Said Barack Obama at his Florida rally speech yesterday. Transcript.
October 25, 2020
"We’ve got a president who actually suggested selling Puerto Rico. Believe it or not, it could have been worse. He once asked our national security officials if he could nuke hurricanes."
"I mean, at least he didn’t do that. A nuclear hurricane seems like it would have been bad. I mean, it would be funny if it wasn’t. Look. Some of the rhetoric you’re hearing down here in South Florida, it’s just made up. It’s just nonsense. Listening to the Republicans, you’d think Joe was more Communist than the Castros. Don’t fall for that garbage, don’t fall for that okey-doke. Joe Biden is not a socialist. He was a senator from Delaware. He was my vice president. I think folks would know if he’s a secret socialist by now.... [The President] likes to act tough and talk tough. He thinks scowling and being mean is tough, and being rude is tough. But when 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain’t all that tough. You got to walk out of a 60 Minutes interview, then you’re never going to stand up to a dictator. If you’re spending all your time complaining about how mean reporters are to you, you’re not going to stand up to Putin.... With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you won’t have to think about them every single day. There might be a whole day where they don’t be on TV. There might be a whole day where they don’t tweet some craziness. You won’t have to argue about them every day. It won’t be so exhausting. Just having a normal president.... We’re not going to have a president that goes out of his way to insult anybody who he doesn’t think is nice enough to him. We won’t have a president who threatens people with jail for just criticizing him. That’s not normal behavior, Florida. You wouldn’t tolerate it from a co-worker. You wouldn’t tolerate it from a high-school principal. You won’t tolerate it from a coach. You wouldn’t tolerate it from a family member. Florida Man wouldn’t even do this stuff."
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Selling puerto rico was a great idea. But you probably couldn't give it away.
Obama lost Crimea and started new wars and poured gasoline on old ones. He should probably shut up.
Is that the one where only 35-40 people showed up and 70 watched online?
Selling Puerto Rico is a good idea, though I doubt there are going to be any takers.
The US should never have kept it in the first place.
Its always been a White Elephant. Keeping it was a historical error, a minor one all things considered, but still.
The trouble came with the subsequent immigration, development of a dependency relationship and political entanglements keeping it in place.
Is that the second time BO has imagined Kamala “at the helm”? All because he too once had the hots for her?
Barack Obama? The guy that used to be President?
How about that. I wondered what he'd been doing. People say he gives a really convincing speech.
When Obama needed a scapegoat for his Benghazi fiasco he didn't threaten people with jail. He actually put a guy in prison for a year, had him hauled away in the middle of the night with lots of TV coverage.
Have normal Presidents been bribed by Russia and China?
After Trump wins, all sorts of Obama Administration people are going to jail. Joe is at the top of the list.
Our previous normal President thought we had 57 states and that Austria had its own language.
One of those two had Americans jailed and surveiled. It wasn’t the great cheetoh.
That's nice...
This helps Trump because it's all true and you love him for it.
What's wrong with selling Puerto Rico? I'd recommend an auction, with a reserve price of say $10 million. No communist bidders.
Oh Oh. The Democrats are bringing out the BIG GUN. Looks like trouble in Florida.
That's our Obama. Note that the governor of Puerto Rico has endorsed Trump and the 2020 hurricane season has been a bust for hopeful Democrats :) Hurricanes aren't stupid.
"You won’t have to argue about them every day. It won’t be so exhausting."
Yeah that whole Obamacare thing was like a relaxing massage - downright sleep inducing. No arguing at all. FFS I thought I had a bad memory...
Obama is the most overrated “orator” in my or anyone’s lifetime. When he’s off the cuff, he’s a legitimately bad public speaker. And I find his voice and his halting speaking style and his ponderous “um’s” to be annoying.
I’ve heard that Trump is the poor man’s idea of what a rich man is. Well, I would say that Obama is the idiot man’s idea of what a great “orator” is.
We had a president, for two terms, that actually suggested there are 57 States and lied to us all when he said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.". And we hear about Joe and Kamala being at the helm again. Gonna need three reefs in the main for that pair to be able to control the ship.
You know how I know he's speaking propaganda? He uses the word "ain't". Just a regular guy that Barrack.
The latter half of his speech is ok. But the first half:
Where I come from it’s ok to ask wild questions when dealing with big issues like selling a piece of your nation or nuking a hurricane that will cause death and destruction. It also tells your team to open their minds and think outside the norm. Doesn’t mean you actually plan to do those things.
Obama is a really eloquent hack. The fact he’s so actively campaigning only at
The end of the election season for his former VP speaks so many volumes about how much of a hack he is.
If people elect Joe, Joe is not the socialist we need to worry about.
As I have said before, Trump is Obama's legacy.
Thanks, Obama!
All those people listening to Barack, fantasizing about voting for him again. Is this a leftie fantasy theme here today?
I don't get the critique. I like people who think outside the box. The problem with the oligarch left, including Obama, is that they've already decided on an end game of Brave New World with a dusting of 1984 when absolutely necessary. They have a plan and thinking outside the box is potentially dangerous to that plan.
How much would we have to pay the Obamas to get the two of them to go away and stay away?
Until former President Obama and former Vice President Biden can explain clearly and concisely on why they literally gave pallets of cash to a terrorist sponsoring nation, responsible for American deaths, they can both shut their traitor pie holes.
It sounds like Obama got the Choom gang back together at the new mansion. Careful Barack, the new stuff is a lot stronger than what you remember.
"There might be a whole day where they don’t be on TV."
I be skeptical.
What’s Obama’s record campaigning in Florida for other people?
I'm sure all 12 people in the audience agreed with him. Obama isn't the draw he was 12 years ago.
"We won’t have a president who threatens people with jail for just criticizing him."
Is this a reference to Hillary in 2016? I'm pretty sure she did more than criticize Trump.
"It won’t be so exhausting”
That’s been their plan all along, to make us understand that Democrats are our natural rulers, our betters, and if we defy them by voting the wrong way, they will make us pay dearly.
Obama is desperate.
If you like your health insurance plan you can keep your plan.
Anything else, Barack, other than preventing a peaceful transition, you corrupt prick!
Obama needs to stay off the stage or people are going to realize he isn't very smart.
I saw the last few minutes of that.
Obama sprinkled lies all through the part I saw. The crowd ate it up.
I wonder how big a crowd Obama drew.
Sell Puerto Rico, buy Greenland. Something to consider.
Nuke hurricanes? As in disrupt their cohesive structure, and dissipate their energy pumps? We should probably let Nature take its wise course, prepare and react so that we may enjoy our seaside estates.
Joe Biden is not a socialist.
Single/central organization and redistributive change.
That said, Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Such a "burden".
I thought he wanted to Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland and a back-up center forward from Copenhagen.
He's pathetic. He spied on the Trump administration, and he weaponized the intelligence agencies. He should be in prison, not out bloviating. He makes my skin crawl.
Talk about "dreck"....
You should have posted his tax lie that he spewed yesterday too...https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/10/25/still-lying-his-as-off-obama-tells-vapid-crowd-hes-proud-to-pay-40-cents-on-every-dollar-in-taxes-gets-busted-by-his-tax-return/
Still as tone deaf as ever, I see.
You are a communist as well Barry.
We won’t have a president who threatens people with jail for just criticizing him.
Never happened, Barack.
Meanwhile, your adminsitration put several reporters in jail for not cooperating with you (revealing sources, usually).
You won’t have to argue about them every day. It won’t be so exhausting.
Two major TDS symptoms.
He once asked our national security officials if he could nuke hurricanes."
That didn't happen. If anything, he asked if nukes could be used to stop hurricanes from hitting the US. If.
threatens people with jail for just criticizing him.
That didn't happen.
With Joe and Kamala at the helm,
Puke.
Does anybody listen to this asshole anymore?
Joe Biden is not a socialist. He was a senator from Delaware. He was my vice president. I think folks would know if he’s a secret socialist by now....
The problem is folks know he's corrupt by now.
Will talking about "Florida Man" in Florida go over well? It's an honest question, because I don't know if that's a local joke or not. It might well be.
His exit was stage left. Why is he wandering around the props in the next act?
Rumor has it that Obama drew less than a hundred people. Any links to video of his rallies?
Biden campaign actually promoting rallies at Florida polling stations after Harris campaigns to voters in line in Ohio.
Elsewhere, wearing a MAGA hat or holding a Trump poster near voting area gets you arrested.
If I got access to the government experts that a President gets and could tell them to check things out or answer my questions, I'd ask some pretty wild ones too. Nuking hurricanes would be one, but not the craziest one. It doesn't hurt to ask, or at least it shouldn't. Why do Democrats always want people to learn less, to be exposed to less information, to not question the status quo.
¶With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you won’t have to think about them every single day. There might be a whole day where they don’t be on TV.
I believe older ships sometimes had an emergency wheel in steerage, the ship's basement.
Biden-Harris = Bait-Switch
I looked up the Puerto Rico BS....I want proof that he said that. I don't believe Obama holdovers....They haven't been the most truthful bunch....It was said on MSNBC. Enough said.
Trump is the Joe Rogan of politics. Tries lots of stuff. Successful at most of it. Asks lots of questions with the goal of learning things. For most Pols the only question is "who has money for me?"
Newsweek (Liberal magazine) even says he said it jokingly, but Obama just has to spread fake information, that Twitter and FaceBook will run with....because they don't care about the truth.....(when the lies come from Democrats) It really is getting sickening. Obama should have Known better, but he is the Great Divider after all. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-once-joked-trading-puerto-rico-greenland-1455689
Do Florida men have the sense of humor about how they're portrayed in national media that Obama seems to bank on?
Obama has been terrible at getting Democrats elected. See his over-the-top endorsement of Hillary at the 2016 Dem convention, for example.
He praised Hillary, who was America's 2nd choice to Trump (fer God's sake) as the most qualified presidential candidate in the history of the US.
Obama's entire career was directed at making him the president of the chattering class, and by God, that is what he was. He had no interest at all in being the president of the people who, due to economic insecurity, clung bitterly to their guns and to their religion.
Junior high arguments.
Obama was and is the biggest liar in the history of the American presidency by a factor of ten. As many have pointed out, his was the most corrupt administration ever. He gave nukes to terrorist Iran and lied to Congress and the American people about the deal. He lied to the people about acts of war against our nation. He lied repeatedly about Obamacare, his trillion dollar stimulus, Benghazi, Iran, his IRS scandal, and many others.
And he directed a coup attempt against his successor executed by his corrupted FBI, CIA, NSA and DOJ. And note -- he allowed private contractors working for liberal groups to have unlimited to access NSA intercepts for years and years. If the lid ever comes off that scandal, America may come apart at the seams. In a country with any justice at all, he'd spend the rest of his life in prison.
"There might be a whole day where they don’t tweet some craziness. You won’t have to argue about them every day. It won’t be so exhausting."
The essential pitch to the nice women of America.
"Just having a normal president"
You know, like, the normal president who spies on a major political campaign and lays the groundwork for a prosecution hoax and coup attempt. That kind of normal.
"We won’t have a president who threatens people with jail for just criticizing him."
Hey, ask James Rosen and the Libya video maker.
Rally held by supposedly beloved former President.
Attendance "400 people and 260 cars."
Pathetic.
Compare to a Trump rally.
BHO is a true Florida Man.
Ref: https://heavy.com/news/obama-rally-for-biden-crowd-photos-florida/
Obama's never been through a hurricane. I have. 4 Cat 4-5s and 3-4 Cat 2-3s. That's just the ones where the eye passed over (or in Hugo, through) my house.
If I never go through another, I'll be a very happy camper. Using nukes on them sounds good to me, if they work.
I remember back in the 50's talk about blowing a hurricane apart with a nuke. So not a new idea. I seem to recall that if the explosion is powerful enough, the physics work.
Nukes can be designed clean or dirty. Clean is pretty much just blast with some fallout.
I don't understand why this is a crazy idea.
John Henry
“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
Fidel Castro
As for selling Puerto Rico, the problem would be finding a buyer. Ask me again in 10 days. We have a vote on whether we want statehood, Estado Libre Asociado (A/K/A Commonwealth, A/K/A same-old, same-old) or independence.
I expect a reprise of previous referenda/plebescites 45/48/7% give or take. No predictions about which is the 45 or the 48 but not independence.
My personal opinion is that ELA should not be on the ballot. After 70 years, we need to piss or get off the pot. Statehood or independence. ELA is not a legitimate political status. Not in the US.
And statehood means statehood. Identical to other states with no semi-separate "National identity" as the statehood politicians like to call it.
I don't know how I'll vote Tuesday. I may just write Donald Trump for governor and leave the rest of the ballots blank. With a big X to show that I voted but didn't vote FOR anyone. Maybe write "None of the above"
If you see the results from fajardo and it 10m votes for asshole A, 9m for asshole B, 1m for asshole C, and 1 for Donald Trump you will know how I finally decided.
John Henry
OTOH, China Joe might sell Puerto Rico to China for a couple hookers and a bag of coke.
John Henry
I love how intellectuals sneer at thinking outside the box, and asking questions.
Nice of Barack Obama to remind Althouse and other AWFLs that Trump didn’t invent the use of sarcasm and snarky put-downs to belittle a political opponent.
Blogger bonkti said...
I believe older ships sometimes had an emergency wheel in steerage, the ship's basement.
I believe that is why they called it "steerage". All US Navy ships have, or had, back in the day, emergency steering gear. It was locaded in the stern under the fantail.
There was generally a backup hydraulic system and, for when the ship really hit the fan, a manual system consisting of chainfalls hooked to a tiller on the rudder post.
My GQ station, for a while, was in emergency steering.
John Henry
"How much would we have to pay the Obamas to get the two of them to go away and stay away?"
Not as much as Trump; I hear he's hurting for money since that sweet fake reality show payday ended.
"Nuking hurricanes would be one, but not the craziest one. It doesn't hurt to ask, or at least it shouldn't."
No matter how you spin it, asking if hurricans can be nuked is crazy...and stupid.
Barack Obama walks to the podium.
Florida man asks, "Who sent you?"
Did President Obama stand up to dictators? Trying to remember.
Ah, yes, it's good to hear from the president who was reeleected with a smaller number of votes than he was elected with. The president who won reelection while a majority of Americans polled thought we were on the wrong track. In whose favor NPR did a great segment featuring economist after economist saying, We've run all the models and 1.5% growth is probably this country can do no matter who's in charge.
The president to whom a Democratic predecessor - campaigning for his wife! - referred when he commented, during Year 8, "millions and millions and millions and millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he painted and they cannot find themselves in it to save their lives.” The man whose presidency made enough people willing to take a flyer on Trump.
I'm grateful for his very, very wise thoughts on our current political choice.
Blogger Robert Cook said...
Not as much as Trump; I hear he's hurting for money since that sweet fake reality show payday ended.
Obviously you have not looked at his financial reporting diled with the FEC.
Not surprising given how proud you seem to be of your aliteracy.
And why would asking if a hurricane can be nuked either crazy or stupid?
Ever been through one, Cookie?
John Henry
I could spend an hour picking this apart. But I'll take this tack. Trump thinks outside the box with concepts. Democrats/Liberals/Progressive minds hear his words and take them verbatim. For instance:
>He said off the cuff in that conference, maybe we could use bleach or UV lights inside the body to kill the virus? Beside numerous science fiction stories about micro-sized ships and people going inside the body to do our work, we now live in the age of nanotechnology. Think outside the box. How can our knowledge of nano be used to 'disinfect' the body. I was right with him when he said that we might be able to disinfect our interior. How to do that? The left was, and is still making jokes about Trump telling the American people to drink bleach. That was not the concept.
>Using nukes to blow up hurricanes? Again- the concept is to break up the storm manually. How to do that? He's talking outside the box, but not literally. Conceptually. Again- it's been written about in science fiction. Not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe not with nukes, but some other way. Again- concepts. I'm sure the side that believes gender is whatever you feel it is from day to day can understand concepts.
And with regard to selling Puerto Rico. Trump is a developer by trade. Puerto Rico is a negative asset in many ways. It is a financial drain with no clear path to changing that. Making it a state would not decrease the financial drain. It would do the opposite. We're already facing bailing out the states of Illinois, New York, and California to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. Selling PR is akin to selling off a bad asset. Again- thinking outside the box. It is worth considering.
tcrosse said...
Biden-Harris = Bait-Switch
...like this--Scary!
The two things I love most about the Obama years:
* all the racial healing
* all the refugees
That's some big talk from the man who famously whined:
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions"
Back when he was running for President.
"He spied on the Trump administration, and he weaponized the intelligence agencies."
Please. The intelligence agencies have been weaponized for decades. They've probably never not been weaponized. One recent pre-Obama instance was the revelation that the Bush administration was having the NSA spy on our phone calls and emails without warrants. Later, Ed Snowden released documents that showed the NSA's spying on Americans was continuing and was vaster than we had known. No doubt they are still spying on us.
Trump asked a question I’ve wondered about from the time I first learned that a hurricane is a massive heat engine: is there a way to disrupt the heat engine while it’s still out over open ocean? Points to Trump for thinking outside the box, not like lazy, talent-free Robert Cook bemoaning that people who work hard get ahead of him in our capitalist system.
I do remember that Obama once made fun of Donald Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner. Five years later Trump was President of the United States. Four! More! Years!
My God, Obama sounds like your worst boyfriend. He could give master classes in gaslighting.
Nice to see that we have a physicist here to explain then physics of Hurricanes.
Where did you get that, Cook? Wikipedia?
Sometimes the real difference between politicians is who has a staff that's loyal enough to cover up and clean up the messes and who doesn't.
Floating the idea of selling PR is a great way to frame the issue of statehood. A natural first reaction is, "Who the fuck would want to buy it?" Followed quickly by, "If it's that big a drain, why the fuck would we want to make it a state?"
That question answers itself.
At work today, I saw bundles of the new issue of Time magazine, which has cover art by Shepard Fairey, the same artist who came up with the Obama "Hope" poster. It's just what you would expect:
TIME REPLACES ITS LOGO WITH ‘VOTE’ ON LATEST COVER
Here's my commentary on it from my Facebook post, on which I posted a picture of the Time cover alongside a Chinese propaganda poster with a big red star on the ceiling over the soldier and workers:
This is the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine. Notice anything about it? Hint: Take a good look at her mask, right at the bridge of her nose. Just as the Devil gets all the good music, so the collectivists get all the good propaganda. Biden may say he’s not a socialist, but it’s apparent that some of his supporters are. Compare and contrast. Note the stars on her lapels. Note the star on the ballot going into the ballot box. And note the chain surrounding the American flag as if it is a symbol of oppression.
More okey doke from the jug eared fool.
Joe's not a communist. He's a corrupt politician owned by the former Russian communists, the current Chinese Communists and the former Ukrainian communists. He'll do whatever they want as long as he gets paid. Just ask Diane Feinstein's driver.
“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
Fidel Castro
if you need to deny you're a commie, well, you probably are one.
"...Said Barack Obama at his Florida rally speech yesterday..." 400 people and 228 cars - that's a real attendance record for the Biden campaign. Saw a video of Harris electioneering in front of voters in line to vote - I believe those numbers exceeded Obama's numbers. Does that mean Harris is more popular than Obama?
phantommut said...
Will talking about "Florida Man" in Florida go over well? It's an honest question, because I don't know if that's a local joke or not. It might well be.
"Florida Man" is a result of our Sunshine Law where all arrests and criminal proceedings are public record. Most other states don't have such a law, so their stupid criminals have less exposure.
Also, it should be noted that the majority of Floridians moved here from somewhere else, myself included. Many of those "Florida Man" or "Florida Woman" stories involve someone who moved here from Up North and brought their crazy with them.
Howard said...
This helps Trump because it's all true and you love him for it.
Democrats are just stupid people.
I don't believe anything Obama says.
Not as much as Trump; I hear he's hurting for money since that sweet fake reality show payday ended.
Smart take, Cookie. That must be why he's still donating his presidential salary, right?
Turn PR into a free enterprise zone.
Start incorporating English into schooling as the primary language.
Repeal the Jones Act.
See if it works. Couldn't hurt.
The problem with PR has been poor management compounded by adverse selection, i.e. productive young people have left to the mainland. It's a shockingly old island.
But everything I learned about PR, I learned from my girlfriend.
Smarmy little maggot.
"Joe Biden is not a socialist."
He's a Trojan horse's ass who is good at capitalizing on political access.
I'm not joking!
Professional lady said... Obama is desperate.
serious question: What will O'Bama's legacy be?
That he was the man that enabled the Trump Presidency?
The ACA (O'Bamacare)? is THAT his legacy? Is THAT something to crow about?
His Foreign Policy? WAS there an O'Bama foreign policy?
Seriously, What will O'Bama's legacy be?
That he lost the dems BOTH the congress AND the Presidency?
If (GOD willing), Jo Biden is defeated; could Anyone point to ANY O'Bama coattails?
Didn't Race-Baiter-In-Chief Obama campaign for Hillary? Did she win?
Sad. It’s her blog but Ann cannot dare provide any pro-Obama commentary.
The Democrat party is now closer to Castro than it is to JFK.
If Nixon was forced to resign over covering up a two-bit burglary committed by outsiders, why have there been no consequences for Obama's lame-duck Oval Office orchestration of efforts to hide his and various federal agencies' tracks in their promotion of a spurious Russian conspiracy theory that was treated as gospel truth for the better part of four years?
Has he or Biden, who was there too, ever been asked about it? Even once?
Rule of law is a noble idea, but it only can retain the consent of the governed if all parties are held to the same standard. If it's only bad when the other team does it, citizens are right to demand justice. You don't have to be a Trump supporter to be upset by this.
We're on a very slippery slope here.
Joe Biden is senile and will be beholden to the socialist left.
Barack remains an unrepentant cocksucker.
P.S. Selling PR is a great idea.
We can buy Greenland with the cash.
JPS said...
Did President Obama stand up to dictators? Trying to remember.
No, he told Medvedev "This is my last election," President Obama said in words caught on an open mic. "After my election, I have more flexibility." President Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you."
He went to a baseball game and did the wave with Castro in Cuba. I'm sure there are other cases that I don't remember at the moment...
"When Obama needed a scapegoat for his Benghazi fiasco..."
And all these years later nobody knows where he was during a major foreign policy crisis.
Rumors range from smoking weed to having a gay fling with Reggie.
Why not both?
JPS said...
Did President Obama stand up to dictators?
I don't think so. Saw a lot of pictures of him kneeling in front of them. Mostly shot from behind him, head bobbing up and down a little bit. Wouldn't call it standing up exactly.
Using the government to pad your children's coffers IS NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR.
If Joe goes down, there's a lot of folks goin with him.
Actually I think we should put Puerto Rico on the market for a month or so and if it doesn’t sell give it independence. Whether they want it or not. I’m so old I remember when the PR independence movement shot up the House of Representatives
Professional lady said...Obama is desperate.
Nah. He is a lazy wannabe academic who was discovered by Chicago Marxists and groomed to become a state senator, then a US senator. He had everything handed to him.
Look up "empty suit" and you should find a picture of Barack Hussein Obama.
And remember, Obama had the most sycophantic press in history.
His ass was sore from being kissed so much.
He has no idea how to handle a hostile press because he NEVER had to...
Florida Man wouldn’t even do this stuff.
Wow. What is it with Democrats wanting to insult the voters?
It's easy to mock outside-the-box thinking. Suggesting outrageous ideas is part of brainstorming. You say anything you think of because your silly suggestion might trigger an idea that's actually useful by someone else. Also, you just never know. Purchasing Alaska was mocked, air flight was mocked, personal computers were mocked. Of course, a lot of bad ideas were mocked too, but it's not the mocking that makes an idea bad or good.
As a Florida native, all I can say is that Obama's belief that selling Puerto Rico would be a negative in Florida is about what one would expect from the president who thought rearming Iran would be a step toward peace in the Middle East.
Robert Cook said...
No matter how you spin it, asking if hurricans (sic) can be nuked is crazy...and stupid."
Not being a sainted weather scientist, Trump asked if such a thing were possible. Note that, presumably based on what the sainted weather scientists told him, Trump didn't nuke any hurricanes.
Two conclusions:
1. Trump is a believer in science.
2. Robert Cook thinks asking questions is improper.
Meanwhile, Obama and Bidens Nazis are attacking Jews in New York.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1320425646800199682
The only reason I have to argue about Trump every day is that Trump haters won’t shut up about how much they hate him.
I don’t blame Trump for that.
obama/biden selling the US piece by piece...
No Joe is a capitalist pig dog siphoning funding from corrupt communists ripping off their folks at home.
Joe is a kleptocrat using his son as a bag man.
Now he is using the destruction of his son for sympathy points, and people are buying that. Pundits are using it as a weapon to shame people who dare to be horrified.
Obama is such an asshole. And we know there will be pressure by the Dems to make PR a state. As well as DC. I think we should sell DC! Let's move the government into flyover states. And our news agencies should represent the whole of the country, not just NY and DC, as they do now. [I can dream, can't I?]
Face it: No one who, like Obama and Biden, has spent his entire life feeding at the government trough, should ever be elected. Let's only elect people who have spent at least part of their adult lives working in the private sector. The days of lifelong 'public servants' is over. Or should be over.
Nukes can be designed clean or dirty. Clean is pretty much just blast with some fallout.
I ran and mapped fallout models in '84-5. If it detonates high enough in the air, fallout is negligible, but you won't dent the siloes. It might need to be pretty high over the ocean--we didn't look at that.
Oh, and if the USSR sets off its missiles, northern Maine is your best bet for survival in the Lower 48.
Maybe China would be interested in a package deal: Puerto Rico AND Washington DC [or whatever antifa changes its name to] to pay off some of our debts. They can have California, too, as far as I'm concerned. I understand they already own many of our ports.
Robert Cook said... No matter how you spin it, asking if hurricans can be nuked is crazy...and stupid.
Why?
Tell me about the science, Cookie.
"Obama is the most overrated “orator” in my or anyone’s lifetime."
Pretty much. Wasn't Obama and Obamacare personally responsible for gutting the democratic party for at least 2 election cycles? That's some speechifying. The only thing Obama's "oratory" was ever good for was re-electing Obama but that was pretty much it. He had negative coat tales and was box office poison in the red states. Ask Senator McCaskill how that obamacare vote worked out for her?
Pulling Obama out of retirement is all you need to know about how well Biden's campaign is doing and what sort of erosion in black support has been happening. If joe is 10 points ahead nationally, why do they need Obama in battleground states?
We have a vice president who used his name, position and family to rake in millions - much of it American Tax Payer dollars washed in various international funds and boards buying and selling influence, bogus kick-backs for no-experience bullshit. While Hunter lives large in Hollywood, driving his fancy cars, smoking crack, fucking strippers and under age girls... and even impregnating one, - we are to fear Trump telling jokes about nuking hurricanes.
Got it.
Notice that Hillary is not campaigning for the Bait-Switch ticket, although she has made noises about wanting to be SecDef.
I assume Obama had his TelePrompTer with him. Don't leave home without it.
Obama is a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Joe Biden is not a socialist.
Isn't it amazing no one is a socialist or a communist, but somehow every police the left advances takes us closer to socialism and communism, yet not one single policy increases our freedom. Not one.
What a coincidence.
well son of a bitch! man.
This guy was a “Uniter”? I’m sure this message is great for people who already hate Trump or the people who support him, but this is the attitude that lead to Trump’s election in the first place.
Is Obama even capable of discussing positions opposing his own without resorting to straw men or taking things out of context?
I didn’t vote for Trump last time around and may not this time either, but this is the kind of discourse that makes me stay away from the Democrats.
Nuke hurricanes? Buy peace with the Ayatolla? Drill, baby drill? Phase petroleum out, phase wind and solar in?
There are no stupid questions. There are only stupid answers.
You won’t have to argue about them every day. It won’t be so exhausting.
Is this a good position? Who believes you should argue politics with your family and friends every minute of your life? The personal is political.
Dems are only unhappy that after decades of doing this unopposed people have finally had enough. Are Americans stupid enough to believe yhe person who argued you should get in people's faces over politics or whose wife proudly proclaimed he wouldn't let you go back to your life wants a return to normalcy?
Gaslighting.
Temujin: I challenge you to find an instance in which President Trump suggested the use of bleach inside the body. You have fallen for the big lie (which sometimes mentions Lysol instead). As I recall the word used was “disinfect” though it might have been “disinfectant”.
Howard the racist said...
"This helps Trump because it's all true and you love him for it."
How many ballots have you forged today? Better get on it boy. Biden aint gettin in without you guys stuffin ballot boxes and bustin heads.
Of course, for Red Diaper Barry, statism is "normal."
Ah, Biden brought out the JV to stump for him. Mr. If you like your doctor...and the guy who said that Biden could really F stuff up. Man believes in little and stands for less. You decide which of either I am talking about.
How much dreck did WaPo publish during Mr Obama's administration?
The NYT gets my four bucks each month because they publish some essays etc I want to read. They also get whatever the games cost. (I wonder if one can subscribe to the games and not to the newspaper itself?) WaPo had some sort of deal more or less in that range (don't remember exactly) but I stopped paying even that at the last request for renewal, last year sometime, I believe: even four bucks a month (or whatever it was), if one doesn't read anything, is nonsense. Would be different if I still lived in DC, I suppose. Dreck, indeed.
gilbar @3:06 PM:, You owe me nothing, but kindly don't try to turn Barry Soetoro's assumed name into an Irish surname. As a proud American Hibernian, I loathe the man and take umbrage at the insult to my honest and hard-working ancestors, as well as myself and my living relatives.
On second thought, you owe me an apology. Thank you.
"We're already facing bailing out the states of Illinois, New York, and California to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars"
The hell we are -- If the states go bankrupt, let the go bankrupt! The creditors can pick over the carcass of what's left.
On the other hand, maybe the US should bail them out, under the following very generous conditions:
1. Those states are dissolved, and refer to being federal territory.
2. No one who has held elective or appointed office in those states in the last 30 years shall ever hold any elective, pointed, or hired government position anywhere in the United States.
3. Anyone who has voted in California in the last 20 years, and is still a resident of California at the time of dissolution, shall receive a lifetime ban on voting in any federal, state, or local election anywhere in the United States.
Robert Cook said...
"Nuking hurricanes would be one, but not the craziest one. It doesn't hurt to ask, or at least it shouldn't."
No matter how you spin it, asking if hurricans can be nuked is crazy...and stupid.
Maybe you should take a remedial history course, that idea has been around longer than I have been alive.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/11/hurricanes-weather-history-nuclear-weapons/
In a speech delivered at the National Press Club on October 11, 1961, Francis W. Riechelderfer, the head of the U.S. Weather Bureau, said he could “imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea.”
"Joe Biden is not a socialist."
I'd like to ask people who make this assertion: why, what's wrong with socialism?
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Obama is desperate to retain some shreds of his "legacy". He know that won't happen if Trump wins.
Obama is desperate to retain some shreds of his "legacy". He know that won't happen if Trump wins.
Notice that Hillary is not campaigning for the Bait-Switch ticket, although she has made noises about wanting to be SecDef.
I wonder if all the leftist money whores - Pelosi family - Biden family - Clinton family - if they secretly resent each other. I know they stand shoulder to shoulder as leftists, but I have this idea that they hold weird feelings about each other's grift.
"No matter how you spin it, asking if hurricans can be nuked is crazy...and stupid."
I wonder how much money could be saved if the world's scientists could just ask Mr Cook such questions. I just don't understand why "Cook for President" isn't a thing yet.
Robert Cook said...
[He spied on the Trump administration, and he weaponized the intelligence agencies.]
Please. The intelligence agencies have been weaponized for decades. They've probably never not been weaponized.
It's literally an unbelievable coincidence every single time Cook asserts his "both sides-ism" it serves to defend the left.
Sell Puerto Rico? Nuke Hurricanes? Both ideas worthy of some thought. Probably take too large a nuke to blow out a hurricane, but be interesting to try if one could be found in an isolated location.
Ranking student in my pilot training class was a F-89 Navigator from some ANG unit in one on the Dakotas. A sometime mission for them was directing sonic booms to trigger avalanches in dangerous areas. Field artillery was also used.
On of the weapons carried by the F-89 was the MB-1 Genie (Missile-Bomb? Malistic Bissle); an unguided rocket with 2kt nuke for airburst near the intruder.
Here is a demo of the Genie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZ7FQHTaR4
And... explosive charges are often used to blow out oil well fires.
Delaware electing Joe Biden all these years should void their statehood. Combine it with Maryland.
Perhaps there is a fundamental reason the left doesn't understand brain storming...
Delaware electing Joe Biden all these years should void their statehood. Combine it with Maryland.
@TosaGuy, what do you have against Maryland?
Jim at: "Does anybody listen to this asshole anymore?"
10/25/20, 1:36 PM
Yes.
Self-described lifelong republicans, who are actually far left democrats, living in Michigan, record and relive each and every syllable uttered by their "magnificent" obama over and over and over again.
As if it were a Hare Krishna chant.
Marc said: (I wonder if one can subscribe to the games and not to the newspaper itself?)
I think you can get the games, but the spouse and I went cold turkey in early 2019 and are happier for it. I thought I'd miss the word games, but since I'd watched television only occasionally since high school and never had been a video gamer, I had grown frustrated with the hipster clues.
If that makes me and my backgrounds in literature, history and economics irrelevant, well, I can live with that.
Walk away.
You can't nuke a hurricane...but you can give nukes to the Ayatollah? Florida Man wouldn't do that, either.
Kirk, as a resident of California, I accept.
1) Also, all california state pension and retiree health care beneficiaries get moved to Social Security and Medicare, and the pensions confiscated by the Feds as part of the repayment of debt.
2) Territorial taxes are reduced accordingly.
3) All state employees are immediately fired. The new territorial government, administered by the Feds can hire bureaucrats, cops, etc after they re-interview for their jobs. All territory government jobs are "at will" - no civil service protection. Public schools are dissolved; vouchers are distributed to parents who can use them for charters and private and religious schools.
4) All City governments are dissolved; county administration (appointed by Feds) become the new local government agencies. Too-large counties (LA, San Diego, Alameda, Santa Clara County and others) are broken up accordingly. (the only livable places in California tend to be unincorporated).
5) All state regulations eliminated and defaulted to the appropriate federal regulation. I.e. no state/territory regulations beyond the federal clean air and water acts, worker comp, territory becomes right to work, etc.
6) The territory of California will also be divided over time into at least 2, if not 3 territories. These territories can then re-apply for statehood after a minimum of 20 years or merged into neighboring states (i.e. Finally get the state of Jefferson with the appropriate Oregon counties).
I didn’t have job for 2 years under this fn ahole, After working non stop since 16,while he was vacationing in my state 2-3 weeks at a time. Evil most definitely
Tosaguy,
Why shouldn't the DuPonts have their very own state to play with?
Or are y9u saying they are such a blessing to this country they should have 2?
John Henry
In the National Review:
“ President Obama said …, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”…Obama also said … “You know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”
Those are the *real* money quotes
The wages of Obama is Trump.
Joe Biden may not be a socialist. You might ask Barky why he seems to think that's a bad thing.
Barky sent billions in cash to the America-hating Muslim terrorists running Iran. Fact. And no, my brainwashed liberal retard friends, it wasn't "their money".
Joe Biden Inc. is a corrupt influence peddling operation that has gotten rich selling out America to its friends and enemies for 47 years. And the media has gone all in on censoring the truth about this grifting operation.
These corrupt Democrats need to be put down, and put down hard.
steve uhr said...
"Sad. It’s her blog but Ann cannot dare provide any pro-Obama commentary."
There is so much that could be said to deconstruct this statement. it covers so much territory. Let me just say; Althouse is about free speech. Not about speech you want to hear. If you have something to say "pro-Obama" then say it. But you better bring your A game.
I think folks would know if he’s a secret socialist by now....
I picked Joe's name in this year's "secret socialist" drawing.
Does anybody know what gift he might like?
Imagine that. No tweets and craziness. Just crack pipes and the demented big guy. And nasally miss kamelling along.
Don't have the words to explain how much he's not missed.
"The Democrat party is now closer to Castro than it is to JFK."
Hahahaha!
WHY am I thinking "he's waaaaaaaaaaay past his sell-by date?"
The good thing about "Ann Althouse" is despite her academic bias (Liberal) she inadvertently gave Obama a bigger audience (168 comments by bloggers) vs. during his speech - less than 100 people heard it - includes his entourage and Biden's campaign flunkies.
TosaGuy,
If Delaware goes anywhere, it should be back to Pennsylvania, not Maryland, as it was in 1682. The Chancery Court in London denied Maryland's claims and agreed with William Penn, James Duke of York agreed, and PA absorbed the 3 lower counties, until the Quakers pissed off the Delawarians enough that they just voted to leave the pacifists so they could shoot Frenchmen, Indians, and pirates.
steve uhr said...
"Sad. It’s her blog but Ann cannot dare provide any pro-Obama commentary."
There is so much that could be said to deconstruct this statement. it covers so much territory. Let me just say; Althouse is about free speech. Not about speech you want to hear. If you have something to say "pro-Obama" then say it. But you better bring your A game.
wild chicken said...
Selling puerto rico was a great idea. But you probably couldn't give it away.
I have a team that would cheerfully buy Puerto Rico. Just let me know when it does come up for sale.
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