The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/14/25

Good morning kids. Wait, what? They're trying to recall Gavin Newsom? Again?

Seriously California, wake up. So, you somehow miraculously recall Newsom and remove him from office. And replace him with who? Surely not Larry Elder or even anyone even a millimeter to the right of Che Guevara? You can blame comrade Stalin all you want for the mass deaths and failures. And then you get Khrushchev who will lead you to the glorious workers paradise you just know is within reach. 100 million souls ground into the earth in just over a century all over the world and still counting says otherwise. Add to it the 24 immolated in Los Angeles since last week (and the poor woman who was set on fire in the NYC subway the week prior).

But unless and until you blame the policies and ideology that Newsom, Bass and all the rest of them believe in, and most crucially who you vote for because tyou believe in them as well, you can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic all you want but you're all going down with the ship.

And if you all are unwilling to do anything about it to save yourselves, the metaphorical and literal wildfires are not going to recognize state borders and as we know all to well, the cancer of Democrat/Leftist/Socialist/regressive-Progressivism will metastasize and ultimately consume us all. And the longer we wait to contain this conflagration/infection, the more radical and unpleasant the consequences, both in its effects on us and in how we will be forced to deal with it.

Christopher Roach is a sharp guy and a good essayist. But I think he misses the mark in his piece entitled "LA Fires Illustrate a Nationwide Competency Crisis"

California’s fires expose systemic neglect, where poor leadership, declining standards, and ignored maintenance have left a first-world city vulnerable to chaos.

One more time for you Christopher, THE IDEOLOGY IS THE INCOMPETENCE

I think we've beaten this to death, but no doubt long after the last embers have been extinguished, the aftermath and the way forward for residents and all of us alike will be debated well into the future, because there are ramifications for all of us, especially with the swearing in of Donald Trump and his team just one week from tomorrow. Thank God!

And speaking of ideology and incompetence with more than a mere soupçon of dementia and plain old Jew-hatred, we have Israel under the gun yet again as Biden is prepared to be wheeled out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Biden made the puzzling remarks on Monday evening at the State Department alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,” Biden claimed.

America-hating, anti-semitic globalist stooges who greased the wheels for Putin to invade Ukraine by first overthrowing its legitimately elected government in a color revolution, bugging out of Afghanistan and leaving Muslim savages in control and gifting them with billions in our weaponry along with still shoveling billions of dollars at them, greasing the wheels for Iran to go nuclear (and they are closer than ever), stabbing Israel in the chest by tying their hands after the bloodiest anti-Jewish massacre since the end of WW2 with the invasion from Gaza, all of this collective signaling to the Chi-coms that invading Taiwan would indeed be tolerated.

As for Israel, it faces enemies on multiple battlefronts but the illegitimate and feral Biden junta has transitioned America from ally to enemy. In an attempt to somehow polish the diseased turd of his reputation and really to hamstring the incoming Trump administration, Biden has got Arafat's Webley pointed at Bibi's head.

The Biden junta is planning a “January surprise” that is “modeled directly on the January surprise of the Obama administration in 2016—that is U.N. Resolution 2334, which basically, to put it a little bit crudely, recognized the Green Line that is the June 5, 1967, ceasefire lines that separated Israel from Jordan as an international boundary,” Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its center for peace and security in the Middle East, said on his podcast on Dec. 31. . .
. . . Speaking with his co-host Gadi Taub, an Israeli historian and writer, Doran said that the Obama administration’s surprise meant that “any development that Israel has made to the east of the Green Line since the 1967 War is recognized by the U.N. as an illegal settlement.”
Trump takes over very soon. January 20 can’t come soon enough.

They'll belch out the lie that Israel is blocking aid to Gaza and use that as a pretext to invoke some bullshit excuse to cut off military aid. The usual commies and commie self-gassers in Congress are pushing this hard, of course. So, it's not a last-second hostage or, sadly likelier hostage corpses deal in exchange for the release of the savage Muslim terrorists (BIR-R-M), it's perhaps trying to shove Israel back to what is correctly deemed the Auschwitz borders of pre June 1967.

How about no way in Hell and Vayr Ge-hargit should be Bibi's response. As for any jailed terrorists, they should be given pagers and cell phones as parting gifts. And or a visit to an Israeli dental clinic to have their teeth filled with fulminate of Mercury and Semtex amalgam with a tiny bluetooth - BLUETOOTH, get it?!!!! receiver installed.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

The New Right sees America in crisis, split between reforming, restoring its foundations, or pursuing revolutionary change to counter perceived moral and cultural decline. (PERCEIVED? RUFKM?! - JJS)
American Conservatives Should Focus on Reform and Restoration
“Those who will not be governed by God will be governed by tyrants.”
De Tocqueville On the Difficulty of Freedom (God Bless You Alex D. Toke-ville, by Barry Hu-inSsein Obama - jjs)

LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES

'In many ways, the current staffing, deployment mode, and size … have not changed since the 1960s,' wrote Kristin Crowley
Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass' Admin Scrubbed the Memo
Multiple people died trying to protect their homes.
At Least 24 Dead From Los Angeles County Fires With More Still Missing
Some of the social media responses to Zelensky’s offer of assistance ridiculed his proposal to send 150 personnel as miniscule compared to the titanic amount of money the United States has poured into defending Ukraine over the past three years.
Ukraine Offers Inept L.A. Government Help with Wildfires
But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared?
Blaming ‘Climate Change’ For L.A. Fires Only Makes Newsom Look Criminally Incompetent
Newsom has enjoyed fan magazine-like coverage from the home media since he stepped into the governor's mansion in 2020. Now, just as he was ready to spend 2025 phoning in his last year in office to free-media his way to a 2028 presidential run, his cover's been blown. Newsom and Democrats, who run everything from the statehouse to the outhouse in California, are now revealed for turning the Golden State into Mars. And he's pissed that you noticed.
Gavin Newsom Has Found the L.A. Fires' Biggest Victim: Himself
Social media has enabled residents to learn about the gross negligence that contributed to the current devastation.
L.A. Leaders Can’t Hide Behind the Media Anymore
In the words of the current meme, nothing changes until a “preference cascade,” the moment when “everybody” changes their mind.
Wildfires in the Autumn of the Educated Class
The state leader – along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – is fighting for his political life as the wildfires have torched more than 40,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and killed at least 24 people. (So long as the ideology is protected, they are both easily replaceable - jjs)
Recall effort against Newsom underway in California following alleged mishandling of LA fires
When taxpayers are forced by the government to underwrite risky behavior, the risks increase. When the market is allowed to accurately assess risks in setting prices, there’s a powerful incentive to find solutions instead.
Gov. Newsom’s Solution to the Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster? More Government

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John Abatzoglou, a climatology professor from the University of California, has studied 30 years of wildfires in Los Angeles County. After examining the data, he was unequivocable: “More than 95% of these [California fires] are human-ignited fires.” Abatzoglou added that arson is among the leading causes, but most fires are started accidentally.
Follow the Science? 95% of California’s Wildfires Are Started by PEOPLE, Not Global Warming!
Daniel Greenfield: Is your city on fire? You needed diversity insurance.
Diversity Insurance
California’s fires expose systemic neglect, where poor leadership, declining standards, and ignored maintenance have left a first-world city vulnerable to chaos.
LA Fires Illustrate a Nationwide Competency Crisis
I don't even like Tesla, but what it's doing in L.A. makes that an increasingly untenable position.
Ugly Trucks to the Rescue!
The Great Los Angeles Fires have exposed the rot within the political machine governing the city of Angels.
Trump should federalize Los Angeles
On Thursday, January 9, CNN broadcast to its tiny viewership an on-the-street interview by Anderson Cooper with Newsom. And, as the glow of hellfire and smoke rose like Cthulhu behind them, Cooper tipped his hand on his own bias by saying to Newsom, “I hate to even ask this question, but the President-Elect chose to, uh, attack you, and blame you for this.”
After Trespassing With Kamala On Burned-Out Property For Photo-Op In 2020, Gavin Newsom Claims Trump 'Politicizes' Fires
The environment of California is a lot worse as a result of misguided actions by environmentalists to protect the environment.
The Environmentalist War on California
If Californians want to contain future infernos, they need to fire the woke Democrats who run the state. (That means looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves as the ignition source. Human nature says not likely - jjs)
To Stop Wildfires, Burn Wokeism
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
It's connected to Israel - and it isn’t pleasant.
Is the Biden Junta Planning a January Surprise?
"We're hopeful there's going to be a deal that's struck towards the very end of Biden's [junta]."
Vance: Trump Will Enable Israel To ‘Knock Out’ Hamas Unless Hostages Released
IDF: “Among the targets struck were a rocket launcher site, a military site, and routes along the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.”
Israeli Airstrikes Destroy Terror Targets in Lebanon Amid Hezbollah’s Ceasefire Violations
Those terrible Israelis are at it again.
The Kamal Adwan ‘Hospital’ Was a Hamas Base of Operations

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Katherine Franke made comments in an interview that violated Columbia's anti-discrimination policies, the school found.
Columbia Professor Retires After Investigation Found She Discriminated Against Jewish Students
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Rharrit was recently an honored guest speaker for the Hamas-tied Council on American Islamic Relations, a designated terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates. That apparently made her a super trustworthy guest, according to the standards of CBS, whose contributor continued to nod along to drivel that could’ve easily come out of a white supremacist’s mouth.
60 Minutes Guest Blames Islamic Terror on America's Support for Israel
Daniel Greenfield: Even after New Orleans attack, Biden frees 11 Al Qaeda terrorists.
Biden Frees Al-Qaeda Terrorist Who Had ‘Foreknowledge of 9/11’
Robert Spencer: A rapidly Islamizing country is turning out jihadis regularly.
Sweden: A New Hotbed of Jihad Terror

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Margot Cleveland: It would be outrageous for AG Garland to continue to push for the release of the special counsel’s report.
Garland Seeks To Trample Americans’ Due Process Rights To Get Trump
Donald Trump’s voters don’t want Greenland or Canada, we are waiting for Joe Biden’s destructive actions to be corrected.
We Need Immediate Action to Reverse Joe Biden’s Executive Orders
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Unfortunately, Schlobom cannot be prosecuted for Ms. Mattson’s murder, even if prosecutors had sufficient evidence to prove his guilt, because he suffers from advanced dementia,” the ICSO said. (Tinfoil hat time: Is this a preemptive attempt to shield Biden??? - jjs
Investigators Say They Caught Murderer 21 Years After Cold Case But Can’t Do Anything About It
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The $50 million proposal comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s special legislative session to “Trump-proof” the state’s left-wing laws began convening Thursday. Lawmakers are reportedly planning to allocate $25 million to the state Department of Justice to provide additional funding to sue the incoming Trump administration and another $25 million in grants to immigration advocacy nonprofits seeking to shield illegal migrants from detention and deportation.
California Dems Propose ‘Slush Fund’ To ‘Trump-Proof’ Illegal Migrants From Deportation Amid Deadly Wildfires
Texas has faithfully executed the law and played a vital role in national security — a role the state must now maintain and reinforce.
Trump Must Immediately Build On Texas’ Successful Border Work
Homeland Security officials are searching for the makers of an underground tunnel crossing from Mexico under the U.S. border into El Paso, Texas. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents discovered the “man-made smuggling tunnel” during an inspection of a storm drain, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a Friday press release. The agency said the tunnel is equipped with electricity and ventilation and is used by “criminal organizations” to smuggle illegal border crossers. ("Palestinian" ngineering students from Bir Zeit University??? - jjs)
Border Agents Find ‘Sophisticated’ Migrant Tunnel Built On Biden’s Watch
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Biden maligned DOJ prosecutors ‘based solely on false accusations,’ special counsel report says
Special Counsel Slams Biden’s Attacks on ‘Integrity of Justice System’ in Hunter Biden Case
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Trump: “Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his “boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another ‘Report’ based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” the president-elect wrote, referring to files the now-disbanded House Select Jan. 6 Committee deleted before Republicans gained control of the lower chamber in 2023.
Trump would have been convicted in election interference case had he not won election, special counsel Jack Smith’s report claims
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive”
Deranged Anti-Trump Columnist Jennifer Rubin Resigns From Washington Post, Blasts Jeff Bezos
Jacob Soboroff has appeared on NBC more than 30 times since the outbreak of the California fires
NBC Reporter at Center of Defamation Lawsuit Now Leading Network's Wildfire Coverage
Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Facebook pushed back on the Biden regime’s censorship demands. The Facebook Files say otherwise.
Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Of Facebook’s Role In Biden Censorship Scheme Refuted In Facebook Files
Don Lemon blasted married MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for treating incoming President Donald Trump with “civility,” going on a profanity-ridden rant on his podcast.
Small Bitter Fruit Don Lemon Blasts MSNBC’s Scarborough and Brzezinski for Preaching ‘Civility’ Towards Trump
‘We have zeroed in on an American offering outrageous prices,’ CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt wrote
CNN Star Reporter Refuses To Apologize to Navy Vet He Threatened To ‘Nail' as Bombshell Defamation Case Continues
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
December 2024 set a one-month record trade surplus of $104.8 billion, which the New York Times (NYT) attributed to a “rush” of exports before President-elect Donald Trump “can take office and start raising tariffs.”
China’s Trade Surplus Hits Record $990 Billion
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
When will Americans realize that they’re being had?
The Climate Hoax
SECOND AMENDMENT
As of Thursday, the bill has 124 co-sponsors, all of whom are Republicans. President-elect Trump has vowed to sign the bill into law if it is first passed by Congress. Republicans currently hold narrow majorities in both chambers, with 219 seats in the House and 53 seats in the Senate.
Trump-Endorsed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Measure Introduced in U.S. House
Perhaps things will improve, and liberty will be preserved and enhanced under Trump, but Americans aren’t taking chances.
Gun sales: lies, damned lies and statistics
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
This is the part where you're supposed to look the other way...possibly at the bills piling up on your kitchen counter.
Nothing Fishy Here: 20 Congress Members Made Double the Average Stock Gains in 2024
Disgraced ex-Sen. Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez absolutely deserves to go to prison for 15 years, as federal prosecutors have requested. (Loyal Leftist since forever and Latino, so wrist meet velvet gloved slap - jjs)
Throw the book at ‘Gold Bars’ Bob Menendez — jail him for at least 15 years
POLITICS
The debate over Pete Hegseth’s nomination is not just about one man; it is a test of whether America still values civilian oversight of the military and respects religious freedom.
The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense
The confirmation hearings official kick off [today]— one week ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
Exclusive — Rep. Derrick Van Orden Lays out Confirmation Hearings: ‘Slate of Absolute Winners’
Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand.
Cabinet of the Canceled
“President Trump is dedicated to uniting the country through the strength, security, and opportunity of his America First agenda,” said Co-Chairs Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler, Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc. “The 2025 inaugural celebrations will reflect President-elect Trump’s historic return to the White House and the American people’s decisive vote to Make America Great Again.”
Here’s Trump’s Official List of Engagements for His Inauguration.
“We had a great meeting. He was very impressive. His wife was with him, and she was really fantastic, too.”
Trump Praises ‘Fascinating’ and ‘Impressive’ Fetterman: ‘He’s a Commonsense Person’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Communist China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) celebrates its centenary in 2027, the same year the CCP has indicated it will be ready to take Taiwan by force — and new satellite photos show that it could be prepared to cross the straits in force before then.
China: War in Two Years or Less
Money will go to 'marginalized' and 'underrepresented groups' in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya, documents show
Lame Duck Biden Junta Spends $1 Mil in Taxpayer Funds on Foreign DEI Programs
Trudeau announced his resignation on January 6, using a maneuver known as “prorogation” to force the legislature out of session so he could remain as a lame-duck “caretaker” prime minister until March.
Lame Duck Castreau-Cescu/Trudeau Leaves Power Vacuum in Canada, Forcing Liberals to Talk Tough to Trump
Von der Leyen, 66, is the EU´s most high-profile political figure. In September, she marked the start of her second five-year term as commission president by traveling to Ukraine and then to South America for a major trade meeting.
EU Denies Coverup of Health of Commission President, Hospitalised With Severe Pneumonia
In this game of global chess, America needs to start taking the queen.
JACK POSOBIEC: The path to a true 'fortress America'
Polls show that a clear majority of Greenlanders want independence from Denmark, but not if it lowers living standards. In his latest statement, Egede said, “Greenland’s independence is Greenland’s business, also in relation to the use of its land, so it is also Greenland that will decide what agreement we should come to,” referring in particular to the possible expansion of the U.S. military presence on the island.
Greenland PM Gives Major Indication of Future U.S. Involvement.
"American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat."
GOP Bill Would Give Trump Authorization To Negotiate Greenland Acquisition
Trump's foreign policy game is now nuanced and impressive.
Trump is becoming a master statesman and world leader
Biden's foreign policy record is one of the weakest in American history.
Biden: I Built ‘Most Competent Foreign Policy Team’ In U.S. History (Indigestible vegetable emits gas - jjs)
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Instead of strictly scrutinizing the DOJ’s new justification for racial discrimination, the judge accepted it because the admirals said so.
Biden’s DOJ Digs Up New Justifications For Racial Discrimination In Military School Admissions
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The academic said he wanted to help people unpack their 'invisible knapsack of white privilege'
Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’ (Why Kildare can't cure is the new Why Johnny can't read! - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Hah! It is now two years later, and the company is still awaiting that launch license. According to the company’s head Adam Gilmour he is now hopeful the license is only weeks away.
After more than two years, Australian rocket startup thinks its launch approval is about to finally arrive
The most intriguing feature in this picture however might actually be that nondescript channel.
Ridges from fractures at the head of a 300+mile-long Martian drainage channel (aka Maxine Waters' crotch- jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It is unimaginable to me that surgeons today perform ‘gender surgeries’ as treatment given what we now know.
Trans Surgeries Like Mine 40 Years Ago Were Wrong Then And Are Wrong Now
Christian Toto: New documentary details impact of TikTok, Instagram on vulnerable teens
Chloe Cole (‘Identity Crisis’: Social Media Silences Detransitioners
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge on Friday, meaning he will face no fine, jail time or probation. Charlamagne, on “The Breakfast Club,” said that it is a “waste of time” to laud the fact that Trump is now officially a convicted felon because he was still elected to serve as president of the United States.
‘Who Cares?’: Charlamagne Says It’s ‘Ridiculous’ For ‘Liberals’ To ‘Celebrate’ Trump Sentence
Aaron Renn’s Life in the Negative World offers a way forward for Christians in a society at war with traditional morality.
How To Fight Against A World Hostile To Christian Values
The Daily Caller’s latest original documentary, “Pedo Hunters,” explores this phenomenon as it unfolds against some of our nation’s sickest criminals: alleged pedophiles.
The Daily Caller’s latest original documentary, “Pedo Hunters,” explores this phenomenon as it unfolds against some of our nation’s sickest criminals: alleged pedophiles.

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:30 AM (aSBjH)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2025 07:32 AM (Rcnd3)

3 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 14, 2025 07:32 AM (hMMsO)

4 Comments disappearing?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:32 AM (aSBjH)

5 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2025 07:32 AM (Rcnd3)
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I'm completely surrounded by amateurs!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:33 AM (aSBjH)

6 Good Morning lurkers

Posted by: CapeFear at January 14, 2025 07:33 AM (MObtg)

7 The special counsel report on Trump is out there. While I have not had time to read it the fox news article is up. Basically if Trump had not won he was going to jail for a very long time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 14, 2025 07:34 AM (Rcnd3)

8 Great pun, J.J.! Here's a breakfast brownie for you! 😉

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 14, 2025 07:34 AM (kpS4V)

9 Good morning, Horde! It's a nice day but I do wish my car's heater was a bit more efficient.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 07:36 AM (RjOoY)

10 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 07:36 AM (WXNFJ)

11 Good morning and thanks, J.J.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 14, 2025 07:36 AM (mH6SG)

12 Basically if Trump had not won he was going to jail for a very long time.

They'll try again once he's out of office. He will never be forgiven for blocking Hillary's ascension.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 07:36 AM (RjOoY)

13 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

14 Kamala Harris won Maui by 26%. If logic prevailed, she would have lost by 96%.

It's a religion and mark of the true believer is martyrdom.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at January 14, 2025 07:37 AM (o70yy)

15 Yonder Horde. It's a very chilly 6 degrees here this morning. I did catch the Moon-Mars occultation last night tho'. Before it turned cold like the Arctic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

16 " January 20 can’t come soon enough " !

Can I get an "Amen"?

and a "Hallelujah!" ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 07:39 AM (cY18j)

17
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 14, 2025 07:42 AM (w9Ycv)

18 Bush chummy with Obama but wouldn’t shake Trumps hand .
Your dead to me.

Posted by: Redenzo at January 14, 2025 07:42 AM (V/pbu)

19 Occultation was visible in NC through broken clouds.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 14, 2025 07:43 AM (MObtg)

20 Good morning Horde and Happy Birthday JJ

Posted by: blaster at January 14, 2025 07:45 AM (QfvaV)

21 U.N. Resolution 2334

I'd like to see Israel state that the UN is illegitimate. It's never done anything to protect the lives and territory of Israel, only hinder them. The downside of doing so would probably be immense, though, as it would allow more nations to be openly anti-Semitic by proclaiming that Israel had abandoned the international order.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

22 One week from yesterday, not tomorrow.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 14, 2025 07:45 AM (ZmEVT)

23 JJ, I read the FrontPage article by Hugh Fitzgerald. I've been a big fan of HF for over 20 years.

Question: What good is Steve Witkoff's presence there, if everything is being dictated by the outgoing DC Regime?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:47 AM (aSBjH)

24 Good Morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

25 Social media has enabled residents to learn about the gross negligence that contributed to the current devastation.

How much do TPTB regret allowing Musk's purchase of Twitter?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

26 I was sort of hoping that another batch of mystery envelopes would have appeared at Carter's funeral last week. Those seemed to create a stir when they first appeared.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 07:47 AM (Q4IgG)

27 " January 20 can’t come soon enough " !

Can I get an "Amen"?

and a "Hallelujah!" ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 07:39 AM (cY18j)
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אמן והללולי-ה

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:48 AM (aSBjH)

28 Good morning one and all assembled.

Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 14, 2025 07:48 AM (Aqu9a)

29 Bush chummy with Obama but wouldn’t shake Trumps hand .
Your dead to me.
Posted by: Redenzo at January 14, 2025 07:42 AM (V/pbu)

Those suckaz too dumb to ride with Felonious T!

Don't be a jive turkey! Roll with Felonious T and His Big Brain Posse!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 07:48 AM (iJfKG)

30 So much going on.

Outgoing FBI head Chris Wray goes on 60 Minutes to tell us that the Chi-Coms have sleeper cells ready to take down our electric infrastucture when Xi gives the order. Now you tell us?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2025 07:48 AM (Gqoy+)

31 I was sort of hoping that another batch of mystery envelopes would have appeared at Carter's funeral last week. Those seemed to create a stir when they first appeared.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 07:47 AM (Q4IgG)
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Let's roll the film!

https://youtu.be/76wzA2A2T1Q

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 07:50 AM (aSBjH)

32 The US is planning on getting Albania and Slovenia to introduce this resolution to the UN and then the US will not veto it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:50 AM (0wWvl)

33 Just a few more days of Creepy Joe's last Dark Winter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 07:50 AM (dg+HA)

34 So much going on.

Outgoing FBI head Chris Wray goes on 60 Minutes to tell us that the Chi-Coms have sleeper cells ready to take down our electric infrastucture when Xi gives the order. Now you tell us?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2025 07:48 AM (Gqoy+)

That tells me that Wray should be in jail for treason, since he's known and done zero.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 14, 2025 07:50 AM (iJfKG)

35 If Californians want to contain future infernos, they need to fire the woke Democrats who run the state. (That means looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves as the ignition source. Human nature says not likely - jjs)

IMO, all those predicting that the fires are going to change LA's voting patterns are whistling in the wind. Even as they stand in the middle of the smoking wreckage of their lives, they will simply tell each other, "OK, those Dems were crooks and garbage, but these Democrats will fix everything!"

Because Republicans are icky.

Back to work. Feeling lousy today (I know, I know - when do you ever feel good, MP4?)

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2025 07:51 AM (Q0kLU)

36 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 07:51 AM (77rzZ)

37 Just read the article with Chloe Cole and her problems in getting her message out there.

The solution for the doctors doing these procedures are trials along with bankrupting them to the point that they stop doing these surgeries.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 07:51 AM (RjOoY)

38 Biden's Dog, I left what I hope is a clarification at the end of the last thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 14, 2025 07:52 AM (0wWvl)

39 JJ, Trump gets sworn in a week from yesterday, not a week from tomorrow.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 07:52 AM (77rzZ)

40 "Outgoing FBI head Chris Wray goes on 60 Minutes to tell us that the Chi-Coms have sleeper cells ready to take down our electric infrastucture when Xi gives the order. Now you tell us?"

he didn't mention that he provided documents, money, weapons, and explosives to them, in case they forgot.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 07:53 AM (cY18j)

41 The last days of Joe Biden

"He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops."

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

42 Donald Trump’s voters don’t want Greenland or Canada, we are waiting for Joe Biden’s destructive actions to be corrected.

1. If voters don't want Greenland because they don't understand the reason for getting it.
2. I don't believe Trump is serious about Canada.
3. Embrace the healing power of 'and'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

43 I saw the Newsom Bob and Weave speaking thingy for the first time last night on FOX.
Both Laura and Jessie spent some time on it. It's kind of strange.

Posted by: Brad at January 14, 2025 07:55 AM (q/LY2)

44 >JJ, Trump gets sworn in a week from yesterday, not a week from tomorrow.

Posted by: Bulg
----

maybe he wrote that last night

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 07:56 AM (AOsQT)

45 Damn, it's cold. Think I'll go for schnapps.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 14, 2025 07:56 AM (dg+HA)

46 39 JJ, Trump gets sworn in a week from yesterday, not a week from tomorrow.

WHAT?! So close to Pride Month?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 07:56 AM (RjOoY)

47 > Outgoing FBI head Chris Wray goes on 60 Minutes to tell us that the Chi-Coms have sleeper cells ready to take down our electric infrastucture when Xi gives the order. Now you tell us?
---------
Thousands of them. And they knew it the moment they crossed the border.

And let's not forget the thousands of Middle Eastern men who've also entered the country illegally as well.

Neither group is here to assimilate. They're here to annihilate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

48

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 14, 2025 07:57 AM (5hfjS)

49 A little knowledge of geography and geology would show the importance of Greenland to US interests.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 14, 2025 07:57 AM (gm9Sb)

50 Morning Horde, thx JJ.. We are getting binyo the homestretch of the Biden administration. Any bets on who gets pardoned next? Biden's brother , Fauci , Barky ? Zuckerberg just threw away any chance

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 07:58 AM (fcO1r)

51 Someone needs to tell Babbling Biden he has five vacation days left. Use them or lose them Joe!

Posted by: Case at January 14, 2025 07:58 AM (27pJk)

52 In 6 days we are going to start seeing endless media pieces about the racist, homophobic and misogynistic Trump administration cruelly separating families by deporting peaceful migrants just hoping for a better life.

Go get 'em Tom Homan. Screw the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 07:58 AM (LkLld)

53 moar like tens of thousands, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 14, 2025 07:58 AM (cY18j)

54 Damn

Biden is Kurtz
Trump is Willard
Lance is Vance

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 07:58 AM (AOsQT)

55 The $50 million proposal comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s special legislative session to “Trump-proof” the state’s left-wing laws began convening Thursday.

EO: No city or state which interferes, via action or inaction, in the federal government's mission to enforce the immigration laws of the United States shall receive any federal funding for any purpose whatsoever. Any judge who rules otherwise shall be deemed guilty of heresy and burned at the stake.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

56 "... let's not forget the thousands of Middle Eastern men who've also entered the country illegally as well."

And Methodists.

Posted by: Headly Lamar at January 14, 2025 07:59 AM (dg+HA)

57 >>A little knowledge of geography and geology would show the importance of Greenland to US interests.

A little knowledge of history wouldn't hurt as well.

We already have a Space Force base in Greenland for a reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:00 AM (LkLld)

58 "He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops."
Posted by: Don Black"

The horror. The horror.

Posted by: Joe's pants at January 14, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

59 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

The sad truth is I hope Biden dies after a long and painful illness.

Newsom, he should be hanged as soon as he is found guilty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

60 Binyo = into. Man I need breakfast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:01 AM (fcO1r)

61
THE IDEOLOGY IS THE INCOMPETENCE

-----

Or maybe The Incompetence is The Ideology. Both, really.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 14, 2025 08:02 AM (t1fZA)

62 The key is to fail spectacularly and then to claim victory.

With the state media pumping out consistently this was a lot easier in the past than it is now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

63 Does that make Elon the tiger?

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

64 Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

65 Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

/stares depressingly at fish defrosting for supper

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 08:04 AM (aSBjH)

66 I feel bad for Biden because he didn't get his last taxpayer funded vacation to meet the Pope. Allegedly he didn't go due the Cali fires. Biden will be experiencing eternal fire soon enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:05 AM (fcO1r)

67 The AG of Texas has just sued Allstate. The company built an illegal tracking system utilizing multiple cell phone apps, and also procured data from manufacturers in order to track not only their customers, but a total of approximately 45 million people. They used this to 'adjust' pricing for their auto insurance, and they also sold their data to other insurers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 08:06 AM (lTGtQ)

68 Back in the day, Swede's in Sweden were big supporters, both with money and emotional support, for Pol Pot and his gang of Merrymakers. Any still alive need to be arrested for supporting and advocating genocide in Cambodia in the 1960's and 70's, just like the old nazis are held accountable for what they did in the 30's and 40's.

https://tinyurl.com/2kcfmj5b

Posted by: Brother Number 1 at January 14, 2025 08:07 AM (jiYtH)

69 Good morning! Happy Patch Tuesday!

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 14, 2025 08:07 AM (hDGNI)

70 "... In 6 days we are going to start seeing endless media pieces about the racist, homophobic..."

Not if you don't watch them.

Posted by: There's an OFF button at January 14, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

71 "Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day"

*ponders rye comment*

*executes"

Posted by: fd at January 14, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

72 Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day.

Posted by: redridinghood

In a pinch, pastrami can be used to make a Reuben.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 08:09 AM (lTGtQ)

73 Can I substitute a Reuben?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 08:09 AM (dg+HA)

74 "Today is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day"

I haven't seen real pastrami in decades.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 14, 2025 08:09 AM (hDGNI)

75 Aha!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 08:10 AM (dg+HA)

76 The analogy revealed itself to me

also: it's neat how the outgoing FBI director knows about all the terrible people who have sneaked into the US over the last 4 years

good catch, dude

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:10 AM (AOsQT)

77 Trump is becoming a master statesman and world leader

Trump did pretty well in his first term as well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

78 The AG of Texas has just sued Allstate. The company built an illegal tracking system. . . . . and they also sold their data to other insurers.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

They don't call it 'Allsnake' for nothing.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 08:11 AM (WXNFJ)

79 Girl F. was at Katz's Deli in NY and sent me a pic of her pastrami sandwich. So proud of my girl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

80 In a stunning revelation, at the ninth hour an overlooked ballot box was discovered with enough ballots to assure a Newsom win.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 14, 2025 08:11 AM (IRrsy)

81 REAL Pastrami has never been tried...

Posted by: Purple haired Karen with a nose ring at January 14, 2025 08:12 AM (dg+HA)

82 Good morning, fine people. I find it hilarious that Trump is using his garbage truck in his inaugural parade. Are they going to drive the original all the way from Green Bay? Or is there a stand-in?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 14, 2025 08:12 AM (SfhV1)

83 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 14, 2025 08:13 AM (53oGX)

84 Good morning, fine people. I find it hilarious that Trump is using his garbage truck in his inaugural parade. Are they going to drive the original all the way from Green Bay? Or is there a stand-in?
Posted by: grammie winger

Please tell me there will be a McDonald's float also. Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 14, 2025 08:13 AM (WXNFJ)

85 Can I substitute a Reuben?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 08:09 AM (dg+HA)
******
No, that's March 14th

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

86 I give Fetterman a lot of credit. Meeting with President Trump will drive the left into a frenzy. The amount of hate thrown at Fetterman by deranged leftists will be off the charts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

87 Perhaps PDT should take the oath while wearing his McDonald's apron.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 08:15 AM (dg+HA)

88 Just try to imagine all of the executive orders and pardons that will be coming out on Sunday.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 14, 2025 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

89 IMO, all those predicting that the fires are going to change LA's voting patterns are whistling in the wind. Even as they stand in the middle of the smoking wreckage of their lives, they will simply tell each other, "OK, those Dems were crooks and garbage, but these Democrats will fix everything!"

Because Republicans are icky.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

100%

They "might" vote Republican for a cycle. "See. They couldn't fix it either. Back to voting D"

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (JkCto)

90 79 Girl F. was at Katz's Deli in NY and sent me a pic of her pastrami sandwich. So proud of my girl.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

"A pastramele, un a glayzele tea!"

- - Old Yiddish song my momma sang.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (x0n13)

91 88 Just try to imagine all of the executive orders and pardons that will be coming out on Sunday.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

"Doctor" Jill will have writer's cramp.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (dg+HA)

92 86 I give Fetterman a lot of credit. Meeting with President Trump will drive the left into a frenzy. The amount of hate thrown at Fetterman by deranged leftists will be off the charts.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:14 AM (tT6L1)

He'll take his lumps . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (x0n13)

93 California is really just a microcosm of America at this point in time. Both have been utterly devastated by horrid policies enacted by malevolent bureaucrats.

America (as a whole) has had enough of it.

What say you, California? Had enough?

We'll see....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

94
Seven days of pardons remain. Who will be the lucky winners? What's the price?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 08:19 AM (dxSpM)

95 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2025 08:19 AM (+htsy)

96 I watched some of Newsome's press interviews yesterday. Does he have Tourettes?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 14, 2025 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

97 Trump should hire Wayne Knight to do his character from Jurassic Park.
Knight : look everyone it's a convicted felon , pointing at Trump. See a convicted felon
See, no one cares

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:20 AM (fcO1r)

98 "A pastramele, un a glayzele tea!"

- - Old Yiddish song my momma sang.

Cool, kind of a Schwäbische Yiddish.

Posted by: t-bird at January 14, 2025 08:21 AM (wnZ8w)

99 Happy Birthday JJ

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)

100 >>They "might" vote Republican for a cycle. "See. They couldn't fix it either. Back to voting D"

How much of it is voting and how much is cheating?

It's not like there are no Republicans elected in CA but it only happens in areas where the vote harvesting and ballot stuffing is kept under some control.

It will be tough for Republicans to take back statewide control but I think it's mainly because Democrats have made the elections so corrupt.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:22 AM (LkLld)

101 @96 I saw the one where Newsom was swaying side to side. He's on some powerful goofballs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:22 AM (fcO1r)

102 >>California’s fires expose systemic neglect, where poor leadership, declining standards, and ignored maintenance have left a first-world city vulnerable to chaos.

No sh#t, really?
Is this dude writing this with a straight face -- as if he's just made a breakthrough discovery all on his own?

New Yorkers learned this when they had a mayor who was so obsessed with micromanaging consumption of oversize fountain drinks and salt that he failed to clear the roads, get trash picked up after a blizzard. Chicagoans learned this when they has a mayor more interested in dressing in costume for tiktok videos than stopping unchecked gang violence. I could go on, but we can ALL come up with examples of major city and blue state leaders prancing around addressing their silly pet Lefty issues while their city/state can't meet the residents' most basic, everyday needs.

No, no thanks, dude, we will NOT be learning alongside you as you finally figure out your alleged Democrat leaders are self-absorbed, arrogant, greedy narcissists.

They're yours -- time for you to own them. This is not the national "teachable moment" you think it is.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:22 AM (u1uWe)

103 Governor Damien cannot even govern LA, how could he govern the US? AI could make that easy GOP Ad

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

104 102 Well put.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 14, 2025 08:24 AM (hDGNI)

105 He'll take his lumps . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (x0n13)

Lumpy: "Gee, Mrs. Trump, my wife says you get your hair done every day!"
Melania: "Well, thank you, Lumpy...I think."

Posted by: Boswell at January 14, 2025 08:24 AM (K+UlC)

106 Remember though, Fetterman voted for a lot of bad Biden Judges, without a peep

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

107
Rams can fly

https://tinyurl.com/mu7wwdrk

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:25 AM (AOsQT)

108 Heh

Pixy's thread has me thinking about post apocalyptic Oregon Trail.

Oh. Good morning.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 08:25 AM (+OnsA)

109 94
Seven days of pardons remain. Who will be the lucky winners? What's the price?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 08:19 AM (dxSpM)
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 14, 2025 08:26 AM (kpS4V)

110 All they do is LIE.

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
An emotional
@jimmykimmel
claims Donald Trump attacked LA firefighters for not being sufficiently white:

"I don’t want to — get into all the vile & irresponsible and stupid things our future president & his gaggle of scumbags chose to say during our darkest & most terrifying hour. The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren’t white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, it’s disgusting but it’s not surprising."

https://tinyurl.com/2yunmkyc

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

111 Trump should hire Wayne Knight to do his character from Jurassic Park.
Knight : look everyone it's a convicted felon , pointing at Trump. See a convicted felon
See, no one cares
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The epitome of an incompetent prosecutor.
Secures 43 felony convictions.

The Convicted doesn't spend ONE SECOND behind bars or ONE DIME in fines.

😂😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2025 08:26 AM (+htsy)

112 Hi Mr President I'm John Fetterman, this my wife , and my mutant lump Quatto

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:26 AM (fcO1r)

113
He'll take his lumps . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 08:17 AM (x0n13)
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Heh. I see the meeting as part of a "peel away" strategy by President Trump. If he can get Fetterman to vote with him on certain issues, it gives PDT a cudgel to use against squishy members of the GOP.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:26 AM (tT6L1)

114 >>I give Fetterman a lot of credit. Meeting with President Trump will drive the left into a frenzy. The amount of hate thrown at Fetterman by deranged leftists will be off the charts.

What's sad is that it is celebrated at all.
This is basic politics: you meet with the one in charge, even if he/she's not your party, to make sure that your constituents' needs are known and addressed.

Fetterman is still an uber-Lefty, but I do appreciate how he tells his own party off on things like siding with Pali terrorists instead of Israel.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:28 AM (u1uWe)

115 A week or so ago, Jeff Goldstein (Protein Wisdom) had a great piece about Woke Conservatives. In brief, they are "conservatives" who accept the assumptions/framework of the woke people.

Oddly, I see it lining up very well with the anti-Trump and RINO population.

Takeaway of the article is that one must refuse the premise of the opposition as well as the concrete policies.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 08:29 AM (+OnsA)

116 Hegseth. Hold. The. Line.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at January 14, 2025 08:29 AM (gxokI)

117 >>The Convicted doesn't spend ONE SECOND behind bars or ONE DIME in fines.

We all know that the process was the punishment, but it's fun to see Lefty heads explode over the conviction-but-no-punishment thing. lolgf

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:29 AM (u1uWe)

118 I know Fetterman has some health problems, but is he moving to the center to run in 2028. Young male voters love him

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

119 Seven days of pardons remain. Who will be the lucky winners? What's the price?

==

I have not done anything wrong, but I would like one !

Posted by: Idi Amin at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (g47mK)

120 Sorry California, you had a chance to recall him once. Larry Elder was branded as the Devil himself. Flee the state and come back in 10 years. We can make a TV show on HG like the flip and fix it up houses.

Posted by: Picric at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (13tTk)

121 Free Beacon article on the Zach Young vs CNN defamation suit is lit. You can find reservoirs of media hate here before unknown.

Posted by: 7man at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (7HIPz)

122 Hesgeth is huge. We need to clean up the Pentagon

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

123 Over/Under on when Fauci gets his pardon...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 14, 2025 08:30 AM (+OnsA)

124 >>I know Fetterman has some health problems, but is he moving to the center to run in 2028.

Ding.

Fetterman saw the 2024 election results in PA just like we did.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:31 AM (LkLld)

125 Among the top earners, three Democrats and two Republicans - Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Roger Williams (R-TX), and Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) - saw stock value increases of more than 100 percent in 2024.

Pure Fucking Evil

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

126 That weasel Jimmy Kimmel with fake tears last night. Like he gives a F about anybody losing their homes

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

127 Maybe Lumpy Fetterman will be the leader of a new, sane democrat party? We need two functioning parties to make our system work.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 14, 2025 08:32 AM (1FWWQ)

128 The question is whether PA libs are smart enough to let Fettermonster do the centrist-talking thingy or they lose their shit and run him off like they did Senator Sexboots.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 14, 2025 08:34 AM (nd2ez)

129 Katherine Franke 'taught' Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia. Think about that. 50 years ago and 50 years from now people would/will ask "What's that?"

I've noticed that the media hardly ever mentions the discipline of a university professor when they get in the news. It's almost as if that's not important. For me, I like to know if this person is teaching a bullshit subject or a solid discipline. Franke is a lesbian, looks like a man and is probably part of Gays for Palestine.

The wiki page for her is quite deceitful and slanted in her favor at every turn.

Posted by: Ciampino - ex prof too at January 14, 2025 08:34 AM (i0xsb)

130 >>We already have a Space Force base in Greenland for a reason.

Huh. I did not know that!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:34 AM (u1uWe)

131 things are turning so bad (for the BLM acolytes and the Woke acolytes) that Starbucks will no longer allow loitering, drug and alcohol use on premises, use of bathrooms without purchase ! take that !

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:35 AM (g47mK)

132 That weasel Jimmy Kimmel with fake tears last night. Like he gives a F about anybody losing their homes
Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)
--------------

If I remember correctly, rather than take a cut in salary, Kimmel instead allowed a bunch of people who'd worked with him for years get laid off.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (tT6L1)

133 things are turning so bad (for the BLM acolytes and the Woke acolytes) that Starbucks will no longer allow loitering, drug and alcohol use on premises, use of bathrooms without purchase ! take that !

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:35 AM (g47mK)

That's racist.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

134 126 That weasel Jimmy Kimmel with fake tears last night. Like he gives a F about anybody losing their homes
Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

Kimmel may cry more than Glenn Beck. I guess he can argue he's just doing his part to keep LA moist.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (nd2ez)

135 >>“I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,”

I would love for them to name one accomplishment.
One.

Just one. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (u1uWe)

136 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
An emotional
@jimmykimmel
claims Donald Trump attacked LA firefighters for not being sufficiently white:

No he didn't.... The big DEI hire Kristen said in a TV promo people want to be rescued by people that "look like them" and too bad if a man is trapped in a fire and she can't carry him out... he shouldn't be there.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 08:37 AM (VE6XX)

137 I would love for them to name one accomplishment.
One.

Just one. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (u1uWe)
----------------

Oct 7th.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:37 AM (tT6L1)

138 >>Huh. I did not know that!

Been there is WWII. Used to be Thule Air Force Base.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:38 AM (LkLld)

139 since

sheesh. more coffee

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:39 AM (LkLld)

140 >Hesgeth is huge. We need to clean up the Pentagon

Posted by: Jonah
---

Schumer is signalling that Hegseth is going to get the Kavanaugh smear treatment

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:39 AM (AOsQT)

141 What is it with grown men crying on TV? Dudes, take some testosterone supplements.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

142 That's racist.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 14, 2025 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

No discrimination! No shoes, no shirt, NO SERVICE!

"Starbucks is reversing its open-door policy after almost seven years, now requiring that people make a purchase if they want to hang out at its coffee shops or use its restrooms.

The coffee giant said on Monday that a new code of conduct – which will be posted in all company-owned North American stores – will also ban discrimination or harassment, consumption of outside alcohol, smoking, vaping, drug use and panhandling."

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

143
Schumer is signalling that Hegseth is going to get the Kavanaugh smear treatment
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:39 AM (AOsQT

Yes Schumer is not gonna make it possible to move Trump's picks through fast... if at all for some

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 08:41 AM (VE6XX)

144 >>Hesgeth is huge.

Meh, even though, like me, he served his country under fire in combat in a foreign land, I'm going to have to vote 'no' because tattoos.

--Sen Dick "Dick" Blumenthal

Posted by: one hour sober at January 14, 2025 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)

145 Schumer is signalling that Hegseth is going to get the Kavanaugh smear treatment
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:39 AM (AOsQT)
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Schumer is living in old media world and still thinks whatever he says will be taken as gospel.

Plus, I don't think Hegseth will run away from the fact he's no saint.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

146 >>Takeaway of the article is that one must refuse the premise of the opposition as well as the concrete policies.

Oh, haven't read his blog in a while.
He's been writing consistently about this for maybe two decades, and he's been absolutely right! You accept the Left's language -- their framing of an issue -- and you've already lost the debate.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u1uWe)

147 What is it with grown men crying on TV? Dudes, take some testosterone supplements.
Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

***

*sniff* clears throat *sniff sniffle sniff*
I can't...

*turns away

Posted by: George H W Bush at January 14, 2025 08:42 AM (1FWWQ)

148 141 What is it with grown men crying on TV? Dudes, take some testosterone supplements.
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Concur. No one likes pussies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 14, 2025 08:42 AM (jFCkp)

149 They can't stop Hegseth's confirmation, but they can mire him in controversy (they think) so they have talking points for the future.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

150 Will the military again disobey orders from Commander in Chief Trump?

On POLITICO
‘I Think Things Are Going to Be Bad, Really Bad’: The US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil Under Trump

subtitle: Trump has said he wants to use active duty U.S. troops to quell protests and round up immigrants. Will the military comply?

https://tinyurl.com/mpbvhbru

A retired Lt. General's comment on the current training of our troops is not encouraging. Thanks, FJB.

"Everything I hear is that our training is in the shitter," says retired Army Lt. Gen. Marvin Covault, who commanded the 7th Infantry Division in 1992 in what was called Joint Task Force LA (formed to help local LE deal with the Rodney King riots). "I’m not sure we have the kind of discipline now, and at every leader level, that we had 32 years ago. That concerns me about the people you’re going to put on the ground."

Posted by: Gref at January 14, 2025 08:43 AM (aBgBM)

151 I posted what follows in response to Professor Reynolds posting a NY Post article on Insty on the weekend.

I'm a habitual reader of the NY Post. But I didn't need the Post to learn of this story of a 14-year old murdered in the morning while he walked to school. Friday morning I could see in real time where it happened and the crime scene aftermath with the flashing lights and the yellow tape from my window.

I live in the South Bronx by choice. I grew up in a mostly Italian enclave that's in the nearby Bronx part of AOC's 14th CD. So the optics of the South Bronx don't bother me, but local government malfeasance does. A key fact in this horrific incident is that the perp was arrested last week for knifing a guy waiting for the 6 subway at the 138 station that you can see in the photo above. It's not 20 yards from where this kid got murdered this week.

Why was the perp back on the street?

I like my neighborhood. There's good people here. Including I presume the father who had to hear his son's dying words by cell phone.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2025 08:43 AM (Gqoy+)

152 SCHUMER: "Unfortunately, Mr. Hegseth's background is deeply troubling, to put it generously. We all have read reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault...These are such serious allegations."

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (AOsQT)

153 Schumer is going to throw up all kinds of procedural roadblocks against Trump nominees. Thank God we have brave , steadfast Republicans in the Senate.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (fcO1r)

154 “There is a lot of goodwill at CASA [Civil Aviation Safety Authority], and we recognise that they have been working very hard to get it done,” Mr Gilmour said. “We know they have been working towards it. It’s just that this is the first time for everyone involved, and it is quite complex. To give you an idea, we have had Zoom calls with literally 30 people on the call.”

No call with 30 people ever got anything done.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

155 Link to Insty and the Post article
https://instapundit.com/695639/#disqus_thread

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (Gqoy+)

156 Deeply troubling background 11!! Unqualified 11!!1 lol

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

157 The HELL You Will! Texas Governor Greg Abbott RAINS FIRE on Texas A&M's Illegal DEI Conference

https://tinyurl.com/43vcxaw8

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

158 Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (AOsQT)

So, so glad all Democrats moral and personal conduct Over the last fifty years had been above reproach./ sarc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 08:48 AM (zXPDw)

159 >Schumer is going to throw up all kinds of procedural roadblocks against Trump nominees. Thank God we have brave , steadfast Republicans in the Senate.
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you sure?
they have to show me

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

160 159 >Schumer is going to throw up all kinds of procedural roadblocks against Trump nominees. Thank God we have brave , steadfast Republicans in the Senate.
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you sure?
they have to show me
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

I think that was sarcasm

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (VE6XX)

161 136 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
An emotional
@jimmykimmel
claims Donald Trump attacked LA firefighters for not being sufficiently white:

No he didn't.... The big DEI hire Kristen said in a TV promo people want to be rescued by people that "look like them" and too bad if a man is trapped in a fire and she can't carry him out... he shouldn't be there.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 08:37 AM (VE6XX)

If you're disabled and your home is on fire in LA, you shouldn't have lived in that structure to begin with, is that what she's saying? Patients in burning hospitals are also beyond hope of assistance from LAFD? What a POS she is.

Posted by: Gref at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (aBgBM)

162 Hegseth isn't going to be the only Trump nominee that's got a slim chance of being confirmed, if at all. All the talk about "ramming nominations through confirmation" is just talk.

The Senate GOP has been quiet. I don't think they are all onboard with Trump's nominees.

The so-called "resistance" is wide-spread and bipartisan.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

163 remember, it's the seriousness of the allegations

Dan Rather taught me that

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (AOsQT)

164 "...Starbucks will no longer allow loitering, drug and alcohol use on premises, use of bathrooms without purchase ! take that !"

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:35

No gas, no squeegee.

Posted by: Your neighborhood gas station at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (dg+HA)

165 Hmmmm. I wonder if Schumer wants Transportation funds for New York. I wonder if he wants Federal Dollars at all. mmm.

Back off you rat

Posted by: Jonah at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (YCxFk)

166 Well, time to walk the pooch. Later!

Thanks again, J.J.!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

167 They can't stop Hegseth's confirmation, but they can mire him in controversy (they think) so they have talking points for the future.
Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)
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Worse than that.

It's a corrosive strategy to undermine him as a leader of one of the most important Cabinet departments.

Why would anyone follow his directives if they believe he's a terrible person?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)

168 "It is unimaginable to me that surgeons today perform ‘gender surgeries’ as treatment given what we now know."

No kidding. Everyone forgets the 2nd half of Ike's Farewell address regarding profits over value.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (1E4GV)

169 All the Dems on the Armed Forces Committee will attack him, of course, but one has been designated the vicious attack dog.

It's a coin flip between Lieawatha and that crazy scrunt from Hawaii.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (Y1sOo)

170 Jimmy Kimmel can suck a fat dick

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (GtPvF)

171 >>The Senate GOP has been quiet. I don't think they are all onboard with Trump's nominees.

>>The so-called "resistance" is wide-spread and bipartisan.

Thune has already said Hegseth has the votes and he should know. We'll find out soon but I think even Republican senators know which way the wind is blowing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (LkLld)

172 153 Schumer is going to throw up all kinds of procedural roadblocks against Trump nominees. Thank God we have brave , steadfast Republicans in the Senate.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (fcO1r)

Code Pink awakes from four years of hibernation today.
types/deletes

Posted by: Gref at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (aBgBM)

173 Unless they're going to trot out some paid operative and true leftist believer-as they did with Kavanaugh's accuser Blasey Ford- I think Hegseth is prepared for what they might say- and he doesn't seem like someone to take fake accusations meekly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 08:52 AM (MWP+p)

174 Concur. No one likes pussies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 14, 2025 08:42 AM (jFCkp)

CO-RRECT!
- Booty Juice

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (bpljM)

175
Katherine Franke 'taught' Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia. Think about that. 50 years ago and 50 years from now people would/will ask "What's that?"

___________

It will be like "taught Phenology at Columbia"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (dxSpM)

176 138 >>Huh. I did not know that!

Been there is WWII. Used to be Thule Air Force Base.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 08:38 AM (LkLld)

I was TDY there twice in 1989.

The famous line about Thule is "There is a girl behind every tree"

Posted by: Finkle is Einhorn at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (4aZrJ)

177 @146 You accept the Left's language -- their framing of an issue -- and you've already lost the debate.

And yet we proudly talk about The Working Class every day.
Are we all 'Marxians' now?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (zdLoL)

178 It will be tough for Republicans to take back statewide control but I think it's mainly because Democrats have made the elections so corrupt.
Posted by: JackStraw

Don't disagree. A Republican will most likely never hold a statewide office because of the jungle primary. And the cheating.

Ds will console themselves by voting for the most Republican Democrat, and call it a day and say we gave that "ideology " a chance.

Rick Caruso is about as good as we're going to get in terms of an R.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (JkCto)

179
Elizabeth Warren: your ex-MIL

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 14, 2025 08:54 AM (dxSpM)

180 152 We all have read reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault...These are such serious allegations."

So you're saying he'd make a great Senator? Maybe after he does his job as Sec Def.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 08:54 AM (RjOoY)

181 Worse than that.

It's a corrosive strategy to undermine him as a leader of one of the most important Cabinet departments.

Why would anyone follow his directives if they believe he's a terrible person?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)

they will try, but the environment changed drastically, they still have not absorbed that neither obama and his minions, nor biden and his minions are in charge, and no one is going to amplify their smear campaign either in gov or in the press; it's all a dud

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

182 it's hard to tell sometimes

Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:55 AM (AOsQT)

183 if anything we will get some excellent memes!

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:55 AM (g47mK)

184 Gavin can't help but display he is a sociopath...

The weird verbal tics, hand gestures, no sequiturs, and outright lies he thinks are well-hidden because he thinks you are dumb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

185 Pixy said this morning that "Bigger numbers are better."

Many people have, how you say, told The Paolo the same.

Posted by: Paolo at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (a3Q+t)

186 Sorry California, you had a chance to recall him once. Larry Elder was branded as the Devil himself.
Posted by: Picric

Larry was called the Black Face of White Supremacy.

Let that sink I.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (JkCto)

187 Ds will console themselves by voting for the most Republican Democrat, and call it a day and say we gave that "ideology " a chance.

Rick Caruso is about as good as we're going to get in terms of an R.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (JkCto)

***

You know I do have a place down in La Jolla...

Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (1FWWQ)

188 And yet we proudly talk about The Working Class every day.
Are we all 'Marxians' now?
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 08:53 AM (zdLoL)

Someone needs to. The GOP wrote blue collar people off so hard that Dems built a blue wall that has to be breached every presidential election.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (nd2ez)

189 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
HAPPENING: Hundreds of vets are lining up to support Pete Hegseth during his Senate Confirmation hearing today

https://tinyurl.com/mr2vccfv

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

190 "...reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault...These are such serious allegations."

So you're saying he'd make a great Senator?
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Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment

Posted by: Evergreen at January 14, 2025 08:57 AM (dg+HA)

191
15 degrees and snowing with winds outside.

Time to give thanks to gas and electric utilities that allow me to sit in my warm house drinking coffee, and for keeping civilization running.

Posted by: Auspex at January 14, 2025 08:57 AM (j4U/Z)

192 >>n emotional
@jimmykimmel
claims Donald Trump attacked LA firefighters for not being sufficiently white:

IT'S FUNNY THAT WHILE HIS STATE IS BURNING DOWN ALL AROUND HIM, HE THINKS THROWING "SICK BURNS" AT TRUMP ON X IS THE THING TO DO.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 14, 2025 08:58 AM (u1uWe)

193 *Time to give thanks to gas and electric utilities that allow me to sit in my warm house drinking coffee, and for keeping civilization running.*

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Patriarchy at January 14, 2025 08:59 AM (dg+HA)

194 SCHUMER: "Unfortunately, Mr. Hegseth's background is deeply troubling, to put it generously. We all have read reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault...These are such serious allegations."
Posted by: Don Black at January 14, 2025 08:44 AM (AOsQT
———-

Notice all the weasel words (alleged, allegations, reports). None of that would have been included in Chucky’s statement before Trump and others started suing for defamation and winning. Chucky is now scared of getting sued. Good. Suck a dick.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 08:59 AM (GtPvF)

195 I wish Kimmel was never heard from again. At least on these here pages. Is it too much to axe ?

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

196 A stolen valor-ist sits on the Armed Services Committee.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 14, 2025 08:59 AM (Y1sOo)

197 Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

That's good to hear. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:00 AM (MWP+p)

198 We already have a Space Force base in Greenland for a reason.

Sooner or later somebody's going to remember Camp Century, and then the snow hits the fan.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 09:00 AM (zdLoL)

199 His ol' buddy Adam Corolla needs to beat the crap out of Kimmel. For his own good.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

200 The so-called "resistance" is wide-spread and bipartisan.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

Any "Republican" who joins the "resistance" needs to be put down like a South Dakota Governor's dog (figuratively speaking).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

201 Fetterman is aware of the shift in voter registration in PA. If he wants to be re-elected, he's got to move to the center.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 14, 2025 09:00 AM (NQtI0)

202 What's a Kimmel?

Posted by: Most people at January 14, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)

203 Why would anyone follow his directives if they believe he's a terrible person?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)

Mostly because failing to obey orders in the military earns you prison time (theoretically).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

204 So Jack Smith opened his mouth and removed all doubt:

He's a petty, petulant, bitchy, whiny, pouty pile of shit, with no morals, ethics, or an ounce of honesty, who deserves more than any person in history to rot to death in a crows nest in front of the Capitol where, as he wastes away from starvation and depravation, his last sight will be the symbol of the nation he tried to destroy.

There was absolutely no reason for the editorializing otherwise.
The only comfort is that it is going to backfire spectacularly as we'll find the J6 Committee was more honest and fair.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:02 AM (q2q1y)

205 Do some of the Vets actually get to speak at the hearing for Hegseth or they just sit there in symbolic support?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:02 AM (MWP+p)

206 Code Pink awakes from four years of hibernation today.
types/deletes
Posted by: Gref at January 14, 2025 08:51 AM (aBgBM)

Code Pink chanting "No peace for oil, no peace for oil" just doesn't have the same ring.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

207 So Fetterman brought his "lovely" wife with him to Mar a Lago ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)

208 HAPPENING: Hundreds of vets are lining up to support Pete Hegseth during his Senate Confirmation hearing today

Ten bucks says that the FBI has people in place waving Nazi flags and taking pictures of the people lining up so they can be questioned later.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 09:03 AM (RjOoY)

209 *Mostly because failing to obey orders in the military earns you prison time (theoretically).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:01 AM*

A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war.

Posted by: Old Pentagon saying at January 14, 2025 09:04 AM (dg+HA)

210 >>Link to Insty and the Post article
https://instapundit.com/695639/#disqus_thread

A 14 year old stabbed to death walking to school -- that is unimaginably horrifying and sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:04 AM (u1uWe)

211 @188 Someone needs to.

Well there we go. You really are a Marxist.
Sonny, we don't do classes in my country.
You have swallowed the bait, and will serve them all your life.
You will bitch about it, and never know why.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 09:04 AM (zdLoL)

212 The weird verbal tics, hand gestures, no sequiturs, and outright lies he thinks are well-hidden because he thinks you are dumb.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

He's his own sign language interpreter.

As you're mesmerized by his hand gestures and bopping head, he's hoping you don't hear all the BS coming out of his mouth.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM (JkCto)

213 What's a Kimmel?
Posted by: Most people

20 cents, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

214 What's a Kimmel?
Posted by: Most people at January 14, 2025 09:01 AM (dg+HA)
——-

A smug closet faggot with no discernible talents who sucks farts from subway seats but somehow gets paid millions for a hosting a dogshit show nobody watches

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM (GtPvF)

215 125 Among the top earners, three Democrats and two Republicans - Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Roger Williams (R-TX), and Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) - saw stock value increases of more than 100 percent in 2024.
===
Huh. I only made 71%. I better not find out these bitches been holding out on me.

Posted by: Nancy "Hopalong" Pelosi at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM (paSBy)

216 141 What is it with grown men crying on TV? Dudes, take some testosterone supplements.
Concur. No one likes pussies.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 14, 2025 08:42 AM (jFCkp)

But they were picking on me and my family...sniff..sniff...Mom!

Posted by: Bret Kavanaugh, Momma's Boy at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM (jiYtH)

217 What is it with grown men crying on TV? Dudes, take some testosterone supplements.
Posted by: Bulg

That's the bodies natural reaction to confusion.

Confusion on whether to choke a bitch out or just walk away.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2025 09:06 AM (+htsy)

218 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
HAPPENING: Hundreds of vets are lining up to support Pete Hegseth during his Senate Confirmation hearing today

https://tinyurl.com/mr2vccfv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Senate Dems: None of them are transgender or pedo generals so their opinions are irrelevant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

219 211 @188 Someone needs to.

Well there we go. You really are a Marxist.
Sonny, we don't do classes in my country.
You have swallowed the bait, and will serve them all your life.
You will bitch about it, and never know why.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 14, 2025 09:04 AM (zdLoL)

Blah, blah, blah.
Yes, we all know how pure and rugged you are.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 14, 2025 09:06 AM (nd2ez)

220 One more time for you Christopher, THE IDEOLOGY IS THE INCOMPETENCE

I disagree slightly.

Leftist don't care about traditional notions of competence. Since leftists voters will vote will vote solely on adherence to the leftist narrative and whole they believe will give them more free shit, leftist pols are incentivized to ignore competence and focus on woke and free shit.

Which is EXACTLY what you could saw happening in CA - sending fire fighter equipment to Ukraine or defunding the fire department to spend money on illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:07 AM (t0Rmr)

221 207 So Fetterman brought his "lovely" wife with him to Mar a Lago ?
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She creeps me out.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 14, 2025 09:08 AM (paSBy)

222 How much of it is voting and how much is cheating?

It's not like there are no Republicans elected in CA but it only happens in areas where the vote harvesting and ballot stuffing is kept under some control.
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Trump has proposed, and Congress can enforce it for federal elections:
1) paper in-person ballots, not mail in
2) counting completed by 10pm local time

Those two alone would have seen him get 400+ EV last November.
And a House with at least a 15 seat R majority.
And probably 3 more R Senators.

I think he knows this and so does his team.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:08 AM (q2q1y)

223 The report issued by Jack Smithj today was pathetic. It was just a rehash of all of his previous allegations followed by “I coulda won! I coulda been a contendah!!!” It’s like SMU saying “we could have been national champs! We could have!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 14, 2025 09:08 AM (7MHHr)

224 Wicker is the head of Armed Services.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

225 There was absolutely no reason for the editorializing otherwise.
The only comfort is that it is going to backfire spectacularly as we'll find the J6 Committee was more honest and fair.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:02 AM (q2q1

I read part of it.. Pure trash.. It's a trial without Trump being able to present a Defense....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (VE6XX)

226 One more time for you Christopher, THE IDEOLOGY IS THE INCOMPETENCE

Tim Walz backs David Hogg for DNC vice chair. “David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic, and courageous leadership the Democratic Party needs right now,” Walz said in a statement.

We fucking need someone with a track record of leadership and building coalitions. Not nearly fucking enough experience.

He's a Harvard grad who organized organized the March for Our Lives and published a bestseller titled Never Again: A New Generation Draws the Line. Time Magazine listed him among its 100 most influential people in 2018, and he's met with multiple senior politicians and activists!

We need to turn leadership over to the next generation. Hogg, AOC and others of that generation have my support.

He's no Kennedy, Lincoln or Obama. He's also no genius. He needs to learn how to focus his anger rather than scatter shot. He's seeks to blame rather than solve... and he's blaming and alienating the wrong people. Enough already.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

227 167
Why would anyone follow his directives if they believe he's a terrible person?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 14, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)
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I get that but then he can always fire them or give them an Aleutian Island posting right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Let's get tough at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (i0xsb)

228 So Fetterman brought his "lovely" wife with him to Mar a Lago?
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

She was pissed when she found out there were no ziplines.

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

229 SCHUMER: "Unfortunately, Mr. Hegseth's background is deeply troubling, to put it generously. We all have read reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault...These are such serious allegations."

If we had an independent media the very next question Schumer would have gotten is why he supported Joe Biden after he was credibly accused of sexual assault.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)

230 226 He's no Kennedy, Lincoln or Obama. He's also no genius. He needs to learn how to focus his anger rather than scatter shot. He's seeks to blame rather than solve... and he's blaming and alienating the wrong people. Enough already.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)

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Primary rules DU is so much more interesting than general election rules DU.

Less entertaining, but more interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

231 A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war.
Posted by: Old Pentagon saying at January 14, 2025 09:04 AM (dg+HA)

Yes. Back in the Navy we used to say that investigations existed to determine which enlisted guy would take the fall.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

232 He's a Harvard grad who organized organized the March for Our Lives and published a bestseller titled Never Again: A New Generation Draws the Line. Time Magazine listed him among its 100 most influential people in 2018, and he's met with multiple senior politicians and activists!

100 most influential people ? Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

233 This is the guy complaining about Trump's comments about LAFD DEI goals:

https://tinyurl.com/45fv6fdc

Let us know when you apply your love of DEI to late night television, Jimmy Kimmel. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:11 AM (u1uWe)

234 Tim Walz backs David Hogg for DNC vice chair. “David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic, and courageous leadership the Democratic Party needs right now,” Walz said in a statement.

Tim Walz also supports David Hogg for the Walz Household Sextoy

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

235 Do some of the Vets actually get to speak at the hearing for Hegseth or they just sit there in symbolic support?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:02 AM (MWP+p)
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Not sure, I think mostly symbolic.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

236 We need to turn leadership over to the next generation. Hogg, AOC and others of that generation have my support.

He's no Kennedy, Lincoln or Obama. He's also no genius. He needs to learn how to focus his anger rather than scatter shot. He's seeks to blame rather than solve... and he's blaming and alienating the wrong people. Enough already.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:09 AM (JCZqz)
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“And he’s got a purdy little mouth …”

— Sam Brinton

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:12 AM (GtPvF)

237 A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war. /i]

In the old, old days that would get a general literally crucified.

While I wouldn't go that far, all of the commanding officers in 'Stan and Iraq should have been forced to resign and issue a public apology for their incompetence.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

238 Ah! Stovetop brewed Columbian cappuccino and Swiss very dark chocolate!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 14, 2025 09:13 AM (aSBjH)

239 237 While I wouldn't go that far, all of the commanding officers in 'Stan and Iraq should have been forced to resign and issue a public apology for their incompetence.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

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They were just following orders from civilian leadership:

Fight, don't win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

240 A private who loses a rifle gets in more trouble than a general who loses a war. /i]
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I never lost a rifle, but once I couldn't recite to the CO my rifle's serial number. That wasn't pleasant.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 14, 2025 09:15 AM (paSBy)

241 238 Ah! Stovetop brewed Columbian cappuccino and Swiss very dark chocolate!

With a hot pastrami sandwich...

Posted by: Yumm at January 14, 2025 09:15 AM (dg+HA)

242 I never lost a rifle, but once I couldn't recite to the CO my rifle's serial number. That wasn't pleasant.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 14, 2025 09:15 AM (paSBy)

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"12345!"

"That's the same combination on my luggage!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

243
Ah! Stovetop brewed Columbian cappuccino and Swiss very dark chocolate!

With a hot pastrami sandwich...
Posted by: Yumm

And steaming bowl of Suaasat !

Posted by: An Greenlander at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

244 They were just following orders from civilian leadership:

Fight, don't win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

I'm not entirely convinced that the purpose of our involvement wasn't:

1. Spend a bunch-a-ton of money.
2. Get a bunch of patriotic young men killed/maimed.
3. Fuck up the heads of a bunch who managed to not die.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

245 Tim Walz backs David Hogg for DNC vice chair. “David Hogg represents exactly the kind of bold, dynamic, and courageous leadership the Democratic Party needs right now,” Walz said in a statement.

Tim Walz also supports David Hogg for the Walz Household Sextoy
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)
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It’s incredible they think that Tim Walz — Tim Fucking Walz — is some kind of influential endorsement. He just got humiliated in November. His own county voted for Trump, IIRC. Dude is a laughingstock. What possible cachet could he bring to an endorsement??

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (GtPvF)

246
They were just following orders from civilian leadership:

Fight, don't win.

Then you resign, and after resigning holding a press conference saying exactly that.

We expect non-coms to charge enemy positions and risk death. We should expect a general to be willing to risk...giving up cushy perks and a no-show consulting job - because if you aren't you have no business being put in charge of those non-coms.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

247 224 Wicker is the head of Armed Services.
Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

Another useless MCYertle toady RINO.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (x0n13)

248 Tim Walz - Influencer extraordinaire.

Posted by: runner at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)

249
It’s incredible they think that Tim Walz — Tim Fucking Walz — is some kind of influential endorsement. He just got humiliated in November. His own county voted for Trump,

Hell his own family voted for Trump

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

250 >>Gov. Newsom’s Solution to the Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster? More Government

Well, yeah. This is the party of Cloward-Piven and "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (u1uWe)

251 And steaming bowl of Suaasat !

Posted by: An Greenlander at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

How does seal taste?...fishy?

Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (Yj6Os)

252 Stovetop makes coffee now? Do they make Sage flavor?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (1FWWQ)

253 Plus, I don't think Hegseth will run away from the fact he's no saint.
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You don't run away from an ambush and you don't apologize for a leftie smear--you fight and win.

Yeah, 10 years ago the leftie stagecraft phony outrage over sex-related smears might have worked.
But a majority of the party now says, "f you all--you still defend Bill Clinton."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (q2q1y)

254 *What possible cachet could he bring to an endorsement??*

He knows when to call a pick six.

Posted by: Sports betting websites at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (dg+HA)

255 245 It’s incredible they think that Tim Walz — Tim Fucking Walz — is some kind of influential endorsement. He just got humiliated in November. His own county voted for Trump, IIRC. Dude is a laughingstock. What possible cachet could he bring to an endorsement??
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (GtPvF)

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He's worse than Tim Kaine because people forgot who Tim Kaine was before the election was even over.

We're going to remember Walz for a long time, and it's not because he appealed to the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

256 251 How does seal taste?...fishy?
Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (Yj6Os)

Let's ask Heidi Klum!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (x0n13)

257 239 They were just following orders from civilian leadership:

Fight, don't win.

In an ideal world (Oh hush. A man could dream.). Mobilizing the military would be the President saying "This is our objective. How you achieve it is up to you," followed by him getting out of the way.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (RjOoY)

258 Back around 2003, my battalion was doing some training in a local forest. Some soldiers were approached by a German civilian carrying an M16 he said he found in the woods and kept, waiting for a chance to return to the next Americans he saw.

Turned out the weapon had been missing for over 6 months from an aviation unit that was in the same area doing training. I always wondered about the poor guy who lost the thing, and how badly he got hammered.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

259 Dude is a laughingstock. What possible cachet could he bring to an endorsement??
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (GtPvF)

He helps to solidify our votes among the pederasts, bull dykes and twinks.

Posted by: NAMBLA democrats at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (jiYtH)

260 246 We expect non-coms to charge enemy positions and risk death. We should expect a general to be willing to risk...giving up cushy perks and a no-show consulting job - because if you aren't you have no business being put in charge of those non-coms.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

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"I thought this was America!"
-General Miley, in a dress

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

261
Give any American general from say WWII the military of 2001/3 and the RoE of 1945 set them lose on 'Stan and Iraq and they win in six months...and there are a lot fewer jihadis in this world.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:20 AM (t0Rmr)

262 >>He's a Harvard grad who organized organized the March for Our Lives and published a bestseller titled Never Again: A New Generation Draws the Line. Time Magazine listed him among its 100 most influential people in 2018, and he's met with multiple senior politicians and activists!

He is an MSM creation.
An empty suit.
He's perfect!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:20 AM (u1uWe)

263 >>I never lost a rifle, but once I couldn't recite to the CO my rifle's serial number. That wasn't pleasant.

Should've gone with "Number 2, sir!"

Posted by: Pvt. Vernon L. Pinkley at January 14, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)

264 When JD Vance, his wife Usha and their three young children move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, it will be their first time inside the white Queen Anne-style mansion that has been home to vice presidents since the 1970s.

Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended an invitation for a formal sit-down or tour.

Petty small and vindictive is no way to go through life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

265 253 Yeah, 10 years ago the leftie stagecraft phony outrage over sex-related smears might have worked.
But a majority of the party now says, "f you all--you still defend Bill Clinton."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (q2q1y)

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It didn't work in its most concentrated forms over the last 10 years:

Against Trump or Kavanaugh, each very different circumstances from each other.

I don't think it'll work now. It's obvious that Thune has decided it's best to just make this process as smooth as possible. He hasn't bitched about anyone, as far as I know, for weeks.

This is all Democrats bein' partisan. Not even worthy of mention.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

266
Democrats haven't been able to engage publicly in discussions of governance for a few years now; it's all criminal accusations and rage.

Yes, David Hogg is a perfect DNC choice.

Posted by: Auspex at January 14, 2025 09:21 AM (j4U/Z)

267 And steaming bowl of Suaasat !

Posted by: An Greenlander at January 14, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

How does seal taste?...fishy?
Posted by: BignJames at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (Yj6Os)
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Seal has an odd taste. Kinda gamey and fishy at the same time. I’m not a fan.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (GtPvF)

268 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Can you guess the IQ of this Democrat?

https://tinyurl.com/mud6y2ph

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

269
Yeah, 10 years ago the leftie stagecraft phony outrage over sex-related smears might have worked.
But a majority of the party now says, "f you all--you still defend Bill Clinton."

Forget 10 years ago - Joe Biden sexually assaulted one of his staffers and threatened her with harm and no one on the left cares.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

270 I used to be the next vice president of the United States!

Posted by: Tim Kaine at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (dg+HA)

271 257 In an ideal world (Oh hush. A man could dream.). Mobilizing the military would be the President saying "This is our objective. How you achieve it is up to you," followed by him getting out of the way.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 14, 2025 09:19 AM (RjOoY)

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"Well, we'll wait for a while...a long while..."
-McClellan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

272 Give any American general from say WWII the military of 2001/3 and the RoE of 1945 set them lose on 'Stan and Iraq and they win in six months...and there are a lot fewer jihadis in this world.
Posted by: 18-1

Shame we haven't had a 1945 RoE since 1945. We wouldn't have lost so many fights.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (+htsy)

273 If you don't support the wholesale replacement of Americans with illegal alien wage slaves you're a Marxist.

If you don't support the wholesale offshoring of the American industrial base to a Communist country that's our chief rival, you're a Marxist.

Protecting the profit margins of a few large multinational corporations is the core value of True Patriots™, and if you're not openly hostile toward anyone who works with his hands, you're a Marxist.

Posted by: A Ridiculous Strawman at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (syZXE)

274 >>Petty small and vindictive is no way to go through life.

and drunk!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (u1uWe)

275 We expect non-coms to charge enemy positions and risk death. We should expect a general to be willing to risk...giving up cushy perks and a no-show consulting job - because if you aren't you have no business being put in charge of those non-coms.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 14, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

276 The far Left YouTubers seemed to love Walz. They thought he ran Minnesota as a strong, but stealthy, Progressive, enacting successful Leftwing policies with a folksy, relatable Midwestern charm. Plus he started the "Republicans are weird" trend that far Lefties ALSO thought was super effective.

Delusional.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

277 276 The far Left YouTubers seemed to love Walz. They thought he ran Minnesota as a strong, but stealthy, Progressive, enacting successful Leftwing policies with a folksy, relatable Midwestern charm. Plus he started the "Republicans are weird" trend that far Lefties ALSO thought was super effective.

Delusional.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

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So effective that Kamala won MN by the smallest margin for a Democrat in decades.

I hope these people never leave their bubble or lose their influence on the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

278 “ and he's met with multiple senior politicians and activists”

So did John Wayne Gacy. I actually think the rise David Hogg in dem circles is hilarious! Look at how deep in the barrel they have to scrape to find anyone at all!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (7MHHr)

279 https://youtu.be/rblfKREj50o/i]

WWI style combat and norms seem to be something that militaries regress to - you can see that in the current American political leadership and hell Ukraine is running a WWI style war themselves...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (t0Rmr)

280 Petty small and vindictive is no way to go through life.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
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Having worked with her several years, I approve and agree.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (RIvkX)

281 Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:20 AM (u1uWe)

The two advantages he might bring to bring DNC chair are that he can speak the language of leftist young people and like Baron Trump/ he's probably good with social media. Other than that anyone who was paying attention know that he was likely admitted to Harvard on the base of his leftist activism, it's not as if Harvard in 2004 was like the Harvard of 6O years ago, much less 250 years ago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (Iidam)

282 261Give any American general from say WWII the military of 2001/3 and the RoE of 1945 set them lose on 'Stan and Iraq and they win in six months..
Posted by: 18-1

Zombie Lloyd Fredendall snaps to attention. Mark Clark salutes.

Posted by: Auspex at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (j4U/Z)

283 > Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended an invitation for a formal sit-down or tour.

Petty small and vindictive is no way to go through life.
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No it isn't. But this demonstrates what her true feelings are about her situation. I'd hope she funnels some of her simmering rage into periodic outbursts in public in which she demeans the *biden administration at length.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

284 I tried Hákarl when I was in Iceland years ago. It was the worst thing I have ever tasted in my long life. Fookin' Scandis eat some horrible food

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 14, 2025 09:26 AM (1FWWQ)

285 Who's in charge of the Ukraine war peace talks?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 14, 2025 09:26 AM (dg+HA)

286 A smug closet faggot with no discernible talents who sucks farts from subway seats but somehow gets paid millions for a hosting a dogshit show nobody watches
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:05 AM

To be fair, part of that may not be accurate. We don't have any actual pictures of him wearing Crocs, do we?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 14, 2025 09:26 AM (a3Q+t)

287 Remember how, a few weeks before the Election, there was a report of a top media executive in a panic?
That if they failed to stop Trump, their influence was dead forever?

That was right around the peak of Kamala's campaign, like just a few weeks after the convention.

Of course, we're not hearing anything about that now. But, the story about the Washington Post losing 90% of it's audience?
They're not the only one, just the first one revealed.
What's hilarious is the rest--after failing to stop Trump--have settled on "let's just still pretend we are important and powerful."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:26 AM (q2q1y)

288 I actually think the rise David Hogg in dem circles is hilarious! Look at how deep in the barrel they have to scrape to find anyone at all!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Hey, leave me out of this! Even I wouldn't accept that dweeb. I have standards.
-- The Barrel

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

289 The far Left YouTubers seemed to love Walz. They thought he ran Minnesota as a strong, but stealthy, Progressive, enacting successful Leftwing policies with a folksy, relatable Midwestern charm. Plus he started the "Republicans are weird" trend that far Lefties ALSO thought was super effective.

Delusional.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 14, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

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So effective that Kamala won MN by the smallest margin for a Democrat in decades.

I hope these people never leave their bubble or lose their influence on the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)
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I agree but would put “Kamala won” in scare quotes. MN was blatantly stolen. Is there nothing midnight drop boxes can’t do??

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GtPvF)

290 283 No it isn't. But this demonstrates what her true feelings are about her situation. I'd hope she funnels some of her simmering rage into periodic outbursts in public in which she demeans the *biden administration at length.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 14, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

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This woman ain't goin' nowhere. She's gonna do everything she can to get power.

And the establishment just shoveled $20 million to her for a book no one will read. The establishment still thinks she's worthy of investment.

At least until her next flame out. I'm hoping she doesn't run for CA governor, because she'll flame out there. I need her to flame out during the 2028 Democrat presidential primary.

For the lulz.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)

291 Elizabeth Warren says she has 100 questions for Pete Hegseth.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

292 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)
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She is too lazy and entitled to campaign ever again.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 09:28 AM (RIvkX)

293 287 Of course, we're not hearing anything about that now. But, the story about the Washington Post losing 90% of it's audience?
They're not the only one, just the first one revealed.
What's hilarious is the rest--after failing to stop Trump--have settled on "let's just still pretend we are important and powerful."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 14, 2025 09:26 AM (q2q1y)

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It's been obvious for years now that establishment media is a shell of what it once was in terms of influence.

90% is more than I realized or thought possible.

Seriously, I think propaganda stopped working during the Obama administration. In the first 2 years of it. And it's been election cheating ever since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

294 291 Elizabeth Warren says she has 100 questions for Pete Hegseth.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

Questions or accusations ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

295 289 I agree but would put “Kamala won” in scare quotes. MN was blatantly stolen. Is there nothing midnight drop boxes can’t do??
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GtPvF)

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Change Biden's diapers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

296 In 2014 California voters passed Prop 1 which directed billions of dollars for infrastructure to build water storage and reservoirs.

Over 10 years later and not a single reservoir has been completed yet.

$7.5 B to be exact with $3 B immeidately

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

297 292 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)
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She is too lazy and entitled to campaign ever again.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 14, 2025 09:28 AM (RIvkX)

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She was to being president. And she's campaigned before (2020 and 2024).

I think she'll keep going.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

298 The owner of the LA times rediscovers competence is important, while in fly over country it and common sense never went out of style. We've been saying for years that DIE, Grift environmentalism, and the cleptogarchy will bring our civilization to collapse where we'll be lucky to have flush toilets and potable water. We've had flashes of it but now here's California as a shining example. You will have nothing and be a motivational poster for sanity. Shock is not acceptance or happiness. The next 6 months will be the hardest for them. Good to see some are spine-ing up.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at January 14, 2025 09:30 AM (jPdyB)

299
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Posted by: rhennigantx at January 14, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

300 I agree but would put “Kamala won” in scare quotes. MN was blatantly stolen. Is there nothing midnight drop boxes can’t do??
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:27 AM (GtPvF)

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Change Biden's diapers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)
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“Dude, seriously??”

— Disgusted Midnight Drop Boxes

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 14, 2025 09:30 AM (GtPvF)

301 Questions or accusations ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 14, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)
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She'll definitely be fundraising after this.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

302 >>I actually think the rise David Hogg in dem circles is hilarious! Look at how deep in the barrel they have to scrape to find anyone at all!!!

The near complete implosion of the Democrat Party over the last few months proves what some of us have believed for a long time. Their real support was always and illusion that was sustained because they had a near monopoly on media and social media.

Once that was cracked the unraveling has been happening at a spectacular pace. It's a failed party right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 09:31 AM (LkLld)

303 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 14, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

304 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at January 14, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

305 Hegseth's hearing has started.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 09:32 AM (LkLld)

306 How much do TPTB regret allowing Musk's purchase of Twitter?

Forcing Musk’s purchase of Twitter. That’s the weird part. Musk was almost Trump-like—or Twain-like—in how he kept the government from blocking the sale.

Don’t throw me into that briar patch! (you incompetent losers.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 14, 2025 09:34 AM (EXyHK)

307 Elizabeth Warren says she has 100 questions for Pete Hegseth.

I'd give Hegseth five hundred bucks to call her "Pocahontas" to her face.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 14, 2025 09:34 AM (Q0kLU)

308 >>The two advantages he might bring to bring DNC chair are that he can speak the language of leftist young people and like Baron Trump/ he's probably good with social media.

That's true, Fen, but doesn't being head of the DNC require management skills? The only thing he may have ever managed was that Walk for Life - an activist march. It's amazing how in politics, the assumption always is that if you are a good at politics that you can magically be an executive, too. It takes more than speaking well and inspiring young people. You have to hire and manage staff, budget, strategize how to win in each state, etc.. I cannot imagine putting that kid in charge of their party - it's bananas.

He could be put in charge of social media and youth outreach. Maybe.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:34 AM (u1uWe)

309 Joe Biden celebrates Joe Biden’s foreign policy failures at everything Joe Biden did in foreign policy. If this a setup for a dementia defense at trial?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 14, 2025 09:36 AM (17s+e)

310 @302 Exactly. Very Wizard of Oz, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 14, 2025 09:36 AM (JyuJ/)

311 Posted by: Lizzy at January 14, 2025 09:34 AM (u1uWe)

You're right. He would lack many necessary skills, but maybe he'd just do social media and a group would handle the rest/ kind of like Joe Biden was trotted out and told what to say at certain times but selected staff did everything else.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:40 AM (x5pBv)

312 305 Hegseth's hearing has started.

Thanks, Jack. I hope the people who pray will pray for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 14, 2025 09:41 AM (x5pBv)

313 @302 Exactly. Very Wizard of Oz, no?

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 14, 2025 09:42 AM (LkLld)

314 People, stay awake between now and next Monday. The left has proven they will do anything to stay in power. We ask GOD to protect, encourage, and support America's efforts to clean up the mess left by the current 'administration'.

Posted by: Eromero at January 14, 2025 09:47 AM (LHPAg)

315 As with the constant lawfare against President Trump, the process is the punishment. Recalling Governor Hairgel won't make a substantial difference to California because their state is overwhelmingly run by socialists, but recalling Hairgel will create more chaos for them and cause much grief and gnashing of teeth. A recall will also have a negative impact on Hairgel's prospects for 2028, which isn't a bad thing either. I say recall the commie sonofab*tch, and confusion to our enemies!

Posted by: p-squared at January 14, 2025 10:04 AM (0prFs)

316 The HELL You Will! Texas Governor Greg Abbott RAINS FIRE on Texas A&M's Illegal DEI Conference

https://tinyurl.com/43vcxaw8
Posted by: redridinghood at January 14, 2025 08:46 AM

I expect this UT, but A&M? The the heck?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 14, 2025 10:05 AM (IRrsy)

317 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, "Multiple people died trying to protect their homes. At Least 24 Dead From Los Angeles County Fires With More Still Missing"

The President's schedule for today indicates he'll make remarks celebrating the Administration’s historic conservation legacy and signs proclamations to establish the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in California.

The NY Times has a very nice, related article entitled, 'Biden to Designate Two New National Monuments in California.' The decision means Mr. Biden will have protected about 674 million acres of federal land, more than any other president. By Lisa Friedman, Reporting from Washington, Published Jan. 7, 2025, Updated Jan. 13, 2025

A few paragraphs, "President Biden on Tuesday plans to create two national monuments in California that together will prevent mining and drilling as well as wind, solar and other energy development across more than 848,000 acres of desert and mountainous land in the state, a White House spokesman has confirmed."
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"Mr. Biden had initially planned to announce the monuments last week in California but his schedule was

Cont'd

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

318 changed because of windy weather. Subsequent wildfires in the Los Angeles area, spread by high winds, have killed at least 24 people and displaced about 100,000. Mr. Biden intends to announce the monuments from the East Room of the White House."

"Both the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla monuments were created at the request of lawmakers and tribal organizations." (Note: Deb Haaland, the interior secretary and the first Native American to hold the post)

And, now it also seems, as an environmental p*ssing match between the Biden-Harris & Trump-Vance
administrations.

Regardless, time's running out for B-H but is this the announcement - "saving" property serving as biodiversity & wildlife corridors - and the day & time for it? 🤷‍♀️
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One thing I love about the thread, the author never forgets, as we read something that needs to be remembered in every weekday piece, from Babbit & Boyland; responses or lack thereof for the sufferings of hurricane ravaged N. Carolinians and Floridians; Ukraine color revolutions; NY subway assaults & murders; the terrible upswing of Jew hatred here & elsewhere in the world; lawfare & government; the US pullout from Afghanistan, and so much more.

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

319 To that end: “One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse.” W. Churchill
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Also from above: "Some of the social media responses to Zelensky’s offer of assistance ridiculed his proposal to send 150 personnel as miniscule compared to the titanic amount of money the United States has poured into defending Ukraine over the past three years." Ukraine Offers Inept L.A. Government Help with Wildfires

Got news for all of us about the proposal to send 150 personnel and that is there are already many young, able bodied Ukrainian men working in the US in construction, home renovation, etc. - as long as they don't attempt to step into the unionized, 'city' construction jobs and major home building projects. (Yes, 1st hand experience during a renovation project under a big name remodeler. 😲

US Department of Labor visas? Yeah, likely, and definitely with state driver's licenses.
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It's too quiet and too hot.

Good day.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 10:35 AM (NFX2v)

320
I expect this UT, but A&M? The the heck?
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 14, 2025 10:05 AM (IRrsy)

My nephew was in the vet school five years ago and was required to sign an "affirmation of other's rights to love who they want." He refused and went toe to toe with the head of the vet school (big surprise, a lesbian). He was able to remain without signing, but it was a big battle.

Posted by: Moki at January 14, 2025 10:47 AM (wLjpr)

321 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes 760,000 acres of critical habitat to protect foothill yellow-legged frogs in California

Posted by: SMOD at January 14, 2025 10:52 AM (RHGPo)

322 321 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes 760,000 acres of critical habitat to protect foothill yellow-legged frogs in California
Posted by: SMOD

Like the Potatoes WH announcement today, they are f**king with whomever and including us, the common people.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 14, 2025 11:16 AM (NFX2v)

323 So effective that Kamala won MN by the smallest margin for a Democrat in decades.

I hope these people never leave their bubble or lose their influence on the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 14, 2025 09:24 AM

Hillary Clinton holds that distinction. She won MN by only 1.5% (~45,000 votes) in 2016.

Harris won MN by 4.2% (~138,000 votes).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 14, 2025 11:58 AM (P5BPp)

324 Biden: I Built ‘Most Competent Foreign Policy Team’ In U.S. History (Indigestible vegetable emits gas - jjs)

He's a senile bitter melon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 14, 2025 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

325 Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’

If everyone was gay and transgendered, there'd be no more children and eventually there'd be extinction, taking care of all health care problems!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 14, 2025 12:38 PM (ynpvh)

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