David French is one of those Very Serious People in Washington who’s been -- southdenverhoo 08/21/2021 3:38PMThe Soapbox
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David French is one of those Very Serious People in Washington who’s been -- southdenverhoo 08/21/2021 3:38PM Retreating from Afghanistan is the only outcome -- DownTownHoo 08/20/2021 10:46PM The point in posting this is what? Proving that the withdrawal chaos -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 8:51PM Have you ever negotiated significant business deals? -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 9:33PM The point? The point is how we got here. And how the Taliban got so -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 8:54PM Biden and his administration supported it. ** -- psychobilly 08/20/2021 8:31PM Ok. No reason really to restart the war, was there? -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 8:50PM Withdrew. ** -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 8:52PM Polite word for “surrendered.” ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 8:56PM You support keeping troops there now? ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 8:13PM Nope. I want them all out. I'm not one to be flopping around. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 8:14PM The despair is thick -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 7:59PM French is an unapologetic conservative. ** -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 9:26PM Why do you hate half the people in this country? Lotta nice people out -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 8:20PM Tommy likes only a few people with Hoo’m he shares DNA ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 9:05PM No ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 8:09PM Indeed. David French's despair over the Trump surrender is palpable. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 8:02PM Thanks for posting. I've been following David French recently. -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 7:49PM Perfect subject matter for a negotiation sequel: The Shart of the Deal ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 7:34PM Generally agree, although I wonder if we could have… -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 10:04PM You can see it in the womens' eyes. They are devastated. ** -- HoodatB 08/23/2021 11:24AM Few deny that, but wishing for less of a FUBAR ** -- MBHoo 08/20/2021 9:00PM
FBI: 1/6 protest not coordinated by far-right groups or Trump supporters -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 5:46PM That’s not quite what the report said, and we all saw it -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:23PM How many times have we heard it’s a threat to democracy -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 7:55PM Nope. We all heard the rhetoric before, and we all saw what -- 111Balz 08/21/2021 08:45AM Podium thief….DRINK ** -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 8:00PM Lectern… ** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 8:09PM I stand corrected and will put down my drink. Tom- please make note of this -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 8:11PM It’s hilarious that you guys think that the lack of a group email -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 7:31PM Can you link the official report or were these sources? But like Boca says -- HooAskedYou 08/20/2021 6:18PM You and Boca are right again!!! No one suggested it was planned. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:34PM Great work this thread, you're somehow an even bigger moron than I thought! -- Bacon 08/20/2021 10:07PM Slaying 'em for sure - thanks for stopping by. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 10:37PM How are your koi today, HooDUH? ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 6:39PM Are you sure he's not ryno? It's a mixed blessing that he hasn't posted .. -- HowieT3 08/20/2021 8:04PM I still think it is ryno. He’s posting on the corner -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:28PM But then again, you're an idiot. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 10:39PM Did you hide them in your ass again, Glans?!?!? -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:42PM Don’t peddle your ichthyological fantasies and projections here, Resist ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 6:50PM Imagine you're in a traveling rock n roll band... -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 8:49PM Good stuff out there in Colorado, huh? ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:38PM Of course there is, dumbass. ** -- SchmHoo 08/21/2021 10:58AM Definitely icky! ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 6:56PM Except VAG. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:35PM And 138. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:36PM And Shen. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:36PM While I take a little bit of pride living rent free in your little brain, -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:11PM Using the search function to show HooAskedYou what an idiot he is -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:19PM I hate to break the news, but I'm not Charleston SC. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:33PM What a dumbass that guy is. He even sucks at being an internet troll. ** -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 7:36PM And after being told TWICE that he linked -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 7:46PM You trying to bail out Shen doesn't mean you didn't get busted. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 8:18PM Yeah, I totally got busted. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 9:25PM You got completely toasted. Again. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 10:36PM Perhaps you've been drinking. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:35PM Well, I'm not the one assigning Charleston's posts to Shen. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:40PM My bad - there were so many people saying it was planned!!! -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:43PM Dumbass, your attack link doesn't seem to work. Try it when you are less -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:54PM Attack link? You hate having your own words used against you. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 8:25PM All I said there was true though. Trump summoned the Idiot brigade, and -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 8:52PM F- in reading comprehension, Shemp. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 8:55PM I didn't say planned. I said Trump summoned them. He did. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 9:27PM Apparently you did. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 10:43PM All’s I said …? Where did you go to pre-school ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 9:10PM Don't understand colloquialisms?!? I never thought you were very smart. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 9:21PM And Ballz. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:38PM And, of course, the Head Retard in Charge, Boca. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:39PM Such a "smoking gun". That pretty much says exactly what I said -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 7:04PM So when HooAskedYou said you said it wasn't planned... -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:15PM Sigh. Sometimes you have to deal with people that are just too stupid for -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 7:27PM Backing away from your previous retarded Buh Get Drumpfists! posts, I see. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:31PM Solid retort. and in character too. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 7:34PM The personal attack - the Booger response to being owned yet again. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:36PM Lol ** -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 7:38PM BTTS....JM beat you to the punch. I'll repeat my post to him: -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 6:12PM That’s pretty rich coming from someone so blinded by his hatred for Trump -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 7:21PM It’s adorable when you try to sound smart by using big words…. -- WahooRQ 08/21/2021 09:11AM Leftist Palm Beach elitism. You’re such a dumb ass. ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:30PM My distaste for Trump's lies and incompetence is clear eyed. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 9:15PM In no rational world is Trump a better alternative than Biden ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 7:29PM It’s amazing how detached from reality some of you are when it comes to the -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 5:57PM Yes and naturally these dweebs are waxing nostalgic over the greatness of -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 6:02PM I think SOME small number in that crowd showed up with bad intentions -- Late 80s Hokie 08/20/2021 7:23PM Several are also waxing their backs too… -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 6:52PM Hyperbolic Drama Tween alert! -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 5:59PM I always knew you were too dumb to count to three… -- Guy Incognito 08/20/2021 7:01PM He legally tried to overturn the election (“ … find me 11,740 votes …”)? ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 6:39PM You’re a Lost Cause. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 6:31PM There are useful idiots and there are useless idiots. He's the latter. ** -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 6:34PM Eventually it won’t be some idiot with no training parked in front -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 6:41PM Just a mob incited by the sitting President then? I feel so much better. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:48PM Not allowed to use the word "mob" when talking about people on the right ** -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 6:21PM Boobs??? ** -- Zhoo 08/21/2021 12:47AM (deleted)** -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 5:50PM Just a bunch of freelance domestic terrorists acting at the behest of Trump ** -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 5:52PM Great opinion piece about the current unanimous punditry on Afghanistan -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 5:40PM Yep. Short-term memory -- CobhamHoo 08/20/2021 7:39PM Very thoughtful article. ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 6:47PM To be fair it was more of a rant, but it was a GREAT rant. ** -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 6:52PM I'm hitting the LIKE button over and over but I can only give one vote! -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:59PM He's smart to try it now while everyone is looking at Afghanistan. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:26PM It’s clearly a cluster in Afghanistan, but why would anyone think anything -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:35PM Almost like people are rooting for us to fail while the "other guys" are -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 5:46PM Partisanship - sucking since 1/20/21!!! ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 5:31PM Have you ever posted anything thoughtful? ** -- Cav113 08/20/2021 5:34PM See the post immediately above your dull response. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 5:34PM God bless the faculty at your middle school ** -- Cav113 08/20/2021 6:32PM Perhaps you can link your complaint about partisanship before 1/20/21. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:48PM How thick are you? My OP points out left partisanship…. -- Cav113 08/20/2021 7:51PM Still waiting for the link. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 7:54PM My God, you have the debating acumen of a box of hammers… -- Cav113 08/20/2021 8:05PM Yes, it’s a mess to leave a country whose government has collapsed. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 5:20PM Most definitely ** -- MBHoo 08/20/2021 5:20PM That reminds me...it's about time to contribute to another of those -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:53PM You farted in its general direction? ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:18PM Yep…b-t-w really nice real estate all along that section of A1A** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 5:22PM Most of A1A is really nice real estate. It’s -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 6:03PM Eating outside on the Intercoastal…weather surprisingly comfortable ** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 6:46PM If you’re near the ocean, it’s generally comfortable -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 6:51PM Man, back in the day, I did some work with Seminole cattle ranchers. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:37PM Mar-a-pedo is pretty gaudy as I recall. And the wrong type of people -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:36PM I was actually expected more tackiness…but a Spanish Mission vibe and very -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 5:41PM I was talking about the interior. Biff always does wonders with those. ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:46PM Money can’t buy good taste. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:41PM Correct. But it can be used to buy porn stars and those on -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:49PM My wife said that to the guide at Hearst Castle. He didn't laugh. :) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:46PM Our guide was breathlessly enthralled by it, I actually was pretty sure he -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 6:45PM Ha! Must be a thing. But the view from up there was breathtaking! -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 6:51PM Yeah, I found Hearst Castle to be a perfect example of money without taste. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:49PM Graceland would like a word with you. -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 6:07PM You’d have to pay me to go to Graceland. Not an Elvis fan. ** -- SixerHoo 08/21/2021 06:50AM LOL ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:47PM For now anyway. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:31PM Until the seas rise to take it away? ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 5:47PM Yep. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:49PM Before or after Obama's Super Spreader mansion? :-) ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 5:52PM What’s the COVID a case count from Obama’s party? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? ** -- SixerHoo 08/21/2021 07:04AM Yeah that was the point. SMH ** -- Hoodafan 08/21/2021 12:05PM Well you did call it a Super Spreader mansion. ** -- SixerHoo 08/21/2021 12:07PM Who can say? I guess they're both pretty much at sea level. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:54PM No doubt. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:25PM Biden says al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan. Kirby just said they are. ** -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 4:24PM As they were when Trump surrendered. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 7:42PM At least the Taliban are killing ISIS prisoners. ** -- HooAskedYou 08/20/2021 6:49PM God willing we’ll be out soon with no casualties. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 4:40PM Of course they are. Cockroaches are hard to kill completely. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 4:27PM Maybe nukes, huh? Why can't we use our nukes? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 4:29PM You're asking a dumb question to a guy who's not a brown hater. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 4:49PM I was riffing on former guy. Al Qaeda is so 2001. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 4:52PM LOL, got ya. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:06PM 13,000 people evacuated on US military aircraft since Aug. 14 -- CobhamHoo 08/20/2021 4:20PM How many Americans? ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:52PM Reports of Americans getting beaten outside the airport, 14,000 crammed -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 4:37PM Blah blah blah bla blah. We know already! ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 5:57PM "Good graces" no. Threat of us re-engaging, yes. (We are not without cards -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 5:14PM Sounds like we may need to keep some American civilians there until as many -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 5:49PM When they're out what will be your argument? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 4:53PM Maybe he'll claim the Taliban has taken over America because he had to wear -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 5:06PM Masks on school children. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 5:03PM ABC news just blasted Biden -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 4:16PM What the liberal media called out a liberal president. Shocking. ** -- walkthecorner 08/20/2021 4:18PM ABC is not liberal media. ** -- CobhamHoo 08/20/2021 4:43PM Bwaahahahahahaha ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:53PM You are pro-Trumpist and pro-big-lie or else you are "liberal". -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 6:23PM I don't think one person believes there is alignment between what they're -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 4:14PM I don’t imagine the Taliban is an entirely cohesive organization -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 4:14PM Kind of like Antifa, but with really good weapons & training. -- Lupos 08/20/2021 5:01PM The problem is that our troops got out before our civilians were -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 5:00PM Yep ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:16PM Buh I do beleeve that QAnon totally coordinated January 6th, amirite?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 4:30PM That's different ** -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 6:23PM Exactly - SIXthgradER is giving the Taliban the benefit of the doubt. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 6:26PM Everyone knows Jan 6th was a joint Qanon and ANTIFA job -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 6:40PM I think it was Quniban that did it. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:17PM I'd say that's relatively reasonable. -- HAZER 08/20/2021 4:25PM But do they have a website? ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 08/20/2021 4:22PM They did (link) -- PBCHoo 08/20/2021 4:33PM The Taliban is just another Fox News myth! Merely an "idea"! ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:24PM Right. That’s TOTALLY what my post said. Feel free to -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:16PM Simmer down Nancy. I was mocking Sleepy Joe and one of your fellow lefty -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 5:45PM That was the first thing that came to mind when I read Sixer's post, lol. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 4:26PM Fill them all with "acting" appointments, all pending Senate confirmation, -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 4:28PM I hate that answer but practically speaking there may be no other way. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 4:30PM If we impeached Presidents for bungling overseas we would have had 45 of -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 5:28PM Sure. lol ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 4:30PM Will happen in 2023 when the GOP takes back the house. Will fail in Senate. ** -- walkthecorner 08/20/2021 4:11PM The bar has been set at two sham impeachments..... ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:13PM Was it 2 or 3? I lost track. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 4:29PM Huda is a fan of corrupt, sociopath autocrats. How about you? ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 4:45PM Not particularly. We've had 2 in a row. How about you? ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:14PM We had one. Then he lost. Biden is pretty far from that ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 6:47PM They haven't gotten to the third try yet. Unless we're counting the several -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:32PM And you say you’re not a Trump supporter? lol ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 4:32PM No, not really. But I'd take him over Biden 100 out of 100. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:13PM Hate to break it to you but that makes you a Trump supporter. -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 5:18PM I can live that, I guess. I can't stand Biden and never have. ** -- HAZER 08/20/2021 5:19PM One sham impeachment maybe -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 4:17PM The first one was as an egregious an abuse of the office as you could get -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 4:47PM Partisan politics at its finest. ** -- walkthecorner 08/20/2021 4:14PM Sadly, we can probably count on it getting worse. ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:18PM Far far worse until the electorate stops the madness. ** -- walkthecorner 08/20/2021 4:19PM Hold your breath ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 3:47PM Sure it is. -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:20PM Yes, Cuomo is resigning (and he should also be impeached) ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 3:18PM Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick tries to blame blacks for the covid surge -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 3:08PM I thought it was CRT's fault? ** -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 5:15PM CRT is to blame for basically everything wrong in this country!! -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 6:26PM So it's the "blacks" fault in Texas while Florida's COVID problem ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:15PM EXPOSED: Laura Ingraham Was Raised by a Nazi Sympathizer, Brother Reveals -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 4:36PM Wow, he very concisely deconstructed Laura and showed us as what makes -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 5:27PM Laura: Shewolf of the SS -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 5:36PM Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D'Souza OUTED Gay Students at Dartmouth, Leading -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 4:38PM Well, JM and Tommy warn us daily about -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 3:15PM Biden: "What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 3:07PM Living in the same world w/the poster who said, "The Kurds are no Angels." ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:47PM We get it, dude. Give it a rest. ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:21PM Focus on your early bird special and finishing your pudding tonight, HO ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 3:09PM They've been waiting for an opportunity to prove they're impartial -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 5:29PM The only reason I saw the press conference was I was looking for -- Cold Hoober Hoo 08/20/2021 6:50PM Joey wanted to exit AFG in the worst possible way -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 2:45PM Don’t be absurd. There is no earthly reason to believe he wanted to exit in -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 3:46PM Biden was listening to the Afghan President with the slow citizen exit -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 2:51PM Ha, that asshole just didn’t want any traffic on the way to -- Cold Hoober Hoo 08/20/2021 3:00PM ^^^ this! ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:18PM I thought he filled his helicopter with money. He used a car? ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:03PM I'll bet he sleeps on a bed made of money. Like Ben Shapiro. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 3:04PM But Ben's wife is a doctor. ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:08PM This is no shit. It tells you a lot about the government we've been -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 3:01PM He said that the other day. Just say, "yeah that was an enormous mistake on -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:57PM Yes, but again, it hasn't played out fully yet. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:46PM It gets worse? ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 2:50PM Even as one who wanted a limited presence in both Syria & Afghanistan ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:57PM No, “this” didn’t have to happen ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:19PM By keeping a limited presence. Otherwise, I don't know. -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:24PM The freaking US of A can do a far more orderly evac and exit than this -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:31PM Afghanistan is not the USA though. There was very limited cooperation ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 3:40PM I wouldn't say that. But he did, I think, severely overestimate our -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 3:38PM It could. Or it could get better. It seems like Americans only started -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:55PM He doesn't want anybody to panic ** -- 81_Hokie 08/20/2021 2:34PM Honestly there's no need for that. It isn't helpful. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:45PM Too late for that don’t you think ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 08/20/2021 2:40PM He was making fun of the previous guy ... as well as a dig at Biden. ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:45PM I didn't catch that either. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 3:06PM LOL ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:38PM Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!! ** -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 2:33PM US media loves the war machine(link) -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 2:32PM Townhall? Get a credible source and get back to us. ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 3:33PM You might want to look at the imbedded links. Sources are Reuters, CNN, -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 4:22PM You mean more reputable sources? ** -- HoodatB 08/20/2021 5:16PM The words, they're so scary! Best if Waxie stays in his bubble of ignorance ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:52PM Vvv : what Seattle says** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 5:40PM Why click on Townhall to get to embedded links? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 4:24PM News aggregator ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 8:12PM Honest Question: I believe you were against a full pull out. Then why ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:32PM Probably some of them carrying the Trump Get out of Jail Free Card too. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:23PM When did they make it madatory? Employees & students still have to do -- Lupos 08/20/2021 3:10PM May 20 (effective July 1) -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 3:12PM Maybe there will be openings at Liberty. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:22PM Before any dumbass cries foul, Justice Amy Coney Barrett ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:21PM So a spontaneous treasonous insurrection is better than a planned one? ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 3:25PM A riot provoked by SORE LOSER Dude and his anti-Semitic -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 5:05PM Yet another lefty narrative up in smoke. Will they pretend not to know? ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 2:49PM Nothing has gone up in smoke, liar. Provocation of an -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 3:41PM I generally maintain that most of those MAGA dopes didn't -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 3:23PM Yeah, that's pretty much the prevailing thought on this. I wasn't even -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 4:01PM LA Hoo. Beating up strawmen since 2016! -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 5:11PM So not totally under the directive of that pillow guy? -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 2:31PM No. Not under the directive of the pillow guy. Just spurred on by -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 3:00PM Makes sense. I don't think most of those people were smart enough -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 2:19PM It's odd how you can condemn terrorism abroad and applaud it at home. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:16PM Portland isn't really "abroad," but, for sure, rioting is different -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:22PM Silly me. How could I forget about Antifa and BLM? ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:24PM All they did was take a podium ** -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 2:14PM That puts more of the onus on Trump ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:12PM “Peacefully and patriotically” ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 2:38PM LOL! Does it? Or does it just mean you didn't read the article? -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 2:33PM He not only read it he understood it. Unlike you ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 3:58PM Organizing? LOL. Nobody ever said he organized it. ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:40PM Onus? I thought he saved that part for the UV lights. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:15PM Yep. Weren’t these same people saying the militias had planned it -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 2:14PM What riot? ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 2:11PM He means those tourist activities that occurred Jan 6. ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:19PM Did Biden just say we were paying $150 million per day in Afghanistan? ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:03PM Yes...between $150mn and $300mn a day; he also said Afghan forces total 300 -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 3:35PM Probably meant in his direct conversations. ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:11PM Guess he doesn't watch those secret BBC broadcasts of Parliament ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 2:22PM How much is something those politicians would say without witnesses? -- SchmHoo 08/20/2021 3:20PM The level of open criticism leveled in public at POTUS is exceptional -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 3:32PM I'm old enough to remember when POTUS damaging NATO was an outrage. ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 3:39PM Technically you hear criticism, you don’t see it. ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 2:05PM That's the important point here. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 2:14PM How about when you read comments? ** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 2:06PM I was told Biden’s mind was mush. I assume he no longer can read. ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 2:12PM He rocks the teleprompter fairly well :>) ** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 2:21PM Not as cleanly and articulately as his former boss. ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 2:24PM I stand corrected.... ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 2:06PM You're wrong! -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 2:06PM In their personal conversations ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 2:05PM Perhaps he wasn't listening. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:02PM Good riddance. One less RWMF idiot to deal with. No sympathy. ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 2:07PM Where were you when your MAGA god trashed McCain for -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 3:28PM JM, want to go on record saying you believe in Team America, World Police? -- Beerman 08/20/2021 1:47PM McCain was also an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq and yet another -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:46PM POTD!!!! ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 1:58PM Could the uptick be related to immune compromised people getting boosters? -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 1:27PM I though boosters wouldn’t be available until 9/20? ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 2:18PM For everyone, correct. But immunocompromised people could get it last week -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 2:20PM Bet you're right. but any shot helps suppress future surges ** -- CAVern 08/20/2021 1:41PM Woohoo! Pumping more shots into folks with one foot in the grave -- jpmHoo 08/20/2021 2:06PM Ugh ** -- CAVern 08/20/2021 2:27PM Good question ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 1:36PM I was told Stephen Miller was a great American. ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 1:55PM I’m sure Jason Kessler thinks so ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 2:09PM And this guy (link) ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:13PM And Robert Smart (R-MAGA, 6MWE) of Boca Raton. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:13PM This would seem to explain why Trump/Pompeo didn’t negotiate any -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 1:10PM Suckers and losers. What was in it for them? ** -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 1:17PM You know, even if this is true, Biden was not bound by it. -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 12:35PM Accounts confirm it’s true. Stephen Miller is a racist white nationalist -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 1:35PM The Hazmat clean up to be done by Biden Adm. has been historic. -- Chuck Taylor 08/20/2021 12:54PM Jut what exactly did the US get out of the Trump negotiations with the -- Hooooooooooooooo 08/20/2021 1:53PM We got to keep the white flag? ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 5:09PM Books will be written I'm sure. My recollection is that those negotiations -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 2:06PM Not to mention the State Department was completely hollowed out -- Bacon 08/20/2021 1:02PM I keep thinking about the roughly 1200 confirmations that are required in -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:17PM Ted Cruz is a piece of shit ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 1:41PM Birds sing ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 2:13PM Yes, this would be my fallback position if I were in the unfortunate -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 12:45PM I recommend you bet everything you have on it. -- SchmHoo 08/20/2021 3:24PM Which variety are you smoking today? ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 1:41PM Sniffing, right? You meant sniffing? ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:03PM Eh, about half the country voted for this clown show knowing… -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 1:30PM Don't you know that if the plutocrats who control both major parties wanted -- Hooooooooooooooo 08/20/2021 2:40PM I'll agree with you on two things... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 3:03PM I'll say that no other presidency since Reagan's has produced as a united -- Hooooooooooooooo 08/20/2021 3:55PM Agreed on the first point about uniting the nation, and that's because... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 4:30PM Selling weapos to sworn enemies does in fact rise above trivial and should -- Hooooooooooooooo 08/20/2021 5:09PM It was truly his greatest role as an otherwise pretty mediocre actor. But -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 6:50PM LOL. Conspiracy theory filled post. -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 2:07PM More than half the country Dr. Rigged is not the same as Fraud. LOL. ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:06PM Please tell me your "they" is Hillary Clinton and George Soros. ** -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 1:49PM The Illuminati are everywhere pulling their strings!!! :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:49PM Ah, conspiracy theories and fantasies! The Trumpsuckers’ favorite pastimes. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 1:39PM Hey, I'm open to counter-arguments. If you want to claim that... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 1:46PM Counter-arguments? One can’t offer counter-arguments to someone who -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 2:09PM Your argument is that Biden is cognitively a-ok? That's, umm,... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 2:53PM Clearly there are flaws in the planning and execution of the evacuation. -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 3:11PM I'm saying they are both incompetent & guilty of intentional malfeasance... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 3:29PM And by the way, I agree the COVID crisis is one of intent. -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 3:55PM You state that Trump handled it well, and then promptly -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 3:42PM That is not what I said... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 3:57PM And also, that is EXACTLY what you said. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 5:33PM Finally, a rare factual post. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 4:08PM Of course you aren’t ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 1:58PM Don't forget LA Hoo has his PHD. LOL. ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 2:07PM LOL. LA Hoothat is a doc now? I can't keep up with his fantasy life. ** -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 2:24PM Only on The SoapBlah. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 2:50PM Is PHD an acronym for Pulsating Hots for Donald? ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 2:14PM Stupid sack of lies from a worthless troll ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 1:34PM Lmao ** -- wahoo138 08/20/2021 1:26PM 9/11 is holding for you on line 3. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 1:14PM You started your period today? ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 12:59PM Beginning to wonder how you get dressed in the morning without help. ** -- Chuck Taylor 08/20/2021 12:56PM Part of the secret plan to put Hillary in the WH. ** -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 12:52PM I would take Hillary in a heartbeat over Sleepy Joe and Kackling Kamala -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 1:36PM LOL. Where were you when we suddenly pulled out of Syria? ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 12:43PM He's nowhere close to resigning... ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 12:41PM And he shouldn’t. Drama queens. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 12:48PM LOL, yes. I hear Pelosi is already drafting impeachment articles -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:32PM He does - That comes from 8 yrs experience with a dad with -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:40PM That’s a really poor post. Crazy talk ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 1:24PM You’re a lying sack of shit. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 12:48PM FU - In the name of my dead daddy you asshole liberal hater** -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:54PM Back at you. If your dad did have dementia, -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 12:59PM Whoa. Whoa whoa. -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 1:52PM Yes he did - 8 yrs back and forth to UVa Hosp till nursing home at -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 1:19PM If you want to characterize Joe has having lost a bit off the old -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 1:33PM Have you had yourself examined? -- wahoo138 08/20/2021 1:30PM Noooooooooooooooo!!!!! ** -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 1:40PM Uh huh. I had two grandfathers who suffered from Parkinsons and -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:44PM Actually I never voted for either one of the liars - never have never will -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:52PM Wahoo Gus, is that you? ** -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 2:02PM Lol. I think he avoids resigning by not -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 12:30PM Is this a worse disaster than WG ? ** -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:33PM You ok? ** -- wahoo138 08/20/2021 1:31PM Day drinking? ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 1:26PM Great comparison. The two are totally comparable. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 12:44PM What an utterly nonsensical comparison. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:35PM Calm down, Mary. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:27PM Sorry the situation doesn’t affect you - ask someone trying to get out -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:30PM Just piss off. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:35PM Now there is a legit Liberal response ** -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 12:41PM I don't even know what that means. Continue ranting I guess? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:43PM You wouldn’t - — no self awareness because Libs are never wrong ** -- Mr Wahoo 08/20/2021 1:00PM Well, you're way wrong about Joe and demenia. Hell, he trashed -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 1:04PM Keep posting. It shows how much care and concern you have in your heart. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:02PM Bound to happen when Trump released 5000 of them from prison for -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 12:49PM Thank you Mr. "Kurds are No Angels." ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 12:47PM They forget about those people Trump left to get slaughtered. -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 12:51PM Even I, who was critical of BOTH withdrawals of Syria and Afghanistan ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 1:00PM We left the prisoners with the proxy army that we created. -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 12:11PM Where were you nearly 2 years ago? -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 12:05PM 2 years ago? Hoos Operator's exact quote: "The Kurds are No Angels." ** -- Blah 08/20/2021 12:50PM So do you disapprove of the surrender "deal" Trump and Pompeo made, or do -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:04PM Biden was no more bound by Trump's deal than Trump was bound by the -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 12:38PM True. He could have started Afghan War II. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 12:50PM That's not necessarily true in a practical sense. The only alternative I -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:40PM Got it. So you're pissed that he followed through on it. Not just a hack -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:39PM Trump negotiated the release of, what was it, 5,000 Taliban prisoners? -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 12:13PM Since you "can't stand this bullshit", perhaps you can start calling out -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 1:16PM Here, for your perusal as well. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 3:15PM Your guess is? LOL! Sure, feel free to assume Trump wouldn’t have fucked -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 1:50PM Trump was in fact critical of Biden for delaying past the May 1 deadline -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 2:12PM Of course he was. Hooda’s talent for making baseless assumptions that -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 2:14PM I don’t feel at all defensive about my reactions to Biden’s -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 1:45PM You are aware that those prisoners were never released because the Taliban -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 12:44PM I’m not aware of that. Apparently, neither is Mike Pompeo. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 1:00PM Now you are. The conditions negotiated in that agreement were not met and -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 1:06PM Nope. One of us is blinded, but it isn’t by hate. I don’t bear hatred for -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 1:23PM Please link the source that states the prisoners were actually -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 1:32PM I mean, I think you could have done this yourself. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 2:02PM Thank you. ** -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 2:13PM Sorry, but that's Pompeo covering his rather large ass.** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:08PM The conditions of that agreement are there for you to call him out for -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 1:30PM That’s right, because nobody was about to start shooting at American -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 3:06PM I think that misses my point, at least to a degree. Biden and lefties are -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 3:23PM Ok, we are edging closer to agreement. Not this though: -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 4:18PM Except he tried to point the finger at that deal for the complete cluster -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 4:23PM I already read this diatribe elsewhere in this thread. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:39PM And yet you still made that nonsense post? Odd. ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 1:46PM That Pompeo is a liar and ass-coverer? That ain't nonsense. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:50PM He can't just say whatever to "cover his ass" when the details were already -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 1:54PM You're barking up the wrong tree. I haven't blamed Trump for this mess and -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:59PM Actually, that’s you trying to project Pompeo’s intent. ** -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 1:10PM We already know he's a liar. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:19PM The whitewashing of Trump is in full force I see. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:46PM Deflection from Biden’s horrendous blunder is in full force. ** -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 12:50PM Not really. Everyone has already acknowledged it's a cluster fuck. Do you -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 1:03PM Clusterfuck or no. I'd vote for Joe over sickly racist Don -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 1:06PM Well, when you've got to "get" somebody, you've got to -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 12:34PM You’d be doing that Noooooooooo!!! thing a lot more than you are lately ** -- wahoo138 08/20/2021 1:35PM People would be all over him. I just don’t see too many of those same -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 1:05PM Unconditional surrender by Trump? He negotiated a conditions-based -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 1:28PM Biden owns the complaint in your second paragraph. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 1:48PM How exactly did his deal ”mitigate the horrendous chaos.” Did it -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 1:34PM Bunch of unscrupulous phonies who view this as a political football, but -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:19PM We sure are glad that you would be totally non-partisan -- Hokieesith 08/20/2021 12:48PM I'm plenty partisan, but feel free to comb through all the posts from last -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 2:39PM The only people playing unscrupulous football is anyone defending this CF -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 12:32PM LOL, sure. Just an FYI, but most everyone wanted out of Afghanistan. -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:35PM Go ahead and laugh about people dying...the number who were actually on -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 12:43PM Nice strawman. No one is laughing about anyone dying. -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 4:54PM You are discovering that entering into a discussion with WahooRQ is -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 12:48PM And then? ** -- Chuck Taylor 08/20/2021 12:04PM And then the Taliban should be on Twitter -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 12:06PM “I see you googled Taliban age of consent.” Ouch. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 12:11PM Or you can just go with the NC age of consent. I think they follow -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 1:07PM And what should we have done with them? The choices seem to be 1) stay in -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 11:59AM Total and complete CF ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 11:52AM What should we have done with those prisoners ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 12:22PM Not sure...but there should have been some proper intelligent contingency -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 12:35PM 5000 prisoners go Gitmo? ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 1:17PM Take note of the number of deranged, unhinged responses in this thread -- Hoos Operator 08/20/2021 12:13PM You mean folks asking the obvious and logical questions, for which you -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 12:30PM None of which you can answer apparently. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/20/2021 12:14PM "we did every possible thing wrong." - Ron Klain, now Biden COS -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 12:02PM Ooooooooooooo. You got somebody now! ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 11:46AM Cancun! ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 12:11PM Yeah, the US Senate and Texas would be better off with Cruz at the Ritz. -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 11:24AM Heyooooooooooo ** -- GoochlandHoo 08/20/2021 1:34PM He thought since Afghanistan was such a shithole, it wasn't necessary. ** -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 12:40PM Low bar, but not as badly as Fred Trump ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 12:02PM He went on the rhythm technique. Every 20 years, we royally ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 10:43AM He needed way more Trojans ** -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 10:36AM Premature evacuation. ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:26AM Well played -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 11:06AM Not bad. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:27AM While the exit conception was indeed immaculate, the implementation -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:29AM Have you met a Catholic family? -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 10:24AM My maternal grandmother had 14 children -- NJHoo 08/20/2021 10:55AM My good buddy is Irish Catholic. He's 1 of 9 kids in 11 years.** -- Blah 08/20/2021 11:03AM It's like this -- CAVern 08/20/2021 10:40AM The 2 catholic families on my block growing up had 8 and 5 kids. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:31AM We had one with 9 kids. And a good friend -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 11:08AM I think the Mormons have to some degree taken the Catholics’ -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 12:05PM Kid my age in Little League (90s and early 00s) was one of at least a dozen -- CMUHoo 08/20/2021 11:12AM Dont get how anyone can afford that many kids...... -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:35AM Depends how you want to live -- CMUHoo 08/20/2021 11:50AM The closest I know of are an Irish family of 6 -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:56AM Yeah. I married into one. My wife (3rd child) has a brother -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:26AM It’s a vagina not a clown car, lady ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 10:35AM There’s still an active debate about whether my aunt is my sister -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 10:31AM I know what you meant but you also made it sound like you were part hokie -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:26AM I thought about clarifying but decided to roll with it. ** -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 11:29AM Since you are rolling with it.... -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:30AM I’m onto you and your trick questions. -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 11:33AM DNA test ends the debate, I’d assume. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 10:37AM Most of my Catholic friends are either Italian or Irish (my law partner of -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 10:47AM We’re very much the Irish side. -- WahooMatt05 08/20/2021 10:54AM Ha ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 10:53AM “The quiet rage of the responsible” NYT op-ed by Paul Krugman re: COVID -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 09:57AM Haha. read it this morning, Krugman is certainly a smug SOB -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 11:29AM The classic drag Paul Krugman quote -- hoodeyo 08/20/2021 12:37PM I am so pissed that I didn't think of that motto.... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 11:04AM How about this? -- CMUHoo 08/20/2021 12:41PM Thought-provoking post... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 2:45PM The good news is he tested negative -- CMUHoo 08/20/2021 5:57PM Pro Tip - if you want to skewer liberal's effete out of touch nature, don't -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 11:57AM Ha! Eh, I figured readers on this board could... -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 1:44PM Not those of us who live in fly over states ** -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 1:49PM I have no doubt you can handle it, Plano. :) ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 08/20/2021 3:13PM Or project an effete out of touch nature and make vapid posts. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 12:15PM LA is just as smug as Krugman, if not more -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 12:11PM You managed to use a lot of words &demean a lot of people. Just one quibble -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 11:25AM History started on 1/20/21 for the Soapbox right -- Fuzzy Dunlop 08/20/2021 11:34AM To paraphrase one of our denser posters, they "pretend not to know" a lot ** -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 11:36AM Pitch perfect, period. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 11:20AM Blame conservatives again. Hey Paul where were you when you libs were -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 10:23AM You are irretrievably fucked up ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 11:11AM Democrats and immigrants! Democrats and immigrants. You’re a broken fucking -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:25AM Tommy is a big fan of Paul Gosar. There are posts to back it up. -- Blah 08/20/2021 10:41AM Dude's got a purpose in life. Give him that much at least ** -- Beerman 08/20/2021 10:30AM Don't want to bake a cake for gays - "It's your right!" - Want to require -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:08AM Where do we go for the apology? -- Chuck Taylor 08/20/2021 10:07AM Are we going to bribe the Taliban into letting us rescue all our people?** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 09:45AM Are we assuming we haven't already? ** -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 11:10AM A lot cheaper than fighting, as they just demonstrated on the other side of -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 10:50AM Danny - we already proved you were FOR the pull out. You have NO ... -- Blah 08/20/2021 10:48AM As Trump tells us, that is the way the world works. I'd like you to do us a -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:07AM Trump didnt invent it though ** -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 10:27AM Agreed. See my additional posts. ** -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:44AM I thought we weren't doing things Trump's way now. Biden is no better? -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:09AM Confused is normal state for you. You are good ** -- HiwasseeHoo 08/20/2021 10:45AM Bribing/hegemony has been America's policy for decades -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:14AM Well you started with a hypothetical without providing any evidence to -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:13AM You want to admit Trumps way was wrong? ** -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:11AM I don't know that to be the case but Plano is saying Biden agrees with it ** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:13AM I am saying I have no problem with it in this case. How would I know what -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:21AM You started off with a Trump whaddabout now it's 'we've always done it' -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:32AM We have done it in the past. You can argue we shouldn't have, but we have. -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:43AM So you have no independent opinion - got it - troll away ** -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:15AM LOL you guys don't think things through on these Trump whaddabouts -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:17AM The difference is that Trump engages in this behavior for his personal -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:20AM I know. Every argument descends into Trump is the boogeyman!!! ** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:40AM Well, he gave us so much material to work with. ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 11:21AM Answer the question - armed conflict or cash payments - what do you prefer? ** -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:19AM You’re such a pathetic little thing ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:14AM I assume we already have. Doesn’t appear to be working though because -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:05AM That congestion will get after ya!!! ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 10:18AM That only works with Iran. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:58AM Did we bribe them when we released 5,000 prisoners including their leader -- HooAskedYou 08/20/2021 09:56AM I assume they bribed us ** -- Quaker 08/20/2021 10:00AM Hey, don't knock the Art of the (Taliban) Deal aka Surrender.** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:00AM No, that was just another great win for President Deals ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 08/20/2021 09:59AM Would you rather spend money or lives? ** -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 09:50AM I would rather not encourage future ransom type situations. Understand? ** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 10:05AM Now who's being naive? ** -- Plano Hoo 08/20/2021 10:22AM You should dig up Reagan and have a long talk about it. ** -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 10:19AM So you are ok with starting an armed conflict instead of spending money? -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:10AM Don’t ask him to think about what he posts ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:11AM Do you mean if your hypothetical was true ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 10:09AM Probably -- Beerman 08/20/2021 09:49AM We found out after the fact that the "surge strategy" in Iraq was -- HoosWillWin 08/20/2021 09:53AM Back over 900 deaths a day in the daily average -- Fuzzy Dunlop 08/20/2021 09:57AM "I don’t wear a mask for the same reason I don’t wear underwear" -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 10:07AM Almost all women. Coincidence or correlation? ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:43AM Agree - seems like a perfect time to get Orange Asswipe!!! ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:41AM Because it makes so much sense to compare us directly to countries -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 09:29AM What about the rest of the post? ** -- DownTownHoo 08/20/2021 10:15AM You missed the news about Texas allowing business to skirt local -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:10AM Mebbe, but I posted where Ducey is going to pay people to not wear masks. ** -- Lazarus 08/20/2021 12:00PM Nm** -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:41AM Nobody cares about your stupid charts. Patrick was talking about black -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:01AM Yeah? Well you're old! So there! TBC that's allegedly old since I have no -- Hoodafan 08/20/2021 10:57AM Unvaccinated MAGAs are a far larger share of the population -- Beerman 08/20/2021 10:28AM And here's the thing -- Fuzzy Dunlop 08/20/2021 1:01PM And you're a lawyer? Jesus wept ** -- HptHokie 08/20/2021 10:23AM ^love the old man hissy fit - LOL ** -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 10:07AM GET OFF MY LAWN! DeSantis just sucks shit as a leader. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:11AM JMHoo don't need your stupid data! He's got twitter posts from morons!!! ** -- Bacon 08/20/2021 10:04AM How are those black vaccination rates? ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:07AM It's the correlation rate between black % of a county and and the -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 10:14AM JM doesn’t understand correlation rates. Give him a headline, preferably 3 -- Lazarus 08/20/2021 10:25AM Better than MAGA's. You've been told this. Is your dementia -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:13AM Yep. Data sucks. I mean, when you got some Trump whore on the -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:05AM What’s the data on black vaccination rates? ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 10:08AM Better than MAGA voters. You guys take the cake even over "those blacks." ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:09AM LOL! As though anyone cares about your Federalists propaganda. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:02AM Was this done with your great polling firms?** -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 09:45AM And here's the actual data if you're interested -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:56AM I’ve warned these people. When Comrade Boca gets out a chart, graph, -- hooshouse 08/20/2021 10:24AM By my count there are 14 counties with vax rates of 10% or less, including -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:10AM Unreal. what a backward-ass place. but at least the football team is -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 10:16AM These days they’re yelling “Roll COVID!” along with “RollTide!” ** -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:18AM It's obviously all "those blacks" voting for Trump in those counties. ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:12AM Man, when you see the correlation between 90% Trump with 3% -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:00AM B..b..b..but.. New york had more cases 18 months ago when -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 10:01AM You just know that most of those 90% are taking cues from Alex -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:04AM Nope. Using actual data -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:53AM Right but you have no idea what the link between those percentages and -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 10:13AM Nm** -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 10:31AM I’m not talking about the chart I am talking about how you were using it -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 11:47AM Yes, it was a high percentage of -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 12:08PM You were posting Democrats were at 87% because you couldn’t correctly -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 7:56PM You mean the chart with the question -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 9:02PM Do you think 87% of democrats have had at least one dose? ** -- TomKazanski 08/21/2021 4:32PM I believe 86% (not 87%) of respondents in that survey who identified as a -- BocaHoo91 08/21/2021 5:31PM But you were extrapolating that against the broader -- TomKazanski 08/22/2021 09:18AM I extrapolated that against the broader population, democrats are -- BocaHoo91 08/22/2021 11:23AM But not at 86% which is what you were claiming it said -- TomKazanski 08/23/2021 09:16AM If you’d post data as comprehensive as Boca’s for your claim that -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 10:24AM Well if you count infection rates from 18 months ago in the northeast -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 10:33AM See above** -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:37AM And I like this chart even better. Shows the -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:35AM Blue State hospitals are hitting capacity too (link) -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 09:34AM One thing I find interesting right now -- Fuzzy Dunlop 08/20/2021 1:13PM And they are taking actions to try and stem the spread rather than -- Zhoo 08/20/2021 11:15AM Made up of predominantly unvaccinated too! Seems like a theme -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 09:47AM LOL. a post and an article that so beautifully exemplify what is wrong -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 09:39AM How dare they steal our tactics!!!! ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:45AM Oh please there is one side who has politicized this from day one -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 09:44AM Yeah. The Fucked up side that goes to the CDC in a dunce cap and -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 10:06AM It truly does not. -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 09:48AM For the last several months, it should have only been about vaccination -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 09:57AM Yes, Laz only posted about Alabama, Texas and Florida. ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 09:42AM Last time I looked at the NYT (yesterday), those were the states that were -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 09:53AM Of course -- Beerman 08/20/2021 09:38AM See above** -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:28AM Good thing they have a governor who advocated for vaccines and did a great -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 09:36AM Florida should have had a border wall. ** -- Chuck Taylor 08/20/2021 09:03AM Tragic. Yes, and atrocious. But FL, you be you. ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 09:02AM You do have to wonder what this would have looked like if -- 79 Wahoo 08/20/2021 08:58AM I have read on this board that by sharing numbers you are -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 08:53AM Don't Florida my America! ** -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 08:14AM Curious how the local news is treating this. Ignoring it or not, and any -- HoosWillWin 08/20/2021 07:57AM I am down in So. Florida for a few days…local news talks Covid some, but -- Tuckahokie 08/20/2021 08:55AM I only watched local news earlier in the week when Fred was going to hit -- CharlestonSC 08/20/2021 08:51AM I don’t really follow the local news, but all of my -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 08:21AM Not Florida related, but we have tickets to the Eagles show in DC -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 08:34AM Cool. What do those tickets run? I remember going to concerts as a kid -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 08:43AM I'm not sure. Just north of $100 each for upper deck seats. We're not -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 09:17AM Saw the Eagles twice with Glenn Frey. If they’re even just almost -- SixerHoo 08/20/2021 11:02AM They're gonna do the entire Hotel California LP along with their -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 11:05AM Yes on Glenn Frey. it won't be the same without his voice. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:51AM Thanks for the name spelling correction there. My bad. -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 09:55AM Just don't Fauci Florida m-f'er!! most idiotic culture war ever ** -- Capital City Hoo 08/20/2021 07:50AM Soon, constituents will be begging for him to Fauci Florida ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 08:04AM And we know what follows hospitalizations. If the governors goal was to thi -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 07:27AM He's vaccinated....Right up until now my attitude has been that -- CAVern 08/20/2021 08:56AM The anti-fauci bullshit totally feeds into the narrative with the cult -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 09:02AM Gov isn’t determining how to run your business -- TomKazanski 08/20/2021 10:07AM LOL. Strike that and reverse it, then you'll be onto something. ** -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 12:22PM No, he was telling businesses the are NOT allowed to do something. -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 10:11AM Another way to put it: if his messaging was "Look, I've encourage everyone -- CAVern 08/20/2021 09:17AM I think his strategy is less than well intended. at the risk of looking -- CAVern 08/20/2021 09:07AM Yeah. This is such a self-inflicted, avoidable problem. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 08:21AM He’s trying to win the “Biggest Asshole on the Planet” contest. It’s th -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 08:08AM Can you imagine Reagan, or Bob Dole or HW in that situation? -- HoosWillWin 08/20/2021 08:16AM You can substitute "any normal adult" for those names.... -- BocaHoo91 08/20/2021 08:47AM On the Soapbox, I think we're obligated to put 2024 after his name every -- VAGentleman05 08/20/2021 07:42AM And Small D ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 07:43AM Nick Fuentes: "The Taliban is a conservative, religious force." (That's -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 07:05AM Who? ** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 09:16AM The slice of Trump Nation represented by Fuentes and other -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 08:30AM Great post and AGREE!!! RepubliKKKunts are the same as the Taliban!!! ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:18AM Not all of them. But those expressing camaraderie with terrorists like -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 09:29AM But doesn't that offend the brown/indigenous Taliban?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:31AM I’ll let you worry about that. Only one here who seems offended is you. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 09:32AM ^^^^Hates brown & indigenous peoples^^^^ -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 09:34AM Paul Gosar Mingling With Fascists -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 08:09AM Gosar Hanging With Neo-Nazis -- Hoo TV 08/20/2021 08:13AM But they've been INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE at getting women to mask up?!?!? -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 07:48AM Also very good at toppling statues! ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 09:38AM Yawn ** -- DTsBicep 08/20/2021 08:57AM Next time you post something even remotely clever will be the first time ** -- WaxHoo 08/20/2021 08:38AM These idiots have been told their own government is their primary enemy -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 07:46AM Exactly - it's only in Texas and Florida that the government is the enemy. -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 08:31AM ^^^ Answers to the name “idiot” ^^^ ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 08:55AM Excellent report from BBC quoting Obama era ambassador on Afghanistan (link -- orangenblue 08/19/2021 10:31PM You're not allowed to criticize Joey! We're respected in the world again!! -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 07:55AM I didn't, an Obama appointee and both side of British Parliament did. ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 11:17AM No more mean tweets!!! ** -- HokieDan95 08/20/2021 09:02AM Crocker in 2016 -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 12:17AM That happens to be true in a lot of places we have operated... -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 01:31AM “The Taliban [are] very good at issuing statements, less good at fighting." -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 08:21AM I see the DNC talking points have gone out…must discredit this apostate. ** -- JMHoo 08/20/2021 09:40AM I was torn about a small residual force. I never thought we could -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 09:11AM This is just silly, this self-flagellation. I guess we’ll have to let -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 12:08AM You don’t think we could have executed this withdrawal better? -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 08:48AM The actual work on these things is done by career service guys, the guys at -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 10:40AM Problem is POTUS didn't listen to career pros...see dissent cable (link) -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 11:47AM I get everything you said. Forgive me for saying a bit more. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 11:03AM There wasn't a whole lot of reason to be in Afghanistan past 2002/2003. -- WahooRQ 08/20/2021 08:17AM How serious that “I think we could have handled the exit better” turns -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 09:03AM Sure, some of the comments were from people who wanted to stay forever.. -- GoochlandHoo 08/20/2021 07:54AM In other words, give this enough time and it will go away with -- Lupos 08/20/2021 05:54AM Well, that’s worked quite well for the last one. Just look at your posts! -- hoolstoptheheels 08/20/2021 08:38AM No that’s not what he actually said, it’s what you wanted him to have said ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 07:04AM So, what will be the consequence for this administration? Another Trump -- Lupos 08/20/2021 07:36AM Well, Joey will LANDSLIDE LOSER Trump if you morons run him -- Shenhoo 08/20/2021 09:45AM Not a serious response ** -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 08:42AM You seem incapable of viewing any issue through anything other -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 07:50AM It is an admission of when we have made a huge mistake.... -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 12:35AM The mistake was made 20 years ago. What has happened in the last two weeks -- 111Balz 08/20/2021 07:01AM I don’t admit that. You’re free to, of course. And our allies will turn to -- southdenverhoo 08/20/2021 01:56AM Do you mean the evacuation or the decision to leave? -- HoosInLondon? 08/20/2021 12:49AM The judgement, planning and execution of the plan to leave was a CF -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 01:19AM Any literate US civilians would have been reading about our departure for a -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 07:58AM Man, if you don't think it was the government's fault and you are defending -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 11:30AM You seem to have an agenda. I did not defend the current situation -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 11:50AM On your specific question.... -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 1:01PM Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I read too much into your post. I don't -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 1:26PM When were you posted in Iran....early 70's, 60's? ** -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 2:49PM Mid 70s, a couple of yrs before the Shah fell ** -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 2:58PM Must have been an amazing time to be there and then to see the aftermath -- orangenblue 08/20/2021 3:09PM It was a fascinating time. As is often the case, many good people are -- TomGlansAski 08/20/2021 3:13PM Yes. Exit was set for May 1st. ** -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 08:10AM Exactly - mail me my ballot but it's on me to flee a collapsing government. ** -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 08:15AM Those comparisons are false. -- DanTheFan 08/20/2021 06:02AM AFG never really had a strong central government. -- FrankGallagher 08/20/2021 06:14AM Pride goeth before the fall of Afghanistan ** -- Tuckahokie 08/19/2021 10:55PM I neutralize your post I dislike by treadmilling you with Schlicter!!!! -- ResistHoo 08/20/2021 07:58AM Beltway's a tad crowded. Jesus. ** -- Hoodafan 08/19/2021 10:14PM Did the spokesman suggest using EZ Pass for the HOV lanes? ** -- Mad Bowl Hoo 08/20/2021 02:41AM Speaking of townhall, what's your buddy Kurt Schlichter saying? ** -- Blah 08/19/2021 10:07PM