The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Kidnapped from their home, dragged by civilians into the bowels of the festering shithole that is the Arab-run Gaza strip, then murdered.

Hamas and the so-called "innocent civilians" of Gaza are 100% responsible for their deaths, and if ever there is an argument for collective responsibility, this is it. The people of Gaza are enthusiastic and active supporters of Hamas and their bloodthirsty fanaticism, whose goal is clear: the destruction of the Jewish People. This is not passive support...these people store weapons, hold hostages, allow the building of tunnels underneath their neighborhoods(with convenient entrances inside their homes!), camouflage Hamas terror infrastructure in their hospitals and schools, and act in all respects like volunteers in the Hamas terror organization.

That makes them guilty. That makes them legitimate targets for military action. That Israel has not treated the population of Gaza as terrorists is a testament to the essential humanity of the country. The entire country is convulsed with the agony of the hostages, and no matter where people fall on the political spectrum, they feel the collective pain and sadness. Yet the armed forces still comport themselves with dignity and respect for their own rules of engagement, which have gotten many soldiers killed over the years.

But Israel has made a significant strategic error... one that will be the cause of unimaginable suffering in the future. Because of the noble and completely understandable focus on the lives of the hostages and the respect for the dead, Israel has negotiated with terrorists, and those organizations will in the future be fanatical in their pursuit of hostages.

Until Israel makes a conscious decision that hostages will be mourned and honored in perpetuity, but the terrorists who violate every tenet of civilization will be hounded to the ends of the earth and killed, the country will be in a vicious cycle of hostage --> military action --> surrender.

It is an awful decision to make, but the future of the country depends upon a coherent and strategically sound policy with regard to hostages.

And.. yes, it is easy for me to suggest the unimaginable from the comfort and safety of America, but Israel is also the tip of the Western spear against the marauding hordes of Islam, and how Israel ultimately deals with this issue will decide the fate of the West.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 11:01 AM (fwDg9)

2 Nuke

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 20, 2025 11:01 AM (Cg/Hw)

3 I said a prayer

Posted by: RUReadingthis at February 20, 2025 11:01 AM (aQ25I)

4 Level Gaza and I wouldn't care

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

5 Giving into terrorism gets you more terrorism

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 11:03 AM (fwDg9)

6 Israel should stop taking Hamas prisoners, and execute the ones they have. No more bargaining chips to take hostages dor.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at February 20, 2025 11:04 AM (5xgzq)

7 Fire. Lots of it. It will prepare them for what comes afterward.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 11:04 AM (lXoJ5)

8 End of "phase"1... Phase 2 should be the complete destruction of Gaza.. Level it

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:04 AM (VE6XX)

9 That fake Palestinian flag needs to be banned as does the wearing of the kaffiyeh.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:04 AM (kTd/k)

10 It was a bad, unwise "deal". Peace at any price.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 20, 2025 11:05 AM (bHGBC)

11 There's a story that some terrorist group tried that shit on the Soviets exactly once.

The KGB snatched the head guy's nephew and started sending him body parts from the nephew (fingers and such).

The Russian hostages were soon released.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:05 AM (W5ArC)

12 The Press needs to Ask that Omar broad in Congress how we should think about this

Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (vEz2K)

13 Where do terrorism sympathizers get those gigantic fake Palestinian flags?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (kTd/k)

14 Level Gaza and I wouldn't care
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

Gaza delenda est.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (8zz6B)

15 There's a story that some terrorist group tried that shit on the Soviets exactly once.

The KGB snatched the head guy's nephew and started sending him body parts from the nephew (fingers and such).

The Russian hostages were soon released.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:05 AM (W5ArC)
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It's the only language these subhuman savages understand.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (7fElN)

16
Disagree. As has been pointed out killing people in captivity is what they do. Release them and they're fair game.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (j4U/Z)

17 I hope all the Pali prisoners are given some parting gifts (that they don't know about).

Posted by: MkY at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (cPGH3)

18 Where do terrorism sympathizers get those gigantic fake Palestinian flags?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (kTd/k)
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USAID?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (6K6Eu)

19 Unfortunately Israel started negotiations with hostage taking terrorists years ago. Muslims have done crap like this to infidels since Mo was alive. Their behavior is a feature not a bug in that death cult

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (3qNrw)

20 But Israel has made a significant strategic error... one that will be the cause of unimaginable suffering in the future.

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There is only one way to fix it. Israel, still ! has not exacted the proper price for the atrocity. Unless they do it, they will be attacked on this scale again - not now, or in 5 years - their enemies are annihilated for the moment, but in 10 when these forces regroup.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (g47mK)

21 Where do terrorism sympathizers get those gigantic fake Palestinian flags?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (kTd/k)

USAID?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (bHGBC)

22 11 There's a story that some terrorist group tried that shit on the Soviets exactly once.

The KGB snatched the head guy's nephew and started sending him body parts from the nephew (fingers and such).

The Russian hostages were soon released.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:05 AM (W5ArC)

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Remotely similar story from Trump's first term:

He was negotiating with the Taliban on American withdrawal. At the end of the meeting, he pulled out a satellite image of the Taliban leader's home and said, "If one hair on one American's head gets hurt, I'll kill you."

He then left the room.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

23 Posted by: Josephistan at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (bHGBC)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:07 AM (6K6Eu)

24 Spot on CBD.
Spot on.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 11:08 AM (W/lyH)

25

Exterminate all of those worthless, evil pieces of shit.

Posted by: four seasons at February 20, 2025 11:08 AM (3ek7K)

26 Level Gaza.

Put the Gazans on an island, and take away all children born on the Island and adopt them out. Rinse, repeat until they die out.

Fuck em, they chose this.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:09 AM (ufFY8)

27 Is it OK to hope that each and every one of the vermin released by Israel got a shiny new pager before it scurried back to its hidey hole?

Posted by: PennaLady at February 20, 2025 11:09 AM (y6jPI)

28 The monsters paraded the coffins of these murdered children to cheers from the crowd... Nuke them now...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)

29 Yeah have to agree CBD that bargaining/bartering with terrorists of the Hamas/ Muslim stripe is a bad bad move…

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (yjz94)

30 Israel must end this. Decisively. Today.

Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (9U6Wl)

31 The West is living under a paralysis, "oh, we can't do exactly to them what they've done to us, or we will become them" ! That bullshit is exploited by savages who are wiling to set on fire living adults and children while laughing and recording. So, NO we will not turn into them if we use the same against them. We will be "us", but fighting fire with fire.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (g47mK)

32 I hope all the Pali prisoners are given some parting gifts (that they don't know about).
Posted by: MkY at February 20, 2025 11:06 AM (cPGH3)

Chip them.
And give them the jab.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (ufFY8)

33 I think there's a significant chance we'll see a terrorist attack here that rivals 9/11. Obama and then *biden let thousands of Middle Eastern men into the country without vetting a single one. There are (still) Iranian sympathizers in the Federal Government yet to be run out of the offices they occupy. There's an entire generation of "students" that weekly protest in support of the terrorists and would gladly join any mass terror attack on US soil.

It's a big spear. Israel isn't the only one on the proverbial tip.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)

34 I'm at full support for Trump's plan as stated. Except send the Gazans to Haiti so they have no chance of bothering Israel again. Then air-drop a few cases of BBQ sauce.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:11 AM (2ocoG)

35 I'm guessing that at a minimum, they got microchipped.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 11:11 AM (wzjSy)

36 So kept the bodies all this time like some serial killer trophies? Sick, twisted fuckers.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 20, 2025 11:11 AM (bHGBC)

37 All those released by Israel will be back to raping, mutilating and murdering in a heartbeat… losing move by Israel, sadly.

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (yjz94)

38 or you know, the U.S. could take your recommended action since Hamas kidnapped and murdered Americans as well. We wont of course, but we justification if we as a country would be so inclined.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (CKOCg)

39
In about 20 minutes we're going to have a new FBI Director.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (pM4iv)

40 Flatten Gaza

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (2NXcZ)

41 Firstly- Thank you for posting this and sharing in my pain
Secondly- There is no such being as an innocent Gazan. They are all complicit in their crimes against humanity. The West must clean this filth from the Earth, as their inhumanity is passed down in their inbred bloodlnes.

Posted by: judy at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (AkZAQ)

42 Until Israel makes a conscious decision that hostages will be mourned and honored in perpetuity, but the terrorists who violate every tenet of civilization will be hounded to the ends of the earth and killed, the country will be in a vicious cycle of hostage --> military action --> surrender.

At some point in my reading, I came across an observation that said, roughly, one reason moderns find it difficult to understand ancient empires like Rome or Assyria is because they were pre-Christian, and the idea of the intrinsic worth of every person (e.g., Nasty Pelosi's 'spark of the divine') was incomprehensible to those who used slave labor and exterminated entire populations.

I suggest, cautiously, that the same principle is at play here - the idea of utterly destroying every last living Palestinian in Gaza, down to the very newborn being morally repugnant, even to those who do not consciously embrace Christian principles.

But what do I know? I'm just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (Q0kLU)

43 Do what the Romans did...crucify 'em...line the roads w/crucified hamasites.

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)

44 Nuke them now...

Gaza's too close to Israel for even a very small nuke. MOABs oughta do the job though. Or send some A-10s. BRRRRTTTTT.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (2ocoG)

45 39
In about 20 minutes we're going to have a new FBI Director.
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (pM4iv)

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Some kind of procedural vote first. Final vote is in 2.5ish hours, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

46 Grieving with the people of Israel today, as every day since 10/7, and glad that the sociopaths released in these deals can now be hunted down and killed like the sub-vermin they are instead of being hosted by the Israelis for the remainder of their life sentences - I hadn't realized that Israel doesn't have the death penalty. Hoping Israel gets on that before they destroy any more lives, whether before or after scouring Gaza down to the bedrock.

Happy hunting Mossad & IDF.

Posted by: Momlady at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (oSMjG)

47 I'm thinking the Israelis' have a way to track the murderous POS they released

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX)

48 Have said it before and will continue to do so.
The palis invited it.
Total war.
Total victory.
Unconditional surrender.
Nothing less is acceptable.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (W/lyH)

49 35 I'm guessing that at a minimum, they got microchipped.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 11:11 AM (wzjSy)

They need to get microchipped with a .50 BMG.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (N39Ws)

50 The Queers for Palestine need to be shipped to Gaza before any military action.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (kTd/k)

51 Make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (5yPwX)

52 42

But what do I know? I'm just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (Q0kLU)

Perhaps… but you are usually correct.. got that going for you…

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (yjz94)

53 No more terrorist prisoners

Posted by: Avi at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (z5KPs)

54 They did not need to "nuke" them. There are many strategic weapons that could have done same, without the mushroom cloud. Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

55 Perhaps… but you are usually correct.. got that going for you…
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (yjz94)

Which is nice.

Posted by: Bill Murray at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (ufFY8)

56 Phase two negotiations begin next week. In exchange for the 64 hostages left., no numbers on living or dead, Israel will remove all IDF forces, the war will be declared ended and hamas will remain in Gaza. All Gazans are Hamas.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (mB6WH)

57
Some kind of procedural vote first. Final vote is in 2.5ish hours, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

"Good grief!"
-- donna

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (pM4iv)

58 President Milei of Argentina has called for a day of mourning for these babies.. I'm liking this guy

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

59 48 Have said it before and will continue to do so.
The palis invited it.
Total war.
Total victory.
Unconditional surrender.
Nothing less is acceptable.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 11:14 AM (W/lyH)

Gaza should now be Israeli territory. They won it. If the current squatters want to live somewhere, I'd recommend the Sinai desert.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (N39Ws)

60 Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.

Hyperbole much?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)

61 There's a story that some terrorist group tried that shit on the Soviets exactly once.

The KGB snatched the head guy's nephew and started sending him body parts from the nephew (fingers and such).

The Russian hostages were soon released.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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I assume the U.S. saw that same situation and saw that there was a money laundering opportunity presenting itself.

"We'll pay you $1M to stop doing that!"

(writes check for $50M)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (OgBsb)

62 Well you could just nuke Gaza.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (sX1BW)

63 “I suggest, cautiously, that the same principle is at play here - the idea of utterly destroying every last living Palestinian in Gaza, down to the very newborn being morally repugnant, even to those who do not consciously embrace Christian principles.”

And, as someone who has dedicated my life to embracing the sanctity of life, I would agree with you.

But something broke in me today watching the scene in Gaza today.

Those people might be made in the image of God, but they are too dangerous and without humanity to be allowed to continue to be a threat.

Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (9U6Wl)

64 They did not need to "nuke" them. There are many strategic weapons that could have done same, without the mushroom cloud. Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.

That's strongly overstating things. And to the extent that's true, it's because USAID has been funding Israeli Communists for 30 years.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (2ocoG)

65 Didn't Anne Coulter get fired by NRO for calling for the destruction of Gaza?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (kTd/k)

66 54 They did not need to "nuke" them. There are many strategic weapons that could have done same, without the mushroom cloud. Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

When I say nuke I don't mean the actual nuclear bomb.. I mean destroy it.. Not much left so it wouldn't be hard

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

67 Trump's idea to empty out Gaza, bulldoze the literal Hell out of it, and then build something "not housing" that will take a loooong time to complete is really the same thing most of us are suggesting: raze it to the ground, salt the earth, and make it impossible for anyone to return to live there for at least a generation.

Posted by: PennaLady at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (y6jPI)

68 I hadn't realized that Israel doesn't have the death penalty.
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I think they made a temporary exception for Adolf Eichmann.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (6K6Eu)

69 Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

Spare me your hyperbole. The EU has had dozens of terrorist attacks, and have done nothing. The comparison is ridiculous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (mWSu4)

70 President Milei of Argentina has called for a day of mourning for these babies.. I'm liking this guy

I keep seeing he's gonna be arrested and replaced with a leftist. Anyone have solid details on that?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (2ocoG)

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Probably, the Israeli ROE should not include the taking of prisoners.

Death or running straight away from the battlefield should the only options.

I'm sure there are international standards against this, but humane treatment of prisoners is not part of muslim culture, and Israel's humane treatment of prisoners is constantly used against them, and frankly is an incentive for war or terrorism.

Time for them to spit that unmelted butter from their mouths and protect their citizens. That is the first and most important job of any gov't.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (iJfKG)

72 Senator John Fetterman tweets regarding this family:

https://tinyurl.com/3xscp5u5

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (HYagh)

73 Vivid.
@VividProwess
2h

BREAKING: U.S. President Trump, to his advisors after witnessing the return of the dead bodies of the Israeli hostages, according to Channel 14:

"I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don't want to see even one building standing."

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (lHPJf)

74 When I had a rat problem in my backyard a while back, I didn't use "humane" traps and do catch-and-release. I used traps that killed them instantly, and then I dumped the remains in a place where they were devoured by carrion eaters.

The only answer to Hamas et al is extermination.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (mADJX)

75 I hadn't realized that Israel doesn't have the death penalty.

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Israel does in extreme cases - crimes against humanity, I think and another.

Interestingly enough, Russian Federation does not officially have the death penalty...but they do have many murderous windows....

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (g47mK)

76 Those people might be made in the image of God, but they are too dangerous and without humanity to be allowed to continue to be a threat.

One way to start would be to recognize that the only reason Hamas was able to do the things they've done is that they had lots of money from western donors. It isn't like they paid for their own cement to build tunnels.

Stop funding them. People who are scrambling for their next meal don't have a lot of time for terrorism.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (xCA6C)

77 The sight of those sweet babies has kicked my rage up to the next level.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (kTd/k)

78 As an aside, Gaza is waaay to near Israel to nuke..

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (yjz94)

79 Kill them. Kill them until they scream for mercy. Then kill some more. They are savages who deserve no mercy whatsoever.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (mBZXL)

80 It's not an all or nothing choice but they definitely need to rethink their hostage negotiation strategy. They think they are saving their hostages but they are just creating future hostages. It's been the case every time they do this type of exchange.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)

81 There is a principle that holds “the enemy sets the rules of engagement” that has largely been discarded.

Before we deployed to the Balkans we all were herded into a big briefing by the lawyer JAG types, the guidance was nobody could return fire on a sniper, unless his position was precisely known. Or we would/could be charged with war crimes. This almost sounds reasonable, except the definition of a sniper generally is nobody knows where his position is at in the first place.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (vEz2K)

82 They did not need to "nuke" them. There are many strategic weapons that could have done same, without the mushroom cloud. Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

The mushroom cloud sends an unmistakable message to all the other goatfuckers elsewhere in the world.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (8zz6B)

83 This just crushed me. I knew in my head they were dead, but my heart wanted a miracle.

What I do know is this culture does not deserve to exist, Palestine should be a glass parking lot.

Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (p4NUW)

84 I think there's a significant chance we'll see a terrorist attack here that rivals 9/11.

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Krauthammer said something post 9-11 that I agreed with. He said the US ought to tell Iran and the world, that if any nuclear device goes off, we will hold Iran responsible regardless and annihilate them. No investigations. Something similar could be said, that any terror attack in US we will hold Iran responsible and annihilate them. We won't be doing investigations.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (sX1BW)

85 II think it was Saudi Arabia, which is Gaza with oil and nicer architecture

Posted by: miguel cervantes at February 20, 2025 11:20 AM (dJR17)

86 It is an awful decision to make, but the future of the country depends upon a coherent and strategically sound policy with regard to hostages.
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You refer to the people who would die? They deserve it, so I would have zero issue with the decision. The unanticipated secondary aftereffects are what would keep me up at night.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 20, 2025 11:20 AM (xP+jx)

87 I’d add to this to say if Israel took fewer Gazans alive, there’d be fewer Hamas guerrillas to trade back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2025 11:20 AM (jbnUc)

88 They're made in the image of God, and choose to defile that image by being so profoundly, incontrovertibly evil.

That's all the more reason to annihilate them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 11:20 AM (yZOfl)

89 65 Didn't Anne Coulter get fired by NRO for calling for the destruction of Gaza?

I think she got fired for writing an article shortly after the 911 attacks calling for, among other things, the forced conversion to Christianity of the people in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 11:21 AM (mADJX)

90 Israeli leadership is weak and indecisive. They turned into the European Union.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

If they have, we have only ourselves (Americans and Europeans) to blame. We have tied their hands and left them uncertain of our support at every turn; that would make anyone neurotic and hand-wringing. It's a miracle that the Israelis have been so resolute up to this point.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 11:21 AM (lHPJf)

91 The problem with compassion is that it is easily seen as weakness.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 20, 2025 11:21 AM (WPL6O)

92 Spare me your hyperbole. The EU has had dozens of terrorist attacks, and have done nothing. The comparison is ridiculous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (mWSu4)

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Honest question CBD. Can Israel do more? Agreed that the comparison is garbage.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:21 AM (egtzA)

93 89 65 Didn't Anne Coulter get fired by NRO for calling for the destruction of Gaza?

I think she got fired for writing an article shortly after the 911 attacks calling for, among other things, the forced conversion to Christianity of the people in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Paco at February 20, 2025 11:21 AM (mADJX)

My memory is flawed.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (kTd/k)

94 When the trash heaps disguised as humans released the 3 male prisoners the other day, the savages wore gear stolen from IDF warriors they killed and paraded Israeli vehicles they had commandeered. They use a moment of forced ‘capitulation’ to taunt their enemy and right thinking people everywhere.

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (yf4Jq)

95 Let's not forget the rot extends to Judea and Samaria, with places like Jenin still being used as terrorist incubators...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

96 Hamas was stupid to release these bodies.. Should have said they have no idea what happened to them...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (VE6XX)

97 > Nuke them now...
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I wonder what the situation would look like today if Gaza had been nuked on 10/8. "Nuked" being relative. I'm sure Israel has options with those, just as we do, to modulate the yield.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)

98 Let's not forget the rot extends to Judea and Samaria, with places like Jenin still being used as terrorist incubators...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

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Aren't all Muslim schools and Mosques, even here in the U.S., terrorist incubators?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (1YwYn)

99 The Russian incident:

Four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped on September 30, 1985. Arkady Katkov, a consular attaché, was killed by his captors; the other three (Oleg Spirin, Valery Mirikov, and Nikolai Svirsky) were released a month later.[20] According to a 1986 report by the Jerusalem Post, the release of the hostages occurred following the kidnapping and murder of a key Hezbollah leader by the KGB.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (lXoJ5)

100
BREAKING: U.S. President Trump, to his advisors after witnessing the return of the dead bodies of the Israeli hostages, according to Channel 14:

"I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don't want to see even one building standing."
Posted by: Dr. T

Has this been verified?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (pM4iv)

101 - Was just now watching "Live Now on Fox" on utube.
Calling through the role like it was some kind of vote.
Maybe 4 people in the room that didn't appear to be clerk types.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (ItCQP)

102 Lotta internet tough guys here. I'm reminded of the time Himmler inspected an SS execution site, and got splashed with blood when one of them was shot. He got physically sick.

I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

103 I think they made a temporary exception for Adolf Eichmann.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (6K6Eu)

Correct.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (mWSu4)

104

its not genocide

if hamas refuses to surrender

and makes israel kill everybody in gaza

fighting israel to the last man

is a choice that hamas is making

Posted by: sound awake at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (Cyv1m)

105 Short of a Carthaginian solution of mass extermination, how do you deal with a brainwashed death cult? No other country wants to accept any of these rabid dogs.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (V6W16)

106 I wonder what the situation would look like today if Gaza had been nuked on 10/8. "Nuked" being relative. I'm sure Israel has options with those, just as we do, to modulate the yield.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (Q4IgG)

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As I asked near the end of the previous thread:

Isn't that what "tactical nukes" are for?

[I honestly don't know anything about them ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (1YwYn)

107 “ This just crushed me. I knew in my head they were dead, but my heart wanted a miracle.”

Yes, but also the way their bodies were returned was so beyond the pale. So despicable. So lacking in every human aspect.

The ridiculous banners (thought they were all poor and starving!)

The cheering crowds (none looking too emaciated either)

The final insults written on the coffins.

The keys that didn’t work to open them.

All of it. All of it so much more horrifying than I could ever dream to imagine.

They are taking glee in the murder of babies.

To hell with them all.

Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (YSTo5)

108 >>This is not passive support...these people store weapons, hold hostages, allow the building of tunnels underneath their neighborhoods(with convenient entrances inside their homes!), camouflage Hamas terror infrastructure in their hospitals and schools, and act in all respects like volunteers in the Hamas terror organization.

Heck, they participated in the 10/7 attacks. They came in waves - the first wave was Hamas. The Subsequent waves were civilians -- women and children -- who tortured and killed any survivors, looted and destroyed what was left.

I am tired of this game of Schroedinger's Hamas supporters.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2025 11:24 AM (Cki93)

109 I assume the U.S. saw that same situation and saw that there was a money laundering opportunity presenting itself.

"We'll pay you $1M to stop doing that!"

(writes check for $50M)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 11:16 AM (OgBsb)

US Gov’t: “We will not negotiate with terrorists! We will give them 50% over asking.”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (l3YAf)

110 I think there's a significant chance we'll see a terrorist attack here that rivals 9/11.

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Krauthammer said something post 9-11 that I agreed with. He said the US ought to tell Iran and the world, that if any nuclear device goes off, we will hold Iran responsible regardless and annihilate them. No investigations. Something similar could be said, that any terror attack in US we will hold Iran responsible and annihilate them. We won't be doing investigations.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (sX1BW)

Well, Iran yeah. But, don't forget Pakistan. They're the Big Daddies of islamic nukes.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (iJfKG)

111 👍 Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (NFX2v)

112 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

Treat them as they behave... they are active participants in crimes against humanity.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (mWSu4)

113 The mushroom cloud sends an unmistakable message to all the other goatfuckers elsewhere in the world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:19 AM (8zz6B)

There's a story that during the Iranian Revolution in '79, after the U.S. embassy was stormed and hostages taken, the Soviets called in the Iranian ambassador and said, "If any of your people charge into our embassy like you did with the Americans, by 5 o'clock tomorrow Tehran will be a crater."

And they didn't.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (lHPJf)

114 They're made in the image of God,

Are we sure about that?
The most savage beasts of the animal kingdom don’t behave the way these miscreants do. I truly believe they’ve got a serious DNA anomaly. Like they were star seeded from an undeveloped, atrocious, barbaric planet in a far away galaxy.

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (yf4Jq)

115 I think there's a significant chance we'll see a terrorist attack here that rivals 9/11.

-

There's a talk show host out of SC that was discussing this recently.

There are something like 4000 *known* Al Qaeda here and in Britain, just waiting.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (OgBsb)

116 We're safe and secure behind our up armored military grade keyboards.

Posted by: Internet Tough Guys at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (DobEs)

117 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

I ain't got the stomach to pump out my septic tank, either, but there's always someone who can do it if need be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (yZOfl)

118 The fact that Israel can't bring Gazoo to heel is a sign of weakness. Blinken saw to that.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (wBaIH)

119 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

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Then get the parents to pull the trigger.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (sX1BW)

120 102 Lotta internet tough guys here. I'm reminded of the time Himmler inspected an SS execution site, and got splashed with blood when one of them was shot. He got physically sick.

I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes

It wouldn’t be gleeful, but I can assure you most mothers on this blog would pull trigger to protect a baby.

Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (pZEOD)

121 116 We're safe and secure behind our up armored military grade keyboards.
Posted by: Internet Tough Guys at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (DobEs)

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My laptop would become unusable after a fight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

122 It wouldn’t be gleeful, but I can assure you most mothers on this blog would pull trigger to protect a baby.
Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (pZEOD)

You bet

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:26 AM (VE6XX)

123 Lotta internet tough guys here. I'm reminded of the time Himmler inspected an SS execution site, and got splashed with blood when one of them was shot. He got physically sick.

I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Point taken that it's a HELL of a lot easier in theory than in practice. Case in point - when I was a Navy ASW TC I had to make peace with the fact that at the end of the day I was training for and my job was to kill a bunch of people. I never had to (thank God), but it's still something that can weigh on a guy, even though we couch it all in euphemism to make it easier to deal with...we don't kill people, we "sink ships" or "shoot down airplanes."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:27 AM (egtzA)

124 I am the Shadout Mapes, Smotrich is a pit bull about Judea and Samaria. He is annexing pieces right and left. With PDT'S help funds are also getting cut off to the PA and Abbas's terrorists.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 11:27 AM (mB6WH)

125 Lotta internet tough guys here. I'm reminded of the time Himmler inspected an SS execution site, and got splashed with blood when one of them was shot. He got physically sick.

I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

Himmler then assigned the duties to Ukranian SS Death squads.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)

126 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

Treat them as they behave... they are active participants in crimes against humanity.

Sure. If you were one of those who conducted the attack on Israel, up against the wall. The question is do you shoot a 5 year old child in the head.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:27 AM (xCA6C)

127 Aren't all Muslim schools and Mosques, even here in the U.S., terrorist incubators?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (1YwYn)

Where are all the Muslim 'holy men' calling out Hamas? Where are the massive demonstrations by 'moderate' Muslims here in the US crying that Hamas doesn't speak for them?

Every mosque and madrassa in this country needs to be burned to the ground and Islam made a proscribed religion. Go full Nero on the bastards.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 11:27 AM (Q0kLU)

128 "I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don't want to see even one building standing."
Posted by: Dr. T

Has this been verified?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (pM4iv)

It's only what I saw on Twitter. I hope it's true.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (lHPJf)

129 > 43 Do what the Romans did...crucify 'em...line the roads w/crucified hamasites.
Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 11:13 AM (Yj6Os)

Ah, the Marcus Licinius Crassus method. I'd vote for a combination of that and the Marcus Porcius Cato method (i.e., razing it to the ground and sowing the ground with salt).

You can never go wrong with the classics.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (W5ArC)

130 Chad Pergram at Fox News reports Kash Patel confirmation vote will be at 2PM EST today, and that he will be confirmed.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (V6W16)

131 Israel is also the tip of the Western spear against the marauding hordes of Islam, and how Israel ultimately deals with this issue will decide the fate of the West

Concur. A tolerant and patient folk from my experiences with them here and in Israel. I cannot fathom how that works with people that openly call for your death and destruction, and act on that in the most brutal manner. I fear that if the Israelis don't come to the conclusion that there is no hope of peace with Hamas, we're all gonna be worse off for it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (3Ope8)

132 You wanna piece of me?

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (DobEs)

133 It wouldn’t be gleeful, but I can assure you most mothers on this blog would pull trigger to protect a baby.

From whom? If it's a Hamas operative bent on killing the baby, fire away! That's not the gist of the comments here, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

134 132 You wanna piece of me?
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (DobEs)

========

Candy gram for Mongo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

135 128 "I want to see Gaza wiped out. I don't want to see even one building standing."
Posted by: Dr. T

Has this been verified?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (pM4iv)

He more or less said the same thing when he said he wanted to tear down the rest of the buildings and create a "resort".

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (VE6XX)

136 Are we sure about that?
The most savage beasts of the animal kingdom don’t behave the way these miscreants do. I truly believe they’ve got a serious DNA anomaly. Like they were star seeded from an undeveloped, atrocious, barbaric planet in a far away galaxy.
Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (yf4Jq)

They may have been made in the image of God, but they have sold their souls to Satan, and become demons. There is no humanity left in them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

137 Hamas was stupid to release these bodies.. Should have said they have no idea what happened to them...

They’re not out to win any popularity contest. Psychological torture is part of their shtick.

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (yf4Jq)

138 Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (pM4iv

Do we know for sure he will be confirmed?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (XpQHr)

139 Could I personally kill a terrorist commiting terrorism? Yes.

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (yjz94)

140 > I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes

Try me.

If I ever started getting qualms, I'd just look at the picture of that smiling baby for a moment.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (W5ArC)

141 112 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)

Treat them as they behave... they are active participants in crimes against humanity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:25 AM (mWSu4)

I remember reading about the guy who was Britain's last hangman. He was thorough, meticulous, and certain of his responsibility within the justice system to help preserve order for society. We need more men like him.

Posted by: Momlady at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (oSMjG)

142 Spare me your hyperbole. The EU has had dozens of terrorist attacks, and have done nothing. The comparison is ridiculous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:17 AM (mWSu4)

Instead of that somewhat hysterical response, CBD , you could have asked " in what way " ? Well , let me tell you. Selling national independence. Israel First. Looking over the shoulder, hey what would this or that US Administration says. Bush sat on Sharon, and Sharon gave Gaza to the PA. Gilad Shalit deal. Leadership is missing. The one that will say, how about we bomb them so smithereens first and then negotiate. The one that says, I will do what is right by my people, and to hell with geopolitical BS.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (g47mK)

143 I wonder if those calling for outright extermination of all the Palis would have the stomach for personally pulling the trigger. I doubt it.

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Napalm bombs don't need a trigger.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (lHPJf)

144 I don't advocate for mass indiscriminate slaughter but I do advocate for total war until the enemy surrenders.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

145 Not a penny to protect babies while Ukraine is winning their glorious victory!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 11:30 AM (OgBsb)

146 It used to be official US government doctrine that any use of chemical weapons would be met with a nuclear response.

Today? It’s probably only until 20 Jan, tacitly a requirement to send them pallets of foreign currency and gold bullion, who knows.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 11:30 AM (wzsAY)

147 Do we know for sure he will be confirmed?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (XpQHr

Thune wouldn't call for the vote if he didn't have enough to confirm...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:30 AM (VE6XX)

148 Islam is about as clear a case for eliminating the state that there could possibly be. First, the state justifies its existence by claiming to protect us and then unilaterally decides on the ruinous fees charged to provide that protection. Then the state demands that we live cheek by jowl with hordes of uncivilized, violent soulless muslims.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (2ap+5)

149 144 I don't advocate for mass indiscriminate slaughter but I do advocate for total war until the enemy surrenders.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

Israel is known for warning the populace before...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

150 Israel used to be that way. If Ben-Gurion listened to the British, there would not have been Israel today, would there.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (g47mK)

151 Every prisoner of Hamas shaped should be given the Modern version of the COVID-19 Wuhan vaccine. Because we care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (u82oZ)

152
What's the state of Gaza's infrastructure? Water? Electricity?

Is Israel going to allow Gaza to receive "aid," a.k.a. weapons and bomb-making material?

I ain't paying to rebuild Gaza.

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (pM4iv)

153 131 Israel is also the tip of the Western spear against the marauding hordes of Islam, and how Israel ultimately deals with this issue will decide the fate of the West

this is incredibly important

I also look at it as part of a greater (theistic) war - life vs death. demonic forces HATE life and hate humans prospering. Islam is one example of a demonic theism.

the people of Israel, faced constantly with the reality of Islam - steadfastly hold onto their love of life and their faith in the future. imagine ... I dont know... other peoples? they would fold under this relentless evil.

somehow they know what they fight, and that the way to defeat it is love, is life, is joy.

plus unfortunately destroying demons that walk the earth

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (Pv3Rg)

154 They may have been made in the image of God, but they have sold their souls to Satan, and become demons. There is no humanity left in them.

See, I have this idea, when reflecting on the most depraved acts committed by humanity, that demons would even recall in horror.
There’s something essentially wrong with humanity. It’s not a devil problem. It’s a DNA problem

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:32 AM (yf4Jq)

155
877-Kash-Now!

Posted by: Heavyset Viking Chick at February 20, 2025 11:32 AM (DobEs)

156 “ Sure. If you were one of those who conducted the attack on Israel, up against the wall. The question is do you shoot a 5 year old child in the head.”

I actually don’t mean this at all flippantly, but rationality - that’s a big part of why we use bombs.

Can you shoot a 5 year old in the head? Well, I would fucking hope not because you would be just like one of these bastards if you could.

Could you drop a bomb to take out a nest of Hamas operatives knowing that one of their 5 year old sons was with them?

That’s a different story, isn’t it?

Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:32 AM (YSTo5)

157 Recoil in horror

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:32 AM (yf4Jq)

158 Europe whitewashed their terrorism attacks, nothing to see here

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 11:33 AM (fwDg9)

159 They may have been made in the image of God, but they have sold their souls to Satan, and become demons. There is no humanity left in them.

something like this, yep.

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 20, 2025 11:33 AM (Pv3Rg)

160 Let's not forget the rot extends to Judea and Samaria, with places like Jenin still being used as terrorist incubators...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 20, 2025 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

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Aren't all Muslim schools and Mosques, even here in the U.S., terrorist incubators?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 11:23 AM (1YwYn)

There was an article linked here a few days ago about an islamic compound in Texas that looks like trouble

Posted by: Josephistan at February 20, 2025 11:33 AM (bHGBC)

161 We've had a running argument/discussion here about the impact of the personnel cuts on housing prices in the DC area. I Came across both of these this morning:

DC housing market remains stable — no crash in sight, experts say
https://is.gd/52ZjAL (this is the local Fox news station)

DC House Prices Slashed As DOGE Targets Federal Workers
https://is.gd/rVExM1 (this is Newsweek)

I don't trust either source, but this is getting absurd. Both cannot be true.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)

162 Hell is waiting for them!

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (Vftt+)

163 Isn't that what "tactical nukes" are for?

My map-fu isn't the strongest but it appears that Gaza is less then 10 miles wide - at it's widest. Yes, the explosion from a small nuke could be contained within that area but the effects could not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

164 I think there's a significant chance we'll see a terrorist attack here that rivals 9/11.
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I had a bet with buddy in 88 that there would be a chemical or suitcase nuke attack by 2000. It seems like it's just a matter of time before a jihadi or militant nihilist gets their hands something very bad. Or if 'lil Kim wants to go out with a bang.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (wzjSy)

165 The biggest killers of the "palestinian" people is Hamas.... Not Israel

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

166 The reason that I do not believed they were killed in an Israeli airstrike - that would have been a huge public relations coup for Hamas at the time, possibly leading to pressure on Israel to stop the bombing campaign. What incentive would they have to keep it secret for nearly a year? It that had actually happened, they would have shouted it on every platform when it did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (wyMQY)

167 126/
Sure. If you were one of those who conducted the attack on Israel, up against the wall. The question is do you shoot a 5 year old child in the head.
Posted by: Archimedes at February

War is exceedingly ugly, and I would question the humanity of anyone who says “sure” to this question. The reality of it is the people themselves count on our love of life to protect them from consequences of their heinous deeds. They don’t love their children, for if they did, the need for this conversation would be mute, they would act civilized. If we are playing let’s pretend, the youngest would be saved to be raised in a different culture, and not used as sex toys while growing up.

Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (pZEOD)

168 My map-fu isn't the strongest but it appears that Gaza is less then 10 miles wide - at it's widest. Yes, the explosion from a small nuke could be contained within that area but the effects could not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)
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When there are Israeli towns just hundreds of yards from the border, it would be inadvisable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (6K6Eu)

169 >>I was a Navy ASW TC

Some of my best buds were TACCOs. We had a rule. You don't tell me how to fly the plane and I won't tell you how to prosecute Soviet submarines.

Worked out well. Good dudes.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)

170
What's the plan, here?

Israel will allow the UN to rebuild this shithole into a haven for terrorism, again? The wretched "international community" is going to flood Gaza [hama] with billions of dollars to "rebuild" and they can repeat the attacks, again, and again?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (pM4iv)

171 Can you shoot a 5 year old in the head? Well, I would fucking hope not because you would be just like one of these bastards if you could.

Could you drop a bomb to take out a nest of Hamas operatives knowing that one of their 5 year old sons was with them?

That’s a different story, isn’t it?

It is indeed. Your goal in the latter scenario isn't outright extermination, it's to remove an evil person from the earth, and unfortunately, sometimes there will be collateral damage.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

172 166 The reason that I do not believed they were killed in an Israeli airstrike - that would have been a huge public relations coup for Hamas at the time, possibly leading to pressure on Israel to stop the bombing campaign. What incentive would they have to keep it secret for nearly a year? It that had actually happened, they would have shouted it on every platform when it did.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That and the truth is something Hamas isn’t even mildly acquainted with.

Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:36 AM (pZEOD)

173 Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (g47mK)

The facts disturb you?

Your simplistic analysis ignores the reality of geopolitics. Israel could not go it alone, and thus American presidents have tremendous control over Israeli actions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:36 AM (mWSu4)

174 > 130 Chad Pergram at Fox News reports Kash Patel confirmation vote will be at 2PM EST today, and that he will be confirmed.
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:28 AM (V6W16)

They're voting on cloture (limiting the amount of time Senators have left to jabber) at this very moment. 40-34 in favor of moving forward as we speak.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:36 AM (W5ArC)

175 Can you shoot a 5 year old in the head? Well, I would fucking hope not because you would be just like one of these bastards if you could.

Could you drop a bomb to take out a nest of Hamas operatives knowing that one of their 5 year old sons was with them?

That’s a different story, isn’t it?
Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:32 AM (YSTo5)

At what age could a captured Pali child successfully be converted into a decent human being? At what age would such an attempt be doomed to failure?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (8zz6B)

176 Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 20, 2025 11:31 AM (u82oZ)

Don’t forget the boosters! All administered in one day

Posted by: kallisto at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (yf4Jq)

177
Question:

Should Israel have just dropped a nuke on Gaza 16 months ago?

I say: Yes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (pM4iv)

178 The ear could have ended quickly with a seige of Gaza,. No water, food,fuel or medicine. The MK's advocating for this kept being shouted down.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (mB6WH)

179 You open your arms to the muslim 5-year old and the child lifts his thumb from the switch to his suicide vest...

Posted by: Oglebay at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (2ap+5)

180 I think cutting the heads off the snakes is the best strategy for Israel.

Identify the leaders and kill them all with prejudice. And that includes anyone harboring them.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:38 AM (VofaG)

181 The Nazis were only Nazis for 12 years.

The "Palestinians" have been Nazis for 70 years, and of course they're also Muslims, who've been Nazis for 1500 years.

A lot of bodies need to hit the floor if there's ever going to be any peace on this planet.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 20, 2025 11:38 AM (BRvvM)

182
> They're voting on cloture (limiting the amount of time Senators have left to jabber) at this very moment.

https://tinyurl.com/57tajedz

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:38 AM (W5ArC)

183 Good lord… just saw on the “news” a judge is getting ready to overturn the military tranny ban.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 20, 2025 11:38 AM (pVwo1)

184 At what age could a captured Pali child successfully be converted into a decent human being? At what age would such an attempt be doomed to failure?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:37 AM (8zz6B)
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In the early 2000s, I saw a heartbreaking video of an adorable Palestinian girl about 3 years old, who, with a little coaxing, was made to repeat that Jews are pigs and monkeys. They start them young.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:38 AM (6K6Eu)

185 And the stupid white bimbos from New Rochelle march at Columbia in smug support of the subhumans who are literally worse than Nazis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (vYDwg)

186 "Israel will allow the UN to rebuild this shithole into a haven for terrorism, again?"

Not if they listen to Trump. It sounds to me like his plan is to bulldoze the whole thing, and spend a lot of time planning and building so that there is no "there" to move back to. Once it is done, it will have limited housing capability so there won't be any way for the cockroaches to reconvene. My $0.02, anyway.

Posted by: PennaLady at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (y6jPI)

187 My map-fu isn't the strongest but it appears that Gaza is less then 10 miles wide - at it's widest. Yes, the explosion from a small nuke could be contained within that area but the effects could not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

What did they call the Japanese people living 5 miles away from Hiroshima?

Survivors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (8zz6B)

188 I suggest, cautiously, that the same principle is at play here - the idea of utterly destroying every last living Palestinian in Gaza, down to the very newborn being morally repugnant, even to those who do not consciously embrace Christian principles.

But what do I know? I'm just an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 11:12 AM (Q0kLU)

I do not believe that they should all be killed, that would be a counterproductive overraction. However, what should be done is that every last structure in the Gaza strip should be razed to the ground, food and water supplies should be cut off completely, and arrangements should be made to transport all residents who wish to some nice Indonesian Island where they can set up new lives.

And there should *never* be any reconstruction of anything, at least not in the lifetime of anyone reading this. Here I disagree with Trump, no not make it some kind of Riviera; leave it as an utter wasteland and a ruin unfit for any human habitation for at least a century.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (wyMQY)

189 Never change, WaPo. WaPo's headline about Trump criticizing Z man.

“Trump, without evidence, accuses Zelensky of being a ‘Dictator without Elections’ — echoing rhetoric from Russia."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

190
I said yesterday: the major problem we have isn't hamas, it's all the hamas supporters. And that's half the World.

We gonna kill 'em all?

(I would, but I don't think it's feasible.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (pM4iv)

191 Marcus Porcius Cato method (i.e., razing it to the ground and sowing the ground with salt).

You can never go wrong with the classics.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

You only spoil the land with salt if you don't intend to retain it. Israel needs to take the land and never let the Palis back.

Now, if you want to be REALLY ruthless, you do the Byzantine Emperor Basil II technique, and blind most of your enemy prisoners (leaving one in a hundred with one eye to guide the rest) to be a massive burden on the remaining enemy populace...but that might not be very acceptable these days.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (JCZqz)

192 173 Posted by: runner at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (g47mK)

The facts disturb you?

Your simplistic analysis ignores the reality of geopolitics. Israel could not go it alone, and thus American presidents have tremendous control over Israeli actions.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2025 11:36 AM (mWSu4)

Sadly the US has repeatedly betrayed Israel under several administrations… they have always been our ally. I personally have no interest in any religious connection between our countries.. for me that is not the point… you do not betray your allies.

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (yjz94)

193 Jeebus, I've been shopping Cadillacs and the new ones are all six figures. WTF? When did this happen?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (pLaQB)

194 Fiercely Heterosexual Corey Booker is having an animated conversation with Sen. John Kennedy .
LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:40 AM (ufFY8)

195 I've been hearing periodic very loud booms this morning. The wife checked, and sure enough, there are war games going on at Quantico.

It's pretty astonishing that I live in deep blue Fairfax Co., and you can still hear artillery. When Quantico was established (1917), the burbs were far away. They aren't anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:41 AM (xCA6C)

196 Collins the Maine Hag voted against cloture

Coons is there on the Senate floor looking like Biden's chew toy--which he was / is

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 20, 2025 11:41 AM (94/H1)

197 98
‘ Aren't all Muslim schools and Mosques, even here in the U.S., terrorist incubators?’

To anyone who might know:
The leaders of such schools and mosques in Gaza and West Bank, are their locations known to Israel?
Because if I were Israel, I would wipe them out every time a terrorist attack happened.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

198 188 I do not believe that they should all be killed, that would be a counterproductive overraction. However, what should be done is that every last structure in the Gaza strip should be razed to the ground, food and water supplies should be cut off completely, and arrangements should be made to transport all residents who wish to some nice Indonesian Island where they can set up new lives.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: penguinstan, formerly known as antarctica at February 20, 2025 11:41 AM (oY6Yp)

199 Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Union of Concerned Stupid White Bimbos from New Rochelle at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (DobEs)

200 It is hard for me to even talk about this. It took a while for me to read the Diary of Anne Frank. Years before I could watch Schindler's list. I just could never understand why Jews were so hated throughout history. They never sought to subjugate, conquer.Judaism does not proselytize .Only to live in peace in their homeland. Meanwhile Islam's whole purpose is subjugation and supremacy. The West is allowing them to succeed with unrestricted immigration.. They will reap,the whirlwind.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (t/2Uw)

201 Sadly the US has repeatedly betrayed Israel under several administrations… they have always been our ally. I personally have no interest in any religious connection between our countries.. for me that is not the point… you do not betray your allies.
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (yjz94)

.
Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

202 Collins the Maine Hag voted against cloture

Of course she did

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (VE6XX)

203 I'm kind of okay with giving back living terrorists.

Here are my conditions to be a living terrorist that gets exchanged.

• Castrated.
• Hamstrings severed.
• Tongue and all teeth removed.
• Right arm removed at the shoulder.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (tkv9Y)

204 195 I've been hearing periodic very loud booms this morning. The wife checked, and sure enough, there are war games going on at Quantico.

It's pretty astonishing that I live in deep blue Fairfax Co., and you can still hear artillery. When Quantico was established (1917), the burbs were far away. They aren't anymore.
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Try Southern Pines, NC. Fayettenam is always banging on when I lived there.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (pLaQB)

205 My father was drafted in the 1950s, went to basic training but couldn’t pull a trigger. After a few months he was released on an honorable discharge.

They apparently tried to persuade him by putting him on latrine duty and mess duty all the time, but dad said he was happy to do any of that work, just couldn’t pull a trigger and hurt another person. His father was a physically abusive drunk and I’m sure that factored in.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (H9ZTk)

206 ruin unfit for any human habitation for at least a century.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (wyMQY)

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (ufFY8)

207 Do we know for sure he will be confirmed?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM

The actual vote is theater. Worst case scenario the Weak Sisters join with the Bipartisan Deviant Turtle Party and the vote is 50/50 until Vance comes in and says "we win, again".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)

208 > At what age could a captured Pali child successfully be converted into a decent human being? At what age would such an attempt be doomed to failure?

Many Christian denominations have the concept of the age of accountability, before which a child isn't held responsible for sins. Judaism also has this.

According to Wikipedia, this varies between 7 (Catholics) and 13 (Jews).

I seem to recall it was 12 in the church I attended as a kid. They wouldn't baptize you unless you were over 12.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:43 AM (W5ArC)

209 Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.
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This is true. Nations have interests. Allies vary with circumstances.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:43 AM (pLaQB)

210 Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Never forget!

Posted by: USS Liberty at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

211
Some of my best buds were TACCOs. We had a rule. You don't tell me how to fly the plane and I won't tell you how to prosecute Soviet submarines.

Worked out well. Good dudes.

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Always a good rule. I'll tell you where we need to go, I'll tell you why, and I'll shut up about the how.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (vY9Lp)

212 Deuteronomy 20 :: NIV. When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (NFX2v)

213 Ah...finally.

Mitch isn't going to seek re-election next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

214 > 196 Collins the Maine Hag voted against cloture

Murky voted for it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (W5ArC)

215 I do not believe that they should all be killed, that would be a counterproductive overraction. However, what should be done is that every last structure in the Gaza strip should be razed to the ground, food and water supplies should be cut off completely, and arrangements should be made to transport all residents who wish to some nice Indonesian Island where they can set up new lives.

Anak Krakatoa?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

216 Jeebus, I've been shopping Cadillacs and the new ones are all six figures. WTF? When did this happen?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (pLaQB)

Just spent about $4k getting my 20yo truck repaired...for normal wear and tear issues....a new one of same model/options is about $48k.

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)

217 163 Isn't that what "tactical nukes" are for?

No, because even the smallest would expose Israel to fall out and also render Gaza a hazmat zone. Dropping one symbolically in a (relatively) remote area could have some impact, but conventional bombs would be just as effective without the radiation risk. Theres not a ton of utility in tactical nukes vs something like MOAB generally aside from the shock and awe factor. But then you’re also dealing with the political fall out of taking off the nuclear lid.

Posted by: Lauren at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (9Q7Y5)

218 It's like a reimagining of The Tortoise and the Hare.

Trump’s Approval Rating Is 99 Points Higher Than McConnell’s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

219

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

220 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 20, 2025

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (V6W16)

221 I don't advocate for mass indiscriminate slaughter but I do advocate for total war until the enemy surrenders.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

I would add... surrenders unconditionally and Israel should require that they all leave Gaza and concede that they have no right to ever return to the area.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

222 Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

Name any country on this Earth that qualifies as an angel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (wyMQY)

223 Here's a serious question- why are the Israelis taking prisoners in the first place?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (MZ+PY)

224 189 Never change, WaPo. WaPo's headline about Trump criticizing Z man.

“Trump, without evidence, accuses Zelensky of being a ‘Dictator without Elections’ — echoing rhetoric from Russia."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

Hasn't Zelenski declared there will be no elections?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (kTd/k)

225 Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

Name any country on this Earth that qualifies as an angel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (wyMQY)

Strrawmania

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)

226 220 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 20, 2025
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (V6W16)

So soon?

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (yjz94)

227 Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is a NO on Kash Patel for FBI director.

"Mr. Patels' recent political profile undermines his ability to serve in the apolitical role of Director of the FBI."

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I hate this woman.

A major office in the federal government that's apolitical is, by the very description, not responsive to the desires of the body politic: the people.

She vote FOR Eric Holder, who called himself Obama's wingman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

228 I agree CBD.

What did US Grant call it: the awful calculus?

Winning a war is an awful business… but it’s better than losing and more than that it’s necessary especially when you’re dealing with savages.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (5MZNC)

229 Hasn't Zelenski declared there will be no elections?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (kTd/k)
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There's the whole shuttering of opposition newspapers and jailing opposition leaders thing...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (6K6Eu)

230 224 Hasn't Zelenski declared there will be no elections?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (kTd/k)

=====

He canceled elections last year. He's in year 6 of his 5 year term.

It's like he got elected president in North Korea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

231 The actual vote is theater. Worst case scenario the Weak Sisters join with the Bipartisan Deviant Turtle Party and the vote is 50/50 until Vance comes in and says "we win, again".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They already confirmed, in their minds: "wife beating, drunk weekend Fox News host", "Putin and Assad spy", and "vaccine/medicine denying kook with worm-eaten brain".

I'm not sure what the objection to Patel is, but it can't be any worse than the above.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

232 216 Jeebus, I've been shopping Cadillacs and the new ones are all six figures. WTF? When did this happen?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (pLaQB)

Just spent about $4k getting my 20yo truck repaired...for normal wear and tear issues....a new one of same model/options is about $48k.
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Yep. I was shopping used Caddies with low mileage. Couldn't believe a new Caddy starts at $117k.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (pLaQB)

233 220. i’ll be surprised if he makes it to 2026.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (0IXtt)

234 220 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

Which means we're stuck with him for the better part of the next 2 years. Better would have been immediate retirement. I'm still betting he doesn't make it to 2026. Still, good news.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (xCA6C)

235 DC housing market remains stable — no crash in sight, experts say
https://is.gd/52ZjAL (this is the local Fox news station)

DC House Prices Slashed As DOGE Targets Federal Workers
https://is.gd/rVExM1 (this is Newsweek)

I don't trust either source, but this is getting absurd. Both cannot be true.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)

They can, in fact, both be true. The Fox story says that "experts" say something. As we know from history, experts are known to lie when they aren't being honestly wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

236 What is with Susan Collins?
Why is she such a cunt?

Switch parties, for goodness sake.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (ufFY8)

237 I think Trump is right to break up their "society" and send various clans to different countries. It will take a generation or two to end the ideology. We will not win until the words Palestinian or Hamas are never uttered.

I don't know what the solution to negotiating for hostages is. I do know Israel should tell its peaceniks that when their lovely friends come back from Gaza to murder them, they are on their own. They will not waste a drop of blood for these idiots.

Posted by: PJ at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (RRCAT)

238 212 - The rest of 20 has some interesting things to say about siege warfare.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (wzjSy)

239
The FBI has had a lot of time to hide stuff while Kash Patel has been stonewalled to get the position.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (+oR7L)

240 it's weird - Cadillacs have become really popular with the rich wives around here (Caddy SUVs and crossover type things)

Jeeps are outre!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (Pv3Rg)

241 Just spent about $4k getting my 20yo truck repaired...for normal wear and tear issues....a new one of same model/options is about $48k.
Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (Yj6Os)

———

Pretty soon we’ll all be like Cubans, keeping those cars going for 50 years. Done in by capitalism for us though.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (H9ZTk)

242 > I've been hearing periodic very loud booms this morning. The wife checked, and sure enough, there are war games going on at Quantico.
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When Knox gets going, our windows rattle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (Q4IgG)

243 Good lord… just saw on the “news” a judge is getting ready to overturn the military tranny ban.

SECDEF is no longer allowed to set military standards? That'd be quite the precedent.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

244 What did US Grant call it: the awful calculus?

Winning a war is an awful business… but it’s better than losing and more than that it’s necessary especially when you’re dealing with savages.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (5MZNC)

and afterwards 'winning' the peace can in someways be more difficult.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)

245 Speaking of the Kims, I've read a fair amount of Marxist theory and I don't recall the part that says the state should have a hereditary monarchy.

I guess I must've missed it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (W5ArC)

246 234 220 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

Which means we're stuck with him for the better part of the next 2 years. Better would have been immediate retirement. I'm still betting he doesn't make it to 2026. Still, good news.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (xCA6C)

=====

Probably better to avoid any kerfuffle around the constitutionality of a replacement. That's just a mess to sidestep.

Besides, the Dem governor would probably win, get a Dem in the seat, and we'd be unable to tell the difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

247 Name any country on this Earth that qualifies as an angel.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I'm on a mission from God. 😎 ✝️

Posted by: Vatican City at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (JCZqz)

248 "Mr. Patels' recent political profile undermines his ability to serve in the apolitical role of Director of the FBI."

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I hate this woman.

A major office in the federal government that's apolitical is, by the very description, not responsive to the desires of the body politic: the people.

She vote FOR Eric Holder, who called himself Obama's wingman.

What that tells me is that she knew in advance that Patel would be confirmed, and Thune let her vote no to curry favor in her very purple state.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

249 Ok, got 50 for limiting debate.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (ufFY8)

250 220 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 20, 2025

I think the Grim Reaper will have more say in if he even finishes out his term.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (+oR7L)

251 I'm not really up on Kentucky politics.

What are the odds that they'll elect a real Republican to replace Bitch McConnell?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (W5ArC)

252 and afterwards 'winning' the peace can in someways be more difficult.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)
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cf. Iraq, 2003 - present

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (6K6Eu)

253 Good lord… just saw on the “news” a judge is getting ready to overturn the military tranny ban.

SECDEF is no longer allowed to set military standards? That'd be quite the precedent.

This must be a Special Hula Court District Judge In Charge of Military Affairs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (vYDwg)

254 Maine is only purple due to vote fraud - mostly illegal aliens voting

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (Pv3Rg)

255 If Isreal suffers from a small tactical nuke, what would be a response?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (LnS6f)

256 248 What that tells me is that she knew in advance that Patel would be confirmed, and Thune let her vote no to curry favor in her very purple state.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (xCA6C)

=======

If her vote is theater and never matters, get rid of her because she annoys me and contributes nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

257 236 What is with Susan Collins?
Why is she such a cunt?

Switch parties, for goodness sake.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (ufFY

meh, Collins gets a pass as they best we could hope for from Maine

if she needs a bipartisan fig leaf for reelection that won't be the deciding vote, let her grandstand

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (V6W16)

258 Good lord… just saw on the “news” a judge is getting ready to overturn the military tranny ban.

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Really?!

And that gets enforced how? A bunch of bailiffs?

There's no way that the ban can be overturned without asserting an absolute right to join the military, and that's a serious nonstarter.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:50 AM (3Aazl)

259 Sorry but Israel is no angel in this alliance.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)

Name any country on this Earth that qualifies as an angel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (wyMQY)

Strrawmania
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)

No love for Peruvia?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (Q0kLU)

260 They can, in fact, both be true. The Fox story says that "experts" say something. As we know from history, experts are known to lie when they aren't being honestly wrong.

Yeah, I read that and figured someone would call it out.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (xCA6C)

261 nd afterwards 'winning' the peace can in someways be more difficult.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)
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cf. Iraq, 2003 - present
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (6K6Eu)

How many of their middle eastern wars has Israel won? Yet here we are.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)

262 been hearing periodic very loud booms this morning. The wife checked, and sure enough, there are war games going on at Quantico.
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When Knox gets going, our windows rattle.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I wasn't that fat!

Posted by: Zombie Henry Knox at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (bHGBC)

263 251 I'm not really up on Kentucky politics.

What are the odds that they'll elect a real Republican to replace Bitch McConnell?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (W5ArC)

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Mitch is the machine. He's going to use every tool at his disposal to get someone like him in to replace him. He'll probably have a very good chance.

However, in what should be a relatively focused primary calendar and map for next year, Trump should have plenty of opportunity to stump for someone else.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

264
Name any country on this Earth that qualifies as an angel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:45 AM (wyMQY)

Wakanda Forever!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (3Aazl)

265 Kash confirmed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (3qNrw)

266 I read that Oded Lifshitz was a leftist who advocated for Palestinians. They brutalized and killed him anyway.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (CwhoI)

267 254 Maine is only purple due to vote fraud - mostly illegal aliens voting
Posted by: Black Orchid

Damned ice-backs!

Posted by: Old, confused uncle at holiday gathering at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

268 240 it's weird - Cadillacs have become really popular with the rich wives around here (Caddy SUVs and crossover type things)

Jeeps are outre!
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Jeeps are noisy. Caddies are quite, smooth ride, and built to carry taller people. Imma 6'4". I would like a car that is comfortable on a long drive. Not sure where I would park it when fly fishing, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (pLaQB)

269 hate this woman.

A major office in the federal government that's apolitical is, by the very description, not responsive to the desires of the body politic: the people.

She vote FOR Eric Holder, who called himself Obama's wingman.

What that tells me is that she knew in advance that Patel would be confirmed, and Thune let her vote no to curry favor in her very purple state.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM
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Peter have Vance warming up in the bullpen just in case.

Posted by: WisRich at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (Qgr0I)

270 Make a run for the border!

No mas Hamas!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (rSBfY)

271 Mitch came through. Surprised.

Posted by: grammie's iPad at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (SfhV1)

272 Shut up, Mitch.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (ufFY8)

273 Kash cloture passes. Collins voted no

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (3qNrw)

274 More smoke. Don't know if there's fire.

Obama’s Hollywood Friends “Forced to Pick Sides” as Divorce Rumors Escalate, Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

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Is this a Scylla and Charybdis thing?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)

275 What are the odds that they'll elect a real Republican to replace Bitch McConnell?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I could see Comer or Maasie wanting it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (wzjSy)

276 China, and the people of KY

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (ufFY8)

277 Mitch ain't running again.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (3qNrw)

278
Israel's existence has a lot to do with the Cold War; a great many Jews migrating there were communists and Stalin saw it as a take-away from the British Empire.

As for American support, it was for the Jewish votes Harry Truman wanted; George Marshall told him as much to his face and opposed both the Zionist movement and U.S. support for it.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (j4U/Z)

279 My map-fu isn't the strongest but it appears that Gaza is less then 10 miles wide - at it's widest. Yes, the explosion from a small nuke could be contained within that area but the effects could not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)

What did they call the Japanese people living 5 miles away from Hiroshima?

Survivors.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:39 AM (8zz6B)

Well, I'm not Israeli, or Jewish for that matter, so I'll refrain from advocating exploding a nuclear device that close to Israeli towns even though they'd probably survive with only some increase in cancer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

280 >>>I'm not really up on Kentucky politics.

I'm not sure even Kentuckians are really up on Kentucky politics. Like Montana, it's a red state that routinely elects Democrats and RINOs.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (CwhoI)

281 I know there are people that oppose term limits based on their “principles” but come on, 42 years of “public service”?

How about limiting Senate service to no more than 18 years, LOL!

It’s proven without a doubt that incumbents have a massive advantage in the elections. And they use the power the acquire in office to influence other elections.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (H9ZTk)

282 Will Pencil Neck Schiff be found hanged in his home if Patel is confirmed?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (kTd/k)

283 Jeeps are noisy. Caddies are quite, smooth ride, and built to carry taller people. Imma 6'4". I would like a car that is comfortable on a long drive. Not sure where I would park it when fly fishing, though.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (pLaQB)
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My wife and I wound up with a Cadillac a few years ago as a free rental upgrade. Even with the 6, it moved right along. Heck, at one point I was doing 90 and didn't realize it until I looked at the speedometer.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (tT6L1)

284 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

This freaks me out.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (ufFY8)

285 McConnell announces he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Was first elected in 1984

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 20, 2025
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (V6W16)
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Which means McConnell has nothing to lose by going all-in against President Trump...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (7fElN)

286 - All still ignoring the prophets I see.

Including the greatest of them all who is Prophet, Priest and King.
Sad

Posted by: TeeJ at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (ItCQP)

287 It is time for Gazans to experience what they thought unimaginable.

You don't put down a rabid dog for it's own good. You do it for everyone else's good.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (ImzfR)

288 More smoke. Don't know if there's fire.

Obama’s Hollywood Friends “Forced to Pick Sides” as Divorce Rumors Escalate, Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

WTF is up with that? That pole smoker wouldn't touch a woman.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (zc1Re)

289 251 I'm not really up on Kentucky politics.

What are the odds that they'll elect a real Republican to replace Bitch McConnell?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:49 AM (W5ArC)

Senator Thomas Massie would be awesome, but not sure he wants the job.

Whomever Trump endorses in the primary will win, it's that simple.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (V6W16)

290 McConnell is looking mighty rough.

I think those who are predicting he doesn't last until the end of his term have the right of it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (W5ArC)

291 eeps are noisy. Caddies are quite, smooth ride, and built to carry taller people. Imma 6'4". I would like a car that is comfortable on a long drive. Not sure where I would park it when fly fishing, though.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (pLaQB)

Get yourself an upgraded truck. You can have the best of all worlds.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

292 281 I know there are people that oppose term limits based on their “principles” but come on, 42 years of “public service”?

How about limiting Senate service to no more than 18 years, LOL!

It’s proven without a doubt that incumbents have a massive advantage in the elections. And they use the power the acquire in office to influence other elections.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (H9ZTk)

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1. I'd like to see term limits.
2. CA has term limits, and its government sucks.

I'm not sure term limits would solve as much as people imagine they would.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

293 276 China, and the people of KY
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Use baby oil. Just as good, but much cheaper, and easier to buy in bulk!

Posted by: P-Diddy at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

294 Jesus, 7 senate terms.

WTF KY?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (ufFY8)

295 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

This freaks me out.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

IKR. Does she have a serious self-esteem issue...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (3Aazl)

296 Maine Vermont Massachusetts even New Hampshire…. There’s something blue in the water up in New England

Murkowski I can’t explain. Nor McConnell or Lankford or Cornyn…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (5MZNC)

297 Was Dan'l Boone from Kentucky? How about Davy Crockett?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (kTd/k)

298 Mitch is the machine. He's going to use every tool at his disposal to get someone like him in to replace him. He'll probably have a very good chance.
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Correction: His staffers will try to use every tool.

Ain't no way Mitch is running the show.

And, without USAID money--which was, we are finding, the real power behind the scenes (and you know as Senate leader, he was funneling billions to his friends)--"Mitch" won't have near the machine he had in the past.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (NwfFc)

299 — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) February 20, 2025
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 20, 2025 11:44 AM (V6W16)
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Which means McConnell has nothing to lose by going all-in against President Trump...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (7fElN

I think this has been kind of obvious throughout the confirmation hearings.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (wyMQY)

300 One six year term for President… good idea, or bad??

Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (yjz94)

301 296 Maine Vermont Massachusetts even New Hampshire…. There’s something blue in the water up in New England

the cold freezes their brains

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (Pv3Rg)

302 WTF is up with that? That pole smoker wouldn't touch a woman.
Posted by: rickb223

Is she a Fag Hag...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (3Aazl)

303 Barack and Michelle's 'friends" decisions will be based on who has more access to graft.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (tT6L1)

304 284 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

This freaks me out.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (ufFY

She's in the professional beard phase of her career

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (eb5mD)

305 Kash not confirmed yet duh, only cloture

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (3qNrw)

306 >>>Was Dan'l Boone from Kentucky?

Abraham Lincoln AND Jefferson Davis were born in Kentucky.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (CwhoI)

307 McConnel is busy bloviating about how he's honored to serve the people of Kentucky by voting against the people that the people of Kentucky support.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)

308 You don't put down a rabid dog for it's own good. You do it for everyone else's good.
Posted by: Minuteman

(Weeping) He was suffering, too! I had to do it!

Posted by: Travis Coates at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

309 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

Words I never thought I'd hear from Barack Obama:
"Where all the white women at?".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (xCA6C)

310 Well, I'm not Israeli, or Jewish for that matter, so I'll refrain from advocating exploding a nuclear device that close to Israeli towns even though they'd probably survive with only some increase in cancer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

The Israelis are forewarned, of course, and go into the shelters, so protected from the prompt radiation. You do the bombing when there is a strong north or offshore wind to carry the debris from the mushroom cloud out into the Med or into Sinai. Impact on Israel: very small.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (8zz6B)

311 You are no Henry Clay, Mitch.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (ufFY8)

312 The Palestinians will always be a threat to Israel. If that wasn’t the case before the Oct 7 attacks, and subsequent war, it is now.

There are no good moves left to Israel here. Leaving an existential threat on your doorstep is just going to invite future attacks.

Physically removing the Palestinians to another country is probably a non-starter.

Looks like it’s back to “mowing the grass” but the grass is insane and wants to murder you and many of the people in your town are actively trying to water the grass..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (l3YAf)

313 'm not sure term limits would solve as much as people imagine they would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

Ive been an advocate for mandatory retirement age. We put an age requirement to hold constitutional federal offices for a reason. Same holds true for advanced age.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)

314 My wife and I wound up with a Cadillac a few years ago as a free rental upgrade. Even with the 6, it moved right along. Heck, at one point I was doing 90 and didn't realize it until I looked at the speedometer.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 11:54 AM (tT6L1)

"Big Ticket" sez "Hi".

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 11:57 AM (Yj6Os)

315 297 Was Dan'l Boone from Kentucky? How about Davy Crockett?
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Dan'l was from NC. Davy from Tennessee.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (pLaQB)

316 Seems like the complete destruction of a people, their government, and their beliefs like what was done with the Japanese and bushido in WWII has a way of changing things for the better.

We didn't chose this fight, but if push has come to shove, we damn sure need to end it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (3Ope8)

317 298 Correction: His staffers will try to use every tool.

Ain't no way Mitch is running the show.

And, without USAID money--which was, we are finding, the real power behind the scenes (and you know as Senate leader, he was funneling billions to his friends)--"Mitch" won't have near the machine he had in the past.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (NwfFc)

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King for a Day TJM Proclamation #3,494:

"No elected official is allowed staff, either paid or unpaid. They must do all of the work themselves. They must write all bills with ink, feather, and on vellum. They must be recorded on video writing bills in full, or the bills are discarded and any elected official who sponsored it is barred from any government position for the rest of their lives."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

318 McConnell previously said he would not run again in '26. Here in KY he's not a well liked as he once was... and certainly hated more today than years ago. His election machine here will dictate who will likely be his successor.

That same machine has kept him in office all these years.

And it's why we who wanted him out saw every primary candidate destroyed before the election.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (Q4IgG)

319 My wife and I wound up with a Cadillac a few years ago as a free rental upgrade. Even with the 6, it moved right along. Heck, at one point I was doing 90 and didn't realize it until I looked at the speedometer.
Posted by: blake

Those luxury cars are quite spiffy. Drove a mid-80's Lincoln Town Car rental to my grandmother's funeral. Cruising thru Arkansas in the middle of the night. Just floating along. Until I looked down and saw we were doing 120.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (zc1Re)

320 meh, Collins gets a pass as they best we could hope for from Maine

I firmly believe we don't actually know how the blue and purple states are actually voting right now. There need to be Federal standards imposed for Federal elections (e.g. US House and Senate and President) with mandatory ID and the whole nine yards. Europe does that routinely and they're actual Communists.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (2ocoG)

321 On this trip to the South Pacific we encountered the rare McTurtle which has been identified paddling his way to the Galapagos Islands in his last days of retirement.

-David Attenborough

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (w4nzS)

322 What amuses me is it's pretty obvious Aniston is a significant upgrade from Michelle, both in looks and personality.

Of course, that's not a very high bar, but, still.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (tT6L1)

323 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

This freaks me out.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

IKR. Does she have a serious self-esteem issue...?

People remember her from her Friends days, but she's 56 now. Her career is largely done, and she's no longer the doe-eyed ingenue.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (xCA6C)

324 > 297 Was Dan'l Boone from Kentucky? How about Davy Crockett?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (kTd/k)

Boone was born in Pennsylvania, but was a major player in settling Kentucky as an adult.

Crockett was:

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Killed him a bear when he was only three.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (W5ArC)

325 FWIW, I'm ambivalent about term limits, just because people should be able to vote for whomever they want.

Of course, that assumes honest elections, no fraud, etc. So maybe it's reasonable.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (3Aazl)

326 Mitch ain't Henry Clay, but he appears to be turning into clay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (3qNrw)

327 167
If we are playing let’s pretend, the youngest would be saved to be raised in a different culture, and not used as sex toys while growing up.

Posted by: Piper at February 20, 2025 11:35 AM (pZEOD)
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Then they grow up, discover their roots, become mohammedans and start that nonsense all over again.
Many adopted kids try and search for their biological parents and culture. It often becomes an obsession.

Posted by: Ciampino - oleaginous & odoriferous? at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (KjLnc)

328 I will second a proposal I saw on X: raze Gaza and build the world's largest Buc-ees, complete with a giant golden beaver looking out at the Mediterranean.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (CwhoI)

329 Wut?
He is praising his Chinese wife Elsine?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (ufFY8)

330 One six year term for President… good idea, or bad??
Posted by: tubal at February 20, 2025 11:56 AM (yjz94)

Bad.
4 years is only enough to get the Prez's programs rolling. If he is good enough then re-elect and get four more years of success. If not, toss 'em.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (W/lyH)

331 320 meh, Collins gets a pass as they best we could hope for from Maine

I firmly believe we don't actually know how the blue and purple states are actually voting right now. There need to be Federal standards imposed for Federal elections (e.g. US House and Senate and President) with mandatory ID and the whole nine yards. Europe does that routinely and they're actual Communists.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 11:58 AM (2ocoG)

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The federal mandates on election processes in Southern States is precedent. The VRA.

Amend it with universal rules along with criminal sections for those that fail to follow through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

332 There is no need for a "nuke" or even any massive invastion to depopulate Gaza at this point. They produce nothing; just shut off all the food supplies going in, and tell everyone whose hungry that they can get free transportation to a site where food will be available. Like Penguinistan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (wyMQY)

333 Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

They both like to smoke weed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (VofaG)

334 I will second a proposal I saw on X: raze Gaza and build the world's largest Buc-ees, complete with a giant golden beaver looking out at the Mediterranean.

Gaza is only like 10 miles wide. I think there's already a Buc-ees that size.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

335 Obama’s Hollywood Friends “Forced to Pick Sides” as Divorce Rumors Escalate, Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston
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This can't be true. Why would he even look at another woman when he has a hottie like Big Mike at home.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (Lo97M)

336 No need to kill newborns. Probably not even toddlers.

Once they've gone to school, though... there is Biblical precedence. And now we know why.

Biblical precedent includes all children, but who are you going you make do it? Doubt our troops would, tbh.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 20, 2025 12:01 PM (Vvh2V)

337 Was there a time when Mitch's hate for his own supporters was less obvious?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 12:01 PM (kTd/k)

338 The intra-party fighting between the Uniparty Dems won't be near as vicious as the intra-party fighting of the Uniparty Republicans.

The R wing was getting scraps from the federal government. Hundreds of millions, to be sure, but, compared to the Dems, scraps.
And the Uniparty Rs have even less of a base of natural support than the Uniparty Ds.

And, whew-boy, the ones left in U-R are going to be rabid fighting over the 3 actual donors they have left.

So, as big a shock as it will be going forward how little money the Dems are able to raise, the incumbent Rs of the U-Rs is going to be significantly less.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2025 12:01 PM (NwfFc)

339
She's in the professional beard phase of her career
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Damn. Beat me by just that much.

Taking a bullet for the team to distract from the budding Barry-Tom Hanks relationship.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:01 PM (j4U/Z)

340 Tom Servo, Smotrich and Ben Gvir tried very hard to get that to happen.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (mB6WH)

341 Asbestos underwear?

Pope Francis Tells Aides He’s “Preparing for Death” Amid Double-Pneumonia Battle

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

342 1. I'd like to see term limits.
2. CA has term limits, and its government sucks.

I'm not sure term limits would solve as much as people imagine they would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

I lived in CA when they passed term limits for state offices. State government got MUCH worse afterwards. Willie Brown was bad… Scott Weiner is much worse

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (5MZNC)

343 324 > 297 Was Dan'l Boone from Kentucky? How about Davy Crockett?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 11:55 AM (kTd/k)

Boone was born in Pennsylvania, but was a major player in settling Kentucky as an adult.

Crockett was:

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Killed him a bear when he was only three.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:59 AM (W5ArC)

Daniel Boone was a man,
He was a BIG man!
But the bear was a bigger so he ran...

oh wait never mind.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (wyMQY)

344 > She's in the professional beard phase of her career
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Bitch. That's my job.

Posted by: Liza Minelli at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (W5ArC)

345 > Daniel Boone was a man,
He was a BIG man!
But the bear was a bigger so he ran...

oh wait never mind.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (wyMQY)

Yeah, we can't sing that one any more.

Posted by: Liza Minelli at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (W5ArC)

346 That is if Mitch even survives until next yesr

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (fwDg9)

347 Jennifer Anniston smells like mackerel.

Posted by: Jerry Nadlers Sloppy Tits at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (rSBfY)

348 So, as big a shock as it will be going forward how little money the Dems are able to raise, the incumbent Rs of the U-Rs is going to be significantly less.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2025 12:01 PM (NwfFc)

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"Not to worry, comrade -- Chairman Xi have their, how you say, backsides (IYKWIMAITYD)."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (1YwYn)

349 340 Tom Servo, Smotrich and Ben Gvir tried very hard to get that to happen.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 20, 2025 12:02 PM (mB6WH)

Biden and the UNWRA blocked that from happening. Things change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (wyMQY)

350 Muzzies hate has built a Portal to Hell with direct access to satan and the demonic forces.

Palestinians Line the Streets to Cheer as the Bodies of Dead Babies Are Paraded Through Streets

https://tinyurl.com/3x22nwkn

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (w4nzS)

351 ...

Posted by: D. Boone Cilled a Bar Here at February 20, 2025 12:04 PM (W5ArC)

352 Taking a bullet for the team to distract from the budding Barry-Tom Hanks relationship.

There was a specific allegation that The Turtle gave Obama a beejer. I apologize in advance for the amount of brain bleach that's gonna require.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 12:04 PM (2ocoG)

353 I liked Jennifer Anniston in the movie Along Came Polly. One of my favorite RomComs.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 20, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)

354 Muzzies hate has built a Portal to Hell with direct access to satan and the demonic forces.

Millions of guys know how to deal with that situation. DOOM E1M1 music intensifies

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

355 ...

Posted by: D. Boone Cilled a Bar Here

•••

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (4dsHO)

356 I liked Jennifer Anniston in the movie Along Came Polly. One of my favorite RomComs.

I've started watching Suits on Netflix, and I'm very surprised that Meghan Markle is actually a competent actress.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

357 354 Millions of guys know how to deal with that situation. DOOM E1M1 music intensifies
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2025 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

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You can play that in the Google Search Bar now.

And a pdf file.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

358 Relations between nation states are neither moral or immoral. They are amoral. Frequently viewed as a zero sum competition, they need not be. Each state has its own strengths and weaknesses and they are free to negotiate for advantage. Or seek it another way.
War is politics on a different plane. War is also amoral, where the only duty is to win. How it is conducted can be immoral, but this is secondary to the first, and only, duty: to win.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

359 That is if Mitch even survives until next yesr

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 12:03 PM (fwDg9)

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Is "The Professional" who took care of Dirty Harry Reid still available for hire? Asking for a friend ...

What do you call a tortoise with an eye-patch?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (1YwYn)

360 1. I'd like to see term limits.
2. CA has term limits, and its government sucks.

I'm not sure term limits would solve as much as people imagine they would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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They don't. People forget that we had tried a bunch of experiments including term limits, recall of representatives, terms as short as one year, etc. back in the Articles of Confederation days and still had crappy governance.

What term limits do is temporarily open the legislature to new blood which then in turn becomes corrupted just as fast.

Arguably, the limit that the House GOP has for committee chairs (6 years) has resulted in quite a bit of turnover in that body among the GOP. If the Dems emulated that, people like Nadler would have been sidelined years ago.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

361 Rule 2: Never stick your dick in whatever Barky stuck his dick in.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (ufFY8)

362 Speaking of the Kims, I've read a fair amount of Marxist theory and I don't recall the part that says the state should have a hereditary monarchy.

I guess I must've missed it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 11:48 AM (W5ArC)

It's not. When the outgoing Premier is lost they replace them with the best possible candidate who, coincidentally, happens to be the oldest surviving son of the previous Premier. All very Marxist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

363 Surrender is meaningless to these filth. They don't honor any agreements, treaties, etc. They say what they need to say and do whatever the fuck they want to do.

Wholesale slaughter is the only option if none of their fellow Islamic countries will take them.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (Vvh2V)

364
Gossip Ties Barack to Jennifer Aniston

Beard upgrade for him.

Probably, some extra actual movie work for her. Maybe 5-6 more starring roles.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (iJfKG)

365 355 ...

Posted by: D. Boone Cilled a Bar Here
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Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)

366 Relations between nation states are neither moral or immoral. They are amoral. Frequently viewed as a zero sum competition, they need not be. Each state has its own strengths and weaknesses and they are free to negotiate for advantage. Or seek it another way.
War is politics on a different plane. War is also amoral, where the only duty is to win. How it is conducted can be immoral, but this is secondary to the first, and only, duty: to win.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

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They should let you post essays here sometimes.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (1YwYn)

367 I've started watching Suits on Netflix, and I'm very surprised that Meghan Markle is actually a competent actress.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Donna and Harvey are the pivot of that show. Louis for the tragi comic relief.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

368 360 Arguably, the limit that the House GOP has for committee chairs (6 years) has resulted in quite a bit of turnover in that body among the GOP. If the Dems emulated that, people like Nadler would have been sidelined years ago.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)

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There are probably a host of structural things we could do to make governance better (I'm gonna stick by my no staffing idea forever until proven otherwise).

Term limits combined with other stuff could be positive, but term limits on its own feels like a bust.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

369 You may applaud for 30s.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 12:08 PM (ufFY8)

370
oh wait never mind.
Posted by: Tom Servo

heh... racist schoolyard rhymes stay with ya forever.

Fes Parker shoulda been Preznit.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (j4U/Z)

371 I can't imagine any top wanting to stick it into McConnell's withered old ass.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (kTd/k)

372
They should let you post essays here sometimes.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (1YwYn)

What? And bore you guys to death?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (W/lyH)

373 Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)

Inherit any lands or titles?

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (Yj6Os)

374 Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)
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We're all related to Charlemagne, cuz.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (6K6Eu)

375 This can't be true. Why would he even look at another woman when he has a hottie like Big Mike at home.
Posted by: Florida Peasant

Ladies, please! There's no need to fight, or "choose". There's enough chocolate messiah for everyone! And, while we spend time together platonically, I'll "make love to men daily, but in the imagination. My mind is androgynous to a great extent, and I hope to make it more so, until I can think of people, not women as opposed to men. But returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically, in life, I choose to accept that contingency.”

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (JCZqz)

376 Fes Parker shoulda been Preznit.
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He bought and ran a hotel in CA. Nice guy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (pLaQB)

377 I'm prepared to be a dick to any friend or relative that takes the side of Hamas.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (4QyW9)

378 However, in what should be a relatively focused primary calendar and map for next year, Trump should have plenty of opportunity to stump for someone else.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

Mitch has announced that he won't run. MAGA should start looking for, and vetting, a preferred candidate now. Get them talking to people in the state. Get them known. Easier that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)

379 War is politics on a different plane. War is also amoral, where the only duty is to win. How it is conducted can be immoral, but this is secondary to the first, and only, duty: to win.

Posted by: Diogenes
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IF you got to war, then win. But not all situations are best fixed by war.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)

380 What term limits do is temporarily open the legislature to new blood which then in turn becomes corrupted just as fast.
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Laws only constrain moral men.
Only incentives matter.
And we need more incentives for bad men to do the right thing.
Sometimes, a lamppost is the necessary incentive ... in a figurative way, of course.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (NwfFc)

381 Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)

Inherit any lands or titles?
Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (Yj6Os)
***

Dude!
That's Lord Pudinhead if you please.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (W/lyH)

382 Mitch has announced that he won't run. MAGA should start looking for, and vetting, a preferred candidate now. Get them talking to people in the state. Get them known. Easier that way.

I have no doubt that was already happening. Trump has shown that he knows how to plan.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (xCA6C)

383 350
‘ Palestinians Line the Streets to Cheer as the Bodies of Dead Babies Are Paraded Through Streets’

More advice for Israel: Bomb the absolute fuck out of these parades while they’re in progress

Want to celebrate death?
We do too! Yours!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

384 378 Mitch has announced that he won't run. MAGA should start looking for, and vetting, a preferred candidate now. Get them talking to people in the state. Get them known. Easier that way.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)

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The RNC is run better now than it has in at least 20 years.

And it's outright aligned with Trump.

So, fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

385 Kash confirmed.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (3qNrw)

Just cloture. Confirmation is later today (presumably).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

386 Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)

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I'm related -- via marriage -- to Rolf the Ganger (Rollo "The Walker"), the Viking Norseman (BIRM) who went to Normandy and first ruled it.

So, yeah, that's about all I've got going for me as well ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (1YwYn)

387 Inherit any lands or titles?
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Nope. The Ancestor who brought his family to Maryland from Jamaica was the first born. But the problem was he was the first born to the first wife not the second wife.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (pLaQB)

388 The federal mandates on election processes in Southern States is precedent. The VRA.

Amend it with universal rules along with criminal sections for those that fail to follow through.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

Yep.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (l3YAf)

389 Star Parker: The Left Hates That We Now Have Responsible Leadership

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Reminds me of this dialogue from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:

Butch Cassidy: [gradually watches, dismayed, as iron bars, shutters and locks seal up a bank at closing time, darkening the room] What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful!
Guard: People kept robbing it.
Butch Cassidy: ...Small price to pay for beauty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

390 385 Kash confirmed.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2025 11:51 AM (3qNrw)

Just cloture. Confirmation is later today (presumably).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

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The Senate sure does love its rulebook.

Started by Jefferson, you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

391 I thought we were all related to Genghis Khan or something.

I guess I will send my DNA to some shady company on the internet to check.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (4dsHO)

392 IF you got to war, then win. But not all situations are best fixed by war.
Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)

Exactly. This is why negotiation, trade, and good intelligence are almost always the better option.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (W/lyH)

393 I've started watching Suits on Netflix, and I'm very surprised that Meghan Markle is actually a competent actress.
Posted by: Archimedes

It's just that the Wallis Simpson bitch villainess role is difficult to play.

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (j4U/Z)

394 I'm related -- via marriage -- to Rolf the Ganger (Rollo "The Walker"), the Viking Norseman (BIRM) who went to Normandy and first ruled it.
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Umm, my people were Normans, too. They took England pretty dam quickly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:13 PM (pLaQB)

395 I'm a descendant of a long line of peasants.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (kTd/k)

396 I'm not buying the Anniston/Obama thing. I thought she'd be smarter than to get stuck having to deal with his kids.
but maybe not.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (W/lyH)

397 Hey, Imma related to Daniel Boone. Imma related to Alfred the Great, too. Both via marriage. So I have that going for me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:07 PM (pLaQB)

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I'm related -- via marriage -- to Rolf the Ganger (Rollo "The Walker"), the Viking Norseman (BIRM) who went to Normandy and first ruled it.

So, yeah, that's about all I've got going for me as well ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (1YwYn)

I was Vlad the Impaler in a previous life.

Or maybe it's my present life. You don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (dGCAG)

398 I think I'm related to Dennis the Peasant.

He was one of the leaders of an anarcho-syndicalist commune, you know.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (wyMQY)

399 396 I'm not buying the Anniston/Obama thing. I thought she'd be smarter than to get stuck having to deal with his kids.
but maybe not.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (W/lyH)

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Stars can be star fuckers, too.

And for leftist Hollywood celebrities, there is no bigger star than Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

400 What? And bore you guys to death?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:09 PM (W/lyH)

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Make Smart Military Blogs Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Deep State Dies in Daylight at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (1YwYn)

401 Nope. The Ancestor who brought his family to Maryland from Jamaica was the first born. But the problem was he was the first born to the first wife not the second wife.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (pLaQB)

Yeah, I'm related to Lord Ashley Cooper...specifically to his younger brother George, so....

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (Yj6Os)

402 I'm related to someone somewhere in the past who was vaguely important.

Lionize me!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (tT6L1)

403 I'm related to a 19th century deadbeat who got a milkmaid pregnant and then died of consumption at 23 years old.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (4dsHO)

404 398 I think I'm related to Dennis the Peasant.

He was one of the leaders of an anarcho-syndicalist commune, you know.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (wyMQY)

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I never agreed with his critique of the monarchal system.

Scimitars from watery tarts is as good a system of government as anything else I've seen tried.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

405 There are probably a host of structural things we could do to make governance better (I'm gonna stick by my no staffing idea forever until proven otherwise).

Term limits combined with other stuff could be positive, but term limits on its own feels like a bust.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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True, you get second and third order effects that are difficult to perceive. Arkansas did have the shortest term limits (6yrs in House, and I think two 4-year Senate terms) and has seen quite a bit of turnover. Dunno how that has played out over time as I quit doing state legislative research somewhere around 2000. The other variable was the flip of Arkansas post Clinton to the GOP including the legislature to blood red levels. So some of the effects of short terms might have interacted with that.

Someone has probably done some research about it by now but that will probably be an obscure journal or such. Might find a reference if interested in a report by NCSL (National Center for State Legislatures)

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)

406 I thought we were all related to Genghis Khan or something.

I guess I will send my DNA to some shady company on the internet to check.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (4dsHO)

I was told the Mormons owned all that DNA and ancestry stuff on the internet.

They're trying to keep track of ALL of us, for some reason.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (dGCAG)

407 I think I'm related to Dennis the Peasant.

He was one of the leaders of an anarcho-syndicalist commune, you know.

Shit status:
[X] Covered in
[ ] Not covered in

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (xCA6C)

408 Did you know? BBC, British-Israeli hostage says Hamas held her at UN facilities, 31 January 2025

In part, "Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Unrwa's director of communications Juliette Touma was asked about Ms Damari's claims. She said: "For many, many months we did not have access to several of our facilities.

"So the vast majority of our buildings were turned into shelters when the war started.

"At some point we had a million people in those shelters."

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The ultimate revenge, to kill the young. Further, those poor babies were killed because they were males.

CBS News, World
ISIS is killing, torturing and raping children in Iraq, U.N. says, February 15, 2015

Reading suggested. BTW, note a mere decade ago.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (NFX2v)

409 He was one of the leaders of an anarcho-syndicalist commune, you know.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:14 PM (wyMQY)

Do you have shit all over you?

Posted by: That other peasant with shit all over him at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (ufFY8)

410 My first cousin ten times removed was the first Class B senator from Maryland.

He served one term, during which his wife died. After his term was up, he descended into alcoholism and died.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

411 > The Senate sure does love its rulebook.
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One of the more aggravating things about McConnell is that while Senate majority leader and/or Senate leader when the GOP held the edge he'd run the Senate like it was the 1800's and not the 21st century. Utterly clueless as to how hated the GOP was by the Democrats.

At some point he dropped all pretenses and joined them. All the while pretending to be a Republican.

I think he was more interested in being liked and looked up to than actually legislating what his constituents put him in office for.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)

412 Scimitars from watery tarts is as good a system of government as anything else I've seen tried.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)
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Point of order - the scimitar comes from a "moistened bint." The "watery tart" is a sword distributor.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (6K6Eu)

413 398 I think I'm related to Dennis the Peasant.

He was one of the leaders of an anarcho-syndicalist commune, you know.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep. Interesting as part of the deal was the enormous taxation falling on the remainder of the population not carried away by Black Death. Serfdom was also destroyed by the scarcity of people as people left manors and never returned to serve the lords of the manor.

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)

414 412 Scimitars from watery tarts is as good a system of government as anything else I've seen tried.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)
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Point of order - the scimitar comes from a "moistened bint." The "watery tart" is a sword distributor.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM (6K6Eu)

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Well, in that case, I'm gonna join an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

415 But the problem was he was the first born to the first wife not the second wife.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (pLaQB)

So...multiple wives. Nice.
If you can afford it.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

416 Hm

Seems to me that everyone is related to everyone else.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (4dsHO)

417 Nood. Gold bars, Titanic, Stacy Abrams.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

418 I saw Watery Tarts open for Twisted sister at the Gorge in George in '87.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

419 Want to celebrate death?
We do too! Yours!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)
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Here I am in Jerusalem, despondent.

If we were given the order to completely destroy Gaza and anything which breathes in it, I would ask to volunteer.

Islam needs to be eradicated. And that means Muslims.

I have long been without caring anymore.

הבא להרגך, השכם להורגו

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (vOvpU)

420 I'm related to a 19th century deadbeat who got a milkmaid pregnant and then died of consumption at 23 years old.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:15 PM (4dsHO)

I saw a short vid recently, Groucho participating in some event/roast of Johnny Carson.

Groucho says "I visited Johnny's mother recently, she still remembers him. She doesn't remember his father though. Then I went to see his teacher... she doesn't remember Johnny at all, but she remembers his father."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (dGCAG)

421 Damn I messed up that joke.

Hitting myself now.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:18 PM (4dsHO)

422
Royalty 'ere eh?

Your people kicked my people out of Scotland and into a Irish "Plantation" to make room for sheep.

You owe me reparations. Whatta ya got?

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (j4U/Z)

423 After his term was up, he descended into alcoholism and died.

There are worse ways to go.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (Q0kLU)

424 231
I'm not sure what the objection to Patel is, but it can't be any worse than the above.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)
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The secret FBI files on every one of them and their families and their friends.

Posted by: Ciampino - Kash has a BIG AXE to grind at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (KjLnc)

425 423 After his term was up, he descended into alcoholism and died.

There are worse ways to go.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (Q0kLU)

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The alone part was probably the worst part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 20, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

426 You owe me reparations. Whatta ya got?

Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (j4U/Z)

bagpipes and haggis....and kilts

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2025 12:20 PM (Yj6Os)

427 A warning from Sheldon Shithouse.

Townhall.com@townhallcom
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE:

"KASH PATEL...WILL CAUSE EVIL IN THIS BUILDING [FBI HQ] BEHIND US!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 20, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)

428 You owe me reparations. Whatta ya got?
Posted by: Auspex at February 20, 2025 12:19 PM (j4U/Z)
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1. We had to protect the sheep because you lot were fond of kilts without zippers.

2. You can have a case of canned Hagis.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 20, 2025 12:21 PM (tT6L1)

429 At some point he dropped all pretenses and joined them. All the while pretending to be a Republican.

I think he was more interested in being liked and looked up to than actually legislating what his constituents put him in office for.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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McConnell knew what he was---a grifter who was a GOP member because the Dem hierarchy at the time in KY would never let him advance in office unless he won as a GOP challenger. Knocked off Dee Huddleston (from memory) with a hound dog ad where hunters with dogs were searching for Dee (Dee had a lot of absences in votes). Helped that it was the peak Reagan year of 1984). Before, he was chief administrator for Jefferson County (Louisville).

Posted by: whig at February 20, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)

430 424 231
I'm not sure what the objection to Patel is, but it can't be any worse than the above.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 20, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

The biggest objection to him is the same thing that makes him so perfect for the job: He has *always* been incredibly loyal to Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:21 PM (wyMQY)

431 CBS News, World
ISIS is killing, torturing and raping children in Iraq, U.N. says, February 15, 2015

Reading suggested. BTW, note a mere decade ago.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
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Nothing has changed in islam since about 630AD or so.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 20, 2025 12:21 PM (4QyW9)

432 I was told the Mormons owned all that DNA and ancestry stuff on the internet.

They're trying to keep track of ALL of us, for some reason.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 20, 2025 12:16 PM

Turns out, I have some Mormon ancestors. When I started checking my geneaology, I didn't have to do much work past putting my grandfather's name in the search box. Everything was there (for that branch of the family, at least).

Posted by: Bert G at February 20, 2025 12:22 PM (VARTN)

433 Hamas has been destroyed militarily.
They've failed strategically.
And with Trump at the table they're not going to win diplomatically.

Horriblest own goal of the century so far.

Posted by: DaveA at February 20, 2025 12:24 PM (FhXTo)

434 I guess I will send my DNA to some shady company on the internet to check.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 20, 2025 12:12 PM (4dsHO)

I will do it for half price and you do not need to send anything but the fee.

Posted by: MAC V SOG at February 20, 2025 12:27 PM (P4Pk9)

435 what age could a captured Pali child successfully be converted into a decent human being? At what age would such an attempt be doomed to failure?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at Feb
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I posted my two cents yesterday. Two. Maybe three. Must be orphaned first.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 20, 2025 12:31 PM (n4GiU)

436 sock off

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 20, 2025 12:57 PM (/tzYP)

437 For those who didn't know, Milei cares about the murdered babies partly because he's a decent human being, but partly because they were Argentine citizens - dual Argentine-Israeli - since their father is (was? don't know if he's alive) an Argentine.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 20, 2025 01:44 PM (43XUo)

438 I feel like I am holding my breath waiting for the official Israeli confirmation; I can't even begin to imagine how agonizing this is for their father/husband and family.

And I wouldn't put it past the genocidal sociopaths to send other bodies (or parts), just to prolong the suffering and uncertainty.

Posted by: Momlady at February 20, 2025 01:56 PM (+t/ml)

439 This type of situation makes me praise God I don't control America's or Israel's military. I would have been tempted to see how many bombs it took to bounce the rubble into dust.

And then I'd feel guilty and eat more pie, which would affect my A1C and my doctor and my wife would be angry at me.

Posted by: setnaffa at February 20, 2025 02:27 PM (dKSNq)

440 And when the last hostage is released - is that the signal to eliminate Hamas and obliterate Gaza?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 20, 2025 03:33 PM (bufu1)

441 The only way to deal with a rapid animal is to put it down.
Ol' Yeller was loved and it was hard.
Gazans are rapid skunks and have given up all rights to live.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at February 20, 2025 07:33 PM (pcRUu)

442 "And then I'd feel guilty and eat more pie, which would affect my A1C and my doctor and my wife would be angry at me."

Lol this is my conversation with my doctor:

"I'm only taking the statins so my wife will calm down."

Posted by: anotheranon at February 20, 2025 08:14 PM (KWJ+7)

443 Breaking News: The IDF says the mother's body was not there. It was another woman's body captured in (iirc) 2022. Hamas cannot be trusted for anything, they must be removed from existence.

Posted by: 5cats at February 20, 2025 09:15 PM (hv5ip)

444 The answer is that hostages need to be treated as already dead. And to show the commitment to that, Israel needs to execute any HAMAS prisoners they now hold in retribution, and make it clear that prisoners will not be taken in future.

Eliminate the benefits of taking hostages, and hostages will not be taken.

Posted by: LordAzrael at February 20, 2025 10:37 PM (j1las)

445 435 what age could a captured Pali child successfully be converted into a decent human being? At what age would such an attempt be doomed to failure?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at Feb
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I posted my two cents yesterday. Two. Maybe three. Must be orphaned first.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 20, 2025 12:31 PM (n4GiU)

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The problem is they would be like children of islamic immigrants - subject to radicalisation later in life due to the victimhood of their parents

Posted by: LordAzrael at February 20, 2025 10:39 PM (j1las)

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