The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Ah...unintended consequences are often delicious, and this one is a doozy! Donald Trump was a bombastic businessman with an insatiable desire for publicity and fame. He wasn't much of a conservative, and that worked well in his world, where there were plenty of Democrats whose money and approval he needed.

But the savagery exhibited by those same Democrats when Donald Trump entered the political arena was almost unbelievable. And when he won the Presidency they doubled down, attacking him on all fronts, and trying to muzzle him by limiting his social media communication.

So he built his own outlet!

Trump Joins List of World's 500 Wealthiest Despite Left's Endless Lawfare

...[I]nvestors approved a deal to bring Trump's "Truth Social" platform public by merging it with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called "Digital World Acqusition Corporation." That SPAC had the ticker DWAC at the time of the merger, and it's changed to DJT as of Tuesday to reflect the new listing.
While it's "on paper" for now, Trump's net worth officially doubled yesterday, making him one of the wealthiest 500 people on the planet.

I have no idea whether it will be a financial success. Valuations for businesses such as this are laughably inaccurate, and a darling of the stock market one day can be crushed the next.

But the timing couldn't be more galling for the rabid left trying to crush Trump under an avalanche of civil and criminal proceedings. Had they treated Donald Trump the way they did before he entered politics, my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!

The deplatforming, lies, legal machinations and vitriol pouring forth from every Democrat maw made sure that Donald Trump was combative and defensive and absolutely pushed him to take more conservative stances on many issues.

The left can thank themselves for that, and they can thank themselves for his potential new-found wealth!

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 foist

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:01 AM (CIS44)

2 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 26, 2024 11:01 AM (WXNFJ)

3 Not first, dammit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

4 "Truth Social" Trump Media and Tech (NASDAQ symbol "DJT")

Up 40% @ around $70/share

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2024 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Top tier?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 26, 2024 11:02 AM (bfVP5)

6 I remember when Truth Social was a miserable failure plagued by mismanagement.

It's too bad the company folded and Trump got nothing out of his investment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

7 Good for Trump, but I'm off all social media. It's a cancer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 26, 2024 11:02 AM (xcxpd)

8 The left can thank themselves for that, and they can thank themselves for his potential new-found wealth!

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

Soros DAs are just getting more ideas.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:03 AM (ASVTS)

9 merging it with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called "Digital World Acqusition Corporation." That SPAC had the ticker DWAC at the time of the merger, and it's changed to DJT as of Tuesday to reflect the new listing.
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I wonder how well it will do as compared to other SPACs. The AI bubble is littered with 'em.

I doubt his net worth will stay doubled, but it's still a funny development.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:03 AM (6bTRc)

10 I love the irony of them forcing him off SM, which then lead to probably the single biggest financial windfall of his laugh. It is too laugh.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)

11 If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (iFTx/)

12 Oft evil will evil mar.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (N1tpc)

13 The new company is a SPAC, and I think there are additional rules governing stock sales by principals.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (gSZYf)

14 I love the irony of them forcing him off SM, which then lead to probably the single biggest financial windfall of his laugh. It is too laugh.
Posted by: BruceWayne

ugh life.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (CIS44)

15 Had they treated Donald Trump the way they did before he entered politics, my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!
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Likely. Probably still some of the trade reform stuff, since he's been banging the drum on that since the 80s.

But they can't help it. They're pathological.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (6bTRc)

16 Good for Trump, but I'm off all social media. It's a cancer.

Its pretty clear that a lot of people look at their friends "living their best life" on social media and get depressed even if you explain to them that is a curated, not at all realistic, view of it.

Imagine the couple up to their eyeballs in debt posting their latest vacation pictures to Facebook even though they might be about to lose their house...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

17 Willowed, and I gotta get back to work designing structures…

494 475 Also glad I'm not the engineer who designed a bridge with basically zero redundancy. One hit, adios.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 10:57 AM (pohLc)

If you looked, there’s likely only a handful of bridges over shipping lanes that could handle losing the whole pier and still stand up. Reason being, bridges are expensive, bridges over deep water are even more expensive. Redundancy is just not built into these. The expectation is that barges won’t hit the piers head on, the fenders are sized for glancing blows.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (9mfKN)

18 The left can thank themselves for that, and they can thank themselves for his potential new-found wealth!
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No need to worry.

Posted by: An army of FedGov auditors at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (6bTRc)

19 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.

Posted by: Jim martin at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (wbugR)

20 Had they treated Donald Trump the way they did before he entered politics, my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!

yes but he committed the cardinal sin of defeating the anointed Hilary.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (CIS44)

21 That bridge is the only way some people have to get to the polls in MD. We need nationwide mail in ballots without request and unlimited drop boxes and no registration.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (7AyCR)

22 Sure, Not Like I have Better Things to Do - a limerick

My typing fingers are kinda slow and clunky
And my sense of humor's really odd and funky
Now Big'n James is callin'
For a llimerick about pollen
What d'you think I am? Some sort of circus monkey?
Posted by: Muldoon
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Dance, monkey! Dance!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (2yu8s)

23 The expectation is that barges won’t hit the piers head on, the fenders are sized for glancing blows.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (9mfKN)

HOW ARE THOSE "EXPECTATIONS" WORKING OUT FOR YA?

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (ASVTS)

24 Biden said it. I believe it. And that settles it.

Projection: Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

25 The deplatforming, lies, legal machinations and vitriol pouring forth from every Democrat maw made sure that Donald Trump was combative and defensive and absolutely pushed him to take more conservative stances on many issues.

My take also, and a gift to us.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (pohLc)

26 Right on CBD. TDS is real…. And it’s spectacular. Though still not as impressive as peak Teri Hatcher assets….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (xT8gx)

27 24 Biden said it. I believe it. And that settles it.

Projection: Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

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And the world would know if the corporate media would just report on it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

28 Just bought a few shares to help depress Letitia James.

Posted by: FlatvilleBill at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (uMGpS)

29 But they can't help it. They're pathological.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (6bTRc)

Exactly. And Trump pushes every single one of their buttons.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (gSZYf)

30 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 16m
NEW - Germany's public health agency RKI was aware that "lockdowns cause more harm than good" and evidence for "making masks mandatory was lacking" according to newly released confidential protocols.

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 3m
MORE - Many areas of the secret protocols are still redacted. Politicians have urged the RKI to uncensor the entirety of its findings. Further court proceedings are pending.

[Screencaps of dozens of pages with an average of 50% blacked-out on each page.]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (2yu8s)

31 Massala, "by what magic did you become a Consul's son?"

Judah Ben-Hur, "you were the magician Massala."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:08 AM (lzI4r)

32 "my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!"

Sad.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (Z8Yh2)

33 I love the irony of them forcing him off SM, which then lead to probably the single biggest financial windfall of his laugh. It is too laugh.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:03 AM (CIS44)
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If he can convert it to meaningful cash or other assets after the lockup and blackout periods for insiders are up. That remains to be seen.

But in a way, that's beside the point. "Truth Social" was illiquid before. Now it's not. It *can* be converted now, at some price. That's a net benefit even if the investment isn't actually any more profitable or valuable than it was an unlisted enterprise. It has the same amount of personal investment for him as it did yesterday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (6bTRc)

34 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.
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Wow, a cancer on the royal family will discuss cancer in the royal family.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (lf83v)

35 I remember when Truth Social was a miserable failure plagued by mismanagement.
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Just like for that Musk guy! $48-billion ha, ha, ha!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (2yu8s)

36 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (XGfg7)

37 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.
Posted by: Jim martin at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (wbugR)
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I somehow doubt that Meghan will earn $4 billion from her podcasting enterprise, but I could be wrong...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (7fElN)

38 Wow, a cancer on the royal family will discuss cancer in the royal family.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (lf83v)

LMAO...Good one

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (pVWRI)

39 So Trump said he did have the $500 million to pay the bond for the appeal.
But that it was earmarked for his campaign. Alleging that the fine was a thinly disguised effort to freeze his campaign funds.

Which, of course, raises two questions:
1) how/why did NY know roughly what he had set aside?
2) if he had set aside that much, what is the real number? As every construction guy knows always double your initial estimate.

I'm thinking Trump maybe has gotten the message: Spend every dollar you can beg, borrow or steal to win because the left is as well.
He better borrow 100% against his Truth stake.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (yikga)

40 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (rO9Wl)

41 Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)
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This is nuts. Whoever thought this would be a good campaign strategy is delusional.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (/kB4N)

42 That bridge crash . . . WOW. What was supposed to happen? The container ship just plowed head-first into it. There seemed no place for the ship to go, and it seemed to make no corrective or emergency moves. If the ship pilot deliberately intended to hit and destroy the bridge, I don't know what he would have done differently.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

43 ... Which, of course, raises two questions:
1) how/why did NY know roughly what he had set aside?
2) if he had set aside that much, what is the real number? As every construction guy knows always double your initial estimate. ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (yikga)
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NY probably didn't. It's possible they have a spy, but not necessary. This isn't hard to estimate.

"Sock him for half or so of his net worth, and that should do the trick."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:11 AM (6bTRc)

44 Wow, an ass cancer on the royal family will discuss cancer in the royal family.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (lf83v)

Just being more specific.

Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2024 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

45 But they can't help it. They're pathological.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:04 AM (6bTRc)

Exactly. And Trump pushes every single one of their buttons.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2024 11:07 AM (gSZYf)
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The epic meltdowns on DU brought to us by the AoSHQ Intrepid Liaison are glorious to behold...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2024 11:11 AM (7fElN)

46 Meghan Markle has proven all the fears of her being a gold digger underestimated how contemptible she is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:11 AM (lzI4r)

47 This is nuts. Whoever thought this would be a good campaign strategy is delusional.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (/kB4N)

Heh! How would you like to be on the team attempting to sugar coat turd Biden?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (pohLc)

48 I somehow doubt that Meghan will earn $4 billion from her podcasting enterprise, but I could be wrong...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (7fElN)

No, but once she's done with this yet another globalist media outlet will pay her millions for, essentially, nothing.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (1Z8zZ)

49 We just want to tell EVERYONE that we want our privacy!!

Posted by: Meaghan and Harry at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (x5QdO)

50 The irony here is that Trump is pretty much a product of the Left and the PTB.

Posted by: pawn at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (QB+5g)

51 Wow. Just saw a new video of the container vessel from a different angle.

The ship lost total power, regained power, lost it again, regained it just before hitting bridge and then lost total power right after.

Went from being lit up to total darkness three times.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (IB/6k)

52 Now would be a great time to cash out, cite the need for liquid cash due to bullshit legal crap.

You know when the share price drops for any reason they are going to file some kind of fraud suit.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (fgmuN)

53 MORE - Many areas of the secret protocols are still redacted. Politicians have urged the RKI to uncensor the entirety of its findings. Further court proceedings are pending.

Censoring most of your response to a virus that supposedly did not come from a bio-lab in China? Why its like everything the government claimed about COVID was a lie or something

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (ibTVg)

54 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.

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Grifters gonna grift.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (FVME7)

55 If the ship pilot deliberately intended to hit and destroy the bridge, I don't know what he would have done differently.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

Fuck this bridge in particular.

Posted by: MV Dali captain at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (OguvZ)

56 41 Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

Trump should call his bluff and say "OK, Joe, let's meet at a neutral location to have a televised debate. Just you and me and two mics in real time. No 8 second delay, no handlers, no earpieces, no teleprompters, no editing. Your move, punk."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (PiwSw)

57 Severely conservative.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked Nicole Shanahan, a California-based attorney who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate for his long-shot presidential bid, according to people familiar with the decision.

Shanahan, 38, also runs a foundation focused on reproductive rights, criminal justice and the environment.

Before backing Kennedy’s independent bid, Shanahan had previously been a donor to Democratic campaigns, including supporting Joe Biden’s election in 2020.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (7AyCR)

58 Harry will use his sister-in-law's cancer to gradually alienate himself from Meagan Markle and then divorce her moneygrubbing ass.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:14 AM (lf83v)

59 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.
Posted by: Jim martin at March 26, 2024

***
MEEE! It's all about MEEEE!

Posted by: That Markle Woman at March 26, 2024 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

60 Massala, "by what magic did you become a Consul's son?"

Judah Ben-Hur, "you were the magician Massala."
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:08 AM (lzI4r)

I absolutely love that movie. First on my all-time list. Just one of several great lines from it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:14 AM (xT8gx)

61 Whoops. Did I do that?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:14 AM (7AyCR)

62 There was all that histamine talk on the last thread, and now I'm having a sneezing fit.

I blame the Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (6bTRc)

63 Looked at the art down below. It's like I don't know you people. There weren't any "Nope" movie references at all.

Be better.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (MsrgL)

64 57 Shanahan, 38, also runs a foundation focused on reproductive rights, criminal justice and the environment.

Before backing Kennedy’s independent bid, Shanahan had previously been a donor to Democratic campaigns, including supporting Joe Biden’s election in 2020.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (7AyCR)

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I've said for years that RFK Jr. is just a fascist who objects to how the government is oppressing people, not to the core idea of government oppression of the people, which he wholeheartedly supports for the "right" reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

65 All the Trump prosecutions are being run out of the White House.
And the IC has never stopped spying on Trump.

That's how NY knew how much Trump had on hand.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (yikga)

66 That Markle thing is a Bee headline, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

67 Power failure three times? Did someone plug a microwave in on the circuit for the lights? What is the ship registry? How old is the ship?

Was there a harbor pilot aboard?

As someone mentioned in previous thread, where were the tugs?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (lzI4r)

68 Kicking Trump off twitter ended up making him rich. Talk about your all time backfires

Posted by: Drunken Yoda at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (ilHZO)

69 Wow. Just saw a new video of the container vessel from a different angle.

The ship lost total power, regained power, lost it again, regained it just before hitting bridge and then lost total power right after.

Went from being lit up to total darkness three times.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (IB/6k)

Seemed to be movin' pretty fast, but, what do I know.

Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (AwYPR)

70 Shanahan, 38, also runs a foundation focused on reproductive rights, criminal justice and the environment.
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He just wants to date her.

Posted by: AOC at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (lf83v)

71 There was all that histamine talk on the last thread, and now I'm having a sneezing fit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Boobette pics can take care of that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (9yWhg)

72 The architect of the anti-Trump conglomeration can be traced to one person: HRC. May she burn in hell for ruining the country.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (BxvY+)

73 RFK picking a lefty wack-a-doodle is great. More likely to take votes from Biden that way

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (ibTVg)

74 14 I love the irony of them forcing him off SM, which then lead to probably the single biggest financial windfall of his laugh. It is too laugh.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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A Rockefeller trust buster story.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (vsQ70)

75 There was all that histamine talk on the last thread, and now I'm having a sneezing fit.

I blame the Horde.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (6bTRc)

*Switches from tickling the nose of his Joe Mannix voodoo doll to stabbing it with pins*

Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (bpzp/)

76 Is today the day RFK Jr. will announce who he will pretend to have as his running mate?

Posted by: That Markle Woman at March 26, 2024 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

77 Megan Markle announces a new podcast she'll be starting to discuss the trauma Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis has caused Mehgan & Harry.
Posted by: Jim martin at March 26, 2024

***
MEEE! It's all about MEEEE!
Posted by: That Markle Woman

that bitch just got cancer to upstage me!
-Mehgan Markle

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:17 AM (CIS44)

78 Speaking of unintended consequences - a day after stabbing Israel in the back at the UN, Biden and Blinken are saying "huh? wut? we dindu nuttin', why are they so mad???"

By openly attacking Israel's interests at the UN, Biden has now irretrievably destroyed his diplomatic relations with Israel (which is why Netanyahu canceled the diplomatic team that was supposed to leave for consultations with the US yesterday) But by disavowing what he did and trying to walk it back now, Biden continues to infuriate the anti-Israel left in his own party.

And the best part? Today Hamas unilaterally rejected any cease fire or any terms, thus making the entire exercise at the UN, and the treachery by Biden, completely meaningless in any real world sense. He did it all for nothing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:17 AM (i9ffA)

79 I googled Shanahan and she looks botoxed to hell. 38?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2024 11:17 AM (ibTVg)

80 That bridge crash . . . WOW. What was supposed to happen? The container ship just plowed head-first into it. There seemed no place for the ship to go, and it seemed to make no corrective or emergency moves. If the ship pilot deliberately intended to hit and destroy the bridge, I don't know what he would have done differently.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

The pilots radioed before the collision that they had suffered a loss of ship control and were concerned about a collision.

Someone claimed that the ship veered sharply-ish to starboard and then rammed the bridge support. It was suggested that the dropped their anchors in an attempt to slow down. Assuming the starboard anchor bit and the port anchor did not, that could explain a sharp course change. It's also possible that they were of the opinion that ramming the support head-on would cause less damage in the long run than swiping it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:17 AM (1Z8zZ)

81
I remember when Truth Social was a miserable failure plagued by mismanagement.
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What is it now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (63Dwl)

82 TJM

I just hope RFK jr Perot's Team Bidet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (lzI4r)

83 The Kennedys have never been a good judge of women.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (lf83v)

84 *Switches from tickling the nose of his Joe Mannix voodoo doll to stabbing it with pins*
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:16 AM (bpzp/)
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OW OW OW OW

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (6bTRc)

85 That Gutfeld sidebar about the UC Berkeley professor’s dating advice . . .

Who the fuck asks their computer science professor for dating advice? That being said, the advice he gave was spot-on.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

86 I've said for years that RFK Jr. is just a fascist who objects to how the government is oppressing people, not to the core idea of government oppression of the people, which he wholeheartedly supports for the "right" reasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fi

*guns and climate have entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (CIS44)

87 82 TJM

I just hope RFK jr Perot's Team Bidet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (lzI4r)

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Just get him on the ballot in enough states. That Kennedy name will do something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

88 But in a way, that's beside the point. "Truth Social" was illiquid before. Now it's not. It *can* be converted now, at some price. That's a net benefit even if the investment isn't actually any more profitable or valuable than it was an unlisted enterprise. It has the same amount of personal investment for him as it did yesterday.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:09 AM (6bTRc)

DWAC was already listed.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:19 AM (ASVTS)

89 Is today the day RFK Jr. will announce who he will pretend to have as his running mate?
Posted by: That Markle Woman at March 26, 2024[/io]

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Oh, ok, I see that he did. She looks quite attractive. Is she a complete lefty loon?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

91
There presently are eleven vessels standing down below the Chesapeake Bay Bridge east of Annapolis. All are listed as Baltimore bound.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2024 11:19 AM (xG4kz)

92 You live to serve this ship. So row well and live.

In his eagerness to save you, your God has also saved the Roman fleet.

One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized. It is not generous!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (xT8gx)

93 Oh, ok, I see that he did. She looks quite attractive. Is she a complete lefty loon?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, D

yup

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (CIS44)

94 Willowed
497 WaPo, minutes ago

The eight workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the time it collapsed were repairing potholes, Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld said during a news conference. They were not working on structural issues. Six of the workers remain unaccounted for; two were rescued, and one is hospitalized.
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BTW: MDOT welcomes Daniels as new Executive Director for the Maryland Port Administration
posted by AJOT | Jan 02 2024 at 12:25 PM | Ports & Terminals

In part, "Jonathan Daniels has been named the new Executive Director of the Maryland Port Administration (MPA). Jonathan was selected following a rigorous recruitment process that included a high-level executive search committee and nationally recognized maritime executive search firm. He has more than 30 years of port and economic development experience, most recently as the CEO and Port Director at Port Everglades in Broward County, Florida."

Dreadful. Prayers up.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (GshMh)

95 DWAC was already listed.
Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:19 AM (ASVTS)
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Yes, but "Truth Social" wasn't, and wasn't part of the listing. That's the point of special-purpose vehicles - to take something unlisted and get it listed with way less paperwork and regulatory overhead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (6bTRc)

96 Just an idle thought, but with the majority of media outlets hostile to Trump he probably should cling to some sort of media outlet that he has some control over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

97 83 The Kennedys have never been a good judge of women.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (lf83v)

Women tend not to be a very good judge of Kennedys either.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (fKIdX)

98 It's too bad Gordon Lightfoot is around anymore to write a song about the Wreck of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (hey, same number of syllables!).

Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (OguvZ)

99 Damn! Is there nothing covid can't do?

New Media Talking Point: People Only Think the Economy Is Bad Due to COVID PTSD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 26, 2024 11:21 AM (FVME7)

100 Well, now the pilot of that container ship knows what a real pucker feels like. Watching the ship close on the bridge and being absolutely helpless to do anything about it. I don't envy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:21 AM (pohLc)

101 I find it interesting that doubling Trump's wealth only puts him in the top 500.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 26, 2024 11:21 AM (XjtdB)

102 It's too bad RFK Jr. had to pick Shanahan. Politically she's a nobody with no constituency and no history in public life, just an average mega-rich California Karen. But she's got access to Google money, so that's obviously what he needed more than anything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:22 AM (i9ffA)

103 18 Palestinians reportedly killed due to failed airdrops of food into Gaza; 12 people drowned after aid packages landed at sea, 6 died due to overcrowding; Hamas blames Israel & US, as usual. via @ynetalerts

So we are helping after all.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 26, 2024 11:22 AM (t/2Uw)

104 I just hope RFK jr Perot's Team Bidet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024

***
"perot, to": v.t. (Since 1996) To sabotage, as another's political campaign; also, to split support for a candidate to no good purpose.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:22 AM (J2vNu)

105 Gaza - homicidal cargo cult.

They just need to be head hunting cannibals

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:23 AM (lzI4r)

106 But she's got access to Google money, so that's obviously what he needed more than anything else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:22 AM (i9ffA)

That, and a new larynx.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2024 11:23 AM (PiwSw)

107 I need a car part.

Amazon Prime: $43, generic part, "free" shipping, arrives Sunday.
Alternate vendor: $40, name-brand aftermarket part, $10 shipping, arrives Thursday before noon.

The main point of Prime was "free" shipping that was *fast.* It isn't fast anymore, and there's decreasing point in having it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:23 AM (6bTRc)

108 It's too bad Gordon Lightfoot is around anymore to write a song about the Wreck of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (hey, same number of syllables!).
Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2024

***
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the bow hits the supporting towers?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:24 AM (J2vNu)

109 Good, quickplay video of the crash:

Ace @ThatUchihaGuy [NOT our Ace]
Shocking footage reveals the start of the incident in Baltimore Harbor where 20 people are now missing. Our hearts are with Baltimore, Maryland. #BreakingNews

https://tinyurl.com/ysbvxf5v
54 seconds; no sound

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:24 AM (2yu8s)

110 That SPAC had the ticker DWAC at the time of the merger, and it's changed to DJT as of Tuesday to reflect the new listing.

------------

What, FJB wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 26, 2024 11:24 AM (nsPlB)

111 I noticed the pothole crew in the bridge video. You can see them go. I thought it was a safety thing for the bridge impact. Thought they got there quick. Pothole repair makes more sense.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:24 AM (Z8Yh2)

112 Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”
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Look at the presser from Trump the other day.
Now compare that to any of Biden's in the last 3 years.

The same people hailing his State of the Union as the greatest speech in American history are the ones advising and cheering this tact.

They are mad, insane, completely around the bend.
Not only is there no comparison, but using those words highlights the issue.

Trump should run ads, with clips of his rally crowds and a counter on the right ticking up with each clip contra a counter on the left of Joe stuck at 0.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:25 AM (yikga)

113 Linus

The amazing thing is how many times Judah was still willing to forgive Massala until after the chariot race when Massala out of pure spite tells Judah the fate of his mother and sister.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:25 AM (lzI4r)

114 100 comments?

Okay, so can someone explain what's going on with Diddy? Is he like the black Jeffrey Epstein? P. Diddystein? Are we going to be joking in a couple of weeks that Puff Daddy did not kill himself?

Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:26 AM (bpzp/)

115 There presently are eleven vessels standing down below the Chesapeake Bay Bridge east of Annapolis. All are listed as Baltimore bound.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2024 11:19 AM (xG4kz)

Hopefully, the Junta in DC will build a temporary port to offload….like the one in Gaza!

Posted by: Rex B at March 26, 2024 11:26 AM (xMZKl)

116 Shanahan, 38, also runs a foundation focused on reproductive rights, criminal justice and the environment.

Before backing Kennedy’s independent bid, Shanahan had previously been a donor to Democratic campaigns, including supporting Joe Biden’s election in 2020.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:13 AM (7AyCR)

So...a pro abort, criminal lover, and eco-terrorist supporter. Figures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 11:26 AM (tkR6S)

117 The ship lost total power, regained power, lost it again, regained it just before hitting bridge and then lost total power right after.

Does a ship that size use electric motors to turn the rudder?

Posted by: USCG Diversity Officer at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

118 So...a pro abort, criminal lover, and eco-terrorist supporter. Figures.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I assume she's also a gun grabber, and those are 4 of Kennedy's main beliefs.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (CIS44)

119
It's too bad Gordon Lightfoot is around anymore to write a song about the Wreck of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (hey, same number of syllables!).
Posted by: spindrift

Oh say can you see that bridge over there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

120 Biden Says Trump “Feeble,” “Confused,” “Tired”
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Look at the presser from Trump the other day.
Now compare that to any of Biden's in the last 3 years.

Trump needs to challenge Biden to a one on one debate with no moderators and a scheduled 3 hour time.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (CsUN+)

121 I say "Ramming Speed" everytime I floor the gas peddle.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (Z8Yh2)

122 /ironically inapt sock

Posted by: Oddbob at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

123 Trump needs to challenge Biden to a one on one debate with no moderators and a scheduled 3 hour time.
Posted by: Archimedes a

Or maybe they could go behind the gym and have that fight that Biden claims he wants.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:28 AM (CIS44)

124

The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald...

Posted by: You're Singing it in Your Head at March 26, 2024 11:28 AM (4o7+L)

125 23 The expectation is that barges won’t hit the piers head on, the fenders are sized for glancing blows.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (9mfKN)

HOW ARE THOSE "EXPECTATIONS" WORKING OUT FOR YA?
Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:06 AM (ASVTS)

*waves hand*

Ooh! Ooh! I know!

Posted by: Rian J. at March 26, 2024 11:28 AM (DTX3h)

126 Thinking on Trump's VP pick:

I'm hoping it's someone clever enough to work "Willie Brown" and "kneepads" into the debate and get away with it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:28 AM (yikga)

127 close!

Posted by: Rian J. at March 26, 2024 11:28 AM (DTX3h)

128 Harry will use his sister-in-law's cancer to gradually alienate himself from Meagan Markle and then divorce her moneygrubbing ass

All Harry has to do is grab the kids and head to the British Consulate and be sent back to Britain in a diplomatic pouch. If I were King Chuck, I would take him back but his new home would be in The Tower. Maybe even make him a tourist attraction for "Don't stick your dick in crazy"

Posted by: Chuck C at March 26, 2024 11:29 AM (yOPBE)

129 There's a quick scene in Plains, Trains and Automobiles where, as the car is headed straight for two semi's, Steve Martin looks over and has a vision of John Candy dressed as the devil, laughing as he drives them to their doom. I can see that on the bridge of the Dali just before impact.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:29 AM (i9ffA)

130 The Barrel beckons

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:29 AM (lzI4r)

131 Nicole Shanahan was a good looking woman before she had that face work done.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:29 AM (vsQ70)

132 I say "Ramming Speed" everytime I floor the gas peddle.
Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (Z8Yh2)
++++
Perhaps today is a good day to die!
https://youtu.be/ni8MURSwSZg?t=29

Posted by: Captain Worf at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (6bTRc)

133 The amazing thing is how many times Judah was still willing to forgive Massala until after the chariot race when Massala out of pure spite tells Judah the fate of his mother and sister.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:25 AM (lzI4r)

Totally! Have you read the book? The Masala character has a different arc in the book. I usually prefer the book but the movie arc is equally good; maybe even better

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (gZ3KO)

134 Does a ship that size use electric motors to turn the rudder?
Posted by: USCG Diversity Officer at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

I would assume hydraulics but the control valves would be electric.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (1Z8zZ)

135 Getting Kennedy on the ballot in WI helps Trump. I don't think Trump can win WI otherwise.

Posted by: WisRich at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

136 The Barrel is the minimum punishment Rian Johnson deserves.

Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (OguvZ)

137 Does a ship that size use electric motors to turn the rudder?
Posted by: USCG Diversity Officer at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

Likely hydraulics, but with no power, no hydraulics.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (pohLc)

138 Okay, so can someone explain what's going on with Diddy? Is he like the black Jeffrey Epstein? P. Diddystein? Are we going to be joking in a couple of weeks that Puff Daddy did not kill himself?
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:26 AM (bpzp/)

Diddy or Dint he?

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (i9ffA)

139 Live feed on YouTube of the Baltimore bridge and harbor. Goes to YouTube. The chats are quite interesting.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2yhry8

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 26, 2024 11:31 AM (iODuv)

140 83 The Kennedys have never been a good judge of women.

they may do just fine when viewed from a stewardess sandwich perspective.

Posted by: anachronda at March 26, 2024 11:31 AM (v3pYe)

141 "I knew Massala well until Rome poisoned him."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:31 AM (lzI4r)

142 Having your face disfigured by a surgeon is part of their tribal ritual.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:31 AM (vsQ70)

143 "But the savagery exhibited by those same Democrats when Donald Trump entered the political arena was almost unbelievable. And when he won the Presidency they doubled down, attacking him on all fronts, and trying to muzzle him by limiting his social media communication."

Zealots hate apostates with the heat of a million suns.

Posted by: Gref at March 26, 2024 11:31 AM (5fDan)

144 Tells you all you need to know about Sparkles that a lot of us (including me) thought that that Bee headline about her was true.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (9yWhg)

145 If I were King Chuck, I would take him back but his new home would be in The Tower. Maybe even make him a tourist attraction for "Don't stick your dick in crazy"
Posted by: Chuck C at March 26, 2024 11:29 AM (yOPBE)

Nah. Give him a nice place, take care of the kids, tell him that the deal is that he keeps his mouth shut and stays - mostly - out of sight. Say what you will about Andrew, once his scandal broke and he was removed from the "working royals", he went dark and didn't cause further issues.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)

146 Trump should start his presser with a show of having note cards and then tossing them, "I don't need these!"

And make a point of any major media, "before you ask your question, what questions did you submit to Biden for pre-approval so he could have the answer on his note cards?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (yikga)

147 Trump can do more good outside politics now, I think. Though this is largely because conventional politics is no longer a viable way to have an effect on the outcome of things.

It would have been better if it had been done much earlier, but it's still helpful.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (OUMaO)

148 Palestinians reportedly killed due to failed airdrops of food into Gaza; 12 people drowned after aid packages landed at sea, 6 died due to overcrowding; Hamas blames Israel & US, as usual. via @ynetalerts

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If the SCOTUS eliminates presidential immunity, Biden could be tried for murder.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (nsPlB)

149 Does a ship that size use electric motors to turn the rudder?
Posted by: USCG Diversity Officer at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (sNc8Y)

I would assume hydraulics but the control valves would be electric.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM (1Z8zZ)

According to harbor recordings, they called "Mayday" 8 minutes before they hit the bridge. Most of these ships are controlled from the bridge via joysticks. No power, or not enough time to get emergency power established, no control.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (iODuv)

150 Let Prince Harry retire to Bermuda if he leaves Megan in the States.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (lzI4r)

151 So as we all know Ms Harris learned under Willie Brown. And certainly he filled her head with a lot of things.

Posted by: What Trump should say about Cumswalla at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (ibTVg)

152 Soros DAs are just getting more ideas.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:03 AM (ASVTS)
==
Sounds like James has some interesting financial issues popping up - she now has to keep Trump frm winning - because his justice department will end up putting her in jail. For legitimate financial crimes committed.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (GZYu7)

153 138 Okay, so can someone explain what's going on with Diddy? Is he like the black Jeffrey Epstein? P. Diddystein? Are we going to be joking in a couple of weeks that Puff Daddy did not kill himself?
Posted by: Robert
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A) we go after blacks too
B) he's become part of the distraction circus
C) he really po'd someone important

Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (vsQ70)

154 Nah. Give him a nice place, take care of the kids, tell him that the deal is that he keeps his mouth shut and stays - mostly - out of sight. Say what you will about Andrew, once his scandal broke and he was removed from the "working royals", he went dark and didn't cause further issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)

He can become an Elizabeth Arden spokesmodel.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (PiwSw)

155 I expect the pilot would have traded his hydraulic rudder for a 150 foot tiller those last moments.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:35 AM (pohLc)

156 132 I say "Ramming Speed" everytime I floor the gas peddle.
Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:27 AM (Z8Yh2)

Gary Larson loved that guy with the big hammers counting time,, I can't remember how many Far Side cartoons had him in it. I remember one where a skinny little rower is saying "ooh! ooh! I got a splinter!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:36 AM (i9ffA)

157 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 11:36 AM (XGfg7)

158 Ben Hur became Ben Him and now he’s Ben Gay.

(elementary school joke)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:36 AM (9yWhg)

159 He can become an Elizabeth Arden spokesmodel.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (PiwSw)
++++
Our new "Turgid Wiener" line provides a glossy sheen that is guaranteed to leave behind no greasy smears on window glass!

Posted by: Harry Windsor for Elizabeth Arden at March 26, 2024 11:36 AM (6bTRc)

160 153 138 Okay, so can someone explain what's going on with Diddy? Is he like the black Jeffrey Epstein? P. Diddystein? Are we going to be joking in a couple of weeks that Puff Daddy did not kill himself?
Posted by: Robert
-----------------------

A) we go after blacks too
B) he's become part of the distraction circus
C) he really po'd someone important
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (vsQ70)
___________

I'm 99% sure this is about money . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

161 I really need to watch again before Sunday the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:37 AM (lzI4r)

162 Sean Combs has a screw loose. 13 year old Usher has stories. Skeletons yo.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024 11:38 AM (Z8Yh2)

163 Ben Hur became Ben Him and now he’s Ben Gay.
_________

*golf clap*

Posted by: Ben Dover at March 26, 2024 11:38 AM (lf83v)

164 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 26, 2024 11:39 AM (IGKzA)

165 Karma is a beaotch demonrats!

Posted by: Thinking of witty repartee at March 26, 2024 11:39 AM (fwvPp)

166 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 26, 2024 11:39 AM (IGKzA)
++++
Probably, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:39 AM (6bTRc)

167 Sean Combs has a screw loose. 13 year old Usher has stories. Skeletons yo.
__________

Yasss.

Posted by: R. Kelly at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (lf83v)

168 ___________

I'm 99% sure this is about money . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade
--------------

Care to elaborate?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (vsQ70)

169 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.

The Lizzo Memorial Bridge will be extra girthy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (lzI4r)

170 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell a

Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (CIS44)

171 I say "Ramming Speed" everytime I floor the gas peddle.
Posted by: DOYLE at March 26, 2024

***
"Helmsman! I ordered flank speed! Must I do everything on this ship myself? Flank speed! Left full rudder!"

Posted by: Capt. Philip Queeg at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

172 I find it interesting that doubling Trump's wealth only puts him in the top 500.
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The MFM and Left have been playing games with PDT's wealth figures since 2016, pretending he's not really successful. Now, Candidate Trump might have been exaggerating at $12-billion but the Left saying 'only' $4-billion seemed pretty low to me. Playing this down is apiece of that.

Biden is also trying to give PDT an insulting nickname -- No Cash Don or something similar -- based on his [allegedly] not being able to pay the old $355-million NY fine in cash in one shot -- so that's another reason for the MFM to push it.

BTW, perhaps PDT will pay using nickels as the Bee suggested?

https://tinyurl.com/2pbj9khu
6 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (2yu8s)

173 He can become an Elizabeth Arden spokesmodel.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2024 11:34 AM (PiwSw)

Hi, I'm Prince Harry. When my schlong gets cold I just start rubbing some Elizabeth Arden cream in and think about my mother's lips. It warms me right up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (1Z8zZ)

174 Israel’s new spy plane Oron is now operational, @ynetalerts
reports; highly advanced aircraft carried out nearly 100 missions in recent weeks on all fronts; plane can spot launch sites in Yemen, arms convoys in Syria, targets for attack in Beirut. Here’s a detailed view ⬇️
Quote
Israel Radar
@IsraelRadar_com
·
Aug 30, 2023
1/ Israel's new spy aircraft, the Oron, is ready for action after being equipped with state-of-the-art tech by the Defense Ministry. It can swiftly locate targets under any weather conditions, marking a significant leap in Israel's military power.

Yes, let the US side with the 7th century barbarians who are completely dependent on charity fromt he west to survive instead of the side which produces medical and technological miracles that improve the lives of millions.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (t/2Uw)

175 The irony here is that Trump is pretty much a product of the Left and the PTB.
Posted by: pawn at March 26, 2024 11:12 AM (QB+5g)

Choose the form of your destructor!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 26, 2024 11:41 AM (JRP2U)

176 Stock market DJT

"Trading in this security has been halted by the exchanges."

Can't have it blasting up to $500 right off the bat.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Done told that bridge twiced at March 26, 2024 11:42 AM (Wg1x4)

177 I really need to watch again before Sunday the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024

***
Will one of the networks run The Ten Commandments before then, or did one of them already show it?

Posted by: Capt. Philip Queeg at March 26, 2024 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

178 I just watched it and as far as I could tell there was no traffic on it when it actually collapsed. Not too many structures would survive the impact of a 100K ton ship I think.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2024 11:42 AM (FQmDC)

179 168 ___________

I'm 99% sure this is about money . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade
--------------

Care to elaborate?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (vsQ70)
____________

Sean Combs has tons and tons of money. It seems that the vast majority of raids, prosecutions, and legal actions are based on government getting their hands on money.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

180 RFK Jr. is just a fascist who objects to how the government is oppressing people, not to the core idea of government oppression of the people, which he wholeheartedly supports for the "right" reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

Climate Deniers! Send them to jail!

I like that RFK is poking the Dems, but he would be as bad as Biden if he were to win.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2024 11:43 AM (gSZYf)

181 Stock market DJT

"Trading in this security has been halted by the exchanges."

Can't have it blasting up to $500 right off the bat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Done told that bridge twiced at March 26, 2024 11:42 AM (Wg1x4)

MSNBC wants you to know that DJT is a dog and you'll go bankrupt if you buy it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:43 AM (1Z8zZ)

182
I've said for years that RFK Jr. is just a fascist who objects to how the government is oppressing people, not to the core idea of government oppression of the people, which he wholeheartedly supports for the "right" reasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

+++++

I can't see the phrase "for the 'right' reasons" without thinking of Kid moving west to become a cowboy and open an escort service "for all the right reasons"

Posted by: Oglebay at March 26, 2024 11:43 AM (7fVdQ)

183 Anna Puma - Your reference to Ben Hur is timely here during Holy Week. It’s an Easter movie

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:43 AM (gZ3KO)

184 The biggest reason I can watch Ben Hur repeatedly is the musical score, which is arguably among the top 5 musical scores ever made. It's fun to pick out the musical themes that represent each character and concept, and then see how they interact and grow together. The story is told musically as well as visually and verbally, and it has one of the most glorious and fulfilling endings ever put to film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:44 AM (i9ffA)

185 Trump just needs one of those James Biden "loan repayments"

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2024 11:44 AM (FQmDC)

186 The Barrel is the minimum punishment Rian Johnson deserves.
Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2024 11:30 AM

Excuse me?

Entering The Barrel is a privilege, not a right.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2024 11:44 AM (a3Q+t)

187 The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald...
Posted by: You're Singing it in Your Head

Gitchee Goomee

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2024 11:44 AM (IB/6k)

188 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell a

Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (CIS44)

The Angela Davis Memorial Bridge.

Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (ZwF0A)

189 Zealots hate apostates with the heat of a million suns.
=====

See, also, Ronald Reagan.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (MIKMs)

190 I really need to watch again before Sunday the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024

Fine. Be that way.

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Ramon Novarro at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (9yWhg)

191 Nah. Give him a nice place, take care of the kids, tell him that the deal is that he keeps his mouth shut and stays - mostly - out of sight. Say what you will about Andrew, once his scandal broke and he was removed from the "working royals", he went dark and didn't cause further issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 11:33 AM (1Z8zZ)

Harry can be rehabilitated. Make him Governor General of Bermuda or some such sinecure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (tkR6S)

192 So we are helping after all.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 26, 2024 11:22 AM (t/2Uw)

Golf clap.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (ASVTS)

193 188 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell a

Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (CIS44)

The Angela Davis Memorial Bridge.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (ZwF0A)
________

Claudine Gay Bridge to Nowhere

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

194 158 Ben Hur became Ben Him and now he’s Ben Gay.

(elementary school joke)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:36 AM (9yWhg)

Ben Had >>> Every other Ben-somebody

Posted by: Gref at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (5fDan)

195 Choose the form of your destructor!
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 26, 2024 11:41 AM (JRP2U)

Ray, what did you do?!?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (iODuv)

196 As someone mentioned in previous thread, where were the tugs?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:15 AM (lzI4r)

According to a maritime reporter (not sure how you get that designation), the tugs aren't required to go under the bridge. They aren't really in the harbor at that point.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (N1tpc)

197 It's interesting that Truth Social is thriving while other attempts to mimic Twitter have been stillborn.its actually not bad all things considered.

Posted by: Mishdog at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (gj4Sv)

198 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (9yWhg)

199 How did the ship lose power right out of port? Sabotage? Hacked by China/Russia/Iran? A loose cannon like that in the port of Baltimore would be expected to cause a lot of damage.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (qUkBO)

200 Aug 30, 2023
1/ Israel's new spy aircraft, the Oron, is ready for action after being equipped with state-of-the-art tech by the Defense Ministry. It can swiftly locate targets under any weather conditions, marking a significant leap in Israel's military power.

Screw their spy aircraft. What about their spy dolphins???
Posted by: muzzies

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (IB/6k)

201 The biggest reason I can watch Ben Hur repeatedly is the musical score, which is arguably among the top 5 musical scores ever made. It's fun to pick out the musical themes that represent each character and concept, and then see how they interact and grow together. The story is told musically as well as visually and verbally, and it has one of the most glorious and fulfilling endings ever put to film.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2024 11:44 AM (i9ffA)

Totally agree. And the lady who played Esther is the most beautiful actress I’ve ever seen whose name I don’t remember. What a beautiful lady

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (gZ3KO)

202 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

203 Can't wait to see the bridge, hard to believe it went like a deck of cards

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (XGfg7)

204 Ben Had >>> Every other Ben-somebody
Posted by: Gref at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (5fDan)

Even Ben Dover?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (IGKzA)

205 "Had they treated Donald Trump the way they did before he entered politics, my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!"

Trump dared address our issues with the border and China.

He touched every third rail there is for our ruling class.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (KbCG3)

206 It's too bad Gordon Lightfoot is around anymore to write a song about the Wreck of the Francis Scott Key Bridge (hey, same number of syllables!).
Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2024 11:20 AM (OguvZ)

The legend lives on from the Pocomoke on down
To the town with the Lake Montebello
A bridge, they all say, will go crumblin' one day
If it's named for that anthem-writing fellow

Posted by: Doof at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (JunzL)

207 Cecile B. DeMille's introduction to The Ten Commandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAazflOyiFw

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (lzI4r)

208 193 188 Since Francis Scott Key is problematic to the Left, the new bridge will be named after a person of color.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell a

Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 26, 2024 11:40 AM (CIS44)

The Angela Davis Memorial Bridge.
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:45 AM (ZwF0A)
________

Claudine Gay Bridge to Nowhere
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

The Kamala Harris Draw Bridge. It doesn't go down for just anybody. It goes down for everyone.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (N39Ws)

209 Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Pete Buttigieg says that underpasses which were designed too low “obviously reflect racism.”
______________

Of course, of course...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (Q4IgG)

210 Yes, let the US side with the 7th century barbarians

Memorizing the Quran is all the education any man needs, H8r!

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (a3Q+t)

211 Say ofrter the 15 minutes of the chariot race might be the finest cinematography ever made

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 11:49 AM (XGfg7)

212 155
‘I expect the pilot would have traded his hydraulic rudder for a 150 foot tiller those last moments.‘

That is where the redundancy was needed.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 26, 2024 11:49 AM (jbnUc)

213 202 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)
______

Another relatively clean pic. Verdict: bangable

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

214 202 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

+++++

Europe's demise is greatly exaggerated!

Posted by: Oglebay at March 26, 2024 11:50 AM (7fVdQ)

215 http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

Hot *and* tasteful!

Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024 11:50 AM (ZwF0A)

216 The captain’s on YouTube
And the first mate shows her boobs
On the Onlyfans channel HeySailor

Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 26, 2024 11:51 AM (Wg1x4)

217 Linus

Haya Haraeet. The tragedy is she did not receive an Oscar for her performance.

https://annapuna.blogspot.com/2007/12/haya-harareet.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:51 AM (lzI4r)

218 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM

2/10. Could not introduce to The Book Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2024 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)

219 Good step by step analysis

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ

Posted by: Thinking of witty repartee at March 26, 2024 11:52 AM (fwvPp)

220 Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Pete Buttigieg says that underpasses which were designed too low “obviously reflect racism.”
______________

Of course, of course...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (Q4IgG)

-------------

Also gigantasophobia!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 26, 2024 11:52 AM (o1jpz)

221 The George Floyd memorial bridge.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 11:52 AM (pohLc)

222 How did the ship lose power right out of port? Sabotage? Hacked by China/Russia/Iran? A loose cannon like that in the port of Baltimore would be expected to cause a lot of damage.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (qUkBO)

Who owns the Dali? Helloooo?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 11:52 AM (tkR6S)

223 "Trump is the first President who has refused to follow the Constitution."

Former chief ethics lawyer of the George W. Bush White House, Richard Painter, accused Trump of being the first President to disregard the Constitution regarding the transfer of power after the 2020 US election.

And the dipshit Michael Tracey:

Tracey came in hot, accusing Trump of being two-faced for bashing special interests during the primary, while courting the donor class during the general election:

"[Trump] was calling out to Miriam Adelson — who’s the widow of Sheldon Adelson — and having private soirees with her, and she’s excepted to give millions of dollars to Trump’s next campaign. He even said it outright. He said because of Miriam’s late husband, [Trump] was compelled to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv in Israel to Jerusalem."

The alternative is Joe Biden, folks

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 26, 2024 11:53 AM (7AyCR)

224 http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024
*
Hot *and* tasteful!
Posted by: Robert at March 26, 2024

***
Yes on both counts. But I keep thinking of the Steely Dan lyric:

"All the time you know she's smiling
You'll be on your knees tomorrow"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

225 SCTV's Ben Hur first season [Canadian TV only] parody -- 23 minutes including parody ads, and $DIALING FOR DOLLAR$ phone film quiz with the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello woven into the classic.

https://tinyurl.com/tsac8978

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 11:53 AM (2yu8s)

226 http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

Hot *and* tasteful!
Posted by: Robert

Plus, she's reading. Obviously a highly intelligent woman.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:53 AM (9yWhg)

227 Screw their spy aircraft. What about their spy dolphins???
Posted by: muzzies
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (IB/6k)

Israel has already collected DNA profiles of most of the Hamas fighters with their team of fiendishly clever spy goats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

228 207 Cecile B. DeMille's introduction to The Ten Commandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAazflOyiFw
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:48 AM (lzI4r)

+++++

My best friends' (three brothers) dad is in that one - Edward G. Robinson wasn't allowed in Egypt so he played Dathan in some of the scenes sho there. Super guy - very left wing, but a wonderful person..

Posted by: Oglebay at March 26, 2024 11:54 AM (7fVdQ)

229 Imagine if the Woodrow Wilson Bridge collapsed. Traffic backed up to SC on I95.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 26, 2024 11:54 AM (0EOe9)

230 "Trump is the first President who has refused to follow the Constitution."

-

By asking that we follow the Constitution.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - If this is how Georgia hires attorneys, imagine how they manage elections at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (Cgfkv)

231 "Spy goats, spy goats
What ya gonna do
When they screw you."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (lzI4r)

232 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM

2/10. Could not introduce to The Book Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 26, 2024 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)
----
I'll give her a free pass to the Sunday Morning Book Thread. She looks like a classy lady that enjoys reading the classics...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (7fElN)

233 Edward G. Robinson wasn't allowed in Egypt

Why was this?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

234
Who the fuck asks their computer science professor for dating advice?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

Talk about asking for inexpert advice....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (n+4am)

235 For being Jewish?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (lzI4r)

236 Imagine if the Woodrow Wilson Bridge collapsed. Traffic backed up to SC on I95.

See also: Friday afternoon in the summer.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 26, 2024 11:56 AM (CsUN+)

237 I thought the Book Thread's pants rule applied only to men?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:56 AM (6bTRc)

238 As a European, this leggy brunette finds it a bit amusing that although she's not allowed to use Truth Social, she can now invest in it:
http://tiny.cc/smlkxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (6bTRc)

I have a Euro radio like that. No brunette, sadly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 11:56 AM (tkR6S)

239 Between the rapes, murders, wars, homophobia, transphobia, china virus scams, airplanes falling outta the sky, terrorist attacks, bridge allusions and rape, I just don't know how President Trump finds any time left over from all these doings to start a social media communication business.

The Man Has Enlarged My Mind...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 26, 2024 11:56 AM (9KyZG)

240 Robert

Plus, she's reading. Obviously a highly intelligent woman.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:53 AM (9yWhg)

It works !

Posted by: Lebrando James - scholar sports ball player at March 26, 2024 11:56 AM (/6GbT)

241 Who the fuck asks their computer science professor for dating advice?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

My Dad wrote a paper on dating when he was in college.

Got an "A" on it, too. (That's what he always told us kids, anyway.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:57 AM (9yWhg)

242 Imagine if the Woodrow Wilson Bridge collapsed. Traffic backed up to SC on I95.

We got a good taste of it on 9-11 and on the day the earthquake hit DC. I literally could not pull out of my parking space at the lab.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 26, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)

243 235 For being Jewish?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 11:55 AM (lzI4r)

+++++

That's my recollection.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 26, 2024 11:57 AM (7fVdQ)

244 Israel has already collected DNA profiles of most of the Hamas fighters with their team of fiendishly clever spy goats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024

***
That sounds like the Adam West Batman series. Not even the campy season of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. would have gone that far.

No, wait; there was an episode with Robert Vaughn dancing the Watusi with a gorilla. Never mind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:57 AM (J2vNu)

245 I-95 is always a CF.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (9yWhg)

246 My initial thoughts on Trump when he was elected that he would be another Romney, a Democrat with an R after is name. Instead he was a great President, in some ways better than Reagan Boy was I wrong. I am more than ready for him to march forward and get rid of this POS who stole the election.

Posted by: vic at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (A5THL)

247 If you looked, there’s likely only a handful of bridges over shipping lanes that could handle losing the whole pier and still stand up. Reason being, bridges are expensive, bridges over deep water are even more expensive. Redundancy is just not built into these. The expectation is that barges won’t hit the piers head on, the fenders are sized for glancing blows.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 26, 2024 11:05 AM (9mfKN)

...

It looks to me like the abutment did nothing to deflect the ship, or that there basically wasn't an abutment which seems too crazy to be true. But the ship hit one of the "legs" of that structure directly.

I'm also a structural guy (I think moon over vermont was also). I can't imagine a bridge being designed to lose a pier and stay up--it wouldn't just be the span increasing instantaneously but the lateral load (dynamic) would be huge and the design would have to stop that dynamic force in an impossibly short distance.

I have done just one federal job where we had to design for blast/losing a column (it's the DHS National Bio Defense Facility in Manhattan KS) and it results in huge increases in the structural frame.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (z/ifB)

248 I'd settle for the Barak Obama Memorial Bridge.

Posted by: pawn at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (QB+5g)

249 How did the ship lose power right out of port? Sabotage? Hacked by China/Russia/Iran? A loose cannon like that in the port of Baltimore would be expected to cause a lot of damage.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at March 26, 2024 11:46 AM (qUkBO)

I am sure Secretary Bottygig and Mayor Brandon will assemble a brain trust of equal mental power and get to the bottom of this.

Was Baltimore transporting natural gas to Germany, by the way?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (D7oie)

250 I wish Trump luck on the platform but don't expect much given his track record of poor personnel choices.

Posted by: somedood at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (OinN3)

251 Haya Haraeet. The tragedy is she did not receive an Oscar for her performance.

https://annapuna.blogspot.com/2007/12/haya-harareet.html

Posted by: Anna Puma

It received 11 Oscars as it stood...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 26, 2024 11:59 AM (OUMaO)

252 No, wait; there was an episode with Robert Vaughn dancing the Watusi with a gorilla. Never mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That's why the predecessor phrase to "jump the shark" was "dance with the gorilla."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 11:59 AM (9yWhg)

253 My best friends' (three brothers) dad is in that one - Edward G. Robinson wasn't allowed in Egypt so he played Dathan in some of the scenes sho there. Super guy - very left wing, but a wonderful person..
Posted by: Oglebay at March 26, 2024

***
I expect because he was Jewish. But there must have been other members of the cast who were.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

254 I-95 is always a CF.

I'm convinced there is a wormhole at Fredericksburg where traffic from another universe merges onto I-95: another universe filled with old Asian woman drivers.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 26, 2024 11:59 AM (CsUN+)

255 I'd settle for the Barak Obama Memorial Bridge.
--------
Cool Popsicle-stick BOMB, Ahmed!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 12:00 PM (2yu8s)

256 Man, I would love to make as many bad decisions as Trump.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Done told that bridge twiced at March 26, 2024 12:00 PM (Wg1x4)

257 But who remembers Room at the Top?

Well except moviephiles like TJM.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 12:00 PM (lzI4r)

258 I'm convinced there is a wormhole at Fredericksburg where traffic from another universe merges onto I-95: another universe filled with old Asian woman drivers.
Posted by: Archimedes

Fredericksburg is where the express lanes end and merge with the regular lanes. It's always a mess down there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024 12:01 PM (9yWhg)

259 I'd settle for the Barak Obama Memorial Bridge.

Posted by: pawn at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (QB+5g)

---------------

Shit Midas Memorial Bridge would be confusing, since it could refer to F. Joe Mugabe as well.

"The Joseph Robinette Biden Memorial Bicycle Bridge" has a nice ring to it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 26, 2024 12:01 PM (jXhe1)

260 Man, I would love to make as many bad decisions as Trump.

If I could do 1% as bad I could be retired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:01 PM (1Z8zZ)

261 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 12:01 PM (XGfg7)

262 236 Yep. I was crossing the WW one time on my trusty Honda 350. A few cars and trucks ahead of me was one of those crushed car scrap haulers. A bumper (when bumpers were yuge) fell off, bounced over a car, hit the rail and went into the Potomac. In the words of "Lefty" in the movie "Donnie Brasco" I thought I shit my pants. Another time I experienced traffic backed up to Triangle because the bridge got stuck after raising it for some rich guy's sloop.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 26, 2024 12:02 PM (0EOe9)

263 Was Baltimore transporting natural gas to Germany, by the way?

Posted by: Kindltot

There's a major LNG terminal upstream of the bridge, so...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 26, 2024 12:02 PM (OUMaO)

264 203 Can't wait to see the bridge, hard to believe it went like a deck of cards

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2024 11:47 AM (XGfg7)

The photos show the ship severed at least one reinforced concrete support pillar in the support structure at one end of the main, arch section of the bridge. if you take away one support of a structure designed to be supported at both ends, you usually get damage as seen to the key bridge. The arch section went from a simply supported bean to a cantilevered beam. A cantilever beam lightly attached to its support.

Get two sawhorses and your longest ladder. Set up the sawhorses, then lay the ladder on top of the sawhorses, one sawhorse under each end of the ladder. Kick one sawhorse out from under the ladder. The result will be a good representation of what appears to have happened to the Key Bridge.

Posted by: Gref at March 26, 2024 12:02 PM (5fDan)

265 261 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD
-----------
Holy crap! A nooner nooder from Ace!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 26, 2024 12:02 PM (2yu8s)

266 223
‘ Richard Painter’

Dick Painter’s a lying fag! And I should know.

Posted by: Pete Buttyplug at March 26, 2024 12:03 PM (jbnUc)

267 No, wait; there was an episode with Robert Vaughn dancing the Watusi with a gorilla. Never mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
That's why the predecessor phrase to "jump the shark" was "dance with the gorilla."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 26, 2024

***
Yeah. If they'd cast the whole thing as (my idea) having Mr. Waverly tell a bedtime story to his grandchildren, it would have worked as a minor out-of-format classic. (Remember the XMen comic with "Kitty's Pirate Story"? Like that.) But I guess too many of the people involved were smoking something they shouldn't have touched while at work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2024 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

268 Posted by: TexasDan at March 26, 2024 11:58 AM (z/ifB)

Not being able to build a bridge that can stand up with the loss of a column, it is likely possible to design one that can lose a column without losing the entire bridge, other than the spans directly adjacent to the lost column. The whole bridge collapsed from one end to the other, save the approaches.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 12:03 PM (pohLc)

269 If you look at conservatism as maintaining the status quo then you would be correct, he was not a conservative.
Did he contribute to at least some democrats before?
Try doing major business in New York without doing so.
Their (see uniparty/deep state) hatred of him upon entering politics? Hatred due to fear.
See what was, at the time, touted as "the speech that will get Donald Trump elected."
Used to be easy, even for me, to find. Not so much, at least for me, any more.
He talked about going after the corruption. "They" knew that meant, essentially, all of them.
Hence, burn the witch.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 26, 2024 12:03 PM (dWUm0)

270 "Trump is the first President who has refused to follow the Constitution."

Former chief ethics lawyer of the George W. Bush White House, Richard Painter, accused Trump of being the first President to disregard the Constitution regarding the transfer of power after the 2020 US election.
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And your opinions are relevant to who? Biden was installed as you and the rest of the Bushies wanted so badly so why are you bleating this out now? Mass illegal invasion of our country, pissing in the wind regarding foreign affairs, wars, mayhem, inflation, high crimes and misdemeanors by the Biden administration just like your ilk wanted. Getting a little nervous about Trump possibly winning the election moron?

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2024 12:05 PM (oiNtH)

271 Bill in AR,

Wow , you did the DC BW on a 350 back in the day!

I was doing it with a Kaw 400. I hated those backwards cement mixers.

What a terrible place to ride a bike let alone drive.

Posted by: pawn at March 26, 2024 12:08 PM (QB+5g)

272 Not being able to build a bridge that can stand up with the loss of a column, it is likely possible to design one that can lose a column without losing the entire bridge, other than the spans directly adjacent to the lost column. The whole bridge collapsed from one end to the other, save the approaches.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2024 12:03 PM (pohLc)

Watched the video. Ship took out one tower for the center span, which also supported the span to the left. Both those spans fall due to loss of support. Looks like the other side span fell because the falling center span took the other tower with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2024 12:08 PM (tkR6S)

273 Everyone used to love Donald Trump. His Sin of Condemnation by the Left was preventing a President Hillary Clinton. It was supposed to be her turn after she lost the Primary to Obama. It was her birthright. Personally, that was his greatest achievement. The Abraham Accords and Supreme Court are big deals. Hip hip hooray for those, but no President Hillary Clinton is #1.

Posted by: Hadsil at March 26, 2024 12:14 PM (dBI7o)

274 Say ofrter the 15 minutes of the chariot race might be the finest cinematography ever made
Posted by: Skip
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I just want a set of those hubcaps.
[rummages through J.C. Whitney catalog]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2024 12:15 PM (XeU6L)

275 Where were the tugs?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 12:04 PM (lzI4r)

They were in the strait, not the harbor, so no tugs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:18 PM (1Z8zZ)

276 Still where is the MV Dali registered?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2024 12:05 PM (lzI4r)

I've heard Singapore.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:20 PM (1Z8zZ)

277 Good step by step analysis

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N39w6aQFKSQ
Posted by: Thinking of witty repartee at March 26, 2024 11:52 AM (fwvPp)

Very helpful Thank you.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 26, 2024 12:21 PM (iODuv)

278 For some reason there is a camera running 24/7 on this bridge.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 26, 2024 12:12 PM (JTwsP)

Lots of places with significant ship traffic have 24/7 cameras. People like to watch. Kind of like there's cameras 24/7 running at Boca Chica even when SpaceX isn't doing anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:37 PM (1Z8zZ)

279 Not to pick at nits, but this is not technically a collision. When a sailing vessel strikes an object such as a bridge, pier, wharf, or whatever, the proper term for this is 'allision,' because only one of them was moving. I knew no one in the MSM would get this right for lots of reasons.
Posted by: Brant Fagan at March 26, 2024 12:14 PM (TFGP1)

allision
[ uh-lizh-uhn ]

noun Law.
the striking of one ship by another.
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Are we defining the bridge to be a ship?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:41 PM (1Z8zZ)

280 That's quite a flimsy-looking bridge. The idea that massive container ships would be anywhere near there seems risky. I'm not sure where this ship was supposed to be. It couldn't make it under the bridge. Was it supposed to be anywhere near the bridge?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2024 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

If you watch the live feed, an equally massive container ship went right under about 6 minutes earlier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:43 PM (1Z8zZ)

281 This is likely an oversimplification, but rebuilding a pillar or 2, then adding an new 1200 foot section of truss seems like it shouldn't take years.
Posted by: Doof at March 26, 2024 12:26 PM (JunzL)

Wow, do you have a lot to learn. This'll take, probably, ten years minimum.

-- International Persynhood of Bridge Constructors, Local 1723

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 26, 2024 12:51 PM (1Z8zZ)

282 "Probably Romney with a hotter wife!"

Oh, I don't know about that. Whatever we might think of Pierre Delecto, his wife Ann holds her own in any hotness contest.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at March 26, 2024 02:27 PM (kvDvI)

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