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Re: A woman's place is in the home. Stupid Doog 2024-06-03 12:49 AM
It may be his opinion (and it appears to be a growing opinion among the Right), but when those women just spent 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars on an education it’s terribly tone deaf to tell them to stop fuckin around and get back to the kitchen.
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Re: Trump Beating Biden Matter-eater Man 2024-05-31 11:58 AM
The law didn’t force Trump to have sex with a porn star and then pay hush money to keep her quiet before an election. There was a time this would have been a problem for a candidate for our highest office. After Jan 6 I already know his supporters will support him no matter what. It’s also unlikely that Trump will see jail time for this as he will certainly appeal. That will take years.
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Robert De Niro Speaks Up. Lothar of The Hill People 2024-05-30 10:01 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/poli...ess-conference-trump-camp-sot-ctm-digvid

Meh. He's been ranting about Trump for years. I bet he secretly votes for Trump.
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Re: Trump indicted again (attempt to steal election edition) Lothar of The Hill People 2024-05-30 9:51 PM
I'm more of a fan of an angry rant.
Maybe next time you could do that.
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Re: For the love of MAD... Wonder Boy 2024-05-28 4:32 AM
Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
[Linked Image from i.pinimg.com]

This one, posted earlier in the topic, is from MAD 139, Dec 1970.
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Re: John Byrne: The good years, the bad years, and what the heck went wrong? Wonder Boy 2024-05-28 1:30 AM
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Given the Memorial Day holiday today (and in the weeks leading up to July 4th) , I thought I'd also mention Byrne's CAPTAIN AMERICA run, in issues 247-255.
Teamed with Roger Stern, penciilled by Byrne, with Rubinstein inks. A great little run.

I especially like the issue where Captain America runs for president in issue 250.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Captain-America-1968/Issue-250?id=9492

And also the story that partly re-lives Cap's World War II Golden Age glory days in issues 253-254, with an aged Union Jack, Baron Blood, and a mysterious series of vampire murders in the English countryside, coinciding with Cap's visit to the region.
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I also loved the opening 3-issue story in 247-249, in a more SF vein, with Cap visiting Nick Fury and a hidden SHIELD tech center in the middle of Manhattan, with a lot of cool robots and futuristic high-tech machinery that Byrne excels at, along with the giant gargoyle-looking Dragon Man.

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And the great finale in issue 255, re-telling Captain America's origin story, that again strokes he heartstrings of nationalism and patriotism at the core of what makes the character work. And a nice plus, most of the story is reproduced directly from Byrne's pencils, only partially inked, that also gives the art a nice additional layer of texture and detail, and somehow also adds to the story's Golden Age look and tribute.

This run was also reprinted in the CAPTAIN AMERICA: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE collected trade, with an additional 6 pages of Byrne pencils, for an issue had been left unfinished when Roger Stern and John Byrne both abruptly left the series, due to editorial interference, by either Jim Shooter or the book editor, or both. As I recall, Byrne quit, and then Stern left in solidarity with Byrne.
And then Stern took over DOCTOR STRANGE for a great run in 46-73.
And Byrne took over as writer/artist on FANTASTIC FOUR 232-293.
So in a way it worked out, but one can't help what might have been, if they remained on CAPTAIN AMERICA for another year or two, and finished the storyline they'd in interviews disscussed having already plotted.

Roger Stern's best work was on this CAPTAIN AMERICA series, on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 224-250, and on DOCTOR STRANGE 46-73.
Two of the three of which he left because of ediorial interference (on SPIDER-MAN, Stern had planned to reveal the Hobgoblin's identity with issue 250, but after a year's worth of buildup, the book editor blocked what Stern had planned, so he left the series.
Gee, why did Stern leave Marvel to write SUPERMAN? I can't imagine.
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Re: Valentina Gomez says "don't be weak and gay" Wonder Boy 2024-05-22 12:18 AM
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No doubt this Gomez chick running for office mmade a big mistake, and opened herself up to mockery. It kind of reminds me of former Taxi series star comedian Andy Kaufman angrily challenging people to fights, and you didn't know whether he was joking or serious, and it pretty much immediately ended his comedy career, because in a disturbing and unfunny way, he was just insane. I think he died shortly after.

Or how about this guy...



Youtube: Biden assures voters Obama "has a big stick"



"I promise you. I PROMISE you !"
Biden obsesses over Obama's big stick. And never realizes why people are laughing.
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Re: Biden tells 15 lies in 17 minutes. Wonder Boy 2024-05-22 12:01 AM
30 years ago, I saw aa study done of Johnny Carson's presidential jokes, and it showed him pretty much 50/50 equally making fun of both Republicans and Democrats.

Man, are those days gone.
Late night comedy has become the exclusive realm of left-wing Republican-bashers, by ALL the late-night comedians, and SNL on Saturdays as well.
Worst of all, they're not even funny, they don't even try[ to be funny. They just rant and say mean stuff about Republicans, and the audience laughs, not because it's funny, but just because the audience is all people who hate Republicans. So it's no actual laughter, it's just humorlessly stoking pure hatred.
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Re: Black people don't even know what a computer is. Wonder Boy 2024-05-21 10:41 PM
I did a quick reading of the last 24 years of elections, and wha percent of minorities voted Republican, courtesy of Wikipedia:

.............BLACK............HISPANIC..........ASIAN..........JEWISH.......

2000........9%................35%....................41%...............(19%, Gallup poll)

2004.......11%................44%....................43%...............25%

2008........4%.................31%....................35% ..............21%

2012........6%..................27%...................26%...............30%

2016........8%..................29%....................29%...............24%

2020........12%.................33%...................36%...............22%


It has taken a while to break the Democrat party's "Republican = racist" narrative, and for all these groups to see they are suffering under Democrat pary rule.

Jewish voters in particular this year I think will make a dramatic shift toward voting Republican, since Biden and he Democrats have made it clear they are the party of Hamas, and cutting off military aid for Israel.

As well as the party of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Cultural Marxism, explosive and unvetted illegal immigration, he party of naionwide riots, of shoplifting, of carjacking, of international gangs, the party of human traffickers, he party of drug cartels, the party of wide open borders, and hyperinflation in every region of our economy.

Oh, and for free hotels and housing for illegals, food stamps for illegals, free healthcare, free cel phones and clothes for illegals, and at times displacing U.S. military veterans and American-born poor from shelters and schools, to give those places over to illegals instead.

Oh, and ultimately : allowing illegals to vote illegally in U.S. elections. That is precisely the plan, not by accident.
A report I saw tonight said an estimated 5 million illegals RIGHT NOW vote in our elections without consequences of any kind, all voting DEMOCRAT of course.
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Re: Tony Gonzalez serves with scumbags. Wonder Boy 2024-05-16 1:58 AM
Regarding this part...

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Rep. Tony Gonzales decried some of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives as 'scumbags' with 'white hoods' as he directly targeted Rep. Matt Gaetz in an interview with CNN on Sunday.

"White hoods" sounds like an erroneous Ku Klux Klan reference. I think he means "white hats", like black and white pieces on a chess board, meaning the white hats are supposed to be the good guys, and black hats are supposed to be the bad guys. And implied hypocrisy of some posing as good guys when they are not.

Rep. Derek Gaetz (who represents a very conservative district in the northernmost part of Florida, west ot Tallahassee) was under public scrutiny for about a year by FBI and House investigators, and seems to have vindicated himself from false charges, and at considerable legal cost.
That Gonzalez said this on CNN of all places (anti-Republican Central) also doesn't lend this credibility. On CNN they just let him talk with minimal pushback, whereas on Fox or Newsmax or OAN, there would have been some factual pushback and challenge to these allegations. And on any network, that's how it should be. Some cross-examination, to determine and test what is alleged, and what the true facts are.

The allegations against Gaetz seem to have been a well-times oh-so-coincidental crippling of him, right while he led a push to remove Republican then-speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Likewise with Democrat Senator Robert Menendez, and Democrat mayor of New York City Eric Adams, these Democrats likewise went against their party's immigration narrative, and were immediately punished with FBI investigations.

I think this goes back to "Filegate" in the Bill Clinton administration, where the Clinton administration was keeping FBI files of Republican Senate and House members, surveiling them for alcoholism or drug abuse, for extramarital sexual affairs, questionable corruption, any possible criminal actions, so as to blackmail them into supporting or not opposing Democrat legislation.

I think --as was obviously proven to have been occurring during the Trump administration, even though initially denied by FBI, then unquestionably proven that FBI actually did it-- since "Filegate" 30 years ago during the Clinton administraion, there is now an even more fanatically Democrat-Bolshevik FBI, CIA, DOJ, ATF and other federal agencies, doing the same surveillance and blackmail now, who keep these files, so that at any time, if a Donald Trump or a Derek Gaetz, or a Robert Menendez, or a Michael Flynn, or a Senator Ted Stevens, or a Scooter Libby becomes a threat to their plans, that person can have FBI / DOJ's hammer dropped on them at any time, smear them with enough scandal to prevent their re-election, to drive them from office, if not vindictively/maliciously put them in jail.
All in the service of the Deep State uni-party cause.
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Re: Pelosi hammer fight. Wonder Boy 2024-05-15 10:41 PM
David De Pape, hammer-swinging male prostiute friend of Paul Pelosi, is apparently part of a growing movement in the gay communiy.

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The image is small, but gets the point across.
The "LGBFJB" communiy.

There are a number of other sign and T-shirt designs using the same acronym:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lgbfjb+meme&va=c&t=ho&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
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Re: Blood Hunt Wonder Boy 2024-05-07 11:12 AM
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BLOOD HUNT 1-4 (scheduled so far)

And BLOOD HUNT DIARIES, that is a guide to all the frigging crossover tie-ins.

DRACULA: BLOOD HUNT
MIDNIGHT SONS: BLOOD HUNT
UNION JACK THE RIPPER: BLOOD HUNT
WOLVERINE: BLOOD HUNT
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT JUBILEE
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT MAJIK
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT on the rocks, with a twist of lime !
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Games and Tech
Re: Do you old farts have a hard time getting into video games now? MisterJLA 2024-05-06 10:07 PM
A RDCW game would be EPOCH!
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Sports and Wrestling
Re: WWE WrestleMania 40 PLE Results: 4-6-24 and 4-7-24 PixieP 2024-05-05 9:08 PM
WrestleMania 41 is heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, after weeks of speculation regarding its location following WrestleMania 40. The event will be held later in April than usual, but will remain spread out over two days, taking over Allegiant Stadium on April 19 and 20. The announcement was made during the NBC broadcast of the Kentucky Derby pre-show on Saturday. Former World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Women's World Champion Becky Lynch were seen at the event before the broadcast showed a video announcement narrated by WWE CCO Paul "Triple H" Levesque.
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