024 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

Fired. From the cannon to the sea.

Posted by: Roy at November 09, 2024 12:08 PM (z+ik4)

113 No one knows who Schumpeter is, besides Notsothoreau, Me and Joel Mokyr.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 11:56 AM (D7oie)
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I thought it was a Viennese pastry that you have with your afternoon coffee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 09, 2024 12:08 PM (z0QHk)

114 Yes, Aaron Copland was a socialist, and admitted as much in the HUAC. Just like everyone else was in the post depression period.
Post depression there were very few died in the wool conservatives.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 09, 2024 12:09 PM (MeG8a)

115
All these people who are self-deporting or who say they are are essentially dead-enders. For each one hauling themselves off to Europe, there are 10 European entrepreneurs looking to come here to fulfill their dreams.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:09 PM (EsZUh)

116 I've said this before and I'll say it again; the mule is what you get when you design by committee; stubborn, doesn't work hard enough to produce satisfactory results, and is sterile.

The Pentagon should be under a closer examination.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 09, 2024 12:10 PM (eVr3D)

117 Will they please the fuck bring the revolution on. I'm not getting any younger but my ammo supply keeps getting bigger and I could use some live fire exercises.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:10 PM (17s+e)

118 THere is a rumor that Elise Stefanic is being looked at as the UN ambassador.
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:00 PM (V13WU)

No.. We can't afford the loss of any House members
Posted by: It's me donna

Hell, I'll do it. I'm retired, have no political ambitions, and don't give two shits about any country other than ours.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (WXNFJ)

119 Interesting that the two British podcasts I often listen to, Catholic Unscripted and the Lotus Eaters, are just as ecstatic about the election as we are. On the former, they see it as the salvation of Christendom.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (1bNHn)

120 What can be done by executive order can also be undone by executive order. We just went through that three years ago. We need this stuff to be codified into actual laws written by congress.

And none of this "the secretary may" or "the secretary has the authority to decide" bull$hit.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 09, 2024 12:05 PM (QNSds)

Of course, but as you say we just went through four years of this nonsense.

Use it until they get the point. Fire people, cut off funding, pardon the F out of everyone who is a political prisoner right now. Including finding some who were leftists.

Be the dictator they claimed you are, until they cry uncle.

Then codify into law what the limits of Presidential power can be.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (ykfnv)

121
***An unplug and reboot is needed
---
What if we all get out of the car and get back in?
Posted by: Braenyard

The return of the Chinese Fire Drill.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (63Dwl)

122 Dr. Bone, the mule is a fine and noble animal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:12 PM (17s+e)

123 No one knows who Schumpeter is,

“The door flew open, in he ran
The great, long, red-legged scissorman.”

Yeah, yeah, I know. All German names sound alike to me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 12:12 PM (EXyHK)

124 114 Yes, Aaron Copland was a socialist, and admitted as much in the HUAC. Just like everyone else was in the post depression period.
Post depression there were very few died in the wool conservatives.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 09, 2024 12:09 PM (MeG8a)
______
And those who were solid were very much depressed. Liberals were in the saddle. I am old enough to remember when it started to change in the 60s.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:12 PM (1bNHn)

125 Did anybody notice Tim Walz can really do the Snoopy Happy Dance when entering a stage. Muy Macho.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 09, 2024 12:12 PM (gm9Sb)

126 I thought it was a Viennese pastry that you have with your afternoon coffee.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 09, 2024 12:08 PM (z0QHk)

No, that is a Menger.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 12:13 PM (D7oie)

127 Dr. Bone, the mule is a fine and noble animal.

Yeah I was gonna say, at least a mule is strong and hard working. Committees are neither.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:13 PM (Hh1ER)

128 32 Regarding Musk’s tweet on higher ed, now that the election is over maybe he has time
--------------

It relates directly to CNN et al's constant droning and map beating about non-college people voting for Trump. Re-interpreting their assholery; those that must combine deductive reasoning, technical knowledge, and practical application to create a positive outcome voted for Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:13 PM (lCWOD)

129
Muh Horns are on, playing the Gators.

Should be a good game.

Hook'em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2024 12:13 PM (eDfFs)

130
Copland was no commie. Just another political idiot who let himself get used by commies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:14 PM (EsZUh)

131 The Senate giving Trump his appointments is what's mostly needed immediately

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

132 Hell, I'll do it. I'm retired, have no political ambitions, and don't give two shits about any country other than ours.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (WXNFJ)

Crowder runs the bit where he has Nick DiPaolo as WH Spokesman. Shows vid of some stupid question asked by reporters, then shows Nick answering it.

The UN Sec has to be a man, and that person must start telling the world we're leaving that shitty org, and y'all need to get out of NYC as soon as you can, because we're taking over this building and turning it into a Holiday Inn.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:14 PM (ykfnv)

133 And hope the Turtle is gone or saw the writing on the wall

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

134 If the final House split is 220R-215D, the DEMs will actually have GAINED a seat or two. This will be worse than last time.

Gaetz can reinstate his Speaker of the Month clown festival again.

Plus, that kind of majority could be overturned by just 2 or 3 vacancies and special elections. Trump will have to forget about appointing any GOP House member to any position-- because it could flip the House to the DEMs if he tries it.

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 12:16 PM (NLIak)

135 Did anybody notice Tim Walz can really do the Snoopy Happy Dance when entering a stage. Muy Macho.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 09, 2024 12:12 PM (gm9Sb)

Probably does a similar dance after he cums in some boy's arse.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:16 PM (ykfnv)

136 Minnesota politics is retarded. Walter Mondale, Jesse Ventura, Tim Walz, Al Franken….. shall I go on? What a depressing lineup

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (ZtAny)

137 I only make key lime pie for my relatives and friends.

She can go back to snorting jello mix.

Posted by: DaveA at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (PMJuY)

138 I think one of the most cringeworthy and awkward things to see is to see an adult saying "the ick" about someone. The ick. What are you, 9??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (Hh1ER)

139 >>>Dr. Bone, the mule is a fine and noble animal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

>I agree and concede. But expectations and real world results, and the genetics and physics often times can be misleading.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (eVr3D)

140 I am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (5p7BC)

141 Yes, Aaron Copland was a socialist, and admitted as much in the HUAC. Just like everyone else was in the post depression period.
Post depression there were very few died in the wool conservatives.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 09, 2024 12:09 PM (MeG8a)

That was partially because "conservative" had a different meaning and were denigrated with all the media tools that FDR and Hoover could bring to bear on them

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (D7oie)

142 I misread the title of the thread:

"The Penis of Revolution".

I like it and it would so be this place.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:19 PM (WXNFJ)

143 And hope the Turtle is gone or saw the writing on the wall
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

He announced months ago he wouldn't be competing for Majority Leader, but he's not giving up his seat.

They'll have to carry his corpse out, just like Diane Fiendsteen.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:19 PM (ykfnv)

144 Did anybody notice Tim Walz can really do the Snoopy Happy Dance when entering a stage.

Everyone on earth except for like 5 women advising Kamala was baffled by choosing that weirdo for VP. So very odd.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:19 PM (Hh1ER)

145 Andrew Tate on DUmbass celeberties leaving America

https://x.com/EM_Highlights/status/1854242416821186887

FUCK OFF!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:20 PM (17s+e)

146 They'll have to carry his corpse out, just like Diane Fiendsteen.
Posted by: BurtTC

I accept his terms.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:20 PM (WXNFJ)

147 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 09, 2024 12:20 PM (oIqoN)

148 Yesterday, driving to a doctors appointment. Stopped at a red light. Busy suburban 6 lane intersection. Young woman stops her car right in the middle of the intersection, gets out and starts screaming and shouting and waving her tattooed arms around. No one else in the car.

People start honking their horns and then she really goes nuts.

Finally people started going around her. Light changed and she's still there starting to look a bid ragged. Got back in and drove off just before I had to move.

Yikes!

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2024 12:20 PM (QB+5g)

149 96 Donna

Absolutely right. Not a single ONE of them can leave, without risking flipping the House back to the DEMs.

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 12:21 PM (NLIak)

150

ELP - Fanfare For The Common Man

https://youtu.be/g28H_cOUGlY

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2024 12:22 PM (63Dwl)

151 am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
/---
I was assured that Texas is purple now and would flip to blue this election....

Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 12:22 PM (SaTo/)

152 They'll have to carry his corpse out, just like Diane Fiendsteen.
Posted by: BurtTC

I accept his terms.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:20 PM (WXNFJ)

Sure, but when he was glitching a year or so ago, it looked imminent.

These days it looks like he might have another decade or so in him.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:22 PM (ykfnv)

153 Aaron Copland was a socialist, and admitted as much in the HUAC. Just like everyone else was in the post depression period.

I say this as someone who works in the arts; almost all artsy types are idiotic leftists. It seems to be just part of the mindset and inclination of artistic sorts to lean left. Its not universal, but far too common, and even the ones who aren't often struggle to maintain worldview sanity.

I can still enjoy their work. Yes, George Clooney is an idiot and a fool but I still love O Brother Where Art Thou

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:22 PM (Hh1ER)

154 I am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.

Texas has three big problems in that respect:

1) Their election integrity laws, while better than most, have a long ways to go to fight fraud.
2) Enforcement of election integrity is entirely up to local law enforcement, which means it’s honored only where it doesn’t matter as much.
3) The Texas GOP consists of an unusually high number of Democrats. Not in the sense of not being a good enough Republican, but in the sense of they’d literally caucus with the Democrats if the balance of power were to change, and often do already.

It’s why we don’t have school choice yet, why tax money goes to lobbying for more tax money, and why property taxes are through the roof.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 12:24 PM (EXyHK)

155 am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
/---
I was assured that Texas is purple now and would flip to blue this election....
Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 12:22 PM (SaTo/)

What disappoints me about AZ is that while Maricopa Co. is closer this year than it was the last two elections (whether that's reduced cheating or not, I don't know), but Tucson area remains Democrat.

In spite of taking the brunt of the illegal flooding. Who is voting down there?? Kari Lake would have won, if Tucson was a little less insane.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:24 PM (ykfnv)

156 One of the reasons why Little Lord Fatleroy here in Illinois thinks he can mount a resistance/secession is that the absurd gerrymandering in the state legislature has given him a supermajority. Same in California.

So in Illinois, where the electorate may be 55-45 in favor of the Dems, the Dems hold a 2-1 majority in both houses. Don't even get me started about the Congressional maps.

With that, Flintstone Fatty can claim he has a mandate to "protect" his citizens, which of course means sanctuary to illegal immigrants and criminals. This, until Illinois needs another bailout for its pensions.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 09, 2024 12:24 PM (YIxO9)

157 I almost don't mind socialists per se. Many people have their own delusions and they can try to persuade people to adopt them. As always, it's coercion rather than persuasion that I detest.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (t1eo9)

158 Yeah, Trump’s a fascist, because fascists always want smaller government, lower taxes, freedom of speech, gun rights, etc.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (wb7Od)

159 Cartoon is great.

For years when the mantra was "Change is good," I refused to go along. I would always say "Wrong! Good change is good, BAD change is BAD."

Then I would give an example of stabbing them through the heart with a pencil. Hey, that's change, right?

The response was often "That's dumb. You know what I mean."

And I would say, "You said what you said. You were either wrong about how you said it or you were blowing smoke up my skirt. Either way, if this training/program/opinion is based on that statement, it's built on a false premise."

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (E8qwH)

160 Socialist or not, Aaron Copeland wrote some very fine music.

Posted by: pawn at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (QB+5g)

161 You know someone I didn't hear from this time around in the election who should have stayed shut up last time? John Piper. Maybe he learned his lesson from 2020's stupid piping up. I have to admit that I find his voice and delivery incredibly annoying to begin with but his "we cannot vote for someone as icky as Trump even though the opponent is far worse" statement incredibly awful and stupid.

People need to stay in their lane: pastors are often terrible at politics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (Hh1ER)

162 Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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This is hands down the worst news I've heard all week

*considers*

Beef jerky anyone?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:27 PM (JkO4W)

163 Pity poor Shostakovich, whose every melody and cadence had to have the approval of the Central Arts Committee.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 09, 2024 12:28 PM (MeG8a)

164 One man's criminal is another man's Freedom Fighter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:28 PM (Ukgr4)

165 158 Yeah, Trump’s a fascist, because fascists always want smaller government, lower taxes, freedom of speech, gun rights, etc.

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It's a little-known historical fact that Hitler tried that first, but the German people just wouldn't have it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:28 PM (JkO4W)

166 These are not ordinary American communists. They are Revolutionary communists...

Dang!
I cannot wait for them to come to my town! I've been fighting commies all my life now, and well, frankly, I can't see any reason to stop now.
So bring it Komrades!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:29 PM (W/lyH)

167 I almost don't mind socialists per se. Many people have their own delusions and they can try to persuade people to adopt them. As always, it's coercion rather than persuasion that I detest.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (t1eo9)

It's possible to look at well-meaning socialists from the 20th century, including in faraway lands where the alternative was oligarchs ruling the land, being bought and paid for by Brit and American fatcat capitalists.

It made sense to be socialist.

But this is now, and you know the economics don't work. You're either a dupe, or you're in on the grift, if you remain socialist in any form.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:30 PM (ykfnv)

168 I had told Mrs. Cop a few days before the election that Donald Trump was the last chance for the "Ruling Class (tm)" to take the off-ramp before things got kinetic but they were too full of hubris to recognize it. I'm not the only one to notice, but the parallels to the events preceding the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 were rather ominous.

Instead, Donald Trump built a coalition of the working-class and white-collar types. Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is a force of nature. Now as President-Elect, you can sense many people across the world giving a sigh of relief.

Now you even have a few Democrats having the courage to state that the party had become beholden to the "far left extremists" and had staked-out too radical positions. However, I suspect that the Democrats will be like the Bourbons who forgot nothing and learned nothing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:30 PM (pJWtt)

169 Pity poor Shostakovich, whose every melody and cadence had to have the approval of the Central Arts Committee.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 09, 2024 12:28 PM (MeG8a)
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And, during the second time he was out of favor, took to sleeping on the apartment landing so if they hauled him away in the middle of the night, it wouldn't disturb his family.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 09, 2024 12:30 PM (z0QHk)

170 Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

Why is it that the women who are yelling this are the ones least likely to have to change anything in their lives to succeed?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:30 PM (Hh1ER)

171 138 I think one of the most cringeworthy and awkward things to see is to see an adult saying "the ick" about someone. The ick. What are you, 9??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (Hh1ER)

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Just give 'em the Big Ig.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:30 PM (JkO4W)

172 > I say this as someone who works in the arts; almost all artsy types are idiotic leftists.
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There was a family that moved into our neighborhood back in the early 60's. They had escaped Czechoslovakia before the Soviets had fully taken over. The father was an architect. The mother taught ballet. Neither of them ever fully embraced capitalism and remained grounded in socialism. Their kids, not so much.

The social differences between the kids and parents were like night and day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2024 12:31 PM (Q4IgG)

173 I don't think Trump even needs Congress. 90% of what he wants to do is within his personal authority. The only reason we need to hold the House is to stop the impeachment nonsense.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

This.
Most of Musk's work is in the 'Executive Branch' so giving them 2 years pay and saying goodbye (Musk's idea) frees up a whole lot of spots that don't have to be refilled.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 09, 2024 12:31 PM (CDKte)

174 Revolutionary communists sound like my old professor in my "Politics and the Press" class. He was a SDS member and used to pass out Weekly Worker or some nonsense.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 09, 2024 12:32 PM (ufFY8)

175 Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.
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OH NO
Anyways

Hardons across America rejoice and stay hard.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:32 PM (17s+e)

176 So Rachel Zegler, she of the upcoming "for modern audiences" Snow White movie that has CGI only dwarves... shot off her mouth again, yelling that Trump and his supporters should "know no peace."

I bet her publicist etc are trying really hard to get this dimwit to shut up but she seems incapable of it. Every time people start to forget what an ass she is, she runs to a camera or social media to remind everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:32 PM (Hh1ER)

177 Anyone else find it amusing so many Democrat women can instantly and painlessly cease having sex in order to punish men who voted for Trump? ... Betcha none of them would consider doing the same in order to prevent the need for an abortion.

Posted by: Kathy at November 09, 2024 12:33 PM (qpw89)

178 Dear President Trump,

On behalf of all American men, I'm imploring you to moderate your policies so that Kathy Griffin will begin having sex again.

Thank you in advance.

Your good friend,
Cicero

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (JkO4W)

179 161 You know someone I didn't hear from this time around in the election who should have stayed shut up last time? John Piper. Maybe he learned his lesson from 2020's stupid piping up. I have to admit that I find his voice and delivery incredibly annoying to begin with but his "we cannot vote for someone as icky as Trump even though the opponent is far worse" statement incredibly awful and stupid.

People need to stay in their lane: pastors are often terrible at politics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:25 PM (Hh1ER)
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C S Lewis said that political sermons rarely teach anything except what newspapers are read in the rectory.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (1bNHn)

180 You want a fundamentally different system?

OK, go somewhere and build it. But not here, not with me. There's plenty of open space in Nevada or Utah (and they're known for being rebels in search of a home) to build yourself up a nice town and run it according to your whims.

But, understand this: you don't get to take what WE have built with you. You don't get to try and take over our civilization like a parasite, or a mockingbird. Go break your backs and spend your capital to make it happen. When you've proven your idea, maybe you can evangelize it to the rest of the world.

You don't get to say "Hey, can I drive your car a little? It looks like a really nice car." Then pull up to the train tracks and say "I've always wondered what it would be like to race a train to the crossing." I will shoot your sorry a** and dump your body on said train tracks, because it's not your car, and you weren't the only person in the car.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (E8qwH)

181 So Kathy Griffin is now trying the "hard to get" ploy to getting laid.

Sorry Kathy, even with a 1lb Porterhouse tied around your neck no dog is gonna hunt that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (Ukgr4)

182 40

There's at least a 50/50 chance that the AK At Large seat will go to a runoff, because of (you guessed it!) ranked choice voting. To avoid a runoff, Begich (R) will have to get over 50% in this round.

Begich (R) could lose a runoff. That's the result which RCV was designed to deliver.

I've read that the only votes not yet tabulated are 3 Inuit precincts near the Arctic Circle. No joke. Swearsies.

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (NLIak)

183 I am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
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Most Cali Locusts don't make as far east as Florida.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)

184 Rachel Zegler should be given eternal peace.... with prejudice.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:34 PM (17s+e)

185
I see stuff all the time from these RevComs saying that billionaires should have their wealth confiscated before they're guillotined. I reckon they mean it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (EsZUh)

186 I think it is fair to say we all want Kathy Griffin to get fucked.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (ufFY8)

187 Yeah, Trump’s a fascist, because fascists always want smaller government, lower taxes, freedom of speech, gun rights, etc.

On the topic of Chesterton’s Fence, he noticed this tendency also, to call someone an authoritarian who refused to enact the authoritarian policies of the anointed.

The mob howls before the palace gates, ‘Hateful tyrant, we demand that you assume more despotic powers’; and the tyrant thunders from the balcony, ‘Vile rebels, do you dare to suggest that my powers should be extended?’ There seems to be a little misunderstanding somewhere.”
—The New Jerusalem

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (EXyHK)

188 Monday is Veterans Day

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (fwDg9)

189 I cannot wait for them to come to my town! I've been fighting commies all my life now, and well, frankly, I can't see any reason to stop now.
So bring it Komrades!
Posted by: Diogenes

Old farts just don't want to have to chase the crazies down.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (CDKte)

190
Before the election, VDH's prediction of a Trump landslide bubbled into my timeline on YouTube and I was afraid to read it. Now it's one of those things I'm going to gobble up.

NOW, it's off to enjoy some Nicolle Wallace clips!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (lCaJd)

191 {i]These are not ordinary American communists. They are Revolutionary communists...

Dang!
I cannot wait for them to come to my town! I've been fighting commies all my life now, and well, frankly, I can't see any reason to stop now.
So bring it Komrades!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:29 PM (W/lyH)

Same here. I was Field Artillery back in the 1980s.

Now I'm a bit more "Low Speed and High Drag." It will be a lot easier for the commies to come into my field of view while I sit in a lawn chair!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (pJWtt)

192 I'm have a potato for lunch. It's good.

Hail Trump.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (t1eo9)

193 186 I think it is fair to say we all want Kathy Griffin to get fucked.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 09, 2024 12:35 PM (ufFY

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It is a cause worthy of all of our efforts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (JkO4W)

194 Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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This is her funniest one-liner in 30 years.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (Dyy+v)

195 I wish every Leftist celebrity who said they would leave just do what they said.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (fwDg9)

196 POLITICO@politico
Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Outlaw Donald Trump 2024 at November 09, 2024 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

So tell me General, what wars have you won in, oh...say...the last twenty years?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (W/lyH)

197 "Joy is a revolutionary force."

And the clenched fist thrust provocatively into the air is such an obvious statement of joy. As is the look on her face. /eyeroll/

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 12:37 PM (E8qwH)

198 It's a little-known historical fact that Hitler tried that first, but the German people just wouldn't have it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:28 PM (JkO4W)

He tried to give the German people Shake n Bake, Ska, polyester pantsuits, the compact disc, but the German people... they wanted war.

Sad.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:37 PM (ykfnv)

199 On the plus side, Kathy Griffin can still go fuck herself.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (JkO4W)

200 declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men

So, she is going to munch some carpet now?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (ufFY8)

201 Who wants to get frisky with Kathy Griffin?

Even Hank Johnson's Johnson just shriveled up,

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (Ukgr4)

202 Revolutionary communists sound like my old professor in my "Politics and the Press" class. He was a SDS member and used to pass out Weekly Worker or some nonsense.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 09, 2024 12:32 PM (ufFY

Had one in my comparative politics class. He was actually a pretty good prof. He loved it when I wore my ROTC uniform. Earned an A from him too.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (W/lyH)

203 Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

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This is her funniest one-liner in 30 years.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (Dyy+v)

Ironically, that's probably how long it's been....

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 12:39 PM (E8qwH)

204 201 Who wants to get frisky with Kathy Griffin?

Even Hank Johnson's Johnson just shriveled up,
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (Ukgr4)

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Willie Brown's willy turned black.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:40 PM (JkO4W)

205 Same here. I was Field Artillery back in the 1980s.

Now I'm a bit more "Low Speed and High Drag." It will be a lot easier for the commies to come into my field of view while I sit in a lawn chair!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:36 PM (pJWtt)

I started in FA with a year detail after commissioning. Then went to my basic branch of MI. Loved the Artillery though. I think being a FO is the most fun job in the Army.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:40 PM (W/lyH)

206 RE: Women who look like Kathy Griffin going on a sex strike:

What if they called a sex strike and no-one even noticed?

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 12:41 PM (NLIak)

207 So Rachel Zegler, she of the upcoming "for modern audiences" Snow White movie that has CGI only dwarves... shot off her mouth again, yelling that Trump and his supporters should "know no peace."

I bet her publicist etc are trying really hard to get this dimwit to shut up but she seems incapable of it. Every time people start to forget what an ass she is, she runs to a camera or social media to remind everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:32 PM (Hh1ER)

Now that Rings of Assholes has finished its run, the online commentariat hasn't had a lot to talk about.

Thanks, Rachel. Nerdrotic will add another half a million subs off this.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:41 PM (ykfnv)

208
PDJT: I took a bullet for you.

Kamala: Don't you hate getting lipstick on your coffee cup?

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 09, 2024 12:41 PM (NMT5x)

209 The horror! The horror!

POLITICO@politico
Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, The Outlaw Donald Trump 2024 at November 09, 2024 12:07 PM

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They need to jump from anxiety to acceptance and skip all the steps in between.

And make "general" plural.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (Dyy+v)

210 207 So Rachel Zegler, she of the upcoming "for modern audiences" Snow White movie that has CGI only dwarves... shot off her mouth again, yelling that Trump and his supporters should "know no peace."

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I thank God for you, Rachel.

Posted by: Brie Larson at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (JkO4W)

211 And make "general" plural.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (Dyy+v)
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Everybody above O-6. Or maybe O-5.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (z0QHk)

212 Withholding what nobody wants is not a good negotiating technique.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (17s+e)

213 If Disney made an S&M "Snow White" movie with Rachel wearing a ball-gag, it would probably gross $1 billion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:43 PM (Ukgr4)

214 Who wants to get frisky with Kathy Griffin?

Even Hank Johnson's Johnson just shriveled up,
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (Ukgr4)

As I'm fond of saying, if these dry rot vaginas have a say on abortion, then so do I. None of us are capable of getting pregnant, that means we all get the same hearing.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 12:43 PM (ykfnv)

215 I didn’t know John Piper beclowned himself in 2020…. That’s surprising because IIRC he’s good friends with John MacArthur…. And MacArthur is maybe the best, wisest most sensible pastor I’ve ever encountered. He has quoted over and over again: put not your trust in princes. He doesn’t do politics. The one time he got wrapped up in politics it was only to keep his church open during covid (I know I was a member there at the time). MacArthur’s courage during covid will have me forever grateful for that guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (ANuwa)

216 If Disney made an S&M "Snow White" movie with Rachel wearing a ball-gag, it would probably gross $1 billion.

Posted by: Anna Puma
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Snuff film would do much better

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (17s+e)

217 212 comments, and no mention of bewbs? What's happened to this site?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (1bNHn)

218 Trump needs to rebuild the military almost entirely. We have a navy that runs into other ships and doesn't clean up its rust, an army that is teaching Critical Race Theory, an Air Force wearing high heels, and Marines who have safe spaces.

OK the Air Force thing isn't new but still you get the idea.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:45 PM (Hh1ER)

219 212 comments, and no mention of bewbs? What's happened to this site?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (1bNHn)
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Kathy Griffen and sex in same sentence.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (17s+e)

220 217 212 comments, and no mention of bewbs? What's happened to this site?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (1bNHn)

Goes back to looking at Alexndra Daddario web site.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (W/lyH)

221 A snuff film would deny Disney of the chance to make a sequel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (Ukgr4)

222 Who wants to get frisky with Kathy Griffin?

Even Hank Johnson's Johnson just shriveled up,
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:38 PM (Ukgr4)

Tipped over… like Guam?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 12:47 PM (ANuwa)

223 219 212 comments, and no mention of bewbs? What's happened to this site?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:44 PM (1bNHn)
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Kathy Griffen and sex in same sentence.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (17s+e)
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That's a point. Relatedly: Why make a show called "The View" and fill it with women no one wants to look at?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:47 PM (1bNHn)

224
Describing herself as “shocked and crushed,” Griffin also said she will also eat an “entire key lime pie every day” until there is a Democrat majority House and Senate."
Posted by: Stateless

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The next ChubbyEmu vid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 12:48 PM (lCaJd)

225 A snuff film would deny Disney of the chance to make a sequel.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (Ukgr4)

Aren't we up to Saw:X?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 12:48 PM (t1eo9)

226 Thanks, Rachel. Nerdrotic will add another half a million subs off this.

LOL yeah its been kind of a slow period for them, lots of repeated stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:48 PM (Hh1ER)

227 >>>I think it is fair to say we all want Kathy Griffin to get fucked.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

>If I recall correctly, Carrot Top is a tiny little woman, and I'd probably split her like a turkey wishbone if I was drunk enough to penetrate her comedy-club nastiness.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 09, 2024 12:48 PM (eVr3D)

228 Best low budget film? Cube. There was literally one set.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 12:48 PM (t1eo9)

229 221 A snuff film would deny Disney of the chance to make a sequel.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (Ukgr4)

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Emperor Palpatine says "nyah."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:49 PM (JkO4W)

230 Best part of the day is KT & power goes out. Wretched phone. Then they text that it’s planned maintenance

Posted by: Braenard at November 09, 2024 12:49 PM (4hxKo)

231 email from Orange himself:

"[mnw] this shirt is just for you! I'm officially releasing my Trump Victory Shirt!..."

This man will give you the shirt off his back. What a mensch!

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 12:49 PM (NLIak)

232 Yeah, yeah, a real ‘Hitler’ might arise. Tired of the Hitler talk, like that’s some kind of benchmark.

What we are perilously close to is the emergence of a very real Lenin in the Democrat Party. That’s their own rhetoric and values, not hyperbole.

Posted by: Advo at November 09, 2024 12:50 PM (jO4mz)

233 Kathy Griffen and sex in same sentence.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

I now have two bellybuttons.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 09, 2024 12:50 PM (elaR+)

234 Tucker for Press Sec?
I don't know if he'd do it. It's not like he needs the work: His wife inherited the Birds Eye (frozen veg.) fortune.
Oh and Tulsi for Sec. Def?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 09, 2024 12:50 PM (lPeS+)

235 Every revolution is a crap shoot once it starts. It is in God's hands then.

That is what makes our own so remarkable. And why George Washington is the second greatest man in history in my opinion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 09, 2024 12:51 PM (mfUOU)

236 Tucker and Elon can do far more on their own than strapped to the government

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:51 PM (Hh1ER)

237 That is what makes our own so remarkable. And why George Washington is the second greatest man in history in my opinion.

Yeah, out of 100 revolts, 99 end up French and 1 ends up US.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 12:52 PM (Hh1ER)

238 Monday is Veterans Day and they're playing Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan on my radio station. I always get sniffy whenever I hear it.

Posted by: Tuna at November 09, 2024 12:53 PM (oaGWv)

239 No, no and no on Tulsi for Sec Def. She has never run an administrative position on that is no place for her to start. There is definitely as place for her but it has to be the right place

Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 12:53 PM (t8vHj)

240 We need and we demand a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system"

Fine. Except you are trying to take away OUR way of living and a system we'd like to keep (after cleaning it up, of course).

Go somewhere else to do your thing and stop trying to impose on the rest of us.

Posted by: Emmie at November 09, 2024 12:54 PM (Sf2cq)

241 Tonypete for UN Ambassador.
Elise Stefanik for house Whip.

My electricity is back! Out wretched phone, out.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:54 PM (Mr3X0)

242 Only might appear to be Diversity is the Navy's problem. Commanding ships needs to be the best available commander.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 12:55 PM (fwDg9)

243 235 Every revolution is a crap shoot once it starts. It is in God's hands then.

That is what makes our own so remarkable. And why George Washington is the second greatest man in history in my opinion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 09, 2024 12:51 PM (mfUOU)
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I've seen it argued that, at the time, the word "revolution" meant a return to an earlier state. Ours certainly doesn't fit the current usage, as we weren't trying to overthrow the British government. Just secede.

The French gave it it's current meaning.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 12:55 PM (1bNHn)

244 I started in FA with a year detail after commissioning. Then went to my basic branch of MI. Loved the Artillery though. I think being a FO is the most fun job in the Army.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 12:40 PM (W/lyH)

I was an FO (forward observer) in a "leg" infantry brigade. My favorite weapon system was the 8 inch howitzer -- they were SO accurate!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:55 PM (pJWtt)

245 "Liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin has joined a growing “sex strike,” declaring she will abstain from intimacy with men until a Democrat president is back in the White House.

Griffin made the vow in a video released on social media, promising to take a vow of abstinence in an effort to punish the men of America and show her outrage at President-elect Donald Trump’s re-election.

Describing herself as “shocked and crushed,” Griffin also said she will also eat an “entire key lime pie every day” until there is a Democrat majority House and Senate."
Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 11:33 AM (jvJvP)

Key Lime pie? That's...different. Everybody knows that Oreo Cookies are the next best thing to nookie:

https://youtu.be/Cs6Mpq_iufA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2024 12:56 PM (ofadn)

246 We need and we demand a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system"

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And I demand that you suck a greasy turd out of my butthole. Let's see who get their demand first.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:56 PM (17s+e)

247 Tucker and Elon can do far more on their own than strapped to the government
That's True of Trump and Vance too. Give Elon a sledge hammer in one hand, a katana in the other, and send him off into the swamp for a year, and see how much he could get drained.
Tucker would do a ltd. engagement too:" Just slap the little lying b*^ches around until they cry "MOMMMY!"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (lPeS+)

248 >>> 140 I am getting a lot of amusement that Florida is officially redder than Texas this year.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 12:17 PM (5p7BC)

>>> 154
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Texas has three big problems in that respect:

1) Their election integrity laws, while better than most, have a long ways to go to fight fraud.
2) Enforcement of election integrity is entirely up to local law enforcement, which means it’s honored only where it doesn’t matter as much.
3) The Texas GOP consists of an unusually high number of Democrats. Not in the sense of not being a good enough Republican, but in the sense of they’d literally caucus with the Democrats if the balance of power were to change, and often do already.

It’s why we don’t have school choice yet, why tax money goes to lobbying for more tax money, and why property taxes are through the roof.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 12:24 PM (EXyHK)

More reasons why I want AtC, not Paxton, for US AG.

If I read it right the county-level map shows only OK and WV as being 100% for OrangeManBad, so still some opportunity for improvement.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (zlGo9)

249 239 No, no and no on Tulsi for Sec Def. She has never run an administrative position on that is no place for her to start. There is definitely as place for her but it has to be the right place
Posted by: Ben Had
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Sec Def is for an experienced heavy hitter. Tulsi was an aviator and has demonstrable skills but don't put her over her head.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (Mr3X0)

250 That is what makes our own so remarkable. And why George Washington is the second greatest man in history in my opinion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 09, 2024 12:51 PM (mfUOU)

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Not to denigrate Washington, the American Revolution wasn't a revolution at all, at least not in the classic sense.

There was no toppling of the existing social order and power structure as happened in France and Russia. In America a dominant subset of the existing elites orchestrated a rebellion against a distant colonial master. When it was done, the same elites were in charge.

This prevented the type of factional violence that occurs when a regime is decapitated and a huge power vacuum is formed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (JkO4W)

251 I think democrats may be out of touch, which is why we lose elections. I had no idea most folks don't like having sex with body building male prostitutes who end up spraying the motel room with my ass juice and calling 911 while high on drugs.

Who knew.

Posted by: Andrew Gillum, democrat pervert at November 09, 2024 12:59 PM (R/m4+)

252 But, you know, Mike Tyson as Assistant Sec Def could help get the point across.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:59 PM (Mr3X0)

253
Texas has three big problems

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

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I saw a demographic argument that Texas will redden with conservative refugees from other states. It turns out it's not liberals who are fleeing California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 01:00 PM (lCaJd)

254 We need and we demand a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system"

Find some island, charter a boat to travel there with what you can carry, and make your new system work.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 01:00 PM (VNX3d)

255 249 239 No, no and no on Tulsi for Sec Def. She has never run an administrative position on that is no place for her to start. There is definitely as place for her but it has to be the right place
Posted by: Ben Had

Tulsi for Veterans Affairs

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 01:00 PM (IyPmt)

256 In spite of taking the brunt of the illegal flooding. Who is voting down there?? Kari Lake would have won, if Tucson was a little less insane.
Posted by: BurtTC
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You are inappropriately using the past tense.

Not only has she not lost, but the models are looking like she will win.

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

257 Helena Handbasket and Stephen Price Blair, did you see that Shelly Luther got elected to the state legislature?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 01:01 PM (t8vHj)

258
In spite of taking the brunt of the illegal flooding. Who is voting down there?? Kari Lake would have won, if Tucson was a little less insane.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Didn't know that it has been called.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:02 PM (Mr3X0)

259 Not to denigrate Washington, the American Revolution wasn't a revolution at all, at least not in the classic sense.

There was no toppling of the existing social order and power structure as happened in France and Russia. In America a dominant subset of the existing elites orchestrated a rebellion against a distant colonial master. When it was done, the same elites were in charge.

This prevented the type of factional violence that occurs when a regime is decapitated and a huge power vacuum is formed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (JkO4W)

Yep. It was a war for independence, not a revolution.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 01:02 PM (t1eo9)

260 256 You are inappropriately using the past tense.

Not only has she not lost, but the models are looking like she will win.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01

Would kind of like to be in the same room as Bonchi if this happens. In a sad, evil kind of way.

Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2024 01:03 PM (pZEOD)

261 No, no and no on Tulsi for Sec Def. She has never run an administrative position on that is no place for her to start. There is definitely as place for her but it has to be the right place
Posted by: Ben Had
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Sec Def is for an experienced heavy hitter. Tulsi was an aviator and has demonstrable skills but don't put her over her head.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (Mr3X0)

Let's start with anyone but Pompeo, and go from there.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:03 PM (ykfnv)

262 I say , give Thune an ambassadorship to the Uk or France and be done with it.
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (V13WU)

And if ambassadors go off the reservation, they can be fired at will.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2024 01:04 PM (ofadn)

263 In spite of taking the brunt of the illegal flooding. Who is voting down there?? Kari Lake would have won, if Tucson was a little less insane.
Posted by: BurtTC
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You are inappropriately using the past tense.

Not only has she not lost, but the models are looking like she will win.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:01 PM (5p7BC)

We'll see.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:04 PM (ykfnv)

264 Everybody above O-6. Or maybe O-5.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 09, 2024 12:42 PM (z0QHk)
You are correct sir!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at November 09, 2024 01:04 PM (P4Pk9)

265 I was an FO (forward observer) in a "leg" infantry brigade. My favorite weapon system was the 8 inch howitzer -- they were SO accurate!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:55 PM (pJWtt)

My favorite was the A-10. Second favorite was the Tornado, flown by Germans who really wanted to do Close Air Support. (The other half of the German pilots wanted to fly interdiction sorties up close to friendly personnel.)

Now, I loved me some FA fire missions, before the A-10s came in, to soften the place up. But my heart was with the aircraft. (I was an ALO.)

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 01:04 PM (E8qwH)

266 Most Cali Locusts don't make as far east as Florida.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2024 12:34
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Didn't Nazi Pelosi buy a 25MM home on the water there a few years ago?

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 09, 2024 01:05 PM (hoCmQ)

267 And I demand that you suck a greasy turd out of my butthole. Let's see who get their demand first.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2024 12:56 PM (17s+e)

Careful. In today's world, a bunch of them might just jump at that bargain. (Which is why I do not want any part of their 'revolution'.)

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 01:06 PM (E8qwH)

268 >>> 257 Helena Handbasket and Stephen Price Blair, did you see that Shelly Luther got elected to the state legislature?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 01:01 PM (t8vHj)

Oh, is she the one who that asshoe judge in DFW bitched at because she defied some of the woofloo BS? That made me laugh.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:06 PM (zlGo9)

269 >>>This prevented the type of factional violence that occurs when a regime is decapitated and a huge power vacuum is formed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Tell that to the loyalists.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:06 PM (Mr3X0)

270 In spite of taking the brunt of the illegal flooding. Who is voting down there?? Kari Lake would have won, if Tucson was a little less insane.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Didn't know that it has been called.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:02 PM (Mr3X0)

It's not, I'm just not buying that they fixed the problem. This time it's not likely to be Maricopa Co., but Pima that keeps her out.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:06 PM (ykfnv)

271 Most Cali Locusts don't make as far east as Florida.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Believe it or not, we are getting a significant # of CA transplants here in TN. All except for one that I have met are refugees and not invaders. They hated it there. Solidly MAGAs.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 01:08 PM (WXNFJ)

272 Got to be a lot of good O-6+ types who were cashiered beginning in 2009. A bit old to lead the troops but not too old to be recalled to active duty to replace those who took their spots. Seems I recall a Marine officer who got kicked out for doing the right thing about A-stan.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:08 PM (KAi1n)

273 >>> 262 I say , give Thune an ambassadorship to the Uk or France and be done with it.
Posted by: runner at November 09, 2024 12:03 PM (V13WU)

And if ambassadors go off the reservation, they can be fired at will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2024 01:04 PM (ofadn)

A similar suggestion for handling the biggest pest congresscritters was appointing them as heads of various departments. How big a deal is it for someone to refuse a nomination even before their peers vote on it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (zlGo9)

274 Helena Handbasket, the very same, except they put her kn jail for opening her salon.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (t8vHj)

275 I have to admit that I had never actually heard Cardi B before nor seen her until a couple days ago. And, given her admitting drugging and robbing men as a hooker, I was fine with not knowing her.

But having heard her talk, while she's not bad looking her voice would curdle milk at ten paces.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (Hh1ER)

276 Yes, we will see.

But I am looking a lot of data being compiled by a bunch of data nerds. Her worst case scenario is a loss by 10,000. And the drops yesterday give clues on the voting preferences of the voters still in the mill not yet being reported.

She trailed by 31,000 as of this morning, and over 800,000 votes are outstanding.

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

277 There was no toppling of the existing social order and power structure as happened in France and Russia.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (JkO4W)

That's primarily because the toppling had already happened by their coming to America. America didn't start out with the feudal system. A goodly chunk of the middle merchant class moved here, and some portion of the peasant class who aspired to work their own land.

So, when the quest for independence came, there was nothing to topple once the Brits were kicked out.

Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (E8qwH)

278 256 You are inappropriately using the past tense.

Not only has she not lost, but the models are looking like she will win.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01

Would kind of like to be in the same room as Bonchi if this happens. In a sad, evil kind of way.
Posted by: Piper at November 09, 2024 01:03 PM (pZEOD)

I’ve stated this multiple times here in the last few days: AZ election officials should all be fired. It is disgraceful they’re only 82% counted now. There is no excuse

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 01:10 PM (ANuwa)

279 >>> 271 Most Cali Locusts don't make as far east as Florida.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Believe it or not, we are getting a significant # of CA transplants here in TN. All except for one that I have met are refugees and not invaders. They hated it there. Solidly MAGAs.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 01:08 PM (WXNFJ)

Anecdotal!

There's myself, hogmartin and the Weirds here in ETex.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:11 PM (zlGo9)

280 I got commissioned signal corps outta college and served in a field signal battalion company as a platoon leader during law school in Boston. (Quinzy, MA!) I loved it. We got to go to the field, set up complex commo equipment, and then chillax. The rule was, if the shots (signals) were working, leave the signal guys alone (which meant don't bitch that they're BBQ'ing and running SEGA-genesis off one of their two 5K-watt generators. :->

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:11 PM (KAi1n)

281 Not only has she not lost, but the models are looking like she will win.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:01 PM (5p7BC)

Dave in Fla.

I'm just curious how come the vote counting process is taking so long. For those of us outside the country, we'd think you'd have maybe 10,000 people voting per voting place and the votes should be counted in a few hours.

But day 4....

Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 01:11 PM (jvJvP)

282
Hell, I'll do it. I'm retired, have no political ambitions, and don't give two shits about any country other than ours.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (WXNFJ)

I admit, it was my dream job when I was at State. UN Ambassador (or DCM) or State Department Spokesperson. I wanted to be the next Margaret Tutwiler.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2024 01:12 PM (wLjpr)

283 I’ve stated this multiple times here in the last few days: AZ election officials should all be fired. It is disgraceful they’re only 82% counted now. There is no excuse
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The Count could do a better job.

One! vote for Kari! Two! votes for Kari! Ah! Ah! Ahhhhh!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 01:12 PM (WXNFJ)

284 I want to believe that Kari Lake can win but Republicans never win a close, long count.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:12 PM (Hh1ER)

285 Yes, we will see.

But I am looking a lot of data being compiled by a bunch of data nerds. Her worst case scenario is a loss by 10,000. And the drops yesterday give clues on the voting preferences of the voters still in the mill not yet being reported.

She trailed by 31,000 as of this morning, and over 800,000 votes are outstanding.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (5p7BC)

I wouldn't complain if I was wrong, but two years ago those same data nerds were telling us she had it, that she was going to get the vote dumps falling her way.

They were just flat out wrong, and until they prove they are doing something different this time, I'm not going to believe them.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:12 PM (ykfnv)

286 >>> 274 Helena Handbasket, the very same, except they put her kn jail for opening her salon.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (t8vHj)

Nice, a little more insurance against a second round of woofloo or similar BS.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:13 PM (zlGo9)

287 There were lots of new voters in North Texas and those counties were solidify red.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 01:13 PM (t8vHj)

288 Speaking Kathy Griffin and other AWFL's like her withholding sex...how in the world will they be able to practice their most sacred sacrament - Abortion - if they don't have sex with men?

Hmmmmm? Haven't quite thought that one through, have they?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 09, 2024 01:14 PM (7GSTP)

289 Believe it or not, we are getting a significant # of CA transplants here in TN. All except for one that I have met are refugees and not invaders. They hated it there. Solidly MAGAs.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 01:08 PM (WXNFJ)

Don't show them the secret handshake until they have been properly tested.

Test #1: Card table outside. M1 Garand on one side and a Messenger Bag on the other. Which do they go to? Comment on?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2024 01:14 PM (bss/y)

290
Didn't Nazi Pelosi buy a 25MM home on the water there a few years ago?
Posted by: olddog in mo

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That was debunked. Although who knows, it might be rebunked.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 01:15 PM (lCaJd)

291 Ah, I see the comment about Pima.

120K votes still to be counted in Pima
360K votes still to be counted in Maricopa
400K votes in the rest of the state including 45K in Yavapai

Depending on how she does in Maricopa, this will be the same problem Casey had with Philly. He ran out of votes.

But she absolutely has to win those votes in Maricopa.

Untold story is the Green Party candidate is doing very well, approaching 3% now after being <1% at the start. Those votes are bleeding Ruben.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:15 PM (5p7BC)

292 A snuff film would deny Disney of the chance to make a sequel.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2024 12:46 PM (Ukgr4)

They could remake Dead Heat.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 01:15 PM (D7oie)

293
Believe it or not, we are getting a significant # of CA transplants here in TN. All except for one that I have met are refugees and not invaders. They hated it there. Solidly MAGAs.
Posted by: Tonypete

======================

I personally know a Cali refugee who fled to Texas, but made the mistake of selecting Austin. He had been a lawyer with a big fancy nationwide firm and thought he could get a teaching job lolol.

He's now in Tennessee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 01:16 PM (lCaJd)

294 Pima?

https://youtu.be/tvUi5yGjJbY?si=TRbm45v16Nb8yD6n

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:16 PM (Hh1ER)

295 >>> 291 Ah, I see the comment about Pima.

120K votes still to be counted in Pima
360K votes still to be counted in Maricopa
400K votes in the rest of the state including 45K in Yavapai

Depending on how she does in Maricopa, this will be the same problem Casey had with Philly. He ran out of votes.

But she absolutely has to win those votes in Maricopa.

Untold story is the Green Party candidate is doing very well, approaching 3% now after being
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:15 PM (5p7BC)

That seems like a problem. Is the same dickhead sherriff who threatened to shoot people for wanting to observe still in office?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:17 PM (zlGo9)

296 "Speaking Kathy Griffin and other AWFL's like her withholding sex...how in the world will they be able to practice their most sacred sacrament - Abortion - if they don't have sex with men?

Hmmmmm? Haven't quite thought that one through, have they?
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!"

That's easy. Artificial insemination.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2024 01:17 PM (vFG9F)

297 Austin voted itself a big property tax increase to "raise" teacher pay. Problem is we have Robin Hood school taxes so 75% of that increase doesn't even stay in Austin. 🤯🤮
It totally negates the tax cut the legislature gave us last session by raising the exemption. We will be paying twice what we got in savings. And the vast majority is going out of county. I'm a bit miffed about this needless to say.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 01:18 PM (SaTo/)

298 I didn’t donate to Trump so he could use my money to payoff the DNC debt from their celebrity concerts. WTF.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 09, 2024 01:18 PM (ymHvI)

299 I have no choice but to stay in S.F. for the next 1-2 years while some cases I'm working get litigated. However, I am feeling much more upbeat lately and that's not cuz THC (none in almost 3 weeks) or that I've been pedaling for 40 minutes (though that does help), it's because Reasons. :->

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:18 PM (KAi1n)

300 >>> 297 Austin voted itself a big property tax increase to "raise" teacher pay. Problem is we have Robin Hood school taxes so 75% of that increase doesn't even stay in Austin. 🤯🤮
It totally negates the tax cut the legislature gave us last session by raising the exemption. We will be paying twice what we got in savings. And the vast majority is going out of county. I'm a bit miffed about this needless to say.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 01:18 PM (SaTo/)

So, when are you guys coming up this way to look around and see if you like it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (zlGo9)

301 No, no and no on Tulsi for Sec Def. She has never run an administrative position on that is no place for her to start. There is definitely as place for her but it has to be the right place
Posted by: Ben Had at November 09, 2024 12:53 PM (t8vHj)

Head of the VA. She is medical and an LtCol. She is motivated, has admin skills, and she would do great things.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (D7oie)

302 Another thought about AWFL's. I heard that some were going to shave their heads in protest of the fascist administration that was just elected. Being historically illiterate, do they not realize that females who had collaborated with the Nazi's in France, the Netherlands and Belgium, had their heads shaved after the Allied victory in WWII. To put them to shame. IIRC, the male collaborators were shot or hung. But the females were made hairless. The pictures are iconic.

Kind of ironic if you ask me.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (7GSTP)

303 But day 4....
Posted by: Stateless
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One might say that they are trying to massage the votes.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (Mr3X0)

304 Love to see Lake win but she's been robbed before.. I'm more concerned with the House.. I can't stand the thought of Jefferies as Speaker

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (IyPmt)

305 Head of the VA. She is medical and an LtCol. She is motivated, has admin skills, and she would do great things.
Posted by: Kindltot

Skunk the VA!

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (KAi1n)

306 I have a question for other guys here. Women often think its flirty to eat food off your plate, but I get growly when someone touches my food without asking. DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD. Anyone else feel that way?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (Hh1ER)

307
Hell, I'll do it. I'm retired, have no political ambitions, and don't give two shits about any country other than ours.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2024 12:11 PM (WXNFJ)

The Collabos in France. The Maquis were relentless hunting them down.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (wLjpr)

308 Well the problem in 2022 is that no one was prepared to cure ballots, which is not the case. There are over 1000 volunteers working on curing this time.

Also Richer dropped in a fraudulent batch of votes in the next to last drop, and Lake's team wasn't prepared to catch it. This time the RNC is all over the counting center with lawyers. We will see what happens.

But in the end, it does come down to Maricopa. She has to win those remaining votes, if not she will lose.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (5p7BC)

309 Test #1: Card table outside. M1 Garand on one side and a Messenger Bag on the other. Which do they go to? Comment on?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You go for the bag because how else are you going to carry a full ammo load? The garand is a given.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:21 PM (KAi1n)

310 But she absolutely has to win those votes in Maricopa.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:15 PM (5p7BC)

That's where we were two years ago too, and they were saying the late votes being counted would likely come in somewhere above 55% for Kari, and they didn't. Or they managed to find tens of thousands of other votes from other areas that canceled out the Lake areas.

This time what concerns me is all those Pima County votes. Even if Kari pulls out a majority of the Maricopa votes left, I don't see Pima being close. Gallego is over 60% in the county now. Is there any model that suggests he won't build on his lead with those?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:21 PM (ykfnv)

311 Dave in FL and the Turning Point guys are giving great analysis on the Kari Lake projections. TPUSA are quite optimistic that if there are no shenanigans it is going to break for Lake.

Posted by: Briny the Elder at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (sfE0c)

312 Marx himself distinguished "scientific" socialism from what he termed "utopian" socialism, such as the Oneida project, and Robert Owen's project at New Lanark.

Those "utopian" socialist experiments were all dismal failures (as were, apparently, the kibbutzes in Israel, until they lost the socialist policies).

Of course, "scientific" socialism is also utopian, and also a dismal failure.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (YqDXo)

313 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (fwDg9)

314 Ah, I see the comment about Pima.

120K votes still to be counted in Pima
360K votes still to be counted in Maricopa
400K votes in the rest of the state including 45K in Yavapai

Depending on how she does in Maricopa, this will be the same problem Casey had with Philly. He ran out of votes.

But she absolutely has to win those votes in Maricopa.

Untold story is the Green Party candidate is doing very well, approaching 3% now after being
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Pima will break hard for Gallego.
Hard to say how Maricopa will go.
Yavapai may go here way if 2020 is any indication.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (elaR+)

315 One might say that they are trying to massage the votes.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:19 PM (Mr3X0

Everyone wants a happy ending....

Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (jvJvP)

316 DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD. Anyone else feel that way?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (Hh1ER)

I didn't do that until I was married, pregnant, and after throwing up all morning, ravenous. I did ask though, and Mr Moki was gracious enough to let me have his food and order more. Taking food off your date's plate without asking is rude and presumptuous.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (wLjpr)

317 Counting for a week after the election for both House races, Nevada and Arizona are killing the initial belief this election was fraud free. Especially the House, we seen this counting the mail in ballots crap in California before. Plus the mail in ballot drop from Clarke County in Nevada that took Brown from first place to losing. This shit has to stop.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (ymHvI)

318 That seems like a problem. Is the same dickhead sherriff who threatened to shoot people for wanting to observe still in office?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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No he was forced to resign, and the Republican who took over for him just won.

In fact, Republicans won every Maricopa County race.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (5p7BC)

319 But in the end, it does come down to Maricopa. She has to win those remaining votes, if not she will lose.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (5p7BC)

And that's where we are. In the "we'll see" boat.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (ykfnv)

320 >>> 311 Dave in FL and the Turning Point guys are giving great analysis on the Kari Lake projections. TPUSA are quite optimistic that if there are no shenanigans it is going to break for Lake.
Posted by: Briny the Elder at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (sfE0c)

I'm not optimistic, but, the REEE-ing would be epic. Epic-er? Very, very funny.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (zlGo9)

321 Thanks Dave!

Posted by: Stateless at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (jvJvP)

322 Look! FEMA brought in one mobile to house folks in NC. Cost was $175,000. Meanwhile folks are donating RVs and individuals driving the to the site. Time to abolish FEMA. .

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (gfViB)

323 I have a question for other guys here. Women often think its flirty to eat food off your plate, but I get growly when someone touches my food without asking. DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD. Anyone else feel that way?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:20 PM (Hh1ER)

Um, Rich Giamboni?

www.ace.mu.nu/archives/042909.php

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)

324 Yesterday or so, Buck put up a Texas 2020 and a Texas 2024 map. That should answer any question about Texas. All but two counties in the Valley are now Red.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (Mr3X0)

325 >>> 318 That seems like a problem. Is the same dickhead sherriff who threatened to shoot people for wanting to observe still in office?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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No he was forced to resign, and the Republican who took over for him just won.

In fact, Republicans won every Maricopa County race.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:23 PM (5p7BC)

HA HA!

...and, interesting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 01:24 PM (zlGo9)

326 277 There was no toppling of the existing social order and power structure as happened in France and Russia.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2024 12:57 PM (JkO4W)

That's primarily because the toppling had already happened by their coming to America. America didn't start out with the feudal system. A goodly chunk of the middle merchant class moved here, and some portion of the peasant class who aspired to work their own land.

So, when the quest for independence came, there was nothing to topple once the Brits were kicked out.
Posted by: GWB at November 09, 2024 01:09 PM (E8qwH)
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Only Marxists and those they've gulled consider the system from 1600-1800 to be "feudal". Serious historians mock them for this. But unfortunately the Marxist usage prevails in pop history.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 01:25 PM (1bNHn)

327 Sorry,link to the tweet
https://tinyurl.com/43rjvv8p

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 09, 2024 01:25 PM (gfViB)

328 Pima will break hard for Gallego.
Hard to say how Maricopa will go.
Yavapai may go here way if 2020 is any indication.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 09, 2024 01:22 PM (elaR+)

Yavapai is hard red, but there just aren't enough votes to negate the big counties, if they flood the zone with Gallego votes.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:25 PM (ykfnv)

329 That seems like a problem. Is the same dickhead sherriff who threatened to shoot people for wanting to observe still in office?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Nope.
He resigned after a while and we have a new guy coming in.
Allegedly a Conservative.
We will see.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 09, 2024 01:25 PM (elaR+)

330 That Trump - Trudeau first meeting is going to be precious...

Alex Zoltan
@AmazingZoltan

REPORTER TO FREELAND: "Donald Trump doesn't like you."

JOLY: [Laughs]

FREELAND: "Word salad, word salad with croutons, and word salad with tomatoes and olives."

JOLY: "I'd just like to add that I have Poilievre Derangement Syndrome, not Trump Derangement Syndrome."

https://tinyurl.com/ym7n4y9m

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 09, 2024 01:26 PM (TGPs7)

331 If taking food off my plate means I get a treat later, then OK!

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2024 01:26 PM (vFG9F)

332 Yavapai first drop was 76% for Lake. They expect her to pick up 20K votes out of Yavapai.

Mohave is also still outstanding. Ruben was getting a good margin out of Santa Cruz, but those votes are now all in.

His only source of margin left is Pima, but Pima is only 13% of the remaining vote.

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

333 I saw a demographic argument that Texas will redden with conservative refugees from other states. It turns out it's not liberals who are fleeing California.

Yes, this is the good news, and it appears to be true; hell, I’m one of them. (The only caveat I’d give is that some of the people using this argument are conflating people who move to Texas by choice, and people who are moved when their job moves here. I’ve yet to see anyone specifically address the voting patterns of the dragged vs. the refugees or their relative sizes.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 09, 2024 01:27 PM (EXyHK)

334 I'm still curious how the national vote is going to turn out.

Last I saw Trump's lead was now under 4 mil. How many Californica votes are still out there, and even if the whore doesn't overtake him, I'm wondering how close it will be in the end.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:27 PM (ykfnv)

335 There's no need to force AWFLs to wear identifying symbols if they are going to identify themselves by shaving their heads.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 09, 2024 01:28 PM (0ZmGb)

336 I didn’t donate to Trump so he could use my money to payoff the DNC debt from their celebrity concerts. WTF.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 09, 2024 01:18 PM (ymHvI)

I doubt the Donks will see Dime One of your donation. Trump is trolling them. He will likely have conditions attached that the Donks could not bear to accept. Like, transparency on where the lost 20 million was spent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2024 01:29 PM (ToK9w)

337 How many Californica votes are still out there, and even if the whore doesn't overtake him, I'm wondering how close it will be in the end.

That's the goal. They are gonna count very carefully until they erase Trump's popular vote win.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:29 PM (Hh1ER)

338 CRT - Too late, outstanding votes in CA aren't enough to erase the PV margin. Trump took 40% of the vote in CA.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:31 PM (5p7BC)

339 “ I doubt the Donks will see Dime One of your donation. Trump is trolling them. He will likely have conditions attached that the Donks could not bear to accept. Like, transparency on where the lost 20 million was spent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2024 01:29 PM (ToK9w)”

If it was a troll, he better clarify it quick. Because it’s pissing a lot of people off. That and shit like what he said to the NY governor about giving them a bunch of tax money.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 09, 2024 01:31 PM (ymHvI)

340 331 If taking food off my plate means I get a treat later, then OK!
Posted by: fd at November 09, 2024 01:26 PM (vFG9F)
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If it's in a restaurant, sure. Just be sure she orders dessert. 90% of women start to feel guilty halfway through. So you get 1.5 desserts.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 01:31 PM (1bNHn)

341 How many Californica votes are still out there, and even if the whore doesn't overtake him, I'm wondering how close it will be in the end.
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That's the goal. They are gonna count very carefully until they erase Trump's popular vote win.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:29 PM (Hh1ER)

I would think it's too much to overcome, but hell, I don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2024 01:32 PM (ykfnv)

342 Trump has also now exceeded his vote total in 2020. It is now the record for the largest Republican vote total in history.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:32 PM (5p7BC)

343 Great post, K. T. Greatly appreciate the adult analysis of crazy time.

Posted by: FINGERS at November 09, 2024 01:33 PM (TFyJv)

344 Too late, outstanding votes in CA aren't enough to erase the PV margin.

Arizona votes are still being counted too, and they're gonna do their damnest. They've already whittled it down far enough that they can claim its not a mandate now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:33 PM (Hh1ER)

345 “ CRT - Too late, outstanding votes in CA aren't enough to erase the PV margin. Trump took 40% of the vote in CA.”

It sure feels like a lot of CA’s counting after Election Day is going to jeopardize the House majority. It’s the same shit they did last time.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 09, 2024 01:34 PM (ymHvI)

346
it's because Reasons. :->
Posted by: SFGoth

======================

Daniel Lurie: thumbs up, down, or sideways?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 09, 2024 01:35 PM (lCaJd)

347 All I've heard from them since 5 Nov. is they're going to "fight, resist." I'm taking them at their word and preparing accordingly.
__________________

What's old is new. It was just this kind of situation that led to the 1970s leftist terrorism, such as SDS and the Weather Underground.

I hope history doesn't repeat itself, but ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 09, 2024 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

348 CRT - No they haven't and Arizona has only 880K votes left to go, where Trump could end up winning the state by 10 points.

Final national total will end up around 2%, like I said earlier in the week.

That is a mandate, and no matter how much the Democrats try to say otherwise, no one will listen to them.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:36 PM (5p7BC)

349 That's the goal. They are gonna count very carefully until they erase Trump's popular vote win.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 01:29 PM (Hh1ER)

No they won’t. They’d love to but there’s not enough ballots left. Everyone in the Trump hating media has already conceded he won the PV

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2024 01:37 PM (i5Vkf)

350 Is Elias still rooting around for "votes" in PA. ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 01:39 PM (IyPmt)

351 Has Barbara Streisand fucked off yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 09, 2024 01:39 PM (0ZmGb)

352 Speaking of Mojave, lots of strange things happen out there.
There are groups living off the grid called the Mojave Mud People. Lots of ritual killings, whether Native, Satanic or Brujo/Bruja. You find all sorts of weird things in the desert; lots of legends of gold mines. Lots of UFO abductions, Bigfoot's cousin, The Desert Foot. People have claimed to see extant Pteranodons; many a ghost, even ships buried in the desert...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 09, 2024 01:40 PM (TGPs7)

353 I said up thread, GOP need two more seats to win the majority, and the next two to drop are not from CA. They will be CO-8 and AK.

As much as California would like to steal it, the turnout from Hispanics that voted for Trump is making it very hard. Even Duarte looks like he will survive, and I was certain Gray would clobber him this time.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:40 PM (5p7BC)

354 And what's up with Smokin' Rob Reiner?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 09, 2024 01:41 PM (0ZmGb)

355 348 CRT - No they haven't and Arizona has only 880K votes left to go, where Trump could end up winning the state by 10 points.

Final national total will end up around 2%, like I said earlier in the week.

That is a mandate, and no matter how much the Democrats try to say otherwise, no one will listen to them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:36 PM (5p7BC)
______
What do you mean by "mandate"?

I can see it is a pretty clear (but not overwhelming) rejection of the Democrats. But with the House on a razor's edge, the only issues the voters have clearly spoken on are wokery, inflation, and immigration.

Biden decided in 2021 that he could govern like FDR. How did that work?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 01:42 PM (1bNHn)

356 And what's up with Smokin' Rob Reiner?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 09, 2024 01:41 PM (0ZmGb)

The fire refused to have anything to do with him.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 01:42 PM (VNX3d)

357 Look! FEMA brought in one mobile to house folks in NC. Cost was $175,000. Meanwhile folks are donating RVs and individuals driving the to the site. Time to abolish FEMA. .
Posted by: Notsothoreau
====

Speaking of FEMA, Gateway Pundit hs pic of the perp who told the crews to void Trump flagged houses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 09, 2024 01:45 PM (/lPRQ)

358 Daniel Lurie: thumbs up, down, or sideways?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

My candidate (me) lost. My 2nd choice (the security guard at my pot club (who was actually a listed option)) lost. Lurie is the best we're gonna do at this point. He shouldn't need to be on the take given how much $ he has. Whether he can tame the bureaucrazy remains to be seen.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2024 01:46 PM (KAi1n)

359 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. has mental breakdown on MSNBC, says Trump won because white children aren’t in Cheerios commercials anymore.

These fools are never going to figure it out.

Glaude says he doesn’t believe Trump won because of issues like the economy and said it’s actually because everyone is racist.

“There's this sense that ‘whiteness is under threat. All of these racially ambiguous children on Cheerios commercials are confusing the hell out of me.’”

“You are telling me that all of these people who believe that bread is too high and eggs are too high, that they voted for a convicted felon?”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 09, 2024 01:49 PM (TGPs7)

360 317 Counting for a week after the election for both House races, Nevada and Arizona are killing the initial belief this election was fraud free.
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There were ballot dumps in PA, FEMA fraud in hurricane alley, 80,000 votes thrown out in Harris county, etc - there was never a belief that the Communists wouldn't cheat; they were Outnumbered.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:50 PM (Mr3X0)

361 I was an FO (forward observer) in a "leg" infantry brigade. My favorite weapon system was the 8 inch howitzer -- they were SO accurate!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at November 09, 2024 12:55 PM (pJWtt)

My first assignment while detailed artillery was to an 8inch battalion in Germany. Great assignment. But only after six months as the Ammo Platoon leader and Service battery XO, they made me the S-2. Also a great job, but my whole focus then was NRAS. (All the nuke crap.) Ugh!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 01:51 PM (W/lyH)

362 And since I don't like to toss out Hopium, the latest Maricopa drop for Lake is not what she needed, so now looks like she is going to lose this.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 09, 2024 01:54 PM (5p7BC)

363 Glaude says he doesn’t believe Trump won because of issues like the economy and said it’s actually because everyone is racist.

“There's this sense that ‘whiteness is under threat. All of these racially ambiguous children on Cheerios commercials are confusing the hell out of me.’”

“You are telling me that all of these people who believe that bread is too high and eggs are too high, that they voted for a convicted felon?”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 09, 2024 01:49 PM (TGPs7)
***

Ummm...yeah.
I think I see the racist.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2024 01:56 PM (W/lyH)

364 Shame is Florida has lots more people and can count in a day yet Arizona is still relying on walking votes by foot from polling place to polling place.If they only had internet.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 01:57 PM (fwDg9)

365 I don't care if somebody eats off my plate. I just tax whoever it is for something from theirs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 09, 2024 01:57 PM (7oYYI)

366 333 I saw a demographic argument that Texas will redden with conservative refugees from other states. It turns out it's not liberals who are fleeing California.
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Lucky for them (liberal Californians) they have several liberal enclaves to choose from. Keeps down contamination.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 01:59 PM (Mr3X0)

367 Glaude says he doesn’t believe Trump won because of issues like the economy and said it’s actually because everyone is racist.

I saw a big name Democrat hollering that if the food costs too much, to just get a better job. I think they are just so out of touch with the pain people are feeling right now they can't imagine it being an issue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 02:02 PM (Hh1ER)

368 “You are telling me that all of these people who believe that bread is too high and eggs are too high, that they voted for a convicted felon?”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 09, 2024 01:49 PM (TGPs7

Yes.

Shit's too expensive, rich boy. Your party was ruining people like me. And yeah I'm white. But my diminished paycheck mostly goes to support the four black people under my roof, y'all were shafting them too, and they're happy Trump won.

So just suck it like Harris did, bitch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 09, 2024 02:02 PM (7oYYI)

369 There's been a fourth attempt on Trump, Iranian hit men got busted. The last two at least the cops have been ahead of the curve instead of looking like idiots: busted a guy with guns and stopped the hit men.

Its not over yet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 02:06 PM (Hh1ER)

370 OK, that's one more thing I forgot to mention. The voters clearly don't give a **** about the "convicted felon" crap. The lawfare is rejected.

Much as I'd like to see payback, I'm not sure we can afford to go too far in that direction.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2024 02:08 PM (1bNHn)

371 GT leads Miami 14-10.

I doubt it will hold up unless Cam Ward gets hurt.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 02:08 PM (t1eo9)

372 Oh. The Texas-Florida game looks painful. Texas might hang a 70 on UF.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 02:11 PM (t1eo9)

373 The girl spawn was in a fender bender. With a big rig. He bumped her back bumper. She was not injured, the big truck looked confused, the truck driver was really nice, and her car is still drivable.
The trucker had three gold teeth and purple tinted sunglasses. I didn't know they even made pimped out sunglasses!

Thank God my girl wasn't injured!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 09, 2024 02:13 PM (4XwPj)

374 OT:
Gold Gone AWOL? The Curious Case of Foreign Central Banks' Gold Stored in Canada
https://shorturl.at/x0i8b
bullionbrief dot medium dot com

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 02:14 PM (zlGo9)

375 You are telling me that all of these people who believe that bread is too high and eggs are too high, that they voted for a convicted felon?

Well that, and everyone has the sense that the conviction was nonsense by a political apparatus trying to destroy a rival for power. A conviction almost certain to be overturned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 09, 2024 02:15 PM (Hh1ER)

376 The Kari Lake campaign fired off a letter on Friday to Pima County officials after they were caught changing the ballot totals this week!

Specifically, the estimate of uncounted ballots went up by 14,666 today (Nov.

between the reports listed as uploaded at 1:23pm MST (Exhibit B) and 3:23pm MST (Exhibit D).

even more strange than the number of uncounted ballots increasing, at one point, the report purported to be uploaded at 3:23pm (Exhibit C) was initially identical to the report uploaded at 1:23pm (Exhibit B). Without changing the time stamp, two hours later (around 6:00pm MST), the 3:23pm report (Exhibit D) reflected the numbers listed above.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3u4848

Posted by: illiniwek at November 09, 2024 02:15 PM (Cus5s)

377 I like the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version of Fanfare much better.

Posted by: Sixiron at November 09, 2024 02:16 PM (c4Wfm)

378 The girl is now safely at home, lounging around in her room, getting snuggled by the cat. She is a bit disappointed that she didn't get to go with her friends for a Korean corn dog.

The boy spawn is going to try to get the trunk to latch.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 09, 2024 02:20 PM (4XwPj)

379 Look! FEMA brought in one mobile to house folks in NC. Cost was $175,000. Meanwhile folks are donating RVs and individuals driving the to the site. Time to abolish FEMA. .
Posted by: Notsothoreau
---------

I could name at least 1/2 dozen volunteer organizations that I have had contact with here. They didn't stand around looking for direction or 'management'. They rucked up and started rolling. One of the guys at Operation Airlift put it succinctly, 'We're not the government, we get things done'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., wetc. at November 09, 2024 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

380 Bummer about Lake...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 02:24 PM (IyPmt)

381 Post-election Saturday memes:
https://shorturl.at/TRxm8

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 09, 2024 02:28 PM (zlGo9)

382 Helena,

I wish. Give me a few more years to get these kids out of the house....

Posted by: lin-duh at November 09, 2024 02:31 PM (VCgbV)

383 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 09, 2024 02:20 PM (4XwPj)

Keep an eye on her for neck problems.. Similar thing happened to My Daughter and it took awhile for her to notice

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2024 02:33 PM (IyPmt)

384 Sunshine Dave

About AK At Large being next to flip:

There's about a 50/50 chance that seat goes to another round, & a runoff. Begich (R) has to get 50% this round to avoid a runoff election.

Posted by: mnw at November 09, 2024 02:33 PM (NLIak)

385 Thanks for the great post, K.T.!! And Dave in Fla - always good to read your analyses and thoughtful responses to the Horde. Even so, this slow counting of votes is criminal and needs to be stopped. In my state (MD), even though we pretty much know who's won (it is deep blue after all), mail-in ballots won't be counted until after Nov. 15th! Seriously?

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at November 09, 2024 02:43 PM (9BIt9)

386 >>>The boy spawn is going to try to get the trunk to latch.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
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He's got that Buick stuffed, eh?

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 02:50 PM (Mr3X0)

387 386 >>>The boy spawn is going to try to get the trunk to latch.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
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He's got that Buick stuffed, eh?
Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 02:50 PM (Mr3X0)

You sure it isn't an Oldsmobile?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 02:57 PM (VNX3d)

388 Trump's "10 Point Plan To Dismantle the Deep State".

https://tinyurl.com/3vcn7m8r
(Charlie Kirk's X account)

1. “Immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats.”

2. “Clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”

3. Totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they’re lied to in warrant applications.”

4. “Expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart.”

5. “Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy.”

cont'd

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2024 02:58 PM (6ydKt)

389 6. “Make every Inspector General’s office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the deep state.”

7. “Ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone’s campaign like they spied on my campaign.”

8. “Continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp.”

9. “Work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate.”

10. “Push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 09, 2024 02:58 PM (6ydKt)

390 For #8, I suggest Attu, Kiska, and Adak Islands in the Aleutians. The landfills of Puerto Rico might also prove suitable.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 09, 2024 03:25 PM (VNX3d)

391 PET NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 03:28 PM (fwDg9)

392 Not sure who set up FISA courts, President or Senate

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2024 03:35 PM (fwDg9)

393 Wasn't FISA initiated w/Homeland Security? If it wasn't started then it was expanded. And another thing; Homeland Security, never heard the USA called homeland before they started that department. That's another one they can eliminate.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 03:40 PM (Mr3X0)

394 The Codevilla piece is a classic. Thank you for writing about it.

I have always told the youngins that the reason our system is superior is that we have built in mechanisms for change. We have amendments to the constitution, for instance. And we can have a revolution as monumental as any, but ours are peaceful. Almost no one dies. It's called voting, mandatory every four years. Mandatory, bc our founders knew that every god has feet of clay and will screw up eventually.

Happy Second American Revolution everybody!

Posted by: PJ at November 09, 2024 03:51 PM (RRCAT)

395 Miami exposed
28-23 GT the final.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 09, 2024 03:55 PM (t1eo9)

396 Afternoon!

Vid where Charlie Kirk floated on Glenn Beck a path for Vance to rule over the senate. There is precedent. If it's possible, why the crap has this not been used before?? Especially by dems when they lost the senate but had the WH.

Glenn Beck
@glennbeck • 1d
Vice President @JDVance as Senate Majority Leader???
@charliekirk11 tells me, “John Adams presided over the US Senate as Senate Majority Leader 200 years ago as Vice President of the United States. I think JD Vance should be President of the Senate and become Senate Majority…

Posted by: LizLem at November 09, 2024 04:37 PM (wcIbG)

397 >>> Oh, and I saw on X that the 15 million missing Democrat votes from 2020 are missing because 15 million Democrats stayed home to protest Gaza.

Trump won Muslims in Michigan...Dearbornistan! And he got a huge Increase of Jews, native Americans. He won Hispanics and Miami dad's county. He jumped up 11 points on women under 30, the gen z Taylor swift vote!

The demographic shifts this election is absolutely astounding. Yuuuge.

Posted by: LizLem at November 09, 2024 04:41 PM (wcIbG)

398 Kari Lake War Room
@KariLakeWarRoom
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“Although several pre-election polls indicated a clear lead for Gallego, the current tallies show a much closer race, casting doubt on the reliability of these polls. Kari Lake always insisted that the race was razor close. We now see that she was right.” arizonaglobe.com/local/

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 04:45 PM (Mr3X0)

399 Supposedly Gallego was caught in private saying he wanted Kari to die... really hope she can pull it off. If not, bring her to DC and put her to work. There's zero chance she'll betray Trump.

Posted by: LizLem at November 09, 2024 06:00 PM (wcIbG)

400 Beyonce and other artists are threatening to not perform in red states since Trump won.

First, this is no loss to anyone.
Second, I missed the memo that red staters are banned from traveling to blue states to go to a silly concert.
Third, this means Beyonce will refuse to perform in her own home state? Was the whole country move a fake act? Heaven forbid!
Fourth, no one's told her they're ALL red states. Just a few blue cities in a sea of red. WE surround THEM.

Posted by: LizLem at November 09, 2024 07:01 PM (wcIbG)

401 Steven Richer, the man in charge of the vote count in Maricopa County, said, "I'm going to make life hell for Kari".

Posted by: Braenyard at November 09, 2024 07:03 PM (Mr3X0)

402 Beyonce and other artists are threatening to not perform in red states since Trump won.

Well, goodbye!

Posted by: Basil Fawlty at November 09, 2024 08:20 PM (DTX3h)

403

They all can f off. Their "music" is shit anyways.

Posted by: four seasons at November 09, 2024 09:02 PM (3ek7K)

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