Luck of the Irish

Plus: Canada's descent into madness, California's soft bigotry of low expectations, and more...

RFK Jr.'s running mate: This week, environmental lawyer/alt-science peddler Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who is running for president as an independent, and polling quite highly—selected Nicole Shanahan, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife and a tech entrepreneur in her own right, as his veep.

Shanahan was the main funder and creative mind behind RFK Jr.'s surprisingly good Super Bowl ad:

Of course, this one pays homage to JFK's 1960 campaign ad—a fact that pissed off much of the Kennedy family, who by and large do not share RFK Jr.'s beliefs and seem moderately to severely embarrassed by him.

"My cousin's Super Bowl ad used our uncle's faces—and my Mother's," Bobby Shriver, RFK Jr.'s cousin, wrote. "She would be appalled by his deadly health care views. Respect for science, vaccines, & health care equity were in her DNA."

Now, Shanahan has been picked as running mate—which led to a strange reaction from the Libertarian Party chair. "I think that a lot of libertarians are a little bit confused over why he chose Nicole Shanahan," L.P. Chair Angela McArdle said to The Hill. "I'm sure she's a lovely person, but she doesn't necessarily fit into alignment with any of our views." But why would she need to align with Libertarian voters' views? Well, there's been plenty of speculation that the Libertarian Party seeks to throw RFK Jr. on top of the ticket—an odd choice if you consider what his Environmental Protection Agency would look like, for one.

Up until now, many pollsters and pundits had believed that RFK Jr. running as an independent would hurt former President Donald Trump more than President Joe Biden. "Right after Kennedy went indie, an NPR-PBS-Marist survey showed Biden leading Trump by three points (49 to 46 percent) in a head-to-head contest, but by 7 percent (44 to 37 percent, with RFK Jr. at 16 percent) in a three-way race. Similarly Quinnipiac had Biden leading Trump by one point head-to-head (47 to 46 percent) but by three points (39 to 36 percent, with 22 percent for RFK Jr.) with Kennedy in the mix," reported Intelligencer's Ed Kilgore.

Now, Kennedy appears to be helping, not hurting, Trump's chances: "The RealClearPolitics polling averages nationally now show Trump leading Biden by 1.6 percent (46.6 to 45.0 percent) in a two-candidate race, and by 5.4 percent (40.7 to 35.3 percent, with Kennedy at 12.3 percent) in a three-candidate race."

But Kennedy faces a significant ballot access roadblock ahead—which is solved by accepting the L.P. nom, if that's what's offered to him. Currently, Kennedy is on the ballot in Utah only. But his campaign assures voters that "it has collected enough signatures to also qualify in Nevada, Hawaii and New Hampshire," per Politico. His super PAC also says it's garnered enough signatures to be included in Michigan, South Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia. (I assume the real reason why he won't take the L.P. plunge is because the moderator of an upcoming L.P. presidential debate is yours truly, and I'm no fangirl.)

Branding the Bible: In other news from the very normal campaign trail and our very well-adjusted candidates, Trump has started selling $60 Bibles for Holy Week. "We must make America pray again," Trump said in a Truth Social sales pitch for the bibles, which is interesting messaging for a man who has repeatedly declined to name his favorite verse, called it "Two Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" in a 2016 speech at Liberty University (where you really shouldn't get that wrong), and…didn't regularly attend church before it was politically advantageous to him (still only choosing to attend on holidays and for photo ops).

"People are so shocked when they find…out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church," said Trump, who has generally declined to name a church he attends regularly, back in 2015. "In one video shared on Truth Social and played at Trump's rallies, a narrator's voice booms: 'On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God gave us Trump,'" reported Axios. And in December, Trump said he wanted to "create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias."

All of this comes together to look an awful lot like pandering to Christians, while also trying to hawk the word of God for a quick buck. Par for the course for Trump, but forgive me for not being particularly excited about this field of presidential contenders.

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Scenes from New York: It's good that the Bronx district attorney isn't asking for more money for her office. But pretty much everything else about her plea to City Council is concerning:

Progressive criminal justice mindset, in one quote: "The lack of resources for youth and mental health are driving violence, subway crime and retail theft. I cannot prosecute my way out of this. … We must invest in communities."

OK, but your job is to *be the prosecutor*, not… https://t.co/uLT3XFNleB

— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) March 27, 2024

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QUICK HITS

• "Trudeau pledges to boost renters' rights in bid for young voters" reads this disturbing headline from Bloomberg.
• Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford, responsible for having designed the new California Math Framework (CMF), which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity (soft bigotry of low expectations, anyone?). But Pirate Wires' Sanjana Friedman reported that Boaler "sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra" and that there are "30 claims of alleged citation misrepresentation in her research—the very research that underpins the CMF."
• "Efforts by Hunter Biden's lawyers to dismiss tax charges against the president's son were met with skepticism by the judge overseeing the case," reported Axios.
• The evolution of a pro-life Democrat.
• Down with Slack mob caving!

Either hire someone or don't. Either print an op-Ed or don't. If you don't want any views or reps that have ever been Trump-aligned, either say that or stand by decision to represent a large part of the electorate. This immediate retreat in face of Slack channels is so lame. https://t.co/TJJN7tAYRx

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 27, 2024

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

'Trudeau pledges to boost renters' rights in bid for young voters...

I say we all go squat in Canada. WHO'S WITH ME?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

I'll need to see the US election results, first.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You know who else squats in Canada?

[Quicktown Brix]

Sasquats?

[JesseAz]

Hockey goalies?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Curling competitors?

[Ajsloss]

Sure as shit ain't the geese, they're doing that down here.

[Sevo]

I been to Canada more than those geese have.

[Mother's Lament]

Me.

[SQRLSY One]

Moose-Mammary-Farter-Fuhrer squats in InnerMoist Islamic Canuckistanistanistanistanistan and poops out a LOT of shit... Which She then sniffs & enjoys for just a shittle while... And then posts Her Perfect shit to Reason.com!!!

[Mother's Lament]

Lol.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Bob & Doug McKensie after a batch of Moulson Golden, back bacon, and epsom salts?

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Take off, Eh.

[Longtobefree]

nobody from Florida!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the new California Math Framework (CMF), which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity...

I am beginning to suspect the public school system in America is full of Chinese plants.

[Don't look at me!]

Something isn’t adding up here.

[damikesc]

When you realize that math teachers are ed majors, not math majors, you learn the answer is the teachers themselves,

[Zeb]

Are most teachers really ed majors now? Especially for high school that seems like a terrible idea. Most of my HS teachers ( and all that were any good) had degrees or previous employment in relevant fields.

[Don't look at me!]

Well, look at Mr. White male privilege here.

[mad.casual]

Are most teachers really ed majors now? Especially for high school that seems like a terrible idea.

Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Do you think we just teleported from “degreed-specialty with education minor” to “Fuck it, let’s stop teaching kids algebra.” or do you think it was a gradual descent involving all manner of abject bullshit up to and including credentialling underwater feminist basketweaving and introducing intersectional studies requirements into hard science programs at the post-secondary level and union-mandated pay increases in regard for continuing education credit hours for *all* employees, including administrative, at the secondary level?

Because the notion of “What do you mean the education grift hasn’t gotten worse in the 20, 30… 40 yrs. since *I* went to school?” seems more absurd the older you get. If it's only 49% education majors, do you wipe your brow and walk away considering a/the crisis averted (despite the fact that we're still recommending not teaching algebra to HS students)?

[Zeb]

Short answer: no

But not having had any direct experience with schools for some time I don't actually know and it's good to actually ask about things rather than just assume my own perceptions and presumptions about the way things are going are always correct.

[soldiermedic76]

The other side of the coin is that about half (it's actually slightly higher) of education majors are in education management/administration, e.g. professional education bureaucrats. What some have labeled the education blob, a massive growth at all levels of education in administration. and these bureaucrats, who have never taught in a classroom are often responsible for setting educational policies.

[soldiermedic76]

This is also a large problem with nursing schools, a lot of the nurses graduating are specializing in nurse administration and end up working for state boards and such, with no practical experience but the blessing of a degree makes them 'experts' on nursing.

[soldiermedic76]

The majority of biology teachers have something like two semesters (usually undergraduate level) biology classes and maybe a biology class for teachers. I've had to correct several of my children's teachers on basic science knowledge. For example I had to argue with a teacher who marked my son's paper wrong when asked to list examples of omnivores and he listed pigs, bears and humans. She only gave him a one out of three (bears was the only correct answer in her opinion). For humans she tried to argue she wanted 'animals' and humans weren't animals. She got about half way through the sentence before she realized her mistake (still finished it but you could tell she had an 'oh shit' moment there). She also didn't realize that pigs are an omnivore in nature and given the chance even domesticated pigs eat meat, she thought that since we feed domesticated pigs corn and soybeans and such, that made them herbivores (had to explain the reason we do domestically is because corn And soybeans are a lot cheaper than meat to feed). Then, because I'm an asshole sometimes, I really blew her mind by staring biologically speaking there are very few animals are either true carnivores or true herbivores, that it's a spectrum (felines are near true carnivores, canines eat a surprising amount of vegetables matter in the wild).

[ducksalad]

My sister-in-law is a vegan activist with five dogs and a cat. She's made the dogs go vegan, no luck with the cat.

[soldiermedic76]

https://youtu.be/XA3jTpYOLQk

Cats don't produce the amino acid taurine, like most mammals can, therefore they have to obtain it from their food. Since plants also don't produce taurine, they must obtain it from animal sources. Therefore, trying to turn a cat vegan would have serious detrimental impacts on its health, likely even kill it.

[ducksalad]

So you're saying cats are the animal closest to a plant.

[Social Justice is neither]

No, that would be progressives. I'm talking brain activity though so YMMV.

[Randy Sax]

Bamboo?

[Yuno Hoo]

No *algebra*? This is outrageous! How Islamophobic can California get?!

[soldiermedic76]

I've lost track are semitic people, including Arabs, white this week or not?

[TheReEncogitationer]

As with all human innovations falsely attributed to religion, Algebra existed in the Arab world despite Islam, not because of it. Imam Al-Ghazali proclaimed that working with numbers was like consorting with Al-Shaytan (Da Devil) and as word spread in the Islamic world, Math and Science in that world ground to a near halt and hasn’t been the same since the 1100s C.E.

California just gave the Islamofascists a victory without firing a shot.

[soldiermedic76]

You're just getting boring now. Why not fuck off with your bigotry?

[TheReEncogitationer]

Take it up with Neil DeGrasse Tyson for the history lesson and The Nobel Prize Committee for the small number of Muslim Science winners.

[JesseAz]

Your views are always slanted.

[Idaho-Bob]

Yellow journalism.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Learn to code, er, count, er, complain!

[Anomalous]

Maybe there are other factors.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Subtle. I like it.

[n00bdragon]

I am beginning to suspect the public school system in America is full of Chinese plants.

Pretty sure the Chinese parents are the ones pushing for AP programs, not "equity".

[Social Justice is neither]

But the CCP and their ideological allies in the union would not.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Ginseng? Just don't tell "reality" show Rednecks or they'll have wars over it instead of trying to grow it!
🙂
😉

[B G]

Instead of Algebra, students will spend three years learning to accept that whenever the State needs it to be the case, 2 + 2 = 5.

For those who can't or won't accept that as truth, remedial classes are to be held in Room 101.

[sarcasmic]

Jon Stewart is accused of bumping the value of his NYC penthouse by 829 PERCENT after ranting about Trump overvaluing his properties and telling viewers tax avoidance 'is not victimless'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13246969/Jon-Stewart-accused-bumping-value-NYC-penthouse-Trump.html

[Don't look at me!]

Shameless

[JesseAz]

Do have a question for you sarc. Why did you completely avoid the roundup yesterday after Good Liz recognized and spoke our about the cost of illegal immigration? You were in the other threads.

[Super Scary]

It's fine, they already said to our faces that they weren't going to go after anyone else about that sort of thing.

[JesseAz]

And politically selective prosecution is just fine with sarc.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

That's (D)ifferent!

[damikesc]

Hilarity.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Boaler "sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra" and that there are "30 claims of alleged citation misrepresentation in her research—the very research that underpins the CMF."

People went to jail for getting their kids into colleges via fraud and bribery. What punishment should be meted out for someone sabotaging an entire generation of Californians to give her own child a leg up?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Life in California after the collapse?

[Social Justice is neither]

A promotion requiring more time in meetings?

[soldiermedic76]

Considering the growing number of so called experts (largely in the DEI and related fields) I'm thinking it's time to start launching fraud investigations. Arguably there are victims, especially in this case, and thus it's a far more righteous (using the original meaning) prosecution than what Trump's already been found guilty of (without a jury trial which seems like it should be unconstitutional, especially when the courts are wanting to fine him almost $500 million dollars).

[Medulla Oblongata]

I recently had to sit through a 30 minute DEI on “microagressions” video to check a box at work. Terrific, we’ve progressed to the point where significant effort is needed to parse out unintended insults so that EVERYONE can be offended.

A few observations:

* Among the people identified in the video as a “DEI expert” (various titles, but they boiled down to that), there was ZERO diversity; every single one of them was (or at least presented as) a black woman

* Within the panel talking about microaggressions and how they made them feel, there was not a single person who “looked like me”

[soldiermedic76]

There is no diversity in white people. A Greek person is the same as someone from Norway, don't you know?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Hush money paid on behalf of yet another Denny Hastert conservative:

Conservative bigwig Matt Schlapp agreed to hefty settlement to end sexual assault lawsuit
.
At the time of the alleged assault, Huffman was working for the Georgia GOP and Republican Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign. Huffman told CNN that Schlapp made unwanted sexual advances, including groping and fondling his groin without consent, on the ride back from two Atlanta-area bars on October 19, 2022. Schlapp then allegedly invited Huffman, who was assigned to drive the ACU chairman, to join him in his hotel room. Huffman said he had declined the offer, and hours later reported the incident to senior campaign staff.
.
The case was scheduled to go to trial in early June. By agreeing to the deal now, Schlapp and his lawyers prevented potentially damaging testimony from becoming public, including a deposition by Charlie Gerow, a former vice chair of CPAC and ACU board member who expressed serious concerns about Schlapp’s behavior in his resignation letter, as well as two witnesses who had previously accused Schlapp of sexual misconduct.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/politics/matt-schlapp-settlement-sexual-assault-lawsuit/index.html

PROTECT OUR GOP BIGSHITS!

[Mother's Lament]

For a guy who posted kiddie porn links here and got his original handle permabanned, you sure like invoking Hastert. Also, I guess Anthony Weiner, Harvey Weinstein and Bill Clinton don't count somehow because their (D)ifferent, right?

[I, Woodchipper]

small minds talk about people.

[sarcasmic]

You're talking about a person!

/Dlam thinking he's clever

[Don't look at me!]

Poor sarc. Talking about people.

[JesseAz]

Sarc Dictionary
Hypocrisy
hĭ-pŏk′rĭ-sē
noun

1. The behaviors sarc is allowed to have while accusing others of.

[Sevo]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
The sumbitch is also stupid enough to cite CNN. Fuck off and die, asshole.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Efforts by Hunter Biden's lawyers to dismiss tax charges against the president's son were met with skepticism by the judge overseeing the case...

PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE, DEADBEAT.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Cried his children.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How many now?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Not sure he knows.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Rfk Jr alt science, like when he asked any Dr to provide the data from the double blind tests for any vaccine currently used. And no Dr, not even fauci, could point to a single study

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

the moderator of an upcoming L.P. presidential debate is yours truly,

Congrats, and will you also be performing the traditional lp dance this year?

[JesseAz]

Hope she can avoid questions about baking the cake, being anti racist, and allepo.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

What's an allepo?

[mad.casual]

I hope she can pull off a v-neck or off-the-shoulder number better than Megyn Kelly and still make Kelly look like a bimbo. I think she's got a shot.

[Mickey Rat]

So the Libertarian Party is concerned about RFK Jr's VP's ideological positions but not those of the man running for president?

The LP is a party of easy virtue.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Well if RFK selected Bill Weld it be a sigh of relief to all LP members. Need someone with bona-fides.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Weld swore he was a lifetime Libertarian. Then he primaried Trump. He should get back to his roots and primary RFK.

[ducksalad]

Plenty of un-libertarian things about Weld, but primarying Trump was not one of them.

[B G]

Does the LP Primary ballot actually matter in the nominee selection? I didn't see who was on the LP primary for CA this year; after 2020 when the convention was held before "Super Tuesday" and the nominee had already been selected before I got a chance to vote, I didn't figure it actually mattered anyway.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I cannot prosecute my way out of this. … We must invest in communities.

Paging Chesa Boudin.

[Don't look at me!]

Were we “investing in communities “ when the crime rate was lower?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Doesn't legalizing theft reduce the crime rate?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Yes. Yes it does.

[Sevo]

Pretty sure he could use a job about now.

[Randy Sax]

I wonder if a female Veep is going to be a the norm going forward.

[Don't look at me!]

You can’t have chicks in charge.

[Mike Parsons]

this applies to all facets of life

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What about sandwiches?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I would have said making babies but I hear dudes can make babies these days too. So pretty much leaves sammiches.

[mad.casual]

It's almost like soft sexism of low expectations, except Harris didn't have to do anything and still managed to leave a massive crater in the DNC beneath the low bar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

'On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God gave us Trump...

Can I get an amen... the biggest, most beautiful amen?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Did god send the infant Trump down a golden escalator?

[Quicktown Brix]

Sequels always suck.

[Dillinger]

Star Trek II

[Fist of Etiquette]

Boom.

[MK Ultra]

Sadly for every Khan and Empire Strikes Back, we get a bunch of Highlander 2 level dreck.

[Dillinger]

I enjoyed the Adrian Paul series ... for the pablum it was anyway

[soldiermedic76]

Khan was good because Roddenberry was largely excluded from it's making. While Roddenberry was the driving force behind the first two (best) seasons of TOS, in the movies and TNG, the best Trek occurred after he was largely excluded from active participation.

[Dillinger]

>>because Roddenberry was largely excluded from it’s making.

is that why? somebody once called ST2 the greatest submarine movie ever made it stuck with me

[soldiermedic76]

Oh, it had its nautical roots, for sure, which was due to Roddenberry's influence, however, the submarine warfare aspect wasn't really new to Trek. The classic episode Balance of Terror was based largely on submarine hunting by surface vessels, with the Enterprise as the destroyer and the Romulan ship as the submarine. Roddenberry himself served in the USAAF but Trek was definitely nautically inspired.

[markm23]

The nautical roots were there right from the beginning. TOS was pitched as Horatio Hornblower in Space. The Enterprise was the equivalent of a frigate around 1800 AD, a fast ship that was big enough for the crew to live on the ship for years, and to contain both warriors and scientific specialists. Like Hornblower's frigates and unrated ships, it operated independently at the fringes of Federation space, exploring, meeting both primitive peoples and sophisticated technological societies, and Kirk had to make major decisions about trade and war without the time to consult his bosses back in Starfleet,

[Ajsloss]

Why would she make a newborn the caretaker of the world?

[TheReEncogitationer]

Some Omnipotent God if he needs a caretaker!

And some Omniscient, Omnibenevolent God if he picks Trump!

"We must make America pray again," Trump said in a Truth Social sales pitch for the bibles,

My ass you will, Donnie-kenezzar!

I will not bend, I will not bow, and with products of Reason and Science like a smoke/CO detector, a fire extinguisher, and a flame retardant suit, I will not burn!

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Lol. Flash that flourishing cape!

[TheReEncogitationer]

Rev. Artie has the flourishing cape. I wear camo that would make me blend into the streets of Branson, MO, which will make it harder for MAGA minions to find me.
🙂
😉

[Fist of Etiquette]

All of this comes together to look an awful lot like pandering to Christians...

A new low in presidential politics.

[Mike Parsons]

I bet this play works a lot better than, *checks notes*, calling them a threat to the country, democracy, and human decency, as is the current DNC playbook

[American Mongrel]

Thats pandering to “free thinkers” and communists. I’d call it the other side of the coin personally.

We're just used to democrats pandering to christians too.

[Jerry B.]

When I saw the headline a few months ago about China taking Washington’s pandas back, I thought for a second it said “panderers”, and had a moment of joy.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Don't forget "Literally Hitler."

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'A new low in presidential politics.'

At least on the GOP side. Democrats have been all-in on pandering to voters for decades.

[Ajsloss]

And you get free tuition! And you get a free apartment! And you get an all-expenses-paid trip to Martha's Vineyard!

[TheReEncogitationer]

Can I get everybody's ass off my lawn?

Welfare Staters, to the Left!

Holy Rollers, to the Right!

And please don't eat the daisies or the bugs on them!
🙂
😉

[Mickey Rat]

Definitely a change from the high of the Obama Administration persecuting Christians for not accepting his moral views.

[Mother's Lament]

"pandering to Christians"

That's new.

Has he tried calling them hitlers instead?

[TheReEncogitationer]

Let's do like Monty Python with the Belgians: Let's not call them anything; let's just ignore them!
🙂
😉

[Mother's Lament]

Lately that's all they're asking for.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Well, they don't return the favor to Unbelievers, so it's kinda hard to ignore them.

And with Donnie-kenezzar earning Bigly Yuge Commission on The Great Commission, it's even harder!

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah, you're so persecuted by Christians all out there enjoying their religion.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Enjoying by "Making America Pray Again."

My reply to "MAPA" is "MMM": "Make Me, Motherfucker!"
🙂
😉

[soldiermedic76]

Okay tough guy. You're oh so edgy. So cool. Like the Fonz jumping a shark on waterskis cool.

[mad.casual]

When they pandered to Henry Louis Gates, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton I said nothing. After all, I wasn’t a race-baiting socialist democrat.

Then when they pandered to Pete Buttigieg and Dylan Mulvaney, I said nothing. After all, I wasn’t a queer-baiting socialist democrat either, so I did not speak out.

When they pandered to James Hansen and Al Gore, again I remained silent. After all, I wasn’t an environmentalist socialist democrat.

Finally, when they came to pander to the Christians, I had to signal my atheist virtue about how unfair it was for anyone pander to higher order belief structures and imaginary social constructs.

[TheReEncogitationer]

You say nothing even when you speak…and fuck Rev. Martin Niemoller!

The men I admire from that time were the ones who said nothing and let the M-1 Garand–as well as homemade Partizan zip-guns and shop-made knives and axes in Sobibor–do their talking!

Oh, and I can't forget the visual:
http://www.hwsportsman.net/M1poster.gif

[Mother's Lament]

You still haven’t realized that your narrative about Niemoller is an unfair and utterly deranged fucking take that should be the height of embarrassment to anyone who prattles about reason and rationality?

[soldiermedic76]

Fuck a concentration camp survivor who repudiated his earlier Anti-semitism and initial support of Nazism (and was imprisoned for seven years and nearly lost his life as a result)? Yeah, you're quickly drifting into KAR territory with your anti-theism, now.

[Social Justice is neither]

Except the first three they did not call out because they WERE ZYZ or at least allies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now, Kennedy appears to be helping, not hurting, Trump's chances...

Ask not how to make America great again, but how great can be made American again.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

GCBMAA?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Put it on a hat.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Let an Indian drum in your face.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Ich Bien ein Trump Steak!
🙂
😉

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

'On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker."

That isn't Anthony Fauci's birthday?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Was Fauci born or leaked from a lab?

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

He's from a wet market. Going rate back then was probably $5-10 if it was standing up against a wall.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Righr next to the Pencil-Necked Geeks.
🙂
😉

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Darcel looks like an early 20th century caricature of a negroid

[Idaho-Bob]

I thought Darcel was just another trannie. I swear that's a man in woman-face.

[Randy Sax]

The hair isn't right. Needs to look more like Coolio's.

[Sandra (formerly OBL)]

sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school

LOL

Of course her Twitter bio claims she's an "Equity advocate."

#PrivilegeForMyKidsEquityForYours

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The real new (and old) Democratic Party motto.

[Commenter_XY]

That is a priceless hashtag, LOL.

[Mother's Lament]

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for handling the country's spy apparatus, seeks to ban a range of terms like 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' because they're hurtful to Muslim Americans. ODNI also instructs employees to avoid phrases such as "blacklisted," "cakewalk," "brown bag," "grandfathered," and "sanity check."

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/DF-2024-00143-Dive-Winter-23-24.pdf

But calling people "White supremacists" and accusing them of "White rage" is still mandatory.

[Mike Parsons]

Maybe "brown rage" or "islamic rage" should be a thing, being that you literally get shot/stabbed if you draw a cartoon of their fictional hero.

Really makes christians appear rather tolerant in comparison

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

At the very least, every America Islamophile rainbow warrior should have to spend a month in Gaza, wearing a T-shirt depicting a trans Mohamed.

[JesseAz]

Don't worry. Soon all criminals will be listed as white.

[Idaho-Bob]

This is already happening. I find it hilarious when the mug shot is a very dark-skinned; dreadlock sporting individual and the police description says "white".

[JesseAz]

Yeah. It is widespread already. But not total yet.

[Mother's Lament]

Not yet "mandatory", currently just a best practice.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Non-white mugshots are suppressed already.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Wait, I was told that being white is criminal.

[soldiermedic76]

Well, we all are psychopaths according to some.

[soldiermedic76]

BTW, am I white since about an eighth of my ancestry is non-caucasian (Jewish on my Mom's side, Sami on my Dad's)? I can never keep track anymore.

[Yuno Hoo]

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for handling the country’s spy apparatus, seeks to ban a range of terms

Oh, FFS! Ban "intelligence" because it's hurtful to cognitively-challenged Americans!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I hate to say it, but the collective insanity in our society and government makes me think we need a real sooting war, that might cut through all the social justice bullshit. Assuming our enemy does not fight us with diversity and equity.

[American Mongrel]

Is cakewalk homophobic or mysovagerific or what?

[Super Scary]

I had to look it up and apparently it was a type of dance contest that slaves and (later) freed slaves would participate in, with cake being the reward.

I highly doubt anyone but the most plugged-in victim would actually be insulted by someone using that word.

[Mother's Lament]

And they used it to mock the formal dances of the white slaveholders, which might be the part that ticks off the Democrats.

[Ron]

it wasn't uncommon for people of all colors to go to dances and win food products. My grandfather, a white man, won a stick of butter at a dance, there was even a picture of him with the butter in the local newspaper.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Taj Mahal enjoyed it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU764hR3I7Q

[Social Justice is neither]

This is just victim-splaining. This was a common raffle prize/activity for many poor/rural/religious groups in the US. Hell, we had these at my grade school fundraisers and there weren't any slaves within 1000 miles and over 100 years of us.

[soldiermedic76]

In the rural and frontier areas of 19th century America a basket raffle was a common form of money raising for things like churches and schools. All the single women would make baskets of food, which the men of the community would bid on. As part of winning the basket, the female who donated the basket would be the male winners date for the rest of the dance. More than a few marriages resulted as a result of this. Women would travel great distances to participate as would men. Distances of 20-50 miles (when the main mode of traveling would be horse or horse and buggy) were not uncommon. It generally raised considerably funds and allowed eligible single men and women the chance to interact which wasn't afforded in day to day activities, given the low population densities of the time. Of course today, this would probably be considered misogynistic or such.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'This week, environmental lawyer/alt-science peddler Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'

You know who else peddled alt-science?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Fauci
The entire hhs
The Harvard cancer researchers that photoshopped evidence

[JesseAz]

The CDC.

[Randy Sax]

Bill Nye the science guy - in the later years.

[JesseAz]

The failed engineer guy*

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Didn't Nye also fail at biology?

[Randy Sax]

*Music Note* Bill Nye the Nazi Spy! *Music Note* Bill biLL bill BILL Biiiiiiiiiiill......

[Super Scary]

I grew up as a Beakman's World kid anyway.

[rbike]

Beakman was better, though I thought I should have liked Nye, it was not for me. Then he turned bad.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Margaret Sanger?

[TheReEncogitationer]

Trofim Lysenko?

[Commenter_XY]

Michael Mann?

[soldiermedic76]

About 90% of nature documentary makers?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

WTF is it with nature documentaries, especially on PBS? The science content is minimal and/or crap. Instead we get an hour of human interest (usually how some, um, unconventional weirdo had to overcome dozens of struggles in order to play "nature" and videographer) and CLIMATE CHANGE--CLIMATE CHANGE--CLIMATE CHANGE.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Presbyterian is to catholic as suni is to jewdism

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Ask the Irish.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

I am irish

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Ask Fozzie bear?

[TheReEncogitationer]

They’re all “WAKA! WAKA! WAKA!”
*Wiggles ears!*
🙂
😉

[Gaear Grimsrud]

According to Joe Biden Latinos are just like the Irish. Except for the drunkenness and wife beating.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Yeah but what do you expect from the people from the Nile River?

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Latinos are also as diverse as the many types of tacos we have according to Doc Jill

[TheReEncogitationer]

I didn’t know she was a Gynecologist.
🙂
😉

[Jerry B.]

“Except for the drunkenness and wife beating.”

So, no real difference, then.

[soldiermedic76]

Hmmm. The Spanish maintained an Irish Bridge well into the 19th century. A large number of Irish fled English rule to Spain and the Spanish colonies (especially Mexico and California). So there are not an insignificant number of Irish Latinos. Just a little history tidbit.

[soldiermedic76]

Also, a lot of Scottish and English Catholics fled to the Holy Roman Empire and France during the Reigns of Elizabeth the 1st and James the 1st. In fact one of Napoleon's Marshals was a descendant of one of these Scottish expatriates.

[soldiermedic76]

And a number of the more hardcore Calvinists (like the Baptists, Puritans and Presbyterians) of that time also fled England to the Dutch Republic and the Calvinists German States (like the Palatine).

[TheReEncogitationer]

As you are to a Spelling Bee winner.

[I, Woodchipper]

But Pirate Wires' Sanjana Friedman reported that Boaler "sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra" and that there are "30 claims of alleged citation misrepresentation in her research—the very research that underpins the CMF."

Every single time with these bolsehviks. Fucking frauds,every time.

[JesseAz]

Look. If you would support the importation of limitless low skilled workers they would not need to educate low skilled workers here.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But some of them do cut out their kid's genitals, so they can signal more pure woke ideology.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Like I've pointed out before, the purpose of Freirean pedagogies like what Boaler promotes isn't to educate kids, it's to create Marxist converts and activists. That was the whole point of Obama using her studies as the basis for Common Core.

[Mother's Lament]

The ADL is claiming that “100%” is racist and white supremacist.

[Mother's Lament]

It’s actually much more sinister than just making stuff up. They publish garbage like this then other orgs and 3 letter agencies target Americans based on the ADL’s classifications and reporting

[Mother's Lament]

One could plausibly make the case that the best way to understand the real political divide in the US is between those who want our political discourse to be policed, limited and controlled by the Kate Starbirds of the world, and those who don't.

[Idaho-Bob]

Kate Starbird looks exactly like what I imagined a misinformation researcher would look like.

Classic leftist caricature.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Indeed!

[Mike Parsons]

Its the ADL and SPLC that play this game. MSM networks and propaganda outlets (I repeat myself) make up these stupid ass stories and reports, the ADL/SPLC cite them as sources for *a thing is happening*, and then other MSM outlets cite the ADL/SPLC.

Its a completely fabricated circle jerk of manufacturing propaganda

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Whatever you do in life give 100%, unless it's donating blood

[JesseAz]

I never donate because my blood is more valuable than 1 cookie and 2 oz of oj.

[Randy Sax]

But it gets you out of 12th grade english at the skool blood drive. That makes it worth it.

[Ajsloss]

Would've rather gotten into my 12th grade English teacher. Probably still would 20 years on. Miss Smart, if you're reading this...

[Super Scary]

That's the old way of doing it. Nowadays, you can just stage a walk-out for whatever was on the news this morning.

[Medulla Oblongata]

That's why it's called a "donation" and not bartering blood for cookies and juice, man.

[VinniUSMC]

Whatever you do in life give 100%, unless it’s donating blood

Leftists should definitely give 100% when donating blood.

[Mike Parsons]

is everyone trying to put the Bee out of a job by going full self parody?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What about when black-skinned people "act white"? What percent white (or black) are they?

[Night Watchman]

3/5?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Lol. They have a “glossary of extremism and hate home” page?

Imagine building an organization around this. Damn.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"My cousin's Super Bowl ad used our uncle's faces—and my Mother's," Bobby Shriver, RFK Jr.'s cousin, wrote. "She would be appalled by his deadly health care views. Respect for science, vaccines, & health care equity were in her DNA."

From one Karen to another.

[American Mongrel]

Respect for science …. in her DNA

Well, then it’s in his DNA too then, obviously!

The fucking irony.

Edit: Idk who the fuck her/his mother is. Hopefully one of his blood relatives or I'm the doofus here.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

His mom is Eunice Kennedy, one of Joe Sr's cloven-hooved spawn.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Is that the same respect they reserved for the medical staff that lobotomized Rose?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“..,,& health care equity…..”

Sigh. Anyone who uses that word sucks ass now.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'"We must make America pray again," Trump said in a Truth Social sales pitch for the bibles'

MAPA?

[VinniUSMC]

I only pray to RNGesus.

[TheReEncogitationer]

My response will be a fedora embroidered with "MMM" for:

"Make Me, Motherfucker!"
🙂
😉

[A Cynical Asshole]

I was wondering why I've seen a few more attack op-eds in the media about RFK recently.

Now, Kennedy appears to be helping, not hurting, Trump's chances: "The RealClearPolitics polling averages nationally now show Trump leading Biden by 1.6 percent (46.6 to 45.0 percent) in a two-candidate race, and by 5.4 percent (40.7 to 35.3 percent, with Kennedy at 12.3 percent) in a three-candidate race."

Now I know why.

[American Mongrel]

RFK isnt pulling more than Williamson or Stein and definitely nothing the neighborhood of 2016 Johnson. Anyone who is thinking he’s 92 Perot is smoking crack.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's because the Regime is terrified that their 2020 tactics like the 3 am ballot dump, and various reindeer games like fake water main breaks and boxes of 10,000 ballots found in a janitor's closet aren't going to be enough to overcome whatever advantage Trump has. Even marginal votes from Biden like what RFK is pulling could be enough to make a difference.

[A Cynical Asshole]

They'll do whatever it takes. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't already been a new strain of "super COVID" to justify locking everything down again and going to 100% mail-in ballots again.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

They’ll do whatever it takes. I’m kind of surprised there hasn’t already been a new strain of “super COVID” to justify locking everything down again and going to 100% mail-in ballots again.

The fact that EcoHealth Alliance and Colorado State have been running gain-of-function research in the same sloppy conditions as EcoHealth was doing in Wuhan indicates to me that it probably isn't necessarily planned (of course, I haven't seen if Gates and Schwab have been wargaming another one recently), but if it happens it's going to be through sheer incompetence, and the Regime will take advantage.

[A Cynical Asshole]

The fact that EcoHealth Alliance and Colorado State have been running gain-of-function research

Fuck, I hadn't heard about that. Although I can't say I'm surprised. Maybe a little surprised they're doing it at CSU, I would have thought they'd pick someplace overseas again. But I guess they can't use Ukraine anymore, and China's too obvious now.

[Medulla Oblongata]

DNC will be suing in states to keep RFK Jr off the ballot, like they attacked Greens last time.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'"Trudeau pledges to boost renters' rights in bid for young voters" reads this disturbing headline from Bloomberg.'

Why not have voting machines that spit out Loonies for every Liberal candidate button pushed?

[Don't look at me!]

It’s easier to make empty promises.

[Mother's Lament]

Jon Stewart benefited by 829% ‘overvalue’ of his NYC home even as he labels Trump’s civil case ‘not victimless’

But it didn’t take long for internet sleuths to look into Stewart’s own property history, which shows his New York City penthouse sold for 829% more than its assessed value, records confirmed by The Post reveal.

In 2014, Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million.
The property’s asking price at that time is not available in listing records.
But according to 2013-2014 assessor records obtained by The Post, the property had the estimated market-value at only $1.882 million

Arrest him, or is that (D)ifferent.

[JesseAz]

Stewarts reply to the story was terrible and deflection.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

That's because Jon stewert is a retard. The only people that like him are other retards

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

It's ok, because when stewart made that reply, he was just doing comedy. *clown nose on*

when he condemned trump, he was being serious, and you should take him very seriously. *clown nose off*

[sarcasmic]

Arrest him

Someone doesn't know the difference between civil and criminal law.

[Idaho-Bob]

Yeah, that would be Leticia James.

[Mother's Lament]

That's been evident since the beginning of Trump's trial.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Kathy Hochul assures us that the law only applies to Donald Trump. Stewart can rest easy.

[Minadin]

Is that still based on the 'tax assessed' value, like they used for Mar-a-Lago? The kind that says my personal vehicle is assumed to be worth something like $600, sight-unseen?

[JesseAz]

The value of the property dropped by 4M shortly after per property records. So total fraud.

[Minadin]

"To further his point, Stewart argued that “money isn’t infinite. A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation. So the system becomes incentivized for corruption.”"

This sounds like an argument I've heard here recently. I mean, like, exactly the same structure down to the exact same misconceptions lining up perfectly congruently. Weird.

[Mother's Lament]

Jeff was never original.

[JesseAz]

That was sarcs literal argument over the weekend.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation.

Except Trump still got the loans even off of those supposed over-inflated values. Stewart's sale, in a normal context, would never happen because it's so far over the actual value of the house, and I bet it's way over the comps, too.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

"A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation."

Even so far as this is true, it's up to the bank to make the determination, no?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

10% for the Fat Orange Guy.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Jon Stewart?

[Sevo]

turd certainly is dishonest, but he’s got a heaping helping of stupid to go with his dishonesty. Stupid, lying, despicable steaming pile of lefty shit and proud of it!

[Medulla Oblongata]

It is (D)ifferent. We've already been told that no similar prosecutions would be made.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford, responsible for having designed the new California Math Framework (CMF), which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity'

Does equity now include ignorance of math, so that politicians and other shaman can push whatever bullshit they want without detection?

[Mike Parsons]

Its much easier to scare people with bunk statistics if the population doesn't understand what statistics is based on and probably also didnt take study that either

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But remember, only Republicans want people to be dumb.

[American Mongrel]

That could explain why they dont teach stats/probability even to the brightest students.

[Don't look at me!]

Ignorance is strength!

[Mickey Rat]

Not everyone can be good at math so equity requires ignorance of mathematics to be fair.

How many people eventuslly die from this enforced societal incompetence? That is not important.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

This article's been getting some attention recently, and the opening statement seems appropos here:

Is society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modeling societal demise and its reversal
Just like an army of ants caught in an ant mill, individuals, groups and even whole societies are sometimes caught up in a Death Spiral, a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior characterized by continuous flawed decision
making, myopic single-minded focus on one (set of) solution(s), denial, distrust, micromanagement, dogmatic thinking and learned helplessness.

A lot of what they discuss will be familiar to anyone who read "The Fourth Turning" or Peter Turchin's work. The west is extremely lucky that Russia doesn't really have the resources to march into Europe, and that China hasn't yet decided to go off the chain, because if that happens, our elites simply aren't going to be able to rally everyone to resist them. They've spent the last generation or so deliberately alienating and provoking the very people they need to help them stave that shit off.

The collapse, when it happens, will be well and truly deserved.

[tracerv]

Spot on my man.

[A Cynical Asshole]

Fixed it for them:

"Trudeau pledges to boost renters' squatters rights in bid for young voters" reads this disturbing headline from Bloomberg.

I'm sure that's PM Zoolander really means.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Trump said he wanted to "create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias."

Excellent but Lettia James is already beating him to the punch, she's in the process of seizing lots of golden graven images.

[DaveH]

As always, Liz’ X/Twitter screenshots subtract value rather than adding it.

[Mother's Lament]

So sorry this has happened to you, White Mike.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

DaveH02 misses ENB

[Mother's Lament]

Asahikawa Medical University preprint say blood from those who received the Covid mRNA injections may not be safe for transfusions.

Concerns regarding Transfusions of Blood Products Derived from Genetic Vaccine Recipients and Proposals for Specific Measures

‘However, it has been reported from various countries around the world that genetic vaccines such as mRNA vaccines encoding spike proteins have also caused a wide variety of diseases in all organs and systems, including the nervous system, in addition to thrombosis and resulting cardiovascular disorders.’

[JesseAz]

100% safe and no downside!

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

According to Jo Boaler 1+1 =fuck you you whitey

[A Cynical Asshole]

There's nothing "soft" about this:

Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford, responsible for having designed the new California Math Framework (CMF), which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity (soft bigotry of low expectations, anyone?).

That's just plain old, out in the open bigotry.

But Pirate Wires' Sanjana Friedman reported that Boaler "sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra" and that there are "30 claims of alleged citation misrepresentation in her research—the very research that underpins the CMF."

And I'm shocked, shocked I tell you to learn that this cunt is a hypocrite and a plagiarist/ shoddy academic as well.

[JesseAz]

It wasn't just California she effected. Her studies were the basis for Obamas Common Core changes.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Good thing this is all disinformation. I wonder what an actual anti-American conspiracy would look like.

[Stuck in California]

This is nothing new. In my day, the 80s, we has a similar thing in the name of Self Esteem. We couldn't fail students, we couldn't leave them behind, and we couldn't bar them from honors classes (specifically 8th grade Algebra in my case) as it would ruin their self esteem. So none of us got through Algebra until freshman year in High School.

This is the same shit, just supercharged.

[A Cynical Asshole]

we couldn’t bar them from honors classes (specifically 8th grade Algebra in my case) as it would ruin their self esteem. So none of us got through Algebra until freshman year in High School.

This is the same shit, just supercharged.

Except that now they're not even going to bother trying to "teach" them algebra in the first place. Because math is racist.

[JesseAz]

Sorry special needs student citizens. Youre not the priority. Please leave your school so we can teach the 100% profit illegal immigrants.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/us-news/surge-of-migrant-kids-at-nyc-school-could-push-special-needs-private-school-out-of-shared-building/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

[JesseAz]

The left and institutions are bragging about fortifying elections again.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/27/leftists-bragged-about-fortifying-the-2020-election-now-theyre-flaunting-plans-to-do-it-again-in-2024/

[JesseAz]

In no widespread election fraud news...

New election in Connecticut forced to happen due to mail ballot fraud in the first election also filled with appearance of fraud.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/26/connecticut-elections-chief-reports-suspicious-activity-in-do-over-race-after-judge-overturned-primary/

Includes many suspicious reports including a random sampling of voters who never applied for ballots but were told they recieved mail in ballots.

“Eight voters out of 63 … indicated during spot check calls that they received absentee ballots despite not requesting them,” the letter states.

Over a 10% error rate.

Also paid ballots.

Another voter “indicated during a spot check call that someone came to his house to help him, had him sign some paperwork, and then took his ballot away,” the letter continued, adding that a City of Bridgeport employee alleged “a campaign was offering cash in return for completed absentee ballots” and that there were “four incidents of suspicious activity at drop boxes suggestive of absentee ballot irregularities, three apparently involving one person.”

[Gaear Grimsrud]

If at first you don't succeed...

[Mother's Lament]

Your future president, America.

Pete Buttigieg says that underpasses which were designed too low “obviously reflect racism.”

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Hmm doesn't bode well for my proposed bridge called "the retard faggot bridge" it's named in honor of pete

[JesseAz]

Feels like that bridge would be in San Francisco.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Why do black people drive extra tall cars?

[Mother's Lament]

"Something... something... giant penises" - t. Buttigieg

[Super Scary]

"I don't think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality and I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it."

This is like boiler-plate lib speak.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Translation: “Why shouldn’t we embrace the absurd?”

[Mother's Lament]

Obama Has 'Grave Concern' Biden Will Lose, Is Ready to Intervene

He's not going to let some dementia diapered relic wreck his chance for term #4.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Will Obama appear in public with his arm up Biden's asshole?

[Idaho-Bob]

Why not? The dems are fucking shameless.

[Mother's Lament]

The networks can absolutely be relied on to photoshop it out.

[Super Scary]

Mentioning graves and Biden in the same thought? Come on Barack, no spoilers!

[American Mongrel]

Obama was an absolute nobody that went from community organizer to president in 4 years. Calling him a puppet of the Illuminati or whatever made some sense if you’re conspiracy minded.

Now he’s the puppet master?

This is one of the trump enthusiast’s stupidest talking points.

[Mother's Lament]

"Obama was an absolute nobody that went from community organizer to president in 4 years."

What was that last job again?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, there’s no examples at all in history of some relative nobody rising up and ultimately being part of the oligarchic ruling class, and even taking control of that apparatus entirely.

Your reaction against what is clearly a joke post is an example of one protesting far too much. Obama isn’t any more benign a political creature than the Clintons were for a generation after Bill took control of the Presidency. Ironically, Michelle probably wishes he’d just knock it off and do book tours, but the man did always have an over-developed sense of himself. That’s what happens when the Dem-symp mainstream media appoints you as the next cultural/political messiah like they did before the 2004 DNC convention.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I heard about this private in the German army who went on to organize the community.

[Social Justice is neither]

Obviously nothing of note came of this according to the sneering attitude of the Mongrel.

[JesseAz]

Union teacher groups and local officials are using recall efforts and other means to get non union candidates ofd school boards.

Julie Hamill
@hamill_law
In this leaked video, an Orange Unified Education Association (teacher's union) leader discusses strategy for the union-led recall of non-union-backed school board members. He refers to it as a "pilot" and talks about getting "ABC Money" for the recall (ABC is the political action arm of CTA, providing campaign funding for local affiliates).
VIDEO

https://twitter.com/hamill_law/status/1769776957645029567

If you can't see the conflict of interest here you may be named Jeff or sarc.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Automatically reduce the pay of all Cali teachers by 50%

[Mother's Lament]

Poor chemjeff has a sad.

Prominent Ivy League LGBTQ activist, 53, is arrested on child porn charges at his home near Princeton University

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

No joke, that's who he got his child porn from

[Minadin]

It's weird that this keeps happening.

[Idaho-Bob]

"Weird" isn't the descriptor I would use for these creatures.

[Minadin]

Queer?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Why do you hate minor-attracted people? It's not like they are Republicans.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

What about this obscure Republican perver from 1983?

http://ObscurelinkIvepostedwithoutreading.com

-Plugly

[Longtobefree]

"The evolution of a pro-life Democrat."

Say what?
Find the pro-life parts of the democrat platform:
We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should be able to access high-quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion. We will repeal the Title X domestic gag rule and restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides vital preventive and reproductive health care for millions of people, especially low-income people, and people of color, and LGBTQ+ people, including in underserved areas.
Democrats oppose and will fight to overturn federal and state laws that create barriers to reproductive health and rights. We will repeal the Hyde Amendment, and protect and codify the right to reproductive freedom.

(the gory details, original source: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/achieving-universal-affordable-quality-health-care/)

[DesigNate]

Pro-life democrats are nominally against abortion but vote lockstep with the party and pay lip service to abortions bad sides.

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder how this came to be.

FJB is on record as supporting an amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade back in 1982.

[DesigNate]

The Democrat base got crazier and crazier and the politicians are just trying to keep up.

[Mother's Lament]

District hiring 'Whiteness' Superintendent to root out White Supremacy

[Minadin]

That will work out well.

[Don't look at me!]

Skin color is the most important thing

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES
As a member of the Superintendent’s leadership team, the Assistant Superintendent proactively supports the Superintendent to create and communicate anti-racist structures and systems, works to interrupt systems of oppression, and serves as a role model for culturally relevant pedagogy. They are unwaveringly committed to anti-racist actions and use data to adapt and sustain their efforts towards racial equity to plan, direct, and coordinate action to achieve the mission and strategic objectives. All positions are designed to support the MISSION of the St. Louis Park Public Schools: St. Louis Park Public Schools sees, inspires, and empowers each learner to live their brilliance in an environment that centers student voice and experience to create racially equitable learning that energizes and enhances the spirit of our community.'

That had to be written by a top quality grievance studies program grad, hoping for a chance at this sweet job that pays up to $200k.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Keep in mind that this is a district that's had massive white flight recently; looks the hire is to criticize white people for leaving the increasingly shitty neighborhood.

"Whiteness," incidentally, is just a cultural marxist euphemism for "bourgeois capitalism." That's why they want to "abolish" it.

[Z Crazy]

What's their problem with whiteness?

Haven't they seen pictures of cute naked white girls?

[Mother's Lament]

Former WH lawyer confirms he, behind Trump's back, organized threats of mass resignations to successfully thwart Trump from appointing an acting attorney general (@JeffClarkUS) who would seriously investigate 2020 election.

From the comments: Well, is it just me or is it odd they both work for Bill Barr's law firm now?

Free and fair elections require transparency, and the deliberate failure to investigate the numerous violations, oddities, discrepancies, and other concerns delegitimized the outcome of the 2020 election.

This is not how innocent people act. This is how people who have something to hide act.

[Don't look at me!]

BuT wE hAd A rEcOuNt!

[Gaear Grimsrud]

That's right. They counted the phony ballots twice. And absolutely confirmed that there were enough phony ballots to decide the election. What more do you people want?

[Sandra (formerly OBL)]

Thanks for illustrating why I'm convinced the 40% approval dementia patient with the unpopular DEI hire VP is a virtual lock to win reelection.

Swing voters don't want to hear whining about 2020. They made this clear in 2022. Nominating sore loser Trump is the dumbest thing Republicans could have done.

#PiedPiperBlahBlah

[Sevo]

Fuck off and die, TDS addled pile of shit.

[Mother's Lament]

Say Sandra, it doesn't bother you for a second that a lawyer working for the administration surreptitiously used threats to force other administration staff to work against the PotUS?

[tracerv]

No it doesn't bother her. She's so smart and edgy don't you know.

[Michael Ejercito]

Have you looked at the polls recently?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

The polling on real clear politics seems to indicate differently. I'm one of the more tepid trump supporters here, but your assertions that biden has a lock on reelection doesn't make sense to me.

[Social Justice is neither]

So you're cool with corruption as long as nobody bothers you with the fact that you're living a lie. Cool, now fuck off you ignorant cunt. You deserve the collapse Biden and the Democrats are bringing with your help.

[rbike]

Maybe her point is " what is anyone going to do about it if/when cheating occurs in 2024. The media, the FBI, and the Dems will again claim fairest election ever and walk away again.

[Social Justice is neither]

Which would be a point if stated directly without the sneering condescension.

[sarcasmic]

After several years not a single person has come forth to blab about a conspiracy. Not a one. Nor has any evidence been found. Not a single shred.

That right there is incontrovertible proof of an effective conspiracy and cover up.

[Idaho-Bob]

Suppressing Hunter's laptop by the feds is not a conspiracy or evidence of interference?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

MY GAWD RELEASE THE DICK PICS!

[Sevo]

turd, the TDS-addled ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

I agree with you Sevo.

If the wingnut media could have leveraged all the dick pics on that "laptop" maybe the election could have been different.

Now go swallow some Droxy like a good little cultist.

[Mother's Lament]

Outside of the bank records, the 200 bank issued Suspicious Activity reports, Wire transfers from China listing Joe Bidens home address, the Privat bank transactions, the LLCs, the texts, the emails, the WhatsApp messages, the photos of Joe with Hunter’s business partners he said he didn’t meet, the voicemails to his son, the two business partners advertising Joe as “The Brand”, the “big guy” and “the chairman”, the two whistleblowers testimonies, the recorded phone calls between Biden and Poroshenko, the video of Joe bragging about the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor, email showing Joe’s VP office helping Hunter directly, and Hunter’s statements about having to give his father half his income, it’s all about DICK PICS.

I actually don’t mind when Hillary Clinton’s Buttplug 2 invokes his “PENIS PICTURES” because it gives me an opportunity to list off all the actual evidence.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

"actual evidence"

Ha ha hilarious.

You really believe that.

[Sevo]

turd lies. That's not a surprise to anyone who reads his constant stream of bullshit.
But it's becoming obvious that as Misek is too stupid to understand the concepts of "evidence" or "relevance", the concept of "honesty" is simply beyond turd's ken.

[Mother's Lament]

What in that list isn't, Plugly?

[sarcasmic]

All of which has exactly nothing to do with the election.

[Mother's Lament]

Pluggo summoned "Dick Pics", not me.

[Sevo]

turd certainly is dishonest, but he’s got a heaping helping of stupid to go with his dishonesty. Stupid, lying, despicable steaming pile of lefty shit and proud to be!

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Oddly you haven't been seen yet on today's thread about the red-hot biden economy. Your expertise is badly needed to drown out the wingnuts.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

"Corporate profits hit record high as economy boomed in fourth quarter of 2023
BY TOBIAS BURNS - 03/28/24 11:44 AM ET"

https://thehill.com/business/4561631-corporate-hit-record-high-as-economy-boomed-in-fourth-quarter-of-2023/

[Sevo]

turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.

[Mother's Lament]

And yet the revised jobs figures show a collapse and despite the number fudging actual inflation is killing everyone but your bosses.

But hey, multi-national corporate pseudo-governments are doing great!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Are these the greedy corporations that need to pay their fair share? How dare they!

[sarcasmic]

Suppressing Hunter’s laptop by the feds is not a conspiracy or evidence of interference?

Unless I'm missing something it has zero bearing on the election.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Suppressing evidence of potential crimes by one of the candidates during the election has zero bearing on the election.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Totally NOT a Lefty shill

[Dillinger]

>> it has zero bearing on the election.

exit polling in 2020 says different.

[sarcasmic]

You’re saying people would have voted differently? Perhaps.

I’m not so sure. Personally I think that most of the unenrolled or so-called independent voters will vote all R or all D. Period. They just don’t want to enrol in a party. That the number of people who are truly independent and will vote either way is very small. So we’re talking about a small number of a small number of people possibly changing their minds. I don’t think it would have been significant, but that’s just me.

[Dillinger]

from what I've heard significant % would have voted different if laptop story was not being lied about

[sarcasmic]

I saw that too. According to the poll 58% of voters would have changed their vote? That doesn't pass the smell test. In one of the most partisan elections ever, Trump would have won with a landslide 75% of the electorate? I don't think so. Looks to me more like clever questions and manipulated numbers.

[Dillinger]

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[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

This is sarc. He will never see what he just implied.

[JesseAz]

None of the polls claimed 58% of voters would have changed their vote retard. Joe didn't even get 58% of the vote. Do you realize how stupid this lie makes you look?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

That's great sarc. But your statement that all of this has zero bearing on the election was still fucking disingenuous.

[sarcasmic]

Or maybe I’d just forgotten the absurd claim that half the people who voted for Biden would have voted for Trump if they knew about the laptop. Stupid shit like that goes in one ear and out the other.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Now you're continuing your disingenuousness by claiming that you forgot about a strawman.

What was stated above is that people would have voted differently had they known the laptop issue was real. Voting differently doesn't necessarily mean voting for trump, maybe biden voters would have sat it out, wrote in some no-name, etc.

The point is, government, media, and social media entities lied about the laptop to cover for their preferred candidate .

You claim that this has zero bearing on the election, and you wonder why people here don't take you seriously...

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Sarc claimed that chemjeff and Mike Larson were probably the most libertarian among the commenters, while announcing he was leaving forever, only to return in less than a week. Even he can't wonder why people here don't take him seriously.

[JesseAz]

The number was never half you lying retarded liberal shill. It was 3-5%.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Also wondering, sarc - did you show any of your coworkers any of your posts from the threads today? Please don't deprive them of the chance to bask in your brilliance.

[Don't look at me!]

Really?
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

[JesseAz]

Not a one. Nor has any evidence been found. Not a single shred.

As clueless as Shrikes Hunters dick pics screams.

Sarc has been given a lot of evidence. Still denies there is any. Amazingly ignorant.

[Z Crazy]

I doubt there's enough evidence to bring Brandon to trial, even if he were competent.

But there's enough evidence to take a closer look.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

We must invest in communities.”

The demand is always the same, as is the result. There's no point "investing in communities" when the community members repeatedly and predictably foul the nest over and over again. You can't fix inherently dysfunctional communities simply by giving "mo' money fo' dem programs." It will always be throwing good money after bad, and most of it's going to end up in the grifter's pocket anyway.

Crime causes poverty. Not the other way around. That's why Bukele throwing about 1.5% of the nation's population in prison ended up turning El Salvador from a basket case into one of the safest countries in Central America almost overnight.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Preparing for the Boogaloo: How Far-Right Communities Rallied on Discord for the Unite the Right Rally
.
In August 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia, had its streets swarmed by white nationalists, klansmen and far-right militia in a demonstration that was known as the Unite the Right rally. The movement was sparked after the City Council decided to appoint a commission in 2016 to discuss the removal of the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee from downtown Charlottesville. Participants were wearing military uniforms, brandishing Confederate flags and using slogans rooted in fringe ideologies. This event is often portrayed as a hallmark of the mainstreaming of a movement, once confined within niche communities, which now gathered enough manpower to amplify their claims and become a major political voice. The clash escalated when 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr rammed his car into a counter-protest marshalled by civilian members of anti-fascist movements, killing one and injuring many others. The events left the city in a state of emergency and significantly compounded existing societal tensions.

https://gnet-research.org/2024/03/25/preparing-for-the-boogaloo-how-far-right-communities-rallied-on-discord-for-the-unite-the-right-rally/

#JustTourists

[Sevo]

turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.

[Mother's Lament]

“The Global Network on Extremism and Technology”

Lol, Plugly’s not even pretending anymore and is copypasting quotes straight from DNC headquarters.

Even the Soviets would route stuff through Pravda first.

[Michael Ejercito]

Now these same people wave the Hamas flag and whine about tHe Genocide®™!

[Ron]

lets see our government is tagging anyone who buys a bible and probably tagging anyone who supports Trump. i think I'll give them a double wammy and buy a Trump Bible.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Trump Bible.

The Art of the Con?

[Sevo]

The TDS-addled turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.

[TheReEncogitationer]

My whammy to the whole system is not spending a Cent on either Giant Douche or Turd Sammich and lsharing aclink to the free-to-the-end-user:

Skeptics Annotated Bible/Qu'ran/Book of Mormon/Bhagavad Gita with bonus Apocryphal Scriptures
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com
🙂
😉

[mad.casual]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife and a tech entrepreneur in her own right

*Tilts hand*

IDK... yeah, she's more of that "in her own right" than Kamala Harris or Randi Zuckerberg but, yeah, she's a tech entrepreneur "in her own right" similar to how Harris is a VP "in her own right".

[Social Justice is neither]

If you were given tens of millions of dollars for banging some tech dude with talent you too could toss some to friends and become a tech entrepreneur.

[jagjr]

tbf Shanahan appears to have bona fides as neither entrepreneur nor VP, and Harris, while an elected VP, has spent all her time in campaign or office trying to tell people she’s the opposite of what her career as a prosecutor showed her to be. neither lady is terribly inspiring, especially if you lean libertarian.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

SBF gets 25 years for alleged crypto scam...

LAWFARE! TWO JUSTICE SYSTEMS DOUBLE STANDARD! BLERP!

[Sevo]

turd lies. turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.

[Mother's Lament]

Say Pluggo, what did SBF do?
Did he get a half billion dollar fine for it?

[DesigNate]

It’s not lawfare when you actually break a law and the prosecution doesn’t have to…you know what, you’re not even worth it.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

GDP update boosts U.S. fourth-quarter economic growth rate to 3.4%

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gdp-in-fourth-quarter-raised-to-3-4-21d6cdda

RUN FER YER LIVES BOYS!

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Did you ever find your password to your original SPB account?

[Sevo]

turd lies when he knows he’s lying. turd lies when we know he’s lying. turd lies when he knows that we know he’s lying.
turd lies. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit and a pederast besides.

[Mother's Lament]

Most Americans Aren't Buying Biden's Misleading Narrative That the Economy Is Getting Better

[JesseAz]

What percentage was government spending shrike? How's that deficit looking?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

They do not understand why supermajorities rate the condition of the economy as “only fair” or “poor” and trust former President Trump more than President Biden to steward the economy over the next four years. After all, Biden supporters rightly insist, GDP growth averaged a robust 3.4% annually during Biden’s first three years, compared to 2.7% for Trump’s. Between January 2021 and January 2024, employment grew by more than 11 million, unemployment fell by four million, and the unemployment rate plunged from 6.3% to 3.7%. In fact, unemployment has remained below four percent for two full years, the longest in history. Biden’s first three years witnessed the creation of 791,000 manufacturing jobs, almost twice the number during Trump’s first three years, and Black unemployment hit a historic low of 4.8%.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/inflation-and-the-gap-between-economic-performance-and-economic-perceptions/

BUT MAH CHEESY-POOFS IS TOO HIGH!

[Don't look at me!]

Are we no longer concerned about spittin tobaccy prices?

[Mother's Lament]

Left in the dust by the drilling rig counts.

[Sevo]

And turd's lie count.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Too bad all those "jobs" are actually government jobs, and all that "gdp growth" is actually government debt.

Hopefully when the Road War kicks off after the collapse, ol' George and Alex get their plane shot down trying to escape.

[Mother's Lament]

As the Reason article from earlier this morning explained. They are lying about the inflation markers, just like they are lying about the jobs figures. Both you and the chaps from Brookings know this.
But hey! Shills are going to shill, amirite?

...even if you're no longer paid to do it.

[Sevo]

turd lies. That's not a surprise to anyone who reads his constant stream of bullshit.
But it's becoming obvious that as Misek is too stupid to understand the concepts of "evidence" or "relevance", the concept of "honesty" is simply beyond turd's ken.

[Sandra (formerly OBL)]

Any regrets about torching your credibility throughout 2022 by telling us we were all crazy for being unimpressed with #Bidenomics?

By the end of that year even mainstream sites like NBC had to admit it was Wall Street's worst year since 2008.

Everything more expensive + tanking investments = dissatisfied voters

(Despite the robust Taylor Swift Concert Profitability Index.)

[Commenter_XY]

@LizWolfe....Good luck with the LP debate on April 12th.

Is it livestreamed, open to the public?

If you're the Moderator could you do us all a favor? Don't let anyone off with lame-ass, pithy answers that say nothing.

I want to hear LP candidates talk about specific entitlement reform they propose (and why), specifically social security and medicare. How do they intend to persuade Congress? Also, I really would like to hear how their foreign policy will differ from Team D and Team R. Would they defend Taiwan militarily? Why or why not?

If Team Libertarian wants to be taken seriously by the electorate, they need to get their collective act together. The last lady was Ok, until her BLM brainfart. This Team L crop is not exactly exciting me.

Liz Wolfe...Put them through their paces, please! (pretty please?) 🙂

[Longtobefree]

Just for the novelty of it, demand citations for all numbers claimed. Have backstage keyboard monkeys to double check the cite and it’s conclusions.

[Mother's Lament]

If you’re the Moderator could you do us all a favor? Don’t let anyone off with lame-ass, pithy answers that say nothing.

This.^

[TheReEncogitationer]

They need to tell Vermin Supreme that boot on the head is a great Orwellian flourish for a comedy act, but put on normie garb when dealing with the general public!

Oh and save the stripteasing for porn stars and Chippendales and have them perform only at the after-party when we free the U.S.A.! Then again when we free the Planet!
🙂
😉

[Roberta]

The comments on the linked YouTube of Liz Wolfe on RFK are overwhelmingly pro-Kennedy and suspicious of Reason. I think there's still something to Amash's comment about Ron Paul supporters going for the craziest son of a bitch in the room.

[Social Justice is neither]

Are you trying to say Reason have been paragons of Libertarianism for the last decade? Don't get me wrong, neither scores high on Libertarianism for me but it may just be RFK supporters + libertarians shitting on Reason for being proggie lite.

[BYODB]

Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford, responsible for having designed the new California Math Framework (CMF), which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity (soft bigotry of low expectations, anyone?). But Pirate Wires' Sanjana Friedman reported that Boaler "sent her own children to a $48,000-a-year private school that teaches its middle schoolers algebra" and that there are "30 claims of alleged citation misrepresentation in her research—the very research that underpins the CMF."

Well, of course. Their kids aren't African American so they are capable of so much more because of their skin color upbringing.

It's amazing watching the same beliefs from progressives at the turn of the century crop up today, just with minor tweaks to the justifications.

[Dillinger]

free John Eastman!

[Dillinger]

>>"I think that a lot of libertarians are a little bit confused over why he chose Nicole Shanahan," L.P. Chair Angela McArdle said

not really. he. said. he. is. (D). out. loud.

[Dillinger]

>>Up until now, many pollsters and pundits had believed that RFK Jr. running as an independent would hurt former President Donald Trump

knock four months off that up until now part

[Dillinger]

>>All of this comes together to look an awful lot like pandering to Christians

idk when you're breaking up with me but I am gonna miss you.

[Dillinger]

>>which will not teach the majority of middle schoolers algebra in the name of equity

which will now teach?

[Dillinger]

>>I cannot prosecute my way out of this.

nothing short of a resignation, Prosecutor.

[Social Justice is neither]

A drive by would be acceptable andvpoetic justice.

[Dillinger]

>>because the moderator of an upcoming L.P. presidential debate is yours truly, and I'm no fangirl.

please don't advance anyone the questions

[Uomo Del Ghiaccio]

Trump is a narcissist, was a mediocre president, the target of a weaponized judicial system and heavily biased corporate media. No VP choice but he should chose someone who can stand up to him and keep his ego in check. Someone who would appeals to women and disaffected democrats. Maybe Tulsi Gabberd, former democrat darling turned democrat turncoat, in the military but anti-war.

Biden is a senile puppet of the deep state and power elites, life long corrupt politician, and unmitigated disaster. His VP Harris is as bad as Biden but for different reasons. There is absolutely nothing salvageable about Biden or Harris under any scenario or combination other than eliminating both Biden and Harris from the ticket.

Kennedy is old school democrat from a political family. He questions the dogma more than most democrats, but still holds on to some idiotic democrat dogma. Running as a independent is a gigantic hurdle. Not sure about Nicole Shanahan, nice add, but sounds like she believes a log of absurd democrat dogma, but she does have money and is willing to spend it.

There isn't a libertarian candidate at this time, but the libertarian VP is not selected by the presidential nominee, but rather voted on separately. If the libertarian party flirted with Kennedy and made him the nominee, I would expect that Nicole Shanahan would also need to be voted on and not appointed.

If I was voting, I would not vote for Nicole Shanahan or Kennedy without some extremely strong public announcements that renounce a lot of the idiotic democrat dogma positions and in public support more libertarian positions.

Under these circumstance, the Libertarian party would gain exposure and potentially match funds (the DNC and RNC would attempt to change the rules again), and better ballot access. The odds are against Kennedy even as a Libertarian nominee winning.

Trump believes that the deep state and alphabet agencies were targeting him and that to 2020 elections were rigged, but Kennedy winning as a Libertarian would make the targeting of Trump look like happy-days.

[jagjr]

Nicole Shanahan, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife and a tech entrepreneur in her own right, as his veep.

really?? why shouldn't that be "Nicole Shanahan, tech entrepreneur, as his veep." how is the rest relevant??