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2022-03-06 Home Front: Politix
Elon Musk states a simple truth about what should be America's priority
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-06 00:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 Wealthy Americans want to get their war on
Poor Americans want to stay out of this

Poll: Majority of wealthy Americans want US military involvement in European war

Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling service, recently released findings detailing the American public's level of support for US military involvement in a potential "wider" European war. Their findings show that when asked the question, "If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved," higher-income respondents were more likely to answer "yes."

A greater number of wealthier Americans supported the idea of sending American troops to Europe in that case. Those making over $200,000 annually supported the idea by 66 percent. At the other end of the spectrum, of Americans making less than $30,000, only 37 percent agreed with the pro-involvement sentiment.
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 01:26||   2022-03-06 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Matt Taibbi Calls For a Third Party to End Forever Wars

I'm in.

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 01:40||   2022-03-06 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Meanwhile, this actual poor American who isn't rich enough to invest in Remnibi would rather Biden hadn't enriched Putin by shutting down his industry.

It's wierd how the propagandists for Putin's fantasy ideology _matches_ the Biden Fantasy Ideology. Like they're two halfs of the same coin.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 01:53||   2022-03-06 01:53|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Ukrainian troll, you can tell by the fractured English
Can't even put two halves of the equation together

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 02:00||   2022-03-06 02:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "OOH," >shake weight motion with hand< "OOH, OOH< I'm pretending to be a Real American.... OH!!!!!!!!!!"

Why does my argument that Biden's been sucking Putin's dick make you so angry but you never fucking _respond_ to it? Why can't you actually be _happy_ with the guy who gave Russia the money to perform the invasion? Or if you're still pretending-to-be-real-red-blooded-American, why can't you be upset that he shut down American jobs and gave Putin the money to perform the invasion?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 02:47||   2022-03-06 02:47|| Front Page Top

#6 If you're going to pretend to be an American, you can at least pretend to be angry about Biden enriching a violently hostile foreign power.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 02:59||   2022-03-06 02:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Give Sonny boy a break. He's just begun learning American idioms at the Russian Internet Troll Institute and mistakes will happen. Plus he is pissed as hell that his meager paycheck will only buy 1/2 the dollars as one month ago.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 03:01||   2022-03-06 03:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Fuck off, you tools. My ancestors came here after the Potato Famine. My grandfather won a Silver Star at Ypres. His son my uncle, my dad and I and my brother in law fought in every one of our wars in the last century.

This one is not our fight. Nobody aside from you chicken hawks and your neocon clowns wants to escalate this.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:21||   2022-03-06 03:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I opposed Cheney and W's Iraq War and it turned out as we predicted: a complete disaster where we took a bad situation and made it infinitely worse for everyone except Iran.

This situation is beyond a fiasco. This is risking nuclear war with Russia. Stop being so stupid.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:26||   2022-03-06 03:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Yawn. Try harder Grasshopper. You do know the buy spread for 1 dollar will soon go to 200 Rubles or the Rubble, as known to the civilized world.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 03:28||   2022-03-06 03:28|| Front Page Top

#11 You want to fight, go for it. No one's stopping you. Leave us out of it.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:30||   2022-03-06 03:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Your boss started it. Go to Ukraine and tell us all about the steel hail, brave boy, emphasis on boy.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 03:36||   2022-03-06 03:36|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm my own boss. Whose bitch are you?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:41||   2022-03-06 03:41|| Front Page Top

#14 That's some funny shit! You don't even own the computer you are typing on.

P.S. Beg your owners for at least 50 rubles a message. You may be able to afford in 10 years an Egyptian vacation since Crimea will be off limits to Russians by then.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 03:49||   2022-03-06 03:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Wayne Allan Root at Townhall has his head on straight. America First. Fuck this globalist Soros nonsense.

Like Trump, I have only one dog in this hunt. I'm ONLY for "America First." This war is nonsense. It doesn't involve us. We should not be sending billions of dollars in aid or sending billions in military weapons to Ukraine. I don't want this to turn into WWIII. I don't want my kids or your kids dying over Ukraine. We need to stay a million miles away from this conflict.

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:54||   2022-03-06 03:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Keep trying, cheesedick. You neocons fucked up Iraq and everything else you've touched. If Putin wants to wreck Ukraine or if some Russian wants to assassinate Putin, fine by me. Either way, it's NONE OF OUR FUCKING BUSINESS.

Stay out. Our boys have shed enough blood for you stupid fucks already
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 03:58||   2022-03-06 03:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Correction: Wayne Allan Hunt Root

Root points to Soros. Sure Putin is an evil shit who deserves a special place in hell, but Soros belongs there with him. Root:

No. 3: This is all part of Soros and Klaus Schwab's "Great Reset." They want to make us all obedient serfs and slaves. They need World War III as a distraction while they destroy America and capitalism and take your freedoms away.

Here's my conclusion. I'm not "for" Russia. I'll never be a fan of Putin. He's out for only himself and a new dominant Russian empire. I'm not telling you to take Russia's side. They are "bad guys." But I know if Soros is behind Ukraine, then Ukraine is also a "bad guy." If Soros wants us involved, I know this war is not in America's best interest. I know the media is feeding us a load of lies and propaganda -- under Soros' direction.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 04:04||   2022-03-06 04:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Yes, fuck Putin, put a bullet in his brain if you can.

But first arrest all the neocons. Start with this Wall Street asshole, a fellow market manipulator along with Soris named Bill Ackman. Just read through his posts to see how deranged these assholes are - he's calling for a no-fly zone. As if a market manipulator knows anything about NFZs

#FuckPutin
#FJB
#FuckNeocons

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 04:45||   2022-03-06 04:45|| Front Page Top

#19 The fools above are like those University if Chicago children who are now trying to get John Mearsheimer cancelled by calling him a "Putinist." He's a REALIST. Doesn't make you "pro-Putin" to point out reality.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 05:25||   2022-03-06 05:25|| Front Page Top

#20 I think the Rasmussen pole is BS. Or at least limited to the northeast US. Perhaps Martha’s Vineyard.
Posted by Xyz 2022-03-06 05:52||   2022-03-06 05:52|| Front Page Top

#21 Thing From Snowy Mountain as a Ukrainian troll.

Now, that's some funny shit, right there.
Posted by badanov 2022-03-06 06:15||   2022-03-06 06:15|| Front Page Top

#22 Right, Bad? TFSM has been here all along, but you and your nym-du-hour just show up and you're throwing smack around ? Puhleeez
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-06 08:31||   2022-03-06 08:31|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm sorry if I offended "Thing From Snowy Mountain."

It gets really tiresome to hear all the warmongering. Sometimes you make mistakes. Apologies.

The other guy "Angaiper Ulavins1210" is a royal flaming asshole, though. Typical neocon chicken hawk who calls people pro-Putin if they point out how the world actually works.

Putin and Zelensky are both shits. I hope theyre both killed by each other's goons. Zelensky has stolen millions, Putin has stolen billions, now they're fighting each other. So Putin started it -- ok he's a war criminal.

But now Zelensky is screaming at us and telling us NATO needs to go to war with Russia. FUCK OFF, little man.

Not our business. Leave us out of this insanity.

Back off from the brink
#FuckZelensky
#FuckPutin
#FJB
#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 10:07||   2022-03-06 10:07|| Front Page Top

#24 All politicians steal. Ours just don't do it so openly. First, because they are pikers and small-timers who would embarrass Al Capone's mother and second because they know if the keep it on the down-low then only the occasional hapless idiot like Van Taylor or Katie Hill heed to be ritually cast out to provide cover for the rest.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 10:10||   2022-03-06 10:10|| Front Page Top

#25 need to be ritually cast out...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 10:11||   2022-03-06 10:11|| Front Page Top

#26 Silver Star? At Ypres? Wrong audience for that reference.
Posted by Cesare 2022-03-06 10:21||   2022-03-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#27 The Rasmussen poll surveyed 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters nationwide and was conducted on February 27-28, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports.

That poll found that as of Feb 27-28, 80% of US Likely Voters expected a wider European war. Only 49% thought the US should get involved.

Support divides perfectly on class lines. The Rich chicken hawks are slobbering and screaming for war. Poor and middle-class Americans say Fuck no.

If they repeat the poll this week, these numbers will probably be even more extreme. Over 90% will expect a wider war and over 80% of poor and middle-class Americans will want us to jump in.

Wonder what % of the wealthy chicken hawks now want to drag us in? Still 66%, or even higher?

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 10:27||   2022-03-06 10:27|| Front Page Top

#28 Thing From Snowy Mountain as a Ukrainian troll.

Hmmm, we notice that he* never said which snowy mountain exactly. A mountain in Chechnya perhaps?

*We use 'he' in deference to the Slavic languages where even inanimate objects have a gender.
Posted by SteveS 2022-03-06 10:29||   2022-03-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#29 Took out a German machine gun nest. Wounded, had a bum knee the rest of his life.

1914 feels eerily relevant, actually. Except we're now like France and Britain - win the war and lose nearly everything in the peace to follow as a new dog takes our place on the world stage
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 10:33||   2022-03-06 10:33|| Front Page Top

#30 I think the Rasmussen poll is BS.

I'd say "I haven't given any pollster an honest answer in years," but I don't get polled. My profile is there for all to see and they don't want my opinion in the first place.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 10:34||   2022-03-06 10:34|| Front Page Top

#31 1914 feels eerily relevant

So, if that (1914) was the first time (tragedy) is this now farce or the third, fourth, fifth crappy reboot?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 10:36||   2022-03-06 10:36|| Front Page Top

#32 Correction to above: by now "over 80% of poor and middle-class Americans will NOT want us to jump in."

Looks like Jack Posobiec might have access to the full Rasmussen Reports polling data. Jack's one of the good guys.

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 10:38||   2022-03-06 10:38|| Front Page Top

#33 Tiresome, trite trolling actually. Incorrect military history comcering Ypres and the American contingent, sloppy grammar, slightly slanted misuse of wordings, overstatement of position, all so very tiresome.

Real Murrcans cain't speak the Kin's Enlish worth a damn but in a very special way. You, sir, mispeak it in a "non-Murrcan" way that has a certain . . . . Scythian rythym to it.
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2022-03-06 10:57||   2022-03-06 10:57|| Front Page Top

#34 Hey Fuck off, eh?
Nice try. Keep telling Americans they're "trolls" when they point out reality, sure. That worked out so well in 2003, didn't it? When we said Cheney and W were leading us into disaster and chicken hawks smeared us as disloyal

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 11:02||   2022-03-06 11:02|| Front Page Top

#35 My degree is in English Literature, didn't keep me from spending most of my earning years in the IT space (language is language, after all.) When I was an ink-stained wretch fresh outta college, I learned to adjust my conversational style to the people I was trying to pry answers out of. It worked for me because I was good at it, but I still got "You ain't from around here, areyuh?" often enough to be careful with that technique. But it did work. Authenticity is the key. "F*ck it, I'll fake it" only works if you can do it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 11:03||   2022-03-06 11:03|| Front Page Top

#36 I thought NFS was Frank G with too much coffee. You mean he’s a troll?
Posted by Xyz 2022-03-06 11:04||   2022-03-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#37 "You ain't from around here, areyuh?"

A fact leaders in DC and Brussels refuse to accept.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-03-06 11:04||   2022-03-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#38 Oh Canuck, here's some education for you. Pershing allowed my grandfather's unit to train with and then fill in alongside the British Army at Ypres. He made friends with a bunch of Aussies there, loved their black humor

Now run along and go smear someone else with your BS

#FuckNeocons
Posted by Neville Borgia6713 2022-03-06 11:11||   2022-03-06 11:11|| Front Page Top

#39 ^ "Neville Borgia" - ha. That was me

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 11:13||   2022-03-06 11:13|| Front Page Top

#40 Fuck off, you tools. My ancestors came here after the Potato Famine. My grandfather won a Silver Star at Ypres. His son my uncle, my dad and I and my brother in law fought in every one of our wars in the last century.

This one is not our fight. Nobody aside from you chicken hawks and your neocon clowns wants to escalate this.


So you're saying you're an American and you're trying to make this thread All About You Vs. The Neocons when the original post was about Elon Musk (!) speaking in defense of the oil industry.

And despite being the Rootin-Tootin Red Blooded American it doesn't occur to you to be angry about all the industries that have been shut down here that have empowered assholes like Xi and Putin.

Meanwhile I drive past a hundred or so miles worth of closed plants and shipyards and whatnot six times a month. And to you "The Neocons" are worthy of comment but that _isn't_?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 11:39||   2022-03-06 11:39|| Front Page Top

#41 He did hijack the thread at the git-go. Back to Musk: His rockets do burn a lot of kerosene. The BE-4 slated for the Vulcan replacement for the Russian engined Atlas V will burn liquified methane. These are fossil fuels. Let's not even get started on how pretty much everything else in modern life relies on chemical feed stocks derived or depending on petroleum distillates at some point.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 11:46||   2022-03-06 11:46|| Front Page Top

#42 ^ That angers me beyond words. The working man in America has been fucked in the ass by our warmongers. Agree totally.

Now this war is going to crush ordinary Americans. Fuck those bastards, Putin Zelensky neocons: fuck them all

Neocons and their credentialed pals working in DC, Wall Street, Silicon Valley have no clue about what American working families are going through or even how the real economy works

So typical that the loudest warmongers of all now are people like Anne Applebaum the neocon journalist wife of a Polish politician and Bill Ackman, a Wall St hedge fund type who thinks he's the next Soros

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 11:49||   2022-03-06 11:49|| Front Page Top

#43 Beyond words. An American idiom if ever there wasn't...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 11:54||   2022-03-06 11:54|| Front Page Top

#44 While some neocons might bear some responsibility, a lot of the responsibility for this war rests, IMHO, with the people who for the past thirty year have been telling us they were all for peace, love, and puppies and had brought us the millenium with every plant shutdown.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 11:58||   2022-03-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

#45 This American doesn't see a problem we need to solve in Ukraine. The issue is not that we aren't engaged enough, it's that we were already too entangled when it started.

Is Putin a bad man? Certainly not the worst on the list. I'd say at least or more of his people love him than Americans do Bidet. Let's not even talk about Kim, the ayatollahs, the Taliban, the ISI and so on. But they are higher up the list of the harm they do and the misery they inflict directly on their own people. Hell, we can't free the Cubans or Nicaraguans in our own hemisphere. We have no more business in Ukraine than we did trying to make Afghanistan or Iraq into Iowa.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 12:01||   2022-03-06 12:01|| Front Page Top

#46 #36 I thought NFS was Frank G with too much coffee. You mean he’s a troll?
Posted by Xyz

I only post under my llooonnng-time name. I also only drink one cuppa each morning
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-06 12:39||   2022-03-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

#47 so, today is:
blah blah blah
#FuckNeocons

lather, rinse, repeat, 500 times.
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-06 12:43||   2022-03-06 12:43|| Front Page Top

#48 Beyond words. An American idiom if ever there wasn't...

Some of us have British in-laws
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:00||   2022-03-06 13:00|| Front Page Top

#49 It buggers the imagination...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:01||   2022-03-06 13:01|| Front Page Top

#50 What do you jokers want people to do - give you their name DOB SS# to prove they're Americans?

We're being lied to by assholes who don't know what the fuck they're doing. They've fucked up one foreign military adventure after another, then they tried to destroy us at home with their COVID bullshit. Now they're now about to launch a war with Russia.

And you call other Americans "troll" when they point reality

Now Twitter is suppressing loyal Americans by saying their posts against war are "pro-Russian"

Fuck them. Fuck Putin Zelensky Biden Fauci Soros and all of the neocon assholes. They're leading us over the edge and need to be stopped by any means necessary
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:07||   2022-03-06 13:07|| Front Page Top

#51 Sorry. Not buying it. Unlike SS #s, which you can buy along with every other piece of paper you might want.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:09||   2022-03-06 13:09|| Front Page Top

#52 "I will say stuff I have been briefed told you want to hear. Why are you not falling for it, you running dog fools?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:10||   2022-03-06 13:10|| Front Page Top

#53 Tool. You probably believe them when they tell you the vaccine is safe
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:13||   2022-03-06 13:13|| Front Page Top

#54 Hyuk. I missed that bullet too. Got the J&J, which is not mRNA. Only got it because at the time it seemed you'd need the papers to even go outside your house. Never got a booster. Never will.

Grow up. If you can.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:16||   2022-03-06 13:16|| Front Page Top

#55 "Grow up" says the guy whose idea of logical argument is to call other people "trolls"
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 13:21||   2022-03-06 13:21|| Front Page Top

#56 I never said it. I definitely agree with the people who are saying it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:22||   2022-03-06 13:22|| Front Page Top

#57 You want to fight? Go fight. But show some respect for others who disagree and who point out the reality of the situation. There is nothing at stake for us here that is worth causing a war with Russia. If they both lose, fine by me. If Russia wins, not our problem.

But we need to stay the fuck out of this one.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:31||   2022-03-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#58 ^ This guy has obviously never read a single comment I have made here. He's on autopilot. Flying into a mountainside.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:34||   2022-03-06 13:34|| Front Page Top

#59 I never said it. I definitely agree with the people who are saying it.

LOL ... like "I didn't inhale" You should write speeches for the Democrats. Eric Garcetti, just "holding his breath”
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:36||   2022-03-06 13:36|| Front Page Top

#60 This guy has obviously never read a single comment I have made

I read what you posted above. You smeared people with childish insults and taunts
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:38||   2022-03-06 13:38|| Front Page Top

#61 Add new wordski to your vokabulari, tovarich. You. Are. Flailing.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:39||   2022-03-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#62 Childish. I don't use that word. g(r)om used to use that word. A lot. When he was losing arguments. Am I seeing a connection?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 13:45||   2022-03-06 13:45|| Front Page Top

#63 Keep digging, tool
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:48||   2022-03-06 13:48|| Front Page Top

#64 Go insult someone else and leave rational discussion to people who know what they're talking about.

Twitter's a fine and lovely place. When you disagree with someone just flag them as "pro-Russian" and Twitter will censor them for you.

Run along now

#FuckLiars
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 13:52||   2022-03-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#65 Your doctor would tell you, it's OK to take extra BP medicine during the day if you feel pressure in your head. I've definitely done it on occasion...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 14:01||   2022-03-06 14:01|| Front Page Top

#66 #CutandPaste
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-06 14:02||   2022-03-06 14:02|| Front Page Top

#67 #SmirkAndSneer

Try making arguments. With logic and evidence.

Zelensky wants a No Fly Zone meaning a declaration of war against Russia. Fuck no.

Someone needs to get our spooks with Russia's spooks and make a deal: assassinate Zelensky and assassinate Putin. An eye for an eye, a madman for a madman
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 14:08||   2022-03-06 14:08|| Front Page Top

#68 Now who's being childish, son.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-06 14:12||   2022-03-06 14:12|| Front Page Top

#69 Accuse me as often as you want of being something I'm not. I remain indifferent.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-06 14:16||   2022-03-06 14:16|| Front Page Top

#70 That red-blooded 'Murkin from Macon
Who moans of a place godforsaken,
The wannabe Wick,
Could be dissident chick...
I mean, who would be better at faking?
Posted by Vinegar Elmuse7192 2022-03-06 14:17||   2022-03-06 14:17|| Front Page Top

#71 Vinegar Eloise - 'Merkins aren't "red-blooded," they're furry
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 14:23||   2022-03-06 14:23|| Front Page Top

#72 Now who's being childish

Dron-Ji,

You mean the dual assassination proposal?Not child's play at all. I'm sure our deep state and Russia's deep state could pull it off. Like Rick and Capt Renault, a beautiful friendship actually

A good way to help Miss Lindsey Graham indulge her war jones while actually doing something to bring this to a happy conclusion.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 14:45||   2022-03-06 14:45|| Front Page Top

#73 My dear Mr. No: there are sites where your approach works. This site has a different caliber of participant. So take a deep breath, dear boy — you’ve successfully shared your message: Keep America home, Neocons Bad, and Russia’s deep state will sacrifice Putin to get rid of Zelensky.

That last is a fascinating offer — I didn’t expect to reach it nearly so quickly.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-06 14:49||   2022-03-06 14:49|| Front Page Top

#74 Ok. Since it's Sunday afternoon, let's share old National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody cartoons. I'll go first.

THE ADVENTURES OF SQUIRREL-MAN!
The bite of a radioactive squirrel has given teenager Billy Barlow all the strength and skill of that wily creature!

"Squirrel-Man, I'm gonna crack your skull like a walnut and bury your brains in the park!"
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 14:59||   2022-03-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

#75 Yeah, yeah... who subbed for Johnny Pesky in the third game of the '46 Series when he was out with testicular torsion, ya dirty red?
Posted by Vinegar Elmuse7192 2022-03-06 15:07||   2022-03-06 15:07|| Front Page Top

#76 Van Lingle Mungo!!!!!!
Now give me my Defender-Scimitar sweatshirt.
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 15:10||   2022-03-06 15:10|| Front Page Top

#77 ^Hey those are no joke. I had a vasectomy go south, looked like Yosemite Sam walking into the ER, bow legged, arms akimbo, screaming wildly.
Posted by Beavis 2022-03-06 15:11||   2022-03-06 15:11|| Front Page Top

#78 The Defender-Scimitar sweatshirts cause vasectomies to go south? Then don't send me one. I'll take a vinyl Dave Frishberg album instead
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 15:42||   2022-03-06 15:42|| Front Page Top

#79 Is there a comment thread where we can actually discuss this apparent change of heart from Elon Musk instead of being redirected the way it has been?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-06 15:48||   2022-03-06 15:48|| Front Page Top

#80 Right here. Musk is an entrepreneur who builds stuff. Most of America's left-wing oligarchs are arbitrageurs of human misery
Posted by Ho Chi Sforza1772 2022-03-06 16:30||   2022-03-06 16:30|| Front Page Top

#81 ^ Ha. That ain't me. I ain't no fortunate son
Wish I had Musk's courage. Or Bert Lahr's.
What makes the Musk-rat guahd his musk? COU-RAGE!!
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 16:34||   2022-03-06 16:34|| Front Page Top

#82 So, you've spent the day #CutNPasting the same crap, convinced nobody that you didn't aggravate more.

We already all know NeoCons wanna get rich off moar war, and No US troops should be used/lost in somebody else's cause. What's up for tomorrow? New nym?
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-06 16:41||   2022-03-06 16:41|| Front Page Top

#83 I don't see it as a change of heart, Snowy. It is basically a statement against interest, so I think he means it.

Obviously, this would negatively affect Tesla, but sustainable energy solutions simply cannot react instantaneously to make up for Russian oil & gas exports.

Musk has studied physics and economics so he gets that things are connected, that every complex system is a network. You cannot eliminate the internal combustion engine by wishing it out to the corn field. It takes time. Plus relying on the goodwill of our geopolitical rivals hardly seems ideal.
Posted by SteveS 2022-03-06 16:43||   2022-03-06 16:43|| Front Page Top

#84 Hi Frank,

I've perhaps planted the idea in a few deep state minds across Langley & Lubyanka that we should help assassinate Zelensky in exchange for taking out Putin. From our lips to the DeepState God's ears

And maybe a Dave Frishberg disc in the bargain. Not a bad day's work. Not a bad lifetime's work, if we can make the dual-hit happen

Have a lovely Sunday!
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 16:59||   2022-03-06 16:59|| Front Page Top

#85 #82 New nym?

Washington Woodpecker?
Posted by Vinegar Elmuse7192 2022-03-06 17:59||   2022-03-06 17:59|| Front Page Top

#86 Neocons' Nemesis?
Posted by Ebbock Hupavirt5018 2022-03-06 18:02||   2022-03-06 18:02|| Front Page Top

#87 No Fortunate Son the U.S. army wasn't in France, much less Ypre in 1914.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-03-06 20:47||   2022-03-06 20:47|| Front Page Top

#88 ^^ They were according to Russian revisionist history texts. BTW, Pershing is reported to have said the France-Mexico daily commute in 1915-16 was a bitch.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 21:49||   2022-03-06 21:49|| Front Page Top

#89 Deacon
You didn't read my link

As I said his unit was seconded by Pershing to Haig

Since you're too lazy to click here's a portion of the linked article that explains what happened

Borrowed Soldiers: The American 27th and 30th Divisions and the British Army on the Ypres Front, August-September 1918

Soon after arriving on the Western Front in the spring of 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) commander General John J. Pershing reluctantly sent the 27th and 30th Divisions to train with the British Army.

It was his way of appeasing Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, who insisted that American doughboys amalgamate into the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to fill the ranks of his depleted army. Pershing, however, had other plans. He sought to form an independent army and resisted the constant pressure from Haig.

It was only when the U.S. War Department accepted an offer from the British to transport American troops to Europe that Pershing allowed Americans to train with Haig’s Tommies.

Additionally, Pershing agreed that the British would equip, feed, and arm his men, and that they could also be utilized at the front should an emergency arise. Under this program of training, ten American divisions spent time in the British sector as the American II Corps.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 22:37||   2022-03-06 22:37|| Front Page Top

#90 Jumping back up-thread for a moment, while I stop snickering:

g(r)om used to use that word.

As I understand his history, g(r)omgoru escaped from the Soviet Union as a child. Also, as the years passed since his return from America, his English noticeably deteriorated. Mr. No’s English doesn’t show those signs. Parallel evolution in vocabulary, I think.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-06 22:44||   2022-03-06 22:44|| Front Page Top

#91 Family lore has it that he was the boxing champ in his (British) unit.

Tough Irish son of a bitch, not about to take any crap from the limeys

Like Barry and Mr Toole hahahahaha
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 22:46||   2022-03-06 22:46|| Front Page Top

#92 Ryan O'Neal was a decent amateur (southpaw) boxer in his own right
Hollywood didn't quite extinguish the Irish in him 🍀
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 23:03||   2022-03-06 23:03|| Front Page Top

#93 My English is seasoned with Gaelic, leavened by Latin, aggregated through Greek, fancified by French, hardened with German, salted with (Brazilian) Portuguese, bolstered by bits of Middle English and Old Norse and toughened by Brooklynese

It's pure and strong enough to avoid degradation by so many of the leaden wits on display here
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 23:12||   2022-03-06 23:12|| Front Page Top

#94 You dopes are as confused as that poor hulking dope, Mr Toole, in Barry Lyndon

One has the wrong place [BASH!]
The other the wrong time [BOFF!]

Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 23:15||   2022-03-06 23:15|| Front Page Top

#95 Looks like the morning shift in Moscow has begun.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 23:41||   2022-03-06 23:41|| Front Page Top

#96 Ah, the return of the Dunce-King
You missed the filleting of the stupid "troll" trope, you drooling plodder

Go join your neocon caravan. Maybe Bill Ackman will give you some Starboard points from his next market manipulation adventure: Warmongering for Fun And Profit.
...If you're lucky

Now run along, little one

#FuckNeocons
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-06 23:48||   2022-03-06 23:48|| Front Page Top

#97  My English is seasoned with Gaelic, leavened by Latin, aggregated through Greek, fancified by French, hardened with German, salted with (Brazilian) Portuguese, bolstered by bits of Middle English and Old Norse and toughened by Brooklynese

I’m afraid that does not make you special here, my dear — people will insist on that monoligual, untravelled stereotype about Americans, even many who are Americans, so it’s no surprise you got that wrong. Have you read the site owner’s Bio? See here.

A distinct possibility, Angaiper Ulavins1210.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-06 23:52||   2022-03-06 23:52|| Front Page Top

#98 Try making arguments with logic and evidence, shit-for-brains
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 23:52||   2022-03-06 23:52|| Front Page Top

#99 ^ that was directed at monolingual monotrack monotonous moronic "Angaiper Ulavins1210"

[BAM! A Mr. Cookie, to the jaw, followed by smashing his nose in]
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-06 23:55||   2022-03-06 23:55|| Front Page Top

#100 I blown bigger snots out of my nose than you, Moskali POS.
Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-06 23:56||   2022-03-06 23:56|| Front Page Top

#101 An attempt at wit! From the elementary school playground!

For the literate and curious, here's the twitter thread of the fucking Wall St market manipulator and neocon coward-warmonger Bill Ackman
Posted by  No fortunate son  2022-03-06 23:59||   2022-03-06 23:59|| Front Page Top

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