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The Morning Report — 12/19/24

Good morning kids. Well, evidently President-elect Trump, with the help of key allies like Elon Musk have seemingly (seemingly!) driven a stake into the heart of this radioactive pork-laden shakedown of the American people that was being spearheaded by GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson. It is one thing to continue to pimp the outrageous lie that if the Federal Government shuts down due to lack of a budget/funding, even for one nanosecond, life as we know it will come to an end, and Republican speakers (spielers perhaps more accurately) from shambling bipedal gin blossom Boehner, up to John Boehner to Frank Luntz's Cabana Boy Kevin McCarthy and now the one for whom he was removed, as supposedly fiscally responsible.

The bureaucracy and the Deep State and all its depredations, also known as the Swamp, are what propelled Trump to victory in three straight elections, (which is why the aforementioned were energized to steal 2020) and are now energized to redouble their efforts from his frst term to sabotage him at every turn. It would've been bad enough if merely the previous waste of money continued as it had before, but within this 1,500-plus page abomination are the very things that saved the bacon, pun-intended, of the GOP and allowed them to ride Trump's coattails back into power. Not the bill, but the promise to end these massive frauds and wastes disguised as budgets.

Most egregious include a massive pay raise for these criminals as well as money from your pocket to muzzle you after cutting your tongue out.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is, once again, handing Democrats a gift and the American people a defeat with a massive and irresponsible omnibus spending bill — which includes an extension on a censorship entity that was supposed to be dismantled this year. How can Republicans expect to win the next election if they keep doing the same thing that Democrats would do? Donald Trump has raised hopes by establishing a new Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal spending and activities, but he and DOGE could find that hard to do in 2025 if this continuing resolution is passed. Among the disturbing provisions of the 1,500-page legislation is a provision for extending the existence of the censorship-funding Global Engagement Center (GEC). The State Department had previously notified Congress that GEC was being dismantled, according to Washington Examiner reporter Gabe Kaminsky, but here comes Johnson to save the day for censors and bring GEC back from the dead. Do Republican leaders just let Democrats write legislation and sign off on whatever it is?

Umm, when they said Malig-Nancy Pelosi got a hip replacement, it wasn't meant to be Mike Johnson. About as hip as Bob Hope impersonating the Fonz. In the immortal words of Ace, the GOP can go fuck itself in the heart with a steak knife.

The pressure campaign trumped. The bloated Congressional funding bill that faced a mass Republican revolt aided by President-elect Donald Trump has been scrapped, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise confirmed Wednesday night. Scalise affirmed to reporters that the spending package — which would have funded the government until mid-March — is dead, leaving Congress scrambling to come up with a new agreement ahead of a looming government shutdown Saturday.
“There’s still a lot of negotiations and conversations going on,” Scalise said, noting there’s no agreement on how to proceed. A large contingent of House Republicans guffawed at the 1,547-page continuing resolution that Speaker Mike Johnson drafted in a negotiation with Democrats, who would likely try to hold up the bill in the Senate if they didn’t get their measures in.
The revolt was spearheaded by Elon Musk, one of Trump’s closest advisers and co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as he went on a tirade on X Wednesday against Republicans who supported the stopgap measure.
Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance then weighed in on the GOP battle in a lengthy statement issued from the Ohio Senator’s X account, in which they called on Republicans to be “tough” and “smart” and not give into Democratic requests.

Well, to be honest, during Trump's first term there was precious little he did to try and curb the excesses of congress, and on top of it were the massive multi-trillion dollar COVID handouts. Hopefully this time around, he really is serious about cutting the heart out of the freedom and prosperity killing bureaucracy, the lifeblood of which are dollars directly stolen from the American people or their progeny via borrowing and the printing presses of the treasury department. That's the swamp, right there.

Over the past few weeks we have linked to though not extensively discussed how the Executive branch can indeed control if not cut the purse strings of the apparatchiks and Little Eichmanns of the Bureaucracy.

The password is IMPOUNDMENT

Most Americans are unfamiliar with impoundment, but that is likely to change as Trump and his allies set the Richard Nixon-era law in their sights. . . Impoundment is a power enumerated in in Article II of the Constitution permitting a president to decline to spend the full amount of funds that Congress appropriates – essentially, the founders intended congressionally appropriated funds to present a ceiling, not a floor. . . Russ Vought, Trump’s nominee to return to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has called restoring presidential impoundment authority “a necessary remedy to fix our fiscal brokenness.” Vought, who through his outside group the Center for Renewing America has advocated cutting trillions of dollars in federal spending, will be a central figure in the Trump administration’s fight against the spending status quo. . .
. . . “The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 has unjustly complicated the President’s constitutional impoundment authority for far too long,” Clyde said. “Every President from George Washington to Richard Nixon possessed this tool to cut wasteful spending until the ICA purported to divest the President of this critical power. In the fifty years since, America’s national debt and Washington’s spending habits have soared out of control. We must defend the presidential power of impoundment to get America’s fiscal house back in order.” Trump himself has argued for impoundment during his trademark rallies. He and his allies seem determined to use it.

Impound the shit out of the Deep State, Mr. President. Of course, the beast will not go quietly into that good night, as the shampeachments, law fare, mass insubordination, propaganda/smear campaigns in the media, a stolen 2020 election, hinky shenanigans in the '22 midterms as well as in '24 in several Senate and House races, as well as the assassination attempts have clearly demonstrated.

One of the handful of Republican politicians who I respect and trust to do the right thing is Louie Gohmert, who, in reacting to this recent drone hysteria made this observation:

Now citizens are asking whether the Biden junta would be willing to use a national emergency, whether contrived or authentic, arising out of these or other circumstances, to declare martial law and refuse to swear in the new President on January 20 as constitutionally required.
We have seen during the last sixteen years that Democrat leaders have quite often accused Republicans of engaging in exactly the sort of questionable or illegal conduct that the Democrats were in fact guilty of themselves. The whole Trump-Russia hoax, we eventually learned, was fabricated by a British former spy in collusion with, among others, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. Ultimately, Christopher Steele admitted that the people who provided the fabricated story for the dossier may well have been working for Putin.
President Trump was even charged by the Democrats through impeachment with using his official position to demand a quid pro quo from Ukraine. As it turns out, President Trump did not commit this offense, but Vice President Biden is on video bragging about his doing that very thing. . .Most Americans are well aware that the world has become a powder keg, and the United States is much worse off than it was four years ago. The last thing we need is for the Biden administration to hang around beyond noon on January 20th. Even if the D.C. leadership and the Biden junta have provoked the city and nation into turmoil, all we need is for President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance to quietly meet the Chief Justice in an undisclosed location and be sworn in. President Trump will then have full authority to do what is necessary to bring about law, order, and a little peace beginning at noon on January 20, 2025.

He can start with abolishing the Democrat Party and all its tentacles such as the WFP, DFL, DSA et al. As what should have been done in 1865 when the curtain came down at Ford's Theatre.

Well, if this item from this abomination actually gets funded, it can go towards rope and lamp posts for the D.C. Federal Triangle. Those in the GOP who have their snouts in the trough should be included as well.

A “Feral Swine Eradication” program

Elsewhere, it looks like the Israelis are taking care of business and sending a very long distance message, especially about their capabilities to send long distance messages.

Israel conducted its third long-range airstrike on the terrorist Houthi militia in Yemen early Thursday morning, hours after the rebels fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s population centers that was intercepted outside Israeli airspace. The ballistic missile was the seventh fired at Israel by the Houthis in recent weeks, in addition to five drone launches. . . Israel’s Army Radio reported that Israel had struck targets in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, for the first time.

A quick look at a map shows Yemen's capital can only be reached by flying over the Red Sea or directly overflying Saudi Arabia, and no doubt would require aerial refueling if IDF aircraft are to deploy enough ordnance on target. Also, of note is that distance is about the same as between Israel and Iran. And for sure that would likely require either overflying Saudi Airspace or the Saudis and/or Emiratis allowing the IDF to preposition aircraft on their territory to fly directly over the Gulf to attack Iranian targets.

There is speculation that the Mullahs are on the ropes with the evisceration of their Hamas and Hezbollah allies as well as the collapse of the Assad regime (although with the installation of Islamic terrorists as their replacement, that is likely a temporary setback for the Iranians). A quick series of attacks by Israel could be enough to finally bring down the Ayatollahs. Especially if Israel knocks out their oil refining capacity, which would totally wreck their already faltering economy and cause a massive revolt by the people.

More alarming for the Israelis is the confirmation that Iran is now a red nether hair's breadth from a nuclear breakout and perhaps weaponization into bombs and warheads. Bibi has repeatedly declared he would never allow that to happen.

If the Mullahs are close enough to a bomb, they'd use it to save their asses with the added bonus of wiping out thousands of Jews all in one go.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Scalise confirmed the bill was dead and that Republicans did not have an agreement on how to move forward yet.
Bloated federal funding bill is scrapped after Trump-boosted revolt, Rep. Scalise confirms
A “Feral Swine Eradication” program (sound of Al Sharpton breathing a sigh of relief - jjs)
The Craziest Things Congress Snuck Into Its Pork-Packed Christmas Spending Spree
Trump is about to be handed a very difficult situation on January 20. And that, by the way, is an interference and an interruption with the peaceful transition of power.
The Democrats are sabotaging the peaceful transfer of power
Americans should be deeply concerned that our government and financial institutions are not only spying on us but also potentially abusing their power to target Americans for their political views.
Report: Your Bank Might Be Spying On You For The Feds
Louie Gohmert: A reflection on the last thing we need from the Biden regime.
Delay Inauguration? No Need and No Thank You
Victor Davis Hanson: Drone swarms over American cities spark frustration as a distrustful public suspects the Biden junta knows more than it admits.
Dronomania

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

A short while ago, following the approval of strike plans by the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz, IAF fighter jets, with the direction of the Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Navy, struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime on the western coast and in inland Yemen. The Houthi terrorist regime has repeatedly attacked the State of Israel, including by attacking Israeli territory using UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles. Most of these projectiles were successfully intercepted.
Israel Hits Houthis in Yemen; Strikes Capital, Sana’a, for First Time
“For the last eight days, PA security forces have battled Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in Jenin.”
Hamas, "Palestinian" Authority Go To War Against Each Other In Samaria (Pass the halvah!- jjs)
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
It was the Obama/Biden junta that elevated Iran and its terrorist proxies in client states like Syria and Lebanon in the first place.
Biden Wanted to Save Assad
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Daniel Greenfield: It’s not Israel that it needs to be worried about.
Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself
Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: The first rule of Muslim mass migration is we have to find something else to blame.
UK Cracks Down on Homeschooling After Muslim Honor Killing
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
This is the Jewish version of John O’Sullivan’s “first law” about the inevitable fate of conservative organizations.
In San Francisco, leftists turn a Jewish-funded grant foundation into an anti-Israel organization
MADISON WI CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SHOOTING
“During an FBI interview, Paffendorf admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rupnow that he would arm himself with explosives and a gun and that he would target a government building,” the two-page emergency restraining order from the Carlsbad Police Department states.
California man Alexander Paffendorf, 20, detained after allegedly ‘plotting’ coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Chauvin's legal team was granted permission to examine George Floyd's blood and tissue samples.
Biden DOJ Tries To Stop Derek Chauvin From Appeal
Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, has an opportunity to reform the bureau and regain the trust of Americans, former agents told the Caller. Trust in the FBI — particularly among Republicans — has plummeted over generations.
Kash Patel Wants The FBI Out Of The Spying Game — Here’s Where He Could Start
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Biden said all his clemency recipients were 'convicted of non-violent crimes'
‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree (Shouldn't that be the "Widow-of-Color?" - jjs)
Wendy Hechtman admitted to producing and selling carfentanil, fueling overdoses in the process
Biden Clemency for Drug Kingpin Devastates Detective Who Took Her Down
For years, federal laws have accurately branded people who break the law as “criminal offenders.” The passage of the newly introduced House omnibus would change that by marketing the outlaws — specifically those in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — with vocabulary that seeks to not only downplay their criminal reputations, but words that could easily be mistaken as descriptors for superheroes.
House GOP Omnibus Redefines Criminals As ‘Justice-Involved Individuals’
In other words, the laws beloved of woke lefties everywhere — laws meant to hamstring police and coddle criminals — are working as intended: hobbling cops and protecting criminals, while sending a clear message to law-abiding citizens to sit on their hands and do nothing.
Walmart bodycams are the latest sign of how much pro-crime lefties hate average Americans
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
Following the assassination attempt, Routh fled north on Interstate 95, leading to law enforcement shutting down traffic in both directions. His apprehension in Martin County precipitated a multi-car crash on the highway, which nearly resulted in the death of the young girl.
Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Almost Killed Girl, Six, During Escape, Feds ‘Stonewalling’ State Investigators.
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
A multi-agency manhunt resulted in the arrest of a South African migrant and suspected terrorist in Brooklyn, New York. Texas Highway Patrol troopers initially detained the unidentified man in Texas in September 2024. He was arrested for criminal trespass as part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and was turned over to federal immigration authorities for removal proceedings. Despite being identified by the state authorities as being the subject of an alert on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database, federal authorities released the migrant to pursue an asylum claim.
Biden Junta Released Suspected Terrorist After Texas Warned of Connection, Later Re-Arrested
"[T]he IC must have strong, courageous and competent leadership – that leader is Lt. Col. Gabbard."
Top Border Patrol Union Endorses Tulsi Gabbard For Intel Post As She Courts Capitol Hill
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine: The outrage over Hunter’s pardon has been buried in an avalanche of other pardons Joe Biden has been doling out like candy to assorted scumbags. (Pardoning Archer is tantamount to admitting he himself is the biggest criminal scumbag of all! - jjs)
Miranda Devine: If Joe Biden can pardon his son Hunter, why can’t he do the same for ‘best friend’ Devon Archer?
Apparently, [Hilary Rotten Clinton] wasn’t the only one in the Obama junta trying to get around disclosure requirements. According to a report from Just the News, “New email records released by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about sensitive foreign policy matters by then-advisor Antony Blinken on his private email account, including details about a failed North Korean missile launch.” These records show that Biden used a private email account, robinware456@gmail.com, to receive sensitive foreign policy briefings — a practice that may have introduced significant vulnerabilities. Biden’s private email usage first came under scrutiny after messages involving pseudonym accounts were discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop. But these new disclosures paint a clearer picture of how Biden operated outside official channels during his time in office.
A Biden Email Scandal Worse Than Hillary’s?
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"I've been talking about the need for reciprocity, the need for justice, the need to balance the scales, the need to say 'look, we have to return to a one-tier system of justice.' And if you don't do that, if you don't hold people to the same standard, then you will have an issue of elites and everybody else."
It's time for Liz Cheney to face reciprocity
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
This CR must not pass, no matter what talking points Johnson spouts to justify it. It is bloated, wasteful, and anti-constitutional in its funding. In fact, it is business as usual in Washington, D.C.; nothing has yet changed in House Republican leadership’s behavior despite the massive GOP victory in the 2024 election. American taxpayers deserve better.
Johnson’s Massive CR Extends Censorship Entity’s Life
Heaven forbid we have soldiers who would want to fight for their country. (against enemies foreign and domestic, especially the latter, like Politico! - jjs)
Politico Panics That Hegseth Will Make Military ‘Patriotic’
And when I say “all-time” lows, I mean the lowest lows in the fake news outlet’s 44-year history.
Nolte: CNN Hit All-time Rating Lows in 2024 That Worsened After Trump Victory
Consider the backdrop: Old Man Biden tried to ban TikTok. 150 million Americans use TikTok. Donald Trump saved TikTok! He’ll be a hero to millions of young people. It’s actually quite clever. The Great Realignment is still underway, and the president-elect is playing 3-D chess. And another big piece is just about to topple over.
I’ve Figured Out Trump’s Endgame With TikTok, and It’s Brilliant
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Despite generous subsidies, automakers are having trouble selling EVs for the simple fact that the American people do not want to buy them.
EPA greenlights Cali EVs
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
And what he has to say is just as irritating and harmful as ever.
Fauci Is Back!
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Public schools are increasingly failing to enforce age-appropriate academic and behavioral standards.
Students Should Be Accountable, Not "Protected" from Discomfort
Parents Defending Education explains that the district held race-based professional development programs.
Minnesota School District Hit With Federal Complaint Over Race-Based Discrimination
ABORTION
Pro-life Republicans are leaving meetings with Kennedy confident he will enact Trump's pro-life agenda
RFK Wins Praise From Pro-Life Senators On Capitol Hill
"Taxpayer dollars should never fund abortion providers."
Supreme Court Takes Up Planned Parenthood Medicaid Case
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
Targeting localities may be a more politically viable strategy for proponents of ranked-choice voting and other measures.
To Reform Voting, Advocates Should Focus on Cities, Not States
Sometimes, an appellate court still needs to weigh in to prevent the inappropriate conduct from reoccurring in the future.
Pennsylvania Case Shows Why Courts Shouldn’t Dismiss Controversies When The Election Ends
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday night includes a multitude of controversial items, including a pay raise for members of Congress.
Rand Paul: Bill ‘Full of Pork’ Shows Speaker Johnson Is a ‘Weak, Weak Man’
Go figure. These people are unbelievable. They’d rather your sons and daughters be sent to die for little to no reason than have peace and prosperity for the country. Who am I talking about? I’m talking about the “Deep State” that those who would be considered in that realm want you to believe doesn’t exist.
Shocker...Not! Gabbard DNI Nomination Opposed by People with Ties to Defense Contractors, George Soros
POLITICS
Dear Gen Z:The 2024 election of Donald J. Trump will be a defining moment in your lifetime.
Gen Z: You Have Your Own Ronald Reagan!
His unique mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, disdain, arrogance, and sleaziness has been on full display.
Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
On Tuesday, Finland‘s President Alexander Stubb addressed the issue before a defense cooperation summit in Tallinn, Estonia. He emphasized, “We should not get ahead of ourselves” when considering operations in Ukraine.
New NATO Member Warns Against Deploying Western Troops in Ukraine.
Beyond the obvious political causes, don't dismiss personal intentions, too.
Joe Biden's Immoral Reasons for Fixating on Ukraine
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Iran was the fourth-largest oil producer in OPEC last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Yet it cannot provide for its own fuel needs — despite the easing of sanctions by the Biden-Harris junta.
Oil-rich Iran Short of Fuel, Electricity; Billions Spent on Terror
“It has uranium at 60 percent—90 percent is military grade—and is thus practically at the same level as nuclear-armed states,” Grossi warned earlier this week. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Biden government admitted its Iran policy has failed to deter the Islamic Republic from continuing its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The December report, released by the Office of the United States Director of National Intelligence, alleges that “Iran now has enough fissile material to make more than a dozen nuclear weapons.”
UN Inspector Warns Iran Nears Nuclear-Armed State Status.
Canada, Germany, France and other liberal governments have faced popular backlash, with issues like inflation, unchecked immigration and distrust of their ruling classes fueling conservative party victories, according to multiple sources. Moreover, the grievances expressed in the nations seemingly mirror those that propelled Trump to his 2024 election victory.
Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For The World’s Most Powerful Liberal Elites
Milei got lucky because things had hit bottom in Argentina and the public was willing to give him a chance.
The other guy with funny hair
Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo, also called Chris Yang, recently tried to appeal a court’s 2023 decision to ban him from the UK. The court declined to rescind the decision because, as the BBC reports, Yang “had been involved in an ‘elite capture’ operation — a tactic of the Chinese state to exert influence in western nations.”
Prince Andrew's Association With an Alleged Chinese Spy Gets Him Disinvited to Christmas (Told to go out and have Chinese food with the Moskowitz's - jjs)
According to the Pentagon's annual "China Military Power Report," the country is currently on track to develop 1,000 warheads by 2030.
China expanding nuclear arsenal at rapid rate: Pentagon
Returning to foreign policy realism, traditional wisdom, and common sense.
The End of Obama’s Foreign Policy Delusions – and Ours?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The Center to Advance Security In America (CASA) filed the lawsuit Wednesday with the Washington, D.C., district court, compelling DOD to release communications and other materials related to Ronald Clark, who was nominated in July for Commanding General at Fort Shafter, headquarters for the U.S. Army in the Pacific Ocean. Clark said DEI “was a goal” in the Army, while also praising renaming military bases that use confederate names as a “huge step forward.”
EXCLUSIVE: Biden DOD Sued After Stonewalling Records Request Into ‘Radical’ General’s Nomination
HURRICANES HELENE and MILTON AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS GOV'T DEBACLE

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
A collapsing state with roughly $1.6T in debt indicates otherwise.
Not satire: Gavin Newsom calls DOGE a ‘promo project,’ says he’s been making California cheaper and more efficient for years
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The bird flu case in Louisiana is a different genotype than the one Newsom declared an emergency over, which infects mostly cows.
America’s First Severe Case Of Bird Flu Confirmed; California Declares Emergency
The data is grim. Americans are sicker and living shorter lives since Obamacare’s implementation, contradicting the administration’s rosy claims. Yet Democrats continue to dismiss alternatives like low-cost catastrophic insurance, which could provide basic coverage for the healthy while avoiding the bureaucratic chokehold of today’s plans. For years now, the narrative has been that Americans like Obamacare. But do they? Perhaps it's time to reexamine it and get something better to replace it. (the real free market, and no more welfare parasites and freebies for illegals- jjs)
Obamacare Is Killing People
The vaccine is reportedly tailored to individual patients, aligning with Western cancer vaccine development approaches. Details regarding the specific cancers it targets, its efficacy, and the logistics of its rollout have not been disclosed as of the time of publication. The vaccine’s name also remains confidential
Russia Says It Has a Cancer Vaccine.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The development of synthetic bacteria is still in its nascent stages, with experts predicting that a fully functional mirror bacterium could emerge more than a decade from now. A recent study in the journal Science concluded that creating such organisms should be avoided due to their potential danger.
Scientists Experiment With ‘Mirror Bacteria,’ Prompting Huge Warnings.
The uncertainty of science: Scientists doing computer simulations now posit that Saturn’s rings are not young, between 100 to 400 million years old as has been believed for the last few decades, but formed instead when Saturn formed, 4.6 billion years ago.
New computer simulations suggest Saturn’s rings are not young but formed at the same time as the solar system
In the past seven years SpaceX had raised about $12 billion in private
investment capital to build both its Starlink constellation and its
Starship/Superheavy rocket. Starlink now produces that amount of money
for the company each year.
Starlink revenue in 2025 now projected to be $11.8 billion
Trump gets elected and now suddenly the agency is interested in reducing red tape? What you are seeing instead a lot of bureaucrats desperately trying to convince the incoming administration that the delays for the past three years were not their fault, that they were really against red tape!
AA issues license for SpaceX’s seventh test flight of Starship/Superheavy
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
'A new hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!'
University Of Minnesota Offered To Pay Five-Year-Olds To Play With Transgender Dolls With Genitals
The State Department circulated the cable, which includes Blinken's signature, among "all diplomatic and consular posts."
In Wake of Trump Win, Biden State Department Issued Internal DEI Cable Touting 'Reflection Rooms' and 'All-Gender Restrooms' at US Embassies
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The most recent cancellation to spark the ire of activists is the end of the Peacock/Netflix comedy series Girls5Eva.
Outrage After Netflix’s Latest Cancellation ‘Joins the Depressingly Long List of Queer Shows Axed in 2024’
“When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline,” Disney said in a statement. Um…ya think?
WIN: Disney Pulls Trans Storyline From Upcoming Kids Show Over Worries About Parents' Reaction
HITHER & YON
“We are all tourists who despise tourists.”
Toward a Politics of Tourism
Christian Toto: Franchise star slays in dual role, can't camouflage threequel's diminishing returns
‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Gets Double Dose of Jim Carrey

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Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 07:32 AM (BpO1e)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

5 I hate to be pedantic, but why the effing eff are GOP negociating anything with the Dems?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 19, 2024 07:34 AM (ZmEVT)

6 "Perhaps it's time to reexamine it and get something better to replace it."

The problem is that you have to completely remove the government before things can get better. This will be difficult.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 07:36 AM (BpO1e)

7 if the Federal Government shuts down due to lack of a budget/funding, even for one nanosecond, life as we know it will come to an end

C'mon, man...

Posted by: Joe Biden, from his beach chair at December 19, 2024 07:36 AM (3l0s/)

8 I saw Feral Swine open for Fine Young Cannibals at the DCCC in 1995.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

9 BIpaRtISan!!1

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2024 07:36 AM (/6GbT)

10 Trump should release his budget. He's treated like he's already The President, just charge over bidens decrepit body and challenge congress. Force them back to regular fiscal order or shut it down.

Posted by: Fra Fillipo at December 19, 2024 07:38 AM (Nge8H)

11 There is a lot to hate in that thieving garbage-packed CR, but I think the part I hated the most was where Congress sought to shield itself against subpoenas

basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:39 AM (/7KEl)

12 Who run Bartertown?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 07:40 AM (ZYbwD)

13 Russia Says It Has a Cancer Vaccine.

Over Big Pharma's dead body!

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2024 07:40 AM (CvZqk)

14 basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation
Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:39 AM (/7KEl)

Congress- telling us they are dirty without actually saying they are dirty

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (/6GbT)

15 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (hoCmQ)

16 Trump tried to pull Johnson into his circle but it didn't take.

Hey he took a shot.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (iziT8)

17 Thank you JJ!

A few encouraging things:
1. The spending bill falling apart bodes well for Trump 2.0. It was mainly Musk who detailed it, from outward appearances. Helps to be surrounded by good people
2. Spineless repubs are now on notice along with the GOPe slimeballs
3. Adults are in charge in Israel; they’re eliminating bad guys in every direction!

BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive. I’m not sure there’s a better viable alternative for speaker

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (nrfI8)

18 In 2023 alone, nearly 300,000 “separate financial institutions and other entities” filed 25.4 million BSA reports with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

They hate you.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

19 Trump should release his budget. He's treated like he's already The President, just charge over bidens decrepit body and challenge congress. Force them back to regular fiscal order or shut it down.
Posted by: Fra Fillipo at December 19, 2024 07:38 AM (Nge8H)

Trump is like Breitbart at Weiner's press conference. Take the stage!

And HooRah! for Congress getting a cluebat upside the head, reading the room, and withdrawing that excrement of of a CR bill.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 07:42 AM (Aqu9a)

20 5 I hate to be pedantic, but why the effing eff are GOP negociating anything with the Dems?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 19, 2024 07:34 AM (ZmEVT)

It's just the Dems negotiating with the Dems.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 07:42 AM (z+ik4)

21 “ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Ephesians 2:8-10

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 07:43 AM (9NZQU)

22 A large contingent of House Republicans guffawed at the 1,547-page continuing resolution that Speaker Mike Johnson drafted in a negotiation with Democrats, who would likely try to hold up the bill in the Senate if they didn’t get their measures in.

Oh, no, Democrats in the Senate would hold up the bill unless they get their way? Well, we've no choice but to give them everything they want then. -- GOPe

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

23 5 I hate to be pedantic, but why the effing eff are GOP negociating anything with the Dems?
Posted by: no one of any
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Seriously?

Because, obviously, the GOP has no majority in the House and has to deal with scumsuckers like Eyepatch McCain.

"Leadership" hopes to pick off some Democrats who are morr conservative than some ostensible Republicans.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 07:43 AM (ZYbwD)

24 > There is a lot to hate in that thieving garbage-packed CR, but I think the part I hated the most was where Congress sought to shield itself against subpoenas

basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation
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Yea. This. But it is probably more important to them than a pay raise. Thus, it will pass, one way or another unless punishment for doing so is worse than any possible subpoena they'd face.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

25 13 Russia Says It Has a Cancer Vaccine.

Over Big Pharma's dead body!
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2024 07:40 AM (CvZqk)

As Sting once crooned "The Russians love their children too."

In this regard, I believe it. "Yobts fe'yu Cancer!"

You better believe if Russian scientists discovered a real cure for it that was verifiable and not just SuperBorscht, I'd take a chance on it given I have brain cancer and although my oncologists are very pleased with my progress and prognosis, it likely will return some time down the road. Hopefully before I run out of money but not before an SMOD hits.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (x0n13)

26 Something abhors vacuum something.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (Aqu9a)

27 where Congress sought to shield itself against subpoenas

basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation

They can seek all they want...

Posted by: The UCMJ at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (3UlkC)

28 MADISON, WI:

The Dane County medical examiner's office has identified the two individuals who died in Monday's shooting at Abundant Life Christian School as Erin M. West, 42, of Deforest; and Rubi P. Vergara, 14, of Madison.

West, a teacher, and Vergara, a freshman student, were pronounced dead at the scene on Dec. 16 following the shooting that began at approximately 10:57 a.m. Forensic autopsies completed at the Dane County Medical Examiner's office confirmed both died from homicidal firearm-related trauma. The shooting occurred during a study hall period.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (SfhV1)

29 A recent study in the journal Science concluded that creating such organisms should be avoided due to their potential danger.
Scientists Experiment With ‘Mirror Bacteria,’ Prompting Huge Warnings.
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I've seen this movie/read the book.

It never ends well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2024 07:46 AM (BpYfr)

30
Ab hors?

"Gillian Michaels raises eyebrow?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:46 AM (x0n13)

31 17 — Musk derailed (not detailed… though he did that too). Autocorrect is so tiresome…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:46 AM (HSqCq)

32 I done did impounded dat ass!

Posted by: Tyreek Hill, Fertile Sex Pest at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (rqga2)

33 So we have team Red and Team Blue and Team Red is in so much like Team Blue that everyone has achromatopsia.

Instead of starting another party, I like to extend the MAGA wing by adopting a color other than the colors going around.

Discounting the colors already chosen, and while Team Orange would be cute, I'm leaning towards Black or better yet Plaid since it would be harder to ridicule.

White is a total no go for all of the obvious reasons, and BLM™ Inc. might sue if Black is chosen.

Enough of this RINO crap. The Republican Party has no direction, no agenda, no morals, no distinctives no character and no love for this Country. We need better branding without having to start another party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (rHxhM)

34 Doesn't a "Feral Swine Eradication Program" mean shooting Congressmen, if it means anything at all?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (1bNHn)

35 distance is about the same as between Israel and Iran.

==

Further. By about 500km.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (QTCRF)

36 There is a lot to hate in that thieving garbage-packed CR, but I think the part I hated the most was where Congress sought to shield itself against subpoenas

basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation
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Yea. This. But it is probably more important to them than a pay raise. Thus, it will pass, one way or another unless punishment for doing so is worse than any possible subpoena they'd face.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)
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Hmmm. I wonder if the CR would have passed if Congress hadn't done something blatantly stupid like giving itself a 40% pay raise.

They got greedy and it bit them in the ass.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (BpYfr)

37 17 BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive. I’m not sure there’s a better viable alternative for speaker
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (nrfI

Someone who will think, speak and act like Trump. There is no Congressman in the GOP like that? Not one?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

38 Ab hors?

"Gillian Michaels raises eyebrow?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:46 AM (x0n13)

She's mostly gristle.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (Aqu9a)

39 BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive.

Agree

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

40 I now await the headlines about Trump the Hitlerfascistdictatormeany who struck down the bIp@rIsAN! bill that was going to keep the government running and hurting Our Sacred Democracy!™

(Did I miss any talking point?)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (BpO1e)

41 >I hate to be pedantic, but why the effing eff are GOP negociating anything with the Dems?

1) they are gutless
2) with such a slim majority in pure number of seats, they don't have a majority in practical matters- meaning there will always be House Republicans willing to caucus with Democrats, rendering any numerical majority useless

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (/7KEl)

42 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (SfhV1)

Just so sad, grammie. Imagine the heartbreak of those families

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (HSqCq)

43 35 distance is about the same as between Israel and Iran.

==

Further. By about 500km.
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (QTCRF)

Depends how far into Iran they need to fly. Also, aerial refueling and being based on Saudi or Azerbaijani territory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (x0n13)

44 Once again, there is a mention of a "massive pay raise". This bill completely sucks and should be rejected, but there is no proposal to raise their pay $70k a year. Had they raised their pay each year following the last pay raise by the amount allowable each time, their pay now WOULD be $273k. But the pay raise in this bill amounts to about $6500. Bitching about something that isn't there doesn't work.

Posted by: RADinVA at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (pLaQB)

45 basically seeking to exempt itself and its members from investigation

It didn't stop the Deep State from spying on certain Congressional members even though there are laws that prohibit it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

46 Someone who will think, speak and act like Trump. There is no Congressman in the GOP like that? Not one?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

Well, we had Gaetz. Then...

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (SfhV1)

47 Finished scanning the links.. the one in the actual science section about the age of Saturn’s rings is intriguing… 4.6 billion years old… that is pretty much the time at which the earth was formed… whole lotta shakin’ going on back then!!

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (PCK5/)

48 >(Did I miss any talking point?)

Posted by: NR Pax
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they will also scream that Elon is not an elected official and WTF is he doing tampering with our sacred democracy!?! yada yada yada

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:51 AM (/7KEl)

49 Just so sad, grammie. Imagine the heartbreak of those families

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (HSqCq)

It's ironic that she apparently set out to eradicate males, and ended up killing two females.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

50 Here’s Republicans problem. There are about 15 members who are a “no” on pretty much every bill. There is nothing that will satisfy them. Zero. So it’s not ultimately Johnson who is the problem. It is those 15 members who force him to go outside the caucus to get anything passed.

The Freedom Caucus is a fraud. So are people like Massie. What they ask for is not achievable and they won’t compromise.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (9NZQU)

51 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (P+D4R)

52 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (AYz4A)

53 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:47 AM (rHxhM)

You just taught me a new word: achromatopsia

Color blindness plus a little more!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (WdMlw)

54 28 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:44 AM (SfhV1)

This massacre is yet another incident in the war on America as founded, judo-christianity, civilization and normalcy that undergirds the former.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (x0n13)

55 I think she just hated all people. Not just males.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (iziT8)

56 In fact, it is business as usual in Washington, D.C.; nothing has yet changed in House Republican leadership’s behavior despite the massive GOP victory in the 2024 election.
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Can we face up to the fact that the victory was not actually "massive"? If it had been, we'd have a reasonable margin in the House. And we don't.

Trump's win means we dodged a bullet, not that we really run things.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (1bNHn)

57 49 Just so sad, grammie. Imagine the heartbreak of those families

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:49 AM (HSqCq)

It's ironic that she apparently set out to eradicate males, and ended up killing two females.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

A nutter, driven insane by our culture… expect this sad state of affairs to continue.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (PCK5/)

58 BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive.

He is a bad guy. He is evil because he pretends to be a Christian and then obeys his father the Devil.

Mike Johnson is a pathological liar, he doesn't keep promises and he gets off p0wning the rubes by muttering our shibboleths and then engaging in the usual treachery.

I got his number. He is as evil as Pelosi.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (rHxhM)

59 This massacre is yet another incident in the war on America as founded, judo-christianity, civilization and normalcy that undergirds the former.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (x0n13)

Yep.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (SfhV1)

60 Mike Johnson is a cake-eater.

Posted by: ZOD at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (P+D4R)

61 Someone who will think, speak and act like Trump. There is no Congressman in the GOP like that? Not one?!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

I was thinking there might be a few… but the ones that exist could never win a speakership vote (alas)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:54 AM (WdMlw)

62 The Freedom Caucus is a fraud. So are people like Massie. What they ask for is not achievable and they won’t compromise.

But its totally OK when Democrats do it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:54 AM (rHxhM)

63 Once again, there is a mention of a "massive pay raise". This bill completely sucks and should be rejected, but there is no proposal to raise their pay $70k a year. Had they raised their pay each year following the last pay raise by the amount allowable each time, their pay now WOULD be $273k. But the pay raise in this bill amounts to about $6500. Bitching about something that isn't there doesn't work.
Posted by: RADinVA at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (pLaQB)

To me, it's not the maths, it's the timing. A CR last gasp bill by an outgoing Congress facing an Executive branch change of this magnitude is quite possibly the worst time to propose a substantial pay raise for itself. For a Congress that will not rein in gubmint spending. The worst!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 07:56 AM (Aqu9a)

64 It's ironic that she apparently set out to eradicate males, and ended up killing two females.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

I’ve read a little (not much) about the family and can’t help but begin to think this was a big fail on the part of the father who took her to the range but didn’t realize she was nuts/enraged? How’d he miss that?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (WdMlw)

65 Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History
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Obama and Carter still have claims to the title. Why don't we recognize them all by putting their visages on a dung heap?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (1bNHn)

66 64 It's ironic that she apparently set out to eradicate males, and ended up killing two females.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

I’ve read a little (not much) about the family and can’t help but begin to think this was a big fail on the part of the father who took her to the range but didn’t realize she was nuts/enraged? How’d he miss that?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (WdMlw)

Wishful thinking… gets a lot of people killed.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (PCK5/)

67 How’d he miss that?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (WdMlw)

Alcoholism is my guess.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (SfhV1)

68 How’d he miss that?

She hid it well or he refused to believe that his child could be that broken.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (BpO1e)

69 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 19, 2024 07:58 AM (53oGX)

70 >> But its totally OK when Democrats do it.

If you sit around Congress and vote no on every issue, because you don’t get 100% off what you want, which is demonstrably what they do- why are you there? With out small majority you force the speaker to go outside the caucus and pick up 15 votes.

Remember it’s not a majority of the caucus holding things up. It’s a small group that forces dilution.

This bill was a piece of shit. Johnson lost control of it after he said he would allow a small change and then Democrats piles on. But the only reason he did that is because that small group won’t pass a clean CR. Go look at what frauds like Maddie are saying.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 07:59 AM (9NZQU)

71 As I said yesterday we do not have the luxury of time to spend the next 100 years advancing politicians we feel will work for our best interests. At the current rate of replacement it going to take centuries to replace the flaccid GOP with actual conservatives who won't bend a knee to the Democrats. Realizing nothing is permanent, I'm not sure this will ultimately succeed.

Replacement is one thing. Punishment is another.

House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to be punished. Then replaced. Treat these dimwits like the children they are. All of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

72 Identifying as First over here, boss.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (LxER7)

73 "Feral Swine Eradication"

I initially read that as "Federal Swine Eradication"

Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (wjVYw)

74 Someone mentioned that "burn it down" article in the DM about Jill's revenge. Buried in that article is a sentence about $250K Megan and Harry Markle funneled through their charity to Ashley Biden's charity. That was 2023. Now that Hunter is under the microscope they need an alternative. And Harry and Megan need political connections. Here comes Ashley Biden. I guess Ashley does not paint.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (QTCRF)

75 I got his number. He is as evil as Pelosi.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 07:53 AM (rHxhM)

You may be right… most in that institution are. I just don’t know, he strikes me more as weak and clueless and stuck in the 90s mode of thinking.

What I don’t want is a revolving door on speaker. If not Johnson who can win the vote and stay around long enough to have stability enough to usher Trump’s agenda through?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (WdMlw)

76 >> Posted by: ZOD at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (P+D4R)

I thought you were dead. I mean, I’m glad your alive.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (9NZQU)

77 Good morning, J.J. and thanks again.

About that drone issue and the Biden administration knowing more than it admits.

After the OMG reveal of the "top" advisor to Joe, it's also within the realm of possibility the Junta has no clue about the drone activity.

Which is arguably worse.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:01 AM (tT6L1)

78 Posted by: ZOD at December 19, 2024 07:52 AM (P+D4R)

I thought you were dead. I mean, I’m glad your alive.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (9NZQU)
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ZOD is Big Jake?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:02 AM (tT6L1)

79 Could be Iranian drones...they are good at droning, Roooshia bought a bunch from them, they are that good...

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:02 AM (QTCRF)

80 I think if Musk wants some primary candidates he should look at the Freedom Caucus and who keeps voting no every time we need their votes. They are already saying they will oppose Johnson as Speaker. So we will not start the New Year fresh. It will be the sam old garbage

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:04 AM (9NZQU)

81
Having just watched "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" with its "The Girl That Got Rattled" story, I became aware once more of an appropriate epithet for Speaker Johnson.

He is a doughface. To wit:

doughface
/dō′fās/

noun
* A Northerner who sided with the South in the US Civil War, especially a member of Congress who supported slavery.
* A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.
* A person, especially a politician, who is pliable, moldable like dough.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 08:05 AM (xG4kz)

82 The 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday night includes a multitude of controversial items, including a pay raise for members of Congress.

Congress should be paid the same as the 3rd Quintile.
$94k

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

83 I am glad J.D. Vance got involved, that man has a brain on him. Hey , the Speaker seemed to need some help.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:06 AM (QTCRF)

84 Replacement is one thing. Punishment is another.

House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to be punished. Then replaced. Treat these dimwits like the children they are. All of them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

Congress doesn't understand. Explain as you would a child. They are as Thermians.

Posted by: General Sarris at December 19, 2024 08:06 AM (Aqu9a)

85 I’ve read a little (not much) about the family and can’t help but begin to think this was a big fail on the part of the father who took her to the range but didn’t realize she was nuts/enraged? How’d he miss that?

Same way as Chris Kyle?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:07 AM (rHxhM)

86 Well, gentlemen, after 248 years of existence, the United States Of America's books show the startling figures of a liability of $36.13 trillion dollars and a total asset of $5.4 trillion dollars.
In short, the US Congress is not only a bankrupt, they're also an embezzler of the nation's funds, resembling their constituents who vote for them every election cycle.

Posted by: Mr. Snedrig at December 19, 2024 08:07 AM (rqga2)

87 73 "Feral Swine Eradication"

I initially read that as "Federal Swine Eradication"
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2024 08:00 AM (wjVYw)

same diff

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

88 83 I am glad J.D. Vance got involved, that man has a brain on him. Hey , the Speaker seemed to need some help.
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:06 AM (QTCRF)

Incentivization..

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:07 AM (PCK5/)

89 What? Hamas and the Port Authority are waging war against each other? Will the Bus Station be closed?

Posted by: Emily Litella at December 19, 2024 08:07 AM (G5+As)

90 President Don Black would declare the US skies to be one giant no drone zone for 90 days, then instruct the military to simply shoot everything down

drones, not regular planes with people in them
wanna be clear on that

crazy enough to work

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 08:08 AM (/7KEl)

91
I think Ben Had should be appointed Feral Swine Eradication Czar ... who's with me?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 19, 2024 08:08 AM (cY18j)

92 Doug, where's the damn Chardonnay?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 19, 2024 08:08 AM (dg+HA)

93 Great info on the funding bill. Thanks JJ

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:09 AM (YCxFk)

94 The 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday night includes a multitude of controversial items, including a pay raise for members of Congress.

I like how our Congress Critters were bragging that they didn't read the bill because it was too big but somehow us hoi polloi managed to feed it into Grok and get top level summaries and were able to quickly find much of the Evil embedded in it.

I am so sick of these sham Conservatives who bitch and moan about the things we do, then make excuses and vote for Evil.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:09 AM (rHxhM)

95 I believe that we are witness to the process of determining Who Runs Bartertown… and make no mistake, DC IS bartertown.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:09 AM (PCK5/)

96 83. I agree . Vance is terrific, and needs to be high profile

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:10 AM (YCxFk)

97 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

98 Hey Disney, parents want to talk about transgender topics the same way we want to talk about strip clubs and devil worshiping: we don't want it brought up to our young children at all, you pedo twat.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 19, 2024 08:10 AM (EES2L)

99 It's ironic that she apparently set out to eradicate males, and ended up killing two females.

Ironic, or proof of innocence by reason of insanity!

Posted by: Defense Lawyers Everywhere at December 19, 2024 08:10 AM (qh15L)

100 It seems to me the biggest lesson from yesterday isn't that Congress is a duplicitous, corrupt, backstabbing, self-serving bunch of cretins. We knew that.

What we learned is that we have the power to stop them. Trump and Musk didn't stop them on their own. They stopped them because they know they have us, the majority of the country, behind them.

One election didn't change everything. We have a lot more battles to come and a lot more betrayals to go before we get our country back. But we now know we can win. And they know they can lose.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 08:11 AM (LkLld)

101 I survived my birthday, barely.

The hangover yesterday was one for the record books.

Mixing too many things is bad. Very bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

102 101 I survived my birthday, barely.

The hangover yesterday was one for the record books.

Mixing too many things is bad. Very bad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Ouzo and Tequila??

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

103 Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself
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Begosh and begorrah, inshallah!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 08:12 AM (fs1hN)

104 President Don Black would declare the US skies to be one giant no drone zone for 90 days, then instruct the military to simply shoot everything down

Decriminalize the development and implementation of private defense against hostile drones.

I would rather have high functioning autists design and deploy IDF Exploding Pager Class defenses than have yet another abusive Anti-American agency continue the assault on our freedoms and liberties while extending every soviet weapon against We The People.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:12 AM (rHxhM)

105 And HooRah! for Congress getting a cluebat upside the head, reading the room, and withdrawing that excrement of of a CR bill.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 07:42 AM (Aqu9a)

I have my cheers sitting here, primed and ready to go, for AFTER they get a CR passed. I'd prefer an actual budget but we definitely won't get that in the short term. The death of yesterday's crap CR, however, doesn't mean that a slightly modified crap PR won't be passed. They just need to get representatives to vote on it before the public has a chance to look at it. Since they are, by and large, pieces of shit they'd do that and then say... wow, I had no idea THAT was in there, oh well, we'll do better next time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

106 Speaker Johnson is a strong pro lifer and border hawk. He has a thankless job with such a narrow majority. When we had these narrow house majorities in the early 2000's, there was still many conservative dems in the House. There are none today.

Lets let it play out

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

107 ZOD is Big Jake? love that movie

Posted by: doug at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (Hy+R4)

108 Told to go out and have Chinese food with the ~~Moskowitz~~Parker's - jjs

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

109 The bill also contained legislation protecting the swamp creatures from being investigated.

It's incredible how corrupt our government is now.

Posted by: Biergood at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (PwgSL)

110 We have a lot more battles to come and a lot more betrayals to go before we get our country back.

The citizens of Chicago were inspirational in their continuing on this epic battle against this Present Darkness.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

111 Ouzo and Tequila??
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

Beer, shine, saki........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

112 The bill also contained legislation protecting the swamp creatures from being investigated.

I guess they want vigilantism.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:15 AM (rHxhM)

113 From last thread:

Deepest condolences, VIA.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 08:15 AM (HsOwE)

114 Ireland never fought in a war, except when they volunteered for the English army to get a paycheck.

They are like Canada. Protected and just write checks to NATO

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:15 AM (YCxFk)

115 Darn!

Just opened the page 15 minutes ago; assumed the usual 7:30AM or so post time; so I read the content first... then discover it's only up to comment #59!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:15 AM (hovnC)

116 Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself

==

all the good ones left already, so....

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (QTCRF)

117 Speaker Johnson is a strong pro lifer and border hawk. He has a thankless job with such a narrow majority. When we had these narrow house majorities in the early 2000's, there was still many conservative dems in the House. There are none today.

Lets let it play out
Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

I just want the speaker, one time, to remember that we don't elect them to make friends across the aisle. We elect them to lay waste to them so hard, their great grandchildren feel it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

118 I am voter, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (Aqu9a)

119 X turned out to be a force multiplier on opposition to that bloated CR

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (/7KEl)

120 Speaker Johnson is a strong pro lifer and border hawk.

As we spend more money than ever abortions and even more people flood over the border.

I don't care if he is Peter Pan or Tinkerbell, the man is grossly incompetent, dishonest and a disgrace.

Since he can't be trusted in the small things, he can't be trusted at all.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (rHxhM)

121 Including a provision to protect Congress from being investigated...admission of guilt. Sounds like someone fears what an investigation will turn up.

I hope Swallwell and Schiff are comfortably ignorant and are shocked when they're arrested.

,,,yeah, yeah, yeah, and I also want to win a couple billion dollars and buy my own island.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

122 107 ZOD is Big Jake? love that movie
Posted by: doug at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (Hy+R4)

Gonna commit possible heresy here and state that I never really understood the Maureen O'Hara thing. She does nothing for me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (LxER7)

123 Breaking911 @Breaking911 Dec 18
A massive fire is raging at the Hezyaz Central Power Plant in Sana'a, the capital of western Yemen, following a series of Israeli airstrikes on the city.

Breaking911 @Breaking911
IDF RESPONDS: Massive airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, following missile strikes at Tel Aviv.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7r2jnx
photo only not video

Breaking911 @Breaking911 Dec 18
BREAKING: Missile fired from Yemen just shot down over Tel Aviv.

https://tinyurl.com/2ttmbz5u
Four brief videos; very LOUD sirens, oddly enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (hovnC)

124 This sleazebag Jamie Raskin, who makes Schumer looks honest, is now the ranking member on the House Judiciary.

We need to keep the House in 2026

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

125 12.5% corp tax sure helped them sit on their ass and just collect money from offshore registrations

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (QTCRF)

126 Someone who will think, speak and act like Trump. There is no Congressman in the GOP like that? Not one?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

Well, we had Gaetz. Then...
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 07:50 AM (SfhV1)

He didn't have a plan, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

127 90 drones, not regular planes with people in them
wanna be clear on that

errr....I gotta make a phone call. Be right back.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (BpO1e)

128 Gonna commit possible heresy here and state that I never really understood the Maureen O'Hara thing. She does nothing for me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (LxER7)

Hey. Sometimes classic hot broads just aren't your thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

129 Breaking911 @Breaking911 Dec 18
R.I.P. — Teacher killed in Wisconsin school shooting ID'ed as Erin Michelle West, 42

https://tinyurl.com/5a3p2u76
photo

Breaking911 @Breaking911 Dec 18
R.I.P. — 14-year-old Rubi Patricia Vergara ID'ed as student killed in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.

According to her obituary, she was an avid reader, loved art, singing & playing keyboard in the family worship band. She shared a special bond with her beloved pets, Ginger (cat) and Coco (dog).

https://tinyurl.com/34ka4pea
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (hovnC)

130 A massive fire is raging at the Hezyaz Central Power Plant in Sana'a, the capital of western Yemen, following a series of Israeli airstrikes on the city.

My mom used to live in Sana'a.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

131 I have always tried to defend Speaker Johnson in my posts here and try to make the case that he was doing the best he can. But yesterday was a bridge too far; I can’t defend his actions any more. He needs to go, he’s just another Dade Phelan. (Ex-Texas Speaker who always sold out to democrats)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (W6hoT)

132 I think the House was embarrassed more than anything at being caught trying to push through a shitball CR.

They'll be more circumspect with the next shitball. But you can bet your sweet ass it will be loaded with exactly the same shit as the last one... only hidden better.

Or worded a bit differently but to mean the exact same thing as the original.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

133 we don't want it brought up to our young children at all, you pedo twat.

"You're so closed minded!"
"That's kind of the point, yes."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (BpO1e)

134 That bill was not even about bipartisanship, it was giving away the store. Vast sums of money, allowing for any future rat cages for the populace, immunizing members who literally imprisoned and tortured American citizens in the name of politics. Plus a big fat raise.

At a certain point giving people a chance has to stop. Or else you are just a chump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (HsOwE)

135 124 This sleazebag Jamie Raskin, who makes Schumer looks honest, is now the ranking member on the House Judiciary.

We need to keep the House in 2026
Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

BAMN… it’s time we learned to play the game.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (PCK5/)

136 They just need to get representatives to vote on it before the public has a chance to look at it.

As mentioned before, with Grok and X the public not only has a chance to look at it, read it and detect all of the evil and treachery your shitty government imposes on us, but its been broadcast to the planet and debated on before any of our wicked "representatives" have a moment to conjure up a pathetic lie as to why they must pass it Right Now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (rHxhM)

137 I think the House was embarrassed more than anything at being caught trying to push through a shitball CR.

They'll be more circumspect with the next shitball. But you can bet your sweet ass it will be loaded with exactly the same shit as the last one... only hidden better.

Or worded a bit differently but to mean the exact same thing as the original.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

Name a CR in the last 20 years that wasn't shitball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

138 John McCain famously "reached across the aisle" to his Democrat "friends."

What did that so-called "friendship" do for his constituents? Yeah, McCain was a self-aggrandizing jackass who traded off his war hero status and screwed over his constituents constantly over the course of his career.

We do not need someone "reaching" across the aisle, because all it really means is, "colluding with the enemy."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (tT6L1)

139 Fiery busty redhead? Yeah, me neither.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 08:21 AM (HsOwE)

140 I’ve read a little (not much) about the family and can’t help but begin to think this was a big fail on the part of the father who took her to the range but didn’t realize she was nuts/enraged?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:57 AM (WdMlw)

You don't have a teenaged daughter, do you?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

141 University Of Minnesota Offered To Pay Five-Year-Olds To Play With Transgender Dolls With Genitals

Nice Dick Barbie was not ever on my Christmas list.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

142 I thought Sana'a was that Mexican guy who killed Davy Crockett??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:21 AM (hovnC)

143 >>Name a CR in the last 20 years that wasn't shitball.

Name a CR in the last 20 years that we stopped cold in less than a day.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (LkLld)

144 Today is National Oatmeal Muffin Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

145 My mom used to live in Sana'a.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

I am guessing before it was taken over by jihadis.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (QTCRF)

146 For reference, the text of the Continuing Resolution, which is HR10445:

https://tinyurl.com/mryvtprt

Be among the very few to read it!

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (tvIQJ)

147 Sana'a is coming to town . . You better be Halal for goodness sake!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (x0n13)

148 Name a CR in the last 20 years that wasn't shitball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

The Swamp dung beetles are well-fed and numerous.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (Aqu9a)

149 > Or worded a bit differently but to mean the exact same thing as the original.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

Name a CR in the last 20 years that wasn't shitball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
-------
I think, by definition, all CR's are shitballs. They're the lazy way out of doing one's job. And, of late, are a vehicle for passing whatever has been discussed in committees that nobody's heard about.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

150
130 A massive fire is raging at the Hezyaz Central Power Plant in Sana'a, the capital of western Yemen, following a series of Israeli airstrikes on the city.

My mom used to live in Sana'a.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

Why was she there?

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

151 132 I think the House was embarrassed more than anything at being caught trying to push through a shitball CR.
______

Not sure if they are capable of embarrasment. And yes, they may have learned to be a little more circumspect at pissing all over us.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (fs1hN)

152 I am guessing before it was taken over by jihadis.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (QTCRF)

Yes. The people were friendly then, and seemed to like Americans. An oppressive society, nevertheless.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

153 R.I.P. — 14-year-old Rubi Patricia Vergara ID'ed as student killed in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.

According to her obituary, she was an avid reader, loved art, singing & playing keyboard in the family worship band. She shared a special bond with her beloved pets, Ginger (cat) and Coco (dog).

https://tinyurl.com/34ka4pea
photo
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:18 AM (hovnC)

Interesting the rabid feminist Samantha killed 2 women.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

154 Today is National Oatmeal Muffin Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

No. Just no.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (Aqu9a)

155 Why was she there?

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

Her at-the-moment husband was with the UN.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

156
Name a CR in the last 20 years that we stopped cold in less than a day.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 08:22 AM (LkLld)

The first election of Trump was the awakening for a significant portion of the populous. Now, they're finally wiping the sleep from their eyes and getting a more clear view how we've been getting buttf*cked by our "intellectual betters" and making noise about it.

Musk does get a lot of credit for freeing up the internet a bit to allow those voices heard. And it's sending shockwaves through DC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

157 Yemen is one of the most backward, least developed countries in the world, and yet it has a ballistic missile arsenal ! what a mystery.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (QTCRF)

158 Interesting the rabid feminist Samantha killed 2 women.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

They were Christian. They weren't rabid feminists. Open season to the insane left.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

159 I just want the speaker, one time, to remember that we don't elect them to make friends across the aisle. We elect them to lay waste to them so hard, their great grandchildren feel it.

Johnson's primary fault is that he perfectly comfortable lying to Conservatives, his constituents and his party, but he is not willing to compromise one bit in his appeasement to The Enemy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (rHxhM)

160 Ah. Interesting.. must have had some good stories.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (PCK5/)

161 Good morning everyone, thx JJ.
JJ I like your idea @54 about judo Christianity. A muscular fighting version of Judeo - Christianity.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (DopAq)

162 I assume the next ploy by the Swamp will be a hasty cobbling together of another CR and trying for a last minute vote so no one has time to really look at it.

Hopefully, PDT and Vance both slam it and call for a "no vote" for that very reason.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (tT6L1)

163 I’m in the middle of reading a long piece at Tablet by David Samuels about how Obama used fiction writer Ben Rhodes and digital technologies to create consensus that didn’t really exist… used the same approach to attempt to destroy Trump. It’s fascinating…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (WdMlw)

164 Yemen is one of the most backward, least developed countries in the world, and yet it has a ballistic missile arsenal ! what a mystery.

And when they can successfully get it to market, they have some of the best tasting covfefe.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (rHxhM)

165 If you sit around Congress and vote no on every issue, because you don’t get 100% off what you want, which is demonstrably what they do- why are you there? With out small majority you force the speaker to go outside the caucus and pick up 15 votes.

Remember it’s not a majority of the caucus holding things up. It’s a small group that forces dilution.

Why won't the majority of the caucus agree with the 15? The Freedom Caucus is asking for the things we say we want. Then people bitch when they don't give those things away to get a deal? I bet those 15 wanted a real budget. Oh, well, can't do that. Then they wanted a clean CR. Oh, well, can't do that.

The fact is that the CR requires a 2/3 vote. That came out yesterday. So the Repubs always had to deal with the Dems and the Dems are willing to play hardball. Too many on our side aren't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

166 A good Speaker would let every member know that if they caucus with the Dems, they will be backbenchers forever. No committees. Just a vote on the floor. And expect to be primaried.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (ZmEVT)

167 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

168 Johnson's primary fault is that he perfectly comfortable lying to Conservatives, his constituents and his party, but he is not willing to compromise one bit in his appeasement to The Enemy.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2024 08:25 AM (rHxhM)

Continuing tradition......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Interesting the rabid feminist Samantha killed 2 women.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

No man can hate other women like some women seem to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (HsOwE)

170 No matter who becomes speaker they will face the same challenges as Johnson. The speaker isn’t the problem. It’s people on the caucus with unrealistic expectations. I often think those people are either incredibly dense, or subversives. There is no other explanation why they keep blowing up the caucus. There are 219 members and the same small handful keep forcing chaos on the other members and deals with Democrats. That’s how it works with such a small majority.

There isn’t reason for this. Trump has made it clear what he wants to do. So what’s the objection now from this small group, even to a clean CR and a debt limit increase? It’s them, not the other 209+ members of the caucus or the speaker.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (9NZQU)

171 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

Her social media and 6 page manifesto was pretty clear.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

172 "rabid feminist" ...of 15....

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (QTCRF)

173 John McCain famously "reached across the aisle" to his Democrat "friends."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:20 AM (tT6L1)

He should have went to prison in 1991 and instead of calling it the "Keating Five" it should have been called the "McCain Five".

Posted by: Zombie Alan Cranston, Criminal Senator at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (rqga2)

174 So, Natalie/Samantha hates the very existence of men and yet kills two females.

I don't get it.

Posted by: dantesed at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (Oy/m2)

175 Chanel Stewart, an 18-year-old biologically male actor who believes himself to be a woman and who voices the role of the show's now-formerly “trans” character, said he was “disheartened” when Disney called to tell him his lines openly spewing leftist gender propaganda at young children were being cut from the story.

“It’s just that my character would now be a cis girl, a straight cis girl,” said Stewart.

Fuck you and your cis label.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

176 167 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

Hmmm… I never got that far at all… I only got to homicidal nutball.. that seemed sufficient.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

177 at least I wait for people to turn 18 to label them

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (QTCRF)

178 Yemen is one of the most backward, least developed countries in the world, and yet it has a ballistic missile arsenal ! what a mystery.

A good advisor is worth his weight in gold.

Posted by: The CIA at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (U7Cio)

179 167 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

in her 6 page rant

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

180 >>Musk does get a lot of credit for freeing up the internet a bit to allow those voices heard. And it's sending shockwaves through DC.

The recent news about Biden sending $300 million to Reuters to try and take Musk down with bullshit reporting along with all of the other lawsuits and bureaucratic games they have been playing to tie down his companies really shows how crucial it was to them to control speech.

We are now unburdened with what has been.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (LkLld)

181 at least I wait for people to turn 18 to label them
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (QTCRF)

Oh, well laa dee daah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

182 171 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

Her social media and 6 page manifesto was pretty clear.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Crazy girl talking shit..

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:29 AM (PCK5/)

183 @138 blake, McCain reached across the aisle and when he ran for president his good friends across the aisle accused him of having an affair. Of course we shouldn't be bringing this up during his funeral season

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:29 AM (DopAq)

184 Within minutes of the CR's text being made available, bits and pieces were all over the web. I think, in the past, places like X would have glossed over it, or posts would have been censored.

Musk isn't alone in all that's changed. I saw dozens of accounts posting some of the more arcane bullshit from that CR. Although the most egregious stuff was front and center.

Maybe not being censored by the left, the media and the government isn't such a bad thing. Or a threat to someone's democracy, as we're constantly told by the Democrats.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

185 You don't have a teenaged daughter, do you?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

Actually I do! Or did recently… she’s in her early 20s now and gave me many gray hairs so I have some understanding of female teens these days. That’s a huge miss… hard to get details but I knew when she was upset

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 08:30 AM (WdMlw)

186 The Chevron decision is gonna change their jobs. So, they can have a raise when they show they can do the work. They write their own bills, not staffers and lobbyists. They explain and defend the bill on the floor. Members have time to read the bill before they vote, so they can defend their vote. And they must pass a yearly budget. Do that, then we can talk about a raise.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 19, 2024 08:30 AM (NQtI0)

187 @138 blake, McCain reached across the aisle and when he ran for president his good friends across the aisle accused him of having an affair. Of course we shouldn't be bringing this up during his funeral season
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:29 AM (DopAq)

To be fair, isn't that how he go the current Mrs. McCain?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

188 She was indoctrinated, from what I can see, and like some teens had no sense of proportion or restraint. That is why parents have to keep an eye on their kids. They are fucking insane when the puberty hormones are slam dancing on them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 08:30 AM (HsOwE)

189 Have to admit “continuing resolution” or “reconciliation” sounds worse than “spending package” (though not as bad as “we haven’t actually passed a fucking budget since 2009”.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2024 08:31 AM (VqV9I)

190 182 171 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

Her social media and 6 page manifesto was pretty clear.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Crazy girl talking shit..
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:29 AM (PCK5/)

We can grant you that she was at least rabid.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 08:31 AM (z+ik4)

191 Apparently, [Hilary Rotten Clinton] wasn’t the only one in the Obama junta trying to get around disclosure requirements.
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Whaaaaaaaat?

Next you'll tell me that Democrats aren't the only ones who cheat in elections!!

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:31 AM (QcVoh)

192 @187 Sponge, why yes, yes it is

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (DopAq)

193 In case it's not perfectly clear, I despise McCain. His team, after McCain tanked the election, went out of their way to destroy Palin even though she was loyal. And their tactics worked.

Meanwhile, McCain said nothing in defense of Sarah. The silence was deafening.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (tT6L1)

194 John McCain famously "reached across the aisle" to his Democrat "friends."
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Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX 8h Replying to @catturd2
Anonymous coward like “catturd” talking shit without any evidence. I’m used to it. Sorry I was guy fighting the wars that little bitches like you would never dare to. One of us has actually served this country and continues to, while losers like you make money being trolls on social media. I live in Atascocita, just outside Houston. If you think I’m “rich,” you’re a fucking idiot. The people getting rich off politics are the “influencers” like Catturd selling their platforms to the highest bidder. Sorry to break to it yall, that’s the truth.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 8h
😂😂😂

#1 I’m an army vet
#2 I haven’t been anonymous for years, there’s literally a pic of me on my profile page and I do public events all the time and have a daily podcast.
#3 your stock trades are public record and you’re also a millionaire.

You’re not very good at this are you?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (hovnC)

195 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 13h
🚨 NEW: DC sources tell me that @DanCrenshawTX is spearheading the effort to get a pay raise for Congress

Last week when he was asked about his stock trading, Crenshaw whined that members of Congress haven’t had a pay raise since 2009.

Crenshaw ALMOST got his way, with a pay increase for members + benefits being included in today’s massive spending boondoggle.

Recently, Crenshaw even said “you have no way to better yourself as a Congressman” without being able to trade stocks. That’s INSANE.

THIS GUY is responsible for LOADS of the garbage we see being thrown into spending bills. All for his own benefit.

Time for Eye Patch McCain to go.

Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 8h
Yeah get it right -Dan Crenshaw is the America-last, Ukraine-first war pig who doesn’t need a raise because of all the money he makes when he miraculously became a stock expert since joining Congress.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (hovnC)

196 >> Why won't the majority of the caucus agree with the 15? The Freedom Caucus is asking for the things we say we want.

Demonstrably false. Go look at the votes of those members. You may be surprised what you see.

Right now we need to finish the year with a clean slate. We needed either a scaled down bill or a clean CR and a debt limit increase. We start next year fresh and return to regular order, a smaller budget and spending bills that reflect the cuts.

You know who opposes us doing that? The Freedom Caucus members and frauds like Massie. They don’t want to get through this year. They don’t want a clean CR. They don’t want a debt limit increase. They won’t vote for it. They’ve said it.

If you can’t get through this and then help drive the process once Trump takes office, you need to go.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (9NZQU)

197 154 Today is National Oatmeal Muffin Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Discarded muffin stumps litter my neighborhood, attract vermin, and clog the storm sewers. Never mind the pleated wrappers!

Posted by: United Bagel Alliance at December 19, 2024 08:33 AM (G5+As)

198 Johnson's primary fault is that he perfectly comfortable lying to Conservatives, his constituents and his party, but he is not willing to compromise one bit in his appeasement to The Enemy.
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Lower forms of life, lacking the capacity for reason, do however respond well to pain stimuli. Our mistake is to assume our representative still retain their capacity for reason. Elected Republicans, receiving massive amounts of pain stimuli from their Democratic colleagues, media and at cocktail parties, are motivated into doing the left's bidding. Therefore, an appropriate response is to cause severe enough pain to force them to move in the correct direction.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

199 ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Gets Double Dose of Jim Carrey

In hedgehog 9 Carry will play 8 parts

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

200 >>“It’s just that my character would now be a cis girl, a straight cis girl,” said Stewart.

I cissed a girl.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 08:33 AM (z+ik4)

201 Her parents are seriously messed up. Have they found the mother ? I think she is not even around.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:33 AM (QTCRF)

202 147 Sana'a is coming to town . . You better be Halal for goodness sake!
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Play that funky intel, Assad!
Play that funky intel, Alawite goy!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:34 AM (hovnC)

203 #1 I’m an army vet
#2 I haven’t been anonymous for years, there’s literally a pic of me on my profile page and I do public events all the time and have a daily podcast.
#3 your stock trades are public record and you’re also a millionaire.

You’re not very good at this are you?
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:32 AM (hovnC)

LMMFAO.

Screw you, Eyepatch McCain. I hope your constituents wake up and vote your ass to the curb. Thank you for your service in the military. For the rest, kindly f*ck off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Something to keep in mind is that we don't elect the Speaker of the House, it's the members of the House who do that. The members elect the Speaker to administer the business of the House, which is graft.

Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2024 08:34 AM (i0F8b)

205 Ironic, or proof of innocence by reason of insanity!
Posted by: Defense Lawyers Everywhere at December 19, 2024 08:10 AM (qh15L)

Since she's dead by her own hand, the question is irrelevant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

206 Catturd ™ @catturd2 3m
Don't let Mike Johnson and RINO Republicans lie to you ... they have the gavel.

They could write a short bill today with a clean 3-month CR, only adding hurricane relief, zero pork, and no raise.

Then if Democrats vote against it, they can honestly say they voted against hurricane relief victims.

It's that freaking simple.

They don't want to because they're used to getting themselves, their lobbyists, and their donors filthy rich off the backs of hardworking Americans.

ENOUGH !!!
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That's how the Dems do it when the shoe is on the other foot.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:35 AM (hovnC)

207 Dan Crenshaw seems a bit.. upset.. DC drones do not like to be called out, apparently.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:35 AM (PCK5/)

208 Eyepatch McCain seems a bit thin skinned. He'll go Democrat shortly because he doesn't want to be called to account by the people who vote for him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:36 AM (tT6L1)

209 @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.

Seems a nerve has been struck.

Hey Dan, does reaping hairy man ass count towards ending incel status? You seem an expert on the matter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

210 It's incredible how corrupt our government is now.
Posted by: Biergood at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (PwgSL)

It's incredible how open and up-front our government has become about how corrupt they are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

211 Is Houston really Texas? That seems to be a debate. lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:37 AM (9NZQU)

212 @BrookeSingman

EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald #Trump told me
@SpeakerJohnson
will "easily remain speaker" for the next Congress if he "acts decisively and tough" and eliminates "all of the traps being set by Democrats" in the spending package
@realDonaldTrump

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (LkLld)

213 No, they are supposed to negotiate. There are things that need to be done. You can't wait until you have a super majority. There's no negotiation. They slab out some huge bill and they pass or don't pass. That's the problem.

And why would we get up the Republican Party when we are in charge and remaking it?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (NQtI0)

214 @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.

It's Texas, Central America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

215 17 Thank you JJ!

A few encouraging things:
1. The spending bill falling apart bodes well for Trump 2.0. It was mainly Musk who detailed it, from outward appearances. Helps to be surrounded by good people
2. Spineless repubs are now on notice along with the GOPe slimeballs
3. Adults are in charge in Israel; they’re eliminating bad guys in every direction!

BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive. I’m not sure there’s a better viable alternative for speaker
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 07:41 AM (nrfI

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A lot of the podcasts I listen to ( Benny Johnson', Rob Carson, etc) were making sure the message got out to the RNC. It really helps that we have a way to express our disdain!

Posted by: Chillin the most at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (AhKLt)

216 @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.

Seems a nerve has been struck.

Hey Dan, does reaping hairy man ass count towards ending incel status? You seem an expert on the matter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

He needs a timeout in the naughty chair.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (Aqu9a)

217 A robust debate on whether Congress should get a pay raise, and what is the appropriate amount, and whether there should be restrictions added for fairness (how about removing exemptions Congressmen get to the laws they write that apply to everyone else).

But don't sneak it in a 1,547 page bill, you cocksuckers.

That includes you, Crenshaw. Shut up an sit down and let your betters (the people who elected you) handle this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (fs1hN)

218 So Yemen is being bombed into the Stone Age?
That should be finished by lunchtime.

Posted by: But I'm no expert at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (dg+HA)

219 738 and thru da links

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

220 Gonna commit possible heresy here and state that I never really understood the Maureen O'Hara thing. She does nothing for me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 08:17 AM (LxER7)

Have you told your parents you're gay yet?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

221 211 Is Houston really Texas? That seems to be a debate. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:37 AM (9NZQU)

Maybe West NOLA ?

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (PCK5/)

222 BTW… my guess is Mike Johnson is not a bad guy, just weak and naive. I’m not sure there’s a better viable alternative for speaker

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it is easy to lose perspective where he is at

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (QTCRF)

223 Dan Phelan was almost successfully primaried and is no longer speaker in the Texas house. Seems like Musk or Trump or Lt Guv Dan Patrick could find someone to primary Dan Crenshaw… what’re they waiting for??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (WdMlw)

224 Now listen up, my last name is Purdy and I do not appreciate the top picture, it's an old name from the Norman conquest, a battle cry derived from "pour dieu", "for God", in the same camp as "Deus Vult".
...actually, I'm not offended at all, go ahead and make all the jokes you want, l've loved this place for dang near twenty years...
Might as well mention - I am staggered by the genius and hard work that goes into these Morning Reports, it's so impressive to produce something like this daily, the wit, the analysis...

Posted by: yop at December 19, 2024 08:39 AM (RKj5x)

225 DAmn copy/paste fail.

Is Houston really Texas? That seems to be a debate. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:37 AM (9NZQU)

It's Texas, Central America.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

226 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (v6JzV)

227 So Yemen is being bombed into the Stone Age?

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I think they are in the stone age already...

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (QTCRF)

228 The Biden admin has pardoned a doctor who diluted chemotherapy drugs in a medicare fraud scheme? What did they do, set out to find the most diabolical person in the world?

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (QcVoh)

229 I have to admit that I'm proud of Trump , Vance, and the Republicans in Congress who torpedoed this idiotic CROMNIBUS.
It appears that we've elected enough fighters to drag the RINOs into line. They're lazy and stupid so it'll have to be done again, but this first battle is promising

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (DopAq)

230 “Email scandal” doesn’t register with LIV.

“Failure to safeguard State Secrets in the course of Official Duties” is a bit clearer.

Look, I understand nobody in charge GAF, but the fact remains these are Federal Felonies, totally fucking illegal. Can’t sweep every thing under the rug.

Another straw that broke the Democratic Camel’s back. Mrs. Clinton’s escapades were a bit much for even the lunatics to paper over.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (VqV9I)

231 I had forgotten about Crenshaw's stock trading comments. He infamously let the cat out of the bag with that one too. It was always suspected that Congress dealt in insider trading (Pelosi being a prime example) but he confirmed it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

232 Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich 2h
President Trump and Republicans should not be afraid of a government shutdown. The next election is two years away . We had two shutdowns in 1995 and became the first reelected house gop majority since 1928. It may take shock therapy for schumer and democrats to learn President Trump is serious about draining the swamp.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG 42m
Thank you @newtgingrich!

I’m all in.

The government can shut down all the way until Jan 20th as far as I’m concerned.

AND WE MUST STAND FIRM WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO STOP THE MADNESS!!

No matter what.

Even if we have to elect new leadership.

I’m ALL IN.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (hovnC)

233 The 1500 page bill would have passed if only the Democrats had talked about it on podcasts. It's a messaging issue.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:41 AM (QcVoh)

234 Reaping Hairy Ass Man used to be one of The Village People.

Posted by: IIRC at December 19, 2024 08:41 AM (dg+HA)

235 228 The Biden admin has pardoned a doctor who diluted chemotherapy drugs in a medicare fraud scheme? What did they do, set out to find the most diabolical person in the world?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (QcVoh)

The Judge selling kids into slavery may be the winner.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

236 Yemen is being bombed into the Stone Age from a more primitive place

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:41 AM (DopAq)

237 Dan Crenshaw's net worth is estimated to be around $8 million as of 2024. This includes various assets such as real estate and stock holdings.

He didn't get there from being a Seal, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

238 I just want the speaker, one time, to remember that we don't elect them to make friends across the aisle. We elect them to lay waste to them so hard, their great grandchildren feel it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)
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Who is "we"? We didn't elect Johnson, and I sure as hell never voted for Eyepatch.

The House is split evenly. The Speaker has power only to the extant he is willing to use it on his own caucus. Very little power over Democrats, except vote scheduling (and even that can be circumvented in the House). If he is going to het tough on shitheels in his own caucus, he has to make an example of someone, and the President needs to be fully on board. Trump can be the difference maker.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 08:42 AM (YKKru)

239 Newt is still cool.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 08:43 AM (iziT8)

240 237 Dan Crenshaw's net worth is estimated to be around $8 million as of 2024. This includes various assets such as real estate and stock holdings.

He didn't get there from being a Seal, I'm sure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Michael Berry on the radio sure gives him shit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

241 The government can shut down all the way until Jan 20th as far as I’m concerned.

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I approve this message!

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:43 AM (QTCRF)

242 From last thread...

G'morning, all.

My father was called home to be with God about 1:00 this morning.

It is so bittersweet know that he is no longer here, but yet already at the side of God.
....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2024 06:49 AM (a1415)

Prayers up for VIA and his family.

Posted by: Doof at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (jgdZo)

243 >> It's Texas, Central America.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

When I first came to Texas a guy assured me that Houston “wasn’t Texas”. He was from Leona.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (9NZQU)

244 Dan Crenshaw represents Texas's 2nd congressional district, which includes northern and western Houston, as well as areas like Kingwood, Humble, Atascocita, and Spring. He has been serving in this position since January 3, 2019.

There should be someone up there that can run him out.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

245 Amazing that Houston Mayor is a White Male. Same with Detroit

Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

246 Email scandal” doesn’t register with LIV.

“Failure to safeguard State Secrets in the course of Official Duties” is a bit clearer
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No LIV's have fallen asleep a quarter way through that sentence.

That said, it was the DNC who intentionally labeled it "emails". Just like the "laptop". Two completely innocuous words. (Why do you think Trump change it to "laptop from hell"? He doesn't come up with these things by accident.)

Classified Information Scandal is better but the Democrats have intentionally diluted that one too.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (QcVoh)

247 Prayers up for VIA and his family.

Oh my yes.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (SfhV1)

248 > @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.
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Who talks like this to their constituents?

Oh, right.... every person in Congress....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

249 Yemen is being bombed UP into the stone age.

They'll be rocking Fred Flintstone mobiles in a month.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (iziT8)

250
Prayers up for VIA and his family.
Posted by: Doof at December 19, 2024 08:44 AM (jgdZo)

Amen.

Godspeed to Mr. VIA. May the family find peace and comfort in the hands of God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

251 @217 gah, I forget the verb and every that comes after in my first sentence. Commenting be hard, yo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (fs1hN)

252 The Judge selling kids into slavery may be the winner.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

LMAO I wish you were kidding.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (QcVoh)

253 "Shut it down" is a good lead in to Doge-R-Ama, or Doge-A-Thon. Getring impoundment authority back would be a great first level goal too, as JJ's link points out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 08:46 AM (YKKru)

254 prayers VIA

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

255 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
When someone asks you why the Department of Education should be abolished…

https://tinyurl.com/4fpym89y

Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

256 Doge Gone It

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

257 Prayers up via

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:47 AM (QcVoh)

258 No rubble bounces like Arab rubble.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 08:47 AM (iziT8)

259 @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.
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He sounds mad. Sunlight is hurting his grift.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (YKKru)

260 @ImMeme0
When someone asks you why the Department of Education should be abolished…

https://tinyurl.com/4fpym89y
Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

It's amazing how she looks toothless, yet seems to still have teeth.

Amazing.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

261 Crenshaw memes:

https://tinyurl.com/4swmzmdx

https://tinyurl.com/4sr6zufv

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (hovnC)

262 I'm tempted to actually post something on X and ask Crenshaw if he kisses his wife with that mouth.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (tT6L1)

263
https://tinyurl.com/4sr6zufv
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (hovnC)

That one's gotta hurt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

264 Okay, but what does TayTay think?

Posted by: LIVs at December 19, 2024 08:49 AM (dg+HA)

265 So I heard a story yesterday that Pelosi somehow got hold of the Presidio when it was closed as a base.
Cant find if that is true.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

266 @DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.
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He sounds mad. Sunlight is hurting his grift.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (YKKru)

Muh fucking decorum. Muh fucking gravitas.

Muh fucking norms

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 08:50 AM (y/ZMQ)

267 Speaking of the White House, where in the hell is Kamala Harris?

She seems to have disappeared.

Posted by: dantesed at December 19, 2024 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)

268 Feral Swine Eradication. I thought screeching feral swine were replacing the critters on The View

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 08:51 AM (DopAq)

269 Speaking of the White House, where in the hell is Kamala Harris?

She seems to have disappeared.

Posted by: dantesed at December 19, 2024 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)

The White House has been abandoned. They've washed their hands of the whole thing.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 19, 2024 08:51 AM (SfhV1)

270 That’s great news that there was pushback on the budget. They aren’t protecting our borders, the rule of law, or maintaining infrastructure well, which is all they should be doing. But they do all of that other nonsense?! Sickening. Every single line item should have to be justified by asking, “Is this Constitutional, and must we take it from people at the point of a gun?”

Posted by: Eternity Matters at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (qISOO)

271 Who talks like this to their constituents?

Oh, right.... every person in Congress....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

He's clearly not talking to his constituents. That statement was in English. With the Latin alphabet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (y/ZMQ)

272 *She seems to have disappeared."

I'm looking for a happy hour.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (dg+HA)

273 I'm tempted to actually post something on X and ask Crenshaw if he kisses his wife with that mouth.

His wife’s boyfriend.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (QZThv)

274 Eyepatch MdStain is just 1 of the 435 cocksuckers that would sell you and your sons and daughter for 29 pieces of silver.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

275 236 Yemen is being bombed into the Stone Age from a more primitive place
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The Flintstones and the Rubbles thrive in our supposedly "Stone Age" culture. And I have built a thriving business that employs many. We are not backward! Come visit the quarry and see for yourself.

Posted by: Mr. Slate at December 19, 2024 08:52 AM (G5+As)

276 "Speaking of the White House, where in the hell is Kamala Harris?

She seems to have disappeared.
Posted by: dantesed "

Where is anybody? Seriously.

We have no acting President or Vice President.

Which I'm not saying is a bad thing exactly.

But has this ever happened in this country?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 08:53 AM (iziT8)

277 Good morning!

Most promising thing seen on X was someone saying they want to get these bills online so that citizens can us AI to quickly identify all of outrageous parts ASAP.

I mean, if they're going to replace our jobs with AI, the lease we can do is do the same to Congress, gooood and haaaard.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 08:54 AM (u1uWe)

278 We have no acting President or Vice President.
__

Ahem.

Posted by: Dr Jill Biden at December 19, 2024 08:54 AM (fs1hN)

279 Feral Swine Eradication. I thought screeching feral swine were replacing the critters on The View
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They're always welcome in the Senate!

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (Uniparty- Utah) at December 19, 2024 08:54 AM (YKKru)

280 Trump is our acting President now.

Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2024 08:54 AM (v6JzV)

281 We have no acting President or Vice President

Which is why it’s hilarious that Democrats are screeching about Elon being the real President.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 08:55 AM (QZThv)

282 Congressional pay raises have been automatic for decades, by the way. They had to vote against.

What Wizadry is This? Why do they have to vote a pay raise?

Because they won’t pass a Budget? Isn’t that a Requirement? You know, like the Law?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2024 08:55 AM (VqV9I)

283 *We have no acting President or Vice President.

Which I'm not saying is a bad thing exactly.

But has this ever happened in this country?*
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We muddled through.

Posted by: Edith Wilson at December 19, 2024 08:55 AM (dg+HA)

284 The Biden admin has pardoned a doctor who diluted chemotherapy drugs in a medicare fraud scheme? What did they do, set out to find the most diabolical person in the world?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 08:40 AM (QcVoh)

The old "baffle 'em with bullshit" maneuver?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 08:55 AM (y/ZMQ)

285 You're not going to have Boneless Pork Rectum to kick around any more come January!!

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (Uniparty- Utah) at December 19, 2024 08:57 AM (YKKru)

286 >>The password is IMPOUNDMENT

You tried to elect a drunk, America. Your government has been impounded, but you'll have to pay the bill to get it out of the lot. The man in the blue suit with the red tie can explain the charges to you

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 08:57 AM (z+ik4)

287 So how long does Powell get to be Fed? This fuck needs to go.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 08:58 AM (jFCkp)

288 They're all in the pay of Big Boneless Pork Rectum.

Posted by: It's a conspiracy! at December 19, 2024 08:59 AM (dg+HA)

289 Prince Andrew is like Swallowell, a scandal magnet. No bad thing happens, it seems, where he isn't in it up to his elbows.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 08:59 AM (YKKru)

290 Most promising thing seen on X was someone saying they want to get these bills online so that citizens can us AI to quickly identify all of outrageous parts ASAP.

I mean, if they're going to replace our jobs with AI, the lease we can do is do the same to Congress, gooood and haaaard.
====
That's why the push for nuke power to feed AI super-computers -- to read all the BS 1,700-page bills your Congress proposes.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 08:59 AM (hovnC)

291 >>@DanCrenshawTX 10h
Yeah or maybe you’re a fucking lying piece of shit because I’m not even on the YES list for the whip team. Never have been. But hey, whatever gets you pathetic bottom feeders your click bait. Fucking incels.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE U.S. CONGRESSMAN SOUNDS LIKE A BULWARK GROUPIE ON X.

NOT A GOOD LOOK, LITTLE BUDDY!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (u1uWe)

292 276 "Speaking of the White House, where in the hell is Kamala Harris?

She seems to have disappeared.
Posted by: dantesed "
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My guess is curled up with a case of wine.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (jFCkp)

293 Joe Biden is for all intents and purposes, dead.

Kamala is in a drunken stupor somewhere.

Donald is running the country through social media and a telephone.

These are times. These are the actual times we are living in.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (iziT8)

294 ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree

She's in luck - I'm sure raimondo is still single

Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (gKWVE)

295 Good morning!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (kTmTW)

296 >>We have no acting President or Vice President.

The Democrat Party is imploding. The Obama era is over and those who remain in office are busy scrambling for power fighting against each other. Everything is different than it was before November 6th.

Now is the time to exploit their weakness not make deals with them. Put up a clean CR with a debt raise and get to Jan 20th. If Democrats refuse and shut the government down then they own it.

Have some balls for a change.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (LkLld)

297 It may appear that there's nobody running the country but I'm fairly sure there's some number of individuals still with their fingers on the controls.

The same group that's been running things since *biden's first day in office.

The same group that will be there when Trump returns to the White House.

He'd best be cleaning house, pronto.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

298 Speaker Johnson is a strong pro lifer and border hawk. He has a thankless job with such a narrow majority. When we had these narrow house majorities in the early 2000's, there was still many conservative dems in the House. There are none today.

Lets let it play out
Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2024 08:13 AM (YCxFk)
******
You’re right about this.
I'm mad, but realize that people like Chip Roy who bloviate a lot are sometimes the reason why we fail.
This could have been taken care of in September, but some of the "Conservatives" refuse to vote back then knowing this would happen in December.
A lot of blame to go around.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

299 Crenshaw is getting pounded on X, LOL. Best meme so far Photoshops him to have eyepatches on both eyes with the caption “How he read the Bill of Rights”.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 09:01 AM (QZThv)

300 My Christmas wish for next year (2025) is Anthony Fauci facing some accountability for all his evil actions starting in the 80s through the covid debacle. That link about him writing a piece in some journal just infuriating

Pam Bondi needs to look into that guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 09:01 AM (WdMlw)

301 296 Hear, hear!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 09:01 AM (kTmTW)

302 Invasive ‘murder hornets’ declared eradicated from Washington state and U.S., officials say

.. now do Antifa

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

303 The ugliest fact about these Biden pardons and commutations is that the worst is yet to come. The last week of his term is going to make the Biden family rich for generations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:03 AM (1ILlY)

304 I saw somewhere that Elon vetoed the continuing resolution.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:04 AM (YzqWW)

305 Drone mystery solved ! TransCam and AMCAM follies.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 09:04 AM (QTCRF)

306 What we need is a federal government shutdown. Next January we can open it up again

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2024 09:04 AM (bJeqI)

307 ask Crenshaw if he kisses his wife with that mouth.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 08:48 AM (tT6L1)

Rosie O'Donnell

Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2024 09:04 AM (gKWVE)

308 Putin loses the plot as he blames Russian eating habits for exploding food prices

.. Putin clearly has been listening to the Biden Administration too much

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

309 " What we need is a federal government shutdown. Next January we can open it up again
Posted by: Thomas Paine"

Please for the love of God.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:05 AM (iziT8)

310 Wow, are these pardons giving me writer's cramp.

Posted by: Supposed DOCTOR Jill at December 19, 2024 09:05 AM (dg+HA)

311 And there it is. Rand Paul on X: The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .

Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds)

Would that be legal, based on the succession for president?If the President and Vice President were not able to serve would Musk be allowed to take over as president, or would he be bypassed?

This is what it will be like for the next 4 years. I will think I am opening The Onion, but it will be a real story.

Rand paul is a foreign asset just like his daddy and is full of dumb ass " ideas".

These dorks think they can run the government via twitter. Bunch of billionaires playing with people's paychecks. They are going to lose favor fast.

Why not? A pro- apartheid racist South African would work well for the fascist posse

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 19, 2024 09:06 AM (JCZqz)

312 Every time someone whines about a government shutdown, remind them of covid. A LOT of us never got our jobs back after the shutdowns. They get freakin' backpay each time there's one of these theatrical cash-grab, failure theater shutdowns.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 09:06 AM (u1uWe)

313 Federal Employees don't actually show up for work anyway.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:08 AM (YzqWW)

314 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 08:26 AM (QTCRF)

Hmmm… I never got that far at all… I only got to homicidal nutball.. that seemed sufficient.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 08:28 AM (PCK5/)

Lots of info on her posted by some of the Horde over the past few days. One such link. Home life was a mess.

Daily Mail link: https://tinyurl.com/2c68tlt3

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 19, 2024 09:08 AM (iODuv)

315 Just a reminder for TJM:

Homemade eggnog with alcohol can last in the fridge for several days to several weeks, depending on the amount of liquor added:
Non-alcoholic: Consume within one day
1/2 to 1 cup of liquor: Keeps for several days
1 1/2 cups of liquor: Keeps for several weeks and continues to thicken and age

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 09:09 AM (jFCkp)

316 Underneath Danny's eyepatch is a button that activates the kickstand on his momma's wooden leg.

Posted by: Aunt Bunny at December 19, 2024 09:09 AM (jxRfg)

317 John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz 9h [some type of pretend Christian]
There's literally no way in hell he won 7 swing states and I'll go to my grave believing that.

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 58m
I am all-in for a forensic audit of the election

Unlike Democrats, we have nothing to hide

Deal?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 09:09 AM (hovnC)

318 >> The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . .

MATT GAETZ

Just because they'd hate it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (u1uWe)

319 So long as the administrative state is so large, it will be very difficult to make any meaningful change. They have too much leverage on too many elected officials for anything but continued decay. If this effort fails, the Republic fails.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (3s4q0)

320 Dan Crenshaw represents Texas's 2nd congressional district, which includes northern and western Houston, as well as areas like Kingwood, Humble, Atascocita, and Spring. He has been serving in this position since January 3, 2019.

There should be someone up there that can run him out.
Posted by: rhennigantx

This is where money comes in. He was primaries and it was relatively close

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (bJeqI)

321 The old "baffle 'em with bullshit" maneuver?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 08:55 AM (y/ZMQ)

Yeah. Obama era tactic. Good distraction from the REAL ones they want pardoned.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (QcVoh)

322 Leftist Officials Move To Delay British Elections As Their Approval Ratings Collapse
teaser image

Leftists across Europe and in Britain are continuing in their campaign to thwart democracy...

... unless you redefine "democracy" from a "consensus of individuals" to a "consensus of institutions", elections corrupt democracy

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

323 "how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?"

More precisely, a misandrist.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (kTmTW)

324 >>Every time someone whines about a government shutdown, remind them of covid. A LOT of us never got our jobs back after the shutdowns. They get freakin' backpay each time there's one of these theatrical cash-grab, failure theater shutdowns.

The virus lockdown nearly killed my little startup and cost me a lot of money. A lot, a lot. Government didn't give me any back pay or bailouts.

If the consequence of not doing your job is the government you are supposed to be running has to shutdown temporarily then do you job better and stop whining. I could not care less about a government shutdown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (LkLld)

325 Another brilliant pardon was of a woman in VA who was convicted of three counts of insurance fraud. Sounds "victimless" until you realize that the three claims were for her three husbands who she had killed. She was sentenced to 40 years but got out in 12

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (DopAq)

326 >>There's literally no way in hell he won 7 swing states and I'll go to my grave believing that.

Election Denial is a thought crime, and he should be banished from polite society!
Right, MSM,DNC and NeverTrump???

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (u1uWe)

327 Homemade eggnog with alcohol can last in the fridge for several days to several weeks, depending on the amount of liquor added:
Non-alcoholic: Consume within one day
1/2 to 1 cup of liquor: Keeps for several days
1 1/2 cups of liquor: Keeps for several weeks and continues to thicken and age
Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 09:09 AM (jFCkp)

GW
“One-quart cream, one-quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one-pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½ pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry – mix liquor first, then separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs, add sugar to beaten yolks, mix well.

Add milk and cream, slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and fold slowly into mixture. Let set in cool place for several days. Taste frequently.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

328 Now is the time to exploit their weakness not make deals with them. Put up a clean CR with a debt raise and get to Jan 20th. If Democrats refuse and shut the government down then they own it.

Have some balls for a change.
Posted by: JackStraw
+++
Exactly. If the dems want to shut down the government, that's fine. We can start it back up after January 20th.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (Lo97M)

329 I'd wager Trump won Jersey and Minny and Virginny too.

And no way in fucking hell are all of those votes from Cali real.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (iziT8)

330 A government shutdown is just a start of the dismantling.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (z+ik4)

331 294 ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree

She's in luck - I'm sure raimondo is still single
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2024 09:00 AM (gKWVE)

Spat out my coffee....good morning. What a wild 24 hours.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (EmT/E)

332 303 The ugliest fact about these Biden pardons and commutations is that the worst is yet to come. The last week of his term is going to make the Biden family rich for generations.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:03 AM (1ILlY)

I thought for sure he'd give Mumia Abu Jamal his walking papers. I mean Biden probably lost the cop vote for the Dems so why not bolster the communist vote?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (x0n13)

333 Wonder how Rupnow and Hale are doing in their new digs???

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (PCK5/)

334 A government that has enough money to pay for tranny surgeries for illegals has way too much money.

You could halve the budget and 99% of the population wouldn't notice

Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (oZhjI)

335 325 Another brilliant pardon was of a woman in VA who was convicted of three counts of insurance fraud. Sounds "victimless" until you realize that the three claims were for her three husbands who she had killed. She was sentenced to 40 years but got out in 12
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (DopAq)

It was only 2 husbands and a BF.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

336 Exactly. If the dems want to shut down the government, that's fine. We can start it back up after January 20th.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (Lo97M)

Well, maybe some of it.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (z+ik4)

337 Another brilliant pardon was of a woman in VA who was convicted of three counts of insurance fraud.

Make her a CEO of a health care company and tell the left.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 09:14 AM (QCSQH)

338 how did you people establish that a 15 yo was a "feminist"?"

More precisely, a misandrist.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 09:10 AM (kTmTW)

How would we know the difference.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:14 AM (QcVoh)

339 @332 Mumia was convicted under Pennsylvania law. Biden couldn't pardon him. If he could , Barky would have done it already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:14 AM (DopAq)

340 You could halve the budget and 99% of the population wouldn't notice
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (oZhjI)

And you could cut 99% of the budget and half the population wouldn't notice.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:15 AM (QcVoh)

341 Just reading these eggnog recipes makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2024 09:15 AM (v6JzV)

342 If they shut down the government who will set up the orange cones that guard the Canadian border at night?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:15 AM (YzqWW)

343 I assume that Rupnow blew her brains out before capture?

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 09:15 AM (PCK5/)

344 329 I'd wager Trump won Jersey and Minny and Virginny too.

And no way in fucking hell are all of those votes from Cali real.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (iziT

Elections in Cali are a total fraudulent joke now. Millions of ballots mailed to everyone with no chain of accountability. Drop boxes everywhere…. Plus the election roles haven’t been purged in who knows how long… probably millions of ineligible people registered to vote and sent a ballot…. Cali is Venezuela with great beachfront

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (WdMlw)

345 Buried in the 1,547-page omnibus bill is a provision to facilitate a $3 billion NFL stadium in Washington, D.C.

Washington Robber Barons

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

346 Sperm Count Has Declined Almost 50% In Men Across The Globe In Recent Decades

This isn’t just a men’s health crisis - it’s a call for global action

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

347 GW
“One-quart cream, one-quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one-pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½ pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry – mix liquor first, then separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs, add sugar to beaten yolks, mix well.

Add milk and cream, slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and fold slowly into mixture. Let set in cool place for several days. Taste frequently.”
Posted by: rhennigantx

*Beat heavy whip like it owes a bookie money. Add to filled glass or mug.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (QCSQH)

348 Eggnog is just Flerm (TM) and vodka.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (iziT8)

349 341 Just reading these eggnog recipes makes me want to puke.
Posted by: Bulg
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Don't be a pussy, Bulg. We are talking about milk fat and alcohol. Don't fear the Reaper. Moar Cowbell!

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (jFCkp)

350 340 You could halve the budget and 99% of the population wouldn't notice
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (oZhjI)

And you could cut 99% of the budget and half the population wouldn't notice
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Heh. That sounds like a Guy deBord quote!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (3s4q0)

351 Buried in the 1,547-page omnibus bill is a provision to facilitate a $3 billion NFL stadium in Washington, D.C.

Washington Deficits -- symbol ($)

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

352 Redskins Stadium.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (YzqWW)

353 Sperm Count Has Declined Almost 50% In Men Across The Globe In Recent Decades

This isn’t just a men’s health crisis - it’s a call for global action
Posted by: SMOD

BAN SOY!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (QCSQH)

354 325 Another brilliant pardon was of a woman in VA who was convicted of three counts of insurance fraud. Sounds "victimless" until you realize that the three claims were for her three husbands who she had killed. She was sentenced to 40 years but got out in 12
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:11 AM (DopAq)

It was only 2 husbands and a BF.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:12 AM (gbOdA)
==================
10 % for the Big Guy

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (TMqcd)

355 If we shut down the government, no more 11th hour regs, like the CA EPA, can come down...

Pass it on...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:17 AM (exHjb)

356 What I do not understand is why is it so impossible to write a single line item bill? Why???

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at December 19, 2024 09:18 AM (EmT/E)

357 Buried in the 1,547-page omnibus bill is a provision to facilitate a $3 billion NFL stadium in Washington, D.C.

Washington Robber Barons
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (gbOdA)
=================
"John McCain Field, Home Of the Robber Barons"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:18 AM (TMqcd)

358 DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican 12h
Hey @SpeakerJohnson just FYI
It won't matter how quickly anyone tries and ram through a bill
We've already written all the code, thanks to today
X will be summarizing the next bill not within hours, not within minutes, but within seconds
This is not an exaggeration. I'll publish some handy scripts
Here's a script that will format PDF to text nicely
This makes it a lot easier to feed into LLMs or other scripting [tech link omitted]

To parse, I used several variants of this. Your mileage may vary on how to do the actual parsing. But this should inspire you.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican 11h
Note much of this code was generated with gpt. But gpt is like Stack Overflow, you have to know the source material to in order to fix the code, correct the imperfections, etc

You can also ask gpt to help with that or adapt the prompt however you'd like.

Vox Populi
https://tinyurl.com/bphsm2j8

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 59m
The computer nerds are finally working for the good guys again

This is why Trump’s Silicon Valley coalition was so historic

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 09:18 AM (hovnC)

359 The squirrels in CA have become meat eaters. They hunt and kill voles now. Killer squirrels are next.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 09:18 AM (Zba2T)

360 A vole tried to climb up my pant leg once. True story.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:19 AM (YzqWW)

361 "Scalise confirmed the bill was dead and that Republicans did not have an agreement on how to move forward yet."

Here's an idea......

Don't. Don't move forward on this until the new Congress is seated. Shut it the fuck down.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (4XwPj)

362 346 Sperm Count Has Declined Almost 50% In Men Across The Globe In Recent Decades

This isn’t just a men’s health crisis - it’s a call for global action
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

More Jizzya! Cumming our way . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (x0n13)

363 Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency Over Bird Flu

... reservations at the "French Laundry" are now full up

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

364 Who counts the sperm? Can’t believe that’s a job someone has. That’s almost as bad as the guy that recycles toilet paper.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (Zba2T)

365 Morons - Check out Section 605 of the 'continuing resolution' BS...

Congress is immunizing itself from 'wrongdoing'.

https://tinyurl.com/muuzjx8d

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 19, 2024 09:21 AM (klw0w)

366 Sadly I drank all the gifted Egg Nog I received. It was delicious!

Maybe I'll get off my ass and make some more....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:21 AM (TMqcd)

367 That could be bad for egg prices.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2024 09:21 AM (YzqWW)

368 347 GW
“One-quart cream, one-quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one-pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½ pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry – mix liquor first, then separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs, add sugar to beaten yolks, mix well.

Add milk and cream, slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and fold slowly into mixture. Let set in cool place for several days. Taste frequently.”
Posted by: rhennigantx

*Beat heavy whip like it owes a bookie money. Add to filled glass or mug.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 09:16 AM (QCSQH)

Is this a sperm-count thing?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 09:21 AM (x0n13)

369 "John McCain Field, Home Of the Robber Barons"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:18 AM (TMqcd)

"$15 for a little cup of shitty beer?!"

"Oh, our deepest apologies, Sir. That should be $30."

"That's more like it. Ahhhhh, sports."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (y/ZMQ)

370 Macron Lobbies for European Peacekeeping Force to Be Deployed to Ukraine After War

... it has to be a better option than the "Blue Helmets"

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

371 361 "Scalise confirmed the bill was dead and that Republicans did not have an agreement on how to move forward yet."

Here's an idea......

Don't. Don't move forward on this until the new Congress is seated. Shut it the fuck down.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (4XwPj)

Trump asked for a clean CR with debt ceiling, disaster relief, and farm money (yeah, he's still a big spender). That's what should be passed at a maximum...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (exHjb)

372 Once a wild animal starts eating flesh, they are not going back to vegan. As with lions, once they taste human flesh they cannot go back, and hunt man.

Posted by: runner at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (QTCRF)

373 364 Who counts the sperm? Can’t believe that’s a job someone has. That’s almost as bad as the guy that recycles toilet paper.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 09:20 AM (Zba2T)

"Sit still, you little proto-bastards!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (y/ZMQ)

374 Great idea. Shut down the government until 1/20. Tell all government workers to get back to the office on that date or you're fired. Tell Hamas if the US hostages aren't released their leaders will be dead even if we have to blow up a penthouse in Europe . Deportations ramp up to 11 on 1/20. Tell the country exactly what Biden EOs will be struck. Tell the DIJ that these 1/6 protesters will be released on 1/20

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:23 AM (DopAq)

375 351 Buried in the 1,547-page omnibus bill is a provision to facilitate a $3 billion NFL stadium in Washington, D.C.

Washington Deficits -- symbol ($)
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A little history - both Jack Kent Cooke and Dan Snyder tried several times to build a stadium in DC with their own money. DC grifters always would try to grift the effort. Ultimately, Snyder built in MD and was already searching for a new spot in MD for a new stadium. This is all about Black Lesbian Mayors getting into the grift of US Taxpayers. Maybe Trump can write a funding bill for the Redskins with Elon overseeing the accounting. This is how you get the Redskins back.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 09:23 AM (jFCkp)

376 "Macron Lobbies for European Peacekeeping Force to Be Deployed to Ukraine After War

... it has to be a better option than the "Blue Helmets"
Posted by: SMOD"

Somebody has to chase those hot Uke chicks.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 09:23 AM (iziT8)

377 The fast-food giant KFC will open a new restaurant Monday in Orlando, Florida, that focuses on sauces and aims to give its “finger lickin’ good” slogan a new twist, CNN reported Wednesday.

“Saucy,” the new restaurant, will feature 11 new dips and chicken tenders in a nod to its Gen Z customers seeking bolder flavors and boneless chicken, according to the report.

... but will it sell in Japan on Christmas

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

378 I think it's *biden's staff who are floating these pardons out. He's clueless.

Except for the one for Hunter. And he probably had to be prompted to do that one.

*biden is a vicious, lying piece of shit. But he's mentally incapable of deciding who to pardon. His staff however isn't. They're bitter too, and one way to stick it to the public that tossed them out of office is to give them a huge "fuck you" any way they can.

Most of the pardons and commutations are for people we've almost never heard of, but should remain in custody for their crimes. But apparently someone in the administration is just going through the rolls of those incarcerated and doing a wholesale release.

More interesting is who'll not be granted a pardon from this administration.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (Q4IgG)

379 "$15 for a little cup of shitty beer?!"

"Oh, our deepest apologies, Sir. That should be $30."

"That's more like it. Ahhhhh, sports."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 09:22 AM (y/ZMQ)
=================
I like the way you think!

Posted by: Cindy McCain, Official Bud Light Supplier to the NFL at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (TMqcd)

380 Late thought on Dronomania:

I own and fly drones. The FAA is in absolute control over where and how I may fly (altitude, restricted areas such as around airports, etc etc). For heavier drones like this, FAA registration is required.

What I'm trying to say is that if I do something like try to overfly a military base, area denial protocols could take over and trash my drone. The registration sticker on the drone leads them right to my doorstep...if they even need it. I have to be fairly close to the drone so it picks up my transmitter....

So yeah, there are a lot of people in the government keeping extremely mum about all of this.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (oUlN5)

381 374 Great idea. Shut down the government until 1/20. Tell all government workers to get back to the office on that date or you're fired. Tell Hamas if the US hostages aren't released their leaders will be dead even if we have to blow up a penthouse in Europe . Deportations ramp up to 11 on 1/20. Tell the country exactly what Biden EOs will be struck. Tell the DIJ that these 1/6 protesters will be released on 1/20
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 09:23 AM (DopAq)

Technically, you'd need to pass the CR 1/20 for them to come back 1/21...and that's a Congress holiday...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (exHjb)

382 "Government Shutdown," is another of their big fat lies.

It's only 'non-essential' activities that get temporarily suspended. The military doesn't shutdown, etc. And as noted, back-pay always happens.

In a perfect world a government shutdown should be forced, and then the non-essential never re-started. And no back-pay.

Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (i0F8b)

383 Posted by: Cindy McCain, Official Bud Light Supplier to the NFL at December 19, 2024 09:24 AM (TMqcd)

I nominate this for Sock Of The Year.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 09:25 AM (y/ZMQ)

384 Especially if Israel knocks out their oil refining capacity, which would totally wreck their already faltering economy and cause a massive revolt by the people.

The same could be said of us in this age of drone warfare. Our energy infrastructure is very vulnerable.

Posted by: Grump928(C) reminds you at December 19, 2024 09:25 AM (aD39U)

385 So, What Country Wants To Be Like Germany Now?

The collapse of Germany shocks many. But this was inevitable for over a decade.

Bloomberg Economics estimates that the bulk of the shortfall will be tough to recover, due to structural blows such as the loss of cheap Russian energy and Volkswagen AG and Mercedes-Benz Group AG struggling to keep pace with China’s auto firms. The decline in national competitiveness means every household is worse off by about €2,500 ($2,600) a year.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

386 Sperm Count Has Declined Almost 50% In Men Across The Globe In Recent Decades
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What they won't mention is the commensurate decline in testosterone and IQ and they definitely won't investigate it.

My theory remains that prior use of birth control in women is producing mentally and hormonally bent offspring. Hormones were not designed to be fucked with.

This will be born out eventually - it's probably already being covered up - and you can remember your buddy Ellipsis told you.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:25 AM (QcVoh)

387 Saw a drone last night...in my little town of 5000.

Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2024 09:26 AM (Yj6Os)

388 The collapse of Germany shocks many.

99 Luftballons

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

389 What shot size is best for drones? Should it be the smallest pellets of does it need something heavier like for geese?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 09:26 AM (Zba2T)

390 I AM available...

Posted by: Denny Hastert at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (1FWWQ)

391 386 Sperm Count Has Declined Almost 50% In Men Across The Globe In Recent Decades
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What they won't mention is the commensurate decline in testosterone and IQ and they definitely won't investigate it.

My theory remains that prior use of birth control in women is producing mentally and hormonally bent offspring. Hormones were not designed to be fucked with.

This will be born out eventually - it's probably already being covered up - and you can remember your buddy Ellipsis told you.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:25 AM (QcVoh)

Probably in the water supply, or trady Catholics would have a superior set of offspring by now...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (exHjb)

392 Forgot to add - for a drone to be properly registered now, there has to be built in FAA compliance in the transmitter. I can't simply ignore no-fly zones. The drone software simply won't let me do it. Nor will it let me take off after sunset.

This is bigger than the government is letting on. These are unregistered drones from an outside party.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (oUlN5)

393 Morning again, all,

Just commenting briefly before the Art Thread comes along. I'm at the electron mine, but there is little to fashion with the electrons. Six days until Christmas, and the only creatures stirring are ones you wouldn't want to deal with -- i.e., shopper-fanatics of the Dillardus empire or Targetia.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (J2vNu)

394 The worst part of the government shutdowns is when those totally cost-free curtains are hung in front of Mount Rushmore.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:28 AM (QcVoh)

395 Speaking of techies now supporting PDT and DOGE:

Bill Ackman @BillAckman 13h
Imagine if all bills were required to be footnoted with references to which Congressman added a provision to a bill. We could then see from whence the pork comes.

The way it has historically been done, there is no cost to being behind a particularly egregious piece of pork. With this change, there would be a cost to even proposing government waste.

Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl 11h
Anyone who doubts what a massive win this was for the right just needs to look at the Dems crying on Twitter and talking about "President Elon" in a futile attempt to rile Trump.

Not going to work.

Everyone knows that nothing we are accomplishing today happens without PRESIDENT TRUMP.

Elon and the X users teamed up to kill the bill because it was terrible and because we knew Trump would have our back.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 29m
Fact: None of this happens without Trump.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 19, 2024 09:28 AM (hovnC)

396 The collapse of Germany shocks many.

99 Luftballons
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024

***
"This is what we've waited for --
This is IT, boys, this is war!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 09:28 AM (J2vNu)

397 Probably in the water supply, or trady Catholics would have a superior set of offspring by now...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (exHj

Could very well be.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:28 AM (QcVoh)

398 What shot size is best for drones? Should it be the smallest pellets of does it need something heavier like for geese?

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Depends on the altitude. I usually fly around 500 feet or so. Your munition of choice needs to be chosen accordingly.

They aren't very durable. Go for the props.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 19, 2024 09:29 AM (oUlN5)

399 All this publicity is hurting our ability to negotiate Christmas gifts for ourselves! Somebody please stop all this Elon Musk tweeting!

Posted by: John Thune, Senate Santa at December 19, 2024 09:30 AM (TMqcd)

400 From JJ's link:

". . . tourism generates asymmetric profits, mainly enriching those who live outside of tourist destinations while adversely affecting their residents. When places become tourist destinations, essential services for residents are supplanted by those catering to visitors: Hardware and shoe-repair stores shut down, while sandwich and souvenir shops open in their place. Moreover, heavily touristed areas witness surges in real estate prices and consequently in rents."

Yep. Tourism invites development, both commercial and residential. Worse, from what I've witnessed in MA, the developer comes in and decides to make a small town an exclusive resort for the rich. That is *replacement* not tourism.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2024 09:30 AM (u1uWe)

401 Oh, I see the interwebs is away ahead of me on anti- drone shotgun ammo. They already make it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (Zba2T)

402 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

403 Art is nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

404 Probably in the water supply, or trady Catholics would have a superior set of offspring by now...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 19, 2024 09:27 AM (exHj

Could very well be.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:28 AM (QcVoh)

Although have you met the daughters of trady Catholics? Because I have some stories.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (QcVoh)

405
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CBD

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

406 >>Bill Ackman @BillAckman 13h
Imagine if all bills were required to be footnoted with references to which Congressman added a provision to a bill. We could then see from whence the pork comes.

IT'S FUNNY HE THINKS IT'S CONGRESSMEN - NOT LOBBYISTS - WHO WRITE THE OMNIBUS/"COMPREHENSIVE REFORM PACKAGE" BILLS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 19, 2024 09:32 AM (u1uWe)

407 Johnson always was a Deep State snake. The Deep State has congress-critters stacked up to the top of the Capitol dome just standing in line to take positions of power. I have concerns as to why so many seemingly "good guys" declined to run for SoH during the last saga. What do they know that keeps them from running? It is going to take a large external shock to clean up this mess and the Republic may not survive that shock.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 19, 2024 09:33 AM (YcfMX)

408 Even though Trump explicitly told the FBI not to write background reports on his nominees, they wrote one hurriedly on Hegseth anyway, and now the Joni Ernst faction wants to leak it.

They aren't done smearing Hegseth, and the FBI is actively on it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2024 09:33 AM (TMqcd)

409 The collapse of Germany shocks many. But this was inevitable for over a decade.

Bloomberg Economics estimates that the bulk of the shortfall will be tough to recover, due to structural blows such as the loss of cheap Russian energy and Volkswagen AG and Mercedes-Benz Group AG struggling to keep pace with China’s auto firms. The decline in national competitiveness means every household is worse off by about €2,500 ($2,600) a year.
Posted by: SMOD

Even worse, nat gas is not only the energy source, but the ingredient for fertilizer and plastic. Some of the largest firms in those industries are in Germany, but not for much longer.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2024 09:34 AM (bJeqI)

410 It was actually Jack Kent Cooke (a real owner) who built Fedec Field in Landover. He wanted to call his slice of Landover RalJon after his kids. It never caught on. The boy owner destroyed the Redskins and their legacy during his reign of error. I am surprised the little shit didn't try to suit up and play. Such a Momzer

Posted by: Truck Nonkey at December 19, 2024 09:34 AM (1FWWQ)

411 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

They tell us who & what they are & we simply don't want to believe them. 🙈🙉🙊

CNBC, Politics,‘We have some consensus’: Speaker Johnson, Sen. Schumer exit Biden meeting on Ukraine aid with optimism, Published Wed, Jan 17 2024

Politico, 02/27/24, 'Johnson commits to avoiding shutdown during White House meeting' The speaker made “unequivocally” clear that he wants to avoid even a partial closure that's set to happen Saturday at midnight, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Punchbowl News, September 03, 2024, 'Democrats slam Mike Johnson over government-funding plan'

Democracy Docket, News, Legislation, DC, 'House Passes Budget Bill Without SAVE Act to Keep Government Open,' By Courtney Cohn, September 25, 2024

(The SAVE Act would have implemented a proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration.)

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 19, 2024 09:43 AM (NFX2v)

412
WaPo, Feb. 16, 2016, 'For Cruz, 2013 Shutdown Was a Defining Moment' U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's “impossible” strategy to undercut the Affordable Care Act — President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement — won the Texan both enemies and fans. By David A. Fahrenthold and Katie Zezima

Now more than a decade ago, AT LEAST HE TRIED.

The federal government 'shutdown' for whole 16 days. (Food was being very dramatically collected for fed. ees, and I & many other tourists were in Salem, MA mid-October with no National Park Service public bathrooms open thanks to O&Joe having the doors padlocked 🤣

They and theirs are running us into the ground. When do they go?

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 19, 2024 09:43 AM (NFX2v)

413 If the Feral Swine Eradication project includes a 50% discount on the purchase of rifles and suppressors I'm all for it. Let the pork roll!

Also the elimination of the $200 NFA tax stamp on SBR's and suppressors would definitely have an impact on boosting efficient and quiet nighttime swine hunts. Let's not forget to throw in a rebate for thermal imaging scopes also!

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at December 19, 2024 09:46 AM (SAnV7)

414
CBS Local News, today
FAA bans drones over several New Jersey towns. See the list. By Renee Anderson, Updated on: December 19, 2024 7:46 AM EST/ CBS New York

In part, "NEW YORK -- Drones have been banned from flying over several New Jersey towns, the Federal Aviation Administration confirms to CBS News.

The FAA order covers nearly two dozen towns, including Jersey City, Harrison, Edison, Bayonne and Camden. It will be in effect until Jan. 17.

The order says no unmanned aircraft can operate below 400 feet within one nautical mile of the airspace specified in each area. Additionally, it allows the government to use "deadly force" against the drones if they pose an "imminent security threat."
...
"Several of the zones are centered around infrastructure, like power substations. Others cover areas like the Kearny, New Jersey port and airspace around military installations like Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in South Jersey, or airports such as Newark-Liberty International Airport."

So, Saturday, 18 January 2025 could be fascinating between the Women's/People's Marches and drone activity.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 19, 2024 10:03 AM (NFX2v)

415 Matt Gaetz is gone. I hope someone else steps up and gets rid of Johnson. It's not as if this House will advance Trump's agenda anyway.

Which brings me to a broader point... Trump shouldn't focus on policy this term. The GOP didn't let him pursue his platform last time, and they won't this time. They haven't changed.

He should focus the entire term on aggression. Fire as many people as humanly possible, and replace them with hardcore MAGATs. Go at the cucks with radical intensity, primarying them as hard as possible.

It will take decades to reverse the march through the institutions, co-opt the State and weaponize it against the Left. The effort itself may just end this Republic before that can happen, but either outcome is fine. The time to start is now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 10:09 AM (BI5O2)

416 Meet Ronald Clark, a radical Biden nominee for Commanding General at Fort Shafter, Hawaii who believes that DEI is “a goal across our army.”

Clark believes that renaming bases is a “huge step forward” because they stand for white supremacy.

Trump needs to fire his ass forthwith. I took one look and confirmed - he's Black so an AA appointee until someone proves to me otherwise.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of knockers at December 19, 2024 10:15 AM (i0xsb)

417 Awaken With JP has a funny take on the drone thing:

https://youtu.be/cTdCjRaomBk

Posted by: Bombadil at December 19, 2024 10:20 AM (MX0bI)

418 380. So yeah, there are a lot of people in the government keeping extremely mum about all of this.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

The federal executive branch is probably in the process of installing a sub bureau of drone utilization - not only in each Cabinet Department and/or Executive Department - but also in each regulatory agency at the MINIMUM - as it had in the past with weapons and ammo.

Further, in the U.S. government there are four general types: cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, regulatory agencies, and government corporations.

The National Archives has a 'List of Federal agencies' - 441 in all!! (Also see USA dot gov, A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies) There are so many now, the government loses count and purpose.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, Feather duster another at December 19, 2024 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

419 "The Dane County medical examiner's office has identified the two individuals who died in Monday's shooting at Abundant Life Christian School as Erin M. West, 42, of Deforest; and Rubi P. Vergara, 14, of Madison."

So Sam the shooter that hated and wanted to kill all men, killed two females, and herself. Crazy.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (Cus5s)

420 I am really tired of the Iranians being just days away from a nuclear bomb

They have one.

It’s just that it’s not miniaturizable. That is the hard part. The Chinese don’t have that either until Wen Ho Lee stole nuclear basics from the national labs (and he was there because the Clintons thought it would be a good idea to downgrade security protocols and let communists burn in China in to work).

So, they have one. They just can’t put it on a ballistic missile or move it easily. THAT is the difference

Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at December 19, 2024 03:07 PM (l5yVc)

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