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What Steve Jobs would have recognized in his sleep about that damn headset was at that price point it was DOA. The consumers know that. And the fricking CEO doesn’t???
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Our Somalian Representative wants to start some shite
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 11:19 am
Let’s get the Civil War going. Bring it on, dumb arse.
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Dramatic standoff in Minnesota as federal agents with weapons drawn square up to Ilhan Omar's 'woke army' with tensions set to boil over
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re: You Don’t Hate The Media Enough: PBS Edition
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 9:07 am to LuckyTiger
Message to the American people from our media.
“Are you going to believe what we tell you or your own lying eyes?”
“Are you going to believe what we tell you or your own lying eyes?”
re: A brief public service announcement from Keith Olbermann
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 9:05 am to Kenna City Solja
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He has stiff competition from Jimmy Kimmel
But Jimmy has a partial excuse. He’s married to a fricking unhinged lunatic.
Typical Leftist Loon. Screaming incoherently making an arse of herself. She needs to be in an institution.
A brief public service announcement from Keith Olbermann
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 9:02 am
She was just an innocent ‘bystander.’ This is the typical disgusting lying shite the Left tries to pull all the time!
And Olbermann is the epitome of the diseased, repugnant progressive Left.
He truly may very well be ‘The Worst Person in the World.’
And we know why our media isn’t covering it because they hate the concept of America and everything it stands for. They would support an Islamic overthrow of the United States because they hate America that bad.
Our media is the enemy of America. Not the loyal opposition. Not another voice. They are the enemy. Anything they can do to help bring it down, they are onboard.
Our media is the enemy of America. Not the loyal opposition. Not another voice. They are the enemy. Anything they can do to help bring it down, they are onboard.
Once again, video evidence on how fricking stupid the Left is.
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 8:04 am
Whatever they are for, I’m against. Whatever they are against, I’m for.
That’s how bad they’ve gotten.
That’s how bad they’ve gotten.
These days are gone and will never return in our lifetime.
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 6:17 am
Tip and the Gipper is a political history and character study about the unlikely working relationship—and personal friendship—between Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican president, and Tip O’Neill, a liberal Democratic Speaker of the House, during the 1980s. The book’s central thesis is that despite sharp ideological conflict, American governance functioned because leaders could disagree fiercely by day and still respect—and even like—each other by night.
What the Book Is About
At its core, the book argues that:
• Reagan and O’Neill represented authentic ideological opposites, not performative ones.
• They fought hard over taxes, spending, Social Security, defense, and the size of government.
• Yet they maintained personal trust, civility, and a shared belief in American institutions.
Chris Matthews uses their relationship to illustrate what he sees as a lost political culture: deal-making grounded in personal respect rather than total war politics. The famous image Matthews returns to repeatedly is that Reagan and O’Neill would spar publicly, then share drinks, jokes, and stories privately—often Irish-Catholic humor on O’Neill’s side and Hollywood optimism on Reagan’s.
The book is also partly autobiographical. Matthews worked for Tip O’Neill, and the narrative often reflects his insider vantage point inside Democratic leadership during the Reagan years.
How Chris Matthews Felt About Reagan
This is where the book is especially interesting for debate purposes.
Despite being a lifelong Democrat and a former O’Neill aide, Chris Matthews is clearly impressed by Reagan—sometimes uncomfortably so for readers expecting partisan hostility.
Matthews’ view of Reagan can be summarized accurately as:
1. He Respected Reagan’s Leadership and Skill
Matthews portrays Reagan as politically formidable:
• Exceptionally disciplined in message
• Intuitively brilliant at communicating values
• Able to frame conservative ideas in moral and emotional terms
Matthews repeatedly concedes that Reagan outmaneuvered Democrats not through policy minutiae but through narrative and conviction.
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2. He Acknowledged Reagan’s Sincerity
Matthews emphasizes that Reagan genuinely believed what he said. He was not cynical, not tactical in the modern sense, and not transactional. Matthews contrasts Reagan’s optimism with what he sees as the technocratic coldness of many Democrats.
This sincerity, Matthews argues, made Reagan trustworthy—even to opponents.
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3. He Disagreed Strongly With Reagan’s Policies
Matthews does not become a Reagan convert:
• He opposed Reaganomics.
• He believed Reagan favored the wealthy.
• He worried about cuts to social programs.
But importantly, Matthews separates policy disagreement from personal legitimacy, something he argues modern politics fails to do.
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4. He Viewed Reagan as a Unifier, Not a Divider
Matthews credits Reagan with understanding the emotional state of the country after Vietnam and Watergate. Reagan’s optimism, in Matthews’ telling, wasn’t superficial—it was strategic and restorative.
He saw Reagan as someone who loved the country and wanted it to feel confident again, even if Democrats believed he was wrong on substance.
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Matthews’ Larger Point
The Reagan–O’Neill relationship is used as evidence that:
• Democracy requires opponents, not enemies
• Politics works when leaders believe the other side is legitimate
• Personal respect enables compromise without ideological surrender
Matthews is blunt that he does not believe today’s political environment would allow a Reagan–O’Neill dynamic to exist.
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Bottom Line
Chris Matthews’ position in Tip and the Gipper is nuanced but clear:
• He admired Reagan the leader
• He respected Reagan the man
• He opposed Reagan the policymaker
• He believed Reagan elevated the presidency and the tone of American politics
re: When China, Russia, and Iran realized, “We’re fricked.”
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 5:56 am to czechtiger
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how can you be so certain of success?
The fact no Americans were killed in this raid is mind boggling.
re: When China, Russia, and Iran realized, “We’re fricked.”
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 5:44 am to jizzle6609
I believe it was a Russia General that defected years ago that said it was believed in the Kremlin that America would be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat if they engaged us militarily. That’s why the first strike mentality never really took hold.
The fact is we do indeed have a lot of hats and a lot of rabbits.
The fact is we do indeed have a lot of hats and a lot of rabbits.
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“Watching The View feels like observing a panel of people confidently mistaking volume and moral certainty for actual thought, where shallow talking points are recycled with the enthusiasm of insight and dissent is treated as a personal affront rather than an intellectual challenge.
The discussions rarely rise above performative outrage and self-congratulation, with nuance discarded in favor of applause-ready slogans and reflexive tribalism.
What’s most striking is not merely the lack of depth, but the apparent unawareness of that lack—opinions delivered with smug finality, as though repetition itself were evidence and emotional intensity a substitute for reasoning.
The result is less a conversation than a televised group affirmation ritual, intellectually non existent , relentlessly condescending to the audience, and oddly proud of its own incuriosity.
What makes the spectacle especially grating is the pretense that what’s happening is analysis rather than theatrical smugness dressed up as discourse.
Assertions are lobbed out with the confidence of people who have never had to defend them against a serious counterargument, let alone revise them in the face of inconvenient facts.
Complexity is flattened into cartoonish binaries, history is selectively remembered, and any challenge to the approved narrative is met not with reasoning but with pearl-clutching indignation.
It’s a master class in how to confuse consensus with correctness and how to mistake shared bias for intelligence, all delivered with a tone that suggests the panel sincerely believes thinking is something other people should do for them.”
And the best part is the audience at The View. A gathering of completely brain dead clapping seals that have a collective IQ in the single digits.
“Watching The View feels like observing a panel of people confidently mistaking volume and moral certainty for actual thought, where shallow talking points are recycled with the enthusiasm of insight and dissent is treated as a personal affront rather than an intellectual challenge.
The discussions rarely rise above performative outrage and self-congratulation, with nuance discarded in favor of applause-ready slogans and reflexive tribalism.
What’s most striking is not merely the lack of depth, but the apparent unawareness of that lack—opinions delivered with smug finality, as though repetition itself were evidence and emotional intensity a substitute for reasoning.
The result is less a conversation than a televised group affirmation ritual, intellectually non existent , relentlessly condescending to the audience, and oddly proud of its own incuriosity.
What makes the spectacle especially grating is the pretense that what’s happening is analysis rather than theatrical smugness dressed up as discourse.
Assertions are lobbed out with the confidence of people who have never had to defend them against a serious counterargument, let alone revise them in the face of inconvenient facts.
Complexity is flattened into cartoonish binaries, history is selectively remembered, and any challenge to the approved narrative is met not with reasoning but with pearl-clutching indignation.
It’s a master class in how to confuse consensus with correctness and how to mistake shared bias for intelligence, all delivered with a tone that suggests the panel sincerely believes thinking is something other people should do for them.”
And the best part is the audience at The View. A gathering of completely brain dead clapping seals that have a collective IQ in the single digits.
In the entire history of broadcast television…..
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 5:26 am
has there EVER been a more pathetic assembled group of cackling moronic idiots than these utterly stupid fricking single celled dumb asses?
The country and the whole of humanity is worse off because of this show. These are the most clueless human beings that have ever gathered.
The country and the whole of humanity is worse off because of this show. These are the most clueless human beings that have ever gathered.
Virtue signaling, phony POS.
When China, Russia, and Iran realized, “We’re fricked.”
Posted by Geekboy on 1/10/26 at 5:12 am
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When Caracas cracked: How the US broke through Venezuela's Iranian, Russian, and Chinese defenses
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The dildo of truth and consequences rarely arrives lubed.
How the progressive Left really reacted when Nicole Good was shot dead.
Posted by Geekboy on 1/9/26 at 3:18 pm
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