September 4-6, 2020
I hadn’t been to Colorado since September of 2017, and I was jonesing to get back into the mountains, even if for just a short time. My wife had never been to Colorado and is actually more of a beach person. As I was driving around delivering the wares for my job I started thinking, “Man, we could leave this afternoon, drive about 7 hours, get 4-6 hours of sleep, drive another 4-6 hours, arrive in the mountains, drive around, find a campsite, sleep, explore some, head home; get back and have a good sleep Sunday night and do our responsible adult stuff Monday.”
So, I get home about 1pm, the wife is still working (from home) so I take a nap. My wife is supposed to clock out at 3 pm but has to work until about 4:30, I’m still trying to figure out how to approach her about this “great” idea. Then there is something that she has to have printed and the printer is out of ink, so we go to the local corporate box store. Right before we check out she says something that leaves me an opening, so I jump and say, “Why don’t we go to Colorado?” She’s pretty much speechless, but you can tell the wheels are turning. She’s still speechless the ten-minute ride home, when we get in the house, I just start packing, she asks what she needs to pack. YES!
We throw a small bag each together, grab a cooler and lawn chairs, head to Dollar General to get sandwich meat, water, and chips. We fill up with gas, get some Wendy’s and actually leave Springfield and get on the road about 6:30 pm.
We decide to take the southern route through Kansas. We go through Wichita around 10:30 – 11:00 pm, about midnight we stop at a Love’s and move our gear from the back to the front of the SUV and lay down for a few hours, I set my alarm for 5:30 am. It’s pretty hot in the back but I finally fall asleep. I’m sleeping and sweating hard when my wife wakes me up around 2:00 am, she can’t sleep. So, we decide to drive, I get some sleep in the front seat. Around 6 am we trade positions and my wife gets a couple of hours sleep in the front seat.
Eastern Colorado is barren! It had been about 8 years since I had taken this route and I had forgotten how barren and poor eastern Colorado is. I’m not sure how anyone makes a living out there? We saw this one town that was about a half a mile off the Highway and it was about 50 houses/shacks. No gas station or grocery store on the main highway. Was it an old oil town? Do people still live there? I really don’t know.
Around 9 am we arrive in Pueblo and pass a marijuana farm off the highway, pungent skunky smell! We continue on through Pueblo and into Canon City. After filling up with gas we fix our brunch of spam sandwich and chips. We had grabbed some brochures from the gas station and were deciding where to go from here. Royal Gorge? Not wanting to spend $30 per person, and my wife doesn’t really like heights or hiking that much. Pikes Peak? I really don’t think my wife could take the drive up Pikes Peak, always looking like you’re about to go off a steep drop off would not sit well with her. I look at Google Maps on my phone to see if there is anything to do. I see a Phantom Canyon Road that leads to Cripple Creek; we decide to take it.
We drive through Phantom Canyon Road and enjoy the beautiful rock formations. My wife keeps pointing out rock formations that look like Indians; one looked like an Indian with a beer stein, must have had some German in him. We also seen one that actually looked like a frog from the underside. It was a nice hour and half trip and we stopped along the way to take some pictures on a cliff/valley. I forget exactly but I think we gained about 4,000 feet of elevation, 6,000 to 10,000 approximately. The temperature also went from 85ish to 75ish! What my wife doesn’t realize is that the road is almost as steep as Pike’s Peak and with as much drop off at places, you just cannot tell with all the trees around.
A little stop on Phantom Canyon Road
The wife, too scared to climb down, and Chief
The road actually comes out at Victor, CO before getting to Cripple Creek. We drive through but do not stop. It is an old mining town that has been converted to mostly little flea market shops. We had the dog with us so we were not able to walk around.
I had been to Cripple Creek in 2010 and knew that it was a “casino” town. My wife enjoys the slot machines, so we found a convenience store, had a hobo bath, and a change of clothes. We find a place to park and I take the little guy for a walk. I find a bench in the shade and actually take a 15-minute nap. The breeze and shade were very comfortable. My wife calls me just as I wake up and I go and meet her. No big winnings.
We drive on down the mountain, stop in the state park to see if we were the one-in-a-million chance at having a camping spot left, we weren’t. Drove on down into the town of Divide and looking at the map decided to go to Pikes Peak, not drive up it but there is a little picnic place with some boulders you can climb on before you have to pay. As we’re driving east (it’s around 2 pm) the traffic going west was bumper to bumper, I figured everyone would have already been to their Labor Day weekend destination. We find a side road and take it, not really knowing where it would go, just driving. It ended up taking us to the road to Pikes Peak. But the traffic was all the way back to the point where that road converged with the road to Pikes Peak. We took a left and headed back to the main Hwy. Traffic had let up some and we got back to Divide and decided to find a camping spot.
Editor’s note: Tune in next week for Part 2. Same GlibChannel, Same GlibTime!
I’m here for a good time, not a long time.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/men-die-injured-florida-motorcycle-club-shooting-73652939
(This was an unintentional first. I read the entire blog post, excellent post btw, Chief looks like he ha a great time!)
Reminds me of the time (while living in Vegas) I said to my friends on a Thursday, ‘Lets go to Disney Land this weekend.’ We were there Saturday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fukushima-tsunami-japan-treated-water-sea/
“Treated” ummm… Do they think we don’t know how radioactivity works?
No, the debate never ends, only the speculation.
We used to take impromptu trips like this before the kids came along. We never went as far as Colorado though. I’m looking forward to part 2.
I like that more of us newbie writers are publishing stuff lately. * fist bumps Lazer *
Thanks
Hippies? More Hippies?
I’m still trying to wrap my head around driving by a marijuana farm. Libertarian moment?
Why no pictures of the Weed Farm??!?!?!
I didn’t do a very good job of pictures. Should have went up the exit and got one
You know it’s Glibs when there’s all this beautiful scenery and all we care about is the weed farm.
To be fair it was “pungent skunky” weed.
Some of us care about the Mexican ass-sex.
As someone who did a few travel posts, can I say including pictures of actual people is kinda creepy and against libertarian notions of privacy
Also i have to say you write like you are taller than you look in pictures.
“Any dog that weighs less than 50 pounds is a cat. and cats are useless.”
I am taller, it’s just the angle
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/521259-health-experts-say-herd-immunity-strategy-would-kill-thousands
Phew! Glad we covered that. Back to your basements people!
Holy shit. Quick, someone alert the Swedes!
More piss on you and tell you it is raining.
WHAT ABOUT THE NORWEGIANS
Great looking women but terrible food.
And the weather sucks.
And according to my Swedish coworkers, the Norwegians are all stupid, and the Finns are all alcoholics.
How many does the “No Herd Immunity” strategy kill?
The same number but it has the advantage of making everyone OBEY.
Shush you
By definition, no herd immunity would have to kill everyone, as R would be greater than 1 at all times and eventually everyone would get it. If there were any survivors, they would thus reach herd immunity.
No real people, just deplorables.
I can’t even begin to express how uncontrollably angry these people have made me.
Public health experts are growing alarmed that the Trump administration is increasingly embracing scientists who argue against lockdowns and restrictions as a means to control the coronavirus pandemic.
Public health “experts” can stfu because they do not dwell within reality. You. Can’t. Stop. The. Spread. Which is why that was not the original premise.
The proper term is government health “expert”.
I LOVE THIS! Only did two impromptu trips. First one, came home with a motorcycle. Second one, ended up getting a husband out of it.
Said husband, however, would never deign to camp.
I recently tried to camp on the beach in the Gulf. It was a terrible idea. Camping as an adult without a mattress is a test for how long someone can be semi sober and go without sleep.
Yeah. Sleeping on the ground is a no go for me anymore. I did it all the time when I was younger.
I can sleep on the ground as long as the grass is relatively thick.
Same here. I camped a lot and usually on the ground with only a sleeping bag. A shotgun, a sleeping bag, a knife and a box of matches would keep me alone in the woods for days at a time. Sometimes I would bring my dog.
Now? Not a chance. No sleeping on the ground or living on wild rabbit and squirrel.
Two sleeping bags!? We had only a cardboard box!
You were lucky.
Luxury!
Hammock!
I have camped in Foley AL but I was early 20s.
I last camped in August 2-3 years ago with a gaggle of folks from church. I slept in a one-man tent and couldn’t be arsed to use anything but a bedsheet. No problems. My kids wimped out and slept in the truck (and fought the whole time).
Other than their squabbling over sleeping arrangements, my kids and I had a blast.
I already have a spouse and a motorcycle. ?
It’s not working right now though
Sounds like it’s time to go buy a new one!
You don’t buy spouses anymore.
Yes, it’s much more like a lease nowadays, with a giant balloon payment at the end.
I’m more of a planner by nature. My only impromptu leisure trip was when I mentioned my brother was going to be in Tokyo for the upcoming weekend for the first time and she said “too bad you couldn’t go with him”…
*mentioned to my wife
*lights SJW beacon*
“Differently abled studs”
Sounds like a fun time. I haven’t been thru Colorado in 16 years but I remember the Rockies being spectacular.
I really like the mountains. My retirement home / militia compound / last stand will be in the mountains somewhere.
A coworker took the opportunity during lockdown to move himself to Colorado Springs, and for the past four months I’ve been pretty envious. I don’t think I’ll care as much until spring.
I have a romantic notion of these beautiful places I know only from pictures and books. I’m jealous.
Some of those notions would get blown out of the water by reality. They’re magnificent.
I do like your little island though, quite a lot.
When I first came to the states, I was in the northeast. Visited a lot of places like Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, etc. They were all pretty cool but, for the most part, they fit within my expectations. Niagara Falls, on the other hand, blew me away. I simply was not mentally prepared for the power of it.
Did you go walk behind the falls?
No. We were on a fairly tight schedule so we were at the top and then took one of those little boats out. I still find it hard to comprehend that the sound of falling water made it almost impossible to be heard by the person standing next to you.
Yeah. People who haven’t been to North America really don’t grasp the size of it.
The ocean is noisy too.
Remember the old days when Joe Biden would drop out of a Presidential race when he got caught?
C’mon Man! That was 130 years ago!
And he shows every year…
Tucker doing Tucker.
Quick! Hit the internet kill switch!
*looks for the BAN button on my computer* I guess I don’t work for Twitter.
That is quite devastating. It’s telling that neither the Biden campaign nor Hunter Biden have actually denied the veracity of this mountain of information that’s coming out.
The campaign doesn’t need to deny anything, they know the major media will do that for them. A lefty friend who always regurgitates DNC talking points yesterday replied to my group text about the Biden quid pro quo by linking an article, saying, “this has all been debunked, if you pay attention to legitimate news sources like Vox”.
haaaaaahahaahahahahahaahaahaa
That’s a fun .exe:
“This has all been debunked, [Insert snark that self-assures user is superior to others], cite leftist publication”
“Its all bullshit, which is why Twitter blocked it.”
“How do you know its bullshit?”
“Because Twitter blocked it.”
That is very close to verbatim to what I have heard.
What I haven’t heard: one single substantive denial that it was Biden’s computer, that the pictures on it aren’t genuine, or that the emails on it aren’t genuine. They’ve trotted out the claim that its Russian hacking, of course, but what’s the phrase? Oh yeah: “asserted without evidence”.
I think a Biden Campaign rep said that thing.
See also: Circular Argument.
“Eastern Colorado is barren!”
Yeah, since I drive through e. CO fairly regularly (albeit on a different route), the contrast in geography and scenery is stunning. That said, I find a certain raw beauty in those eastern regions.
I drove through once and thought Eastern CO / Western KS was beautiful. Rolling hills and big sky.
I can find the beauty anywhere but some beauty is more beautiful than others. You have to get down tooractically microscopic levels to get the beauty along I-80 in Wyoming.
And I find I prefer manicured beauty of the planned parks and gardens with ponds/lakes, streams, follies, labyrinths, topiaries, well-kempt paths, and suchlike. Even a swath of perfectly mown grass will do.
Thomas Kinkade fan confirmed.
It’s true.
Try I-80 through Teterboro, NJ for that challenge.
The NYC skyline looks nice….
Like the gates of Mordor.
I-71 south of Columbus. Unless you really like corn fields.
That’s an inordinately long drive from Cincy north.
Some years ago, I drove from Cincinnati to Ames, Iowa for a work project in late summer. I can describe the trip thusly:
“Corn, corn corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn corn, A TREE!, corn, corn, corn, corn, corn….”
Back in my consulting days I dreaded the appointments that would get booked for a four hour visit to Cincinnati. ~12 hours in the car, for 2-5 hours of work down there. Usually had to do that once a month or so.
It was still better then the time I had to drive out to Rochester to update a registry hive.
Any time spent away from Rochester is time well spent.
Wait…NY? Or MN ?
Rochester, NY.
Idiot LAN admin out there took down their whole system when trying to update a registry hive. He called my boss furious, and the next morning I drove into the office and got sent out there. I walk in with the print out of the e-mail showing the exact location to change, and what to change it to. Open the registry, make the change, and have them test and confirm that it was working. Then I walked out and drove home.
There’s a lot of pretty stuff out in WNY, although if you can take the more scenic route through Chautauqua and the Southern Tier, it’s probably better than Buffalo and Rochester.
I-80 through the Wyoming Valley has some nice parts to it, as long as you’re not too close to Scranton.
Gem from last night:
Biden: “Inject bleach in your arm, and that’s going to work. I’m not being facetious, he’s actually said these things.”
No you are not, in fact, being facetious. You are doing what is known as “lying”. You are a liar.
And of course no pushback or fact check on these obvious whoppers.
Fact Check: Mostly True.
While Trump did not indeed say those things, it is widely regarded by the population that he did.
I see you are wise in the ways of Politifact.
I’m sitting in pre-op for the next two hours waiting on the OR to open up. And I’m hungry as hell dammit.
Oh you had to head for the lithotripsy machine after all?
Sorry, Scruff, but that should end your torment.
I was doing ok but they don’t want to let it go too long for fear of damage to the kidney.
I wasn’t concerned though, because I know Swiss has one more available.
Think about this, when my grandma died her whole kidney was one giant stone. That’s the kinda family record I gotta try and break.
I’m going to try not to. But thanks though.
What in and going to think about is some hot, fresh, dry-fried eggplant from my favorite Chinese restaurant after this. And cumin lamb.
Mm, Chinese eggplant.
I’m not so sure about the cummin’ lamb, however.
I like your Nurse’s uniform Guy.
If only, I’m bare-assed with the stupid yellow socks with the little nubs all over them.
If you’re gonna flirt with me, don’t do it out in the open like this. People gonna talk.
I can’t go on living my life in silence. If you can’t deal with your shame, then we’re done.
Speaking of liars…
Harris said, “I think that Joe Biden has been consistent about saying that this is not the time right now to have this discussion. And frankly, to be honest with you, Don, and just to be very straightforward, if we’re going to talk about court-packing, which is something that, all of a sudden, has become a big point of discussion, I think because our opponents are trying to create a distraction.”
Harris added, “Seriously, if we want to talk about court-packing, can we please talk about — and I’ve witnessed this firsthand on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They’ve been, one after another, nominating people who are unqualified, people who refuse to say that Brown v. Board of Education is precedent. Do you know that they put 50 people on the lifetime federal court of appeals and not one is black? I mean — I just — I’m sorry, but I can’t have a conversation about court-packing, around something that has not even happened yet, which is who is going to be the next president, without dealing with what they’ve been doing for the last few years.”
If she even had a point I am unable to discern it.
None of them carry hot sauce in their purse!!!
What in fuck is she talking about? Obfuscating to keep from having to admit they intend to pack the court.
They are being pedantic. He has nominated black judge. As I recall they shit their pants when Thomas was nominated. Oh wait….I forgot, they aren’t democrats so ‘they aint black’.
There’s been at least one black judge appointed. I’m certain there would have been more if there were more Janice Rogers Browns around to pick from.
I wish someone would push back on this absurd talking point to their face, so that she would stumble and everyone would realize how stupid it is.
All black people think alike, and differently from not-black people?
people who refuse to say that Brown v. Board of Education is precedent
Which nominees said that? According to Harris, its “one after the other”. I’d be surprised if there was a single one, as Brown is clearly precedent.
one after another, people who are unqualified
Out of 258 Trump nominees, the ABA has said 10 were not qualified. One of those withdrew, the only one that was unanimously voted as not qualifed. Leaving aside the ABA’s well-known political biases, I think its misleading to say that less than 4% is “one after the other”.
50 people on the lifetime federal court of appeals and not one is black?
Several POCs though. Not sure if any appellate nominees were Blackrican-American.
I can’t have a conversation about court-packing, around something that has not even happened yet, which is who is going to be the next president, without dealing with what they’ve been doing for the last few years.
So she refuses to talk about her plans for court packing because “it hasn’t happened yet”. And just how is she planning to deal with the judges Trump has gotten on the bench, anyway?
It appears to me that they are absolutely planning on packing the SC, they just don’t want to say so for fear of bringing people who wouldn’t otherwise bother voting to the polls.
That or they don’t want to piss of their base if they don’t plan to. And i think that may actually be the more likely situation, because they have to know that to the right this looks like they are just dodging so that they don’t have to admit it.
I’m not a big fan of the word “packing”. It can be weaseled into meaning, “loading with people I don’t like”. A better word would be “expanding”. Trump did not expand the SC, but what the Dems are planning can definitely be described that way.
Her point was to not answer a question that would, if they were upfront about answering it, cause a furor.
So, she changed the subject. Repeatedly.
Naturally, Don Lemon didn’t follow up and ask her to answer a simple yes or no question.
The catfight between Don Lemon and Savanna Guthrie to be her press secretary is going to be epic.
Bill de Blasio, idea man:
https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1317133895717081090
Genius idea. So now non-deaf people can clearly see the mouths of people who are deaf.
Whose dumber, de Blasio or his voters?
Yes.
Yes.
Or the idiot who wrote Whose dumber.
Who’s more original Suthen or WTF?
Yes.
Uh… how will that work?
They all high on the same drug?
I think that is the Motto of totalitarian regimes everywhere.
They also plan on adding more signs for blind people, and extra stairs to make the city more accessible.
To whom? All of the taxpayers are leaving.
The best jokes work on multiple layers.
I guess the idea is they read each other’s lips…? But yeah, I don’t see how that helps when they’re conversing with the rest of us.
To be fair, I’ve been taking my 92 year old dad to his doctor appointments, and the masks are a huge barrier to communication because he can’t see the doctor’s lips.
I have minor hearing impediment.
My ears have been tested. They work fine. The brain loses the ability to process signals when it gets older. So I have lost some ability to understand speech. The hearing specialists says there is no solution to this. Hearing aids make stuff louder. Doesn’t help.
I didn’t fully understand how much I have come to depend up on reading lips to understand what I am hearing. Masks have made conversation nearly impossible.
SHUT UP AND WEAR THE MASK, SUPERSPREADERTARD
That’s very common. I’ve had people at work comment on it.
We had (probably still have) an exception from the masking requirment in AZ for people who are hearing impaired. I laughed when I heard it. “Why are the deaf activists trying to get deaf people killed? Seems counterintuitive.”
Looks like a great trip. I absolutely adore the mountains, and why I continue to live in the Midwest makes absolutely no sense to me. Those landscapes are gorgeous.
Money, job and family?? That’s my reason/excuse. Also don’t know if the wife could take the winters.
Yeah, living in the mountains ain’t cheap. Unless you head down to southern CO.
While not the mountains, winters in the lowlands of CO are fairly mild. It’s sunny all the time. Grand Junction is lower than 5K feet, and reasonably mountain-adjacent.
Summers in GJ on the other hand…
It’s a dry heat stroke.
I did some work in Rifle/Parachute, CO once (GJ-adjacent) in mid-July. To a guy from Ohio, the heat didnt seem too bad despite wearing flame-retardant. But when I grabbed a wrench that had been laying out in the sun? Ow!
Years back, a good friend of ours was about to go a fairly serious eye operation, so another friend and our wives decided to cheer him up by getting a case of O’Keefe’s Old Vienna, his favorite beer at the time. So we picked it up. In Winnipeg. On a four-day trip from Missouri. One highlight of the trip was running out of gas in North Dakota and pushing the car about a mile through the potato fields to the nearest town. Good times.
“pushing the car about a mile through the potato fields”
Winter? Summer?
Ireland, North Dakota ?
It would have been quicker to go to Texas and pick up some Coors.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-town-hall-questioners-former-obama-speechwriter-wife-pennsylvania-democrat
Something… Something… George Orwell turning over in his grave.
“One of the questioners at the ABC-hosted event was Nathan Osburn, a former speechwriter for the Obama White House. Osburn specifically worked for the Office of Public Affairs at the Commerce Department under the Obama-Biden administration and at the Small Business Administration. “
“Undecided voters”
If he’s as popular as their polls suggest, it shouldn’t be difficult to find nobodies willing to lob softballs at Biden.
Meh, I think the rulers in both parties think the common people aren’t smart enough to ask intelligent questions.
This, basically. What’s the upside to having some inverted prole ask the questions? Nothing. What’s the downside to planting your own operatives? Maybe it makes the daily news at some biased sites. *shrug*
*unvetted prole
Having inverted proles ask questions would get me to watch for a few minutes at least.
Biden beat Trump in the ratings for the town halls. There’s a disconnect between people actually willing to show up to hear Biden speak and those who will apparently tune in to watch him on TV as he’s beaten the Trumpster in TV ratings across the board.
…and Hillary has a 197% chance of winning.
*I am a little surprised they didnt trot her out at the last minute. I was so sure they would.
It’s not over till that fat lady springs.
Tuning in on TV for a chance to see the gaffe machine say something funny is very different from supporting him or taking the effort to show up to an in-person rally.
This shouldn’t be surprising. There’s also a larger contingent of people who are looking forward to the extra special new episode of The West Wing.
Trump voters are particularly the types to watch dull political theater on TV.
aren’t, dammit
Styx claimed that NBC split their streaming viewership across two channels and that if you add them the Trump one actually had higher viewership, for whatever that’s worth.
Of course the Democrat’s ‘town halls’ are scripted and nothing more than a performance. Didnt they get caught scripting one for Hillary? The party writes it, their minions in the media act it out.
I <3 Chief!
Excellent post! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Florida GOP narrows voter registration gap with Democrats to historic low
Only matters if certain county officials discover lots of boxes full of republican ballots in the weeks after election day.
“In recent weeks, Democrats in Florida have focused on increasing vote-by-mail turnout, assisting them in clinching 430,000 more votes than Republicans.”
Am I reading that correctly? That seems WAY too high.
Ya’ don’t say.
How about this poll: https://abc7.com/food/this-bakery-accurately-predicted-the-last-3-elections/7051650/
A Lyft driver asked us to put on masks. Three stars maximum, no tips. She had a perfect 5.0 rating.
Uber’s been requiring masks for a couple of months now.
Lyft as a company required them for a while now as well.
I took four Lyft rides in July and August, when masking was already required. Nobody asked me to don one. But the drivers were guys not an obese woman.
I have no problem masking up when in the presence of someone in a high risk group.
I have a problem with govt officials illegally demanding that I mask up. A big problem.
It’s almost as if people are naturally empathetic, but are also resentful at heavy-handed control by an untouchable political class that assumes everyone is as selfish and venal as they are.
A healthy person who doesn’t cough or sneeze has no need to wear a face mask in any circumstances. I behave around “vulnerable” individuals in same manner I behaved all my life. I don’t accept the premise of social distancing for Covid. Sure, I put on the mask in her car but only because she asked. It’s stupid and pointless but she asked.
Eh, that wouldn’t bother me. It is her car, after all. What grates my nerves are the mask fascists that completely lose their shit at unmasked people passing by outdoors on the sidewalk.
I want to punish people who favor masks as much as I can. For me, it’s war.
Wanna see what an in-kind campaign contribution looks like? Check out this piece from the CBS Evening News on the Hunter Biden broo-ha…
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/hunter-biden-tabloid-story-raises-disinformation-campaign-fears/
They have a former FBI guy on to explain that it looks like a classic disinformation campaign. Who’s behind it? The Russians!
Also, Republicans cry censorship!
I love how the New York Post is now a tabloid.
Technically it is.
Its dead tree edition is tabloid sized.
They didn’t mention who at the FBI signed for the computer – their top pedo investigator.
If it has Child Porn on it, I think that puts everyone (who isn’t the FBI of course) who has a copy of it at risk of investigation no?
*Shrugs*
One of the pictures released of hunter snorting coke had to be cropped because it was off the naked body of an underage girl.
Huh.
The fact that the data was turned over to the FBI in the first place struck me as weird, so this would make sense.
Still i’m waiting for more info.
Biden is corrupt tho.
How could they tell she was underage? Unless she was seriously underage, of course.
I only snort coke off the asses of frivolously underage girls.
It was turned in to them in December??? Damn, they really like to take their sweet time with this stuff.
it looks like a classic disinformation campaign
It also looks like a record of corruption unlike anything previously revealed in our history. Gosh, which could it be?
Imagine the Russian op that would have led to this moment. Load a computer with ruanchy incriminating photos of Biden Jr. Falsify thousands of emails. Break computer. Drop off at random out-of-the-way computer shop. Abandon it there. Wait for the owner to look at it and make it public. All before the Presidential campaign was really underway, on the off chance that Biden would be the nominee.
And this all assumes the Russians want more Trump! The President who has done more to oppose them than any other since, probably, Reagan.
Which could it be? Occam’s Razor sez, not the Russians.
The saddest part is that millions of Democrats legitimately believe that Russia is still a top superpower possessing the capability to pull something like this off.
The really sad thing is they think that a six figure ad buy from Russia on Facebook was enough to undermine millions of spending by the Hillary campaign.
Of course, they wouldn’t fall prey to those ads, but those lumpenprole will fall for anything.
Stop teasing me.
“It’s authentic as hell,” Giuliani emphasized. “Some of those pictures on it can only have come from him. And I will tell you why I know it for sure. I have about 10 pieces of confidential information nobody knows except me and Hunter Biden. Kept it that way. You know, I investigated cases for 50 years. Every one of those hits the mark.
He continued, “I have an anonymous source that reports on a meeting at the State Department, which would violate the Foreign Agent Registration Act. And Hunter Biden was taken in the back door and kept off the books. The gentleman who was involved in it and who told me about it had the date. He’s had that for a year and a half. That very date shows up in his emails. There are five emails setting up that appointment that date, that exact time. I’ve got five of those if anybody cares to examine. They are not even disputing it. This is Hunter Biden’s emails, texts and really, the photographs will shock the hell out of you. Those photographs are disgusting, and they make him a national security risk for the United States of America because every photograph I have, China has plus a lot more. They reveal federal crimes, they reveal disgusting sexual behavior, and then they reveal sexual behavior, and then they reveal numerous times where he has totally gone on crack, which means he spent most of the last five years on crack, and who would pay this man $2 much less $10 million if is he a crack addict?”
I gotta say, I am not impressed with Rudy saying the emails corroborate info from an anonymous source. Its smells no better when a Repub operative says it than when a Dem operative says it.
Joe Biden internal monologue: “Where’s the phone number of that crazy hag who was Secretary of State when I had that job under the articulate guy? She had a crew that went around and fixed stuff, if I recall.”
Also, if any of this turns out to be true… what the hell? Hunter must’ve really thought himself to be bulletproof. “Hey everybody! Get out your cameras! We need to preserve these precious moments!”
What makes you think he will suffer any ramifications for this other than some bad press?
Fair point. I suppose Hunter’s entire extended family could choose to never speak to him again. On the other hand, if Joe wins the election, Hunter could very well be up on the victory stage with the rest of the family, smiling and waving — Team Biden and Team Dem rubbing it in everyone’s faces.
That is exactly what we will see. What better way to demoralize, to prove that they are in complete control, there is nothing the irredeemables can ever do about it.
I think the one part of it that is unquestionably true is that those are photos of Hunter.
Hunter Biden didn’t kill himself.
There’s much praise for Savannah Guthrie from the left. She was much brave. Very bold in challenging Orange Man Bad.
Something tells me that her hostility did not play well with anyone not firmly in the tank for team blue.
She did a lot of woman-splaining. And interrupting, which I was previously told is a no-no.
She was also completely full of shit.
Did anyone not in the Tank for Blue watch?
Congratulations to Savannah Guthrie on her appointment as Joe Biden’s White House press secretary!
Answering a tough question.
My wife was “who is this rude bitch? What’s wrong with her?” Ended up watching something else as her screeching was too obnoxious to take.
This should help dispel Trump’s unfounded claims that the media is the enemy of the people and he is unfairly treated…
Today I heard from Joe Donnelly (former Democrat Senator, Indiana): Trump wanted his 2017 tax cuts to take the corporate rate down to 15% rather than the 21% they settled on. Biden will immediately raise it back to 28%.
28% for starters . The democrat party platform is nearly indistinguishable from the policies of the USSR and if they get power it wont be long before we look just like the USSR.
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-says-wants-work-joe-biden-claims-shared-values-between-democrats-communism-1537501
Biden beat Trump in the ratings for the town halls. There,/em>
How did they do (separately or together0 against Thursday Night Football?
*Was it on? I quit watching footsballs.
me kin tupe gud.
I am in Indianapolis for a month or so. All masks, all the time. Awesome.
I went and got a haircut a little while ago. Afterwards, I decided to walk around the corner to Whole Foods. I only needed a few little things, so I fugured I could get in and out without breaking the bank. I got down there, and people were STANDING IN LINE WAITING TO GET IN. I had a good laugh at that.
Then, I went to the Aldi’s, for the first and final time. It’s just a couple of blocks away, so what the heck. As I was trying to wrestle a cart loose, this old guy says, “Got a quarter? You need a quarter.”
“Yeah, fuck that.”
Went in, grabbed what I wanted, got to the checkout and saw the line of people waiting for the one cashier, set my stuff down and walked out. Nice business model, you’ve got there, folks.
At the barber shop, I heard part of a conversation from down the row. The barber and customer were talking about halloween.
Barber says, “Well, the CDC says you’re allowed to…”
I hate to bite my tongue really hard. When did this become a country where some quack from the CDC provides you with a list of “ALLOwed’ activities?
I’m not sure I’ll survive this bullshit. I don’t even have a gun with me, to blow holes in stuff with.
I’m sorry. Im about 90-minutes or 2-hours away. If I wasnt about to go to bed, Id bring you a firearm and some TALL CANS.
Shit. I like quite a bit of stuff at Trader Joe’s. I also refuse to wait in a line to get into a grocery store. There were a couple of times after an evening spin class, there was no line, so I went in.
For Aldi’s, the quarter for the cart is returned when you return the cart. It means they save some money on cart wranglers.
Also, Aldi is really hit or miss depending on day of week and time of day.
If you get in the day that they receive their shipment of product X and at an unpopular time, it’s great. If you go the day before they receive their next shipment at a popular time, it’s gonna suck.
We’ve discussed that here before. I first saw the cart deposit back in 1989 at a grocery store in Lelystad, Netherlands. We didn’t know what everybody was doing at first, but when we saw somebody getting their 0.50fl piece back it made sense. We figured everybody just keeps one coin that they always use for the cart deposit.
We call it the Sacred Quarter.
I’ve been in line with strangers at different stores and make a remark about the Sacred Quarter and everybody knows what I’m talking about. Gets a chuckle or two.
They had a line at the TJ here. I wanted to try their tonic, which Jesse claims is good, but I refuse to stand in line for a grocery store. Publix is one of the few businesses I still routinely patronize.
Direct evidence implicating former Vice President Joe Biden in a pay-for-play corruption scandal will be released to the public 10 days prior to the 2020 election,
There’s a big clue on how stupid the Republicans are. By then millions upon millions of mail-in and early votes will be cast. This is 1990s-era October surprise timing.
Word. Release it now and air it out over the next two weeks.
This. Big data dump today. Coordinate the message with your sympathetic press over the next week. Set talking points with your agents to use against TMITE later next week.
Coordinate the message with your sympathetic press
Err, this is a Repub hit job. What sympathetic press?
Breitbart, etc.
haha Yup. Snatch that defeat from the jaws of victory.
Holy fuck. Is there anyone more adept at making completely legitimate concern over a highly probable criminal matter look like a sleazy political hit job than Rudy Giuliani?
Eh. There was mountains of evidence indicating a far more ellaborate pay to play scheme by Hillary and the powers that be all carried water for her to make it go away.
And she is not only free to this day, but she is praised as the “true president” by many deranged people.
Stipulate, for the sake of the experiment, the following 2 things:
1. Everything in the Biden Emails is true, and furthermore it is known that the allegations are true.
2. Biden wins the election.
Should GOP push to remove him from office* only to get Kamala Harris as president, _or_ should they let him go on his corrupt way to avoid giving Harris the reigns of power.
* I’m not sure if this is necessarily impeachable. Do the offenses have to occur while one is president?
It occurred when he was vp and demonstrates a pattern of corruption that should be impeachable. That said, Team Red shot their wad in the 90s and I am terrified of a Kamala presidency.
The GOP will have nothing to do with when, or exactly how, Biden gets pushed aside and Harris takes over.
I can’t imagine why the Dems would support impeaching him, when they’ve got a legitimate Article XXV reason to remove him. That will be the Harris cabinet making the decision. And Joe wont be making any kind of counter-declaration, you can be sure.
For timing, I really do favor after the mid-terms. Sets Harris up for ten years as the President. They can prop Joe up for a couple of years, no problem. Fauci would be happy to assist, I’m sure, with all the “pandemic makes it inadvisable for the President to leave the White House basement” they need.
Ostensibly, if Biden can make a claim that he is not incapable (and trust me Jill Biden will, if Joe can’t) 25th amendment would be even harder to do than impeachment.
If something truly serious like the kickback accusation turns out to be true, then they really have no choice. If it’s just Hunter peddling his connections for his own gain, then no.
Of course, Biden’s personal intervention to remove the Ukrainian prosecutor would take some ‘splainin’.
Not much, of course. The Dems in Congress and the media will take the flimsiest, most transparent fig leaf as more than adequate.
Joe demanding half of Hunter’s and daughter’s salary means Joe was laundering money through his children, which of course everyone already knows.
I have been avoiding all the details, because I am just tired of it.
So, I missed this point.
Was Joe really getting money transfers from Hunter and daughter?
It’s the first i’ve heard of it, though i too have been avoiding the details.
Dunno. Could easily be investigated by someone armed with grand jury, though. I’m sure its on Barr and Durham’s to-do list, after they get done with their Russian collusion investigation sometime in 2030.
According to Giuliani. Haven’t seen any proof of it yet.
It would be impossible to do that without a really serious money trail.
Suicide of the Liberals – Interesting read on Russia 1900-1917 and history rhyming really well.
Why didn’t the liberals and businessmen see it coming?
Because they were fucking idiots?
I will use my house stealing analogy again.
I want to live in your house but to do that I have to get you out. I collect up a basket full of cockroaches and while. you are sleeping I release them into your house. If you cant tolerate them or exterminate them you will leave. Now I get to move into your house but the trouble is that I cant live with thousands of cockroaches any more than you can so…..I have to exterminate them.
Either way the cockroaches lose. That is what will happen, as sure as the sun comes up, to Antifa, BLM and their ilk. They lose.
Nice article, Lazer. I don’t think I’ve been CO in, wow, 15 years? Elk hunting, west of Denver. Damn near killed me. Got a nice elk, though.
Actually, I was in CO for about half an hour, maybe longer, a few years ago on turkey hunting trip. The ranch we were on crossed the border. The guide said “We’re probably in CO now, so we’re really not supposed to shoot anything.” We laughed and laughed. A little while later, we shot a turkey. No idea if we were still in CO or not.
I can get a dose of the Rockies here in AZ, but not like what you see in CO. Got me thinking about going back.
Other then for connecting flights through Denver, I’ve only been to Colorado once (back in 2018) for the Great American Beer Fest (which went “virtual” this year).
Last time I was in CO was for a hockey tourney in 1998. Our top winger was boarded and taken off on a stretcher but ended up okay. After that hit…refs lost control of the game and it was like watching UFC on ice.
Oh thats a lie…I went to four corners…so I briefly was in CO for 2 minutes.
Do the offenses have to occur while one is president?
Not if you’re Trump.
https://postimg.cc/Q9pVqkK1
They don’t have a bias. They have an agenda.
Otherwise they would be promoting a fact check about “Very Fine People”
I thought it was Her that used that term anyway…I cannot keep up
That was my recollection. Although she wasn’t the only one calling Vibrant Urban Youth “superpredators”.
He probably used it as a compound word instead of two words.
Joe’s description was “predators on our streets” who were “beyond the pale”. Still his co-sponsered bill targeted many and was shit.
Is there anyone more adept at making completely legitimate concern over a highly probable criminal matter look like a sleazy political hit job than Rudy Giuliani?
This.
Ghouliani is, in his own way, just as smarmy and disgusting as Rachel Maddow.
For sure.
But the great thing is now that Both sides fight.
In 2012, Mittens would have squashed this story, so that he could lose without looking too partisan.
Huh…not that it will knock a stone off the Blue Fortress rhat is California, the the CAGOP said go to hell regarding their ballot harvesting boxes. Good for the goose and all that.
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/10/16/ca-attorney-general-backs-down-cagop-private-ballot-drop-boxes-will-remain/