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How the Democrat Party Pushed Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms

Ross Douthat, a damp neocon at the New York Times, interviewed tech mogul Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape.

He talks about how leftwing campus politics infested the tech industry, until the parasites gained control over the host.


Andreessen: I think the Valley before me, from the '50s through the '70s, was normie Republicans. They were businesspeople, C.E.O.s, investors, and they would have been, I assume at the time, big fans of Nixon, big fans of Reagan. That era was basically over by the time I arrived. I met a few of those guys, but when I got there in '94, it was in the full swing of Clinton-Gore, the restoration of the Democratic Party and recovery of liberalism as a mainstream political force.

...
.
As a result of that, the most natural thing in the world for somebody like me was, "Oh, of course, I'm a normie Democrat. I'll be a normie Democrat forever."

Normie Democrat is what I call the Deal, with a capital D. Nobody ever wrote this down; it was just something everybody understood...

Then in your obituary, it talks about what an incredible person you were, both in your business career and in your philanthropic career. And by the way, you're a Democrat, you're pro--gay rights, you're pro-abortion, you're pro all the fashionable and appropriate social causes of the time. There are no trade-offs. This is the Deal.

Then, of course, everybody knows Republicans are just knuckle-dragging racists. It was taken as given that there was going to be this great relationship. And of course, it worked so well for the Democratic Party. Clinton and Gore sailed to a re-election in '96. And the Valley was locked in for 100 years to come to be straight-up conventional blue Democrat.

...

Douthat: When did you start to have doubts about the synthesis of Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party?

Andreessen: The breakdown was during the second Obama term. It took me by surprise. I think maybe the one person it didn't take by surprise is our mutual friend Peter Thiel. As with a lot of things, I think he saw it coming earlier than I did. But it definitely took me by surprise.

And just to give full context there: I had met Obama in, I think, '06 or '07, when he was a new senator. And he seemed great. It's the perfect package. It's literally everything that you could possibly dream for in a president. He has all the right social views, and he seems like an inheritor of Clinton-Gore. He says all the right things about capitalism at the time and about entrepreneurship. He's clearly in love with tech.

You may recall the 2012 election. It was literally the story of social media saves democracy, like it was literally that Barack Obama, the good guy, uses advanced technology, including the internet and social media to save the country from the Nazi fascist Mitt Romney. And this was, like, wall-to-wall positive press coverage.

...

And then basically, in retrospect, what happened is after Obama's re-election in 2012 through ultimately to 2016, things really started to change.

The way the story gets told a lot now is that basically Trump was a new arrival in '15, and then basically lots of changes followed. But what I experienced was the changes started in 2012, 2013, 2014 and were snowballing hard, at least in the Valley, at least among kids. And I think, to some extent, Trump was actually a reaction to those changes.

Douthat: Those changes you're talking about, are they fundamentally about policies being made by the Obama White House, or are they fundamentally about the big shift leftward among young people that clearly started in that era?

Andreessen: So I would say both, and the unifying thread here is, I believe it's the children of the elites. The most privileged people in society, the most successful, send their kids to the most politically radical institutions, which teach them how to be America-hating communists.

They fan out into the professions, and our companies hire a lot of kids out of the top universities, of course. And then, by the way, a lot of them go into government, and so we're not only talking about a wave of new arrivals into the tech companies.
We're also talking about a wave of new arrivals into the congressional offices. And of course, they all know each other, and so all of a sudden you have this influx, this new cohort.

And my only conclusion is what changed was basically the kids. In other words, the young children of the privileged going to the top universities between 2008 to 2012, they basically radicalized hard at the universities, I think, primarily as a consequence of the global financial crisis and probably Iraq. Throw that in there also. But for whatever reason, they radicalized hard.

Douthat: But when you say they radicalized, what did that mean for Silicon Valley? What did they want?

...

Andreessen: Revolution. What I now understand it to be historically is a rebirth of the New Left. So it's very analogous....

It turned out to be a coalition of economic radicals, and this was the rise of Bernie Sanders, but the kids turned on capitalism in a very fundamental way. They came out as some version of radical Marxist, and the fundamental valence went from "Capitalism is good and an enabler of the good society" to "Capitalism is evil and should be torn down."

And then the other part was social revolution and the social revolution, of course, was the Great Awokening, and then those conjoined. And there was a point where the median, newly arrived Harvard kid in 2006 was a career obsessed striver and their conversation with you was: "When do I get promoted, and how much do I get paid, and when do I end up running the company?" And that was the thing.

By 2013, the median newly arrived Harvard kid was like: "[expletive] it. We're burning the system down. You are all evil. White people are evil. All men are evil. Capitalism is evil. Tech is evil."

Douthat: But they're working for you. These are people who are working for you.

Andreessen: Of course. So I had this moment with a senior executive, who I won't name, but he said to me with a sense of dawning horror, "I think some of these kids are joining the company not with the intent of doing things for us but destroying us."

They're professional activists in their own minds, first and foremost. And it just turns out the way to exercise professional activism right now, most effectively, is to go and destroy a company from the inside. All-hands meetings started to get very contentious. Where you'd get berated at an all-hands meeting as a C.E.O., where you'd have these extremely angry employees show up and they were just completely furious about how there's way too many white men on the management team. "Why are we a for-profit corporation? Don't you know all the downstream horrible effects that this technology is having? We need to spend unlimited money in order to make sure that we're not emitting any carbon."

So you just take the laundry list of fashionable kind of radical left-wing positions of that time, and they're spending a huge amount of time at the company, basically organizing around that. And I will say, in fairness, I think in most of these companies this kind of person never got to be anywhere close to 100 percent of the work force.

But what happened is they became, like, 20 percent, maybe 30 percent. And then there's this big middle of "go along, get along" people who generally also consider themselves Democrats. And they're just trying to follow along with the trends.

So you take this activist core of 20 percent, you add 60 percent of "go along, get along" people, and all of a sudden the C.E.O. experiences, "Oh, my God, 80 percent of my employees have radicalized into a political agenda." What people say from the outside is, "Well, you should just fire those people."

But as a C.E.O., you can't fire 80 percent of my team. And by the way, I have to go hire people to replace them. And the other people at the other companies are behaving the same way. And I can't go hire kids out of college, because I'm just going to get more activists. And so that's how these companies became captured.

He talks about Trump's election and the freak-out on the left. The left demanded answers to the question "How did we allow Trump to win?" And the answer, of course, "because social media companies made him win."

And he was actually eager to help undo the crime of making Trump win. And he and his fellow tech executives were eager censors and eager propagandists.

But... the Democrat Party just kept demanding more and more.

First of all, let me disabuse you of something, if you haven't already disabused yourself. The view of American C.E.O.s operating as capitalist profit optimizers is just completely wrong.

That's like, Goal No. 5 or something. There's four goals that are way more important than that. And that's not just true in the big tech companies. It's true of the executive suite of basically everyone at the Fortune 500.

I would say Goal No. 1 is, "I'm a good person." "I'm a good person," is wildly more important than profit margins. Wildly. And this is why you saw these big companies all of a sudden go completely bananas in all their marketing. It's why you saw them go bananas over D.E.I. It's why you saw them all cooperating with all these social media boycotts. I mean, the level of lock step uniformity, unanimity in the thought process between the C.E.O.s of the Fortune 500 and what's in the pages of The New York Times and in the Harvard classroom and in the Ford Foundation -- they're just locked together. Or at least they were through this entire period.

...

Here's the reason: It's the famous cliché "We live in a society." These people aren't robots. They're just not. They're members of a society. They're members of an elite class. They either come from the top, most radical education institutions, or they are seeking as hard as they can to assimilate into that same class.

Then, by the way, you're not just doing that yourself. You also have a family. And if your kids are in college, I mean, God help you, they're coming for you. Then you've got your radicalized employee base, and you maybe could have nipped the radicalization five years earlier, but now you can't, because it's now 80 percent of your work force.

By the way, you also have your shareholders, and this is where things get really bananas. A big part of the tipping point was when the major shareholders turned and became political activists.

So you're in this sandwich from all of your constituents, and then you've got the press coming at you. You've got the activists coming at you, and then you've got the [federal] government coming at you.

Douthat: But wait, the federal government is run by Donald Trump in this period, right?

Andreessen: Not really.

Douthat: I mean, this is the peculiar thing about the narrative, right? You're saying everyone is possessed by all these fears, and I grant you, they're powerful fears, but they are in an era when, officially, the Republican Party and Donald Trump are in the White House and have not complete but real power in Washington, D.C.

Andreessen: Well, did they? Like sitting here today, would you describe that Donald Trump ran the federal government between 2016 and 2020?

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Andreessen: So things got much worse after 2020. So the part I would agree with is that things got much worse for tech, after they took formal control of the White House. For sure, that's right.

...

And then of course, Covid hits, which was a giant radicalizing moment. And at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution. Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution. The employee base is going feral. There were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies I know felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses by their own employees.

Things got really aggressive during that period. And so I go from watching Brian Williams every night and just being lied to 500 nights in a row to, basically, reading the Mueller report, reading the Horowitz I.G. report and being like, "Oh, my God, none of this is true."

And then you try to explain to people, "This isn't true." And then they get really mad at you because how can you possibly have any sympathy for a fascist?

Douthat: So you are radicalizing in the late Trump years.

Andreessen: Yes, for sure. There were quite a few people like me. Now, none of us were sticking our heads up at that point because, to be clear, it was way too dangerous.

None of us were particularly moral heroes at that point. But there were lots and lots of underground peer-to-peer discussions from 2018 through to 2021 saying, "OK, things are off the rails." And my point is, we were softened up for the Biden radicalization. Then when the Biden administration turned out to be far more radical than even we thought that they were going to be then that's what generated the response that ultimately --

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Mark Zuckerberg just talked about this on "Rogan." Direct phone calls from senior members of the administration. Screaming executives ordering them to do things. Just full-on "[Expletive] you. We own you. We control you. You're going to do what we want or we're going to destroy you."

Then they just came after crypto. Absolutely tried to kill us.

They just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I. That's really when we knew that we had to really get involved in politics. The crypto attack was so weird that we didn't know what to make of it. We were just hoping it would pass, which it didn't. But it was when they threatened to do the same thing to A.I. that we realized we had to get involved in politics. Then we were up against what looked like the absolutely terrifying prospect of a second term.

Below, another tech titan describes his Red Pill moment: When he finally saw the full, unedited clip of Trump's Charlottsville remarks, he realized the media had been straight-up lying to him for years.

KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat


NEW: Tech billionaire and lifelong Democrat Mark Pincus reveals his "Red Pill" moment, sparked by Mike Solana's Pirate Wires and the "very fine people" hoax, culminating in him voting for Donald Trump.

"I started reading @PirateWires and @micsolana, and I thought he was a little crazy at first because he would write these articles, and one he wrote was about how the Ukrainian soldiers had swastikas on their helmets, and the NYT photographers would ask them to take the swastikas off for photos."

"I said that can't be true, and then four months later, it was in the NYT buried in the middle of the paper, and I kept seeing stories like that that he would be early on. So, I started feeling more uncomfortable and queasy with what was going on with mainstream media."

"Then, in May 2024, I read an article that talked about Trump's speech in Charlottesville, where he said there are good people on both sides, and the article said it was completely propaganda and didn't actually reflect what he said. That he denounced the Nazis a bunch of times in his speech, so then I went and watched that video, and that was my red pill moment."

"I think it was for a lot of people because it wasn't just the media or politicians spinning it. That speech was one of the pillars of why you were supposed to hate Trump. Then you see Biden say that's why he had to run a second time, and Obama says it, and Biden brings it up again at the DNC."

"They clearly know they are misrepresenting things, so for me, that was beyond uncomfortable. Now, I have to go back to first principles and look at the primary data, listen to only original speeches by people, and I just realized I couldn't trust the mainstream media."

What was your Red Pill moment?

Posted by: Ace at 03:15 PM




Comments

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1 No way

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2025 03:15 PM (2UnvF)

2 On a roll today

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2025 03:15 PM (2UnvF)

3 'damp' seems to be a thing with ace these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:18 PM (bss/y)

4 Just when the music talk starts getting good...

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:18 PM (snN/i)

5 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

6 I often blame Cultural Marxists Seminaries spreading graduates out into the country and H8ing America

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (fwDg9)

7 5 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

No mention of being a 'daft trout'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:20 PM (bss/y)

8 >>The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”


LOLGFY

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:20 PM (snN/i)

9 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”

Wow, that's excellent news. Some of them appear to be learning - slowly - but learning nonetheless.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:21 PM (xCA6C)

10 How many boxes of sacramental wine does she get to take with her?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 24, 2025 03:21 PM (ISHfS)

11
The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

Hahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2025 03:21 PM (VE6XX)

12 >>The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”


Suffah, Bishop. SUFFAH!

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (snN/i)

13 4 Just when the music talk starts getting good...

I've seen Rush 7 times.
Great every time. Geddy's voice was getting rough at the end. But man could they play.

Posted by: Taggart at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)

14 I do wonder how much of the political shift among the Tech titans is due to the fact that EVERYONE was a leftist, and so it became no longer cool and edgy. What's the point of being an elite if you can't sneer at the herd?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (xCA6C)

15 Did Shifty Schiff have trouble with an exercise band like Reid ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (VE6XX)

16 I'm glad some smart people came around.

But for being smart people it sure did take A LONG FUCKING TIME!!!!


Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (fV+MH)

17 I'm just reminded of how people were all, "Sure, Trump was clear, but the media find it so easy to misrepresent what he says, and that's Trump's fault."

Dude could say "I love puppies," and the media would report it as "Trump says he hates cats," and so many people would believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

18 It is interesting how many wealthy and powerful people worry about being in the cool kid group instead of defending the principles this country was founded upon.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (pyVhw)

19 More school choice for parents.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (rj6Yv)

20 >>I've seen Rush 7 times.

Power Windows was the first Rush Tour I saw.

Saw maybe 5-6 more up to Presto.

All awesome shows. Virtuoso performances.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (snN/i)

21 Read the content first. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (kAFFE)

22 when I got there in '94, it was in the full swing of Clinton-Gore...

That informs a lot of this article. '94 is the year that Microsoft pushed thru the stock options rules (options valued at full price expenses by the IRS, valued at the grant price by the SEC). Run by engineers before that point, MBA's thereafter.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (AMyEQ)

23 Brit missus said at the time that just like "Thatcher's Children" were purported to be before them, "Obama's Children" would be the ruin of the US.

It wasn't JUST the 8 and 9 year olds under Obama but indeed the university students who all felt newly "empowered" to be faggy America hating idiots.

Remember "mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama. He came along to save us all mmm mmm mmm."

All that shit. Those kids are in the workforce now. And the university students from then are in leadership positions. DEI, our media, the death of many industries including entertainment, is the fruit of that poisoned tree.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (pooZp)

24 It is interesting how many wealthy and powerful people worry about being in the cool kid group instead of defending the principles this country was founded upon.

Sauron was a pimp compared to me.

Posted by: The Cool Kid's Table at January 24, 2025 03:24 PM (xCA6C)

25 But... the Democrat Party just kept demanding more and more.

And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"

Posted by: Fortunate Son at January 24, 2025 03:24 PM (a3Q+t)

26 "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

Hahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: It's me donna :


I hope that conversation was as awkward as it deserved to be.

Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2025 03:24 PM (fV+MH)

27 And then you try to explain to people, "This isn't true." And then they get really mad at you because how can you possibly have any sympathy for a fascist?

=======

And then you understand how groupthink works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

28 >>I got there in '94, it was in the full swing of Clinton

P-Funk was really kicking hard back in 94.
I saw the NYE Show they did. 4-5 hours of Funk.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (snN/i)

29 26 "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

Hahahahahahahahaha
Posted by: It's me donna :


I hope that conversation was as awkward as it deserved to be.
Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2025 03:24 PM (fV+MH)

=======

$5 says some donor/member to the church threatened to pull some donations. A significant amount of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

30 left wing parasites

FUMIGATE ! FUMIGATE!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 24, 2025 03:26 PM (/U5Yz)

31 Did he like the movie? 😂😂😂

(Just kidding - very interesting stuff 😊❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 24, 2025 03:26 PM (SRRAx)

32 I saw the NYE Show they did. 4-5 hours of Funk.
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (snN/i)

It was cool, but can you imagine doobie in your funk? Ho.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:26 PM (pooZp)

33 But it wasn't politics-politics. She was only speaking Truth to Power.

Posted by: Whoopi at January 24, 2025 03:27 PM (a3Q+t)

34 Andreessen: So I would say both, and the unifying thread here is, I believe it's the children of the elites. The most privileged people in society, the most successful, send their kids to the most politically radical institutions, which teach them how to be America-hating communists.

It is stunning to see the children of America's elites damning white working class people as the source of all of America's problems...and in the name of "the poor" and "the disenfranchised"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:27 PM (t0Rmr)

35 But... the Democrat Party just kept demanding more and more.

And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"
Posted by: Fortunate Son at January 24, 2025 03:24 PM (a3Q+t)

With a Rebel Yell?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2025 03:27 PM (Aqu9a)

36 >>It was cool, but can you imagine doobie in your funk? Ho.


'Blow yo Horn!'

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:27 PM (snN/i)

37 "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (i24o9)

38 "Obama is gonna lead us"

And all that.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

39 it was literally that Barack Obama, the good guy, uses advanced technology, including the internet and social media to save the country from the Nazi fascist Mitt Romney. And this was, like, wall-to-wall positive press coverage.

And Romney nearly won (probably DID win, in an honest count). That's how over the country was with Obama and his stunts like Fast & Furious and Benghazi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (2VST1)

40 Russ Douthat. How is this supposed to be pronounced?

Doubt-that, Doo‐that, Doubt‐hat, Doo-twat ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (fs1hN)

41 Rogan was talking weeks back about hearing Barack Obama peddling the "very fine people" story just a week or two before the election .. long after many had their "red pill moment".

OMG .. Barack is lying to us

Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (RHGPo)

42 38 "Obama is gonna lead us"

And all that.
Posted by: mrp

Lead us right to Jennifer Aniston's cooch?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 24, 2025 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)

43 Update your style guides!

Julia Friedland
@JuliaFriedland
Well, this is a new one.
Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."
How can that be?
Guess they missed Governor DeSantis shut down similarly absurd terminology yesterday.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)

44 It's like all the utes know is "business" bad but living in a dirt hut "good". Like Ray Kroc with Mickey D's. All the propaganda is Ray Kroc "bad" while eating tofu "good". Bunch of malarky. Ray Kroc was a hero who employed millions and is still feeding billions better than any commie dictator could ever hope to do.

Posted by: The Founder at January 24, 2025 03:29 PM (R/m4+)

45 38 "Obama is gonna lead us"

And all that.
Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

=====

Obama said he led from behind.

It's part of the reason the Democrat Party is in such a shit shape right now.

Their figurehead refused to lead on anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

46 From Daily Caller:

"President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to drop charges Friday against a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on sex change procedures for minors."

Aka Dr. Eithan Haim case

Posted by: Nova Local at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (exHjb)

47 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

The Dildo of Consequence did not arrive pre-lubed. Again.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (Aqu9a)

48 "It's another Trumpmas miracle!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"


He's making a list

Posted by: eleven at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (fV+MH)

49 >> "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”

Amazing how fast the left is crumbling across the board.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (LkLld)

50 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

No mention of being a 'daft trout'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:20 PM (bss/y)

I don't understand. Isn't that ALL the Episcopal Church stands for?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (BGS5P)

51 "They clearly know they are misrepresenting things, so for me, that was beyond uncomfortable. Now, I have to go back to first principles and look at the primary data, listen to only original speeches by people, and I just realized I couldn't trust the mainstream media."

Back a long time ago Evan Thomas noted that the FNM was worth about 15 points to the Democrats in any given election. They've swung way more into just being Democrat mouth pieces since then so you do have to wonder just how much they are worth now...

How many people vote for Joe Biden if it is revealed his son is a pedophile? And note this is 100% established on the laptop that the media knew about.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (t0Rmr)

52 OMG .. Barack is lying to us
Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (RHGPo)

Lip reader huh ...

Posted by: browndog retired to the kennel at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (TTAGa)

53 The problem with the Left, and by that I mean the radical left because there is no other kind, is they will always end up owning you.

You have to show them that you can out-activist them. As Trump has, repeatedly. It's the only way to put them down. You can't do it any other way. It's why Trump is so "mean". All he does is the shit they do but for the most part he does it better.

Obama called Sarah Palin a pig and the Left adored it. Yes it's better to "be better" but being better only let's them run you over a few extra times.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (pooZp)

54 I'm amused and pleasantly surprised how quickly Bezos and Zuckerberg have tried to scrub the DEI crap from their public image now that Trump is in charge. Obviously it's not gone from their companies, but the 180 that the leadership teams at Amazon and Facebook et al. have done to understand how toxic that stuff is is hilarious.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (B9Prs)

55
Teh Ewok really hated this film, I see.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (y9nCu)

56 we won't have peace in this country until this generational wave of communists the above article refers to, ages out or self-destructs or whatever. We might just have to wait it out.

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (AOsQT)

57 From Daily Caller:

"President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to drop charges Friday against a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on sex change procedures for minors."

Aka Dr. Eithan Haim case

Posted by: Nova Local at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (exHjb)

Now Ricky Bobby.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (i24o9)

58 after the 2012 election:

it was literally that Barack Obama, the good guy, uses advanced technology, including the internet and social media to save the country

after the 2016 election:

it was the Steve Bannon guy using Cambridge Analytica to analyze the Facebook personal information .. it must be illegal

Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (RHGPo)

59 With a Rebel Yell?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2025 03:27 PM

For bein' Yankee-adjacent Californians, them CCR boys were all right.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (a3Q+t)

60 unauthorized citizen
_____

Which country are they an authorized citizen of? Let's send them there.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (fs1hN)

61 "[Obama] has all the right social views, and he seems like an inheritor of Clinton-Gore. He says all the right things about capitalism at the time and about entrepreneurship. He's clearly in love with tech."

I think he meant "dick."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

62 When he finally saw the full, unedited clip of Trump's Charlottsville remarks, he realized the media had been straight-up lying to him for years.

I have read and seen multiple cases of this happening. Basically the media went full in on a huge and obvious lie, one that if someone found out the truth would be incredibly damaging to their entire narrative. But it was too good to ignore (like the BS "Elon did a nazi salute" lie).

When people find out the truth, its like this watershed moment where they start going "what else did they lie about??"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (2VST1)

63 And the rainbow flag burning political prisoner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (i24o9)

64 I had met Obama in, I think, '06 or '07, when he was a new senator. And he seemed great. It's the perfect package. It's literally everything that you could possibly dream for in a president.
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I saw that right away, though I confess I never understood it. His voice and his appearance, I get that they were perfectly designed to make the chattering classes cream in their shorts.

But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (1bNHn)

65 >> "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”

Amazing how fast the left is crumbling across the board.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (LkLld)
_____________________

It's beautiful.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (YqDXo)

66 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."

Racist American government expels Japanese UnAuthorized Citizens

Posted by: News headlines from 1943 at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (t0Rmr)

67 Girthy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (6K6Eu)

68 51 Back a long time ago Evan Thomas noted that the FNM was worth about 15 points to the Democrats in any given election. They've swung way more into just being Democrat mouth pieces since then so you do have to wonder just how much they are worth now...

How many people vote for Joe Biden if it is revealed his son is a pedophile? And note this is 100% established on the laptop that the media knew about.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (t0Rmr)

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That analysis, if I remember correctly, was done in the early 2000s.

I suspect the benefit has greatly reduced since. No idea what it could be now (the disbelievability of things like vote totals in Philly add another wrinkle), but I suspect it's low-single digits if it exists at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

69 Obama is gonna lead us"

And all that.
Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

Oh hell yeah I had mercifully forgot about that one.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (pooZp)

70 Douche Hat.

It's pronounced, Douche Hat.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (snN/i)

71
"Sing for Change Obama" Kids for Barry:


LINK: https://tinyurl.com/428wf6k5

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (rj6Yv)

72 >> "The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
___________________

Cue the Ludacris cam.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (YqDXo)

73 Wow, quite the long post. Almost Tolstoyan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

74 64 I saw that right away, though I confess I never understood it. His voice and his appearance, I get that they were perfectly designed to make the chattering classes cream in their shorts.

But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:32 PM (1bNHn)

=======

You are describing a perfect figurehead.

He looks the part, but is completely vacuous, says nothing of substance, but has a cadence and vocabulary that suggests substance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

75 I read that Barron put Trump onto the tech bro stuff.

He was probably working on it for 2 or 3 years.

And then he picks JD Vance for VP, probably the only viable guy on the planet that combines working class background with tech bro credentials.

I watched Trump at the crypto conference last year and he was all “I’m going to do XYZ” and sure enough he did it .

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (/67jg)

76 and I just realized I couldn't trust the mainstream media
_____

Oft evil will evil mar

(Or something like that penned by Tolkien)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (fs1hN)

77 Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (B9Prs)

Even a dead leaf can figure out which way the wind blows.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (pooZp)

78 Obama and Aniston ?

https://tinyurl.com/2s3eseu7

Say it ain't so.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (/U5Yz)

79 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen wetback."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)

80 $5 says some donor/member to the church threatened to pull some donations. A significant amount of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

Wait, are you suggesting the Episcopal Church is not about faith and morals and foundational principles of Christianity?

I can't believe it. I SHAN'T believe it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (BGS5P)

81 It is interesting how many wealthy and powerful people worry about being in the cool kid group instead of defending the principles this country was founded upon.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2025 03:23 PM (pyVhw)

Shows the rot at the top. He himself valued that over he health of his business and its integrity. He hired scions of the elite rather than the best engineers and performers. He bloated up his admin areas because those assholes can't do anything but powerpoint and nice suits and paralyzed his company.

And when he realized it he thinks " I can't fire 80 percent of my company" Elon Musk could and did.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (n7h9X)

82
Elon Musk is going to be seen by history as the Essential Man of this turning point. Him standing up for free speech and buying Twatter was the turning point. That had a lot to do with all the other tech titans waking up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

83 Seems like the pendulum is swinging back HARD - all it took was for people to realize they weren't "the only ones" who felt this way.

Nice to finally see it!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (SRRAx)

84 "President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to drop charges Friday against a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on sex change procedures for minors."

And he pardoned all of the people arrested for being near an abortion clinic, peacefully silent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (2VST1)

85 I'm amused and pleasantly surprised how quickly Bezos and Zuckerberg have tried to scrub the DEI crap from their public image now that Trump is in charge.

I wonder how much this was also the result of Luigi M gunning down some completely ordinary healthcare exec to the cheering of the DEI and media types?

If Brian Thompson is a valid target for leftist street violence Bezos and Zuck are much more so...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (t0Rmr)

86 He looks the part, but is completely vacuous, says nothing of substance, but has a cadence and vocabulary that suggests substance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
_____________________

And he reads a mean teleprompter.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

87 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."

My new term for Newsweek is Lying, Imbecilic Asshats.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (xCA6C)

88 Convenient timing.

Hopefully this means that they are very scared of Trump and feel they must suck up to him.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)

89 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (uCAkQ)

90 $5 says some donor/member to the church threatened to pull some donations. A significant amount of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

Wait, are you suggesting the Episcopal Church is not about faith and morals and foundational principles of Christianity?

I can't believe it. I SHAN'T believe it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (BGS5P)

or maybe Trump or somebody said "Maybe there's a better Church in town we can use going forward."

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (n7h9X)

91 Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape, did a Rogan where he talks about a meeting at the White House centered around the future of AI.

The Biden Administration wanted to have 2 or 3 centers of AI shepherded by the federal government and everybody else shut out. It was just too strategically important to have anybody else doing it.

He left totally disillusioned.

Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (RHGPo)

92
I have read and seen multiple cases of this happening. Basically the media went full in on a huge and obvious lie, one that if someone found out the truth would be incredibly damaging to their entire narrative. But it was too good to ignore (like the BS "Elon did a nazi salute" lie).

When people find out the truth, its like this watershed moment where they start going "what else did they lie about??"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:31 PM (2VST1)

This is exactly the same tactic I mention above about Swallowwell's remarks on the J6 guys release: Go Big on the lie. Hardly anyone will question it or follow up on it unless there are enough dissenting voices so it cracks their reality matrix and they have to look it up themselves to find out what is real. The less easy it is to do that (for example the J6 stuff where they have not released all the footage) the bigger the lie this allows them to tell.

This realization sets you on the tinfoil path on a lot of shit for the past 50 years or so. I think it really started in the Clinton years though with the barcode scanner. At least that was the first I can remember that was obviously a lie, but was run as truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (bss/y)

93
Quick trivia:

How old was President Grover Cleveland's (49) wife when they married in the White House in 1886?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (UXla0)

94 >But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.

Posted by: Eeyore
----

it was all an act for the cameras
remember his 'I can play at this level' ?

Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (AOsQT)

95 I'd add that a lot of these tech running dweebs are influenced significantly by their women (embarrassingly so). I'm not talking about women in general. I'm talking about those gold digging, self-important whores who wish to be considered relevant in order to offset what everyone knows they're doing with some nerdy type.

I think Bill Gates is a solid example of how he ended up on the liberal side of matters....(Melinda).

Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (dIske)

96 That is why I am not even gonna guess what the fuck is happening in Ukraine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (bss/y)

97 People will go where the money is.

But not to put too fine a point on it (am I ever guilty of that?), but I think a lot people, non-poilitical normal people, saw Trump's reaction to being shot and developed an actual veritable "strange new respect" for him. It was kind of not something that could be easily missed.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (pooZp)

98 85 I wonder how much this was also the result of Luigi M gunning down some completely ordinary healthcare exec to the cheering of the DEI and media types?

If Brian Thompson is a valid target for leftist street violence Bezos and Zuck are much more so...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (t0Rmr)

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That's a good point that I hadn't thought of.

But it's true...the activist left is obviously out of control. It's seemed obvious to me for a while, but maybe stuff like antifa and the BLM riots really were just within the offered length of chain that donors to the causes were allowing.

Still, even if that were the case, that taste of anarchy doesn't go away because the money goes away. It's intoxicating, that kind of power. You're not going to stop because you have to squeeze 10 antifa trannies in a studio, entirely reliant on Todd's dad to pay the rent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

99 Can I get my job back now?

Posted by: Obama mask wearing Rodeo Clown at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (Aqu9a)

100 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”

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good riddance, beyatch

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)

101 I would say Goal No. 1 is, "I'm a good person." "I'm a good person," is wildly more important than profit margins.
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That is universally true of people. It's some years ago since Ace pointed this out here. Even people who think they are putting profit first, are using that as a measure of their virtue.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (1bNHn)

102 But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.
Posted by: Eeyore
----
Secular salvation from the sins of slavery.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (ctrM5)

103 Just a quick fly-by to publically wish my beautiful wife, The First Lady, a wonderful birthday.

Hopefully, I'll get out of work soon so we can celebrate it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (uCAkQ)

104 These are fine articles well worth the time t takes to read them. Thanks ace…

Posted by: tubal at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (PCK5/)

105 "President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to drop charges Friday against a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on sex change procedures for minors."

And he pardoned all of the people arrested for being near an abortion clinic, peacefully silent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (2VST1)

Trump should put out a bounty on peeps doing mutilation on minors.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (n7h9X)

106 How many people vote for Joe Biden if it is revealed his son is a pedophile? And note this is 100% established on the laptop that the media knew about.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:30 PM (t0Rmr)

Crowder keeps touting a poll that showed something like 17% of Biden voters said they would not have voted for him if they'd known about the laptop and its contents.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (BGS5P)

107 102 But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.
Posted by: Eeyore
----
Secular salvation from the sins of slavery.
Posted by: whig at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (ctrM5)

=======

"Well, that didn't work."
-America, circa 2016

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

108 Seems like the pendulum is swinging back HARD - all it took was for people to realize they weren't "the only ones" who felt this way.

Nice to finally see it!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (SRRAx)
__________________

Reminiscent of Ceausescu's downfall. ONE GUY at a huge rally catcalled Ceausescu - ONE GUY - and then the whole audience started catcalling him.

Three days later Ceausescu was stood against a wall and shot.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

109 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)

Hahahaha, I'm dying over here! A village somewhere in Lesbos is looking for a new "bishop".
Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Daughters Of Sappho at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (R/m4+)

110 How old was President Grover Cleveland's (49) wife when they married in the White House in 1886?

I'm going to guess...early 20s?

So if Judge Moore is a cad for marrying a 24 year old when he was 38 I guess Cleveland was a super-cad?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)

111 This is an excellent post, ace.

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)

112 82
Elon Musk is going to be seen by history as the Essential Man of this turning point. Him standing up for free speech and buying Twatter was the turning point. That had a lot to do with all the other tech titans waking up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

And Rogan as well.

Love him, or hate him ... he was invaluable in normalizing The Donald

Posted by: browndog retired to the kennel at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (TTAGa)

113 Obama and Aniston ?

WHO. THE. F***. CARES?!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (xCA6C)

114 110 How old was President Grover Cleveland's (49) wife when they married in the White House in 1886?

I'm going to guess...early 20s?

So if Judge Moore is a cad for marrying a 24 year old when he was 38 I guess Cleveland was a super-cad?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)

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She was his ward. I think she was about 18.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

115 Andreessen sounds like that bazillionaire Jewish guy Ackman who was shocked that Harvard was a cesspool of Jew-hating hysteria and paranoia. I agree with everything Andreessen (and Ackman) said, but seriously: what the fuck took them so long to realize the obvious??

I'll add one comment to Andreessen's point: I don't think he's right that the graduating students themselves changed. What changed were corporate attitudes towards tolerating them. While 20 years ago a company would just shitcan a problem employee, now that same company would tolerate or even nurture him or her. The companies allowed themselves to be hijacked and corrupted. That's what really changed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

116 They learnin anything from this or nah?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (B9Prs)

117 I think Bill Gates is a solid example of how he ended up on the liberal side of matters....(Melinda).
Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (dIske)

People with money get bored and want a legacy. And the Left offers 99% of the paths to a legacy and 100% of the easy paths.

The other 1% is what people like Trump and Musk are doing. Hard difficult backbreaking shit.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (pooZp)

118 Secular salvation from the sins of slavery.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (ctrM5)
_________________

But for the communists, everyone would long ago have forgotten all about slavery.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

119 These tech geniuses are imbeciles. Give me the working man any day if you want to know the TRUTH!

Posted by: Kurtz at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (NCERT)

120 SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS THEY WILL LOOK INTO BIDEN PARDONING FAMILY

"They call it the Biden crime family, if they weren't the crime family why do they need pardons? We will be looking at it as well."

Left unanswered .. after the pardons, who gets to keep the money ? .. civil seizure ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (RHGPo)

121 116 They learnin anything from this or nah?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (B9Prs)

Nah. It is effective enough for the moment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (bss/y)

122 And he reads a mean teleprompter.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

Swivel swivel swivel swivel.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (PiwSw)

123 Quick trivia:

How old was President Grover Cleveland's (49) wife when they married in the White House in 1886?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (UXla0)

21

Now ask how old she was when he took her in as his "ward."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (Cp+5w)

124 Take a few minutes to watch this video. I promise it won't disappoint and not just because Jillian Michaels is pleasant to look at. Everything about the left is fake.

>>@JillianMichaels

>>How crazy is this… The supposed letter signed by “over 17000” doctors denouncing
@RobertKennedyJr
is actually fake. Take a look.

https://tinyurl.com/ysscef3n

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (LkLld)

125 Oft evil will evil mar

-
Is that like pissing into the wind?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (L/fGl)

126 Melania is in NC, never saw Jill do anything on her own having to babysit Sundowner 24/7

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

127 Boy the long march through the institutions has been a rousing success. Herbert Marcuse and his ilk are hopefully burning in hell.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (2WYhk)

128 116 They learnin anything from this or nah?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (B9Prs)

I believe they are, but they have a generational problem on their hands, as both articles show.

Posted by: tubal at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (PCK5/)

129
Is this interesting?
The 10th President, John Tyler (1841-1845) has a living grandson. He's 95.

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd & 24th President, also has a living grandson. He's in his 70's.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (UXla0)

130 But for the communists, everyone would long ago have forgotten all about slavery.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

It is still practiced in large portions of the world, Jay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (bss/y)

131 If we get rid of all the undocumented immigrants to the USA, then who will clean my house, cook my food, and do my landscaping ???

Posted by: Kamal Harris at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (A2iSa)

132 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
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Where are the "Trump shouldn't have even shown up this is Politics 101" people now?

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (pooZp)

133 I think Bill Gates is a solid example of how he ended up on the liberal side of matters....(Melinda).

Whatever the hell Gates actually thinks about politics, those pictures of him on Epstein Island say he's now a proud progressive.

And this is very similar to how Gates and his lawyers were going to destroy Melinda in divorce court right up until she mentioned he was an Epstein client and then suddenly all her requests were reasonable and fine...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (t0Rmr)

134 I would say Goal No. 1 is, "I'm a good person." "I'm a good person," is wildly more important than profit margins.
_______
That is universally true of people. It's some years ago since Ace pointed this out here. Even people who think they are putting profit first, are using that as a measure of their virtue.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (1bNHn)

No, that is wrong. A person should be saying "I will DO GOOD" not that I have been elected to Goodlyness. To want to have yourself elected into the Good People by others means they have the whip hand on your morality. And once that happens you are as evil as they might be.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (n7h9X)

135 Andreessen sounds like that bazillionaire Jewish guy Ackman who was shocked that Harvard was a cesspool of Jew-hating hysteria and paranoia. I agree with everything Andreessen (and Ackman) said, but seriously: what the fuck took them so long to realize the obvious??
________________

I say bugger Ackman. He was perfectly happy when Harvard et al. were spouting hard left anti-American crap. Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

136 And he reads a mean teleprompter.
_____

TOTUS had a blog at the time. I assume it retired after Obama's term. Trump didn't need it. No way did it come back for Biden, that would have been humiliating for the once mighty TOTUS.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (fs1hN)

137 125 Oft evil will evil mar

-
Is that like pissing into the wind?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (L/fGl)

Kind of like tossing a cigarette out the window and then it blows in the open rear window and burns a hole in your rear bench seat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (bss/y)

138
The Daily Mail, doing that hard-hitting investigative journalism they do so well has revealed that Melania's winter jacket was, gasp, "off the rack" and cost $39.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

139 119 These tech geniuses are imbeciles.

No, it's more like a real life version of "Hotel California"

So I called up the Captain, "Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say
"Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis"
Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said, "We are all just prisoners here of our own device"
And in the master's chambers they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

Posted by: SMOD at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (RHGPo)

140
Now ask how old she was when he took her in as his "ward."
Posted by: BurtTC


Oh dear...

18?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (UXla0)

141 Someone down the street from me is flying the U.S. flag and the Gadsden flag. In Portland. Admittedly, this is in purple far SW Portland, but still...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (6K6Eu)

142 130 But for the communists, everyone would long ago have forgotten all about slavery.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

It is still practiced in large portions of the world, Jay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (bss/y)
_________________

I know that. I was talking about America.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

143 Everything that dude is true--but wasn't all this blindingly obvious? The kids are NOT alright.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (+BqEV)

144 It is still practiced in large portions of the world, Jay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (bss/y)

________________________________

Not only practiced (such as Sudan) but, actually, encouraged...thanks to the Koran.

Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

145 I think Bill Gates is a solid example of how he ended up on the liberal side of matters....(Melinda).
Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2025 03:36 PM (dIske)

People with money get bored and want a legacy. And the Left offers 99% of the paths to a legacy and 100% of the easy paths.

The other 1% is what people like Trump and Musk are doing. Hard difficult backbreaking shit.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:38 PM (pooZp)

I suspect Gates has always known he's a fraud, that he never earned what he has. It ate away at him, until he shined his New World Order mindset was a perfect pearl of dystopian megalomania.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Cp+5w)

146 This is exactly the same tactic I mention above about Swallowwell's remarks on the J6 guys release: Go Big on the lie

Yeah they are trying, but the problem is that nobody gives a crap about January 6th but the hard left and the media. They think its a new holocaust, the average person barely remembers it and thought it was a nothingburger at the time. I've never seen such a complete and radical divide before like this in opinion. Absolute hysteria vs apathy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (2VST1)

147 Happy Birthday to the First Lady!

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

148 Now ask how old she was when he took her in as his "ward."
Posted by: BurtTC


Oh dear...

18?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (UXla0)

Cold.

Keep going. Lower.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Cp+5w)

149 Andreessen sounds like that bazillionaire Jewish guy Ackman who was shocked that Harvard was a cesspool of Jew-hating hysteria and paranoia. I agree with everything Andreessen (and Ackman) said, but seriously: what the fuck took them so long to realize the obvious??


The tech "elites" have the problem that they are completely enclosed in a carapace of smug. It takes a lot to penetrate that armor, so that the truth can shine in.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (xCA6C)

150 Melania is in NC, never saw Jill do anything on her own having to babysit Sundowner 24/7
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

Well, there was that one moment at the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening ceremony, where she worshipfully stared at the current President.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (rj6Yv)

151 Seems like the pendulum is swinging back HARD - all it took was for people to realize they weren't "the only ones" who felt this way.

Nice to finally see it!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 24, 2025 03:34 PM (SRRAx)

All I could mutter for the last four years, hell, the Obama years, too, was "Am I crazy? Is it just me?"

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (k9OZB)

152 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03

Today’s winner of play stupid games!

Posted by: Piper at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (pZEOD)

153 We all knew this was happening, but it's best when someone like Andreesen lays it out for us and for world, goes on record. That's why it feels like finally that shit that enveloped us when obama came to power is finally being removed. I am apaled at the scaredy cats at the top of the tech world. Yeah, they are all billionaire tech nerds who just want to play with stuff, but c'mon. Did't you read about socialism ? Somewhere ??

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (g47mK)

154 5 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)
_______
We should start deporting Episcopalians. (Note: I was baptized and confirmed as one. But I got better.)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (1bNHn)

155 @9

>>Wow, that's excellent news. Some of them appear to be learning - slowly - but learning nonetheless.

I really feel the Era of Putting Up With Bullsh*t is over.

To paraphrase a song: The Fundamental Transformation Will Be Televised.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (XV/Pl)

156
Left unanswered .. after the pardons, who gets to keep the money ? .. civil seizure ?

The IRS is pretty clear that monies acquired illegally are still taxable income and it is a separate crime to not pay taxes on them.

Trump's DOJ should abide by any specific crime mentioned in Biden's pardons and anything that was being charged when the pardon was issued and then charge them with everything else.

So, don't charge Hunter with the gun violations and do charge him with sex trafficking and sexual assault on a minor

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (t0Rmr)

157 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".

-
She's leaving to spend more time with the seven deadly sins.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (L/fGl)

158 >> Today’s winner of play stupid games!

Or FAFO.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (w6EFb)

159 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

How many more euphemisms until they get to "authentic American?"

Posted by: mikeski at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (T54pi)

160 Melania is in NC, never saw Jill do anything on her own having to babysit Sundowner 24/7
Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

Jill did have a hastily arranged speech in Pittsburg that was the excuse to pull all the competent SS off of Trump so the gunman could have an open route to assassinate Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (n7h9X)

161 Even Putin was like "that guy is one tough bastard". I don't care what Putin says about anything but that's not my point.

Shit I bet hardcore leftists looked at it and thought why can't we have a leader like that instead of a two dollar rent-a-fag that dances on Ellen?? Is it us? Did we do something wrong?

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (pooZp)

162
I suspect Gates has always known he's a fraud, that he never earned what he has. It ate away at him, until he shined his New World Order mindset was a perfect pearl of dystopian megalomania.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Cp+5w)


——-

Gates says it was the luck of the draw. He went to the only high school (private) with access to a mainframe.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (/67jg)

163 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

How many more euphemisms until they get to "authentic American?"
Posted by: mikeski at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (T54pi)

they hate authentic Americans.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (n7h9X)

164 Of course, removing the "bishop" will just make her - what's her name, "Smugge"? - more of a media darling.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (1bNHn)

165 161 Even Putin was like "that guy is one tough bastard". I don't care what Putin says about anything but that's not my point.

Shit I bet hardcore leftists looked at it and thought why can't we have a leader like that instead of a two dollar rent-a-fag that dances on Ellen?? Is it us? Did we do something wrong?
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (pooZp)

=======

"All masculinity is evil and must be replaced by femininity. Awful, grating femininity."
-it had its intended effects

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

166 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
_________________

Now cashier the CO of that (Air Force?) outfit that had the fag flag prominently displayed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

167 Cold.

Keep going. Lower.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Cp+5w)

So he is Woody Allen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (bss/y)

168 @109 I am skeptical about this report. For one thing, removing a bishop would take some measure of procedure, which probably couldn't have been completed so quickly.

Don't get me wrong, it'd be great to see her go. For many reasons, esp St Paul.



Posted by: lizabth at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (Jfw7U)

169 Is this interesting?
The 10th President, John Tyler (1841-1845) has a living grandson. He's 95.

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd & 24th President, also has a living grandson. He's in his 70's.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I was just wondering today how many presidents have living descendants.

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

170 >>>tech titan describes his Red Pill moment: When he finally saw the full, unedited clip of Trump's Charlottsville remarks, he realized the media had been straight-up lying to him for years.

Much of 2015-2106 election season and the "resistance" thereafter was spent debunking all the media lies.

Anyone who could have gone through the entire muh Russia trajectory and come out the other side still not "red pilled" about the media lies is incredibly slow on the uptake.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (i24o9)

171 Ok, that's enough winning for today.

Just kidding, carry on Mr. President.

>>@unusual_whales

>>BREAKING: Trump administration just suspended all new foreign aid pending review, per Ken Klippenstein.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (LkLld)

172 Jill did have a hastily arranged speech in Pittsburgh that was the excuse to pull all the competent SS off of Trump so the gunman could have an open route to assassinate Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM (n7h9X)
__________________

That was very suspicious. When did DOCTOR Jill ever do anything remotely so spontaneous before or since?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

173 I think Bill Gates is a solid example of how he ended up on the liberal side of matters....(Melinda).

He was pretty much apolitical before the Democrats hauled him before congress and grilled him. They put the fear of god in to him, not for what the hearings were about. They were the example of what they could do to him if he wouldn't toe the line and join the chorus on the left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)

174 Dillinger made unauthorized withdrawals from banks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (63Dwl)

175 129
Is this interesting?
The 10th President, John Tyler (1841-1845) has a living grandson. He's 95.

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd & 24th President, also has a living grandson. He's in his 70's.
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I am the grandson of man who fought in the Spanish American War. The Iredell Blues.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (Wg6v7)

176 Hey, Bishop Budd. I'm hiring over here! But bring your fucking shinebox.

Posted by: Satan at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (z+ik4)

177 I am skeptical about this report. For one thing, removing a bishop would take some measure of procedure, which probably couldn't have been completed so quickly.

Agreed. I'd like to see the link.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:46 PM (xCA6C)

178 I was just wondering today how many presidents have living descendants.

You know I do wonder where Big Mike found our kids. I mean one day we are playing Brokeback cowboys and the next thing I know Big Mike and I are both dads. WTF amiright?

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)

179
I am skeptical about this report. For one thing, removing a bishop would take some measure of procedure, which probably couldn't have been completed so quickly
-------

I am skeptical about every report. Let us dream!!

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (pooZp)

180 She's still listed as the Bish of the Washington Diocese. Think about it...is she going to fire herself for speaking 'righteously', as she sees it?

Posted by: lizabth at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (Jfw7U)

181 170 Anyone who could have gone through the entire muh Russia trajectory and come out the other side still not "red pilled" about the media lies is incredibly slow on the uptake.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (i24o9)

=======

Listen, if you don't think a ping from Alfa Bank is prima facie evidence that Trump is actively taking orders from Putin to radically increase energy production in American, which will lower energy prices worldwide and lessen Russia's ability to fund its own government, then you are just a QAnon Truther who can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

182
My paternal grandfather (born in the 1880s) was named after Grover Cleveland.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (w6EFb)

183 Here's the reason: It's the famous cliché "We live in a society."

You know, we're living in a SOCIETY! We're supposed to ACT in a CIVILIZED way!

YouTube: https://bit.ly/42tqwJ1

Posted by: George Costanza at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (P5BPp)

184 From X

The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".”
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2025 03:19 PM (NQtI0)
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She runs the Archdiocese, I believe, as Bishop, and the Cathedral is just one of some 80-odd churches in her diocese, so I don't think she can be "removed" without being replaced as Bishop.

Is there a news story that explains this?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (/GKTn)

185 I am apaled at the scaredy cats at the top of the tech world. Yeah, they are all billionaire tech nerds who just want to play with stuff, but c'mon. Did't you read about socialism ? Somewhere ??
Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (g47mK)

What kind of nerd decides its a good thing to suck up to the assholes who spit at you every day of your childhood and still hate you. Return your nerd card.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

186 The Episcopal Bishop from DC was rude and thoroughly inappropriate. It was a prayer service. It should not have been a dismissove lecture to President Trump. However, I just want to note that as far as I can determine the Bishop is married to a man-a professional musician and has two adult sons. So, despite her short hair and left wing views she is not a lesbian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

187 21?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (ISHfS)

188 The Episcopal Archdiocese of Washington has removed Bishop Mariann Budd from the National Cathedral: "No place for politics".

They didn't care about the politics, they cared that she made the entire denomination look bad, she gave them an ugly stink by showing what is actually going on under the covers at the church.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (2VST1)

189
They're professional activists in their own minds, first and foremost. And it just turns out the way to exercise professional activism right now, most effectively, is to go and destroy a company from the inside.



Anyone who has "activist" in their resume or social media profile is an asshole

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (y9nCu)

190 The people that changed those position descriptions at ATC to skirt the EO are scheduled for unauthorized colonoscopies at the White House.

Posted by: Roy at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (z+ik4)

191 The bad part, it took them 30-35 years (I am counting since mid 1970s) to take over - when they got rid of Nixon, that was their first successful win. We probably will need a decade to unwind the damage they caused, and to create guardrails agains this social re-engineering socialist BS. We were being invaded, for chrissakes !

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (g47mK)

192 I am shocked at the number of people who did not know MLK was deeply flawed.

Posted by: Piper at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (pZEOD)

193 NYT suggests burglars are now "unauthorized homeowners".

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:48 PM (pooZp)

194 @184..there is not. Just a random FB post. From what I saw, anyway.

Posted by: lizabth at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (Jfw7U)

195 Isn't Bezos responsible for the deaths of those little British girls? That's what the Brit left says.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (1bNHn)

196 I expect she's been put on paid leave of absence while someone else at the National Cathedral fills in for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (MQJVv)

197 When I read what Andreeson was thinking and believing, I was thinking, what a naive idiot. Do these people feel this way? I thought it was just about money.

The silliness about Obama, I guess they really did think he was the Lightbringer. The silliness about how important it was to LOOK like a good person via your opinions about being pro-abortion and pro gays(?).

He then uses reasoning to figure out he was being lied to about Trump and he's red-pilled.

Honestly, it's weird. Or naive, maybe. Childlike?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (PMtkd)

198 I get the feeling many of our vaunted CEO's are not very observant.

Whether that's a personal failing or simply being disinterested in events outside their little, professional bubble is debatable. But the signs of leftist hive-mind disease is readily apparent to anyone paying attention.

I mean, they're overtly confident in their superiority. The arrogance is right there in your face.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (Q4IgG)

199
Maybe they were getting a lot of blowback from the equivalent of their "donors", you know, this "bishop" must go, or you don't get any more money.

I'm sure that can greatly expedite such matters.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

200 124 Take a few minutes to watch this video. I promise it won't disappoint and not just because Jillian Michaels is pleasant to look at. Everything about the left is fake.

>>@JillianMichaels

>>How crazy is this… The supposed letter signed by “over 17000” doctors denouncing
@RobertKennedyJr
is actually fake. Take a look.

https://tinyurl.com/ysscef3n
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (LkLld)

First off ... that's the best I've ever seen her look ... WOWZER.

Secondly ... I'm thrilled she did some research on the backgrounds of these entities, especially Arabella, but imagine what could happen if these AI set-ups just tweeked their databases to casually omit this info ... it would be like it never existed.

Lastly ... her poor head must be spinning what with the mismanagement of the fires, the campaign against Bobby Jr. I've no doubt she was a loyal D voter.
It must be killing her.

Posted by: browndog retired to the kennel at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (TTAGa)

201 So, despite her short hair and left wing views she is not a lesbian.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

Rock Hudson was married to Phyllis Gates.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (pooZp)

202 She runs the Archdiocese, I believe, as Bishop, and the Cathedral is just one of some 80-odd churches in her diocese, so I don't think she can be "removed" without being replaced as Bishop.

Is there a news story that explains this?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (/GKTn)

Since it is an ArchDiocese, there are several Bishops under her purview. She can replace her with another in her area, or bring someone from another archdiocese

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (n7h9X)

203 But didn't anyone ever listen to what he was saying? It was always totally vacuous. No discernable thought whatsoever. I still don't get it to this day.
Posted by: Eeyore

In the movie Three Men and a Baby, Tom Selleck is reading a sports magazine to the baby. One of the other men questions this and Tom says something to the effect of..it's not what you're reading, it's the tone of your voice.

Sometimes its the tone, sometimes it's the pitch, or the timbre, or even the cadence. There's a reason why Sam Elliot, Robert Mitchum, or Sean Connery could cause women to drool just by reading the phone book out loud.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (4XwPj)

204
That Budde preistess reminds me of that gay priest scumbag out of Chicago that was so popular during the Obama years Michael Pfleger

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (+oR7L)

205 From above, "Andreessen: The breakdown was during the second Obama term. It took me by surprise. I think maybe the one person it didn't take by surprise is our mutual friend Peter Thiel. As with a lot of things, I think he saw it coming earlier than I did. But it definitely took me by surprise."

Thiel, like many others, has seesawed back and forth.

>UK Guardian, 10 Nov 2023, 'Peter Thiel won’t fund any 2024 races after backing Trump in 2016: ‘It was crazier than I thought’'

>NYT, July 27, 2024, 'Peter Thiel, Elated by the JD Vance Pick, Warms to Trump Again'
Mr. Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire, is coming around to Donald Trump’s candidacy again after bumps in their relationship. But he thinks his money wouldn’t really help Trump.
--
So there were two old men, a bipolar woman, and J.D. Vance. Vance had the different, real life story and his own lovely little family. What to lean towards when the weight on the norms is becoming oppressive?

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (NFX2v)

206 Eleven.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (ISHfS)

207 119 These tech geniuses are imbeciles.

Nah, most of them are socially awkward nerds who desperately want to be accepted by the cool kids and will do anything to be included in that group.

It takes a VERY strong sense of self to "not care" about what the cool kids think. Most of the cool kids are the imbeciles, but they know how to manipulate the nerds to get what they want.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 24, 2025 03:51 PM (SRRAx)

208 DC is where oddball/problem priests, nuns and ministers are sent to chill out. Usually they are totes ghey. You see it everywhere in District of Chazz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 24, 2025 03:51 PM (Wg6v7)

209 Let me have my idle reports!!!

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:51 PM (pooZp)

210 She's leaving to spend more time with the seven deadly sins.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 03:43 PM

--

There is only one sin: Other People's Greed.

Posted by: The Most Rev. Luke Warm at January 24, 2025 03:51 PM (wzAuc)

211 She became Grover Cleveland's ward at 11.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (ISHfS)

212 https://tinyurl.com/ysscef3n
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (LkLld)

First off ... that's the best I've ever seen her look ... WOWZER.

Anyone who makes mention of the "baloney in the zeitgeist" has my vote.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

213 Heresiarch Budde's schedule is posted on their website. It has no future events right now.

Could be they suck at keeping it up to date of course but here's hoping they dumped the scumbag

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (t0Rmr)

214 Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (pooZp)

Rock Hudson lived years ago when being out would not have been acceptable. The Episcopal Church is quite clear that they will perform marriage services for LGBT people. No need for her to be in the closet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (MQJVv)

215 Cold.

Keep going. Lower.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Cp+5w)

So he is Woody Allen.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 03:45 PM (bss/y)

Basically, yeah. I just perused the "cleaned up" version on Wikipedia, which should cause anyone to raise an eyebrow, even with their version.

She was 10 when her dad died. "Uncle Cleve" became her guardian. They claim she would spend time over at his house when she was not in school, even before her dad died, and after, supposedly she went to live with relatives.

Meanwhile, by the time he was Prez, they were already secretly engaged when she went on a "tour of Europe."

Gee, I wonder why the sudden need to go tour Europe.

No I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (b1cZA)

216 Rock Hudson lived years ago when being out would not have been acceptable. The Episcopal Church is quite clear that they will perform marriage services for LGBT people. No need for her to be in the closet.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (MQJVv)

Barack and Michelle

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:53 PM (pooZp)

217 Elon trolling AOC so hard on the Hitler salute:

https://tinyurl.com/2npsaynp

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 03:53 PM (AMyEQ)

218 71
"Sing for Change Obama" Kids for Barry:


LINK: https://tinyurl.com/428wf6k5
Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:33 PM (rj6Yv)
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What was scary in that is the looks on the parents' faces. Creepy.

Someone did a great clip cutting between that, and the "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" scene from Cabaret. Quick search didn't find it.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:53 PM (1bNHn)

219 Andressen was happy with romney being smeared a nazi?! Yeah, he’s definitely not a friend of truth.

Posted by: Draki at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (C3yCN)

220 Douthat: ...but they are in an era when, officially, the Republican Party and Donald Trump are in the White House and have not complete but real power in Washington, D.C.

Andreessen: Well, did they? Like sitting here today, would you describe that Donald Trump ran the federal government between 2016 and 2020?

Exactly. For as much as President Trump was able to accomplish from January 2017 to February 2020, the Deep State was undermining him the entire time, including the Intelligence Community, the military and at least half the Republican Party (GOPe).

This is why I am not on the "we've won! everything is good again!" train. The Deep State is still infested in all areas of the federal government and military. Going to take months, if not years to get rid of them and be able to start to get things running properly again. And going to take decades to un-Marx-ify the nation's schools and universities and teach young people to love America and the benefits of capitalism again.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (P5BPp)

221 Trump definitely accelerated the process, but i think everyone in California with money has to be thinking there needs to be a change. If you're doing well out there, you're a target, and government has shown they are not on your side.

Posted by: Wally at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (/DzYy)

222 Not just Jill.

Kamala Harris had many of the PA State Police, a Secret Service detachment, and the Governor of PA with her as she toured Philadelphia, including the Reading Market, the day of the 1st known Trump assassination attempt.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (NFX2v)

223 The Episcopal Bishop from DC was rude and thoroughly inappropriate. It was a prayer service. It should not have been a dismissove lecture to President Trump. However, I just want to note that as far as I can determine the Bishop is married to a man-a professional musician and has two adult sons. So, despite her short hair and left wing views she is not a lesbian.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ok, I'll drop "scruffy."

Posted by: Princess Leia at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (T54pi)

224 Elon Musk's favorite number is 8 8 !!!!!!

8 refers to letter H and 88 is HH !!

HH means Hiel Hitler and Elon Musk is Dr. Mengele's Grandson according to the View.

Trump must arrest him now to save America from Fascism that is growing by the minute !!!

Posted by: Kamal Harris at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (A2iSa)

225 Anyone who makes mention of the "baloney in the zeitgeist" has my vote.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C)

Those pretty eyes don't hurt.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (d9fT1)

226 Elon trolling AOC so hard on the Hitler salute:

https://tinyurl.com/2npsaynp

I initially read that as Ellen, and was wondering why she had suddenly become so bold.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (xCA6C)

227 My paternal grandfather (born in the 1880s) was named after Grover Cleveland.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (w6EFb)

Your grandpappy is Pete Alexander???

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (57kBS)

228 By the way, if you're wondering if Hollywood has woken up and figured out what they are doing wrong... a dude was nominated for best actress this year.

Meanwhile Trump calls for FEMA to be closed down given their behavior and failures lately.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (2VST1)

229 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (P5BPp)

The last time things looked this good, a cough started floating around China.

Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (pooZp)

230 221 Trump definitely accelerated the process, but i think everyone in California with money has to be thinking there needs to be a change. If you're doing well out there, you're a target, and government has shown they are not on your side.
Posted by: Wally at January 24, 2025 03:54 PM (/DzYy)

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Yeah, well, they've facilitated a political machine that now controls election systems in California in a way that that machine will never let go of power.

CA is on a path towards collapse, and nothing short of revolution will stop it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

231 Where are the "Trump shouldn't have even shown up this is Politics 101" people now?
Posted by: ...
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Watching the media talk about optics and shit.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)

232 I'm in the middle of reading Jeremy Carl's 2024 book "The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart."

Silicon Valley (where I went to college and worked for a decade during the 90's) was "94% white and 82% white non-Hispanic in 1970."

"By 1990, shortly before the internet boom, the population was just 69% white, having grown by almost 50% to 1.5 million in just twenty years.

"By the 2020 census, Santa Clara County had almost doubled from its 1970 population to 1.89 million. But the number of non-Hispanic whites had fallen to just 44,000 (2.3%) and they were disproportionately much older."

That's some serious Mumbai H-1B Visa Gigabit White Flight ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 03:55 PM (B6F9D)

233 Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:53 PM (pooZp)

He is a politician. If he had come out as gay when running for office it would has tanked his career. I really have no idea if Obama is gay or bi. and I don't plan to interview him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:56 PM (MQJVv)

234
Mark Pincus, the latest billionaire in a string to disabuse me of the notion that self-made billionaires are smart.

What a fvcking idiot to not have seen the "fine people" story was bogus ON ITS FACE.

To say nothing of the fact that it was debunked within 24 hours. But from the beginning, it was bogus ON ITS FACE.

Has Pincus red-pilled himself? Like, examined his stupid moron brain to try to figure out why he can do business but he can't see logic and reason lying on the ground waiting to be picked up?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 24, 2025 03:56 PM (I87yH)

235 I say bugger Ackman. He was perfectly happy when Harvard et al. were spouting hard left anti-American crap. Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

+++++

I definitely thought the same thing. But he has been solid and while I don't know for sure, I imagine he has seen this criticism of himself. I feel better relying on him now than I did at his initial conversion.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2025 03:57 PM (ogTiX)

236 Amazing how many varied groups the Biden administration managed to piss off. Trump won because of it. Lot of leftists I know are still stuck on stupid but I love watching Trump shiv their heroes.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2025 03:57 PM (6v8aM)

237 You've been listening to You're Cheating Heart.

Now listen to mine.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 24, 2025 03:57 PM (F8J5Q)

238 Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe (head of the Episcopalian Church USA) would have had to start the ball rolling. If he wanted to get rid of her, it wouldn't be happening quite yet.


Posted by: lizabth at January 24, 2025 03:57 PM (Jfw7U)

239 Someone did a great clip cutting between that, and the "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" scene from Cabaret. Quick search didn't find it.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:53 PM (1bNHn)

I remember that one, and the entire scene cut video. I'm pretty sure YT scrubbed them both.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 03:57 PM (rj6Yv)

240 This is why I am not on the "we've won! everything is good again!" train. The Deep State is still infested in all areas of the federal government and military. Going to take months, if not years to get rid of them and be able to start to get things running properly again. And going to take decades to un-Marx-ify the nation's schools and universities and teach young people to love America and the benefits of capitalism again.

I think if you're being honest, very few, if any, people here have said that everything is fixed and good again. Most here agree with everything you said after "train.".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (xCA6C)

241 I am skeptical about this report. For one thing, removing a bishop would take some measure of procedure, which probably couldn't have been completed so quickly.
__________________

Here's the procedure:

"You out, bitch!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

242 Is this a movie review?

Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (aQ25I)

243 103 Just a quick fly-by to publically wish my beautiful wife, The First Lady, a wonderful birthday.

Hopefully, I'll get out of work soon so we can celebrate it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (uCAkQ)
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Happy Birthday, Mrs Sponge!

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (1bNHn)

244 Trump is doing so much the media can't keep up with it all.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (0xo8i)

245 When the guy saw the truth vs the MSM lies, he was redpilled. Good.

Some may have been redpilled seeing this country slowly becoming 3rd world with the response to W NC's disaster, the murdering and raping of American women, NYC becoming a dumpster fire because of the murdering and raping, and it all finally stacked up.

America's college students, thank God, saw their futures burning with the dumpster fire and woke up. Because someday they'd like to buy a starter home like their parents did, which is out of reach for many. Many in this generation are conservative.

With all this, plus the hoped for pendulum to swing conservative and with some sense, the timing was perfect. Four years of watching Biden fail time and time again to protect Americans and toot his diaper about Global Warming, people had enough. Done. Fini.

People remembered prosperity from their childhoods and also during Trump's first term. And voted accordingly. Thank God.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (gi+MR)

246 How the Democrat Party Pushed Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms

The love that dare not speak it's name.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (W/lyH)

247 "I say bugger Ackman. He was perfectly happy when Harvard et al. were spouting hard left anti-American crap. Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)"

===================================

I could have used a man like Bill Ackman when I was getting death threats.

Now the same campus activists who sent me death threats are themselves getting death threats.

And Ackman goes running to defend them.

Posted by: Ann Coulter at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (QGSOa)

248 https://tinyurl.com/ysscef3n
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 03:39 PM (LkLld)

First off ... that's the best I've ever seen her look ... WOWZER.

Anyone who makes mention of the "baloney in the zeitgeist" has my vote.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:52 PM (xCA6C
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Looks like heavy heavy filters, though ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 24, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

249 Those pretty eyes don't hurt.

They are rather fetching. I don't find her particularly attractive, but then again, I never noticed the eyes before.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:59 PM (xCA6C)

250 he silliness about Obama, I guess they really did think he was the Lightbringer. The silliness about how important it was to LOOK like a good person via your opinions about being pro-abortion and pro gays(?).

He then uses reasoning to figure out he was being lied to about Trump and he's red-pilled.

Honestly, it's weird. Or naive, maybe. Childlike?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (PMtkd)

Liberals sanctified Clinton and Wife because they won, and ignored the fact that Clinton jettisoned all the liberal crap to win in 1996 and out GOPed the GOP th avoid getting impeached. So by Obama they wanted a true believer. Obama pretended to be that imaginary democrat that was a good person, but ruled like Stalin.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:59 PM (n7h9X)

251 200 124 Take a few minutes to watch this video. I promise it won't disappoint and not just because Jillian Michaels is pleasant to look at. Everything about the left is fake.

She already has a wife... sorry

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

252 For some reason, I don't trust these people.

Posted by: Indy Bill at January 24, 2025 04:00 PM (ke8cm)

253 Bishop Budde is chair of the Leadership Board but not a minister at the National Cathedral. Others in the leadership include the daughter of George HW Bush, Dora Koch, and the official cathedral historian Jon Meacham.

Budde is married to Paul Budde, who appears to be a teacher of tuba playing (seriously, that's the apparent line of business), and she has two grown sons, one married (to a woman).

Basically, it looks like no one can remove her from preaching at the Cathedral unless she is also removed as Bishop. But at a guess it appears she is part of a very like-minded group and it looks very unlikely she would ever be forced out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 04:00 PM (q3fQy)

254 224 Elon Musk's favorite number is 8 8 !!!!!!
Posted by: Kamal Harris

8 refers to letter H and 88 is HH !!

And, the number 88 is considered lucky and fortunate in Chinese culture, and is also associated with positivity and luck in numerology.

Or could be how many kids he was going for.

He has at least 12 now.


Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 24, 2025 04:00 PM (NFX2v)

255 244 Trump is doing so much the media can't keep up with it all.
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (0xo8i)

That takes a page from Biden and Obama. Stray Voltage. Or shock and awe.

'He reacted like a duck who had been struck upon the head.'
-someone said about Hooker at Chancellorsville, iirc

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (bss/y)

256 Hopefully, I'll get out of work soon so we can celebrate it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (uCAkQ

I hope you have a lovely celebration. Prayers continue for the "First" Lady.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (MQJVv)

257 He is a politician. If he had come out as gay when running for office it would has tanked his career. I really have no idea if Obama is gay or bi. and I don't plan to interview him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:56 PM (MQJVv)
_________________

And if he had a white wife that would have tanked his career as well, as that pisses off black women no end. So I suspect the commies hooked him with Mooch in an arranged "marriage" as he rose through the Red farm system.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

258
I haven't read all the content or the comments, but does anyone wonder how to get out of this mess considering the entitled commie kids are still in government, education, and the tech private sector?

And I hate Sundar Pichai. He came to America to get rich and take the country down a peg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (I87yH)

259 'He reacted like a duck who had been struck upon the head.'
-someone said about Hooker at Chancellorsville, iirc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (bss/y)
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Given that he was severely concussed, perhaps not inaccurate..

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (6K6Eu)

260 Listen, if you don't think a ping from Alfa Bank is prima facie evidence that Trump is actively taking orders from Putin to radically increase energy production in American, which will lower energy prices worldwide and lessen Russia's ability to fund its own government, then you are just a QAnon Truther who can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

*touches nose*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (i24o9)

261 Here's some GA BS. So there was a statewide referendum to allow a "homestead exemption" throughout the state. The way a "homestead exemption" worked here is once you applied for it, your county property was frozen and wouldn't be continuously revised upward. It is a relief for the homeowner. Most counties I've lived here had it. But not all.

So the result of the statewide referendum? It allowed all the counties to do it. Great!? But turns out, it allows them to also now do it in a negative sense.

All the counties where voters long ago agreed to this tax relief now, because of this new statewide "benefit", can have it taken away. MFBS! You have to watch these sobs every second.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (Y6IkP)

262 Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

Yup. Let's see what he does in the future. But for now, I don't really trust people who care only when it is their ox being gored.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (d9fT1)

263 >>She already has a wife... sorry

She claims to play both sides of the street. I'm a patient guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (LkLld)

264 Given that he was severely concussed, perhaps not inaccurate..
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 04:01 PM (6K6Eu)

So all we need is a bunch of guys with rubber mallets...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (bss/y)

265 134 I would say Goal No. 1 is, "I'm a good person." "I'm a good person," is wildly more important than profit margins.
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That is universally true of people. It's some years ago since Ace pointed this out here. Even people who think they are putting profit first, are using that as a measure of their virtue.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 03:37 PM (1bNHn)

No, that is wrong. A person should be saying "I will DO GOOD" not that I have been elected to Goodlyness. To want to have yourself elected into the Good People by others means they have the whip hand on your morality. And once that happens you are as evil as they might be.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 03:40 PM (n7h9X)
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You are adding a lot to "I'm a good person". No one was talking about "elected to" or anything like that. The question is whether one is good. How you measure that is another question, as I implied.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (1bNHn)

266 Dayyum, dude. (Insty)

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO PUT VEGGIES BACK ON THE MENU: Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body.

The man, said to be in his 40s, told doctors that he had adopted a “carnivore diet” eight months prior. His diet included between 6 lbs and 9 lbs of cheese, sticks of butter, and daily hamburgers that had additional fat incorporated into them. Since taking on this brow-raising food plan, he claimed his weight dropped, his energy levels increased, and his “mental clarity” improved.

Meanwhile, his total cholesterol level exceeded 1,000 mg/dL. For context, an optimal total cholesterol level is under 200 mg/dL, while 240 mg/dL is considered the threshold for ‘high.’

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (xCA6C)

267 249 Those pretty eyes don't hurt.

They are rather fetching. I don't find her particularly attractive, but then again, I never noticed the eyes before.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 03:59 PM (xCA6C)

+++++

That icy blue with the very dark, well defined limbal rights has got to be very close to the top of most attractive eyes. (The others at the top are all blue as well)

Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (ogTiX)

268
She claims to play both sides of the street. I'm a patient guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (LkLld)

She does ? I heard her mention her wife on Laura so....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (VE6XX)

269 Take a few minutes to watch this video. I promise it won't disappoint and not just because Jillian Michaels is pleasant to look at. Everything about the left is fake.

She already has a wife... sorry

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2025 04:00 PM (VE6XX)

Sounds like they both need spankings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (i24o9)

270 With all this, plus the hoped for pendulum to swing conservative and with some sense, the timing was perfect. Four years of watching Biden fail time and time again to protect Americans and toot his diaper about Global Warming, people had enough. Done. Fini.

People remembered prosperity from their childhoods and also during Trump's first term. And voted accordingly. Thank God.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 24, 2025 03:58 PM (gi+MR)

National Humiliation Abroad, Economic Failure at Home is a pretty good double punch for any incumbent. Carter was like that and put the GOP in.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (n7h9X)

271 262 Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

Yup. Let's see what he does in the future. But for now, I don't really trust people who care only when it is their ox being gored.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (d9fT1)

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Once Hamas is dealt with on American campuses, will Ackman consider the DEI issue resolved and find another issue to turn on the right with?

Something like tranny marriage to cats, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

272 Meanwhile, his total cholesterol level exceeded 1,000 mg/dL. For context, an optimal total cholesterol level is under 200 mg/dL, while 240 mg/dL is considered the threshold for ‘high.’
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (xCA6C)

Cut back on the cheese. He has to be gassy and constipated as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (bss/y)

273
I was just looking at Jillian Michael's X feed. She had tickets to two of the Inaugural Balls, and showed her tickets.

Then some snaps. She was doing the Lauren Sanchez thing with a blazer and lace bra. She was posing with either her wife, or Danica Patrick, I'm not sure which.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (w6EFb)

274 The silliness about Obama, I guess they really did think he was the Lightbringer. The silliness about how important it was to LOOK like a good person via your opinions about being pro-abortion and pro gays(?).
__________________

This was a man in his 50s who did not know that aluminum is not ferromagnetic, and who did not know how to pronounce "corpsman."

Ten year-olds of normal intelligence know those things.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

275 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."


My new term for Newsweek is "buttwipe."

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (W/lyH)

276 Meanwhile Trump calls for FEMA to be closed down given their behavior and failures lately.

Who will build our detention camps for vaccine deniers? This is going to hurt our economy. Hope he knows what he's doing!

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (uVcOS)

277 270 National Humiliation Abroad, Economic Failure at Home is a pretty good double punch for any incumbent. Carter was like that and put the GOP in.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:03 PM (n7h9X)

=======

Let's also remember that the Democrat Party shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff to barely get Biden an Electoral College victory...after months of mail in ballot cheating.

What we're seeing is what happens when institutional forces hold back the pendulum from its natural motion, and the pendulum swings free.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

278 6 to 9 pounds of cheese per day?And he can shit?

Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (KQk9m)

279 From the moment I heard about Obama being connected to Ayers my mind went DANGER DANGER DANGER. And the fact he was the most liberal, pro abortion senator.

Ayers is the worst kind of creepy scum.

The Chicago political machine was a filthy entity and what they did to Ryan was disgusting.

Also, I'm one of those who is certain he was not born in the US.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (PMtkd)

280 Only when they started teeing off on his fellow Jews did he get pissed off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

Yup. Let's see what he does in the future. But for now, I don't really trust people who care only when it is their ox being gored.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (d9fT1)

OK, let's apply the same to all of them. Musk included. What was Musk's "ox"?

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (g47mK)

281 So all we need is a bunch of guys with rubber mallets...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (bss/y)
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The possibilities are endless!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (6K6Eu)

282 My paternal grandfather (born in the 1880s) was named after Grover Cleveland.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (w6EFb)

My grandpa was Arthur Chester K. (Chester being his mama's maiden name. His Army Air Corps records got the names mixed up. But, adding to the confusion, Grandma always called him Chet, but his friends called him Art.

I called him Grandpa. I still miss him and Grandma, all these years later. They were impressive people.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Mega Dittos at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Ad8y9)

283 Should Musk be trusted more than the rest of them ?

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (g47mK)

284 278 6 to 9 pounds of cheese per day?And he can shit?
Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (KQk9m)

My guess is not in years. No wonder he is oozing cholesterol- it is the only route out of his body.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (bss/y)

285 It's possible nobody but me cares, but Pete Alexander had a remarkable career. Around age 34 he became a marginally above average pitcher, after being THE dominant pitcher for about a decade.

Then at age 40, he won 21 games, and in 268 innings he struck out 48 batters, with a 2.52 ERA. How do you have that level of success, with that few strikeouts?

Guts and guile, that's how. By all accounts a notorious drunkard too, who basically saved the '26 World Series, coming in late to nail down the victory while still soused.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Kdc6E)

286 You are adding a lot to "I'm a good person". No one was talking about "elected to" or anything like that. The question is whether one is good. How you measure that is another question, as I implied.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (1bNHn)

he was offloading the judgement to the elites and his neighbors. He said that a few times. He didn't change when he saw it was going wrong. Because they could take away his 'good person' card.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (n7h9X)

287 No man can eat 69 lbs of cheese!

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (snN/i)

288 275 Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."


My new term for Newsweek is "buttwipe."
Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (W/lyH)

How bout citizens of foreign countries residing in the US without permission?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (OA79/)

289 Jasmine Crockett@JasmineForUS
If you said he wasn’t gonna implement project 2025, you were wrong…
If you said, he loves the “blacks,” you were wrong.
If you said he’d only deport the “bad” ones, you were wrong.
Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.
Trump don’t give a damn about the country as a whole… PERIOD.

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Sumbitch has been present for five days now and he STILL hasn't lowered the cost of eggs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (L/fGl)

290 Bull. You don't have to fire 80% of the staff. You fire the first one who acts like a commie, then the next. Pretty soon, people get the idea that crap won't fly here.

Posted by: Sven at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (T5Iwn)

291 I was looking at videos of content creators' inauguration nite festivities. One guy, a young brutha, talked about being at the party held by Uber, how he rubbed shoulders with Uber C-suite, and then how they proceeded to the next bash which was Jeff Zuckerberg's.

I thought: Oh No! Does this mean we're the kewl kidz now??
All this time we have been counter culture!
Are we The Man now?

Posted by: kallisto at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (dCxaZ)

292 Yup. Let's see what he does in the future. But for now, I don't really trust people who care only when it is their ox being gored.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (d9fT1)
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Agreed on all counts.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (YqDXo)

293 280 OK, let's apply the same to all of them. Musk included. What was Musk's "ox"?
Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (g47mK)

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Them tricking him into approving tranny-surgery for one of his kids.

And then the assassination attempt at Butler.

The funny thing about Musk, though, to me, is that his current crusade is all about making government smaller. It's not about more effectively using government for a preferred purpose, but to just make it smaller.

Musk's current state is...interesting. It probably won't last, and relying on him institutionally seems foolish, but he's advancing the most libertarian agenda in the WH since...Andrew Jackson vetoes the national bank.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

294 Beware of ladies who are too thin.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

295 287 No man can eat 69 lbs of cheese!
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (snN/i)

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I can do it.

In an hour.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

296 Awwww sheet he has been president since Monday and the price of eggs is still high!

Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (KQk9m)

297 >>Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.


I got 18 for $5 yesterday. I'm good.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (snN/i)

298 Musk was a happy joy joy obama supporter. Mr.Amazon too.

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (g47mK)

299 Andreessen: The breakdown was during the second Obama term. It took me by surprise. I think maybe the one person it didn't take by surprise is our mutual friend Peter Thiel. As with a lot of things, I think he saw it coming earlier than I did. But it definitely took me by surprise.

See Andreessen if you were reading ACE you would have been ahead of the curve...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (jQ+5q)

300 The most important character trait for anyone involved in politics is sincerity. Once you learn how to fake that, your career is made.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (ogTiX)

301 6 to 9 pounds of cheese per day?And he can shit?
Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (KQk9m)
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The prune juice compensates.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (6K6Eu)

302 283 Should Musk be trusted more than the rest of them ?
Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (g47mK)

Difference of commitment- at least publicly. Musk has gone completely all in, very publicly. Ack may be committed, but aside from the furor last year, seems like he has been quiet. He may still be doing stuff.

Musk has gone all in so publicly, he has now been attainted by the Left, which means if he ever stumbles, they will be on him like rabid dogs. He is smart enough to know that. That earns a smidgen more of trust imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (bss/y)

303 I mean Mark Zuckerberg

jeff, mark, whatever

they're all tech moguls

Posted by: kallisto at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (dCxaZ)

304
Should Musk be trusted more than the rest of them ?
Posted by: runner

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He discovered, like yesterday, that doctors suckered him into letting his minor kid medically transition. He might be a genius, but he's not necessarily smart.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (I87yH)

305 He must shit bowling balls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (XvhSL)

306 The silliness about Obama, I guess they really did think he was the Lightbringer.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2025 03:49 PM (PMtkd)
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Obama was a great (or more accurately, effective) charlatan. He had no less than 4 different people believing that he got elected to his first term, they would be installed into the Secretary of State position. Richardson, Kerry, Clinton (and I forget the 4th). As a result, people like Kerry jumped out to support him. Richardson did the same. The hilarious thing was that 3 of those people were actually having celebrations with their staff when the results came in....and all three learned of Clinton being the nominee from the media. He didn't even call to explain.

Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (dIske)

307 Beware of ladies who are too thin.
Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)


Kristi Noem has entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (W/lyH)

308 297 >>Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.


I got 18 for $5 yesterday. I'm good.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (snN/i)

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DU kept telling me that inflated egg prices were because of avian flus and that inflation was a myth created by Fox News to scare boomers that Biden fixed with the Inflation Reduction Act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

309 I think it is very difficult for people to realize, whether suddenly or slowly over time, that they've been had.

A lot of people are in one or the other of those categories and are having something of a crisis of conscience. Others are going to be in denial. Forever.

Regardless, the time is now to dismantle the leftist stranglehold on society. BAMN. Or the next 4 years are just a pause.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (Q4IgG)

310 My guess is not in years. No wonder he is oozing cholesterol- it is the only route out of his body.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (bss/y)
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I know a guy who, if he ate that much cheese, would probably die of dehydration. He's lacking some enzyme I believe so his system cannot process dairy products. Yeah, cheese has the exact opposite effect on him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (tT6L1)

311 Also, I'm one of those who is certain he was not born in the US.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2025 04:05 PM (PMtkd)

Everything about the man was fabricated, obfuscated and eradicated, fake, false and made up. Of course he wasn't born here. Probably in a test tube in Red China or Outer Mongolia somewhere. Even his whore of a momma don't know where.

Posted by: Dr. Yen Lo at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (R/m4+)

312 201 So, despite her short hair and left wing views she is not a lesbian.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

Rock Hudson was married to Phyllis Gates.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (pooZp)
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We've been talking of Obama throughout this thread.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (1bNHn)

313 Difference of commitment- at least publicly. Musk has gone completely all in, very publicly. Ack may be committed, but aside from the furor last year, seems like he has been quiet. He may still be doing stuff.

Musk has gone all in so publicly, he has now been attainted by the Left, which means if he ever stumbles, they will be on him like rabid dogs. He is smart enough to know that. That earns a smidgen more of trust imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:08 PM (bss/y)
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I agree 100%.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

314
Elon's ox is Western Civilization committing suicide. I mean, how are you gonna colonize Mars and the rest of the Solar System and become a Type I to Type II Civilization if the greatest culture humanity produced goes woke mind virus?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 24, 2025 04:10 PM (w6EFb)

315 He must shit bowling balls.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (XvhSL)

Avenge me!

Posted by: Cheese Eater's toilet at January 24, 2025 04:10 PM (Aqu9a)

316 These tech guys are still dbags. They were late to realizing what was going on and spent the last decades mocking the people that were right. Then they decide to move to the right when their way of life was threatened, no moral heroes indeed, but they bring with them their toxic supremacist views.

They aren't ideological conservatives. They still look down on people who don't share their background as being sub humans.

Trump needed to broaden the tent to win but a lot of the people who came over are absolute trash human beings. Instapundit recommended a welcome basket for people fleeing blue states but we need one for everyone whose votes went from blue to red.

Posted by: Wodun at January 24, 2025 04:11 PM (kmNtT)

317 The Left never can control its urges for totalitarianism.

Had they just been a little more "slow burn", I think they could have captured everything.

Posted by: Leupold at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (4pwAx)

318 Russ Douthat. How is this supposed to be pronounced?

Doubt-that, Doo‐that, Doubt‐hat, Doo-twat ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel

Enabling thoughtless cocksucker. That is how it is pronounced.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (MsrgL)

319 So, despite her short hair and left wing views she is not a lesbian.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

Rock Hudson was married to Phyllis Gates.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM (pooZp)

We've been talking of Obama throughout this thread.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (1bNHn)

I find it astonishing, how you can't quite convince people there are married men who are gay.

Ask ANY gay prostitute who most of his clients are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Kdc6E)

320
re: FEMA

Anyone remember the episode of THE WIRE when Little Finger was elected mayor and the first thing he did was call his DPW (or whatever) and inform them that he had just driven by an abandoned car and to get it off the street immediately?

I'd like to think that's what's going on in ALL the Useless federal depts, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (UXla0)

321 Them tricking him into approving tranny-surgery for one of his kids.

And then the assassination attempt at Butler.

The funny thing about Musk, though, to me, is that his current crusade is all about making government smaller. It's not about more effectively using government for a preferred purpose, but to just make it smaller.

Musk's current state is...interesting. It probably won't last, and relying on him institutionally seems foolish, but he's advancing the most libertarian agenda in the WH since...Andrew Jackson vetoes the national bank.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

Another one slow on the uptake, being an Obama then Biden voter. I think that he has finally ascertained correctly that the only good government (left or right) is a small government.

So, while, "welcome to the party, pal," *I won't go off on space daddy again*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (i24o9)

322 Eggs here up another 50 cent a dozen.
People ask me why I am armed when I shop...I tell them I'm buying eggs.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (W/lyH)

323 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

I knew about how to pronounce Corpsmen. I did know that aluminum was not magnetic. I don't know what ferrous means. I'm just a 29 plus idiot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (MQJVv)

324 I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.

We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Ad8y9)

325 I know a guy who, if he ate that much cheese, would probably die of dehydration. He's lacking some enzyme I believe so his system cannot process dairy products. Yeah, cheese has the exact opposite effect on him.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 24, 2025 04:09 PM (tT6L1)

Kind of a form of lactose intolerance leading to IBS?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (bss/y)

326 A lot of closet or not depends on circumstances. Obama in Chicago...his voter base there is not exactly known to be welcoming of LBGTUVWXYZ, so it would theoretically make sense. Most Episcopal congregations I've seen lately wouldn't mind and might actually celebrate it, so not really a need in that case.

In any event it's a nonfactor if you ask me. She's a political activist and likely a false shepherd. I've no use for this person simply on that basis.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (OUMaO)

327 Very informative, and wow, Ross Douthat is an idiot. He would state his take on something, then ask Andreesen if it was correct, Andreesen would answer that it wasn’t (and explain why), and then Douthat would restate his freaking incorrect premise.

Listen to your interviewer and ask follow-up questions, dude!!

This is why Rogan is good — he listens, he learns, he asks for more. Is that so hard?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Hkcdp)

328 Ross Asshat is the proper pronunciation.

Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (KQk9m)

329

Guts and guile, that's how. By all accounts a notorious drunkard too, who basically saved the '26 World Series, coming in late to nail down the victory while still soused.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Kdc6E)

dead ball era, most of it. Pitchers didn't rely on strikeouts, but getting dudes out by popups and ground balls. Thus you could get out of innings with few pitches and not throwing full speed and throw more innings. Many stadiums had huge outfields on at least half the stadium being built on a city grid pattern.

Christy Mathewson, another great pitcher in his book told of an early game where he blew pitches by batters and struck out many. But by the later game, he got tired and suddenly they where rocking his not-so-fast-now ball and he had to leave the game and lost.

Pitching coach said "Now you know why you pace your self and save something for the pinch"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

330 DU kept telling me that inflated egg prices were because of avian flus

I mean, that played a part, like the guy dying of pneumonia also fell and hit his head giving him a concussion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (2VST1)

331 The nuttiness of the left got really personal for Ackman when they went after his wife.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (YKpRg)

332 For the present, he's in good graces somewhere.

News, The Far Right
Al Jazeera, ‘This guy is dangerous’: British Pakistanis fear Musk is stoking racism' Some are concerned that collective punishment could be a consequence of the tech billionaire’s relentless posts about historic child sex abuse cases. By Indlieb Farazi Saber, Published On 24 Jan 2025

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (NFX2v)

333 I listened to Nicole Shanahan (Megyn Kelly Show). *sigh
I liked her election videos, but ...as she herself said, "I am a classic liberal."

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (g47mK)

334 By all accounts a notorious drunkard too, who basically saved the '26 World Series, coming in late to nail down the victory while still soused.

"That jive ass turkey got nothin on me!"
-Dock Ellis

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (2VST1)

335
*For those unaware*

The city employees had no idea to *what car* nor *what street* the new mayor was referring. So they scrambled quickly and towed ALL abandon cars off ALL the streets immediately.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (UXla0)

336 Will Mr. Clockwork post again at 4:20? He's on a roll today.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (Rfq0b)

337 I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.

We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Ad8y9)

Good news

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (XvhSL)

338 All this from the tech bigs is nice, and useful. But clearly their civic IQs remain very low, so while exploited there is no reason to rely on them over time.

Imagine being so child-like in your understanding of the world that you bought any part of the ludicrous "fine people" myth - that there is/was any sort of meaningful "white supremacist" "movement" in the US, that Donald Trump would have any sympathy for same if it existed, and that the permitted protest in the park had anything to do with the mythical "white supremacy" issue.

They're just as misinformed, ignorant, and analytically challenged as the majority of Americans, they just happen to have made a lot of money.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (1m82a)

339 324 I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.

We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon


Whoofreakinghoo! Congratulations!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (W2Pud)

340 Congrats, Pug! On the new job and escaping New California

Posted by: Lizzy at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (Hkcdp)

341 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

I knew about how to pronounce Corpsmen. I did know that aluminum was not magnetic. I don't know what ferrous means. I'm just a 29 plus idiot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (MQJVv)

Ferrous means 'from iron' from the Latin.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (n7h9X)

342
They aren't ideological conservatives. They still look down on people who don't share their background as being sub humans.

The ones to single out for special attention and education are the go along to get along simp pussies. If those fuckers had possessed a spine the radical would have never had a start. Just think for yourself, question everything, why is the speaker trying to make me feel like this.

Stupid ass sheep.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (MsrgL)

343 336 Will Mr. Clockwork post again at 4:20? He's on a roll today.
Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 04:14 PM (Rfq0b)

Now I’m gonna hang around to see…

Posted by: tubal at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (PCK5/)

344 DU kept telling me that inflated egg prices were because of avian flus

The left: Inflation is a right wing lie.

Also the left: Of course inflation is real and it is that damned Trump's fault.

Also, also the left: Of course inflation is real it is a sign Biden fixed the economy...really you should be thanking him

Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (t0Rmr)

345 We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.

Congo rats!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (2VST1)

346
Nobody remembers The Wire??

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (UXla0)

347 >>Meanwhile, his total cholesterol level exceeded 1,000 mg/dL. For context, an optimal total cholesterol level is under 200 mg/dL, while 240 mg/dL is considered the threshold for ‘high.’


I think the Low Cholesterol Craze has caused more problems than it has solved.

I may be wrong. But I would be arguing with the people responsible for hatching and implementing National Covid Policy.
So. I'm feeling good about my position.

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:16 PM (snN/i)

348 Kind of a form of lactose intolerance leading to IBS?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (bss/y)
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Yeah, that's it. From what I understand, he has to be very careful about what he eats.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 24, 2025 04:16 PM (tT6L1)

349 obama is a sneaky, lying SOB , prepped for the role since he went to Columbia and pushed through the ranks; I could not believe how many people swallowed that whole lie, it was Demagoguery 101 and they all missed it.

Posted by: runner at January 24, 2025 04:16 PM (g47mK)

350 "So you take this activist core of 20 percent, you add 60 percent of "go along, get along" people,"

That is a variation of tribalism. Staying in The Group, approval from The Group, frown on (or drown) those outside The Group.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 24, 2025 04:16 PM (Cus5s)

351
My grandpa was Arthur Chester K.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Heh. I like that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (UXla0)

352 Could he be eating 6 to 9 lbs of {cheese, sticks of butter, and daily hamburger} every day? And is he Andre The Giant's kid?

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (Rfq0b)

353 Learn to code Bish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (ISHfS)

354 Enabling thoughtless cocksucker. That is how it is pronounced.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Thanks!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (fs1hN)

355 From what I understand, he has to be very careful about what he eats.

I know how that is. It really sucks, having grown up able to eat pretty much everything this side of chunks of glass without the slightest problem. Everything started to go horribly wrong around age 35 now I'm down to practically gruel and water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)

356 Ask ANY gay prostitute who most of his clients are.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Kdc6E)
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Ahem...how would you know this?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (YKpRg)

357 >> I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.


Nice. Which part of Idaho?

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (snN/i)

358 Douthat: But when you say they radicalized, what did that mean for Silicon Valley? What did they want?

...

Andreessen: Revolution. What I now understand it to be historically is a rebirth of the New Left. So it's very analogous....

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University Professors and Teacher's Colleges are nothing more than Marxist Indoctrination and Revolutionary-Maker Institutions.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (B6F9D)

359 Ferrous means 'from iron' from the Latin.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:15 PM (n7h9X)
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Also indicative of iron in its +2 oxidation state.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (6K6Eu)

360 Will Mr. Clockwork post again at 4:20?

Who's Mr. Clockwork?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (MQJVv)

361 Pitching coach said "Now you know why you pace your self and save something for the pinch"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

That's why pitching is so interesting and why I try to get my boys to appreciate changing things up, getting in the batters head, making 'em reach, pitching to the ump, etc.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (i24o9)

362 I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.

We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Ad8y9)
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Great news!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (YKpRg)

363 This is why Rogan is good — he listens, he learns, he asks for more. Is that so hard?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Hkcdp)

I do not see Joe's podcasts. But I admire his schtick (for lack of a better word). He asks good questions and let's the guest go. Friggin' Hannity could adopt this technique. But he won't.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (Ad8y9)

364 >>That's why pitching is so interesting and why I try to get my boys to appreciate changing things up, getting in the batters head, making 'em reach, pitching to the ump, etc.


Beaning the Mascot

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (snN/i)

365 I knew about how to pronounce Corpsmen. I did know that aluminum was not magnetic. I don't know what ferrous means. I'm just a 29 plus idiot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (MQJVv)

Um, ok.

Ferrous means 'containing iron.'

Jay, you'll have to check me on this as it has been about... 30 years since C102.

Ferromagnetic describes one of the properties of iron. Iron, due to the specific number of electrons it has, plus the fact that those electrons are unpaired in it's orbitals, can be magnetic. Electrons are polar. So they have a specific... orientation. If enough of these unpaired electrons are all... pointed in the right direction in a sample of iron, the iron becomes magnetic.

Lol. I just had an image of Professor Shiner holding up his fingers and saying 'electrons are like little magnets themselves.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (bss/y)

366 Trump:
when asked if he would feel responsible if something happened to Bolton or Fauci without Govt security says: "They all made alot of money....They can hire their own security...I can give them numbers of good security people..."

Trump is awesome.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (W3T6M)

367 This is why Rogan is good — he listens, he learns, he asks for more. Is that so hard?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Hkcdp)

I was impressed when he had the Twitter head on some years back and when he was trashed for letting him off the hook he redid the show with Tim Pool and himself with Jack and the lawyer in charge of repression there.

Realizing your audience thinks you messed up and doing better in response is good stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (n7h9X)

368 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January

I figured it had something to do w/ iron. That's about it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (MQJVv)

369
We just reached The First 100 Hours!

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (UXla0)

370 Andreessen is obviously a lot smarter than me, but 20% radicals and 60% go along/get along types don't make 80% radicals. It makes 20% radicals. Get rid of the fuckers and don't hire any more from Ivy league schools. Lots of fine colleges out there that probably aren't batshit crazy.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (MZ+PY)

371 Guts and guile, that's how. By all accounts a notorious drunkard too, who basically saved the '26 World Series, coming in late to nail down the victory while still soused.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Kdc6E)

dead ball era, most of it. Pitchers didn't rely on strikeouts, but getting dudes out by popups and ground balls. Thus you could get out of innings with few pitches and not throwing full speed and throw more innings. Many stadiums had huge outfields on at least half the stadium being built on a city grid pattern.

Christy Mathewson, another great pitcher in his book told of an early game where he blew pitches by batters and struck out many. But by the later game, he got tired and suddenly they where rocking his not-so-fast-now ball and he had to leave the game and lost.

Pitching coach said "Now you know why you pace your self and save something for the pinch"
Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

He turned 34 in '21, basically the end of the dead ball era. before that he was routinely leading the league in strikeouts.

Granted, not like today, he was striking out roughly half a batter per inning, but after age 34, about 2 per 9 innings.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (lH8E4)

372 I gotta say I can't work out that weird black and white "R" dress Melania wore at the inauguration. It looked like something someone threw together at the last minute.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (2VST1)

373
NOOOOOD


Posted by: Soothsayer at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (UXla0)

374 How come DEI programs don't give out diversity points for blue eyes, or ginger hair? These are definitely in the minority.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (fs1hN)

375 Who's Mr. Clockwork?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Ace. He's posted every 1h05m today.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2025 04:19 PM (jnR6n)

376 Once again, it was cool to be an outsider before it really was cool.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 24, 2025 04:20 PM (qZdIZ)

377 289 Jasmine Crockett@JasmineForUS
If you said he wasn’t gonna implement project 2025, you were wrong…
If you said, he loves the “blacks,” you were wrong.
If you said he’d only deport the “bad” ones, you were wrong.
Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.
Trump don’t give a damn about the country as a whole… PERIOD.

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Sumbitch has been present for five days now and he STILL hasn't lowered the cost of eggs!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM

--

Egg prices have never stabilized until the quarter after Jim Crow reinstatement.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 24, 2025 04:20 PM (wzAuc)

378 Beaning the Mascot

Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (snN/i)

You'll go blind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (i24o9)

379 Well, not 'right' so much as 'same.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (bss/y)

380 But as a C.E.O., you can't fire 80 percent of my team.

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[Insert Elon Musk / Nelson Muntz laugh here]

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (B6F9D)

381 And now, from the Ape P . . .

The Associated Press@AP
Target is ending its DEI goals as workplace inclusion gets a strong opponent in the White House

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (L/fGl)

382 285 It's possible nobody but me cares, but Pete Alexander had a remarkable career. Around age 34 he became a marginally above average pitcher, after being THE dominant pitcher for about a decade.

Then at age 40, he won 21 games, and in 268 innings he struck out 48 batters, with a 2.52 ERA. How do you have that level of success, with that few strikeouts?

Guts and guile, that's how. By all accounts a notorious drunkard too, who basically saved the '26 World Series, coming in late to nail down the victory while still soused.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Kdc6E)
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And then was played by Ronald Reagan.

He and Walter Johnson came back in the 20s to a surprising degree. Especially since the game had changed so.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (1bNHn)

383 TOTUS had a blog at the time. I assume it retired after Obama's term. Trump didn't need it. No way did it come back for Biden, that would have been humiliating for the once mighty TOTUS.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2025 03:41 PM

Barack Obama's Teleprompter's Blog --> Big Guy's Teleprompter's Blog

https://bit.ly/4aDVfVW

Last post was 12/09/2020

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (P5BPp)

384 Good new for the convenience store industry!

The Trump administration withdraws FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes.

Posted by: mrp at January 24, 2025 04:22 PM (rj6Yv)

385 I worry about troops on the border. The Democrats are superb practioners of communist/fascist propaganda techniques. They will create a provocative situation, get a response and then twist it to their advantage. Just like the "whipping Haitians" or the whole Charlottesville scam. Not to mention J6. Trump and his movement must crush the propaganda apparatus, i.e. media, and the Democrat party.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 24, 2025 04:22 PM (895ss)

386 That's why pitching is so interesting and why I try to get my boys to appreciate changing things up, getting in the batters head, making 'em reach, pitching to the ump, etc.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (i24o9)

There's video of Greg Maddux, with audio on them, the pitching coach comes out, and questions what Maddux is doing, and Greg then says what he's going to do on the next three pitches, and the third pitch the hitter is going to pop it up to third base.

And he did.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:22 PM (lH8E4)

387 From the link (reading the whole thing): the small town in Wisconsin where [Marc] grew up — New Lisbon

What idiot went to Wisconsin and thought, you know what this reminds me of, it reminds be of southern coastal fucking Portugal.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 24, 2025 04:23 PM (gKWVE)

388 From what I understand, he has to be very careful about what he eats.

I know how that is. It really sucks, having grown up able to eat pretty much everything this side of chunks of glass without the slightest problem. Everything started to go horribly wrong around age 35 now I'm down to practically gruel and water.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)

at about that age I found that my favorite meal out - beef echiladas made me throw up even before I got home. Eventually found that chicken did not have the same effect

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:23 PM (n7h9X)

389 I mean, the level of lock step uniformity, unanimity in the thought process between the C.E.O.s of the Fortune 500 and what's in the pages of The New York Times and in the Harvard classroom and in the Ford Foundation -- they're just locked together. Or at least they were through this entire period.

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The Borg Collective ... before The Borg Collective was cool.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:23 PM (B6F9D)

390 286 You are adding a lot to "I'm a good person". No one was talking about "elected to" or anything like that. The question is whether one is good. How you measure that is another question, as I implied.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:02 PM (1bNHn)

he was offloading the judgement to the elites and his neighbors. He said that a few times. He didn't change when he saw it was going wrong. Because they could take away his 'good person' card.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:07 PM (n7h9X)
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Reputation is usually a major way people judge themselves. There are a few of us Coriolanus types around, but not many. (One point where I prefer Stoics to Peripatetics. Maybe the only one.)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:24 PM (1bNHn)

391 363 I do not see Joe's podcasts. But I admire his schtick (for lack of a better word). He asks good questions and let's the guest go. Friggin' Hannity could adopt this technique. But he won't.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Incredible! Unbelievable! He used to fix roofs, build things and own a business and talk to God on a mountaintop every year till he dumped the wife and is a regular ham n egger kind of guy! you could learn a lot more from Sean than any guest who's lucky enough to be interviewed by him!

Posted by: Auspex at January 24, 2025 04:24 PM (j4U/Z)

392 I knew about how to pronounce Corpsmen. I did know that aluminum was not magnetic. I don't know what ferrous means. I'm just a 29 plus idiot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (MQJVv)
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Ferromagnetism is having the magnetic property of iron, i.e., domains of aligned unpaired electron spins that in the presence of a magnetic field the domains themselves all align, generating tangible force on the bulk metal. Iron and nickel are the most obvious examples of this.

Paramagnetism is the term for having unpaired spins with random orientation that in the presence of a magnetic field slightly more (typically

Diamagnetism refers to material that has no unpaired spins, and is actually pushed OUT of a magnetic field.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

393 Nice. Which part of Idaho?
Posted by: garrett at January 24, 2025 04:17 PM (snN/i)

Boise. And yeah, I know Boise is a college town, so out of the frying pan into the fire. But we will be equidistant between both sons, one in Sandy UT and the other in Helena. Our plan is to get settled, then find a place outside of Boise. The job I landed is a good one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:24 PM (Ad8y9)

394 Looking forward to the rebuilding of L.A. and renaming it "New Ulaanbataar".

Posted by: gKWVE at January 24, 2025 04:25 PM (gKWVE)

395 They either come from the top, most radical education institutions, or they are seeking as hard as they can to assimilate into that same class.

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Heh. My recent "The Borg Collective" was a prophetic paragraph or two too early ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:25 PM (B6F9D)

396 It's scary how many people don't understand inflation. They think that ending it will lower prices. No. It just stops them rising.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:26 PM (1bNHn)

397 Still reading the content.
That fellow, Trump, he didn't whack the hornet's nest he cracked it wide open.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bG1q3)

398 There's video of Greg Maddux, with audio on them, the pitching coach comes out, and questions what Maddux is doing, and Greg then says what he's going to do on the next three pitches, and the third pitch the hitter is going to pop it up to third base.

And he did.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:22 PM (lH8E4)

Maddox is up for Hall of Fame I think, im seeing clips of him a lot.

In one he talks of pitching against a player in midseason and intentionally throwing a pitch he hits into the upper deck. Later in year he knew he met him in the playoffs and threw something entirely different that fooled him into striking out.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:27 PM (n7h9X)

399 Looking forward to the rebuilding of L.A. and renaming it "New Ulaanbataar".

Posted by: gKWVE at January 24, 2025 04:25 PM (gKWVE)

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New North Korea, Califzuela 90210

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (B6F9D)

400 Sorry, cut off by the "less than" symbol

Paramagnetism is the term for having unpaired spins with random orientation that in the presence of a magnetic field has a slight excess of spins aligning with the magnetic field as opposed to not. The very small force exerted on a paramagnetic sample can be measured with careful weighing (Gouy method), and usually amounts to a few milligrams per gram of material for typical lab magnetic fields. Lots of compounds are paramagnetic, including most famously, oxygen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (YqDXo)

401 Still reading the content.
That fellow, Trump, he didn't whack the hornet's nest he cracked it wide open.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bG1q3)

Like Nelson Muntz with a rake.

"Hey, Willy, go long!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (Ad8y9)

402 362 I can't credit Trump for this, but I have a new job. First cast. Heading for Idaho. Hell, I'll thank PDT for this anyway.

We will soon be shed of fooking Colorado.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 2 weeks of funemployment sucked at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Ad8y9)
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Great news!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2025 04:18 PM (YKpRg)

Congratulations! Intermountain West is wonderful.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (gi+MR)

403 I find it astonishing, how you can't quite convince people there are married men who are gay.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:12 PM (Kdc6E)

I know one. He married a biological woman and had biological children with her. He identified the circumstances that had affected his orientation (molested as a kid) and then trusted God with his situation. He lived as a heterosexual because it was in line with God's viewpoint. He was glad to do so because he experienced the blessings of a wife, kids, and grandkids, and didn't contract AIDS, which was a significant potential risk at the time.

Posted by: Ravelry at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (syXXq)

404 They either come from the top, most radical education institutions, or they are seeking as hard as they can to assimilate into that same class.

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Heh. My recent "The Borg Collective" was a prophetic paragraph or two too early ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:25 PM (B6F9D)

That is foolish, the whole point of an elite is to keep you out of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:28 PM (n7h9X)

405 The pitcher in the early part of the last century who was a dominant strikeout pitcher was Walter Johnson. His motion was so easy he never got tired. Maybe the best ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2025 04:30 PM (6v8aM)

406 There's video of Greg Maddux, with audio on them, the pitching coach comes out, and questions what Maddux is doing, and Greg then says what he's going to do on the next three pitches, and the third pitch the hitter is going to pop it up to third base.

And he did.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2025 04:22 PM (lH8E4)
____________________

Maddux just shows that baseball guys are generally pretty stupid. They go after pitchers who can throw 95+ mph. Maddux threw in the mid- to upper 80s, BUT ... he knew how to pitch, his pitches moved, and he had pinpoint control.

Now you'd think baseball guys would take lesson to heart, but no. They don't. They want somebody who's 7 feet tall and throws 95+. At least until he blows out his arm.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

407 @398 Javy Lopez told that story about Maddux. Basically let Bagwell hit a homer off him in a game they already won in order to set him up in the playoffs. It worked.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2025 04:32 PM (6v8aM)

408 Having known several of them and having worked in Silicon Valley for years: most tech CEOs are morons.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 24, 2025 04:32 PM (P8qDK)

409 And then was played by Ronald Reagan.

He and Walter Johnson came back in the 20s to a surprising degree. Especially since the game had changed so.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 24, 2025 04:21 PM (1bNHn)

Walter was notable for being able to consistently throw harder balls than his peers without wearing down.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:34 PM (n7h9X)

410 hey just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I. That's really when we knew that we had to really get involved in politics.

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First they came for the Ultra MAGAts, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an Ultra MAGAt.

Then they came for the Crypto, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Crypto Blockchain.

Then they came for the AI Bots, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an AI Bot.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:35 PM (B6F9D)

411 Maddux just shows that baseball guys are generally pretty stupid. They go after pitchers who can throw 95+ mph. Maddux threw in the mid- to upper 80s, BUT ... he knew how to pitch, his pitches moved, and he had pinpoint control.

Now you'd think baseball guys would take lesson to heart, but no. They don't. They want somebody who's 7 feet tall and throws 95+. At least until he blows out his arm.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

Problem is, most pitchers don't have pinpoint control. That's the hard part.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:36 PM (n7h9X)

412 most tech CEOs are morons.
__________________

Let's face it, most CEOs generally are morons.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:36 PM (YqDXo)

413 In the movie Three Men and a Baby, Tom Selleck is reading a sports magazine to the baby. One of the other men questions this and Tom says something to the effect of..it's not what you're reading, it's the tone of your voice.

Sometimes its the tone, sometimes it's the pitch, or the timbre, or even the cadence. There's a reason why Sam Elliot, Robert Mitchum, or Sean Connery could cause women to drool just by reading the phone book out loud.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 24, 2025 03:50 PM

This is true in a lot of areas of life. Especially (in general) with women. Think of the general sentiment that women are fine with being hit on by a man they find attractive, but not fine if they are hit on in the same way by a man they don't find attractive.

It's the same for politics. Many people don't bother listening to what politicians are saying, they just like them (or don't like them) and support them (or not) based on how they look or how they talk, if they're "cool" etc. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes is a prime example. She was chosen to run based on how well she could act like someone people would vote for.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2025 04:37 PM (P5BPp)

414 Problem is, most pitchers don't have pinpoint control. That's the hard part.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:36 PM (n7h9X)
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True, but that's what they need to work on, not just throwing harder. The trick is to have your delivery absolutely identical every time. That's not easy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

415 Never met Greg Maddux, but they didn't call him "The Professor" for nothin'.

Grew up in Vegas and played against (and later briefly worked at the old MGM Grand Hotel before it caught on fire) Mike Maddux -- the Texas Rangers' pitching coach. Great guy ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:39 PM (B6F9D)

416 True, but that's what they need to work on, not just throwing harder. The trick is to have your delivery absolutely identical every time. That's not easy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah the need for speed is going a little far these days. They should also limit the size of gloves and mitts to make fielding a bit harder.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:40 PM (n7h9X)

417 True, but that's what they need to work on, not just throwing harder. The trick is to have your delivery absolutely identical every time. That's not easy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

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Heard some announcer or talking head theorize that there are so many more pitching injuries now because guys trying to throw so hard.

Not everybody has Nolan Ryan's body ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 24, 2025 04:41 PM (B6F9D)

418 True, but that's what they need to work on, not just throwing harder. The trick is to have your delivery absolutely identical every time. That's not easy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
__________________

Nolan Ryan was a fireballer who initially was completely wild (probably terrifying batters!). He learned to control and made a point of landing in exactly the same place every time, to the extent his landing foot (left, in his case) left only one set of cleat marks on the mound.

Now that's consistency.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:43 PM (YqDXo)

419 Heard some announcer or talking head theorize that there are so many more pitching injuries now because guys trying to throw so hard.
_________________

Easy to believe. The human body has limitations, and those guys are running up hard on those limitations.

That's why baseball guys should take Maddux's career to heart.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

420 most tech CEOs are morons.
__________________

Let's face it, most CEOs generally are morons.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:36 PM (YqDXo)

To be nice, they are specialists. You never trust the opinion of a very specialized person about something outside their specialty. They often don't know that they don't know what they are talking about. And that's a dangerous place to be.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:48 PM (n7h9X)

421 Heard some announcer or talking head theorize that there are so many more pitching injuries now because guys trying to throw so hard.
_________________

Easy to believe. The human body has limitations, and those guys are running up hard on those limitations.

That's why baseball guys should take Maddux's career to heart.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 24, 2025 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

The fact that they can repair a lot of the injuries helps out too. Jim Bouton was a dominant pitcher for a time in the early to mid 60s with Yankees but got an injury and clawed his way up as a knuckleballer in the early 70s. Wrote "Ball Four" about it, was hated for spilling some salacious stories. But its a good book about life before baseball was deluged with money.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 24, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

422 To be nice, they are specialists. You never trust the opinion of a very specialized person about something outside their specialty. They often don't know that they don't know what they are talking about. And that's a dangerous place to be.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Thomas Sowell, for example.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 24, 2025 05:33 PM (bG1q3)

423 "The most consequential presidents divided the nation -- before 'reuniting it on a new level of understanding.'"

Did Washington ever divide the nation? I guess, by dint of presiding over the Constitutional Convention, he started a minor brouhaha between the Federalists and Anti-federalists, but his reputation as a leader and a man gained him the respect of pretty much everybody even before taking office.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 24, 2025 06:03 PM (mq091)

424 ...his reputation as a leader and a man gained him the respect of pretty much everybody even before taking office.

Zombie Daniel Shays has entered the chat ...

Posted by: LOLOLOL at January 24, 2025 08:12 PM (FIL9P)

425 "Then, in May 2024, I read an article that talked about Trump's speech in Charlottesville, where he said there are good people on both sides,"

Jesus H Christ, this guy waited until May 2024 to look at a YouTube video that was online publicly worldwide?

How lazy can you be?

Posted by: Rachel Controltheweatherstein at January 24, 2025 08:19 PM (XU88w)

426 The Demo-Rats handed Silly-Cones Valley to Trump without batting a eyelash

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Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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