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The Morning Report — 1/16/25

Good morning kids. Aside from giving one a bit of a temporary sugar rush, the words of folks like Adam Carolla and Andrew Schulz, and even low-lifes like Michael Rapaport shrieking about Newsom and Bass, this notion that the incineration of Los Angeles is somehow magically going to turn California from Zimbabwe on the Pacific (which is what it was even years before the current firestorm), into a deep red state bastion of conservatism and sanity, ring hollow when one considers the underlying political/cultural factors that allowed this nightmare to happen in the first place.

To swipe the horrid 9/11 trutherism of blithering blivet Rosie O'Donnell and create something eminently more in keeping with the unvarnished truth about a frighteningly large segment of our society, as exemplified by the drones who keep electing Newsoms and Basses in California and in every other blue Shit hole state and city around our nation:

FIRE CAN'T MELT LEFTIST BRAINWASHING

The other big story that CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of our Award-Winning ™ podcast is the now official ceasefire deal between Israel and the subhuman Muslim terrorist savages of Hamas, pardon the multiple redundancies there. The link in the sidebar should now be working but it's hyperlinked here.

I cannot argue the point that CBD made about being a relative of one of these poor devils captured and brutalized by these subhuman dark age fiends for over a year and finally having them at long last on the verge of being liberated and reunited with them. Even if, and I believe this will be the case more than not with the hostages, it's merely their desecrated remains. The problem is, the Israelis must release from imprisonment the very same Hamas savages that participated in the greatest wave of Jewish bloodletting since the end of the Second World War and prior savagery. All that hostages for terrorists begets is a repeat of the savagery.

I have no doubt the humanitarian aspect played into Donald Trump's calculus in agreeing to help broker this deal, even if it meant having to partner with Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and Self-gasser Blinken, whose aiding and abetting the terrorists because of their innate hatred of Israel and nightmare vision of having Iran become the major power in the Middle East, to do so. I questioned why despite the aforementioned, Trump didn't wait out one more week to get a better deal or at least give Israel the materiel and intel that no doubt Biden and Blinken had withheld so Bibi could finish the job of eradicating Hamas and letting the IDF liberate the remaining hostages. As a friend said to me, and I have to give it serious consideration, despite my reservations, maybe doing it this way was the best "DEAL" Trump could have made.

And yet, it's this notion of a "DEAL" that troubles me. Believe me, come next Tuesday all of us will be at long last relieved that the nightmare of Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants will have ended and we and the rest of the world will at long last at a bare minimum will have a four-year period of sanity with which to catch our breath and recuperate, if not be on the road to the restoration of civilization here at home, and perhaps become a beacon of freedom, hope and sanity for whatever is left of civilization especially in Europe to engender a Neo-Renaissance of its own. Please God.

Yet, psircling back to this deal in Israel, with the metaphorical if not literal ink barely blotted and dried on the Neville Chamberlain parchment, there's this troubling yet sadly unsurprising little nugget:

Hamas Leader Khalil al-Haya allegedly promised another October 7 style attack during a press conference Wednesday just after a tentative ceasefire was announced, according to multiple reports.
Al-Haya said that the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel “will forever be a source of pride for our people” and expressed no regret for the destruction caused by the terrorist group, according to multiple sources. As of Wednesday afternoon, a six-week ceasefire is set to begin on Sunday, with both sides set to exchange hostages and Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza. “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies,” President-elect Donald Trump said on Truth Social Wednesday. “I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be reunited with their families and loved ones.” (RELATED: ‘They Will Get It Done’: Trump Leads Negotiation To End Hamas Hostage Ordeal, Warns ‘A Lot Of Trouble’ If It Falters)

Aside from Israeli citizens there are also American citizens being held, so no doubt this too played into Trump's decision to move ahead. And yet, this situation reminds me of my opinion that Trump thinks in terms of this as a deal where everyone comes out a winner, as opposed to not truly understanding with whom he is "dealing," just as the first time around in 2016 wen he thought that the Democrats and those who disagreed with him were honorable and had the best interests of the nation at heart despite policy differences, as opposed to enemies who wanted his head on a pike.

On a positive note, we had this from Marco Rubio at his confirmation hearing yesterday:

‘How Can Any Nation on the Planet Coexist Side by Side With a Group of Savages Like Hamas?’ Israel has “to defend their national security and their national interest as I pointed out in my opening statement.”

And yet, and with a statement like that thank GOD he is on the Trump team and nominee for Secretary of State. If as I think likely he is confirmed, he will be sitting atop a vipers nest of Jew-hating America-hating globalists at Foggy Bottom. I wonder if Trump ran this deal by him beforehand, and if Rubio raised concerns how Trump responded?

Something else troubles me vis a vis Trump and his team that I would have thought he and they would understand. And that is the nature of the individuals on the other side of the table. This is not merely Hamas as an armed and savage entity, it is ISLAM itself. Hamas is out to kill every Jew in Israel and take it over because Islam is out to do the same across the planet with Jews, Christians, Hindus and everyone else who refuses to submit. As a reminder, ISLAM is the Arabic word that means Submission.

Yeah, Okay, I get it that Trump nor perhaps anyone on his team cannot outright tell the truth about the non-religion of non-peace and play the game because of politics. Which is why some Imam is going to give a benediction at the inauguration.

But really, Mr. President-elect and staff, did you have to invite an openly jihadist-loving Jew-hating scumbag from Dearbornistan who praised Hamas and Hezbollah!!! Did you ever hear of the term "vetting?"

Surely you could have reached out to people like Robert Spencer or Raymond Ibrahim, foremost experts and historians of Islam, to get a recommendation for an imam they might know, who at least keeps the Jew-hate on a low simmer every Friday night when the minaret blows the call that gives Obama and or Moochelle a stiffie. That is if there is even one of them out there? Let alone one who can fake tolerance for Jews.

That means, my dream of Donald Trump calling for the Islamic world to renounce the words of the Koran and Hadith that call Jews the descendants of dogs, pigs and apes that are to be slaughtered wherever they are found is a bridge too far.

Well, as I have always said, if I think he has made a mistake I'll call him out for it. That said, while the notion of freeing murderous terrorists in exchange for hostages to me is only asking for trouble, a la Pete Clemenza bemoaning the Munich agreement to Michael in the basement.

Not vetting the Inauguration Day imam is inexcusable. He should be disinvited at once.

Have a great day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued, generous support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

We’re all excited about Trump’s coming inauguration, but in light of the recent attempts on his life, it’s a fair question to ask if all the necessary safety precautions are being taken to ensure his safety. Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t sure.
Trump May Not Be Safe at His Inauguration

Heather Mac Donald: The new administration should return federal law enforcement agencies to their original missions.
Can Trump Make America Safe Again?

Jews have been a hated target for millennia. However, when one strips away the accusations and obsessive focus on high-profile figures, all that remains is envy.
Jews, Jews, And More Jews, And The Lessons We Could Learn

LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES

Earlier, Cuellar stated, “What we need to do is focus first on helping those families, somebody who lost their home, somebody who can’t go back to their houses anymore, the children, the families, the mothers, the fathers. That’s what we need to focus [on]. We can talk about politics at a later time. But, first, focus on the people that need the help. We’ve done this over the years and we can do it again this year.”
Cuellar: ‘I Can Support’ Conditioning Disaster Aid to Ensure Lessons Are Learned, We’ve Done It Before
Bass has faced widespread criticism over nearly every facet of the city's response to the fires.
LA Mayor Bass Appointee Who Oversaw Fire Dept Was On Leave Over Alleged Bomb Threat
An illegal alien was arrested with a blowtorch last week near the location of the Kenneth Fire.
CA Sanctuary Laws Could Prevent ICE From Taking Custody Of Illegal Alien Arrested With Blowtorch
If California is to be the place where the future happens, if the state is to be healthy and strong, it has no choice but to reject Newsom and Bass. (Not just them, but the ideology that elected them! - jjs)
The Burning State
Rapaport was disgusted that while the fires are still destroying lives and homes in L.A., the gov. and state legislature met to address Trump and seemed more worried about throwing millions of tax dollars at their political crusade against the President-elect than they are about helping their own citizens, Fox News reported.
Michael Rapaport Rips Gavin Newsom Over L.A. Fire Response: ‘Trump-Proofing California? Try Fire-Proofing’
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
Israeli officials soon confirmed an agreement was in place to secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas since the October 7 atrocities.
Trump Announces Gaza Hostage and Ceasefire Deal
Hamas Leader Khalil al-Haya allegedly promised another October 7 style attack during a press conference Wednesday just after a tentative ceasefire was announced, according to multiple reports. Al-Haya said that the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel “will forever be a source of pride for our people” and expressed no regret for the destruction caused by the terrorist group, according to multiple sources. As of Wednesday afternoon, a six-week ceasefire is set to begin on Sunday, with both sides set to exchange hostages and Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza.
Hamas Leader Promises Another October 7 Attack Despite Ceasefire Negotiations
Israel has “to defend their national security and their national interest as I pointed out in my opening statement.”
Marco Rubio on Hamas: ‘How Can Any Nation on the Planet Coexist Side by Side With a Group of Savages Like Hamas?’
Robert Spencer: How bad is it? It makes a replay, and quite likely more than one replay, of Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, a very real possibility.
Hamas Celebrates Ceasefire Deal in Gaza, and With Good Reason
Daniel Greenfield: It's bad for Israel, for America and for the world.
The Surrender to Hamas Deal Also Empowers China
Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: When all the bad guys are happy, you know it's a bad deal.
CAIR Celebrates Hamas Surrender Deal
A Gaza cease-fire deal will free 33 hostages from Hamas’ brutal grip — Hooray! The first should be released in days, with more to follow, in the agreement’s first phase. It’s a dream come true — for them, their families and their fellow countrymen.
Cheer for deal that’ll bring hostages home — and pray Israel is allowed to defeat Hamas once they’re back
The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is meant to be a first step, and we don’t know what happens next, or the promises that were made behind the scenes.
Praise that Israeli hostages are coming home, but a deal that keeps Hamas in power is a bad one
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Will the IRS now move to revoke JVP’s charitiable status?
Anti-Israel Fake ‘Jewish Voice For Peace’ to Repay $677K For Cheating On PPP Loan
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Trump has criticized the Biden Justice Department for targeting pro-lifers on 'outrageous charges'
EXCLUSIVE: 21 Pro-Life Defendants Targeted By Biden DOJ Ask Trump To Pardon Them
A blanket amnesty, to those currently convicted, in jail, or awaiting trial for actions on Jan 6, will not be granted. But rest assured that pardons or commutations will be forthcoming.
Reconsidering the J6 Pardons
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Yujin Choi also altered her phone records to make it seem like the accused had sent the messages.
Female Prosecutor Disbarred After Sending Fake Messages Framing Coworker For Sexual Harassment
A progressive talking point wrongly suggests that riders’ concerns are irrational.
New Yorkers Aren’t Crazy for Avoiding the Subway
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“When you deploy the military, that’s Article 2 presidential authority,” Cuccinelli said, adding, “He doesn’t have to let anybody in between the legal port of entry under any circumstances, and he can deploy the military to stop the invasion.”
‘Trump No Longer Hesitant to Use Military for Border Control’ Says Ex-DHS Sec.
The Laken Riley Act (H.R. 29), named after an Augusta University (Georgia) nursing student murdered by an illegal alien last year, is one such bill, Leader Scalise explained:
Scalise Signals ‘Very First Bill that President Donald Trump Gets to Sign’
The GOP-led upper chamber also rejected a Democrat-proposed change. (Merely putting a toe on our soil without permission is supposed to be grounds for immediate deportation! - jjs)
Senate Amends Laken Riley Act To Add More Crimes Requiring Detention Of Illegal Immigrants
Senate aides expect Laken Riley Act to take up floor time ahead of Sunday deadline
As TikTok Threatens 'Immediate Shut-Off,' Dem Senator Markey Introduces Bill Extending Deadline for Sale-or-Ban Law
“Here’s my big bet [for 2025] … Republicans are going to kowtow to big corporate America, K Street lobbyists for cheaper labor, and for tax cuts while the American worker gets screwed — that’s what’s going to happen if people don’t stand up and try to change that,” Roy told a meeting hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Chip Roy Warns That Republicans Will Break Migration Promises if Voters Stay Silent
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Trial set to wrap on Friday as Navy vet Zachary Young seeks 10-figure payout
Jurors in CNN Defamation Trial Unload on Left-Wing Network: 'Do You Feel Like Americans are Obligated To Speak to You?'
Ordinarily, the front row of seats is reserved for the "major" media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, Reuters, and CNN. That lineup is as constant as spring rains and as holy as seniority in the College of Cardinals. But there's a new sheriff in town, and suddenly, we're looking at a dry spring and overturning the sacred college. Trump aides are thinking of mixing things up to give other, less biased media organizations a shot.
Expect Big Changes in the White House Press Room as Trump Will All But Sideline Legacy Media
The whole magazine needs to be choked off, encased in lead, and tossed into some great body of water bearing a name that fits. That will happen in due time but not without the final push it’s currently engaging in to keep some grip on influence in Washington.
Time To Snuff Out Atlantic Mag, The Refugee Camp For All The Worst In Media
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
But the Fed promised us!
Surprise! Inflation is not getting better
For the year, the CPI increased 2.9% from December 2024, while the core index rose 3.2%. Notable price increases over the past 12 months include:Transportation services (+7.3%), Shelter (+4.6%),Utility (piped) gas services (+4.9%),Medical care services (+3.4%),Electricity (+2.8%),Food (+2.5%).
Energy Prices Spike in Biden’s Last Full Month in Office, Fueling CPI Increase
Biden's Education Department expands student loan forgiveness to over 5 million borrowers, sparking GOP backlash and calls for reform of higher education financing.
Student Loan Bailouts and the 119th Congress: Time to Ask Tough Questions

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Wright, who is the CEO Liberty Energy, experienced interruptions during his introduction and questioning from senators from the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Climate Scum Protesters Disrupt Confirmation Hearing for Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick
California law firm registered as foreign agent after suing ExxonMobil
Foreign Billionaire Is Behind Legal Effort To Take Down ExxonMobil, Disclosures Show
“Getting energy policy right means getting the American future right.”
An Energy-Abundance Agenda for Trump
It is not a coincidence that the current environmental or “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party.
Environmental Marxism
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Cardona largely blamed Republicans for waging wars on the education front and claimed to have prioritized student success, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The Biden official consistently pushed unpopular policies and reportedly targeted parents that pushed back against indoctrination in schools.
Biden’s Education Secretary Who Tried To Push Men Into Women’s Sports Says He Avoided ‘Culture Wars’ While In Office
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
Griffin’s case is being heard by the very Supreme Court upon which he hopes to serve, as his incumbent Democrat opponent, Justice Allison Riggs, is recused from the case. Earlier this month, the state’s high court blocked the Democrat-run North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) from certifying the election for Riggs before Griffin’s case was heard.
NC Supreme Court Candidate: More Than 5K Overseas Ballots With No Voter ID Were Counted Illegally
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
New Georgia Project admitted 16 violations of state law
Shyster/SLumlord Raphael Warnock-Led Charity Admits It Illegally Campaigned for Stacey Abrams, Will Pay $300,000 Fine
Paxton endorsed Cook ahead of the speakership contest, stressing Burrows’s “financial ties to Third Coast Bank—whose largest shareholders happen to be BlackRock and Vanguard.” The investment corporations are noted for using their financial power to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). BlackRock boss Larry Fink infamously declared, “at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors” that embrace diversity and inclusion.
Democrats Elect BlackRock-Linked ‘Republican’ as Texas Speaker.
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
Bondi served two terms as Florida’s attorney general after she worked as a prosecutor for 18 years, according to America First Policy Institute. She also served as an attorney for Trump during his first impeachment trial, during which he was acquitted by the Senate.
Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone (She should have fired back: No but my mother never pimped children to syphilitic soldiers and sailors - jjs)
Virginia’s Tim Kaine sternly wagged his finger at Hegseth over allegations of bad behavior toward women — pretty rich coming from a man who went puppy-eyes gaga in public for . . . Bill Clinton. Liz Warren, who lied about having Native American heritage to prosper in academia, went after Hegseth for his honesty. Pathetic. Zero substance, 100% partisan theater.
Dems grandstand through Trump nominee hearings because cheapshot politics is all they have
“I guess you didn’t want to hear my answer. I’m here to answer your questions, I’m not here to do your homework.”
Bondi Blasts Sen. Alex Padilla: ‘I’m Not Gonna be Bullied by You’
America got a veritable buffet menu of loathsome ex-wife archetypes to choose from.
The shrill post-menopausal scolds of the Senate were no match for Pete Hegseth
Follow along as Trump's picks for Attorney General, Energy Sec, Transportation Sec, and CIA director face Senate panels
Marco Rubio Leads Second Round Of Trump Noms Into Confirmation Hearings
“I’m asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney,” Schiff pressed during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Bondi replied, “Senator, nobody has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney. That is a hypothetical.” Traditionally, cabinet and judicial nominees refrain from answering hypothetical questions, and the practice is generally frowned upon as a matter of Senate decorum.
Self-Gassing Bug-Eyed Shit-Heel Adam Schiff Abuses Critical Confirmation Committee Time to Lobby for His Friend Liz Cheney, Not Ordinary Americans.
The California Democrat, who earned the nickname “Shifty Schiff” as a member of the House of Representatives from January 2001 to December 2024, focused on an oft-expressed concern among Democrats—that Trump’s Department of Justice could potentially investigate Democrats who weaponized the justice system and broke laws to prosecute and harass Trump and his supporters.
Pam Bondi, Trump’s Pick For Attorney General, Goes Toe-to-Toe With Adam Schiff; Reminds Him He Was Once Censured By Congress
POLITICS
The timing of the address is particularly striking, coming just hours after Biden attempted to claim credit for brokering an agreement between Israel and Hamas—a move transparently aimed at deflecting months of domestic criticism over his mishandling of the conflict.
Is This Proof That Biden's Speech Was Prerecorded?
In his final days as [so-called quote-unquote] president, Joe Biden has made a series of moves that set the Trump administration up for a tougher transition and first 100 days in office.
From Terrorism To The Border, Biden Uses His Final Days To Leave Behind Minefield Of Obstacles For Trump
The first lady told The Washington Post that Pelosi’s actions were “disappointing” since they had been friends for several decades in an interview published Wednesday.
‘It Was Disappointing’: Jill Biden Breaks Silence On Malig-Nancy Pelosi Forcing Her Husband Out Of Nomination
Miranda Devine: Joe Biden is leaving office the way he came in — on a cloud of self-delusion and a rancid stench of lies.
Self-deluded Biden is spending his last days as [so-called quote-unquote] president showcasing all the same lies and cementing his tarnished ‘legacy’
Apart from Democrats, Biden finds little support anywhere across the nation.
Biden’s Disaster — Most Voters Give Him Failing Marks For Leadership, Key Policies: I&I/TIPP Poll
Governor Mike DeWine, who will select the next Ohio senator, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week.
Trump Reportedly Urges Vivek Ramaswamy To Fill Open Ohio Senate Seat
Mrs. Trump is showing a new confidence and excitement about entering the White House this time around.
Melania Trump has found her footing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s farewell boasts ring hollow as his foreign policy missteps—from emboldening Iran and Hamas to the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal—undermine his claims of global achievement.
Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements”
If Maduro wants to invade Puerto Rico, Trump ought to take him out.
After threats to invade Puerto Rico, President Trump should make an example of Maduro
[Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum] also touted the USMCA trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada as the best way to handle competition from China.
Olive Branch to Trump? Mexico Cuts Chinese Imports, Puts Tariffs on Shein and Temu
However, many of those polled, particularly in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Indonesia, and South Africa, believe that China will overtake the United States as the most powerful country in the world in the next two decades.
Global Poll: Majority Think Trump Is Good for The World and Global Peace.
The president reportedly said that he would willingly appear before the CIO for questioning to “prevent an unpleasant bloodshed.”
South Korean President Arrested After Thousands Of Police Officers Sent To His Residence
Yoon is the first South Korean president in office to be arrested.
Impeached South Korean president Yoon arrested after weekslong standoff

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Red No. 3, also known as erythrosine, gives many food and beverage products their vibrant, cherry-red color. The FDA’s announcement, made on Wednesday, stipulates that manufacturers have until January 15, 2027, to adapt their food products and until January 18, 2028, to adapt their pharmaceuticals. This mandate extends to food imports, too.
FDA Finally Bans Red Dye No. 3 in Food and Medicine as RFK Confirmation Looms.
Steve Karp, M.D.: While media may portray the focus of professional assault as coming from hospitals, attorneys, and medical insurers, too many physicians are involved as well.
Et Tu, Medicus
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
For Blue Origin this success, though late, is a grand achievement. The company has a full launch manifest, with a 27-launch contract with Amazon for its Kuiper internet constellation. It also has a deal with the Space Force to get the rocket certified for military launches, once it completes two successful launches. Once certified the Space Force very much wants to use it, a lot.
Blue Origin successfully launches New Glenn
Though nothing is certain yet as the fires still rage, it appears that the facilities of JPL, including its Deep Space Network mission control that manages communications with all of America’s interplanetary probes have survived the Los Angeles fires that have destroy large swaths of that city.
JPL survives LA fires
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Jeffries said, “House Democrats believe that fairness and safety in sports, particularly as it relates to our children, our girls and boys who are playing either noncompetitive sports, recreational sports, and competitive sports all across the country, these are important principles and we support that. However, House Republicans are not serious about addressing any issues related to competition and safety. Their legislation is irresponsible.”
Jeffries: House GOP Bill Banning Biological Men from K-12 Women’s Sports Will Unleash Predators on Kids (Is that a promise or a threat?! - jjs)
One-in-1,000 kids with Type-2 diabetes is a “crisis,” according to the health establishment—but the same ratio of kids on puberty blockers is “very rare.”
The Gender-Affirming Care Double Standard
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Comedian echoes Adam Carolla's prediction on wildfire's political ramifications (Meh, Fire can't melt Communism - jjs)
Andrew Schulz: Fire Fallout Will Turn California Red
The human rights watchdog group Open Doors has published its World Watch List 2025, which ranks the fifty countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian.
Report: 380 Million Christians Suffer ‘High Levels of Persecution’
How does television do in dealing with the Gaza protests and anti-Semitism?
Gaza, Israel, and Entertainment
HITHER & YON
Is this man really the monster we’ve been led to see him as?
A case for Edward Snowden

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1
ESPONJA!!11!1!1
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2025 07:30 AM (w9Ycv)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 I feel centered!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 Yonder centered Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Happy Thursday, everyone! Oh wait...there's links? One moment.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 07:32 AM (NR6c1)

7 “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52:7

Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2025 07:32 AM (qnw3j)

8
the center cannot hold
that damn falcon has stopped listening

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2025 07:32 AM (w9Ycv)

9 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 16, 2025 07:33 AM (hoCmQ)

10 When the going gets tough, the tough go to Ghana.

Posted by: Karen Bass O Matic at January 16, 2025 07:33 AM (dg+HA)

11 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Make no mistake: this fire is the Left's wet-dream.

There purpose is destruction. There will be no rebuilding.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2025 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

12 Has anyone clicked to find out why billionaires want the photo of that chick with the giant rack destroyed?

Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2025 07:35 AM (QfvaV)

13 *Their

darnit

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2025 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

14 I cannot see how anyone could have a problem with pointing out an occasion of Trump being wrong… it is not a sin.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 07:37 AM (PCK5/)

15 How can any nation state on the planet coexist side by side with a group of savages like Hamas?

The correct question is "Why should any nation state coexist with them?" But I suppose he couldn't phrase it like that.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 07:37 AM (NR6c1)

16 There will be no peace until total victory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

17 I had a thought but it went right out of my head as I started to type.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 07:38 AM (SfhV1)

18 Pam Bondi is older than Kristen Gillibrand.

Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2025 07:39 AM (QfvaV)

19 spot-on SFp!
money, temporal power, fame are all just sucker bait ...
destruction is the only goal in the end

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 16, 2025 07:39 AM (cY18j)

20 JJ, I have seen reports that Imam al-Husainy was disinvited

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2025 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

21 Hamas will break the deal soon enough.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

22 I watched Fox yesterday to see the hearings. I was disappointed that they showed nothing concerning Sean Duffy's confirmation process.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 07:40 AM (SfhV1)

23 I was hoping Bondi would have channeled John McEnroe yesterday when Sheldon Whorehouse had the gall to invoke Lavrenty Beria and preemptively admonish her about conducting lawfare. "You can't be serious. You CANNOT be f*cking serious! Your DOJ has done nothing but go after political opponents. That's been its entire mission. You have the hypocritical audacity to warn ME about that!"

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 07:40 AM (ZlOcj)

24 FD,

They apparently did already. The deal is now on hold.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 16, 2025 07:40 AM (3AwA+)

25 Senate confirmation hearings are reality TV with fewer camera angles.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2025 07:41 AM (dg+HA)

26 Jill Biden Is Still Bitter About What Pelosi Did to Her Husband. “It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and we were friends for 50 years,” she said of Pelosi. “It was disappointing.”

Pelosi told The New Yorker in August that the president hadn’t spoken to her since he dropped out of the race. When asked if their friendship could survive, Pelosi said, “I hope so. I pray so. I cry so.”

Jill has every right to be bitter. The way some Democrats handled the Joe was shameful. The double-speak did no one any good and I'm surprised the party didn't come out of it worse.

The worst part of that fateful debate was watching the POTUS being ‘patient walked’ off that stage by his wife. I felt we were in for trouble then.

Some are bitter that Mrs. Biden and the president's staff tried to keep Joe’s frailty from the public and Democrats. That Biden tried to throw the Democratic Party under the bus by his insistence on running for reelection.

People would have forgotten all about the stupid debate if the press didn't go crazy about it, and democrats didn't throw Biden under the bus. Meanwhile, Trump just does whatever the hell he wants.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2025 07:41 AM (ycI94)

27 Hamas backtracking on cease fire. Netanyahu not calling cabinet together to discuss it.

I don't know it was 11d chess or whatever. I think Hamas is probably going to think at some point we should have taken that deal.

Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2025 07:42 AM (QfvaV)

28 A lot of crap has been written online about the proposed hostage deal; it is NOT a “done deal”, and it could still turn into nothing at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 07:42 AM (7MHHr)

29 ...calls for reform of higher education financing.

Reform #1: The US government shall not be involved in financing "higher" education except in the following circumstances:
- GI Bill
- Promoting actual citizens to get a degree which actually helps the country. These are limited to medical, engineering, science.

Reform #2: Student loans may be discharged in bankruptcy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

30 18 Kristen Gillibrand was labeled as a true moderate congresswoman that even had an A+ NRA rating . As soon as she got into the Senate she made a hard left and that NRA rating dropped to F. Fuckin' Schumer and his hypnosis. And Soros bux.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 07:43 AM (gm9Sb)

31
ow-ow-OW-OW!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 16, 2025 07:44 AM (5hfjS)

32 The Tube that is You helpfully suggested a montage of all the “experts” confidently stating that DJT will never, ever be the Republican nominee for President in 2016. He will never, ever be President. Zero percent chance. You can take that to the bank!

Even Marko Rubio weighed in, and said so! Wonder what he he thinks about that now?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 07:44 AM (IY3/h)

33 The hearings are a slow poison for democrats. They're simply incapable of not revealing their vileness.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 07:44 AM (ZlOcj)

34 "Shyster/SLumlord Raphael Warnock-Led Charity Admits It Illegally Campaigned for Stacey Abrams, Will Pay $300,000 Fine"

They should be shut down, but Soros will pay the bill and give them a bonus.

Posted by: fd at January 16, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

35 Here is the latest on the deal:

https://tinyurl.com/42k6auc4

Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 16, 2025 07:45 AM (3AwA+)

36 There will be no peace until total victory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

***

Cannot be said enough

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 07:45 AM (1FWWQ)

37 Democrats Elect BlackRock-Linked ‘Republican’ as Texas Speaker.

Dade Phelan 2.0.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

38 > 18 Pam Bondi is older than Kristen Gillibrand.
Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2025 07:39 AM (QfvaV)

Someone quipped "All these questions, and no one asked about her skin care regimen".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:46 AM (W5ArC)

39 There is a reason student loans are not part of bankruptcy.

It was a &@$ing cottage industry. Even Law Schools offered courses on how to do this, after getting the degree, natch.

Nobody seems to remember this.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 07:47 AM (IY3/h)

40 I have no doubt Trump was cornered into this by all involved, with Hamas only agreeing to it because they knew justice was coming in a week in the form of Trump.

It's shitty but this is what happens when you are dealing with unadulterated evil. And of course I'm not referring to Hamas.

I'm still pissed it happened though. There used to be a little something we believed about not negotiating with terrorists. This is an Obama/Jarrett "deal" through and through. And if it had had Obama's faggy name all over it, the vast majority of our side would be bitching about freeing terrorists right now and not what a great "deal" it was.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 07:47 AM (ggGAr)

41 Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone

Bondi: In the immortal words of Blackpink, "Look at you, now look at me".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

42 Universal suffrage was a fatal error

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 07:48 AM (IY3/h)

43 > Jill Biden Is Still Bitter About What Pelosi Did to Her Husband.
--------
So did Teh Donald, but for what she did to him on J6.

The "googly eyes" memes that were all over the place when they were seated next to each other at the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris? Want to bet they have "a Plan™" to extract revenge?

I wouldn't necessarily bet against it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

44 > It was a &@$ing cottage industry. Even Law Schools offered courses on how to do this, after getting the degree, natch.

Discharge in bankruptcy should require rescinding of the degree, and the school should be on the hook for the money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:49 AM (W5ArC)

45 So while the deal was on hold, Israel reportedly hit Gaza with heavy duty air strikes. Hamas says 70 killed. There's no word yet from Israel on who or what the target was. It could well be someone significant.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 07:49 AM (paSBy)

46 Trump will make a few mistakes and they will be all too readily pointed out.. I cut him major slack because he has a terrible battle space to operate in. I am just sure that he will do a great job in spite of the headwinds.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 07:49 AM (PCK5/)

47 29 Reform #2: Student loans may be discharged in bankruptcy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And the college that financed the loan is on the hook for paying it back like any company that sold a defective product.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 07:49 AM (NR6c1)

48 Bondi… almost 60, looks great.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (PCK5/)

49 good morning JJ, Horde

4 days until the national exorcism begins ...

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (+DCRI)

50 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (53oGX)

51 Good morning horde. One thought this morning about the hostage deal. If you want the freedom to go medieval on Hamas and Iran you almost have to get the hostages out of there first. This is the final act of the October 7th massacre, but what comes next is to be written by administration who is a lot less sympathetic to the cries of genocide.

Posted by: Roberto at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (T4ON6)

52 > Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone

I'm betting that no one ever made "unwanted sexual advances" on Crazy Mazie.

She wasn't even able to get a job in the family whorehouse, thus proving that there are some things that not even a sailor will do.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (W5ArC)

53 Bondi… almost 60, looks great.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 07:50 AM (PCK5/)

She's 60? Wow

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 07:51 AM (SfhV1)

54 Get the hostages out, recover the remains of the dead, roll the tanks and bulldozers and make an announcement. How do you say "you screwed up, you trusted us" in Hebrew? As long as there is one Hamas operative or even just a sympathizer in Gaza or the West Bank there will be no peace for Israel.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 07:52 AM (gm9Sb)

55 ...believe that China will overtake the United States as the most powerful country in the world in the next two decades.

The actions of US officeholders not named Trump over the past almost 40 years make that an easy prediction. Hopefully an incorrect one though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

56 An illegal alien was arrested with a blowtorch last week near the location of the Kenneth Fire.
CA Sanctuary Laws Could Prevent ICE From Taking Custody Of Illegal Alien Arrested With Blowtorch

--

Can someone explain in simple terms to me how CA sanctuary laws could trump federal laws pertaining to ICE's actions here?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

57 > Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone
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Every so often we are reminded how absolutely horrible and stupid our elected betters are than pretty much anyone else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

58 > If you want the freedom to go medieval on Hamas and Iran you almost have to get the hostages out of there first.

Either that or go full KGB on their asses.

There's a story that a Middle East terrorist group once kidnaped a Soviet citizen. KGB response: kidnap the "imam's" nephew, start chopping off appendages, and delivering them.

The hostage was soon released

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (W5ArC)

59 52 > Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone

Again, "You CANNOT be serious!" Who would ask such a question? The intent obviously was to plant in people's heads the suspicion that she had.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (ZlOcj)

60 "Some are bitter that Mrs. Biden and the president's staff tried to keep Joe’s frailty from the public and Democrats."
---------

They "tried" but in the end they could not from our hero media and Democrats who would not REST until the truth was out!

I would love to know what the weather on the planet Zaxxon is like. Seriously. They're laying it on Jill Biden. Fucking weirdos.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 07:54 AM (ggGAr)

61 ?st
Had to do that after reading to the bottom and no comments yet.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 07:55 AM (kjZOX)

62 Well, I, for one, would be horrified if Bondi made "unwanted sexual advances" on me.

Just horrified.

Really.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:55 AM (W5ArC)

63 Up over 12° so there's at least that. I don't like the hostage agreement either, knot worth the paper it's not written on.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 07:56 AM (4780s)

64 Can someone explain in simple terms to me how CA sanctuary laws could trump federal laws pertaining to ICE's actions here?

They've got it in their heads that they're the modern incarnation of Harriett Tubman. When you're the good guy, then doing good has got no end. And get this - every tyrant and terrorist always has and always will see themselves as the good guy.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 07:57 AM (k4bN6)

65 Attorney General and Secretary of State. Bondi and Dondi.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 07:57 AM (gm9Sb)

66 Good morning!

Posted by: Knock gp A Kiss at January 16, 2025 07:58 AM (ZwuMZ)

67 Pam Bondi doesn't have the balls to be attorney general.

Posted by: Janet Reno at January 16, 2025 07:58 AM (paSBy)

68 58 > If you want the freedom to go medieval on Hamas and Iran you almost have to get the hostages out of there first.

Either that or go full KGB on their asses.

There's a story that a Middle East terrorist group once kidnaped a Soviet citizen. KGB response: kidnap the "imam's" nephew, start chopping off appendages, and delivering them.

The hostage was soon released
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (W5ArC)

"Plagiarists!!!!"

- - The Corleone Family

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)

69 The Left operates constantly in one or another stage of McCarthyism in all their political interactions. They see every moment of their political existence as an opportunity to insinuate or accuse. Nothing they do is about substance or solution.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 07:59 AM (ZlOcj)

70 45 So while the deal was on hold, Israel reportedly hit Gaza with heavy duty air strikes. Hamas says 70 killed.”

If Hamas says 70 were killed, it means that two terrorists were killed and 5 others wounded.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 08:00 AM (7MHHr)

71 Some are bitter that Mrs. Biden and the president's staff tried to keep Joe’s frailty from the public and Democrats.

Yes... the poor, trusting Democrats were just taken in by the gaslighting of Jill Biden and some WH drones. Who could have been expected to to suspect Joe might not be as spry as reported. Tell yourselves that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

72 57 > Mazie Hirohito Asks Pam Bondi If She Ever Made ‘Unwanted’ Sexual Advances On Someone
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Every so often we are reminded how absolutely horrible and stupid our elected betters are than pretty much anyone else.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

The daughter of an Hawaiian Pimp of child prostitutes

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)

73 58 > If you want the freedom to go medieval on Hamas and Iran you almost have to get the hostages out of there first.

Nope. Tell me - why do you believe a group that para-glided into southern Israel, spraying and praying as they went, and then raped some and killed others while they marched away the rest are suddenly playing nice with what few hostages they have left ?

Those people are dead. Its only a question of timing. You don't decimate Hamas - and the Gaza Strip they operate in - to save those remaining few. You do it to save the next bunch not yet shot, raped, or taken hostage.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:02 AM (k4bN6)

74 If Hamas says 70 were killed, it means that two terrorists were killed and 5 others wounded.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 08:00 AM (7MHHr)

"Genocide!"

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:02 AM (ZlOcj)

75 *Charity Admits It Illegally Campaigned for Stacey Abrams, Will Pay $300,000 Fine*

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at January 16, 2025 08:02 AM (dg+HA)

76 I think we can give Hawaii to Canada and we'll take Alberta

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:02 AM (1FWWQ)

77 My sibling, who used to work for the FBI is now back in the US Marshals and also works in ICE. They were sent to DC early this week to prep and secure the area for the inauguration. Crossing my fingers that all goes well and the maniacs are unsuccessful with whatever nefarious plans they have. I confess I have a bit of Bongino's worries.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 16, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

78 A Bass-O-Matic p'shop! Great pic, JJ.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 16, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

79 Reform #2: Student loans may be discharged in bankruptcy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And the college that financed the loan is on the hook for paying it back like any company that sold a defective product.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 07:49 AM (NR6c1)

I suspect that if fedgov got out of funding college, prices would go down AND either colleges would have to fund at least the stupid studies or banks would charge a fuckload in interest.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

80 Of course we should be concerned about Trump’s safety. There have been 2 assassination attempts in the last 7 months, and his opposition is insane.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (PCK5/)

81 Even Rubio’s opening statements were replete with this “someday soon, in 10 years bad things might happen”

They already have us by the nutsack, and have done so many many years ago. This was a deliberate, conscious decision by our leaders. In terms of pharmaceuticals, America doesn’t even make Aspirin any longer. Aerospace and strategic minerals are something else, rare earth minerals are to at least some degree “rare” because of the “environmental” restrictions in this country.

Once you’re onto their game you cannot unsee it. And there’s plenty of sightseeing opportunities going back decades. Our problems are mostly inflicted on us from within, not shady foreign actors.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (IY3/h)

82 Award-Winning ™ podcast

Ace finally gave you guys cardboard cob status? A hobo pelt mysteriously showed up on your doorstop with a bow on top? A finely-grilled Stormtrooper was ceremonially gifted to you?

Posted by: pookysgirl, whimsical as always at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (dtlDP)

83 If Griffin still does not prevail after rejecting those two groups, then his filing argues that the court should consider the legitimacy of another 60,273 ballots that were cast by voters who were not properly registered to vote, as they provided no driver’s license or Social Security Number upon registration — as required by law.

That is almost 1% of voters in NC.
Stupid

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

84 It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

85 Those people are dead. Its only a question of timing. You don't decimate Hamas - and the Gaza Strip they operate in - to save those remaining few. You do it to save the next bunch not yet shot, raped, or taken hostage.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves

And you don't decimate. Decimate is one in ten.
Whatever 9 out of 10 is, that's how many you kill.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (5lxGh)

86 If Kamala had "won" those hostages would still be sitting there while Joe weekend at bernied it up on Rehoboth Beach.

That is some truly sad demoralizing shit to consider.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (ggGAr)

87 Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (5lxGh)

9 in 10 huh? You're in a merciful mood this morning.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:07 AM (ggGAr)

88 >>It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)

Blasphemer!

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 08:07 AM (LkLld)

89 84 It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

I love them! I also like prune danish and/or hamentashen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)

90 I like fig newtons.

Choco Leibniz is also pretty good, when it comes to cookies with the same name as calculus inventors.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:08 AM (W5ArC)

91 Fig Newtons are great!!

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:08 AM (PCK5/)

92 82 Award-Winning ™ podcast

Ace finally gave you guys cardboard cob status? A hobo pelt mysteriously showed up on your doorstop with a bow on top? A finely-grilled Stormtrooper was ceremonially gifted to you?
Posted by: pookysgirl, whimsical as always at January 16, 2025 08:05 AM (dtlDP)

We awarded ourselves!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (x0n13)

93 Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who wields significant powers as President of the Texas Senate, marveled, “This may be the first time in our nation’s history where the minority party openly elected the speaker of a legislative body instead of the majority party.”

They did the same with Drunk Dade over the last 5 or 6 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

94 Fig Newton's are nature's most perfect food.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (paSBy)

95 Brian Regan has a funny bit about devouring Fig Newtons like a woodchuck.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (ZlOcj)

96 "It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)
Posted by: redridinghood"

It's a cake.

Posted by: The Big Fig at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

97 And yet, it's this notion of a "DEAL" that troubles me.

I fail to see how you are troubled by this "DEAL", Trump already communicated to the world that this was supposed to be solved before Biden's term ended or there would be "Hell to Pay"™

What do you think that means? It means that the Biden junta engineers and blesses the "DEAL". Intelligent people were screaming that Trump should distance himself from this, but Trump being Trump, he wanted to be the first to take Credit.

Apparently Trump has not learned how to strategically stay out of the news. (sigh)

Israel, pulled their own LA stupidity and kept the savages alive knowing full well in advance that they would eventually have to return them to fight again.

Sometimes I seriously wonder if this all supposed to be theater to keep the MIC fully funded.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (rHxhM)

98 Have you suffered the fraud of taking out a student loan for thousands and thousands of dollars only to end up with a worthless college degree and you are now unemployed, broke and living at home in your mom's basement?
Well...Call me! We are the largest law firm in the United States and we want to get you money! Size Matters! For The People!

Posted by: John Morgan, Fat democrat lawyer at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (jiYtH)

99 Wayne Newton >>>>>>> Fig Newton

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:10 AM (1FWWQ)

100 Fig Newton's are nature's most perfect food.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (paSBy)
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**AHEM!**

Posted by: Bacon at January 16, 2025 08:10 AM (7fElN)

101 Every so often we are reminded ..
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Hm… Hourly, or even by the minute, is definitely “so often”…. I guess you’re not wrong here

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:10 AM (IY3/h)

102 Well, if you were a loan officer, and two students came to you asking for a loan, one for a degree in accounting, and one for a degree in "toxic masculinity studies", which one would you give the loan?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (W5ArC)

103
-What's left of Hamas at this point?

-What would eradication of Hamas look like?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (g3j/k)

104 Why am I thinking Juice Newton right now?

Posted by: dantesed at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (Oy/m2)

105 Legal Assessments -- Reviewing all 1,600 cases (and counting) will be a monumental task on the part of the lawyers needed to conduct these evaluations.
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Fuck off American Thinker. They have had four years. What is this "will be a monumental task" shit. It should have been done by early 2021.

The shit we accept from people on "our side" is not fathomable to me.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (ggGAr)

106 100 Fig Newtons, wrapped in bacon, deep fried and topped with pimento spread.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gm9Sb)

107 Can someone explain in simple terms to me how CA sanctuary laws could trump federal laws pertaining to ICE's actions here?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 16, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

They can release them rather than holding them for ICE. The courts have already ruled that this is permitted because fedgov isn't paying them hold the illegals. Anything beyond that would, technically, be a crime - a crime which has never been previously prosecuted since administrations of both parties have never actually wanted to deal with the illegals. But a new day is dawning.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

108 And you don't decimate. Decimate is one in ten.
Whatever 9 out of 10 is, that's how many you kill.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (5lxGh)

Yeah. But We'll (1 - Decimate) Them !!! just doesn't have a very nice ring to it.

What I said above used to be understood by the Israelis after the Munich Games. Seems too many of them have forgotten it.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (k4bN6)

109 Whatever 9 out of 10 is, that's how many you kill.

Slacker. 11 out of 10, just to make sure.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (rHxhM)

110 Those people are dead. Its only a question of timing

You might be singing a different tune if one of yours was being held by these savages. I am not so willing to write them off. You honor the deal long enough to get the hostages out and then the gloves come off.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (+ct65)

111 What would eradication of Hamas look like?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (g3j/k)

I don't know but I'm willing to find out.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (ggGAr)

112 102 Well, if you were a loan officer, and two students came to you asking for a loan, one for a degree in accounting, and one for a degree in "toxic masculinity studies", which one would you give the loan?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM (W5ArC)

The one I was forced to by the quota-coercive government gun at my head.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (ZlOcj)

113
The Jordanian method of dealing with "Black September" types should be remembered.

Of course, muzzi on muzzi gonna be messy.

Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (j4U/Z)

114 Bondi fired back at the California Senator, “You’re all so worried about Liz Cheney. You know what we should be worried about? The crime rate in California right now is through the roof. Your robberies are 87 percent higher than the national average.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

115 The Triad of cookie greatness… Oreo, Fig Newton, Nutter Butter..

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

116
-What would eradication of Hamas look like?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2025 08:11 AM

let's find out!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2025 08:13 AM (w9Ycv)

117 Well, I, for one, would be horrified if Bondi made "unwanted sexual advances" on me.

Just horrified.

Really.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 07:55 AM (W5ArC)

I'd get over it though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

118 Fuck off American Thinker. They have had four years. What is this "will be a monumental task" shit. It should have been done by early 2021.

Where in Hell were any of the attorneys representing any of the J6 people?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

119 >>It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)

Ahem.
I submit for consideration the dreaded Oreo.
Reconstituted wallpaper paste sandwiched between two discs of charcoal. So un-cookielike it has to be immersed in milk to make it close to palpable.

Were it not for its transportability and durability it would have been long ago left in the dustbin of snack food history.

Posted by: But this isn't the food thread at January 16, 2025 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

120 The Fig Newton is NOT a cookie... it is more of a mini tart

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:15 AM (1FWWQ)

121 @ 46, there it is!

also, 48-hour rule, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 16, 2025 08:15 AM (cY18j)

122 Where in Hell were any of the attorneys representing any of the J6 people?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

No kidding.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:15 AM (ggGAr)

123 I suggest before handing the terrorists over that they all be given the cyanide capsule with 24 hour timed release aka " the devils alternative" from Frederick Forsyth novel of said name

Posted by: Matthew at January 16, 2025 08:15 AM (OdsgZ)

124 -What's left of Hamas at this point? -What would eradication of Hamas look like?

Dispersal of everyone left in the Gaza strip to various points far and wide. This is another thing that too many people refuse to understand. I use the word "refuse" extremely carefully, because its such an easy concept that I figured it out for myself. And if I can, everybody else should.

Hamas is just the sand flowing through the neck of the hourglass. The rest of the sand is the remaining residents of the Gaza Strip. That little bit of peace Israel will get from all this ? Its just that fraction of time when you flip the hourglass, before the grains start falling through the next again.

The only way to stop it, for good, is break the hourglass. Quit flipping the damn thing.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:16 AM (k4bN6)

125 114 Bondi fired back at the California Senator, “You’re all so worried about Liz Cheney. You know...

Unfortunately she was drowned out by Schiff, who simply did not stop talking the entire time. I can't imagine Schiff having any means of supporting himself or even operating as a normal human being in the world at all if not for politics. Only politics affords this creep a nominal existence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

126 Morning JJ. When I heard of the deal yesterday, first thing I wanted to know was how JJ felt about it.

A very fair take JJ. As a huge Trumper I also have reservations about this, but I do think Trump wanted this off the table, so he can start his domestic agenda

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2025 08:16 AM (YCxFk)

127 Trump posted this on Truth Social last night-

As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), "Dumb as a Rock" John Bolton, "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

128 Peace at any cost is not a good way to deal with these people

Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2025 08:17 AM (9XPe8)

129 And you don't decimate. Decimate is one in ten.
Whatever 9 out of 10 is, that's how many you kill.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (5lxGh)

Best I can find is nonadecacide.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

130 79 I suspect that if fedgov got out of funding college, prices would go down AND either colleges would have to fund at least the stupid studies or banks would charge a fuckload in interest.

If the feds got out of the funding game and bankruptcy on loans was allowed, I predict the following may happen.

1. Tuition rates would drop to about 1960s levels.
2. A lot of worthless bureaucrats would be freed from job lock.
3. Departments that have no value (ie Anything that ends in the word "Studies.") would vanish.
4. Colleges would go back to being selective about who gets admitted.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 08:18 AM (NR6c1)

131 It's possible that Netanyahu is delaying the deal because hawks in the cabinet are threatening to bring down the government if he proceeds.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:18 AM (paSBy)

132 You might be singing a different tune if one of yours was being held by these savages. I am not so willing to write them off. You honor the deal long enough to get the hostages out and then the gloves come off.

Nope. The tune I would be singing is "Kill them all". Why ?

Because its selfish to insist that the game be played such that, to maybe get back the remains of one of your own, the price is somebody else getting captured, raped, or killed in the next attack. And there will ALWAYS be a next attack at this rate.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:18 AM (k4bN6)

133 If the Harris/Tampon Timmy ticket somehow prevailed, we would see the “arrest Americans for misinformation” operation kicked into high gear. The Limey poofters strangling GB into the dirt have been making mewling noises about going after Americans for free speech issues. I’d thought maybe this was an exaggeration, maybe US citizens in residence there, now I’m not so sure.

This would have been done at the direction of golly knows who, while we may have not been extradited (too expensive) the effect would have been the same, achieving the desired result.

To Hell with your “special relationship” particularly as it appears they are apparently largely comprised of kiddie fuckers and other various sex perverts, vegetarians, fruititarians, sandal wearers, and other scrofulous sorts.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:19 AM (IY3/h)

134 It’s difficult if not impossible for mere mortals to think like Trump —ie Trump in all his entirety.
Trump believes that ALL things are possible through by and of Trump—that’s really good and can obviously be really bad,
He is going to continue to try to invite vipers of many persuasions into the Trump tent. Of course WE can see that they are vipers but Trump sees them as mortals not able to resist Trumps’ special powers.
The ‘Imam’ will screw Trump and then Trump wont be inviting the Imam or his like to pray again. Such is the way of Trump—he has to get screwed personally before he accepts the obvious.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 16, 2025 08:19 AM (Tbb2+)

135 A remnant could be the looked for word… a remnant is less than 10%, often 3-5%…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:19 AM (PCK5/)

136 I suspect that if fedgov got out of funding college, prices would go down AND either colleges would have to fund at least the stupid studies or banks would charge a fuckload in interest.

The interest isn't commensurate with the risk because the risk was supposed to be mitigated by making it difficult to discharge student loan debt.

Then the government steps in and screws up existing contracts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:19 AM (rHxhM)

137 Good morning JJ and horde
Looks like at work all day

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2025 08:19 AM (yQcm2)

138 We awarded ourselves!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (x0n13)

Keeping the tradition of the American entertainment industry alive, I see.

Posted by: pookysgirl, award-winning Ette at January 16, 2025 08:20 AM (dtlDP)

139 >>Apparently Trump has not learned how to strategically stay out of the news.

How does Trump or any US president strategically stay out of the news regarding the Middle East?

While the focus is on a potential short term cease fire deal to do a prisoner swap in Israel, the truth is this issues is a microcosm of the entire Middle East powder keg. Hamas is Iran. So is Hezbollah. Syria is now in the hands of terrorists. Lebanon is unstable. Thanks to Biden the entire region is once again teetering on regional war.

We might not care about the Middle East but it cares about us and there are often no good deals just less bad ones. Get our people out, get a few moments of stability and then after Trump is actually in office start implementing Trump led policy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 08:20 AM (LkLld)

140 139

As Rabid Hamas violates the agreement, Israel and Trump will hold all of the high ground. Muslims lack all impulse control.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (PCK5/)

141 Trump's "hell to pay" boast could not be ignored. So, where exactly would this "hell" be meted out? Gaza? What's left to bomb there? Iran? Yemen?

On one hand I don't think this was very well thought out. On the other, the deal the junta was going to make was probably worse. And I don't think Trump wanted to go to war with anyone on his first day back in the White House.

Bad look and all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

142 How does Trump or any US president strategically stay out of the news regarding the Middle East?

Maybe by not tweeting "I achieved peace in the Middle East in our time". Dunno'. Just spit-balling here.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (k4bN6)

143 The Triad of cookie greatness… Oreo, Fig Newton, Nutter Butter..
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

Well, as the song goes, two out of three ain't bad.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (0eaVi)

144 Pam Bondi is 60? Well, that proves that the Fountain of Youth is indeed in Florida. Wow. After that hearing, she went from one of the ones I was least impressed by to fairly high in the ranks.

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (rM26B)

145 Morning Horde, thx JJ. The crazy ladies whose posts I look at on Facebook are singing the praises of the Dem senators. They are screaming about Hegseth being a rapist and drunk, about Bondi being an airhead etc. They haven't learned anything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (dR02F)

146 Where in Hell were any of the attorneys representing any of the J6 people?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:14 AM (rHxhM)
No kidding.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:15 AM (ggGAr)

I am under my desk. Is it safe to come out now?

Posted by: Saul Goodman at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (jiYtH)

147 105 Good morning, ... MAGA cuts the Gordian Knot. It doesn't try to untie it, per that American Thinker article.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 16, 2025 08:23 AM (+DCRI)

148 The ‘Imam’ will screw Trump and then Trump wont be inviting the Imam or his like to pray again.

If Trump, or anyone involved with this decision to blaspheme God by having a demon priest in the form of an Imam come in for the "benediction" (spit), clearly doesn't want God's blessing on their endeavors.

To start off four years by telling God to fuck-off is not inspiring, its almost like he wants the next bullet to not miss.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:23 AM (rHxhM)

149 I love them! I also like prune danish and/or hamentashen.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)
******
Love prune danish, but fig newtons are dry and have always tasted like they're past their expiration date.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

150 They did the same with Drunk Dade over the last 5 or 6 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

Another batch of Bush Democrats who call themselves Republicans to get elected. Nice of them to identify themselves for us to target. Pity they're preventing us from moving the state forward as quickly as we might.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

151 131 It's possible that Netanyahu is delaying the deal because hawks in the cabinet are threatening to bring down the government if he proceeds.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:18 AM (paSBy)

Hamas ALWAYS does the Hokey Pokey at the end of any negotiations and screws everything up. It’s what they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 08:24 AM (7MHHr)

152 She also served as an attorney for Trump during his first impeachment trial, during which he was acquitted by the Senate.
==

Dems tried to make hay of this during Bondi hearing, but Ted Cruz would have none of it. She was an advisor to the White House Counsel's office during em-peachment, not a personal lawyer.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:24 AM (g47mK)

153 From Wiki, the unimpeachable source:

Pamela Jo Bondi
November 17, 1965 (age 59)

Posted by: Let the record show at January 16, 2025 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

154 Brian Regan has a funny bit about devouring Fig Newtons like a woodchuck.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:09 AM (ZlOcj)

https://youtu.be/0Qa-B7Sg_i4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

155 I’ve said it before, I don’t believe people generally understand the game these people are playing.

“Insurrection” is a legal term of art. I don’t know if it requires a formal declaration. It doesn’t matter, Progressives aren’t bound by such legal niceties.

They can arrest people without any pretext, whisk you off the street, and confine without bail or legal representation. All those Constitutional rights we think we have don’t apply.

That’s why they call it an Insurrection. Clear now?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:25 AM (IY3/h)

156 153 From Wiki, the unimpeachable source:

Pamela Jo Bondi
November 17, 1965 (age 59)
Posted by: Let the record show at January 16, 2025 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

So almost 60… well preserved.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:25 AM (PCK5/)

157 151. I agree Tom. Friend told me that Leftists in Tel Aviv are just as awful as the ones in NYC.

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

158 Trump will often get behind the least bad option and he will do it with gusto. He knows that "things" will often change soon and that there can always be another decision made.

I sincerely doubt this is the "deal" Trump wanted. I believe it was forced upon him by Jarrett and Company and Hamas. Why did Jarrett and Company want it? Because they knew in a week Trump was going to take care of business and look good doing it. And that to them is worse than any hostage taking.

So the "deal" gets hostages out and Hamas will never stay true to any "deal" so Trump rolls with it. But *we* have to be a little more selective about what we celebrate and this here is Classic Jarrett Ayers terrorist licking bs.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (ggGAr)

159 Fig Newtons have an expiration date?

Posted by: Who knew at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

160 If Trump, or anyone involved with this decision to blaspheme God by having a demon priest in the form of an Imam come in for the "benediction" (spit), clearly doesn't want God's blessing on their endeavors.

You certainly don't invite representatives of a Global Fundamentalist movement dedicated to asymmetric warfare against your culture, with the goal of complete extermination.

But this is still a Western blind-spot. The notion of unlimited Religious Freedom. There's very, very little one can't get away with if they just insist their "faith" compels them. Refuse to fight in a war ? No problem. Refuse to pay taxes ? Sure thing. And on and on.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (k4bN6)

161 How does Trump or any US president strategically stay out of the news regarding the Middle East?

Abrahamaic Accords: Yes
This Biden involved shitshow: No

I actually have had party invites and declined to attend.

People can do that if they know in advance the party will likely be raided by a SWAT team.

This is one of those parties.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (rHxhM)

162 From Wiki, the unimpeachable source:

Pamela Jo Bondi
November 17, 1965 (age 59)

Posted by: Let the record show at January 16, 2025 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

I need to find out what face cream she uses.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

163 156. I am watching Pam though. She better clean up the DOJ, and not get squishy

Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

164 Hamas ALWAYS does the Hokey Pokey at the end of any negotiations and screws everything up. It’s what they do.
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Times of Israel reports Ben Givr is pressuring Smotrich to quit the government if the deal goes through.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:27 AM (paSBy)

165 The Imam is probably there as a targeted “thank you” to the Muslims in Michigan who refused to support Kamala. And there are no “moderate “. Imams.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 08:28 AM (7MHHr)

166 >>Maybe by not tweeting "I achieved peace in the Middle East in our time". Dunno'. Just spit-balling here.

He largely had under the Abraham Accords. Or did you forget that?

Saudi Arabia was on the verge of joining when Iran's proxy Hamas attacked Israel and ended that opportunity.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 08:28 AM (LkLld)

167 I sincerely doubt this is the "deal" Trump wanted. I believe it was forced upon him by Jarrett and Company and Hamas. Why did Jarrett and Company want it? Because they knew in a week Trump was going to take care of business and look good doing it. And that to them is worse than any hostage taking.

Then you don't stick your face in the middle of the team photo for a really, really bad deal. You shut up, and stay out of it.

But that really is the Trump problem, now isn't it. The man can't simply shut up and stay out of anything.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:29 AM (k4bN6)

168 Another batch of Bush Democrats who call themselves Republicans to get elected. Nice of them to identify themselves for us to target. Pity they're preventing us from moving the state forward as quickly as we might.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

They are more evil than the (D).

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

169 I need to find out what face cream she uses.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (SfhV1)

Do NOT ask Kamala that question.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:30 AM (ggGAr)

170 You’re all so worried about Liz Cheney.

Maybe you should have advised her not to break the fucking law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

171 He largely had under the Abraham Accords. Or did you forget that? Saudi Arabia was on the verge of joining when Iran's proxy Hamas attacked Israel and ended that opportunity.

This hostage deal, that at best you apologist can say simply wasn't Trumps doing, sure as Hell isn't the Abraham Accords. So instead of firing off a "look at me" tweet ? He should have just stayed out of it.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:30 AM (k4bN6)

172 "We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." Golda Meir

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:30 AM (ZlOcj)

173 159 Fig Newtons have an expiration date?
Posted by: Who knew at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

Twinkies do not.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

174 The more I think about this "deal" the more I think its just a precondition for Israel to go full-gloves-off when Hamas inevitably breaks the deal - or when the 6 weeks is over.

Either or.

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (gDdxW)

175 Fig Newtons are foul and taste stale. First produced in the shithole of Newton, Massachusetts in 1891, they were soon absorbed by our resident evil, Big Biscuit.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

176 This was Biden's deal that he had been pushing since June
PDT went along with it. For all intents and purposes it is a terrible deal. That said, there is the possibility that PDT took this deal to stave off the even worse resolution tha Biden had lined up to push through th UN to really screw Israel. Remains to be seen

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (oT+t6)

177 People! Hirono's question was not in vain! That dumb whore also maid a point of saying she did not meet with Bondi to make sure she answered under oath. So here is what is going on - Dems probably have some bogus claim, someone they paid off from the 400 Bondi supervised, who swore that she made sexual advances on him/her! Then they will demand she resign, or Trump fire her. MARK MY WORDS. And Trump people need to be ahead of this!

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (g47mK)

178 163 156. I am watching Pam though. She better clean up the DOJ, and not get squishy
Posted by: Jonah

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (dg+HA)

179 The Triad of cookie greatness… Oreo, Fig Newton, Nutter Butter..
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

Well, as the song goes, two out of three ain't bad.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:22 AM (0eaVi)
*******
Girl Scout Cookies: Carmel deLites, Peanut butter sandwiches, Thin Mints.
Also, anything by Pepperidge Farms.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

180 HTML error on the front page???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (wtvvX)

181 > The Imam is probably there as a targeted “thank you” to the Muslims in Michigan who refused to support Kamala.
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A couple of us floated this possibility yesterday. It would not be out of character. It would also be a typical knee-jerk reaction by one of Trump's surrogates. I doubt Trump even knows the sordid details about this guy.

Whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

182 These fkrs are always very transparent and predictable. I just hope Trump people can put this out before Hirono and Schithead cause more trouble.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

183 159 Fig Newtons have an expiration date?
Posted by: Who knew at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

The juice goes bad after a while.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (z+ik4)

184 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (77rzZ)

185 Another batch of Bush Democrats who call themselves Republicans to get elected. Nice of them to identify themselves for us to target. Pity they're preventing us from moving the state forward as quickly as we might.

I need to work to primary the asshole in our district. The problem is, the people in this district have an average IQ significantly lower than 100.

They can fish, back a trailer, operate a chainsaw and can weld, but have no real abstract processing skills.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (rHxhM)

186 *also made

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

187 her momma was a "maid" , from willow world ....

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

188 Trump said the hostages must be released by the time he gets in office or there will be hell to pay. This deal leaves some hostages to remain behind. So if these hostages not part of the deal aren't also released before Jan 20, and there isn't hell to pay, wouldn't that be the quickest broken promise by a politician in US history?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2025 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

189 Any male who claims a five-star blonde made “unwanted sexual demands” on him has got to be queer. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (A4BvX)

190 Jews have been a hated target for millennia. However, when one strips away the accusations and obsessive focus on high-profile figures, all that remains is envy.

Before WWI, Muslims had controlled the Holy Land for almost a millennium. And it was a poor, depressed backwater.

The Israelis have controlled the land for a little less then a century and made one of the wealthiest countries on earth.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (t0Rmr)

191 > I submit for consideration the dreaded Oreo.

Hydrox >>> Oreo.

Not least because Hydrox was the original, and Oreo was the cheap knockoff.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (W5ArC)

192 Post Apocalypse the things that remain...
Roaches
Twinkies
Spam
Fig Newtons

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (1FWWQ)

193 They can fish, back a trailer, operate a chainsaw and can weld, but have no real abstract processing skills.

Take out the parts about fish, trailers, chainsaws, and welders ? You just described a good 90% of the American public. And that, of course, includes those with IQs above 100. Includes those with college degrees as well as those without.

True analytic thinking is frigging rare.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (k4bN6)

194 These fkrs are always very transparent and predictable. I just hope Trump people can put this out before Hirono and Schithead cause more trouble.
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

Trump doesn't have to do anything about this. It's the new Senate leader who can put a stop to any more questioning. It should have been one question and one follow up by each committee member, then vote. That's it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (0eaVi)

195 This deal leaves some hostages to remain behind.
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Yeah, it's interesting that nobody seems to be commenting on this.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (paSBy)

196 If the Harris/Tampon Timmy ticket somehow prevailed, we would see the “arrest Americans for misinformation” operation kicked into high gear.

No doubt they would argue that the 1st Amendment guarantees free speech as long as it's accurate speech, where accurate is determined by properly credentialed government operatives.

SCOTUS would find some way to permit it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

197 Dems probably have some bogus claim, someone they paid off from the 400 Bondi supervised, who swore that she made sexual advances on him/her!

The party of rape, molestation and sex trafficking can't think of anything else but only view it as a serious issue when its in the form of a bogus, unprovable allegation.

Hypocrisy, is not a vice, its a tool.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (rHxhM)

198 159 Fig Newtons have an expiration date?

Posted by: Who knew at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

When no Carbon 14 remains in them.

Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (aBgBM)

199 It feels like a Merlot day...

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (dg+HA)

200 SCOTUS would find some way to permit it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

Amy Coney Barrett agrees.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (ZlOcj)

201 Then you don't stick your face in the middle of the team photo for a really, really bad deal. You shut up, and stay out of it.

But that really is the Trump problem, now isn't it. The man can't simply shut up and stay out of anything.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:29 AM (k4bN6)

Trump is always going to be Trump. He is a strong leader not a weak one so it doesn't bother me. Anyone else it likely would so I do see where you're coming from. Not that you care about that because you just want to make your points, hit a few jumpers, and go.

Trump knows that as a leader you must sometimes find ways to appear strong even when all the forces against you are conspiring to make you look weak.

If and when the time comes to make a much better decision he will be there doing it, and he has shown that time and again.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (ggGAr)

202 Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration.

I'm sure Trump is just devastated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (W5ArC)

203 Berlin municipal authorities have agreed to implement men-only swimming hours in public pools to accommodate Muslim patrons who insist women have no place swimming alongside men.

Tehran on the Spree

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

204 189 Any male who claims a five-star blonde made “unwanted sexual demands” on him has got to be queer. LOL
_______

I have her sexual assault on me sometime between 1981 to 1984, no wait, 1985 or; whatever, seared into NY hippocampus!

Posted by: Christy Blasey Ford at January 16, 2025 08:37 AM (fs1hN)

205 Trump doesn't have to do anything about this. It's the new Senate leader who can put a stop to any more questioning. It should have been one question and one follow up by each committee member, then vote. That's it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:35 AM (0eaVi)

I am talking about something they have up their sleeve for later. Her confirmation was never in doubt, it is her testimony under oath they wanted. And that question from that retard Hirono was a setup from deepstaters , of course.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:37 AM (g47mK)

206 *orchestra plays*

*sings*

And now, the time has come
And Joe must face, the final curtain
He blew through his Depends
And messed his pants, of that we're certain
A senile puppet who wrecked everything he touches
And this, a lot of this,
He sniffed kids in bunches
...
...

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2025 08:37 AM (iJfKG)

207 Oreo "filling" is also available in gallon buckets for use as ceramic tile adhesive.

Posted by: Ace Is The Place at January 16, 2025 08:38 AM (G5+As)

208 Berlin municipal authorities have agreed to implement men-only swimming hours in public pools to accommodate Muslim patrons who insist women have no place swimming alongside men.

The thing that amazes me about this is if some Christian/Jewish group requested this they'd get laughed off if not prosecuted in Germany

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:38 AM (t0Rmr)

209 MeaLux, I made that very point multiple times yesterday and it's not some hostages it's 2/3 of them,

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2025 08:38 AM (oT+t6)

210 Saw a pic of big Mike yesterday… where you think she is at, on her transition path??

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 08:38 AM (PCK5/)

211 202 Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration.”

That takes balls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (7MHHr)

212 All the junk foods are almost inedible now, something that America once excelled at, frankly. We can’t even make good junk food.

Potato chips made with Canola, taste “off” even when fresh. I can feel myself a little ill within minutes. Corn syrup and ersatz sweeteners aren’t very tasty.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (A4BvX)

213 Hydrox >>> Oreo.

Not least because Hydrox was the original, and Oreo was the cheap knockoff.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (W5ArC)

Hydrox was kosher at 1 time

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

214 Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ 23h
The leader of the Alternative for Germany just said if elected the party would initiate “large-scale repatriations” of foreigners, tear down “all wind farms”, and close down Gender Studies.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (5LoD7)

215 They have something on Roberts. And they think they will control BOndi.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (g47mK)

216 Not least because Hydrox was the original, and Oreo was the cheap knockoff.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:34 AM (W5ArC)

First doesn't always mean better. Look at Tracy and Shannon Tweed.

I'm kidding, Tracy Tweed was a motherfucking knockout.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (ggGAr)

217 Take out the parts about fish, trailers, chainsaws, and welders ? You just described a good 90% of the American public.

I left a big city area, and previously lived in another big city, and they outsourced all of that to illegal aliens and rednecks.

I'm not sure that any of my neighbors, co-workers or urban friends would have even known how to raise the hood on the car, let alone know what to do when confronted with all of the plastic. Until I moved out here, I knew no one who had either a chainsaw, welder or a trailer. And fish comes from the restaurant or frozen in a box.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (rHxhM)

218 Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration.”

***

What a DICK!

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (1FWWQ)

219 Dems probably have some bogus claim, someone they paid off from the 400 Bondi supervised, who swore that she made sexual advances on him/her!/i]

Isn't it amazing how the left alternates between "believe all women" and "if you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park..." depending on the target of an accusation.

Every Republican should have the words Tara Reade on their lips any time the Dems go down this road...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (t0Rmr)

220 Trump knows that as a leader you must sometimes find ways to appear strong even when all the forces against you are conspiring to make you look weak.

By that justification, Trump can make any deal - no matter how bad - and his gloating over it is just Trump being Trump. Excused, of course, because its Trump.

By that line of thinking ? Trump can do no wrong. He certainly can't be criticized for it, as long as he looks "strong".

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (k4bN6)

221 If Trump, or anyone involved with this decision to blaspheme God by having a demon priest in the form of an Imam come in for the "benediction" (spit), clearly doesn't want God's blessing on their endeavors.

Gosh. What if he has a Hindu, or Sikh, give a benediction? Doesn't he know the US is a theocracy? Would a rabbi be okay even though they deny Christ's divinity? Would a protestant clergy be okay even though they deny the infallibility of the Pope?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

222 @190 18-1 , and if it wasn't for oil the Middle East would still be a backwater because of Islam

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 08:41 AM (dR02F)

223 I was so insecure after Pam Bondi hit on me, I built another front door to my house. Seemed prudent to me.

Posted by: The Great Poof at January 16, 2025 08:41 AM (G5+As)

224 The leader of the Alternative for Germany just said if elected the party would initiate “large-scale repatriations” of foreigners, tear down “all wind farms”, and close down Gender Studies.

So...can you just send mail in ballots to Germany like you can from offshore in the US? Asking for a friend

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:41 AM (t0Rmr)

225 Fig Newtons have an expiration date?
Posted by: Who knew at January 16, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

It's only theoretical.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

226 DC needs an enema. I am not convinced that half of the alleged ChiCom phone and Db hacks, are really not the deep state ops.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

227 When RFK Jr. started getting his word out, I went through the shelves right after getting a grocery delivery. They put those Petro based dyes, and red dye 3 in particular in all sorts of product. No sugar added good for you cranberry juice has it. Some stuff that isn't even red has it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 08:42 AM (gm9Sb)

228 A sexual advance by stupid Maizie would be an excellent purgative.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2025 08:43 AM (kTd/k)

229 Every Republican should have the words Tara Reade on their lips any time the Dems go down this road...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (t0Rmr)

what are they?

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

230 Gosh. What if he has a Hindu, or Sikh, give a benediction? Doesn't he know the US is a theocracy? Would a rabbi be okay even though they deny Christ's divinity? Would a protestant clergy be okay even though they deny the infallibility of the Pope?

Every one of those would be OK with me. Because none of them represent a union of religion and politics dedicated to the elimination of Western Civ.

Again, thats the big blind spot here. The 100% tolerance for all religions. We should never tolerate a Satanist in any capacity. Or any representative of Islam. Full stop.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:43 AM (k4bN6)

231 218 Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration.”

***

What a DICK!

***
Time to nut up.

Posted by: SWIDT? at January 16, 2025 08:43 AM (dg+HA)

232 > Potato chips made with Canola, taste “off” even when fresh.

To me, Canola oil smells like cat piss mixed with latex paint.

Not. Appetizing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2025 08:44 AM (W5ArC)

233 They are more evil than the (D).
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 16, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

Traitors are always worse than an enemy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

234 "Fig Newton's are nature's most perfect food."

In my youth they were. Then they made them smaller and raised the price. Worse still they added ingredients that made them taste bland and stale.

I buy No Name fig bars that are better and cheaper but not as good as the old original. Story of my life.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2025 08:44 AM (Gqoy+)

235 They put those Petro based dyes, and red dye 3 in particular in all sorts of product

As I've said before, I don't know if there is anything to RFK's views on artificial dyes BUT I'm sure I can live with more muted colors in Fruit Loops.

Also, I am amused that everything RFK is saying was considered mainstream Dem thought until he opposed the clot shot and endorsed Trump...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:44 AM (t0Rmr)

236 and if it wasn't for oil the Middle East would still be a backwater because of Islam
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 08:41 AM (dR02F)

***

The middle east IS a fetid backwater. Some parts have shiny buildings but make no mistake, it is definately third world

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 08:44 AM (1FWWQ)

237 >>Fig Newtons are great!!

Seconded!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 08:45 AM (u1uWe)

238 Her confirmation was never in doubt, it is her testimony under oath they wanted.

Don't you find it ironic that the party that lies all the time and certainly while under oath believes that a perjury trap is a powerful tool?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:45 AM (rHxhM)

239
Again, thats the big blind spot here. The 100% tolerance for all religions. We should never tolerate a Satanist in any capacity. Or any representative of Islam. Full stop./i]

I'm heartened that in some red areas people are taking down explicitly Satanic statues. Now if the governors and juries would just back them up...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (t0Rmr)

240 Arthur Schwartz
@ArthurSchwartz
The Guardian’s
@mirandeee
is about to break news on a huge new Don Trump Jr scandal.

https://tinyurl.com/3u6n38h3

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

241 Don't you find it ironic that the party that lies all the time and certainly while under oath believes that a perjury trap is a powerful tool?

==

I am past irony dealing with people who should be in Gitmo.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

242 Also, I am amused that everything RFK is saying was considered mainstream Dem thought until he opposed the clot shot and endorsed Trump.

He's an apostate to them.

As for the food dyes and additive discussion? Given that other countries don't allow this in their foods, maybe we should give some serious thought about that. Differently colored food is not really a deal breaker to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (NR6c1)

243 By that justification, Trump can make any deal - no matter how bad - and his gloating over it is just Trump being Trump. Excused, of course, because its Trump.

By that line of thinking ? Trump can do no wrong. He certainly can't be criticized for it, as long as he looks "strong".
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (k4bN6)

Errr. I explained why it's wrong. I literally said I wouldn't accept it from probably anybody else. In other words I essentially agreed with you. But that's not good enough for you. It never is. For you I have to be bullied into full submission that your exact viewpoint is correct and I, a mere subject in your glowing kingdom am filth.

To make it epically clear for those in the nosebleeds, I value strong leadership over agreeing with every single dumb decision. And Trump is a strong leader. This has zero to do with excusing him or claiming he is perfect. I've been shitting on this "deal" for two days. Fuck off if you refuse to read.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (ggGAr)

244 Trump 45 versus Trump 47 inauguration photos:

I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0
🔥🔥🔥

https://tinyurl.com/y4mcwzx4
photos, oddly enough

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (5LoD7)

245 I need to work to primary the asshole in our district. The problem is, the people in this district have an average IQ significantly lower than 100.

They can fish, back a trailer, operate a chainsaw and can weld, but have no real abstract processing skills.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:32 AM (rHxhM)

Then you should start the groundwork now since it'll take time to get enough accomplished to have a chance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

246 I buy No Name fig bars that are better and cheaper but not as good as the old original.
---
Oh, I do too. It was just a joke. I buy Aldi's.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 08:47 AM (paSBy)

247 post-irony ?

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)

248 Gosh. What if he has a Hindu, or Sikh, give a benediction? Doesn't he know the US is a theocracy? Would a rabbi be okay even though they deny Christ's divinity? Would a protestant clergy be okay even though they deny the infallibility of the Pope?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

Why not a Wiccan, or a druid, or someone to represent atheists, maybe someone from the Church of Satan? Maybe some LGBT clergy?

Is there any point at which we can draw a line? Can we ever say no to anyone anymore, or does every minority demo get the witchdoctor of its choice?

That you have the right to worship as you please doesn't mean you're entitled to an endorsement at every public event.

That we're essentially already back to GWB's "but the good muslims!" is not a very promising augury.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 16, 2025 08:47 AM (2QL9g)

249 There may well be some angle I'm not seeing in all this. But if I were incoming President, here's what I would do (for real, not my usual jokes).

I would tell the Israelis "look, you have carte blanche in Gaza, West Bank, and Lebanon. Do whatever you feel you need to do, up to and including extirpating the Arabs on your borders. There will not be even the mildest condemnation from my administration.

Moreover, you won't have to worry about us holding up any more arms shipments. We'll equip your war machine, short of WMDs. We'll freely share any intelligence we have with you, as well, and the leaks stop today. I'll have anyone who does that locked up.

HOWEVER, there is a 0.00% of direct American intervention in your conflict, and even less of a chance of us going to war with Iran for you, so just forget about, if it's on your mind."

That's it. Simple and clean. The hostages wouldn't even come up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 08:47 AM (BI5O2)

250 > Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration
-------
And Kamala Harris has declined to invite JD Vance and his family to the VP compound at the Naval Observatory.

Bitter bitches.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

251 86 If Kamala had "won" those hostages would still be sitting there while Joe weekend at bernied it up on Rehoboth Beach.

That is some truly sad demoralizing shit to consider.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:06 AM (ggGAr)

So true.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 08:48 AM (WhF6d)

252 Oreo filling was lard and cane sugar. Hydrox may have been tallow? In any case, industrial lubricants posing as food, and el-cheapo chemically enhanced sweeteners will not taste good, and not healthy.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:48 AM (A4BvX)

253 >>Hamas Leader Khalil al-Haya allegedly promised another October 7 style attack during a press conference Wednesday just after a tentative ceasefire was announced, according to multiple reports.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, Trump's Sec. of Defense nominee Pet Hegseth, declared 100% support for Israel "killing every last member of Hamas."

I'd like to believe that that is factored into Trump's role in the deal. Hostages now, annihilation next.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (u1uWe)

254 >>>MARK MY WORDS. And Trump people need to be ahead of this!

Calm down.

The drunk Hawaiian poses the same series of questions to all nominees who appear before committees upon which she sits. She started doing in 2018 with appointment judges appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's her little thing now.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (Y1sOo)

255 In other news..."Israeli security forces arrest 50 terrorists, eliminate over 10 terrorists, in aerial strikes, confiscate terror funds, in counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria."

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

256 I need to work to primary the asshole in our district. The problem is, the people in this district have an average IQ significantly lower than 100.

Well are you talking about left leaning LIVs or pure LIVs?

Left leaning LIVs are more willfully ignorant. They want free shit and social status and don't actually know what the stands of the people they vote for are...and don't care.

Pure LIVs don't care about politics at all and think all pols are the same (and they aren't entirely wrong to view things that way) but given a stark enough choice you can get them to vote in their own interests...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (t0Rmr)

257 The Guardian’s
@mirandeee
is about to break news on a huge new Don Trump Jr scandal.

https://tinyurl.com/3u6n38h3
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

Don Jr isn't the president, so who cares.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (0eaVi)

258 250 > Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration
-------
And Kamala Harris has declined to invite JD Vance and his family to the VP compound at the Naval Observatory.

Bitter bitches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

Usha Vance set up an appointment for Orkin to fumigate the place before they move in.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (z+ik4)

259 And Kamala Harris has declined to invite JD Vance and his family to the VP compound at the Naval Observatory.

Bitter bitches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

There is nothing funnier on earth than a sore loser.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:50 AM (ggGAr)

260 To make it epically clear for those in the nosebleeds, I value strong leadership over agreeing with every single dumb decision.

Nope. Being wrong with confidence ? Loudly wrong ? Its no virtue. Its a tactic employed at most traffic accidents and bars - that its employed by Trump makes it no better.

So no. I don't applaud Trumps bravado when its attached to an awful "deal". The Orange Haired Vulgarian is wrong, and that he's wrong loudly makes it worse - not better.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:50 AM (k4bN6)

261 We should never tolerate a Satanist in any capacity. Or any representative of Islam. Full stop.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves

Agreed. But I posit that Islam is a form of Satanism.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

262 We all know what an Iman stands for . I would like to see benedictions by Aztec priests chopping of Dem politician and propagandists heads live on the national mall. Anything short of that is just humdrum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 08:51 AM (dR02F)

263 >>> Big Mike won't be attending the inauguration

When they go low, we go~~high~~. . . aw, f@#$ this sh#t -- I'M OUT!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at January 16, 2025 08:51 AM (u1uWe)

264 Did Michelle Obama ever host pDiddy in the White House at one of her and Barack's lavish hip-hop parties? Or did either of them party with pDiddy ? Axing for a friend....

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (g47mK)

265 The Guardian’s
@mirandeee
is about to break news on a huge new Don Trump Jr scandal.

https://tinyurl.com/3u6n38h3
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

Laughable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (ZlOcj)

266 Why not a Wiccan, or a druid, or someone to represent atheists, maybe someone from the Church of Satan? Maybe some LGBT clergy?

Wicca comes from a British guy who "remembered" he was part of a thousand of year old druid traditions.

And then used his knowledge primarily to get attractive women to do skyclad ceremonies with him.

Note his druidic rituals and believes seem to have no tie to what we can piece together from archeology - shocking I know

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (t0Rmr)

267 Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 08:36 AM (ggGAr)

Some people are always going to suspect that Trump is playing 11-d chess. Some are always going to bitch - even if they like the direction - that it could have been better. Some are going to understand that they don't know everything that went into decisions and keep silent. Any one of these three groups could be right on any given issue.

https://youtu.be/y9r_pZL4boE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

268 Gosh. What if he has a Hindu, or Sikh, give a benediction? Doesn't he know the US is a theocracy?

Then why have a benediction and why appeal to a spiritual entity?

All the people on the earth for nearly all of its entire human history have been deeply intertwined with the spiritual world. Its only to the secularization of the Christian church and tolerance for humanism that it wains in the West and godless atheism is our major export.

God still exists. Pretending he doesn't and then cosplaying some diluted abomination of ecumenicalism isn't pleasing. There is an entire collection of writing dating from the dawn of history that shows what happens when the Almighty is insulted.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (rHxhM)

269 262 We all know what an Iman stands for . I would like to see benedictions by Aztec priests chopping of Dem politician and propagandists heads live on the national mall. Anything short of that is just humdrum
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 08:51 AM (dR02F)

Heads is good. We know they couldn't find any hearts with their obsidian knives.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 08:52 AM (z+ik4)

270 I'm seeing the NPC theme developing:

I hope everyone listened to the Presidents Farewell speech. It was beautiful.. the idea of America.. the explanation of the statue of liberty..

Oh President Biden there will never be a President like you. He warned of Oligarchy. He's schooling us. Dark money, yes indeed. Oligarchs did not run to President Biden because he is for the people.

I wonder how many of his great accomplishments Trump will try to take credit for?

It was beautiful! Dang! I'll miss him very much. Unfortunately, too many people who should've seen this - the people who needed to see this, didn't. That makes me sad... (and mad too). Thank you President Biden

Joe Biden -- telling us the truth to the last, doing his best to the end.🌈💕 The 20th century is the one that the Oligarchic MAGAGOP so much wants to repeal. All of it. Joe called it out.

THE SPEECH IS A MUST WATCH. He covered the coming oligarchy, why it’s TERRIBLE and what we HAVE TO DO to fight it. He also talked about the disinformation we are being buried in for the purpose of money and power. PLEASE LISTEN TO IT.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (JCZqz)

271 Agreed. But I posit that Islam is a form of Satanism.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

I got no idea. I've just seen enough to know that either one isn't compatible with Western Civ. Any more than that ? I simply don't need to know. There's no nuance of subtlety there that'll get me further on down the road.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (k4bN6)

272 So no. I don't applaud Trumps bravado when its attached to an awful "deal". The Orange Haired Vulgarian is wrong, and that he's wrong loudly makes it worse - not better.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:50 AM (k4bN6)

I know, right? I'm kicking myself for not voting for Kamala.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

273 Don Jr isn't the president, so who cares.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (0eaVi)
******
The text exchange was hilarious. They have nothing.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

274 People keep calling him an "iman.' it's imam. Iman was a hot model back in the 80s.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

275 is about to break news on a huge new Don Trump Jr scandal.

They have a large number of homeless people in Nuuk? Their city heating grates must work even better then NYC's...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (t0Rmr)

276 The scariest thing you can hear is Hirono telling you she 'love you long time.' First Rule is always present.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (jFCkp)

277 "The Orange Haired Vulgarian is wrong,..."

Neat work blowing your credibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 08:54 AM (ZlOcj)

278 >>He also talked about the disinformation we are being buried in for the purpose of money and power. PLEASE LISTEN TO IT.

Mmmk, NPC. You good?

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 08:54 AM (z+ik4)

279 Leave the imam, take the rabbi.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

280 The Guardian’s
@mirandeee
is about to break news on a huge new Don Trump Jr scandal.

https://tinyurl.com/3u6n38h3
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

Don Jr isn't the president, so who cares.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:49 AM (0eaVi)

HA HA Ha.

That's a big scandal.

That Don Jr filled out a crowd by offering free lunches to the homeless?

hee-hee

That's adorable.

Even if true...so what? It's not illegal and ackeshewallee kinda nice to give hungry bums a meal.

Ima call this a -.00000000001 on the Scandal Meter.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

281 “All cultures are Equal!” nonsense Is how you get After School Satan Clubs and monuments to Baal at the Iowa State Capitol for the Christmas displays. Generations have been practically hypnotized not to be “judgmental” (except when suggested, and that’s how you get all the weirdo crap. Boys are branded as hateful bigots because they won’t date other boys in a dress who try to “present” as a girl. The propaganda is relentless. They know what they are doing, never assume these folks are incompetent they are evil.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (A4BvX)

282 The deal plans for Phase 3 to rebuild Gaza in 3 to 5 years. So, is this a setup for Groundhog Day all over again?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (5wSwv)

283 Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ 23h
The leader of the Alternative for Germany just said if elected the party would initiate “large-scale repatriations” of foreigners, tear down “all wind farms”, and close down Gender Studies.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 08:39 AM (5LoD7)

German courts have just ruled that a Russian once looked at TikTok so any election won by AfD is invalid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

284 So why doesn't the "deal" demand that all the hostages be freed?

This is beginning to make me doubt Trump's judgment. Why the hell would he agree to this?

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

285 The text exchange was hilarious. They have nothing.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

Embarrassing enough to ditch the story? Probably not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (0eaVi)

286 Islam believes that Muhammed's first pronouncements were not from God and probably from Shaitan where he encouraged people to also continue to believe in traditional Arabic dieties - Salman Rushdie got in trouble for talking about this.

Now if the first part of his "revelation" was Satanic why would you believe the rest? Seems odd God would choose someone as his vessel that Satan already used doesn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:56 AM (t0Rmr)

287 284 So why doesn't the "deal" demand that all the hostages be freed?

This is beginning to make me doubt Trump's judgment. Why the hell would he agree to this?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

I doubt the reporting on it.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 08:56 AM (z+ik4)

288 Iman was a hot model back in the 80s.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

***

I know...

Posted by: David Bowie at January 16, 2025 08:57 AM (1FWWQ)

289 German courts have just ruled that a Russian once looked at TikTok so any election won by AfD is invalid.

I assume the fix will be in, but if the reformist candidate in Romania wins I hope he's prepared to throw all the people involved in that crap in jail.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 08:57 AM (t0Rmr)

290 Chris Muir's Day by Day cartoon about Bass's terrorist past this morning got me to do an internet search...

https://tinyurl.com/fahsp2ey

Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2025 08:57 AM (i0F8b)

291 209 MeaLux, I made that very point multiple times yesterday and it's not some hostages it's 2/3 of them,
Posted by: Ben Had
_____

Won't most Americans be surprised when after this deal is executed, there will still be discussion about returning the remaining hostages. They were told that Trump made a deal to get them released. And yet they aren't home? Maybe Trump isn't as good as he says he is about making the best deals.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2025 08:57 AM (fs1hN)

292 >>HOWEVER, there is a 0.00% of direct American intervention in your conflict, and even less of a chance of us going to war with Iran for you, so just forget about, if it's on your mind."

When has that ever been true? Great Satan/Little Satan.

We just had 2 years of Islamists rioting all over the US because of our support for Israel. We have no idea how many are actually here now thanks to 4 years of Biden's open borders. Whether we send troops there or they send terrorists here we are widely and correctly seen as Israels closest ally and that means we are viewed as a target.

Democrats have been trying for years to make Iran the power center in the ME. That's how we got Hamas and Hezbollah on the move under Biden. The AA were an attempt to move toward a more peaceful ME centered around alliances by arab countries opposed to Iran and Israel. What's happening in Israel is a small part of a much bigger issue.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 08:58 AM (LkLld)

293 I know, right? I'm kicking myself for not voting for Kamala.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (SfhV1)

I voted for him too. He's still wrong. Voting for him doesn't require 100% approval of everything he does. And this deal sucks. His public attachment to it is even worse.

There's only two logical possibilities I can see. One - he was involved, in which case its a shitty deal and his part of it was shitty. Two - he wasn't involved, in which case it was a golden scalp weasel opportunity to shut the Hell up.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 08:58 AM (k4bN6)

294 How Arthur should have phrased it instead:

Telling the Guardian to "Bite me!" over spurious Don Jr. claim:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 Jan 15
This is the kind of public relations hire you want. 😂

https://tinyurl.com/mry6vhc5
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 08:59 AM (5LoD7)

295

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)

296 People keep calling him an "iman.' it's imam. Iman was a hot model back in the 80s.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

Don Iman was a "shock jock" radio host, who turned squishy before he died.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:00 AM (VwwG7)

297 >>That's a big scandal. That Don Jr filled out a crowd by offering free lunches to the homeless?

Old and busted: Heartless GOP doesn't care about the homeless!

New hotness: How dare he invite the homeless to lunch!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:01 AM (u1uWe)

298 This is beginning to make me doubt Trump's judgment. Why the hell would he agree to this?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

I don't think he was given much of a choice. The "sides" came together on this deal because neither wanted what was coming from Trump when he takes office.

So they handed him a shit sandwich and he is chowing down because it is what he does.

I reserve the right to revisit all of these opinions once he takes over.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:01 AM (ggGAr)

299 Pure LIVs don't care about politics at all and think all pols are the same (and they aren't entirely wrong to view things that way)

Pure LIVs. They love Jesus and Meth, but mostly Meth.

One gal was talking about how her family all showers together. Which makes sense when you have six people in a trailer. They didn't know about Biden and Ashley, and quite frankly if told to them they would consider that perfectly natural.

Another gal was bragging that her live-in got a $2/hr raise and they were going to buy a new 4x4 ATV. (while still living in a trailer). When asked about the elections, she was favorable towards Trump because he would make gasoline cheaper for their 4x4.

I can go on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:01 AM (rHxhM)

300 266 Good morning, 18-1 Wicca is to witchcraft as New Age is to Hinduism. Commercialized, simplistic slop -- the movie "inspired by" the book

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 16, 2025 09:02 AM (+DCRI)

301 Are you a new poster here, "Student"? If not, why did you need to change your nic to makes your Points ? it's not as if it's a nic change for humorous purpose like the Hillary "hic" poster or "Old Lady Emhoff". It's just that I like to know whom I am actually addressing if you're a long time poster.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2025 09:02 AM (XvM9Q)

302 Iman was a hot model back in the 80s.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

So was Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Emperor Domitian at January 16, 2025 09:02 AM (JCZqz)

303 Nothing has changed yet. There is still going to be Hell to pay on Monday in the Middle East.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:03 AM (z+ik4)

304 E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni 21h
Food prices are continuing their rapid accent as inflation reaccelerates; if you've seen wholesale prices for beef and eggs lately, you know consumer prices are going to keep spiking; the Biden legacy is unaffordable food:
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This exactly what the chart looks like:
📈

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 09:03 AM (5LoD7)

305 Ci isn't going red.

But, the Rappaports, Kardashians and Julia Robert's of LA are on record bashing the decision making of Ds.

Sure, they'll vote D, but this episode can be held over their head going forward.

Nothing fixed? Whose in charge Julia?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 16, 2025 09:03 AM (FxH7T)

306 Greenland has a total population of less than 60K. I find it hard to believe that there are actually "homeless" people that live, year round, above the Arctic Circle.

I also find it hard to believe there's such a thing as a "free lunch."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

307 297 >>That's a big scandal. That Don Jr filled out a crowd by offering free lunches to the homeless?

Old and busted: Heartless GOP doesn't care about the homeless!

New hotness: How dare he invite the homeless to lunch!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:01 AM (u1uWe

People have been filling meetings and events by offering free food my whole life. The founders were well known to roll out plentiful booze on the campaign trail to get people to attend. "Hey, come hear my speech if a pretty unpersuasive tool for most."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 16, 2025 09:04 AM (2QL9g)

308 it's not as if it's a nic change for humorous purpose like the Hillary "hic" poster or "Old Lady Emhoff"

Wait...HRC and Kamala don't actually post here?!?! What about Ben Roethlisberger and Admiral Ackbar!??!

Posted by: Confused Moron at January 16, 2025 09:04 AM (JCZqz)

309 302 Iman was a hot model back in the 80s.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

So was Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: Emperor Domitian at January 16, 2025 09:02 AM (JCZqz)

Nancy was modeled after the K-Car.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:04 AM (z+ik4)

310 A lot of talk about how Trump intends to revamp the press briefing protocol.

He should use a merit-based standard for objective and accurate reporting according to a third party measurement, and place the top-tier journalists for accuracy in the front, moving rearward as ratings go down. That is, for example, all outlets and reporters who joined in the Russia hoax, or denied the Hunter Biden laptop, or who otherwise scored poorly, shunted to the back. So naturally all the major media outlets will be stuck in the rear, no longer claiming front row access, which will pass to more obscure but quality journalists.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (ZlOcj)

311 Why do most here love Aldis?
There's one up the street I've avoided for years without remembering why. Yesterday I visited another in a tinier spot a couple of towns over. Crap choices, underwhelming prices, one register open. I walked out.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (4780s)

312 I demand we use inclusive language like Imax for all the austere reli-- i mean, Austere Religious Scholars of indeterminate or fluid crotchfulness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (+iIV1)

313 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:01 AM (rHxhM)
---
I've been thinking about buying a trailer. I'm old and I don't want to have to maintain a house any more.

So, in your book I'm an ignorant redneck, I guess.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (paSBy)

314 I bet someone in Hamas got cold feet about returning a bunch of dead hostages. The logistics of the swap are kind of difficult if the hostages can't walk from point A to Point B.

No sane human would abide by this deal if they were all dead.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (QB+5g)

315 Tonier, but fuck it. Autocorrect always wins.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (4780s)

316 Greenland has a total population of less than 60K. I find it hard to believe that there are actually "homeless" people that live, year round, above the Arctic Circle.

I also find it hard to believe there's such a thing as a "free lunch."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

Back in the day, Nordic types would get in boats and go rape and slaughter (not necessarily in that order) people who had homes.

They were homeless. Unless you count a boat as a home. Which I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (VwwG7)

317 311 Why do most here love Aldis?
There's one up the street I've avoided for years without remembering why. Yesterday I visited another in a tinier spot a couple of towns over. Crap choices, underwhelming prices, one register open. I walked out.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (4780s)

It's a German company, and so they have imported German foods which are hard to find elsewhere.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (z+ik4)

318 I'm actually aware it's imam, not Iman. Unfortunately my condition known as hot dog fingers doesn't.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (dR02F)

319 I doubt the reporting on it.

Which should be our Go-To hot take. The Enemedia which lies about everything and the incurious children who write this crap who only thinks in terms of sex and Climate Change, probably got all of the facts wrong to one level or another.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:07 AM (rHxhM)

320 So naturally all the major media outlets will be stuck in the rear, no longer claiming front row access, which will pass to more obscure but quality journalists.

==

Not obscure, but Julie Kelly, Sharyl Attkisson.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

321 Posted by: Confused Moron at January 16, 2025 09:04 AM (JCZqz)

If Hillary were really posting we'd get some unhinged vitriol about Trump and no indication that she might overindulge in alcohol. If it were Kamala it would be word salad. However, I like the humor. Humor is sometimes needed in this place.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2025 09:08 AM (XvM9Q)

322 Don Jr. was eating homeless Greenlanders for lunch?!?! What a fascist!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 09:08 AM (+iIV1)

323 Crooks/Terrorists don't make deals, but they will pretend to.

Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2025 09:08 AM (i0F8b)

324 Maybe Trump isn't as good as he says he is about making the best deals.

That's it... I'm voting for Harris.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

325 Unfortunately my condition known as hot dog fingers doesn't.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (dR02F)

***

Otherwise known as Sandwich Fingers

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (1FWWQ)

326 It's a German company, and so they have imported German foods which are hard to find elsewhere.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (z+ik4)

They have great nuts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (+iIV1)

327 Everything in Midfle East politics is far more convoluted than it appears on the surface. There are probably a hundred hidden motivations for offering this deal now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (7MHHr)

328 Much like the homeless, the FNM will rediscover inflation the day after Trump is inaugurated.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (t0Rmr)

329 I just thought of something I don't think I've seen.

We have all assumed that it was Barack who was pushing Harris.
I go back to the story of Harris introducing Barack as running for President in a back-stage meeting recounted by Dave Chappell.

But what if that's all wrong? What if it was really Michelle?
It fits a lot of pieces together:
The backstabbing, rumor campaign to get Joe out.
The "resignation" letter with no "fingerprints"
The half-hearted "hostage video" campaigning by Barack.
And, especially, the tone-deaf haranguing "you men have to support the black women!"
Plus Barack and Trump's chummy chats now.

But now, the rumors of the split all but confirm it to me.
All of it fits Michelle clumsily scheming behind the scenes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (PHvvD)

330 Nothing has changed yet. There is still going to be Hell to pay on Monday in the Middle East.

Yep. Like every other day ending in "Y". There are those who believe that the Middle East will calm down if just somehow, some way, you could pick up Israel and put it down somewhere else.

I've been there enough to see for myself that idea is wrong. Those Islamic states having Oil money is the problem. Oil money is the fuel for their jihad. And they'll always jihad against something. Each other if necessary. Its simply their nature.

At best, we could take the oil ourselves, and the money that comes with it, and Morgenthau Plan them. Even then, they'd just jihad each other.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (k4bN6)

331 They have great nuts.

I'll be the judge of that

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at January 16, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

332 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:07 AM (rHxhM)

Hey why is Sex Change good while Climate Change is bad?

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:10 AM (ggGAr)

333 Why do most here love Aldis...Crap choices, underwhelming prices, one register open. I walked out.

The one I usually stop at is great. Prices are good, overall selection is less than a normal grocery store, but they have lots of unique and interesting products. Their meats especially have pretty good prices, again, at least in my area.

It's mostly self-checkout, but that's fine, because I usually stop in while my kids at a class on Saturday morning and I have 30 minutes to kill, so I do a quick walk through grabbing a few interesting odds and ends to supplement/diversify out regular grocery stock.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2025 09:10 AM (JCZqz)

334 No sane human would abide by this deal if they were all dead.

Does Israel need to respect the % dead ratio returned when it comes to their POWs and terrorists in captivity?

That is, if all the hostages are dead, can Israel respect the same conditions for the return of the Hamas captives?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:10 AM (rHxhM)

335 311 Why do most here love Aldis?
There's one up the street I've avoided for years without remembering why. Yesterday I visited another in a tinier spot a couple of towns over. Crap choices, underwhelming prices, one register open. I walked out.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2025 09:05 AM (4780s)

Not an Aldi's fan.

Mostly because IMHO their stores always look dirty.

I'm not buying food in some Algerian souk, I'd like the groceries I buy from to be cleaner than one.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (iJfKG)

336 IThe story about Trump Jr. are so ludicrous it's not that hard to think the propaganda ministries might believe them. "Homeless" in Greenland means you freeze to death and/or you get eaten by polar bears. Drug addiction in such a place leads to the same fate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (dR02F)

337 It's a German company, and so they have imported German foods which are hard to find elsewhere.

Outside of sweets I've found German food rather underwhelming. And even then you have to balance some "fine German chocolatier" against that marzipan crap.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

338 >>Andrew Forrest, an Australian billionaire environmentalist, is quietly funding litigation in the United States targeting ExxonMobil, an oil company whose ventures directly compete with his business, according to federal disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. . .

Lovely. /sarc

There's also Rockefeller heiress and activist lawyer, Miranda Kaiser, who is hellbent on destroying ExxonMobil.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (u1uWe)

339 And this deal sucks.

Maybe. Also, maybe your understanding of the deal is incomplete. Maybe this is the very best deal that could be accomplished at this time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

340 I really despise the framing of "pretty please may we have our hostages back we'll give you anything you want".

What the hell is the point of having enough military bullshit to blow up a small planet if you won't use it to say "knock it the fuck off or you're all dead"?

Speak faggily and carry a great big fuck off stick that everyone knows you won't use because you're a cuck and your shit's all retarded. Great.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2025 09:12 AM (+iIV1)

341 They have great nuts.

***

YOU'RE GONNA LOVE 'EM

Posted by: Vince, The Slapchop Guy at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (1FWWQ)

342 But what if that's all wrong? What if it was really Michelle?

that actually tracks!

I do think Jill/Hunt really screwed over the junta with the very fast endorsement of Kamala for the candidacy. they took the initial blow (that stupid tweet that wasn't sent by Joe), reeled for like a hot second, then went for it.

I'm thinking that's Hunt. he may have been slightly brain damaged as a toddler, but he was never dumb.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (Pv3Rg)

343 Maybe Trump isn't as good as he says he is about making the best deals.
----------------------
That's it... I'm voting for Harris.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

It's like watching a Pop Warner football game, seeing the offense on one side of the ball descend into chaos, and then watch the defense on the other side run around like they have to go poop, and would rather be inside playing video games.

If you were expecting spiral passes, and complex blocking schemes, when you don't see them, do you blame the coach?

He must not be very good at designing football plays.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (VwwG7)

344 Why do most here love Aldis?

Because Aldi branded junk food has fewer toxic chemicals and additives than domestic junk food.

We know this because Aldi pledges to abide by European standards.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (rHxhM)

345 You know who else liked German food.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (z+ik4)

346 Maybe. Also, maybe your understanding of the deal is incomplete. Maybe this is the very best deal that could be accomplished at this time.

If the very best deal that can be accomplished at the time is a net loser for you ? Don't make the deal. You are not required to "make a deal".

Maybe the deal is even worse than we know. One thing we DO know. Trumps not president yet. He didn't have to take credit - or blame - for anything.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (k4bN6)

347 You know who else liked German food.

Fredrick Barbarossa?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:14 AM (t0Rmr)

348 Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (z+ik4)

LOL

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:14 AM (ggGAr)

349
Well, fly a rainbow flag over your embassies for a month every year and see what you get.

Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2025 09:14 AM (j4U/Z)

350 I don't love the deal but I believe closure of some kind is necessary at this point. once that is complete - and I think more of the hostages will be returned as corpses, sadly - the real action will begin.

but for the families - it has been such a long terrible time. I can't get around the need for closure.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

351 One of my favorite foods are Rao's pasta sauces and meatballs. All natural. No sugar added. Secret is the fresh ingredients from Italy. Worth the price.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2025 09:15 AM (Gqoy+)

352 It's like watching a Pop Warner football game, seeing the offense on one side of the ball descend into chaos, and then watch the defense on the other side run around like they have to go poop, and would rather be inside playing video games.

If you were expecting spiral passes, and complex blocking schemes, when you don't see them, do you blame the coach?

He must not be very good at designing football plays.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:13 AM (VwwG7)

dude

Posted by: muttering vikings fan at January 16, 2025 09:15 AM (i0F8b)

353 We know this because Aldi pledges to abide by European standards.

Lidl does this as well. I like them a hair better than Aldi, except for meat, where Aldi is better.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 16, 2025 09:15 AM (Pv3Rg)

354 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

NEW: This heroic K9 in Houston, Texas is expected to LIVE after finding a cop k*ller and taking a shot from the suspect.

Let's go.

https://tinyurl.com/mr28kpt3

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

355 I like German chow. Nothing I regularly go out of my way for. But I like it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (2QL9g)

356 >>Everything in Midfle East politics is far more convoluted than it appears on the surface. There are probably a hundred hidden motivations for offering this deal now.

This deal has been on the table since last Spring. It is a short term cease fire for the exchange of prisoners in phases. This is phase 1. It is not a long term peace deal.

Trump isn't in office. He can't make his own deals. This is Biden's deal. All Trump is pushing for is a release of US hostages. The goal of destroying Hamas has not changed and if you don't believe it just listen to the testimony of Trump's Sec of Defense, his NSA and Sec of State.

Personally, I'd like to see as many of our hostages as possible released before the war continues but I have no doubt it will continue under Trump without the restraints Biden put on Israel. Once Trump puts sanctions back on Iran the money to fuel Hamas dries up.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (LkLld)

357 Not an Aldi's fan.

Mostly because IMHO their stores always look dirty.

I'm not buying food in some Algerian souk, I'd like the groceries I buy from to be cleaner than one.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (iJfKG)

Like Hmart, your love of Aldi's will depend on the quality of your local store b/c they vary SO wildly. I love my Aldi's and my HMart...but I'll never forget visiting an HMart in South Jersey - it was a dirty, awful pit of grossness and I couldn't believe it belonged to the same chain...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (exHjb)

358 Until I moved out here, I knew no one who had either a chainsaw, welder or a trailer. And fish comes from the restaurant or frozen in a box.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Many people are afraid of chain saws, not sure why. My father taught me how to take down a tree and cut firewood when I was about 12.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2025 09:17 AM (lTGtQ)

359 Outside of sweets I've found German food rather underwhelming. And even then you have to balance some "fine German chocolatier" against that marzipan crap.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

When I was a kid, we had a relative who was stationed in Germany. He wasn't in the military. He didn't talk about what he did.

But he did send care packages from there, with weird words on the packages of what looked like they should be delicious candies. You'd bite into one, get a wee bit of chocolate, but on the inside was something the sorta resembled a fruit flavor.

Horrible stuff.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:17 AM (VwwG7)

360 Why do most here love Aldis?

It's like a mini-European vacation without the long flight.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

361 353 We know this because Aldi pledges to abide by European standards.

Lidl does this as well. I like them a hair better than Aldi, except for meat, where Aldi is better.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 16, 2025 09:15 AM (Pv3Rg)

I wish I had a Lidl in the area. Went to one out of state and the product choices seemed wider than Aldi.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:17 AM (z+ik4)

362 It's a German company, and so they have imported German foods which are hard to find elsewhere.
Posted by: Roy
They have great nuts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
===
So they're Nutsy friendly??

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (5LoD7)

363 >>People have been filling meetings and events by offering free food my whole life. The founders were well known to roll out plentiful booze on the campaign trail to get people to attend. "Hey, come hear my speech if a pretty unpersuasive tool for most."

Exactly! Trump is looking to acquire (or whatever) Greenland, so of course Don Jr. is going to wine and dine any/all residents of Greenland he can.

But this is the Left, who will attempt to make ANYTHING a scandal, even feeding fish and having a second scoop of ice crea,

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (u1uWe)

364 "Once Trump puts sanctions back on Iran the money to fuel Hamas dries up.

Which shows that it's been Obama / Jarrett all along.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (Gqoy+)

365 I don't love the deal but I believe closure of some kind is necessary at this point. once that is complete - and I think more of the hostages will be returned as corpses, sadly - the real action will begin.

Au contraire mon frere. Haven't you heard ? Not all of the hostages are coming back. Just some.

So then we'll have the same thing all over again. We'll need closure for those remaining hostages. Restraint will have to be practiced for those remaining hostages. And its been such a long, terrible time.

While Hamas gets quite a few of their boys back. Ready to snatch some more hostages. And the cycle will, thus, repeat.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (k4bN6)

366 Many people are afraid of chain saws, not sure why.

Oh, that's me.

Why? Because I'm an idiot.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (2QL9g)

367
But he did send care packages from there, with weird words on the packages of what looked like they should be delicious candies. You'd bite into one, get a wee bit of chocolate, but on the inside was something the sorta resembled a fruit flavor.

Marzipan can look pretty but has no business in the human body...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

368 Posted by: Black Orchid at January 16, 2025 09:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

Why do you think it took until a week before the Biden fake presidency ended to get done?

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (ggGAr)

369 Personally, I'd like to see as many of our hostages as possible released before the war continues but I have no doubt it will continue under Trump without the restraints Biden put on Israel. Once Trump puts sanctions back on Iran the money to fuel Hamas dries up.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (LkLld)

I'd like to see whatever Americans you can, gotten out... and then we bug out completely.

Every swinging dick in the U.S. armed forced removed from the region, then let everyone who is still there fight their own damn wars.

Without us. Or our money.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (VwwG7)

370 While Hamas gets quite a few of their boys back. Ready to snatch some more hostages. And the cycle will, thus, repeat.

Yeah, its why I have lost interest now since it all appears to be same old worn out theater play by unaccomplished actors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (rHxhM)

371 My aversion to chainsaws makes me question my masculinity but I am ok with that.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:20 AM (ggGAr)

372 >>People have been filling meetings and events by offering free food my whole life. The founders were well known to roll out plentiful booze on the campaign trail to get people to attend. "Hey, come hear my speech if a pretty unpersuasive tool for most."

I voted for Big Jim Thompson for IL Gov 45 years ago because he threw a free kegger street party at U of I. He also was one of the few IL Govs that hasn't ended up in prison (yet).

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:20 AM (z+ik4)

373 Marzipan can look pretty but has no business in the human body...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

Hey now. I have marzipan in the kitchen as we type.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 16, 2025 09:20 AM (SfhV1)

374 Why do you think it took until a week before the Biden fake presidency ended to get done?

Because the Biden's wanted that pile of steaming crap to still be warm when Trump's team enters the room.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:21 AM (rHxhM)

375 But he did send care packages from there, with weird words on the packages of what looked like they should be delicious candies. You'd bite into one, get a wee bit of chocolate, but on the inside was something the sorta resembled a fruit flavor.
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Marzipan can look pretty but has no business in the human body...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

That was probably some of it, but also jellied "fruit" centers. Tasted like something of a mix of persimmon and rotting feet.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:21 AM (+66bp)

376 Hey now. I have marzipan in the kitchen as we type.

So that's where she is! I'll show her who is better at hide and seek!

Posted by: Homestar Runner at January 16, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

377 311 Why do most here love Aldis?

Shopping staple items there cuts at least $30 off our weekly grocery bill.

Do stay away from the processed food knock off imitations.

Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2025 09:22 AM (j4U/Z)

378 I'd like to see whatever Americans you can, gotten out... and then we bug out completely. Every swinging dick in the U.S. armed forced removed from the region, then let everyone who is still there fight their own damn wars. Without us. Or our money.

Count me in. That was the problem with Tommy Franks, and his "fight them there, or fight them here" idea. We won't fight them there or here. So why are we there at all ?

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:22 AM (k4bN6)

379 That was probably some of it, but also jellied "fruit" centers. Tasted like something of a mix of persimmon and rotting feet.

Second look at German sweets?!?

Posted by: Rex Ryan at January 16, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

380 374 Why do you think it took until a week before the Biden fake presidency ended to get done?

Because the Biden's wanted that pile of steaming crap to still be warm when Trump's team enters the room.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2025 09:21 AM (rHxhM)

Trump has proposed a deadline by Monday at noon.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (z+ik4)

381 357 Stores vary on location. My Walmart super center has excellent groceries and I have never seen a more punctual, efficient delivery contractor. This might be because the home office is an hour and a half away. I went into Walmart in Holbrook AZ and it was a strange, dirty place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (gm9Sb)

382 Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:16 AM (LkLld)

Why are you trying to bring facts into a bitch session?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

383 actually aware it's imam, not Iman. Unfortunately my condition known as hot dog fingers doesn't.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 16, 2025 09:06 AM (dR02F)

Oh that explains it. I've noticed people doing it all over the place. But it's just about the easiest typo there is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (BI5O2)

384 A couple people here recommended a particular Aldi bacon. My God it's good.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:24 AM (ggGAr)

385
ow...

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 16, 2025 09:24 AM (5hfjS)

386 Although I will say Safeway's vary even more, which kinda shocks me. My spouse knows just in my city, I have "good" Safeway, "bad" Safeway, and "never stepping foot in again in my life" Safeway...and you'd think they should vary that much in a 10 mile radius...but they do...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (exHjb)

387 Could we get that Ask an Imam guy to give the Muslim benediction? You know the guy that opined on exactly how big of a stick you can hit your wife with?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (t0Rmr)

388 >>I can't imagine Schiff having any means of supporting himself or even operating as a normal human being in the world at all if not for politics. Only politics affords this creep a nominal existence.

Would you believe that lying scumbag was an assistant US Attorney before joining Congress?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (u1uWe)

389 We live near an Army installation. There are authentic German, Korean and Middle Eastern grocery stores in the area. Mostly mom and pop. And eateries too.

The markets are wild... as compared to "American" ones.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

390 Rudy goes on trial again today. The Left wants to burn the twice savior of NYC. First, Rudy did what everyone said couldn't be done by reversing NYC's downward spiral. Then he was the face of America's response to 9/11: Grief meets resiliance. Compare Newsom and Bass.

The Left wants to destroy anyone who resists their tyranny. Thankfully, Trump's FU Money has its own FU Money.

We're still in a Cold Civil War.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (Gqoy+)

391 Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:18 AM (k4bN6)

Have you applied for a position at State, or with the Israeli government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

392 -
What is happening now has already been written.
What is going to happen has already been written.
The prophets are, and will continue to be, ignored by most.
Blindness in part has come to Israel until the fulness of the gentiles has come in.
A relatively short lived time of peace is coming for Israel.
Followed by the time of Jacob's Troubles/the time of great tribulation (pressure) that will come upon the entire world.
Cut short by our Lord's return and start of the day of the Lord.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (kjZOX)

393 Oh that explains it. I've noticed people doing it all over the place. But it's just about the easiest typo there is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (BI5O2)

I like to mispell some things on porpoise. I think it's funny, but I know there are some pedants who get annoyed by such things... which I find hilarious.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (+66bp)

394 typo - should = shouldn't...more coffee needed...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (exHjb)

395 I went into Walmart in Holbrook AZ and it was a strange, dirty place.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 09:23 AM (gm9Sb)

"strange, dirty place" describes all of Holbrook.
But if you are in the market for rocks that is the place to go.

Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (xcIvR)

396 Many people are afraid of chain saws, not sure why.

I live in Texas and I know about that documentary where a bunch of chainsaws went crazy and started killing people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

397 Phone the Travel Agent, Mabel!!! We're hauling ass to Pyongyang!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 15m
NEW - Travel agencies say North Korea reopens border city to tourism
Tour operators said on Jan 16 that North Korea had reopened a border city to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to Covid.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 16, 2025 09:26 AM (5LoD7)

398 344 Why do most here love Aldis?
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Simple, it saves me somewhere around $100 per grocery shop per week. Staples (meat, vegies, fruit, milk, butter, sugar, cheese, tea and treats) are that much cheaper than any other chain grocery. That's a lot savings. They don't sell my coffee (Folgers) nor some specialty items I like. But I just pick them up from the other groceries after visiting Aldis.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 09:27 AM (jFCkp)

399 Have you applied for a position at State, or with the Israeli government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

I'm not Ivy League or Jewish, so either would be a waste of time. But that wasn't your point, now was it. We're back to the "trust the experts" time of the program. Maybe, just maybe, once again the experts don't have a clue. Situation normal.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:27 AM (k4bN6)

400 Would you believe that lying scumbag was an assistant US Attorney before joining Congress?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (u1uWe)

Yes. We're not sending our best to prosecutor's offices.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2025 09:27 AM (+66bp)

401 I live in Texas and I know about that documentary where a bunch of chainsaws went crazy and started killing people.
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The chainsaws were goaded into it by the SUVs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 16, 2025 09:28 AM (jFCkp)

402 The Walmart in Puerto Rico I went into was, different, yet the same old same old…

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2025 09:28 AM (PCK5/)

403 >>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum introduced an economic plan on Monday that was seemingly tailored to avoid U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs by reducing imports from China.

She also touted the USMCA trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada as the best way to handle competition from China.

Great, great, but how about shutting down the Chinese-run fentanyl labs in your country, Ms. SHeinbaum?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2025 09:28 AM (u1uWe)

404 Great, great, but how about shutting down the Chinese-run fentanyl labs in your country, Ms. SHeinbaum?

The last time the Mexican army was deployed to fight the cartels they lost.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

405 389 We have a couple Mexican carnicerias in the area. I've ducked into one a few times for just some odds and ends (mostly because it's a small store and I don't have to limp half a mile). The place is kind of wild. Mariachi music, natch. The pigs heads on display at the meat counter are a nice touch.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2025 09:30 AM (gm9Sb)

406 Maybe, just maybe, once again the experts don't have a clue.

I'm fully prepared to accept the idea that "experts" are clueless. I just wonder if you might not be also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

407 NOODus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

408 >>I'd like to see whatever Americans you can, gotten out... and then we bug out completely.

>>Every swinging dick in the U.S. armed forced removed from the region, then let everyone who is still there fight their own damn wars.

I think that's what Trump is going for. That was the whole point behind the AA. The ME was relatively calm by the end of Trump's 1st term. Iran was in a box and not funding their terrorist proxies, no wars in Israel, Houthis not firing on ships, Hezbollah not attacking, Syria not in the hands of terrorists and on and on.

The Abraham Accords were designed to promote cooperation and commerce between Israel and Arab states and build a peaceful, for the ME anyway, coexistence. It was starting to take shape and the Saudis and Israel were getting ready to take the big step when Hamas attacked. I think it's kind of naive to not think the Obama/Biden cabal didn't do that on purpose because they favor a ME dominated by Iran.

Trump has been handed a bag of shit by Biden just as he was by Obama. It's not like he has a clean slate to work with and not every deal is from a position of strength right now. I'm willing to see how things play out.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:32 AM (LkLld)

409 Can't disagree, brother JJ. My only thought in defense of Trump on this 'agreement' is that he reminded them of how he viciously killed Soleimani and threatened the Taliban leader of death if they touched our guys(they didn't).

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2025 09:32 AM (1E4GV)

410 Have you applied for a position at State, or with the Israeli government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

I do, sometimes, like to hope that maybe we're at the beginning of the end of the Post WW II "trust the experts" line of thinking that was pushed upon the masses, and eagerly swallowed by the same.

The notion that the world had become too complex for the old, out-dated notion of a citizenry controlling its own fate through representative government. Nope - that went right out the window Post WW II.

But I'm even more old fashioned than "The Greatest Generation". I still believe some of us are smarter than those in State, or the DoJ, or the rest of the myriad of letter agencies. I believe we're smarter PRECISELY because we don't stew - daily - in their collective bullshit.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:32 AM (k4bN6)

411 HA! I said Tim Kaine was effing creepy and last night Bongino said he has an eyewitness who watched "nephews" showing up late to Kaine's room and staying until morning.

Bongino asks, "How many nephews do you have, Tim?"

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 09:33 AM (PMtkd)

412 I'm fully prepared to accept the idea that "experts" are clueless. I just wonder if you might not be also.

Always a possibility. But I'm not the one pushing the idea that this deal doesn't suck. I'm also not pushing the idea of "yeah, it sucks, but The Donald is still magnificent in his full-throated support of it".

Shit touched by The Donald doesn't turn to gold. Its still shit. And touching shit is always a terrible idea, even when The Donald does it.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:35 AM (k4bN6)

413 Trump has been handed a bag of shit by Biden just as he was by Obama. It's not like he has a clean slate to work with and not every deal is from a position of strength right now. I'm willing to see how things play out.

When the deal is weak, and you're not in charge ? Just shut up about it. Deal with it when you are in charge.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:37 AM (k4bN6)

414 >>When the deal is weak, and you're not in charge ? Just shut up about it. Deal with it when you are in charge.

When have you ever shut up?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:38 AM (LkLld)

415 I do, sometimes, like to hope that maybe we're at the beginning of the end of the Post WW II "trust the experts" line of thinking that was pushed upon the masses, and eagerly swallowed by the same.

The notion that the world had become too complex for the old, out-dated notion of a citizenry controlling its own fate through representative government. Nope - that went right out the window Post WW II.

But I'm even more old fashioned than "The Greatest Generation". I still believe some of us are smarter than those in State, or the DoJ, or the rest of the myriad of letter agencies. I believe we're smarter PRECISELY because we don't stew - daily - in their collective bullshit.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:32 AM (k4bN6)

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Right there with you. The stewing takes away the common sense.

I don't believe in experts. Maybe, maybe a brain or heart surgeon. But I'm open-minded about their "expertise."

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 09:39 AM (PMtkd)

416 "But I'm even more old fashioned than "The Greatest Generation". I still believe some of us are smarter than those in State, or the DoJ, or the rest of the myriad of letter agencies. I believe we're smarter PRECISELY because we don't stew - daily - in their collective bullshit."

Oooo...another unrecognized genius posting here.

It's getting crowded.

It's amazing you have the time to post on a blog considering.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 16, 2025 09:40 AM (QB+5g)

417 119 >>It's National Fig Newton Day.
(one of the worst cookies ever made)

Ahem.
I submit for consideration the dreaded Oreo.
Reconstituted wallpaper paste sandwiched between two discs of charcoal. So un-cookielike it has to be immersed in milk to make it close to palpable.

Were it not for its transportability and durability it would have been long ago left in the dustbin of snack food history.
Posted by: But this isn't the food thread at January 16, 2025 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

I worked at one of the bakeries that made both, and the Fig Newton not only has the most insect parts, but the filling also allowed the most other products to be mixed in. I think it was 750 lbs of other food waste can be blended in.

Posted by: Inogame at January 16, 2025 09:40 AM (53oGX)

418 >>When the deal is weak, and you're not in charge ? Just shut up about it. Deal with it when you are in charge.

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JackStraw made the point yesterday that this is a temporary cease-fire.

There appears to be a lot behind the scenes.

I think Trump will get killed who he wants to get killed.

But, yes, the deal SOUNDS crazy at least the part about how many terrorists get released vs hostage count.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 09:41 AM (PMtkd)

419 I'm also not pushing the idea of "yeah, it sucks, but The Donald is still magnificent in his full-throated support of it".
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Were you born a dick or was it honed from years of having a floppy neck?

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:42 AM (ggGAr)

420 When have you ever shut up?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:38 AM (LkLld)

Then, by your logic, if its bad that I never shut up ? Its gotta' be bad that Trump never shuts up.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:43 AM (k4bN6)

421 When have you ever shut up?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:38 AM (LkLld)

LOL also a fair question that will not be reflected upon

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:43 AM (ggGAr)

422 Then, by your logic, if its bad that I never shut up ? Its gotta' be bad that Trump never shuts up.
Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:43 AM (k4bN6)

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He's President-Elect, you're not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2025 09:45 AM (PMtkd)

423 Oooo...another unrecognized genius posting here.

Hence, the problem. We don't have to be geniuses to be smarter than 90% of either our elected or appointed representatives in government. Simply average intelligence, somewhat honest, and not the winners in a game of who can kiss the most ass up the two political party ladders will suffice.

But for going on a century now, most of the public simply doesn't believe it. And, as you've just shown, still conveniently choose to ignore when one of "their men" get even the slightest bit exposed.

That's what the last hour has been been about. Defending one of "our own". Even if its just amongst ourselves.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:48 AM (k4bN6)

424 Anyone over 29 remember the tricky part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmS9tLgjDA

Posted by: DaveA at January 16, 2025 09:50 AM (FhXTo)

425 When have you ever shut up?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 09:38 AM (LkLld)

LOL also a fair question that will not be reflected upon
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2025 09:43 AM (ggGAr)

When two people are in the same discussion, its safe to assume neither has "shut up". When one is not in that discussion, how would they ever known if the other has "shut up" or not ?

And when we're down to "do you ever shut up" ? We're not exactly competing in the marketplace of ideas, now are we ?

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:51 AM (k4bN6)

426 Is there a more hated character on Star Trek than Wesley Crusher?

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 16, 2025 09:52 AM (QB+5g)

427 Is there a more hated character on Star Trek than Wesley Crusher?

Katherine Janeway. I wanted the crew to space her.

Posted by: Student of Human Moves at January 16, 2025 09:55 AM (k4bN6)

428 Creepy

Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

429 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J. It certainly appears your concerns are onpoint again.

Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, a 19-year-old Israeli-American who was taken captive by the Hamas terrorist organization on Oct. 7, 2023, has appeared on ABC News, You-Tube w/i the past few days, and even more recently on Fox News this AM:

Fox And Friends, 05:20 CLIP
'Hostage's father reacts to cease-fire pause, calls out White House's 'insufficient' rhetoric' Ruby Chen joins 'Fox & Friends' to explain the concern over Israel's decision to pause the cease-fire agreement with Hamas as his son remains a hostage.

I pray that he is heard but there is a strong tendency among our elected to push away* those most closely involved with tragic & cruel events - though they have much wisdom to depart - for the advice of, and praise from, their 'experts.'

(Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 murdered victims in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, comes to mind.)

So, OTOH, some experts react to the cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the remaining hostages taken by terrorists:

(Continued)

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? Not today, at January 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

430 >The Atlantic Council, New Atlanticist, January 15, 2025
'Experts react: Everything you need to know about the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal'
By Atlantic Council experts

In small part, "The deal, mediated by US, Qatari, and Egyptian officials, will take place over three phases, each slated to last six weeks. During the first phase, Hamas will release thirty-three hostages—women, children, and those over fifty years of age—and Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, begin to withdraw from some areas, and facilitate a significant increase in humanitarian aid into Gaza. In the second phase, Hamas is slated to free the remaining male hostages while Israel withdraws from Gaza. The third phase would include the return of deceased hostages and the beginning of reconstruction.

Does this deal, which now heads to the Israeli cabinet for approval, really mark the end of the war? What’s next for Gaza’s reconstruction, Israel’s security, and wider regional efforts such as Israeli-Saudi normalization? Below, Atlantic Council experts share their answers to these and other pressing questions."
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BTW, some years ago, I recall certain great trial lawyers

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 16, 2025 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

431 saying experts were those paid, and travelling 100 miles or more with baggage, in order to give testimony. 😉
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As Trump nominees are being asked to practically pledge their allegiance to Ukraine, remember this: Independent TV, 'Trudeau and Zelensky give Ukrainian Nazi war veteran standing ovation in Canadian parliament,' Sep. 2023

In part, "Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Volodymyr Zelensky stood to applaud a man who fought for the Nazi SS during the Second World War after an address in parliament, footage shows.

Anthony Rota, Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, hailed 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as “a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran” who “fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians”.

His tribute promoted a standing ovation from lawmakers in the chamber.

Rota later apologised when it emerged that Hunka served in a division of the Nazi SS during the war.

The speaker’s address had come after Mr Zelensky made a speech of his own in the Canadian parliament.
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A few days later, Trudeau apologized for the "terrible error." And Zelensky? And no Ukrainians elections held, either.
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Peace if/when possible.

Good day 🙏

Posted by: L - When will we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 16, 2025 10:27 AM (NFX2v)

432 Did you ever hear of the term "vetting?"

Me 'n Hunter would take the 'vette out. It was quite fun vetting.

Posted by: Joey at January 16, 2025 11:09 AM (ynpvh)

433 "This is not merely Hamas as an armed and savage entity, it is ISLAM itself."

Finally we're no longer pussyfooting around and pretending the war was only about killing Hamas terrorists. I didn't support that narrative because it was bullshit. But if we're now calling for the eradication of Islam, count me in.

Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at January 16, 2025 11:10 AM (Y+4Ex)

434 I was glad that a deal was reached to release the hostages, and I followed up with the commentary that it is perhaps not such a good deal after all. If Hamas is prepared to hand over dead bodies, then perhaps Israel ought to do the same. Fill the graveyards.

Posted by: Greybeard Represent at January 16, 2025 12:53 PM (jgRaQ)

435 Gov. Dewine has replaced JD Vance with his Lt. Gov.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 03:16 PM (4tmpE)

436 Awesome! Its truly awesome piece of writing, I have got much clear idea on the topic of from this paragraph.

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