I highly recommend Histories by Herodotus for those who haven’t read it. It’s a huge book, but its description of the Persian invasion of Greece is fascinating.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:27 pm
Hmm. I am fragmented. There are parts of me that want to: call you a nerd, curse you for the man hours needed to read it, thank you for the recommendation, and also ask are you sure it’s worth it?
Lackadaisical
on June 26, 2019 at 7:28 pm
Today i learned that a “four foot” sandbox does not hold a 4×4’x6″ amount of sand. especially when it’s really only 40″×26″…
Fixing cheapskates.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 7:43 pm
The ole 10lbs of sand in a 5lb sack conundrum?
Lackadaisical
on June 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm
800-200, but yeah.
Lackadaisical
on June 26, 2019 at 7:51 pm
I tried looking at them in stores, so this wouldn’t happen, but no store keeps them in stock.
Tundra
on June 26, 2019 at 8:10 pm
I built my own.
Just sayin’.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 7:54 pm
That’s 3500 fluid ounces, UCS 🙂
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:32 pm
Huh? So, what did you order a cubic yard of sand delivered? I don’t get it. You have a sandbox that doesn’t even look square, but you assume it’s 4×4 without measuring? Or am I misreading?
I hope these videos are stored somewhere safe. The internet purge is accelerating.
“Reddit Censors ‘The_Donald’ Community of 750,000 Trump Supporters
The community, one of the most active sources of grassroots support for the President on the Internet, has been placed in “quarantine” mode by the administrators of Reddit. Visitors to the page are met with a screen asking them if they wish to view the page.
Content from quarantined communities will not appear for members who are not subscribed to the board, known as a subreddit.
A spokesman for The_Donald condemned the move by Reddit in a comment to Breitbart News:
“Reddit has been finding methods to methodically censor The_Donald for years now. Enforcing special rules that only The_Donald has to follow, largely screening our submissions from reaching the front page, allowing far-left communities to harrass and dox our members (to the point of creating a chrome extension that marks anyone that posts on The_Donald).”
“This is their next step, and is generally Reddit’s step just before outright banning a community. Their reasoning is hardly sound, given that they claim they’ve had to spend too much time removing content on the subreddit that violates site-wide rules, yet their own logs show less than one removal [per] day. This censorship also takes place on the eve of the Democratic Primaries, which seems less than coincidental,” the spokesman continued.”
This pisses me off. Not because of the censorship (ok, that pisses me off too), but because these conservatives keep sticking their hand into the alligator’s mouth and act like a victim when the gator bites down.
If a tech company has its headquarters north of Tijuana and west of Reno, they hate you. Act accordingly.
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 7:43 pm
The thing is these companies weren’t always this way. It mostly started after Trump won.
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm
Not really. Believe it or not, /. (Slashdot for the youts here) used to have a huge libertarian streak among the commenters. That changed almost a decade ago at this point.
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 7:51 pm
I wonder if the libertarianish streak of the internet in the past may have been due to the fact that the general population still hadn’t really adopted the internet in large numbers or began to use it for political purposes…
Sir Digby (PBUH)
on June 26, 2019 at 7:56 pm
So, the “3% rule”?
Florida Man
on June 26, 2019 at 7:59 pm
So…you’re saying libertarians will definitely be the first to colonize space?
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 8:04 pm
If they can develop rockets, long term spacecraft and space colonization then maybe…
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 8:04 pm
I think it had more to do with the thought process behind the original protocols. Almost all of them were designed to be decentralized, and to be able to be implemented by anyone. Off the top of my head, the only new item even similar to come out in the past couple of years would be the blockchain (which also has attracted quite a bit of libertarian interest).
Heroic Mulatto
on June 26, 2019 at 8:05 pm
Definitely.
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 8:07 pm
Sure, but Slashdot was never a major platform. LiveJournal showed how left they were after Sandy Hook, perhaps earlier.
Reason used to used to have a huge libertarian streak among the commenters too.
Whereas Google and Facebook are huge.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 8:10 pm
Not just slashdot. The tech culture in general was much more that way, or more so apolitical. More meritocratic, with strains of counterculture and antiorganization.
I haven’t been back to slashdot in years. I can’t imagine how bad it must be these days.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:16 pm
I remember reading the Jargon File cover-to-cover in my early “hacker” days (the proper definition of which is given therein) and wondering at the same claim. It already wasn’t accurate in the late 90s.
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 8:25 pm
Back in the days of local BBS’s and usenet, being able to defend your opinions was considered a critical and important skill. Debate would happen frequently, and reputation was based on your handle. There would be people who would burn down their original handle, and try to come back under a new one. If they kept up the same shit, they would continue to be called out and ostracized (or modded to oblivion depending on the board). If they went with a new route, and argued in good faith, they would be accepted.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 8:33 pm
Funny. I was thinking about that very description.
Full disclosure, I sent in something circa mid 90’s and my name is among the hundreds of contributors in the 3rd edition of the printed version.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 7:47 pm
It’s about Trump, tis true.
But these companies barely existed before Obama. It is the American thing to go full blast, firstest, fastest, and with the most mistakes, on all things, and so it is with these guys. The chance to misbehave like this with tools like this against a fellow like Trump has only existed two years.
Heroic Mulatto
on June 26, 2019 at 7:45 pm
these conservatives keep sticking their hand into the alligator’s mouth and act like a victim when the gator bites down
Isn’t that basically the plan?
Florida Man
on June 26, 2019 at 7:49 pm
No. The plan was to do the “butterfly bow”, but shit goes sideways sometimes in the gator biz.
Sensei
on June 26, 2019 at 7:48 pm
Sorry on the train and can’t watch!
The issue, of course, is that if you bail on one of the “normal” platforms and go alternative folks will say you post with the white supremacists and the like. It’s a nice Catch 22.
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 7:57 pm
Ding Ding. Also broaden the definition of white supremacy to include everything you disagree with. See the salami strategy
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 7:49 pm
Aren’t we guilty of this too? WordPress likes to censor too….
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:36 pm
If a tech company has its headquarters north of Tijuana and west of Reno, they hate you. Act accordingly.
You could even do something crazy and start your own website!
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Who will host it?
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Your mom?
I’m sorry, it was low hanging fruit. But, you can host a website yourself. An old PC or laptop will do. It may not be pretty, but, if you have an internet connection, you can host your website yourself.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:33 pm
The only people who could truly shut you down would be… fuck I don’t wanna google it… but its like ICAN or something, and like the Panama canal, we used to own it but gave it away, and that’s the body who ultimately does something magical and my drink is kicking in.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm
beer three: Shiner Bock
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:05 pm
2.5 beers . . . survived the debate
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 10:42 pm
If you haven’t switched to the hard stuff yet, you’re not paying attention.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:45 pm
notice how I distracted myself by inspecting and rating their watch fobs and boutonnieres
Not an Economist
on June 26, 2019 at 7:40 pm
I’m going to start the commenting on the Democratic debate — Note I’m have seen it nor will I watch it.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are evil and are oppressing everybody.
His supporters are evil.
The candidates are promising a bunch of stuff and the evil rich will pay for it. This will usher in utopia.
Sean
on June 26, 2019 at 7:41 pm
I’m working on passing out before they start.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 7:42 pm
DVR is set. I’ll open my first Boston Lager on the hour. Will watch OAK@STL later.
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 7:47 pm
I think you’d be better served watching the game now, and using the DVR for the debate. Fast forwarding through that could be helpful to your sanity.
AlmightyJB
on June 26, 2019 at 7:58 pm
Best case scenerio
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 7:58 pm
Racist!
Trigger Hippie
on June 26, 2019 at 8:04 pm
Oooooh, I forgot that was tonight! Grabbing popcorn and watching Warren squawk away now!
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:08 pm
US men’s fútbol is on. Sorry, Dems.
Trigger Hippie
on June 26, 2019 at 8:32 pm
I prefer my unintentional cringe comedy to be political.
grrizzly
on June 26, 2019 at 8:07 pm
LOL. O’Rourke is speaking Mexican.
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 8:08 pm
The horror, the horror.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:46 pm
I’m going to start the commenting on the Democratic debate — Note I’m have seen it nor will I watch it.
Isn’t SOP to turn the volume down and play Dark Side of the Moon, see if it syncs up?
Hat is definitely chasing the dragon again. I see a major fatal overdose in a chaotic shit show, followed by Keep America Great hat showing up in the oval. Or KAG Prime knows MAGA Prime is a junkie and has been plying him with a toxic combination of Fentanyl, Rogaine and Viagra.
OT: So, on a whim I went back to check out a blog I used to read on a regular basis. In a twist of fate, it’s still active and there are new posts. If anyone out there is a computer RPG fan, you can check out the CRPG Addict. His original goal was to play through every CRPG (that he could get working) in chronological order. He’s been blogging for over a decade and he’s up to 1992’s Darklands.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Well, I guess it’s more… assured than, say, conquering Asia minor.
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 9:33 pm
I enjoy a lot of nostalgia when he’s talking about games I remember playing.
Looks like she needs help getting soaped up, rinsed off, and tucked in.
BEAM's not a team player
on June 26, 2019 at 8:42 pm
Looks like she needs help getting soaped up, rinsed off, and tucked in.
It is this attitude of selfless, nigh-unto-infinite generosity of spirit that, above all else, keeps me coming back here. ;-)
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Libertarians really are the best people.
Lackadaisical
on June 26, 2019 at 8:11 pm
Have to see the other side before I commit.
blackjack
on June 26, 2019 at 8:18 pm
I don’t. I want to, but don’t really have to.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 8:37 pm
She’s a solid congressional 10.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:55 pm
Ooh, stinky!
MikeS
on June 26, 2019 at 9:55 pm
Oh wow. She’s even more would than I realized.
Sir Digby (PBUH)
on June 26, 2019 at 8:06 pm
I go to bed now. Yes, now.
I hopefully see you lot tomorrow evening.
Trigger Hippie
on June 26, 2019 at 8:09 pm
Wow, the late night warrior us tapping out early. Sleep well.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Godspeed, good Sir!
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 8:57 pm
I know that I’ve gained some weight, but who you calling a lot?
Trigger Hippie
on June 26, 2019 at 8:06 pm
Another solid effort, CPRM. Did my Patreon payment go through a few weeks ago? I didn’t notice the receipt.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:41 pm
Seems to have.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:07 pm
So Beto the Faux Latino is gonna do this whole thing in English AND Spanish. His time just got cut in half.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:10 pm
I would love to be up there and reply in half English, half German.
Lackadaisical
on June 26, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Nazi! !!!
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 8:08 pm
BREAKING: Beto O’Rourke is from an imaginary country.
Heroic Mulatto
on June 26, 2019 at 8:09 pm
He’s Palestinian?
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 8:15 pm
Ironically, that would be an improvement.
Raven Nation
on June 26, 2019 at 8:55 pm
Australian
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:09 pm
chat is disabled on the nbc stream on youtube.
Booker lives in a low income area.
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 8:11 pm
Daaammmnnn. I didn’t realize until just now that my entire life is controlled by corporations, only more government can bring them to heel, and I apparently live in the American gulag during the dark ages. Think I’ll pour myself another bourbon.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:13 pm
I was just thinking… so she supports Republicans trust-busting tech companies??
Heroic Mulatto
on June 26, 2019 at 8:16 pm
*The sound of Tucker Carlson masturbating*
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:17 pm
is that different than other people?
Heroic Mulatto
on June 26, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Yes.
Hearing it can make cows give sour milk and kill unbaptized infants.
They really have a hard on for screwing corporations tonight. . . . at least the ones that don’t think right.
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:21 pm
Bernie’s influence reigns supreme.
Those evvul corporations!
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:11 pm
wAgE gAp!
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:12 pm
isnt’t equal pay already a law?
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:18 pm
I hope to hell not.
My pay is none of the govt’s business.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahawhwhgw! April 15th
Hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahagaga
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm
I mean the magnitude of it as decided between me and my employer, obviously.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 10:11 pm
Sure. I’m just trolling. 2 more days and I get 3 weeks off, with pay, that doesn’t even count against my official days off. So, i’m a little smartassy right now. It’s gonna be epic: my first summer vacation in 33 years.
Ima fix this old 96 dodge ram van, 2500, with a 360 that always just fires up and sounds like a lion purring. Steering and suspension are shot, though. Gonna put a badass custom paintjob on it when I’m done, too. Know just the guy.
Chafed
on June 26, 2019 at 11:12 pm
Hopefully the paint job is a half naked woman watching the sunset immediately above the “if this van’s a rockin’ don’t come a knocking” sign.
Sean
on June 27, 2019 at 5:55 am
Bad ass custom paint job?
Wizard?
Dragons?
A-team style?
It’s funny watching democrats bash Government Motors
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:18 pm
I dont want an electric car.
mikey
on June 26, 2019 at 8:20 pm
And that matters how?
Tundra
on June 26, 2019 at 8:20 pm
My car has three fuses. I guess that matters,
mikey
on June 26, 2019 at 8:21 pm
Ha! Mine has TWO. One’s 50A
Sensei
on June 26, 2019 at 8:24 pm
No fuses on mine!
Sensei
on June 26, 2019 at 8:27 pm
MOSFET design that measures current and will act as circuit breakers.
I give Tesla credit. They can’t make a car body for shit compared to established companies, but their thinking on other parts of the is like nothing else.
Hey doom, I got a 96 Dodge van 2500 I just replaced the driver’s side front upper control arm. Beast has a 360. Gas line broke and rusted out driver’s side back frame where leaf springs bolt. Gonna be badass when I’m done with her, but a little scary to drive right now.
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:22 pm
all i hear is how much theyre going to push it, i can only assume this means a v8 is going to be banned as soon as it can be done.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:08 pm
Get a V10
MikeS
on June 26, 2019 at 9:58 pm
+2
Sean
on June 27, 2019 at 5:59 am
I saw a VW Phaeton w12 on the road yesterday. Don’t see too many of those.
blackjack
on June 26, 2019 at 8:20 pm
I work on them and you’re right, you don’t want one.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:21 pm
Gabbard is smart in red with gray highlights in her hair.
Klubochar: black jacket, red top former Tide mom look
O’Rourke: tie fail, nice blue but overly skinny knot with no dimple, not quite Nixon shadow, untamed eyebrows
Warren, to borrow from Molly Ivins, looks like everyone’s first wife
Warren: Who is the economy working for open. Attacks big oil, govt is corrupt, need structural change (whatever that is)
Klubochar: the economy is not working open, jabs rich kids. CC free! “Secondly I’d double programs” from 6 to $12k. What does that even mean?
O’Rourke: economy not working for everyone (shock!) switches to Español . . . in English: attacks tax breaks, never answered question about top rate
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 8:35 pm
I miss Gilmore.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:37 pm
#MeToo
where did that first beer go?
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:11 pm
Yeah, whatever happened to him?
Raven Nation
on June 26, 2019 at 9:37 pm
He’s over at TOS sometimes
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:39 pm
not quite Nixon shadow
and that red eye: hasn’t slept in a week
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:22 pm
I’m not gonna watch but I hope Warren is pissed at being at the kids’ table.
Raven Nation
on June 26, 2019 at 8:58 pm
I think it was a random draw.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:13 pm
Why? Makes her the adult. She can fight Shoeless Joe after her poll numbers rise.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm
I laffed
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 8:22 pm
I’m glad the word, “corporations” wasn’t my drinking game.
DenverJ
on June 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm
OMG. If my phone breaks because I just spit a drink all over it… well… it’ll still be funny, and what a poor phone case.
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:25 pm
oooh, they’re arguing over medicare for all!
“we should give everyone medicare for all. for free.”
hoooly shit.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:25 pm
Booker: trying to hold in a fart, sloppy red tie dimpleless knot, blue suit, but not navy
Booker: corporate mergers lead to less dignity in labor, drug monopoly; Halliburton and Amazon pay no taxes
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:27 pm
Gabbert: I will take your hard-earned tax dollars
first truth of the evening
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 8:27 pm
Not that this is a surprise, but the positive rights train has left the station.
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 8:28 pm
How long ago was that?
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:28 pm
de Blasio: worst tie knot ever on national TV, it’s too short for him, so the knot’s short, no dimple; purple could have been pulled off
mikey
on June 26, 2019 at 8:32 pm
Thanks Don. I didn’t think I’d learn anything from all this but this is news we can use. /no sarc
“My dad was a ________. I’m working class just like you!!!”
I really don’t care about what your father or mother did for a living. I want to know policies . . well, I did until they stated them. Now I just want them to go away.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:33 pm
very disappoint?
Winston
on June 26, 2019 at 8:29 pm
Will gabbard be the tallest midget?
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:29 pm
Delaney plays job creation entrepreneur card.
Solid knot, solid dimple on a cheap tie that’s blue but too loud.
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 8:34 pm
Beto has a sharp tie, but he looks like he’s on a high school debate stage.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:36 pm
His is the least awful of those without a dimple: it’s a long tie, so it fits him, and it doesn’t read cheap.
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 8:30 pm
“Reproductive Justice”………..
Old Man With Candy
on June 26, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Does that mean I can bang Rachael Price?
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Inslee: almost as bad as de Blasio (short knot, barely dimpled)
loud jacket, weird teal tie, check-dot shirt . . . what a fucking mess
Tejicano
on June 26, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Sounds like he dressed for the clown car they’re all supposed to be riding home in.
Did you notice skateboard girl? She looked at her crib notes and memorized what he was going to say in Spanish and then just mouthed the words.
+1 Gert Frobe
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm
the question asked in Spanish shouldn’t have been translated:
we’d get to see who has skills
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:55 pm
Do you trust Google translate?
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:59 pm
¿ que ?
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:57 pm
They asked a question in Spanish? I can’t even with the wokeness.
grrizzly
on June 26, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Spartacus is speaking Spanish, too.
AlmightyJB
on June 26, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Damn, you guys are masochist.
Old Man With Candy
on June 26, 2019 at 8:39 pm
Actually, we don’t have TV, so we’re missing the fun, but enjoying the comments.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:40 pm
I flipped over a couple times. I can’t tell any of them apart. OK, Warren and Deblasio are the obvious communists. The rest are just boilerplate DemSocs.
Aaaaand, Spud’s out. I hit that moment where I went from mocking them to wanting to throw shit at the tv. I’m now watching, “Homestead Rescue”.
Suthenboy
on June 26, 2019 at 8:43 pm
I was overdosing on bullshit less than a minute after putting it on but I am gonna brave it. I also resolved not to say a word, throw anything or scream.
What a fucking clown show.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:45 pm
but you must count down your drinks!
* goes for beer two, Modelo Negra *
Suthenboy
on June 26, 2019 at 8:47 pm
Vodka here so I would die of alcohol poisoning
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm
We’re watching psycho movies, preferably starring bald era Billy Zane, instead. From the comments here, we should be watching the debates instead to really hit psycho.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:40 pm
Drumpf is using the law to justify enforcing the law!
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:41 pm
A corporation gave me a job/income/etc. I buy things from other corporations and none of them have a gun to my head.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:41 pm
Booker wakes up: passionate, typical Blue, probably sounds pretty good in NJ
will manage healthcare cawsts
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:48 pm
His whole manner is a gigantic turn-off. He looks like a comic-book character.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:53 pm
He’s a bit big-eyed, but I otherwise don’t mind. Underbites and connected lobes are probably less beautiful.
I haven’t been beautiful since Reagan, so I let most stuff slide . . . except a lousy tie.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Beto is whitesplaining to Castro. Good luck with that.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Castro has cornered the tranny market.
Can’t see the tie. Graying temples never hurt.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:50 pm
At a distance, Castro’s tie reads quite well.
Old Man With Candy
on June 26, 2019 at 8:45 pm
Are they letting Gabbard speak or are they doing what Team Red did to Rand Paul?
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 8:50 pm
10 people, 90 minutes. It’s a sound bite debate. The entire world will end unless you vote for a Democrat.
Her second attempt sounded far too canned to persuade anyone not already agreeing with her. Also, she just talked about how much we need to get back in the the 2015 Iran deal. Which is where she lost any sympathies from me.
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 9:02 pm
#metoo
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 9:04 pm
Eh. Not that bad. Everyone seems to have little time.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:29 pm
seems like Warren got way more than her share in the first hour
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 8:47 pm
Beto has the Bernie rhythm: the jaw thrust punching forward to punctuate words.
“Prisoners in Guantanamo are treated better that immigrants” – Then why don’t they just start yelling Jihad at the border instead of applying for asylum.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:48 pm
They’ve all got crazy eyes. “They’ve got babies laying in their own snot…”
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Take that back. Not Tulsi. Finally, a sane person talks.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm
That’s all well and good on your Iran position, Tulsi. But the only situation is the one you are creating in my pants.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 8:57 pm
She’s super hot from a distance. Take that make up off and the skin is, uh, not quite right.
I agree, there are millions of children who are still unarmed.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 9:08 pm
Where? I commute 28+ miles a day and have yet to run across any of those.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm
But how many thousands of concentration camps do you pass on your daily commute?
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 9:14 pm
Two? Public schools, right?
LJW
on June 26, 2019 at 9:09 pm
“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?”
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:11 pm
sensible !
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:05 pm
And I see there is an FNC hit-piece Docu-drama in the works. I wonder if they will do CNN or MSDNC.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:08 pm
Shorter: “How do you intend to violate your oath of office before you even get the chance to take it?”
Conflate adults and government and the roles thereof….
Muskets are hereby illegal because they are literally weapons of war….
I can’t keep up with the fallacies and constitutional illegalities…
But “fight for thuh chillunz”
commodious spittoon
on June 26, 2019 at 9:09 pm
You know, she could just say Chicago. We know what she means.
How do these people not realize how popular guns are? Every time Obama spoke about them more people went out and bought their first gun. I even know full on commie libs that like guns.
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:14 pm
The Klobuchinator is the only one in a skirt. Lizzie and Tulsi are wearing pantsuits.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm
Check out The Klob’s eyebrows.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:20 pm
Also, are you sure about that? I haven’t seen a full shot of Julian.
Pan Zagloba
on June 26, 2019 at 9:21 pm
When’s the swimsuit competition?
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm
“Give them the offer to “”by-back”” the property that the government never owned in the first place” is simultaneously “not confiscation”. . .
Booker: “If you need a license to drive, why don’t you need one to own guns?”
Agreed, we should get rid of driver’s licenses.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 9:18 pm
Now, do voting!
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 10:13 pm
That’s different!
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:19 pm
he finished with a nice VP bid
but I doubt they need him for NJ
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:16 pm
Beto is the best liar: he’s out of step with 70% of his neighbors, so he plays the game best.
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:16 pm
Fuck you de Blasio.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:17 pm
I wonder how long of a montage you would have to make in order to capture every logical fallacy committed during this clown-show debate.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:19 pm
get your PhD in Democratic Studies
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:17 pm
“My black son” LMFAOROFL
Oh you be you, Bill
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:24 pm
You just knew it was coming. Thinking to yourself every time he speaks, “Don’t do it, don’t do it.” And then it comes. You wince, turn away and throw your hands up.
JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler
on June 26, 2019 at 10:35 pm
Chuck Todd: ” We have issues” <- – taken out of context, but it's the most accurate statement of the night.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:20 pm
deBlasio and Trump go to the same barber
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:20 pm
We are a democracy.
No we aren’t and that assertion alone renders you unfit for office.
will of the people
But only when Team Blue wins.
Damn. She was channeling Lincoln there. In the first hundred days she’ll be imprisoning judges and state legislatures that dare defy her.
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:23 pm
Fauxcahontas lectured the hall,
Fauxcahontas talked very tall,
But all of her friends on the left and the left,
Couldn’t take her panties out of her cleft.
There’s been surprisingly little Trump talk so far . . .I mean there’s been some, but it must not have focus grouped very well to constantly use his name.
Spudalicious
on June 26, 2019 at 9:33 pm
“It’s Trump’s fault” is a given. They don’t need to mention his name.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 9:24 pm
Here’s an example of technology getting too smart for it’s own good-
Last week, my a/c in my car quit working. At the same time I noticed that there was no longer an outside temperature being displayed on my radio. A little research showed me that the two things were related.
Anywho, after removing the bumper from my car to access the ambient air temperature sensor, I discovered that a critter of some sort had chewed up the wiring. I soldered the wires back together and everything went back to working as it should.
My problem is that a faulty air temp switch shouldn’t shut down my a/c unit. This is a new thing that has been added in recent years that is unnecessary and is just another point to fail.
Probably to make sure you aren’t using ac at unapproved temps and wasting energy!
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:52 pm
wasting energy!
yes: if you have a variable compressor, you can tune down the cooling to fit instead of cooling full blast and then re-heating
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 9:57 pm
Running the a/c at sub freezing temps will cause your A coil to freeze up and is a bad idea.
That said, no fucking body runs the a/c in their car when its freezing outside.
The extra safe guard in unnecessary and is nothing but another failure point for a system that doesn’t need it.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:00 pm
That’s definitely a cut-out when so instrumented.
That said, no fucking body runs the a/c in their car when its freezing outside.
You’d be surprised, especially up north and fire apparatus: melting snow in the cab fogs up the windows
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:05 pm
For the entire history of automotive a/c systems, people have managed to not run their a/c when its freezing outside. In the last ten years or so, manufacturers have decided that if the car’s computer doesn’t know what the temperature outside is, then the owner of the vehicle is too stupid to know whether or not it’s appropriate to run the A/C.
Either everyone is stupid, or the vehicle manufacturer is engineering in a failure point that is unnecessary.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:08 pm
folks are really stupid; it’s a full-time job
think about the history of cars, who understood them then and who drives them now; no woman has any idea what you’re talking about and they all drive
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 10:08 pm
/raises hand
There are times up here in Ohio that you’ll turn on the A/C while the heater is running to be able to defrost the windows while you’re driving.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:09 pm
especially up north
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:11 pm
In that case, the failure point is counterproductive. If it’s necessary to run the a/c in sub-freezing temps, then this particular engineering solution is double stupid.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:12 pm
read 40,000 warranty reports and get back to me
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 10:17 pm
Don: Providing some anecdotal support for your position. The worst is when your breath starts frosting up the windows.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:27 pm
I”m the bad guy: did this for 20 years, cars, trucks, graders, skid steer, reefers, Alaska, South Africa, Russia, Australia. You learn, you build, you regret, you build some more. You read and manage the warranty claims on the systems you built five years before.
First week I was in the business this huge guy who played O-line for Michigan State in the sixties tells me straight up: you can’t predict what folks do; logic has nothing to do with it; you can’t design for what makes sense any more; 60% of folk have no idea how to operate the HVA in their car; I was shocked, but he was right. I’ve said it here before: the easiest thing in the world is to size a motor, engine, or pump, but figuring what people really do and need is the game.
FWIW: winter test is usually MN; 0°F; there’s a shop in Bemidji I like to work out of, back and forth to International Falls. Cold starts, de-ice, the works . . . and fried walleye. I loved it every year.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Have a clause in the warranty that doesn’t cover ignorant behavior?
That’s pretty standard in most warranties I have read.
whahappan
on June 27, 2019 at 12:14 am
A little late, but most HVAC systems in cars will engage the A/C when in defrost mode to bring down the humidity and reduce fogging.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:00 pm
No, I mean if you’re cooling to below 70 you’re wasting energy! Obama said so! So if it’s 70 outside, you’re raping the planet if you use the AC!
Tejicano
on June 26, 2019 at 9:54 pm
After all the trouble the car maker went to coat those wires with a plastic that smells and tastes like candy to small rodents!
DrOtto
on June 26, 2019 at 10:41 pm
They coat the wires in soy oil now instead of petroleum oil, because green and yes, they are now tastier than ever. I just finished splicing 16 wires together on a 48 wire connector yesterday due to hungry rodents. They are bastards.
DrOtto
on June 26, 2019 at 10:34 pm
You must have automatic climate control. Those systems use an outside temp sensor and an inside temp sensor and based on what you ask of the system, it uses the input from both the sensors to decide if it should throw hot or cold at you. My wife had a 2001 Audi product that had the inside sensor fail by reading -40, so the climate control module tried to bring up the inside temp by turning the heat on full, in the summer, in Houston. Did I mention that my wife was pregnant at the time? Good times.
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:27 pm
“Executive experience…I haz it.”
HUD Julian, HUD. Not a real agency. Not actual executive experience. Kthxbai.
Why don’t they just turn off the microphone when the candidates time is up?
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:36 pm
^This guy.
Nephilium
on June 26, 2019 at 9:54 pm
Why not discharge electricity into the microphone when the time is up? You could even display a big countdown clock. Get the audience to count it down, 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… zap!
Tejicano
on June 26, 2019 at 9:59 pm
The Marine in me was thinking more long the lines of a small charge of C4 in the mike.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:28 pm
Uh oh…He left out everyone else in the alphabet soup of identities.
like I was saying, I ain’t been purty in years, either
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:33 pm
Are wide lapels back?
I like ’em middling, but thin is better than yuge.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:33 pm
Gabbert held views when she was very young
That’s not really true: she got on the wagon only recently per Obama playbook
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm
*flips*
“You! You’re a minority. How do you respond to Amy’s pandering to minorities?”
*flips back in disguest*
Tonio
on June 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm
Tulsi, doing the “auto da fe” for teh gays,
Corey doing the virtue signaling for transkids,
The Klobuchinator talking about criminal justice reform,
Castro blathering about something.
Honk.
Honk.
grrizzly
on June 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm
Castro: cops, shoot to kill white criminals.
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 9:35 pm
I’m done. All these people on the stage and the only one that doesn’t make my skin crawl is the one that insists slaughtering furriners is wrong. Low bar.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:36 pm
To decide who is best at foreign policy, all candidates should have to participate in an uninterrupted game of RISK.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:39 pm
Lester Holt’s suit is flawless. I don’t care for pocket fluff, but he’s doing it right
The neocons are out in full force . . .finally some passion from Tulsi. But she needs to be a little more aggressive towards these people.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:42 pm
NewWife called and can hear the screaming in the background.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 9:40 pm
Ryan got punked like a bitch every fucking day at recess
Raphael
on June 26, 2019 at 9:41 pm
I love you all for making the sacrifice that is watching the debate. I’m stuck in my open office without head phones so I just gotta sulk and read y’all’s play-by-plays.
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 9:42 pm
DeBlasio is sticking to ‘Muh Russia’. He is the only one.
Should Warren voluntarily bring up how she paid for college?
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 10:01 pm
Wow, Beto’s really riding that climate train.
Doom and gloom! Make America slit its wrists again1
Rebel Scum
on June 26, 2019 at 10:04 pm
It’s not “politics of fear” when they do it.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:01 pm
final suit rankings
10 Inslee
9 de Blasio
8 Booker
7 Warren
6 Ryan
5 Delaney
4 Klubochar
3 O’Rourke
2 Gabbert
1 Castro
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:01 pm
Klobucher looks like she has an apple up her ass.
Warren is a methed up mummy.
On my TV, at least, the lighting for the Booker close-ups make him look hella white.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 10:07 pm
He is very pale. Not very “authentic” either.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:09 pm
I’m about 70% sure Inslee has had stroke or suffers from Bell’s Palsy.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:02 pm
people you will never hear from again
Inslee
de Blasio
Ryan
Delaney
Plinker762
on June 26, 2019 at 10:08 pm
I wish I would never hear from Inslee again but WA is stuck with him for a while.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:10 pm
Steve Cohen is my cross to bear; top that !
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Yeah, I wish Deblasio would stay away too.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:02 pm
Castro looks like a haunted doll come horribly to life.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 10:08 pm
Those earlobes are enough to make to crawl into a closet and bar the door.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:11 pm
The only person he is taller than is Warren. (Although she and Klobucher are both in heels.) Imagine a debate between Shrimpy Pibbles and Trump. Donald might pick him up and just carry him around.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:09 pm
I can run with that if he goes far enough. Some faint lines to evoke a dummy.
Huh, have not, which makes it all the more stunning I created this with no prior knowledge of that cover art.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:25 pm
That’s a great moment of cultural osmosis.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 10:13 pm
Which one is Castro?
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:15 pm
The shortest guy. The one that wants to make sure transmen can get abortions.
grrizzly
on June 26, 2019 at 10:22 pm
Actually, transmen can get abortions because they are female by birth. Castro said transwomen!
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:23 pm
I just realized that. This is such a great timeline!
Suthenboy
on June 26, 2019 at 10:09 pm
I will be president before any of this gaggle of half-wits. The mendacity and insincerity is off the charts. The stupid ideas are legion.
Trump will be re-elected like the sun will come up. He is going to demolish their bullshit.
Green new deal my ass. No gasoline or airplanes? Abolish hot dogs? Really? Open borders? Not a chance. Fascist control over ever aspect of the economy? Right. FREEEEEEEEE SHITTTTT! Uh huh.
Vote Suthenboy for president. *tips hat to Almanian* I gotchur back brother. I hope you are sitting on a cloud playing Yaketty Sax and laughing your ass off.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 10:12 pm
*pours ballot box out on ground in memoriam*
MikeS
on June 26, 2019 at 10:12 pm
The double-down on the lurch to the left is pretty amazing to watch. Trump would have to seriously fuck something up to lose to any of the 24 morons running.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 10:15 pm
So you’re saying we’re screwed?
Raphael
on June 26, 2019 at 10:17 pm
Just wait till tomorrow when the A Team shows up. We got MORE FUN coming ahead.
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Scary White Boy 2020
Ownbestenemy
on June 26, 2019 at 10:10 pm
Im not watching…can i just tell my kids that they will have anything and everything…given by their grandpapi government? Did i get the debates right?
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:14 pm
Just imagine having to listen to President Elizabeth Warren for 4 to 8 years. I’m not sure she is capable of not sounding like a nag.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:16 pm
She’s not hard on the progressive ear and has the game down. She will make the final three, so we’ll be stuck with her for the full 17 months.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:18 pm
True, but man, that nagging used Subaru voice is killing me.
Tejicano
on June 26, 2019 at 10:35 pm
I would have sworn you wrote “…for the full 17 moons.”
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:37 pm
Warren’s not having moons any more
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:23 pm
I didn’t realize this until I saw the transcript:
“I don’t just believe in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice,” Castro said. “And what that means is just because a woman or—let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female—is poor, doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to exercise that right to choose.”
A trans female is a biological male. Castro wants to make sure people who have never had a uterus can get an abortion.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 10:25 pm
A trans female is a biological male.
I’m not convinced the lingo is settled.
When I hear that, I have *no idea* what the biological sex is.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:29 pm
The woke crowd would never refer to a biological female as a trans female. A trans female is someone born with a penis.
I’m sure it was just a gaffe, but is still funny.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:31 pm
Is it a gaffe-gaffe where the wokesters come with their pitchforks or do we think it will go unpunished?
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:26 pm
Uteruses are a social construct. Literally everything is a social construct, except things that actually are social constructs and ill defined like race. Come to think of it, my comment is a social construct.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:28 pm
Correct answer: Its not government’s business. If there is a provider in your area they will perform whatever procedures you want if you have the finances to do so.
Raphael
on June 26, 2019 at 10:51 pm
*hears the cries of all the unemployed parody writers*
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:55 pm
you keep getting funnier this past year
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:26 pm
That was a collection of some of the most unattractive, nagging scolds (sans Tulsi – dayum girl!) I have ever seen. The cameras did them no favors tonight. Booker looks like a goddamn serial killer!
And the desperate pandering by speaking canned Spanish lines was so cringeworthy.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:27 pm
Castro smiles at inappropriate times while speaking. It’s creepy.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:29 pm
Also noticed that. Doesn’t help that he looks like a reanimated corpse as well
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:03 pm
Been there and done that. On purpose. My guess is that so have you.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:27 pm
I need a cigarette after watching Tulsi’s performance. She put that bitch Ryan in his place. What a tiger
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:30 pm
The skunk stripe is fantastic.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:32 pm
It’s great.
Now she’s gotta wear it a few weeks or it will seem plastic.
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:34 pm
She’s had it for a while. I think it is just a real streak of grey. I’ve seen it in the wild a couple times.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:42 pm
approved
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:30 pm
I came away convinced tonight that she is a legitimate smokeshow.
Then they cut to Warren….*gags*
SugarFree
on June 26, 2019 at 10:32 pm
Saltpeter in purple.
Count Potato
on June 26, 2019 at 10:36 pm
It reminded me of the Joker.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:33 pm
If your erection lasts more than two hours after watching Tulsi debate consult a picture of Elizabeth Warren
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:41 pm
brilliant
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:31 pm
I didnt watch, but I imagine her talking foreign policy was the only thing worth listening to in the whole charade.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:33 pm
You don’t talk in charades!
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:37 pm
I guarantee that Malice or Woods or Rockwell or Ron Paul will be posting clips of her performance tomorrow. Reason already did an article praising her singular focus on foreign policy during the debate.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:40 pm
I’d image dave smith will as well.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:45 pm
Yup, all the usual suspects. If she gains ground in the Democratic primary, the Trump camp is going to rightly panic. She’ll eat into his base
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:48 pm
fuck her; she was born in Kenya
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:52 pm
STOP. I can only get so hard
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm
And, good for reason. For a libertarian outfit, they sure seem to shy away from war issue far more often than they should.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 11:00 pm
That’s really at the heart of the split, though they’ll never admit it. The Kochs have always been wishy washy on the war issue.
Gabbard did sign up to co-sponsor the bill on Wednesday, a spokesman for Cicilline’s office told HuffPost. The spokesman did not know what time Gabbard had requested to co-sponsor the bill. . . Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) introduced the Assault Weapons Ban bill on Monday. His bill would ban the sale, transfer, possession, production and import of a number of semiautomatic rifles and pistols, semiautomatic shotguns with military features and ammunition-feeding devices that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:49 pm
Yeah. She is typical Democrat and horrible on everything, except war. As best I can tell all the Democrats are carbon copies of one another except Tulsi. She spouts all the typical democratic talking points aside from the war issue.
In that narrow issue she is better than trump or anyone else.
“War is the health of the state”
If you desire, as I do, to shrink the state, then ending the wars is the first step in that direction. As long as the state is engaged in wars all around the world, then there is no prospect for shrinking its size, scope, or cost.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:51 pm
Eh, for now the military is voluntary. The rest of the shit isn’t.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm
Paying for the military is anything but voluntary.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:57 pm
+1 Thoreau
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:03 pm
Well, see that comes under the larger umbrella of spending, and how it’s funded, which I think are 1 and 1.1. The actual idea of war comes further down my list.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 11:04 pm
And the objective of our wars in the Middle East (propping up the dollar) allows for our out of control domestic spending. It’s all intertwined. Empires do not have citizens- they have subjects
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 10:52 pm
Randolph Bourne
A quote that strikes at the heart of the matter
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm
ending the wars is the first step
it’s certainly an important step; I don’t know if it’s first, but I take your point
In my circles they guys don’t regret VietNam, and they don’t think other Asian adventures are a big deal. In a way it’s not my place to care more about them as veteran more than they care about themselves and their latter day counterparts.
But I have not ever seen a commander in chief yet I would happily invest my son in.
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 11:02 pm
Every time the United states has engaged in war, the state has expanded.
The first income tax came during the civil war.
Progressive era imperialism made the tax permanent.
The patriot act was a war time time measure that is now permanent.
The military industrial complex of which eisenhower warned was born of war and continues to be a leech on our economy and the morality of America’s position in the world.
The marriage of health insurance and employment (which is the root cause of the health care affordability problem we have today) was a response to ww2 era price controls.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:04 pm
oh, that’s all true but not my point
on the barrel head, dismantling Medicare is twice the bang as eliminating the DoD
how a dragon is born and how it is killed are different vectors
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 11:19 pm
There would be no Medicare if it wasn’t for the need to pacify the poors in order to send them to the slaughter in Vietnam. Opponents of the New Deal understood this and that’s why they all opposed entry into World War II to begin with.
Even if we pretended that you could shrink the state domestically while still waging endless war overseas, it’s hard to argue against the notion that the most offensive act undertaken by big government is murdering people overseas in countries that most Americans can’t identify on a map for abstract reasons that have nothing to do with national defense
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:41 pm
show of hands, which one of you idiots wants to start a war— elizabeth bruenig (@ebruenig) June 27, 2019
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 11:26 pm
Why can’t anyone leave the guns out of it.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:36 pm
What was the percentage of nitwits on stage who have never held an actual job, do we think? I know its not so but the only way I can imagine them saying half the looney-tunes bullshit they spout and creaming their pants thinking of taking away people’s money is that they are people who have never worked for a living themselves.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 10:43 pm
First reply on Trump’s twitter feed is a picture of the dad who caused his daughter to drown in the Rio Grande:
“Eugene Gu, MD
@eugenegu
·
2h
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
This is the picture of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria Ramirez. They are talking about it right now during the #DemDebate and you, Mr. President, are responsible for their deaths. This is inhumane and a stain on our country.”
Sigh.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:45 pm
Is Trump supposed to teach swimming lessons now?
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 11:02 pm
If I woke up in a hospital and Gu was treating me, I’d just pull my own plug right there.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:05 pm
And you’d try your damndest to get the heart monitor play an S-Club 7 song as you faded away.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 11:11 pm
Don’t Stop Movin or Say Goodbye?
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:16 pm
Everybody Wants Ya, to let the spouse know if it’s ok to move on.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:11 pm
Seems to me – I mean, if we’re removing individual agency here – it’s more the fault of Congress blocking funds to speed up asylum processing. And/or changing the laws to allow open borders.
What say you, Dr. Gu?
Chafed
on June 26, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Stop assaulting me with facts and logic!
Ownbestenemy
on June 27, 2019 at 12:24 am
Congress/Media: you must seek approval!
President: I ask you to do this
Congress/media: we will not fund it
President: its on you then
Congess/media: you arent doing enough!
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 10:44 pm
Huh. The Hat must be passed out already and Donald had to handle the Tweeting alone.
Beto’s “emoting” over “climate change” was possibly the fakest thing all night. Well, of the grand total 7 or 8 minutes I saw.
Oh, and Deblasio’s “Russia!”
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:07 pm
It’s over? A year and a half more of this. My favorite hot take on this is some LGBTQ+ person on the teevee complaining that the candidates are simply pandering to get their votes. If they follow through on their promises of free shit and special protections, it’s not pandering anymore?
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 11:12 pm
A year and a half. Christ.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 11:14 pm
And to your point literally all of them openly and obsequiously pandered to some voting block tonight. It was pathetic and repulsive just how blatantly they competed to lick the most boots.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:16 pm
2 Corinthians
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:18 pm
Yep. One of them says something about protecting trannies and Booker jumps in with, “Not just trannies, but black trannies especially!”
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:25 pm
What about brown trannies?
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:29 pm
I don’t know the pecker order.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:49 pm
?
JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler
on June 26, 2019 at 11:33 pm
Manual trannies are hard to find these days and should be protected.
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:13 pm
If they follow through on their promises of free shit and special protections
Well, that Tulsi one left out the part of the search that matters to internet ‘nude’
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:18 pm
I learned something tonight
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 26, 2019 at 11:21 pm
True
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 11:21 pm
I also ‘surfing’
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:18 pm
LOL Oklahoma is like “What? She was born here? GTFO.”
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 11:22 pm
I am from OK and the “I’m going to drink a beer fellow kids” moment just floored me. Say what you will about the state but people here know how to drink a goddam beer, lady!
In 1995, Gabbard founded the nonprofit Stop Promoting Homosexuality America
She’s not going anywhere. Oh wait, he switched parties. It was an evil Rethuglican doing that. Gabbard Sr-D worked to ban sunscreen and other good causes. Banning sunscreen in HI. smh.
Gustave Lytton
on June 26, 2019 at 11:19 pm
Second para shouldn’t be a blockquote.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:22 pm
She’s already followed Obama and ‘evolved’ on the issue.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:24 pm
I had that !
Don Escaped Texas
Gabbert held views when she was very young
That’s not really true: she got on the wagon only recently per Obama playbook
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:22 pm
BETO: I speak Spanish.BOOKER: I can't believe you did my thing before me.DE BLASIO: I have a black son.BOOKER: I'm actually black tho, Bill.KLOBUCHAR: …Um, I have an uncle with a deer stand?WARREN: *don't say it, don't say it*— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) June 27, 2019
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:24 pm
Tango un gato en mis pantolones.
IntraveneousWoodChipper
on June 26, 2019 at 11:24 pm
“Um…I have an uncle with a deer stand” LOL
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 11:27 pm
Well this looks like a dumpster fire
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:29 pm
Wait until tomorrow night.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:31 pm
Thanks for commenting on my cartoon. I’m sorry you feel that way about my cartoon…
straffinrun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:34 pm
BTW. Honestly, good stuff. Thanks.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:37 pm
Stop patronizing me! *runs away crying*
DOOMco
on June 26, 2019 at 11:38 pm
Oh would you look at that, there’s an article up there.
Sorry we hijacked it.
I did like it
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:41 pm
No worries. Just taking a comic jab.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:30 pm
My mortgage identifies as a student loan.— Andy Swan (@AndySwan) June 25, 2019
Lachowsky
on June 26, 2019 at 11:49 pm
I dont have any student loan debt and I paid off my mortgage a few years ago. Can I just get a big fat check from the state for my vote.
Why wont anybody pander to me?
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:52 pm
LOL you don’t check a single box, do you?
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:53 pm
child, he’s still getting his nose candy via the code.
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:52 pm
I live on the skeevee margins of gaming the system on both counts, so no comment. *Puts jacket over head leaving court room*
Rhywun
on June 26, 2019 at 11:50 pm
#AllLoansMatter
*snort*
Raphael
on June 27, 2019 at 12:28 am
I like the cut of Mr. Swan’s gib.
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:38 pm
Total speaking time during #DemDebate:
• C. Booker: 10:58
• B. O’Rourke: 10:04
• E. Warren: 09:20
• A. Klobuchar: 08:27
• J. Castro: 08:13
• T. Ryan: 07:12
• T. Gabbard: 06:24
• J. Delaney: 06:24
• B. DeBlasio: 05:30
• J. Inslee: 04:57 https://t.co/Cms96j3xDz— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 27, 2019
Don Escaped Texas
on June 26, 2019 at 11:47 pm
say “goodnight,” Gracie
CPRM
on June 26, 2019 at 11:50 pm
That is a sexist joke! Burn Don!!
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Looks like I picked the wrong night to work late. I’m comforted knowing if any of these fine candidates win then I’m going to get a lot of free stuff.
*Looks in mirror. Sees self-employed, married, middle aged, white man*
I’m fucked.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:04 am
Yeah, half my income is self-employment, and finding ways to not pay taxes on a net income below the poverty line gets harder and harder. They really want me on the doll.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:07 am
They’re giving you a Real Doll®? I may rethink my opposition.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:11 am
This cover art was the first time this Catholic midwestern boy saw a Real Doll, took me a long while to figure out what it was.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:02 am
Sir Digby has an article tomorrow night on my Redbubble store, make sure to check that out.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:08 am
What happened that he commented all day but went to bed at night?
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:11 am
Maybe he’s got a split-shift job. Or as I remember it when I had one, “hell”.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:16 am
I don’t think so. I’m almost certain he works 10-6. But maybe something unusual is going on at his job so he had to go in at a different time.
FWIW, I had one, sort of, split shift job. That was no fun.
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:21 am
Yeah, one job I had was Tue/Wed/Thu evenings and Fri/Sat overnights. It was the one job I had for the entirely of the year I lived in San Francisco.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:25 am
Ha, at least that’s regular. Last week I came in at 10pm Monday and Tuesday, 5pm Wednesday, 6am Friday and 5am Saturday. This week I’m off the whole week except Friday when I come in 6am.
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:32 am
Ouch.
Yeah, the only variation was when a “senior” decided they wanted my hours. Yay unions.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:13 am
He changes his pattern when he has weekends off, so I’m guessing that’s it.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:16 am
His weekend is Friday – Saturday.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:19 am
I’m talking about a couple weeks ago when he had a long weekend, he did a time shift. You just sound like a stalker now.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:20 am
That’s tough to do from two time zones away. I just pay attention to what he said.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:36 am
Ah, just read an email from him, he took an extra day off, DMV for Driver’s License. Will be covered in his second article he claims.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:39 am
To whit, knowing the subject matter, L OH Fucking L.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:05 am
I’ll believe the Dems care about race when they play this as their intro:
OK, after all of you have “finished” with Tulsi, would you care to explain her insistence that we need to go back to bribing Iran with stacks of cash so they supposedly stop developing a bomb? I’m no foreign policy guru but it seems to me they’re gonna pursue it regardless of our wishes, absent, well, you know.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:12 am
BUT NO WAR!!!
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:18 am
That’s great. I’d rather not deal with them at all.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:20 am
Yeah, that whole trade with all, no entanglements thing is just fantasy. EXPERTS SAY SO!
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:19 am
She has the antiwar thing down. Hence Tulsi Gabbard Apologist’s repeated orgasms tonight. Beyond that she is standard issue modern Democrat. Obama bribed them so it was good. Trump is sanctioning them so it is bad.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 27, 2019 at 12:20 am
Seems like if Iran were developing a nuclear weapon that would be a concern for countries located somewhere near Iran, not so much a country located thousands of miles away across the sea
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:22 am
But yet you’re cumming all over her because she’s ‘anti-war’ when one of her stances is ‘pay them off like Obama done’, which doesn’t jive with the rest.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 27, 2019 at 12:31 am
They’ve already been paid back the money that we seized after the hostage crisis
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:35 am
But, that ain’t Tulsi’s reckoning.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 27, 2019 at 12:42 am
Also, another nice video. You do good work. It’s nice how you have a quick turnaround on these videos so they are topical
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:48 am
Yeah, I don’t think the tech was there for me to have done this before Trump. If I took the site out of the pipeline and had a cartoon I really wanted to make I could have it up within an hour (in this style anyways, since I’m not animating movement) hence why I felt kismet when this site formed and I wanted to do the cartoon. I’ve tried to produce cartoons before and less than a decade ago the things this software can do were unfathomable.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 27, 2019 at 12:55 am
Technology and Trump have been a boon for parody. It’s too bad that corporate media fails at understanding how to parody a man who should be an endless source of laughter rather than spiteful applause
Winston
on June 27, 2019 at 12:57 am
Come on there is SNL and Seth Myers, Jon Oliver and Stephen Colbert!
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:23 am
Yeah, and the fact we have our dick in many of the countries located somewhere near Iran is a big problem too. IMHO.
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 12:33 am
I think it is more complicated than that. They have medium range missiles. If they get a nuke then most of Europe would be within range.
They have exchanged missile technology with North Korea. They are working to bring us in range.
They are a theocracy. I’m not persuaded self-preservation is the top priority of all their leaders.
None of this means I support starting another war. It does those who are concerned have a reason to be.
"Tulsi Gabbard Apologist"
on June 27, 2019 at 12:51 am
What if the actions of America’s adversaries were rational and motivated by self preservation? How would there actions be any different?
I’m not going to defend the honor of the Iranian regime, but I find it hard to believe that such a regime poses a national security threat to us. If the Europeans felt threatened by the Iranians then wouldn’t they be in agreement with us about sanctioning Iran? And if they are a threat to Europe and Europe is unwilling to defend against such a threat than why should we?
straffinrun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:56 am
When was the last time Iran launched an offensive war?
Chafed
on June 27, 2019 at 1:10 am
I think they did so in Syria against ISIS. But more to your point, they do little under their own flag. They do plenty through their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis) and Iranian intelligence has launched attacks in other nations.
straffinrun
on June 27, 2019 at 1:16 am
They’re no angels. And they’ve been fucked with repeatedly by the US. Not a straightforward good guy/bad guy scenario. After seeing Iraq, Libya and Syria, the US hasn’t instilled confidence that what they’ll do will make things better.
De Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren were the only two candidates on the stage who raised their hands to say they would give up their private health care for government-run health care Wednesday night.
That is one of the few moments I did see – and that is NOT what they said. They said they would elininate YOUR private health care.
Bit of a difference.
CPRM
on June 27, 2019 at 12:52 am
You say tomato, they say caviar, same diff.
Rhywun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:55 am
If You Like Your Doctor You Can Keep Your Doctor II: Medical Boogaloo
Raphael
on June 27, 2019 at 12:53 am
Christ, what an asshole.
straffinrun
on June 27, 2019 at 12:48 am
Team blue member has pronoun trouble. The preferred pronoun in this rant is “you” not “they”.
Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellin… At least we have Mises, Rothbard, Friedman to even shit out.
Raphael
on June 27, 2019 at 1:02 am
Ha, guy would’ve gotten booed to hell if he had the guts to call them out.
Winston
on June 27, 2019 at 12:54 am
So what is more important: war, free trade or laissez-faire? Many people have had differing issues on these three issues. Wilson was a free-trader, Lincoln was a protectionist, Tucker Carlson is antiwar, etc.
Definately collusion.
Also, ?.
the drone . . . had no man in it . . . it was an . . . unmanned drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUyLXrgYZ0
He’s got the gift of gab, doesn’t he?
He used to annoy me with his speech patterns, now he just cracks me up (IRL).
Trump 2020, for the lulz.
Honk honk.
Seriously: how much fun was this particular episode to make?
The same amount of fun?
Look, you—I’ll ask the questions!
Bigly done, nice.
Excellent. As you said earlier, it meshed nicely with SF’s H&H.
I’m worried about the Hat.
I highly recommend Histories by Herodotus for those who haven’t read it. It’s a huge book, but its description of the Persian invasion of Greece is fascinating.
Hmm. I am fragmented. There are parts of me that want to: call you a nerd, curse you for the man hours needed to read it, thank you for the recommendation, and also ask are you sure it’s worth it?
Today i learned that a “four foot” sandbox does not hold a 4×4’x6″ amount of sand. especially when it’s really only 40″×26″…
Fixing cheapskates.
The ole 10lbs of sand in a 5lb sack conundrum?
800-200, but yeah.
I tried looking at them in stores, so this wouldn’t happen, but no store keeps them in stock.
I built my own.
Just sayin’.
That’s 3500 fluid ounces, UCS 🙂
Huh? So, what did you order a cubic yard of sand delivered? I don’t get it. You have a sandbox that doesn’t even look square, but you assume it’s 4×4 without measuring? Or am I misreading?
it’s a cute gif
Lol
I hope these videos are stored somewhere safe. The internet purge is accelerating.
“Reddit Censors ‘The_Donald’ Community of 750,000 Trump Supporters
The community, one of the most active sources of grassroots support for the President on the Internet, has been placed in “quarantine” mode by the administrators of Reddit. Visitors to the page are met with a screen asking them if they wish to view the page.
Content from quarantined communities will not appear for members who are not subscribed to the board, known as a subreddit.
A spokesman for The_Donald condemned the move by Reddit in a comment to Breitbart News:
“Reddit has been finding methods to methodically censor The_Donald for years now. Enforcing special rules that only The_Donald has to follow, largely screening our submissions from reaching the front page, allowing far-left communities to harrass and dox our members (to the point of creating a chrome extension that marks anyone that posts on The_Donald).”
“This is their next step, and is generally Reddit’s step just before outright banning a community. Their reasoning is hardly sound, given that they claim they’ve had to spend too much time removing content on the subreddit that violates site-wide rules, yet their own logs show less than one removal [per] day. This censorship also takes place on the eve of the Democratic Primaries, which seems less than coincidental,” the spokesman continued.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/
TW: breitbart
This pisses me off. Not because of the censorship (ok, that pisses me off too), but because these conservatives keep sticking their hand into the alligator’s mouth and act like a victim when the gator bites down.
If a tech company has its headquarters north of Tijuana and west of Reno, they hate you. Act accordingly.
The thing is these companies weren’t always this way. It mostly started after Trump won.
Not really. Believe it or not, /. (Slashdot for the youts here) used to have a huge libertarian streak among the commenters. That changed almost a decade ago at this point.
I wonder if the libertarianish streak of the internet in the past may have been due to the fact that the general population still hadn’t really adopted the internet in large numbers or began to use it for political purposes…
So, the “3% rule”?
So…you’re saying libertarians will definitely be the first to colonize space?
If they can develop rockets, long term spacecraft and space colonization then maybe…
I think it had more to do with the thought process behind the original protocols. Almost all of them were designed to be decentralized, and to be able to be implemented by anyone. Off the top of my head, the only new item even similar to come out in the past couple of years would be the blockchain (which also has attracted quite a bit of libertarian interest).
Definitely.
Sure, but Slashdot was never a major platform. LiveJournal showed how left they were after Sandy Hook, perhaps earlier.
Reason used to used to have a huge libertarian streak among the commenters too.
Whereas Google and Facebook are huge.
Not just slashdot. The tech culture in general was much more that way, or more so apolitical. More meritocratic, with strains of counterculture and antiorganization.
I haven’t been back to slashdot in years. I can’t imagine how bad it must be these days.
I remember reading the Jargon File cover-to-cover in my early “hacker” days (the proper definition of which is given therein) and wondering at the same claim. It already wasn’t accurate in the late 90s.
Back in the days of local BBS’s and usenet, being able to defend your opinions was considered a critical and important skill. Debate would happen frequently, and reputation was based on your handle. There would be people who would burn down their original handle, and try to come back under a new one. If they kept up the same shit, they would continue to be called out and ostracized (or modded to oblivion depending on the board). If they went with a new route, and argued in good faith, they would be accepted.
Funny. I was thinking about that very description.
Full disclosure, I sent in something circa mid 90’s and my name is among the hundreds of contributors in the 3rd edition of the printed version.
It’s about Trump, tis true.
But these companies barely existed before Obama. It is the American thing to go full blast, firstest, fastest, and with the most mistakes, on all things, and so it is with these guys. The chance to misbehave like this with tools like this against a fellow like Trump has only existed two years.
Isn’t that basically the plan?
No. The plan was to do the “butterfly bow”, but shit goes sideways sometimes in the gator biz.
Sorry on the train and can’t watch!
The issue, of course, is that if you bail on one of the “normal” platforms and go alternative folks will say you post with the white supremacists and the like. It’s a nice Catch 22.
Ding Ding. Also broaden the definition of white supremacy to include everything you disagree with. See the salami strategy
Aren’t we guilty of this too? WordPress likes to censor too….
You could even do something crazy and start your own website!
Who will host it?
Your mom?
I’m sorry, it was low hanging fruit. But, you can host a website yourself. An old PC or laptop will do. It may not be pretty, but, if you have an internet connection, you can host your website yourself.
The only people who could truly shut you down would be… fuck I don’t wanna google it… but its like ICAN or something, and like the Panama canal, we used to own it but gave it away, and that’s the body who ultimately does something magical and my drink is kicking in.
beer three: Shiner Bock
2.5 beers . . . survived the debate
If you haven’t switched to the hard stuff yet, you’re not paying attention.
notice how I distracted myself by inspecting and rating their watch fobs and boutonnieres
I’m going to start the commenting on the Democratic debate — Note I’m have seen it nor will I watch it.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are evil and are oppressing everybody.
His supporters are evil.
The candidates are promising a bunch of stuff and the evil rich will pay for it. This will usher in utopia.
I’m working on passing out before they start.
DVR is set. I’ll open my first Boston Lager on the hour. Will watch OAK@STL later.
I think you’d be better served watching the game now, and using the DVR for the debate. Fast forwarding through that could be helpful to your sanity.
Best case scenerio
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon; One said he’d stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.
Racist!
Oooooh, I forgot that was tonight! Grabbing popcorn and watching Warren squawk away now!
US men’s fútbol is on. Sorry, Dems.
I prefer my unintentional cringe comedy to be political.
LOL. O’Rourke is speaking Mexican.
The horror, the horror.
Isn’t SOP to turn the volume down and play Dark Side of the Moon, see if it syncs up?
It’d be way to scary.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-By9MrXkAQ9WGO.jpg
LOLOLOLOL
Whoever did that was a genius.
https://twitter.com/carpedonktum
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgkZARt0VNW7WKS5DOg8sDA
Huh. Should I call you out? I will.
Is that you?
I larfed:) That’s perfect.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5aNpYlgE5/
Damn, I’m getting ready to go to sleep. Don’t need that in my nightmares.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1143954439251877888
dat ratio
That link lead me to Eric DONDEROOOOOOOOO’s twitter account.
Fuck everyone involved in making that happen.
Nice episode!
Hat is definitely chasing the dragon again. I see a major fatal overdose in a chaotic shit show, followed by Keep America Great hat showing up in the oval. Or KAG Prime knows MAGA Prime is a junkie and has been plying him with a toxic combination of Fentanyl, Rogaine and Viagra.
I feel bad for hat and his demons
Ha:
https://twitter.com/NickPetersonTV/status/1143691773551751169
I keep seeing Flo the insurance lady.
This is turning out to be great meme material.
Reminds of this – one of my favorite pictures of our son.
http://imgur.com/gallery/LeXjoun
OT: So, on a whim I went back to check out a blog I used to read on a regular basis. In a twist of fate, it’s still active and there are new posts. If anyone out there is a computer RPG fan, you can check out the CRPG Addict. His original goal was to play through every CRPG (that he could get working) in chronological order. He’s been blogging for over a decade and he’s up to 1992’s Darklands.
Well, I guess it’s more… assured than, say, conquering Asia minor.
I enjoy a lot of nostalgia when he’s talking about games I remember playing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-BUVOyWsAIqdD-.jpg
Looks like she needs help getting soaped up, rinsed off, and tucked in.
Looks like she needs help getting soaped up, rinsed off, and tucked in.
It is this attitude of selfless, nigh-unto-infinite generosity of spirit that, above all else, keeps me coming back here. ;-)
Libertarians really are the best people.
Have to see the other side before I commit.
I don’t. I want to, but don’t really have to.
She’s a solid congressional 10.
Ooh, stinky!
Oh wow. She’s even more would than I realized.
I go to bed now. Yes, now.
I hopefully see you lot tomorrow evening.
Wow, the late night warrior us tapping out early. Sleep well.
Godspeed, good Sir!
I know that I’ve gained some weight, but who you calling a lot?
Another solid effort, CPRM. Did my Patreon payment go through a few weeks ago? I didn’t notice the receipt.
Seems to have.
So Beto the Faux Latino is gonna do this whole thing in English AND Spanish. His time just got cut in half.
I would love to be up there and reply in half English, half German.
Nazi! !!!
BREAKING: Beto O’Rourke is from an imaginary country.
He’s Palestinian?
Ironically, that would be an improvement.
Australian
chat is disabled on the nbc stream on youtube.
Booker lives in a low income area.
Daaammmnnn. I didn’t realize until just now that my entire life is controlled by corporations, only more government can bring them to heel, and I apparently live in the American gulag during the dark ages. Think I’ll pour myself another bourbon.
I was just thinking… so she supports Republicans trust-busting tech companies??
*The sound of Tucker Carlson masturbating*
is that different than other people?
Yes.
Hearing it can make cows give sour milk and kill unbaptized infants.
Wow. I heard the jizz itself can cure diabetes.
They really have a hard on for screwing corporations tonight. . . . at least the ones that don’t think right.
Bernie’s influence reigns supreme.
Those evvul corporations!
wAgE gAp!
isnt’t equal pay already a law?
I hope to hell not.
My pay is none of the govt’s business.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahawhwhgw! April 15th
Hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahagaga
I mean the magnitude of it as decided between me and my employer, obviously.
Sure. I’m just trolling. 2 more days and I get 3 weeks off, with pay, that doesn’t even count against my official days off. So, i’m a little smartassy right now. It’s gonna be epic: my first summer vacation in 33 years.
Ima fix this old 96 dodge ram van, 2500, with a 360 that always just fires up and sounds like a lion purring. Steering and suspension are shot, though. Gonna put a badass custom paintjob on it when I’m done, too. Know just the guy.
Hopefully the paint job is a half naked woman watching the sunset immediately above the “if this van’s a rockin’ don’t come a knocking” sign.
Bad ass custom paint job?
Wizard?
Dragons?
A-team style?
Don’t leave us hanging.
This
I like Gabbard’s blonde streaks.
I just thought of lois griffin
“9/11”
“Really! I’m older than 15!”
If de Balsio keeps talking I’m going to be dead of alcohol poisoning….
Also, “in the wrong hands!” -> Fuck. Off.
LOL he’s still going with that tag-line? What a putz.
Who is the bald guy?
Black Spartacus?
No, a white bald guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Delaney_(Maryland_politician)
Him, Inslee, and Ryan were painful to watch.
What were they thinking?!
didn’t trump raise the earned credit?
It’s funny watching democrats bash Government Motors
I dont want an electric car.
And that matters how?
My car has three fuses. I guess that matters,
Ha! Mine has TWO. One’s 50A
No fuses on mine!
MOSFET design that measures current and will act as circuit breakers.
I give Tesla credit. They can’t make a car body for shit compared to established companies, but their thinking on other parts of the is like nothing else.
i’d guess i could drive this around town
Hey doom, I got a 96 Dodge van 2500 I just replaced the driver’s side front upper control arm. Beast has a 360. Gas line broke and rusted out driver’s side back frame where leaf springs bolt. Gonna be badass when I’m done with her, but a little scary to drive right now.
all i hear is how much theyre going to push it, i can only assume this means a v8 is going to be banned as soon as it can be done.
Get a V10
+2
I saw a VW Phaeton w12 on the road yesterday. Don’t see too many of those.
I work on them and you’re right, you don’t want one.
Gabbard is smart in red with gray highlights in her hair.
Klubochar: black jacket, red top former Tide mom look
O’Rourke: tie fail, nice blue but overly skinny knot with no dimple, not quite Nixon shadow, untamed eyebrows
Warren, to borrow from Molly Ivins, looks like everyone’s first wife
Warren: Who is the economy working for open. Attacks big oil, govt is corrupt, need structural change (whatever that is)
Klubochar: the economy is not working open, jabs rich kids. CC free! “Secondly I’d double programs” from 6 to $12k. What does that even mean?
O’Rourke: economy not working for everyone (shock!) switches to Español . . . in English: attacks tax breaks, never answered question about top rate
I miss Gilmore.
#MeToo
where did that first beer go?
Yeah, whatever happened to him?
He’s over at TOS sometimes
not quite Nixon shadow
and that red eye: hasn’t slept in a week
I’m not gonna watch but I hope Warren is pissed at being at the kids’ table.
I think it was a random draw.
Why? Makes her the adult. She can fight Shoeless Joe after her poll numbers rise.
I laffed
I’m glad the word, “corporations” wasn’t my drinking game.
OMG. If my phone breaks because I just spit a drink all over it… well… it’ll still be funny, and what a poor phone case.
oooh, they’re arguing over medicare for all!
“we should give everyone medicare for all. for free.”
hoooly shit.
Booker: trying to hold in a fart, sloppy red tie dimpleless knot, blue suit, but not navy
Booker: corporate mergers lead to less dignity in labor, drug monopoly; Halliburton and Amazon pay no taxes
Gabbert: I will take your hard-earned tax dollars
first truth of the evening
Not that this is a surprise, but the positive rights train has left the station.
How long ago was that?
de Blasio: worst tie knot ever on national TV, it’s too short for him, so the knot’s short, no dimple; purple could have been pulled off
Thanks Don. I didn’t think I’d learn anything from all this but this is news we can use. /no sarc
“My dad was a ________. I’m working class just like you!!!”
I really don’t care about what your father or mother did for a living. I want to know policies . . well, I did until they stated them. Now I just want them to go away.
very disappoint?
Will gabbard be the tallest midget?
Delaney plays job creation entrepreneur card.
Solid knot, solid dimple on a cheap tie that’s blue but too loud.
Beto has a sharp tie, but he looks like he’s on a high school debate stage.
His is the least awful of those without a dimple: it’s a long tie, so it fits him, and it doesn’t read cheap.
“Reproductive Justice”………..
Does that mean I can bang Rachael Price?
Inslee: almost as bad as de Blasio (short knot, barely dimpled)
loud jacket, weird teal tie, check-dot shirt . . . what a fucking mess
Sounds like he dressed for the clown car they’re all supposed to be riding home in.
he was hopeless in every regard
hope he hasn’t spent much on the effort
every state has put in exceptions
Now do 2A….
Abortions now! Abortion tomorrow!1 Abortion forever!
Unions are corporations too, Cory.
/shit, I flipped over. What a bunch of fucking liars.
Ryan: awkward knot, decent dimple, loud bright blues must be in this year
my tools have been crated up and shipped overseas as well
Beto: “I don’t want any opiods manufactured ever again! Screw those in pain. I heard someone, somewhere, was using it to have fun!”
Klubochar is first to point out that Trump hasn’t delivered something. She and Warren are comfortable; everyone else is desperate.
Warren is comfortable because it’s been the same sermon for a decade. The others are playing the game; she’s playing her platform.
This narrator bringing in the immigrants though.
holy shit stand on those bodies more.
It was fairly pathetic
Define “serious crime”.
So they all speak Spanish now?
Did you notice skateboard girl? She looked at her crib notes and memorized what he was going to say in Spanish and then just mouthed the words.
+1 Gert Frobe
the question asked in Spanish shouldn’t have been translated:
we’d get to see who has skills
Do you trust Google translate?
¿ que ?
They asked a question in Spanish? I can’t even with the wokeness.
Spartacus is speaking Spanish, too.
Damn, you guys are masochist.
Actually, we don’t have TV, so we’re missing the fun, but enjoying the comments.
I flipped over a couple times. I can’t tell any of them apart. OK, Warren and Deblasio are the obvious communists. The rest are just boilerplate DemSocs.
I can’t tell any of them apart. OK, Warren and Deblasio are the obvious communists. The rest are just boilerplate
DemSocs. Spanish speaking communistsFTFY
The Bolsheviks were part of a “social Democrat labor” party
WHY AREN’T THEY SPEAKING HEBREW????
Warren speaks American Indian . . . all of it.
How?
You know why.
Inherent superiority of Yiddish?
Aaaaand, Spud’s out. I hit that moment where I went from mocking them to wanting to throw shit at the tv. I’m now watching, “Homestead Rescue”.
I was overdosing on bullshit less than a minute after putting it on but I am gonna brave it. I also resolved not to say a word, throw anything or scream.
What a fucking clown show.
but you must count down your drinks!
* goes for beer two, Modelo Negra *
Vodka here so I would die of alcohol poisoning
We’re watching psycho movies, preferably starring bald era Billy Zane, instead. From the comments here, we should be watching the debates instead to really hit psycho.
Drumpf is using the law to justify enforcing the law!
A corporation gave me a job/income/etc. I buy things from other corporations and none of them have a gun to my head.
Booker wakes up: passionate, typical Blue, probably sounds pretty good in NJ
will manage healthcare cawsts
His whole manner is a gigantic turn-off. He looks like a comic-book character.
He’s a bit big-eyed, but I otherwise don’t mind. Underbites and connected lobes are probably less beautiful.
I haven’t been beautiful since Reagan, so I let most stuff slide . . . except a lousy tie.
Beto is whitesplaining to Castro. Good luck with that.
Castro has cornered the tranny market.
Can’t see the tie. Graying temples never hurt.
At a distance, Castro’s tie reads quite well.
Are they letting Gabbard speak or are they doing what Team Red did to Rand Paul?
10 people, 90 minutes. It’s a sound bite debate. The entire world will end unless you vote for a Democrat.
She had one good rant so far. Haven’t heard or seen much else.
It’s the Cory Booker show.
He was my pick before the circus rolled in (with ‘no Biden’ proviso) and was a huge disappointment, so I’m glad to hear he’s making a play.
Her second attempt sounded far too canned to persuade anyone not already agreeing with her. Also, she just talked about how much we need to get back in the the 2015 Iran deal. Which is where she lost any sympathies from me.
#metoo
Eh. Not that bad. Everyone seems to have little time.
seems like Warren got way more than her share in the first hour
Beto has the Bernie rhythm: the jaw thrust punching forward to punctuate words.
First to check off pot.
“Prisoners in Guantanamo are treated better that immigrants” – Then why don’t they just start yelling Jihad at the border instead of applying for asylum.
They’ve all got crazy eyes. “They’ve got babies laying in their own snot…”
Take that back. Not Tulsi. Finally, a sane person talks.
That’s all well and good on your Iran position, Tulsi. But the only situation is the one you are creating in my pants.
She’s super hot from a distance. Take that make up off and the skin is, uh, not quite right.
Still would.
yeah, but that’s not saying much
RS: “Hey, is this mud warm?”?
Do you roll the dice on Castro? He seems grown up. Can they turn TX purple +1 for a day if he’s the VP candidate?
No one looks good in a double-vented jacked, but that’s pretty much all you can buy.
and I hate pick stitching as well . . . so plastic pewk
* looks around quickly *
but, but it looks great on you !
Oo, Maddow, Chuck Todd, guns, and climate.
MUST SEE TV.
Chuck needs an adult haircut.
If the control room could just shut up.
“Never trust a man with two first names” <– I have no idea where I heard that, but I think about it every time I head Chuck's name.
It’s a verb in the imperative and a name.
I think it’s a line from Fletch.
Wow, major fail.
It was the best part so far.
But Democrats are not know for their stellar IT.
There are 100’s of millions of guns on the streets of America? That’s fuckin’ awesome.
All of mine are at the bottom of the lake. 🙁
I say we could do better.
I agree, there are millions of children who are still unarmed.
Where? I commute 28+ miles a day and have yet to run across any of those.
But how many thousands of concentration camps do you pass on your daily commute?
Two? Public schools, right?
“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?”
sensible !
And I see there is an FNC
hit-pieceDocu-drama in the works. I wonder if they will do CNN or MSDNC.Shorter: “How do you intend to violate your oath of office before you even get the chance to take it?”
Conflate adults and government and the roles thereof….
Muskets are hereby illegal because they are literally weapons of war….
I can’t keep up with the fallacies and constitutional illegalities…
But “fight for thuh chillunz”
You know, she could just say Chicago. We know what she means.
An assault rifle? In NJ?
Booker on guns: “this is not a policy issue”
Agreed, Its a human rights and constitutional issue. I don’t know why you want to deprive americans of a human right.
Castro the Real Latino is constantly about to break down in tears. It is very off-putting.
Has he learned Spanish by now? Everybody else has.
“You can’t kill people because of a movie.”
“They’re not people, they’re Persians!”
Emperor Heraclius nods approvingly.
Yes, Beta. Do attempt that “conversation” in Texas. . .
Am I the only one watching the gold cup match instead of the “debate”?
No. But the debate seems like more fun.
Well played Jody!
Fucking autocorrect
That was a beaut.
Perhaps, I’ve got American Dad! streaming while I sit in a hotel room.
I was streaming a World Series of Poker final table.
“I share with them what I learned, and then we take their guns away.”
One of the non-entities just went on about trauma centers in every school, a psychologist for every student or some shit – holy fuck.
How do these people not realize how popular guns are? Every time Obama spoke about them more people went out and bought their first gun. I even know full on commie libs that like guns.
The Klobuchinator is the only one in a skirt. Lizzie and Tulsi are wearing pantsuits.
Check out The Klob’s eyebrows.
Also, are you sure about that? I haven’t seen a full shot of Julian.
When’s the swimsuit competition?
“Give them the offer to “”by-back”” the property that the government never owned in the first place” is simultaneously “not confiscation”. . .
Booker: “If you need a license to drive, why don’t you need one to own guns?”
Agreed, we should get rid of driver’s licenses.
Now, do voting!
That’s different!
he finished with a nice VP bid
but I doubt they need him for NJ
Beto is the best liar: he’s out of step with 70% of his neighbors, so he plays the game best.
Fuck you de Blasio.
I wonder how long of a montage you would have to make in order to capture every logical fallacy committed during this
clown-showdebate.get your PhD in Democratic Studies
“My black son” LMFAOROFL
Oh you be you, Bill
You just knew it was coming. Thinking to yourself every time he speaks, “Don’t do it, don’t do it.” And then it comes. You wince, turn away and throw your hands up.
I love my dead gay son.
+1 Tony Dungy
I love that movie to this day
Chuck Todd: ” We have issues” <- – taken out of context, but it's the most accurate statement of the night.
deBlasio and Trump go to the same barber
We are a democracy.
No we aren’t and that assertion alone renders you unfit for office.
will of the people
But only when Team Blue wins.
Damn. She was channeling Lincoln there. In the first hundred days she’ll be imprisoning judges and state legislatures that dare defy her.
Fauxcahontas lectured the hall,
Fauxcahontas talked very tall,
But all of her friends on the left and the left,
Couldn’t take her panties out of her cleft.
There’s been surprisingly little Trump talk so far . . .I mean there’s been some, but it must not have focus grouped very well to constantly use his name.
“It’s Trump’s fault” is a given. They don’t need to mention his name.
Here’s an example of technology getting too smart for it’s own good-
Last week, my a/c in my car quit working. At the same time I noticed that there was no longer an outside temperature being displayed on my radio. A little research showed me that the two things were related.
Anywho, after removing the bumper from my car to access the ambient air temperature sensor, I discovered that a critter of some sort had chewed up the wiring. I soldered the wires back together and everything went back to working as it should.
My problem is that a faulty air temp switch shouldn’t shut down my a/c unit. This is a new thing that has been added in recent years that is unnecessary and is just another point to fail.
You were supposed to take it to the dealer!
Probably to make sure you aren’t using ac at unapproved temps and wasting energy!
wasting energy!
yes: if you have a variable compressor, you can tune down the cooling to fit instead of cooling full blast and then re-heating
Running the a/c at sub freezing temps will cause your A coil to freeze up and is a bad idea.
That said, no fucking body runs the a/c in their car when its freezing outside.
The extra safe guard in unnecessary and is nothing but another failure point for a system that doesn’t need it.
That’s definitely a cut-out when so instrumented.
That said, no fucking body runs the a/c in their car when its freezing outside.
You’d be surprised, especially up north and fire apparatus: melting snow in the cab fogs up the windows
For the entire history of automotive a/c systems, people have managed to not run their a/c when its freezing outside. In the last ten years or so, manufacturers have decided that if the car’s computer doesn’t know what the temperature outside is, then the owner of the vehicle is too stupid to know whether or not it’s appropriate to run the A/C.
Either everyone is stupid, or the vehicle manufacturer is engineering in a failure point that is unnecessary.
folks are really stupid; it’s a full-time job
think about the history of cars, who understood them then and who drives them now; no woman has any idea what you’re talking about and they all drive
/raises hand
There are times up here in Ohio that you’ll turn on the A/C while the heater is running to be able to defrost the windows while you’re driving.
especially up north
In that case, the failure point is counterproductive. If it’s necessary to run the a/c in sub-freezing temps, then this particular engineering solution is double stupid.
read 40,000 warranty reports and get back to me
Don: Providing some anecdotal support for your position. The worst is when your breath starts frosting up the windows.
I”m the bad guy: did this for 20 years, cars, trucks, graders, skid steer, reefers, Alaska, South Africa, Russia, Australia. You learn, you build, you regret, you build some more. You read and manage the warranty claims on the systems you built five years before.
First week I was in the business this huge guy who played O-line for Michigan State in the sixties tells me straight up: you can’t predict what folks do; logic has nothing to do with it; you can’t design for what makes sense any more; 60% of folk have no idea how to operate the HVA in their car; I was shocked, but he was right. I’ve said it here before: the easiest thing in the world is to size a motor, engine, or pump, but figuring what people really do and need is the game.
FWIW: winter test is usually MN; 0°F; there’s a shop in Bemidji I like to work out of, back and forth to International Falls. Cold starts, de-ice, the works . . . and fried walleye. I loved it every year.
Have a clause in the warranty that doesn’t cover ignorant behavior?
That’s pretty standard in most warranties I have read.
A little late, but most HVAC systems in cars will engage the A/C when in defrost mode to bring down the humidity and reduce fogging.
No, I mean if you’re cooling to below 70 you’re wasting energy! Obama said so! So if it’s 70 outside, you’re raping the planet if you use the AC!
After all the trouble the car maker went to coat those wires with a plastic that smells and tastes like candy to small rodents!
They coat the wires in soy oil now instead of petroleum oil, because green and yes, they are now tastier than ever. I just finished splicing 16 wires together on a 48 wire connector yesterday due to hungry rodents. They are bastards.
You must have automatic climate control. Those systems use an outside temp sensor and an inside temp sensor and based on what you ask of the system, it uses the input from both the sensors to decide if it should throw hot or cold at you. My wife had a 2001 Audi product that had the inside sensor fail by reading -40, so the climate control module tried to bring up the inside temp by turning the heat on full, in the summer, in Houston. Did I mention that my wife was pregnant at the time? Good times.
“Executive experience…I haz it.”
HUD Julian, HUD. Not a real agency. Not actual executive experience. Kthxbai.
Todd has asked two reasonable questions.
He didn’t get reasonable answers, but he did ask.
Credit where credit is due.
where ya from ?
Why don’t they just turn off the microphone when the candidates time is up?
^This guy.
Why not discharge electricity into the microphone when the time is up? You could even display a big countdown clock. Get the audience to count it down, 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… zap!
The Marine in me was thinking more long the lines of a small charge of C4 in the mike.
Uh oh…He left out everyone else in the alphabet soup of identities.
Sweet . . Tulsi is good with polygamy!
Oh . . .that’s not what she meant.
Booker: “We don’t talk enough about trans people”
What planet is he living on, that’s all we talk about anymore.
I think he mean we don’t talk enough about Trans-X.
textile communities
and other things that no longer exist, dumber than Trump bringing all the jobs back
“Dumber than Trump”
Hey, hey, hey, let’s not go crazy
if it’s bullshit for the goose . . .
Aren’t “textile communities” only non-nudist towns?
Corey Booker’s eyes are…unnerving. He has that look of a girlfriend that would kill your cat if you crossed her.
Corey likes bunny rabbits.
Hasenpfeffer, to be exact.
Don’t be rediculous . . . He;s like Hillary, he doesn’t get his hands dirty. He hires someone to do it.
ridiculous*
they read a bit large
and one points off track a bit
like I was saying, I ain’t been purty in years, either
Are wide lapels back?
I like ’em middling, but thin is better than yuge.
Gabbert held views when she was very young
That’s not really true: she got on the wagon only recently per Obama playbook
*flips*
“You! You’re a minority. How do you respond to Amy’s pandering to minorities?”
*flips back in disguest*
Tulsi, doing the “auto da fe” for teh gays,
Corey doing the virtue signaling for transkids,
The Klobuchinator talking about criminal justice reform,
Castro blathering about something.
Honk.
Honk.
Castro: cops, shoot to kill white criminals.
I’m done. All these people on the stage and the only one that doesn’t make my skin crawl is the one that insists slaughtering furriners is wrong. Low bar.
To decide who is best at foreign policy, all candidates should have to participate in an uninterrupted game of RISK.
Lester Holt’s suit is flawless. I don’t care for pocket fluff, but he’s doing it right
The neocons are out in full force . . .finally some passion from Tulsi. But she needs to be a little more aggressive towards these people.
NewWife called and can hear the screaming in the background.
Ryan got punked like a bitch every fucking day at recess
I love you all for making the sacrifice that is watching the debate. I’m stuck in my open office without head phones so I just gotta sulk and read y’all’s play-by-plays.
DeBlasio is sticking to ‘Muh Russia’. He is the only one.
This makes this tovarich laugh.
OT: When can consent be inferred?
Krezy Kin Bando!
By far my favorite Japanese band.
Russia!
I think it’s hilarious even Warren didn’t go there. “Climate change.” *snort*
…svyashchenaya nasha deerzhava…
“What is the greatest geo-political threat?”
Down the line. Funniest thing I have ever seen.
Agreed!
I wish I was on stage so I could reply “toddlers”.
What crimes in Mueller’s report? There weren’t any . . .that’s what pissed them all off.
Cincinnatus, Beta? Rilly?
These people deserve each other.
#LockHimUp ???
A lot of the things this clown is talking about are things that are also on the radar of the opposition party. Perhaps they should negotiate.
Impeachment ex-post-facto?
Irrelevant question boyish lesbo.
I knew George Washington, and Beto, you’re no George Washington
Dammit, Q, where are you with the tittay linx to tide us through commercials?
Well . . there’s a bunch of boobs on the stage.
[golf clap]
For you.
Nice.
For you
VC went to 50 of 3000 counties: what is the plan on that
* shudders at the notion of possible answers *
I guess the democratic opening debates were tonight. Were they as retarded as I imagine they were?
I watched vandy win a natty in baseball instead.
10 minutes left . . . tune in to hear the closing statements!
I thought about it….
Briefly….
I want you all to write me a 250 word essay on what the best soundbites were from the debate so I can use them. Class dismissed.
¡ comprendo !
Sorry. Tapped out. Now I’m watching YouTube premium. “Real Jizz With Thot Adams.”
HAWT
I don’t think they used a total of 250 words.
Debate summed up:
Corporations=bad
War=good
Climate=need more control
Immigration= Republicans evil
Repeat in spanish.
FREE SHIT, FREET SHIT, FREE SHIT.
TRUMP BAD, TRUMP BAD, TRUMP BAD.
Not quite 250 words, but extrapolate from there and you can make up the missing words and get the gist well enough.
I feel like stealing from Transmetropolitan now, “You gave me a column that was nothing but the word, ‘Fuck’ repeated over and over.”
Gabbard and Booker have the same eye drift
Klobuchar smiles like Al Franken
Is Franken pulling a Tootsie to get his career back on track?
Wow, Julian, Rilly? You’re like the first – first or second generation immigrant to run for presidente? Oh-effing-lay.
“I need my legs shaved RIGHT NOW.”
English. Do you Speak it?
“The urgency of the next generation”
“But I got my chance” = “I lied about my ethnicity to game the system”.
Should Warren voluntarily bring up how she paid for college?
Wow, Beto’s really riding that climate train.
Doom and gloom! Make America slit its wrists again1
It’s not “politics of fear” when they do it.
final suit rankings
10 Inslee
9 de Blasio
8 Booker
7 Warren
6 Ryan
5 Delaney
4 Klubochar
3 O’Rourke
2 Gabbert
1 Castro
Klobucher looks like she has an apple up her ass.
Warren is a methed up mummy.
On my TV, at least, the lighting for the Booker close-ups make him look hella white.
He is very pale. Not very “authentic” either.
I’m about 70% sure Inslee has had stroke or suffers from Bell’s Palsy.
people you will never hear from again
Inslee
de Blasio
Ryan
Delaney
I wish I would never hear from Inslee again but WA is stuck with him for a while.
Steve Cohen is my cross to bear; top that !
Yeah, I wish Deblasio would stay away too.
Castro looks like a haunted doll come horribly to life.
Those earlobes are enough to make to crawl into a closet and bar the door.
The only person he is taller than is Warren. (Although she and Klobucher are both in heels.) Imagine a debate between Shrimpy Pibbles and Trump. Donald might pick him up and just carry him around.
I can run with that if he goes far enough. Some faint lines to evoke a dummy.
Buttons for eyes…
Have you ever seen this? So messed up, man.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095871/
Huh, have not, which makes it all the more stunning I created this with no prior knowledge of that cover art.
That’s a great moment of cultural osmosis.
Which one is Castro?
The shortest guy. The one that wants to make sure transmen can get abortions.
Actually, transmen can get abortions because they are female by birth. Castro said transwomen!
I just realized that. This is such a great timeline!
I will be president before any of this gaggle of half-wits. The mendacity and insincerity is off the charts. The stupid ideas are legion.
Trump will be re-elected like the sun will come up. He is going to demolish their bullshit.
Green new deal my ass. No gasoline or airplanes? Abolish hot dogs? Really? Open borders? Not a chance. Fascist control over ever aspect of the economy? Right. FREEEEEEEEE SHITTTTT! Uh huh.
Vote Suthenboy for president. *tips hat to Almanian* I gotchur back brother. I hope you are sitting on a cloud playing Yaketty Sax and laughing your ass off.
*pours ballot box out on ground in memoriam*
The double-down on the lurch to the left is pretty amazing to watch. Trump would have to seriously fuck something up to lose to any of the 24 morons running.
So you’re saying we’re screwed?
Just wait till tomorrow when the A Team shows up. We got MORE FUN coming ahead.
Scary White Boy 2020
Im not watching…can i just tell my kids that they will have anything and everything…given by their grandpapi government? Did i get the debates right?
Just imagine having to listen to President Elizabeth Warren for 4 to 8 years. I’m not sure she is capable of not sounding like a nag.
She’s not hard on the progressive ear and has the game down. She will make the final three, so we’ll be stuck with her for the full 17 months.
True, but man, that nagging used Subaru voice is killing me.
I would have sworn you wrote “…for the full 17 moons.”
Warren’s not having moons any more
I didn’t realize this until I saw the transcript:
“I don’t just believe in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice,” Castro said. “And what that means is just because a woman or—let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female—is poor, doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to exercise that right to choose.”
A trans female is a biological male. Castro wants to make sure people who have never had a uterus can get an abortion.
I’m not convinced the lingo is settled.
When I hear that, I have *no idea* what the biological sex is.
The woke crowd would never refer to a biological female as a trans female. A trans female is someone born with a penis.
I’m sure it was just a gaffe, but is still funny.
Is it a gaffe-gaffe where the wokesters come with their pitchforks or do we think it will go unpunished?
Jezebel has already signed-off on it.
https://theslot.jezebel.com/julian-castro-gets-abortion-right-1835892542
the slot
*chokes on drink*
He’s sealed up that 0.01% of the vote!
Uteruses are a social construct. Literally everything is a social construct, except things that actually are social constructs and ill defined like race. Come to think of it, my comment is a social construct.
Something something there is no Truth…
Honestly postmodernism is just tedious.
Beeble brooogle bloop peeda plop greela blop dreeble doo. Wheeee!
Totally gonna own Trump.
Wait, are you against that? Fucking transphobe!
Correct answer: Its not government’s business. If there is a provider in your area they will perform whatever procedures you want if you have the finances to do so.
*hears the cries of all the unemployed parody writers*
you keep getting funnier this past year
That was a collection of some of the most unattractive, nagging scolds (sans Tulsi – dayum girl!) I have ever seen. The cameras did them no favors tonight. Booker looks like a goddamn serial killer!
And the desperate pandering by speaking canned Spanish lines was so cringeworthy.
Castro smiles at inappropriate times while speaking. It’s creepy.
Also noticed that. Doesn’t help that he looks like a reanimated corpse as well
Been there and done that. On purpose. My guess is that so have you.
I need a cigarette after watching Tulsi’s performance. She put that bitch Ryan in his place. What a tiger
The skunk stripe is fantastic.
It’s great.
Now she’s gotta wear it a few weeks or it will seem plastic.
She’s had it for a while. I think it is just a real streak of grey. I’ve seen it in the wild a couple times.
approved
I came away convinced tonight that she is a legitimate smokeshow.
Then they cut to Warren….*gags*
Saltpeter in purple.
It reminded me of the Joker.
If your erection lasts more than two hours after watching Tulsi debate consult a picture of Elizabeth Warren
brilliant
I didnt watch, but I imagine her talking foreign policy was the only thing worth listening to in the whole charade.
You don’t talk in charades!
I guarantee that Malice or Woods or Rockwell or Ron Paul will be posting clips of her performance tomorrow. Reason already did an article praising her singular focus on foreign policy during the debate.
I’d image dave smith will as well.
Yup, all the usual suspects. If she gains ground in the Democratic primary, the Trump camp is going to rightly panic. She’ll eat into his base
fuck her; she was born in Kenya
STOP. I can only get so hard
And, good for reason. For a libertarian outfit, they sure seem to shy away from war issue far more often than they should.
That’s really at the heart of the split, though they’ll never admit it. The Kochs have always been wishy washy on the war issue.
I didn’t notice if her assault rifle ban position came up.
Gabbard did sign up to co-sponsor the bill on Wednesday, a spokesman for Cicilline’s office told HuffPost. The spokesman did not know what time Gabbard had requested to co-sponsor the bill. . . Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) introduced the Assault Weapons Ban bill on Monday. His bill would ban the sale, transfer, possession, production and import of a number of semiautomatic rifles and pistols, semiautomatic shotguns with military features and ammunition-feeding devices that can accept more than 10 rounds.
Yeah. She is typical Democrat and horrible on everything, except war. As best I can tell all the Democrats are carbon copies of one another except Tulsi. She spouts all the typical democratic talking points aside from the war issue.
In that narrow issue she is better than trump or anyone else.
“War is the health of the state”
If you desire, as I do, to shrink the state, then ending the wars is the first step in that direction. As long as the state is engaged in wars all around the world, then there is no prospect for shrinking its size, scope, or cost.
Eh, for now the military is voluntary. The rest of the shit isn’t.
Paying for the military is anything but voluntary.
+1 Thoreau
Well, see that comes under the larger umbrella of spending, and how it’s funded, which I think are 1 and 1.1. The actual idea of war comes further down my list.
And the objective of our wars in the Middle East (propping up the dollar) allows for our out of control domestic spending. It’s all intertwined. Empires do not have citizens- they have subjects
Randolph Bourne
A quote that strikes at the heart of the matter
ending the wars is the first step
it’s certainly an important step; I don’t know if it’s first, but I take your point
In my circles they guys don’t regret VietNam, and they don’t think other Asian adventures are a big deal. In a way it’s not my place to care more about them as veteran more than they care about themselves and their latter day counterparts.
But I have not ever seen a commander in chief yet I would happily invest my son in.
Every time the United states has engaged in war, the state has expanded.
The first income tax came during the civil war.
Progressive era imperialism made the tax permanent.
The patriot act was a war time time measure that is now permanent.
The military industrial complex of which eisenhower warned was born of war and continues to be a leech on our economy and the morality of America’s position in the world.
The marriage of health insurance and employment (which is the root cause of the health care affordability problem we have today) was a response to ww2 era price controls.
oh, that’s all true but not my point
on the barrel head, dismantling Medicare is twice the bang as eliminating the DoD
how a dragon is born and how it is killed are different vectors
There would be no Medicare if it wasn’t for the need to pacify the poors in order to send them to the slaughter in Vietnam. Opponents of the New Deal understood this and that’s why they all opposed entry into World War II to begin with.
Even if we pretended that you could shrink the state domestically while still waging endless war overseas, it’s hard to argue against the notion that the most offensive act undertaken by big government is murdering people overseas in countries that most Americans can’t identify on a map for abstract reasons that have nothing to do with national defense
Why can’t anyone leave the guns out of it.
What was the percentage of nitwits on stage who have never held an actual job, do we think? I know its not so but the only way I can imagine them saying half the looney-tunes bullshit they spout and creaming their pants thinking of taking away people’s money is that they are people who have never worked for a living themselves.
Delaney can probably drive a nail.
“BORING!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144056731653169152
First reply on Trump’s twitter feed is a picture of the dad who caused his daughter to drown in the Rio Grande:
“Eugene Gu, MD
@eugenegu
·
2h
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
This is the picture of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria Ramirez. They are talking about it right now during the #DemDebate and you, Mr. President, are responsible for their deaths. This is inhumane and a stain on our country.”
Sigh.
Is Trump supposed to teach swimming lessons now?
If I woke up in a hospital and Gu was treating me, I’d just pull my own plug right there.
And you’d try your damndest to get the heart monitor play an S-Club 7 song as you faded away.
Don’t Stop Movin or Say Goodbye?
Everybody Wants Ya, to let the spouse know if it’s ok to move on.
Seems to me – I mean, if we’re removing individual agency here – it’s more the fault of Congress blocking funds to speed up asylum processing. And/or changing the laws to allow open borders.
What say you, Dr. Gu?
Stop assaulting me with facts and logic!
Congress/Media: you must seek approval!
President: I ask you to do this
Congress/media: we will not fund it
President: its on you then
Congess/media: you arent doing enough!
Huh. The Hat must be passed out already and Donald had to handle the Tweeting alone.
I mean, this is what the Hat would have written.
Really disappointed Beto wasn’t standing on the podium. I think Booker had an “oh captain my captain moment all prepared”.
Did Beta enter like this?
Beto’s “emoting” over “climate change” was possibly the fakest thing all night. Well, of the grand total 7 or 8 minutes I saw.
Oh, and Deblasio’s “Russia!”
It’s over? A year and a half more of this. My favorite hot take on this is some LGBTQ+ person on the teevee complaining that the candidates are simply pandering to get their votes. If they follow through on their promises of free shit and special protections, it’s not pandering anymore?
A year and a half. Christ.
And to your point literally all of them openly and obsequiously pandered to some voting block tonight. It was pathetic and repulsive just how blatantly they competed to lick the most boots.
2 Corinthians
Yep. One of them says something about protecting trannies and Booker jumps in with, “Not just trannies, but black trannies especially!”
What about brown trannies?
I don’t know the pecker order.
?
Manual trannies are hard to find these days and should be protected.
It’s almost like they know it’s bullshit.
TW: google map
Well, that Tulsi one left out the part of the search that matters to internet ‘nude’
I learned something tonight
True
I also ‘surfing’
LOL Oklahoma is like “What? She was born here? GTFO.”
I am from OK and the “I’m going to drink a beer fellow kids” moment just floored me. Say what you will about the state but people here know how to drink a goddam beer, lady!
Then they went to their favorite native son.
Even though, he’s from cali, and not an okie from muskogee. SHHH.
I just came again
Better pace yourself.
well they tell me I was born there, but I really don’t remember
Tulsi’s papa:
Second para shouldn’t be a blockquote.
She’s already followed Obama and ‘evolved’ on the issue.
I had that !
Don Escaped Texas
Gabbert held views when she was very young
That’s not really true: she got on the wagon only recently per Obama playbook
Tango un gato en mis pantolones.
“Um…I have an uncle with a deer stand” LOL
Well this looks like a dumpster fire
Wait until tomorrow night.
Thanks for commenting on my cartoon. I’m sorry you feel that way about my cartoon…
BTW. Honestly, good stuff. Thanks.
Stop patronizing me! *runs away crying*
Oh would you look at that, there’s an article up there.
Sorry we hijacked it.
I did like it
No worries. Just taking a comic jab.
I dont have any student loan debt and I paid off my mortgage a few years ago. Can I just get a big fat check from the state for my vote.
Why wont anybody pander to me?
LOL you don’t check a single box, do you?
child, he’s still getting his nose candy via the code.
I live on the skeevee margins of gaming the system on both counts, so no comment. *Puts jacket over head leaving court room*
#AllLoansMatter
*snort*
I like the cut of Mr. Swan’s gib.
say “goodnight,” Gracie
That is a sexist joke! Burn Don!!
Looks like I picked the wrong night to work late. I’m comforted knowing if any of these fine candidates win then I’m going to get a lot of free stuff.
*Looks in mirror. Sees self-employed, married, middle aged, white man*
I’m fucked.
Yeah, half my income is self-employment, and finding ways to not pay taxes on a net income below the poverty line gets harder and harder. They really want me on the doll.
They’re giving you a Real Doll®? I may rethink my opposition.
This cover art was the first time this Catholic midwestern boy saw a Real Doll, took me a long while to figure out what it was.
Sir Digby has an article tomorrow night on my Redbubble store, make sure to check that out.
What happened that he commented all day but went to bed at night?
Maybe he’s got a split-shift job. Or as I remember it when I had one, “hell”.
I don’t think so. I’m almost certain he works 10-6. But maybe something unusual is going on at his job so he had to go in at a different time.
FWIW, I had one, sort of, split shift job. That was no fun.
Yeah, one job I had was Tue/Wed/Thu evenings and Fri/Sat overnights. It was the one job I had for the entirely of the year I lived in San Francisco.
Ha, at least that’s regular. Last week I came in at 10pm Monday and Tuesday, 5pm Wednesday, 6am Friday and 5am Saturday. This week I’m off the whole week except Friday when I come in 6am.
Ouch.
Yeah, the only variation was when a “senior” decided they wanted my hours. Yay unions.
He changes his pattern when he has weekends off, so I’m guessing that’s it.
His weekend is Friday – Saturday.
I’m talking about a couple weeks ago when he had a long weekend, he did a time shift. You just sound like a stalker now.
That’s tough to do from two time zones away. I just pay attention to what he said.
Ah, just read an email from him, he took an extra day off, DMV for Driver’s License. Will be covered in his second article he claims.
To whit, knowing the subject matter, L OH Fucking L.
I’ll believe the Dems care about race when they play this as their intro:
https://youtu.be/hlk7o5T56iw
OK, after all of you have “finished” with Tulsi, would you care to explain her insistence that we need to go back to bribing Iran with stacks of cash so they supposedly stop developing a bomb? I’m no foreign policy guru but it seems to me they’re gonna pursue it regardless of our wishes, absent, well, you know.
BUT NO WAR!!!
That’s great. I’d rather not deal with them at all.
Yeah, that whole trade with all, no entanglements thing is just fantasy. EXPERTS SAY SO!
She has the antiwar thing down. Hence Tulsi Gabbard Apologist’s repeated orgasms tonight. Beyond that she is standard issue modern Democrat. Obama bribed them so it was good. Trump is sanctioning them so it is bad.
Seems like if Iran were developing a nuclear weapon that would be a concern for countries located somewhere near Iran, not so much a country located thousands of miles away across the sea
But yet you’re cumming all over her because she’s ‘anti-war’ when one of her stances is ‘pay them off like Obama done’, which doesn’t jive with the rest.
They’ve already been paid back the money that we seized after the hostage crisis
But, that ain’t Tulsi’s reckoning.
Also, another nice video. You do good work. It’s nice how you have a quick turnaround on these videos so they are topical
Yeah, I don’t think the tech was there for me to have done this before Trump. If I took the site out of the pipeline and had a cartoon I really wanted to make I could have it up within an hour (in this style anyways, since I’m not animating movement) hence why I felt kismet when this site formed and I wanted to do the cartoon. I’ve tried to produce cartoons before and less than a decade ago the things this software can do were unfathomable.
Technology and Trump have been a boon for parody. It’s too bad that corporate media fails at understanding how to parody a man who should be an endless source of laughter rather than spiteful applause
Come on there is SNL and Seth Myers, Jon Oliver and Stephen Colbert!
Yeah, and the fact we have our dick in many of the countries located somewhere near Iran is a big problem too. IMHO.
I think it is more complicated than that. They have medium range missiles. If they get a nuke then most of Europe would be within range.
They have exchanged missile technology with North Korea. They are working to bring us in range.
They are a theocracy. I’m not persuaded self-preservation is the top priority of all their leaders.
None of this means I support starting another war. It does those who are concerned have a reason to be.
What if the actions of America’s adversaries were rational and motivated by self preservation? How would there actions be any different?
I’m not going to defend the honor of the Iranian regime, but I find it hard to believe that such a regime poses a national security threat to us. If the Europeans felt threatened by the Iranians then wouldn’t they be in agreement with us about sanctioning Iran? And if they are a threat to Europe and Europe is unwilling to defend against such a threat than why should we?
When was the last time Iran launched an offensive war?
I think they did so in Syria against ISIS. But more to your point, they do little under their own flag. They do plenty through their proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis) and Iranian intelligence has launched attacks in other nations.
They’re no angels. And they’ve been fucked with repeatedly by the US. Not a straightforward good guy/bad guy scenario. After seeing Iraq, Libya and Syria, the US hasn’t instilled confidence that what they’ll do will make things better.
This asshole is such a race hustler.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/06/26/marc-lamont-hill-explains-why-its-important-not-to-use-the-term-owner-in-pro-sports-and-he-clearly-did-not-think-this-through-video/
I guess we can all agree DeBlasio is terrible.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/06/26/bill-de-blasio-beto-orourke-health/
That is one of the few moments I did see – and that is NOT what they said. They said they would elininate YOUR private health care.
Bit of a difference.
You say tomato, they say caviar, same diff.
If You Like Your Doctor You Can Keep Your Doctor II: Medical Boogaloo
Christ, what an asshole.
Team blue member has pronoun trouble. The preferred pronoun in this rant is “you” not “they”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TimRyan/status/1144084834282856448
and (((they))) ran away with all the gold.
FIXED
Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellin… At least we have Mises, Rothbard, Friedman to even shit out.
Ha, guy would’ve gotten booed to hell if he had the guts to call them out.
So what is more important: war, free trade or laissez-faire? Many people have had differing issues on these three issues. Wilson was a free-trader, Lincoln was a protectionist, Tucker Carlson is antiwar, etc.
Which Wilson was that?
Woodrow. Yes really…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1913
Does not equal free trade.
By that definition there are almost no actual free-traders….
Also calling Trump anti-free trade when there is no free trade is…interesting…
Not in government.
When did I say Trump was free trade? Last I checked I make these here cartoons, I don’t remember any on the subject of free trade.
No I meant that all the articles on I read critiquing his trade policy seem to imply that “Free trade” existed before Trump/
Ok, I gotta flip the sleep schedule for a Friday morning shift, so I should call it a night.
Hotep Jesus on Rogan. This ought to be entertaining.
Master of Trolls
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1144177713869017089
LOL
Does that include porn searches?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-most-google-searched-democratic-candidate-debate-third-lowest-speaking-time