Thursday Action

Away we go.

I do have to say - I can't take the Biden fan-boys seriously. C'mon, all his foreign policy chops? What happened to 'wrong about everything'?

Putin-Biden would have been a mismatch twenty years ago and it hasn't gotten better. Well, that isn't a fair comparison anyway, since Putin's combination of physical energy, mental acuity and ruthlessness put him ahead of all our recent Presidents. But ask me about John McCain, who may have been the one guy that could have impressed Putin. His POW resume is scary. And either Bush 41 or Reagan would have done fine, especially since Putin would have been a mere lad.

Comments

[Comanche Voter]

Have you ever taken CNN--aka the Comic News Network--seriously? I mean those guys live in an alternate non reality based world. If they ever remove their lips from any "progressive" politician's posterior, it will be the first time.

[Narciso]

Jeff 'what enchanted you obama' maybe that 750 k from nordstream affiliate which wncouraged the keystone shutdowm

[Narciso]

They call me the big guy

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/16/biden-balks-peter-doocy-chinese-president-xi-old-friend/

[Narciso]

The whole sad spectacle

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/06/16/angry-joes-terribly-horrible-and-embarrassing-presser-after-meeting-with-russian-president-vladimir-putin/

But no mean tweets

[Dave (in MA)]

"Snorfle", as they say.

Ann Coulter Retweeted
https://twitter.com/Leighandbrown/status/1405561295328395264

[Dave (in MA)]

Dagnabbit.

https://twitter.com/Leighandbrown/status/1405561295328395264

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--But ask me about John McCain, who may have been the one guy that could have impressed Putin.--

LOL.
Had been a curiously humorless morning until this nugget.
Trump was the one guy besides Reagan who put America and its interests first and consequently is the one guy who handled Putin well. Clinton, W, Barry and the present dolt all occasionally talked tough but mostly were embarrassing in both their open pleas for cooperation and backing down on what mattered despite their occasional rugged rhetoric. They and the soft headed shits at State have no idea how to play the game.

[Neo]

Hunter Biden the root of inflation problem.

[Neo]

Entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team Resigns
https://www.kxl.com/sources-entire-portland-police-rapid-response-team-resigns/

[James D.]

"Biden fanboys" ? You voted for him, TM!

[henry]

McCain? Scarier to Putin, no. Demands bigger piece of Putin’s action than Biden? Yes. Otherwise post return to US soil, McShame might as well be Xiden… a corrupt, pompous asshoe.

[rse]

Mel--

Thanks for the manchin leaked phone call on previous thread. Had a good college friend go to work for bacon many years ago and is still there last I looked.

Interesting new CRT video out https://www.city-journal.org/theoretical-roots-and-practical-consequences-of-critical-race-theory that certainly validates my intuition based on knowing these theories and players that all this hype has a synthesis in mind.

[Manuel Transmission]

NoVaxx Rebellion: Resist, Refuse, Reject

Even more scary than previously assumed.

https://tinyurl.com/b72m5rwp

(Had to do a tinyurl to get it to post.)

[Thomas Collins]

Biden is no worse now vis a vis Russia and Red China than he would have been twenty or thirty or forty years ago. For example, Biden was a stalwart opponent of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Biden has always been a reliable Dem accommodationist to the commies.

Re the Foreign Affairs article on Taiwan in the prior thread: I suppose if Taiwan has a open secret nuke program similar to Israel's, we would have heard about it by now. The only hope for Taiwan to keep its democracy would be to have a nuke program that could credibly cause a nuke visit to Xi's men's room.

[henry]

Meanwhile from the land of a thousand lakes peaceful protests:

@vickimckenna

"Minn. has 100 National Guardsmen on standby as new gun evidence emerges in Winston Smith shooting" NEW=gun+6 spent .380 shells found in Mr. Smith's (20x convicted thug wanted on felony gun charge) car. Translation: he shot at cops. But they gotta riot!

https://twitter.com/vickimckenna/status/1405588564893749254?s=21

[Jane]

What McCain said when others fawned over Putin:

“I looked in his eyes and saw 3 letters: A K, a G, and a B.”

[Neo]

I'm not a lawyer (nor have I ever played one on TV) so I'm curious about the concept of the federal government out sourcing activities forbidden by the Bill of Rights.

We've seen this brought up in RussiaGate when the idea came that the CIA/FBI had gotten MI6 to do their dirty work. Early this year, it came up again when DHS talked about using it for avoid 4th amendment concerns. Now, it comes up again with Merrick Garland enlisting 'Big Tech' to help do their 'dirty work'.
What is the legal underpinnings of this concept. Is it illegal ? unconstitutional ?

Likewise, on the flip side .. we have had Mark Zuckerberg spread his ZuckerBucks during the election to buy ?? no one seems to know. We've also had Mike Bloomberg buying State's Attorney General's offices by sending money to cover activities (i.e. gun control, etc) that he would like them to investigate.

I see a great danger in the public/private partnerships that have no transparency.

[Jane]

Yikes! MT.

[Melinda]

Well, that's an inconvenient add to the narrative.

[Melinda]

Georgia audit documents expose significant election failures in state's largest county

Records suggest more than 100 batches of absentee ballots in Fulton County could be missing. Some experts see "election tabulation malpractice" as state officials seek to remove county's top election supervisors.

Documents that Georgia's largest county submitted to state officials as part of a post-election audit highlight significant irregularities in the Atlanta area during last November's voting, ranging from identical vote tallies repeated multiple times to large batches of absentee ballots that appear to be missing from the official ballot-scanning records.

The problems in predominantly Democratic Fulton County potentially impact thousands of ballots in a presidential race that Joe Biden was certified as winning statewide by fewer than 12,000 votes.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-audit-documents-show-unsecured-missing-ballot-batches-ballots

[Melinda]

Hmmmmm.

"This Director of Nursing says she has received an email stating that the COVID ‘Rapid Test’ has been REMOVED FROM USE,

and the CDC has issued a ‘Class 1 Recall’, which is their most serious level of recall."

https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/106426364279540182

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-june-1-2021

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRES/res.cfm?id=187082

[Melinda]

Oooooh, Interesting.....

Jeff Stein
@SpyTalker
High-level Chinese Defection Rumored: State Security Vice Minister Dong Jingwei's defection would be highest ever in the history of the People's Republic. By @matthew_brazil & @SpyTalker for @talk_spy spytalk.co/p/high-level-c…

https://twitter.com/SpyTalker/status/1405602118212390916

[Neo]

Thousands call for Jeff Bezos to be denied re-entry to Earth after space launch
https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/deny-jeff-bezos-re-entry-to-earth-after-space-launch-petition/

[Melinda]

Bloomberg Economics
@economics
A core component of the American dream — homeownership — may be slipping out of reach. Good riddance, says @karlbykarlsmith (via @bopinion) trib.al/UJAg7ro

https://twitter.com/economics/status/1405561440363286535

Wow.

[clarice]

I'm not inclined to elaborate conspiracy theories. Simper explanations often prove right. So, my take is the reason so many officials don't want to explore US funding for Wuhan is that it makes a lot of the bureaucracy look evil or at least incompetent and opens the floodgates on questions of using cut outs to fund things Congress could never approve.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Contender for stupidest question of the week?

Kattie LoVerde asked a question in Walt Disney World Adults Only.
·
How safe is the safari ride at magic kingdom? I want to go on it but, I am worried about the free roaming lions and crocodiles lol.

[Dave (in MA)]

LOLWut,

Asians are 100% shorter than Africans.
https://twitter.com/TriversRobert/status/1405266487439286274

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I suppose if Taiwan has a open secret nuke program similar to Israel's, we would have heard about it by now. The only hope for Taiwan to keep its democracy would be to have a nuke program that could credibly cause a nuke visit to Xi's men's room.--

I don't think the CCP can be certain of this. In case you didn't know TC, in the 70s Taiwan developed a nuke program right up to the point of being able to build a bomb but did not do so. At US insistence they officially abandoned the program. But they unofficially continued it and it was only the placement of a US spook that revealed the secret research program they continued that rendered it an open secret.
The lesson they learned was either to not have secret programs or they learned to be better at it. Either way, not a small risk in assuming they don't.
No doubt the CCP has plenty of spies in Taiwan but spies are pretty good at telling you what they know but not at telling you what they don't.

[henry]

Dave, does the author [literally] look up to Napoleon or Krugman?

[Melinda]

EMSC
@LastQuake
Map of felt reports received so far following the #earthquake M3.8 in Indiana 40 min ago

https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/1405615751806001159

[Neo]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the possibility of bipartisan agreement regarding a recent election reform compromise plan from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

McConnell shoots down Manchin-created election compromise
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mcconnell-shoots-down-manchin-election-compromise

[Melinda]

Disclose.tv 🚨
@disclosetv
JUST IN - Scientists did not come forward sooner to back the Wuhan lab theory because "at the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins." (NBC)

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1405557521536987139

[Neo]

Sen. Joe Manchin expressed a willingness to lower the filibuster threshold from 60 votes to 55, a significant shift from his public stance.

Joe Manchin Considering Proposal To Lower 60-Vote Filibuster Threshold
https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-manchin-considering-proposal-to-lower-60-vote-filibuster-threshold

[Melinda]

Cool.

NOW do infrastructure.....

CNBC
@CNBC
China is kicking out more than half the world’s bitcoin miners – and a whole lot of them could be headed to Texas. @KenzieSigalos reports. cnb.cx/3iOxLVa

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1405616703728402432

[Neo]

The perfect metaphor of the legacy left to the next president ..

'Little slice of hell': Colorado home destroyed by ex-tenant who covered it with obscene graffiti and feces and left behind a freezer full of rotting meat hits the market as a 'fixer-upper' for $590,000
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9693887/Colorado-home-trashed-angry-tenant-goes-sale-590-000.html

[Dave (in MA)]

Commemorating when Republicans freed the Democrats' slaves.

NEW: President Biden signs a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday pic.twitter.com/LfOM2Q7lSa

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 17, 2021

[Jim Eagle]

LOL, Dave:)

[Melinda]

Ain't that the coincidence!

Herschel Fink, the director of the AZ Democrat Party, says Stacey Abrams helped the Dems “win” in Arizona.

https://t.me/CodeMonkeyZ/502

[Narciso]

Like the vogons amd the bug blatter beast of traal

[Narciso]

The position of the top men and gargoyle

[Narciso]

Good

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/sen-risch-wont-lift-hold-on-palestinian-aid-without-guarantee-taxpayer-money-is-kept-from-terrorists/

[MissMarple2]

Daughter took me to the clinic and they sent me to ER due to low oxygen. So I am waiting on chest x-ray and I think they are going to give me an inhaler. Bonus: I will save money not smoking. 😄

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

Wouldn’t Stacy be guilty pf interfering in a federal election? That. AZ AG needs to have her arrested !

[Narciso]

Sorry to hear that miss marple hope you're feeling better

I was told ron was focusimg on ufos

[henry]

Miss M, one grandmother ended up with emphysema. Tied to an oxygen tank. Ride out the nicotine withdrawal and don’t resume smoking. You will thank yourself.

[Jane]

Get some Habitrol gum MM. it will stop the cravings.

[henry]

Pic at link

@artifacthub_

One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia

https://twitter.com/artifactshub_/status/1405349244240678914?s=21

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

Thanks for the tip. I actually dont have cravings now. When you start coughing every time you put one in your mouth, its pretty easy to ski ligjting up. 😄

Waiting for x-ray results. Hope I can leave then.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Listening to the two dolts announcing the Juneteenth holiday was traumatic. Joe's son is a one man racism machine as Joe lectures the 99% of the country who are not racist while Kamala has perhaps the worst public speaking abilities of anyone ever elected to Congress.

Senator Turdley from the great state of MasterCard and his sidekick, the Senator most likely to be duct taped after 30 seconds.

[henry]

Wow!

@bennyjohnson

Watch this parent absolutely obliterate Critical Race Theory at an Illinois school board meeting:

“How do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed?”

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1405624322643873798?s=21

[MissMarple2]

Crap. I have to stay overnight.

[henry]

Matt, just tell everyone you love declaring the day Republicans freed the slaves a National Holiday.

[henry]

Interesting. The Covid bill prohibited tax cuts. (And Evers will veto anyway).

@maciverwisc

GOP is proposing a $3.4 billion tax cut, which comes out to $1,200 in savings per typical family, $900 income tax relief per typical family, $300 property tax relief for typical home, and $200 mil tax relief for to main street.

https://twitter.com/maciverwisc/status/1405639958031912961?s=21

[henry]

How Soviet.

@bradheath

A federal judge wants every attorney whose name was on court filings seeking to overturn Michigan's presidential election results in the "Kraken" suit there to show up for a sanctions hearing on July 6.

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1405640781319319555?s=21

[Davod]

CRT is so blatant that I wonder what the ratbags are trying to sneak in while all eyes are on CRT?

[Davod]

Henry. That Twitter account has some weird responses.

[Jane]

Hope it goes ok, MM.

[Melinda]

Matthew S. DePerno, Esq.
@mdeperno
Michigan's secretary of state doesn't know what a forensic audit is, too funny. No wonder fraud occurred on her watch.

Jocelyn Benson @JocelynBenson
A forensic audit is not a thing.

Pass it on.

https://twitter.com/mdeperno/status/1405651955440029700

[GUS]

CDC and CLASS 1 recall. When you don't trust these fucking clowns, CLASS 1 means NOTHING.

[Melinda]

azfamily 3TV CBS 5
@azfamily
#BREAKING: 9 people taken to hospital after shootings throughout West Valley; suspect in custody bit.ly/3gACQih

https://twitter.com/azfamily/status/1405643872609341447

[GUS]

Mel Jocelyn the clown was snarking. She's a Wellesly and Harvad tool.

[sbwaters]

Clarice: questions of using cut outs to fund things Congress could never approve.

Should Congress or an inspector general discover that such a cut-out was used, the appropriate response would be to excise the offending department from government. Fired. No benefits. No replacement.

Letting it remain leaves in place too dangerous a construct.

[Davod]

RE. My lack of birds. A (one) Cardinal dropped by for a feed.

[Narciso]

I would say so

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/17/mark-patricia-mccloskey-plead-guilty-misdemeanor-forfeit-guns-firearms-st-louis-reports/

[Narciso]

This is one cant have nice things

https://babylonbee.com/news/teenage-boys-suddenly-less-interested-in-finding-victorias-secret-catalog-in-the-mail

[Narciso]

Heh
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/456612/#disqus_thread

[Davod]

Narciso. The East German women athletes are looking good.

[Narciso]

They have to wreck everything

You know how i feel about the treacherous nicolle wallace.

[Strawman Cometh]

Miss Marple,
This may cheer you up. The lovely Emily supports your art as money laundering scheme at the 8:00 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh5MRwxV8w

[Strawman Cometh]

oh damn, forgot what image I'd set my icon to.

[Narciso]

All is forgiven sc.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I find Strawman Cometh's avatar offensive.

[Narciso]

Shirley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/tom-hanks-white-supremacist-mark-tapson/

[Narciso]

Oh i missed this detail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9693965/Biden-falsely-claims-criminal-MAGA-rioters-killed-Capitol-cop-Brian-Sicknick.html

[jim nj]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/17/alito-was-just-pissed-trumps-supreme-court-breaks-down-along-surprising-lines-495121

“I think you have a three-three-three court,” said South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman. “I disagree with the notion that we have a six-member conservative majority on many of these divisive issues.”

[Narciso]

Josh gerstein cant grok principles, there is no consistent standard this court follows.

[jim nj]

https://jalopnik.com/lordstown-motors-continues-its-run-of-total-chaos-1847121816

The company said Thursday that it has no binding orders.

That was quick.

[jim nj]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-hamas-sites-in-gaza-in-response-to-arson-attacks-report/

Army hits rocket launchers and Hamas sites, after 3rd day of fires sparked by incendiary balloons, threatens to launch fresh campaign if attacks persist; Hamas derides ‘theatrics’

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--The company said Thursday that it has no binding orders.--

Makes sense since they don't have any product to order.

[Narciso]

How did they fark it up so badly was in solyndra on wheels.

[Dave (in MA)]

I find Strawman Cometh's avatar offensive.

It's not his fault that they have to be that small.

[Narciso]

Well its not up to scale.

[Melinda]

Thread:

@sethjlevy
Imo y’all should stop attacking @McAdooGordon. Whether she is ultimately proven right, her argument for why un-indicted co-conspirators is unlikely to be the proof of the “led by the Feds” theory is actually strong. And he career gives her an awareness of how the system works.

https://twitter.com/sethjlevy/status/1405523341394411528?s=21

Transcript of idiocy in court::

https://twitter.com/vjeannek/status/1405600514256130049?s=21

They don’t investigate anything, now. They manufacture crimes with which to convict.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--How did they fark it up so badly...--

The same evil, predatory short seller who uncovered the Nikola fraud dug into their phony books too.
I think they should ban shorts and reward massive frauds.

[Narciso]

So it was solyndra on wheels. They should give the guy a medal.

[Narciso]

And maybe gm should do some forensic accounting when it commits that much money to a project like this although when the ceo resigns more than two years ago

[MissMarple2]

So, the admitting doc came and told me I might end up staying 5-6 days. I have to get my O2 level up consistently and my heartbeat is a bit irregular.

I have crap TV and will be-no longer a smoker. I giess I don’t get to have any vices anymore.

I will tell you guys this: when I hit 80 I am going to have a double Beefeater’s martini, dry, on the rocks and a pack of Marlboro 100’s! Pfft!

Also, while I can type replies I can’t copy links. Morning news maybe Melinda or henry could do.

Thanks!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

When your enemy is more patriotic [and honest] about your country than your press;

[Narciso]

We'll take up the slack. Rest easy.

[Narciso]

I cant say i admire volodya but i understamd him to a degree and have a certain level of respect. Most who analyse him like fiona hill dont understand him or his country.

[Threadkiller]

MM, you were mentioned at my new home and I wanted to let you know that I am praying for you. I hope everything turns out well.

For what it is worth, when I had breathing troubles due to covid, I adopted the breathing exercises that Amom had posted earlier that year. The most important thing was to avoid laying on your back as that closes down the airways and allows pneumonia to set in. The doctors were very pleased with me that I had knowledge of this and was diligent in doing it. They will bring you extra pillows to make it more comfortable.

I have no idea if this is a technique for all, most, or only some lung issues. I certainly hope it helps you.

Love you, MM.

[MissMarple2]

Going over to Twitter to see what’s going on.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I giess I don’t get to have any vices anymore.--

Well, you're still deplorable so you remain an outlaw. :)
Get well soon.

[Narciso]

Call in an alpha strike

https://mobile.twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1405712283507085315

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I cant say i admire volodya...--

I don't admire him at all but still find him preferable to our domestic enemies who are doing vastly more than he is to destroy America.

[clarice]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/the_damage_done_by_probability_blindness.html

[Narciso]

The interesting thing for those who folloe such things is the month of dhul quadah in the moslem calwndar is you arent suppose to engage in hostilities now day 8 which falls saturday celebrates the battle of the trench one of the fiercest battles fought by mohammed against rival tribesman.

[Narciso]

So what did he know?

https://gildersdailyprophecy.com/posts/the-pulitzer-prize-fraud

[Catsmeat]

Re Victoria's Secrets re-make, all they need to remember is Eulalie, Eulalie Soeurs! (Ig and other Wodehouse aficionados will appreciate). I can't see how Rapinoe fills the bill--

[Porchlight]

But ask me about John McCain, who may have been the one guy that could have impressed Putin.

Oh, dear. I don't think so.