Biden, Who Demanded that Tech Oligarchs Censor Any Speech Critical of Him or the Democrats, Now Warns Nation Grimly of a "Tech-Industrial Complex" Controlling the Country

Before getting to that, I suppose it's just a total coincidence that Biden's SEC just decided to persecute Musk some more for giving Americans some of their free speech back.

NBC "News:"

The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging the billionaire committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose he had amassed an active stake in Twitter, a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at "artificially low prices."
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, purchased Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and changed the name to X the following year. Prior to the acquisition, he'd built up a position in the company of greater than 5%, which would've required disclosing his holdings to the public within 10 calendar days of reaching that threshold.
According to the SEC's civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Musk was more than 10 days late in reporting that material information, "allowing him to underpay by at least $150 million for shares he purchased after his financial beneficial ownership report was due." Investors may have bid up the stock had they known about Musk's purchases and interest in the company.

Below, in his halting, lie-filled "farewell address," Biden claims that it's other people who fill the discourse with lies and other people who want to control your speech:

U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Wednesday in his farewell address that an American oligarchy is taking shape among a few tech billionaires who have amassed a "dangerous concentration of power."
Biden warned Americans of a "tech industrial complex," words that echoed President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address in 1961. Eisenhower, closing out eight years as president, had warned of the dangers of a "military-industrial complex" gaining power in the United States.
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead," Biden said from the Oval Office.
He did not mention names, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has amassed not just vast wealth but has become a powerful adviser to Donald Trump, the Republican who will take over as president from Biden on Monday.

Did he forget names like Mark Cuban, Reid Hoffman, Larry Fink, and George Soros, who have paid billions to the Democrat Party? Did he forget Mark Zuckerberg, who paid $400 million to turn out the vote in left-leaning areas?

No? Just Elon Musk? A one-man oligarchy, huh?

"Six decades later, I'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex. It could pose real dangers for our country as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power," he said.
"The free press is crumbling. Pillars are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking," Biden said.

Update:

𝙺𝚒𝚖𝚋𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚔
@kimbal
It’s also good to double check what politicians say. Kamala was supported by 83 billionaires. Trump was supported by 52.
If there really is a fear of the wealthy influencing our elections, maybe they should do some self-reflection first.

The Democrats' messaging is now all about warning of "oligarchs." 90% they just mean Elon Musk, though they've now added Mark Zuckerberg to the list of oligarchs who must be purged.

Secretary of the Treasury nominee Scott Bessent knocked back Bernie Sanders' mewling about oligarchs, reminding him that Biden just gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of the their many billionaire oligarchs.

Socialist Bernie Sanders was just thoroughly embarrassed by Scott Bessent.

Bernie echoed Biden’s statement about oligarchs gaining too much influence in government. It was a shallow dig at Elon Musk, who Bernie is obsessed with.

Bessent quickly reminded him of Soros, who got a… pic.twitter.com/8zp9wp2KEe
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 16, 2025

Joy Behar meltdown over Biden leaving: “I miss him already. I miss him. He’s a good person. You know, he spent the last 50 years caring about the country. This other one spent 50 years scamming everybody, you know, and trying to stay out of jail,”pic.twitter.com/rSiY9ZVAqU
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 16, 2025

pic.twitter.com/sL4uo5Zmux
— Just Donna (@Crypsis12) January 16, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:32 PM

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1 Yeah, there's too much money in politics! Please ignore my pardoning my son!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 04:33 PM (2UnvF)

2 God, I'll be glad to be rid of this evil little toad.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2025 04:34 PM (1bNHn)

3 Called the otters. I almost said nood Joe Biden, but I didn't want anyone to lose their lunch.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 04:34 PM (2UnvF)

4 Social media is giving up on "fact checking". Thats what annoys Biden and the rest of the commies. How dare these social media outfits let people write stuff that is contrary to the party line? How dare they.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (34pOu)

5 And a "police state" is one where the cops run things.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (/lPRQ)

6 Pillars are disappearing.

MyPillars? From the Lincoln bedroom?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (B/MLO)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Gaslighting.

It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

9 a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at "artificially low prices."

The secret is that twitter was forced to sell. You don't just 'sell' the world's most powerful information and intelligence weapon in the middle of an information war.

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (4Nep/)

10 The Reaper must be a frigging DEI hire.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (VwHCD)

11 Bah. I read the post. Coulda been a contendah.

Also, fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 16, 2025 04:36 PM (DTX3h)

12 When was the press without bias? Not in my lifetime, and I am old. People just stopped listening.

Posted by: huerfano at January 16, 2025 04:36 PM (DKIGo)

13 Biden, Who Demanded that Tech Oligarchs Censor Any Speech Critical of Him or the Democrats, Now Warns Nation Grimly of a "Tech-Industrial Complex" ~~Controlling the Country~~Allowing People To Post What They Want
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Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:36 PM (krQz2)

14 What a stuttering clutter buck of a guy Joey is.

He deserves nothing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:36 PM (h5iVp)

15 Biden, Who Demanded that Tech Oligarchs Censor Any Speech Critical of Him or the Democrats, Now Warns Nation Grimly of a "Tech-Industrial Complex" Controlling the Country

If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

16 Before getting to that, I suppose it's just a total coincidence that Biden's SEC just decided to persecute Musk some more for giving Americans some of their free speech back.

I assume that the point of this is so that when Trump's administration drops it the media will shriek about preferential treatment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (ExV1e)

17 Bah. I read the post. Coulda been a contendah.

Also, fuck Joe Biden.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

Post???

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (/lPRQ)

18 pic.twitter.com/sL4uo5Zmux

— Just Donna (@Crypsis12) January 16, 2025

Is that Jm J Acosta?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Biden came into office after The Mexican American war as a scumbag, and he will leave office as a scumbag. Go back to Delaware and die in shame, shitbird.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (PdCV0)

20 Did Joey know William Randolph Hearst?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (h5iVp)

21 You just know in your heart that Jim Acosta huffs his own farts.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (xCA6C)

22 Yeah, I’m sure whichever junior staffer wrote that tech-industrial complex line thinks Zhe is the first person to ever think of such a thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (GmJua)

23 Joy Behar is a lying, ignorant twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

24 Joy Behar meltdown over Biden leaving: “I miss him already. I miss him. He’s a good person. You know, he spent the last 50 years caring about the country.
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And only a couple years showering with his daughter!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2)

25 They’re all junior staffers now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 04:38 PM (GmJua)

26 Everything Joe The Old Rayciss said is about what he and the democrats have been doing since hope and change came to town.

Hope and change comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
When hope and change comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did when hope and change came to town...

Posted by: Zombie BB King at January 16, 2025 04:38 PM (jiYtH)

27 10 The Reaper must be a frigging DEI hire.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (VwHCD)

Just biding my time. Soon

Posted by: Death at January 16, 2025 04:38 PM (/6GbT)

28 It's like a horrible movie that just won't end, and you're sticking around to see if any more cast members die in gruesome ways.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2025 04:38 PM (lTGtQ)

29 Final Notice to Hamas to release the Hostages is the following.........

1. I will send Kumula Harris to Negations Table and Cackle Continously until you vomit.

2. Send Hillary Clinton to bitch you to death.

You have 24 Hours to respond....

Posted by: Donny Trump at January 16, 2025 04:38 PM (AYYhy)

30 Elon demonstrably overpaid as it was, considering over half of the accounts were bots, which Twitface knew and concealed from the markets.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (aD39U)

31 I think Musk had shot his mouth off about maybe buying twitter before he started buying many shares, thus artificially driving up the price he had to pay. But I could be wrong, I'm sure I don't care if a few speculators lost a few bucks on twitter.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (34pOu)

32 Jim Acosta. Speaking of delusional narcissistic idiots...

Posted by: I'd laugh but it's cruel to laugh at mental illness at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (HXZiI)

33 Meanwhile the DoD has determined that Darth Lloyd was in the wrong for failing to report he was in the hospital zonked out of his mind on drugs.

What leadership? What courage?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (h5iVp)

34 If I never hear that man's voice again...

Posted by: It'll be too soon at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DobEs)

35 Pillars are disappearing.

On this, I'll actually agree with the old bastard. Finally, the pillars that have held up the political class - best I can tell, since the close of WW II - are finally staring to give way.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (ANvyx)

36 "The free press is crumbling. Pillars are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking," Biden said.

One of the most notable things about Twitter is that it allows for fact checking in a way that no other mass platform does - by its users not some self selected elite

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (t0Rmr)

37 Oh, early. I wanted to sit carline and read witty and insightful comments. Now i have to say something?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (1VE5s)

38 4 more days

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (xCA6C)

39 Make Oligarchies Great Again, Bernie!

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (WWBBV)

40 And only a couple years showering with his daughter!
Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2)

Fractions of years with his finger inside Tara Reade.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (GmJua)

41 We agree ..............

Final Notice to Hamas to release the Hostages is the following.........

1. I will send Kumula Harris to Negations Table and Cackle Continously until you vomit.

2. Send Hillary Clinton to bitch you to death.

You have 24 Hours to respond.

Posted by: Leader of Hamas at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (7uGna)

42
Hopin' that change
High on cocaine..

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (aD39U)

43 If I never hear that man's voice again...
Posted by: It'll be too soon at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (DobEs)

See #27.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (W/lyH)

44 We are in a quasi-Orwell period of time.

Tech giants want to control the country by not controlling speech--which the government IS NOT supposed to control in any shape or form--or have a chilling effect on EXPRESSION, of all things.

As fought for by the commie ACLU who wanted to hamstring us by our own freedoms.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (krQz2)

45 (shakes head) When I grew up, "gaslighting" had a totally different meaning. It was generally frowned upon in closed areas, and ran the real risk of a fire hazard, as well as a charred butt cheek.

Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2025 04:40 PM (dIske)

46
So Biden is now George Washington for quitting after one term and Ike Eisenhower for warning about the "Tech-Industrial Complex." One brain could not contain such greatness!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 04:41 PM (I87yH)

47 I'm sorry. I cannot look at the video of lying Biden. But thanks Ace for the analysis . Even the picture of his face looks awful. I wonder whether the cabal was responsible or one leftist got stuck with the job of writing this. People know he's a liar. A woman I went to visit today asked me if I watched it and she rolled her eyes and it's not as if she is a whiz with alternate media. She's just smart and not a leftist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2025 04:41 PM (gF3cq)

48 Social media is giving up on "fact checking". Thats what annoys Biden and the rest of the commies. How dare these social media outfits let people write stuff that is contrary to the party line? How dare they.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2025 04:35 PM (34pOu)

It's not so much the end of fact checking that bothers them. The MSM would continue that and they could shadow ban people who say things they don't like. The thing that makes them feel like ants are crawling all over them is community notes. Because that allows the plebes to do the fact checking.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 04:41 PM (ExV1e)

49 Oligarchs with tiny giraffes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:41 PM (h5iVp)

50 So Biden is now George Washington for quitting after one term and Ike Eisenhower for warning about the "Tech-Industrial Complex." One brain could not contain such greatness!!

Luckily, Joe doesn't have one anymore. So no threat of bursting.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (ANvyx)

51 Did Joey know William Randolph Hearst?
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Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?

Posted by: The Statler Brothers at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (azSra)

52 How can Musk underpay for a company that he greatly overpaid for? Also the sellers agreed to the price. And also 10 days for reporting but everyone already knew what he had accumulated . It was always a passing comment when talking about Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (D6PGr)

53 Joe did a fine job of identifying exactly how the left helped rig the election for him, billionaires dark money and censorship.

He really is a stupid mofo.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (LkLld)

54 Did Joey know William Randolph Hearst?
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Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?
Posted by: The Statler Brothers at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (azSra)
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RANDOLPH SCOTT!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (6K6Eu)

55 Time to show this lying sham "president" to the door and then the dustbin of history. It's probably too much to hope that we never hear from him again, but he really needs to STFU. January 20th can't come soon enough.

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (9BIt9)

56 The thing that makes them feel like ants are crawling all over them is community notes. Because that allows the plebes to do the fact checking.

But...but...but...they don't have JOURNALISM degrees!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (xCA6C)

57 Pillars? Did he mean columns, the Fifth Column?

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (KtPtl)

58 The free press is crumbling. Pillars are disappearing.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (aD39U)

59 The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging the billionaire committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose he had amassed an active stake in Twitter, a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at "artificially low prices."
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LOL.

Gone are the taunts of "He wasted all that money, just to tank Twitter".

Now, his shares are "artificially low" in price.

People who have to change their story on a continuous basis, they're the ones lying.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (krQz2)

60 Styrofoam Greek columns

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (h5iVp)

61 Pillars are disappearing.
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Lampposts remain constant, though.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (krQz2)

62 Woman attacked by the world's largest rodent.
No, it's not one of the Binden family. Maybe?

https://tinyurl.com/2pk275wd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fWHsP)

63 Two words that need to disappear. Misinformation and disinformation. Either call it a lie or shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (2UnvF)

64 "Investors may have bid up the stock had they known about Musk's purchases and interest in the company."

Yes, clearly Musk ripped off stockholders as he paid more than, what, twice its actual value at the time - value being quite fluid considering the industry.

The Progressives really took a stake in the heart when Musk procured the world's premier Propaganda Machine and lubricated it with some truth.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (aXxgO)

65
If people are allowed to say whatever they please, who knows where it all will end?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (dxSpM)

66 Biden looks insane, that is all.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

67 And only a couple years showering with his daughter!
Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:37 PM (krQz2)

Eventually they hit puberty. Gross. -- Joe Biden

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (ExV1e)

68 So Biden is now George Washington for quitting after one term and Ike Eisenhower for warning about the "Tech-Industrial Complex." One brain could not contain such greatness!!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

Um...Washington served two terms. That's why we had the "no third term tradition" until polio boy came along.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

69 Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 04:41 PM (I87yH)

LOL. I guess it would be unkind to wish that when he crosses the Delaware at night to surprise the enemy at Trenton the boat springs a massive leak?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (yDNe7)

70
Acosta cites Walter Cronkite, the secret anti-American communist douchebag, who put out propaganda for years.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (cQWrP)

71 52 How can Musk underpay for a company that he greatly overpaid for? Also the sellers agreed to the price. And also 10 days for reporting but everyone already knew what he had accumulated . It was always a passing comment when talking about Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (D6PGr)

This sounds suspiciously like the Trump "bank fraud" case.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (lsO/a)

72 Mark Cuban, Reid Hoffman, Larry Fink, and George Soros
_____________

You don't understand. Elon Musk is a Gentile. Totally different.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (YqDXo)

73 Biden is not a good person. He has never been a good person. Now he is an awful person with dementia. 4 days…

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

74 And Do You Remember These?

Posted by: The seam up the back of her hose... at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (DobEs)

75 Eisenhower? I gave Ike the talking points to his farewell speech. Word as a Biden.

Posted by: Joseph R Biden at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (jXuwa)

76 It's like Stalin warning against a totalitarian state and a cult of personality.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

77 Tech giants want to control the country by not controlling speech--which the government IS NOT supposed to control in any shape or form--or have a chilling effect on EXPRESSION, of all things.

Its kind of like how the government can make you take the clot shot because you don't have the right to make other people sick.

Of course anyone that claims the government ever argued the clot shot ever stopped the spread of COVID is also a lying liar that lies...as it argues that the clot shot stops the spread of COVID

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (t0Rmr)

78 The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging the billionaire committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose he had amassed an active stake in Twitter, a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at "artificially low prices."

Wanna' lay odds that many more alphabet agencies come up with a last minute, "crucial" case of some type that conveniently prevents any reduction in their size or scope ?

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ANvyx)

79 This good, too.

Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom
[Commie Rat Bastard Senator] WYDEN: “We are in an arms race on clean energy with China.”

[Treasury Secretary Nominee] BESSENT: “China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (L/fGl)

80 If people are allowed to say whatever they please, who knows where it all will end?
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Allowing people to say whatever they please seems to wax and wane in popularity.

Posted by: The Statler Brothers at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (azSra)

81 Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

82 "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,"
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= BUTT + HURT

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (krQz2)

83 The free press is crumbling. Pillars are disappearing.
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The subtext is that, emotionally, he is very insecure about the protection afforded by his depends...as he should be.

Posted by: Not Dr Phil at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (HXZiI)

84
Beware the coming of the Diaper Industrial Complex.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (cQWrP)

85 Pillars? Did he mean columns, the Fifth Column?
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 04:43 PM (KtPtl)

Pillar Fight!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (VNX3d)

86 Did Joey know William Randolph Hearst?
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Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?
Posted by: The Statler Brothers

*Hats over hearts* Randolph Scott!!

Posted by: The People of Rock Ridge at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (2qQF1)

87 Capybaras normally look so chill - wonder what was wrong with that one

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (t0Rmr)

88 Joey Bidet. A pillow. In the bedroom.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (h5iVp)

89
Um...Washington served two terms. That's why we had the "no third term tradition" until polio boy came along.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

_______

Please, it's "Old Rubber Legs".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (dxSpM)

90 Rodents of unusual size?

Posted by: Princess Bride at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (DobEs)

91 Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)
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The blob has no more use to him.

He's even more probably a liability.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (krQz2)

92 Elon should make it up to Joe by giving him a free ride to the Oort Cloud.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice, Esq. at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (wtvvX)

93 When does the Security Exchange Commission get their walking papers?

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

94 If I remember correctly, Musk tried to back out of buying Twitter and was told he couldn't.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

95 [Treasury Secretary Nominee] BESSENT: “China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race.”

I'd like to see the US top China on *this*. Having cheap, reliable power is the core of a functioning economy.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

96 58 The free press is crumbling. Pillars are disappearing.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart.

The sun is shining. But the ice is slippery.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (CHHv1)

97 Capybaras normally look so chill - wonder what was wrong with that one

He watched too much of the confirmation hearings.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (xCA6C)

98 Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…
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I'll take the under.

Posted by: Crusader at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (azSra)

99 94 If I remember correctly, Musk tried to back out of buying Twitter and was told he couldn't.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

That is absolutely right… and the gubmint were the ones saying no backsies….

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (PCK5/)

100 I assume that the point of this is so that when Trump's administration drops it the media will shriek about preferential treatment.

++++++

Let them shriek. Why should we care. I will enjoy it.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (jPdyB)

101 Elon should make it up to Joe by giving him a free ride to the Oort Cloud.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice, Esq. at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (wtvvX)
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His frozen rictus grin would be *really* frozen.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (6K6Eu)

102 Senator Joseph McCarthy Memorial Patriotic Library Shooting Range and Second Amendment Firearms Supply Bar & Grill. Where can I get a Buccee’s franchise?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (UD7Dt)

103 Rodents of unusual size?
Posted by: Princess Bride at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (DobEs)

I don't think they exist.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (aD39U)

104 Today, an Olive Garden is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy

— Joe Biden

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (JRP2U)

105 Wanna' lay odds that many more alphabet agencies come up with a last minute, "crucial" case of some type that conveniently prevents any reduction in their size or scope ?
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (ANvyx)
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I never thought of that, but yeah. They are going to launch whatever baseless "investigations" they want so that if Trump were to dare shut them down it would be CORRUPTION and interference.

Trump does not get "prosecutorial discretion" because that would be the worst thing ever.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (krQz2)

106 I believe China buys a lot of the coal we mine but don't use.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (tT6L1)

107 Elon should make it up to Joe by giving him a free ride to the Oort Cloud.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice, Esq. at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (wtvvX)

Send him on a trip to the Red Eye of Jupiter - or the new Biden mansion on Uranus.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (VNX3d)

108 98 Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…
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I'll take the under.

Posted by: Crusader at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (azSra)

And give the IQ points...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice, Esq. at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (wtvvX)

109
Having cheap, reliable power is the core of a functioning economy.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

________

High among the reasons Europe is falling apart. Germany is implementing the Mongenthau Plan on themselves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (dxSpM)

110 Maybe somebody already mentioned this, but I see that Bob Uecker finally made it to the front row. RIP.

https://tinyurl.com/mmms8wx8

Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (mADJX)

111 "Even the picture of his face looks awful."

Some attic in Delaware has a picture of a very cute baby.

Biden couldn't even get THAT right.

Posted by: Just Lily at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (PQz16)

112 The falcon cannot hear the falconer, things fall apart.

The sun is shining. But the ice is slippery.

The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

113 Rodents of unusual size?
Posted by: Princess Bride at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (DobEs)

I don't think they exist.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 16, 2025 04:48 PM (aD39U)
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They do. They're so big they can fill human-sized chairs in the US Capital.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

114 "Joe did a fine job of identifying exactly how the left helped rig the election for him, billionaires dark money and censorship."

Right. imo the vote switches/theft and fake votes stole the 2020 election, and continues to steal elections as Dems count till they win.

BUT the censorship and propaganda from all media, and the Google (Archipelago) Search misdirection of results, and other BigTech monopolies on "Truth" was another 15%+ of voter outcomes.

The Hunter Laptop coverup alone could have swayed the 2020 election, perhaps the most egregious of the multiple censorship/propaganda instances ... though there were so many.

"Stay in your basement Joe, We've got this".
The DeepState/BigTech/BigPharma/Mafia etc. Machine.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Cus5s)

115 # OffSock

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (wtvvX)

116 How can Musk underpay for a company that he greatly overpaid for? Also the sellers agreed to the price. And also 10 days for reporting but everyone already knew what he had accumulated . It was always a passing comment when talking about Musk’s potential purchase of Twitter.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 04:42 PM (D6PGr)

If memory serves, Musk also tried to back out of the deal because Twitter wasn't forthcoming about the bot issue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ExV1e)

117 The government and his government crony enemies did the same thing to Rockefeller but they were successful. At the time they sued him for having a monopoly he only controlled about 40% of the market. He was just more efficient and paid his workers more. That couldn’t be allowed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (D6PGr)

118 The US has enough coal to supply all the world's energy needs for decades. We should be using that right now instead of wasting money on solar and wind.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (t0Rmr)

119 I am all nut praying Sundowner strokes out Jan 21

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (fwDg9)

120 You know who is probably glad to see Joe go ? Clarence Thomas.

Posted by: grammie's iPad at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (SfhV1)

121 Woman attacked by the world's largest rodent.
No, it's not one of the Binden family. Maybe?
https://tinyurl.com/2pk275wd
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 04:44 PM (fWHsP)

Hahahahaha...bitch FAFO.

Posted by: Mickey Rat at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (jiYtH)

122 Babylon Bee:

Obama to Divorce Michelle After Discovering She's Actually a Woman

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (VNX3d)

123 Joy Behar: "I miss him already. I miss him. He's a good person. You know, he spent the last 50 years caring about the country..."

Exhibit A on rescinding the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (aXxgO)

124 Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)
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Oh, I suspect the end will come a lot sooner than that.

Once he's out of office, there's little reason to prolong his life they way they've been doing...

Let nature take its course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (7fElN)

125 BARREL TIME

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (wtvvX)

126 When does the Security Exchange Commission get their walking papers?

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2025 04:46 PM (fwDg9)
______________

Fun fact: the first head of the SEC was Joseph Kennedy, who was notorious for manipulating the stock market. Set a thief and all that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

127
Whoa! Howdat happen?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (dxSpM)

128 Forgive me please, I misspelled Buc-ee’s

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (UD7Dt)

129 Trump to announce Sean Curran as Secret Service director, per (lol) CNN.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (g47mK)

130 Gray in gray.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (oaGWv)

131 Jim Acosta made me laugh out loud.

Does he really think he's special? Holy shitballs, the guy is barely mediocre.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (PMtkd)

132 I will dance a jig when this smirking, demented, evil, grifting, lying piece of shit shuffles off this mortal coil.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (XMwZJ)

133 That is definitely one thing Ike feared is control from organizations letting more people say stuff somebody didn't want said.

When he warned of a government run by specialists (experts), he definitely didn't want the rabble chiming in!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (krQz2)

134
Twarn't me!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (dxSpM)

135 Biden doesn’t last 5 years…
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I'll take the under.
==
Two weeks from now, he'll be home alone, and fall down the basement steps. End of story.

Posted by: Not Dr Phil at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (HXZiI)

136 Disgusting people like Biden, Acosta, the View ladies and their assorted co-travelers are soon out of power and out of sight. Thank heavens!

Posted by: Hick Follywood at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (NhySl)

137 I truly hope that the Trump administration dumps a whole lot of info on the net about J6, the censorship by tech and any other Biden scandal. Then watch Joy Behar and Joy Reid soil themselves on air

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (dR02F)

138 Once he's out of office, there's little reason to prolong his life they way they've been doing...

Let nature take its course.

Feed him to a Balrog?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (xCA6C)

139 Ok, almost five o'clock.
Where's the damn Scotch?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (DobEs)

140 It was not me!

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

141 Joy Behar meltdown over Biden leaving: “I miss him already. I miss him. He’s a good person. You know, he spent the last 50 years caring about the country.

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Is she talking about China, Ukraine, or Iran?

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (d9aGi)

142 Outlook: CLOUDY

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (wtvvX)

143 It's so pathetic. Boring, really.

Harris hung her campaign on tax cuts for billionaires, even though everyone remembered Trump's middle class tax cuts.

So now they're recycling it, and no one will care.

Keep screwing that chicken, I guess.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)

144 Grey v gray!!!

Posted by: Not Dr Phil at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (HXZiI)

145 >>> Bet Biden doesn’t last 5 years…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

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I remember a few (or more) of us here in early '21, myself included, thinking he wouldn't make it to summer. Alas, only the good die young.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (NbP1V)

146
It was not me!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

_______

Was too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (dxSpM)

147 TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER

/Meets Biden

SORRY WE MUST NOW DESTROY YOUR PLANET AFTER HE SNIFFED OUR ZORGRONS AND GROPED US IN OUR BLAFLANS

Posted by: The Greys at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (t0Rmr)

148 Beware the coming of the Diaper Industrial Complex.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

More like Industrial Diaper, amirite?

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (NMT5x)

149 Wow! Did I do that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)

150 Disgusting people like Biden, Acosta, the View ladies and their assorted co-travelers are soon out of power and out of sight. Thank heavens!

It will be interesting to see what happens when Trump resets the rules of who gets press access to the WH.

Prediction: not Acosta.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (xCA6C)

151 *ignites blowtorch

I see you !

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (g47mK)

152 If memory serves, Musk also tried to back out of the deal because Twitter wasn't forthcoming about the bot issue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ExV1e)
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Didn't a judge chime in and threaten him at some point?

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)

153 RIP Bob Uecker.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (XMwZJ)

154 146
It was not me!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

_______

Was too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (dxSpM)

The one who sayed it,
grayed it.

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (wtvvX)

155 I had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (UD7Dt)

156 Please don't.

Posted by: The chicken at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (DobEs)

157 By the way, anyone remember where one of the largest low sulfur coal deposits in the world are? And who, apparently, at the behest of China, had the area declared a national monument?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (tT6L1)

158 I assume that the point of this is so that when Trump's administration drops it the media will shriek about preferential treatment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Correct, mostly because the SEC and other mutant agencies operate under the fictional, quasi status. I don't think Trump can stop them from suing Musk, but he could order an investigation of the SEC for malicious prosecution/ civil rights violations under color.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (mlg/3)

159 Uh-oh, there must have been an update.

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (WWBBV)

160 TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER

/Meets Biden

SORRY WE MUST NOW DESTROY YOUR PLANET AFTER HE SNIFFED OUR ZORGRONS AND GROPED US IN OUR BLAFLANS
Posted by: The Greys at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (t0Rmr)
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With any amount of compassion, they'd feel sorry for us.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (krQz2)

161
Wow! Did I do that?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)

_______

It was Piper. Bring your stones for the big shindig!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (dxSpM)

162 BERNIE SANDERS: "Are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg too wealthy and powerful? Do you agree with President Biden about an oligarchy?"

SCOTT BESSENT: "Those three billionaires all made their money themselves. Mr. Musk came to the country as an immigrant. Jeff Bezos..."

SANDERS: "Forget how they made their money... Do you believe it's an oligarchy?"

BESSENT: "Well, I would note that President Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people who I think would qualify for his oligarchs."

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (RHGPo)

163 One good thing is, when angels finally waft Biden to his eternal reward, there won't be any need for him to lie in state in D.C.; he's been doing that for the last four years.

Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (mADJX)

164 When he warned of a government run by specialists (experts), he definitely didn't want the rabble chiming in!

I respect Ike quite a bit, just for that speech.

Imagine this. Ike was a career officer, elevated to the 2nd highest military post in land (behind Marshall). Afterward, he was a US President that oversaw the creation of the Interstates.

And yet - after wielding all that power that was the union of the Military / Industrial / Academic Complex ? He warned against it.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (ANvyx)

165 I like Joe Rogan. He's not a Mensa candidate but he has a variety of interests and I have enjoyed many of his podcasts. However, his choice of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is just ridiculous.

Sanders is a commie, a hypocrite and a creep. I have never once liked Sanders for even one second. He's awful.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (PMtkd)

166 Hunter humps his ex sister in law and a niece, soon Jill when Joey is gone. Joey showers with his daughter and sniffs other women relatives hair . What is that family called?

The Aristocrats

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (dR02F)

167 NbP1V)

146
It was not me!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

Was too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (dxSpM)

He who smelt it dealt it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (wyMQY)

168 It was Piper. Bring your stones for the big shindig!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:53 PM (dxSpM)
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Deez Stones?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (ZOv7s)

169 >>> RIP Bob Uecker.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (XMwZJ)

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Obligatory

"JUST... a little bit outside."

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (NbP1V)

170 I actually prefer the grey easier on the eyes.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (3O3BM)

171 Ace added this tweet:
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It�s also good to double check what politicians say. Kamala was supported by 83 billionaires. Trump was supported by 52.

If there really is a fear of the wealthy influencing our elections, maybe they should do some self-reflection first.
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Yup.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

172
Imagine this. Ike was a career officer, elevated to the 2nd highest military post in land (behind Marshall)

_________

Actually Ike was Chief of Staff after the war.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (dxSpM)

173 Do the DuPont family qualify as oligarchs?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (jFCkp)

174 One good thing is, when angels finally waft Biden to his eternal reward,

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I'm telling you right now, angels will have nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (PMtkd)

175 I hope Jill sticks Joe in some high priced but mean and impersonal memory care unit within weeks of them leaving the WH. And then I hope she gets dementia and someone sticks her in there too and the last thing we ever hear about a Biden is Hunter being arrested on some state charge for his nasty habits.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (34pOu)

176 >>> I like Joe Rogan. He's not a Mensa candidate but he has a variety of interests and I have enjoyed many of his podcasts. However, his choice of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is just ridiculous.

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"Have you soon that video...?"

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (NbP1V)

177 An early appearance by Bob Uecker on The Johnny Carson Show.

https://tinyurl.com/muxkt8ba

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (mADJX)

178
146
It was not me!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

Was too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January

I had my pointer finger ON my nose. It was not me.

On. Not in. On.

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (p4NUW)

179 Once he's out of office, there's little reason to prolong his life they way they've been doing...

Let nature take its course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 04:50 PM (7fElN)

Exactly what I was thinking. He serves no purpose anymore, he won’t last long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (wyMQY)

180
Do the DuPont family qualify as oligarchs?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (jFCkp)

________

Anderson Cooper, Oligarch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (dxSpM)

181 Sanders is a commie, a hypocrite and a creep. I have never once liked Sanders for even one second. He's awful.
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Actually, Sanders is a National Socialist. He knows you need borders to make it work.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (jFCkp)

182 On. Not in. On.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (p4NUW)
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Okay, you admit to one finger on the nose. Where were the other three?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (tT6L1)

183 Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC, is a former Obama drone and has been going after Musk ever since he bought Twitter. I expect Trump's team to make this go away because it's just more harassment designed to throw a wrench in the Trump administration. One thing about a lame duck president, he doesn't have to worry about reelection.

Leftist are garbage people and need to be treated as such.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (LkLld)

184
"Have you soon that video...?"
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (NbP1V)

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Has he recanted since?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (PMtkd)

185 What does Senile Joe understand about any tech industrial complex?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (kTd/k)

186 Exactly what I was thinking. He serves no purpose anymore, he won’t last long.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 04:57 PM (wyMQY)
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No more adrenochrome and infant's blood for Joey...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (6K6Eu)

187 The US has enough coal to supply all the world's energy needs for decades. We should be using that right now instead of wasting money on solar and wind.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:49 PM

The US has enough coal to provide for all of our electricity needs for 100+ years. china has ten times the amount of coal reserves than we do.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (Rcnd3)

188 >>> "Have you soon that video...?"

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"Seen". Facepalm

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (NbP1V)

189 On. Not in. On.
Posted by: Piper

Too bad. Boogers are great in kale smoothies.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

190 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

The idea of a communist government controlling a major communication platform in the US is terrifying.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (4pwAx)

191
I had my pointer finger ON my nose. It was not me.

On. Not in. On.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 04:56 PM (p4NUW)

__________

Deny it all you like. History has been written. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (dxSpM)

192 Joe Biden will join the Hall of Shame… Polk, Buchanan, Fillmore, Wilson, Carter…..

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

193 There is such a sizable percentage of the words Biden used that mean the exact opposite.

You'd best be believin' in a quasi-Orwell world, 'cause yer in one!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 04:59 PM (krQz2)

194 What does Senile Joe understand about any tech industrial complex?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (kTd/k)
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I doubt Joe even understands the words, let alone what they describe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 04:59 PM (tT6L1)

195 > Biden claims that it's other people who fill the discourse with lies and other people who want to control your speech...
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What they warn will happen to you is what they've been doing to you.

Self licking ice cream cone.

Prophecy fulfilled!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 04:59 PM (Q4IgG)

196 My mother died from Dementia. Her condition progressed very slowly. Eight months prior to her passing she was still swimming and walking daily. Then, one day she couldn’t stand, and after that it was a rapid descent. The day Joe can no longer stand on his own, it’ll be less than a year. The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 16, 2025 04:59 PM (PksB3)

197 3 and 1/2 days...just 3 and 1/2 days.

But they're gonna make it seem like 3 and 1/2 f-ing years, aren't they?

Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (K+UlC)

198 112 The falcon cannot hear the falconer

because sound doesn't travel in space

Posted by: honest elon, purveyor of lovingly used rockets at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (oY6Yp)

199 The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.
Posted by: Unkaren

Sounds like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Linda Ronstadt has it. It can be fast or slow. It was slow with my father.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (KAi1n)

200 196. The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.
Posted by: Unkaren at January

I am so sorry. That must have been awful for you.

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (p4NUW)

201
Polk, Buchanan, Fillmore, Wilson, Carter…..
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

_________

Polk served one term and did everything he set out to do. He died a few months after leaving office.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (dxSpM)

202 Kamala was supported by 83 billionaires. Trump was supported by 52.

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I thought Trump was supported by at most a handful of billionaires.

OUT: The Shy Trump Voter.
IN: The Shy Billionaire Supporter.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (d9aGi)

203 Do the DuPont family qualify as oligarchs?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (jFCkp)

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Nor do the Soroses.

Which was very anti-Semitic of me to bring up.

I denounce myself and prepare to struggle.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (krQz2)

204 Gates - Microsoft
Besos - Amazon
Musk - SpaceX
Zuckerberg - Meta

All these American entrepreneurs catch flack from the left and those who want an equitable distribution of wealth.

Why is Google's leadership never included? Am I missing something or someone?

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (RHGPo)

205 None of the sounds coming from Biden's facehole reflect his thinking in any way. He is reading a script, marking time til next Monday.

Posted by: Don at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (AOsQT)

206 196. The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.
Posted by: Unkaren at January

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How horrible. I'm sorry for the whole family.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (PMtkd)

207 If I didn't know better, I say Joe was drunk.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (vFG9F)

208 Polk served one term and did everything he set out to do. He died a few months after leaving office.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (dxSpM)
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Those were salad days.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (krQz2)

209 Is the plural of "Soros", "Soroi?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (6K6Eu)

210 Sixteen states just got smacked in the face for trying to join a firearms lawsuit involving a 'forced reset trigger' ban.

@hannahhill_sc 57m
BREAKING from The 5th Circuit: "IT IS ORDERED that the opposed motion of the States to intervene as Defendants- Appellants is DENIED. Movants may seek participation as amici." BAM!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (mlg/3)

211 Nor do the Soroses. Which was very anti-Semitic of me to bring up.

A mutation of the Self-Gassing Jew. I call it The Other-Gassing Jew.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (ANvyx)

212 My mother died from Dementia. Her condition progressed very slowly. Eight months prior to her passing she was still swimming and walking daily. Then, one day she couldn’t stand, and after that it was a rapid descent. The day Joe can no longer stand on his own, it’ll be less than a year. The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.
Posted by: Unkaren

As did my husband. His final decline was very fast. I'm still getting used to the idea that it progressed so quickly at the end.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (oaGWv)

213 Unkaren, so sorry that your family and your mother had to endure that.

Posted by: grammie's iPad at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (SfhV1)

214 God, I'll be glad to be rid of this evil little toad.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2025 04:34 PM (1bNHn)

I suspect God will on the receiving-end soon enough.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (pJWtt)

215 183 Gary Gensler, the head of the SEC, is a former Obama drone and has been going after Musk ever since he bought Twitter.

last seen flying over new jersey?

Posted by: anachronda at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (oY6Yp)

216 199 The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.
Posted by: Unkaren

Sounds like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Linda Ronstadt has it. It can be fast or slow. It was slow with my father.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (KAi1n)

Sorry to hear that about Ronstadt… love her singing.. she was good buddy of Zevon.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (PCK5/)

217 Capybaras normally look so chill - wonder what was wrong with that one

He watched too much of the confirmation hearings.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2025 04:47 PM (xCA6C)

Looks staged to me. Notice the viewpoint of the camera never changed? It was on a tripod. The "fight" went out of camera view, then boyfriend runs across screen, toting a club, and returns instantly with an undamaged girlfriend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (8zz6B)

218 The US has enough coal to provide for all of our electricity needs for 100+ years. china has ten times the amount of coal reserves than we do.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (Rcnd3)

Doesn't China buy coal from Australia, a noted warrior against greenhouse gas emissions?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

219 I denounce myself and prepare to struggle.
Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (krQz2)
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Hand over all of your possessions and your position.

End of struggle session.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (tT6L1)

220
Um...Washington served two terms. That's why we had the "no third term tradition" until polio boy came along.
Posted by: Bulg

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You get the idea. But anyways, thanks for the facts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:04 PM (I87yH)

221 Russia has incredible coal reserves.. they sell to China at a premium…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:04 PM (PCK5/)

222 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

The idea of a communist government controlling a major communication platform in the US is terrifying.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (4pwAx)

Yes. We need a domestically developed short form video app to convince idiots to eat Tide pods.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

223 192 Joe Biden will join the Hall of Shame… Polk, Buchanan, Fillmore, Wilson, Carter…..
Posted by: tubal

Just don't mess with the Van Buren boys...

Posted by: Kramer at January 16, 2025 05:05 PM (DobEs)

224 Background:

TruthAboutGuns: Fifth Circuit Panel Questions ATF’s Ban On Forced Reset Triggers

https://tinyurl.com/bddyvffp

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:05 PM (mlg/3)

225 I denounce myself and prepare to struggle.
Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:01 PM (krQz2)
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Hand over all of your possessions and your position.

End of struggle session.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:03 PM (tT6L1)
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What?

No rotten fruit and vegetables flung at me?!

No blows to the face?!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:05 PM (krQz2)

226 >>>The sun is shining. But the ice is slippery.

Hey... that's catchy.

That's from The Shadow, a very frustrating movie because it's about 45% good.

Posted by: ace at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (KRtlO)

227 Point of order - the Chinese have massive coar leselves.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (ANvyx)

228 5 men indicted for 'staggering' drug trafficking ring connected to Seattle encampments

Check out the loadout. AR pistols, vests, and a signal jammer among other things.

http://tiny.cc/yi26001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (Odg76)

229 Smoke him, low and inside.

Posted by: DaveA at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (FhXTo)

230 192 Joe Biden will join the Hall of Shame… Polk, Buchanan, Fillmore, Wilson, Carter…..
Posted by: tubal
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James K. Polk was an effective president and did not run for a second term. He died shortly after his term in office ended and in part it was blamed on overwork in the WH by him. He was prezzie during the Mexican American War and so Texas and the whole SW USA owe him a debt of gratitude.

Polk was also a past Speaker of the House with a good rep. Nothing like the other nasty critters you named.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (ctrM5)

231 What?

No rotten fruit and vegetables flung at me?!

No blows to the face?!
Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:05 PM (krQz2)
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We skipped the self-abasement part. Usually that's done in front of your peers. We decided to cut to the chase and take your stuff.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:07 PM (tT6L1)

232 Pretty cute that the SEC is claiming Musk was able to buy Twitter at an artificially low price because of his failure to disclose the extent of his interest in the company when the rest of the world thinks Musk overpaid for the company.

Posted by: Octochicken at January 16, 2025 05:07 PM (oCS0o)

233 Sixteen states just got smacked in the face for trying to join a firearms lawsuit involving a 'forced reset trigger' ban.

@hannahhill_sc 57m
BREAKING from The 5th Circuit: "IT IS ORDERED that the opposed motion of the States to intervene as Defendants- Appellants is DENIED. Movants may seek participation as amici." BAM!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (mlg/3)
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This would have more impact if it were written in plain English instead of legalese...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:07 PM (7fElN)

234 Um...Washington served two terms. That's why we had the "no third term tradition" until polio boy came along.
Posted by: Bulg
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And no president had 50% of their time in office as "lame duck", either.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)

235 230

Polk was also a past Speaker of the House with a good rep. Nothing like the other nasty critters you named.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (ctrM5)

Oh, THAT Polk!! Yeah, he was great!!

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:08 PM (PCK5/)

236 TruthAboutGuns: Fifth Circuit Panel Questions ATF’s Ban On Forced Reset Triggers

https://tinyurl.com/bddyvffp
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Under Loper, the Courts are no longer to take ATF 'interpretations' of law as authoritative. Those triggers purposefully comply with statutory law and ATF itself rewrote that law to its political satisfaction.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:08 PM (ctrM5)

237 I just read an extremely disturbing IG report. Last December, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized and failed to follow the law by notifying the White House or Congress. Similarly, his deputy, Secretary Kathleen Hicks, also refused to follow protocol and report the transfer of authority.

Now, the Inspector General’s report just released reveals that this doesn’t just happen once. Secretary Austin did the same thing again five months later, last June, and he hid it from everyone. Now look, I get it.

People get sick. It happens to all of us, and I sincerely hope Secretary Austin is healthy. But it is dangerous and deeply concerning that our Secretary of Defense left the United States vulnerable when he was completely out of commission.

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (RHGPo)

238 Apropos, Billy Bush , cousin of George whose pooshy tape got rather wide exposure in October 2016, has a podcast type show now. Megyn and Tucker both sort of promoted it - Tucker gave him time on his show, and Kelly did the same plus was the first guest. lemme tell you, he is an idiot. a lightweight.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)

239 No mention from Beijing Biden abouy the threat from The TikTok Espionage Complex?

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (7Nyxb)

240 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

The idea of a communist government controlling a major communication platform in the US is terrifying.

Have you seen the apps the GenX kids have already installed and started making content for in advance of TikTok's demise? They don't even have English names, only Chinese characters.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (Odg76)

241 235 230

Polk was also a past Speaker of the House with a good rep. Nothing like the other nasty critters you named.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:06 PM (ctrM5)

Oh, THAT Polk!! Yeah, he was great!!

big fan of his dots

Posted by: anachronda at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (oY6Yp)

242 I remember a few (or more) of us here in early '21, myself included, thinking he wouldn't make it to summer. Alas, only the good die young.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 16, 2025 04:52 PM (NbP1V)
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George Soros? Still going strong.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (YqDXo)

243 I dislike censorship, but I always run my posts by the Central Scrutinizer before speaking up.

Posted by: Well Grounded at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (G5+As)

244 Do the DuPont family qualify as oligarchs?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 04:55 PM (jFCkp)

Chemogarchs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (8zz6B)

245 FJB and all other Democrats repeatedly try to shut-down discussion and debate by saying, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts!"

Now they are mightily-pissed they can't order non-government outfits to censor facts Democrats don't like, and spread only Democrat-approved facts (i.e., lies). This is not hypocrisy, it is an Leninist op enabled by lily-livered techbros and MSM outfits.

You can't despise Leftists enough.

Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (aBgBM)

246 Oh, THAT Polk!! Yeah, he was great!!

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:08 PM (PCK5/)
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There was no pig in a Polk administration!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)

247 Have you seen the apps the GenX kids have already installed and started making content for in advance of TikTok's demise? They don't even have English names, only Chinese characters.

==

no, are they good ?

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (g47mK)

248
The Picking Finger picks; and, having picked,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to pick another nostril

Posted by: Omar Khayyam at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (aD39U)

249 @hannahhill_sc 57m
BREAKING from The 5th Circuit: "IT IS ORDERED that the opposed motion of the States to intervene as Defendants- Appellants is DENIED. Movants may seek participation as amici." BAM!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:02 PM (mlg/3)
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This would have more impact if it were written in plain English instead of legalese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:07 PM (7fElN)

English translation: Nah, bruv, you're half dumpy if you think you can scarvie on this. You can sit in the corner and windle-goober.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)

250 This would have more impact if it were written in plain English instead of legalese...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:07 PM (7fElN)

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Allow me to translate. Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 05:11 PM (2UnvF)

251 >>> Mazie Hirono Opens Confirmation Hearing by Asking Trump’s Interior Secretary Nominee Doug Burgum If He Has Ever Committed Sexual Assault

Why does this decendent* of brothel owners alwys accuse others of sexual assault? Trying to position herself that if you pay for it then it isn't rape-rape even if the girls are trafficed?

*Probably 1st gen.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2025 05:11 PM (/lPRQ)

252
"Someone give Biden a mirror!"

Biden looks: "Who is that?"

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (+oR7L)

253 He is going to go down in history as the dumbest president ever

Posted by: jeff at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (ZiwLX)

254 222 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

The idea of a communist government controlling a major communication platform in the US is terrifying.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2025 04:58 PM (4pwAx)

Yes. We need a domestically developed short form video app to convince idiots to eat Tide pods.

we cannot allow a tide pod gap!

Posted by: general turgidson at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (oY6Yp)

255 The Hirono Hag sure has sex on the brain, eh??

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

256 English translation: Nah, bruv, you're half dumpy if you think you can scarvie on this. You can sit in the corner and windle-goober.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (ExV1e)
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More legal opinions need to be written like this...

Rhyming Cockney slang?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (7fElN)

257 "Rachel Maddow announces an all out counter attack

On Monday night, Rachel announced that, starting next Monday, when the felon is inaugurated, she will go back to her five day a week schedule. And she will stick to that schedule for the first hundred days of his (mis)administration.

To me, this is the first and biggest counterattack on those who want to rule us permanently. Given the research, attention to detail, and all out effort that goes into getting Rachel on the air every night, this is an effort that could literally kill her. But she's doing what none of our Democratic leadership is doing. She's announced that the depravity and outright brutal fascism that Trump is going to try to solidify in the beginning of his term, will not go unopposed. She will be on the air every night of the week, calling him out, highlighting his "craziness" of the day, and trying to make people aware of the pure evil that has descended upon us.

If we survive the coming onslaught, I believe that future historians will place Rachel alongside those greats who came forward, took a stand, and made a difference when our democracy and our freedoms were in peril."
- DU Commenter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (a3Q+t)

258 Just checked, local library has none of Bob U's books.
But does have the Major League DVDs

Posted by: DaveA at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (FhXTo)

259 Oh, THAT Polk!! Yeah, he was great!!
Posted by: tubal
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He is the one bright spot in the presidency between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (ctrM5)

260 Someone should get on X and tell lefties Trump can serve a third term because the 22nd only applies to consecutive years in office.

The meltdowns should be epic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

261 ... and did not run for a second term. He died shortly after his term in office ended and in part it was blamed on overwork in the WH by him.

This, too, is the story of Joe Biden.

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (ueHpO)

262 FJB and all other Democrats repeatedly try to shut-down discussion and debate by saying, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts!"

Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2025 05:10 PM (aBgBM)
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Said the people who demanded your fact be that Hunter didn't own the pedo laptop.

Everybody knows that you're not entitled to your own facts--everybody reasonable, that is ... --and a few Democrats know those words, too.

But when you can't established the facts "expert" opinion is not the SAME THING! Especially brokered "expert" opinion to create a "consensus".

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

263 199 Sounds like Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Linda Ronstadt has it. It can be fast or slow. It was slow with my father.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:00 PM (KAi1n)

That's what killed Dudley Moore. Prior to his diagnosis, people suspected he was pulling a real-life Arthur Bach and showing up to the movie set intoxicated.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (DTX3h)

264
If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Were it not for hypocrisy, Left/Liberal/Progressives would have to stand mute.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (XeU6L)

265 247 Have you seen the apps the GenX kids have already installed and started making content for in advance of TikTok's demise? They don't even have English names, only Chinese characters.

==

no, are they good ?
Posted by: runner
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Those are on the ban list too as owned by firms affiliated with the Chinese military.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (ctrM5)

266 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

It creates a door where you can extinguish freedom of speech by having a foreign company buy up a TikTok or Instagram and then the US government steps in and kills it

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (RHGPo)

267 We do live in an oligarchy, I have no doubt about that. But any reasonable solution such as limiting contributions to just candidates you can vote for will never be implemented.

So the best shot we have is to corral the ultra rich to support you, and Trump did just that by making an overt attempt at supporting tech bro issues, and it worked.

I know a lot of people think Trump is too reckless but I’ll point out his pick for VP is perhaps the only person on the planet that appeals to both the common working class AND tech entrepreneurs. I suspect he planned this as far back as 2021/22.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (Qw2uS)

268 Biden has more projection than his watery diarrhea into his depends.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (D6PGr)

269 Maddow took a pay cut AND will work more hours ? Good for her !

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (g47mK)

270 Why on Earth is Trump trying to save TikTok?

This is a huge topic that would require pages of discussion; my beef with it is that it could potentially force the sale of any site that has contact with a foreign government because the Feds said so. It's a continent full of landmines. Think Rumble, think GiveSendGo.

The GOP seems to love enacting laws that turn into evil weapons used by the Dems against conservatives. Major warning.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (mlg/3)

271 Billionaires are bad unless they are Democrat donating billionaires. See, a simple doctrine.

Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (unUNN)

272 Rhyming Cockney slang?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (7fElN)

If by "Rhyming Cockney slang" you mean completely made up bullshit... yes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (ExV1e)

273 The Hirono Hag sure has sex on the brain, eh??

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)
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Some one needs to knock her and see if she can skip to the next track.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)

274 Allow me to translate. Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 05:11 PM

And you get a f*ck, and you get a f*ck, and YOU get a f*ck!

Posted by: Oprah of Maui at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

275 Two are not the same. Polk died about 3-4 months after his term ended.

Biden's Brain has been dead for at least since Obama picked him in 2008, probably longer.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (ctrM5)

276 "Given the research, attention to detail, and all out effort that goes into getting Rachel on the air every night, this is an effort that could literally kill her. "

Oh brother. These people.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (vFG9F)

277 Maddow took a pay cut AND will work more hours ? Good for her !
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 05:13 PM (g47mK)
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Thus she's closer to what she's worth.

Until she gets fired, and that will be perfect.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (krQz2)

278 272 Rhyming Cockney slang?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (7fElN)

If by "Rhyming Cockney slang" you mean completely made up bullshit... yes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (ExV1e)

I can't decipher Rhyming Cockney slang to save my life. Might as well be Navajo Code Talking for all I know.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (lsO/a)

279 Someone should get on X and tell lefties Trump can serve a third term because the 22nd only applies to consecutive years in office.

The meltdowns should be epic.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

What difference does the 22nd Amendment make? They promised me during the election that he'd refuse to leave office contrary to what he did the first time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (ExV1e)

280 Why does this decendent* of brothel owners alwys accuse others of sexual assault?
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Projection and/or surpressed sexual inclinations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (XeU6L)

281 Hirono asking about sexual assault makes me wonder if she's advertising.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (tT6L1)

282 Has Paul Krugman lectured the American people for not understanding the awesomeness of the Biden years?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (kTd/k)

283 It seems the expression "robber barons" is back.

Can't remember where I heard it the other day. Of course, it only applies to Republican sympathizers.

Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (unUNN)

284
I can't decipher Rhyming Cockney slang to save my life. Might as well be Navajo Code Talking for all I know.
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One has to imagine actual pronuncition of "h's"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (XeU6L)

285
Rachel Maddow announces an all out counter attack

Posted by: Duncanthrax

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Hilarious. I used to hate-watch her and afaik she never broke a single story except for "getting Trump's tax returns."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (I87yH)

286 Unkaren, so sorry that your family and your mother had to endure that.

Thank you so much. As big a prick as Joe Biden has been, I still have empathy for his struggle with the disease. I can’t understand who wrote that garbage for his farewell address. Regardless of my disdain for his administration, his handlers, including his wife, are monsters. Why would they want that to be his final speech as president? It seems so evil.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (PksB3)

287 I get that American media companies have major bias issues, but CCCP controlled communication (plus obvious spying) is just way more alarming.

Obviously Chinese controlled Tik Tok is going to push a narrative also (they already do) and there are platforms like X that are US owned, open (and dominant) that can be used instead.

Getting rid of TikTok would be a net positive. Then go after American Big Tech also. Facebook is already bending the knee.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (4pwAx)

288 It seems the expression "robber barons" is back.

Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (unUNN)
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I'm guessing it's not any of the 83 billionaires that backed Kamala's campaign.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2)

289 196 My mother died from Dementia. Her condition progressed very slowly. Eight months prior to her passing she was still swimming and walking daily. Then, one day she couldn’t stand, and after that it was a rapid descent. The day Joe can no longer stand on his own, it’ll be less than a year. The worst was when my mother couldn’t swallow. It was nightmarish.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 16, 2025 04:59 PM (PksB3)

I'm very sorry. My mother passed a week ago but it was mercifully quick.

Your experience sounds horrible.

Posted by: Stateless at January 16, 2025 05:19 PM (jvJvP)

290 276 "Given the research, attention to detail, and all out effort that goes into getting Rachel on the air every night, this is an effort that could literally kill her. "

Oh brother. These people.
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2025 05:15 PM (vFG9F)

It takes you that much effort to put on a little no makeup and sit in a chair and make shit up for about forty five minutes once you strip out commercials and gurning reaction segments to other people's fucking twitter videos?

Yeesh. Maybe take a multivitamin or something,

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:19 PM (+iIV1)

291 "Given the research, attention to detail, and all out effort that goes into getting Rachel on the air every night, this is an effort that could literally kill her. "

What a warrior. Meanwhile, Trump toppled the Canadian government with a few mean tweets. Good luck, Rachel.

Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (KtPtl)

292 Hirono asking about sexual assault makes me wonder if she's advertising.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (tT6L1)

Asking for or giving out?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (VNX3d)

293 Biden's handlers are simply aiming to grant Biden his "Eisenhower moment," with a memorabkle sign-off speech. But just lazily IMITATING Eisenhower's speech is total fail. Zero originality, zero memorability.

Biden's piuppeteers are as braindead as Biden himself

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (pMi6S)

294 this is an effort that could literally kill her.
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So, Maddow is the next Joan D'arc?

[gathers firewood]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (XeU6L)

295 Hirono asking about sexual assault makes me wonder if she's advertising.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 16, 2025 05:16 PM (tT6L1)
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She uses the potty all by herself.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:21 PM (krQz2)

296 164 When he warned of a government run by specialists (experts), he definitely didn't want the rabble chiming in!

I respect Ike quite a bit, just for that speech.

Imagine this. Ike was a career officer, elevated to the 2nd highest military post in land (behind Marshall). Afterward, he was a US President that oversaw the creation of the Interstates.

And yet - after wielding all that power that was the union of the Military / Industrial / Academic Complex ? He warned against it.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 04:54 PM (ANvyx)

Not nearly as big a fan of Ike. He was POTUS when he could have done something about the M-I-C; he was Allied Supreme Commander for goodness sakes. It would have been George Washington-esque for him to rail against it earlier than his last days in office. On top of that, he had the standing to roll back the most blatant excesses of the New Deal, and he chose not to. That ended up enshrining them in US society, and impossible to roll back.

Overrated.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 05:21 PM (lsO/a)

297 Obviously Chinese controlled Tik Tok is going to push a narrative also (they already do)...

Aside from being owned by the CCP, how is TikTok any different in that regard than any MSM outlet? We should ban the MSM too. ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 16, 2025 05:21 PM (3Ope8)

298 Rhyming Cockney Slang

That was the Sex Pistols' best work. I think. Not sure 'cause I couldn't understand the lyrics. But it had to be.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 05:22 PM (aXxgO)

299 Those DU folk demonstrate a proclivity for drama.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

300 An all out assault by Maddow I'm pretty sure involves her wearing a strap-on on air

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 05:22 PM (dR02F)

301 I do think there is a difference between self made billionaires and people who started off wealthy, including Donald Trump.

What I do find interesting is, unless a child of wealthy parents is a complete loser they usually end up well off themself because that’s what they know. Maybe it’s osmosis and learn how their parents obtained their wealth and they just repeat it. And I’m not talking about inherited wealth . Though running around in those wealthy circles doesn’t hurt.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 05:22 PM (D6PGr)

302 The American people are the ultimate “fact checkers”; and the large media outlets are dinosaurs. You can get anyone on TV to push their grandmother down the stairs if you pay ‘em enough.

Conversely I put far more weight on a person who has everything to lose, their career, their friends, and perhaps in jail, they would not do this for free. People don’t put everything on the line for a lie.

It isn’t a perfect metric, but it is definitely worth paying attention to. The Covid bullshit is textbook example.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 05:23 PM (d42j3)

303 Biden's handlers are simply aiming to grant Biden his "Eisenhower moment," with a memorabkle sign-off speech. But just lazily IMITATING Eisenhower's speech is total fail. Zero originality, zero memorability.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (pMi6S)
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It doesn't even make sense as a reflection of Ike's speech. More control over expression by experts = a government run by The People, not experts?

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

304 285
Rachel Maddow announces an all out counter attack

Posted by: Duncanthrax

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Hilarious. I used to hate-watch her and afaik she never broke a single story except for "getting Trump's tax returns."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:18 PM (I87yH)

Man, I remember the Leftist hearts going all atwitter when they finally got those tax returns. Turned out to be less exciting than Al Capone's vault opening.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 05:24 PM (lsO/a)

305

Eisenhower also warned about a scientific-technological elite.

https://t.ly/ingwr

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2025 05:24 PM (63Dwl)

306 Paul Ryan told Squawk Box he wanted to let bygones be bygones and called for the country to rally around Trump’s Administration. But Joe Kernan was not so willing to let Ryan off the hook and proceeded to roast him brutally.

“So now you’re calling for unity,” Kernan scoffed. After Ryan smiled and affirmed that he was, Kernan let him have it.

“It would have been nice before the election,” Kernan pointed out. “The other thing I thought was funny was when you said (mocking voice) ‘Hey look, I want Trump to succeed.'”

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:24 PM (RHGPo)

307 After that CNN trials done, there might be one more billionaire for Trump.
Except for lawyer fees.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (4780s)

308 It takes you that much effort to put on a little no makeup and sit in a chair and make shit up for about forty five minutes once you strip out commercials and gurning reaction segments to other people's fucking twitter videos?
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Look, I can also wave pieces of paper as though they are actually relevant and important!

Posted by: Rachel at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (XeU6L)

309 I would trust Fetterman’s expressed desire for Trump to succeed far more than Ryan’s….

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

310 I mean, really, Rache. "Work smarter, not har---" oh, oh man. I'm so sorry. That's probably pretty offensive to... you know... people with... uh... *sticks tongue out side of mouth; makes wrtist-slapping-against-chest gesture*... isn't it? Yeah, my bad.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (+iIV1)

311 What a warrior. Meanwhile, Trump toppled the Canadian government with a few mean tweets. Good luck, Rachel.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2025 05:20 PM (KtPtl)
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She'll have less viewers than re-runs on second-tier cable channels.

It will suck to be beaten by "Leave it to Beaver" or "Dukes of Hazzard."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

312 The American people are the ultimate “fact checkers”; and the large media outlets are dinosaurs. You can get anyone on TV to push their grandmother down the stairs if you pay ‘em enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 05:23 PM (d42j3)
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They just can't deal with how information-allergic their rank and file voters are. They thrive on apathy which lapses into interest to virtue signal around election times.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)

313 306 Paul Ryan told Squawk Box he wanted to let bygones be bygones and called for the country to rally around Trump’s Administration. But Joe Kernan was not so willing to let Ryan off the hook and proceeded to roast him brutally.

“So now you’re calling for unity,” Kernan scoffed. After Ryan smiled and affirmed that he was, Kernan let him have it.

“It would have been nice before the election,” Kernan pointed out. “The other thing I thought was funny was when you said (mocking voice) ‘Hey look, I want Trump to succeed.'”
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:24 PM (RHGPo)

"Bygones be bygones." Heh. Is he looking for a Biden pardon as well?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (lsO/a)

314 Ooo, do not look up the details on the tranny caught with a body in the freezer story... I'm not going to sleep for a week.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (mlg/3)

315 The White House a few days ago:

Umm, the speech writers are all gone. What are we going to do?

That Eisenhower thing was cool, let's just do that.

Brilliant!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (2UnvF)

316
Murray Krugman > Paul Krugman

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

317 Look, I can also wave pieces of paper as though they are actually relevant and important!
Posted by: Rachel at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (XeU6L)

Just like a real lawyer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:26 PM (+iIV1)

318 Northernlurker: "Has Paul Krugman lectured the American people for not understanding the awesomeness of the Biden years?"

No way. Too busy boosting the economy building his anti-Alien bunker.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 05:26 PM (aXxgO)

319 meanwhile Starship T-10:00 minutes

Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (gKWVE)

320 She'll have less viewers than re-runs on second-tier cable channels.

It will suck to be beaten by "Leave it to Beaver" or "Dukes of Hazzard."
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Hell, I bet "Ironsides" reruns out-draw Rachel's "news" shows.

Posted by: Crusader at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (azSra)

321 >>I do think there is a difference between self made billionaires and people who started off wealthy, including Donald Trump.

Or George Bush.

Trump and Bush couldn't be more different but both came from wealth. Wealth gives you a head start but it doesn't determine what you become.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (LkLld)

322 One of the most notable things about Twitter is that it allows for fact checking in a way that no other mass platform does - by its users not some self selected elite
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 04:39 PM (t0Rmr)

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What? Have the great unwashed fact check the elites? How dare you?

Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (unUNN)

323 Murray Krugman > Freddie Krueger > Paul Krugman
Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (krQz2)

324 Biden's handlers are simply aiming to grant Biden his "Eisenhower moment," with a memorabkle sign-off speech. But just lazily IMITATING Eisenhower's speech is total fail. Zero originality, zero memorability.

Posted by: zombie
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I'm only surprised that he didn't claim to have achieved "Peace in our time".

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)

325 Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 05:21 PM (lsO/a)

I like Ike but I also don’t see anything extraordinary about Eisenhower except his ability to get his people to work together and to make final decisions. I really disliked him though being duped by Stalin to stand there in Moscow forced to watch the Soviet military parade go by for what seemed like an eternity.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (D6PGr)

326 Ooo, do not look up the details on the tranny caught with a body in the freezer story... I'm not going to sleep for a week.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:25 PM (mlg/3)

He was going to pour himself a stiff one?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (8zz6B)

327 I wish these people would just go away and never be heard from again. And they can take that professional idiot Sanders with them.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (6t8M3)

328 One thing I can say that I'm not looking forward to in Trump 2.0 is the return of the self-righteous asshat media personalities like Maddow and Acosta.

I can only project my contempt so far.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (ZPRIx)

329 Kids, I forbid y'all to watch Rachel Maddow's show !

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (g47mK)

330 Trump and Bush couldn't be more different but both came from wealth. Wealth gives you a head start but it doesn't determine what you become.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 05:27 PM (LkLld)
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JD Vance and Hunter Biden are an interesting contrast.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)

331 Murray Krugman > Paul Krugman
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Dave Murray > Murray Krugman > Paul Krugman

Posted by: Crusader at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (azSra)

332 That's what killed Dudley Moore. Prior to his diagnosis, people suspected he was pulling a real-life Arthur Bach and showing up to the movie set intoxicated.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

My dad had that bad. He was almost impossible to understand for a long time except the last words he said to me while at the hospital (just before they wheeled him back for some scan): "Take care of your mother." I heard that clearly. This was nearly 10 years ago and she's now 89.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (KAi1n)

333 Figures, takes Accosta eight years to acknowledge a gift, and then only when he can use it as a prop.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (4780s)

334 Biden's handlers are simply aiming to grant Biden his "Eisenhower moment," with a memorabkle sign-off speech. But just lazily IMITATING Eisenhower's speech is total fail. Zero originality, zero memorability.

Posted by: zombie
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I'm only surprised that he didn't claim to have achieved "Peace in our time".

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
________________

"I came, I saw, I conquered, I filled my Depends."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (YqDXo)

335 My theory: Leftist think Maddow is super smart because, while she is a woman, she looks like a man and that tricks their brains.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

336 Americans shouldn’t have to take on the role of the media, but the huge outlets have abdicated their self-professed role as honest brokers of the news.

Much the same way as homeowners in LA are forming their own armed security, the LA authorities can’t or won’t allow the duly sworn law enforcement to do the job. Whose fault is that? We are truly on our own. For now anyway, we are aboe to communicate. They don’t like that one bit. If you hadn’t noticed.

“Americans engaging in misinformation shoukd be arrested”

Felonia Von Pantsuit

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (d42j3)

337
But it is dangerous and deeply concerning that our Secretary of Defense left the United States vulnerable when he was completely out of commission.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2025 05:09 PM (RHGPo)

_________

Bad company administration. He wasn't dropped for rations, it wasn't picked up on the Morning Report. I ain't seen a more screwed-up Orderly Room in my life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (dxSpM)

338 In Eisenhower's speech he also warned of a Technical and Education elite... one where all innovation would be run by Government and Colleges...

Which, we pretty much have now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (QAkQ3)

339 Eisenhower also warned about a scientific-technological elite.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2025 05:24 PM (63Dwl)

Ike would have pulled Punchy's breastbone out with his bare hands...

Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (K+UlC)

340 324 Biden's handlers are simply aiming to grant Biden his "Eisenhower moment," with a memorabkle sign-off speech. But just lazily IMITATING Eisenhower's speech is total fail. Zero originality, zero memorability.

Posted by: zombie
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I'm only surprised that he didn't claim to have achieved "Peace in our time".
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)

What? No no no, not Eisenhower. Eisenhauer. Steve Eisenhauer. That guy with the used car lot down on 62 S, just past the chicken shack. Wacky commercials. Hell of a guy. Full of shit, don't ever buy from him. But a hell of a guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:30 PM (+iIV1)

341

"The Five" ran a montage of Dems who praised Joe's speech as utterly fabulous.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2025 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

342 Ian Jaeger
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: The FBI has just shut down its Diversity Office, 4 days before President Trump’s Inauguration.

Winning!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 05:30 PM (NpAcC)

343 "I came, I saw, I conquered, I filled my Depends."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (YqDXo)
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Biden Dependa est.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 16, 2025 05:30 PM (6K6Eu)

344 Seems to me that there could be some sly speech writer in the Biden administration who saw the Eisenhauer farewell address and said "I wonder who'll notice if I use the similar words and concepts to turn this on its head."

He's probably really happy with himself.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:30 PM (krQz2)

345
Just like a real lawyer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Yeah, I have witnessed that in real time. In the jury room, I had to remind the jurors that the piece of paper waved about by the lawyer was never introduced as evidence, and that we never got to see it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (XeU6L)

346 Dave Murray > Murray Krugman > Paul Krugman
Posted by: Crusader

Murray Krugman produced Don't Fear the Reaper. That's a big deal.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

347 Biden is not now nor has ever been a good person.

Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (KQk9m)

348 T - 5mins

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZrqlsAo7bVg

Posted by: Ciampino - superbly absolute at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (i0xsb)

349 Happy 48th bday to MILFy Meloni.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (ZwuMZ)

350 Murray Krugman produced Don't Fear the Reaper. That's a big deal.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

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It needed more cowbell.

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (Au/50)

351 My theory: Leftist think Maddow is super smart because, while she is a woman, she looks like a man and that tricks their brains.
Posted by: I used
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It's the smart girl glasses...and the sneer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:32 PM (XeU6L)

352 DU Commenter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (a3Q+t)

Sounds more like Maddow's agent.

Posted by: javems at January 16, 2025 05:32 PM (8I4hW)

353 278 272 Rhyming Cockney slang?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2025 05:12 PM (7fElN)

If by "Rhyming Cockney slang" you mean completely made up bullshit... yes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:14 PM (ExV1e)

I can't decipher Rhyming Cockney slang to save my life. Might as well be Navajo Code Talking for all I know.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Easey Peasey. Brown Bread, (dead) dog and bone (telephone), and so on. Was done to speak in cant so that outsiders could not understand what Cockneys were saying openly, sometimes about illegal acts. The slang uses rhyming words to substitute for the original. About half the time, the rhyming word involved is the last one. To make it more obscure, sometimes the first one is used (often when the rest of England caught on to the obvious rhyming last word). Berkeley's Hunt for a vulgar slang rhyming term for the female genitalia thus eventually became the less apparent vulgar 'Berk' as an insult. Pork pies (lies) became telling Porkies in a similar way.

Tinkers aka Irish Travellers have a similar secret language.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:32 PM (ctrM5)

354
All Eisenhower ever did was command the European Theater of Operations, defeat the Nazis in the West and put up with Monty. What's that next to Biden's fifty years of breathing?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 05:33 PM (dxSpM)

355 I had my pointer finger ON my nose. It was not me.

Posted by: Piper

Nose Goes!

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 16, 2025 05:33 PM (NMT5x)

356 In Eisenhower's speech he also warned of a Technical and Education elite... one where all innovation would be run by Government and Colleges...

Which, we pretty much have now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2025 05:29 PM (QAkQ3)
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And he worried about the voice of the "expert" crowding out the Voice of the People, in government.

Which, again, we have now.

They want experts to decide what is true and then suppress expression based on what they decide.

And as we know from the lockdown, they would never lie to us about what is true!

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2)

357 Happy 48th bday to MILFy Meloni.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 16, 2025 05:31 PM (ZwuMZ)

Who, unlike many European "leaders", has a child.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 05:33 PM (ExV1e)

358 Jake Tapper has a sneer. No one mistakes him for being smart.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:34 PM (KAi1n)

359
Kids, I forbid y'all to watch Rachel Maddow's show !
Posted by: runner

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But it's my TikTok!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:34 PM (I87yH)

360 This fucking Lloyd guy.

What's worse, that the dude ghosts his office and some nobody takes over, or that he ghosted his office and some nobody took over and nobody even noticed?

Is this really such a big huge holy shit moment that it happened at least twice and nobody cared? Or that we have such a position in the first damn place? And on top of that, we put some useless ass-sucking apparatchik with a bum ticker in it? Because by my lights, if this office is so damned important, the real scandal is that the fucker was ever in it to begin with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:34 PM (+iIV1)

361 Meloni is slang for boobs, right?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 16, 2025 05:35 PM (KAi1n)

362 I'm very sorry. My mother passed a week ago but it was mercifully quick.

Your experience sounds horrible.

I’m sorry for your loss. I was very fortunate to have my aunt, her sister, living less than two miles away. Thankfully, my brother was there for the final three weeks. I can’t imagine dealing with that situation alone, especially during the pandemic.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 16, 2025 05:36 PM (PksB3)

363 This fucking Lloyd guy.

What's worse, that the dude ghosts his office and some nobody takes over, or that he ghosted his office and some nobody took over and nobody even noticed?
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It was a clear risk to national security to have someone that high up the food chain and zero security/opps management people to be there with him.

Posted by: Crusader at January 16, 2025 05:36 PM (azSra)

364 What I do find interesting is, unless a child of wealthy parents is a complete loser they usually end up well off themself because that’s what they know. Maybe it’s osmosis and learn how their parents obtained their wealth and they just repeat it.

Or maybe its because American Society isn't the Meritocracy that was taught for generations. Maybe it was taught so hard PRECISELY because it wasn't true.

I believe, more than ever, that America is a two class system. And us rubes on the bottom have been taught to defend our betters to the bitter end.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 05:36 PM (ANvyx)

365 redridinghood: "BREAKING: The FBI has just shut down its Diversity Office, 4 days before President Trump's Inauguration.

Winning!"

Only if this is Step One of shutting down the entire FBI. And it sucks saying that. We need some iteration of FBI but the current FBI itself outlived its usefulness and "mission" decades ago. No faith or confidence in it. Shuffling out a few jobs is wholly insufficient. It needs to be torn down and a new entity with better oversight and less authority built to replace it if at all. Just burn the manuals and start over.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 05:36 PM (aXxgO)

366 335 My theory: Leftist think Maddow is super smart because, while she is a woman, she looks like a man and that tricks their brains.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I think leftists actually like being ordered around and misled by authority figures because that is how they would behave in authority themselves.

Madcow, as an authority figure, permits Leftists to ignore the truth and propagate lies which makes them very happy. All she does is set the script and the NPCs gladly accept their new programming. Colbert and his clapping seals regarding Comey being fired shows that in real time with his audience. Colbert mentions that and the audience claps and then Colbert has to step in and reprogram the audience into firing Comey is bad because Orangeman did it.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:36 PM (ctrM5)

367 What's worse, that the dude ghosts his office and some nobody takes over, or that he ghosted his office and some nobody took over and nobody even noticed?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:34 PM (+iIV1)
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It worked for the President. And they didn't care who noticed.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:37 PM (krQz2)

368 Guys I’m getting this weird feeling that leftists are lying pieces of shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 16, 2025 05:37 PM (AMcpv)

369 Is this really such a big huge holy shit moment that it happened at least twice and nobody cared? Or that we have such a position in the first damn place? And on top of that, we put some useless ass-sucking apparatchik with a bum ticker in it? Because by my lights, if this office is so damned important, the real scandal is that the fucker was ever in it to begin with.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:34 PM (+iIV1)

Arguably, the DOD was in better hands when Austin was in hospital having his tubes tied or his pipes reamed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2025 05:38 PM (8zz6B)

370 "Leftist think Maddow is super smart because, while she is a woman, she looks like a man and that tricks their brains."

Lower-pitched voice? It worked for the Theranos chick.

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 16, 2025 05:39 PM (ZwuMZ)

371 Warai-otoko: "What's worse, that the dude ghosts his office and some nobody takes over, or that he ghosted his office and some nobody took over and nobody even noticed?"

Isn't this really about Biden?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 16, 2025 05:39 PM (aXxgO)

372 They think Madcow is so smart because she has a PhD.

Posted by: Axeman at January 16, 2025 05:40 PM (krQz2)

373
Lower-pitched voice? It worked for the Theranos chick.
Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss

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lol
OTHER things worked for the Theranos chick.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:40 PM (I87yH)

374 It was a clear risk to national security to have someone that high up the food chain and zero security/opps management people to be there with him.
Posted by: Crusader
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Barack Obama would not have been granted a security clearance for so much as cleaning latrines.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2025 05:40 PM (XeU6L)

375 So it’s DOCTOR Rachel?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 16, 2025 05:40 PM (AMcpv)

376 Always those you suspect last...

@amjadt25 58m
Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan, whose grandfather Hassan al-Banna founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, has been charged with raping two women. Ramadan also serves as an adviser to the UK government.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:41 PM (mlg/3)

377 Don't forget the law needs to be changed NOW so that a President doesn't have immunity from perpetrating a crime

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2025 05:41 PM (oT+t6)

378 I told DanMan last night that I thought Biden's speech was AI generated...

Posted by: DanMa'am at January 16, 2025 05:42 PM (8uzBS)

379 371 Warai-otoko: "What's worse, that the dude ghosts his office and some nobody takes over, or that he ghosted his office and some nobody took over and nobody even noticed?"

Isn't this really about Biden?
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
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Buttplug did it too as Sec. of Transportation and I would bet other bureaucrats were doing the same thing as were their staffs because that shit propagates from the example set by the head honcho.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:42 PM (ctrM5)

380 My personal favorite Bessent moment was when he was being grilled by the Dunce of Oregon, Wyland.

Regarding clean energy, Wyden claimed, “We are in an arms race on clean energy with China.”

Bessent did not hesitate to dismantle the senator’s argument and fact-check it in real time.

“China will build 100 new coal plants this year,” he said bluntly. “There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race.”

Posted by: Cheri at January 16, 2025 05:42 PM (oiNtH)

381 376 Always those you suspect last...

@amjadt25 58m
Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan, whose grandfather Hassan al-Banna founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood terrorists, has been charged with raping two women. Ramadan also serves as an adviser to the UK government.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2025 05:41 PM (mlg/3)

It's funny because the least English part of that little vignette of awfulness is "Oxford".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 05:42 PM (+iIV1)

382 es5t5thdr5tyste

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 16, 2025 05:42 PM (I87yH)

383 nood

ryan

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2025 05:43 PM (Y6IkP)

384 380

Oooh that’s good. A polite fuck off with facts.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 16, 2025 05:43 PM (AMcpv)

385 The US has enough coal to provide for all of our electricity needs for 100+ years. china has ten times the amount of coal reserves than we do.
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It’s maybe technically true, but the US is the “Saudi Arabia” of the planet in terms of Coal. High quality coal.

That’s why it is “interesting” that the push for outlawing it started in earnest. Convenient, that. It also provides good paying careers, much needed tax revenue and dollars that circulate in America, as well as a measure of national security.

Oil, gas, shale oil - America is blessed with natural resources and quality farmland, the envy of the world. Crippling our energy production is Enemy Action, always has been.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 05:43 PM (d42j3)

386 372 They think Madcow is so smart because she has a PhD.
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So does slug Luntz the Dunce. Same place too. Oxford. Both of them make me think less of Oxford as a result.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:44 PM (ctrM5)

387 "Prior to the acquisition, he'd built up a position in the company of greater than 5%, which would've required disclosing his holdings to the public within 10 calendar days of reaching that threshold."

Um, Musk POLLED twitter users about whether he should buy the company.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 16, 2025 05:45 PM (nLFEI)

388 Oil, gas, shale oil - America is blessed with natural resources and quality farmland, the envy of the world. Crippling our energy production is Enemy Action, always has been.
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Good point and a lot of those enviro groups are directly subsidized by donations from people and nations that are the US competitors in the energy market (either as consumers or as sellers).

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:45 PM (ctrM5)

389 378

DanMa'am-

Someone at "Legal Insurrection " site ir someone they quoted agrees with you. They said it was AI as well.

And I like your nic. Very clever and it's nice to see spouses posting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2025 05:48 PM (r1KaX)

390 It's funny because the least English part of that little vignette of awfulness is "Oxford".
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Would not have surprised me that the dude was at Harvard. Our intellectual class, by and large, are people that you would not want to associate with as actual people. Worse in many cases than politicians and more vicious to boot.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2025 05:48 PM (ctrM5)

391 Back in the '80s when hostile takeovers were raging, Ivan "Greed is Good" Boesky was implicated in 13D reporting violations that expanded to include Michael Milken, who had singlehandedly created the Junk Bond market -- now called High Yield. A federal prosecutor bound for glory made the case criminal, put Milken in jail and bankrupted his firm causing a market panic.

Rudy Giuliani.

Musk is only facing the SEC and his exposure is at most $150 million. Which is less than 0.1% of his net worth.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2025 05:54 PM (Gqoy+)

392 In the latest Republican threat to democracy, the democrat Gov of NC issued an executive order undoing their abortion laws passed by their legislature.

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 06:01 PM (pZEOD)

393 Been thieving from taxpayers since 1970. Hell of a record, Joe.

Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2025 06:25 PM (jgmnb)

394 Late to the party and haven’t read the comments but someone please stop the hammering !! Where’s Lawrence ? Won’t someone stop the hammering ?! Or not I love the god damn hammering

Posted by: kelly at January 16, 2025 11:05 PM (UTkQZ)

395 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvyQbZszUk

Posted by: kelly at January 16, 2025 11:15 PM (UTkQZ)

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