From Smoot-Hawley To Josh Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley commits to objecting to accepting Joe Biden as the next President. This will force a floor debate and a vote Biden will win but it lets Hawley position himself for 2024 as the Trumpiest candidate not named Trump.

Sen. Sasse of the Never Trump "Come home to reality" wing of the party (Wing?!? More like a stray crumpled feather...) lays out his concerns with this sort of grandstanding.

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[Captain Hate]

Teddy hates fireworks. This won't be a good night for him. Or me.

[GUS]

"how about FUCK YOU" is a nice rejoinder.

You know what you say to the ASSHOE with 2 black eyes???

Nothing, you told him twice already.

[Captain Hate]

Baby Bea's mom is petite but she was born looking like a baby bulldozer. She was a month preemie but has grown quickly.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ignatz and all who think I am living in a fool's paradise...--

I said Trump was heroic; just not superheroic because there are no superheroes. That's very different than thinking you live in a fool's paradise, which I of course don't.

--BTW how exactly did Iggy "bitch slap" me? All he did was ignore the point and change the subject about hope and faith in Trump having a plan to somehow get re-elected into having hope and faith in God.--

I agree I didn't bitch slap you. I'm not even sure how one might go about doing that. But neither did I ignore the point. I answered the point that one should not be putting our faith in men whose intentions and abilities we don't really know and who will invariably let us down. If Trump has a plan I have neither faith nor hope that a successful one is going to appear at this late date. I would be happy to be proved wrong but it seems unlikely.

--However. Don't make this mistake. It was about Trump. Who else do you think would have survived the attacks and still got a lot of conservative aims accomplished.--

I sure as hell hope there is someone else because he is one guy who is 70 something years old and even were he to rise from political death and enjoy a second term he will have barely made a dent in the vast cultural and political swamp we are facing. Trump was where he was because we, the bitter clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables put him there. Without us he had zero power and he is happy to recognize that. And after him we will have to grow and find many more Trumps, even craftier and stronger Trumps who may look and sound nothing like him and who may have completely different styles, but who will carry on the work of draining the swamp that is drowning our country. Had it been all about Trump Plouffe would have said we have to destroy Trump because he is their last hope; a one off. But he said he had to be destroyed so his kind wouldn't rise again. Who it is really about and always has been is us and our ability and desire to raise an endless string of subversive, shit kickers to replace the Quisling GOPe punks and take the battle to the progs.
If Trump truly was a one off then things are very simple; submit or begin the blood letting. If he wasn't a one off then it wasn't about him, it was about the army that raised him up and will raise up as many more as it takes to turn the country around.

[James D.]

Happy new year, everyone!

[Buckeye]

Today Mrs. Buckeye had a tooth extracted in prep for an implant. This was a tooth that required a root canal some 3 decades ago. In the last few years root resorption has taken its toll.

She did fine, and has only needed one codeine pain pill today.

Poogan and I had to get out of bed at 6 to get her to the maxillofacial surgeon this morning. No way I’ll be awake at midnight:)

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

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[MissMarple2]

CCGirl,

Great news on your fil! I am trying to figure out over the next few months whether to stay here or look for an apartment. Staying here would be pretty expensive if my daughter decides to move out.

[Jim Eagle]

CCgirl,

Our True Value in Southampton is Herrick's Hardware where I have never gone wrong. Owned by a guy who graduated from Harvard and married the original owner's daughter who is there everyday to wait on us DIY idiots.

[Buckeye]

Great news JamesD, will keep the prayers coming.

[Manuel Transmission]

OK, I've found a source re the Nashville stuff.

https://jeffreyprather.com/video-streams/#livestream122920

Open the 12/31 (latest video) and go to the 20:00 mark.

I've not had much previous exposure to Prather, but he doesn't appear to be blowing too much smoke.

[Jane]

Davod,

How did you end up in a wheelchair? (Ignore me if that’s too personal )

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So if Lin Wood is correct then all those 'Epstein didn't hang himself' memes are moot...or correct, depending on your POV.
I suspect the memes are safe, but I do wonder about that Bobby Piton guy's good sense.

[Buckeye]

Great news on your FIL, CCGirl.

Ibet that advice about not sleeping on your back would apply to him as well.

[Rocco]

What a beautiful name Capt'n. It's nice to see traditional names these days. I have a Hadley and Landon. It took me a while to warm up to Hadley, I had never heard it before.

[Rocco]

My daughter's nickname is Beanie

[CCGirl]

Jack, I do love the store! I meet so many different types of people almost every day. My father quit his job at Ratheon as a project manager to buy the store. (Not that simple, but that’s the short version). He was the right hand man to the CEO. He was loved by his customers. I learn something new everyday, and I can drag myself in dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. No more suits and heels (but thanks to that decade of banking I know finances).

Sorry to blab on. I am so grateful to have it, and I am blessed to have had the most wonderful parents. Parents paid to educate all of us, and the one that didn’t mix well with academics at college got the opportunity to learn to fly. Parents bought him a Cessna, which was fun at the time!

What’s happening these days breaks my heart. I will speak up and defend this great country when and where I can. I am grateful my parents aren’t here to witness this catastrophe.

[peter]

jimmyk @ 6:58, my subway travels since March have been limited to a small stretch in Queens on the #7 elevated, which is about populated by about 75% Hispanic and 20% Asian, and mask wearing is (except for me) 100%, which I find depressing, but you have to consider that many of these passengers are immigrants from repressively governed lands. I don't even see many people doing the chin-strap semi-conformance thing.

[MissMarple2]

As I predicted, the fireworks have started. WHY they get those things that sound like bombs, I do not know.

[CCGirl]

FIL is hydrated and on antibiotics now. I am sure he will be moving around and sitting up plenty going forward. Thanks for all of the well wishes and prayers. Hubs is very relieved, but he and his sibs just had a zoom meeting the other day agreeing that they needed to step up and be more involved day to day. No choice now.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Dumb question: not everyone gets a check, whether $600 or $2000, right?

I don't think we got one last time. There've been reports of people getting the money deposited already ... maybe they're pulling legs.

[Jim Eagle]

Finishing up watching Florio and Chris Simms, who by the way is very credible and a good is a good analyst compered to the usual ESPN crew.

[MissMarple2]

Jim, Sunnyvale,

My daughter got one last time but I didn't (I think due to taxes or something, I forget).

Nothing for me this time nor daughter yet, either. I did read that while they started going out a yesterday, not everyone would get them at the same time.

[MissMarple2]

Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth

I'm on a completely full, shoulder to shoulder flight tonight... in case you're wondering if its complete bullshit that your restaurant or bar is still shutdown.
6:27 PM · Dec 31, 2020

[clarice]

ch, Beatrice is my mother's name and Bean (spelled differently) is my sister's married surname. Therefore, I proclaim myself your granddaughter's fairy godmother.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--WHY they get those things that sound like bombs, I do not know.--

Jean Shepherd;Ludlow Kissel And The Dago Bomb That Struck Back

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

ManTran, are you still interested in Graham Hancock? If so, I want to alert you to an interesting, long podcast/interview with Graham Hancock and another guy if you haven't seen it.
I'm half way through.

Robin posted about the Joe Rogan interview/podcast on Spotify with Alex Berenson which was great on several levels.
So I started to look for others.
1) This one with Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku. BMur has classical language expertise and has done research into Eleusis and other religion-formative practices.
2) Moxie Marlinspike
Weird name, I know. He's a coder and is a founder of Signal. Signal is a messaging app ("texting") that encrypts your data. Texting on Android is in the clear. Apple iMsg is a bit better but easily broken to anyone with determination. There's a lot of buzz about people moving to Signal, also changing email to ProtonMail for better security from NSA, CIA, FBI, DNC and so on.
The Signal stuff is OK, the guy's had an interesting life and the highlight for me in this talk was his description of a near-death experience on SF Bay in a boat. Enthralling.

All the other Joe Rogan talks are with people I haven't heard of ... or don't approve of. But there are a ton, and I've only flipped though a few dozen pages of titles so far.

I should mention they mention a much older podcast with just Rogan and Hancock. But I didn't find that one yet.

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1543-brian-muraresku-graham-hancock/

[CCGirl]

Happy New Year all! Off to watch The Crown, season 3.

See you in 2021! 😳

[Jim Eagle]

No one like Jean Shepherd to poke your eye out with a. BB gun.

[Captain Hate]

You're in clarice. Thanks Rocco, I was pleasantly surprised at the name choice. Actually ever since my daughter met her husband her life's been on a continual upswing. I used to worry about her because she was subject to temporary dark moods starting when she was very young. I worked really hard with her to get her out of them but when she went off to school and afterward was constantly concerned. Then one day she called me, not her mother, and told me she started seeing a therapist who helped her with coping measures to deal with them. I told her that took a real burden off me because I couldn't force her to do something she didn't want to do. It still bothered her that her sister found a good husband so easily and I know she was getting desperate but once she met her husband it was like a natural fit. And she's reacted very well to motherhood.

So my job is really done.

[Jim Eagle]

With that i am off to bed.

Happy New Yeatr!

[GUS]

I told someone that my son was going to hang with his 6 or 7 best pals tonight.

She asked if he was safe. I said, he doesn't drink AT ALL, nor does he do drugs.

She said,"NO, I MEAN THE COVID."

He's feckin 19

[Jane]

Ccgirl,

Which Raytheon did he work at?

[MissMarple2]

Ignatz,

Thanks! Jean Shepherd is one of Indiana's hidden treasures!

[Manuel Transmission]

Jim SV, I’ve seen the GH interview from a couple years ago. I’ll check for yours in case it is newer. Off to our party.

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

Jim in Sunnyvale,

If you’re interested in NDE’s, I’ve recently watched a few YT videos that you might find interesting, by a group called IANDS.

There’s also a few videos by researchers at the University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies that highlight serious scientific research over the past 50 years done on the whole range of “paranormal” activities, like NDEs, out-of-body experiences, children’s reincarnation stories, past life regression, etc. etc.

[Rocco]

That's nice Capt'n. I'll keep your daughter, Beatrice and your family in my prayers.

And of course all of you out here too. I'm off for my Rosary good nite and Happy New Year.

[MissMarple2]

https://breaking911.com/urgent-certain-pet-foods-recalled-after-28-dogs-die/

Sportmix packaged in Evansville, Indiana. Both dog and cat foods.

[Captain Hate]

Happy New Year, Rocco.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Just got done listening to that old Jean Shepherd broadcast.
He's a national treasure, MM.

[henry]

Rocco, my niece is named Hadley. We share initials, and love of trains. ;)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

'At Least 140' House Republicans Plan To Object To Biden Electoral Votes

[henry]

Rocco, in the TMI zone... I had a non reciprocal crush on Landon from Hamden in college. Lovely names for lovely girls. :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You tube's top earner in 2020; nine year old Texas kid who made $30 million rating toys.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

We may have found the Chinese Achilles heel;
well...Achilles stomach actually.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Tank Abrams' sister puts 60 tons in R and reverses herself on purging GA voter rolls.

[MissMarple2]

Breaking News Global
@BreakingNAlerts

POPE FRANCIS TO MISS NEW YEAR SERVICE DUE TO LEG PAIN
4:45 PM · Dec 31, 2020

[Threadkiller]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer

His Twitter is rocking. Shit is about to get real!

Happy New Years Eve!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Does anything display the idiocy of the left better than;
there is no flu [a respiratory virus] this year because of masks and lockdowns, while covid, [a respiratory virus] goes through the roof.

[GUS]

They are COMMUNISTS Ig. This is not creeping Charlie, this is COMMUNISM. See!! Masks saved MILLLLLLLIONS of lives. YOU WILL WEAR THEM FOREVER.

[Narciso]

Chutzpah

https://mobile.twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1344659691335540740

[Jj532aa]

JimSunny, we didn't get checks ladt time and probably won't this time. Think there's a limit ...

[Narciso]

Maybe there was areason she was under surveillance

https://mobile.twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1344627890235834369

[Tom R]

What's supposed to be the revelation here? It's been known for a long time that there's a "John Roberts" on the flight log. The problem is establishing that it's the chief justice, and not just someone who shares that rather common name.

The official rules for classified information is that the nature of the information is of such significance that public release of the information would negatively affect US national security in some manner. The only name on those Epstein flight logs is John Roberts. If that was anyone other John Roberts besides the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS then by default release of those flight logs would not be a matter of national security. The fact those flight logs are marked with official classified markings is proof that the John Roberts listed is indeed the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS.

The fact that Patrick Byrne released that Epstein flight log on Twitter is an indication that someone on Team Trump gave it t him to leak to the public,

[Tom R]

They are COMMUNISTS Ig. This is not creeping Charlie, this is COMMUNISM. See!! Masks saved MILLLLLLLIONS of lives. YOU WILL WEAR THEM FOREVER.

Regardless of whatever disagreements we have had, you are I are 100% in agreement on who the real enemy is.

[Tom R]

BTW if my English grammar is poor on the previous posts it’s because I have had multiple Oktoberfest craft beers and Old Fashion cocktails so cut me some slack.

[Narciso]

Why im skeptical tom r

https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/study-in/

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

Hard to tell if this is Roberts or not, but does resemble him.

[Narciso]

And byrne has a history of treading on some steeeo toes and gettimg stomped nt then

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of alcohol

[GUS]

Tom, I have cut you slack for a long time. I see no reason to give you a hard time. Life is too short my brother. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and your family Tom R.

[Tom R]

Narciso,

The classified flight logs don’t list the name “Jean-Luc Brunel“. The classified flight logs explicitly have the name “John Roberts” on them.

[Captain Hate]

I didn't size that correctly to show it's a 2008.

[Captain Hate]

I don't think that's Traitor Roberts.

[henry]

Happy New Year!

Tom R, a six pack of Edmund Fitzgerald and working on a six pack of Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA back at ya.

BTW, a foxhole is a static position, just like a ledge or redoubt. A hidey hole is not offensive. Don’t trust me. Trust my grandfather’s Anacostia neighbor, later customer (supplied on the move to relieve Bastogne) Patton. Attack is movement, not emplacement.

[Tom R]

Gus @ 10:07

Happy New Year and Roll Tide Roll

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

CH .... ale looks good, but I'm more of a lager guy, except in summer when I like a good hefe or dunkel weizen or a Belgian wit. LOL

And thanks for taking the time to watch that video, whatever you thought about it afterwards.

Happy New Year to all!

[Narciso]

You know i had a heck of a time finding cider so i had to settle for champagne.

The jonahs rum is to be takem in small doses

[GUS]

Good Luck Tom R. I think Alabama can do it.

[Narciso]

I girl ive spoken about before had a first name that has become derogatory in some circles as a descriptive.

[Tom R]

Tom R, a six pack of Edmund Fitzgerald and working on a six pack of Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA back at ya.

Henry @ 10:09

Does Gordon Lightfoot have a micro brewery?

PS to Kevlar Kid: the only bitch slapping that is going to occur is tomorrow when my Crimson Tide plays your Fighting Irish. I have a growler ready to go of my local micro brewery Oktoberfest to enjoy the game.

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

It pains me, but I'm gonna root for Clemson.

Gotta stick with an ACC team over SEC.

But FSU is gonna be back ... in 2 years ... baby! LOL

[henry]

Tom R, GreatLakes Brewery out of Cleveland. The Elliott Ness Amber is marvelous as well. :)

[MissMarple2]

Happy New Year to all who are enjoying cocktails, craft beer, and wine. I had my O'Doul's with my chicken chili and am sipping on decaf coffee.

Boy, do I wish I could have a Beefeater's martini on the rocks, extra-dry, with an olive!

[GUS]

Henry. HAPPY NEW YEAR. We really need to get together soon.
I'm drinking pedestrian MILLER HIGH LIFE. I need to get an idea from you and from CAPN' on a REALLY REALLY GOOD BEER. I'm boring.

[clarice]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9101243/Ontario-minister-called-St-Barts-pandemic-vacation.html

[GUS]

Y'know Tom, Edmund Fitzgerald was the CHAIRMAN of NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL. A Milwaukee Company.

Gordon Lightfoot is Mayor of Chicago.

[Narciso]

Hes coping in his own way clarice.

[Narciso]

More like one of those lizard people mssr warner was supposedly nattering on about.

[Narciso]

Winming the future:

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1344807253224910848

[henry]

Gus, no such thing as bad beer. Consider the alternative.... not beer.

Pin should be passing through soon, if we can get a date I can stock good beer, and better scotch. ;)

[Captain Hate]

henry drinks only the best that Great Lakes brews although I think he's still a stranger to their Oktoberfest.

No need to thank me, fdcol, I like listening to Barnes. I take it on faith that he knows what he's talking about plus he's entertaining to listen to and doesn't waste my time.

[MissMarple2]

GUS,

In that audio Ignatz linked for me by Jean Shepherd there was an old ad for "Miller High Life, the Champagne of Bottled Beer."

It mademe smile. My dad was a Budweiser guy but my Mom drank Miller High Life when we were on vacation, because it had clear glass bottles and she didn't trust the brown bottles of Bud. We all referred to it as "Nanny beer" and to this day I prefer it when I drink beer. (I am not a connoisseur, either.)

[Davod]

fdcol63- He is taller than the others. Could be Comey.

[rich]

Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | December 31, 2020 at 08:28 PM

it was probably one of the ones with randall carlson. carlson is a builder and geologist and has collaborated with handcock on research on the y-d boundary and the smashing of the north american ice caps at the end of the last ice age.

[Narciso]

Well theres coors which is more like water with some alcohol

[Narciso]

Any feedback rich

[Tom R]

I'm drinking pedestrian MILLER HIGH LIFE

Ugh. I was a fan and drinker of Miller LITE from the 1970s for 30+ years because they had the funniest commercials. Nowadays there are 10+ micro breweries in the north Alabama area so I will never drink another commercial beer EVER unless it’s the only option left.

[MissMarple2]

Now I am hearing the rockets.

[henry]

CH, true. I’m a stranger to most Oktoberfest brews. I blame excess on attendance at Straussenfest in St Louis in high school. Beer by the bucket, babes aplenty, and oompah bands. Everything since pales in comparison
:)

[Narciso]

Double.e removes all doubt

https://mobile.twitter.com/WildOrca56/status/1344800127354081280

[Tom R]

BTW with the passing of Phil Niekro this week it reminds me of Bob Uecker who was a catcher for Niekro early in his career. The Miller Lite commercials with Uecker are still my favorite commercials of all time.

[clarice]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pence-asks-judge-to-reject-push-to-expand-his-powers-to-decide-electoral-college-votes_3640007.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-31-5

[GUS]

Pin doesn't deserve Scotch. Unless you have a lot of single malt. In that case I will ration his portion as needed.

[Narciso]

This seems to be reaching suicide squad levels of bad

https://youtu.be/WXwALOfNePo

[GUS]

You Mom was a smart woman MISS M!!!!
I became a Miller guy because I grew up quite near the Brewery. And Milwaukee loyalty.
Miller certainly has a unique taste, as does COORS.

[GUS]

I lied. Pin deserves good SCOTCH. I don't even know if he likes it.

[henry]

Gus, a wee nip of legal age Oban is good for the soul. Plus a Quaish brings good tidings to all. I trust you to ration a new bottle. :)

[GUS]

Good gravy Henry, I toured the Oban distillery last time in Scotland. Great town, it's an Island hopping town. DELICIOUS WHISKY. I have a great story of that evening, Me, Karen and Mickey.
We couldn't go into any pubs because Mickey was a kid. So we went to a HOTEL BAR, and.......I'll tell you the rest when I see you.
Oban is delicious, and the distillery is very quaint.

[Captain Hate]

Hard to measure up to that experience, henry.