CNN Reveals More Details About Biden's Obvious-On-Its-Face Senility and Jake Tapper Continues to Insist That Only After the Election Was He Able to Confirm That Biden Was Mentally Diminished

Don't think of this as promotion for the dickbag's phony book. Think of it as releasing all the relevant material so that no one has to buy it.

CNN continues spinning for Biden even in this article purporting to reveal the details of his mental unfitness.

In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule, was prone to incoherence and losing his train of thought, and was hidden from the public eye to shield the extent of his decline, according to a new book from CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson.

We saw that Biden was given reporters' questions before they were "asked." We saw on those note-cards that Biden was given the exact question and also given his scripted answer.

Did Tapper and Thompson not notice that then? They seem to continue not noticing that, because noticing that would force them to name "reporters" eager to join a fraud on the American people.

The book details episode after episode where Democratic lawmakers, White House aides, members of Biden's Cabinet and Democratic donors were shocked at Biden's diminishing mental and physical capabilities while the president embarked on an ill-fated 2024 reelection bid. But nearly all did not speak out publicly or try to stop him from running.
"What the world saw at his one and only 2024 debate was not an anomaly. It was not a cold; it was not someone who was underprepared or overprepared. It was not someone who was just a little tired," Tapper and Thompson write. "It was the natural result of an eighty-one-year-old man whose capabilities had been diminishing for years. Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify an attempt to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years."
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Tapper and Thompson report that concerns about Biden's health from those working for him dated all the way back to 2020, but his mental and physical diminishment accelerated in 2023 and 2024 before his disastrous June debate with Donald Trump.

As I keep saying, they're lying about it only getting noticeably bad in 2023 to 2024 to limit their own exposure.

Although I should say that CNN is lying about what the book says -- the book doesn't say it goes back to 2020, it says it goes back to 2019, and Tapper says in his Megyn Kelly interview (linked below) that it goes back to 2015.

At one point in December 2022, Biden could not remember the names of his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and communications director, Kate Bedingfield, the authors write. In fall 2023, he did not appear to recognize Jamie Harrison, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (Harrison disputes this). And in early 2024, Tapper and Thompson report that Biden did not recognize movie star George Clooney, whom Biden has known for years.
Some members of Biden's Cabinet told Tapper and Thompson they did not believe Biden could be relied upon to perform at 2 a.m. if there was a national emergency.
"Things that would have been considered a disaster in 2023 -- by 2024, we would have said, 'Okay, we got through that,'" a top aide told the authors.
Tapper and Thompson write that Biden was protected by an insular group, including his wife, his son and a group of longtime aides nicknamed the "Politburo," a reference to the leadership committee of a communist party.
Biden's top aides -- Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed -- valued loyalty to the president. Those not in the inner circle, including campaign staff, pollsters and members of Biden's Cabinet, believed the aides were protecting Biden from negative information as the president decided to run for reelection with no discussion or input from others in the White House or campaign, according to the book.
"It was a theology that bordered on zealotry: In January 2025, Donilon continued to hold the viewpoint that while Biden might forget and mix up names, when the president decided what the proposal should be for a peace deal between Hamas and Israel, he was pretty damn smart," Tapper and Thompson write.

Biden was long known as one of the stupidest braying jackasses in the Senate, a body known to be filled with self-important mediocrities and zeroes.

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Tapper and Thompson found that concerns about Biden's health issues dated back to his 2020 campaign. Biden shot campaign videos talking to voters on Zoom ahead of the convention but the hours of footage were largely unusable and stunned some on Biden's team.
"It was like a different person. It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn't be driving," said one Democrat, according to the book. "I didn't think he could be president."
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Multiple lawmakers told the authors the Biden they saw reminded them of ailing parents and grandparents.
Publicly, questions swirled in 2024 about Biden's health, fueled by the scathing report from Hur, who opted not to charge Biden for mishandling classified information in part because of how a jury would view his age.
Privately, Tapper and Thompson report Democrats were shocked at their interactions with Biden last year, both in closed-door meetings and donor gatherings. Democratic senators told the authors they saw a noticeable change in Biden during private meetings in early 2024, which they found alarming but gave their former colleague the benefit of the doubt.
One senior administration official angrily confronted a White House colleague after a meeting with Biden's task force on reproductive health-care access. "What the f**k are you guys doing?" the official said. "I don't get how this guy can do any campaigning to run for reelection."
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After Biden's rousing March 2024 State of the Union speech -- a performance many Democrats pointed to in justification he could run for reelection -- some White House aides who didn't normally get access to him were disturbed at his deteriorating condition when he addressed a room of high schoolers later that night and gave a rambling speech. One aide, the authors write, couldn't help asking "what on earth they had just seen."
"This isn't going to work," the aide thought, according to the book. "He can't do it. This is crazy. Crazy. Crazy."
After Biden's disastrous June debate with Trump, Tapper and Thompson report that Biden's closest aides tried to move past the debacle as though nothing happened.
"If anything, the debate made Biden aides more watchful for signs of disloyalty," the authors write. "They saw the debate as just the latest instance of counting Biden out."
Behind the scenes, Democrats urged Biden's inner circle to get the president out there in unscripted events. But the authors write that Biden "couldn't do what folks were calling on him to do to prove his acuity."
One campaign adviser recounted a post-debate discussion with Biden aboard Air Force One. "What are we doing here? the adviser thought as the president spoke. This guy can't form a f**king sentence," according to the book. "If I had a conversation like this with someone who wasn't the president, I would be worried about his health. And here he is, the sitting president of the United States."

Via John Sexton, who also complies the comments from the CNN article. The top comments? "Why are you talking about Biden's mental unfitness, which is old news, when there is so much New News to cover, like Orange Man Still Bad."

Below, Megyn Kelly confronts Jake Tapper with his own frantic efforts to spin for Biden, including playing back clips of his infamous Laura Bush attack dogging. He claims he "already apologized" to Lara Trump -- privately, of course, because Tapper doesn't want to admit his egregious bias publicly.

And I imagine he was told to fake-apologize to Lara Trump privately by his crisis communications advisor, who told him to do this so he could offer the Big Reveal that he "already" apologized to her. Probably a few weeks ago when he was stunned to learn that people thought he showed his usual Democrat bias in covering for Biden.

He continues insisting that only knowing what he "knows now" does his past partisan service for the Democrats give him "humility." Megyn Kelly points out that much of what Tapper is "reporting" now was reported by the right years ago, but Tapper ignores that and insists that only Now I Can All Be Told.

Maddening.

Posted by: Ace at 02:15 PM

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1 I'm sure they're telling the absolute truth here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2025 02:15 PM (ExV1e)

2 The vaxx people have been poked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2025 02:16 PM (ExV1e)

3 And they're not stopping with the lies - the latest ludicrous claim is that Biden didn't get the PSA (prostrate cancer) test, because he was over 75, and PSA tests are expensive.

Uh, huh.

Let's get Biden's medical staff under oath, and see if they are still willing to claim that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 20, 2025 02:17 PM (xTIDn)

4 Via John Sexton, who also complies the comments from the CNN article. The top comments? "Why are you talking about Biden's mental unfitness, which is old news, when there is so much New News to cover, like Orange Man Still Bad."

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"Sure, the media lied to me before, but they're not going to lie to me now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

5 The Spiderman pointing meme except they're all Jake Tapper.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:17 PM (FkTOT)

6 and zeroes.

If only they were Net Zero.

Posted by: DaveA at May 20, 2025 02:18 PM (FhXTo)

7 >>>5 The Spiderman pointing meme except they're all Jake Tapper.

hah.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:18 PM (KRtlO)

8 I missed the Vaxx thread. Pity.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 02:18 PM (D7oie)

9 What is the standard of care regarding PSA?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 20, 2025 02:18 PM (YMw6T)

10 Via John Sexton, who also complies the comments from the CNN article. The top comments? "Why are you talking about Biden's mental unfitness, which is old news, when there is so much New News to cover, like Orange Man Still Bad."

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"STOP TELLING ME THE TRUTH AND TELL ME MORE LIES!!!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

11 You don't hate the media enough

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:19 PM (N1tpc)

12 11 You don't hate the media enough
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:19 PM (N1tpc)

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My apathy towards them has reached its middle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

13 I feel like even the dogmatically partisan and liberal media is being forced to admit Tapper writing a book on this and calling out the "deception" is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Leupold at May 20, 2025 02:19 PM (4pwAx)

14
Tapper's next book is going to be an investigation into what sunk the Titanic.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (FkTOT)

15 The next Big Conspriacy Theory will be that Biden really IS sharp as a tack, but is pretending to have Alzheimers because he is a secret Trump sleeper agent.

Posted by: zombie at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (pMi6S)

16
Megyn had some prostate cancer top doc on yesterday, talking about Biden's prostate cancer. They are lying through their teeth about this. He pointed out their claim about the cancer being hormone sensitive. He says you can only know this after trying treatment. There's no way they would know this for a recent diagnosis.

He's likely had it for years, even before "taking office" in 2021.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (w6EFb)

17 hah.
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:18 PM (KRtlO)

I wrote that specifically for you btw

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (FkTOT)

18 If the Big Bunny Scare of 2021 didn't open people's eyes to the reality of Joe's mental fitness for office, nothing will.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (tT6L1)

19 Ace, I think you mean Lara Trump not Laura Bush.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (NpAcC)

20 >>> Megyn had some prostate cancer top doc on yesterday, talking about Biden's prostate cancer. They are lying through their teeth about this. He pointed out their claim about the cancer being hormone sensitive. He says you can only know this after trying treatment. There's no way they would know this for a recent diagnosis.

Hm.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (KRtlO)

21 Saw the video yesterday, of Biden telling a story about oil on his parent's car, and why lots of people, including him, have cancer.

That was 2022.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (BgSR4)

22 Tapper and Thompson write that Biden was protected by an insular group, including his wife, his son and a group of longtime aides nicknamed the "Politburo," a reference to the leadership committee of a communist party.

Who does that make Tapper? Beria?

This guy needs to just STFU and go away. Better yet, he needs to look up John Profumo and learn how to atone for his misdeeds. (Wiki)

After expressing his "deep remorse" to the prime minister, to his constituents and to the Conservative Party, Profumo disappeared from public view. In April 1964 he began working as a volunteer at the Toynbee Hall settlement, a charitable organisation based in Spitalfields which supports the most deprived residents in the East End of London. Profumo continued his association with the settlement for the remainder of his life, at first in a menial capacity, then as administrator, fund-raiser, council member, chairman and finally president. Profumo's charitable work was recognised when he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1975. He was later described by Thatcher as a national hero and was a guest at her 80th birthday celebrations in 2005.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (s8j++)

23 Tapper's next book is going to be an investigation into what sunk the Titanic.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:20 PM (FkTOT)

Tapper's next book will be a grand reveal on how babies are made - after he does extensive research on the topic.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (VNX3d)

24 >>>19 Ace, I think you mean Lara Trump not Laura Bush.

oh yeah

I guess I have some age-related mental unfitness myself.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

25 24 >>>19 Ace, I think you mean Lara Trump not Laura Bush.

oh yeah

I guess I have some age-related mental unfitness myself.
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (KRtlO)

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Needs more "dog faced pony soldier".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

26 And they're not stopping with the lies - the latest ludicrous claim is that Biden didn't get the PSA (prostrate cancer) test, because he was over 75, and PSA tests are expensive.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I'm sure that they could've given the Big Guy a 10% discount.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

27 It is telling that all of the Democrats viewed Biden's senility as a problem for his-re-election, but never saw it as a problem for actually governing the country and dealing with our international adversaries.

Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (3vVea)

28 The propaganda organs cannot separate themselves from the ones for whom they shilled. My assumption was the MSM knew it had exhausted all credibility, so it went all in on Biden. That gave them to much credit. Those fake jobs on fake news were really sweet. Can't blame the whore for wanting to cling onto them, but the stupidity to think a redux is possible is unforgivable.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (WWpK6)

29 And they're not stopping with the lies - the latest ludicrous claim is that Biden didn't get the PSA (prostrate cancer) test, because he was over 75, and PSA tests are expensive.

They are? I get one with every physical, and I'm not 75.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (s8j++)

30 The soon-to-be-impeached-and-resign Richard Nixon ran the modified limited hangout gambit far better than Fake Jake.

Posted by: doc ock at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (/vuFu)

31 oh yeah

I guess I have some age-related mental unfitness myself.
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:21 PM (KRtlO)
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If you're not challenging people to push-ups, you're probably in the clear.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (tT6L1)

32 Would Jake Tapper be willing to take a lie detector test?
Someone needs to ask him.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (NpAcC)

33 Joey Shitpants was obviously mentally unfit to be president. But how much worse was he than a lot of others? Probably 35% of the Senate and half the House are mentally unfit retards who were only marginally better than Biden. I'm not sure Biden's mental infirmity in the 2020-2022 period was so much worse than the norm that it would have stood out.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

34 >>>Saw the video yesterday, of Biden telling a story about oil on his parent's car, and why lots of people, including him, have cancer.
That was 2022.

Oh yeah, thank you, I forgot I wanted to link that.

Again: Ace is mentally unfit.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

35 27 It is telling that all of the Democrats viewed Biden's senility as a problem for his-re-election, but never saw it as a problem for actually governing the country and dealing with our international adversaries.
Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (3vVea)

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They didn't care en masse until footage of him broke through the political bubble into the general culture: the debate.

And even then, it was a back and forth tug between factions for a few weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

36 Are ALL of Tapper’s sources anonymous?!?!?

Oh no, if you questioned his fitness years ago, behind closed doors, there’s no glory in tattling to the press now.
This includes GOP SotH Mike Johnston.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (Hkcdp)

37
He's got bush on his mind. He did just come back from vacation

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (NtVYv)

38 Laura Trump, not bush.

Laura Bush needs to give apologies, not receive them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (N1tpc)

39 Johns Hopkins says men over 70 should get a PSA.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (YMw6T)

40 He says you can only know this after trying treatment.

Thats why we saw the puncture holes in Bidens hands and arms...

Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (3vVea)

41
Oh, and an interesting aside. Some of the treatments for prostate cancer, hormone therapy (basically, chemical castration, shutting off testerone), cause *cognitive problems* big time.

Biden's "doctors" (who are most likely hand-picked partisan hacks who will be loyal) should be put under oath and asked questions by experts on the topic (not congresscritters grand standing). They are lying through their teeth.

It's possible Biden was being treating for this the whole time he was in office, and they covered it up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (w6EFb)

42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)

43 27 It is telling that all of the Democrats viewed Biden's senility as a problem for his-re-election, but never saw it as a problem for actually governing the country and dealing with our international adversaries.
Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:22 PM (3vVea)

Biden was a puppet and not expected to govern. When he no longer could pull off the Howdy Doodie act he had to be axed.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (WWpK6)

44 In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall...

...if he had nuked Moscow yet or not.

Just how much danger did this senile asshat and his puppeteers expose this nation to??? Who the FU*K was calling the shots on Defense? Just how many dilettante dipshits buzzing around the Oval Office think they were in charge?
Somebody's ass needs to burn for this.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (W/lyH)

45 Oh yeah, thank you, I forgot I wanted to link that.

Again: Ace is mentally unfit.
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

Who is REALLY running AoSHQ these days???

Scandal of the century.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (BgSR4)

46
Whoa. I just realized his name is slang for Ok Fucker.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (FkTOT)

47 45 Who is REALLY running AoSHQ these days???

Scandal of the century.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (BgSR4)

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Theory:

Gabe.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

48 We saw that Biden was given reporters' questions before they were "asked." We saw on those note-cards that Biden was given the exact question and also given his scripted answer.

Did Tapper and Thompson not notice that then?
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There was video demonstrating this. We all saw it. How did Tapper miss it?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

49 I heard a doctor say that sometimes people older than 70 skip the PSA -- I think the theory is that if you don't have that cancer yet, it develops slowly enough that if you do get it, you'll probably die before the cancer advances too far, so by that age, it's a lower priority to detect it.

But this is the president with a history of cancer in his family.

I don't believe them. Biden's crooked doctor covered up for him. They all knew he had cancer.

People are pointing out again the Mystery Wounds on Biden's hands -- like where they'd inject you if you were getting chemo treatment.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (KRtlO)

50 Tappers next book will be a discovery that - get this! - BLM squandered billions in donations on person luxury items.

Anonymously sourced, of course!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (Hkcdp)

51 Would Jake Tapper be willing to take a lie detector test?
Someone needs to ask him.

You know full well he'd start babbling about the dignity of his profession, and well, I never...!

Because nothing says dignity like having a lip lock on an old man's nethers.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (s8j++)

52 They didn't care en masse until footage of him broke through the political bubble into the general culture: the debate.

And even then, it was a back and forth tug between factions for a few weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

You don't think his meds were withheld and the debate was used as a pretext to axe him?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (WWpK6)

53 Again: Ace is mentally unfit.
Posted by: ace

I have noticed that your cruelty seems to be slipping lately.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

54 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)
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That was the Democrap plan, yes. It wasn't Biden's or Doctah Jill's. They were never gonna leave without being dragged out kicking and screaming.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

55 >>>42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

Yup

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (KRtlO)

56 Why do I think those secretive top aides were also using the Autopen like a meth den whore?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (wBaIH)

57 THOU SHALT NOT TAPPER.

Posted by: 11th Commandment at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (KgBkP)

58 Just how much danger did this senile asshat and his puppeteers expose this nation to??? Who the FU*K was calling the shots on Defense?
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Not even Lloyd Austin, when he was AWOL for a week in hospital. I just hope the White House janitor was squared away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (YqDXo)

59 52 You don't think his meds were withheld and the debate was used as a pretext to axe him?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (WWpK6)

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Nah. He was just terrible generally.

90 minutes of back and forth, off the cuff conversation is very different from 60 minutes of reading teleprompters like at SOTU.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

60 I did not believe Biden could be relied upon to perform even at 2 p.m. if there was a national emergency.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F)

61 I still can't figure who is the target audience for these lies.

There has to be someone they are intending to not deceive but, give cover to, with these lies.

They can't seriously believe there is anyone who believes them, can they?

Who are they giving an "out" to?
Who are they really covering for?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (cmj/V)

62
RIP, Jake Tapper.

This exposure explains Ace's "Fake Jake" label.

He will have no audience left.

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (j4U/Z)

63 But this is the president with a history of cancer in his family.

Biden literally said HE had cancer ....

Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (3vVea)

64 Meanwhile, hopefully there's some smart people in DOJ who are looking into what crimes the people inside the Biden White House can be charged with.

I mean, if you can run a shadow government for four years, surely there's a crime or two in there. Somewhere.

And don't call be Shirley.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (BgSR4)

65 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)

For as stupid as these people are, this was the ONLY way we were going to get President Harris.

I have no idea why the fools in the Democrat Party think that Harris is the future of their party (maybe "thought" now), but they did. Mind-boggling.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (N1tpc)

66 42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)

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Comment from 2021.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

67 54 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)
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That was the Democrap plan, yes. It wasn't Biden's or Doctah Jill's. They were never gonna leave without being dragged out kicking and screaming.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

Something happened close to the time of the debate, then.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (WWpK6)

68 If Gabe were running the blog it would be a lot more posts about how drag story hour and trans athletes don’t effective you guys, so shut up haters with your “slippery slope” garbage theories!!

And then more mocking in the comments.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

69 I still think there needs to be a formal analysis of *biden's term based on his diminished mental capacity. What did he actually sign into law, put into an EO and who was pardoned that could be overturned based on any number of sketchy things. Like who authorized and used the autopen and for what? What legislation did *biden actually sign and is there any evidence he actually knew what it was?

I'm sure some of this is probably being looked into, but I'm unclear on the processes that would be necessary to overturn any of it... especially with the judicial coup currently underway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Q4IgG)

70 three dots someone needs to make that meme

and the lupron treatment - yes that takes time to see if it works, and yes it messes with people

ugh anyway

I don't really want to relive this but my dad it was more like Scott Adams - actually he was younger than Scott - fast. tried everything. the rare aggressive prostate cancer unfortunately does exist

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Pv3Rg)

71 Who is REALLY running AoSHQ these days???

Scandal of the century.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (BgSR4)
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A consortium of otters, penguins, bears, and one really aloof kitten

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

72 61 I still can't figure who is the target audience for these lies.

There has to be someone they are intending to not deceive but, give cover to, with these lies.

They can't seriously believe there is anyone who believes them, can they?

Who are they giving an "out" to?
Who are they really covering for?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (cmj/V)

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It's all a bubble, and they will be kings of the bubble.

For a fifteen minute news cycle.

And, hopefully, something will break out of the bubble to convince normies to do something. But who really cares? It's the bubble that matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

73 I meant, if you're older and don't yet have prostate cancer, you will probably die of other age-related ailments before the prostate cancer gets you. So at some point old men start skipping the PSA test.

But Biden is the president. And he had skin cancer previously, and his son died due to Cancer Bullets he was hit with in combat in Iraq.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (KRtlO)

74

They’re doing this to get Trump as he gets older.

Posted by: E Buzz at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (IMuJV)

75 Willowed from the vaxx thread:

I learned an interesting medical fact at the Civil-War graffiti house where I volunteer.

The first big opioid epidemic in the US was after the Civil War, since opium's use as painkiller was unregulated at the time, and a lot of soldiers on both sides had been treated with it and become addicted.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

76 JT: "I look back at my coverage with humility"

wtf? does he not know the correct word (shame, humiliation...) or is he intentionally using a *positive* word to avoid saying the truth.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (pqYYE)

77 Tapper baring his teeth and snarling at Lara Trump was just ugly, rude and disgusting. I hope Lara politely refused to accept this cad's apology.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (2ap+5)

78 I heard a doctor say that sometimes people older than 70 skip the PSA -- I think the theory is that if you don't have that cancer yet, it develops slowly enough that if you do get it, you'll probably die before the cancer advances too far, so by that age, it's a lower priority to detect it.

But this is the president with a history of cancer in his family.
I don't believe them. Biden's crooked doctor covered up for him. They all knew he had cancer.
People are pointing out again the Mystery Wounds on Biden's hands -- like where they'd inject you if you were getting chemo treatment.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (KRtlO)
***

My doc has told me the same thing.
But I continue to receive the prostate exam. I think he just likes me.
Wish he wouldn't wear that damned college ring though...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (W/lyH)

79 Obviously, "consent of the governed" didn't matter to the Junta. They obviously preferred to rule regardless of any rules which might suggest they have no right to do so.

I wonder if a decent case can be made for treason? If so, try, convict and execute.

Harsh? Yes, but, we're well past letting bygones be bygones. This was takeover of our government by an unelected Junta.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (tT6L1)

80 Something happened close to the time of the debate, then.

yes

that sudden flight to Vegas or out of Vegas?!?!

although I still don't think Biden posted the withdrawing tweet tbh

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

81 >> Biden literally said HE had cancer ....

Ah, the "oil cancer". There was an oil film on car windshields due to some refinery or something some damned place he was rambling about. And that gave everybody cancer, including him.

Kat Timpf would go on about this "oil cancer". And Megyn had somebody on pointing this out. Maybe it was a slip about this prostate cancer, which he knew he had, and was being treated for.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 02:30 PM (w6EFb)

82 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)
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That was the Democrap plan, yes. It wasn't Biden's or Doctah Jill's. They were never gonna leave without being dragged out kicking and screaming.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

Something happened close to the time of the debate, then.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (WWpK6)
_____

Even after that disastrous debate, Joe and Jill refused to drop out. It took what was literally a palace coup to finally get rid of him. Had he actually won reelection? They would have had to murder him to get rid of him.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

83 75 Willowed from the vaxx thread:

I learned an interesting medical fact at the Civil-War graffiti house where I volunteer.

The first big opioid epidemic in the US was after the Civil War, since opium's use as painkiller was unregulated at the time, and a lot of soldiers on both sides had been treated with it and become addicted.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)
What a cool museum, Bulg! Where is it?

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2025 02:30 PM (dtj4g)

84 Ahh, but the ice cream! That's - that's where I had Trump and the Republicans They laughed at me and made jokes about my Shit Stained Depends, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with - geometric logic - that a duplicate key to the oval office frig DID exist!

And I'd have PRODUCED that key if they hadn't've forced me out of this rigged election! I, I, I know now Trump was only trying to protect some fellow MAGA Losers -

Umm... naturally, I can only cover these things roughly, from Jill's memory... but if I've left anything out... why, you just ask Jill- specific questions and Jill will be - perfectly happy to answer them... one by one.

Posted by: Blo Jiden at May 20, 2025 02:30 PM (kh8yS)

85 The standard responses from Dems include "old news" , "we're looking forward" , "the media is just trying to protect themselves" and an oldie but goodie "but Trump"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (ef25Y)

86 82 Even after that disastrous debate, Joe and Jill refused to drop out. It took what was literally a palace coup to finally get rid of him. Had he actually won reelection? They would have had to murder him to get rid of him.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

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I believe fully that Biden agreed to resign by 2022.

I also believe fully that Biden literally laughed in their faces in January of 2021.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

87 Theory:

Gabe.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

Ok, I'm using my "poor taste" token here:

Do we REALLY know DiT and OM are dead?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (BgSR4)

88 People’s Hippo Voice, this is do that in a short time the Biden dementia can be shrugged off as old news - stage 4 of “it’s not happening and it’s good that it is “ cycle.

Classic Clinton tactic. Deny, deny, deny, until many years later, shrug, sure it happened, what difference does it make — old news, move on!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (Hkcdp)

89 Note how the media is viciously uninterested in who was making the decisions for the "president".

They're filling the space with this fake fuckery about a "cover up" but don't have any questions about the consequences of what was being covered up.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (FkTOT)

90 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)
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That was the Democrap plan, yes. It wasn't Biden's or Doctah Jill's. They were never gonna leave without being dragged out kicking and screaming.

Agree.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (s8j++)

91 From Healthline:

PSA testing has a number of limitations.

The PSA test is known to have a high rate of false positives.

It’s not uncommon to have prostate cancer while a PSA level is below the limits that indicate there might be cancer.

Up to 91%Trusted Source of people with elevated PSA do not have cancer.

Normal PSA ranges were established primarily on white males, though PSA levels vary depending on your ethnicityTrusted Source, with healthy Black men having higher PSA levels than white or Hispanic men.

Test results can varyTrusted Source if they’re tested by a different lab or technicians use different testing methods.

***

It sounds kind of useless to me. (Also racist, natch)

Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (2ap+5)

92 'It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.'

The great irony is after Biden had to be removed following the debate, Harris was suddenly the last person that the Obama cabal wanted. And Joey stuck them with her.

Posted by: doc ock at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (/vuFu)

93 I have no idea why the fools in the Democrat Party think that Harris is the future of their party (maybe "thought" now), but they did. Mind-boggling.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Historic First (TM).

Though she would have sucked and done more harm to their party (and the country) than even Biden.

I wonder how the fiercly loyal, most educated class in the world, black women would have liked the mocha rambler.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (Dv3i1)

94
Old news. Besides, he's dying of cancer. How insensitive and bloodthirsty can you be?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (QnmlO)

95 I have no idea why the fools in the Democrat Party think that Harris is the future of their party (maybe "thought" now), but they did. Mind-boggling.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (N1tpc)
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Not once, but twice. They thought she was the Great White (?) Hope going into the 2020 primaries, until she flamed out entirely after Tulsi torched her in the debate. Apparently some Dems still think she's the future of their party now.

Whoa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (YqDXo)

96 94
Old news. Besides, he's dying of cancer. How insensitive and bloodthirsty can you be?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (QnmlO)

======

Fine. Ignore him.

Now, for everyone in his administration who used the situation for their own benefit outside the law...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

97 I believe fully that Biden agreed to resign by 2022.

I also believe fully that Biden literally laughed in their faces in January of 2021.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
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Seems perfectly in character for Joe and Jill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (tT6L1)

98 There has to be someone they are intending to not deceive but, give cover to, with these lies.

They're trying to take out the trash and give cover for statements like 'that was old news, asked and answered, we're looking forward'

Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (3vVea)

99 Let's get Biden's medical staff under oath, and see if they are still willing to claim that.
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And you'll find HIPPA protections against disclosing medical information are enshrined as a Super Right in the Constitution*

* Except during COVID: fuck you, American--take the shot and disclose that you did so to any who ask.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (cmj/V)

100 Why do I think those secretive top aides were also using the Autopen like a meth den whore?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (wBaIH)

I mean, I'm no lawyer, but if you can be charged with a crime for impersonating your local cop, shouldn't there be a criminal charge somewhere that says Thou shalt not impersonate the President of the United States?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (BgSR4)

101 What a cool museum, Bulg! Where is it?
Posted by: Eromero

In the City of Fairfax, Virginia. The house is called Blenheim. There's also a Civil-War interpretive center on the property illustrating the life of the Union soldier.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

102 97 Seems perfectly in character for Joe and Jill.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (tT6L1)

======

Say absolutely anything, and then never let go of what you've gotten in exchange.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

103 So, it was Rep James Clyburn (D-SC-6) who insisted that Joe Biden endorse Kamala Harris

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

104 PSA testing has a number of limitations.

When I was in college I learned Protein Serum Albumin, and to this day I have to stop and mentally say Prostate Specific Antigen. The struggle is real.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (s8j++)

105 Old news. Besides, he's dying of cancer. How insensitive and bloodthirsty can you be?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (QnmlO)

And I hear his son Beau just died in Iraq, too.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (BgSR4)

106 I wonder how the fiercely loyal, most educated class in the world,

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (Dv3i1)
_________________

Whose performance in public office is ... uh ... remarkable.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (YqDXo)

107 Did Tapper and Thompson not notice that then? They seem to continue not noticing that, because noticing that would force them to name "reporters" eager to join a fraud on the American people.

---

Jake Tapper: "I'm declaring war on those selling drugs in the community."

Also Jake Tapper: "But Black Dynamite, I'm the one selling drugs in the community!"

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (B9Prs)

108
I remember my father's last GP doc shaking his head about somebody ordering a PSA test for my father, around 91 at the time, and starting his own slide into cognitive decline.

At his age, it was nonsense. He probably did have some slow progressing prostate cancer -- most men who live long enough will, but it won't kill them. Something else will.

And at that advanced age, even it was agressive and would kill him, the treatment would be so bad, it would likely kill him sooner, or make quality of life so awful it would be cruel.

That's the calculus with old me. However, POTUS is a very different story. If POTUS has cancer, well, this needs to be known.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (w6EFb)

109 heard a doctor say that sometimes people older than 70 skip the PSA -- I think the theory is that if you don't have that cancer yet, it develops slowly enough that if you do get it, you'll probably die before the cancer advances too far, so by that age, it's a lower priority to detect it.
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United States Task Force on Preventative Medicine. You are correct. Also, it is not routinely recommended by the task force if less than 70. It is patient decision based on whether they want Screening or not. There is a false positive rate - v low. But leads to invasive biopsy with the potential foe complications. So often it is discussed with pt when first get within the age range and declined or accept. Then it is repeated or not based upon what pt decided before. So if he never had one in the past, not surprising he did not have one when he was 75 or even 70. It may not be the big gotcha everyone thinks. It may be, if his private doctor at home did them when he was 75....

Posted by: Just FYI at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (KgBkP)

110 It's too bad we can sue the Dem party for fraud. Because that would be one hell of an award.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (mlg/3)

111 Such BS from Jake and the MSM.
Gotta give FOX credit. They questioned Biden's cognitive decline before he was elected.

We all remember they locked Biden in a basement and they wouldn't let him out to campaign.
They all knew back before he was elected.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (NpAcC)

112 98 There has to be someone they are intending to not deceive but, give cover to, with these lies.

They're trying to take out the trash and give cover for statements like 'that was old news, asked and answered, we're looking forward'
Posted by: McCool at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (3vVea)

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They've been doing this on grander, and grander scales for decades now.

The rise of alternative media, starting with AM radio's explosion in the 80s, has steadily eroded their ability to craft and spread narratives.

Cable news is dying along with its cohort of viewers: Boomers. It's almost the only generation that still watches it. Network news' reach is something like 1/4 of what it used to be. Newspapers are dying.

This is just another nail in their coffin, another step towards total irrelevancy that puts the NYT on even footing with a guy called Catturd on X.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

113 PSA testing has a number of limitations.

When I was in college I learned Protein Serum Albumin, and to this day I have to stop and mentally say Prostate Specific Antigen. The struggle is real.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:34 PM (s8j++)
_____________

I sometimes think wistfully of Pacific Southwest Airlines, whose stewardesses were ... memorable.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (YqDXo)

114 Note how the media is viciously uninterested in who was making the decisions for the "president".

They're filling the space with this fake fuckery about a "cover up" but don't have any questions about the consequences of what was being covered up.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:31 PM (FkTOT)

Why, it's almost as if they're still covering it up.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (BgSR4)

115 Anyone heard from Stateless today? I hope he is having a better day, although today is the big appointment with the big news.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (efuu+)

116 Joe Biden was born on parole and has been stealing since his lips were on his momma's teat.

Still, the idiots in Delaware kept the man in office from 1972 until 2009. 37 years of stealing from everyone and everybody.

Fuck him and the State Of Delaware.

Posted by: Die Joe Die! at May 20, 2025 02:36 PM (xofCm)

117 They’re giving cover to all the people who knew about it and did nothing.
Tapper is letting them speak anonymously. They can admit without consequences. Then we’re told how brave they are for waiting until after Biden left office and they remain safely employed in DC.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:36 PM (Hkcdp)

118 At my last checkup, my doc did both the manual prostate check and also checked for it in my blood screening. Which one is the PSA test, or is that something different altogether.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)

119 Willowed
Those South African chickens ...... did they run out of money because no more USAID? I wonder if the ANC was a recipient of USAID?
As an aside, back in the late 80s early 90s, the Frelimo army in Mozambique only got paid sporadically and it was possible to go to the South African border and exchange a few loaves of bread for a lovely AK-47.

Posted by: Ciampino - sovcits are everywhere at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (sPQoU)

120 The PSA is a blood test.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (2ap+5)

121 So is Jake now bothering to take the all-important next step, which is to find out who exactly was running the country for the past four years?

Or is it just one of those self-contained stories with absolutely zero ramifications outside of itself?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (KbCG3)

122 PSA testing has a number of limitations.
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Don't bust a nut the night before they draw your blood for example...

Posted by: Just FYI at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (KgBkP)

123 ...I mean I guess if you mean CONFIRM I suppose its true that we only knew for sure when people admitted it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (2VST1)

124 There has to be someone they are intending to not deceive but, give cover to, with these lies.
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Themselves.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (FkTOT)

125 Whenever these lefties feign ignorance on these issues that they tried to cover up, they need to be called retards to their face. When they get offended at the term, then clarify that they are either bold-face liars, or retards that should lose their jobs out of incompetence. They get to pick which.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (VVYzf)

126 Council of Presidents members: Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti who ran the government for Biden

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (RHGPo)

127
Still waiting to hear the Las Vegas Air Force One story. Things changed after that.

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (j4U/Z)

128 Two spidermen pointing at each other.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (B9Prs)

129 You Nabobs cannot handle the Truth and that is why I hid it from you zipperheads,

Jill did a great job as POTUS when I became clueless....

Posted by: Blo Jiden at May 20, 2025 02:38 PM (kh8yS)

130 So is Jake now bothering to take the all-important next step, which is to find out who exactly was running the country for the past four years?

"This is a topic which we have absolutely no interest in examining or digging into in any way whatsoever"
--Every reporter on earth, including supposedly "conservative" ones

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:38 PM (2VST1)

131 90 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)
______

That was the Democrap plan, yes. It wasn't Biden's or Doctah Jill's. They were never gonna leave without being dragged out kicking and screaming.

Agree.
Posted by: Archimedes

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This was the plan in 2020 when they did not think he would last all 4 years.

The real news in this story is that he knew he had cancer in 2020 and survived this long.

They did such a poor job at everything else because they thought they were geniuses for covering up his cancer for 5 years.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 20, 2025 02:38 PM (pqYYE)

132 And by covering themselves, the media provides cover for every Democrat who knew.

Because if the media was fooled, then which of them can get on a high horse and challenge any Democrat for being similarly "fooled"?

So it all gets asked and answered before anyone has a chance to say wait what was the number of that freight train again???

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:38 PM (FkTOT)

133 They will address being too cozy with the Biden Whitehouse by being even more skeptical of the Trump Whitehouse.

It will even things out.

Posted by: toby928 at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (jc0TO)

134 Something happened close to the time of the debate, then.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (WWpK6)

Medical emergency that had AF1 screaming back to DC. Old man refused to give up power, and only gave up when he proved he was not up to it at the debate.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

135 I have no idea why the fools in the Democrat Party think that Harris is the future of their party (maybe "thought" now), but they did. Mind-boggling.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (N1tpc)

Because they all drink the same koolaide. They are nothing more than drones and are genuinely that stupid. Now the dudes running the show, they are just evil. Smart, but evil.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (W/lyH)

136
The MSM and Congressional Democrats are sounding like prominent Germans after WWII. "I protested, privately! I was a secret anti-Nazi!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (QnmlO)

137 You know, we keep making the comment that people in Congress are idiots. And they are- but we keep electing idiots to represent and govern us. I wonder what sort of earth shaking event has to occur where people with a modicum of sense run for office.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (u/mEj)

138 In the City of Fairfax, Virginia. The house is called Blenheim. There's also a Civil-War interpretive center on the property illustrating the life of the Union soldier.
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
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Churchill's house near Oxford (UK) is also called Blenheim, interestingly enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (56OFV)

139 'It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.'
_______________

James Clyburn has SO much to answer for. I mean, there's racial solidarity, but forcing Harris onto the ticket was outrageous.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (YqDXo)

140 Maybe he didn't know he had it but I believe he did... It sure was convenient to drop the story when the books and the Hur tape were being released...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (VE6XX)

141 PSA tests are useful as a general indicator of prostate health. Yeah, you can get prostate cancer with low PSA levels, but the alternative to a PSA test is a prostate biopsy. Trust me, you don't want to get a prostate biopsy.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (XMwZJ)

142 118 At my last checkup, my doc did both the manual prostate check and also checked for it in my blood screening. Which one is the PSA test, or is that something different altogether.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
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It's just called PSA - prostate specific antigen or something. It can be elevated also by many other things other than prostate problems. (I'm not a medical doctor but this is what I've read).

Posted by: Ciampino - both hands on the shoulders at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (sPQoU)

143 Very fun to watch Tapper still think he has the power to create narrative.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (Oq5OE)

144
Still waiting to hear the Las Vegas Air Force One story. Things changed after that.
Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (j4U/Z)

_________

When was that? Pre-debate or afterwards?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (QnmlO)

145 Now let's dish a little dirt on the Clinton's.

https://shorturl.at/0VX6b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (L/fGl)

146 There's no way they would know this for a recent diagnosis.

He's likely had it for years, even before "taking office" in 2021.
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The cancer was either:
1) Aggravated by the drugs they gave to make him to barely cogent, or
2) was not treated due to adverse, potentially fatal, effects from the other drugs they were giving him.

My current theory is that they needed to keep him alive to make it past the election (before he dropped out), and they were forced to start the initial treatment.
Because it was advancing too quickly and they didn't think he'd make it the needed 6 months.
And that was the cause of the medical emergency in Vegas that necessitated the frantic cross-country flight with AF1 at top speed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (cmj/V)

147 Churchill's house near Oxford (UK) is also called Blenheim, interestingly enough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Yes, this house is named after the palace built by the Duke of Marlborough, where Churchill was born.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

148 The MSM and Congressional Democrats are sounding like prominent Germans after WWII. "I protested, privately! I was a secret anti-Nazi!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (QnmlO)
_________________

Try to find a Nazi in Germany on May 9, 1945.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (YqDXo)

149 >>> 42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

Yup
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (KRtlO)

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All proving President Ford correct.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (6TlG5)

150 Speaking of health care shittiness…

There are 80 million people on Medicaid. 1/4 of the population. This is why spending cuts will never happen. Even Trump is saying don’t touch it. Welfare is too entrenched for too many people and a political untouchable. It’s never getting smaller. And worse every year that number grows faster than overall population growth. Won’t be long before we hit the tipping point where more than 1/2 is on Medicaid.

We’re getting government run health care one way or another.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (7YTFo)

151 You know, we keep making the comment that people in Congress are idiots. And they are- but we keep electing idiots to represent and govern us. I wonder what sort of earth shaking event has to occur where people with a modicum of sense run for office.
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (u/mEj)
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They qualify as idiots when their taste for corruption exceeds their willingness to vote for a good bill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (vviSr)

152 Even Jon F***ing Stewart is mocking Tapper.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1924661621785264343

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (s8j++)

153 The cancer was either:/i]

I think A, they pumped him so full of crap to make him able to function in public that he got cancer. He's probably half tumor at this point like Ruth Bader Ginsberg at the end.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (2VST1)

154 [tapper about lara trump] "she saw something that i did not see at the time."

because you had your head up your ass.

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 20, 2025 02:42 PM (CWTWj)

155
Churchill's house near Oxford (UK) is also called Blenheim, interestingly enough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (56OFV)

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Blenheim Palace is owned by the Duke of Marlborough, who is a Churchill. But it was never Winston's house.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:42 PM (QnmlO)

156
Try to find a Nazi in Germany on May 9, 1945.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (YqDXo)

Try to find a Frenchman who was NOT in the resistance.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 20, 2025 02:42 PM (7YTFo)

157 My current theory is that they needed to keep him alive to make it past the election (before he dropped out), and they were forced to start the initial treatment.
Because it was advancing too quickly and they didn't think he'd make it the needed 6 months.
And that was the cause of the medical emergency in Vegas that necessitated the frantic cross-country flight with AF1 at top speed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (cmj/V)
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Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:42 PM (YqDXo)

158 As I recall Anita Dunn's husband is Bob Bauer who was the attorney repping Biden in the Hur deposition. The cabal was a family affair

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (ef25Y)

159 Old news. Besides, he's dying of cancer. How insensitive and bloodthirsty can you be?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:32 PM (QnmlO)

Most of my ancestors were essentially barbarians. So yes, I can be plenty insensitive and bloodthirsty towards those trying to destroy my homeland.

Posted by: don't hand pookysgirl an axe at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (Wt5PA)

160 126 Council of Presidents members: Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti who ran the government for Biden
Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 02:37

Hunter was running things for his dad. I am betting he is behind the pardons.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (u/mEj)

161 Council of Presidents members: Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti who ran the government for Biden
Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (RHGPo)

Sometimes when I'm feeling particularly cynical, I wonder if maybe the great purges of history were not completely wrong.

I mean, they say Pol Pot killed everyone who wore glasses. Stalin would literally have photographs erase his closest advisors, long before photoshop was invented. Of course the french would send people to the guillotine, and the next week, the people sending people to the guillotine would be guillotined.

I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (24xYU)

162 Listening to Gay Fapper, this guy is just clearly lying in this interview. And he's gay.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (VVYzf)

163 James Clyburn has SO much to answer for. I mean, there's racial solidarity, but forcing Harris onto the ticket was outrageous.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I mean, that's been the MO for most black politicians for the last 60 years. The only thing that matters is the black face, unless they're conservative, in which case they're an Uncle Tom.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (s8j++)

164 [tapper about lara trump] "she saw something that i did not see at the time."
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They love lying so so much. Pathological.

I swear whoever gets the truth out of Jake Tapper becomes the next King of England.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (FkTOT)

165 When have Journalists ever lied?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (n17eQ)

166 When I want breaking hard news, I turn to the guy named, 'Jake' to get the scoop.

This guy, Tapper, is an phenom and should be immediately signed into a contract on the Gorilla Channel for a prime time slot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (zKVqU)

167 103 So, it was Rep James Clyburn (D-SC-6) who insisted that Joe Biden endorse Kamala Harris
Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 02:33 PM (RHGPo)
Only guy who could have done it, because he foisted Biden off on ubama. I say ubama got Bidened twice, of course Biden was the 3rd ubama term , and Harris would have been the 4th ubama term. Take that, FDR!

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (dtj4g)

168 You know, we keep making the comment that people in Congress are idiots. And they are- but we keep electing idiots to represent and govern us. I wonder what sort of earth shaking event has to occur where people with a modicum of sense run for office.
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (u/mEj)

Hi Piper!

I'm wondering more and more how determinative elections actually are. As you say, do either of the political parties actually WANT common sense norms to run? I'm thinking of the Virginia GOP that has a habit of sandbagging people it doesn't like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (Oq5OE)

169 149 >>> 42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

Yup
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (KRtlO)

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All proving President Ford correct.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (6TlG5)

Which is funny because when it came time to replace Biden, the Biden team saddled the dems with Kamala, who absolutely did not want to go that direction.

A guy nobody wanted + a woman nobody wanted = 82 MILLION VOTES!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (KbCG3)

170 It's just called PSA - prostate specific antigen or something. It can be elevated also by many other things other than prostate problems. (I'm not a medical doctor but this is what I've read).
Posted by: Ciampino

Apparently, the prostate does naturally enlarge as men age, so they do the blood test in addition to ensure that there's no enlargement due to cancer.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

171 136
The MSM and Congressional Democrats are sounding like prominent Germans after WWII. "I protested, privately! I was a secret anti-Nazi!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (QnmlO)
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And every Frenchman was a member of the Resistance (read that with a Frenchie accent).

Posted by: Ciampino - at a gay proctologist at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (sPQoU)

172 From Covid vaccines (your previous post) to masks to the 2020 election to George Floyd to Biden's senility to the 51 intelligence officers to Russian collusion to a number of other things, it's amazing that being not only wrong but deceitful and then being deceitful about your deceit does not seem to affect Democrats--either legally or personally. Legally in that they rarely get charged and personally in that they can pretend like their lies weren't told or didn't matter and then on to Signal-Gate. I think Rush has been proven wrong about one thing: he always used to say "it doesn't matter about whether something is right or wrong; it's the seriousness of the charge!" Now, no one believes the seriousness of the charge, but that's only because all the other charges have been found out not to be true and you can't cry wolf anymore. I posted yesterday about my neighbor's friend getting denied research grants because Harvard is no longer getting taxpayer money. In the past I might have some sympathy, but now, as Wilkow says "I live on dark heart island." To quote another great speechifier, Morrie from Goodfellas, "F him in the ear and F him in the other ear."

Posted by: Lex at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (l5xX+)

173 To be fair Clyburn has the same mental accuity as Biden

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (ef25Y)

174 I don't have any sympathy for Biden, because he's been a monster his entire life. He's hateful and bigoted and molested his family and other girls, publicly molested children, lied constantly, bullied people, was hugely corrupt, abused power, on and on it goes.

But as I have for years now, I pray for him to find Jesus and truly be saved.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (2VST1)

175 I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing.
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Rivers of Blood is refreshing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (n17eQ)

176 173 To be fair Clyburn has the same mental accuity as Biden
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (ef25Y)

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I think Clyburn's influence in SC is vastly overstated, everyone knows it, and they just give him airtime because the narrative can't take going against the most powerful black man in an early primary state.

It's politics.

It's also really stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

177 Blenheim Palace is owned by the Duke of Marlborough, who is a Churchill. But it was never Winston's house.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

He was born there, however.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

178 Yes, this house is named after the palace built by the Duke of Marlborough, where Churchill was born.
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
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and the house itself was named for a battle won in Belgium by the first Duke, John Churchill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (oVIfx)

179 Still waiting to hear the Las Vegas Air Force One story. Things changed after that.
Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 02:37 PM (j4U/Z)

The shot of Biden trying to get into the car when it landed was like watching my dad trying to get into a car just before he lost the ability to stand on his own, and wound up bedriddn.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (D7oie)

180 Classic Clinton tactic. Deny, deny, deny, until many years later, shrug, sure it happened, what difference does it make — old news, move on!
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Ah, the Clinton Playbook.

An actual memo that said, "Deflect, deny, evade and act stupid."

And, of course, it didn't need stated, "because the media will assist us at every step."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (KhUhr)

181 willowed from last thread on the clot shot causing New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. This seems big.

292 "we believe it is correct to infer that the injections caused the disease in these 26 cases. If so, they have probably also caused a many other cases that have gone undiagnosed because of their rapid progression to death."

Author Biography
Luc Montagnier, Virology; discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus and Nobel Laureate 2008

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (pqYYE)

182 The Donk /media defense: Yeah, well, Trump is fat!

Jennings: You can’t tell countless lies to the American people for years about Joe Biden to cover up for him, then expect them to believe you now.

Roginsky: But Trump’s doctor. But Trump’s health. But Trump’s weight. The cover up is also the president of the United States who happens to be Donald Trump today. You can laugh all you want.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (L/fGl)

183 I just realized... I would not know who Jake Tapped is if I didn't read this site.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (2J/Lj)

184 it's wrong to speak ill of the dead but he ain't dead yet. rat bastid

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (CWTWj)

185
So Tapper apologized? This is yet another of those situations where an apology is utterly beside the point, but it's used as a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Dude, while it's bad that you unfairly attacked Lara, the key thing is that you were fucking WRONG. Either you lied, or your judgment is so bad that you need to get out of the news business.

An apology is a nice-to-have afterthing, but you're still either stupid or a liar.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (n7rxJ)

186 As I recall Anita Dunn's husband is Bob Bauer who was the attorney repping Biden in the Hur deposition. The cabal was a family affair
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:43 PM (ef25Y)

If you've ever listened to/read Whitney Webb, she's this autistic nerd who investigates all the connections of everyone, showing who came into these government positions, and where they went after. Who is related to who, who worked for whom... she has all the receipts.

Sometimes she lets her autism fly a little too crazily though, she has a particular bug up her arse for Elon Musk, for example. But if you listen to her for 10 minutes, you find out just how many of these monsters there are, both inside and outside of government.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (xy6Dr)

187 Won’t be long before we hit the tipping point where more than 1/2 is on Medicaid.
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Medicaid is intended to keep you poor. Your too poor to qualify for Obamacare (and you probably would have a tough time paying the premiums anyway). If you later have money, the feds will claw it back to cover what they spend on you.The fiscally responsible thing to do for taxpayers, but try pulling yourself out of the financial rut for yourself and yours if you've had medical issues. Thanks Obama (and McCain, Roberts etc)!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (Dv3i1)

188 Posted by: Ciampino - both hands on the shoulders at May 20, 2025 02:40 PM (sPQoU)

Hey, Ciampino, I heard you got mauled by your cat bad enough to go to the hospital. How're you doing now?

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

189 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

I do think that was the plan, since Kamala was basically not able to win anything. The drawback being that neither can Biden.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:49 PM (2VST1)

190 So as we lay out our conspiracy theories here on the proletariat understanding Kamala could not be elected, she had to be coronated and then the same committee would keep running things, did Kamala know? Was she in on it? She could just be a figurehead but have all the pomp of the historical first? Will she ever talk?

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:49 PM (u/mEj)

191 Churchill's estate was called "Marthambles"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 02:49 PM (D7oie)

192 and the house itself was named for a battle won in Belgium by the first Duke, John Churchill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

I think it was in Bavaria. During the War of the Spanish Succession.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

193
I'm sure the media will learn from this and going forward will relentlessly cover the mental acuity of every Republican president.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (QnmlO)

194 So Tapper apologized? This is yet another of those situations where an apology is utterly beside the point, but it's used as a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Dude, while it's bad that you unfairly attacked Lara, the key thing is that you were fucking WRONG. Either you lied, or your judgment is so bad that you need to get out of the news business.

An apology is a nice-to-have afterthing, but you're still either stupid or a liar.

AFAIK, he has not apologized. Any statement that does not acknowledge that he hid the truth intentionally, that he lied out his ass for years, is NOT an apology.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (s8j++)

195 https://is.gd/95Dyll

@CollinRugg
NEW: DoorDash food delivery driver somehow gets lost and ends up on the Chicago O'Hare International Airport tarmac.

Um...

The driver was somehow able to make it through secured areas and even *crossed runways*, according to CBS News.

The individual reportedly drove for miles on the interior of the airport before being caught.

Police say the individual was a 36-year-old man who "accidentally drove into an unauthorized secured area within O'Hare Airport."

The man was not charged or cited.
[video]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (QRFVs)

196
[tapper about lara trump] "she saw something that i did not see at the time."
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That "something" is called the truth. Or hell, make it easier, the facts.

If you didn't see it, Jake, you don't belong in the news biz.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (n7rxJ)

197 i recently had a physical for the first time in some years, and the clinic's web site wanted me to know i am overdue for a hep c test. also a bunch of vaxxines, but hep c? isn't that something that almost no one gets unless your an intravenous drug user, ie, a junkie?

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (CWTWj)

198 174 I don't have any sympathy for Biden, because he's been a monster his entire life. He's hateful and bigoted and molested his family and other girls, publicly molested children, lied constantly, bullied people, was hugely corrupt, abused power, on and on it goes.

But as I have for years now, I pray for him to find Jesus and truly be saved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (2VST1)

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I also have long prayed that Biden would follow in the footsteps of Manasseh, and be carried away on hooks and in chains.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (2ap+5)

199 I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing.
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Rivers of Blood is refreshing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (n17eQ)

The question is, I suppose, are the people who emerge to take up positions of leadership trustworthy, and how long before THEY become corrupted, and we have to start all over again.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (xy6Dr)

200 but hep c? isn't that something that almost no one gets unless your an intravenous drug user, ie, a junkie?
Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (CWTWj)

I think you can have it for years and even test negative for it and then Bam! it pops out of your liver.

Posted by: Marcus Welby, M.D. at May 20, 2025 02:53 PM (xofCm)

201 The fact that CNN still employs Tapper says everything. He's duplicitous and stupid, but he's the face of the network

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 20, 2025 02:53 PM (ef25Y)

202 Apparently, the prostate does naturally enlarge as men age,
___

That's not the only thing that naturally enlarges as men age!

* waggles eyebrows *

Posted by: Nose, Ears, Neck Wattle, Etc at May 20, 2025 02:53 PM (Dv3i1)

203 >> isn't that something that almost no one gets unless your an intravenous drug user, ie, a junkie?

That, and butt stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 02:53 PM (w6EFb)

204 199 I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing.
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Rivers of Blood is refreshing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (n17eQ)

The question is, I suppose, are the people who emerge to take up positions of leadership trustworthy, and how long before THEY become corrupted, and we have to start all over again.
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Rivers of Blood is refreshing. Always.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:53 PM (n17eQ)

205 The rapey-named Tapper is full of shit.

There were all these signs. They ignored them.

They're hoping that we don't remember the personal testimonies to how sharp and spry Joe Biden was that do not contain the words "a staffer told me".

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (krQz2)

206 I also have long prayed that Biden would follow in the footsteps of Manasseh, and be carried away on hooks and in chains.

Interestingly enough, Manasseh returned to God late in his life after being a horrific, evil man as king. We can only pray that Biden will do the same, repent, and throw himself upon the mercy of the cross.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (2VST1)

207 The MSM and Congressional Democrats are sounding like prominent Germans after WWII. "I protested, privately! I was a secret anti-Nazi!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:39 PM (QnmlO)
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And every Frenchman was a member of the Resistance (read that with a Frenchie accent).
Posted by: Ciampino - at a gay proctologist

Civilian deaths on Okinawa.

https://shorturl.at/ZcPGp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (L/fGl)

208
Hi Piper!

I'm wondering more and more how determinative elections actually are. As you say, do either of the political parties actually WANT common sense norms to run? I'm thinking of the Virginia GOP that has a habit of sandbagging people it doesn't like.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025

Hi there! From the outside looking in, there definitely appears to be turf protecting. It can’t be sustainable. Did Rome feel like this?

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (u/mEj)

209 A limitation of PSA testing is the risk of overdiagnosis and resultant negative biopsies owing to poor specificity. Several conditions can affect the PSA level; PSA is prostate-specific but is not prostate-cancer-specific. Elevations of the PSA level can be caused by other conditions such as large benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, prostate manipulations, and recent ejaculation within 24 hours (!! uh-oh...)

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (w9Wax)

210 I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing.
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Rivers of Blood is refreshing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (n17eQ)
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I thirst!

Posted by: Tree of Liberty at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (krQz2)

211 199 The question is, I suppose, are the people who emerge to take up positions of leadership trustworthy, and how long before THEY become corrupted, and we have to start all over again.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (xy6Dr)

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Well, this was why the constitution designed a government with competing power centers, separation of powers both vertical (state vs. fed) and horizontal (Congress vs. President), and the most powerful branch was Congress, half of which was elected every 2 years by the people, the other half which represented the states.

It was a pretty good idea at making sure power was diffuse and the most powerful centers could be easily replaced, relatively.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

212 Biden was a puppet and not expected to govern. When he no longer could pull off the Howdy Doodie act he had to be axed.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (WWpK6)

Remember these Biden statements?
I better not say any more. I'll get in trouble.
and
They told me I couldn't talk about that.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (FCbAQ)

213
but hep c? isn't that something that almost no one gets unless your an intravenous drug user, ie, a junkie?
Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (CWTWj)

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Better than being told you're overdue for your Wasserman test.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (QnmlO)

214 183 I just realized... I would not know who Jake Tapped is if I didn't read this site.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 20, 2025 02:48 PM (2J/Lj)

I do not know who Jake tapped and I don't want to know either.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (B9Prs)

215 But as I have for years now, I pray for him to find Jesus and truly be saved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:45 PM (2VST1)

I also have long prayed that Biden would follow in the footsteps of Manasseh, and be carried away on hooks and in chains.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 02:51 PM (2ap+5)

Honestly, I think if you take your Christian belief to its logical conclusion, you have to think of the worst person you can... for many it would be Hitler, for me my ex-wife, but potato/poTAHto... and pray that in their moment of death, they come to find the Lord, and therefore, a place in His paradise.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (xy6Dr)

216 Just got a yahoo news alert... "Experts" say Trump's Big beautiful bill favors the wealthy...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)

217 Jake Tapper has no shame. I knew Biden was losing it mentally way back in 2019 and I’m just some shmuck that watches the news and has no sources at the White House or anywhere else.

And he sits there with a straight face expecting me to believe he didn’t know back then?? No shame

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (3guPG)

218 44 In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall...

...if he had nuked Moscow yet or not.

Just how much danger did this senile asshat and his puppeteers expose this nation to??? Who the FU*K was calling the shots on Defense? Just how many dilettante dipshits buzzing around the Oval Office think they were in charge?
Somebody's ass needs to burn for this.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (W/lyH)
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I am waiting for just such an investigation. Thanks for bringing it up.

Posted by: Ciampino - where are both hands? at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (sPQoU)

219 but hep c? isn't that something that almost no one gets unless your an intravenous drug user, ie, a junkie?
Posted by: gnats local 675
________

Or if you got a blood transfusion back before they were testing for it. I think it can lay dormant for like 20 or 30 years.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (UBKzV)

220 >>Apparently, the prostate does naturally enlarge as men age, so they do the blood test in addition to ensure that there's no enlargement due to cancer.

Right, which is why the acceptable values for PSA are adjusted for age as PSA in men increases over time.

The thing urologists look for is "PSA velocity" which is how much PSA value has increased over the previous testing.

That's what tipped my urologist off and initiated a biopsy, which was positive for cancer.

Gleason 6, which is low grade. Active surveillance was the recommended course of action, which I agreed to.

That was in 2018.

I just had another MRI and another biopsy (my fifth, I think) a couple of months ago.

Still at a Gleason 6, so active surveillance continues.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (Y1sOo)

221 The MSM and Congressional Democrats are sounding like prominent Germans after WWII. "I protested, privately! I was a secret anti-Nazi!"
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"I was not a Nazi" Polka

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (KhUhr)

222 The fact that CNN still employs Tapper says everything. He's duplicitous and stupid, but he's the face of the network

I think that says more about CNN than Tapper really. He's the best they have, he's literally the best they can offer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (2VST1)

223 I think it was in Bavaria. During the War of the Spanish Succession.
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
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Well, I stand corrected. Will be visiting there on Friday for the grand tour so I'll learn all about it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (yiP0Y)

224 So Tapper apologized? This is yet another of those situations where an apology is utterly beside the point, but it's used as a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Dude, while it's bad that you unfairly attacked Lara, the key thing is that you were fucking WRONG. Either you lied, or your judgment is so bad that you need to get out of the news business.
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The irony is that if Tapper had stuck to just being a reporter - i.e., reporting the facts - and not tried his hand at being a journalist - i.e., editorializing on the facts - he'd have been fine.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (YqDXo)

225 I'm sure some of this is probably being looked into, but I'm unclear on the processes that would be necessary to overturn any of it... especially with the judicial coup currently underway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Q4IgG)

Robert Barnes' opinion was that it would be nearly impossible to negate every autopen signature, however if a case comes up in court, that point would be brought up to be made to go away

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (D7oie)

226 Tapper is not stupid.

He's an ex-White House Dem staffer, doing the job the Democrat party placed him to do.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (krQz2)

227 BTW who *else* is being conveniently protected by this book and bullshit?

Joe Biden

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (FkTOT)

228
Well, this was why the constitution designed a government with competing power centers, separation of powers both vertical (state vs. fed) and horizontal (Congress vs. President), and the most powerful branch was Congress, half of which was elected every 2 years by the people, the other half which represented the states.

It was a pretty good idea at making sure power was diffuse and the most powerful centers could be easily replaced, relatively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

Direct election of Senators for 6 f'n years was the end.
That tossed everything out of balance.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (FCbAQ)

229 Interestingly enough, Manasseh returned to God late in his life after being a horrific, evil man as king. We can only pray that Biden will do the same, repent, and throw himself upon the mercy of the cross.
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Yes, but since we're praying, maybe add that Biden provided a public confession for all of his public crimes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (Dv3i1)

230 Just once I wish some interviewer would come out and say Trapper is a liar to his face and kick him out of the interview. Every one knows he is lying. I'm tired of these interviewers treating him like some kind honest broker that, garsh darn, Jake was an innocent bystander.

F him by a pack of diseased hyenas.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 20, 2025 02:56 PM (dLmtu)

231 I just keep thinking back to the Virginia Governor race back about ten years ago. Bill Bolling (Lt Gov) made a deal with Bill McDonnell that he wouldn't run for Governor (so McDonnell would win the nomination without a primary), and in turn McDonnell would support Bolling for Governor at the next election.

McDonnell finishes his term, but then comes Ken Cuccinelli to gum up the old boy's deal. Nail in the coffin for Bolling was a nominating convention that destroyed his chances with the nomination since he wasn't all that popular with the delegates. He got the axe, but then the VA GOP leadership didn't give Cuccinelli much if any support in the General.

Takeaway is why the hell would any competent if not accomplished normie want to get involved in any of that crap?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (Oq5OE)

232 I think it was in Bavaria.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
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Where the trees come out of the ground!

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

233 Well, this was why the constitution designed a government with competing power centers, separation of powers both vertical (state vs. fed) and horizontal (Congress vs. President), and the most powerful branch was Congress, half of which was elected every 2 years by the people, the other half which represented the states.

It was a pretty good idea at making sure power was diffuse and the most powerful centers could be easily replaced, relatively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, it was a very good plan. Worked really well... for about 174 years.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (becA2)

234 Joe Biden garnished such a reputation in the Senate of being so mind numbingly stupid that were you to make a Venn Diagram of his "stupidity" vs. "declining mental acuity" it would be two circles sitting on top of each other.

All that is to say that it was easier for Biden to hide his mental decline because the bar was already set below sea level.

That's not an excuse for the media. It is fact. Telling people to stand up and be acknowledge when confined to a wheel chair. Looking for someone in the crowd to acknowledge who'd been dead for nearly five years. Both these things were done well before 2020.

Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (dIske)

235 Jake Tapper has no shame.
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and that's just the starting point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (yiP0Y)

236 And I meant to say Bob McDonnell.

What the hell, I just live here.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (Oq5OE)

237 Just got a yahoo news alert... "Experts" say Trump's Big beautiful bill favors the wealthy...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)
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The "wealthy" being defined as those who actually pay any income tax.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (YqDXo)

238 I don't have any sympathy for Biden, because he's been a monster his entire life. He's hateful and bigoted and molested his family and other girls, publicly molested children, lied constantly, bullied people, was hugely corrupt, abused power, on and on it goes.

But as I have for years now, I pray for him to find Jesus and truly be saved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm more a "go straight to Hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200" kind of guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (L/fGl)

239 We saw that Biden was given reporters' questions before they were "asked." We saw on those note-cards that Biden was given the exact question and also given his scripted answer.

Worse, the note-cards even had the photo of the reporter.

Posted by: Ciampino - who was really in charge? at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (sPQoU)

240
The standard responses from Dems include "old news" , "we're looking forward" , "the media is just trying to protect themselves" and an oldie but goodie "but Trump"
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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I hope Vance (the 2028 candidate?) hammers the fuck out of whoever winds up on the Dem ticket. I think there's a good chance it'll be Buttigieg, one of those "Let's look forward" dimwits. America can't afford to be led by someone who is either STUPID or DISHONEST enough to have told the country that Biden was sharp and quick, dude. That's looking forward.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (n7rxJ)

241
Maybe when Joe writes his memoirs a lot of these questions will be addressed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (QnmlO)

242
The "wealthy" being defined as those who actually pay any income tax.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (YqDXo)

Correct

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (VE6XX)

243 ace has more viewers than tapper's string and tin cans

Posted by: Lies! Lies! at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (QSrLX)

244 The irony is that if Tapper had stuck to just being a reporter - i.e., reporting the facts - and not tried his hand at being a journalist - i.e., editorializing on the facts - he'd have been fine.
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Hubris, greed and envy? The Dem Party is the Bonfire of the Vanities.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (n17eQ)

245 Tony Weiner went to rehab for his sex addiction and look at him now.

If it worked for Tony, it can work for Jake.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (zKVqU)

246 240 I hope Vance (the 2028 candidate?) hammers the fuck out of whoever winds up on the Dem ticket. I think there's a good chance it'll be Buttigieg, one of those "Let's look forward" dimwits. America can't afford to be led by someone who is either STUPID or DISHONEST enough to have told the country that Biden was sharp and quick, dude. That's looking forward.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (n7rxJ)

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"So, which of Trump's EOs to close the border are you going to rescind first?"
-probably just as effective

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

247 Yes, but since we're praying, maybe add that Biden provided a public confession for all of his public crimes.

That was my most earnest prayer when he was president, that he had a press conference and announced his repentance, then just went down an AA-intervention-style litany of apologies and begging forgiveness for his MANY evils. Starting with that little asian girl who's nipple he tweaked right in front of her dad, on TV.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 02:59 PM (2VST1)

248 those of us not trapped at the airport

Posted by: Lies! Lies! at May 20, 2025 02:59 PM (QSrLX)

249 Tapper and Thompson write that Biden was protected by an insular group, including his wife, his son and a group of longtime aides nicknamed the "Politburo," a reference to the leadership committee of a communist party.
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Hey! *I* came up with that name for the Biden regime before he was in office!

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (krQz2)

250 It's politics.

It's also really stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

And isn't that really the story of Kamala?

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (FkTOT)

251 Elevations of the PSA level can be caused by other conditions such as large benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, prostate manipulations, and recent ejaculation within 24 hours (!! uh-oh...)

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 20, 2025 02:54 PM (w9Wax)

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How 'bout swallowing?

Posted by: Pete Bootygag at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (Yfj+S)

252 Maybe when Joe writes his memoirs a lot of these questions will be addressed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (QnmlO)

Already working on it.

Posted by: Autopen at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (becA2)

253 Having a corrupt politician become effectively immune from prosecution because he now has the mental acuity of a turnip was not on my bingo card.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (Oq5OE)

254
My own primary doc has joked with me about the Hep C test. He was going on about what tests to order. Hep C came up, he shook his head, and said, let's see you haven't had any blood transfusions before whenever, don't shoot heroin, and you're not a homosexual... are you? (accusatory look).

He said a lot of this is not to hurt people feelings -- if you have to test the drug using butt fuckers, you should test everybody, cause you might be singling them out, and make them feel bad.

That nonsense drives a hell of a lot of this sort of stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

255 Honestly, I think if you take your Christian belief to its logical conclusion, you have to think of the worst person you can... for many it would be Hitler, for me my ex-wife, but potato/poTAHto... and pray that in their moment of death, they come to find the Lord, and therefore, a place in His paradise.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (xy6Dr)

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One of my many problems is a great affinity for and commiseration with the prodigal son's brother.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

256 butt edge edge . the new beetle juice

Posted by: Lies! Lies! at May 20, 2025 03:01 PM (QSrLX)

257 I am approaching 70 and I have had a psa test every year for at least the last 10 years. IIRC it is also part of the medicare annual wellness exam for all males over the age of 65. My doctor recommended it for me after the age of 55 even though there is no history in my family.

I can pretty much guarantee that biden has been having the psa test every single year for the last 20 years. They didn't miss anything with those tests, they just hid the results and his treatment.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 20, 2025 03:01 PM (e5NfL)

258 I hope Vance (the 2028 candidate?) hammers the fuck out of whoever winds up on the Dem ticket.

I came up a dollar late and a dollar short.

Posted by: David DePape at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM (w9Wax)

259 What you naysayers are overlooking is my humility. My humility is the stuff of legend, man. I've clearly reached the absolute pinnacle of humility--and you're all just green with envy.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM (paSBy)

260 I don't have any sympathy for Biden, because he's been a monster his entire life. He's hateful and bigoted and molested his family and other girls, publicly molested children, lied constantly, bullied people, was hugely corrupt, abused power, on and on it goes.

But as I have for years now, I pray for him to find Jesus and truly be saved.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm more a "go straight to Hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200" kind of guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 02:58 PM (L/fGl)
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"We don't want that cocksucker either"

-- Satan

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

261 Direct election of Senators for 6 f'n years was the end.
That tossed everything out of balance.
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Yep. The consolidation of Gangster Government.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM (n17eQ)

262 With our merciful God anything is possible, but I will not hold my breath waiting for the salvation of Biden’s soul. A prerequisite would be his repentance… he’s never shown an ounce of contrition his entire life so it’s just not gonna happen. He’ll get perfect justice

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM (3guPG)

263 >>> task force on reproductive health-care access

How can the Republic ever endure without a . . . "task force on reproductive health-care access"?

Posted by: brak at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (jGJov)

264 Honestly, I think if you take your Christian belief to its logical conclusion, you have to think of the worst person you can... for many it would be Hitler, for me my ex-wife, but potato/poTAHto... and pray that in their moment of death, they come to find the Lord, and therefore, a place in His paradise.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (xy6Dr)

One of my many problems is a great affinity for and commiseration with the prodigal son's brother.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

I think that's what of the great beauties of God's love. We don't have to like it, we don't have to understand it. We can hold onto our human failings, including the desire for revenge, and God will forgive us. If we are sincere in our belief in Him.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (becA2)

265 257 I am approaching 70 and I have had a psa test every year for at least the last 10 years. IIRC it is also part of the medicare annual wellness exam for all males over the age of 65. My doctor recommended it for me after the age of 55 even though there is no history in my family.

Wouldn't it show up in blood tests ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (VE6XX)

266 Joey Shitpants is still gonna "write" a book and get paid a $5M advance, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

267 Biden wasn't even the General Secretary of the DC Politburo, just the puppet.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (krQz2)

268 My own primary doc has joked with me about the Hep C test. He was going on about what tests to order. Hep C came up, he shook his head, and said, let's see you haven't had any blood transfusions before whenever, don't shoot heroin, and you're not a homosexual... are you? (accusatory look).
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Cue Bill Murray: "You mean, like, flaming?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (YqDXo)

269 And isn't that really the story of Kamala?

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (FkTOT)

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The future governor of Califzuela!

/Ironically, the jungle primary out there could split several D candidates' votes --- but I still don't think Steve Hilton, as much as I like him, has a chance.

Especially considering the massive & entrenched election fraud ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (Yfj+S)

270 "We don't want that cocksucker either"

-- Satan
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM

"What are you looking at me for? The property values here already suck."

-- Hades

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (Oq5OE)

271
and pray that in their moment of death, they come to find the Lord, and therefore, a place in His paradise.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (xy6Dr)

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The Church acknowledges those particular people in heaven (saints) but it never says any particular person is in hell.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (QnmlO)

272
The irony is that if Tapper had stuck to just being a reporter - i.e., reporting the facts - and not tried his hand at being a journalist - i.e., editorializing on the facts - he'd have been fine.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

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Over and over and over: if they just reported the FACTS, they'd be ten times more feared and powerful than if they ran around spinning, lying, covering up, and propagandizing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (n7rxJ)

273 I read something that said that Joe's lucidity medication would have not mixed well with his cancer meds, so they didn't give him cancer meds.

What humanity.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (krQz2)

274 he looks like antony blinken

Posted by: cherries in season at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (N+i4e)

275 We don't hear much about Joe Retardo's slippery brother anymore. Kinda like maybe he's tying up loose ends (offshore banking, document shredding, Kruggerand buying, pay offs) before an extended road trip after Brother Joe cashes in.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (gm9Sb)

276 269 The future governor of Califzuela!

/Ironically, the jungle primary out there could split several D candidates' votes --- but I still don't think Steve Hilton, as much as I like him, has a chance.

Especially considering the massive & entrenched election fraud ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (Yfj+S)

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It's a machine state, and there's already a next in line. I doubt she gets the kind of institutional support she'd need to overcome her issues, and her team will figure that out and prevent her from running.

If she's going to lose a race, it'd be better for it to be the 2028 presidential race, even at the primary stage. A lot more money will be flowing around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

277 >>>Joey Shitpants is still gonna "write" a book and get paid a $5M advance, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade

>Somebody needs to launder that money, and Hillary is clearly out of favor.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (zKVqU)

278 Joey Shitpants is still gonna "write" a book and get paid a $5M advance, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

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With an introduction by Bill Ayers as ghostwriter for Barry Soetoro plagiarizing a Neil Kinnock speech.

Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (Yfj+S)

279 "We don't want that cocksucker either"
-- Satan
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:02 PM

"What are you looking at me for? The property values here already suck."
-- Hades
Posted by: WitchDoktor

We're going to need a bigger boat...

Posted by: Charon at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (w9Wax)

280 The irony is that if Tapper had stuck to just being a reporter - i.e., reporting the facts - and not tried his hand at being a journalist - i.e., editorializing on the facts - he'd have been fine.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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He was an ex-staffer of a White House administration. His job was never reporting. Just like Chuck Todd, George Staphacoculis, and the parade of ex Dem WH spokeman in media.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (krQz2)

281 273 I read something that said that Joe's lucidity medication would have not mixed well with his cancer meds, so they didn't give him cancer meds.

What humanity.
Posted by: Axeman

I'm not sure they gave him the lucidity meds either.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (Dv3i1)

282 Posted by: ShainS at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (Yfj+S

I expect it to be handed to her.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:06 PM (FkTOT)

283 My own primary doc has joked with me about the Hep C test. He was going on about what tests to order. Hep C came up, he shook his head, and said, let's see you haven't had any blood transfusions before whenever, don't shoot heroin, and you're not a homosexual... are you? (accusatory look).

He said a lot of this is not to hurt people feelings -- if you have to test the drug using butt fuckers, you should test everybody, cause you might be singling them out, and make them feel bad.

That nonsense drives a hell of a lot of this sort of stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (w6EFb)

The whole Hep C thing is amazing. Yeah, you have basically zero chance of getting it, unless you fall into one of those three categories (my dad fell into one of them... don't go speculating which one, you jerkfarts).

And now they have a cure! A real, bonified cure! They never cure anything, but they have a cure for Hep C.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (becA2)

284 WOW!!! Was just reading about the Romanian election. It seems the EU is getting brazen in their election rigging. Censoring media, threatening citizens, and somehow getting their candidate elected by 8% points despite getting shellacked in the first round in voting and having over a 20% deficit running up to the day of the election.

That's a worse cheat than our 2020 election. Brazen too.

Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

285 The Church acknowledges those particular people in heaven (saints) but it never says any particular person is in hell.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (QnmlO)

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I rag on Kevin Smith like, all the time, but there was an interesting plot point in his movie Dogma that Hell was originally nothing more than being unable to be near God's grace. To those who have experienced that grace, it would be a horrible punishment.

My mind is wandering these days. Must be Bidencitis.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (Oq5OE)

286 I think that's what of the great beauties of God's love. We don't have to like it, we don't have to understand it.

If we deserved salvation it wouldn't be grace. There would be no good news, because there's no bad news to begin with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (2VST1)

287 It's a machine state, and there's already a next in line. I doubt she gets the kind of institutional support she'd need to overcome her issues, and her team will figure that out and prevent her from running.

If she's going to lose a race, it'd be better for it to be the 2028 presidential race, even at the primary stage. A lot more money will be flowing around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

Personally I think Eleni Kounalakis has probably the best chance at being next governor of CA. Dems don’t treat their losers well and Eleni can win that state as easily as Kamala; she’s next in line

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (3guPG)

288
My doc has told me the same thing.
But I continue to receive the prostate exam. I think he just likes me.
Wish he wouldn't wear that damned college ring though...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:29 PM (W/lyH)
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Watch out if he puts both hands on your shoulders ....... just saying.

Posted by: Ciampino - hormones at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (sPQoU)

289 Just how much danger did this senile asshat and his puppeteers expose this nation to??? Who the FU*K was calling the shots on Defense? Just how many dilettante dipshits buzzing around the Oval Office think they were in charge?
Somebody's ass needs to burn for this.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (W/lyH)
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I am waiting for just such an investigation. Thanks for bringing it up.
Posted by: Ciampino - where are both hands? at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (sPQoU)

THIS investigation, as to who was actually wielding Presidential Power, is the one that the 'sudden' Cancer announcement is meant to disrail.

It aint about protecting Biden anymore, its about protecting those who committed Treason, by usurping the Power of the Presidency...

But making it so you 'can't' ask Joe questions... can't find out what he did or did not do... is why they finally announced his medical condition.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 03:08 PM (mP0Kj)

290 Wouldn't it show up in blood tests ?
Yes, the PSA test is just part of a standard blood test.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (XMwZJ)

291 Over and over and over: if they just reported the FACTS, they'd be ten times more feared and powerful than if they ran around spinning, lying, covering up, and propagandizing.

The problem is, without the propagandizing, and worse, the selective manner of covering (ignore that, heavily cover this)... their side would be powerless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (2VST1)

292 Maybe I don't know enough about Cali, I will acknowledge this but I fully expect them to make her gov there. All those blow jobs weren't for nothing or they would have already turned on her. She is still being protected bigly and it doesn't look yet like she's disappearing from politics.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (FkTOT)

293 Maybe that multiple clot shots gave him dementia?

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (uMhvh)

294 287 Personally I think Eleni Kounalakis has probably the best chance at being next governor of CA. Dems don’t treat their losers well and Eleni can win that state as easily as Kamala; she’s next in line
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (3guPG)

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If Kamala runs for governor of CA and somehow loses...she's beyond done in politics.

If she holds off for 2028 and runs, she has a very good chance of winning the first state, SC, and potentially making a strong run of the ensuing states based on that.

And if she wins that primary, billions are up for grabs. If she loses, she's still probably going to raise a hundred million.

I think the math trends towards her running president and leaving CA on its own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

295 and pray that in their moment of death, they come to find the Lord, and therefore, a place in His paradise.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 02:55 PM (xy6Dr)

The Church acknowledges those particular people in heaven (saints) but it never says any particular person is in hell.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:04 PM (QnmlO)

Yep, the temporal Church proclaims authority over many things, but the damnation of any soul... nope, that's the Big Guy's job.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:10 PM (becA2)

296 I rag on Kevin Smith like, all the time, but there was an interesting plot point in his movie Dogma that Hell was originally nothing more than being unable to be near God's grace. To those who have experienced that grace, it would be a horrible punishment.

My mind is wandering these days. Must be Bidencitis.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

CS Lewis wrote about Heaven and Hell in The Great Divorce. In Hell the souls were ever shrinking and trying to get as far away from each other as they could, not being able to stand the squabbling and narcissism of their fellow denizens.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:10 PM (Dv3i1)

297 One of my many problems is a great affinity for and commiseration with the prodigal son's brother.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 20, 2025 03:00 PM (2ap+5)

You realize that in that parable, the prodigal son represents the gentiles, and the older brother represents the Jews.

The younger brother's sin is rebelliousness and licentiousness.
The older brother's sin is Pride.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2025 03:10 PM (uWKK8)

298
...was informed that the Biden AF1 Las Vegas incident involved Joey falling and not being able to recognize anyone in the entourage, leading to the conclusion that he had a stroke and had to be rushed to a secure medical location.

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (j4U/Z)

299 Funny how we are designed. Estrogen is essential to a young woman yet is implicated in breast cancer on aging. Similarly testosterone is vital to a young man but is the hormone that causes those prostate problems in old age.
Nature laughing at us?

Posted by: Ciampino - hormones are something else at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (sPQoU)

300
It aint about protecting Biden anymore, its about protecting those who committed Treason, by usurping the Power of the Presidency...

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*polite cough*

I know the term is frequently used and I understand the sentiment, but I thought treason was betraying your country to another. Sedition was undermining the nation without an outside party.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (QnmlO)

301 268 My own primary doc has joked with me about the Hep C test. He was going on about what tests to order. Hep C came up, he shook his head, and said, let's see you haven't had any blood transfusions before whenever, don't shoot heroin, and you're not a homosexual... are you? (accusatory look).
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Cue Bill Murray: "You mean, like, flaming?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:03 PM (YqDXo)

Just that one time, and only because I needed the money.
--Pete B.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 20, 2025 03:12 PM (N39Ws)

302 300 *polite cough*

I know the term is frequently used and I understand the sentiment, but I thought treason was betraying your country to another. Sedition was undermining the nation without an outside party.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (QnmlO)

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*looks at incursion of military aged males with ties to foreign governments like Venezuela*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

303 Face it, the media exists for Democrat propaganda.

It got it's footing during the regime of the closest thing America has ever had to a dictator, FDR, and kept going from there.

FDR got away with threatening broadcast licensing and other things like that.

This is the reason that his own party resisted his stacking the Court, when it came down to having another branch under him.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:12 PM (krQz2)

304 Hell was originally nothing more than being unable to be near God's grace. To those who have experienced that grace, it would be a horrible punishment.

Two thoughts

1) everyone has experienced God's grace to some degree, because we all deserve nothing but punishment yet have small blessings and joys in life.
2) people say Hell is "the absence of God" but there is nowhere that you can go to get away from God. What is is, is the absence of God's love, mercy, grace, patience, and goodness. All that's left are justice, wrath, and holiness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (2VST1)

305 I know the term is frequently used and I understand the sentiment, but I thought treason was betraying your country to another. Sedition was undermining the nation without an outside party.
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Nice corrective, Hadrian.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (n17eQ)

306 Is there a priest attending to Dying Joe as he comes nose to nose with eternity?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (xx7Ke)

307 They have to protect Biden. They told us for years he was the goodest most honest man alive. It's still all about protecting their stupid racket.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (FkTOT)

308
If Gabe were running the blog it would be a lot more posts about how drag story hour and trans athletes don’t effective you guys, so shut up haters with your “slippery slope” garbage theories!!

And then more mocking in the comments.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

And ending his posts with insipid unknown twink garage bands. The only thing worse is Driscoll's constant Beatles-fellating over at Insty.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (y9nCu)

309 WOW!!! Was just reading about the Romanian election. It seems the EU is getting brazen in their election rigging. Censoring media, threatening citizens, and somehow getting their candidate elected by 8% points despite getting shellacked in the first round in voting and having over a 20% deficit running up to the day of the election.

That's a worse cheat than our 2020 election. Brazen too.
Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (dIske)

In an alternate universe, the U.S. stays out of the Euro war in the 40s, figures out a way to keep the Germans from getting any ideas of coming over here.

Hitler decides the Jews have suffered enough, lets any/all of them who want to leave, go to Palestine or the U.S. or wherever.

Would Europe be worse off than it is today, under the authoritarian boot of the globalist EUer?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (becA2)

310 If Gabe were running the blog it would be a lot more posts about how drag story hour and trans athletes don’t effective you guys, so shut up haters with your “slippery slope” garbage theories!!

And then more mocking in the comments.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2025 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

And ending his posts with insipid unknown twink garage bands. The only thing worse is Driscoll's constant Beatles-fellating over at Insty.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (y9nCu)

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Don't forget about him talking about his stupid pickup truck.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (Oq5OE)

311 Personally I think Eleni Kounalakis has probably the best chance at being next governor of CA. Dems don’t treat their losers well and Eleni can win that state as easily as Kamala; she’s next in line
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (3guPG)

There is a YUGE crowds of Angry Calif Democrats right now... angry at their own government... which is in Democrat control.

To date, only 7 Building permits have been allowed in the Palisades area... 4 of which were in process before the fires.

One owner of the ONE house that survived the fire on Malibu Beach, has been warned by numerous folks that Calif is going to Eminent Domain his property, because they want total control of the Beach.

These owners are Old So CAL Hollywood elite... rich folks who have supported Dems financially for decades... that could very well change if the Repubs get off their asses and point some of this crap out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (mP0Kj)

312 Watch out if he puts both hands on your shoulders ....... just saying.
Posted by: Ciampino - hormones at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (sPQoU)
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Especially if the first words out of his mouth are "But first..."

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (krQz2)

313 303 Face it, the media exists for Democrat propaganda.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:12 PM (krQz2)

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Media has always existed as an organ for one power center or another.

In America, before broadcasting, newspapers were explicitly party aligned.

That fell away because the federal government wanted at least a patois of impartiality when it came to giving out broadcast licenses. Limited airwaves, all controlled by the feds, and you have to appear impartial.

However, it was never true. ABC, NBC, and CBS were always establishment friendly and aligned with one major party. They just covered it in a veil of "objectivity" that was mostly tonal in nature. They've always been partisan actors. They just hid it, slightly, for about 100 years.

The demise of the American media ecosystem of the 20th century and the rise of citizen journalism is the most American thing to happen in America in perhaps a century.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

314
The base rate fallacy comes into play with testing for various things. If you test everybody for everything, most of the positive results will be false positives.

A classic example is a breathalyzer test. Suppose the cops set up random checkpoints and did breathlyzer tests. You'll see a number like 2% false positive rate, and many will naively assume that translates to only a 2% change a positive result would be false.

Not so, it depends on the base rate of the condition being tested for. If that is very low, then the majority of positive readings taken from random samples will be false positives.

Now, if you increase that base rate, like only giving breathalyzer tests to drivers showing other symptoms of being drunk, then you're good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (w6EFb)

315 Is there a priest attending to Dying Joe as he comes nose to nose with eternity?

Probably one of those "priests" with the rainbow stole who thinks abortion is Biblical.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (2VST1)

316 There is a YUGE crowds of Angry Calif Democrats right now... angry at their own government... which is in Democrat control.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (mP0Kj)
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They just need to vote for the right Democrat. That's all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (krQz2)

317
Is there a priest attending to Dying Joe as he comes nose to nose with eternity?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (xx7Ke)

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I'm sure they'll dig up some Jesuit to tell Joe that the Lord loves abortionists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (QnmlO)

318 Maybe I don't know enough about Cali, I will acknowledge this but I fully expect them to make her gov there. All those blow jobs weren't for nothing or they would have already turned on her. She is still being protected bigly and it doesn't look yet like she's disappearing from politics.
Posted by: ... at May 20,
****
Whomever gets elected inherits a high speed train wreck.
Staring down the barrel of a $17 billion deficit Democrats want to raise taxes to save an $11 billion MediCal for illegal aliens.
And the train authorities want ANOTHER $7 billion to get ANYTHING to run on the least expensive segment.

And the homeless keep piling up as collateral damage as gas is going from $5 to EIGHT BUCKS +!!!!

Harris will cackle as she dismisses the sinking feeling. No BJ is going to save this situation.

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (uMhvh)

319 O/T -- Dershowitz's next book:

"Trump to Harvard: 'GO FUND YOURSELF!'"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump to Harvard: 'GO FUND YOURSELF!' at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (AI7FZ)

320 who the hell is even buying Tapper's book?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (V6W16)

321 299 Funny how we are designed. Estrogen is essential to a young woman yet is implicated in breast cancer on aging. Similarly testosterone is vital to a young man but is the hormone that causes those prostate problems in old age.
Nature laughing at us?
Posted by: Ciampino - hormones are something else at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (sPQoU)

The hormones are very powerful and complex agents that have the ability to selectively activate various parts of our DNA. As we age, and everything wears out a bit, that process has a greater and greater possibility of going awry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (uWKK8)

322 Especially if the first words out of his mouth are "But first..."
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This will cause some discomfort....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (Dv3i1)

323 Is there a priest attending to Dying Joe as he comes nose to nose with eternity?

Probably one of those "priests" with the rainbow stole who thinks abortion is Biblical.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (2VST1)

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On the plus side, you could tell Biden it was the Pope and he'd totally believe you.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (Oq5OE)

324 >>>Saw the video yesterday, of Biden telling a story about oil on his parent's car, and why lots of people, including him, have cancer.
That was 2022.

Oh yeah, thank you, I forgot I wanted to link that.

Again: Ace is mentally unfit.
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

Does Jake Tapper know?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:17 PM (8avO+)

325 And now they have a cure! A real, bonified cure! They never cure anything, but they have a cure for Hep C.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (becA2)

RFJ Jr. had the hep c and I believe he was treated for it and had a good result.

Posted by: Marcus Welby, M.D. at May 20, 2025 03:17 PM (xofCm)

326 OK, gotta call a lid. Taylor's calling. I'll let her know you all say hi.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:17 PM (Oq5OE)

327 New York Post@nypost
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs took drugs ‘every day’ including Obama-shaped ecstasy pills, ex-assistant says

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Obama shaped drugs? Now, that's class!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (L/fGl)

328 And if she wins that primary, billions are up for grabs. If she loses, she's still probably going to raise a hundred million.

I think the math trends towards her running president and leaving CA on its own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)
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I dunno. I bet a lot of donors to her recent fiasco were pissed to see her burn her way through $1 billion in three months and come up with bupkis.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

329 Two thoughts

1) everyone has experienced God's grace to some degree, because we all deserve nothing but punishment yet have small blessings and joys in life.
2) people say Hell is "the absence of God" but there is nowhere that you can go to get away from God. What is is, is the absence of God's love, mercy, grace, patience, and goodness. All that's left are justice, wrath, and holiness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (2VST1)

Obviously, there are many renderings of what Hell must be.

I think it would be particularly apt, if Hell turns out to be, once you die you are given a glimpse of the purity of God's love, and then once you reject it, you are sent to an eternal life of what's basically Earth.

No devils with pitchforks. Just other humans, behaving like humans.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (becA2)

330 I'll let her know you all say hi.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:17 PM (Oq5OE)

Indeed!!!

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (FkTOT)

331
Hitler decides the Jews have suffered enough, lets any/all of them who want to leave, go to Palestine or the U.S. or wherever.

Would Europe be worse off than it is today, under the authoritarian boot of the globalist EUer?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (becA2)

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Most Jews have left Europe. I think the current population is less than 10% of what it was a century ago.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (QnmlO)

332
Like ace says, "Maddening."

We never get justice on earth. (shakes fist)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (n7rxJ)

333 Don't forget about him talking about his stupid pickup truck.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (Oq5OE)

I looked him up a while back - he used to try to troll Trump supporters on X, but after Trump won he couldn't handle that anymore, and he became one of the angry lefties who fled to BlueSky and who now verbally fellate each other about "Orange Man Bad!" all day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (uWKK8)

334 328 I dunno. I bet a lot of donors to her recent fiasco were pissed to see her burn her way through $1 billion in three months and come up with bupkis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

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She hasn't lost everyone. It'll be a contested primary, but in a wide field, name recognition will win the day. Plus, she's next in line.

SC's primary voting block will be majority black and majority female.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

335 I don't think Kamala has the temperament or integrity to run another race she could actually lose.

That's what I don't think.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (FkTOT)

336 The demise of the American media ecosystem of the 20th century and the rise of citizen journalism is the most American thing to happen in America in perhaps a century.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
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No doubt. But it precisely the hill that Democrats decided to start trying to protect "Our Democracy" on.

Because they can't not have a monopoly on what the media allows out there.

The sometimes-lucid Van Jones said he thinks the Dems are going to pay for the Biden coverup for decades.

Kicking people when they are down has never been so fun.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (krQz2)

337 >>>42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.

Yup
Posted by: ace at May 20, 2025 02:27 PM (KRtlO)

I was told that was the plan for the *first* term!

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (8avO+)

338 No devils with pitchforks. Just other humans, behaving like humans.

It has been said that this life is as good as it ever gets for the lost, and as bad as it ever gets for the saved. Hell on earth, as it were.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (2VST1)

339 > there is nowhere that you can go to get away from God.

I believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (lIio7)

340 "Stalin would literally have photographs erase his closest advisors, long before photoshop was invented.

I'm just saying, they say the problem with these purges is innocent people get caught up in them, but I'm not convinced an occasional purge of ALL the elites is entirely a bad thing."

I was thinking this same thing the other day. Stalin was less worried about actual enemies than keeping the govt and ruling class in line. He would never have allowed anything like an independent Deep State or independent elite class to form. They were all beholden to him and terrified.) The purges makes some sense in this aspect.

Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (GUOwU)

341 Is there a priest attending to Dying Joe as he comes nose to nose with eternity?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:13 PM (xx7Ke)

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I'm envisioning a BicPic of F. Joe's last five years that's a combination of "The Death Of Stalin" and "The Exorcist."

Baby title it " The Exorcism of Biden" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump to Harvard: 'GO FUND YOURSELF!' at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (AI7FZ)

342 300+ comments and nobody mentions compiles not complies?
Is it just me that gets bugged too easily?

Posted by: From about That Time at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (n4GiU)

343 They have to protect Biden. They told us for years he was the goodest most honest man alive. It's still all about protecting their stupid racket.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (FkTOT)

****
There's a 15yo daughter that wrote about inappropriate showers with The Big Guy.

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (uMhvh)

344 336 The sometimes-lucid Van Jones said he thinks the Dems are going to pay for the Biden coverup for decades.

Kicking people when they are down has never been so fun.
Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:19 PM (krQz2)

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That plus opening the borders.

The Democrats are going to be branded as lying coverups who only want power to flood America will illegal gangbangers for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

345 And now they have a cure! A real, bonified cure! They never cure anything, but they have a cure for Hep C.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:07 PM (becA2)

RFJ Jr. had the hep c and I believe he was treated for it and had a good result.
Posted by: Marcus Welby, M.D. at May 20, 2025 03:17 PM (xofCm)

Yeah, I don't know how much the drug costs, but it's a pretty simple cure. You take the drug for... I forget, a few weeks? Maybe?

Then it's gone. No more Hep C.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (becA2)

346
I believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (lIio7)

I think it's more that people choose to withdraw from Him.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:21 PM (FkTOT)

347 *BioPic

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump to Harvard: 'GO FUND YOURSELF!' at May 20, 2025 03:21 PM (5wYWY)

348 Whomever gets elected inherits a high speed train wreck.
Staring down the barrel of a $17 billion deficit Democrats want to raise taxes to save an $11 billion MediCal for illegal aliens.
And the train authorities want ANOTHER $7 billion to get ANYTHING to run on the least expensive segment.

And the homeless keep piling up as collateral damage as gas is going from $5 to EIGHT BUCKS +!!!!

Harris will cackle as she dismisses the sinking feeling. No BJ is going to save this situation.

Posted by: torabora at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM (uMhvh)
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Two more factors: the LA fires, and the Olympics coming up in 2028. The latter is already shaping up to be an epic train wreck ("electric air taxis??"), and of course the LA fires are already an epic train wreck.

At some point the Democrat lock has to be questioned.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:21 PM (YqDXo)

349 I believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.

The Bible describes God as upholding and sustaining all creation. Take that away and what's left?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:22 PM (2VST1)

350 Joe's oil cancer is finally getting the best of him.

I guess they might have all gotten oil cancer.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:22 PM (krQz2)

351 Two more factors: the LA fires, and the Olympics coming up in 2028.

California voters have already forgotten the fires.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)

352 Off to another all nighter
Have a great afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (ypFCm)

353 I wonder if Jake Tapper is going to heaven…. He has lied a lot which works against his chances…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (uFOEo)

354 Most Jews have left Europe. I think the current population is less than 10% of what it was a century ago.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (QnmlO)

Seriously, not just because there are so many swarthy muzzies running around Europe, but any Jew still living in Europe... good grief, man, do you REALLY trust the EUers won't come after you again?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (becA2)

355 351 Two more factors: the LA fires, and the Olympics coming up in 2028.

California voters have already forgotten the fires.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)

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They'll punish Gavin Newsom for them by not voting for him in the election he's not in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

356
Another rumor: J.J., Joe Mannix and CBD are preparing to seize the AOS autopen to write bad checks now that Ace appears to be incapacitated.

Posted by: Auspex at May 20, 2025 03:24 PM (j4U/Z)

357 No devils with pitchforks. Just other humans, behaving like humans.

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So high school?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 03:24 PM (L/fGl)

358 "He continues insisting that only knowing what he 'knows now' does his past partisan service for the Democrats give him 'humility.'"

Then you're pretty damn incompetent at your job of noticing things and reporting them. Alas, we all know that statement's a lie so we won't bother pretending that you learned anything or that you've admitted anything.

You, Scarborough, and Jean-Pierre can serve as the foundation profile of the Mount Rushmore monument to propaganda.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 20, 2025 03:24 PM (gLikB)

359 They'll punish Gavin Newsom for them by not voting for him in the election he's not in.

Bet on the "we have to find out who let me go to Africa instead of prepare for the fires we were warned about" mayor being reelected, too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)

360 I believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (lIio7)

I think it's more that people choose to withdraw from Him.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:21 PM (FkTOT)

Yeah, we're basically ants. God is everywhere, but over there, in that part of the universe, is fire. You ants, lemme give you some clues as to where it's safe for you to go, and not to go. I'd suggest you don't go over to where the fire is.

Oh, some of you are going to the fire anyway? Alrighty then.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:25 PM (becA2)

361 >>>
This is just another nail in their coffin, another step towards total irrelevancy that puts the NYT on even footing with a guy called Catturd on X.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

*Golf clap*

Posted by: Max Power at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (q177U)

362 Check out Luke 16…. Jesus seems to assume hell is a real place with real tornment and flames. Not just some abstract “God isn’t there place”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (uFOEo)

363 359 They'll punish Gavin Newsom for them by not voting for him in the election he's not in.

Bet on the "we have to find out who let me go to Africa instead of prepare for the fires we were warned about" mayor being reelected, too
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)

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She may be done. The LA fires pissed off rich people who live there. Hard to imagine their influence on the LA machine not extending to getting rid of her.

But...CA Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

364 I believe the only document that Biden actually signed was his statement that he wasn't running again. Remember, everyone noticed how different that signature was from his normal (autopen) signature.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (Da7Vv)

365 Just as I think we saw "Peak Woke" a couple years back with the Summer of Love and the Tranny Madness, I think at some point history will point to Jake Tapper's attempt to monetize his own stupidity as "Peak Retard."

Posted by: ballistic at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (PJyQj)

366 Yes, this house is named after the palace built by the Duke of Marlborough, where Churchill was born.
Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
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and the house itself was named for a battle won in Belgium by the first Duke, John Churchill.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2025 02:47 PM (oVIfx)

Blenheim is not in Belgium. It is on the Danube. Marlborough was in Belgium and the French invaded Central Germany. He arranged to force march his British troops to the Danube to hunt down this other army. Marlborough blew through the center with cavalry and captured about 2/3 of the force.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (8avO+)

367 364 I believe the only document that Biden actually signed was his statement that he wasn't running again. Remember, everyone noticed how different that signature was from his normal (autopen) signature.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (Da7Vv)

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You may be thinking of the note that endorsed Kamala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

368 I have another conspiracy theory that is going to get willowed - I think the debate was the point they had to come up with plan b when Clooney said he was scared, maybe he is naive and thought elections and leaders mattered to the Dems. I think Biden finally withdrew when Pelosi said she would get out 2020 was fraud thereby undoing Biden’s entire presidency.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (KQxQb)

369 Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule, was prone to incoherence and losing his train of thought.....

That described Biden in 2008 also.

Posted by: polynikes at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (VofaG)

370 Check out Luke 16…. Jesus seems to assume hell is a real place with real tornment and flames. Not just some abstract “God isn’t there place”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (uFOEo)

What would he know compared to a modern liberal arts major?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:28 PM (8avO+)

371 No devils with pitchforks. Just other humans, behaving like humans.

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So high school?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 20, 2025 03:24 PM (L/fGl)

Yes. Now, imagine you are captain of the football team. Forever. There is a neverending supply of cheerleaders to bang.

How long before you start getting bored of banging cheerleaders. Hell is... whatever that must be like, you never mature into an adult relationship, you never get to indulge your desire for... whatever it is you want as an alternative to cheerleaders. Just. Neverending. Cheerleaders.

Now, imagine yourself now, thinking that must be great. And realizing, for that guy, it's his Hell.

*Shudder*

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:29 PM (becA2)

372 If Tapper didn't apologize to Lara Trump on-air, before the election, it's garbage, and was still his attempt to hide Biden's infirmity.

Posted by: waelse1 at May 20, 2025 03:29 PM (6Hr2E)

373 Probably one of those "priests" with the rainbow stole who thinks abortion is Biblical.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:15 PM (2VST1)

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On the plus side, you could tell Biden it was the Pope and he'd totally believe you.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 03:16 PM

So there's nobody to tell Joe the truth when he most needs it

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:29 PM (xx7Ke)

374 Tapper is such a lying sack of shit. Fuck that guy. He knew what was going on, he was running interference like all the other sack of shit "journalists" and now seeks to profit even more off his lying shitsackery. I hate this guy and everyone like him. They need to be skinned alive, dropped in a cesspit, and left to perish from sepsis.

Posted by: Fuck these journal cocksuckers. They can all burn in hell at May 20, 2025 03:29 PM (TbWk/)

375 McDonnell finishes his term, but then comes Ken Cuccinelli to gum up the old boy's deal. Nail in the coffin for Bolling was a nominating convention that destroyed his chances with the nomination since he wasn't all that popular with the delegates. He got the axe, but then the VA GOP leadership didn't give Cuccinelli much if any support in the General.

Takeaway is why the hell would any competent if not accomplished normie want to get involved in any of that crap?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 20, 2025 02:57 PM (Oq5OE)

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And Ace here was bitching about how Cuccinelli was going to outlaw contraceptives because that’s what the GOPe said.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 20, 2025 03:31 PM (YMUlg)

376 But Tapper's brows are furrowed. That's good for something, isn't it?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:31 PM (xx7Ke)

377 there is nowhere that you can go to get away from God.

I believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (lIio7)
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I have long thought the torment of Hell is that you'll see God. All good things come from Him, but you have cut yourself off from Him.

I think Jesus describes it as a fire for 2 reasons. Fire has long been a symbol of desire. And just like he tells you it's better to chop off a body part than to enter into his judgment, he's trying to tell you that you're going to wish you were on fire, you just don't know it.

But we know you can't commit an act: chopping off a limb, and enter into Heaven. He's just saying that you would be better off if you could have made that trade.

If you think the point is that Jesus is always telling the literal truth, and that's all he's doing, then you HAVE to believe that in some way, if you gouge out an eye, you can make a trade for Heaven. I'm sure if you have a conversation with Jesus, he'll even tell you "A hand can't 'cause you to sin'!"

So what do you do with a teaching on a non-premise?

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:31 PM (krQz2)

378 Jack Smith was the US prosecutor in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where Jack Smith was a blackmailer.

Jack was sending henchmen to Eastern European to convey the following message to various parties (both innocent and perhaps not-so-innocent): We know that during the Yugoslavian Civil War you murdered some people, Jack Smith is going to indict you unless you put $X in a suitcase for me to carry back to Jack so your problems go away.

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

379 They'll punish Gavin Newsom for them by not voting for him in the election he's not in.

Bet on the "we have to find out who let me go to Africa instead of prepare for the fires we were warned about" mayor being reelected, too
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)

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She may be done. The LA fires pissed off rich people who live there. Hard to imagine their influence on the LA machine not extending to getting rid of her.

But...CA Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Fires only affected a negligible percentage of CA residents, many of whom are rich and will never change their voting priorities. The fires are probably already forgotten except by those directly affected by them. There may be reasons to get rid of the loathsome mayor, but I doubt the fires will make any difference.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

380 Mayor of Newark has been arrested for interfering with ICE. Taking it to the Sanctuary cities.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)

381 379 Fires only affected a negligible percentage of CA residents, many of whom are rich and will never change their voting priorities. The fires are probably already forgotten except by those directly affected by them. There may be reasons to get rid of the loathsome mayor, but I doubt the fires will make any difference.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

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We're not talking about voting Republican here. We're talking about "a new Democrat with the right messaging" or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

382 Biden was long known as one of the stupidest braying jackasses in the Senate, a body known to be filled with self-important mediocrities and zeroes.
.......

Ace drops another Truth Bomb.

Posted by: wth at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

383
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 20, 2025 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

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It's funny, the Dems are in the position we were in in 2012, when Romney of all people actually got the R nomination for president -- that was the best we could do. I was talking in a desultory tone about Rubio 2016, and a friend told me that whoever our next person was, was someone not even in the field at that time, someone who was going to have to come out of nowhere. She was right!

Now the Dems are in the same position, and (lololol) who could be their Trump? Who's the equivalent of MAGA on the left? And what would that be like? Captain Superlefty? Mr. Supermoderate?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)

384 believe God can withdraw His presence from people and places.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (lIio7)

I think it's more that people choose to withdraw from Him.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2025 03:21 PM (FkTOT)

People tend to withdraw from entities that punish them for obedience and reward their faithfulness with pain and suffering.

Posted by: Are you there God, it's me, Job at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (TbWk/)

385 Not just some abstract “God isn’t there place”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 20, 2025 03:26 PM (uFOEo)

I don't see how a "God isn't there place" would just be abstract.

If your mind tells you it's a pit of burning fire in the center of the Earth, sure, go with that.

I wonder though, suppose Hell isn't a DIFFERENT place than Heaven, because time and place wouldn't really seem to matter, but suppose Hell is the damned, seeing every day, the people living in God's Grace, when they are not.

I think it's possible that being able to see what you don't have would be worse than being completely segregated from it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (becA2)

386 Mayor of Newark has been arrested for interfering with ICE. Taking it to the Sanctuary cities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)
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Didn't that case get dropped? Or this is a new charge? Please tell me it's a new charge ....

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

387 One owner of the ONE house that survived the fire on Malibu Beach, has been warned by numerous folks that Calif is going to Eminent Domain his property, because they want total control of the Beach.
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The woeful lack of basic fire control for years wasn't the first clue????

Posted by: Let's see how can I get my hands on some real estate at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (KgBkP)

388
Mayor of Newark has been arrested for interfering with ICE. Taking it to the Sanctuary cities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Then, for something other than that incident where Alina Habba declined to charge him? Cool!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:34 PM (n7rxJ)

389 If nothing else, there has to be away to unravel this woman’s appointment to SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/5n92mjkw

From post: Justice Sotomayor noted her dissent and Justice Jackson wrote a dissent. Maine's Speaker of the House cannot disenfranchise Rep. Libby for her views on girls' sports

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:34 PM (KQxQb)

390 I think Biden finally withdrew when Pelosi said she would get out 2020 was fraud thereby undoing Biden’s entire presidency.
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:27 PM (KQxQb)
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There is no proof that Biden wrote or signed that letter. People have even picked up clues that he didn't.

Biden was withdrawn, it is unlikely he withdrew.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:34 PM (krQz2)

391 I was thinking this same thing the other day. Stalin was less worried about actual enemies than keeping the govt and ruling class in line. He would never have allowed anything like an independent Deep State or independent elite class to form. They were all beholden to him and terrified.) The purges makes some sense in this aspect.
Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2025 03:20 PM (GUOwU)

Stalin had a Deep State, sure. In fact he had 2 spy agencies - military intelligence (GRU) and the KGB. In a pinch, the GRU could purge the KGB or vice versa. Either could purge the army or the party if needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

392 Fires only affected a negligible percentage of CA residents, many of whom are rich and will never change their voting priorities. The fires are probably already forgotten except by those directly affected by them. There may be reasons to get rid of the loathsome mayor, but I doubt the fires will make any difference.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

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We're not talking about voting Republican here. We're talking about "a new Democrat with the right messaging" or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't know enough about local LA politics to know how deeply dug in the mayor is. She may be dug in like an Alabama tick. Or her support might be broad but an inch deep. Who knows?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

393 383 She was right!

Now the Dems are in the same position, and (lololol) who could be their Trump? Who's the equivalent of MAGA on the left? And what would that be like? Captain Superlefty? Mr. Supermoderate?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)

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Any outsider is going to have a damn hard time making any impact on the Democrat primary.

We laugh about the disintegrating power of the MSM, but there's one place it's still quite powerful: with Democrats.

Anyone who doesn't have the money AND the charisma AND the anti-establishment message (up to and including calling out Obama, Biden, and Kamala for getting the party into the state it's currently in) to cut through the media's stranglehold on oxygen in the primary is going to flail and disappear very quickly. The monied interests will label whomever as a wacky lunatic so fast and so hard that Democrat voters will tune them out.

I think the party has a lot further to fall before it's open to an outsider. The proper analogy for Dems in 2028 may be the GOP in 2008.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

394 Would Europe be worse off than it is today, under the authoritarian boot of the globalist EUer?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (becA2)

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I get your point. But, you kind of left Russia out of that equation. Without the US Lend Lease Program, Germany would have likely defeated Russia.

Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (dIske)

395 Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

There were probably over 500 businesses that were destroyed and another 1000 that were not destroyed but greatly effected by the fires and still are. That's s big trickle down effect . The LA hasn't forgotten about the fires.

Posted by: polynikes at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (VofaG)

396 389 If nothing else, there has to be away to unravel this woman’s appointment to SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/5n92mjkw

From post: Justice Sotomayor noted her dissent and Justice Jackson wrote a dissent. Maine's Speaker of the House cannot disenfranchise Rep. Libby for her views on girls' sports
Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:34 PM (KQxQb)

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One word:

Donuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

397 But we know you can't commit an act: chopping off a limb, and enter into Heaven. He's just saying that you would be better off if you could have made that trade.

If you think the point is that Jesus is always telling the literal truth, and that's all he's doing, then you HAVE to believe that in some way, if you gouge out an eye, you can make a trade for Heaven. I'm sure if you have a conversation with Jesus, he'll even tell you "A hand can't 'cause you to sin'!"

So what do you do with a teaching on a non-premise?
Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:31 PM (krQz2)

I think that's well stated, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you talking about chopping off limbs.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (becA2)

398 Has David French the Apostate had anything to say about Joe's dementia?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (xx7Ke)

399 Didn't that case get dropped? Or this is a new charge? Please tell me it's a new charge

I cannot find the news story to recheck, it might be old

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (2VST1)

400 I think it's possible that being able to see what you don't have would be worse than being completely segregated from it.
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It may be whatever the worst thing you can imagine, for you. So be careful Burt, you don't want to be a ghost in Heaven.

St John Bosco had visions. He saw people running on the road to hell and jumping in. They wanted to go there. The Fatima kids saw fire, demons and souls burning but never consumed. Personally, I never want to know.

Posted by: Let's see how can I get my hands on some real estate at May 20, 2025 03:37 PM (KgBkP)

401 392 I don't know enough about local LA politics to know how deeply dug in the mayor is. She may be dug in like an Alabama tick. Or her support might be broad but an inch deep. Who knows?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 20, 2025 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

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I think this is her first term. I think her only defense is going to end up being black in the primary.

Probably not enough.

And remember, this is the city that recalled Gascon as DA and did eventually get rid of him last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

402 I think that's well stated, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you talking about chopping off limbs.
Posted by: BurtTC

You're not the only one.
-- Michelle Fields

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

403 I remember that days after the palisades fire, Larry Ellison was saying that a lot of people were not going to be allowed to rebuild.

He thought the Kalif-ornia hypocrites would only allow the elite to rebuild.

So, he was off on that, too.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (krQz2)

404 Would Europe be worse off than it is today, under the authoritarian boot of the globalist EUer?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:14 PM (becA2)

I get your point. But, you kind of left Russia out of that equation. Without the US Lend Lease Program, Germany would have likely defeated Russia.
Posted by: Orson at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (dIske)

You're right, I didn't mention Russia, but sorta left it out of the equation because I do think it's something of a wash.

For the territories under Soviet control for decades, I'm not sure if they would have been better or worse under German control, and I'm not really speculating on whether Russia or Germany would have won their particular scrum.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (becA2)

405 Now the Dems are in the same position, and (lololol) who could be their Trump? Who's the equivalent of MAGA on the left? And what would that be like? Captain Superlefty? Mr. Supermoderate?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

You know how we started to notice that Trump can get the things done that Rs have been raising money off of for years? Look at some of the things Trump is pulling off the shelf of D promises to their voters they used as fundraisers - lower prescription drugs, fair trade with China, no more forever wars, etc. What is left on the D side that appeals to enough voters for a majority coalition?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

406 One word:

Donuts.
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Two: Glazed donuts.

Posted by: Let's see how can I get my hands on some real estate at May 20, 2025 03:39 PM (KgBkP)

407 They knew, and they lied, subjecting our country to unprecedented peril for political power and graft.

Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 20, 2025 03:39 PM (i24o9)

408 405 You know how we started to notice that Trump can get the things done that Rs have been raising money off of for years? Look at some of the things Trump is pulling off the shelf of D promises to their voters they used as fundraisers - lower prescription drugs, fair trade with China, no more forever wars, etc. What is left on the D side that appeals to enough voters for a majority coalition?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

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"Close the borders and pay Americans to loaf," will win the day.

No one will say the first part, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

409 396 One word:

Donuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20

Jackson not Sotomayor. Maybe we can fake a leading role on broadway to get her to resign.

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:39 PM (KQxQb)

410 Jumped out my car, slammed on the gates
Ice, ice baby

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (RHGPo)

411 Canada caves to Trump.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (YMw6T)

412 I think that's well stated, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you talking about chopping off limbs.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (becA2)
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I didn't bring it up. Jesus did.

*points at Jesus*

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (krQz2)

413 I get your point. But, you kind of left Russia out of that equation. Without the US Lend Lease Program, Germany would have likely defeated Russia.

Maybe? But Russia's winter tends to defeat its enemies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

414 FDA Will Stop Recommending the Clot-Shot to Anyone Under 65

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 03:41 PM (RHGPo)

415 Whatever you think Hell is, imagine how bad its going to be for the person who invented speed bumps.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 20, 2025 03:41 PM (Da7Vv)

416 Canada caves to Trump.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (YMw6T)
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Didn't Smellswell say that it was the other way around?

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)

417 NUDE TRANS!

I, er mean NOOD trans...

Posted by: Max Power at May 20, 2025 03:41 PM (q177U)

418 During the 2020 VP debate, Harris claimed that unlike Trump, Biden would be open and up front about health issues! LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:42 PM (2VST1)

419 I think that's well stated, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you talking about chopping off limbs.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:36 PM (becA2)
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I didn't bring it up. Jesus did.

*points at Jesus*
Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (krQz2)

Sure sure sure, but Jesus was a carpenter. The one incident involving a blade, He basically admonished Peter for lopping off a man's ear, and promptly glued it back on.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (becA2)

420 For the territories under Soviet control for decades, I'm not sure if they would have been better or worse under German control
Posted by: BurtTC

Hungary and Romania would've been OK under German rule, having been allied with Germany, and not being majority-Slav states. The majority-Slav states were undoubtedly better off under the Soviet thumb than the German.

Posted by: Bulg at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

421 The one nice thing to remember: Joe Stalin died after hours of agony, pissing himself because his own staffers were afraid to check on him after he had turned in.

Posted by: Axeman at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

422 Anyone who doesn't have the money AND the charisma AND the anti-establishment message (up to and including calling out Obama, Biden, and Kamala for getting the party into the state it's currently in) to cut through the media's stranglehold on oxygen in the primary is going to flail and disappear very quickly. The monied interests will label whomever as a wacky lunatic so fast and so hard that Democrat voters will tune them out.
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Other than having the money, Tulsi Gabbard is one example of this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

423 Funny how we are designed. Estrogen is essential to a young woman yet is implicated in breast cancer on aging. Similarly testosterone is vital to a young man but is the hormone that causes those prostate problems in old age.
Nature laughing at us?
Posted by: Ciampino - hormones are something else at May 20, 2025 03:11 PM (sPQoU)

There's plenty of reason for nature to clear out the old generation for the new.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)

424 389 If nothing else, there has to be away to unravel this woman’s appointment to SCOTUS.

https://tinyurl.com/5n92mjkw

From post: Justice Sotomayor noted her dissent and Justice Jackson wrote a dissent. Maine's Speaker of the House cannot disenfranchise Rep. Libby for her views on girls' sports

Posted by: Piper at May 20, 2025 03:34 PM (KQxQb)
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I failed to understand any of that.

Posted by: Ciampino - hormones are something else at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (sPQoU)

425 422 Anyone who doesn't have the money AND the charisma AND the anti-establishment message (up to and including calling out Obama, Biden, and Kamala for getting the party into the state it's currently in) to cut through the media's stranglehold on oxygen in the primary is going to flail and disappear very quickly. The monied interests will label whomever as a wacky lunatic so fast and so hard that Democrat voters will tune them out.
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Other than having the money, Tulsi Gabbard is one example of this.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)

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2020 might have been very different if some whale had backed her with a billion out of the gate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

426 417 NUDE TRANS!

I, er mean NOOD trans...
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I love getting naked on the train!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (Dv3i1)

427 Post 384

Your raise this question fairly regularly which makes me think you're an old poster. I am sorry that you have had such pain and suffering. Here is an article from a conservative website on "Why do good people suffer?"

https://www.gotquestions.org/bad-things-good-people.html

I'm sure there are related sorts of questions there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (nFq4j)

428 Nature laughing at us?

The curse, every good thing is twisted and broken, it turns against us. Beans are nutritious and taste good but give us gas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (2VST1)

429 FDA says Covid boosters will now need clinical trials to prove effectiveness in healthy people under 65

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

430 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

431 Jake Tapper is a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 20, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

432 I get your point. But, you kind of left Russia out of that equation. Without the US Lend Lease Program, Germany would have likely defeated Russia.

Maybe? But Russia's winter tends to defeat its enemies
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 20, 2025 03:40 PM (2VST1)

Nah. The trucks helped the logistics a lot in the later advances, and the equipment was often used in training because it was more durable, and the raw materials were handy, but Germany lost the ability to advance on even a third of the front in 1941.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)

433 For the territories under Soviet control for decades, I'm not sure if they would have been better or worse under German control, and I'm not really speculating on whether Russia or Germany would have won their particular scrum.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2025 03:38 PM (becA2)

The USSR was never much into going after people for immutable characteristics. Thought crimes, sure. Their genocides were more because their ideas conflicted with reaiity to the extent famines occurred.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

434 Jake Tapper: "After we did the research for this book..."

Dude, What the FUCK are you talking about???!?!? Your own eyes and ears were all the "rEsEaRcH" that was needed you absolute fucking HACK

Posted by: deadrody at May 20, 2025 03:52 PM (vgB0v)

435 Wouldn't it show up in blood tests ?
Yes, the PSA test is just part of a standard blood test.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 20, 2025 03:09 PM

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PSA is a specific blood test that is typically run as part of routine blood work on older men, or as an individual test on someone in whom prostate cancer is suspected or already diagnosed. The actual diagnosis of prostate cancer requires a biopsy.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 20, 2025 03:54 PM (1Au9i)

436 Jake Tapper says the media didn't cover up Biden's 'Original Sin': 'We were just lied to and were just too stupid to look beyond the lies'

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2025 03:57 PM (RHGPo)

437 Now the Dems are in the same position, and (lololol) who could be their Trump? Who's the equivalent of MAGA on the left? And what would that be like? Captain Superlefty? Mr. Supermoderate?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 20, 2025 03:33 PM (n7rxJ)

The Dems are increasingly left wing zealots of different sorts. Ideas are not required, which makes national politics a big problem. The US parties have avoided this by incorporating lots of factions in them in a coalition who can grow or shrink in power depending on the current circumstances.

I suppose that a new faction could rise and "run as Dems" and grab some seats, but the party machinery is tough to overcome.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)

438 Maybe we need a special journalism award, called the Tapper. You win it by reporting the blindingly obvious, well after everyone already knows what you reported. Bonus points are awarded for:
1: You report the exact opposite of what you reported previously.
2: You pretend that you are the only one who has discovered what you are reporting.
3: You get upset and call someone names if they prove you previously reported the exact opposite.

Posted by: Jake 'The Crapper' Tapper at May 20, 2025 03:59 PM (+i0FF)

439 2020 might have been very different if some whale had backed her with a billion out of the gate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 20, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

It would have to have been a heckofa whale. Newland and the Neocons were too intrenched in the Dems since the 2008-12 period and they hated Tulsi.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 20, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

440 Ace, you seem to be picking on and bullying Jake Dickbag!

This is not a fair fight as he has now joined the Bathtub Keiff Oldboringman in playing defense to your offense which greatly offends him. Good!!! It is all good!

Send bubble bath stat with a pair of edible ruffle thongs.

A drunk hobo on Skid Row, aka the Pacific NW and most of California, in the throes of a seizure and drowning in an unknown puddle of yuck, could see that Joe was demented, senile, and staggering for four long years. Something was not right.

But Jake could not figure this out til the election was over. Right. And I am a Supermodel (ok, I was).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 20, 2025 04:04 PM (6PCLE)

441 I dunno, it's kinda charming watching Jake say he cannot do his job. Kind of like we a high school newsletter...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 20, 2025 04:05 PM (HNMbG)

442 23 Biden's biggest failing was to fail to enact comprehensive ice control...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 20, 2025 04:37 PM (HNMbG)

443 42 It really is clear as day now. Biden was to win reelection, and then immediately after he took office, resign for health reasons. Hello, President Harris.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 20, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)

Absolutely true. This is why Dean Phillips was defenestrated - he was upsetting the plan, and he knew it. The fact that he left Congress afterwards tells me that he has no intention of getting interviewed about this; he's a private citizen now.

Unfortunately for the Dems, Harris was their best shot. Wes Moore was too new at the time, and the other Dem governors blew it with their COVID response. Shapiro's Jewish, and the FuGaza base couldn't abide that. They did not have a Plan B. Biden's campaign funds were only going to ever go to Harris. And no one else.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 20, 2025 04:48 PM (st07Y)

444 >>>Jake Tapper Continues to Insist That Only After the Election Was He Able to Confirm That Biden Was Mentally Diminished

And that's EXACTLY the way he needs to be queried on this, forever and ever: So, you were only able to confirm that Biden was mentally diminished AFTER the election? Not on November ... 5th? O.k., what about the 4th? The 3rd?

Posted by: m at May 20, 2025 05:01 PM (CQE5S)

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