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MLR's avatar

Up until January 20th of this year our FBI was busy monitoring school board meetings and Catholic congregations who pray in Latin rather than protecting us from criminals. In Britain, they chose more self hating Marxists to rule their nation who are only dedicated to keeping their Islamic citizens happy. How far has England fallen and how fortunate we are that DJT and MAGA are in charge here now!

Pamazon's avatar

We said NO to invasion and anti Americanism. UK is lost.

Retirednottired's avatar

Wait...I thought district court judges were in charge....

Vince Gallo's avatar

Don

I had a knee replacement surgery this week. In the recovery room I looked under the sheet.

Whew. They cut the correct leg.

I’m still a guy. 😂😂😂

John Swindall's avatar

Heal Vince!!

At least they didn’t take away your sense of humor.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Thx 😊😂😂😂👍

Sherry Davis's avatar

I started swim exercising 7 weeks post knee replacement with each knee and my motion is perfect and no pain. It has been 10 years now!

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

Good luck with your recovery. I had both of mine replaced in the summer of 2019- 2 months apart. Old baseball injuries fixed. And my recovery went very well. One hip is 100% better- no issues; the other about 97% with only minor pain from time to time sleeping on that side. Very manageable. One suggestion... do EXACTLY what the doctors and PT people say you should do; no more; no less. I have a buddy who had both of his done and he felt so good that he was walking miles in just a few days. BAD MOVE. He had to have both of those hips replaced a couple of years later. Word to the wise from someone who has gone through this.

Playswithneedles's avatar

Great advice! I know a woman who had a hip replacement and did the opposite - she never did the PT. Now, two years later, she can barely walk and is desperately trying to catch up by exercising.

Pamazon's avatar

PT is not a suggestion. IT is imperative. I had a shoulder replacement and had an appt with Dr. to have a colonoscopy. We were talking and he said he had had a shoulder replacement and he couldn't even scratch his nose. I started showing off what I could do BECAUSE I did the PT. Cancelled the colonoscopy. :)

PKsweets's avatar

Physicians and nurses are the worst patients

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

Good point.... I know of several people who have done this too. Just lazy.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Thx my doc is real good. He had me doing PT for two months prior to the surgery. 😂👍

Vince Gallo's avatar

Wow thanks. I have a great doc

mktelephoneman's avatar

pain pills seem to be working...👍

John Swindall's avatar

Better living through chemistry

Denton Salle's avatar

As my wife said when having our first child, "Nancy Reagan was wrong."

Brian LeMay's avatar

Dang Vince ! You didn't arrange back up beforehand ?

Retirednottired's avatar

When I had mine done some years back, they actually wrote "This One" on the correct knee.

Alice Ball's avatar

Stolen Valor Blumenthal, hands down, claiming he was deployed in Vietnam while in the Reserves. Walz comes close, also a liar. I wonder if there’s a list of modern politicians who claimed military service who exaggerated or lied about their role, and how many are Dems versus Republicans. Kerry is one.

Douglas Baringer's avatar

Alice, Blumenthal is the most disgusting form of creepy spineless jackasses known to man. He is in the vast majority of Americans who did not serve in Vietnam as I am.

The lies he told, and Walz too, are just too low to contemplate. They besmirch the memory of all who did serve.

Playswithneedles's avatar

I find Walz to be the worse of the two. Blumenthal lied, but Walz lied and quit.

Vince Gallo's avatar

He reminds me of Schemp from the three stooges. E b b b 😂😂😂😂

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

Agreed.... well put. And I am not a veteran. The draft board kicked me out three times and finally "4F'd" me. Why? Two surgical cuts on my right knee; meniscus removal; this was pre-arthroscopic surgery being invented. And here I am 60 years later; no knee replacement. The Doctors can't figure that out. I just keep on ticking like that Timex watch.

Alice Ball's avatar

Go Pete Go! The old surgeries on knees lasted longer in many cases. Big scars but more stability.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Maybe the Army rejected you b/c you only were 1/2 a man-to-cuss....

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

understand your comment, frankly. Spell it out.

Retirednottired's avatar

At least Kerry was actually there.

Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Imagine if we did not have Elon Musk to shut down Twitter? With a Cackles presidency we might have been on a even keel with the UK's madness.

Brian LeMay's avatar

We would be deep in internal strife or " civil war " .

Chuck Goldman's avatar

The Brits have been digging a hole for themselves ever since Thatcher left the political scene and they’re still digging. Despite the fact that we here in NA have bailed their ass out twice, they are among the first to criticize us when things get crazy. Though I’m Canadian it still bugs my ass the way they respond to President Trump, and this goes back to his first term.

Too bad about losing control of their Immigration thing. I’m in the process of storing up enough popcorn to watch the European Civil War kick off fairly soon. It’ll start in Germany , spread to the British Island and finally get to France. I bet this thing in Iran accelerates that. Whatever, as long as we don’t send any of our kids over there to bail those creeps out again, and by again, I mean ever again!

Playswithneedles's avatar

The way that the Brits acted at Thatcher’s funeral was despicable. They have no idea what she did for their country by joining Reagan and JPII in ridding the world of the Soviet Union. Their media turned them into a bunch of brainwashed ignorant ingrates. And now…

MT's avatar

"And now......"

The Muslims have taken control of Great Britain! The Soviet Union was toddlers' playing around compared to what the Islamists have in store for Great Britain and other countries that just want to get along with those loving, peaceful Islamists.

Stay tuned and keep your head on a swivel, because the USA could be facing the same-same, IF the TDS'rs and American Haters get their way,,,,,,,,,

VICKI's avatar

That is for sure, the squad needs to get the hell back to wherever they hail from and their ancestors that may be here too...All of youn's (yes, that's right) need to get on out of our country and don't come back. Take Walz and his followers with you.

Playswithneedles's avatar

The one thing that will save us is the 2nd Amendment. The Brits gave up their guns. Mistake. Big mistake. Huge.

VICKI's avatar

What stupid idiot would think that getting rid of guns makes us safer? Even street thugs can get guns so that problem is not solved; ever.

Playswithneedles's avatar

Stupid idiot power hungry politicians. They know that taking away our guns won’t make US safer but it will make them safer. And more powerful. Our founders knew that and gave us the 2nd amendment to protect ourselves from the government. Smart men.

Chuck Goldman's avatar

I know, the press would love to castrate us over here too but we have Don T and Don S and CFP and X and if it didn’t happen while Biden was in power and the far left with their flaming, flagrant and fragrant bullshit was running wild with no one trying to stop them it probs won’t happen now, as long as we have the capacity to think for our selves.

CactusMatt32's avatar

I have suggested to Viking River cruises start working on a new Class of cruising....the 'Adventure Cruises'......design new & improved Swift Boats, you too can suit up with flak jackets, get to shoot RPGS, 50cal deck guns, forward deploy drones, while cruising the Wild Rivers of muslim Europe.....the Seine, the Thames, the Danube, surfing on the Garonne....

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Little bro did several tours on these in Nam ,severely wounded but went back to be with his bros. Left him slightly brain scrambled but he survived to return unlike many of our friends. Just a reminder no Juneteenth without the sacrifice of the U.S. military !!

Chuck Goldman's avatar

And this goes as far back as the American Civil war doesn’t it. So a big Amen to that.

Hey Marlan do you know that the US Parks Dept has completed a project where they have recorded the names of every soldier who fought in the Civil War? Plug your name in and not only find out how many soldiers had your last name, but what side they were on but whether they were in the infantry or cavalry? Unreal!

Lawsy0's avatar

I know you were being serious about Swift Boats, not me. My BFF and I often spoke of a Mississippi Riverboat cruise after our husbands died. I would have loved that. She shuffled off this mortal coil during Christmas week in 2023. It was just easier to forgive her than to bear a grudge. If I can keep up with an elderly blind and deaf grand-dog, I'll do very well. I ask my son just how old was this dog. He replied, "He's your age, Mom."

Chuck Goldman's avatar

Sorry to hear about your loss Lawsy, at our age we start counting down by counting those in our age group we lose, it never gets easier does it.

Betty Davis said when she was way younger than me and I’m about to hit 77…

“Getting old isn’t for sissies!”

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Amen to counting noses Chuck.

VICKI's avatar

We are the survivor generation. You can be just getting along great, playing tennis at 80 and then bam...macular degeneration, a fall or two and the fun is just beginning...it's daunting, that's for sure.

Chuck Goldman's avatar

Hey Matt I think there is a Russian Co that actually does that off the coast of Somalia.

In your concept, I bet if you have copious amounts of bacon not only can you stop them from boarding, but smearing a bit on the bullet tips will send them straight to hell, saving the 72 virgins a ghastly fate

Shrugged's avatar

Sociological natural selection will soon rank-order all western democracies from those offering the most secure personal liberty down to the weakest socialist/Marxist regimes. The UK falls in the bottom third of that list. When the Muslim 'replacement theory' population overtakes the Brits' population, it will shift from the list of democracies to Islamic hellhole.

Playswithneedles's avatar

I have dear friends in the UK, one of which is a former army officer. They, like me, are in their 70s and I pray that we will all be with our maker when the UK becomes that Islamic hellhole.

PM's avatar

Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law that bars gender-affirming care for minors

Another small step for mankind. Is our national nightmare almost over?

Vince Gallo's avatar

Go Fund Me should become Go Fund Yourself (GFY)

PM's avatar

Funny-I thought they couldn't be as bad as Go-send-go-Over 500k to Karmelo for killing a white-privileged young man.

Vince Gallo's avatar

They’ll probably use that money to buy guns.

VICKI's avatar

I heard it was also a new house and new car...mega sickening people. They should have given it to the victims family or a charity. Scumbags.

VICKI's avatar

I am still really disturbed that very little was made of that terrible killing and even my dear leader did not say much if anything about it. It should have been national news in copiuos amounts and days and he should be behind bars if not worse (for him) as he did to the victim. Sickening.

PM's avatar

As a Texan, I feel your pain. At the very least, the 500,000 should have been held until he was found guilty: then given to the family of a son who might have become a great leader.

VICKI's avatar

Exactly. Where is the lame stream media?

PM's avatar

Reposted in my newsletter-Thx

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

I used GFY two ways.... Go F+++ Yourself and Good For You..... It is really funny when you drop GFY on someone you don't like and they get irritated and you say ... ''Hey, I said Good For You"... stops them in their tracks.

PM's avatar

That's why I love acronyms-they can mean what you want them to mean-no more, no less. Congrats: two anti-voter laws that unfairly targeted Latino, Native and student voters were shot down by the 9th US Circuit Court of ...All LEGAL Americans must have that right.

Vince Gallo's avatar

My thoughts exactly!!!!👍😂😂👍

VICKI's avatar

We should have voter ID cards with photo and other ID and have to show them to vote. I can't imagine why we do not!

Greg's avatar

the Brits have never been much of a fighting force. Hell, they lost the American colonies to a rag tag army.

Islam took over Britain without a shot. Muslims are cowards. Their religion is cowardly. They won't fight a toe to toe war. They do terrorism instead. They can't stand anyone criticizing their religion. They'll put a fatwah on you. They cover their women for reasons.

Shrugged's avatar

"Islam took over Britain without a shot."

China is doing that to the United States as we sit here and type our comments, but at least the MAGA half recognizes this fact. They are deeply rooted throughout our government enterprises and must be screened and cleaned from our soil.

VICKI's avatar

It should be illegal for them to own or even rent any soil in this country...Stop that madness of selling land to foreigners. We have enough people of our own that need land and I am serious and don't want to hear arguments about 'well, what about this and that country buying land; just No.

Dutchmn007's avatar

“the Brits have never been much of a fighting force.”

They’ve never gotten over losing 60,000 men in one day during The Somme Offensive in World War I. The Germans kicked them out of Europe three times in 1940 - Dunkirk, Norway, & Greece - & then once again in 1942 at Dieppe. Britain has a particular talent for duping the U.S. to do the heavy fighting of its wars & American politicos have been too stupid to realize it.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Maybe those 60,000 men were the "real men" of Britain, whose loss meant that those traits were not passed down to the next generations, ergo today's anemic native Brit population.

Dutchmn007's avatar

World War I dug the British Empire’s grave; World War II filled it in.

Brian LeMay's avatar

Agree with you both ! A gene pool can only stand so much depletion until recovery is no longer possible .

Greg's avatar

We do everyone's fighting because we ARE dupes. Until now.

CactusMatt32's avatar

More on recent Ukraine murders….

“Nor does the media seem to be any help. After helping cover for Zelensky’s disastrous recent “Kursk offensive,” wherein some 45,000 Ukrainian men were estimated slaughtered for nothing, this week corporate media has been celebrating a pinprick drone attack on some spare Russian bombers as a sign of Ukraine’s plucky resolve to “win the war,” whatever that means at this late stage.” H/t Childers’ C&C news

Lawsy0's avatar

It must be because of the accent. Somehow we have convinced ourselves that all of that Mayfair and Oxford speak sounds more erudite than our plain old American English. When I first moved to Mpls, neighbors would invite me over to hear me talk. (I pronounced it "tawk" back then.

Dutchmn007's avatar

To this day Cockney has its own slang which is in & of itself practically a separate language. The legendary Quincy Jones copped a good amount of it when he wrote the song “Getta Bloomin’ Move On!” for 1969’s “The Italian Job” with Michael Caine. ;<)

CactusMatt32's avatar

The everlasting shame of those WW1 generals to feed thousands and thousands of men to the machine guns, trenches, mines, mustard gas.......and here the US, Brits EU weenies snookered most of the Ukranian men to do the same, while the Pols and Arms merchants get rich......

Dutchmn007's avatar

The war was totally needless to begin with; it was a family feud on a bloody scale: England’s Queen Victoria’s two nephews were Czar Nicholas II of Russia & Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The British only got their knickers in a twist about Germany in the early 20th Century when the Kaiser had the audacity to begin building a blue water navy (“Britannia Rules the Waves!” don’t ’ya know!). That said, the war started out in 1914 somewhat akin to the Napoleonic Wars of the previous century, however major changes had already taken place in warfare due to the advent of the machine gun & quick firing artillery. The muzzle-loading cannons of the previous century could only fire about a round a minute if that with powder & shot loaded separately. The modern French 75 artillery gun for example, could fire around 20 rounds per minute of a self-contained pre-made cartridge. This wrecked the battlefield literally & figuratively. Cavalry was now totally obsolete due to the machine gun & there was no way to break the stalemate until the advent of the tank under British auspices in 1916 & those were slow, clumsy, & mechanically unreliable.

In short Europe decided to commit suicide in 1914 & they did it again in 1939. See Europe & England today; wrecked societies living on borrowed time. It’s sad, Western Europe was once the cradle of civilization. Now they stand for & tolerate barbarism on a mass scale.

Brian LeMay's avatar

Best I can tell they are not long on work either

geraldsd's avatar

I can’t stand Blumenthal so I picked him, but I could have chosen any one of them…

Wim de Vriend's avatar

The only positive aspect of Blumenthal is that he LOOKS as if he could play a hard-bitten soldier in a cheap movie. Other than that -- he's among the worst in the DEMs' Den - and that's saying something.

VICKI's avatar

Maxine Waters has my vote for fugly and stupid and instigator.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Good point. In fact, she has achieved such a degree of fugliness, I'm willing to recognize that she went waaaay past the call of duty.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

I thought I heard that Dick Blumenthal's brother is Sidney Blumenthal--the Clinton's longtime "fixer" and general sleazeball. Not sure if it's true.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Oily weasel. And tells me Rhode Islanders & Providence Plantation voters, that not much has changed since Pilgrims in MA exiled their drifters there...

Vince Gallo's avatar

What do you expect from a country run by a Keiren.

No Kings in the US? The UK has a King. I take it the UK’s public

education system is as bad as ours

Lawsy0's avatar

So true. Every last one of them has an accent!

AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

I learned a whole lot of things today from Don's column about people and things I have never heard about. I must start paying more attention. Maybe this has to do with my wife and I watching very little news TV and preferring to rely on our own specific news, entertainment, and sports sources and, of course, Don to keep us worldly with his spot-on opinions and analysis.... yes, the analytical side of most of his pieces is really good. We are paying attention to the War in the Middle East and are in the final days selling our vacation home in the NW Phoenix metro area and, therefore, are consolidating our living to our primary home in Northern AZ ... away from urban life. We just watched game camera videos of deer, a bobcat, and an owl that all visited our watering station on our trail behind our home last night. Life is good.... keep writing, Don.

tzed's avatar

So, in Canada they had a no tyrants protest. Do you think those that blocked or supported the blocking of the truck drivers’ bank accounts for their COVID lockdown protest participated? Of the irony.

Tmitsss's avatar

Apparently Don is not vacationing in the UK this summer.

dts3204's avatar

Which means he won’t be picking up his Bentley from the factory.

Pamazon's avatar

I want to go on record here. Since it seems there are a lot of regular smart people here. The Left is F*cking nuts. I have been saying it for years and I AM CORRECT. They are f*cking nuts and can't wait for the next new thing to show us their nuttiness. Also since I am in confessional mode. I DON'T want to get along with these retards. I want nothing to do with them. Divorce or Civil War 2.0 doesn't matter to me. I can not live along side these America hating MORONS.

Dennis's avatar

More proof positive, freedom isn’t free. It’s not just about defending your country from outsiders, but the insiders as well, who would enslave you.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

So said Senator McCarthy 59+ years ago.

Dennis's avatar

Yea but I'm starting to believe I'd rather have a commie lurking under the bed than all of the no-term-limits political hacks we have who are supposedly working for us.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Some days I tend to think your way Dennis.