Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform

POC liberal Fareed Zakaria knocks down the idea that there's a "Crisis of Democracy" in the west.

No, he says. It's a crisis of progressive governance, which is a catastrophic failure.

Turning out these deplorable authoritarian failures is the correction to the crisis, not the crisis itself.

The crisis of democracy is really a crisis for the left
Why is the left flailing? Look at New York vs. Florida.

Countries with more than half of the world's population went to the polls last year. And the basic message they sent to their governments was one of dissatisfaction and anger with the status quo. Their frustration seemed to be particularly focused on the side that has traditionally been identified with big government, the left.
Almost everywhere you look, the left is in ruins. Of the 27 countries of the European Union, only a handful have left-of-center parties leading government coalitions. The primary left-of-center party in the European Parliament now has just 136 seats in a 720-seat chamber. Even in countries that have been able to stem the rise of right-wing populism, such as Poland, it is the center-right that is thriving, not the left. And in the United States, of course, the breadth of Donald Trump's victory -- nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties moved right -- suggests that it is very much part of this trend.
The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government. People seem to feel that they have been taxed, regulated, bossed around and intimidated by left-of-center politicians for decades -- but the results are bad and have been getting worse.
New York, where I live, and Florida, where I often visit, provide an interesting contrast.
They have comparable populations -- New York with about 20 million people, Florida with 23 million. But New York state's budget is more than double that of Florida ($239 billion vs. roughly $116 billion). New York City, which is a little more than three times the size of Miami-Dade County, has a budget of more than $100 billion, which is nearly 10 times that of Miami-Dade. New York City's spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time?
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The ultimate test, of course, is how people are voting with their feet. For years, New York has been losing people to states such as Florida. This same story can be told with minor variations about California and Texas. Basically, big red states are growing at the expense of big blue states, which will translate politically into more Republican representation in Congress and more electoral votes....
On the other side, if Democrats do not learn some hard lessons from the poor governance in many blue cities and states, they will be seen as defending cultural elites, woke ideology and bloated, inefficient government. That might be a formula for permanent minority status.

The author of The Coming Democratic Majority back in the early 90s, Ruy Teixiera, is now writing not of a permanent Democrat majority but a permanent Democrat minority.

In the wake of the Democrats' drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump and the GOP, you'd assume the party would be all-in on a fundamental rethink, starting with some serious soul-searching on how the party came to be so out of sync with the majority of America on key cultural questions.
Questions like: Is America really a "white supremacist" society? What does "structural racism" even mean and does it explain all the socioeconomic problems of nonwhites? Is anyone who raises questions about immigration levels a racist? Are personal pronouns necessary and something that should be popularized if not demanded? Are transwomen exactly the same as biological women and are those who question such a claim simply "haters" who should be expunged from polite society?
For each of these questions, the answer for the overwhelming majority of Americans is an obvious no. But in elite Democratic circles, it's a different story. For a party pondering its unpopularity, you might think that this gap would be a good place to start.
Well, if the two months since the election is anything to go by, you'd be wrong. Instead, much of the party is maneuvering to change as little as possible on the cultural front.
Why? Because fundamentally today's Democrats are culture denialists. That is, they do not consider cultural issues real issues. They are typically viewed as politically motivated distractions or as expressions of something else entirely (i.e., racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, etc.) They are not treated as issues that need to be dealt with on their own terms.

He cites Democrats diminishing the impact of the left's unbearable cultural imperialism in order to avoid any need for change. He discusses various copes to avoid reality, including the changing the subject, claiming that people are really just mad about corporate big-wigs or something.

Of course there are also those who claim "we just have to take control of the narrative." Haven't you already been controlling the narrative through jackbooted censorship and debanking for ten years?

And then there are the "dead enders," the Sonny Hostin types who insist that it's not Democrats who have to rethink their positions, but Republicans.

Finally, he notes that many Democrats avoid taking any kind of blame for the historic loss by claiming that it was all just baked into the cake due to inflation and covid fatigue (ignoring the fact that Democrats caused these problems), and this is affecting all the countries of the world, so there's nothing we could have done and therefore there is no reason at all to change.

See the article for that.

This is all pretty remarkable, given that in this election the top reason among swing voters not to vote for Harris was the perception that she was focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues than on helping the middle class (Blueprint research group polling). This of course was the theme of the campaign's most effective ad (Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you).
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In light of these findings, how it even possible that so many Democrats stubbornly refuse to admit cultural issues are a good chunk of what is dragging down the Democratic brand with ordinary voters, especially working-class voters? How can they persist in their blinkered culture denialism? We're definitely getting into "who are you going to believe--me or your lying eyes?" territory.
Obviously, part of it is fear of "the Groups"--the advocacy groups who push the positions above--and their many allies across social and mainstream media, foundations, academia, think tanks and within the Democratic party infrastructure itself. Those who might wish to point out the obvious--that Democrats' association with cultural leftism is a huge problem for the party--are not unreasonably afraid that they will face an onslaught of criticism from the Groups and their allies....
So fear is clearly a factor in culture denialism. And voters have picked up on this--they have a sense that the inmates are running the asylum....
However I think the problem goes deeper than the fear, real as that may be. The idea has penetrated deeply into the Democrats' DNA that these issues are not real issues. They are artefacts of the Republican attack machine, preying on bigoted impulses, rather than real concerns of voters.
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These issues reflect deeply held beliefs and values and are vitally important to ordinary voters, especially working-class voters, not diversions from real issues foisted upon them by crafty Republicans. So far, even the screamingly obvious implications of this last election have not been enough to shock many, if not most, Democrats out of their culture denialist torpor. We shall see if this denialism survives the next few years of the Trump administration and the necessity Democrats clearly face to broaden their coalition among the very voters for whom cultural issues are intensely real and the Democratic brand intensely alienating.

Some political theorists are calling this "The Triumph of Conan Politics" or "Our Cimmerian Moment."

Why did Gen X vote for Trump at higher rates than other generations?

I'm convinced it was partly because watching Conan the Barbarian (1982) was a formative experience for many Gen X guys.

And the movie was all about finding, infiltrating, and overthrowing woke death cults &… pic.twitter.com/1rjvUpnVvQ
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) January 7, 2025

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1 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 07, 2025 04:30 PM (w3u3d)

2 Hello

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 04:30 PM (zddDv)

3 Alll right

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 07, 2025 04:30 PM (w3u3d)

4 I nooded

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 04:31 PM (zddDv)

5 We need more political parties. How do we get there?

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 07, 2025 04:31 PM (P7Iz+)

6 Epochal means bigly

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:32 PM (mzM2O)

7 I done nooded

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 07, 2025 04:32 PM (w3u3d)

8 Back from a time before Ah-nold saying "Fuck your freedoms".

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 07, 2025 04:33 PM (f1kZG)

9 Don’t get many firsts during the day.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 07, 2025 04:33 PM (w3u3d)

10 The only reason the demonrats gained this much power was massive vote fraud and the absolute weakness of RINOs

Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (/u6/R)

11 Well done, Lurking Cheshirecat!

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (zddDv)

12 There's always a pendulum; right now it's moving right. The siren song of free goodies promised by socialism and communism will always draw the stupid and economic imbeciles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (ynpvh)

13 I know a lot of people love it but the 1982 Conan is simply not Conan. I think Oliver Stone( who wrote the screenplay) confused Conan with Kull. Kull had been a slave, Kull's big enemy was Thulsa Doom. (Indeed Conan started as a rewritten Kull story)Conan was never a fucking slave. Conan has black hair and blue eyes. Rant over.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (KQk9m)

14 Conan, what is good in life?

Posted by: Archer at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (OaKl7)

15 Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform
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Because they cannot help but double down.

They can take a step back and pretend to think things over and ask "What did we miss?" but that's all talk. Their urges will take over and they will double down.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (krQz2)

16 11 Well done, Lurking Cheshirecat!

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (zddDv)

An amazing de-cloaking.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

17 Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (/u6/R)

I think you meant to say the assistance of RINOs

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (3Ope8)

18 This is why Trump winning the popular vote was important, even more than the EC blowout. The people who wanted to piss on the mouthbreathing minority discovered that they were the minority.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (aD39U)

19 Finally, he notes that many Democrats avoid taking any kind of blame for the historic loss by claiming that it was all just baked into the cake due to inflation and covid fatigue (ignoring the fact that Democrats caused these problems), and this is affecting all the countries of the world, so there's nothing we could have done and therefore there is no reason at all to change.
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Just look at the major fundraisers of the Democrat party. They are pointing fingers at anyone but themselves and telling anyone who will listen that they were lied to. Some walked away from the party NOT because they don't represent their point of view, BUT because they made them look stupid (and a few sheckles poorer).

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)

20 Conan has transgenderism. Okay, it was a guy changing into a snake. But still...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (ynpvh)

21 This is why we must prosecute the assholes who used lawfare against us.

And by us I mean, Trump, Jan 6th hostages, General Flynn, Steve Bannon, holy shit the list is so long, forget it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:37 PM (gaKF9)

22 The people who wanted to piss on the mouthbreathing minority discovered that they were the minority.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (aD39U)

Exactly, precisely, THIS.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 07, 2025 04:37 PM (k9OZB)

23 Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins, and whatever team wishes to claim "Oilers".

X 3

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

24 The GOP senator from MN lost his seat to Al Franken, Oregon or Washington should have had a GOP governor when that Italian guy ran, it was stolen…example upon instance and incident long before 2020 when the US presidency and AZ governorship were stolen.

Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (/u6/R)

25 Liberals: you're just too dumb to understand how awesome our policies are!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (mzM2O)

26 21 This is why we must prosecute the assholes who used lawfare against us.

And by us I mean, Trump, Jan 6th hostages, General Flynn, Steve Bannon, holy shit the list is so long, forget it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:37 PM (gaKF9)

They made the new rules, they die by the new rules.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

27 Sure
The reason the Democrats lost was because Gen X folks saw "Conan the Barbarian" and voted that way.

Sure

And lots of intellectual "me too's!" will glom onto this idea, and nothing will change. Good for them.
May they spend 40 years in the wilderness.

Back from a time before Ah-nold saying "Fuck your freedoms".
Posted by: Darth Randall

And you would think that this bit of cognitive dissonance would be a clue to the Deep Thinkers of the Democrat Left.
But no.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (vcOmj)

28 I want their lamentations and wailing to be so loud, Krakatoa will hear it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (ccS8/)

29 he notes that many Democrats avoid taking any kind of blame for the historic loss by claiming that it was all just baked into the cake due to inflation and covid fatigue

Let him contemplate this on the Tree of Woe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (aD39U)

30 I like James Lindsay, and not particularly basing an identity as a "conservative", I welcomed liberal refugees over to our side, as they tried to run away from Woke.

But I'm seeing some signs that they are just bringing their bad thinking over, and pointing fingers and asking "Why hasn't that person been deplatformed?!"

Lindsay has actually admitted to using the tactics of Alinsky against the "Woke Right", as he said (I regularly listen to his podcast--but he said this) "It doesn't matter if its' the correct term, it pisses them off".

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:39 PM (krQz2)

31 The left is not running the democrat party. The corporate establishment donor class stooges are rich liberals like Biden/harris/clintons/obama/pelosi et.al. If the left were running the democrat party as they soon will be you will know the difference!

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2025 04:39 PM (Pi4iV)

32 I hope that democrats keep on fvcking that chicken and refuse to learn anything from the Trump landslide election.

Blame their electoral problems on russia or whatever but I hope they never sit down and honestly try and figure out how they became a fringe party that can no longer win elections.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2025 04:39 PM (Rcnd3)

33 23 Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins, and whatever team wishes to claim "Oilers".

X 3

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

How about bringing back the team name Whalers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)

34 We are already hearing the laminations of their women.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (u82oZ)

35 Tennessee wore the Oilers uniforms Sunday. Love those uniforms.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (KQk9m)

36 Leftwing political ideas are at odds with reality. So the more power they get and the more they implement their system, the more everything will fail.

There are a million examples of this but take taxes for example.

The left argues that putting heavy taxes on say labor or investment will have no effect on labor participation rates or how much people are willing to invest and then they are SHOCKED to find they are ruling over a system where people go on the dole instead of working or move their money into black/gray markets that can't be taxed.

And this process repeats again and again and again.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (t0Rmr)

37 They are no longer Woke

They are Wode.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (ccS8/)

38 "Kamala is for they/them; Trump is for you" is one of those ads that will be referred to for decades.
Like "There's a bear in the woods" or "It's morning in America."

The Democrats still have no idea why that was such an effective ad.

And they still think "Trump is for billionaires, Kamala is for the middle class" was a perfect counter attack.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (R3Yln)

39 34 We are already hearing the laminations of their women.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (u82oZ)

*air quotes around "women"

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (mzM2O)

40 Chuck Schumer said, the democrats simply didn't articulate well enough how much the dems did for everyone.

Yeah, Chuck, you nailed it. Keep cooking raw meat with cheese on top.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (gaKF9)

41 18 This is why Trump winning the popular vote was important, even more than the EC blowout. The people who wanted to piss on the mouthbreathing minority discovered that they were the minority.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (aD39U)

You're still knuckle dragging mouth breathers though, and we wish you all died tomorrow.

On an unrelated note, let's talk about lifting the caps on h1b visas and dramatically increasing legal immigration.

-- Uniparty and Deep state Movers and Shakers

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (uCjyK)

42 They will regroup and come back at us again

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

43 If the left were running the democrat party as they soon will be you will know the difference!

Joe Biden is no true Scotsmen.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (t0Rmr)

44 34 We are already hearing the laminations of their women.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (u82oZ)

No, those are just the soyboys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

45 "Our Democracy" was always "theirs" but never "yours."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (R3Yln)

46 Willowed:

311 Groton Connecticut, what a blast from the past. Dad was in the Navy and we lived there for about 3 years.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 04:29 PM (3ek7K)

I was born there...while the 'ol man was doing what turned out to be his final assignment while working on the development of the Nautilus. The skipper, CDR Wilkerson and dad had several war patrols together and he wanted dad to be his COB. The 'ol man elected to retire instead and we left there in '55.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 04:39 PM (W/lyH)

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 04:41 PM (W/lyH)

47 So Trump is Charlton Heston?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 04:42 PM (dg+HA)

48 I see Rain-o-wode is calling for 'true socialism' ah yes the killing fields.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:42 PM (ccS8/)

49 In Minneapolis, the city & the feds just rushed through a consent decree that will handcuff the police. The only lesson they seemed to have learned from the election is that they should put in place as many far-left policies as possible while they're still in office.

Posted by: Dave at January 07, 2025 04:42 PM (nLwaa)

50 With this axe, I rule.

Posted by: Doge Kull at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

51
I'd like to gloat, but the margin of victory doesn't justify it, and rogue rino crongresscreeps are poised to be spoilers.

1. Fix the vote and end the fraud.
2. End "legacy" media and the connections that let them lie.
3. Fire people down to janitor level that rule in criminal fashion.
4. Go through the judiciary with blow torches.
5. Send creatures like Gen. Milley to Gitmo.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (j4U/Z)

52 Yeah, Chuck, you nailed it. Keep cooking raw meat with cheese on top.

Remember when Shrub went to Iraq and served turkey and the top story for months was whether or not it was real turkey?

Odd how Schumer cooking fake cheeseburgers had zero press coverage.

Of course I'm more interested in the clip where he has an animated discussion with an empty seat on the Senate floor.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)

53 40 Chuck Schumer said, the democrats simply didn't articulate well enough how much the dems did for everyone.

Yeah, Chuck, you nailed it. Keep cooking raw meat with cheese on top.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM (gaKF9)

the meat was kinda gray, too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

54 Chuck Schumer translated - "All you voters are stupid!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (ccS8/)

55 Uhm no, gloating is justified.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (KQk9m)

56 At the WaPo site for the article, which is behind a paywall, you can dig into a part of the subscriber comments stream, which is up over 5K posts long.

The screeching and howling is a treat to behold. The progressive left is descending into an abyss of insanity.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (KiBMU)

57 I'm so tired of the Dems self-flagulating and blaming themselves. Yesterday I saw a clip of Chuck Schumer saying the Democrats didn't show enough empathy to the people. BS! James Carville said the Democratic Party needs to stop sounding like the NPR academics. Are you kidding me!? Should members of the the Democratic Party apologize for being smart? I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

The results of the election (whether they be completely legit or not) were influenced by rampant misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and lies. it's not easy to counter, especially when the media is facilitating the delivery of the disinformation and protecting the propaganda, instead of calling out the lies.

If this last election proved anything, we are very much a "vote AGAINST something" electorate. No matter how terrible our messaging is, if the country is in a shithole state, even the rightwing propaganda won't be enough to overcome that and save Republicans in 2026 and 2028.

People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

58 I'd like to gloat, but the margin of victory doesn't justify it, and rogue rino crongresscreeps are poised to be spoilers.

1. Fix the vote and end the fraud.

Yep. Absent fraud we've got 4 more GOP Senators including Lake and something like 27 more House Reps...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)

59 The Liberal Refugees don't understand that the reason that there is a latter daysplit from "the left" is because liberal politics were interspersed with Marxian politics and YOU could not tell the difference.

I was not Alt-Right. I didn't particularly care for the Alt-Right. But the Alt-Right that many of us were trying to ignore has become to the "Refugee Right" the "Woke Right" faction that is going to kill all "right" efforts.

When I look at what the Refugee Right calls "Woke Right" mostly want they can point me to is the Alt-Right which is a more cynical version of "conservatism" which mainly is concerned with winning some points.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (krQz2)

60 Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform
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Because they cannot help but double down.

They can take a step back and pretend to think things over and ask "What did we miss?" but that's all talk. Their urges will take over and they will double down.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM

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"We failed to explain as if speaking to a small child, or a chipmunk."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (amTrm)

61 So Trump is Charlton Heston?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

"Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!"

Posted by: Charlton Trump at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (vcOmj)

62 Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2025 04:39 PM (Pi4iV)

Well, sure. It is true that both parties and the entire DC apparatus are entirely captured by powerful interests in DC. That has been the case for all of our lifetimes, and will likely continue to be the case until long after we're all dead.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (uCjyK)

63 I'm concerned that the left is going to find some actor dupe again (like Obama, AOC or Zelensky) and put them up as their young, smart, centrist candidate but is really a puppet for the raging, marxist left.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (gaKF9)

64 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

and this lefty is too stupid to understand what that meant

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (Pv3Rg)

65 Should members of the the Democratic Party apologize for being smart? I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

You're soaking in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (ynpvh)

66 Back in the early 80's, the last time it looked like the Dems were dead, dead, dead, George Will (I know! I know!) observed how out of touch they'd got with a quip about their message being along the lines of "No, Lady, you're not really worried about crime in the street, you're just a racist!"

Well, we got 12 years of Reagan/Bush, but then they came back with Bubba's "centrist" message and Algore's techno-savvy, and the process started over again.

It will, eventually, this time, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (LxER7)

67 I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

May this genius be forced to lesson to nothing but Kamala Harris speeches in her time in the after life...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (t0Rmr)

68 Tennessee wore the Oilers uniforms Sunday.

And they sure lived up to the winning legacy of that franchise this year.

Posted by: Doge Kull at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (gKWVE)

69 'd like to gloat, but the margin of victory doesn't justify it, and rogue rino crongresscreeps are poised to be spoilers.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (j4U/Z)
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Agreed.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (krQz2)

70 Dave

Let the Left put their policies in place. Reality gets a vote. North Korea applauds.

BTW, loved you in your movie.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (u82oZ)

71 the rise of the left is just the rise of the full-of-themselves, spoiled midwits

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

72

Socialism is a cult.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

73
Diogenes,

Dad was on the Piper and the Coral Sea. I was about 3 or 4 when we moved there.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (3ek7K)

74 I know a lot of people love it but the 1982 Conan is simply not Conan. I think Oliver Stone( who wrote the screenplay) confused Conan with Kull. Kull had been a slave, Kull's big enemy was Thulsa Doom. (Indeed Conan started as a rewritten Kull story)Conan was never a fucking slave. Conan has black hair and blue eyes. Rant over.
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (KQk9m)
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Conan the Barbarian is a Conan story from the scene with the wolves onward, including specific references to original Robert E. Howard Conan stories such as Tower of the Elephant, A Witch Shall Be Born, and Queen of the Black Coast.

The back-story is a departure from Conan, presumably added out of a perceived need for audiences to identify with a personal revenge story.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (UbULu)

75 I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

May this genius be forced to lesson to nothing but Kamala Harris speeches in her time in the after life...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (t0Rmr)
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Let's vote for Kamala, so we're not led by the dumb ones!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (krQz2)

76 They can take a step back and pretend to think things over and ask "What did we miss?" but that's all talk. Their urges will take over and they will double down.
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To admit that people they distain, people they are disgusted by, people with less credentials, who don't live in big cities, the lessers, the nobodies, were ... right?

They'll perform tranny bottom surgery on themselves without anesthesia before they admit that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (R3Yln)

77 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

It's called projection. Probably someone who siphons gas by sucking it up in his mouth first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

78 I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

Sen. Maisey Hirano has entered Chat

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (ccS8/)

79 Leftwing political ideas are at odds with reality. So the more power they get and the more they implement their system, the more everything will fail.

There are a million examples of this but take taxes for example.

The left argues that putting heavy taxes on say labor or investment will have no effect on labor participation rates or how much people are willing to invest and then they are SHOCKED to find they are ruling over a system where people go on the dole instead of working or move their money into black/gray markets that can't be taxed.

And this process repeats again and again and again.
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And yet, MARXISTS also every so often let the mask slip and acknowledge that supply and demand curves exist (aka "classic capitalist economic theory). They do this by periodically selling off oil from the Strategic Reserve--knowing that doing so will increase "supply" and thus drop prices that were bloated by their poor policies.

I really believe most marxists know that they're technically "wrong" about economic theory and practice YET think that if they just "wish hard enough" their stupid practices will somehow defy supply and demand. It also helps that they simply don't care.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

80 Chucky is also on my just stroke out and die list.
That man is evil

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

81 And they still think "Trump is for billionaires, Kamala is for the middle class" was a perfect counter attack.

It was! Kamala was middle class!

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (j4U/Z)

82 Black River is best Conan, but there was some good stuff in A Witch Shall Be Born.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (gKWVE)

83 Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform
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Because they cannot help but double down.

They can take a step back and pretend to think things over and ask "What did we miss?" but that's all talk. Their urges will take over and they will double down.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM (krQz2)

The US system requires that a pressure group needs to moderate and cooperate with other groups inside the party to actually have a hand in power. But in the election, winning an actual tangible area gives you full control of it, so the winner is responsible to an actual area.

A parliamentary system gives a splinter group the power to decide who wins over the majority, thus rewarding splinter extremist parties. Proportional Representation gives representatives no district to hold them responsible. The EU parliament was run by a dude who's party got 3 percent of the vote in Belgium.

The Dems now are part criminals and part ideological zealots. Neither are in the mood for compromising with each other, or by the normal voter with real wants and needs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (n7h9X)

84
72

Socialism is a cult.
Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

When do they do the koolaid thing??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (mzM2O)

85 The 74 Howard did give Conan a backstory of sorts. He had to leave his tribe because he killed the chieftains son in a fight over a woman at around 15 years old.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (KQk9m)

86 There is still a large number of NPC voters that will vote blue no matter who, and add to that many blue cities in both red and blue states that are clever at taking advantage of election laws and industrious at producing ballots based on these loopholes and lax enforcement. And a media and education establishment that is steeped in decades of being part of the leftist propaganda ministry. While sections of voters are figuring things out, recent converts need to be shown that the R's aren't the same old GOP and Trump and the idiot Rs in Congress must deliver results.

Europe's establishment might be dug in harder than the US deep state and a larger portion of their godless populations are brainwashed. Plus they have the very real problem of a large Muslim population with decades of slow invasion and conquering having already taken place.

Developing...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (f2lsh)

87 81 And they still think "Trump is for billionaires, Kamala is for the middle class" was a perfect counter attack.

It was! Kamala was middle class!
Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (j4U/Z)

'Was'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (mzM2O)

88 The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government.

As I've said before, to the left, Democracy means rule by Democrats... not rule of the majority of the people.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (QAkQ3)

89 78 I don't want to be led by the dumb ones.

Sen. Maisey Hirano has entered Chat

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (ccS8/)

The Hawaiian Islands might flip over!--Hank Johnson

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (ynpvh)

90 I really believe most marxists know that they're technically "wrong" about economic theory and practice YET think that if they just "wish hard enough" their stupid practices will somehow defy supply and demand. It also helps that they simply don't care.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

Never met a marxist yet who donated his entire fortune to the state like he says he believes in.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

91 I want their lamentations and wailing to be so loud, Krakatoa will hear it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (ccS8/)

Which Krakatoa? East of Java, or West of Java?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (hUzUC)

92 I really believe most marxists know that they're technically "wrong" about economic theory and practice YET think that if they just "wish hard enough" their stupid practices will somehow defy supply and demand. It also helps that they simply don't care.

I'd take this a step farther. Much of the left believes reality is a shared illusion, so if everyone just thinks right thoughts we will get our Utopia.

The problem isn't that leftwing economics don't work, the problem is that you wreckers and racists continue thinking they won't work and so they don't.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (t0Rmr)

93 Navy guys I knew who had served there called it "Rotten Groton."

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

94 39 34 We are already hearing the laminations of their women.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 04:40 PM

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If they're laminated, you won't be hearing them much longer.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (amTrm)

95
"Peter" is leaving, leaving on a mort plane.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (+1QNT)

96 Turtledove tried his hand at making the Venarium incident an actual story. Didn't really work, despite Turtledove's creds as a Roman historian.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2025 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

97 Jonestown was Flav-o-aid because Jim Jones was a cheapskate mass murderer.

IE, typical Socialist madman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:49 PM (ccS8/)

98 "People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. "

No, people love it when you are much smarter - everything is easier. What they hate is being told you are much smarter. Sadly, many of us lack this self awareness.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at January 07, 2025 04:49 PM (tA1/w)

99 I'm with Kurt Schlichter, not in a mood to forgive and forget. The left needs beating into ploughshares so they can be useful sometime in the future.

Posted by: Decaf at January 07, 2025 04:49 PM (unUNN)

100 49 In Minneapolis, the city & the feds just rushed through a consent decree that will handcuff the police. The only lesson they seemed to have learned from the election is that they should put in place as many far-left policies as possible while they're still in office.
Posted by: Dave at January 07, 2025 04:42 PM (nLwaa)

What's the substance of the decree? If it's against shooting women in their pajamas for asking cops for help or smashing middle-aged women's faces in for filming police interactions, I'm fine with that. If it's "thou shalt not arrest any black people for anything" then I take issue with it.

Posted by: Devil. Details. Assembly required. at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (ybSPO)

101 Leftism is at its very essence an outsider philosophy. It was never meant to govern. Leftism is nthing more than being the smug critic on the sidelines, pointing out the purported flaws and failures of those who actually have the courage to lead and innovate.

Leftism is the backseat driver. Trumpism is Richard Petty.

I thought all leftists knew this. They don't WANT o be in charge. They simply want to sit comfortably on the sidelines and sneer insults and criticisms of those who have the strong character to take the reins of governance.

Lok what happens evcery time true leftists take over. Catastrophe. Marist economic theory can't even work in an ideal world. It is designed to utterly fail. Marxist know that. What Marxism is is weaponized smugness.

Step aside, losers. Let real men lead. And maybe it's time to just shut up and enjoy the ride to prosperity for once..

Posted by: zombie at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (pMi6S)

102 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

Note, the attempt to conflate 'Educated' with smart.

Don't work that way Buttercup. Some of the dumbest people I know, have high level College Degrees.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (QAkQ3)

103 The problem isn't that leftwing economics don't work, the problem is that you wreckers and racists continue thinking they won't work and so they don't.

18-1 is correct

Neil Gaiman once expounded on this concept in a Sandman comic about cats. (Dream of a Thousand Cats)

but really at this point the left/dems are just a racket, the silly stuff we see on DU are their poor stupid groupies

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

104 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Never met a marxist yet who donated his entire fortune to the state like he says he believes in.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

That only happens when the rifles come out. Right comrades?

Once the State starts federalizing your fortune, true Marxism is achieved.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (mzM2O)

106
The Left tends to repeat what has worked for them in the past. Failures are claimed to be exceptions or due to special circumstances.

It's like 18th century doctors go-to treatment: bloodletting. Apparently the only condition it can really benefit is congestive heart failure; successes with that were extrapolated to everything. It's quite possible that excessive bloodletting is what actually killed George Washington.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (dtlw7)

107 Chuck Schumer translated - "All you voters are stupid!"
Posted by: Anna Puma

That and the comments illustrated by "Intercepted DU Transmissions" convinces me that the Left and Democrats are incapable of changing, rethinking, changing course. They set this course decades ago.

If you recall the late 80's, early 90's, Clinton (among others) formed the Democratic Leadership Council, which was supposedly a "centrist" reform wing of the Democrat Party. Once Clinton got himself elected, he did the same things that Democrats always seem to do. He just had a great economy handed to him that was started in the early 1980's (the Long Boom, as it was called), that extended (generally) until 2008, when the Bond Market collapsed.
There is a distinct possibility that the economy will absolutely tank based on the damage done by the Biden Wrecking Crew, or we could teeter into WWIII (I hope not!!), in which case, the Democrats, with no change, will come roaring back. Or not....

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (vcOmj)

108 It's like Joy Reid saying Kamala ran a historic, flawless campaign. I mean, how do you reason with someone so dumb?

It's all of the left, they think they're the smartest ones in any room but they understand so little and it's coming from a ridiculous bubble that no one in the real world cares about.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (gaKF9)

109 When do they do the koolaid thing??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:47 PM (mzM2O)

1) When the run out of other people's money.

2) After they find out they're out-gunned and outnumbered.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (rj6Yv)

110 East? West?

It still went kablooey.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (ccS8/)

111 I really believe most marxists know that they're technically "wrong" about economic theory and practice YET think that if they just "wish hard enough" their stupid practices will somehow defy supply and demand. It also helps that they simply don't care.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.

When I lived in Chicago every election aside from US Senator was unopposed. Now in CA there often isn't a GOP candidate allowed by law due to the Jungle Primary.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (n7h9X)

112 ... 'true socialism' ah yes the killing fields.
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Its hard to slay marxism when the schools and media have avoided subjects like "the killing fields" for 40 years.

What I know of the topic is from late night searches I've done in the last few years, just because I was curious about this gaping hole in my understanding of history.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

113
I think "educated" stopped being synonymous with "smart" 50 years ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (+1QNT)

114 They can take a step back and pretend to think things over and ask "What did we miss?" but that's all talk. Their urges will take over and they will double down.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:35 PM

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"We failed to explain as if speaking to a small child, or a chipmunk."
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 07, 2025 04:44 PM (amTrm)
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Exactly.

Notice the number of times that the Demedia have rubbed their chin and asked "Did we miss something"? "Perhaps we should remain more open--for WE are the TRUE OPEN ones!"

"Maybe we should know people with trucks--or truck balls?!"

But they stay mad that the other side had any success whatsoever and then they have unleash their pent up fury that somebody got what they wanted and they didn't.

And just like the clips from DU, they lick their wounds by flattering themselves. Sounding like they can shift gears is it's own reward as long as by sounding that way they can convince themselves that they are the more reasonable, and have given the other side ample opportunity to prove themselves.

They almost never stray from the us-vs-them framework, which makes them feel better about the choices THEY made.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (krQz2)

115 The left sucks. Everything it touches turns to crap. They've tried to destroy America and the west their entire existence. They're for the mutilation and molestation of children. It doesn't get any more evil than that.

Sure, I'm sure there are moderate liberals out there, but your party doesn't exist anymore. They're destroying everything. You will join them or resist them. There is no middle ground with them anymore. You're either evil or against evil. Period.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

116 64 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

and this lefty is too stupid to understand what that meant

Posted by: Black Orchid

Yea, he's confusing 'over-educated' with over-credentialed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (sAmhv)

117 Much of the left believes reality is a shared illusion, so if everyone just thinks right thoughts we will get our Utopia.

The problem isn't that leftwing economics don't work, the problem is that you wreckers and racists continue thinking they won't work and so they don't.
Posted by: 18-1

Listen to Marxist Economics Professor Richard Wolff on YouTube sometime for a laugh. He frequently says inflation is a myth, and only caused by greedy capitalists artificially inflating prices to make a profit. If the Government printer and distributed more money, and shopkeepers and manufacturers all agreed to keep their prices the same, everyone would win!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (JCZqz)

118 80 Chucky is also on my just stroke out and die list.

Posted by: Skip

I've got one of those, too, but this is a blog, not a phone book.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)

119 112 I really believe most marxists know that they're technically "wrong" about economic theory and practice YET think that if they just "wish hard enough" their stupid practices will somehow defy supply and demand. It also helps that they simply don't care.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:46 PM (TN0g+)

One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.

When I lived in Chicago every election aside from US Senator was unopposed. Now in CA there often isn't a GOP candidate allowed by law due to the Jungle Primary.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (n7h9X)

Yeah, welcome to the Jungle, baby.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (ynpvh)

120 Be wary. Marxism will morph into something else. It's the worst changeling.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (mzM2O)

121 There is still a large number of NPC voters that will vote blue no matter who,

A very specific example of this I've run across - I was working in a blue town with a bunch of lefty LIVs cow-workers. A candidate runs for mayor on a draconian environmental platform, including a requirement that 50% of all parking places at office parks in town have to be reserved for economy sized cars.

My cow-workers voted for her and cheered her on. Note these people mostly drive SUVs/trucks and many were fat. So after the candidate won and forced the company that owned our office park to repaint the lines you could imagine their were endless complaints about my car collusions and door banging the car next to them.

And who did my cow-workers blame for this? The company following the law. Who did they not blame? The woman that passed the law. Insanity isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (t0Rmr)

122 n Musk@elonmusk

My British grandmother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was an important part of my childhood. She was very strict, but also kind and I could always count on her.

She grew up very poor in England during the Great Depression only to be bombed in WW2. To earn money for food, she cleaned houses, leaving me with a lasting respect for those who do so.

My Nana was one of the poor working-class girls with no one to protect her who might have been abducted in present day Britain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (bhSZH)

123 Only a Boomer would say Gen Xers were influenced by Conan.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (wBaIH)

124 It's like Joy Reid saying Kamala ran a historic, flawless campaign. I mean, how do you reason with someone so dumb?

It's all of the left, they think they're the smartest ones in any room but they understand so little and it's coming from a ridiculous bubble that no one in the real world cares about.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (gaKF9)

That should be encouraged. Give her double the money to blow on an entire campaign next time around.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

125 113 ... 'true socialism' ah yes the killing fields.
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Its hard to slay marxism when the schools and media have avoided subjects like "the killing fields" for 40 years.

What I know of the topic is from late night searches I've done in the last few years, just because I was curious about this gaping hole in my understanding of history.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

Reminiscent of people who say hunting is bad, as you can buy meat at the store and don't have to kill animals to do it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:52 PM (ynpvh)

126 The Left tends to repeat what has worked for them in the past. Failures are claimed to be exceptions or due to special circumstances.

that's exceptionally well put!

also, they just are so feminized they are never ever wrong. they cannot be wrong!

little miss little miss can't be wrong goes thru my head dealing with them

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (Pv3Rg)

127
"I failed because of you." is not a recipe for success.

I think the Democratards big problem is their stupid Low IQ belief that they're "on the right side of history".

Any quick scan of history will show that there is no "right side" other than the group who cuts off the most heads. The powerful win...that's it.

That's why we must not fail to "take heads" while in power. Trump must defund and undercut the left at every single point he can. And an effort must be made to punish those who illegally and unConstitutionally ran a coup on Senile Joe and used it to damage the US and the citizens of this country.

Nothing should be left in place within the gov't to help finance the Left. And billionaire criminals funding the riots of BLM, etc need to go straight to jail all within the letter of the law.

The a-holes really should never think what they've done to us over the last 4 years was a good idea to be repeated.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)

128 So far, even the screamingly obvious implications of this last election have not been enough to shock many, if not most, Democrats out of their culture denialist torpor.

"Biden's" actions since the election are reflective of this: awarding medals and pardons to the "true believers" and criminal poster-boys of the left.

And I think we should encourage the left to retreat even further into their cocoon of echos. Let them enjoy the soothing warmth of their own delusions while we get on with fixing things.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (wtvvX)

129 So far, even the screamingly obvious implications of this last election have not been enough to shock many, if not most, Democrats out of their culture denialist torpor.

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I don't want Democrats to learn from their mistakes just yet, the country needs to be unified and healed before they start with their divisiveness again.

One other thing, no more hands across the aisle in congress, it's their turn to do the crossing to our side. It wouldn't do them any harm to cross themselves in prayer every once in a while and seek forgiveness for their abortion worship.

Posted by: Decaf at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (unUNN)

130 I was reading Turtledoves alternate WW2 with the humans fighting alien invaders but it got kind of weird at one point

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (KQk9m)

131 6hrvY is more right than Geoffie Miller; but screw it, this is a Weird Tales thread now.
(The formative GenX movie if there is one is probably Heathers.)

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (gKWVE)

132 I was mostly influenced by Rambo, John J.

Commie destruction at its finest.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (mzM2O)

133 And note, the best part about this refusal to evaluate in any honest manner is:

It makes it absolutely impossible for a pretend moderate to rise to power, e.g., a Bill Clinton.

I mean, their "moderate" balance to the ticket was ... Tim Walz. And he's not even anywhere close to the conversation of 2028.

Who else they got?
They are all just as or father left than Kamala--every single one will have to run in 2028 on "restoring trans rights, ending deportations, etc."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:54 PM (R3Yln)

134 The Dems are still delusional. They can be understand that their whole belief system was toxic. I'm at the tail end of the babyboom and unfortunately the left rules most of the surviving boomers. It's good to see that younger generations have figured it out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2025 04:54 PM (c+GDc)

135 133 I was mostly influenced by Rambo, John J.

Commie destruction at its finest.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (mzM2O)

I learned from "Independence Day" that they way to defeat aliens is by going up the ass--Petey Bootyjuice

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

136 Who can the left put up as a bulletproof candidate?

They called us racists.
They called us misogynists.
They called us sexists.

What's left?

Islamaphobes? Done.
Transphobes? Done.

The US elected a half-black president twice.

They need to move on, but where to?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 04:54 PM (gaKF9)

137 One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.

Here is the problem with this - run as a low chance of winning R candidate in a deep blue area and when you lose you won't be able to get a job back in whatever field you used to work in because you'll be blacklisted.

This leaves people that are rich to begin with...and why would they live in a place like New England or the upper Midwest...or people about to retire.

You could fix this by building out a slate of real rightwing NGOs to hire them but we just don't have that any more. All the rightwing pundit gigs are controlled by the left.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

138 I mean, they just pinned medals on Hillary and Soros.

These fuckers ain't changing the core values, ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (mzM2O)

139 Man, did I call it or what?

Posted by: Dunning Kruger at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (Wz1Ib)

140 20 Conan has transgenderism. Okay, it was a guy changing into a snake. But still...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:36 PM (ynpvh)

Well, no way you can call Thulsa Doom a Furry!

maybe.... a Scaley?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (QAkQ3)

141 That last photo reminds me that Spinal Tap II is in work.

Posted by: Roy at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (z+ik4)

142 134 And note, the best part about this refusal to evaluate in any honest manner is:

It makes it absolutely impossible for a pretend moderate to rise to power, e.g., a Bill Clinton.

I mean, their "moderate" balance to the ticket was ... Tim Walz. And he's not even anywhere close to the conversation of 2028.

Who else they got?
They are all just as or father left than Kamala--every single one will have to run in 2028 on "restoring trans rights, ending deportations, etc."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:54 PM (R3Yln)

Kali is filled with Left or Lefterer...see Newsom.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

143 I'm Gen X and I've never watched Conan on purpose, ever. And when I did watch anything with him, it was unfunny. Plus, he had that douchebag co-host that is an absolute libtard dickhead, so yeah, Conan influenced my life in absolutely no fashion whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

144 139 I mean, they just pinned medals on Hillary and Soros.

These fuckers ain't changing the core values, ever.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (mzM2O)

Also some Margarete Sanger wanna be Abortion Activist.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (QAkQ3)

145 Red Dawn.

"Wolverines!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (ccS8/)

146 Leftist are only happy when they don't have any responsibility and don;t have to take the blame for the painful realities of trying t run a nation.

They WANT Republicans to win. That way they can feel relaxed and morally superior in their critic's chair.

The problem s rthat this new generation of leftists did';t get the memo and think that they actually want to be in charge,

The oldtimer commes need to sit the youngsters dine and give them The Talk: Let the bad guys win. Let the bad guys take the blame for everything that happens. That is the plan. That has always been the plan.

Posted by: zombie at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (pMi6S)

147 I mean, their "moderate" balance to the ticket was ... Tim Walz. And he's not even anywhere close to the conversation of 2028.

I'd argue that Walz did provide some balance to Harris.

Harris after all had sex with older men to advance her career and Walz advanced his career to have sexual access to younger men...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

148 Um, Sponge...

Posted by: Emily Litella at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (gKWVE)

149 Leftism is at its very essence an outsider philosophy. It was never meant to govern. Leftism is nthing more than being the smug critic on the sidelines, pointing out the purported flaws and failures of those who actually have the courage to lead and innovate.

Leftism is the backseat driver. Trumpism is Richard Petty.

Posted by: zombie at January 07, 2025 04:50 PM (pMi6S)
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That's EXACTLY how I can identify as a "Trumper".

I watch blue cities get progressively worse and worse, doubling down at each step on the ideological failures, and tap the drawing board whenever questioned.

And then I see Trump. His economic theory doesn't match mine. Maybe he has a little of (to cross streams) Ernhardt's technique of "The Rub", for my tastes.

But he stays in the race and becomes its master.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (krQz2)

150 commes = commies

Posted by: zombie at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (pMi6S)

151 I was mostly influenced by Rambo, John J.

Commie destruction at its finest.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (mzM2O)

I'm told they pulled that name of the Vietnam Wall and the family begged them not to use it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

152 So the Demoncrats are admitting they are incapable of acting in a role of loyal opposition?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (kTd/k)

153 Its hard to slay marxism when the schools and media have avoided subjects like "the killing fields" for 40 years.

What I know of the topic is from late night searches I've done in the last few years, just because I was curious about this gaping hole in my understanding of history.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

The Nazis are a socialist party. Its right there in the Z of the name. They try and turn it into a huge divide that Nazis wore black shirts and the Commies wore Brown shirts.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (n7h9X)

154 One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.

Put me in, coach! I'll run and lose in whatever Blue hellhole you like!

Posted by: Alan Keyes at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

155 A lot of people voted for Obama the first time thinking " Now they will finally stop with this racist stuff". Nope they only got worse.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (KQk9m)

156 Carter's coffin is inside the Capitol now.

Not watching it from respect for him, but for respect for all the servicemembers putting up with the cold. Good job, guys and ladies.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (p2GXS)

157 Um, Sponge...
Posted by: Emily Litella at January 07, 2025 04:56 PM (gKWVE)

May I help you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

158 There is no forgiving Communists, they don't quit

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (fwDg9)

159 we Xers were influenced by the miniseries "AmeriKa"

...lol does anyone remember "AmeriDa"?

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

160 154 Its hard to slay marxism when the schools and media have avoided subjects like "the killing fields" for 40 years.

What I know of the topic is from late night searches I've done in the last few years, just because I was curious about this gaping hole in my understanding of history.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

The Nazis are a socialist party. Its right there in the Z of the name. They try and turn it into a huge divide that Nazis wore black shirts and the Commies wore Brown shirts.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 04:57 PM (n7h9X)

National Socialists. Hated the Worldwide Socialists, e.g. commies. Sorta like Shia vs Sunni.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

161 Sonny Hostins as an intellectual dead end....I don't think that's cruel, I think that's just accurate.

Good job Ace

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2025 04:58 PM (xcxpd)

162 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.
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oh how hilarious.

I guarantee the speaker knew exactly why they were calling them over-educated.
And it had nothing to to with envy, jealousy or hate.

It's because you are a fucking retard that fucks up regularly and always shakes your diploma in defense as if it's some sort of magical artifact that wards off reality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:58 PM (R3Yln)

163 163 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.
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oh how hilarious.

I guarantee the speaker knew exactly why they were calling them over-educated.
And it had nothing to to with envy, jealousy or hate.

It's because you are a fucking retard that fucks up regularly and always shakes your diploma in defense as if it's some sort of magical artifact that wards off reality.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 04:58 PM (R3Yln)

His PHd in Transgendered Lesbian Poetry doesn't make him smart.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

164 No need to psychoanalyze this. The Left is digging in on these unpopular policies because they don't care what stupid proles think, and they plan to run this country without regard to them or Trump, and they'll be damned if they give an inch on anything to those stupid proles.

Telling them no just hardens their resolve.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (BI5O2)

165 Oh......THAT Conan......oopsie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

166 The left is built on everything that goes wrong is the fault of someone else. Taking responsibility for ones actions is heresy for the cult of the left.

The author may make some good points but he doesn't understand "lack of responsibility" is the touchstone of Democrat elites.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (tT6L1)

167 The Nazis are a socialist party. Its right there in the Z of the name. They try and turn it into a huge divide that Nazis wore black shirts and the Commies wore Brown shirts.

National Socialism was and is a Socialist heresy.

As with all heresies it matters a lot to the hierarchy of the base faith but really doesn't mean much to those that don't follow that faith at all.

Hell the reason Mussolini broke with the Socialists of his time over the question of whether you could advance socialism in just one country or not. Not over the question of whether the government should control the means of production...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (t0Rmr)

168 Mental note.

*read the entire thread before commenting about the comments about the thread in the thread*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

169
Eliminate the US Department of Education.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

170 "Friends, countrymen, Americans, lend me your ears, we come here not to praise Carter but to bury him."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (ccS8/)

171 Come on dems...lets go fulll Wellstone on this.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (W/lyH)

172 Harris after all had sex with older men to advance her career and Walz advanced his career to have sexual access to younger men...
Posted by: 18-1

You seem to think a lot about sex. Tell me more.....

Posted by: Zombie Sigmund Freud at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (vcOmj)

173 170
Eliminate the US Department of Education.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

It means the exact opposite...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (ynpvh)

174 OK, let's go full Conan.

Have Melania bring in the FBI agents that searched her underwear drawer. In shackles, with a light white shirt.

Then Big Bubba whips the FBI agents until their shirts are full red.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (u82oZ)

175 Crom laughs at your progressive governance.

Posted by: Conan T. Barbarian at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (CwhoI)

176 172 Come on dems...lets go fulll Wellstone on this.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (W/lyH)

Trust me they won't disappoint

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

177 166 Oh......THAT Conan......oopsie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

HAH! I thought you were just making a joke!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (wtvvX)

178 Gen X was influenced by the TV show V and we've been waiting for an alien lifeform to come down and compete with the crazy earthling bishes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Never met a marxist yet who donated his entire fortune to the state like he says he believes in.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Part of this is that they think they are smarter than other people. So other people need to follow their teachings, but they are exempt.
That is always how socialism works.

I think the dems are in a quandary right now because they *know* they are right, but they can not figure out how to get the proles to follow their direction.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (Wz1Ib)

180 One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.
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100% Agree!

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (TN0g+)

181 Kamala didn't bother to put on one of her good suits, just one of her dark suits.

I mean, granted, they're probably all expensive suits, but I don't think that's a funeral pantsuit.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (p2GXS)

182
HAH! I thought you were just making a joke!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2025 05:01 PM (wtvvX)

I actually should've played that direction........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

183 Trump must defund and undercut the left at every single point he can
______

Day 1 EO to pause all funding of NGOs until an audit can be completed.

Audit department consists of guy in basement office in need of a red Swingline stapler before he can concentrate on doing any work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (f2lsh)

184 Vogon Poetry >>> Cowboy Poetry >>> Transgendered Lesbian Poetry

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (ccS8/)

185 Anna Puma

Don't forget the garlic and stake.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (u82oZ)

186 I think the Democratards big problem is their stupid Low IQ belief that they're "on the right side of history".

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2025 04:53 PM (iJfKG)
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Well you can believe that in a certain metaphysic. When you have a Master of Reality/History. But they try to do this from a "Naturalist" stance.

Liberalism thrived under Liberal Christianity, when they got so "open-minded" that they re-thought Christianity, they became prey to Marx-ish "We're just right about the future and everybody else is regressive and mean".

And at that point it was the crypto-Marxists leading the remnants of liberal cultural Christianity along their revolution.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (krQz2)

187 Many of my friends are retired teachers. They look sad when I say I'll be damned if my grandchildren go to public schools.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (wBaIH)

188 The GOP gets co opted in blue areas. (The GOP is massively compromised in general)

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (KQk9m)

189 186 Anna Puma

Don't forget the garlic and stake.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (u82oZ)

garlic and steak?...mmmmm.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (ynpvh)

190

They can't bury Carter fast enough.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (3ek7K)

191 The wind in Socal is terrible at the moment. Low humidity too.
Good luck fighting the fire in Malibu. My skin is crawling and yard umbrellas getting torn up.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (8QRjS)

192 Mental note.

*read the entire thread before commenting about the comments about the thread in the thread*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wait, you think comment content should be read? Are you new here?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (tT6L1)

193 Vogon Poetry >>> Cowboy Poetry >>> Transgendered Lesbian Poetry
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (ccS8/)
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Vogon Poetry >>> Cowboy Poetry >>> Shit Sculpture >>> Transgendered Lesbian Poetry
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Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)

194 The band is doing extraordinarily beautiful playing. They are in good practice.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (p2GXS)

195 Here is the problem with this - run as a low chance of winning R candidate in a deep blue area and when you lose you won't be able to get a job back in whatever field you used to work in because you'll be blacklisted.

This leaves people that are rich to begin with...and why would they live in a place like New England or the upper Midwest...or people about to retire.

You could fix this by building out a slate of real rightwing NGOs to hire them but we just don't have that any more. All the rightwing pundit gigs are controlled by the left.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

That's why you use locals or young, cheap staffers to live there before running and mix with the peeps there. Look how much street cred Scott Pressler got in Baltimore and LA just by showing up and picking up garbage. Now he put the part over the top in PA.

Have twice weekly cookouts in the district, and just fix problems. Getting over the demonization of the GOP would at least make the Dems have to sweat.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (n7h9X)

196 Willowed Of Course

want Trump to do whatever he wants to do. He has earned it and second guessing him before he is even in the WH is fucking stupid!!!
Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (P4Pk9)

Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (P4Pk9)

197 Part of this is that they think they are smarter than other people. So other people need to follow their teachings, but they are exempt.
That is always how socialism works.

I've had any number of leftists tell me that it doesn't matter that lefty elites jet set all over the globe because

A) There are only a few of them so in aggregate those dirty dirty plebes use more fuels
B) They are going good works and therefore deserve a dispensation anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (t0Rmr)

198 Transgendered Lesbian Poetry

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (ccS8/)

This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

199 189 The GOP gets co opted in blue areas. (The GOP is massively compromised in general)

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (KQk9m)

Well, that's because many of them are junior partners of the Dems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (ynpvh)

200 Conan O'Brien was a writer on The Simpsons back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)

201 144 I'm Gen X and I've never watched Conan on purpose, ever. And when I did watch anything with him, it was unfunny.
Posted by: Sponge

He did write some funny stuff for the Simpsons a long time ago before that show joined the legion of doom.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (j4U/Z)

202 Exactly

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (KQk9m)

203 PSA:
Due to the upcoming roil back of government funded transgender therapeutic drugs we face a new social dilemma. Many male to female transgenders will be turning back to men without a penis.

I am proudly announcing the creation of my new company Rent-A Weiner. Although my ill funded business start up to open a whore house and run it by hand until adequate funding failed I am confident the Rent A Weiner plan will be successful.

Please feel free to contact me at Schenectady tree two two nine fo fo fo fo

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (jQ+5q)

204 I am not watching Carter funeral

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (fwDg9)

205 Not that long ago, Musk and Rogen were proud members of the left. Now they're considered heretical enemies of the faith.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (CwhoI)

206 The GOP gets co opted in blue areas. (The GOP is massively compromised in general)

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (KQk9m)
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And in Red.

It is the same type of person: politician.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (krQz2)

207
Wait, you think comment content should be read? Are you new here?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (tT6L1)

Andrew Breitbart actually claimed that the main reason to read this blog was the comment section, so, yeah. I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

208 “Conan! What is best in life?”

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

Time ta get ta crushin'!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (wtvvX)

209 There are a few former Leftists out there.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (fwDg9)

210
The US elected a half-black president twice.

They need to move on, but where to?

Posted by: Seems Legit

They can move on towards the back yard and learn to pick up dog turds.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (MsrgL)

211 Carter's coffin is inside the Capitol now.
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I've been told his staff is having a difficult time keeping up with him!

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

212 I am not watching Carter funeral
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (fwDg9)

He was an evil prick. The only thing I'd do would be to celebrate. But, since it would've been my dad's 80th birthday today, I'll celebrate that instead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

213 Remember when being a Republican was Toxic ?

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (Fg0Nr)

214 Many of my friends are retired teachers. They look sad when I say I'll be damned if my grandchildren go to public schools.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2025 05:02 PM (wBaIH)

They didn't fight hard enough. Its like a restaurant that puts poisoners on staff to cook. It only takes one to ruin the business.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (n7h9X)

215 Even in Kansas there are plenty of elected positions that have no candidates. You write someone in.

I told the local Republican Party we should grow our candidates starting with minor offices. They were only interested in County Commissioner and above.

Losers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (u82oZ)

216 "Over-Educated" Oh, you mean that degree you received from professors overlooking your shitty writing skills and nonexistent math skills from a University that had to stretch the limit of affirmative action to allow you to get in? That degree in women's studies that has the academic rigor of a semi-solid turd?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (gaKF9)

217 crush the wokescum filth

Posted by: SamIam at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (oasF3)

218
He did write some funny stuff for the Simpsons a long time ago before that show joined the legion of doom.
Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (j4U/Z)

Seems he should'a stayed behind the scenes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

219 There are a few former Leftists out there.
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2025 05:05 PM (fwDg9)

They aren't telling anyone to be easy on the leftists.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

220 Is the coffin made of 100% recycled wood pulp?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (ccS8/)

221 I've had any number of leftists tell me that it doesn't matter that lefty elites jet set all over the globe because

A) There are only a few of them so in aggregate those dirty dirty plebes use more fuels
B) They are going good works and therefore deserve a dispensation anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (t0Rmr)
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And you know what mid-20th century libs chanted?

The Ends Don't Justify the Means.

And yet, throughout the time that they changed that slogan at people, they thought so.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2)

222 "government schools"
Let's call them what they are.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (dg+HA)

223
Anna,

Probably peanut shells, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (3ek7K)

224 As a good leftist shouldn't his corpse be mulched or something?

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (KQk9m)

225 224 "government schools"
Let's call them what they are.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (dg+HA)

Indoctrination Centers

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (VE6XX)

226 One reason Blue areas stay blue is the GOP doesn't field a candidate. The GOP should run in every district even if its a bunch off college guys with a meal allowance.
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The fruit of decades of the national GOPe that "doesn't want to waste money on losing races" while funding their favored candidates to the brim so they can eek out a 10%+ victory in deep red states keeps blue areas blue.

Campaigns are expensive.
And, until now, the GOPe has been able to stillborn any race they didn't want to contest.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (R3Yln)

227 Is the coffin made of 100% recycled wood pulp?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (ccS8/)

The lifeless bodies of the babies sacrificed to keep him alive all these years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

228 224 "government schools"
Let's call them what they are.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (dg+HA)

Brainwashing centers?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

229 ***I'm convinced it was partly because watching Conan the Barbarian (1982) was a formative experience for many Gen X guys.***
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0 to 10 (max) then that's it. Linda Ronstadt said she never sang anything (style) that she didn't know before she was ten.
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Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.
_ Ignatius Loyola;

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2025 05:08 PM (bhSZH)

230 Is the coffin made of 100% recycled wood pulp?
Posted by: Anna Puma

It was made by a spin-off from Habitat for Humanity

Habitats for Dead Humanity.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (vcOmj)

231 As a good leftist shouldn't his corpse be mulched or something?
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (KQk9m)

I mean, would you want to eat the fruit from a tree grown in Carter compost?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)

232 The Utilitarians.

Bring me their skulls.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (qu/pS)

233 179 Gen X was influenced by the TV show V and we've been waiting for an alien lifeform to come down and compete with the crazy earthling bishes.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

https://tinyurl.com/3n2fu63s
I was too young to fully understand the feelings Jane Badler was giving me as I watched "V" with my parents back in the 80s.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

234 Andrew Breitbart actually claimed that the main reason to read this blog was the comment section, so, yeah. I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)
#########################################

I only read Ace of Spades for the comments about me!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (UbULu)

235 >>>He did write some funny stuff for the Simpsons a long time ago before that show joined the legion of doom.

Jimmy Kimmel was really funny until he got a show too. On the other hand, Stephen Colbert was never funny.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (CwhoI)

236 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)
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The over-educated doofus didn't realize someone called him stupid to his face. Most likely was running off at the mouth on a subject which he knew nothing about but thought his degree gave him cover to opine in ignorance.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

237 Who can the left put up as a bulletproof candidate?

They called us racists.
They called us misogynists.
They called us sexists.

What's left?
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Call us targets.

Which is pretty much fact.

Our move. Let's see how this plays out, shall we?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (Q4IgG)

238 The only reason the demonrats gained this much power was massive vote fraud and the absolute weakness of RINOs
Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 04:34 PM (/u6/R)

You misspelled collusion.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (FCbAQ)

239 I am watching my county organizationsal meeting.

What a shitshow.

Some squishes got elected, now there is a 7-4 bloc against the conservatives. New Chairman is an asshole, and they are trying to jam in some interim board members with no notice.

Took an hour to approve the agenda.

The Chairman admitted he told legal counsel to NOT talk to Commissioners regarding settlement issues. Former Chairman went ballistic.

I am six hours behind in this meeting.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (ufFY8)

240 Just wall them in, let them fuck up their two dozen or so cities, and let them be. They will not change.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (6hrvY)

It used to be 2 cities, then 5, and now its all of them. Nobody wins by surrender, and that money you save buys wine lunches for the GOPe.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (n7h9X)

241 Remember a few years ago the left was taking "it's not socialism, it's democratic socialism" for a spin?
And thought that was a winning message?

They sure were feeling their oats then.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (R3Yln)

242 The Simpsons was brilliant comedy before it succumbed to BDS and never recovered.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (KQk9m)

243 172 Come on dems...lets go fulll Wellstone on this.
Posted by: Diogenes

Jeez, that funeral was 23 years ago.

I remember watching it in a bar with my brother and howling over how retarded the Democrats were.

They haven't changed, bless their hearts.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (j4U/Z)

244 They aren't telling anyone to be easy on the leftists.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)
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And they're not chastising people for using the word "liberal" as a pejorative that it has been to them for decades... of being right about mixing with Marxists....

Now, I'm willing to make a mea culpa as well. I took people's warnings about tyrannical government and CIA too lightly over many decades.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

245 Assuming you believed the 2020 election and likely a number preceding it were as well, this really shouldn't come as a big shock. You don't cheat and censor your opponents and threaten them with arrest for speaking up unless you have lost the support of the people.

All it took was one guy with enough money and the balls to stand up to them and their cheating tactics and the whole thing came tumbling down. In reality, this new breed of Democrats was never that popular. They just appeared popular because they controlled the megaphone.

If it takes them 20 years to figure it out I'm good.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (LkLld)

246 Jimmy Kimmel was really funny until he got a show too. On the other hand, Stephen Colbert was never funny.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (CwhoI)
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On the Man Show, I always had the sense Kimmel was drafting behind Carolla's talent.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (LxER7)

247
You will not reform them. You will not change them. You will, at best, waste your time and money while pissing them off trying to make things better for them.

I think there is value in every few years making lefty LIVs vote for what they know will just bring them more pain.

As it is now they just argue there are no alternatives.

This will not reform them in the short term its true...but it does open the possibility that after enough pain they will learn.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (t0Rmr)

248 Wellstone funeral with balloons and t-shirts?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (ccS8/)

249
The former president will lie in state for two days.
Visitors with odd numbered license plates can attend on the first day and even numbered plates the second.

The temperature in the Capitol Rotunda has been set to 68 degrees and mourners are encouraged to wear a sweater.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (dg+HA)

250 I was too young to fully understand the feelings Jane Badler was

Jane Badler...mmmm...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (ufFY8)

251 On the other hand, Stephen Colbert was never funny.
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I've never understood how Colbert got anywhere? Its similar to what I heard someone say about Kevin Hart: "You ever notice nobody ever claims to have seen Kevin Hart on the way up? Its like he was a nobody and then a big star with exactly nothing in between."

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)

252 Campaigns are expensive.
And, until now, the GOPe has been able to stillborn any race they didn't want to contest.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (R3Yln)

Trump's wasn't, Kamala Harris' was.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (n7h9X)

253 A white man who ran for governor on a pro-segregation platform was just eulogized by a black man.

Who said that Carter "made the world more palatable."

No, seriously. He also quoted the Navy Hymn and "Day by Day," and was done in about two minutes.

The politicians get to make a longer eulogy with more lies in them.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (p2GXS)

254 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)
___________________

I'm betting this bird has a degree in sociology or some "studies." In which case he's not "over-educated," but rather over-indoctrinated, and is not the the subject of envy by ... well ... anyone.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

255 On the Man Show, I always had the sense Kimmel was drafting behind Carolla's talent.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (LxER7)

Too bad Carolla wasn't crop dusting at the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

256 I wager that, after all of the smart set Leftist navel gazing,not one damned thing will change in Leftist performance… instead there will be doubling and tripling down. They are too invested in their religion, so think Jonestown, in a manner of speaking.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

257 Throw a rabbit in the coffin and see if he's really dead.

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (Fg0Nr)

258 Quarter Twenty

That's funny right there. Good job.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (u82oZ)

259 The former president will lie in state for two days.
Visitors with odd numbered license plates can attend on the first day and even numbered plates the second.

The temperature in the Capitol Rotunda has been set to 68 degrees and mourners are encouraged to wear a sweater.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (dg+HA)
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Hah!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 07, 2025 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

260 Blue Areas are Blue because they are populated by a vast majority of people that want things that way.

Posted by: Here We Go Again

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Yes. The blue model exists because industry (productive class) left the cities (after great society and migration) and cities' tax base switched to retail, dependent class, gov. workers, and finance people who live outside cities.

They are perfectly happy with their model as long as uncle sugar keeps bailing them out.

NYC has now expanded their tax base to include anyone who travels--$27 to get into the city!

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (Wz1Ib)

261 Gulf of America. LOL.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

262 Colbert had the unfunny fake conservative schtick on The Daily Show that was it.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (KQk9m)

263
jsg, LOL

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (3ek7K)

264 There won't be a Democrat party in 4 years

Posted by: YOHAN THE LIBRARIAN at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (3TalN)

265 What gen are people born in 1987? Are they Xs or Zs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (aD39U)

266 Gentlemen, time for a reckoning

NYC's appeal will continue to get more selective.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (u82oZ)

267 Remember a few years ago the left was taking "it's not socialism, it's democratic socialism" for a spin?
And thought that was a winning message?

They sure were feeling their oats then.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:09 PM (R3Yln)

The current democratic socialists in Germany are speaking of banning the second largest party in the country.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (n7h9X)

268 I think the Democratards big problem is their stupid Low IQ belief that they're "on the right side of history".
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It's a religious belief.
Like telling a muzzi Mo the Pedo wasn't a prophet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (R3Yln)

269 I can't believe anyone is watching that prick' funeral...

Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (g47mK)

270 There is a reason you don't know any Kimmel Standup.

He was always a modern straight man. Which just means that he is in on the gag and occasionally has a scripted quip.

He got his start as the announcer/host on Win Ben Stein's Money. Not doing comedy.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (qu/pS)

271 He should have been buried days ago.

Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (g47mK)

272 One newsie girl on location was in tears, her husband called to tell her that they had officially been evacuated, home threatened.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (8QRjS)

273 And they're not chastising people for using the word "liberal" as a pejorative that it has been to them for decades... of being right about mixing with Marxists....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
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So they moved from "liberal" to "progressive." The same term the USSR used to refer to Marxists worldwide.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (YqDXo)

274 Just wall them in, let them fuck up their two dozen or so cities, and let them be. They will not change.
Posted by: Here We Go Again at January

It used to be 2 cities, then 5, and now its all of them. Nobody wins by surrender, and that money you save buys wine lunches for the GOPe.
Posted by: Oldcat

The underlying principle is called "The Curley Effect". Basically, make things bad enough, chase out the Middle Class, and whatever is left will vote Solid Democrat, no matter what. That makes the city a political power base (even if it is a rotten mess), where they can rig votes and stay in power forever. You can look up Curley Effect on Wikipedia for a more clear definition. It was named after a former mayor of Boston.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (vcOmj)

275 =====
I've never understood how Colbert got anywhere? Its similar to what I heard someone say about Kevin Hart: "You ever notice nobody ever claims to have seen Kevin Hart on the way up? Its like he was a nobody and then a big star with exactly nothing in between."
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)
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Without looking it up, I think Hart had a small part in The 40-Year Old Virgin. Dunno what else he might have done. (Honestly, I enjoyed him and The Rock in CIA.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (LxER7)

276 Remember a few years ago the left was taking "it's not socialism, it's democratic socialism" for a spin?
And thought that was a winning message?
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People realized that "democratic socialist" = "communist"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (YqDXo)

277 241 I am watching my county organizationsal meeting.
What a shitshow.
I am six hours behind in this meeting.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Seriously, thank you for serving in the front lines.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)

278 He got his start as the announcer/host on Win Ben Stein's Money. Not doing comedy.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (qu/pS)

Well, at least he's sticking to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (Zz0t1)

279 Plus there ain't no constant TV signal. Digital hash.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (8QRjS)

280 Ha!

"The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, which would impose visa and property sanctions against certain members of the International Criminal Court for investigating protected US officials or allies, could come to a vote in the US Congress as early as Thursday, according to a report from The Hill.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) reintroduced the bill on Monday after it failed to pass the Senate in a companion bill introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Republicans included the bill in the 119th House rules package.

Mast said the bill sends a “clear message” to the ICC."

Just drone the fkrs.

Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (g47mK)

281 Cities, generally, suck, and all of a states villainy is concentrated there. If a city has a university or a medical center attached, it is a lost cause.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (PCK5/)

282 268 What gen are people born in 1987? Are they Xs or Zs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:13 PM (aD39U)

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Millennials. AKA Gen Y.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (zddDv)

283 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

...asking for a Nation.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (qu/pS)

284 Like telling a muzzi Mo the Pedo wasn't a prophet.
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We had a great discussion one day recently that perhaps Mo the Pedo didn't exist at all, much less rise to the position of prophet. I believe it was James Madison who asserted that there is a dearth of contemporary references to Mo, and that doesn't add up given his alleged importance.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (TN0g+)

285 '“We may not recognize you, but you sure as hell will recognize what happens when you target America or its allies,” Mast said. "

Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (g47mK)

286 The former president will lie in state for two days.
Visitors with odd numbered license plates can attend on the first day and even numbered plates the second.

The temperature in the Capitol Rotunda has been set to 68 degrees and mourners are encouraged to wear a sweater.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Will Jamie Lannister get secks breaks with his sister while he stands vigil over the rotted corpse?
- The Sworn Brotherhood of the Kingsguard

Posted by: Ser Barristan Selmy at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (MsrgL)

287 National Socialism was and is a Socialist heresy.

As with all heresies it matters a lot to the hierarchy of the base faith but really doesn't mean much to those that don't follow that faith at all.

Hell the reason Mussolini broke with the Socialists of his time over the question of whether you could advance socialism in just one country or not. Not over the question of whether the government should control the means of production...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2025 05:00 PM (t0Rmr)
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But if fascists are to the "right" of you, then you're coming out as a Marxist.

Fascists, in general, believe in roughly the same Dictatorship (In The Name) of the Proletariat, but simply define progress by the coordination of the state and don't want it withering away, per Pure-strain Marxism.

And of course, I will reiterate, National Socialism is the only kind of socialism that has existed for 15 minutes on the surface of the Earth. It works well with the Dictatorship (In The Name) of the Proletariat, and the more doctrinaire Marxists can never seem to come out the other end of the tunnel.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

288 "...Fareed Zakaria knocks down the idea that there's a 'Crisis of Democracy' in the west."

I'm getting whipsawed here. For the past eight years, Trumphitler was an historic threat as he assaulted Democracy like The View assaults buffet tables. Now I'm being told there's no Crisis of Democracy. I'm sensing some dishonesty from the MFM.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (aXxgO)

289 Campaigns are expensive.
And, until now, the GOPe has been able to stillborn any race they didn't want to contest.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2025 05:07 PM (R3Yln)

The past 2 Arizona Republican Senate races could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (dGCAG)

290 I wonder how long Canada's vaunted "Free healthcare" would last if Donald Trump sent Canada an invoice for our "free defense" of Canada.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)

291 287 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

Capitol Crime ?

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (Fg0Nr)

292 Millennials. AKA Gen Y.
Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (zddDv)

Or, as I like to call them, Gen Why?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

293 287 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

...asking for a Nation.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (qu/pS)

Make sure you drink some high-quality Whiskey first, then you can say you were sharing it, post-filtering...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (ynpvh)

294 I'm not big on generational analyses, but if I had to guess why Gen X (of which I am a member) broke the way it did, I think Justine Bateman summarized it well. We were raised as free-speech absolutists; even the liberals in the schools extolled the ACLU, Nazis' right to march in Skokie etc. when we were. coming up. Political correctness was widely derided by that name as we came of age. The inability to disagree about anything is not something Gen Xers are gonna sign onto by and large.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (XAXi6)

295 garrett

There are active duty service members in the way. For just that reason. And as honor guards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (u82oZ)

296 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

...asking for a Nation.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (qu/pS)
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They might get you for trespassing on public grounds, terrorist!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2)

297 garrett

The Reagan lying in state was worth waiting in line 7 hours for. He was a great man.

Carter -- no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:19 PM (u82oZ)

298 The blue model exists because industry (productive class) left the cities (after great society and migration) and cities' tax base switched to retail, dependent class, gov. workers, and finance people who live outside cities.

In his own way, I think Obama got exactly that. Yes, he wanted to force people to move back to the cities. And fuck that.

But I firmly believe it was because he wanted to "whiten" those areas. He wanted to stabilize them. But he sure as Hell couldn't say it like that.

Posted by: Here We Go Again at January 07, 2025 05:16 PM (6hrvY)
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He wanted the prey to be back among the predators. Why did people move to the suburbs? To get away from the chaos and crime of the minorities in the cities.

I've read lots of rationales for the migration out of the cities, but each one carefully dances around the truth.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

299 91 I want their lamentations and wailing to be so loud, Krakatoa will hear it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2025 04:38 PM (ccS8/)

Which Krakatoa? East of Java, or West of Java?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (hUzUC)
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It's called Hollywood's and non-Hollywood's.
Don't we have a Moron that goes by Krakatoa?

Posted by: Ciampino - East or West of Coffee? at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (i0xsb)

300 287 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

Best way to get rid of all that Billy Beer.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (+oR7L)

301
Going WAY back you could argue that Jack Benny and Johnny Carson weren't so much funny as they were great straight men.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (j4U/Z)

302 301 garrett

The Reagan lying in state was worth waiting in line 7 hours for. He was a great man.

Carter -- no.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:19 PM (u82oZ)

Carter already had people waiting in line once. For gas.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (XAXi6)

303 The underlying principle is called "The Curley Effect". Basically, make things bad enough, chase out the Middle Class, and whatever is left will vote Solid Democrat, no matter what. That makes the city a political power base (even if it is a rotten mess), where they can rig votes and stay in power forever. You can look up Curley Effect on Wikipedia for a more clear definition. It was named after a former mayor of Boston.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 05:15 PM (vcOmj)

AOC won her insurrection primary with about 20000 total votes in NYC because the 3rd most power Dem wasn't paying attention and she pounded the streets with chump change.

When I lived in Chicago, the vote totals in these unopposed districts were also very low, and most of them were probably fake votes because Chicago.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (n7h9X)

304 I am grateful that the overreach of their positions - especially the transgender stuff is finally too much. It keeps the RINO tendencies at bay - that was the other big issue - all the traiterous RINOs.

Posted by: Iris at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (bOJ2I)

305 The Reagan lying in state was worth waiting in line 7 hours for. He was a great man.

Carter -- no.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:19 PM (u82oZ)

I bet they have to pay people to get in line for Carter

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (VE6XX)

306 There's a Pee Nut joke in there somewhere, but I can't pull it.

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (Fg0Nr)

307 This is the synopsis for a video game coming out. Fine I believe in free speech, trythis with any other religion...

The game is set in an alternative version of (religious) reality. Inspired by bestselling Inquisitor book series by Jacek Piekara. Once nailed to the cross and near death, Jesus becomes consumed by utter rage. He breaks free and unleashes violent vengeance on all the non-believers. Centuries pass and now an army of zealot Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith in this blood-soaked Church.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (KQk9m)

308 >>The Reagan lying in state was worth waiting in line 7 hours for. He was a great man.

>>Carter -- no.

What if you could piss on him?

I think we'd see longer wait times, personally.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (qu/pS)

309 Deplorable Jay Guevara

LBJ has a lot to answer for. He won short time, but not long time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (u82oZ)

310 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

...asking for a Nation.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (qu/pS)
_________________

I say again: I want the beer concession at Jane Fonda's funeral.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (YqDXo)

311 Mark Zuckerberg sounds awful MAGAt-y since he appointed Dana White to FB board

Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (/u6/R)

312 garrett

Wait until he is buried. The grass will like it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (u82oZ)

313 Which Krakatoa? East of Java, or West of Java?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2025 04:48 PM (hUzUC)
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It's called Hollywood's and non-Hollywood's.
Don't we have a Moron that goes by Krakatoa?
Posted by: Ciampino - East or West of Coffee? at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (i0xsb)

You go East far enough you come back to Krakatoa eventually.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (n7h9X)

314 Carson had some great comedic timing, especially seen in the Karnak? Bits

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:22 PM (KQk9m)

315 Think about it this way... It's like if you're a real jerkoff and your kid has been asking for something, and you say "ok, if you do X I'll get it."

So they do X and you say "ok, but only if you all do you Y."

And then Z. And then back to A. Because you *never* plan to buy that bike, and you're just yanking his chain.

When he finally yells at you and demands the bike, you're not going to gain some perspective and buy the bike. You're gonna spank his ass. Because you're a jerkoff and a liar.

That's why the Left digs in every time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

316 LBJ has a lot to answer for. He won short time, but not long time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (u82oZ)
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He certainly did have a lot to answer for. The move to the suburbs was to get away the dysfunction of black society that LBJ turbocharged.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (YqDXo)

317 We had a great discussion one day recently that perhaps Mo the Pedo didn't exist at all, much less rise to the position of prophet. I believe it was James Madison who asserted that there is a dearth of contemporary references to Mo, and that doesn't add up given his alleged importance.
Posted by: Crusader
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This is very true. Worse, the koran reads nothing like what it claims to be. The best explanation I heard is that it is hodge-podge of documents, partially a set of lecture notes against Jews, partially some mythology from the region, some stuff from the Christians, etc.

All hobbled together to convince an illiterate population to go to war against all.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (Wz1Ib)

318 LBJ has a lot to answer for. He won short time, but not long time.
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LBJ was likely a serial killer according to Roger Stone's book.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (TN0g+)

319 The game is set in an alternative version of (religious) reality. Inspired by bestselling Inquisitor book series by Jacek Piekara. Once nailed to the cross and near death, Jesus becomes consumed by utter rage. He breaks free and unleashes violent vengeance on all the non-believers. Centuries pass and now an army of zealot Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith in this blood-soaked Church.
Posted by: steevy

Sounds like Islam, but you can't make a video game out of that, can you?

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (vcOmj)

320 GenX was born into the world Ronald Reagan built.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (aD39U)

321 Kamala can actually talk without creaking her voice. Bizarre.

Maybe she really is glad that she lost....

Nope, here comes the creak.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (p2GXS)

322 The game is set in an alternative version of (religious) reality. Inspired by bestselling Inquisitor book series by Jacek Piekara. Once nailed to the cross and near death, Jesus becomes consumed by utter rage. He breaks free and unleashes violent vengeance on all the non-believers. Centuries pass and now an army of zealot Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith in this blood-soaked Church.
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:20 PM (KQk9m)

Might want to check into the Jewish Revolts against Rome to see how that would have turned out for the zealots.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (n7h9X)

323 294 I wonder how long Canada's vaunted "Free healthcare" would last if Donald Trump sent Canada an invoice for our "free defense" of Canada.
Posted by: mrp

In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (j4U/Z)

324 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them--Orwell--
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.--Benjamin Franklin--

Perhaps the writer doesn't understand sarcasm?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (FCbAQ)

325 297 287 What's the penalty for urinating on someone who is lying in State in the Capitol?

...asking for a Nation.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:17 PM (qu/pS)

Make sure you drink some high-quality Whiskey first, then you can say you were sharing it, post-filtering...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (ynpvh)
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Jim, that 'filtered' whiskey will never pass the gunpowder test.

Posted by: Ciampino - Too cold to piss on a pisspot's grave at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (i0xsb)

326 No to Canadian statehood.

We have enough freeloaders.

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (Fg0Nr)

327 325 GenX was born into the world Ronald Reagan built.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (aD39U)

Er, I'm Gen X and I was born during the Johnson administration. Say rather that Gen X came of age in the world Reagan built.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (LxER7)

328
Shit, it's snowing again. We just got the shoveling done from last night's snow.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (3ek7K)

329
Jack Benny is said to have had the best comedic timing of all of them.

One of the MeTV-like stations runs the old Jack Benny Show, and, yep, he had pretty good timing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 07, 2025 05:25 PM (w6EFb)

330 Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform

That's a shame.

Anyway. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2025 05:25 PM (WXNFJ)

331 In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?
Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (j4U/Z)

Have you priced Walleye lately?
Not exactly Tilapia.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2025 05:25 PM (FCbAQ)

332 Wiki says GenX goes all the way back to 1965. I would have thought 1970 at the earliest.

This generations stuff is fubar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (aD39U)

333
I've read lots of rationales for the migration out of the cities, but each one carefully dances around the truth.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

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I lived it. It was to escape the crime brought in by the great migration. Period. Thanks LBJ. And this is why no Republicans have governed most of those cities in decades.

I remember seeing these grand houses on "Doctor's Row" become tenements one by one. Then burnt out slums.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (Wz1Ib)

334 Think about it this way... It's like if you're a real jerkoff and your kid has been asking for something, and you say "ok, if you do X I'll get it."

So they do X and you say "ok, but only if you all do you Y."

And then Z. And then back to A. Because you *never* plan to buy that bike, and you're just yanking his chain.

When he finally yells at you and demands the bike, you're not going to gain some perspective and buy the bike. You're gonna spank his ass. Because you're a jerkoff and a liar.

That's why the Left digs in every time.

I find this exceedingly cynical.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some burgers to grill.

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (a3Q+t)

335 All hobbled together to convince an illiterate population to go to war against all.
Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (Wz1Ib)

Most of the expansion of Islam was because the devout paid no taxes and the approved non devout paid fewer taxes than they had before. And the persecution of dissenting sects was much worse when ruled by Christians.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

336 "Fire won't burn there; no fire at all."

-Mako

Posted by: Lex at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (MYYw0)

337 333
Shit, it's snowing again. We just got the shoveling done from last night's snow.
Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (3ek7K)

I gave up until the wind dies down. It's pissing in the wind to keep anything cleared off until then.

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (Fg0Nr)

338 Walleye may be the only thing I miss about the great white north.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (XAXi6)

339 Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins, and whatever team wishes to claim "Oilers".
________

Yet they have no problem with Fighting Irish.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 07, 2025 05:27 PM (Dm8we)

340 And they're not chastising people for using the word "liberal" as a pejorative that it has been to them for decades... of being right about mixing with Marxists....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
_________________

So they moved from "liberal" to "progressive." The same term the USSR used to refer to Marxists worldwide.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:14 PM (YqDXo)
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I'm mainly talking about the new "squatters". They seem to be calling themselves "Classic liberals" and implicating anybody who has a negative opinion of "liberal" politics as being tools of the "Woke Right".

Meanwhile, they are borderline saying if we don't follow their path, the right will descend into fascism--which on a good day you can get them to admit is NOT "RIGHT".

They can even admit that John Stewart Mill started killing Classical Liberalism sometime in the 19th century and that Utilitarian Liberalism started taking over. So, "Classical Liberalism" is just another conservatism of the "liberal tradition", but has long been obsolete for the political flavor.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:27 PM (krQz2)

341 315 Mark Zuckerberg sounds awful MAGAt-y since he appointed Dana White to FB board
Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (/u6/R)

I have thought for a long time now that the Zeal we often ascribe to our adversaries is not as much as we think it is… these people are often just opportunistic grifters who take advantage of the prejudices and resentments of a group of cattle, and milk them for all they are worth. True believers DO exist, of course, but to the grifters they are just stooges and useful idiots. I suppose my cynicism is showing.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 05:27 PM (PCK5/)

342 Say rather that Gen X came of age in the world Reagan built.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (LxER7)

Better.

As a Baby Boomer, I fully expected to die fighting commies. I don't think Xers expected that fate.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:27 PM (aD39U)

343 Carter in a corrugated cardboard casket. That I would watch

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (QSrLX)

344 In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?
Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (j4U/Z)

In my defense, sending a bill for goods and services rendered is not an invasion for the acquisition of piscatorial resources.

Although I must add that walleye sauteed in a garlic butter sauce is sublime.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (rj6Yv)

345 Yet they have no problem with Fighting Irish.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 07, 2025 05:27 PM (Dm8we)
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They could probably even have a "Paddy Wagon" to truck out the team mascot.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (krQz2)

346 "New York City's spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time?"

^^^^^THIS^^^^^

More taxes are not equating to better services. In fact, more taxes are yielding worse services. You pay more and more and get less and less. AND you have to deal with a lot ogf gaslighting and pontificating.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (ARlwA)

347 I remember being happy that the USSR collapsed, but at the same time slightly unmoored.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (aD39U)

348 Imaging your liberal friends/family admitting to you that everything they've argued with you about for 30 years now has little merit... All because Trump won.

Proof that logic does not change minds, only a merciless ass kicking does.

Posted by: Brisco_County_Sr at January 07, 2025 05:29 PM (+D/b7)

349 Since NORAD includes radars and such in Canada and is also partly Canadian that is where the money goes I guess.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:29 PM (KQk9m)

350
bear,

Lordy, I do miss Walleye. Never had it until we moved to Illinois. Culver's has really good fish. Walleye was seasonal at Culver's, I don't know if it still is.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:29 PM (3ek7K)

351 Say what you want about Florida - it works. Say what you want about Texas, it works.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 07, 2025 05:29 PM (ARlwA)

352 Make sure you drink some high-quality Whiskey first, then you can say you were sharing it, post-filtering...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 07, 2025 05:18 PM (ynpvh)
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Jim, that 'filtered' whiskey will never pass the gunpowder test.
Posted by: Ciampino - Too cold to piss on a pisspot's grave at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM

It gets a waiver if it's dispensed out of your gun.

Posted by: GySgt Hartmann at January 07, 2025 05:29 PM (a3Q+t)

353 332 325 GenX was born into the world Ronald Reagan built.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (aD39U)

Er, I'm Gen X and I was born during the Johnson administration. Say rather that Gen X came of age in the world Reagan built.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (LxER7)

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Nixon was prez when I was born. It occurs to me that most Gen-Xers can remember what a weak, snivelling idiot Carter was. And the sense of relief when Reagan won. I feel lucky to have been a teenager in the 80s. It was a fun time to be alive.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 05:30 PM (zddDv)

354 With a huge peace sign on it

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 07, 2025 05:30 PM (QSrLX)

355 More taxes are not equating to better services. In fact, more taxes are yielding worse services. You pay more and more and get less and less. AND you have to deal with a lot ogf gaslighting and pontificating.
Posted by: El Mariachi at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (ARlwA)

When are paying as much to pensioners as current workers, the taxes don't stretch as far.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:30 PM (aD39U)

356 People hate it when you are much smarter than they are. I’ve been called “over-educated” a few times. Envy often leads to jealousy and hate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2025 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them--Orwell--
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.--Benjamin Franklin--

Perhaps the writer doesn't understand sarcasm?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2025 05:24 PM (FCbAQ)

America was built on trusting common sense more than book learning divorced from common sense. They don't hate educaton, but elitism.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:31 PM (n7h9X)

357 Mark Zuckerberg sounds awful MAGAt-y since he appointed Dana White to FB board
Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2025 05:21 PM (/u6/R)

He appears to be an ass-kissing apple polisher for all he's been doing lately.
Must be something he wants to not happen.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 07, 2025 05:31 PM (FCbAQ)

358 Scurrying cucarachas

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 07, 2025 05:31 PM (QSrLX)

359 Off Ser Barristan Selmy sock. King Joffrey has fired you.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 07, 2025 05:31 PM (MsrgL)

360 365 Off Ser Barristan Selmy sock. King Joffrey has fired you.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 07, 2025 05:31 PM (MsrgL)

Who are these people??

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (PCK5/)

361 >>I lived it. It was to escape the crime brought in by the great migration. Period. Thanks LBJ. And this is why no Republicans have governed most of those cities in decades.

>>I remember seeing these grand houses on "Doctor's Row" become tenements one by one. Then burnt out slums.

I lived in Boston in the post Curley years. Real estate was ridiculously cheap and young people flooded into the city because it was a cheap, fun place to live. Government responded by making it safe and clean and it boomed.

And now the woke have arrived to drive it back down into the toilet again. I got out at the perfect time. I think this down cycle is going to last a lot longer.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (LkLld)

362 Culver's has really good fish. Walleye was seasonal at Culver's, I don't know if it still is.
Posted by: four seasons
________

Their regular beer battered is the best fast food fish anywhere. Not a gut bomb like all the others.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (Dm8we)

363 It's after dark in all of Greenland now. Trump Force One on the tarmac. Don Jr. is releasing the vanguard of penguins to begin the Conquest and Occupation. All is proceeding as foretold.

Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (G5+As)

364 >>It occurs to me that most Gen-Xers can remember what a weak, snivelling idiot Carter was. And the sense of relief when Reagan won. I feel lucky to have been a teenager in the 80s.

I remember those years really well.

There was a thick layer of Malaise on the Carter Years.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (qu/pS)

365 Whatever, Joe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (aD39U)

366 In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?
Posted by: Auspex

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (WXNFJ)

367 These people have never seen Conan.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at January 07, 2025 05:32 PM (vogOC)

368 Please Please Please Double-Down on Derangement Dems!

Kommie-la/Tampon Tim 2028 -- Two Bitchez for the Price of One!

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 07, 2025 05:33 PM (HE6Dk)

369 Most of the expansion of Islam was because the devout paid no taxes and the approved non devout paid fewer taxes than they had before. And the persecution of dissenting sects was much worse when ruled by Christians.
Posted by: Oldcat

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I have trouble believing this. I think the expansion mostly had to do with the fact that they occasionally killed anyone who would not convert.
They always talk about their "golden age," but it mostly happened in each region after they took over and were claiming credit for what they conquered. And while they did not always kill all infidels, eventually they did and until then they were subservient and demeaned.

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at January 07, 2025 05:33 PM (Wz1Ib)

370 What was that Conan with the penis head monster? Red Sonja?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (aD39U)

371 347 tubal

That's perceptive. Our adversaries ARE NOT 10 feet tall invincible warriors.

I know a couple of the "true believers," though. Americans would throw up if they had to spend an hour listening to them. Or maybe that already happened in November.

I notice Trump did even better in our state than he did last time, btw.

Salty

Howdy, if you're out there, old friend.

Posted by: mnw at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (NLIak)

372
Re: Cuckerberg & his Facechimp site:

If you can't beat 'em, infiltrate 'em.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (t3Bmz)

373 Navy choir, did a great job.

Kamala's eulogy was way too long. Plus she seems to be looking at the Speaker's sympathetic face a little too much.

Emhoff actually made a fuss about Kamala in response. Pretty hilarious if they weren't real people; but I hope she's going to be okay with Beat'emUphoff around.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (p2GXS)

374 Just say no.

Posted by: zombie Nancy R. at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (a3Q+t)

375 "Carter in a corrugated cardboard casket. That I would watch
Posted by: Hokey Pokey "

Oh yeah, that dude's dead. Forgot.

Posted by: eleven at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (iziT8)

376 lying in State in the Capitol?

A raw tuna in a rotunda. emit the foul smelling compounds, appropriately named putrescine and cadaverine."

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (8QRjS)

377

Biff, Yep, their fish is awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (3ek7K)

378 In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?
Posted by: Auspex

Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Tonypete
________

They handed us our asses when we tried. Granted, it was 1812.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (Dm8we)

379 I feel lucky to have been a teenager in the 80s. It was a fun time to be alive.
Posted by: Scarymary at January 07, 2025 05:30 PM (zddDv)

The music was crazy good across all genres.

Posted by: jsg at January 07, 2025 05:35 PM (Fg0Nr)

380 When he finally yells at you and demands the bike, you're not going to gain some perspective and buy the bike. You're gonna spank his ass. Because you're a jerkoff and a liar.

That's why the Left digs in every time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)
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Interesting.

But it's also the gambler's break thing going on to some degree well. Just when I was getting close to making the world a better place--so I'll just have to use whatever force I have to buy a little more time--just until the weekend, just until the big break!

I saw some fem poster saying that girls are raped all over the world why is there sudden interest in how the British are covering up rape gangs in Britain...blah, blah, blah, ..., Elon Musk!

The trick is to solve ALL crimes at once, solving one at a time is suspect!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)

381

Nood cuckerberg

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (t3Bmz)

382 294 I wonder how long Canada's vaunted "Free healthcare" would last if Donald Trump sent Canada an invoice for our "free defense" of Canada.
Posted by: mrp
_________________

The Canadian army is ~ the size of the NYPD.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (YqDXo)

383 I remember being happy that the USSR collapsed, but at the same time slightly unmoored.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:28 PM (aD39U)

I remember the community paper had a weekly column ranking the breakup states of the East Bloc and USSR like a power ranking of sports teams.

But a lot of the unmoored neocons causing trouble now were folk that decided not to change thinking when the world changed. They are still playing to the Cold Warriors who won the cold war like nothing has happened. And they are really, really bad at geopolitics.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (n7h9X)

384 Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some burgers to grill.
Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at January 07, 2025 05:26 PM (a3Q+t)

Make sure you put the cheese on while the meat is raw. It infuses with the meat perfectly like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (Zz0t1)

385 378

I notice Trump did even better in our state than he did last time, btw.

Salty

Howdy, if you're out there, old friend.
Posted by: mnw at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (NLIak)

Thanks. I find it interesting that we are getting Redder… but… abortion was approved rather handily in the amendment vote.. there is a message in that vote.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (PCK5/)

386
Who are these people??

Posted by: tubal

Corrupt Game of Thrones characters. Basically midieval democrats that shit where they prepare food and eat. Swries of books by J. R. R. Martin

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 07, 2025 05:37 PM (MsrgL)

387 The funeral wreaths are classy. Somebody must make those to a recipe, because they're always classy.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:37 PM (p2GXS)

388 I wonder how long Canada's vaunted "Free healthcare" would last if Donald Trump sent Canada an invoice for our "free defense" of Canada.
Posted by: mrp
_________________

The Canadian army is ~ the size of the NYPD.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (YqDXo)

it wouldn't last a year if we just forbade Canadians to use our healthcare instead of their own if they have a low place on the waiting list.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:37 PM (n7h9X)

389 "That's perceptive. Our adversaries ARE NOT 10 feet tall invincible warriors."

It's their ignorance and stupidity that seem invincible.

They are puny petty twerps.

Posted by: eleven at January 07, 2025 05:37 PM (iziT8)

390 I wonder how long Canada's vaunted "Free healthcare" would last if Donald Trump sent Canada an invoice for our "free defense" of Canada.
Posted by: mrp
_________________

The Canadian army is ~ the size of the NYPD.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (YqDXo)

Its a purity test for true believer Democrats, financed heavily by out of state money.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:38 PM (n7h9X)

391 Bidens v. Carters

When I think of those four, I recall that photo the Bidens published after their visit to Casa Carter. The one with the giant Bidens and the hobbit Carters. Even I was repulsed by that grotesquery.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:39 PM (rj6Yv)

392 In defense of Canucks, what are you going to invade and steal? Walleye?

Posted by: Auspex

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Their National Strategic Poutine Reserve?

Trump can exile Lt. Col. Bearclaw their to guard it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 07, 2025 05:40 PM (HE6Dk)

393 393

Viewed a certain way, I suppose the pro-abortion vote in MO could be considered as an "anti-govt regulation" vote. Needless to say, I voted against it myself.

Posted by: mnw at January 07, 2025 05:40 PM (NLIak)

394 Fire department using heavy equipment and skip loaders to move abandoned cars blocking access. Sweet.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:40 PM (8QRjS)

395 I saw some fem poster saying that girls are raped all over the world why is there sudden interest in how the British are covering up rape gangs in Britain...blah, blah, blah, ..., Elon Musk!

The trick is to solve ALL crimes at once, solving one at a time is suspect!
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)

Ask a feminist about why they never protest Saudi Arabia or boycott vacations in Dubai.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:40 PM (n7h9X)

396 I just realized. I'm turning into all the members of my family who always go to funerals, even if they don't like the person or know them well.

And then make lots of comments comparing the funeral to other funerals.

It must be genetic as well as cultural.

Oh, well, the Navy choir doing the Navy Hymn in the rotunda sounds great.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:41 PM (p2GXS)

397 Alternate Zuckerburg theory:

Since taking testosterone, working out with a real jui-Jitsu master, and watching another tech guy can be lauded for speaking the truth, putting his money up for free speech and not being fearful makes you look like more man and less like a limp dick.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 07, 2025 05:42 PM (gaKF9)

398 I know a couple of the "true believers," though. Americans would throw up if they had to spend an hour listening to them. Or maybe that already happened in November.

I notice Trump did even better in our state than he did last time, btw.

Salty

Howdy, if you're out there, old friend.
Posted by: mnw at January 07, 2025 05:34 PM (NLIak)

Best way to handle true believers is to come in from the left and purport to be more leftist than they are.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2025 05:43 PM (n7h9X)

399 Female Episcopalian minister doing final prayer, in an outfit that was very poorly considered but well-tailored.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:43 PM (p2GXS)

400 Oh, well, the Navy choir doing the Navy Hymn in the rotunda sounds great.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:41 PM (p2GXS)

The rendition performed at the Reagan funeral brought tears to my eyes.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2025 05:43 PM (rj6Yv)

401 GenX was born into the world Ronald Reagan built.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 07, 2025 05:23 PM (aD39U)

Reagan's grandchildren.

Posted by: runner at January 07, 2025 05:45 PM (g47mK)

402 207 The GOP gets co opted in blue areas. (The GOP is massively compromised in general)

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2025 05:03 PM (KQk9m)
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And in Red.

It is the same type of person: politician.
Posted by: Axeman
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Based on campaign contributions and grifting opportunities. GOP in rural areas and small towns/cities rely on developers for campaign funding as do the Dem run urban areas.

State level offices, contributors are interest group grifters from the bidness side for the GOP and a mix of public service unions, fringe whackos, and blue business types that pay to play.

The object for GOPe candidates is personal enrichment for them and their family; public be damned. The object for the Dems is personal enrichment plus the exercise of power against their political enemies; the general public be damned by them as well.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2025 05:46 PM (ctrM5)

403 I remember being happy that the USSR collapsed, but at the same time slightly unmoored.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

I was in college when the Wall came down and the Soviet Union dissolved. Grew up with the Cold War, but it died just as I hit adulthood. The world seemed kind of adrift for about a decade or so.

Then, well, new century, new shitshow.

I've said for a while the secular liberal order had failed and was collapsing. All we see now is the acceleration of that process. It's still got a ways to go and, well, being in something as it collapses gets kinda hazardous.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2025 05:48 PM (OUMaO)

404 200+ cars moved by skip loaders. Like a parking lot in hell.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:48 PM (8QRjS)

405 Nancy Pelosi standing up without a walker, but she's holding on to the rail rope pole instead.

Yeah, I still hate her. She put people in prison for less than that.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:51 PM (p2GXS)

406 Everybody leaving now. The band is playing nicely again.

I'm not sure that "Sweet Georgia Brown," funeral version, was on my 2025 bingo card.

But it does sound great. Better than the man deserved, by a lot.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:54 PM (p2GXS)

407 Pelosi is back on her walker.

Most of the Dems just walked by the coffin, although a few stopped for prayer.

Pelosi just shamed a bunch into stopping, so I guess she's in full Italian mode. Well, at least she's doing something normal.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 05:58 PM (p2GXS)

408 Valet parking by bulldozer.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 07, 2025 05:59 PM (8QRjS)

409 They played another hymn, and now they're on "It Is Well with My Soul."

Navy Hymn instrumental again. It really is a great tune for a band.

One of the guys just did three formal funerary bows. You don't see that every day.

Tune I don't recognize? More Dems passing the coffin up like a dirty shirt. Ilhan Omar didn't even look at the coffin. Wow, she must be popular with her colleagues.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 06:08 PM (p2GXS)

410 Everybody's leaving except the Carters. Another couple of tunes I didn't recognize, still great stuff by the band.

I didn't realize that they have the choir leave formally, one by one. Usually choirs just get shuffled out through a side door.

Same procedure with the band. Marines going up in groups to the coffin, though, each group leaving their instruments behind....nope, just a representative group, probably from each section. Now they're all just going, and C-Span's coverage is done.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at January 07, 2025 06:15 PM (p2GXS)

411 Sir James Cartier will be interned at the Capitol Rotunda reminiscent of JFK and other US Presidents and Luminaries.

Although Sir James was the first President who weakened the US , created fuel shortages and whose fiscal policy induced double digit interest rates he is credited in ushering in the Reagan administration. Cartier left a legacy that will be chronicled in US history as the first President to ever be totally controlled by the CIA after the assassination of JFK.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 07, 2025 06:33 PM (jQ+5q)

412 "Trump! What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the Lefties"

Posted by: Jon at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (pMIXM)

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