Mid-Morning Art Thread

At the Boulevard
Vladimir Makovsky

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: Tesla at February 18, 2025 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

2 Off, sock!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:30 AM (Wnv9h)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

4
Journey.
The early years.

Posted by: With a squeeze box at February 18, 2025 09:31 AM (dg+HA)

5 Daddy plays the squeeze-box all day long

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:31 AM (xlWrD)

6 We be jammin'!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

7 She looks cold, he looks bored.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 18, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

8 "On the boulevard . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

9 She's thinking, 'why did I marry a busker?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:32 AM (xlWrD)

10 Down on the boulevard they take it hard
They look at life with such disregard
They say it can't be won
The way the game is run
But if you choose to stay
You end up playing anyway

Posted by: Taggart at February 18, 2025 09:32 AM (7VIIt)

11 Another depressing Russian art piece though I like the color palette a lot. I think that’s why CBD likes Andrew Wyeth so much. He has the same melancholy feel to most of his paintings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

12 I like this art, but I think we need Cap'n Obvious' opinion.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (Wnv9h)

13 Daddy plays the squeeze-box all day long

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:31 AM (xlWrD)

Mama never sleeps at night?

Posted by: BignJames at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (Yj6Os)

14 I went to the Crocodile in Seattle in the early 90s and saw an all accordion band. It was hilarious and pretty good!

Of course we were high. Why would you have to ask?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (aGb4i)

15 🎶 It's my dick in a squeeze box. 🎶

Posted by: Man on the Bench at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

16 Odd, but I could have said it was slavic just by looking at it. I am not sure why. Hazy look to the figures. Color choices maybe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (bss/y)

17 Lady on the bench looks to be wearing three winter coats.

Posted by: dantesed at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

18 They need a cigar box, a hat, something on the ground for people to pitch money into.

They're obviously not very good at this "begging" gig.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

19 I swear. If he plays "Lili Marleen" one more time, I'm gonna strangle his ass

Posted by: The woman at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (dg+HA)

20 "You remember last time you brought the concertina. People wouldn't stop hitting you."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

21 You know who else is named Vladimir?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

22 Except for the green fencing behind them, this reminds me a lot of the benches and lamps in Jackson Square, where I played as a kid.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

23 I have it on good authority from Jackson Browne that folks At The Boulevard take it hard. They look at life with such disregard.

Posted by: Doof at February 18, 2025 09:34 AM (9ByDD)

24 She looks thrilled

Posted by: Taggart at February 18, 2025 09:34 AM (7VIIt)

25 He needs a monkey.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 18, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

26 Of course we were high. Why would you have to ask?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 18, 2025 09:33 AM

Did Weird Al open?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:34 AM (Wnv9h)

27 From Wiki:

Vladimir Makovsky (1846 – 1920) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher.

And that poor lady.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 18, 2025 09:35 AM (u82oZ)

28 I still think it is funny that Westerners viewed Eastern European women as chronically unattractive babushkas right up until communism fell.

Then suddenly everyone noticed they can be real stunners. Amazing all the positive things dumping socialism can do isn't it?

Along those same lines it increased the lifespans of the people in the Soviet bloc by 10-20%.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 09:35 AM (t0Rmr)

29 At the Boulevard . . . I doubt this means he could be called a boulevardier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:35 AM (J2vNu)

30 Alternate title:

"In Which Olga Asks Dimitri Why There's a Hole In The Bottom of His Accordion"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 09:35 AM (iJfKG)

31
she should be playing the spoons in accompaniment. It is hard to be depressed outdoors while playing the spoons.

At least if it is not raining.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2025 09:36 AM (D7oie)

32 Jackson Square, where I played as a kid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You had a concertina, too?

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

33 I have it on good authority from Jackson Browne that folks At The Boulevard take it hard. They look at life with such disregard.
Posted by: Doof at February 18, 2025

***
Though something tells me that the lady wrapped up in three coats is no longer Somebody's Baby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

34 Alternate title:

"In Which Olga Angrily Refuses To Wear a Cute Little Porter's Cap And Dance Around Like a Monkey For Spare Change While Dimitri Plays His Accordion"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

35 *Jackson Square, where I played as a kid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius*

Throw in some coffee and beignets and I'm there.

Posted by: I miss Cafe DuMonde at February 18, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

36 Well, the magic attic's where the music rolls
And the Army-Navy's got ol' Jackie Soul
Down on peaches corner there are good ol' boys
And mother fletchers makin' lots of noise

They're dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard
Dancin', shaggin' on the boulevard

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 09:38 AM (LxER7)

37 Jackson Square, where I played as a kid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
You had a concertina, too?
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025

***
No, plastic Mattel Colt .45s and Mattel Thompson submachine guns with rolls of caps. My brother and I were into Westerns and war (Combat was big on TV at the time).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

38 Looks like a fur coat...hope there's no peta freaks around.

Posted by: BignJames at February 18, 2025 09:39 AM (Yj6Os)

39 I wish I'd brought my harmonica. . .

Posted by: The Baroness at February 18, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

40 Hard life will almost always turn into hard looks. The Soviet Union and Czarist Russia were a hard life.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:39 AM (VofaG)

41 she should be playing the spoons in accompaniment. It is hard to be depressed outdoors while playing the spoons.

At least if it is not raining.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2025 09:36 AM

Needs some bass and kazoo.

Posted by: Willy and the Poor Boys at February 18, 2025 09:39 AM (Wnv9h)

42 "In Which Olga Angrily Refuses To Wear a Cute Little Porter's Cap And Dance Around Like a Monkey For Spare Change While Dimitri Plays His Accordion"
+++

That does it. Imma start an OnlyFans.

Posted by: Olga at February 18, 2025 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

43 *Jackson Square, where I played as a kid.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius*
*
Throw in some coffee and beignets and I'm there.
Posted by: I miss Cafe DuMonde at February 18, 2025

***
It's still right across Decatur Street from the Square. Only now there is nowhere to park unless you pay $$.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

44 Raining in Russia? You mean snow Comrade.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:40 AM (xlWrD)

45 Russian springtime, so, early July?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 18, 2025 09:40 AM (BHrzb)

46 Alternate title:

"In Which Dimitri Waits Impatiently for His Free Boulevardier Cocktail"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

47 Freebuuurrrddd!!!

Posted by: Taggart at February 18, 2025 09:41 AM (7VIIt)

48 Sorry, it's Russian autumn, so, late August.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 18, 2025 09:41 AM (BHrzb)

49 I looked at Makovsky's work and I think Departure for the Hunt (1899) is his best: https://tinyurl.com/3w6vs6wj

And yes it has dogs so it is art

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 09:41 AM (t0Rmr)

50 Or you just buy the Cafe du Mond beignet mix at Wal-Mart and savor them at home.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:42 AM (xlWrD)

51 Go get your squeezebox boy...

Posted by: steevy at February 18, 2025 09:42 AM (KQk9m)

52
A dog would cheer them up. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (dxSpM)

53 Now that I look at our bundled-up lady, I see she is still in her youth -- though with what appears to be a hard life, it's fading fast. Some good food, a little makeup and lipstick, and she might be something to whistle at.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

54 caps. My brother and I were into Westerns and war (Combat was big on TV at the time).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

With Vic Morrow and Rick Jason.

Posted by: Mostly In Black and White at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

55 I looked at a lot of model homes when I was buying a house and watch a lot of home improvement/flipping shows where the homes are staged. What I noticed is that 99% of the home’s art work is Abstract. You rarely see realism art .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (VofaG)

56 Some good food, a little makeup and lipstick, and she might be something to whistle at.

Der Komisar is in town?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (xlWrD)

57 "More and more I like this Makovsky!"

(Paraphrased from a movie)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

58 Daddy played the squeeze box, Mamma couldn't sleep at night.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025 09:44 AM (kTd/k)

59 the lady's face says....such is life in Russia

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2025 09:44 AM (jGJov)

60 buskers >> beggars

Posted by: Candidus at February 18, 2025 09:44 AM (Us3R5)

61
Myron Floren: The Early Years

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 09:45 AM (dxSpM)

62 Buskers>>>Huskers
Ain't won shit since the 90's

Posted by: Taggart at February 18, 2025 09:45 AM (7VIIt)

63 Hooters > Buskers>>>Huskers

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

64 What the world really needs is a good accordion/bagpipe duet.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

65 Alternate title:

"Day Number Five of Dimitri Impatiently Waiting to Be Served His Free Boulevardier Cocktail...And He is Starting to Lose Hope"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 09:47 AM (iJfKG)

66 He plays while she sings.

"Once upon a time there was a tavern . . ."

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 18, 2025 09:47 AM (BHrzb)

67 The gulags are not that bad...a young woman like you will find it easier if you know...I'll write, I promise!

Posted by: Young Man Playing A Concertina And Playing It Hot at February 18, 2025 09:47 AM (NAF5O)

68
caption:

"Mister we could use a man like Joseph Stalin again..."

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 09:48 AM (aE/QX)

69 My brother and I were into Westerns and war (Combat was big on TV at the time).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
*
With Vic Morrow and Rick Jason.
Posted by: Mostly In Black and White at February 18, 2025

***
That's it! Heroes & Icons runs episodes on their "War" block on Saturday nights, along with Black Sheep Squadron, Tour of Duty, and Twelve O'Clock High.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

70 64 What the world really needs is a good accordion/bagpipe duet

Throw in a flute and you've got something

Posted by: Jethro Tull at February 18, 2025 09:48 AM (7VIIt)

71
What the world really needs is a good accordion/bagpipe duet.
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

What the world really needs is a good accordion/bagpipe/Jew's harp trio.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 18, 2025 09:48 AM (dxSpM)

72 Sunny as all get out, and approaching 20° already. Might be a scorcher today.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025 09:48 AM (n4GiU)

73 He is playing an old lost love song Blue Monday.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 18, 2025 09:50 AM (2DUHK)

74 She's dressed like it's below zero, and he seems to be eating a blazer and a turtleneck

Apparently playing the squeeze box is quite a workout

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 18, 2025 09:50 AM (8AONa)

75 Came was best combat guy. BAR man.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025 09:50 AM (n4GiU)

76 Alternate title - Billy Joel the Early Years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:50 AM (xlWrD)

77 "Worst Date Ever."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 09:51 AM (PzXaK)

78 Myron Floren: The Early Years
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Myron Floren actually played Lili Marlene with Marlene Dietrich singing in USO shows during the war. He volunteered for active duty, but was turned down because of heart damage from rheumatic fever as a child. That's pretty special.

Posted by: Norsk Tidende at February 18, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)

79 Caje, not came. Short for Cajun, I think.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 18, 2025 09:51 AM (n4GiU)

80 Pleasant painting, good technique, nice tonal quality, would hang in office or den.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 09:51 AM (XV/Pl)

81 She's dressed like it's below zero, and he seems to be eating a blazer and a turtleneck

Apparently playing the squeeze box is quite a workout

Living in the northeast I see natives walking around wearing perhaps shorts and a t-shirt even when it is well below freezing.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 09:51 AM (t0Rmr)

82 Apparently playing the squeeze box is quite a workout

---

I bet his breasts are really firm.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 09:52 AM (PzXaK)

83 Living in the northeast I see natives walking around wearing perhaps shorts and a t-shirt even when it is well below freezing.
Posted by: 18-1

University of Michigan frat boys' winter uniform: Shorts and sweatshirt.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

84 "Doom, despair, and agony on me!"
"Da."
"Deep dark depression, excessive misery!"
"Da."
"If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!"
"Da."
"Doom, despair, and agony on meeeee!"

"Da."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (LxER7)

85 The girl looks like she is an abused wife.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (VofaG)

86 Speaking of Jackson Square...

Long Ago and Far Away several years after I'd graduated high school,

I was in N.O. at Jackson Square and saw a gal I used to sit next to in high school. She was trying to be an artist and (hopefully) sold paintings and made drawing of tourists in Jackson Square.

I walked over and talked to her for a bit. She said she was doing okay which was nice to hear. That's about it. I never saw her again.

She was a tall, willowy blonde. Not a knock-out but pretty enough. Welp, I hope life went well for her.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

87 Does not look like they are happy people. Like the painting though, colors are striking. Would hang . Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (KXtU1)

88 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:55 AM (tjClK)

89

88 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:55 AM (tjClK)

Uh oh.....88........HEIL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:55 AM (tjClK)

90 How are you supposed to get in her pants if she's not wearing any pants?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:56 AM (tjClK)

91 I bet his breasts are really firm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 09:52 AM (PzXaK)

Firm breasts on a man are such a turn off for woman. They prefer my fat, pliable man boobs during foreplay and beyond. Yeah! Oh Yeah! (vigorously rubs his hairy nipples to a violent orgasm)

Posted by: Bill Gates, Owner Of Fat Man Boobs at February 18, 2025 09:56 AM (NAF5O)

92 On Soviet boulevard, garmoshka plays YOU!

Posted by: Agent 32 at February 18, 2025 09:56 AM (dAYXg)

93 How are you supposed to get in her pants if she's not wearing any pants?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:56 AM

Don't be ridiculous...her pants would never fit you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (kgE5c)

94 All of Myron Floren's arrangements, music, papers, are safe in the hands of 18-time Grammy winner Jimmy Sturr in Florida, NY. However, Jimmy is now approaching 80 and has no progeny. Who will carry on?

Posted by: Accordion To Hoyle at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

95 The girl looks like she is an abused wife.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:53 AM (VofaG)

He said he was in a band. I thought, surely it's a crap band, something like Rush, but at least he'll be away from home touring and we'll have some money. No. He just sits on this bench playing his accordion... badly... and sounding like Geddy Lee. Woe is me. -- Russian woman

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)

96 How are you supposed to get in her pants if she's not wearing any pants?

The Paulo call that the modalita facile.

The pants are not how you say uh yes a problem, but the no pants are the better

Posted by: The Paolo at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (t0Rmr)

97 In between outdoor lap dancing.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (2DUHK)

98
Don't be ridiculous...her pants would never fit you.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 09:57 AM (kgE5c)

Are you calling me FAT!!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:58 AM (tjClK)

99 She looks downtrodden; he looks drunk.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025 09:58 AM (kTd/k)

100 The joys of Soviet Communism.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (tjClK)

101 Kandinsky is probably the most famous Russian artist. And the one the horde would least like.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

102 So is he a magic man?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (xlWrD)

103 92 On Soviet boulevard, garmoshka plays YOU!
Posted by: Agent 32 at February 18, 2025 09:56 AM (dAYXg)

Fester! Play the Mamushka on the garmoshka!

Posted by: Gomez at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (z+ik4)

104 100 The joys of Soviet Communism.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (tjClK)

========

Killing the bourgeoisie will lead to utopia.

Eventually.

Now eat the dirt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

105
Hey!!!

It's National Engineers Week.

I need to put new tape on my glasses and find my pocket protector.

Posted by: pawn at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (QB+5g)

106 If you are going to be a street musician you should always remember your upbringing and comport yourself accordionly.

Posted by: muldoon at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

107 The girl looks like she is an abused wife.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

You've heard he has a temper.
He'll beat you every night!
But only when he's sober.
So you're all right!

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

108 She looks downtrodden; he looks drunk.
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025

***
He's the criminal type. See how close the eyes are set together. Maybe he does this accordion-in-the-park thing as a cover for his work as a pickpocket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (J2vNu)

109 104 100 The joys of Soviet Communism.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (tjClK)

========

Killing the bourgeoisie will lead to utopia.

Eventually.

Now eat the dirt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)

I hate standing in the dirt line.

Posted by: Little Vlad at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (z+ik4)

110 Buskers R Us

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (Pe7xi)

111 Kandinsky is probably the most famous Russian artist. And the one the horde would least like.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 09:59 AM (VofaG)

I have used Kandinsky several times! I like his stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (mWSu4)

112 Along those same lines it increased the lifespans of the people in the Soviet bloc by 10-20%.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 09:35 AM

The kids watch a YT channel, "Vasya in the Hay," in which a relatively well-off Russian travels to dying villages and other places where poor families live. Sergei tries to get them some relief: groceries, transportation, a heater, etc.

Once in a while he films before-and-after of haircuts and new clothes; the kids like that.
There was one boy who was already handsome.
He looked like a movie star afterward.

What struck me, watching with them, is how young some of the "old" people are. Some of it is from drinking, but a lot appears to be physically wearing out from years of hard manual labor.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (M5F4v)

113 He's not drunk, he's blind.

Posted by: pawn at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (QB+5g)

114 109 I hate standing in the dirt line.

Posted by: Little Vlad at February 18, 2025 10:00 AM (z+ik4)

=====

Yeah, but the sex is great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

115 Girlfriend/wife wearing your clothes? Cute

You wearing her clothes? HOT

Posted by: David French at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (t0Rmr)

116 Dude, Gadot is taking forever to get here...

Posted by: Man on the Bench at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (JCZqz)

117 She's probably singing deeply melancholic songs that Russians are really good at. He's accompanying her.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025 10:02 AM (kTd/k)

118 Today is Pluto Day?

Kneel De Grassy is probably blotto celebrating his victory.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:02 AM (xlWrD)

119 For some reason I have been thinking of Shonen Knife.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2025 10:02 AM (D7oie)

120 Are you calling me, FAT!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 09:58 AM

Punctuated for Bidenese.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (kgE5c)

121 Dude, Gadot is taking forever to get here...
Posted by: Man on the Bench

Sorry, Dude, Gal is NOT into you.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

122 I have used Kandinsky several times! I like his stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (mWSu4)

I also like some of his work but the horde is not known to like abstract.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (VofaG)

123 Kandinsky is probably the most famous Russian artist. And the one the horde would least like.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025

***
His Lied (or Chanson) from 1906 is sharp-edged, detailed, and looks like it'd be perfect for an adult coloring book.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

124 Aaaand...fail.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (kgE5c)

125 Dude, Gadot is taking forever to get here...
Posted by: Man on the Bench at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM

Perhaps you should hang yourself.

Posted by: Woman on the Bench at February 18, 2025 10:04 AM (kgE5c)

126 121 Dude, Gadot is taking forever to get here...
Posted by: Man on the Bench

Sorry, Dude, Gal is NOT into you.
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

Still worth the wait.

Posted by: Roy at February 18, 2025 10:04 AM (z+ik4)

127 I bought a cheese grater for my blind friend.

He told me it was the most violent book he'd ever read.

Posted by: Ciampino - touchy feely at February 18, 2025 10:05 AM (KjLnc)

128 Dude, Gadot is taking forever to get here...
Posted by: Man on the Bench at February 18, 2025

***
Lefty, too. Probably stuck in traffic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

129 Shonen Knife?

No Malice Mizer?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:05 AM (xlWrD)

130 The 4 Nations hockey tournaments would be better if Russia was involved and it was the 5 Nations tournament.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025 10:05 AM (kTd/k)

131 What struck me, watching with them, is how young some of the "old" people are. Some of it is from drinking, but a lot appears to be physically wearing out from years of hard manual labor.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2025 10:01 AM (M5F4v)

If you wanna see some tough mofos, look at the Yeven and Yevenki reindeer herdsman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 18, 2025 10:06 AM (BI5O2)

132 She was lap dancing me with her eys.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 18, 2025 10:06 AM (2DUHK)

133 Aaaand...fail.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:03 AM (kgE5c)

I'll respond as soon as I pick myself up from the floor from laughing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:06 AM (tjClK)

134 Four Nations?

Now I am imagining if they were Native American hockey teams

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:06 AM (xlWrD)

135 There are so many Russian artists better than Kandinsky: Repin, Surikov, Vereshchagin, Aivazovsky...

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

136
Democrats: the DOJ case against Adams was not political at all! We would never do such a thing to anyone who opposed our agenda!

Also Democrats: NY "governor" hochul MUST REMOVE Adams Immediately for cooperating with Trump!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:07 AM (d3n8M)

137 Looks like a fur coat...hope there's no peta freaks around.[/]

I have a full length faux fur coat that I got at a thrift shop, it cost 5 bucks. It’s very warm, and I only break it out in frigid weather.

At my last job one of the Woke Millenials made some PETA type comment when I wore it in. I answered: ‘It’s true! A hundred rayons died to make this coat!

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (kJyOb)

138 I'll respond as soon as I pick myself up from the floor from laughing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:06 AM

I'll be here all week...try the veal.

Posted by: Woman on the Bench at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (kgE5c)

139 There’s a revenge style movie called Double Jeopardy (1999) with Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones, wife liked it quite a bit. Kandinsky paintings play a prominent role in the plot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (73vBl)

140 Battin' 1.000 today, I am.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (kgE5c)

141 Concertina? I 'ardly even knew 'er!

Posted by: muldoon: unclear on the joke format at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)

142 Is this somewhere near Gorky Park?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 18, 2025 10:09 AM (kTd/k)

143 Frank Luntz spoke to voters that switched from Biden to Trump this go around, and guess what? They love the speed with which Trump is getting things done. They don’t like the hate speech but they love the action. People do not like how slow democracy works. Trump has mastered the showmanship.

Luntz should be trusted because he has never played fast and loose with the truth? Although, not underestimating how stupid Americans are is pretty sound reasoning.

How many times do we need to watch the same movie? We have been waiting for the people to see his despotic ways and they don’t. Democrats are Charlie Brown with the football. We need to take a lot more drastic measures than screaming in the wind.

The "slow pace of democracy" was built into the Retrumplicans plan from the beginning. Forty years of Republican obstructionism have taken a grievous toll.

After I read your post, I switched from Joy Reid to Fox News's "Ingraham Angle" and discovered why the MAGA idiots are still loyal to Trump and think he's doing a WONDERFUL job. I won't repeat the propaganda, but it is TERRIBLE. They are yucking it up and ridiculing Democrats' outrage over DOGE.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

144 I think almost everyone has seen a Kandinsky painting but didn’t know it. His Color study has been used on almost every home product as a design. Area rugs with it were very popular.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:10 AM (VofaG)

145
brit slang time!

Tosser vs Wanker?

Do you know what "grass" means?

How about "kip?"

Don't use google, you li'l chee-ahs!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:10 AM (d3n8M)

146 Democrats: the DOJ case against Adams was not political at all! We would never do such a thing to anyone who opposed our agenda!

This was another one of those smart political ideas from Trump. Not only did he gain a friend in NYC, but he punished the Dem establishment for making a specifically political case - remember Adams wasn't investigated until he publicly complained about all the illegals going to NYC...

But to complete the political move Trump's DOJ should find several blue shitty mayors who kept silent about the illegals who were doing the same things Adams did (because almost all of them do) and prosecute them to the hilt.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:10 AM (t0Rmr)

147 There are so many Russian artists better than Kandinsky: Repin, Surikov, Vereshchagin, Aivazovsky...
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

Yes but they are not as famous.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:11 AM (VofaG)

148 Wth

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:11 AM (61FSW)

149 How many times do we need to watch the same movie? We have been waiting for the people to see his despotic ways and they don’t. Democrats are Charlie Brown with the football. We need to take a lot more drastic measures than screaming in the wind.

Sounds like someone wants to start a revolution. J6 them stat!

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:11 AM (xlWrD)

150 brit slang time!

Tosser vs Wanker?

Do you know what "grass" means?

How about "kip?"

Don't use google, you li'l chee-ahs!
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:10 AM

Grass - to inform on someone.

Kip - to nap.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:12 AM (kgE5c)

151 143 How many times do we need to watch the same movie? We have been waiting for the people to see his despotic ways and they don’t. Democrats are Charlie Brown with the football. We need to take a lot more drastic measures than screaming in the wind.

After I read your post, I switched from Joy Reid to Fox News's "Ingraham Angle" and discovered why the MAGA idiots are still loyal to Trump and think he's doing a WONDERFUL job. I won't repeat the propaganda, but it is TERRIBLE. They are yucking it up and ridiculing Democrats' outrage over DOGE.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

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1. Seriously...this is the party that invented felonies out of misdemeanors to try and jail Trump for decades over a note in an internal financial document that Trump didn't even know about. But they've been playing with kid gloves. Oh, and the TWO assassination attempts.

2. The idea that there is not one dollar worthy of cuts in the federal government always entertains me. Please, keep this up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

152 rank Luntz spoke to voters that switched from Biden to Trump this go around, and guess what? They love the speed with which Trump is getting things done.

It always amazes me how little leftwingers know about people that are right of center.

Trump is doing a bunch of things he explicitly campaigned on in both the primary and general election. The populace WANTS those things even if most leftwingers do not.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:12 AM (t0Rmr)

153 The NY Post is reporting that the bodies of the Bibas family, mother and 2 children, will be returned by Hamas.

Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 10:13 AM (oaGWv)

154 When the concertina stopped bringing in the big money, Dimitri had to spray paint himself bronze and make a living posing with tourists as a living statue.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 18, 2025 10:13 AM (JkO4W)

155 146 This was another one of those smart political ideas from Trump. Not only did he gain a friend in NYC, but he punished the Dem establishment for making a specifically political case - remember Adams wasn't investigated until he publicly complained about all the illegals going to NYC...

But to complete the political move Trump's DOJ should find several blue shitty mayors who kept silent about the illegals who were doing the same things Adams did (because almost all of them do) and prosecute them to the hilt.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:10 AM (t0Rmr)

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Shipwreckedcrew has essentially been saying that the Adams case was bullshit based on the procedural stuff that the SDNY filed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

156 152 Trump is doing a bunch of things he explicitly campaigned on in both the primary and general election. The populace WANTS those things even if most leftwingers do not.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:12 AM (t0Rmr)

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"Trump never said he wanted to cut spending!"
*shows video of Trump saying he wants to cut spending*
"Yeah, but his voters were too stupid to believe him!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

157 I wonder if Charles Schultz ever knew how ubiquitous a metaphor Charlie Brown and the football has become.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

158 For decades when asked "What should we cut first?" the populace has answered "Foreign Aid".

Well, USAID is more then just that but...Trump is doing exactly what the voters have asked for.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (t0Rmr)

159 think almost everyone has seen a Kandinsky painting but didn’t know it. His Color study has been used on almost every home product as a design. Area rugs with it were very popular.

I couldn’t name one of his works, but when I view them, I usually do appreciate them. They look musical to me, like a painted melody. Or maybe even minor chords.

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (VwXaZ)

160 It's ok

Posted by: Skip at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (fwDg9)

161 You can’t reason with unreasonable mental patients which are the radical Left. They have absolute no self-awareness .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (VofaG)

162 147 There are so many Russian artists better than Kandinsky: Repin, Surikov, Vereshchagin, Aivazovsky...
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

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Artists? I thought they were submarines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 18, 2025 10:15 AM (JkO4W)

163 The only Charlie Browns I am seeing right now are on the Left wailing and crying because their phony jobs and salaries are being eliminated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:15 AM (xlWrD)

164 couldn’t name one of his works, but when I view them, I usually do appreciate them. They look musical to me, like a painted melody. Or maybe even minor chords.
Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (VwXaZ)

And that is part of his theory he was going for.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:15 AM (VofaG)

165
And for how long were these murder victims of hamas (D-Middle East) deceased?

I ask because I would find it hard to believe the corpses were kept on ice.

Which brings me to the gruesome thought of what, exactly, is the condition of these former loved one of Israel?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:15 AM (d3n8M)

166 "Trump never said he wanted to cut spending!"
*shows video of Trump saying he wants to cut spending*
"Yeah, but his voters were too stupid to believe him!"

I mean you can even go find leftwingers screaming that if elected Trump will cut "necessary" spending. So this odd retro-cut that Trump cutting spending is a shocking surprise is a bunch of bullshit.

Now...the left didn't expect him to be this effective, I think they expected him to try and work through congress and because of all the stolen House and Senate seats then fail.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (t0Rmr)

167 The NY Post is reporting that the bodies of the Bibas family, mother and 2 children, will be returned by Hamas.[/ii]

So horrible. Totally unnecessary carnage.

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (VwXaZ)

168 Mommy's got a squeeze box, Pierre doesn't know to play.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (pLaQB)

169 158 For decades when asked "What should we cut first?" the populace has answered "Foreign Aid".

Well, USAID is more then just that but...Trump is doing exactly what the voters have asked for.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:14 AM (t0Rmr)

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I mean...yeah. This was my thought.

It's easily the most politically palatable cut from 30,000 feet. Because it's supposed to be foreign aid exclusively ($40 billion a year for rice for poor people, and still no solutions to world hunger!).

AND...it's become a slush fund to fund the left of the entire western world.

This is the best timeline.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

170
Oct 7th, was, what, 16 months ago??

How many more corpse-hostages do they have?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (d3n8M)

171 153 The NY Post is reporting that the bodies of the Bibas family, mother and 2 children, will be returned by Hamas.
Posted by: Tuna at February 18, 2025 10:13 AM (oaGWv

So sad but we knew this was the outcome

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 10:17 AM (VE6XX)

172 Gadot>>>>Godot

Posted by: Ridin' The Pine at February 18, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

173 Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson, The Early Years

Posted by: muldoon: unclear on the joke format at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (/iMjX)

174 Wow, this is some butchering of the English language. Calling solar panel stations solar "gardens".

Michigan Consumer's Energy: No Sun? No Problem! Solar Delivers in Every Season

Solar gardens are already doing great things across the state. Learn how one community repurposed a former blighted industrial site and created The Consumers Energy Solar Gardens in Cadillac.

Link with video: https://bit.ly/3CUWcN3

Maybe some fodder for a future Buck Throckmorton Morning Rant.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (P5BPp)

175 You can’t reason with people who believe a man can become a woman.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

176 158 For decades when asked "What should we cut first?" the populace has answered "Foreign Aid".

Well, USAID is more then just that but...Trump is doing exactly what the voters have asked for.
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Then's there $4.7T that left the Treasury and no one knows where it went. Biggest Bank Robbery Evah?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (pLaQB)

177 They have always been lying thats their thing thats how we got to 36 trillion in debt and socisl security and medicare on the brink of insolvency

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (dJR17)

178 166 Now...the left didn't expect him to be this effective, I think they expected him to try and work through congress and because of all the stolen House and Senate seats then fail.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:16 AM (t0Rmr)

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I fully believed that the cuts Trump could enact unilaterally would have been extremely limited and not terribly effective. That he'd have to go through Congress, and that there'd be internal resistance against EOs directing the cutting of funds (the lack of firing in his first term was the seed of that thought).

If federal spending has gotten so completely unmoored from statute, with appropriations written the same way legislation is ("the secretary can do whatever, like, you know, he wants and stuff"), then Trump has a WHOLE lot more leeway than I thought.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

179 Solar Gardens?

Sounds better in French - Jardin du solar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:19 AM (xlWrD)

180 176 Then's there $4.7T that left the Treasury and no one knows where it went. Biggest Bank Robbery Evah?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (pLaQB)

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The federal government doesn't have to track its spending.

But you have to track every penny if you sell $600.01 worth of stuff online.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

181 You can’t reason with people who believe a man can become a woman.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM (VofaG)

It is my firm belief the pharmaceutical industry has done more damage to the human mind than anyone could even consider.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:20 AM (tjClK)

182 $4k.7 trillion just vanished?

What?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:20 AM (xlWrD)

183 Well, at least there are no dicks showing in this painting.

Posted by: Ralph at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (8WZD4)

184 Well, at least there are no dicks showing in this painting.
Posted by: Ralph at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (8WZD4)

How do you know the guy leaning against the light post isn't a dick?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (tjClK)

185 "Trump never said he wanted to cut spending!"
*shows video of Trump saying he wants to cut spending*
"Yeah, but his voters were too stupid to believe him!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

To be fair, that IS how the Dems operate. "Sure, Obama SAID he supports marriage being restricted to a man and a woman, but we all know he doesn't really believe it," or "we believe abortion should be rare, safe, and legal." And they always says they want budget/fiscal responsibility, but everyone knows they'll open the money faucet and spray it on everyone like a bad bukkake video.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (JCZqz)

186 I shouldn't be up yet but guess it's that or waste 2 hours to try and get another hour

Posted by: Skip at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (fwDg9)

187 But who knows what's going on under that accordion, or whatever it is in that guy's lap.

Posted by: Ralph at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (8WZD4)

188 182 $4k.7 trillion just vanished?

What?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:20 AM (xlWrD)

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DOGE reported that a field in the Treasury system was left blank for $4.7 trillion worth of transactions.

It's the statutory requirement field, the field that is supposed to tie spending to specific legislation.

$4.7 trillion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

189 Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson, The Early Years
Posted by: muldoon: unclear on the joke format at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM

"Do you believe in the hereafter?"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (kgE5c)

190 185 To be fair, that IS how the Dems operate. "Sure, Obama SAID he supports marriage being restricted to a man and a woman, but we all know he doesn't really believe it," or "we believe abortion should be rare, safe, and legal." And they always says they want budget/fiscal responsibility, but everyone knows they'll open the money faucet and spray it on everyone like a bad bukkake video.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (JCZqz)

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And there's video of Obama laughing at the idea that people would even believe in the idea of "shovel ready jobs".

It wasn't us.

The left, on some level, understands that they are stupid rubes. It must be depressing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

191 When I read those DU posts I’m struck by how opposite they are to reality. They have been gaslit into living in Backward World, and it sounds like they intend to stay there.

If they’re not careful, they will find themselves slipping through a time portal and starring in a Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (VwXaZ)

192 $4.7T that left the Treasury and no one knows where it went.

Just overprints while the presses slow down for fresh ink.

Posted by: DaveA at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (FhXTo)

193 A trillion here and a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.

Posted by: Zombie Everitt Dirksen at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (JkO4W)

194 Gallerix Org - Online Museum

On the boulevard
Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920)

"Vladimir Makovsky touched upon in his 1877 painting On the Boulevard one of the most acute problems in Russia at the time, which may seem distant and irrelevant now, but to his contemporaries it must have seemed quite typical. The main problem of the picture is the departure of the peasants in the city to earn money. The breadwinner was forced to leave his family: parents, wife, children, life without them was disrupted, the family connection weakened and even disappeared, and the usual foundations of the village world collapsed, as did the patriarchal world. The main characters of "On the Boulevard" are a wife who came to her young husband in Moscow and the husband himself, who, like many others, went to the city to earn money and changed beyond recognition."
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I like the painting a great deal as I can almost feel the wife's great sadness.

Beyond the fence is pretty and bright, forward of the fence where they're seated is darker, more dead & dreary.

Yet I think I could place it within the rotation of paintings that are occasionally out for viewing.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

195 Well, at least there are no dicks showing in this painting.
Posted by: Ralph at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (8WZD4)

How do you know the guy leaning against the light post isn't a dick?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM

Given his posture and the woman in front of him, there could possibly be a dick on view in this picture. Just not from our perspective.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (kgE5c)

196 Alternate title:

"Day Fifteen of Dimitri Waiting Angrily to Be Served His Free Boulevardier Cocktail...And Really. I Mean Really, Olga! Five More Minutes. That's It. Just Five More Minutes Then I'm Going to Complain to the Commissar or Manager Or Something. I Mean Why Call This a Boulevard If You're Not Going to Serve Free Boulevardier Cocktails. This Is Soviet Russia! Everything Should Be Free For the Proletariat! Especially Boulevardier Cocktails the Most Decadent Treat of the Decadent Upper Classes! I mean I storm the Gates of...Well, I Mean I Stormed the Side Entrance of the GUM Department Store But Still...Still, Where is the Justice? Where is the Justice!!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (iJfKG)

197 $4k.7 trillion just vanished?

What?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Was David Copperfield anywhere near by?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

198 Bush Gardens > Solar Gardens

Posted by: women who don't trim the hedges once in a while down there at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (Y1sOo)

199 The federal government doesn't have to track its spending.

But you have to track every penny if you sell $600.01 worth of stuff online.

I was working on my taxes earlier this month. One bank I have a small savings account with hadn't published a 1099-INT yet so I waited as they said they'd have it done the 15th. Well the 15th rolled around still no form.

So I googled why and the answer is they don't have to give you a form if you earned less then $10 BUT you are still legally obligated to report that income. So I went through and tabulated my interest manually and it was like $8 for the year. F the government and their insane, stupid regulations.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:25 AM (t0Rmr)

200 191 When I read those DU posts I’m struck by how opposite they are to reality. They have been gaslit into living in Backward World, and it sounds like they intend to stay there.

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They sound like my Leftard sister. She thinks Literally Hitler will force women to carry the babies of the Patriarchy and he'll cut off her Social Security.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 18, 2025 10:25 AM (JkO4W)

201 Check the transaction records.

That is almost 6 times the DoD budget.

I would be waterboarding everyone,

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:25 AM (xlWrD)

202 The Leave It To Beaver episode where the Beav orders an accordion from a magazine and is one of the funniest in the series.

He later got in trouble in a similar way joining a Columbia-like record club.

Posted by: Still the Beaver at February 18, 2025 10:25 AM (G5+As)

203 137 Looks like a fur coat...hope there's no peta freaks around.[/]

I have a full length faux fur coat that I got at a thrift shop, it cost 5 bucks. It’s very warm, and I only break it out in frigid weather.

At my last job one of the Woke Millenials made some PETA type comment when I wore it in. I answered: ‘It’s true! A hundred rayons died to make this coat!

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:08 AM (kJyOb)
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That was funny.

Posted by: Ciampino - Maybe Polly Esters? at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (KjLnc)

204 Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson, The Early Years
Posted by: muldoon: unclear on the joke format at February 18, 2025

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Dirty Old Man (settling next to Gladys the Spinster on a park bench): "Do you believe in the hereafter?"

Gladys: "Yes."

DOM: "Then you know what I'm here after!" [Gets clobbered by Gladys with her purse]

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

205 Well, at least there are no dicks showing in this painting.
Posted by: Ralph at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM (8WZD4)

How do you know the guy leaning against the light post isn't a dick?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:21 AM

Given his posture and the woman in front of him, there could possibly be a dick on view in this picture. Just not from our perspective.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (kgE5c)

Would that be some Heoric Dick Showing or just shameful, pervert action in Art?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

206
They sound like my Leftard sister. She thinks Literally Hitler will force women to carry the babies of the Patriarchy and he'll cut off her Social Security.

They claimed that in 2017 as well. And yet they claim to believe it now...again.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (t0Rmr)

207 DOGE reported that a field in the Treasury system was left blank for $4.7 trillion worth of transactions.

It's the statutory requirement field, the field that is supposed to tie spending to specific legislation.

$4.7 trillion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

Over what timeframe?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (ExV1e)

208 And Bill Burr went on another lefty based rant on billionaires . I hate people who pretend they are above it all , middle of the road and both sides of the political spectrum are the same. Pick a fucking side.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:27 AM (VofaG)

209 I have a full length faux fur coat that I got at a thrift shop, it cost 5 bucks. It’s very warm, and I only break it out in frigid weather.

At my last job one of the Woke Millenials made some PETA type comment when I wore it in. I answered: ‘It’s true! A hundred rayons died to make this coat!'

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025

***
Good for you. Rayons are nasty little creatures!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

210 207 Over what timeframe?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:26 AM (ExV1e)

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DOGE's post didn't say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

211 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. No traffic. We can cross now.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 18, 2025 10:28 AM (W/lyH)

212 A rayon bit my sister.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 18, 2025 10:28 AM (JkO4W)

213 Good for you. Rayons are nasty little creatures!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:27 AM

No one cares about us anymore!

Posted by: The Nauga at February 18, 2025 10:28 AM (kgE5c)

214 *sigh*

Heoric = Heroic

Stupid fingers.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

215 And Bill Burr went on another lefty based rant on billionaires .

The guy worth $20M is telling me we should go murder all the people worth $1B. Well, I'm not worth $1B, but I'm also not worth $20M - from my standards BOTH are ridiculously wealthy.

If the one is worth the populace hunting down and stealing his wealth why not throw in the other as well?

And I would live to see some ask Burr this right in his round punchable face. "But...but...I earned my money!"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

216
Given his posture and the woman in front of him, there could possibly be a dick on view in this picture. Just not from our perspective.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2025 10:24 AM (kgE5c)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 18, 2025 10:29 AM (tjClK)

217 The Hill@thehill
"Trump’s idea of ‘competence’ — only white men need apply"

-
That's not true! It's only STRAIGHT white men.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

218 Good for you. Rayons are nasty little creatures!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025
*
No one cares about us anymore!
Posted by: The Nauga at February 18, 2025

***
We thought you were extinct along with your buddies the passenger pigeon and the dodo!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

219 Russia always looks cold to me.

Posted by: Eromero at February 18, 2025 10:30 AM (LHPAg)

220 I saw Heoric Dick Showing open for GWAR at Arcadia in '99.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:30 AM (tjClK)

221 And Bill Burr went on another lefty based rant on billionaires.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Well, those bastards do want the videos of hot MILFs and cute kids destroyed.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

222 DOGE reported that a field in the Treasury system was left blank for $4.7 trillion worth of transactions.

It's the statutory requirement field, the field that is supposed to tie spending to specific legislation.

$4.7 trillion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)
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So maybe Elon Musk is NOT the richest man in the world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (BpYfr)

223 Reports from Riyadh are good. Putin and Trump are ending the war and a leak of the proposal has US getting access to Ukrainian mineral deposits. This is good as it will help remove the choke hold the Chicoms have on the supply chain for tech products.

Posted by: Diabeetus at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (SawFp)

224 Heoric = Heroic

Stupid fingers.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 18, 2025

***
"Heoric" was Beowulf's summer cabin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

225 Wonder how quickly Tensor will catch up and censor this image of the red head in bed?

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (xlWrD)

226 The Hill@thehill
"Trump’s idea of ‘competence’ — only white men need apply"

So, Trump has ZERO women in his cabinet......Someone should tell those ladies they're not employed by the President.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (tjClK)

227 219 Russia always looks cold to me.
Posted by: Eromero

That's why they make sure young Russian women are so hot. And, why they drink so much.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 18, 2025 10:32 AM (JCZqz)

228 It's the classic category error.

"All billionaires are scum"

"All billionaires are righteous and deserve every penny they have"

Some are one. Some are the other. Some are neither. The category "Is worth $1 billion" contains no information about deservedness or morality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 18, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)

229 we should go murder all the people worth $1B.

-
So $999,999,999.99 is the sweet spot?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

230 222 So maybe Elon Musk is NOT the richest man in the world...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (BpYfr)

======

What's amazing to me is the impression I'm getting that the people receiving these funds...never made a nest egg. At all.

If you were skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as a middle manager in an NGO with no need to actually deliver results, I feel like you should be able to survive in DC for a few years to regroup, not needing to panic sell in the face of losing the job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

231 So Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi are not women?

But Admiral Levine is one?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (xlWrD)

232 Arte Johnson and his Walnetto were personal heroes to me. Picked up many girls using his lines.

Posted by: Man About Town at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (G5+As)

233 Russia always looks cold to me.
Posted by: Eromero

That's why they make sure young Russian women are so hot. And, why they drink so much.
Posted by: Military Moron

I once read a description of Russians as "Italians who are forced to live in the snow."

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

234 I’ve been out of pocket for the whole weekend. What is the latest outrage according to the left?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (Qo3gv)

235 231 So Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi are not women?

But Admiral Levine is one?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (xlWrD)

=====

Nope.

White men.

Otherwise they'd vote Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

236 Very nice

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (dJR17)

237 No one cares about us anymore!
Posted by: The Nauga at February 18, 2025

***
"Once, vast herds of naugas roamed the living rooms and dens of America. Today they are reduced to starveling bands, eking out a precarious existence in dentists' waiting rooms. Won't you help? Just $19 a month. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

238 The Hill@thehill
"Trump’s idea of ‘competence’ — only white men need apply"
==========
So, Trump has ZERO women in his cabinet......Someone should tell those ladies they're not employed by the President.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (tjClK)

I wonder if Scott Turner has been informed that he's white.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

239 Orange man isnt visiting kentucky now!!!

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (dJR17)

240 The Hill@thehill
"Trump’s idea of ‘competence’ — only white men need apply"

Elon is an African American.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (y9ksN)

241 Good new for Russia global warming will make it Mediterranean by 2035 is it?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (Qo3gv)

242 I’ve been out of pocket for the whole weekend. What is the latest outrage according to the left?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025

***
It wouldn't all fit in one of Pixy's gray boxes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

243 "Heoric" was Beowulf's summer cabin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:31 AM (J2vNu)

Heoric Hard-Wall | Fjord adjacent
Fire burning | Coffee brewed.
Danish neighbor | has a monster
Guess I gotta | go and kill it

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 18, 2025 10:35 AM (VoAdT)

244 You can’t reason with people who believe a man can become a woman.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:18 AM

You can't reason with people who don't use reason themselves.

What's the saying?

"You can't reason someone out of something they did not first reason themselves into."

I have felt since the first time I started following politics at age 25 on Sept 12, 2001, that you can't reason with anyone who can justify the mass murder of babies in the womb. Anyone who can be convinced to justify, support and promote that abomination can be convinced into supporting any number of other atrocities, corruption and immoral behavior.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 18, 2025 10:35 AM (P5BPp)

245 153 The NY Post is reporting that the bodies of the Bibas family, mother and 2 children, will be returned by Hamas.
Posted by: Tuna

I've held such hope for them since the October 7th attack. The idea that they - any or all - can be dead sickens me.

I would like to know from where are they being returned as I still don't believe Hamas held them in all along. And, if they are deceased, I want whoever, whatever held them to exist no more either.

Yeah, I guess I'm a lousy Christian.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2025 10:35 AM (NFX2v)

246 That came from the whife dude pretending to be morgan freeman shirley

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (dJR17)

247 What's amazing to me is the impression I'm getting that the people receiving these funds...never made a nest egg. At all.

I know a fair number of upper middle class left leaning LIVs. They have high paying jobs in tech, healthcare, government or NGOs, and they immediately spend everything they earn.

They have multimillion dollar houses, new SUVs (often electric), "help" around the house, take foreign vacations, each out a lot, and on and on.

And they regularly tell me two things:

1) We need to tax the wealthy. Those assholes need to feel the pain so the government can "help" normal people...like them.

2) They are tapped out and need tax relief. "Normal" people like them should be getting a serious tax cut.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (t0Rmr)

248 So Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi are not women?

But Admiral Levine is one?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (xlWrD)

=====

Nope.

White men.

Otherwise they'd vote Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

White Hispanics?

Posted by: Doof at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (9ByDD)

249 If you were skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as a middle manager in an NGO with no need to actually deliver results, I feel like you should be able to survive in DC for a few years to regroup, not needing to panic sell in the face of losing the job.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)
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Most of them probably blew their money on "keeping up with the Joneses." They have huge houses, many cars, maybe even a vacation home or two. How much of that is paid off?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (BpYfr)

250 White Hispanics?
Posted by: Doof at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (9ByDD)

That's retarded, sir.

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at February 18, 2025 10:37 AM (tjClK)

251 Yeven and Yevenki reindeer herdsman.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 18, 2025 10:06

I imagine they're like Saami with their weather-beaten skin and deep creases coming from their eyes. Although (cultural bias showing), I always thought they were beautiful people. My Dad recalled at college Yoopers mistaken for foreign students because their classmates never met Saami before.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2025 10:37 AM (M5F4v)

252 Better than in the middle.

“Malcolm in the Middle” Star Frankie Muniz Celebrates Top 10 Daytona Finish

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

253 It is my firm belief the pharmaceutical industry has done more damage to the human mind than anyone could even consider.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:20 AM

Combine that with the healthcare industry which pushes the use of drugs and combine that with all the garbage the food industry has been putting into our food for decades and here we are.

Not to mention the federal government and mass media which instead of being a check and balance on these industries, just takes corrupt millions to support and promote them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 18, 2025 10:38 AM (P5BPp)

254 247 I know a fair number of upper middle class left leaning LIVs. They have high paying jobs in tech, healthcare, government or NGOs, and they immediately spend everything they earn.

They have multimillion dollar houses, new SUVs (often electric), "help" around the house, take foreign vacations, each out a lot, and on and on.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (t0Rmr)

======

I know that there are limits to 401ks and stuff (roughly $23,000 per year), but if you're going for a decade maxing out, plus growth, you should have something like half a million just there, at least. Sure, there's a tax penalty to getting it, but that's gotta be something.

Plus, investments. People should be investing beyond that, especially at that income level.

But...nothing. Probably the 401k, but not maxed out. Not much else.

It's so weird. Like they thought the party couldn't end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

255 My county allows me to raise chickens and even nutria, but draw the line at naugas.

Posted by: New Zoo Revue at February 18, 2025 10:38 AM (G5+As)

256 The Hill@thehill
"Trump’s idea of ‘competence’ — only white men need apply"

When you're not even trying and aren't afraid to show EVERYONE.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:38 AM (tjClK)

257 My Dad recalled at college Yoopers mistaken for foreign students because their classmates never met Saami before.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2025 10:37 AM (M5F4v)

FWIW, I almost always play as a Saami count when I play CK3.

I have no idea why. I just do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

258
I know a fair number of upper middle class left leaning LIVs. They have high paying jobs in tech, healthcare, government or NGOs, and they immediately spend everything they earn.

They have multimillion dollar houses, new SUVs (often electric), "help" around the house, take foreign vacations, each out a lot, and on and on.

—

And the govt will bail them out just like it bails them out in 2009 with the mortgage relief shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (Qo3gv)

259 Sami?

thought they were Suomi?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xlWrD)

260 My county allows me to raise chickens and even nutria, but draw the line at naugas.

Nagas > Naugas

Posted by: Some Priest of Set at February 18, 2025 10:40 AM (t0Rmr)

261 259 Sami?

thought they were Suomi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xlWrD)

Sami = "Lapplanders"

Suomi = "Finns"

Same language family, though, I think.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 18, 2025 10:40 AM (VoAdT)

262
thought they were Suomi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xlWrD)

Fun fact: They call Finland Suomi, but don't know why or where the word came from.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:40 AM (tjClK)

263 My Dad recalled at college Yoopers mistaken for foreign students because their classmates never met Saami before.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Yooper's are frequently mistaken for Bigfeet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

264 If you have to explain the joke

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (dJR17)

265 My Dad recalled at college Yoopers mistaken for foreign students because their classmates never met Saami before.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

I didn't know that there were Saami in the UP. Regular Finns, yes, but not Saami.

They must have gone to the UP to get warm.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

266 Yoopers > Canuckistanis

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

267 If you have to explain the joke
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (dJR17)

IT'S FUNNY THAT IT'S NOT VERY FUNNY AT THAT POINT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (tjClK)

268 partisan birth gap

A few years ago, Gordon Dahl, an economist at UC San Diego, set out to measure how Trump’s 2016 victory might have affected conception rates in the years following. And he and his colleagues found a clear effect: Starting after Trump’s election, through the end of 2018, 38,000 fewer babies than would otherwise be expected were conceived in Democratic counties. By contrast, 7,000 more than expected were conceived in Republican counties in that same period. (The study, published in 2022, was conducted before data on the rest of Trump’s term were available.) Over the past three decades, Republicans have generally given birth to more kids than Democrats have. But during those first years of the first Trump administration, the partisan birth gap widened by 17 percent. “You see a clear and undeniable shift in who’s having babies,” Dahl told me.

Posted by: SMOD at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

269 Although “spend everything they earn” could mean after 401k contributions. A lot of people confused 401k contributions almost like a tax. They have gross income and take home pay. And take home is tax, insurance, retirement, etc,

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:42 AM (Qo3gv)

270 About damn time straight white dudes caught a break. We've been the world's dartboard for a lot of years now.
And the cheesemakers.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 10:42 AM (gS+d1)

271 I know a fair number of upper middle class left leaning LIVs. They have high paying jobs in tech, healthcare, government or NGOs, and they immediately spend everything they earn.

They have multimillion dollar houses, new SUVs (often electric), "help" around the house, take foreign vacations, each out a lot, and on and on.

And they regularly tell me two things:

1) We need to tax the wealthy. Those assholes need to feel the pain so the government can "help" normal people...like them.

2) They are tapped out and need tax relief. "Normal" people like them should be getting a serious tax cut.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:36 AM (t0Rmr)

Grasshoppers State Ants Should Pay More In Taxes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

272 But during those first years of the first Trump administration, the partisan birth gap widened by 17 percent. “You see a clear and undeniable shift in who’s having babies,” Dahl told me.

Trump has given normal people hope. You need some level of hope to decide you want to bring kids into the world.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:42 AM (t0Rmr)

273 Sami = "Lapplanders"

Suomi = "Finns"

Same language family, though, I think.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yes. The Uralic language family. Also includes Estonian and Hungarian, and a lot of small languages in Russia.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

274 255 My county allows me to raise chickens and even nutria, but draw the line at naugas.

Bastiges!

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (61FSW)

275 Suomi is the language saami is the ethnic group

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (dJR17)

276 Covid can probably explain a lot of the birth gap. For 2-3 years Dems didn’t leave the house. Kinda hard to make babies that way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Qo3gv)

277 A few years ago, Gordon Dahl, an economist at UC San Diego, set out to measure how Trump’s 2016 victory might have affected conception rates in the years following. And he and his colleagues found a clear effect: Starting after Trump’s election, through the end of 2018, 38,000 fewer babies than would otherwise be expected were conceived in Democratic counties. By contrast, 7,000 more than expected were conceived in Republican counties in that same period. (The study, published in 2022, was conducted before data on the rest of Trump’s term were available.) Over the past three decades, Republicans have generally given birth to more kids than Democrats have. But during those first years of the first Trump administration, the partisan birth gap widened by 17 percent. “You see a clear and undeniable shift in who’s having babies,” Dahl told me.
Posted by: SMOD at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

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JFC, that sounds a lot more fun than my thesis on currency arbitrage.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (PzXaK)

278 Probably the 401k, but not maxed out.

They probably do 401k up to the limit of the match. Nothing more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

279 My county allows me to raise chickens and even nutria, but draw the line at naugas.
Posted by: New Zoo Revue at February 18, 2025 10:38 AM (G5+As)

Would you consider Fine Corinthian Leather?

Posted by: The Chrysler Cordoba at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (tjClK)

280 $4.7 trillion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

Over what timeframe?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10
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That's what I've been wondering.

Posted by: WisRich at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (Qgr0I)

281 I remember one of the Johnson-Buzzi skits.

Dirty old Man: Would you like to call me... "honey"?
WHAP!
Dirty old Man: Would you like to call me... "sweetie"?
WHAP!
Dirty old Man: Would you like to call me an ambulance?
(slides off bench)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (WPL6O)

282 Just wait until DoGE gets access to the Treasury's bond auction database. Bond auctions are when the Fed sells huge (trillions) chucks of government debt to others... including foreign countries. Those chunks are in the form of bonds, notes, bills, TIPS (treasury inflation protected securities) and other financial "instruments."

The massive US debt isn't just some fictitious number on a times square board... it's actually held by various entities and institutions. That probably want their money back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

283 278 Probably the 401k, but not maxed out.

They probably do 401k up to the limit of the match. Nothing more.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

========

I'd never considered maxing out the legal limit of the 401k until my financial advisor advised it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

284 282 The massive US debt isn't just some fictitious number on a times square board... it's actually held by various entities and institutions. That probably want their money back.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (Q4IgG)

========

From what I understand, most of the debt generated over the past decade is held by the Treasury itself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

285 There are some pretty pictures online of Jackson Square covered in snow a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: Kinda Rare at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

286 They probably do 401k up to the limit of the match. Nothing more.

TBH I don't know, but I work at the same sort of companies they do and it is very easy to set the 401k number to whatever the match is at pretty much every corporate website I've had...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

287 ========

I'd never considered maxing out the legal limit of the 401k until my financial advisor advised it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

The 'free' money you get from your employer might just cover the taxes you have to pay when you try to access that money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (tjClK)

288
From what I understand, most of the debt generated over the past decade is held by the Treasury itself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

So the govt owes money to the govt? How does that work?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (Qo3gv)

289 Covid can probably explain a lot of the birth gap. For 2-3 years Dems didn’t leave the house. Kinda hard to make babies that way.

Depends if you were married/paired up before COVID or not right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (t0Rmr)

290
So the govt owes money to the govt? How does that work?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (Qo3gv)

"Bend over and we'll show you."

- - - - - The IRS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (tjClK)

291 287 The 'free' money you get from your employer might just cover the taxes you have to pay when you try to access that money.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (tjClK)

====

Well, trying to access it early without the hardship exemption.

I should be making a lot less and be in a different income tax bracket when I take it out on schedule.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)

292 They probably do 401k up to the limit of the match. Nothing more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

Which is a nice start, but not nearly enough to generate retirement income close to employment income at those levels.

Which is fine with me. Walmart needs greeters.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (mWSu4)

293 Vance straightens the Yurps out.

Shashank Joshi@shashj
‘a prominent German politician told me: “That [Vance's speech] was a direct assault on European democracy.” A senior diplomat said: “It’s very clear now, Europe is alone.” When I asked him if he now regarded the US as an adversary, he replied: “Yes.”…’

JD Vance@JDVance
Always funny to me that "listen to your people when they object to mass migration" and "censorship is bad" is treated as a "threat to democracy."
Do you know what "democracy" actually means?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

294 Different types of debt, obviously.

Domestic debt is largely held by financial institutions. Useful as a hedge vehicle. Also interestingly enough, National Banks are required by law to buy treasuries in certain circumstances. Also note this includes those savings bonds that parents buy their kids for their birthday instead of things they actually want.

Foreign debt is what it sounds like.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:48 AM (PzXaK)

295 >>“Malcolm in the Middle” Star Frankie Muniz

Dude looks too much like an older David Hogg to suit me.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 18, 2025 10:48 AM (Y1sOo)

296 Oh, one more thing - should also point out that Federal Reserve actions have impact as well...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:48 AM (PzXaK)

297 JD Vance@JDVance
Always funny to me that "listen to your people when they object to mass migration" and "censorship is bad" is treated as a "threat to democracy."
Do you know what "democracy" actually means?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

SCHLONGED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (tjClK)

298 Only time I contributed to a 401k was when there was a match and up to the match. Because the options sucked and the funds they invested in had ridiculously high fees.

There are many other avenues of tax deferred investments outside 401ks. But if your employer gives a match, fucking take it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (Qo3gv)

299 The 'free' money you get from your employer might just cover the taxes you have to pay when you try to access that money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:46 AM (tjClK)

Or take the tax hit now and convert to a Roth.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (mWSu4)

300 ‘a prominent German politician told me: “That [Vance's speech] was a direct assault on European democracy.

In the US when pols say "our Democracy" they mean the Oligarch that controls the Democrat party.

So European Democracy should be understood as the Oligarchy in Europe that controls its establishment parties

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (t0Rmr)

301
Which is fine with me. Walmart needs greeters.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Your name tag will horrify some ladies, but others might be intrigued.

Posted by: Good Luck! at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (G5+As)

302 /sock trim

Posted by: muldoon at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (/iMjX)

303 Thats right up there harry reids mormon friend who knew about romneys taxes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:50 AM (dJR17)

304 Also also one more thing - some agencies (Social Security) are required by law to put their funds into government securities. Those funds then go into the General Fund and get spent like...well, like something that spends money really fast.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:50 AM (PzXaK)

305 Bond auctions are when the Fed sells huge (trillions) chucks of government debt to others

Speaking of which, Schwab screwed up my 1099 and listed all my matured T-Bills as short-term capital gain instead of interest. So I get the pleasure of trying to straighten that out now.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 18, 2025 10:50 AM (xx8CH)

306 @282

>>The massive US debt isn't just some fictitious number on a times square board... it's actually held by various entities and institutions. That probably want their money back.

My only reticence about hacking apart the fed is that the entire global economic system is a facade, in front of the curtain is a seemingly well organized machine, behind the curtain, there is a plate spinning clown riding a unicycle, balanced on top a stack of turtles, running the whole show, whacking the clown may have deleterious and far ranging effects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:50 AM (XV/Pl)

307 The teenaged boys in our area wear as little clothing as possible in the winter. Why? Is it a rite of passage? I noticed that this fellow in the painting has far less layers on than she does. Does muscle insulate? Or is it a manliness thing?

Posted by: H at February 18, 2025 10:51 AM (4N/0w)

308 If you dont name the official its fake

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at February 18, 2025 10:51 AM (dJR17)

309 There are some pretty pictures online of Jackson Square covered in snow a couple weeks ago.
Posted by: Kinda Rare at February 18, 2025

***
Yeah, it's been nearly a month now.

I took a pic of Miss Linda holding little gray Siberian cat Dagny in her arms out in the snow. There's a flake of snow right by Linda's lower lip, which she says makes her look like she's a trailer park-dwelling ciggie smoker. (I told her I'd photoshop that out.)

Despite her thick triple coat, Dagny was not pleased at the cold, or maybe at being outdoors, and let out a screech -- odd, for a cat who is nearly mute in her day-to-day life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 10:51 AM (J2vNu)

310 Vance straightens the Yurps out.

Shashank Joshi@shashj
‘a prominent German politician told me: “That [Vance's speech] was a direct assault on European democracy.” A senior diplomat said: “It’s very clear now, Europe is alone.” When I asked him if he now regarded the US as an adversary, he replied: “Yes.”…’

JD Vance@JDVance
Always funny to me that "listen to your people when they object to mass migration" and "censorship is bad" is treated as a "threat to democracy."
Do you know what "democracy" actually means?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

Time to pull every swinging military dick out of Europe.

Every. Last. One.

Let these weenies fend for themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2025 10:51 AM (dGCAG)

311
Anyone remember, oh, 30 years ago, when the Democrats pretended to care about "human rights" around the globe?

And they would single out shitty countries like china for abusing human rights?

What happened to those Democrats?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (pb2lm)

312 Your name tag will horrify some ladies, but others might be intrigued.

Posted by: Good Luck! at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (G5+As)

I decided a long time ago that saving for retirement was a smart thing. I ate a lot of tofu and vegetables and drove an old car.

Walmart greeting isn't in my future.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (mWSu4)

313 My only reticence about hacking apart the fed is that the entire global economic system is a facade, in front of the curtain is a seemingly well organized machine, behind the curtain, there is a plate spinning clown riding a unicycle, balanced on top a stack of turtles, running the whole show, whacking the clown may have deleterious and far ranging effects.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:50 AM (XV/Pl)

---

TBF the entire free market looks like that at times too.

Especially the turtles.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (PzXaK)

314
When's the last time you heard a Democrat say the phrase human rights?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (pb2lm)

315 262
thought they were Suomi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2025 10:39 AM (xlWrD)

Fun fact: They call Finland Suomi, but don't know why or where the word came from.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:40 AM (tjClK)
'We started to call the tune 'My Suomi", but it just didn't have that bite.'-The Knack

Posted by: Eromero at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (LHPAg)

316 Time to pull every swinging military dick out of Europe.

Every. Last. One.

Let these weenies fend for themselves.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2025 10:51 AM (dGCAG)

I second that emotion.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:52 AM (Qo3gv)

317 If you were skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as a middle manager in an NGO with no need to actually deliver results, I feel like you should be able to survive in DC for a few years to regroup, not needing to panic sell in the face of losing the job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

At the very least smart ones would put enough aside to lay low for a decade or two in a much less expensive area, but the people in those regions are those icky deplorable types, so I guess not.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (OUMaO)

318
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

================

That is pretty much what I saw at first glance. I was going to say: They're barely out of their honeymoon, and she's turning into a babushka before his eyes and he's wondering how to get out of the biggest mistake of his life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (Bv4bC)

319 There’s a Millenial baby boom happening right now, and it’s not confined to GOP counties. We were in a Philly cafe frequented by hipsters and yuppies. The crowd of about 50 patrons included 5 young moms with their babies, all under a year old.
My buddy and I just looked at each other, like wtf?
This is not a TradCath crowd, or any other religious type.
My millenial family members are having babies, my friends’ Millenial kids are popping out the bambini.
The Golden Age of Trump will precipitate an even bigger spike in births in all cohorts IMO.

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (61FSW)

320
It's so weird. Like they thought the party couldn't end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

=====

"Like they thought the past couldn't end . . . suddenly"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (8AONa)

321 So European Democracy should be understood as the Oligarchy in Europe that controls its establishment parties
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (t0Rmr)

European Democracy is like french courage, British cuisine, and German lovemaking.

You don't want it.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (dGCAG)

322 I was unfortunate to work for a company in Receivership for 20 years where they did not match the 401k . I did not contribute the max. In hindsight, it came out as a wash as I was able to use the money not contributed to buy my homes and enjoy life while still being responsible.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (VofaG)

323 @313

>>Especially the turtles.

It's turtles man!!! It's turtles all the way down.

--
The Guy who always say it's Aliens.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:53 AM (XV/Pl)

324 Fun fact: They call Finland Suomi, but don't know why or where the word came from.
Posted by: Sponge

And it's pronounced "Sue me."

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

325 Well, this is a pleasant painting. Looks very Russian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2025 10:54 AM (8zz6B)

326
Once in a while you'll hear a Democrat parrot the stupid phrase "basic human right," but that's usually for communist health "care" and fag fake marriage.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:54 AM (pb2lm)

327 Well, this is a pleasant painting. Looks very Russian.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 18, 2025 10:54 AM (8zz6B)

Yet somehow, she's fat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (tjClK)

328 Anyone remember, oh, 30 years ago, when the Democrats pretended to care about "human rights" around the globe?

And they would single out shitty countries like china for abusing human rights?

What happened to those Democrats?

It was never more then lip service. I remember a congress critter 25 years ago from NJ...Chris Smith?...tried to tie MFN status for China to objective improvements in their human rights and the GOPe and Dems laughed at him...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (t0Rmr)

329
I still think it is funny that Westerners viewed Eastern European women as chronically unattractive babushkas right up until communism fell.

Then suddenly everyone noticed they can be real stunners. Amazing all the positive things dumping socialism can do isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1

===============

Accurate. An Estonian woman who lived through that transition period from Soviet control to independence told me exactly this. "I didn't know where all these beautiful girls were coming from," she said.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (Bv4bC)

330 276 Covid can probably explain a lot of the birth gap. For 2-3 years Dems didn’t leave the house. Kinda hard to make babies that way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:43 AM (Qo3gv)
----
Wait, don't most couples make babies in their bedroom rather than outside in the open air?

Posted by: Ciampino - watch out for groin sunburn at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (KjLnc)

331 Personally, I would advocate the torture and imprisonment of anyone caught with a squeezebox as an audio terrorist.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (pohLc)

332 I once went to a sushi restaurant where the fish was old and the rice was burnt.

It was called SoSuMe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (PzXaK)

333 I'd never considered maxing out the legal limit of the 401k until my financial advisor advised it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

If you have an HSA, consider maxing it as well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

334 SS is going to “reformed” by telling all the people who saved money, sorry you don’t any SS. You’re rich!! Instead all the people who spent every dime they earned, they get it instead. Cuz fairness.

And since there are more deadbeats than savers, it will be a politically popular thing to do.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (Qo3gv)

335 Once in a while you'll hear a Democrat parrot the stupid phrase "basic human right," but that's usually for communist health "care" and fag fake marriage.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:54 AM (pb2lm)

Make Home Doctor Visits Great Again.

Pay cash.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (tjClK)

336 and German lovemaking.

I'm reminded of the sex scene for the Stasi protagonist in The Lives of Others...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (t0Rmr)

337 Well, my retirement plan of getting a job at USAID went down the fucking toilet.

So new game plan I guess....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (PzXaK)

338 Those metal roofs are expensive!

Ask us how we know ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (1YwYn)

339 Wait, don't most couples make babies in their bedroom rather than outside in the open air?
Posted by: Ciampino - watch out for groin sunburn at February 18, 2025 10:55 AM (KjLnc)

But you have to go outside to meet someone to make a baby with.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (Qo3gv)

340 Walmart greeting isn't in my future.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I dunno. I read your FWP posts. You'll have to make hundreds of thousands in repairs in order to sell your place. Guess the lot is somewhat valuable, though.

Posted by: Good Luck. at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (G5+As)

341 and German lovemaking.

I'm reminded of the sex scene for the Stasi protagonist in The Lives of Others...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (t0Rmr)

He put it in her butt then pissed on her when done?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (tjClK)

342 @337

>>So new game plan I guess.

Have you considered a reverse mortgage?
--
Spokesman with the most manliest of mustaches.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (XV/Pl)

343 337 Well, my retirement plan of getting a job at USAID went down the fucking toilet.

So new game plan I guess....
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (PzXaK)

Learn to code.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (pohLc)

344
Here's the statement from the ACLU defending VP Vance's defense of worldwide free speech:

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (pb2lm)

345 But you have to go outside to meet someone to make a baby with.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:57 AM (Qo3gv)

Which is a big part of what's wrong with this country.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (dGCAG)

346 The US debt is bought and sold through those auctions I mentioned. It's a financial vehicle to manage the debt. The Treasury buys it back when it's advantageous to do so and auctions it off when it's not.

IMO it's a glorified shell game with a shit ton of money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (Q4IgG)

347 A fun contrast happened while we drove this weekend.

Dolley, who works in cybersecurity, was ranting about a flaw in a security system and a specific case she was dealing with. It essentially amounted to, "No one should treat SSNs as PPI. it's not PPI. All you need is to download Telegram and you can get everyone's SSN and birthdate without trying."

While Musk is being accused of stealing everyone's SSN.

It tickled me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

348 Those metal roofs are expensive!
Posted by: ShainS

And hot!
-- US Secret Service

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

349 Or take the tax hit now and convert to a Roth.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 18, 2025 10:49 AM (mWSu4)

As soon as I retire - or we get a year with no income tax - I start the conversion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (ExV1e)

350 Well, my retirement plan of getting a job at USAID went down the fucking toilet.

So new game plan I guess....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 18, 2025 10:56 AM (PzXaK)

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

Ukrainian arms dealer?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (1YwYn)

351 @343

>>Learn to code.

With AI, you really don't have to know much to code now.

So, gotta figure something else out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (XV/Pl)

352 The 'free' money you get from your employer might just cover the taxes you have to pay when you try to access that money.

In my own situation, if I don’t have to touch my 401k until the minimum distribution requirement kicks in, and I’m in a place where I only need to withdraw the minimum, the tax hit will be negligible.
II’m hoping Trump will raise the MRD age.

Posted by: kallisto at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (61FSW)

353 And hot!
-- US Secret Service

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (77rzZ)

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

Well-played, Bulg.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (1YwYn)

354 Dems: if women can’t get 24/7 on demand free abortions they’ve lost their basic human rights

Also Dems: what’s that? Muslims force women to wear a burka, won’t let them drive and do genital mutilations on girls? That’s just their culture man. All good.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (Qo3gv)

355 Well, my retirement plan of getting a job at USAID went down the fucking toilet.

So new game plan I guess....

Are you a noodle armed young-ish man with a strong jaw to bite pillows looking to find his fortune? If so, order my book "Success By the Backdoor" today!

Posted by: David Hogg at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (t0Rmr)

356 I still think it is funny that Westerners viewed Eastern European women as chronically unattractive babushkas right up until communism fell.

-
Natalie Wood was a Ruski.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

357
>>Learn to code.

With AI, you really don't have to know much to code now.

So, gotta figure something else out.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 18, 2025 10:58 AM (XV/Pl).

I hear there are job openings in lettuce picking

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)

358
What was that left-wing budinski org that jimmy carter was part of that would go around to all the "democracies" and make sure their elections were kosher?

They're gone, too. Why? Because they don't want to stop the cheating when it benefits their side.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (pb2lm)

359 254. It's so weird. Like they thought the party couldn't end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison...

They're also preparing for when mom and auntie need assisted living, too.

Medicaid is entitled to personal care. Not so with Medicare as it doesn't cover custodial care like personal care assistance for daily living activities like bathing, dressing, and using the bathroom, even if homebound.

Deals can be made to get mom and auntie into the county home or a decent assisted living facility for so much cheaper if you know somebody.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2025 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

360 -
Natalie Wood was a Ruski.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

And didn't float......

Posted by: Robert Wagner at February 18, 2025 11:00 AM (tjClK)

361 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 18, 2025 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

362 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 18, 2025 11:01 AM (tjClK)

363 I still think it is funny that Westerners viewed Eastern European women as chronically unattractive babushkas right up until communism fell.

-
Natalie Wood was a Ruski.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 18, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

Why, it's almost like corporate media photographers and nooz camera operators were instructed by... some unknown entity, to only show old ugly women.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 18, 2025 11:01 AM (dGCAG)

364 They're gone, too. Why? Because they don't want to stop the cheating when it benefits their side.

Yeah that stuff was explicitly clear that they were there to stop cheating by right leaning governments and movements.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2025 11:01 AM (t0Rmr)

365 I’m hoping Trump will raise the MRD age

Even better if he announced a one time tax-free rollover from a 401k to a Roth. That would be a significant help to retirees.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 18, 2025 11:02 AM (xx8CH)

366 The 401k.
Loan strangers part of your paycheck to play with every week for your entire career. Maybe they will pay it back, maybe it will be gone entirely when you need it. Maybe you'll make $0.09. Maybe you'll make $1,000 to buy fuel oil. Maybe you'll lose $300,000 the year before you retire. It's fun! It's exciting!
Come for the uncertain earnings. Stay for the whims of Wall Street and Democrats.

Yuban cans full of cash buried in the back yard is the way to go.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 18, 2025 11:02 AM (8tGjV)

367 didn't know that there were Saami in the UP. Regular Finns, yes, but not Saami.

They must have gone to the UP to get warm.
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2025 10:41 AM

We didn't know for sure we were Saami until genetic tests. My great-grandparents didn't advertise the fact because they intended to move home (Grandma's US birth certificate is in Finnish, for example). It was a big deal in the UP when Norway finally ended their sterilization program against Saami. Sweden had one, too; not sure when that ended.

According to some relatives, the persecution of reindeer herders is through bureaucracy. Like try to get permission to shoot bears that are attacking your herd. Just document all the calves killed and send it in. We'll get back to you.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2025 11:02 AM (M5F4v)

368 Having no debt was my key to retirement. Unfortunately fees, utilities , food and taxes have continued to increase where they are like carrying eternal debt.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 18, 2025 11:03 AM (VofaG)

369
I noticed that this fellow in the painting has far less layers on than she does. Does muscle insulate? Or is it a manliness thing?
Posted by: H

=============

I think a different kind of chill is coming over her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 18, 2025 11:03 AM (Bv4bC)

370 352. I’m hoping Trump will raise the MRD age.
Posted by: kallisto

IRS - You generally have to start taking withdrawals from your IRA, SIMPLE IRA, SEP IRA, or retirement plan account when you reach age 73.

You’re not required to take withdrawals from Roth IRAs, or from Designated Roth accounts in a 401(k) or 403(b) plan while the account owner is alive. However, beneficiaries of Roth IRAs or Designated Roth accounts are subject to the required minimum distribution rules.

>At age 73, your factor would be 26.5. Divide that into what you have $ wise, that's your MRD.
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Required Minimum Distributions Fact Sheet | UCnet

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2025 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

371 Look at the stupid blissful ignorance of the hurdy gurdy man. Now look at the face of the woman sitting next to him. This pic says what I'd be unaccustomed to say in public.

Posted by: look whats not at February 18, 2025 12:10 PM (nakGR)

372 Go home start the Fireplace hot cocoa and Scary Stories to read

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 18, 2025 04:50 PM (wGqjj)

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