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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Secret Service says does not keep records on who Biden meets at his Delaware residences
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems unlikely unless specifically requested not to do so.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/23/2022 12:14 Comments || Top||

#2  OK.

How about records concerning investigations into those who would be meeting with or within striking distance of said security detail.

Just in case there might be, you know, a Taliban Camera Crew or Iranian Agents?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Utter codswallop! Of course they do. I'm also certain that the security services of a number of foreign adversaries do as well. The unprecedented deception effort to conceal this information makes it clear how seriously damaging it would be to have it revealed. Business or political visitors can be explained away, but physicians or medical treatments are always immediate cause for investigation. Further cements for me the probability of the medical thread from yesterday as the basis for it!
The instant proof is given about the cognitive deficiency and cover up of the President, uncontrollable consequences begin.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/23/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  They have records xand background checks, they just "don't keep them."

Oh, ok.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#5  But a FFL has to keep gun records 4ever
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Cell phone towers there keep records of cell phone numbers pinging and using the routers.
Posted by: Clusosh Floluter6074 || 04/23/2022 15:56 Comments || Top||



-War on Police-
Al Sharpton demands name of police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, despite no charges yet filed
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I demand he stop using so much air.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  COVID has failed us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3 
Needing to make Political Verbal donation to stay in the click. Slim Down AL needs to incite racial unrest to new levels coming into the Mid-Terms.

What is his Speaking Race Card Pimping Fee?

Seriously, if you Duck/Duck "Al Sharpton speaking fee" he is #1 thru #8.

He wants to exit on a high note I guess.

Hell, it was reported Al Sharpton may have tried charging Michael Brown‘s family for rallies he led in Ferguson, Mo.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/23/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  A man has to make a living somehow.
Posted by: San Fran Nan with a turban || 04/23/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Has he paid his back taxes yet?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Last I checked he still owed about 2 to 2.5 million, mostly in Federal payroll taxes.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I just had to pay tax on 85% of my Social Security because I made 50 grand otherwise. Never mind I can't live on Social Security.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#8  because you hate people of different colours.

A english troll?
I imagine Berserker's hate is color agnostic but does include stupid people.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Only if the police officer gets to meet him in a room alone.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/23/2022 14:28 Comments || Top||

#10  How's it feel to want, Al?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/23/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Sex, spats, and UFOs!
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Garry Reid, the DoD's Director for Defense Intelligence, was recently dismissed from his duties after an Inspector General investigation into his misconduct

  • Complaints against Reid included claims he was having an affair with a subordinate, sexually harassed staff, and interfered with a secret UFO program

  • Former staffer Luis 'Lue' Elizondo claims in an exclusive interview that Reid was allegedly ousted for a spat over UFOs - and will be replaced by his alleged mistress, Tara Jones

  • Jones is named only as Employee 1 in an April 2020 IG report which found evidence of an 'inappropriate relationship and favoritism' but not a sexual affair

  • But Elizondo claims it wasn't until the IG investigated his complaints of Reid's alleged vendetta and smear campaign against him that Reid was dismissed

  • Last May Elizondo filed a separate 64-page complaint to the Department of Defense's Inspector General alleging a coordinated effort to discredit him

  • Elizondo shot to fame in 2017 after helping leak extraordinary videos from of tic tac-shaped UFOs moving with incredible speed and agility near aircraft carriers
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  claims he was having an affair with a subordinate, sexually harassed staff, and interfered with a secret UFO program

"A regular Captain Kirk he was!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2022 17:02 Comments || Top||


Justice Is Coming For Jen Psaki For Ethics Violations
[THEBLUESTATECONSERVATIVE] When Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
used her position and platform to attack Fox News, I reported that she might have been acting illegally. Why? Because she’s a government official, and it’s thus at the very least unethical, if not illegal for her to boost a company she has a relationship with (she’s rumored to be heading to MSNBC when she leaves the White House).

For reference, she said, when asked if Peter Doocy is a stupid SOB, "He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch."

That attack on Fox, an attack that might have discredited it and thus boosted other stations like MSNBC in the eyes of some, particularly those who would be listening to Peppermint Patty on Pod Save America, was almost certainly unethical.

As a result, an anti-corruption organization called Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) is demanding that she be investigated for what she said so it can be determined if she broke the law or behaved unethically by making the comments she did about Fox, a competitor to her future employer. Describing that demand in a blurb/complaint, PPT said:

Today, federal ethics watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust requested an investigation into possible ethics violations by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Ms. Psaki’s statements and actions in the wake of widespread media reporting that she has been in negotiations to leave federal service for a role with a major media outlet appear inconsistent with her own promise to set "an example of engagement and transparency."

Despite the reporting and recusal requirements federal employees must comply with while in negotiations for outside employment as well as her own statements regarding those obligations, Ms. Psaki does not appear to have altered her behavior with respect to either her prospective employer or its competitors. She has continued to brief news hounds from the White House podium, including fielding inquiries from the organizations reportedly in a bidding war for her services.

In addition, her comments on an April 14, 2022, recording of Pod Save America disparaging Fox News, a competitor of her reported prospective employer, could constitute a misuse of her official position. During the podcast, Ms. Psaki was introduced by her title of White House Press Secretary and answered questions relating to President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan......
and other aspects of her official duties. When asked about Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, she declared, "He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a b***h."
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^ exactly.
Posted by: Chris || 04/23/2022 12:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden says US spending billions to make military vehicles 'climate friendly'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  S-C-A-M. Another fucking Biden Crime Family SCAM.
Dig it?
Finally??
Posted by: Menhadden Dark Lord of the Antelope7347 || 04/23/2022 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't matter if they are effective or not as long as they are climate friendly, right?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/23/2022 0:26 Comments || Top||

#4  "'Climate Friendly' military vehicles!"
🤡
"Billions, er, I mean, TRILLIONS, For Ukraine!"
🤡
"For 'Democracy'"!
🤣
Posted by: Zebulon Clating3211 || 04/23/2022 0:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Abrams electric tank GN-45 recharging system. Crank well and live.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 2:13 Comments || Top||

#6  "Our Earth is pristine," preached a primate
Whose carriage was kind to the climate.
His footmen kept fit
By collecting the shit...
And your money. "Please, do not begrime it!"
Posted by: Glease Pholet8291 || 04/23/2022 6:09 Comments || Top||

#7 
What next?

EPA to monitor all DOD Battles.

OR

Biden purposes the Military switch to Environment Paint Ball friendly Ammo that becomes fertilizer or animal food after being fired.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/23/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Fester Splat1466 I seriously doubt an environmentally friendly combat vehicle would be effective. Electric HUMMVEE's? Where would you charge them?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||

#10  ERE#12... You can't be as fucking stupid as you seem?
Posted by: Chris || 04/23/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Says the fucking morons who think that the US Government would let soldiers drive around in Humvees that need to be plugged in during a War to be charged.

Your comment is abusive.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#12  Fester Splat, no I don't think that has been taken in to consideration.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#13  There's that double standard, again.
People can call me "fucking stupid", or a "Moron", but, if i say the same thing to them my comment gets removed and their comment remains...


You've been abusive the whole time. Stop it.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#14  Abusive and boring is not a good way to go through life.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Oh well, at least you use a picture of a 'Lib 'supporter, Jay Chandrasekhar, whenever you post a picture to remove posts.

What an improvement!
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Keep refusing to debate the topic at hand.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#17  Climate friendly vehicles could/should be some kind of bio-diesel as you can get the required fuel nearly anywhere. Mix that with a hybrid electric if you can do so properly to extend the range.

Modify shipping containers to have dozens of Tesla walls (or similar) inside and lots of power plugs so you can charge off a supercarriers power all day and helicopter it in to a forward base at night to charge up the vehicles before heading out again in the morning. They even have mini-nuke plants that could power up vehicles in super-safe areas.

Combine all that with sniffer tech on drones that could pick up regular diesel exhaust and you could pinpoint enemies within a certain range which might be useful.

Just spitballing. I know it's a corrupt boondoggle to pay off the usual suspects but some good could come out of it.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/23/2022 12:12 Comments || Top||

#18  War has always been eco friendly. Germany's carbon footprint was severely diminished in the 40's.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/23/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||

#19  Can you imagine what a amphibious landing ship would look like with multiple lithium battery fires? Other than a rapidly sinking hulk I mean...
Posted by: magpie || 04/23/2022 19:49 Comments || Top||


Biden holds up Portland as model for America, foresees expanded Senate majority
[AMERICANTHINKER] As Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
, or whoever is handling him today, aware of his latest "optics"?

Get a load of what he's been up to:

President Joe Biden stopped in Portland
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
for a few hours Thursday afternoon to drum up excitement for his administration's trillion-dollar effort to revamp the nation's roads, bridges, airports and railways.

Biden's speech was part pep talk, part explainer.

"Oregon and America have gone from being on the mend to being on the move," Biden said. "We just gotta get the hell out of our own way."

Oregon? Portland? Seriously? That's like touting Flint, or bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
as the great model upon which to build back all of America. Do his handlers think these things through -- or is Portland the only place out there that will step up to serve as his model?

Portland is a disastrous antifa-infested mess, a pit of drugs, crime, and homelessness, with corporations and citizens pulling up stakes to flee the city. Its infrastructure is a mess in no small part because city officials are so busy handing out the city coffers to the homeless instead of repairing the roads, and antifa is busy trashing and burning it. Any city like that would have infrastruture problems. Joe says he's coming to transfer money from other taxpayers to fix Portland up -- so antifa can burn it down again. Neither Biden, nor Portland Democrats talk about getting rid of antifa.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Portland!

A 'model' - of course.
Anarchy - a model for Woke/AmeriKKa.
Censorship - a model for Woke/AmeriKKa.
Destruction of a great public university.
Posted by: Black Charlie Flirong2629 || 04/23/2022 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ We assume you are prudent enough to sort information of all types and sources from actual news.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  It's "honestly" followed by "just,"
Then a "think" and a "most;" again "just"
Plus emotional terms,
As his audience squirms
At these truths from a troll we can trust.
Posted by: Ulains Ebbeager8625 || 04/23/2022 4:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Fester, there are plenty of articles with no comments on Rantburg. Ever wonder why?
Posted by: Xyz || 04/23/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#5  "Right wing" in America covers a lot of ground today. Or so the left likes to tell us.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 6:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes. Now is the part where you tell me to "get myself educated."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 6:51 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Yes, trolls come and go, but finally we now have Splat to guide through the labyrinth of beguiling misinformation and deceit. Lucky we are.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||

#8  And thanks for the honorary Q membership. I had been on the fence, myself...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:03 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ By "grew up," he probably means "transitioned..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Did I say an election was stolen? Can't remember doing so. But carry on...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ No. I don't pay any attention to things that don't affect me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Come on. Fester's comments were hardly worth deleting. He's not going to hurt anyone's feeling here!
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#13  But he's it's wasting our time. The comments here are for us to learn cool stuff from each other and share awful music and movie clips.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Good ol Herb was big on "Site your evidence! Where's the link11!1111!!!!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#15 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:20 Comments || Top||

#16  Always remember: The left says "The First Amendment only applies to gummint!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Notice the libs quit this site because they are harassed and deleted so often? TW asked some to lighten up on pro Russian commenters because we might learn something. Fester prob has little to offer, but the mods in this case are way too sensitive.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||

#18  I disagree. This particular one was just poking the hornets' nest.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:27 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ Alinsky rules.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#20  Well, now.
You're wrong.
There are many other regulars who have posted equally stupid stuff and didn't get censored.
Grom wished death to many here and was allowed to post. This guy was a lightweight compared to grom.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:30 Comments || Top||

#21  I've been spam copped myself. And deserved it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#22  Maybe i should start reporting some of those comments and IP addresses of people are threatening politicians to the relevant authorities?

After all, the GOP does claim to be the party of "Law & order", right?
Posted by: Fester Splat1466 || 04/23/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#23  wish death upon Politicians they don't like

One of the clear, hard and fast rules here, you Do. Not. Do. That.

Your assertion you used to be a regular here doesn't pass the smell test.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#24  GOPe would like to put contracts on lots of politicians. From their own party.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#25  I read many of the Fester posts you deleted, they were dumb, not worth censoring. I would appreciate it if you were more tolerant of the lefties. Many of us enjoy toying with them.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:35 Comments || Top||

#26  Re: #46. I'm not a mod.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#27  What do lefties say? "Well, start your own (blog, social media platform, bank, country, etc.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#28  Sorry MM, I thought you were. Maybe censorship here shouldn't be anonymous.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:39 Comments || Top||

#29  ^ Yes, it is. I feel that's a good thing. Seriously.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#30  It's the name calling that puts people off Splat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 7:44 Comments || Top||

#31  It's a funny thing. The left hates anonymity when it doesn't suit them. Then they put on balaclavas and black bandannas to do their teefa and BLMmo stuff.

It's, what's the word? Inconsistent? Phony?

Hypocritical! That's the word.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#32  Fester, please don't be so petty. If you have a point make it w/o insulting. Then you will get the dialogue you are looking for.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:50 Comments || Top||

#33  That's kind of like me saying that all Republicans are poorly educated traitorous insurrectionists who believe in QAnon.

You are the one tossing "Q-tard" around buddy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:52 Comments || Top||

#34  Did you not just participate/read in this thread?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/23/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#35  /\ Democratic supporter? Disappointing indeed. I gauged your intellect well above that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#36  ^ I was having a laugh. Of course, if anything I say can be held against me it must have been said in all earnestness.

I think that's from the FBI training video.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#37  No. Republican bashing is low hanging fruit in many cases. See: Mittens, Murder Turtle, Murkey, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney. On and on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#38  Judging by the number of comments this early in the day, I'd say a nerve has been struck....
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/23/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||

#39 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#40  No nerves struck here...Just curious as to why admins don't leave any reason as to why they remove comments and are hypocrites.

Not your concern.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#41  I thought the caption underneath the picture spelled it out pretty succinctly...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#42  Um. The picture with caption has something called "context." When you call me, a person you have never met and probably never will, "Q-tard, moron, etc." you are telling me about you, not me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#43  It's still name-calling...But, nice try at deflecting there.

This is a privately owned public forum. If you don't like how you are treated, surely there are other forums which will treat you as you think you should be treated.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#44  There used to be a 'sink hole' feature where masked comments were dumped. If you really wanted, you could go look.

And RB's sarcasm font could use a little work.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/23/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#45  'And RB's sarcasm font could use a little work.'
THAT was light-duty sarcasm from me, bye the way.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/23/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#46  Did people wake up with their butt hurt meters pegged? Get over it folks. If TW or the MODs think you have over stepped, you probably have. If you dont like it, start your own site...

As far as Portland goes, Let "ALL" the libs move to that bastion. The city was burned, most small businesses have gone and the large ones are moving. Lots of opportunity to make Portland look like San Fran....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/23/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#47  If Portland and SF get in a p*ssing contest, my money's on Frisco.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 9:20 Comments || Top||

#48  I would like to see the return of the sinkhole or if things must be deleted then responses to the deletion should go as well. This thread is a confusing mess to follow with half the conservation missing.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/23/2022 12:03 Comments || Top||

#49  half the conservation missing.

Not missing much. It was name-calling and making it "All about Meeeee"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 12:05 Comments || Top||

#50  It's funny how many assumptions they make, like that MM was a mod. Or that we're all part of the Qanon thing. Honestly I wouldn't know where to find it. The oilfield has a few idiots, I remember one that planned to vote for Bernie, despite the fact Bernie PROMISED to put us out of work. She claimed I probably read something Stormer and a bunch of other stuff I never heard of. I told her it was odd that I, a die hard conservative and constitutionalist had never heard of them yet she had. She got quiet for a moment and then said "Fox News", I laughed and answered "They're a bunch of leftists" She was quite unhappy.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/23/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#51  Isn't this is the place which has gone so shit lawyers don't need law degrees or BAR exams.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#52  Not missing much

I'll take your word for it, Frank G.
Gawd knows Smoky and the cop have been needed round here lately. Methinks there are libtards posing as ultraRight and such too, out to gaslight Rantburg or get it in trouble. I coulda sworn I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice, passing off as pro-this and anti-that.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2022 16:55 Comments || Top||

#53  I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice,

Can't be me, I constantly smell like maple bacon.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/23/2022 16:58 Comments || Top||

#54  Of course not, Slappy. 🙂

It was one of those random nyms jumping in an' out. Going on about how Russia, India and China would soon rule the world just because some stupid bastard in the WH has had his four years.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2022 17:08 Comments || Top||

#55  #50
It’s supposed to be “Well reasoned discourse”. Not what some mod wants you to read.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 04/23/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||

#56  It is well-reasoned discourse. Bring your arguments, thoughts and lines of reasoning and leave the death threats to Americans, name calling and crying outside. I've been sinktrapped more than once and deserved it too. We fight with logic, reason and moral imperatives here, not poo.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/23/2022 18:36 Comments || Top||

#57  I always thought Q-anon was Controlled Opposition.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/23/2022 19:57 Comments || Top||

#58  #55 #50
It’s supposed to be “Well reasoned discourse”. Not what some mod wants you to read.


Heh. I've spamcopped myself when I got too emotionally pissed off and responded inappropriatedly. I don't give a f*ck what you read.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 20:00 Comments || Top||

#59  I too would like to see the return of the sink trap
Why did it go away in the first place?
Posted by: Jan || 04/23/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||

#60  ^ IIRC It clogged
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 21:22 Comments || Top||

#61  The sink trap disappeared years ago in one of Fred’s upgrades. It was interesting to see what was in it, but mostly of the contents were uninteresting insults or spam.

I missed the excitement today, but have no doubt the deletions were deserved. Some of our new visitors have the mistaken impression that flame wars are well reasoned discourse, or that repeating their point multiple times, only louder, will persuade our readers.

I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice,

I wouldn’t be surprised. We get all sorts of interesting visitors here, Dron, from all over the world.

libtards posing as ultraRight and such too, out to gaslight Rantburg or get it in trouble.

Gaslighting doesn’t work well with the experienced cynics round here, but one of the reasons the moderators are as strict as we are is that we will not allow Fred to be set up when he has spent so much time making this place for us.

I've spamcopped myself

You aren’t the only one, Frank G.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 21:25 Comments || Top||

#62  Good ol Herb was big on "Site your evidence!

He meant cite, of course, unless it was a pun on demanding links.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2022 21:26 Comments || Top||

#63  I miss Herbs posts. The most the scroll wheel on my mouse ever worked.
Posted by: Slappy || 04/23/2022 21:54 Comments || Top||

#64  Don't "Beetlejuice" us, Slappy
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 22:40 Comments || Top||

#65 
Posted by: Xyz || 04/23/2022 23:55 Comments || Top||

#66  Desperate to get that in wunny?
Posted by: Beldar Munster1899 || 04/23/2022 23:59 Comments || Top||


Rhode Island Dems Push Bill That Would Increase Taxes for Unvaccinated
[TOWNHALL] State politicians in Rhode Island are pushing legislation that would require every person in the state 16 years of age and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and punish those who refuse to do so.

Local outlet NBC 10 reported Tuesday that two state Senators have removed their names from the bill, Bill S.2552.

NBC 10 noted that those who violate the proposed mandate would "face a civil penalty of $50 and shall owe twice the amount of personal income taxes."

Employers would be responsible to enforce the mandate and require vaccine proof from employees or face a $5,000 fine for each worker who is unvaccinated.

"Some of the senators who introduced the bill on March 1 did not want to talk about it anymore," NBC 10 wrote.

State Sen. Sam Bell, a Democrat, said on Twitter that Rhode Island residents "strongly support a universal vaccine mandate" and that "it’s time for us to pass my mandate bill."
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess we will all just have to incorporate. Lefties say gummint "punishing" a corporation for its politics is evil.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 6:45 Comments || Top||


The Certitude of Ineptitude
[TOWNHALL] I really am flummoxed by the ineptitude of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
and his chief of staff, Ron Klain. Biden has been a Washington politician for half a century, including eight years as vice president and before that a senior senator. Klain is a consummate Washington insider, having worked for Janet Reno, Al Gore
...Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, Global Warming prophet and speculator, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore...
, Biden and others.

How are they this inept?

Last summer, the border got swamped with migrants colonists. They sent Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
south of the border and the situation never improved. Activists accused border patrol agents of whipping refugees with horsewhips. The White House condemned the act. But an investigation recently revealed no immigrants colonists were whipped. White House staff have declined to apologize for believing the allegation.

Many border patrol agents are Hispanic. The criticisms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the border patrol by the left are criticisms of Hispanic voters and their families -- a constituency the Democrats are losing. But the White House seems openly hostile to both.

Now, having seen what monsoon of migrants colonists the summer brought last year, the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
is preparing for the expiration of Title 42. The pandemic is receding. Title 42 can be deployed as a health care power so long as the pandemic is at the forefront. It allows the surgeon general to keep people from entering the United States due to a health care crisis. With a receding pandemic, Title 42 has to go away. It's only a matter of time before some enterprising Trump judge scraps it to exacerbate the political problems for Biden.

Here's the thing: How are we in April of 2022 in a midterm election and the White House clearly has no plan to deal with the surge of illegal immigrants colonists and expiration of Title 42? Their own polling shows this issue is pushing Hispanic voters to the GOP and they've got nothing. They have had plenty of time to prepare and did nothing to prepare.

How are they this inept?

The Biden administration was caught flat-footed on Ukraine too. They knew the Russians would invade. They chose to provide Ukraine help but have constantly scaled back their original offers. The administration has slow-walked intelligence to Ukraine, putting the Republicans in a more pro-Ukraine position than Biden. Biden has accused Russia of genocide and then taken no actions equal to the accusation. Just last week, the United States promised helicopters on a Thursday and walked back the promise that same Friday.

How are they this inept?

Then there is the mask issue. They could have let it expire a few weeks ago and taken the credit. Instead, a federal judge in Florida threw it out. Then Joe Biden himself said people should have the choice whether they want to wear a mask or not. Less than six hours later, his administration decided to appeal to get the mask mandate reinstated. But they are not going to ask for its immediate reinstatement. Instead, they're going to ask for the authority to be able to reimpose it in the future.

So, in other words, Biden could have canceled the mask mandate a few weeks ago, rendered the court case moot, preserved the power to reimpose it and taken credit for its end. But Biden and Klain did not. Instead, they will now ask a court to preserve power for the organization that insists you not eat raw cookie dough and cook your steak to an internal temperature of 145 F.

How are they this inept?

Between the border, Ukraine and the masks, they really have no plans for governing. They have just decided to perpetuate the status quo of their own making in the hope that something shakes out. They are careening from crisis to crisis, two clowns in bumper cars colliding with crises of their own creation.

The best they have going now are their pundit partisans lamenting that really Biden is a victim of circumstance unable to control anything. And that is not much of a defense.

Some might say this is all part of some elaborate plan, but the Republicans are about to wipe them out. That is most assuredly not part of the plan. How are they this inept?

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


DeSantis Signs Bill to Remove Disney's Tax Privilege and Self-Governing Status
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
signed a bill into law on Friday that terminates all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, including Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District. The new law will remove Disney’s tax privilege and special governing status.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District, which was created by state politicians in 1967, is the governing jurisdiction and special taxing district for the land of Walt Disney World Resort.

Rep. Randy Fine filed HB3C on Tuesday to end six of 1,844 special districts, including the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

The Florida Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to end Disney’s special tax privilege and self-governing status on a 23-16 vote.

On Thursday, the Florida House voted 68-38 in favor to strip Disney’s self-government.

Lefty protesters screeched like demons as politicians voted to pass the legislation.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I bet Fester has purple hair.
Posted by: San Fran Nan with a turban || 04/23/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Disney made the unbelievable mistake of thinking they run Florida, not vice versa. Even more incredible, the world’s largest children’s entertainment company came out swinging their woke, wiffleball bat at DeSantis in favor of teaching trans and genderqueer nonsense to kids as young as three years old.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2022 10:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Next up: Defund the groomers...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  I bet you're just another bigot.

Your comment was abusive. Stop it.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow, you really are a dumb cunt. LOL.

Your comment was abusive.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  So much spittle this morning.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/23/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  So much spittle this morning.

An Australian green.
Posted by: badanov || 04/23/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  4 in a row? Must not be housetrained
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2022 11:16 Comments || Top||

#9  We appreciate the efforts of those working to keep the 'Burg tidy. And less stupid.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Funny Tweet
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/23/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Sounds like somebody is upset they can't masturbate somebody's child in between diaper changes.

Get them for advocating sexual violence in public schools. Advocating sexual violence against minors. Defamation of the public school system. Resubmit the bill raising the age to 14. Delinquency of a minor. Committing violence in the presence of a minor. Attempted kidnapping. Distribution of prawnagraphy. Prawnagraphy with a minor. Search warrant investigating the scanning of minors in connection with flesh trading. Full disclosure of all sexual assault against minors related to Groomer+ entertainment venues.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2022 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  If it's such a superior lifestyle, why does it need to be sold so viciously?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||

#13  Add one of those special taxes where the revenue from goes to a fund to assist traumatized children who are victims of sexual assault.

And on a personal level, these are people who have promised to make the underpants of children their business even with an explicit law stating otherwise, that doubters should take a second look at Constitution Carry as a safety against these stalkers and sexual predators.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2022 13:03 Comments || Top||

#14  Superior lifestyle if you are the dominatrix. If you are the object, not so much.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||


Jet-set Biden vows 'climate-friendly' military, flexes gas-guzzling Corvette
[NYPOST] President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing......
on Friday celebrated Earth Day in Seattle
...a formerly lovely city in Washington state, governed by communists, anarchists, dipshits, and other sorts of incompetents. Home to Starbuck's, Boeing (at least for now), and Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco, the city became rich beyond its wildest dreams. All that money attracted the usual sort of grifting politician, and it's well on its way to chewing off the hand that feeds it...
with a rambling speech vowing to make "every vehicle" in the military "climate-friendly" while admitting his personal fleet includes a prized Corvette that "does nothing but pollute."

Biden didn’t offer specifics while telling local Democrats in a park that he intends to cut the emissions of war machines like tanks, helicopters and fighter jets.

"I’m going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military — every vehicle is going to be climate-friendly. Every vehicle. No, I mean it. We’re spending billions of dollars to do it," Biden said.

The president, who uses large amounts of fossil fuels for regular weekend trips home to Delaware, admitted he’s had a hard time practicing what he is preaching.

"I’m an automobile buff. I have a ’68 Corvette that does nothing but pollute the air. But I don’t drive it very much," Biden joked, appearing to refer to his 1967 Corvette Stingray.

The gaffe-prone president’s week began with an aide dressed as an Easter bunny intervening to stop him from talking to news hounds, but no staffers stepped in as he proceeded to use baby-talk to imitate a child’s plea for him to"pwomise" him to "pwease" protect the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



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