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2022-04-23 Home Front: Politix
Biden holds up Portland as model for America, foresees expanded Senate majority
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Posted by Fred 2022-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Portland!

A 'model' - of course.
Anarchy - a model for Woke/AmeriKKa.
Censorship - a model for Woke/AmeriKKa.
Destruction of a great public university.
Posted by Black Charlie Flirong2629 2022-04-23 00:36||   2022-04-23 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ We assume you are prudent enough to sort information of all types and sources from actual news.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-23 01:58||   2022-04-23 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 It's "honestly" followed by "just,"
Then a "think" and a "most;" again "just"
Plus emotional terms,
As his audience squirms
At these truths from a troll we can trust.
Posted by Ulains Ebbeager8625 2022-04-23 04:56||   2022-04-23 04:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Fester, there are plenty of articles with no comments on Rantburg. Ever wonder why?
Posted by Xyz 2022-04-23 06:42||   2022-04-23 06:42|| Front Page Top

#5 "Right wing" in America covers a lot of ground today. Or so the left likes to tell us.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 06:49||   2022-04-23 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes. Now is the part where you tell me to "get myself educated."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 06:51||   2022-04-23 06:51|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Yes, trolls come and go, but finally we now have Splat to guide through the labyrinth of beguiling misinformation and deceit. Lucky we are.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-23 07:02||   2022-04-23 07:02|| Front Page Top

#8 And thanks for the honorary Q membership. I had been on the fence, myself...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:03||   2022-04-23 07:03|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ By "grew up," he probably means "transitioned..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:08||   2022-04-23 07:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Did I say an election was stolen? Can't remember doing so. But carry on...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:09||   2022-04-23 07:09|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ No. I don't pay any attention to things that don't affect me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:10||   2022-04-23 07:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Come on. Fester's comments were hardly worth deleting. He's not going to hurt anyone's feeling here!
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:12||   2022-04-23 07:12|| Front Page Top

#13 But he's it's wasting our time. The comments here are for us to learn cool stuff from each other and share awful music and movie clips.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:13||   2022-04-23 07:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Good ol Herb was big on "Site your evidence! Where's the link11!1111!!!!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:18||   2022-04-23 07:18|| Front Page Top

#15 
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:20||   2022-04-23 07:20|| Front Page Top

#16 Always remember: The left says "The First Amendment only applies to gummint!"
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:24||   2022-04-23 07:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Notice the libs quit this site because they are harassed and deleted so often? TW asked some to lighten up on pro Russian commenters because we might learn something. Fester prob has little to offer, but the mods in this case are way too sensitive.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:25||   2022-04-23 07:25|| Front Page Top

#18 I disagree. This particular one was just poking the hornets' nest.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:27||   2022-04-23 07:27|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ Alinsky rules.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:29||   2022-04-23 07:29|| Front Page Top

#20 Well, now.
You're wrong.
There are many other regulars who have posted equally stupid stuff and didn't get censored.
Grom wished death to many here and was allowed to post. This guy was a lightweight compared to grom.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:30||   2022-04-23 07:30|| Front Page Top

#21 I've been spam copped myself. And deserved it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:31||   2022-04-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#22 Maybe i should start reporting some of those comments and IP addresses of people are threatening politicians to the relevant authorities?

After all, the GOP does claim to be the party of "Law & order", right?
Posted by Fester Splat1466 2022-04-23 07:33||   2022-04-23 07:33|| Front Page Top

#23 wish death upon Politicians they don't like

One of the clear, hard and fast rules here, you Do. Not. Do. That.

Your assertion you used to be a regular here doesn't pass the smell test.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:33||   2022-04-23 07:33|| Front Page Top

#24 GOPe would like to put contracts on lots of politicians. From their own party.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:34||   2022-04-23 07:34|| Front Page Top

#25 I read many of the Fester posts you deleted, they were dumb, not worth censoring. I would appreciate it if you were more tolerant of the lefties. Many of us enjoy toying with them.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:35||   2022-04-23 07:35|| Front Page Top

#26 Re: #46. I'm not a mod.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:36||   2022-04-23 07:36|| Front Page Top

#27 What do lefties say? "Well, start your own (blog, social media platform, bank, country, etc.)
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:37||   2022-04-23 07:37|| Front Page Top

#28 Sorry MM, I thought you were. Maybe censorship here shouldn't be anonymous.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:39||   2022-04-23 07:39|| Front Page Top

#29 ^ Yes, it is. I feel that's a good thing. Seriously.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:41||   2022-04-23 07:41|| Front Page Top

#30 It's the name calling that puts people off Splat.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-23 07:44||   2022-04-23 07:44|| Front Page Top

#31 It's a funny thing. The left hates anonymity when it doesn't suit them. Then they put on balaclavas and black bandannas to do their teefa and BLMmo stuff.

It's, what's the word? Inconsistent? Phony?

Hypocritical! That's the word.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:45||   2022-04-23 07:45|| Front Page Top

#32 Fester, please don't be so petty. If you have a point make it w/o insulting. Then you will get the dialogue you are looking for.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:50||   2022-04-23 07:50|| Front Page Top

#33 That's kind of like me saying that all Republicans are poorly educated traitorous insurrectionists who believe in QAnon.

You are the one tossing "Q-tard" around buddy.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:52||   2022-04-23 07:52|| Front Page Top

#34 Did you not just participate/read in this thread?
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-23 07:53||   2022-04-23 07:53|| Front Page Top

#35 /\ Democratic supporter? Disappointing indeed. I gauged your intellect well above that.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-23 07:55||   2022-04-23 07:55|| Front Page Top

#36 ^ I was having a laugh. Of course, if anything I say can be held against me it must have been said in all earnestness.

I think that's from the FBI training video.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 07:55||   2022-04-23 07:55|| Front Page Top

#37 No. Republican bashing is low hanging fruit in many cases. See: Mittens, Murder Turtle, Murkey, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney. On and on.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 08:06||   2022-04-23 08:06|| Front Page Top

#38 Judging by the number of comments this early in the day, I'd say a nerve has been struck....
Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-23 08:45||   2022-04-23 08:45|| Front Page Top

#39 
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 08:49||   2022-04-23 08:49|| Front Page Top

#40 No nerves struck here...Just curious as to why admins don't leave any reason as to why they remove comments and are hypocrites.

Not your concern.
Posted by badanov 2022-04-23 08:56||   2022-04-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#41 I thought the caption underneath the picture spelled it out pretty succinctly...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 08:56||   2022-04-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#42 Um. The picture with caption has something called "context." When you call me, a person you have never met and probably never will, "Q-tard, moron, etc." you are telling me about you, not me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 09:01||   2022-04-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#43 It's still name-calling...But, nice try at deflecting there.

This is a privately owned public forum. If you don't like how you are treated, surely there are other forums which will treat you as you think you should be treated.
Posted by badanov 2022-04-23 09:06||   2022-04-23 09:06|| Front Page Top

#44 There used to be a 'sink hole' feature where masked comments were dumped. If you really wanted, you could go look.

And RB's sarcasm font could use a little work.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2022-04-23 09:07||   2022-04-23 09:07|| Front Page Top

#45 'And RB's sarcasm font could use a little work.'
THAT was light-duty sarcasm from me, bye the way.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2022-04-23 09:10||   2022-04-23 09:10|| Front Page Top

#46 Did people wake up with their butt hurt meters pegged? Get over it folks. If TW or the MODs think you have over stepped, you probably have. If you dont like it, start your own site...

As far as Portland goes, Let "ALL" the libs move to that bastion. The city was burned, most small businesses have gone and the large ones are moving. Lots of opportunity to make Portland look like San Fran....
Posted by 49 Pan 2022-04-23 09:11||   2022-04-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#47 If Portland and SF get in a p*ssing contest, my money's on Frisco.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 09:20||   2022-04-23 09:20|| Front Page Top

#48 I would like to see the return of the sinkhole or if things must be deleted then responses to the deletion should go as well. This thread is a confusing mess to follow with half the conservation missing.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-04-23 12:03||   2022-04-23 12:03|| Front Page Top

#49 half the conservation missing.

Not missing much. It was name-calling and making it "All about Meeeee"
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 12:05||   2022-04-23 12:05|| Front Page Top

#50 It's funny how many assumptions they make, like that MM was a mod. Or that we're all part of the Qanon thing. Honestly I wouldn't know where to find it. The oilfield has a few idiots, I remember one that planned to vote for Bernie, despite the fact Bernie PROMISED to put us out of work. She claimed I probably read something Stormer and a bunch of other stuff I never heard of. I told her it was odd that I, a die hard conservative and constitutionalist had never heard of them yet she had. She got quiet for a moment and then said "Fox News", I laughed and answered "They're a bunch of leftists" She was quite unhappy.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-04-23 12:45||   2022-04-23 12:45|| Front Page Top

#51 Isn't this is the place which has gone so shit lawyers don't need law degrees or BAR exams.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-23 13:19||   2022-04-23 13:19|| Front Page Top

#52 Not missing much

I'll take your word for it, Frank G.
Gawd knows Smoky and the cop have been needed round here lately. Methinks there are libtards posing as ultraRight and such too, out to gaslight Rantburg or get it in trouble. I coulda sworn I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice, passing off as pro-this and anti-that.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-23 16:55||   2022-04-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#53 I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice,

Can't be me, I constantly smell like maple bacon.
Posted by Slappy 2022-04-23 16:58||   2022-04-23 16:58|| Front Page Top

#54 Of course not, Slappy. 🙂

It was one of those random nyms jumping in an' out. Going on about how Russia, India and China would soon rule the world just because some stupid bastard in the WH has had his four years.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-23 17:08||   2022-04-23 17:08|| Front Page Top

#55 #50
It’s supposed to be “Well reasoned discourse”. Not what some mod wants you to read.
Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2022-04-23 18:15||   2022-04-23 18:15|| Front Page Top

#56 It is well-reasoned discourse. Bring your arguments, thoughts and lines of reasoning and leave the death threats to Americans, name calling and crying outside. I've been sinktrapped more than once and deserved it too. We fight with logic, reason and moral imperatives here, not poo.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-04-23 18:36||   2022-04-23 18:36|| Front Page Top

#57 I always thought Q-anon was Controlled Opposition.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-23 19:57||   2022-04-23 19:57|| Front Page Top

#58 #55 #50
It’s supposed to be “Well reasoned discourse”. Not what some mod wants you to read.

Heh. I've spamcopped myself when I got too emotionally pissed off and responded inappropriatedly. I don't give a f*ck what you read.
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 20:00||   2022-04-23 20:00|| Front Page Top

#59 I too would like to see the return of the sink trap
Why did it go away in the first place?
Posted by Jan 2022-04-23 21:16||   2022-04-23 21:16|| Front Page Top

#60 ^ IIRC It clogged
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 21:22||   2022-04-23 21:22|| Front Page Top

#61 The sink trap disappeared years ago in one of Fred’s upgrades. It was interesting to see what was in it, but mostly of the contents were uninteresting insults or spam.

I missed the excitement today, but have no doubt the deletions were deserved. Some of our new visitors have the mistaken impression that flame wars are well reasoned discourse, or that repeating their point multiple times, only louder, will persuade our readers.

I smelled a moslem in here too once or twice,

I wouldn’t be surprised. We get all sorts of interesting visitors here, Dron, from all over the world.

libtards posing as ultraRight and such too, out to gaslight Rantburg or get it in trouble.

Gaslighting doesn’t work well with the experienced cynics round here, but one of the reasons the moderators are as strict as we are is that we will not allow Fred to be set up when he has spent so much time making this place for us.

I've spamcopped myself

You aren’t the only one, Frank G.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-23 21:25||   2022-04-23 21:25|| Front Page Top

#62  Good ol Herb was big on "Site your evidence!

He meant cite, of course, unless it was a pun on demanding links.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-23 21:26||   2022-04-23 21:26|| Front Page Top

#63 I miss Herbs posts. The most the scroll wheel on my mouse ever worked.
Posted by Slappy 2022-04-23 21:54||   2022-04-23 21:54|| Front Page Top

#64 Don't "Beetlejuice" us, Slappy
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 22:40||   2022-04-23 22:40|| Front Page Top

#65 
Posted by Xyz 2022-04-23 23:55||   2022-04-23 23:55|| Front Page Top

#66 Desperate to get that in wunny?
Posted by Beldar Munster1899 2022-04-23 23:59||   2022-04-23 23:59|| Front Page Top

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