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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Customers will be pushed towards buying models that are more expensive or lean on non-instantaneous storage tank water heaters, which are generally cheaper but tend to be less efficient than the ones that are facing a ban, per the report.
This is government meddling at its worst, and the Biden/Obama junta is lashing out at America in its anger that we had the effrontery to toss them into the dustbin of history. They love to cause us pain, and mandating this sort of crap is their masturbatory fantasy. Or...some manufacturer has greased the wheels of the bribe machine in D.C., and Joe Biden will be getting his 10%. Or both. The environmental movement in America has been co-opted by the rabid leftists who see it as a powerful tool to destroy the economy and drive us into poverty. Sadly, the Democrat party sees nothing wrong with that plan, and is happy to take their votes in exchange for their insanity. Go back 45 years to the Three Mile Island accident. Contrary to the carefully manipulated media reporting, the accident was trivial. Pretty much everything that could go wrong...did go wrong, yet the amount of radiation released via vented steam was minuscule. It was a testament to the reactor design, rather than a catastrophic accident. Yet the watermelons (green on the outside... red on the inside) used it to destroy nuclear power in America. But that was okay with most people because we had lots of other energy options...at least that is what we were told by a compliant media. But coal was demonized, then oil, and now natural gas. Perhaps people should remember Martin Niemöller, quotation! What the watermelons want is an America without any energy options except solar and wind. That means the destruction of our way of life, and a future of densely packed urban poverty. Sounds like fun. But President Donald Trump and his merry band of young, aggressive, unapologetic, America and market economy-loving colleagues might do some real damage to the grand plan of our enemies! I can't wait for January 20th! [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:00 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Reforger at January 07, 2025 11:00 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:01 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at January 07, 2025 11:01 AM (Nmmyc)
Off to the rant.
Posted by: Reforger at January 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at January 07, 2025 11:01 AM (Nmmyc)
And greed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2025 11:02 AM (d9fT1)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:02 AM (g47mK)
>>>This is government meddling at its worst, and the Biden/Obama junta is lashing out at America in its anger that we had the effrontery to toss them into the dustbin of history. They love to cause us pain, and mandating this sort of crap is their masturbatory fantasy.
Everything they've been doing is explained by this.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2025 11:03 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:03 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 07, 2025 11:04 AM (pohLc)
Bill Gates is bringing Three Mile Island back on line for his data center. He's going to build a nuke out West for the same reason.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2025 11:05 AM (63Dwl)
they are petty little drama queens who believe they are Right in All Things
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 11:05 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 11:05 AM (TlJri)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
yes. this is bad, but the releases from Guantanamo are worse.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Octochicken at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (oCS0o)
Ahhh...the Lanyard People.
They scurry about the White House and the West Wing filled with a righteous sense of self worth and glorious purpose, their access lanyards flapping out behind them as they go.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (W/lyH)
-- Leftists burning in Hell
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025
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By my calculations, the number of ban reversals and executive order cancellations he's currently got slated for Day One would take approximately 370.6 hours to accomplish. Even for a man who sleeps only four to five hours a night, that's a hell of a job!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2025 11:06 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2025 11:07 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:07 AM (PCK5/)
My opinion is Sundowner , or Puppeteers are just taking a wrecking ball to the country.
No more drilling off shore
Letting terrorists out
Shoveling money out to Leftists
Giving awards to conservatives opposition
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 11:07 AM (TlJri)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
You'll have to be a little more specific.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
The left rules by lawfare and regulation. If we can take away those weapons, we will be lots happier and freer!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (cx1f3)
Posted by: Randy Radium at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (G5+As)
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Neither can I. Because I really want to start blowing raspberries at Starmer.
Unless the deep state starts extraditing us to the UK.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (krQz2)
Patrick Webb@RealPatrickWebb
BREAKING: Fani Willis confirms the existence of documents implicating her and the January 6 Committee in a collusion scheme to target Trump and his supporters, according to Tom Fitton.
'Confirming the existence' is one thing.
Suffering the consequences is quite another.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
You'll have to be a little more specific.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
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It's a big pile. Grab a bucket and start somewhere in DC.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)
Oh wait...it doesn't say that?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (cx1f3)
They did not outright ban gas heaters, but changed the requirement to be so stringent that no reliable company has figured the new tech out yet...
As I had carefully balanced my solar / Battery set up to have just enough energy per year... having to put in a heat pump system will blow out that calculation, leaving me with a substantial 'true up' bill every July from now on.
Stupid... stupid... policies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:10 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:07 AM (PCK5/)
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Right, the ban on incandescent light bulbs was entirely the fault of a president, not any Congressmen.
Posted by: Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) at January 07, 2025 11:10 AM (sWDaV)
Suffering the consequences is quite another.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (Q0kLU)
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Except the reason we have a shot with Trump in office is not from people being punished, but from more people seeing them exposed for the unequivocal frauds they are.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)
Actually, this has been the works for at least a year, back when the regime was sure they would be in power forever. It it part of the eco-fascists plan to make life worse for everyone, like banning gas stoves and making washers, dryers dishwasher expensive pieces of crap (but very efficient!)
Just wait until everyone finds out about the new refrigerants the EPA has mandated in the past year (they are flammable, similar to lighter fluid but have less global warming impact!) It is causing massive headaches for HVAC/construction industry. I can't wait until some apartments have a major fire and their HVAC systems burn out of control.
Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (GUOwU)
More importantly CO2 is plant food with zero externalities. There's more of it in the air because the Earth is getting warmer in a natural cycle. As they warm, the oceans can't hold quite as much O2 and CO2 so there's more in the air. It's a lagging effect not a cause. And this is all measured in parts per million because it's all so marginal.
But don't let Reason get in the way ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: Randy Radium at January 07, 2025 11:08 AM (G5+As)
I'm 1.5 miles from a Super fund clean up site, that will never be even worked on it is so bad...
Seems like a good place for a nuc plant.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Persnickety at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (mJCOG)
Oh wait...it doesn't say that?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (cx1f3)
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The law probably does, though. Or something like it.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
Call me petty if you wish, but I want Trump to slap back hard at those two miserable fucks, and make their lives a little more miserable every day.
Am I correct in presuming there's some sort of law or EO that guarantees SS protection for former prezzys? Because that is one of the first things I would slash. If the dog-eating crackhead or the senile kiddy sniffer want personal protection, they should damn well have to pay for it themselves instead of mulcting me so they can prance around without suffering any consequences.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (Q0kLU)
Taking away your right to free speech. To have your vote count. To have running hot water. And so on.
It's punishment for not abiding.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Persnickety at January 07, 2025 11:13 AM (mJCOG)
The people should not be governed by regulation.
But the people have consented to being governed by law.
In that we call something "government" and "governance" suggest that we assent that people--at least others--should be governed.
It has a bit of a taste of a bitter weed when said that way, but this is our theory of government.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:14 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: jeff at January 07, 2025 11:14 AM (ZiwLX)
As I had carefully balanced my solar / Battery set up to have just enough energy per year... having to put in a heat pump system will blow out that calculation, leaving me with a substantial 'true up' bill every July from now on.
Stupid... stupid... policies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (QAkQ3)
Not stupid. Evil. They cannot permit you to be self-sufficient. You must be forced to depend on things that they can remove if you "misbehave".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2025 11:14 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ripley 7542 at January 07, 2025 11:14 AM (Uy/WF)
I do look forward to angry Joe giving the eulogy. He'll be on an interesting combo of drugs, so that will be popcorn-worthy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 07, 2025 11:15 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at January 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Sr11i)
Btw, I love your blog! I just don't comment there.
You have a way with words and a lucid, well reasoned thought process.
Thanks for your contribution to the conservative internet sphere.
Posted by: Derak at January 07, 2025 11:16 AM (pnO90)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:16 AM (PCK5/)
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A Mr. Fusion in every pot!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)
The Arctic region is one of the most strategic places on earth.
Posted by: JackStraw
And way better to colonize than Mars.
Except for the Big Penguin jokes.
Posted by: DaveA
Posted by: DaveA at January 07, 2025 11:17 AM (FhXTo)
This represents a lot of confidence that it works!
Posted by: blaster at January 07, 2025 11:17 AM (QfvaV)
Taking away your right to free speech. To have your vote count. To have running hot water. And so on.
It's punishment for not abiding.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (Q4IgG)
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That is ideology.
1. What is our theory?
2. How do we make people comply with our reform indicated by our theory?
Daniel J. Flynn was the first person I heard that said that "conservatism" is really NOT an ideology. Because you first have to have an abstract, overall plan to become your idea, and then create a doctrine of that idea, often which prefers not to hear back from the Real World.
The further I get into my 29th year, the more that resonates with me. Ideology is almost intentionally not pragmatic--and not diplomatic.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:18 AM (krQz2)
Oh wait...it doesn't say that?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:09 AM (cx1f3)
Commerce Clause. We have standing. Water has crossed a state border at some point.
Posted by: Fed Gov. at January 07, 2025 11:18 AM (xcIvR)
And somehow our electrical bills have gone up.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 07, 2025 11:18 AM (x5oiU)
Anything good can be reinstated in better form.
On second thought, also repeal anything done while Oblabla was Preezy, too.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Candidus at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (DcZ8z)
You want basics that work...you don't need any bells and whistles...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (exHjb)
Kim Jong-un has issued a national ban on hot dogs and sausages. The new rule comes amidst a growing popularity in the North for South Korean culture, and thanks to the constant U.S. presence since the Korean War Skirmish, hot dogs and sausage are very popular in South Korea.
Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (RHGPo)
And somehow our electrical bills have gone up.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, does your job make you inspiring and feminine or stressed and brittle? at January 07, 2025 11:18 AM (x5oiU)
Well, we could burn more coal… nah
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)
they are petty little drama queens who believe they are Right in All Things
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 11:05 AM (Pv3Rg)
I would love PDJT to issue ONE executive order stating that ALL eo's from bribem are null, void, and cease to exist at 12.01PM on the 20th...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 07, 2025 11:20 AM (nXhwP)
Posted by: geoffb at January 07, 2025 11:20 AM (r//c2)
What caught my attention was one of the justifications for the rate increase, maintenance on their nuclear power plants, saying "nuclear energy will be key to accelerating our journey to a clean energy future". Insty's been beating this drum for a while now, but this is the first time I've heard of an energy company acknowledging nuclear power as a key to clean energy.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 07, 2025 11:20 AM (OGOaV)
This represents a lot of confidence that it works!
Posted by: blaster at January 07, 2025 11:17 AM (QfvaV)
VA knows how to get ahead of the next federal money dump. Data centers need enormous power, so to have them, you have to find that power. It is the only answer both sides accept right now, even though it's not yet possible, so expect a money dump from everyone everywhere into it...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (exHjb)
This represents a lot of confidence that it works!
Posted by: blaster at January 07, 2025 11:17 AM (QfvaV)
From what I remember reading, they don't ackshewallee have a working fusion design yet.
Apparently, it one of those "we'll get it built first then work out the details later" sort of dealios.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: geoffb
That "statue" is the US Constitution.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (uC3K8)
‘’ but the releases from Guantanamo are worse.’
Those rats will run right back into someone’s trap.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: geoffb at January 07, 2025 11:20 AM (r//c2)
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The delay is in the Constitution.
It's perhaps one of the few cases where I agree with progs about the Constitution's being "outdated". But it's build on 18th-century travel and communication times. And there's no way of getting around that.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (krQz2)
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
DISGUSTING: CNN's Jake Tapper just blamed Senator Ted Cruz for causing J6.
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First, his dad kills JFK and now this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 07, 2025 11:24 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: geoffb at January 07, 2025 11:20 AM (r//c2)
I suppose the idea is that everybody recognizes the legitimacy of the vote and uses the time to turn over power in an orderly manner.
Not purposely use the time to try to hobble, cripple, and generally fuck-over the incoming administration and country as the Democrats do.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2025 11:25 AM (iJfKG)
Fvck the Watermelons
#FJB
Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 11:21 AM (uC3K
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Identify every politician that supports this.
Hold them up for ridicule.
Dox the crap outta them.
Primary them.
Scoff at them.
Laugh openly.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 11:25 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)
Calif just destroyed a dam that created hydro electric power...
How stupid is that... cleanest most reliable energy source there is.
You are essentially creating electricity through gravity.... and yes... there are a LOT of places you could put low drop hydro dams on Calif rivers, but the Greens don't want us to have any energy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:25 AM (QAkQ3)
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First, his dad kills JFK and now this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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As a dog returns to its vomit, so will a flailing Democrat circle around to original accusations.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:25 AM (krQz2)
The image might offend Palestinians.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:25 AM (kTd/k)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (edOTf)
i think it's hilarious that maga inauguration day is a federal holiday
Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
*Ahem*
Posted by: Kate Upton at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front
Is that what the HBO series "The Penguin" is about?
If so, I totally need to watch it.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (edOTf)
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Yeah!
Posted by: Rep Eric Swallwell at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman
And the reason Election Day is in November is because it was after the harvest, back when most of the population lived on farms. Not necessary now.
So I say we move Election Day up, then move Inauguration Day up. As it stands now, we can't really move Inauguration Day up much because the Holidays are in the way. So, make Election Day in, say, mid-September and have the inauguration shortly thereafter.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kate Upton at January 07, 2025 11:28 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
*Ahem*
Posted by: Kate Upton at January 07, 2025 11:26 AM (lCppi)
Style note.... Boob Bad.... Boobs Good... one of the only words where singular is bad, yet plural is outstanding.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:28 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 11:28 AM (c+GDc)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Election Day should be April 15.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 11:28 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Kate's Left Boob at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (edOTf)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
*Ahem*
Posted by: Kate Upton
Sorry, Kate, your uncle's got you beat.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
DISGUSTING: CNN's Jake Tapper just blamed Senator Ted Cruz for causing J6.
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First, his dad kills JFK and now this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: LASue at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:29 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg
One of them should be on Halloween.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Kate's Right Boob at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 11:28 AM (LxER7)
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I think I've heard that proposal before.
Or April 16, *after* you've paid your taxes.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (krQz2)
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Wikipedia has a decent page devoted to the site. Apparently one of the reactors has been purchased and will be rebooted at some point in the near future.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)
If that is Ted Cruz's fault, so be it.
Posted by: LASue at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2025 11:31 AM (mUVI8)
Posted by: JackStraw
And way better to colonize than Mars.
Except for the Big Penguin jokes.
Posted by: DaveA
this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: feathers mcgraw at January 07, 2025 11:31 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2025 11:31 AM (wBaIH)
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (QrkKu)
I had a visiting law professor drop that joke in class one time. Students were shocked to hear a non leftwing anything come from a professor.
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (jGJov)
If that is Ted Cruz's fault, so be it.
Posted by: LASue at January 07, 2025 11:30 AM (lCppi)
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And broke the glass ceiling of VPs certifying their own losses!
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (krQz2)
Mike Davis sends a Dark Warning to the Biden Agents who 'hunted' J6 Political Prisoners:
"To all the prosecutors, agents, witnesses, judges: You have been hunters for four years: Prepare to be hunted legally, politically and financially. Justice is coming. You can go to Hell"
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We'll see.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
Now they are controlled by much, much, much worse people
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (5y+cL)
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (aBtzQ)
Posted by: Gravity at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
"Haters." Which includes, but is not limited to, the following:
White men.
Christians.
Republicans.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2025 11:34 AM (xCA6C)
The delay is in the Constitution.
It's perhaps one of the few cases where I agree with progs about the Constitution's being "outdated". But it's build on 18th-century travel and communication times. And there's no way of getting around that.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025
Inauguration Day was changed to January 20 by the Twentieth Amendment in 1933.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:34 AM (D0HYP)
Posted by: SNL when it was good at January 07, 2025 11:35 AM (dg+HA)
It's forever wars with them.
Posted by: torabora at January 07, 2025 11:35 AM (JoNcL)
Posted by: Keeping Score at January 07, 2025 11:35 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:35 AM (QrkKu)
BREAKING: Meta Announces Reduced Censorship and Elimination of ‘Independent’ Fact Checkers as Too Biased
https://is.gd/IHCBZg
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:34 AM (D0HYP)
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Which made it Constitutionally mandated.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (krQz2)
You're welcome.
Posted by: The Patriarchy at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (dg+HA)
Mike Davis sends a Dark Warning to the Biden Agents who 'hunted' J6 Political Prisoners:
"To all the prosecutors, agents, witnesses, judges: You have been hunters for four years: Prepare to be hunted legally, politically and financially. Justice is coming. You can go to Hell"
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We'll see.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
I had earlier said end of February, but I will be generous: if I don't see orange jumpsuits, perp walks, shackles or 3am doors-blown-off raids by the end of March, I'll conclude that all this tuff talk is bukakke theater.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (Q0kLU)
So the people that stole the election and the people that wouldn't allow any independent authorities to review the stolen election are blameless I guess?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:35 AM (QrkKu)
Do we have enough Indians on hand for this???
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (24b2w)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (g47mK)
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Most of them, were they honest with you, would have no problem with that outcome. That's the eventual outcome of decades of nihilism.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)
The China Syndrome 3/16/1979
Three Mile Island 3/28/1979
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:37 AM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 11:37 AM (QzINz)
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Brings to mind the Tet offensive.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (6hvzW)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (g47mK)
The China Syndrome 3/16/1979
Three Mile Island 3/28/1979
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:37 AM (D0HYP)
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Coincidence?
I think not.
(Actually, I'm willing to accept it was a coincidence.)
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (krQz2)
If it takes 1.6 billion Indians to maintain their paradise... my God, how many are we going to need?!
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (QrkKu)
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 11:37 AM (QzINz)
Heh. Spent two hours early this morning shoveling snow. Now I'm very sleepy. How I'll make it through the afternoon, I don't know.
Help me look busy, Horde!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 11:32 AM (t0Rmr)
Tee hee.
The Soros Syndicate
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:38 AM (5y+cL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 11:39 AM (c+GDc)
Don't control it. End it.
We need a federal law enforcement agency, but the FBI at this point is too tainted to be credible. I suppose creating a new agency, with the same mandate, would allow a lot of people to be fired, or at least reassigned to undesirable places. Russia would be a good start.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)
$1800.00
This sux.
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I feel your pain. I have one for propane that's over $1200.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 11:39 AM (c+GDc)
He does that… kind of a signature…
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (PCK5/)
Don't control it. End it.
https://tinyurl.com/47pcba9k
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2025 11:36 AM (24b2w)
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It should stay around to be investigated.
It really needs investigation.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (krQz2)
New York Post@nypost
Metro-North rider stabbed in chest after complaining about loud music on passenger’s phone
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: George Costanza at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (xcxpd)
😂😂😂😂
Good one.
- Hawaiian Judges
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (5y+cL)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (L/NGS)
So he's one of the people responsible for murdering AOC.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (kTd/k)
So he's one of the people responsible for murdering AOC.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:40 AM (kTd/k)
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And Beau!
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:41 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:41 AM (PCK5/)
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You're breathing my air.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 11:41 AM (6hvzW)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:34 AM (D0HYP)
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Which made it Constitutionally mandated.
Posted by: Axeman
But 1933 was not in the 18th century.
The delay between election day and inauguration day could be shortened a bit (by amendment), but it would still have to be after the new Congress is sworn in, so I'm not sure how much it could be moved up.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:42 AM (D0HYP)
If the statutes gave the power to the executive to manage it, the Courts need to stay the fuck out of it. Congress can rescind and amend that power through passing a reform.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:43 AM (krQz2)
Just received winter oil delivery.
$1800.00
This sux.
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (aBtzQ)
It's my first day working a new job in commissioned sales.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:43 AM (kTd/k)
We're still counting!
Posted by: California at January 07, 2025 11:43 AM (SVUxP)
Just received winter oil delivery.
$1800.00
This sux.
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (aBtzQ)
Wow! How long will that last you?
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (L/NGS)
Just received winter oil delivery.
$1800.00
This sux.
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:33 AM (aBtzQ)
It's my first day working a new job in commissioned sales.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
Best of luck to both of you.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (QzINz)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (g47mK)
What do we even need those ungrateful bastards for, except as a base in the Pacific?
Turn the place back to the natives and let them starve.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
Given that any change would require a Constitutional Amendment, why not just specify limits to government powers during the post-election transition time?
You can't pardon people. You can't sign laws. You can't enact EOs. You can't sign treaties. You can't confirm judges. You're not allowed to fuck over the American people because you lost an election.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:34 AM (D0HYP)
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Which made it Constitutionally mandated.
Posted by: Axeman
But 1933 was not in the 18th century.
The delay between election day and inauguration day could be shortened a bit (by amendment), but it would still have to be after the new Congress is sworn in, so I'm not sure how much it could be moved up.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2025 11:42 AM (D0HYP)
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Fair point. However, the bulk of the delay is between Early November and January. They just removed the extra months of wait based on 20th century travel times.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:45 AM (krQz2)
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Maybe to allow Congress time to review irregularities at the state level and make a decision on whether to accept that states electors or select an alternate slate. Not that this would ever happen even in elections that might not have been perfectly free of fraud. *cough* 2020 *cough*
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2025 11:46 AM (f2lsh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Never underestimate what appears to be babbling from Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 11:46 AM (6hvzW)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:47 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2025 11:47 AM (gm9Sb)
The China Syndrome 3/16/1979
Three Mile Island 3/28/1979
coincidence or early example of stunt viral marketing?
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2025 11:47 AM (jGJov)
Not sure how they have any authority to do it... and it WILL F up the loan industry because Debt... is Debt... no matter where it is from.
Government Fuckery continues.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (QAkQ3)
The China Syndrome 3/16/1979
Three Mile Island 3/28/1979
coincidence or early example of stunt viral marketing?
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2025 11:47 AM (jGJov)
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Um. That would definitely be Deep State.
Probably with a link to Hollywood.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (krQz2)
And we’re slowly getting to that point here. They’re never going to outright ban cars, or dishwashers or hot water heaters. They will however make it so expensive to own one, that only a small percent of people - the ones who are enacting the bans, funny enough - will be able to use them.
And half the country will happily go along with it to save the erf from warming up a degree over the next 100 years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (5y+cL)
Think of it the other way: maybe the King is trying to position Denmark as an inseparable part of Greenland. No tariff on Legos!
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (ZZOOb)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)
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Timetables were set up for horse & buggy days when travel was 20 miles a day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 11:49 AM (6hvzW)
The main alternative explanation is far, far more likely. And has reasonable empirical basis.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2025 11:49 AM (1m82a)
That will be an interesting fight.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 11:49 AM (Q4IgG)
Trump calls it "The Weave". He does it on purpose.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2025 11:50 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Piper
Not everyone here is Presbyterian, you know.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)
Being Presbyterian is nice… in some of its’ flavors!
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 11:50 AM (PCK5/)
An offer they can't refuse.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 07, 2025 11:50 AM (V6W16)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:43 AM (kTd/k)
Hmm, that covers a broad range of things.
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (aBtzQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 11:39 AM (c+GDc)
He does that… kind of a signature…
Posted by: tubal
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Speaking imprecisely is actually a pretty shrewd tactic for a politician and never assume that Trump's public persona is the same as the private man. Another, who was no dummy either, that spoke similarly (unless he chose to do otherwise) was Dwight Eisenhower.
On YT, you can find old Eisenhower press conferences and public speaking videos and his method of speaking is generally similar to Trump's.
The trick is that you let people fill in the blanks with what they want to hear from the president rather than the president's exact intentions.
Ike, having dealt with world leaders for over a decade after becoming president, was a crafty fox often called by the MSM of the time, dumb. Fred Greenstein set the record straight much later with his hidden hand history of the Ike administration.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Piper
Not everyone here is Presbyterian, you know.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)
It’s going to be even colder tomorrow, Bulg. My child in RIC still has no water. My other child in Va Beach is bringing supplies to her. You know, I guess I did okay as a mama watching my girls rally together to help.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (pRpzT)
Posted by: KT at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (vPUFp)
He drops lots of messages to other audiences, too. He's quite fun to listen to.
Ha! "The Gulf of America" he just mentioned.
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (ZZOOb)
The unintended consequence of course is providers will ask for payment upfront. And if you don’t have $5k in cash, tough to be you. No treatment.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (5y+cL)
holy shit, the madman is on fire
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (V6W16)
‘ King of Denmark changes Denmark's coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland! Take that USA !’
Kick Denmark out of NATO and tell Putin Denmark is now open for colonization.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)
Yeah, the swamp gets a whole lot of sabotage time, but it fools fewer and fewer people.
The fewer people it fools, the closer we can get to Trump outright denying the Court's interloper decision that for reason XYZ, the President can't EO away a previous EO.
The presidency was made so that IF the president was competent enough to succeed in his agenda, he had the power to succeed in the agenda, at least within the executive.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (krQz2)
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office.
The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.
These rules, which the federal watchdog agency proposed in June, could be reversed after President-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20. But by finalizing the regulations now, the CFPB effectively dared the incoming Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress to undue rules that are broadly popular and could help millions of people who are burdened by medical debt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 07, 2025 11:44 AM (L/NGS)
JM, I’m hoping till the end of winter. It is northern NH, though.
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (aBtzQ)
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Well, he can slap a bitch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)
Dem politicians have little to worry about with the MSM coverage as they can say outrageous things but the MSM will hide, obfuscate, or explain how what the Dem pol said was not really what they meant. Essentially the MSM is the White House Press office during Dem administrations. And in opposition, they carry the Dems on Capitol Hill and elsewhere's narratives to the proles. They don't even hide that anymore.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)
Not sure how they have any authority to do it... and it WILL F up the loan industry because Debt... is Debt... no matter where it is from.
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They don't have the authority to do it, period. The Consumer Board itself is of dubious authority, and has lost before in court.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 11:55 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)
Trump should say that Europe doesn't have the balls to kick the US out of NATO.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)
holy shit, the madman is on fire
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Taking a tactic the left has been using for ages. Change the name of something. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but it's certainly rubbing Mexico's nose in it.
Some people got all bent out of shape of the renaming of military installations, so the tactic works... both ways.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2025 11:52 AM (63Dwl)
Know what else is broadly popular? Pizza and chocolate. Since it’s popular, let’s make a rule that every restaurant has to provide a pizza and a chocolate cake free of charge to anyone who wants one any time of the day.
I mean why not? It’s popular right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:56 AM (5y+cL)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Piper
Indeed, you did.
What is RIC?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 11:43 AM (kTd/k)
Same, I am working for the Knights of Columbus selling Life, Disability Insurance and long Term Insurance. it feels good working with my Catholic faith and Values. people don't know we Even Sell Insurance.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (FCrpy)
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)
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Decades ago there was this proposal for a "Basic English" which had a vocabulary of ~800 words.
To me, it seems that Trump has internalized the value of that Basic English vocabulary.
If any one is interested, Basic English did not have the word "to fall", "to fall" was to "go down fast". So, it's not quite that level of restriction.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (krQz2)
Yeah, well, we don't like them much either.
Posted by: Penguin Pete at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (pRpzT)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (bXvrr)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 07, 2025 11:57 AM (FCrpy)
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"Be a shame if you suddenly had a disability, you know..."
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (g47mK)
Yes
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Northernlurker
Good luck. We are opening a new sales territory in Greenland.
Posted by: Breyer's Ice Cream at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (SVUxP)
Asci have said before after getting all Undercovers and informants to safety , dump the FBI database into the Web. Nuke it from orbit so to speak
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (c+GDc)
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The destruction of normalcy and destruction of the middle class are central to the marxist state and those who push it.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (TN0g+)
Who decides these things anyway?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 07, 2025 11:58 AM (5y+cL)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:59 AM (g47mK)
Like an increasing number of people, I've concluded that the Left is working for Satan. You can quibble about if they know they are or not, but that's what's happening.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2025 11:59 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Coding humor at January 07, 2025 12:00 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: TJ Jackson"
If it saves one life, anything is worth it.
Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2025 12:00 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Ian S.
Yep. Satan is a Democrat.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 11:59 AM (g47mK)
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They're allowed. It's just we would stop saying it.
It actually fits. Mexico is in North America.
Okay, we are the country named "America", but it's not like we're calling in the Gulf of the United States, which would be unambiguous.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)
The presidency was made so that IF the president was competent enough to succeed in his agenda, he had the power to succeed in the agenda, at least within the executive.
Posted by: Axeman
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Administrative law is not well taught in law schools nor is it reported very well in the media. For the most part, law schools (and media) treat the whole constitutional powers body of jurisprudence as ancient and dead constitutional history.
That means, administrative law, more or less, is left to specialists that talk in vague terms like intelligible principle, delegation doctrine, separation of powers, guidance legislation, and so on. Then you have to marry that body of law with the older constitutional powers doctrines in applied cases. So it is ill reported, ill argued by appellate attorneys generally except on their specialties, and ill decided cases by most trial judges federal and state. Administrative law is a plodding and frustrating exercise in the art of the possible and vague terms.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
Nixon called Ike the most devious man he ever knew.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 12:02 PM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (pRpzT)
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As I already recognize the Peoples' Republic of California as a separate country, I'm not that heart-broken.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:02 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Greenland at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (c+GDc)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)
How about the Gulf of Monroe Doctrine And We Really Mean It?
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 12:04 PM (aBtzQ)
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)
How about the Gulf of Monroe Doctrine And We Really Mean It?
Posted by: RI Red - will work for money at January 07, 2025 12:04 PM (aBtzQ)
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LOL.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:04 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 07, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
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He may have said that off-handedly, but I think he considered LBJ the most evil man he ever knew.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 12:05 PM (TN0g+)
'Is Administrative Law Unlawful' is a book by him that is aimed at the general public rather than practitioners or scholars. Well recommended.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 07, 2025 12:05 PM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: skywch at January 07, 2025 12:05 PM (uqhmb)
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
I conclude that PDJT needs to take a cue from Andrew Jackson and ask SCOTUS how many divisions they have…..
Common sense says to me that anything done by EO can be undone with a later EO
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (/iXAp)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
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Unfortunately we would lose a lot of cattle land and cropland and mineral benefits...
So I can tease about California floating off to sea, but it would really hurt.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (4Nep/)
Actual capability to conduct significant sustained operations, and the will to do so, exist almost only with the US. UK/France have vestigial capabilities, Italy some but only Med/naval ones. But even those members generally lack the will/mindset to do much - if there's any risk or cost.
Before some commenters here were born, a senator from MT made the "burden-sharing" issue a signature on for him. And that was with a Europe (and Canada) with generally "normal" 20th century post-war mindsets and serious fear of/opposition to the Soviet menace. Of course almost all of that is gone (and of course the Soviet menace is long gone, and has not been replaced).
It's almost - almost - like the real issue with NATO, going on 30 years, is it's very existence. Not meaningless spending %s.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (/iXAp)
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Unless it calls "No backsies".
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (krQz2)
Biden DOJ Floats Charging 200 Jan 6 Defendants
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Spite. Not necessarily from *biden as he's brain dead, but from his staff. Staff with their own agenda.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 12:07 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
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Unfortunately we would lose a lot of cattle land and cropland and mineral benefits...
So I can tease about California floating off to sea, but it would really hurt.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (krQz2)
Maybe a reduction in status then??
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:07 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2025 12:07 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
unfortunately, and in spite of all the socialist inclinations, we are still in control of the 6th largest GDP in the world. so , benefit . for now.
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2025 12:06 PM (/iXAp)
leftist judges will definitely rule that Trump didn't follow proper "procedure" in reversing Biden orders, but that will get overruled by SCOTUS
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (V6W16)
Posted by: Axeman
More to the point there's no solution that can be codified to the underlying problem of people acting in bad faith, largely because any such provisions would themselves inevitably be invoked--wait for it--in bad faith.
I suspect if we asked the Founders how to deal with it, they would reply, "We expected you to take the needed efforts to deal with it before it got to that point. Why didn't you?"
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Mary Poppins'
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You learn to be devious when you are dealing with FDR, Churchill, Stalin's minions, and the assorted generals of the Allies including a stint as chief of staff to Douglas MacArthur. Occasionally, the real Ike spills out such as his vicious dressing down of George Patton on occasion. But generally, Ike preferred to leave the dressing down part to his subordinates to professional assholes like Bedell Smith or his chief of staff Sherman Adams.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 12:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Piper
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Only if they take HI & AK too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 12:09 PM (6hvzW)
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 12:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
unfortunately, and in spite of all the socialist inclinations, we are still in control of the 6th largest GDP in the world. so , benefit . for now.
Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (g47mK)
Too bad you just refuse to behave in an appropriate manner.. need chastisement.. severely.
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 12:09 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2025 12:08 PM (OUMaO)
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Dead on, my fried.
You hear the Founders in the same voice I do, it seems.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 12:10 PM (krQz2)
Speaking of... Biden is doing more federal land grabs in Utah and CA in the name of "conservation." TWO new monuments, the largest tracts of protected land in history. This effing guy. I hope Trump rolls some of it back like he did Bear's Ears monument.
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to designate two new monuments and, in doing so, establish the largest tract of protected land in the continental United States by expanding a corridor out West, the White House said.
The proclamations Biden plans to sign would create the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments, with the first in southern California and the latter in the northern mountainous part of the state. The two new monuments total nearly 850,000 acres, according to the administration."
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Greenland is in reality much smaller in size. About 1/3 the size of the continental US. Still a good chunk of real estate but not what most people assume it is.
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