Unnamed Biden Aide Admits Plan Was for Biden to Get "Re"-Elected and Then Disappear, Letting His "Aides" Run the Government, and Only Occasionally Appearing on Video to Demonstrate "Proof of Life"

The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."

Oh, so that's what "Democracy" turns out to be. An illicit government run by unelected criminals and grifters.

The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response.

We had to destroy the democracy to save it.

Julia
@Jules31415
A longtime aide--an unelected official within the Biden administration--admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.
The book also alleges that a trio of senior political veterans were the core decision-makers--Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Bruce Reed--and they worked with Jill Biden and Hunter Biden to run the show. Former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain were also "at times" part of the group.
One passage in the book relays the thought process from an unnamed Biden aide at the time: "[Biden] just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while...His aides could pick up the slack."
"These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."

A longtime aide—an unelected official within the Biden administration—admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.

The book also alleges that a trio of… pic.twitter.com/FoGhfygYYn
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) May 27, 2025

Remember, they're fighting fascism, authoritarianism, and the threat to democracy, which is You, you Bigots.

I don’t want to hear about “norms” ever again. https://t.co/nA3fvPlhpS
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) May 27, 2025

Speaking of Muh Normzzz -- NeverTrump supported all of these undemocratic actions and none of them, so far as I know, have condemned them or admitted fault.

Posted by: Ace at 01:37 PM

Comments

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1 When you have to break every law, rule, regulation, norm, standard, practice, policy and procedure to stop one man ...

He isn't the threat: You are.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:39 PM (zOK4u)

2

BREAKING: Democrat pitches the idea of a ‘shadow cabinet’ to help thwart President Trump’s agenda

They sure pitched a bitch when Rush Limbaugh said he hoped Obama failed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 01:39 PM (63Dwl)

3 I had heard it was the trio of senior political veterans were the core decision-makers--Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Anita Dunn

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:39 PM (RHGPo)

4 They're claiming they're saving democracy.

What they're admitting, without actually saying it, is they believe they're entitled to power, by any means necessary.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (tT6L1)

5 I've learned to accept that, no matter how terrible you think it is, it's worse.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (bNf8H)

6 Yet another story that yeah, we all knew this was what your plan was the whole time, but I guess everyone can act all surprised and pretend this is new info.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM (uWKK8)

7 That's why we had the assassination attempts...Trump was such a threat it was justified

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 01:41 PM (VE6XX)

8 A functional, constitutional republic has nothing to fear from one man, no matter how popular or tyrannical.

But, the left, having torn down all Constitutional safeguards and restraints over the last 100 years, does have reason to fear:

Their illegal power, their illicit control, their unrestrained greed is threatened by the restoration of a constitutional republic.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (zOK4u)

9 I like the "alleges" part. There is nothing alleged. Joe was obviously not running the show. Which means it's equally obvious the people around him were illegally usurping the power of the presidency.

It also tells us the Deep State was fine with this state of affairs.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (tT6L1)

10 Ok so they admit that the pardons by auto pen were just their personal choices.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (OA79/)

11 because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy

I doubt he said that. They go out of their way to say Our Democracy™, which is a whole 'nother animal.

Posted by: t-bird at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (0w7Of)

12 Trump was absolutely an existential threat - to them. I hope the threat becomes reality.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (bNf8H)

13 Dear Lord. These people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (CItiL)

14 Bidenaide sounds like one of those athletic beverages.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (kTd/k)

15 Existential Trump!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (MXU5n)

16 Putin Acknowledges Russia’s Potato Shortage Amid Record Price Increases

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (RHGPo)

17 It also tells us the Deep State was fine with this state of affairs.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:42 PM (tT6L1)

Insert Jon voight speech from the first mission: impossible.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 27, 2025 01:43 PM (MGB5H)

18 Comment from 2021?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

19 Our PRECIOUS democracy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (63Dwl)

20 The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."

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"Damn straight! It's in the constitution!"
-DU, 99.73% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

21 I thought they'd have Biden resign and Kamala take over. I'm way too conventional.

Posted by: huerfano at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (n2swS)

22 I wonder if there is a way for the people who ran things to be tried by a military tribunal? After all they did engage in treason at the highest levels.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (tT6L1)

23 The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response.

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Does this include stealing an election?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

24 By "plan", he means to continue what they were already doing for 4 years.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (N1tpc)

25 Ok I am going to be 'that' guy. Some things will be found out and players identified. NONE of them will pay a price for any of it and all will retire with 6 figure pensions

Posted by: Life of Wryly at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (ycs3a)

26 Speaking of Muh Normzzz -- NeverTrump supported all of these undemocratic actions and none of them, so far as I know, have condemned them or admitted fault.

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"I was wrong for trusting Jake Tapper, but since he's admitted his faults, I know I can trust him again."
-Jonah Goldberg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

27 The blurbs I saw today are running with the 'existential threat to democracy' stuff and not the 'we only needed to get our cats paw elected and then we would be the masters for another four years' part.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (CItiL)

28
Bidenaide sounds like one of those athletic beverages.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Now available in Jonestown Grape flavor.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (63Dwl)

29 The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."

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"Damn straight! It's in the constitution!"
-DU, 99.73% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)
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Yeah, because, as we all know, we not only vote for the president, but, we also vote for his cabinet members. I mean, their names appear on the ballot, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (tT6L1)

30 Jonah is part of the shallow end of the genetic pool that is all of DC. A Cuck Ring, if you will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (CItiL)

31 Democracy is actually a portmanteau of the words "Democrat" and "Kleptocracy"

It should be spelled DemoKrazi for better clarity

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (MXU5n)

32 The John Gill Plan.

They need to be shot for being the true threat to Democracy.

Scum snd traitors the lot of them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (ftsic)

33 Like I wrote in the previous post, you can tell that the aides were running the White House because there was no turnover in the admin.

It must have been a great thing for them to show up to work every day, knowing that there was no supervision from POTUS or the Troika.

It explains a lot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 27, 2025 01:47 PM (8FZgH)

34 The John Gill Plan.

They need to be shot for being the true threat to Democracy.

Scum snd traitors the lot of them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (ftsic)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 27, 2025 01:47 PM (CItiL)

35 29 Yeah, because, as we all know, we not only vote for the president, but, we also vote for his cabinet members. I mean, their names appear on the ballot, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (tT6L1)

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At least cabinet officials go through the Senate, which is a check on power.

This is an aide, unnamed and unnominated and unvetted by Congress, wielding great power.

Not quite the same thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

36 UNELECTED! like Elon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (63Dwl)

37 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (RHGPo)

38 This is an aide, unnamed and unnominated and unvetted by Congress, wielding great power.

Not quite the same thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Fair observation.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (tT6L1)

39 37 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas
Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (RHGPo)

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Dozens of colleges may close before the start of the school year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

40 Helicopter shares UP.

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (pMi6S)

41 Ok I am going to be 'that' guy. Some things will be found out and players identified. NONE of them will pay a price for any of it and all will retire with 6 figure pensions
Posted by: Life of Wryly at May 27, 2025 01:45 PM (ycs3a)

You're completely wrong.

You forgot about the cushy gigs at some leftist institution first (Non-profit, media, academia, etc...)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (N1tpc)

42 Speaking of Muh Normzzz -- NeverTrump supported all of these undemocratic actions and none of them, so far as I know, have condemned them or admitted fault.

Trump DID say "pussy"...and is a 34 time convicted felon rapist, or something.

Posted by: The Bulwark at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (JCZqz)

43 Wouldn't have worked. Biden would screw up the vid for "proof of life"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (eDGGN)

44 The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response.

This guy should tell us who these people are. What they were doing was high treason. "I'm a journalist protecting sources" ain't gonna cut it. Put him in J6 jail if you have to.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (s8j++)

45 The left: Any accusation that we would use our positions to steal the 2020 election from Trump are ridiculous - what kind of people do you think we are?

Also the left: A longtime aide--an unelected official within the Biden administration--admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (t0Rmr)

46 NeverTrump supported all of these undemocratic actions and none of them, so far as I know, have condemned them or admitted fault.
_______

Why would they? Kristol straight up said he preferred the deep state to Trump. In their eyes, there's nothing to admit fault for or condemn.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (UBKzV)

47 I appreciate all the quoting over the last few weeks, now I won't have to buy the book.

Posted by: toby928 at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (jc0TO)

48 45 The left: Any accusation that we would use our positions to steal the 2020 election from Trump are ridiculous - what kind of people do you think we are?

Also the left: A longtime aide--an unelected official within the Biden administration--admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:49 PM (t0Rmr)

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You know what counts as undemocratic? Manufacturing fake ballots in six states in the middle of the night after sending ballot watchers home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

49 Speaking of Muh Normzzz -- NeverTrump supported all of these undemocratic actions and none of them, so far as I know, have condemned them or admitted fault./i]

We came here to bang cabin boys and diss Trump. And we are not all out of cabin boys

Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

50 Like I wrote in the previous post, you can tell that the aides were running the White House because there was no turnover in the admin.

It must have been a great thing for them to show up to work every day, knowing that there was no supervision from POTUS or the Troika.

What's the plural of "eminence grise"?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (s8j++)

51 The entire nation swallowed one very very big Red Pill and woke the fuck up.

And in so doing saved Western Civilization.

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (pMi6S)

52 They're claiming they're saving democracy.

What they're admitting, without actually saying it, is they believe they're entitled to power, by any means necessary.
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As Krystol said, he prefers democracy but should the demos not agree with his policy preferences, well then, it's natural that the Kryfi Dynami, or "hidden power" of the deep state should overrule the demos.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (zOK4u)

53 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (kTd/k)

54 Should be a wall in the future ?Kinda sounds like it was going to be more of the same.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (yYAz+)

55 You know what counts as undemocratic? Manufacturing fake ballots in six states in the middle of the night after sending ballot watchers home.

Which never happened, and it's good that it did.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (s8j++)

56 sounds legit since that was the plan for the first term.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (8avO+)

57 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas
Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (RHGPo)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This coming JUST as the demographic nuke that was the dearth of births in 2008 is about to hit.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (N1tpc)

58 The first two years of Biden were run by his Chief of Staff Ron Klain. But who was pulling his strings?

Klain has been Inside Party for decades. In the HBO movoe about the 2000 Bush Gore recount he was played by Kevin Spacey. Spacey only plays sociopaths. QED.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (Gqoy+)

59 >> I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.

Any system that gives the People what they Voted for.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (hJb7m)

60 Remember when the FNM/left/GOPe talk about our sacred democracy they don't mean the Constitution or the people as a whole controlling what the government does.

They mean control by them.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (t0Rmr)

61 We haven't saved anything yet.

There needs to be prosecutions, ruining and impoverishing of scum, and executions.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (ftsic)

62 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (kTd/k)
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That's okay, neither do the people spouting that gibberish. It sounds smaht and is quotable, which is all these traitors really care about.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (tT6L1)

63 >>Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas

Jimmy Carter revoked ALL Iranian Student Visas and Expelled the Visa Holders and then Deported them ALL.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (hJb7m)

64 Jonah is part of the shallow end of the genetic pool that is all of DC. A Cuck Ring, if you will.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (CItiL)

Sir! How dare you speak ill will of my name. I have you know I spend precious seat time the couch with my fat ass. I use to steal Ace's stuff and claim it to be my original thought (as if I have any original thoughts). Now back to doing what I do best, eating, getting fat, and grifting with my buddies, like Cap'n Little Billy Kristol. Good day, sir!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (+J/Au)

65 So basically they were planning on secretly running a shadow government.

I'm sure Pam Bondi will be all over this to bring justice.

Posted by: Sid at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (7QPFF)

66 This coming JUST as the demographic nuke that was the dearth of births in 2008 is about to hit.

Turns out feminists getting their wish and convincing women to stop having kids might have some negative implications.

Oh, especially because the women still having kids generally think those feminists are horrible, terrible people.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (t0Rmr)

67 As Krystol said, he prefers democracy but should the demos not agree with his policy preferences, well then, it's natural that the Kryfi Dynami, or "hidden power" of the deep state should overrule the demos.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (zOK4u)
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Kristol admits he's a traitor and should be treated as such.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (tT6L1)

68 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (kTd/k)
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That's okay, neither do the people spouting that gibberish. It sounds smaht and is quotable, which is all these traitors really care about.

You're suffering from epistemic closure.
*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (s8j++)

69 Lets see - the threat to democracy required fixing an election in 2000, persecuting Trump and his attorneys, jailing people without convictions for years, aborting the Democratic primary, and throwing a coup to get Biden out close to the election.

None of these things improved democracy.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (8avO+)

70 What they're admitting, without actually saying it, is they believe they're entitled to power, by any means necessary.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:40 PM

They do actually say that. See, e.g., BAMN.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (dPfyF)

71 If Trump turns off Jonah's GOPe grift how would he pay for XBOX live and all the laundry he has to do when the Paolo leaves his house?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

72 We need to save Democracy from itself !

---Unnamed biden staffer

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

73 39 37 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas
Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (RHGPo)

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Dozens of colleges may close before the start of the school year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

I wish I were smart enough to think this through thoroughly. But it seems to me that if a state run university system is heavily funded by state and federal taxpayers, then maybe there shouldn't be great big piles of foreign students enjoying said system.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (OA79/)

74 NYPost:

Highly infectious new COVID strain from China that led to massive spike in hospitalizations has spread to the US — including NYC

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (RHGPo)

75 Shocked. Shocked.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (/y8xj)

76 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 01:50 PM (kTd/k)
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TRUMP BAD

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (8avO+)

77 The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."

--

Whooooa Nelly, hold on there a minute. What was it again you leftists were screeching nonstop about "nobody elected Elon Musk!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (qBdHI)

78 "These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."

I want to see life term pmita sentences for these unelected people.

What I'll get, is some tweets that will get deleted and the poster banned.

Fvck these asshoes.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM (MsrgL)

79 The Means justify the ends, comrade-citizen!

Posted by: runner at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM (g47mK)

80 They do actually say that. See, e.g., BAMN.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (dPfyF)
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You know, I always thought BAMN was a bunch of militants kooks. Little did I know we'd have people who believe in that credo running our government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM (tT6L1)

81 73 I wish I were smart enough to think this through thoroughly. But it seems to me that if a state run university system is heavily funded by state and federal taxpayers, then maybe there shouldn't be great big piles of foreign students enjoying said system.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (OA79/)

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Foreign students always pay full price for tuition.

They are the main drivers of tuition revenue for most colleges.

So, it'll actually affect smaller colleges more than the biggest of them that have other revenue steams like research grants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

82 Oh, especially because the women still having kids generally think those feminists are horrible, terrible people.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:53 PM (t0Rmr)

My wife and I have 4.

My oldest was crushed that she'll never get to vote for Trump, but wants her first vote (in 202

to be for Vance.

She's so gung-ho on MAGA that I have to reign her in sometimes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM (N1tpc)

83 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.

Democracy = rule by Democrats. Explains everything they say.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (/y8xj)

84 Bloomberg:

US Orders Halt in Student-Visa Interviews Before New Vetting

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (RHGPo)

85 Whooooa Nelly, hold on there a minute. What was it again you leftists were screeching nonstop about "nobody elected Elon Musk!"
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2025 01:54 PM (qBdHI)
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How quickly some people forget the "Because Democrat" clause in the Constitution.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (tT6L1)

86 Trump is merely the sharp edge of the tool. We are the muscles in the arm holding that too. We are the mind controlling that arm.

The Left thinks that if only they blunt the tool, then their problem will go away.

No, you idiots -- this is the best-case scenario for you. Because if we didn't have a good tool to do the job, we'd just get it done more crudely. And trust me, you wouldn't want that.

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (pMi6S)

87 83 I don't know what the phrase existential threat to democracy means.

Democracy = rule by Democrats. Explains everything they say.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (/y8xj)

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If Democrats gave up open borders, I think they'd be in a much better position to come back to power.

They will never give up on open borders, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

88 I wish I were smart enough to think this through thoroughly. But it seems to me that if a state run university system is heavily funded by state and federal taxpayers, then maybe there shouldn't be great big piles of foreign students enjoying said system.

The arguments in favor are that they pay full freight, so it's a moneymaker for us, and hopefully, the smarter, productive ones stay here and help build the country. That used to be more true than it is now. However, I see no value in bringing in troublemaking radicals who are only here to take advantage of our lenience.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (s8j++)

89 "These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."

It's worse than that.

We hadn't even given them money or collected blackmail on them.

Posted by: AIPAC at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (7QPFF)

90 Conveniently, these secret Santa/presidents would not face any criminal prosecution for their illegal decisions. Biden gets to take the rap for all their crimes ... except he is just a senile old man that no jury would convict.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (vbXSk)

91 I thought they'd have Biden resign and Kamala take over. I'm way too conventional.
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That was the fail-safe; only if they were found out or he died.

Because, why would they give up all that power?
To Kamala and her staff?
Notice how she promoted all the female campaign from Biden's 2020 but not the men?
She was hated, despised--not feared.

They knew how she selected and retained staff: No way they cede control of the Presidency to her.
She wasn't able to force her way in during the 1st term, she wouldn't have in the second either.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (zOK4u)

92 You know, I always thought BAMN was a bunch of militants kooks. Little did I know we'd have people who believe in that credo running our government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:55 PM

Years ago, the Dems did a fairly good job of not saying the quiet part out loud. Now they just admit that the fringe kooks are their base and pretty much the majority of the party.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (dPfyF)

93 Tapper also admitted over the weekend that he wrote a book about how he covered up for Biden because he's not going to cover up for Trump's obvious dementia.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

94 >>Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas

Jimmy Carter revoked ALL Iranian Student Visas and Expelled the Visa Holders and then Deported them ALL.
Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 01:52 PM (hJb7m)

Since in those days those were people were probably the opposition's kids he did Iran's regime a favor.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (8avO+)

95 Conveniently, these secret Santa/presidents would not face any criminal prosecution for their illegal decisions. Biden gets to take the rap for all their crimes ... except he is just a senile old man that no jury would convict.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (vbXSk)

A jury here would absolutely no problem convicting him.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 27, 2025 01:58 PM (MGB5H)

96 The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."
_____________________________

When I hire people at work, I expect their family and friends to wash my cars, and mow my lawn.

This guy thinks politics is a McDonalds Meal Deal.

Posted by: Orson at May 27, 2025 01:58 PM (dIske)

97 93 Tapper also admitted over the weekend that he wrote a book about how he covered up for Biden because he's not going to cover up for Trump's obvious dementia.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

======

"Leftist media hack is going to attack Republican president rhetorically in harsh terms. More at 11."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

98 Did they each get their own autopen, or did they take turns on a predetermined rotating schedule?

Posted by: muldoon at May 27, 2025 01:58 PM (/iMjX)

99 "These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."
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Ain't that what the media and Democrats and other assorted fools, retards and assholes BIRRRRM were complaining about with "Elon"???

Posted by: ... at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (E0p3T)

100 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas

By the way this kind of stuff has an impact even if some Hawaiian judge halts it. Because people like certainly when planning and if you are Harvard or the like you have to stop hiring/giving raises when thinks like this happen...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (t0Rmr)

101 Why is ev'rybody always picking on me?

Posted by: Charlie B. at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (Xnrdt)

102 Highly infectious new COVID strain from China that led to massive spike in hospitalizations has spread to the US — including NYC

Unpossible. Not an election year.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (HTa/G)

103 No, you idiots -- this is the best-case scenario for you. Because if we didn't have a good tool to do the job, we'd just get it done more crudely. And trust me, you wouldn't want that.
Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 01:56 PM (pMi6S)
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Yeah, the left still doesn't get us electing PDT, even if he's perceived as uncouth, is still the polite way to keep things from getting ugly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (tT6L1)

104 These aides also need to be brought up on charges of elder abuse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (ftsic)

105 >>Since in those days those were people were probably the opposition's kids he did Iran's regime a favor.

Yes. The majority of those students were the Shah's supporters.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (hJb7m)

106 They knew how she selected and retained staff: No way they cede control of the Presidency to her.
She wasn't able to force her way in during the 1st term, she wouldn't have in the second either.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (zOK4u)

Biden's team selected Kamala's staff for her. She wasn't going to remain unwatched. Turnover issues was just a shift change.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (8avO+)

107 Reed, Donilon and Ricchetti 'core decision makers'? Yeah I don't buy it. Then again I haven't read the book.

Was it alleging just what the tweet said - that they dictated policy based on their whim? Because they were certainly in charge of making sure Biden appeared as the face for those policies.

But doesn't mean they were themselves the ORIGINATORS of those policies. More like they were the strings for the puppet but the media is still trying to run interference for the actual puppeteers by throwing the strings into the trash.

Posted by: geewhiz at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (V87Oy)

108 Oh, so that's what "Democracy" turns out to be. An illicit government run by unelected criminals and grifters.

The first rule of Shadow government, is that you don't talk about Shadow Government.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 02:00 PM (dPfyF)

109 Gain of Fauci
@DschlopesIsBack
Buried 2007 video of Senator Joe Biden discussing troop removal from Afghanistan. It would be a REAL SHAME if everyone saw this...

"And you leave those billions of dollars of weapons behind I promise they're going to be used against your grandchild and mine some day" - The Big Guy

Posted by: SMOD at May 27, 2025 02:00 PM (RHGPo)

110 100 By the way this kind of stuff has an impact even if some Hawaiian judge halts it. Because people like certainly when planning and if you are Harvard or the like you have to stop hiring/giving raises when thinks like this happen...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (t0Rmr)

=======

The simple fact is that the US university system is the only major importer of students in the world.

Europe doesn't do this. Their foreign students are hundreds per major campus, not thousands.

Indians who need a university degree are going to have to go to Indian universities. No one else is going to get them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

111 ah, I understand. "Giill's Gulch" in other words.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 02:00 PM (D7oie)

112 Yes. The majority of those students were the Shah's supporters.
Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (hJb7m)

My sister married an exPat from Iran. The day picked was the date of the bungled rescue mission as it turned out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)

113 Democracy also apparently means rule by judges.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2025 02:01 PM (6gitY)

114 It is true that when you vote for a person, you're implicitly voting for the kind of people you expect that person to fill their staff with.

You're emphatically -not- voting for a staff full of people who will sideline the guy and do whatever the hell they want.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (VoAdT)

115 Trump throws America's $44billion education business into chaos by halting ALL student visas

Business? No. Racket? Yes.

Posted by: A criminal enterprise that should be treated as such at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (TbWk/)

116 It's like the government was overthrown by a secret organization in a 1960s spy spoof:

CABAL

Commie Assholes Bleeding America's Lifeblood

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (pMi6S)

117 My sister married an exPat from Iran. The day picked was the date of the bungled rescue mission as it turned out.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)
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Does he refer to himself as "Persian?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (tT6L1)

118 It should be spelled DemoKrazi for better clarity
Posted by: vmom deport deport

*taking notes*

To rhyme with crazy or Nazi?

Posted by: The AoS Style Guide at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (NEvbT)

119 So the douchebags admit this was the plan for 2024, but they're still pretending it wasn't the plan for 2020.

Well alrighty then.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 27, 2025 02:02 PM (paSBy)

120 MUH NORMS!!!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (wtvvX)

121 I thought they'd have Biden resign and Kamala take over. I'm way too conventional.
Posted by: huerfano
......

That was my thought, too.

Posted by: wth at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (v0R5T)

122 "Racist-totalitarians". That's why I've long used that term. At different times the emphasis varies from one to the other elements - and most of the non-minority ones use racism purely as a tool, and have no particularly strong instincts themselves on the matter.

The totalitarian compulsion didn't start with trying to fend off Trump. It just reached it's "decisive battle" and became overt and spectacular.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (1m82a)

123 The only reason anyone would ever vote for a Democrat again is because they support this type of subversion.

Think about the entire Democratic Party platform. It’s all about a subtraction of your rights. They took away every liberty they could during Biden’s term. They would hide their intentions and do it again in an instant.

Democrats should never be elected again.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (Edo3/)

124 $44 billion and still Harvard graduates David Hogg.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (ftsic)

125 So Liverpool car attacker is Axel Rudakubana, 2nd generation England era, parents were from Rwanda and is a Islamiist
Surprise eh?

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (ypFCm)

126 Reed, Donilon and Ricchetti 'core decision makers'? Yeah I don't buy it. Then again I haven't read the book.

Was it alleging just what the tweet said - that they dictated policy based on their whim? Because they were certainly in charge of making sure Biden appeared as the face for those policies.

But doesn't mean they were themselves the ORIGINATORS of those policies. More like they were the strings for the puppet but the media is still trying to run interference for the actual puppeteers by throwing the strings into the trash.
Posted by: geewhiz at May 27, 2025 01:59 PM (V87Oy)

Anyone who tries to sell you that there is one deep state is lying. There are many factions inside and between departments all contending for influence and power. The real crime of the media is that they don't know who they are themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)

127 Tapper also admitted over the weekend that he wrote a book about how he covered up for Biden because he's not going to cover up for Trump's obvious dementia.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (dPfyF)

128 Tapper also admitted over the weekend that he wrote a book about how he covered up for Biden because he's not going to cover up for Trump's obvious dementia.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't understand to their core that "they" are simply laughing at us. They're not floundering, or trying to cover things, or protect themselves, or make lies believable, or win elections even... they are just laughing at us.

They think it's funny that they can say and do these things and that we can't stop them. Really funny. Really really funny.

You have to know that first and foremost to really "get" the Left. Everything that sprouts from there starts to really take shape once you hold up that lens and look through it.

Posted by: ... at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (E0p3T)

129 Another thing to keep in mind...Biden ran as a moderate that wasn't going to mandate vaccines, wasn't going to explode the budget, and wasn't going to do radical leftist things.

So if you play the game it is ok for advisors to run things in the name of the candidate they'd have to do what the candidate ran on otherwise you can't argue that people were voting for random advisors to run things

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

130 So much for throwing the smoke quickly on the attack.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 02:04 PM (ypFCm)

131 125 So Liverpool car attacker is Axel Rudakubana, 2nd generation England era, parents were from Rwanda and is a Islamiist
Surprise eh?
Posted by: Skip

Link?

Posted by: zombie at May 27, 2025 02:05 PM (pMi6S)

132 Throwing the entire student visa issue into question in May means armageddon for the fall, if t hings don't clear up quickly.

What was that useful phrase again?

"The process is the punishment".

Hmm. Yeah.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 02:05 PM (1m82a)

133 I thought they'd have Biden resign and Kamala take over. I'm way too conventional.
Posted by: huerfano
......

That was my thought, too.
Posted by: wth at May 27, 2025 02:03 PM (v0R5T)

Kamala was Biden's insurance against being forced out. Nobody in DC wanted Kamala in office, she might have fired some of them. When they did depose Biden, Biden instantly nailed Kamala up as candidate to punish them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (8avO+)

134 Back on topic, then why let Sundowner do a debate with Trump in July? Long before any other debate happened

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (ypFCm)

135 I don't believe anything these assholes say. I don't even believe Joe has cancer. It's probably just a sympathy play to LEAVE JOE ALONE

Posted by: wth at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (v0R5T)

136 Jake Tapper needs to break a leg so Kathy Bates can take care of him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (ftsic)

137 Which is more cost effective?

a. gallows

b. firing squad

Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)

138 That name sounds very familiar. Rudakubana.... I know that's been a name in the news once upon a time.

Maybe Radukubana. No idea. But it definitely rings a bell.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (VoAdT)

139 American Thinker has story on Liverpool
On phone trying to head out the door

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (ypFCm)

140 Another thing to keep in mind...Biden ran as a moderate that wasn't going to mandate vaccines, wasn't going to explode the budget, and wasn't going to do radical leftist things.

So if you play the game it is ok for advisors to run things in the name of the candidate they'd have to do what the candidate ran on otherwise you can't argue that people were voting for random advisors to run things
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

If the staffer is the officeholder then they need to be named just like the President in the campaign.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (8avO+)

141 Which is more cost effective?

a. gallows

b. firing squad

Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)
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Might be able to auction off turns at the firing squad.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (tT6L1)

142 Foreign students always pay full price for tuition.

They are the main drivers of tuition revenue for most colleges.

So, it'll actually affect smaller colleges more than the biggest of them that have other revenue steams like research grants.
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I also note that Trump said foreign governments are paying these student's tuition.
And that we need to look into that.

Another seemingly idle accusation (which have all proven accurate every time) that kinda slipped by ....

I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (zOK4u)

143 Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)

Both. Simultaneously.

Free target practice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (VoAdT)

144 Which is more cost effective?

a. gallows

b. firing squad

Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)

Bullets are pretty cheap. Rope is recyclable.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (8avO+)

145 >>Which is more cost effective?

The French got it right. Guillotine.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (hJb7m)

146 138 That name sounds very familiar. Rudakubana.... I know that's been a name in the news once upon a time.

One who murdered 3 girls I think ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (VE6XX)

147 NYPost:

Highly infectious new COVID strain from China that led to massive spike in hospitalizations has spread to the US — including NYC

Posted by: SMOD

I have been fighting off a rather persistent head cold oover the last four and a half weeks. We should probably shut the world down to flatten the curve. Should only take two weeks, it's for the children.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (MsrgL)

148 Yes. The majority of those students were the Shah's supporters.

Both sides fled. GF's parents, back when they were college students, were overthrow supporters...until they experienced the new regime.

Posted by: t-bird at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (aah8C)

149 weird.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (dqmL3)

150 142 Another seemingly idle accusation (which have all proven accurate every time) that kinda slipped by ....

I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (zOK4u)

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Think the foreign governments are gaming the student loan system to make a bit of cash on investing the bulk payments?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

151 Rope, while cheap...requires a technician.

The Guillotine just requires a crowd.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (hJb7m)

152 Sometimes you just have to kill the baby to save it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (ERYKL)

153 so the same as the first term?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)

154 So the Bidenaides planned to turn Joe into a mushroom. Nice people.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (kTd/k)

155 I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (zOK4u)

USAID or equivalent, directly or indirectly. Foreigners in on the grift use part of their stealing to get their kid in to be able to work with the NGOs.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (8avO+)

156 Have no words for the spectacle of these dumb, dishonest sub-mediocrities writing books about how the long-known glaringly obvious realities of Biden's decline (from nasty, dumb, and Haitian-style corrupt - to nasty, dumb, Haitian-style corrupt, AND mentally/physiologically impaired).

It's really sort of one more (redundant) grim milestone marking national degradation that such absurd performances don't result in instant, universal ridicule and dismissal.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 02:10 PM (1m82a)

157 This is actual Sedition.

Just pointing that out.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:10 PM (hJb7m)

158
I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?

You are paying for them silly.

Just like every other insane expenditure of money you see in the news.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 02:10 PM (t0Rmr)

159 Axel Rudakubana,

***********

One of my favorite Barry Manilow tunes.

Posted by: muldoon at May 27, 2025 02:11 PM (/iMjX)

160 Axel Rudakubana,

Yes in England.. 3 little girls at a Taylor Swift dance party

Posted by: It's me donna at May 27, 2025 02:11 PM (VE6XX)

161 I said yesterday the name of Liverpool attack was going to be a key to open the cause

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 02:11 PM (ypFCm)

162 >>Axel Rudakubana,

The lead singer of Goats and Roses. A local Muslim GnR cover band.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:12 PM (hJb7m)

163 Sometimes you just have to kill the baby to save it.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (ERYKL)

————-

Right?

Posted by: The Dog at May 27, 2025 02:12 PM (u73oe)

164 So like his first term...

Posted by: steevy at May 27, 2025 02:12 PM (YwEeS)

165 The lead singer of Goats and Roses. A local Muslim GnR cover band.
Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:12 PM (hJb7m)

You do not want to hear their interpretation of "Sweet Child of Mine"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (eb5mD)

166 One of my favorite Barry Manilow tunes.
Posted by: muldoon at May 27, 2025 02:11 PM (/iMjX)

His name was Axel
Rudakubana
The fastest knife north of Rwanda...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (VoAdT)

167 Think the foreign governments are gaming the student loan system to make a bit of cash on investing the bulk payments?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

stealing is easier. there will always be taking from the US. Look at Z, he really thinks it is more important to get money to pocket than stop the Russian armies devouring his 'country'. Of course, before the war he was busy shelling parts of 'his country'. Just this weekend he threatened those in a town who stayed behind in the war zone and welcomed the Russians as they took the place.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (8avO+)

168 Dying Joe was The Man in the Mask.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (kTd/k)

169 "Unnamed Biden Aide Admits Plan Was for Biden to Get "Re"-Elected and Then Disappear, Letting His "Aides" Run the Government, and Only Occasionally Appearing on Video to Demonstrate "Proof of Life""

Wait! I though this was the 2020 plan

Posted by: Ripley at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (GUOwU)

170 See also the 2020 election

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (xcxpd)

171 Jill and Hunter getting their last licks in before the old man shuffles off his mortal coil.

What a great family.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 27, 2025 02:13 PM (KbCG3)

172 Point of order, lefty scum: We don't have a democracy, we have a constitutional republic (supposedly).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 27, 2025 02:14 PM (6dpAp)

173 Jill and Hunter getting their last licks in before the old man shuffles off his mortal coil.

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Well that's an image I didn't need.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 27, 2025 02:14 PM (MGB5H)

174 I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?

You are paying for them silly.

Just like every other insane expenditure of money you see in the news.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2025 02:10 PM (t0Rmr)

Even billionaire Nazi Soros gets US Money to destroy the US with.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:14 PM (8avO+)

175 Axel Rudakubana...

"Ackhmel, akel, akhzell?"
-Serge

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (2VST1)

176 We flew back to MN this past weekend to spend some time with my son and his wife, who are expecting their first child in August. First time I'd seen the new state flag in the wild. I cannot believe how much that flag pisses me off.

Posted by: jhawk90 at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (ggOdn)

177 141 Which is more cost effective?

a. gallows

b. firing squad

Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)
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Might be able to auction off turns at the firing squad.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (tT6L1)

The Russians used to get a lot of use out of a Makarov and a floor drain.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (xcxpd)

178 Things are getting really interesting. The left is imploding, Roberts might be implicated in the leak , the education racket is dying/committing suicide, and all of the lefts bs from the last four years is catching up with them. Oh and the economy is looking up. Even if the GOPe is sitting around with their thumbs up their butts, inertia and events are passing them by. We are living in interesting times

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (eDGGN)

179 Joey, Jill, Hunter, and Ashley - a family centipede

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (ftsic)

180 Point of order, lefty scum: We don't have a democracy, we have a constitutional republic (supposedly).
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 27, 2025 02:14 PM (6dpAp)

There is no "we". "Our Democracy" is for the elites. What they tell the rubes doesn't matter to them.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (8avO+)

181 Sometimes you just have to kill the baby to save it.

"Sometimes you have to kill the baby to save us all from the Korean forces!!!"
--"Hawkeye" Pierce

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (2VST1)

182 Think the foreign governments are gaming the student loan system to make a bit of cash on investing the bulk payments?
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Bribes and kick-backs.

Government official agrees to $10 billion purchase of arms, his son gets into Harvard.

And also spies.
All these Chinese kids ain't paying, the CCP is.
I think that's what he was hinting at--the universities are knowingly laundering student visa and bribes for China.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (zOK4u)

183 This could be used as the plot a very dark political thriller.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (kTd/k)

184 So the Fake Oval Office Press Office was an AI CGI run by staffers?

Max Headroom with a small nodule?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (dqmL3)

185 We flew back to MN this past weekend to spend some time with my son and his wife, who are expecting their first child in August. First time I'd seen the new state flag in the wild. I cannot believe how much that flag pisses me off.
Posted by: jhawk90 at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (ggOdn)

Most state flags are pretty stupid looking.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:17 PM (8avO+)

186
So, it'll actually affect smaller colleges more than the biggest of them that have other revenue steams like research grants.
---
I also note that Trump said foreign governments are paying these student's tuition.
And that we need to look into that.

Another seemingly idle accusation (which have all proven accurate every time) that kinda slipped by ....

I mean, how are these Palis, for example, able to afford, not just undergrad, but also grad schools?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:07 PM (zOK4u)

Research funding and the education funding streams are mutually exclusive. You don't subsidize education with research dollars from the feds. At least not if you are following accounting principles accurately.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 02:18 PM (OA79/)

187 >>>The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response.

Not an existential threat to democracy? Not knowing who TF you are voting for.

GTFO here with that seditious BS.

They are lucky that they are not being flushed out from whatever holes they are hiding and strung up in the streets.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 27, 2025 02:18 PM (i24o9)

188 I am glad the Biden "aide" is exposing how corrupt and decadent the federal government really is...but who cares just send me my check!

Posted by: Moochers And Looters at May 27, 2025 02:18 PM (WeTZq)

189 Which is more cost effective?

a. gallows

b. firing squad

Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dqmL3)

Bullets are pretty cheap. Rope is recyclable.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:08 PM (8avO+)

Forced into the stands at a WNBA game. The WNBA doesn't get a dime for the offenders.

That might be considered cruel punishment, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 27, 2025 02:18 PM (VNX3d)

190 178 Things are getting really interesting. The left is imploding, Roberts might be implicated in the leak , the education racket is dying/committing suicide, and all of the lefts bs from the last four years is catching up with them. Oh and the economy is looking up. Even if the GOPe is sitting around with their thumbs up their butts, inertia and events are passing them by. We are living in interesting times
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 02:15 PM (eDGGN)

======

Consumer confidence is spiking, too.

And the left's ability to raise money for elections is in question, assuming they relied on cutouts from government grants to make things happen.

And Trump has already raised $600 million for the midterms.

The assumption that 2026 is going to follow normal midterm rules seems...shaky to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

191 Charge them all. Make them rat on each other.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (sX1BW)

192 The Russians used to get a lot of use out of a Makarov and a floor drain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

It’s a volume play - fixed vs variable cost. The only answer is to minimize both.

Crowbar.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (nIRE6)

193 181 Sometimes you just have to kill the baby to save it.

"Sometimes you have to kill the baby to save us all from the Korean forces!!!"
--"Hawkeye" Pierce
Posted by: Chris

IT WASNT A CHICKEN!!!!!!!

Posted by: Hawkeye at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (OA79/)

194 The assumption that 2026 is going to follow normal midterm rules seems...shaky to me.

---------------

We can always raise taxes.

- The GOP

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (sX1BW)

195 All these Chinese kids ain't paying, the CCP is.
I think that's what he was hinting at--the universities are knowingly laundering student visa and bribes for China.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 27, 2025 02:16 PM (zOK4u)

Sometimes the family pays to buy bolt holes incase they have a status change and need to run. The CCP direct bribes probably are at a higher level - research grants from open Chinese "companies" or shell corps in the West.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (8avO+)

196 Even if the GOPe is sitting around with their thumbs up their butts

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at May 27, 2025 02:20 PM (WeTZq)

197 Funny how all the Democrats screaming NOBODY ELECTED ELON didn't have a problem with the WH staff that nobody elected running the country.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (setIA)

198 >>IT WASNT A CHICKEN!!!!!!!
Posted by: Hawkeye at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (OA79/)

Best MASH Episode, ever.

Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (hJb7m)

199 I would hope that our DoJ is on top of this and has a list of these "aids." And has a plan for them that isn't a Q & A session and then let go.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (Q4IgG)

200 Research funding and the education funding streams are mutually exclusive. You don't subsidize education with research dollars from the feds. At least not if you are following accounting principles accurately.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 02:18 PM (OA79/)

Makes me wonder how hollowed out and stolen their precious endowments are.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (8avO+)

201 Woodchipper

Pipe the video to the scum waiting. See how many flip.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (ftsic)

202 198 >>IT WASNT A CHICKEN!!!!!!!
Posted by: Hawkeye at May 27, 2025 02:19 PM (OA79/)

Best MASH Episode, ever.
Posted by: garrett at May 27, 2025 02:21 PM (hJb7m)

I laughed out loud!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 02:22 PM (OA79/)

203 And the left's ability to raise money for elections is in question, assuming they relied on cutouts from government grants to make things happen.

The midterms are going to be a real test of how much the left relied on federal funds and strongarming to get an electoral advantage. Expect a big swarm of judicial rulings to protect that next year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)

204 I'd like to hear David French comment on this, but only for the amusment of seeing him twist his principals into pretzels to justify why it is more important to run the country this way rather than let the populist Trump try his hand at delivering for the people.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 27, 2025 02:23 PM (Dv3i1)

205 In the hindsight of time, what they did to McLean Stevenson's character was just plain petty and mean.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (ftsic)

206 Best MASH Episode, ever.

Still the most-watched single episode of television I think. I watched it at college with a bunch of people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (2VST1)

207 "Disappear" has a long history in Leftist politics. If Biden did win, he wouldn't have been that hard to find. Just look for the headstone.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (MZ+PY)

208 200, LOL, that would really be so, so funny!
Looted out just like every other thing the left touches!
LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (/Ghsb)

209 My wife and two of my daughters went to UVA. Here's why I won't send them another cent.

https://is.gd/C3WhVl

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (s8j++)

210 Babylon Bee:

Harvard Warns Loss of Federal Funding Will Cripple Their Ability to Find a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (paSBy)

211 Once again the three justices appointed by Trump apparently disagree with Thomas and Alito dissents again. Or at least they stayed silent on the SC refusing to hear the First Amendment case of the kid who was sent home from school for wearing a ' there are only two genders ' t shirt.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (VofaG)

212 Susanna Hoffs turned 66 this week. Time flies when you're having fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 02:25 PM (eDGGN)

213 The midterms are going to be a real test of how much the left relied on federal funds and strongarming to get an electoral advantage. Expect a big swarm of judicial rulings to protect that next year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)

It takes a certain organization to steal elections and even when they did they really didn't hide it very well. The major bleeding seems to so far be the old machine type Dems stepping back and going dark.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:25 PM (8avO+)

214 Which is more cost effective?
a. gallows
b. firing squad
Anyone? Any insight from the MBAs out there?

I have an idea!

Posted by: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin at May 27, 2025 02:26 PM (w9Wax)

215 "three justices appointed by Trump apparently disagree with Thomas and Alito dissents again"

Dississents.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at May 27, 2025 02:26 PM (t8CWH)

216 "The end justifies the means" is the simplest way to put it. I wonder where we've heard that before? Oh! That's what they teach in the universities today!

Let's spend $trillions more on education so we can learn what Democracy is really about.

Posted by: Kurtz at May 27, 2025 02:27 PM (4rO9J)

217 So Harvard will have to dip into their 55 billion dollar endowment. So sad.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:27 PM (VofaG)

218 Let's spend $trillions more on education so we can learn what Democracy is really about.
Posted by: Kurtz at May 27, 2025 02:27 PM (4rO9J)

But we won't teach political science, just racism, irresponsibility, and violence.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:28 PM (8avO+)

219 The Dems tried that "you voted for Biden's team, not just Biden" about midway through his term, and that didn't fly either. Guess this aide isn't that imaginative.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 27, 2025 02:29 PM (oCS0o)

220 217 So Harvard will have to dip into their 55 billion dollar endowment. So sad.
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:27 PM (VofaG)

=======

Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

221 206 Best MASH Episode, ever.

Still the most-watched single episode of television I think. I watched it at college with a bunch of people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:24 PM (2VST1)

They totally pussed out on that episode. I would have had it that Hawkeye smothers the baby saving the bus load of orphans instead of the Korean woman doing it. After all of Hawkeye bullshit yammerings about war he's forced into a no win situation pick up a gun and fight or kill a baby to save himself. Then he goes to the looney bin where he has to admit he killed the baby cause he was too cowardly to pick up a rifle and shoot the Chinese soldier moving in on the wrecked bus.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (OA79/)

222 WNBA players ... hardwood or not?

Posted by: J. Random Lurker at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Xnrdt)

223 Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

I imagine their 'ends justify the means' accountants rose to that challenge a long time ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)

224 "Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge."

It would be hilarious if they discover it's mostly been pilfered. Or if it was a potemkin endowment the whole time.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (t8CWH)

225 Susanna Hoffs turned 66 this week. Time flies when you're having fun

She still looks really good too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (2VST1)

226 Throw every Biden aide into interrogation rooms and offer the first one to confess and roll over on the others immunity. The rest get the firing squad.

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (uxAXv)

227 Afternoon.

I know Tapper is a turd but it is nice of him to set the Democrats on fire even if it just to cover his own ass. Good job!

Posted by: Robert at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (SR7aQ)

228 Future Babylon Bee:

Trump says Harvard would make a huge golf course and resort.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:31 PM (ftsic)

229 After all of Hawkeye bullshit yammerings about war he's forced into a no win situation pick up a gun and fight or kill a baby to save himself. Then he goes to the looney bin where he has to admit he killed the baby cause he was too cowardly to pick up a rifle and shoot the Chinese soldier moving in on the wrecked bus.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (OA79/)

I checked out about 7 years into the three year long war.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:32 PM (8avO+)

230 WNBA players ... hardwood or not?
Posted by: J. Random Lurker at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Xnrdt)

Caitlin Clark looks like she keeps it hairy.

Posted by: Antonio Brown at May 27, 2025 02:33 PM (WeTZq)

231 Well Wilson's wife and aides ran the country for awhile so the precedent justifies doing the same with Biden. You can't overturn precedent !!

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:33 PM (VofaG)

232 The Russians used to get a lot of use out of a ~~Makarov~~ Nagant revolver and a floor drain.

FIFY

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 02:33 PM (D7oie)

233 >221

I watched it to see if Trapper came back. Fuck BJ Honeycutt.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 02:34 PM (eb5mD)

234 WNBA players ... hardwood or not?
Posted by: J. Random Lurker at May 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Xnrdt)

Caitlin Clark looks like she keeps it hairy.
Posted by: Antonio Brown at May 27, 2025 02:33 PM (WeTZq)

Caitlin looks like she wants to play the game.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:34 PM (8avO+)

235 ... hopefully, the smarter, productive ones stay here and help build the country.

Build it into what?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2025 02:34 PM (ExV1e)

236 >221

I watched it to see if Trapper came back. Fuck BJ Honeycutt.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 27, 2025 02:34 PM (eb5mD)

Trapper was in a trailer in a Hospital parking lot by then.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:35 PM (8avO+)

237 228, and that would be even funnier, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 27, 2025 02:36 PM (/Ghsb)

238 The WNBA is an analogy of the South African farmer policy.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (VofaG)

239 Caitlin looks like she wants to play the game.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:34 PM (

What gives it away?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (kTd/k)

240 Yeah, firing squad versus no firing squad might focus the minds of these traitors quite well.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (tT6L1)

241 MASH was dumb. The best part of the show was the music music for the opening credits.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (sX1BW)

242 Trapper John was a conservative in real life right?

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (VofaG)

243 Trapper was back in a TV show! That sucked.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (2VST1)

244 Future Babylon Bee:

Trump says Harvard would make a huge golf course and resort.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:31 PM (ftsic)

There was a video game where the golf course was on top of the buildings in a city. This might work here.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (8avO+)

245 MASH was on waaayy too long. They should've ended it when Larry Linville left.

Posted by: Bulg at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

246 MASH was dumb. The best part of the show was the music music for the opening credits.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (sX1BW)

Marilyn Manson version is better.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (MGB5H)

247 The best part of the show was the music music for the opening credits.

Them turning the sad, slow song about suicide into an upbeat jazz number was... and interesting choice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (2VST1)

248 ... hopefully, the smarter, productive ones stay here and help build the country.

Build it into what?

Dunno, but I'm sure it's Ukraine's fault.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

249 Trapper was back in a TV show! That sucked.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (2VST1)

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Also did an "I Dream of Genie" tv movie, I believe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (tT6L1)

250 Caitlin looks like she wants to play the game.

"f***ing white girl!!!!"
--Some dude named Griner

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (2VST1)

251 After all of Hawkeye bullshit yammerings about war he's forced into a no win situation pick up a gun and fight or kill a baby to save himself.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

I remember that well and then there's the episode of Hawkeye and BJ treating a N. Korean woman who is a guerrilla fighter that has already killed Americans. They try and keep her from a S.Korean officer who wants to take her and interrogate her. They are outraged that he may resort to torture to get info out of her. While in the ward, she tries to kill a US Soldier by pulling his IV out. In the end, the officer gets her and she curses them all out. The officer points out that she would gladly kill them and they are being fools and naive. They remain outraged and I suspect they wrote this episode hoping the audience would be outraged. Around then is when I stopped watching.

Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (oiNtH)

252 "These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."

Snort. And does Alex Thompson think that the DNC, including most of its voters gives a rat's ass? They all think that is how the office of POTUS is supposed to work. The elected President is just the figurehead, and the bureaucrats are really in charge. The only problem they had with Biden is that he is and was so brain damaged that he could not maintain the facade as much as necessary.

I was amazed at the ability of Joetato's medical team to juice him up to the point he could give fairly coherent State of the Union addresses. I kept thinking I'd be seeing snippets the next day of him being completely off the rails but it never happened. At least I was smart enough not to subject myself to his nasty lies, I knew that if Joe stroked out or went fully incoherent I'd read about it here and there would be video snippets posted somewhere.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (CKOCg)

253 The WNBA is an analogy of the South African farmer policy.

Someone on Twitter over the weekend suggested the WNBA is some form of money laundering operation because there's no reason for the NBA to keep it in operation given it loses tens of millions of dollars a year. By playing the game to a watchable standard, Clark is inviting unwanted scrutiny on the league, which might uncover whatever the hell is really going on.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (2ocoG)

254 Rev. Wishbone

A firing squad is for honorable death.

A gallows is for rotten people.
To the gallows with them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (u82oZ)

255 OT, but RIP Rick Derringer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (WPL6O)

256 The opening music?

"Suicide is easy, it brings upon many changes."

The almost Last Supper scene from the movie when the Painless Pole wanted to off himself.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (ftsic)

257 "Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge."

It would be hilarious if they discover it's mostly been pilfered. Or if it was a potemkin endowment the whole time.
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Harvard having to do a PBS style fundraiser/begathon.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (UmrY7)

258
~bat-bat-bat,,, bat-bat~

Posted by: Jasmine Crocketts' Eye Lashes at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (EFZgU)

259 TJM, have you ever seen Runaway Train? Caught the end of it and found it interesting.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (n17eQ)

260 OT, but RIP Rick Derringer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Shot his wad too soon.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:41 PM (UmrY7)

261 "You tell'em Ferret Face!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:41 PM (ftsic)

262 Gee. I was right again, even listing names of the likely staff involved.

So how did they get away with it? The Cabinet had to know so I guess that's why few meetings were held as time went by.

The State Department and it's spin off child, USAID, knew. The Center for Peace knew.

Joey's adoptee, AOC, had to know. Pelosi undoubtedly knew. The House Select Committee on January 6th knew. And certainly, many in the Senate, and so on.

How? No one voted for those 'staff' people to hold great power throughout FJB's administration.

They yell oligarchy and awful lot. 🤔 Could it possibly be the Democratic party's oligarchy of tech & stock & war mongering billionaires backed the dirty deeds? /R

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (NFX2v)

263 Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
and is probably over-valued for the claimed amount. They are trying to start selling off their private equity at the moment, and since they probably start selling the dogs first, that will make everyone look askance at their valuation.

Posted by: Kiindltot at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (D7oie)

264 The state is like a sports team where we vote for the coach.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (2ap+5)

265 Trapper was back in a TV show! That sucked.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 27, 2025 02:37 PM (2VST1)

------------------

Also did an "I Dream of Genie" tv movie, I believe.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (tT6L1)

Trapper John MD was alright - he was older and there was a young punk doctor to play off of.

There were often reunion shows and the like for popular TV shows. Also crossover shows were series A went into series B.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)

266 257 "Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge."

It would be hilarious if they discover it's mostly been pilfered. Or if it was a potemkin endowment the whole time.
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Harvard having to do a PBS style fundraiser/begathon.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (UmrY7)

Zombie Thurston Howell III laughs

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (wtvvX)

267 Harvard having to do a PBS style fundraiser/begathon.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (UmrY7)
----
"I always wanted a Harvard tote bag!" -- said no one ever

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (7fElN)

268 Harvard having to do a PBS style fundraiser/begathon.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (UmrY7)

They already are, basically.

"For your generous yearly donation, fifty of your nationals will get a free post graduate degree and this lovely sweatshirt that was probably made by their fucking cousin."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VoAdT)

269 Best thing about watching MASH was trying to spot Radar's deformed hand.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

270 220 217 So Harvard will have to dip into their 55 billion dollar endowment. So sad.
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:27 PM (VofaG)

=======

Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 27, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
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And over valued per Bill Ackman by 10% and then you have to subtract $8 Billion in DEBT. Yikes.

Posted by: WisRich at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (G0vdT)

271 MASH the Movie >>> MASH the TV show

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 02:43 PM (wtvvX)

272 OT, but RIP Rick Derringer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (WPL6O)

Aw, dang. I liked the guy. Very talented. Except for the one song that gets airplay. Never liked Rock'n'roll hootchie koo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 27, 2025 02:43 PM (PSEDc)

273 A Harvard cake sale would be totes hilarious as all the factions vie with each other.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:43 PM (ftsic)

274 Mike Farrell is 86. Alda is 89. Damn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 27, 2025 02:44 PM (eDGGN)

275 Gee. I was right again, even listing names of the likely staff involved.

So how did they get away with it? The Cabinet had to know so I guess that's why few meetings were held as time went by.

The State Department and it's spin off child, USAID, knew. The Center for Peace knew.

Joey's adoptee, AOC, had to know. Pelosi undoubtedly knew. The House Select Committee on January 6th knew. And certainly, many in the Senate, and so on.

How? No one voted for those 'staff' people to hold great power throughout FJB's administration.

They yell oligarchy and awful lot. 🤔 Could it possibly be the Democratic party's oligarchy of tech & stock & war mongering billionaires backed the dirty deeds? /R

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (NFX2v)

Absolutely everyone in the world knew. These flakes were fooling nobody with their dog and pony shows.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)

276 Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (oiNtH)

Cheri, I remember that episode quite well. I was amazed, even as young as I was, that they actually showed a commie being the villain.

Posted by: Bulg at May 27, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

277
So do Barky and Big Mike have all the homes for sale?

I heard about Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii but what's the use of the D.C. joint if none of their friends are left to hang out with?

Posted by: Auspex at May 27, 2025 02:44 PM (j4U/Z)

278 OT, but RIP Rick Derringer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2025 02:39 PM (WPL6O)

Sloopy girl will live on in YT videos.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 27, 2025 02:44 PM (Aqu9a)

279 Mike Farrell is 86. Alda is 89. Damn

Only the good die young.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (s8j++)

280 269 Best thing about watching MASH was trying to spot Radar's deformed hand.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

"Beam me up, Mr. O'Reilly!"

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (wtvvX)

281 Best thing about watching MASH was trying to spot Radar's deformed hand.
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

I thought that was Scotty in Old Star Trek.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (8avO+)

282 Aw, dang. I liked the guy. Very talented. Except for the one song that gets airplay. Never liked Rock'n'roll hootchie koo.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 27, 2025 02:43 PM (PSEDc)
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I seem to recall Rick said he wrote the song in order to keep from being typecast musicast? as only capable of soft generic rock.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (tT6L1)

283 Alda looks liked a wizened old gnome

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (ftsic)

284
21 I thought they'd have Biden resign and Kamala take over. I'm way too conventional.
Posted by: huerfano at May 27, 2025 01:44 PM (n2swS)

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The plan was to keep them both out of sight.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (GVQFY)

285 The plan was to keep them both out of sight.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 27, 2025 02:45 PM (GVQFY)

And out of their minds.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:46 PM (VoAdT)

286 Paper Tiger was a decent Alan Alda movie.

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:46 PM (VofaG)

287 Scotty lost a finger landing at Normandy on D-Day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 27, 2025 02:46 PM (ftsic)

288 I knew M*A*S*H was a bust when Hot Lips Hoolihan got married.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 27, 2025 02:46 PM (dqmL3)

289 Best thing about watching MASH was trying to spot Radar's deformed hand.
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

I thought that was Scotty in Old Star Trek.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yeah, Doohan was missing a finger. I understand that every time you saw what supposedly his hand on the transporter controls, it was really Roddenberry's hand.

Posted by: Bulg at May 27, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

290 This site is becoming increasingly inaccessible to a lot of people. There is some type of script that keeps getting posted to the main page. It gets cleaned up and then inserted again probably from a morning post. It’s causing the page to reload u til it crashes. There is no way to access comments. You are also cutting off a lot of Tors or banning tor IP’s where people can’t even get to the site. That’s all only allowing some people with a certain setup to access the site (no, or limited vpn, certain browsers, not iPhone)

And no, I’m not a boomer. I am a techie.

Posted by: Joe Lurker at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (dKqd8)

291 "Their endowment is really illiquid. It's a challenge."

It would be hilarious if they discover it's mostly been pilfered. Or if it was a potemkin endowment the whole time.
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Harvard having to do a PBS style fundraiser/begathon.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:40 PM (UmrY7)

They do that literally every year, all colleges do to the alumni.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)

292 YOU TOO CAN HAVE A COMMEMORATIVE HARVARD DIPLOMA FOR ONLY $99 PLUS SHIPPING IF YOU ORDER NOW!

ANTISEMITES ARE STANDING BY!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (wtvvX)

293 MASH went south when they got rid of Spearchucker Jones.

Posted by: Zombie Gene Hackman at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (WeTZq)

294 MASH was on waaayy too long. They should've ended it when Larry Linville left.
Posted by: Bulg
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It wasn't even a comedy after he left. More of a drama.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (UBKzV)

295 For the average seem voter it doesn’t matter. They vote for party above all else. Whether it was President Biden or President Anonymous asides, who cares? As long as it’s a leftist, all is good.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (Y7qnM)

296 283 Alda looks liked a wizened old gnome
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Dick Van Dyke says 'heh.'

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 02:48 PM (n17eQ)

297 It wasn't even a comedy after he left. More of a drama.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (UBKzV)

Melodrama.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2025 02:48 PM (VoAdT)

298 Dunno, but I'm sure it's Ukraine's fault.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 27, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

See... here's the thing. Folks like you like to throw that around but I've never said it was Ukraine's fault. I've been pretty constant, to the point that folks around here called me a traitor three years ago, that it's the US's fault. I've even laid out the steps of my argument.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2025 02:48 PM (ExV1e)

299 Joe Lurker at May 27, 202

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Not an ideal solution but if you disable JavaScript the issue goes away .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Y7qnM)

300 Seize Harvard and turn it into a trade school. Put Mike Rowe in charge.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (u73oe)

301 MASH was on waaayy too long. They should've ended it when Larry Linville left.
Posted by: Bulg
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It wasn't even a comedy after he left. More of a drama.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 27, 2025 02:47 PM (UBKzV)

Alda's weekly morality play. Bleh.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Aqu9a)

302 So, a coup?

This is more like a coup than some dude in Pelosi's office with a buffalo hat.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (rJ7Hd)

303 286 Paper Tiger was a decent Alan Alda movie.
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This was when the Lions played outdoors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (n17eQ)

304 Nood. Apparently the Democrats have "elites".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (ExV1e)

305 Are these the same people who have been screaming "We didn't vote for Musk"?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (rF2iL)

306 Best thing about watching MASH was trying to spot Radar's deformed hand.
Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

I thought that was Scotty in Old Star Trek.
Posted by: Oldcat

Gary Burghoff had a birth defect where three fingers were very short. I think Scotty had one of his fingers shot off ?

Posted by: polynikes at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (VofaG)

307 Chrome does start informing me that this site is unresponsive, usually after the # of comments gets above about 250. Site still works for me, but I have to keep hitting the wait button. But I blame google.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 27, 2025 02:50 PM (CKOCg)

308 Alda looks liked a wizened old gnome
Posted by: Anna Puma

My wife thinks that his father, Robert, was a hottie in his time.

Obviously, Alan didn't inherit his dad's looks.

Posted by: Bulg at May 27, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

309 Paper Tiger was a decent Alan Alda movie.
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This was when the Lions played outdoors.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 27, 2025 02:49 PM (n17eQ)

An actor pretending to be a journalist pretending to be a football player?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 27, 2025 02:50 PM (8avO+)

310 This site is becoming increasingly inaccessible to a lot of people. There is some type of script that keeps getting posted to the main page. It gets cleaned up and then inserted again probably from a morning post. It’s causing the page to reload u til it crashes. There is no way to access comments. You are also cutting off a lot of Tors or banning tor IP’s where people can’t even get to the site. That’s all only allowing some people with a certain setup to access the site (no, or limited vpn, certain browsers, not iPhone)

And no, I’m not a boomer. I am a techie.
Posted by: Joe Lurker

When it reloads, I click on the X on the reload button. (Brave) It usually stops it for me and then lets me enter normally.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2025 02:54 PM (UmrY7)

311 OK, so there HAVE to be records of who was signing off on stuff.... computer files, emails, memos.... the White House did not run on just word of mouth...

ergo... they could get to the bottom of this...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 27, 2025 02:59 PM (mP0Kj)

312 31 Democracy is actually a portmanteau of the words "Democrat" and "Kleptocracy"

It should be spelled DemoKrazi for better clarity

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 27, 2025 01:46 PM (MXU5n)
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Comment f the week!

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is time at May 27, 2025 03:00 PM (sPQoU)

313 I said yesterday the name of Liverpool attack was going to be a key to open the cause

Posted by: Skip

Which is why it was so interesting that the British press reported the attacker as a native born Englishman.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 27, 2025 03:00 PM (lTGtQ)

314 Btw, Mike Donilon was even in The War Room, 1993.

Carville, Stephanopoulos, Donilon...

Made Slick Willie & kept him in office, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at May 27, 2025 03:01 PM (NFX2v)

315 Can you imagine how bad Hawkeyes hands would be shaking after all that cheap gin he would drink. Meatball surgery indeed.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 27, 2025 03:06 PM (OA79/)

316 Well, yeah.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 03:30 PM (D1vbu)

317 Trump is a n existential threat to their grifting lifestyles. As a threat to the U.S., not so much.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 27, 2025 03:32 PM (D1vbu)

318 Biden should return to his Basement the Monster under his Bed misses him

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 27, 2025 04:45 PM (wGqjj)

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