The Morning Rant

When CBD asked if I would sit in for him this week. I gladly accepted the oppurtunity. But, to be honest with you. I didn't have a large number of rants in mind. Oh how that soon changed.........

Recently I broke a cardinal rule of mine. Thou shall not discuss ANYTHING POLITICAL on Facebook.

The hypocrisy of the left never ceases me from giggling. If hypocrisy wasn't so sad, the left's lack of common sense would be charming.

Recently a Facebook "Friend " (FBF) posted something about accepting the Alphabet Sexual Persuasion Gagle. One of the reasons a homosexual shouldn't be discriminated against because they did not choose to be homosexual. We are to accept them.

Fine. I can live with that to a point. What is Tolerance and what isn't is a Rant for another time and day. As a Christian I am to love my neighbor as myself. I am to treat everyone kindly, politely and humanely.

My FBF posted we are to judge each gay person individually and not as a group.

Fine. I can accept that as well. It reminds me of what Martin Luther King, Jr., once said. We are to judge content of character and heart and not something that could never be changed. (Skin color)

If being gay is not a choice. Are your political leanings and beliefs inherited rather than an environmental issue? I look at my younger sibling. Same upbringing. We are 20 months apart and one grade difference in school. Same grade schools, same high school, etc. Yet we are so completely different in our core beliefs and outlooks.

So you may ask? Where are you heading with this? Fast forward 2-3 weeks and my FBF is no longer my "Friend ". And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."

Why I even entered into this fray is beyond me. I guess I have too much free time on my hands.

She was rather upset that my President who I voted for was imposing tariffs on her country. (Canada) And Elon Musk was running roughshod over the US treasury. Silly her, a Canuck, telling me how to vote. But, she did thank me for being polite. Coming from a Canadian that just gave me goose bumps.

Let me get this straight? You have never met me. We have never spoken on the phone. And the product you won't sell to me now, you were going to sell me 14 months ago?

I wonder if she would have allowed a gay man to babysit her 10 year old child without any reservations. Just like she won't sell me wait for it a......... DOG.

As I told her, it is her loss, not mine. Because, I'm not tired of winning.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: weew at February 06, 2025 11:00 AM (ELLLX)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

3 Yas

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 06, 2025 11:02 AM (Snu1j)

4 Not first.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

5 I dutifully nooded

Posted by: weew at February 06, 2025 11:02 AM (ELLLX)

6 Winning! Winning!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

7 But, she did thank me for being polite. Coming from a Canadian that just gave me goose bumps.

Sorry, eh.

Posted by: Literally everyone in Canada at February 06, 2025 11:03 AM (fPR/3)

8 5 I dutifully nooded
Posted by: weew at February 06, 2025 11:02 AM (ELLLX)

Appreciate the notice Corgi Leader

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 06, 2025 11:03 AM (IYuZR)

9 LOL

Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 11:04 AM (WbBbu)

10 We have Ape Sign!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2025 11:04 AM (lXCUP)

11 Coming from a Canadian that just gave me goose bumps.

ISWYDT

Posted by: honk honk, eh at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (URPBf)

12 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

Dude has half a trillion dollars, but sure, he's salivating at the prospect of stealing Granny's social security check.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (W5ArC)

13 This is why you get cats...head to a shelter and they practically give them away...no need to have someone sell you a pet - cats are easier and more loyal, too (okay, this is if you adopt the scaredy cats, b/c they look to you as protection...and you get a spoiled only cat that really hangs with you as you and she get older)...

I'm 3 for 3 on adopting scaredy cats. Got a kitten this time who was a stray living in a hotel when brought to the shelter (normally they can't adopt strays like this, but being a kitten, they gave it a try)...boy, has she both grown, filled out, and become a love magnet...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (exHjb)

14 Toxic people are toxic.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)

15 I see a meme going around on farcebook telling people to damage the tires on INS cars, so I reported for calling for violence.

And Farcebook decided that it does not.

Huh...hey Zuck you still suck

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (t0Rmr)

16 I'm glad I no longer have to wrangle with the Bernie-Bro at my former writing group. He'd be livid at what DJT is doing, just as he was from 2017-2021. He listened to and watched the MSM, and thought that the NY Times was "a good, conservative newspaper."

I tried steering him here to JJ's Morning Report. Once. He referred to the site as "Ass of Spades," and I gave up trying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (J2vNu)

17 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

Dude has half a trillion dollars, but sure, he's salivating at the prospect of stealing Granny's social security check.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM (W5ArC)

And the guys doing the digging have read-only access.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

18 Dude has half a trillion dollars, but sure, he's salivating at the prospect of stealing Granny's social security check.

The prices at the Mars Walmart might be really high. You don't know.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

19 One way to set up an open thread. Now lessee, what can we talk about.
Started snowing here a while ago, looks to be more nuisance that problem.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (4780s)

20 Just like she won't sell me wait for it a......... DOG.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

It's OK. I'll take it. As soon as I hire a replacement chef, that is.

Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

21 A small sign of winning...

Here's the trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzMo-FgRp64&t=3s

It looks like Marvel is rebranding...even down to the studio logo and colors.

Looks like they're attempting to enter Normalville.

Will they make it? Or, too little, too late?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG)

22 I tried being political on Facebook. It was not well received. So now I mostly post my funny observations and memes (often cribbed from the ONT) and hope to make my friends, no matter their political persuasion, smile.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (9XPe8)

23 MAGA, huh? Maybe she thinks you'll eat the dog?

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:07 AM (Yj6Os)

24 Thx MisHum, well said.
Remember only 10% of gays were born that way, the other 90% were sucked into it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 11:07 AM (EUtBO)

25 And Elon Musk was running roughshod over the US treasury.

The people that spent the last 4 years telling me that if you did nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from a government investigation are now telling me that a government investigation is obviously nothing more then a fishing expedition to find some excuse to send people to jail.

Why its like their confidence on federal agents flipped 100% based on who was being targeted.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:07 AM (t0Rmr)

26 Great to have you back MH. I missed the middle finger ape. 😸

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (w3u3d)

27 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

They are desperate to stop Musk's people from continuing to trace what the Federal government spends money on, so they are pretending that Elon is going to steal everyone's Social Security check.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (uxCna)

28 A lot of people are having a hard time coping with events. The once "black and white" world of their ideological tilt has been destroyed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

29 This is why you get cats...head to a shelter and they practically give them away...no need to have someone sell you a pet - cats are easier and more loyal, too (okay, this is if you adopt the scaredy cats, b/c they look to you as protection...and you get a spoiled only cat that really hangs with you as you and she get older)...

I'm 3 for 3 on adopting scaredy cats. Got a kitten this time who was a stray living in a hotel when brought to the shelter (normally they can't adopt strays like this, but being a kitten, they gave it a try)...boy, has she both grown, filled out, and become a love magnet...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025

***
My big black Stirling is like that. He has his independent streak and no longer milk-treads me every morning, but he dozes in my lap multiple times every weekend. He's not an only cat, though; his "sister" Dagny is a Siberian. She's standoffish, but occasionally will let slip that she likes my company, in a limited fashion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

30 Looting the Treasury? Elon?

The looting has been perpetrated by dem special interest groups, like trannies, illegals and DEI frauds, as well as purchasing media outlets with tax dollars. Projection.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (2NXcZ)

31 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

Gaslighting at its most stark. He's seeking to stop the looters from looting the treasury, which they feel entitled to loot because they've been looting it for so long.

Posted by: Braking the gravy train at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (URPBf)

32 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (Yj6Os)

33 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

And the oddest part of this is what Musk is looking at with USAID are specific and clear examples of fraud, waste, and abuse. The thing every president says they are going to look into and until now has not

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (t0Rmr)

34 "Not $1 of the Treasury's outgoings are fraudulent."

As convincing as:

"Not one single vote was fraudulent in 2020, and you will go to jail for even implying that there was one single fraudulent vote."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

35 I look at my younger sibling. Same upbringing. We are 20 months apart and one grade difference in school. Same grade schools, same high school, etc. Yet we are so completely different in our core beliefs and outlooks.

If you have more than one kid, you recognize that they pretty much walk out of the womb as very different individuals.

Nature? Nuture? It's all in the mix, but nature may be king.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (iJfKG)

36 My wife was telling me about the political wailing coming from two of her lefty friends on FB. Everything they had to say was total nonsense, of course. I asked her if she corrected their misimpressions, but she said no. I understand that there really is no point in trying, since they're immune to facts, but I would find it difficult to not tell them why they're just wrong. It's a good thing I'm not on FB, and have no friends.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)

37 As an Albertan, I hate Canaduh. Or is it Banaduh.

I also despise the subhuman Ottawankers who make up the bureaucracy in Bananduh's capitol.

Posted by: Speller at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (pSotA)

38 Facebook. Hahahahaha

Posted by: Archer at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (IDphi)

39
Will they make it? Or, too little, too late?
Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG)

Did they get Federal funds to feature DEI and tranny crap? We need to find out.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (2NXcZ)

40 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.
Posted by: BignJames
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Same. Closed everything down 7 or so years ago.

Posted by: scampydog at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (2bFN5)

41 Just like she won't sell me wait for it a......... DOG.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

Who needs a DOG when you have DOGE?

Posted by: Amiright or amiright? at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (URPBf)

42 It's a good thing I'm not on FB 'cause I would have a lot less friends. Except for you guys, of course.

Posted by: fd at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (vFG9F)

43 These people are permanently broken.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (kgE5c)

44 Trump Reveals He Has ‘Directed’ Kristi Noem to Protect Women’s Sports, Deny Visas of Transgender Athletes

Kristi, this is your chance at redemption. Don't fuck it up this time.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (D0HYP)

45 Living in New England I'm poles apart politically from all my friends.
Watching Superbowl this weekend it will be about 8-1. Know what will not come up for discussion? Politics.
Something to do with mature adults, time and place, and the like.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (4780s)

46 The left is inherently miserable because they cannot conceive of non-political relationships.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (g0MSz)

47 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.
Posted by: BignJames

Seconded.

Some of us bring the ner-do-well, rapscallion, knucle-dragging 'Ron vibe to this smart military blog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2025 11:11 AM (u82oZ)

48 MisHum: The Canadian press is as in the bag for the left-wing here, as your press is for the left-wing there. Agitating against the Americans as the "evil foreign power" has been a thing for decades, and it focuses the masses on an external thing to blame for their troubles rather than the domestic governments that created the very policies that make Canadians suffer.

Both American and Canadian governments play games of protectionism when it comes to their sacred cows of the market that they don't want competition in, and they snipe at the other side when they do it too.

Trade agreements get broken in places, and long drawn out hearings have to be had to put the pieces back together.

In a sane world, this would be seen as the bog standard tug of rope game that gets played to varying degrees and at different times by market forces, and nobody would take it personally.

In a sane world. Things haven't exactly been "sane" for about 2 decades I figure, and so you have the hyperbolic shrieking about "those bad people right over there" that's going on now.

I'm hoping the dust settles quickly and we can just go back to making money and trying to make our lives better.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2025 11:11 AM (O7YUW)

49 44 Kristi, this is your chance at redemption. Don't fuck it up this time.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (D0HYP)

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Most politicians can make perfectly fine backbenchers. Noem is one of those.

She's already proven she can't lead for shit. Following Trump well won't change that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

50 I love it. My "friends" list has shrunk immensely.

It's awesome.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:11 AM (WXgbp)

51 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.
Posted by: BignJames
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Same. Closed everything down 7 or so years ago.

Heh. Closed down. Right.

Posted by: Facebook at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (xCA6C)

52 36 My wife was telling me about the political wailing coming from two of her lefty friends on FB. Everything they had to say was total nonsense, of course. I asked her if she corrected their misimpressions, but she said no.

Just imagine if it was your DIL doing it.. Last week she posted how to avoid getting picked up by ICE

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (VE6XX)

53 I dislike Pete Buttigieg not because he's gay , but because he's a snotty , arrogant, condescending little communist thug

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (EUtBO)

54 Albertans have more in common with Americans than they do with eastern Canadians.

Posted by: Archer at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (IDphi)

55 Will they make it? Or, too little, too late?
Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG)

Did they get Federal funds to feature DEI and tranny crap? We need to find out.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:10 AM (2NXcZ)

That is a very interesting question.

Are all of those "free-thinkers" of Hollywood, who just happen to have the exact same opinions about everything, merely creepy, little paid shills for tyranny?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG)

56 And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."

So we have to accept the Alphabet Sexual Persuasion Gagle, but she doesn't have to accept us?

OK...Got it.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:13 AM (W/lyH)

57 I really only use Facebook to keep up with folks in my small hometown and to post puns that make everyone groan.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

58 CharlieBrown'sDildo

Want to tell you that I am in conversations with a 1st grade girl. She wants to be a Trad wife or an painter.

So we talk a lot about art. Your Art thread has been fantastic preparation for that effert. Well, and my seeing art all over the world. But I can talk about painting with her, using many, many examples.

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (u82oZ)

59 "I wonder if she would have allowed a gay man to babysit her 10 year old child without any reservations."

Sure she would. If for no other reason than to showcase -- and brag about -- her noble virtue and tolerance. Same reason women bring their kids -- or, in many cases, their spouses' kids -- to these perverted "drag queen" shows.

I'll venture to bet that even if the homo did do something suspicious with her kid, she would deny or excuse it. "Oh, it's not sexual when a gay man pulls his dick out in front of a 10-year-old."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

60 The Canadian press is as in the bag for the left-wing here, as your press is for the left-wing there.

The Canadian press is explicitly subsidized by the Canadian government, as opposed to the US press, which is covertly subsidized by the US government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (uxCna)

61 My big black Stirling is like that. He has his independent streak and no longer milk-treads me every morning, but he dozes in my lap multiple times every weekend. He's not an only cat, though; his "sister" Dagny is a Siberian. She's standoffish, but occasionally will let slip that she likes my company, in a limited fashion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (J2vNu)

Yeah, we tried 2 once, but saw when the 1st passed of old age at 17, the younger (who had never been personable) suddenly bloomed into the most loving to everyone. Seems she was too scared to take the top spot from the older cat. So, now we do try to keep 1 at a time, especially if they are particularly nervy (like my kitten, now just turned 1, can straight leap from standing to the ceiling if she gets freaked - ruined a light fixture when she 1st came home - also took out the dryer vent from the ceiling the next night - yeah, she took a few days to relax, but we have a way of slow introduction here that works, after a few days of havoc)...now, she's a doll baby who sleeps on the legs of my oldest every night and whines for attention when she doesn't get enough...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (exHjb)

62 Oh yay. The power went out. I don’t not have a generator. Estimated time of repair is five hours from now. I know this is absolutely trivial in the scheme of things other people have faced, but it’s a nuisance. I guess I’ll drag in some wood and put some perishables in a chest with ice outside.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (8qPqx)

63 Nova Local - back in 2011, i finally befriended a frightened, don't-come-near-me feral cat who'd been demanding food from me for several years. She moved in, ate regularly, and became the sweetest thing. She even loved getting her claws trimmed.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (KAi1n)

64 16 I'm glad I no longer have to wrangle with the Bernie-Bro at my former writing group. He'd be livid at what DJT is doing, just as he was from 2017-2021. He listened to and watched the MSM, and thought that the NY Times was "a good, conservative newspaper."

I tried steering him here to JJ's Morning Report. Once. He referred to the site as "Ass of Spades," and I gave up trying.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Ideologues have some underlying internal theory of how the world works and anything that contradicts that theory is akin to blasphemy to them because it affects their inner choices to believe that the world works in a certain fashion.

A pragmatist, one can work with, an ideologue will always be totally committed to their world view as if it were a religion. That is what is harming the Democrat party right now, they were taken over by the ideologues that brook no dissent from their neo-commie beliefs.

Sometimes a person can come to their senses but that is rare and gets rarer as they get older. Sometimes a person also gets burned out from being a zealot and they generally become apolitical.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)

65 So we have to accept the Alphabet Sexual Persuasion Gagle, but she doesn't have to accept us?

Beyond the Pale and Horrible: Normies

Sparks of Humanity that deserve compassion: MAPs

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)

66 51 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.
Posted by: BignJames
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Same. Closed everything down 7 or so years ago.

Heh. Closed down. Right.
Posted by: Facebook at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (xCA6C)
***

Snickers...

Posted by: Siri at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (W/lyH)

67 And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."

So we have to accept the Alphabet Sexual Persuasion Gagle, but she doesn't have to accept us?

OK...Got it.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:13 AM (W/lyH)

A person of which group would be more likely to transmit monkeypox to the dog? This is really all you need to consider.

Posted by: LGBTWTFBBQWERTYDF at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (URPBf)

68 " Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest."

Wonder how much dough is in the Treasury?

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (Yj6Os)

69 I still check my facebook feed, because there are a few people I wouldn't be keeping up with otherwise.

The number who are "friends," who think it's ok to voice their TDS, the thing I resent the most is they take for granted everyone in their feed agrees with them.

Eh, no.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (TBHic)

70 60 The Canadian press is as in the bag for the left-wing here, as your press is for the left-wing there.

The Canadian press is explicitly subsidized by the Canadian government, as opposed to the US press, which is covertly subsidized by the US government.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Heh. Add in censorship and you would complete the set.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (ctrM5)

71 I swear this is the most reflective I have ever seen you. Nice post.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (8AR3F)

72 I dislike Pete Buttigieg not because he's gay , but because he's a snotty , arrogant, condescending little communist thug
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (EUtBO)

Cases in point: Scott Presler and Ric Grenell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (ExV1e)

73 "Fast forward 2-3 weeks and my FBF is no longer my "Friend ". And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."

It's great when the loons identify themselves and save you the hassle of getting rid of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

74 Wonder how much dough is in the Treasury?
Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:15 AM (Yj6Os)

What's money?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (TBHic)

75 There is no tolerance with open homosexuality. The last two decades should disabuse you of that notion.

You either live in a place where it is shoved down your throat with unceasing indoctrination and increasing perversity or you outlaw it. There is no middle ground.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (Vh9CX)

76 I saw Galactus (in shadow), but no Silver Surfer

Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

77 Trump's bullying has certainly forced businesses to cut back on supporting woke initiatives, and the Left is melting down over it:

NFL 'running scared' of Trump and Musk ahead of Super Bowl with Bluesky ban. The NFL risks alienating fans and accusations of “running scared” from Donald Trump and Elon Musk ahead of Super Bowl LIX after it banned teams from posting on X rival Bluesky, say industry watchers.

Is the NFL going to rescind DEI? I wonder what kind of pro sport football would be if there were only white players.

They won't have "END RACISM" at the Super Bowl end zones. The NFL will stencil the phrase “Choose Love” in the back of the end zone at for Super Bowl LIX. This will be the first time that “End Racism” is not used in the big game since 2021.

Bondi told the DOJ to go after businesses, companies, corporations and others that do not comply with the banishment of DEI.

Is Musk going to be there? I think it is the height of insanity for Trump to even think of attending the event. It's Ford's Theater all over again.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (JCZqz)

78 Ideologues have some underlying internal theory of how the world works and anything that contradicts that theory is akin to blasphemy to them because it affects their inner choices to believe that the world works in a certain fashion.

And as a general rule everyone should occasionally look into what "the other side" is saying and see if perhaps your views have weaknesses.

As a conservative, TBH, it is almost impossible to not to this, since most pop culture/social media is constantly pushing how leftwing narratives.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (t0Rmr)

79 I laugh. LinkedIn is missing me and sending constant reminders of the fact. I went in the other day to see what was going on, and was able to remove several people from my contact list based on their postings, and make note of several people looking for work that now have a poisoned paper trail for prospective employers to peruse.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (taOK4)

80 62 Oh yay. The power went out. I don’t not have a generator. Estimated time of repair is five hours from now. I know this is absolutely trivial in the scheme of things other people have faced, but it’s a nuisance. I guess I’ll drag in some wood and put some perishables in a chest with ice outside.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Sorry, that is a pain.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)

81 77 NFL 'running scared' of Trump and Musk ahead of Super Bowl with Bluesky ban. The NFL risks alienating fans and accusations of “running scared” from Donald Trump and Elon Musk ahead of Super Bowl LIX after it banned teams from posting on X rival Bluesky, say industry watchers.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (JCZqz)

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Could it be because Bluesky tolerates death threats, child pron, and other idiocy?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

82 We’re going to be seeing a lot of bizarre and irrational behavior from the left over the next 4 years. Processing the fact that they aren’t as smart or a well liked as they think they are will break most of them. And that’s just the smart ones. The really dumb ones will die of old age before they figure it out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (JXl7S)

83
Is the NFL going to rescind DEI? I wonder what kind of pro sport football would be if there were only white players.

That is probably one of the stupidest things I've read from DU

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

84 You wanted to buy a foreign dog, MisHum?

(looks around for H7)

You sure you want it bandied about when you could have had....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (0eaVi)

85 63 Nova Local - back in 2011, i finally befriended a frightened, don't-come-near-me feral cat who'd been demanding food from me for several years. She moved in, ate regularly, and became the sweetest thing. She even loved getting her claws trimmed.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (KAi1n)

Yeah, some cats want to adopt a person...they just don't want to let you know right away

...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (exHjb)

86 Could we put a tariff on just Quebec products?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (4780s)

87 AoS....this place right here...is the only "social media", I do.
Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:09 AM (Yj6Os)

Yep.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (8zz6B)

88 77 Is Musk going to be there? I think it is the height of insanity for Trump to even think of attending the event. It's Ford's Theater all over again.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (JCZqz)

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They know that Trump will become a martyr if he's killed.

They also know that there are people out there desperate to kill him.

They probably tell themselves that it's a right-leaning MAGA guy who is very broken up by the cost of eggs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

89 Is the NFL going to rescind DEI? I wonder what kind of pro sport football would be if there were only white players.

I guess this deep thinker has no idea what NFL rosters looked like 20 years ago before DEI?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)

90 Your morning smile...

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
Democrats after they learn DOGE is in the lobby of their building.
https://tinyurl.com/z9xypkbr
photo

BowTiedVeterinarian @BowTiedDVM 1h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
https://tinyurl.com/3k7kcuup
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (5LoD7)

91 I saw Galactus (in shadow), but no Silver Surfer

Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

From what I read, Silver Surfer's going to be a gal, so not quite in Normalville yet.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)

92 You either live in a place where it is shoved down your throat with unceasing indoctrination and increasing perversity or you outlaw it. There is no middle ground.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken a

Outlawing homosexuality is silly. You're going to throw the gays in prison? The gays would be all, "Please don't throw us in that briar patch!"

It should have no legal status, positive or negative, except for not being allowed to be in the military or adopt children.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

93
From what I read, Silver Surfer's going to be a gal, so not quite in Normalville yet.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)

So Silver Surfette...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (VE6XX)

94 I still check my facebook feed, because there are a few people I wouldn't be keeping up with otherwise.

The number who are "friends," who think it's ok to voice their TDS, the thing I resent the most is they take for granted everyone in their feed agrees with them.

Eh, no.
Posted by: BurtTC

Since our Paintball Scenario group retired, I'm mainly on there for a couple of black powder gun groups and St. Louis - Pictures of the Past group. (Seeing old pictures of the city and from around the time I grew up there)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (WXgbp)

95 78 Ideologues have some underlying internal theory of how the world works and anything that contradicts that theory is akin to blasphemy to them because it affects their inner choices to believe that the world works in a certain fashion.

And as a general rule everyone should occasionally look into what "the other side" is saying and see if perhaps your views have weaknesses.

As a conservative, TBH, it is almost impossible to not to this, since most pop culture/social media is constantly pushing how leftwing narratives.
Posted by: 18-1
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Pretty much. That is also why a lot of conservatives stray over time--they want to be accepted by the 'cool kids' in society.

But that may be changing for yutes as the Democrats/leftists are no longer 'cool' except in their own minds.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (ctrM5)

96 We are to accept them.

No. I don't.
Are they an American citizen? If so, fine. I accept they have all the rights that come with that. But they have no right to insist that I accept their lifestyle and choices.

Posted by: Siri at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)

97 On Topic!

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
I was delighted to learn the NFL will continue to be a strong supporter of DEI.

I plan to try for a job as quarterback. Nothing can stop me now.
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Ask George Plimpton!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (5LoD7)

98 From what I read, Silver Surfer's going to be a gal, so not quite in Normalville yet.

In the comics several other people became Galactus's herald at various points right? Why not just use one of them?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (t0Rmr)

99 There was a lot of whining and gnashing in my therapy group last night about how "difficult" things have been and how "emotional" people have been the last few weeks because of the "political" situation.

I smiled and laughed. Because LOLGF.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (RIvkX)

100 "Not $1 of the Treasury's outgoings are fraudulent."

That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

You see - if USAID hands money to Organization A for no particular reason, and Organization A hands money to Organization B for no particular reason, and Organization B hands money to a nonprofit controlled by Bill Kristol for no particular reason, YOU CAN'T PROVE that USAID intended to send money to Bill Kristol's organization.

Money laundering works, you see.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uxCna)

101 your first mistake is still being on FB.

Posted by: Esperman at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (UZ7aH)

102 Same upbringing. We are 20 months apart and one grade difference in school. Same grade schools, same high school, etc. Yet we are so completely different in our core beliefs and outlooks.

-

Very similar to my kids. Not only same environment, same school, etc. also generally same group of friends, same activities, they even like the same Netflix shows. And yet one is way right one is way left.

Nurture vs nature? Who the fucks knows. It’s all a crapshoot.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (A1UYC)

103 Incredible. It really is amazing we beat this machine.

>>@wikileaks

>>USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (LkLld)

104 Facebook is for recipes and pictures of your grandchildren.
AoSHQ is for political discussion unless it's the gun thread or pet thread or hobby thread. Every thread is a food thread so there you go.
I have been sick for the past 2 weeks and I am tired of it. My husband is having to stay with his mother for a few days because his sister is too freaking lazy to find a nursing home for that mean old bitch.
To say I am FED UP is a gross understatement.
Rant over.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (atg3u)

105 95 Pretty much. That is also why a lot of conservatives stray over time--they want to be accepted by the 'cool kids' in society.

But that may be changing for yutes as the Democrats/leftists are no longer 'cool' except in their own minds.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (ctrM5)

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Also, if USAID (and other government agencies) have been funding that dominant narrative as much as assumed (USAID's budget is more than 5 times what Hollywood made at the box office last year), then that pull is going to diminish very quickly very soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

106 Off eavesdropping sock!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)

107 Is the NFL going to rescind DEI? I wonder what kind of pro sport football would be if there were only white players.

That is probably one of the stupidest things I've read from DU
Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)
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I noticed that too. It also tells me this is someone who doesn't watch football and knows nothing about the game.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (tT6L1)

108 100 That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

You see - if USAID hands money to Organization A for no particular reason, and Organization A hands money to Organization B for no particular reason, and Organization B hands money to a nonprofit controlled by Bill Kristol for no particular reason, YOU CAN'T PROVE that USAID intended to send money to Bill Kristol's organization.

Money laundering works, you see.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uxCna)

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"The check didn't say 'bribe' on it."
-I've heard this tune before

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

109 MisHUm, Kate McMillan would happily sell you a dog, if you like miniature Schnauzers. She runs the very based blog, Small Dead Animals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:21 AM (8zz6B)

110 Is the NFL going to rescind DEI? I wonder what kind of pro sport football would be if there were only white players.

That is probably one of the stupidest things I've read from DU

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

Now do the NBA.

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:21 AM (Yj6Os)

111 They probably tell themselves that it's a right-leaning MAGA guy who is very broken up by the cost of eggs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

I just want to know... all you people who voted for Trump... do you regret your vote? Are you horrified at him doing the things he said that he'd do? Does it keep you up at night? -- TikTok philosopher

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

112 Facebook is for recipes and pictures of your grandchildren.
AoSHQ is for political discussion unless it's the gun thread or pet thread or hobby thread. Every thread is a food thread so there you go.
I have been sick for the past 2 weeks and I am tired of it. My husband is having to stay with his mother for a few days because his sister is too freaking lazy to find a nursing home for that mean old bitch.
To say I am FED UP is a gross understatement.
Rant over.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (atg3u)

You forgot bewbs.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:22 AM (W/lyH)

113 Oh, and my husband is sick too but refuses to see the doctor so he keeps passing me germs. Tired of that, too.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at February 06, 2025 11:22 AM (atg3u)

114 So Silver Surfette...
Posted by: It's me donna

I thought Surfette was blue?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

115
I am finding that "FBFs" of the other political persuasion lately have been doing nothing but posting "their truths" or drivel from whomever they rely upon to feed them "their truths" talking points.

Nothing else going on in your worlds, brahs? Fine, it's the mute button for now. But three mutes in a row and you're out.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 06, 2025 11:22 AM (ufPzV)

116 111 I just want to know... all you people who voted for Trump... do you regret your vote? Are you horrified at him doing the things he said that he'd do? Does it keep you up at night? -- TikTok philosopher
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

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I'm kept up at night wondering at how quickly the Democrat Party is going to collapse and open itself to an outsider takeover without the federal government indirectly funding it from top to bottom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

117 Well, she is just being mean. But you will find a dog to make you both happy, and she'll have a dog that reminds her, evert day, that she is a miserable person.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (73UVn)

118 Incredible. It really is amazing we beat this machine.

Not yet, we need to keep beating it and beating it until there's nothing left but sparking smoking wreckage.

Posted by: Welcome to the beating at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (URPBf)

119 Democrats Delay Kash Patel Vote As FBI Hasn't Finished Shredding All Their Documents Yet - Babylon B

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (/U5Yz)

120
As a conservative, TBH, it is almost impossible to not to this, since most pop culture/social media is constantly pushing how leftwing narratives.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (t0Rmr)

I will always read the arguments against my position or against things I agree with. But I don't like to speak and not know what I'm talking about. Joking aside, I really don't.

So whenever a story seems too good to check I will generally check. Often we will get a "viral" story on our side (Woman arrested for silently praying in her own house!!!) that obscures important information. Sometimes the important information is game changing and others it's good for me to know in advance of anyone bringing it up so I can shut them down.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (8AR3F)

121 Also, if USAID (and other government agencies) have been funding that dominant narrative as much as assumed (USAID's budget is more than 5 times what Hollywood made at the box office last year), then that pull is going to diminish very quickly very soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Good point. USAID continued the work of the destruction of the West that the USSR could not do any longer. China with the assist.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (ctrM5)

122 Christmas, Day 17

Thank you President Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (z1uA/)

123 As an Albertan, I hate Canaduh. Or is it Banaduh.

You need to accept that the function of Alberta is to function as an economic colony, so Ontario and Quebec can grab the benefits of Alberta's vast natural resources, and spend it on themselves.

This is the essence of "Team Canada".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (uxCna)

124 I'm kept up at night wondering at how quickly the Democrat Party is going to collapse and open itself to an outsider takeover without the federal government indirectly funding it from top to bottom.

I can easily see Tulsi and RFKj doing this.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

125 That second sentence should have said Because not But.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (8AR3F)

126 That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

A
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This is when you know you’re not dealing with serious people. Because no matter the organization, at a certain size, there will always be some shenanigans. To claims a $40B govt organization dealing with mainly 3rd world agencies is 100% above board shows they’re either imbeciles or liars.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (A1UYC)

127 99>> Emotional attachment to politics is very immature. If you’re going to cry about the outcome of an election, you shouldn’t be voting.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (JXl7S)

128 Diogenes there won't be any of that until some changes are made.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (atg3u)

129 Living in New England I'm poles apart politically from all my friends.
Watching Superbowl this weekend it will be about 8-1.
Posted by: From about That Time

Whom are they rooting for?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

130 I just want to know... all you people who voted for Trump... do you regret your vote? Are you horrified at him doing the things he said that he'd do? Does it keep you up at night? -- TikTok philosopher
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I giggle, then sleep like a baby.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (WXgbp)

131 I dislike Pete Buttigieg not because he's gay , but because he's a snotty , arrogant, condescending little communist thug
Posted by: Smell the Glove

He's a useless cocksucker either way

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (L26el)

132 I will always read the arguments against my position or against things I agree with. But I don't like to speak and not know what I'm talking about. Joking aside, I really don't.

So whenever a story seems too good to check I will generally check. Often we will get a "viral" story on our side (Woman arrested for silently praying in her own house!!!) that obscures important information. Sometimes the important information is game changing and others it's good for me to know in advance of anyone bringing it up so I can shut them down.
Posted by: ...
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Twould be better if we all acted as you do.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

133
Outlawing homosexuality is silly. You're going to throw the gays in prison? The gays would be all, "Please don't throw us in that briar patch!"

It should have no legal status, positive or negative, except for not being allowed to be in the military or adopt children.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

———-

Outlaw sodomy and throw them in prison, make their life hard. It’s been done for thousands of years. It’s not rocket science. The discouragement of the behavior is necessary and beneficial to society.

The entirety of the homo movement is built on lies. Remember “privacy of the bedroom”? Now you have damn flags all over the place, and freaks walking the streets.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (Vh9CX)

134 Since our Paintball Scenario group retired, I'm mainly on there for a couple of black powder gun groups and St. Louis - Pictures of the Past group. (Seeing old pictures of the city and from around the time I grew up there)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (WXgbp)

When I've needed to veg out, I start watching the shorts, and then a few hours later.....

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (TBHic)

135 Whom are they rooting for?
____

Hamas.

Posted by: Urethra Franklin at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (qUkBO)

136 Christmas, Day 17

Thank you President Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (z1uA/)

I got a pony every day!

Where am I going to put them all?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (iJfKG)

137 Our elected leaders, hard at work

https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/
1887177364658135219

Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (AOsQT)

138 124 I'm kept up at night wondering at how quickly the Democrat Party is going to collapse and open itself to an outsider takeover without the federal government indirectly funding it from top to bottom.

I can easily see Tulsi and RFKj doing this.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

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Politicians will first be up for sale to the first billionaire who says, "I will fully fund your next two campaigns if you support me for president."

A 2026 where Democrats...underperform, will lead to a very interesting 2028.

We'll see. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

139 Diogenes there won't be any of that until some changes are made.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (atg3u)

Heh.
I hope someday we can sit down over a cup of coffee and chat. I suspect it would be a hoot!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (W/lyH)

140 I saw Galactus (in shadow), but no Silver Surfer
Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:16 AM (AOsQT)

I believe that is because they made him a woman.

Posted by: Dandolo at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (3QsZU)

141 I recognize that in my extended family there are very few conservatives. I keep clear of politics on FB except on pages I can trust. If a friend or family member says something pretty heinous I may speak up. Just not worth the annoyance any longer.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (lXCUP)

142 "The check didn't say 'bribe' on it."
-I've heard this tune before

My daughter was the one taking the bribes, so I'm perfectly clean!

Posted by: Judge Merchan! at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (uxCna)

143 "Not $1 of the Treasury's outgoings are fraudulent."

That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

You see - if USAID hands money to Organization A for no particular reason, and Organization A hands money to Organization B for no particular reason, and Organization B hands money to a nonprofit controlled by Bill Kristol for no particular reason, YOU CAN'T PROVE that USAID intended to send money to Bill Kristol's organization.

Money laundering works, you see.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uxCna)

This is what's called a tell. I don't think that anyone has called the funding fraudulent. They've said that it isn't in the US interest. Shrieking that it isn't fraud is a pretty good indicator that it's fraud.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)

144 127 99>> Emotional attachment to politics is very immature. If you’re going to cry about the outcome of an election, you shouldn’t be voting.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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IMHO, those being that silly have intertwined politics with themselves at a spiritual level. Thus, a rejection at the polls becomes a rejection of self.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)

145 INFORMATION REMINDER

Federal workers who would prefer to retire early and get the nine months income should say so today! It's the last day before layoffs begin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (z1uA/)

146 DU thinks the NFL just started accepting black players in 2020.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (8AR3F)

147 62 Oh yay. The power went out. I don’t not have a generator. Estimated time of repair is five hours from now. I know this is absolutely trivial in the scheme of things other people have faced, but it’s a nuisance. I guess I’ll drag in some wood and put some perishables in a chest with ice outside.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 11:14 AM (8qPqx)

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In my experience, the power companies pad the expected repair times significantly. At times, I've lost power, and had the power company give a four hour estimated repair time. It usually is resolved in under an hour. Hopefully, the same will be true for you.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (OGOaV)

148 Not $1 of the Treasury's outgoings are fraudulent."

That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

Money laundering works, you see.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uxCna)
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If I'm not mistaken, USAID has strayed well outside the legal boundary of their charter. Which is illegal in and of itself. Calling the cash outlays by USAID legal is a stupid argument.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (tT6L1)

149 Why don't you go live in Europe?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (fzEVZ)

150 I'm 3 for 3 on adopting scaredy cats. Got a kitten this time who was a stray living in a hotel when brought to the shelter (normally they can't adopt strays like this, but being a kitten, they gave it a try)...boy, has she both grown, filled out, and become a love magnet...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025

***
My big black Stirling is like that. He has his independent streak and no longer milk-treads me every morning, but he dozes in my lap multiple times every weekend. He's not an only cat, though; his "sister" Dagny is a Siberian. She's standoffish, but occasionally will let slip that she likes my company, in a limited fashion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:08 AM (J2vNu)
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Nowadays, I'm often surrounded by up to three kitties when I'm sitting at my desk in my home office (which is much of the time).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 11:27 AM (7fElN)

151 I’m rooting for Taylor swift to win the soup and bread bowl.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:27 AM (A1UYC)

152 Outlawing homosexuality is silly. You're going to throw the gays in prison? The gays would be all, "Please don't throw us in that briar patch!"

It should have no legal status, positive or negative, except for not being allowed to be in the military or adopt children.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

———-

Outlaw sodomy and throw them in prison, make their life hard. It’s been done for thousands of years. It’s not rocket science. The discouragement of the behavior is necessary and beneficial to society.

The entirety of the homo movement is built on lies. Remember “privacy of the bedroom”? Now you have damn flags all over the place, and freaks walking the streets.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Outlaw sodomy and throw them off of buildings.

*cough It's good enough for muslims cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:28 AM (WXgbp)

153 Outlaw sodomy and throw them in prison, make their life hard.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Yes, they will be hard if they are in prison. And then you just get more sodomy, in the prison. And woe betide any non-sodomites in that prison.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

154 Twould be better if we all acted as you do.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (ctrM5)

But then redheads would never be safe, anywhere.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:28 AM (8AR3F)

155
That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

Every single dollar from USAID that wended its way to you and the B'wark was definitely misspent.
Why? Because you and yours are too fookin' lazy to get off you fat asses and try to sell your ideas in a marketplace of ideas. But you choose to be subsidy slobs -- lazy, corpulent and worthless.

My tax dollars no more belong in your pockets than do my contributions to you of $0.00.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 06, 2025 11:28 AM (ufPzV)

156 This is when you know you’re not dealing with serious people. Because no matter the organization, at a certain size, there will always be some shenanigans. To claims a $40B govt organization dealing with mainly 3rd world agencies is 100% above board shows they’re either imbeciles or liars.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

No, the government really needs premium paid Politico subscriptions, and Disney+ accounts...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (JCZqz)

157 Outlaw sodomy and throw them in prison, make their life hard. It’s been done for thousands of years. It’s not rocket science. The discouragement of the behavior is necessary and beneficial to society.

The entirety of the homo movement is built on lies. Remember “privacy of the bedroom”? Now you have damn flags all over the place, and freaks walking the streets.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (Vh9CX)

You identified the problem, but you got the solution wrong.

I don't want to know what YOU do in your bedroom, any more than I want to know what anyone else does in their bedroom.

How's about we just get back to that.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (TBHic)

158 Our elected leaders, hard at work

https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/
1887177364658135219
Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:25 AM (AOsQT)
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Someone with better skills than mine should ask an AI to put a pink pussy hat on that nutbag

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (z1uA/)

159 I have been called a rayciss, a homophobe, a islamaphobe, a transphobe, a H8ter, a blah blah blah...the list is endless over the last 20 odd years.

Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.

Posted by: Hate Is Home! at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (y7KuV)

160 Democrats Delay Kash Patel Vote As FBI Hasn't Finished Shredding All Their Documents Yet - Babylon B
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (/U5Yz)

I just assume they're going to use their bullshit one-week delay on all the remaining nominees. Cuz they care about the country just so very much.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

161 148 Not $1 of the Treasury's outgoings are fraudulent."

That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

Money laundering works, you see.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uxCna)
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If I'm not mistaken, USAID has strayed well outside the legal boundary of their charter. Which is illegal in and of itself. Calling the cash outlays by USAID legal is a stupid argument.
Posted by: blake
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Kristol would do better if he realized the grift is over. The more he gabs on about how his grift was honest grift just annoys everyone not on the gubmint payroll who is paying for his shit.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (ctrM5)

162 I’m rooting for Taylor swift to win the soup and bread bowl.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:27 AM (A1UYC)

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I think she already won the Pop Tart Bowl.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (vAHT7)

163 Federal workers who would prefer to retire early and get the nine months income should say so today! It's the last day before layoffs begin.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (z1uA/)

Didn't Clinton terminate over 300k DC bureaucrats?

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (2NXcZ)

164 Living in New England I'm poles apart politically from all my friends.
Watching Superbowl this weekend it will be about 8-1.
Posted by: From about That Time

Whom are they rooting for?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

Admittedly, I have not real interest in the Super Bowl.

No one to root for, cuz -

Fuck the Eagles and their fans' black, battery-throwing souls.

and, eh I got no animosity for KC, but I'm tired of seeing them in the SB venue.

The other AFC teams are lame slackers in this regard.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:30 AM (iJfKG)

165 159 I have been called a rayciss, a homophobe, a islamaphobe, a transphobe, a H8ter, a blah blah blah...the list is endless over the last 20 odd years.

Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.
Posted by: Hate Is Home!
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Captain Hate would be proud of you.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:30 AM (ctrM5)

166 Are you seriously saying you want to ban homosexuality and throw people in prison for it? Dude!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:30 AM (A1UYC)

167 Yes, they will be hard if they are in prison. And then you just get more sodomy, in the prison. And woe betide any non-sodomites in that prison.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah, but when they boof each other in prison, you can send them to another prison for breaking the law in prison.

Eventually you have all the boofers in just one prison, and you can let them boof all they want.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:30 AM (TBHic)

168 53 I dislike Pete Buttigieg not because he's gay , but because he's a snotty , arrogant, condescending little communist thug
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I dislike him and people like him because he is against God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (/U5Yz)

169 Didn't Clinton terminate over 300k DC bureaucrats?
Posted by: Long night
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Not sure about the number but when we closed a bunch of bases, etc. at the end of the Cold War, there were quite a few terminations.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (ctrM5)

170 Nowadays, I'm often surrounded by up to three kitties when I'm sitting at my desk in my home office (which is much of the time).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 11:27 AM (7fElN)

conspirators....plotting...colluding

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (Yj6Os)

171 I'll have the same tolerance for gays that gays have for Christianity: none.

Being nice is what got us here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (44PAK)

172 134 When I've needed to veg out, I start watching the shorts, and then a few hours later.....

for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

not complaining, mind you...

Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)

173 I think she already won the Pop Tart Bowl.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (vAHT7)

Brings a whole new meaning to leggo my eggo.

No seriously I have no idea what that means, I'm on painkillers here.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (8AR3F)

174 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 11:32 AM (r3JZE)

175 That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

Which was interesting, since she had the option of arguing that the specific organization controlled by Bill Kristol was not indirectly receiving USAID money.

Nope - she's doing the global defense for everyone, arguing that laundering USAID money through intermediaries means that nobody was receiving USAID money inappropriately.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:32 AM (uxCna)

176 Federal workers who would prefer to retire early and get the nine months income should say so today! It's the last day before layoffs begin.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (z1uA/)
Some of these assclowns probably feel they are so valuable they could never be fired.

Many people will be in for a rude awakening tomorrow.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (/U5Yz)

177 175 Nope - she's doing the global defense for everyone, arguing that laundering USAID money through intermediaries means that nobody was receiving USAID money inappropriately.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:32 AM (uxCna)

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I think her argument is actually that they're not receiving USAID money at all, specifically because it went through an intermediary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

178 I have been called a rayciss, a homophobe, a islamaphobe, a transphobe, a H8ter, a blah blah blah...the list is endless over the last 20 odd years.

Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.

Posted by: Hate Is Home! at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (y7KuV)

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You sound like a phobophobiaphobe.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (vAHT7)

179 Not sure about the number but when we closed a bunch of bases, etc. at the end of the Cold War, there were quite a few terminations.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (ctrM5)
But most of those were dirty racist white men military personnel. So it was good.

Today people being terminated are lesbian transgendered black Asian Latinx wymynses. That’s bad.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (A1UYC)

180 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

181 Kristol would do better if he realized the grift is over. The more he gabs on about how his grift was honest grift just annoys everyone not on the gubmint payroll who is paying for his shit.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:29 AM (ctrM5)
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I've long said Kristol needs to shut up and quit reminding us he's still around. But no, he continues to think he's far more important than he truly is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

182 Didn't Clinton terminate over 300k DC bureaucrats?

Yeah, Clinton did a global buyout offer similar to Trump's.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (uxCna)

183 Hear, hear!

Have been batted around mentally the pass few weeks by 'acquaintances' over current politics & now it seems I should conform to be able to participate in certain local activities, though I pay through taxes or out-of-pocket.

Not tired of winning. No concessions shall be made.

It's War, in Andrew's words.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (NFX2v)

184 My bf just told me that CNN (yeah, I know) is now all pay per article. Hilarious! I told him 'looks like their USAID funding was cut....'. I wonder how their money was billed in the USAID system?

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (6m/Do)

185 176 Federal workers who would prefer to retire early and get the nine months income should say so today! It's the last day before layoffs begin.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (z1uA/)
Some of these assclowns probably feel they are so valuable they could never be fired.

Many people will be in for a rude awakening tomorrow.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (/U5Yz)

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I can imagine a host of reasons.

My favorite is: "I'm going to resist!" after telling their friends on Reddit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

186 Admittedly, I have not real interest in the Super Bowl.

No one to root for, cuz -

Fuck the Eagles and their fans' black, battery-throwing souls.

and, eh I got no animosity for KC, but I'm tired of seeing them in the SB venue.

The other AFC teams are lame slackers in this regard.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 06, 2025 11:30 AM (iJfKG)

Cheer for Saquon...man is a legit all-time top 5 running back...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (exHjb)

187 Outlaw sodomy and throw them in prison, make their life hard. It’s been done for thousands of years. It’s not rocket science. The discouragement of the behavior is necessary and beneficial to society.

The entirety of the homo movement is built on lies. Remember “privacy of the bedroom”? Now you have damn flags all over the place, and freaks walking the streets.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 11:24 AM (Vh9CX)

"Don't ask, don't tell" as a society-wide paradigm. Everybody knew Paul Lynde and Liberace (to name but two) were gay, but neither one demanded that we celebrate their gayness. They earned their fame from talent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (8zz6B)

188 Speaking Of viral topics, the millions paid actors to visit Ukraine, is that real?
First time I saw it I googled, and primary hit was Pravda.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (4780s)

189 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

not complaining, mind you...
Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)

I used to get the ones where a guy starts filming, saying "Hey mom," then proceeds to tell his mother a joke while she's trying to eat. The jokes are often dirty, sometimes dumb, and her reaction is the payoff.

I don't get those anymore. I miss them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (TBHic)

190 And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
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Scott Pressley. Scott is currently in NJ, I think, working to turn NJ purple, if not red.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

191 I'm just waiting for some app I downloaded to refuse to install because of my bookmarks.

Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (QB+5g)

192 69
‘ The number who are "friends," who think it's ok to voice their TDS’

Remind them that they created Trump.
He definitely would not be president if not for people like them.
So while the left receives its inevitable and justified 4 year beating, maybe they can reflect on what they did to deserve it and draw wisdom.

But say it in a meaner way.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

193 109 MisHUm, Kate McMillan would happily sell you a dog, if you like miniature Schnauzers. She runs the very based blog, Small Dead Animals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Haven't read that blog since the Truckers being screwed for simply protesting Castreau and his hideous government.

She is one of the survivors, like Ace, of the generation of bloggers on the Web prior to social media.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)

194 Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.

You should save time and cut to the chase; universal hate. Sooner or later, you will despise each and every one of us.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

195 I know leftards that want to close every church. They would do it tomorrow if they could. Today really.

If that means bringing the fucking hammer down on certain things, or "freedoms", then so be it. The last 17 years has shown they will take any open door and roar right through it.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (8AR3F)

196 Ban no sexuality. Just like we banned booze. Worked out great. 🤣

Maybe we can ban bad breath too while we’re at it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (A1UYC)

197 DU thinks the NFL just started accepting black players in 2020.
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:26 AM (8AR3F)

Well, if the NFL went to all-white rosters, they might have fewer players in jail on weapons charges, so there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (8zz6B)

198 It's amazing that the smelly lay-about hobos at DU are outraged that Trump and his people would use their power and influence to try to implement polices they favor, and try to end policies they don't.

These DU losers are the very same guys who lectured us for 8 years of Obama, and 4 years of Biden, that "they won" and thus had all the right in the world to push for what they wanted.

So ... WE WON, YOU LOST. LOLGF.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

199 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

not complaining, mind you...
Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)

They're on YT as well. I never watch them

when the wife's around.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (0eaVi)

200 190 And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
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Scott Pressley. Scott is currently in NJ, I think, working to turn NJ purple, if not red.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

NJ and VA have Gov races this year. NJ is the more winnable one, so Scott is where he needs to be!

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (exHjb)

201 180 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.
Posted by: Bulg

Andy Ngo. Great American. Homosexuality should be treated like a congenital mental illness- unfortunate, understandable, and not something to celebrate.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (JCZqz)

202 169 Didn't Clinton terminate over 300k DC bureaucrats?
Posted by: Long night

And he, via Janet Reno, fired 93 of 94 U.S. Attorneys.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (NRuLG)

203 That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent.

If you had said last year, Biden's government is funding the NTs and the FNM the left would have claimed that was a conspiracy theory that had been disproved (because someone in the Biden admin would have said it wasn't true)

And now we are at the stage where they flip to, "Of course the government was funding a diverse* range of media opinions...why do you want to censor people that disagree with you!"

*Diverse here ranging from "hates Trump and normies" to "REALLY hates Trump and normies"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)

204 But say it in a meaner way.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Wut, You mean Fuck Off and Die Swampy is too nice? Should it be Die a slow and painful death Swampy?

I want to learn master.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (ctrM5)

205

You should judge each man by the content of his character rather than the quantity of shit on his dick...

Posted by: Sandra Fluker at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (HRQvT)

206 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

Also, Travis Kelce is a pretty good football player...

What?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (TBHic)

207 I have been called a rayciss, a homophobe, a islamaphobe, a transphobe, a H8ter, a blah blah blah...the list is endless over the last 20 odd years.

Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.

I've taken the position that these words are basically meaningless as far as I'm concerned. Overused slurs without thought, meaning or significance. Get back to me when you actually want to discuss an issue rather than shrieking your nonsense words.

Posted by: Tired of hearing that bullshit at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (URPBf)

208 Make a progressive's brain start to smoke-

Islam is right about woman.
Islam is right about LGBTQA+

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

209
There are days, Mis Hum, where you can have any or all of our dogs, free.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (Njr94)

210 194 Well, I now embrace all my phobes and I am enjoying it and I work at it everyday and I hate all of them on the left. Every. Damn. One.

You should save time and cut to the chase; universal hate. Sooner or later, you will despise each and every one of us.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

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Samuel Stote : What's a misanthrope, Arthur?
Arthur Burns : A misanthrope is one who hates humanity.
Samuel Stote : Is that what we are, misanthropes?
Arthur Burns : Good lord no. We're a family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

211 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

It starts with the Japanese/Korean cheerleaders and gets way more scanty from there

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (t0Rmr)

212 If you had said last year, Biden's government is funding the NTs and the FNM the left would have claimed that was a conspiracy theory that had been disproved (because someone in the Biden admin would have said it wasn't true)

And now we are at the stage where they flip to, "Of course the government was funding a diverse* range of media opinions...why do you want to censor people that disagree with you!"

*Diverse here ranging from "hates Trump and normies" to "REALLY hates Trump and normies"
Posted by: 18-1
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Is that the second or third stage where they say of course we were paid government agents of influence and censored you louts, it was a good thing that we did.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (ctrM5)

213
"Don't ask, don't tell" as a society-wide paradigm. Everybody knew Paul Lynde and Liberace (to name but two) were gay, but neither one demanded that we celebrate their gayness. They earned their fame from talent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (8zz6B)

———-

Unfortunately it’s all part of the path that got us to where we are now. Call it a slippery slope or inevitable conclusion but the results are the same.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (Vh9CX)

214 134 When I've needed to veg out, I start watching the shorts, and then a few hours later.....

for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

not complaining, mind you...

Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)

For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (VwHCD)

215 Yea, FedGov workers, resist!! You’re entitled to that job! Please miss today’s deadline so we can just fire you without severance. Oh, did I say that out loud?

There’s a hearing at 13:00. No way that’s going to give them relief. This is settled law.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (Dzvaz)

216 My MIL has gone off the deep end. She keeps texting my wife trying to get her into arguments. My wife says I don’t want to argue politics with you. MIL doesn’t let it go. My wife gets upset and depressed over it.

MIL was always a lefty but she snapped after this election. It’s sad, cuz otherwise I get along with her well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (A1UYC)

217 That's the argument being made by the publisher of The Bulwark - that not a single dollar of USAID money has been misspent
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Great. They should enjoy the audit.

Also notice the weasely word "misspent" if in fact they used that.

I could go pay for some seriously illegal shit and claim, truthfully, that my money was not misspent.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (8AR3F)

218 Oh, no!

Trump's "Ich bin ein Berliner" moment!!!

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 4h
LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (5LoD7)

219 You should save time and cut to the chase; universal hate. Sooner or later, you will despise each and every one of us.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

Then run for office in Japan

Posted by: I'd vote for him at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (URPBf)

220 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

And the guy who got the Amish to vote for Trump.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
________

Scott Presler. All these guys are gay. They ain't faggots.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

221 arguing that laundering USAID money through intermediaries means that nobody was receiving USAID money inappropriately.

Which is identical to the oft-made argument that public radio and television receive no Federal funding, since the Federal money is laundered though the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (uxCna)

222 They're on YT as well. I never watch them

when the wife's around.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 06, 2025 11:36 AM (0eaVi)

All you have to do is watch one, and then it's all you get.

What happened to all the cat videos?

Not that I MIND the kitty videos, but yeah, sometimes I just want to see cats.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (TBHic)

223 And now we are at the stage where they flip to, "Of course the government was funding a diverse* range of media opinions...why do you want to censor people that disagree with you!"

*Diverse here ranging from "hates Trump and normies" to "REALLY hates Trump and normies"

You know what I have yet to see? Any USAID money going to conservative media. Perhaps it exists, but I haven't seen it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

224 Who was the Asian Guy who despised everyone? Wonder if he has a website.

Posted by: Jap, Chinaman or Korean? at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (y7KuV)

225 Make a progressive's brain start to smoke-

Islam is right about woman.
Islam is right about LGBTQA+

A smart Republican party would push at the differences in the world view of GloboHomo/Feminism and Islam in areas with a large Muslim population.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (t0Rmr)

226 Leftism is their religion. It's why they are so comfortable with radical islam. They have their core beliefs that cannot and will not be challenged.

They are lost and broken people. They wanted and needed to believe in something. They chose liberalism. They chose poorly.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (WPL6O)

227 I'm A member of an organisation runs near 50% gay. These are almost entirely what I think of as 'straight' gays (mostly smart ex-military).
They are just as pissed at recent trends in gheydom as we are.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (4780s)

228 They missed the third part of that rule which had previously been silently accepted by all.

"Don't ask, Don't tell, Don't try to convert my kids to your perversion"

The rule was broken, the pact is over.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (8AR3F)

229 Islam is right about woman.
Islam is right about LGBTQA+
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)
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Heh, I saw clip, Lady Maga? Cross dressing homosexual or some such interviewing a leftists gal about "homos for Palestine" and laying the brutal truth on them about the reality of being homosexual in a Muslim country. The gal tried really hard to equivocate but couldn't square the circle. It was amusing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (tT6L1)

230 206 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Wasn't Turing the one who received chemical castration? With him it was a "horror," but it's OK for kids? Ban this shit forever.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (2NXcZ)

231 > Fuck the Eagles and their fans' black, battery-throwing souls.
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Some of the 1980's hockey games between the Washington Capitols and the Philly Flyers were off the hook. More fights in the crowd than on the ice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (Q4IgG)

232 216 My MIL has gone off the deep end. She keeps texting my wife trying to get her into arguments. My wife says I don’t want to argue politics with you. MIL doesn’t let it go. My wife gets upset and depressed over it.

MIL was always a lefty but she snapped after this election. It’s sad, cuz otherwise I get along with her well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Sad story but the left is not just, tolerant, nor humane. It is, in fact, anti human.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (ctrM5)

233 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

not complaining, mind you...
Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (oY6Yp)
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Having spent time in Southeast Asia ... there's this Crocodile Dundee Test that might come in handy. Just saying.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

234 So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?

And I’d thought I’d seen it all.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (Dzvaz)

235 No seriously I have no idea what that means, I'm on painkillers here.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (8AR3F)

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Hope the pain is acute and not chronic.

[Have never had an opioid. As I've mentioned before, told the wifey that before I die I'd like to try one -- as well as maybe a hallucinogen like LSD -- just for the experience ... which she is not happy with.

Anyway, had emergency dental surgery a few weeks ago (25-year-old root canal reinfected) and the endodontist said he was going to prescribe Oxycontin if I needed it (in addition to Amoxicillin) -- but the pharmacy didn't get that one. Turns out I didn't need the painkiller, but I was looking forward to trying one.

Only time I was high was when a dentist gave me laughing gas as a teenager ... upon which I proceeded to vomit on him.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (vAHT7)

236 "It’s sad, cuz otherwise I get along with her well."

It's really sad. I've lost so many "friends" and acquittances over Covid and now the birth of the MAGA party.

Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (QB+5g)

237 For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (VwHCD)

Right. Drinking cups.

That's the point of the video.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (TBHic)

238 Scott Pressley. Scott is currently in NJ, I think, working to turn NJ purple, if not red.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

Presler. Poor guy does such great work and no one can remember his name.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

239 Scott Presler. All these guys are gay. They ain't faggots.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

—

Heh. It’s the gay version of the Chris Rock bit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (A1UYC)

240 Oh, Mis Hum - I'm not sure if you saw my comment last night, but a big demonstration in front of the Capitol last night was canceled because it was "too cold".

38 degrees.

These people have been "working from home" for the last five years, so they haven't even had to commute in the cold.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (uxCna)

241 Didn't Clinton terminate over 300k DC bureaucrats?
Posted by: Long night
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Not sure about the number but when we closed a bunch of bases, etc. at the end of the Cold War, there were quite a few terminations.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:31 AM (ctrM5)
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. Under the guise of the 1993 "Reinventing Government Initiative," Clinton oversaw the termination of 377,000 federal employees. This initiative, led by then-Vice President Al Gore, was marketed as an effort to cut bureaucratic bloat. Clinton publicized that his administration reduced the government payroll from 2.15 million employees to 1.79 million by the end of his term (U.S. Office of Personnel Management).

...continued...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (W/lyH)

242
MIL was always a lefty but she snapped after this election. It’s sad, cuz otherwise I get along with her well.

Suggestion for your wife - tell her mother to write down what the world will look like in a year with Trump as president. And then agree to not talk about politics until that year is up then they can look at her notes and see if any of them came true.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (t0Rmr)

243 I'm A member of an organisation runs near 50% gay.
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The Dallas Cowboys??

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (5LoD7)

244
I've long said Kristol needs to shut up and quit reminding us he's still around. But no, he continues to think he's far more important than he truly is.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

Who in da fuq actually still pays voluntarily for his pap? Notice I said voluntarily. Oh and slightly off topic. It' been glorious rubbing the nevertrumpers nose in their shit. They're all dead to me.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (4p0Xq)

245 Can I stream the Tay Tay bowl free of charge?
YouTube?

Posted by: Just got here at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (dg+HA)

246 244 Who in da fuq actually still pays voluntarily for his pap? Notice I said voluntarily. Oh and slightly off topic. It' been glorious rubbing the nevertrumpers nose in their shit. They're all dead to me.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (4p0Xq)

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A handful of lefties who want to hear was a "sane" conservative has to say?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

247 Cheer for Saquon...man is a legit all-time top 5 running back...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (exHjb)

That's the plan at Casa Hobbit. I'll give Saquon a $100 bill if he can make Travis Kelce cry.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (k9OZB)

248 From 241...

However, while he claimed to be trimming the size of government, he was in reality expanding it dramatically.
Rather than actually reducing the government’s reach, Clinton tripled its size by shifting millions of jobs to government contractors. This maneuver allowed his administration to hide the true expansion of government within the bureaucracy. The federal workforce, under his administration, effectively grew from 2.15 million to a staggering 9.1 million (Project On Government Oversight), all hired by liberal activist managers.
This restructuring was the foundation for what has become the “deep state”—an unelected bureaucratic class that exercises significant influence over government operations.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 11:42 AM (W/lyH)

249 My bf just told me that CNN (yeah, I know) is now all pay per article. Hilarious! I told him 'looks like their USAID funding was cut....'. I wonder how their money was billed in the USAID system?
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at February 06, 2025

***
"Entertainment Expenses"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (J2vNu)

250 225 Make a progressive's brain start to smoke-

Islam is right about woman.
Islam is right about LGBTQA+

A smart Republican party would push at the differences in the world view of GloboHomo/Feminism and Islam in areas with a large Muslim population.

Posted by: 18-1

You need to mix in the ole "Islam is Peace" and "Islam is Love". "Muhammed was a feminist...that's why he married Aisha when she was 6, but waited until she was 9 before consummating the marriage."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (JCZqz)

251 By the way, I learned recently there are helpful Asian gals on Yootoob who will teach you how to use a milk pump.

I didn't know I needed to learn how to use a milk pump.

I do... I do.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (TBHic)

252 You know what I have yet to see? Any USAID money going to conservative media. Perhaps it exists, but I haven't seen it.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I suspect that apart from the Bulwark, some might have gone to 'reasonable' outlets like National Review over the years. We will just have to wait and see. AID had been in business since JFK and they funded people like Liz Cheney's and AOC's start among others. So there is roughly sixty or so years of abusing the public to be accounted for.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5)

253
"The entirety of the homo movement is built on lies. Remember “privacy of the bedroom”? "

Yep. Now they want to "do it" on your front lawn in front of your kids.
"Pride Parades" are about as in your face as it can get.

Posted by: Speller at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (pSotA)

254 Islam is wrong about women. Any ideology as ends in cousin bumping is broken.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (l4dXR)

255
Presler. Poor guy does such great work and no one can remember his name.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)
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Eh, I should have looked it up, but, too lazy. My mistake.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (tT6L1)

256 Suggestion for your wife - tell her mother to write down what the world will look like in a year with Trump as president. And then agree to not talk about politics until that year is up then they can look at her notes and see if any of them came true.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (t0Rmr)

Too rational to work.

She should just text back "I don't care, Margaret" every time. A civilized "fuck off" should eventually sink in.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (44PAK)

257 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

Time to give fb a chance?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)

258 Just imagine if it was your DIL doing it.. Last week she posted how to avoid getting picked up by ICE
Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (VE6XX)

Did you critique it, and send it back with a note that she is obviously going to get a lot of people picked up with that garbage?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (D7oie)

259 Incredible. It really is amazing we beat this machine.

Not yet, we need to keep beating it and beating it until there's nothing left but sparking smoking wreckage.
Posted by: Welcome to the beating at February 06, 2025 11:23 AM (URPBf)

Truly. All that's happened so far is a few panels have been unscrewed and we get to look at what exactly was making all that noise in the box.

The bats and axes are still in the toolbox.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 06, 2025 11:43 AM (FCbAQ)

260 For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.

TBH this sounds more appealing then MacGyver...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (t0Rmr)

261 I had this happen to me. Unfortunately, it was niece. My God-daughter, who has become infected with a terminal case of the Woke Mind Virus due to her insane mother. (My brother is completely whipped and doesn't get involved). Usually, I just ignore her insane TDS rants, but I had to respond when she posted about Trump pardoning the J6ers. I pointed out the long list of shitbags that Biden pardoned, and she just lost it. Long story short, she never wants to speak to me again, and after what she said, I feel the same way. I pray that she gets the help she so desperately needs.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (vqA1l)

262 for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.

and the downside?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie)

263 Great to see you again in COB-emeritus form, Mis Hum. Sorry about your FBF, but sometimes the relationship isn't worth the heartburn.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (v23vE)

264 Suggestion for your wife - tell her mother to write down what the world will look like in a year with Trump as president. And then agree to not talk about politics until that year is up then they can look at her notes and see if any of them came true.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025

***
The MiL will simply say, "Oh, the Democrats heroically stopped him on those items!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (J2vNu)

265 Scott Pressley. Scott is currently in NJ, I think, working to turn NJ purple, if not red.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

Presler. Poor guy does such great work and no one can remember his name.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)

I just know he needs a haircut.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (TBHic)

266 . Under the guise of the 1993 "Reinventing Government Initiative," Clinton oversaw the termination of 377,000 federal employees. This initiative, led by then-Vice President Al Gore, was marketed as an effort to cut bureaucratic bloat. Clinton publicized that his administration reduced the government payroll from 2.15 million employees to 1.79 million by the end of his term (U.S. Office of Personnel Management).

...continued...

Posted by: Diogenes
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Thanks.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (ctrM5)

267 For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

*snort
If you notice the drinking cup, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (WXgbp)

268 "I'm A member of an organisation runs near 50% gay. These are almost entirely what I think of as 'straight' gays (mostly smart ex-military)."

Oh, you're on a Drill Team?

Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (QB+5g)

269 111
‘ just want to know... all you people who voted for Trump... do you regret your vote? Are you horrified at him doing the things he said that he'd do? Does it keep you up at night? -- TikTok philosopher’

It keeps me ‘up’ and not just at night.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (jbnUc)

270 I suspect that apart from the Bulwark, some might have gone to 'reasonable' outlets like National Review over the years.

I was talking about conservative outlets.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

271 270 I suspect that apart from the Bulwark, some might have gone to 'reasonable' outlets like National Review over the years.

I was talking about conservative outlets.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

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No True Conservative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

272 Alan Turing (persecuted gor being gay).More recently, Douglas Murray. Ric Grenell. Two great warriors on our side.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

Wasn't Turing the one who received chemical castration? With him it was a "horror," but it's OK for kids? Ban this shit forever.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (2NXcZ)

IIRC, Alan Turing's gayness involved relations with under-age boys; hence the "persecution".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (8zz6B)

273 Only time I was high was when a dentist gave me laughing gas as a teenager ... upon which I proceeded to vomit on him.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:41 AM (vAHT7)

It's acute this time, thanks.

Don't bother with LSD or mushrooms, that shit is fucked up.

The oxy's affect everyone differently. I get a very mild buzz from them but they do help somewhat with pain and I'm thankful for them because I can't take anti-inflammatories. You're not really missing much.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (8AR3F)

274 Who was the Asian Guy who despised everyone? Wonder if he has a website.

Posted by: Jap, Chinaman or Korean? at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (y7KuV)

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Japanese "Revolutionary Fascist / Nihilist / Anarchist" Candidate for governor of Tokyo Toyama Koichi.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (vAHT7)

275 261 I had this happen to me. Unfortunately, it was niece. My God-daughter, who has become infected with a terminal case of the Woke Mind Virus due to her insane mother. (My brother is completely whipped and doesn't get involved). Usually, I just ignore her insane TDS rants, but I had to respond when she posted about Trump pardoning the J6ers. I pointed out the long list of shitbags that Biden pardoned, and she just lost it. Long story short, she never wants to speak to me again, and after what she said, I feel the same way. I pray that she gets the help she so desperately needs.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler
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Truth always upsets those that refuse to believe it.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)

276
Wasn't Turing the one who received chemical castration? With him it was a "horror," but it's OK for kids? Ban this shit forever.
Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 06, 2025 11:40 AM (2NXcZ)

How about we separate people and actions. Was it wrong to chemically castrate him? Yes. Is it also wrong to do that to kids today? HellYes. Is it wrong to hate someone just because they’re gay? Also yes. Are there gay people who are cool? Yes. Are there gay people who are assholes? Yep. Is it possible to distinguish them individually and not lump them all into one group? Uhm yeah I think so.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (A1UYC)

277
You need to mix in the ole "Islam is Peace" and "Islam is Love". "Muhammed was a feminist...that's why he married Aisha when she was 6, but waited until she was 9 before consummating the marriage."

The best thing about marrying twenty nine year olds? THERE ARE 20 OF THEM!

I'll be here all week remember to tip your server!

Posted by: Standup Comedian Muhammed at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)

278 213
"Don't ask, don't tell" as a society-wide paradigm. Everybody knew Paul Lynde and Liberace (to name but two) were gay, but neither one demanded that we celebrate their gayness. They earned their fame from talent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (8zz6B)

Charles Nelson Reilly

Posted by: Giddyup, Gene! at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (URPBf)

279 I've long said Kristol needs to shut up and quit reminding us he's still around. But no, he continues to think he's far more important than he truly is.
_____

I'll admit to be kind of morbidly curious how his transition into Jabba the Hutt ends up..

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (Dv3i1)

280 My MIL has gone off the deep end. She keeps texting my wife trying to get her into arguments. My wife says I don’t want to argue politics with you. MIL doesn’t let it go. My wife gets upset and depressed over it.

MIL was always a lefty but she snapped after this election. It’s sad, cuz otherwise I get along with her well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:38 AM (A1UYC)

SIL was broken by Le Affaire Clinton. She has become less rational with each passing year. Fortunately, she's aware of wife and my leanings so she shuts the fuck up on the rare occasions she visits.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

281 For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

*snort
If you notice the drinking cup, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (WXgbp)
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One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (tT6L1)

282 19 year old boys. age of consent in Blightly was 21 until the 1980s. so technically underage.

Posted by: although that's the boy we know about at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (l4dXR)

283 I was talking about conservative outlets.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Snicker. Golf clap.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (ctrM5)

284 Natalie Winters:

"The secrecy of the USAID grant database is by design. Look up the addresses of entities receiving millions of dollars on Google maps and you’ll find shacks or empty land. It’s pure money laundering."

Posted by: The Smell Of The gp, The Roar Of The Crowd at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (u01/w)

285 ut I had to respond when she posted about Trump pardoning the J6ers. I pointed out the long list of shitbags that Biden pardoned, and she just lost it.

In the Soviet Union political prisoners were considered a lower class then violent traditional criminals.

You see that here. Sure Biden pardoned a man that murdered a little girl but these J6ers called into question our sacred elections!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (t0Rmr)

286 68 "I'm A member of an organisation runs near 50% gay. These are almost entirely what I think of as 'straight' gays (mostly smart ex-military)."

Oh, you're on a Drill Team?
Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 11:44 AM (QB+5g)

Shots fired!

Posted by: He wants the smoke! at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (URPBf)

287 @176

>>Many people will be in for a rude awakening tomorrow.

Most of them are going to take their chances and rely on law fare to force the government to retain them or go through arbitration.

There's too much money on the table for these government leeches.

In some cases 100's of thousands of dollars.

I was listening to Mike Slater, he had a government worker call in who said he would take the buyout but he has too much money, $75k, in his vacation and sick day bank.

Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)

288 Of all the stupid shit they've come up with, the idea that Musk is "looting the Treasury" has got to be the nuttiest.

Dude has half a trillion dollars, but sure, he's salivating at the prospect of stealing Granny's social security check.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 11:05 AM

They're inventing scary stories because if THEY have to panic, so does everyone else.

Another friend was panicking on FB because some idiot posted in her illness support group that the USDA was going to be closed and there would not longer be a safeguard against contaminated meat. All her pals were commiserating and pushing forced veganism, even though it was a carnivore diet that healed her. I posted that I found it difficult to believe that the USDA wouldn't be crucial to the MAGA plan. I never got a response, but she announced she's getting of social media because she can't deal with "my country coming apart".

She's a smart cookie. I think she's figured out what she's getting from her social media are lies.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (Fbg3Q)

289 Suggestion for your wife - tell her mother to write down what the world will look like in a year with Trump as president. And then agree to not talk about politics until that year is up then they can look at her notes and see if any of them came true.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025

That just gives MIL what she wants, an argument. I told my wife, from now on just ignore anything having to do with Trump from her. She’s acting like a child who wants attention, don’t feed it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (A1UYC)

290 You know who loved the gays? The people of Sodom and Gomorrah that's who.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (/U5Yz)

291 Really bizarre that my mother as insane as she is has become an arch conservative in her later years - wifey sort of "turned" her during the Obama years - while both my brothers have become gay-retarded libs. My mom sounds like Karoline Leavitt and the brother I talk to sounds like The View. It's so weird.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (8AR3F)

292 ‘ just want to know... all you people who voted for Trump... do you regret your vote? Are you horrified at him doing the things he said that he'd do? Does it keep you up at night? -- TikTok philosopher’

It keeps me ‘up’ and not just at night.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

It keeps you from rolling out of the bed, huh?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (WXgbp)

293 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.
Posted by: blake
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Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give
me that countryside.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)

294 Yes, Alan Yuring was chemically castrated in 1952, because Britain made homosexuality a crime. This, despite Tuting being a huge contributor to the war effort. He was instrumental in breaking the "unbreakable" Nazi Enigma code; this saved countless lives and shortened WWII.

That's all. /sarc off

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (Gs5yU)

295 My liberal FB friends were quiet throughout the Biden years, except for pets, food, vacations, kids.

Now in the last month it's all "you're literally killing me with your USAID and DEI cuts"

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 06, 2025 11:49 AM (GD2xa)

296 Trump proved too popular so they have turned the hoses on Musk as the new Hate Object. It's all narrative, direct from Central Planning.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:49 AM (8AR3F)

297 So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?

I don't think there are very many of them. Build a very small, very special, very unpleasant prison to house them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

298 I've long said Kristol needs to shut up and quit reminding us he's still around.

His grift stops if he shuts up.

Kristol's org, "Defending Democracy", spent a million bucks on advertising on Fox News, in case you were wondering why he is on Fox News so often.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:49 AM (uxCna)

299 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.

I got one by a woman who was showing how to make compost. It's really a very interesting subject, worthy of close scrutiny.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (xCA6C)

300 291 Really bizarre that my mother as insane as she is has become an arch conservative in her later years - wifey sort of "turned" her during the Obama years - while both my brothers have become gay-retarded libs. My mom sounds like Karoline Leavitt and the brother I talk to sounds like The View. It's so weird.
Posted by: ...
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I hope your siblings don't use Thankgiving etc. as a time to splain stuff to the rest of the family. That would not be fun.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)

301 Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give
me that countryside.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)
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Heh, The gal I'm thinking of makes Gabor look somewhat under endowed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (tT6L1)

302 > for some reason, fb thinks i need to see shorts of scantily-clad asian wimmens.
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you think that's bad
I follow @IDFBabes on X, and all it is is, busty Israeli girl in skimpy bikinis enjoying off time at the beach

they all look alike- tan, bosomy, dark eyes, dark hair, very fit
crazy

Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (AOsQT)

303 297 So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?

I don't think there are very many of them. Build a very small, very special, very unpleasant prison to house them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

304 So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?

The time has come to start ignoring these sort of judges.

Biden did it.

Trump can use the same precedent.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (t0Rmr)

305 You know who loved the gays? The people of Sodom and Gomorrah that's who.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025

***
"Don't look back -- you can never look back --"
( -- Lot, seeing a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (J2vNu)

306 I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM (tT6L1)

So, she's an udder liar?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (TBHic)

307 My FIL is a leftie but I’ve never had a conservative with him about anything political. When we see each other, which is 2-3 time a year we talk sports, cars, lawn care (no really we do lol), kids and things like that. We each know we have differing views and also recognize healing at each other won’t change each others’ mind. It’s been like this for 20 years and works great.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (A1UYC)

308 Japanese "Revolutionary Fascist / Nihilist / Anarchist" Candidate for governor of Tokyo Toyama Koichi.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:45 AM (vAHT7)

Thank you!

Posted by: Jap, Chinaman or Korean? at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (y7KuV)

309 Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.

If true, that's new.

I dealt with a Federal agency, and a lot of senior people took much of December off, since they got a month's vacation a year, and lost it if they didn't use it up by the end of the calendar year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (uxCna)

310 Heh, The gal I'm thinking of makes Gabor look somewhat under endowed.
Posted by: blake
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Her cups runneth over?

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (ctrM5)

311 Scott Pressley. Scott is currently in NJ, I think, working to turn NJ purple, if not red.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:34 AM (tT6L1)

Nuke the cities and jersey is blood red.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (VwHCD)

312 Just imagine if it was your DIL doing it.. Last week she posted how to avoid getting picked up by ICE

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM (VE6XX)

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Aiding and abetting the harboring of illegal aliens is a federal crime.

Just saying ... paging Tom Homan!

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (vAHT7)

313 Oh, you're on a Drill Team?
Posted by: pawn
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Not going there with a ten foot pole.
Oops, went there.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (4780s)

314
"He was instrumental in breaking the "unbreakable" Nazi Enigma code; this saved countless lives and shortened WWII."

You know what shortened WWII? The atomic bomb, that's what.

Imagine what the nazis would have done to Alan Turing if they'd won.
That there is incentive to fight them right there.

Posted by: Speller at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (pSotA)

315 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed.
Posted by: blake

Isn't that the Overalls Chick that who went on a viral rant about men, that Ace featured in a post awhile back?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

316 Who was the Asian Guy who despised everyone? Wonder if he has a website.
Posted by: Jap, Chinaman or Korean? at February 06, 2025 11:39 AM (y7KuV)

Here you go.
Don't comment on old threads.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=401737

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 06, 2025 11:53 AM (FCbAQ)

317 The most concerning part of the rant is considering buying a dog from America's Hat. Tens of millions of perfectly good 'Murican canines available for purchase or adoption. Canadian canines are interbred with wolves so that they survive winter. No way would I import a serial killer.

Posted by: MAGA Mutt at February 06, 2025 11:53 AM (G5+As)

318 309 I worked for the feds in the 80's and sick days would accumulate but annual leave was use it or lose it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 06, 2025 11:54 AM (gm9Sb)

319 How about we separate people and actions.

That would invalidate all of modern socio-political dynamics.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

320 It's cruel and unusual punishment to put crazy men in a men's prison but putting crazy men in a women's prison is not cruel and unusual for the women?

The judge who came up with that ruling has some sanity issues himself.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:54 AM (tT6L1)

321 "Maybe we can ban bad breath too while we’re at it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

Here Here!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at February 06, 2025 11:54 AM (vFG9F)

322 Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.

—

That’s a thing in private sector too. But there’s usually a cap of sorts. $75k of banked vacation is crazy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (A1UYC)

323 Kristol's org, "Defending Democracy", spent a million bucks on advertising on Fox News, in case you were wondering why he is on Fox News so often.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 11:49 AM (uxCna)

Haven't seen Kristol on Fox in quite some time...Rove is there just about every day.

Posted by: BignJames at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (Yj6Os)

324 "Maybe we can ban bad breath too while we’re at it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

Why do you hate the British?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (/U5Yz)

325 I hope your siblings don't use Thankgiving etc. as a time to splain stuff to the rest of the family. That would not be fun.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (ctrM5)

I wouldn't know. I honestly don't know how they got this way. My dad, like many an AoS troll before him, literally campaigned for Goldwater. It's very weird.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (8AR3F)

326 @309

>>If true, that's new.

All I can go off of is what the caller said, he claimed he had around $75k in his bank and that that was too much money to leave on the table if he took the buyout offer.

Obviously he could be a longtime fed worker, working under previous working conditions and newer hires don't work under that system.

But there have got to be a lot of those older types squirreled away in FedGov.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (XV/Pl)

327 "So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?"

The time has come to start ignoring these sort of judges.

Biden did it.

Trump can use the same precedent.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (t0Rmr)

What means of enforcement does any judge actually have?

Judge: "Stop doing that thing you're doing."
Trump: "No."
Judge: "But I have the authority to tell you to stop."
Trump: "Perhaps. But how are you gonna MAKE me?"

Posted by: Doof at February 06, 2025 11:55 AM (gEQYA)

328 So- a DC judge ruled that throwing men who pretend to be women back into a men’s prison is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment?

I don't think there are very many of them. Build a very small, very special, very unpleasant prison to house them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year.
Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)

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

* cue Billy Joel *

"When will you realize ...
Salvador waits for you."

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (vAHT7)

329 Didn't choose to become a homosexual...

At some point, letting another male stick his you know what in your you know where would seem to involve a choice.

Posted by: Twolegs at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (6ZY4c)

330 Isn't that the Overalls Chick that who went on a viral rant about men, that Ace featured in a post awhile back?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't know as the woman in question hasn't come across my feed in a while. Oddly enough, I don't miss it, either.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (tT6L1)

331 For some reason they think I need to watch these chicks with big tits showing off survival skills. Yeah, because if shit hits the fan I'm really going to need a to know how to make a drinking cup from a tree branch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

What show are you talking about? (For research purposes only)

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (4p0Xq)

332 Homosexuality was a crime throughout the West then; BTW, it was Labour that went after him and not the Conservatives.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (5LoD7)

333 I was listening to Mike Slater, he had a government worker call in who said he would take the buyout but he has too much money, $75k, in his vacation and sick day bank.

Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)

Do they get paid out if they get fired?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

334 Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.

If true, that's new.

I dealt with a Federal agency, and a lot of senior people took much of December off, since they got a month's vacation a year, and lost it if they didn't use it up by the end of the calendar year.

It's a bit more complicated. You can save annual leave for a year, but it's use or lose at that point. You can save sick leave over the course of your career, which counts towards your "years of service" when calculating your pension.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (xCA6C)

335 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)

336 AID funded Christianity Today to the tune of 1.8 million. Just came out on Insty.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (ctrM5)

337 Most of them are going to take their chances and rely on law fare to force the government to retain them or go through arbitration.

There's too much money on the table for these government leeches.

In some cases 100's of thousands of dollars.

I was listening to Mike Slater, he had a government worker call in who said he would take the buyout but he has too much money, $75k, in his vacation and sick day bank.

Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)

Sick leave can be banked...
Vacation can only be carried at 30 days or less...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 11:57 AM (exHjb)

338 they all look alike- tan, bosomy, dark eyes, dark hair, very fit
crazy
Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 11:50 AM (AOsQT)

They probably are not posting pics of the ones who look like Rosa Kleb

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 11:57 AM (D7oie)

339 I actually lost a real friend over Trump - back in his first administration. He's a die-hard reddit retard but we went to highschool together and were good friends growing up...

He said that - in western NC - he was scared that he was seeing those "Git er dun" flags that looked like ISIS characters being flown from pickup trucks... and that he was afraid that these people were going to murder him. I told him that the right didn't have any monopoly on political violence and brought up the Hodgkinson assassination attemp. This was before the BLM riots and all of that.

Anyways he said that I was a threat to him and he completely cut off communication. I haven't heard from him for since 2017 or so I'd have to guess.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Sy/ow)

340 >>I don't know as the woman in question hasn't come across my feed in a while.

Sorry, I've been busy. Please give me another look-see.

Posted by: The Naked Gardener at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (Y1sOo)

341 It seems odd that the $75k in question would be lost if a buyout happened. That money is yours. Shouldn’t matter when you quit or retire, it’s earned money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (A1UYC)

342 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 11:47 AM

Ah, yes. That one. Pops up (but not out) in my feed, too. The EweToob algorithm must be run by Morons.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (kgE5c)

343 332 Homosexuality was a crime throughout the West then; BTW, it was Labour that went after him and not the Conservatives.
Posted by: andycanuck
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To be fair, Labour used to represent working class people whose children, the richer Tories, pursued as predators.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (ctrM5)

344 Federal employees can bank up to 240 hours of annual leave (30 days) before they're in "use or lose" situation.

Sick leave is not use or lose.

I had something like 2 1/2 months of sick leave when I retired. But did not get paid for it. Instead it's counted towards your service comp date (the day you started to work for the Fed.) It adds time to your service, which adds money to your pension.

Annual leave is something you get paid for, based on how many hours you've got in the bank, your grade and step... up to that 30 day limit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (Q4IgG)

345 I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year.

I was gonna suggest that but I don't think you can send citizens to Gitmo as prisoners.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 11:58 AM (ExV1e)

346 Look at it this way: You got lucky sooner rather than later. In the end, it's 'win-win'.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (ayRl+)

347 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.
Posted by: blake

Yup, saw that. Totally pointless videos.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (VwHCD)

348 @337

>>Sick leave can be banked...
Vacation can only be carried at 30 days or less...

Well, then he has $75k dollars in banked sick days, which is actually more preposterous than banking vacation days.

No wonder we're 34T in debt.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (XV/Pl)

349 Sorry, I've been busy. Please give me another look-see.
Posted by: The Naked Gardener
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Mr. GreenJeans, put your pants back on!!! Children don't want to see that!!!.

Posted by: whig at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

350 OMG! I knew USAIDA was evil but I didn't know they were this evil!

Chef Andrew Gruel@ChefGruel
Over $100 million to fund studies and research getting people to eat less pizza.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (L/fGl)

351 A free press is essential to freedom and democracy – and 75% of countries around the world do not have a free press. BBC Media Action supports local media around the world to deliver trusted information to people most in need.

Like many international development organisations, BBC Media Action has been affected by the temporary pause in US government funding, which amounts to about 8% of our income in 2023-24. We’re doing everything we can to minimise the impact on our partners and the people we serve.

As the BBC’s international charity, we are completely separate from BBC News, and wholly reliant on our donors and supporters to carry out our work.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (uxCna)

352 There is no real "paid disability leave" for cancer treatment and before last admin no "paid maternity leave" at the fed level, so the idea is you save sick leave for when you need it b/c at some point almost all will...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (exHjb)

353 He hasn't fired Powell yet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (QP3yt)

354 204
‘ I want to learn master.’
Ha! You flatter me. But I do have a couple of ideas.
1. Treat leftists’ values as not only wrong but immoral. Don’t even acknowledge them unless to criticize.
2. Treat your values as self-evident right and righteous.
3. Make short declarations . Use clean language.

(Cont.)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (jbnUc)

355 Probably not what you really meant, but TBH, I wouldn't sell anyone a dog who thought a dog was a commodity.

Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (CTUih)

356 Sick days is the biggest scam. Sure you're “Sick” Jan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (A1UYC)

357 Last week she posted how to avoid getting picked up by ICE

I know how!
Enter the coountry legally.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (Vt0MF)

358 I like how we're all just pretending things "show up" in feeds. "Gosh darn it, I don't know why I keep getting all these busty carpentry videos!"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (44PAK)

359 Yup, saw that. Totally pointless videos.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (VwHCD)

Nah. Two points.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (yWi/M)

360 "do you regret your vote" is like "have you stopped beating your wife"

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (8AR3F)

361 It's cruel and unusual punishment to put crazy men in a men's prison but putting crazy men in a women's prison is not cruel and unusual for the women?

No doubt if you were to make that argument the judge would rule that the trannies all had to be released.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

362 287. Apparently FedGov workers are not in a use it or lose it system and can bank their days, for decades, and get paid out when they retire.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Sick leave. I've acquaintances with a year's worth stashed.

Annual leave can carry over 240 hours, I believe, and up to 24 hours additional in "informal" comp time.

All are paid when someone retires, before they receive their full retirement, monthly pay.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

363 Serious Question: What is the US Code for Dastardly Deeds?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM (XV/Pl)

364 Troll dads went HHH. Moran dads went Barry 1.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM (4780s)

365 He hasn't fired Powell yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (QP3yt)

Not completely sure that he can

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM (D7oie)

366 The war in Europe (against the Nazis) ended May 8, 1945, three months before the Atom Bomb dropped on Japan.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM (9hujb)

367 Serious Question: What is the US Code for Dastardly Deeds?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM

Well, that depends. Are they done dirt cheap?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 12:03 PM (4p0Xq)

368 I've got something like 900 hours of sick leave. Wish I could get credit or even partial payment for it when I retire. The vacation time, over 200 hours, yes, I'll get that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

369 IIRC, Alan Turing's gayness involved relations with under-age boys; hence the "persecution".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think we all appreciated his rather beta-male performance as Wash on Firefly. That production was blessed, considering all the guns on set with a Baldwin in a Western setting, and no one got shot.

Posted by: Confused Moron at February 06, 2025 12:03 PM (JCZqz)

370 Yup, saw that. Totally pointless videos.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (VwHCD)

Nah. Two points.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 12:01 PM (yWi/M)

Well, the ones in question aren't actually points, more like a set of spare ass cheeks that are sliding over her stomach.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 12:03 PM (VwHCD)

371 362. Actually, the "sick leave" - rounded into certain numbers - can go towards time in service.

Imagine adding a year to retirement & retirement income from accumulated sick leave?!

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 06, 2025 12:03 PM (NFX2v)

372 I recently perused the posts of FBFs on my husband's account. I'll admit I'm kinda proud of one of our young lefty relatives who exhorted people to not be hateful toward those "brainwashed" Trump supporters because how can they win them over to the left if they dump all kinds of hate on them?

She also mentioned the "two different universes" phenomenon that has amazed me as well. Of course, she thinks she lives in the real world and Trump supporters live in an echo chamber.

But at least she has a sweet streak to temper her leftism. I hope that sweet streak survives and thrives in her so she can someday be open to the truth.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 06, 2025 12:04 PM (Sf2cq)

373
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Posted by: Bob Seger at February 06, 2025 12:05 PM (dg+HA)

374 Didn't choose to become a homosexual...

At some point, letting another male stick his you know what in your you know where would seem to involve a choice.

Posted by: Twolegs at February 06, 2025 11:56 AM (6ZY4c)

Doesn't involve a choice?

No more grooming then?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 06, 2025 12:05 PM (xJL+M)

375 Yup, saw that. Totally pointless videos.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:59 AM (VwHCD)

What fo the women get in their feeds? Cats?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 12:05 PM (9hujb)

376 365 He hasn't fired Powell yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 12:00 PM (QP3yt)

Not completely sure that he can
Posted by: Kindltot

Perhaps a squad of US Marines pressing their flash suppressors to the side of his flabby face would convince him to leave on his own.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 12:05 PM (/U5Yz)

377 @362

>>All are paid when someone retires, before they receive their full retirement, monthly pay.

It's sh*t like that for why NYC, for example pays more for retired cops than on duty cops.

The last time I looked, their budget for active duty NYPD is 6B dollars and their retirement funding is like 7B dollars.

Bottom line, the taxpayer is getting screwed bigly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (XV/Pl)

378 Sick leave.

Private industry killed that "perk" a while ago. All we get is leave, period. It doesn't matter why.

Fed Gov needs upgraded rules.

Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (QB+5g)

379 Posted by: Defenestratus at February 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Sy/ow)

I am sorry about your friend. I had a friend who I knew from the third grade. I went over to her house and during Covid I asked if I could take off the face mask. She was about twelve feet away from me and her family was at another part of the house. She got upset . I talked to her once to see if we could go out for coffee but then I couldn’t do it and I haven’t heard from her since. It does not help that besides being a leftist her husband is a hypochondriac.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (N8EjC)

380 Die, mouse, die!

Trouble in the House of Mouse: Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in Q1 2025

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

381 Nuke the cities and jersey is blood red.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 11:52 AM (VwHCD)
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That's true in most states...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (7fElN)

382 354 204

Back when I was on FB, I was wading through some stupid offensive leftists dreck and got tired of it.
Instead of refuting them, I ignored their points. Instead I posted:
‘Do mindless leftists stooges know they’re mindless leftist stooges.’

Goddamn. You should have seen the reaction. I had people scolding me for rudeness but best of all were the ones angrily denying my characterization. Which by the way ID’ed them as mindless leftists.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

383 @ 347 One short which kept showing up in my feed was some gal who liked to wear overalls and no shirt, making sure everyone knew she was extremely well endowed. I think she claimed to work on a farm somewhere but, somehow, I doubted that claim.
Posted by: blake
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'Doubt' is warranted in this case. I would be happy to confirm your suspicions about whether she really 'works on a farm' if you would but supply the information about how to safely view such lustful and (ahem ahem) lustful yet marginally safely 'sinful' programming. 'The People™' need Protection from such things, y' know. I'ma put the coffee on and start the popcorn now, tho' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 06, 2025 12:07 PM (ayRl+)

384 I see no one has nooded. Nood. CBS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)

385 Dipshit Senator Chris Coons has been babbling his defense if USAID for at least a half hour now. Seems to be part of this delay in confirmations, but also shows (to me) the panic over this USAID exposure.

I want more exposure of this hideous corruption.

And I want daily deportation numbers.

And daily job termination numbers.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 12:07 PM (ufFY8)

386 if you set your browser to dump all cookies and temp files when you close it out, the next time you go to youtube you'll get a blank page prompting you to 'search something'

that's all it will suggest

Posted by: Don Black at February 06, 2025 12:08 PM (AOsQT)

387 Die, mouse, die!

Trouble in the House of Mouse: Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in Q1 2025
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

I think I see the topic for an upcoming Ace thread later today...

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

388 Serious Question: What is the US Code for Dastardly Deeds?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 12:02 PM (XV/Pl)

3-6, 2-4, 3-6

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 06, 2025 12:09 PM (xJL+M)

389 Townhall.com@townhallcom
CNN's Brianna Keilar: "You have teleworking spouses...in the special forces...they are being told that they need to drive an hour and a half each way...are you aware of this?! It doesn't sound like it!"

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Special forces is telecommuting? That's not telecommuting. That's Call of Duty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 06, 2025 12:10 PM (L/fGl)

390 Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 06, 2025 12:05 PM (9hujb)

The only time I saw the narcissistic dope
in her overalls shaking her breasts was here- once. What I get in my feed is some religious articles as well as a newspaper article on “Episcopal Bidhop came from humble beginnings and that’s why she’s compassionate. Yep, no other clergy had parents who were divorced or died/sarc . I also got “ I became a pastor and lost my faith. Here’s what I believe now. I ignored it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 12:11 PM (N8EjC)

391 Just imagine if it was your DIL doing it.. Last week she posted how to avoid getting picked up by ICE
Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 11:12 AM

1. Don't be a foreigner
2. ???
3. Profit

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 06, 2025 12:12 PM (aD39U)

392 387 Die, mouse, die!

Trouble in the House of Mouse: Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in Q1 2025
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

I think I see the topic for an upcoming Ace thread later today...
Posted by: Bulg
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Overall Disney made big profit in 24 and it projected to do so in 25.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 12:25 PM (QP3yt)

393 392 Overall Disney made big profit in 24 and it projected to do so in 25.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 12:25 PM (QP3yt)

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Cruise lines are a cash cow. The parks still make good money.

The box office releases were big.

Streaming is still a sink hole, no matter how they dreamt up a paper profit last year based entirely on the absorption of HULU.

The company as a whole has been fairly healthy over the last few years. The film division has been pained, but 2024 was something of a reprieve because of three massive successes. We'll see if 2025 is the same. Cap 4 could easily lose money. I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

394 I am Canadian and would not tell you how to vote in your own elections, nor hold it against you afterwards, as I would hope that you would not do to me.
That said, there can never be too much winning!

Posted by: Greybeard Represent at February 06, 2025 12:46 PM (jgRaQ)

395 >>>my FBF is no longer my "Friend ". And in the future would no longer sell me a commodity because I'm MAGA person and using her words, "You cannot be trusted."

I would say we learned something about her, here, and nothing about you.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 01:35 PM (v0TzN)

396 Does your site have a contact page? I'm having problems
locating it but, I'd like to shoot you an e-mail.
I've got some suggestions for your blog you might be interested in hearing.
Either way, great blog and I look forward to seeing it develop over time.

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