The Morning Report — 2/ 21 /25

Good morning kids. That the Muslims of Gaza should abuse the bodies of a mother her two innocent beautiful children of blessed and sacred memory who the Lord in His mercy will embrace for all time, Amen.. that they butchered along with several hundred other Israelis and some foreigners (among them Americans) as ghoulish props in their version of a victory parade should come as no surprise to anyone who has even the remotest understanding of the past 1,600 years of history, Certainly since 9/11/01 which saw residents of both Gaza and the West bank of both the Jordan River and the Hudson River on the rooftops of Jersey City cheering, passing out candy and ululating with near orgasmic glee when the Twin Towers came crashing down.

Blaming Gazans as citizens of Gaza, that is blaming Hamas for this as well as what they did on October 7th last is the same as blaming guns for school shootings. The Gun is merely the implement by which the violence is committed.

Hamas, as well as the so-called innocent Gazan civilians, including Al Jazeera journalists and UNWRA employees are merely the implement. The violence and the motive are one in the same:

I-S-L-A-M. Same as it ever was for the past 1,500 years or so. God bless President Trump for his calling out of this barbarism for what it is, but removing the populace of Gaza is one thing, and I firmly believe that Gaza as a territory should indeed be returned to ISrael, whose critical mistake was giving it up in the first place by agreeing to or I'd prefer to believe being coerced into the insane delusion of land for peace. That still leaves a few million people who either participated in or cheered on the butchery of 10/7 and the savage subhuman abuse of the victims remains, as Israel set free their compatriots. If anyone thinks that these savages will willingly be relocated to some other Islamic nation let alone that some other Islamic nation wants them in their midst in the first place, they're living in fantasyland.
As far as Gaza is or was concerned, or even this notion of a so-called "Palestinian" state, to Muslims, it's merely a temporary if not diversionary tactic in their ultimate goal. Nation states, even majority Muslim are antithetical to Islam's main goal, a global ummah or caliphate. Muslim independent nation states are tolerated only insofar as to bring about this goal. And to achieve that goal requires the death of or submission of every infidel/nonbeliever.

Remember or for our Lefty readers (I use that term loosely) The word ISLAM does not mean peace. The word is Salaam. Islam in English translates as SUBMISSION. You will never hear nor read this in the state-controlled media.

Submission is also the goal of Leftists/Democrats and so Islam and Leftism are for the present time allies of convenience. Until Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez finds her head is about to get lopped off by a rusty hacksaw once she and her ilk have outlived their usefulness to the Mullahs she too is deluding herself.

Unless and until the Islamic world undergoes some sort of Protestant reformation or 1.5 billion Muslims renounce the parts of the Koran and Hadith that label Jews as descendants of pigs and apes that are to be eradicated in order to fulfill Allah's will, regardless of what happens in Gaza going forward in modern geopolitical terms, what happened on 10/7/24 will happen again, in Israel and elsewhere in the world. By the way, not only against Jews as we have witnessed yet again in both Congo and Nigeria just the other day.

Militants decapitated 70 Christians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 13. The victims reportedly include women, children, and the elderly.

Must say to my friends at Legal Insurrection, Referring to these Evil subhuman savages as Militants is something I expect from outlets like NPR.

Like this shining example of why I hope Musk and Trump drop a DOGE Moab on it.

As throngs of Hamas militants and their Gazan allies celebrated over the caskets of four dead Israelis, including two children and their mother, an NPR reporter described the scene as "much more somber and much less celebratory on both sides." The taxpayer-funded outlet's Tel Aviv-based correspondent, Kat Lonsdorf, gave the description after interviewer Michel Martin noted that Thursday marked "the first time that Hamas has handed over bodies during this war" and asked Lonsdorf to describe the "scene." "Yeah, it was definitely much more somber and much less celebratory on both sides," Lonsdorf responded.

Over here, congratulations to Kash Patel who I hope will be able to purge the Hoover building of the traitors in his midst, find and or promote actual moral, ethical, competent and patriotic Americans to fill the agency's ranks and set them loose on the criminal scum who transmogrified that agency into a Globalist/Democrat Gestapo in the first place.

Just as expecting Islam to reform itself, is a non-starter, expecting their allies of convenience of the Left to do the same and accept that they have been rebuked and defeated, at least in the short term as a result of Trump's historic massive landslide political/cultural victory of last November is wishful thinking. At least over here, we do have a chance at a cultural shift away from insane Leftism. The more Trump can transform his policies into tangible results that even the Globalist/Commie controlled propaganda machine can't obfuscate or censor, the better the chance we have in the long term of an American renaissance. Please God.

And on a separate note, the notion of giving everyone a $5,000 check to me is antithetical to DOGE's mission and the MAGA mission in the first place. I hope Trump reconsiders this. It just keeps the Uncle Sugar mentality alive and that needs to die along with the bureaucracy that enabled it in the first place. Better to repeal the "temporary!" Federal income tax (16th amendment) and abolish the entire IRS.

I'm hearing some yammering Uterus on MSNSDAP going on about Trump blaming Ukraine for the war with Russia saying "can you imagine if Canada invaded the US and we blamed ourselves for the war? Reminder, over 50 million foreigners have invaded the US and are living and leeching off us as illegal aliens and yet when Trump calls that out and is fighting like hell to deport them all, somehow that is morally reprehensible.

The first nukes should be dropped on the Mecca Space Rock and the Qom wishing well, and then Black Rock (CBS HQ) and NPR among others.

And funny, now Obama and Foggy Bottom overthrew the legitimately elected Ukrainian government that was friendly to Putin and installed an illegitimate puppet. While at the same time we allowed NATO to expand eastward, breaking our continued promises to Puttin to not do so. Lots of bame to go around.

On a personal level, Between pogroms and the Einsatzgruppen, Ukraine and much of eastern Europe is drenched in Jewish blood going back a few hundred years so if Putin and SHecky Zelensky want to kill each other off, I say pass the popcorn. I feel sorry for any truly innocent people caught up in that unnecessary bloodbath, but I am who I am, so there you go.

And here's to the continued DOGE-ing of DC. Have a great weekend.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

As technology moves from conception to implementation, we are seeing the dangers of increasing levels of government control that threaten personal liberty, security and anonymity. Caution is required.
Digital Prisons
Daniel Greenfield: New disclosures show Jack Smith was working for Biden all along.
The President, the Special Counsel and his Lawyers
Let us not avert our eyes away from his message.
Philip Haney, An American Patriot: In Memoriam

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

The vice president opened the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C.
Vance: ‘We Have Got To Stop Spending The American People’s Money On Garbage’
We get the appeal — who doesn’t like free money? — but that’s pretty much how the country got into its current fiscal mess in the first place. (Agreed. Better to abolish everything created from the New Deal onwards, - jjs)
Paying down the debt will help Americans VASTLY more than DOGE ‘dividends’
DOGE is the corrective, the counterbalance to an abusive and rogue Treasury Department.
Trillions in Graft
“I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump said, responding to a question posed by a member of the press pool. “I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawlessly beautiful. And I think we should take over Washington, D.C.”
Trump Urges Federal Takeover of Washington D.C. to Restore Law and Order.
Trump may succeed where even FDR failed—dismantling the legal shield protecting independent federal commissions from presidential firings.
Donald Trump and the So-Called Independent Regulatory Agencies
Kurt Schlichter: We just have to fight smart.
We Are Totally Going to Crush the Democrats’ Puny Lawfare Offensive
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
Yes, you read that right.
LA Mayor Says Her Office Is Investigating Why She Was Allowed to Go on a Tax-Funded Trip to Ghana During LA Wildfires
Bass stated that “there has certainly been an openness and a willingness from the Trump administration to be very helpful. And so, I think it’s important that the entire nation is invested in our success.”
Bass: Trump Admin. Way Ahead of Schedule with Removing Toxic Waste (for a moment I thought she was praising DOGE! - jjs)
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government.
If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Mexico Is Their State Sponsor
The idea comes courtesy of two high-level state officials.
Can Bounty Hunters Solve Our Immigration Crisis?
“President Trump, within days of taking office, cut border crossings 95 percent and those few who have dared to cross are being either prosecuted or deported,’ MIller declared to a room full of reporters, most of whom cover the migration issue from a pro-migration perspective. (Now tax remittances 95% - jjs)
Winning: Stephen Miller Touts Trump’s 95 Percent Drop in Illegal Migrants
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
'Our heart may be broken but our spirit is not,' Netanyahu said in a video message. 'We will return all of our hostages.'
Netanyahu Responds To Return Of Murdered Hostages: ‘We Will Eliminate Hamas’
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk described the situation as “abhorrent,” according to Reuters, indicating that parading the bodies of dead civilians before a celebratory crowd was a violation of international law.
U.N. Condemns Gruesome 'Palestinian' Child Coffin Parade Handing over Dead Hostages
Words fail. For any decent human being, the behavior of the Hamas killers today in releasing the four bodies of their kidnapped hostages — which included a baby and a toddler — was beyond monstrous.
Ghouls and Monsters in Gaza
On October 7, 2023, Gazan “civilians” drilled into the home of Shiri Bibas, her husband, Yarden, and their two babies. After murdering Shiri’s parents and the family dog, the savages dragged her out of the house as she was clutching onto her sons for dear life. . . But according to your common culprits in the callous mainstream media, Shiri and her babies just so happened to wind up “deceased.”
Mainstream Media Pretends Babies Reportedly Murdered by Hamas were Randomly 'Deceased'
Gaza belongs to the Jewish state, and it needs to reintegrate Gaza as a Jewish region that is an integral part of greater Israel. (Land wis one thing, the cancer of a million-plus Muslims is quite another - jjs)
President Trump Is Wrong on Gaza
Many “innocent” Gazans joined the kidnapping and murder of Israeli civilians on October 7, while many more “celebrated” the massacre, as well as “the return of Jewish babies in coffins,” noted Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan Thursday , who called for the enclave to be “denazified” and “demilitarized” while urging the implementation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for the region.
Israeli Ambassador Backs Trump’s Gaza Plan, Slams Public ‘Celebration’ of Murdered Baby Hostages

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NPR must be utterly demolished - jjs
WATCH: As Gazans Celebrate the Murder of Jewish Women and Children, NPR Calls the Scenes 'More Somber and Much Less Celebratory'
“The New York Times is just a title. It’s not a fair trustworthy source of news. It’s a rotten corroded snot hole. It should be shut down once & for ever,” Rapaport wrote in a Wednesday X post, sharing an article by the Jerusalem Post featuring a study on the newspaper’s “imbalanced” coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
Michael Rapaport Calls for ‘Corroded’ NYT to Be ‘Shut Down’ over Its Coverage of the Israel-Hamas War
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
DRC also faces violence from the Rwanda-backed armed group M23.
70 Christians Decapitated in Church in Democratic Republic of Congo
Daniel Greenfield: The Bibas children are the latest victims of the child killers of Islam.
The Child Murderers of Gaza
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Whitmer went on Gulf junket with anti-Israel activist Osama Siblani
Wretched/Gretchen Whitmer Forges Business Deal With Iran-Linked Emirati Sheikh Implicated in Hacking Schemes
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
War Room host Stephen K. Bannon has described the Kennedy Center as “the high church of the secular, atheistic administrative state that runs the imperial capital,” with Trump’s takeover serving as a major blow to the left’s cultural hegemony.
Trump-Led Kennedy Center Evacuated After Bomb Threat
A multitude of factors have held back black social and economic development, but the changes the black community needs now must come from within.
No, Whites Are Not Responsible For Black Outcomes
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Requests for public comments by the FTC are often a precursor to formal investigations or agency-level policy changes, indicating the agency, helmed by Chairman Andrew Ferguson, does not intend to allow sweeping allegations of political censorship in prior years to go unchecked.
EXCLUSIVE: Federal Trade Commission Launches Probe Into Big Tech’s Censorship Of Americans
Vance’s Munich speech made clear: the Trump administration is taking a stand against global censorship, defending free speech at home and abroad.
Trump Admin Serious About Combatting Global Censorship
the paper's recently unveiled "Next 50" list of individuals "shaping our society in 2025" suggests the Post's journalists are still struggling to dislodge themselves from the woke liberal bubble that has long impeded their ability to make content suitable for normal Americans.
Democracy Thrives on Wokeness: WaPo Doubles Down on DEI
The greatest purveyors of “bad information” are governments because they love to lie about their achievements and hide their mistakes.
The Nazis did not 'weaponize' free speech, Margaret, they banned it
“Why wouldn’t I ask Elon Musk? Why wouldn’t I ask some of the best minds in the world to come in and offer us advice on how they think we can improve the system?” an incredulous Duffy said, with Van Cleave asking, “How do you avoid the potential conflicts of interest with Elon Musk?”
CBS Reporter Asks Sean Duffy Why He Would Consult Renowned Engineer Elon Musk About Engineering
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Furman told Politico in an interview published Thursday that Biden’s infrastructure programs had “basically been a failure.” He also suggested in the interview that the Biden-Harris junta's infrastructure projects were often marred by high costs.
Former Obama Economist Admits One Of Biden’s Biggest Legislative Victories Turned Out To Be A Dud
For decades, the United States has not so much chosen to run a trade deficit with China as it has been forced into one. The lack of a coherent U.S. trade policy has allowed Beijing to set the terms, tilting global commerce in its favor. The result? America has become an unwitting partner in a trade policy designed in Beijing—a policy that systematically erodes U.S. manufacturing, distorts global markets, and leaves American workers at a disadvantage. We have not just been importing Chinese goods, we’ve been importing the economic policy of the communist regime that rules China. (Truman should've let MacArthur cross the Yalu, after nuking Beijing - jjs)
Breitbart How China’s Predatory Mercantilism Created America’s Trade Deficit
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“Joe Biden’s green dreams short-circuited, and it is time to pull the plug,” Ernst said in a statement to Breitbart News. “The EV charger boondoggle is a textbook example of waste and inefficiency that needs to be eliminated. Instead of spending hundreds of millions per charging station, I am doing something truly revolutionary in Washington – putting taxpayers first.”
Exclusive — Sen. Joni Ernst Unveils Bill to Unplug $7.5 Billion Biden-Era Electric Vehicle Program
The facility previously caught fire on January 16
California Lithium Battery Facility Catches Fire Again, Residents Told To Close Windows
Jahi Wise joined George Soros's foundation shortly after disbursing the funds
'Serious Conflicts of Interest': Biden EPA Official Oversaw $5B Grant to His Former Employer
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“‘What are you going to do if they put you on leave?’ I’m like, ‘Go to the beach on the taxpayer’s dime.'”
Video: Official Admits Dept. Of Education Is Spending Tax Dollars On Illegals And Dodging DOGE Oversight
Public schools in Maryland are already required by law to include lessons on various “gender identities” in kindergarten, and to teach sixth graders to “define sex assigned at birth, gender identity, and gender expression.” But those lessons are currently included in the family life and human sexuality curriculum, a separate, typically week-long course within the health education curriculum and which parents are allowed to opt their child out of if they choose. But not if leftists get their way.
Maryland Parents Outraged Banning Them From Opting Their Kids Out of 'Gender Identity' Class
The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights will need to open investigations into school districts and find their policies violative of civil rights law in order to revoke federal funding.
Trump Administration Vows To Fight Any Schools That Defy Order To End DEI
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
But after calling Trump a liar, suggesting he'll likely walk us into more pandemics, and claiming that there's "no money" in the federal coffers to give back to the people, Crockett made a statement that could only be described as jaw-droppingly asinine, and out-of-touch to boot.
Rep. Fekete Seggfej Jasmine Crockett Says the Government 'Is Not in the Business of Handing Out Money'
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING New and Views
As the FBI director, Patel has pledged to end the bureau’s participation in partisan lawfare campaigns, telling members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in January: “There should be no politics at the FBI.” Instead, Patel aims to return the bureau to its intended purpose, investigating crime and bringing dangerous criminals to justice. During his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, Patel emphasized he wants “…to let good cops be cops and put handcuffs on the bad guys.”
Senate Confirms Kash Patel as Trump’s FBI Director
Robert Spencer: And finally, the corrupt and wrongheaded FBI might just get cleaned out.
And finally, the corrupt and wrongheaded FBI might just get cleaned out.
. . . Patel made it clear that part of his mission as director includes a vow to “let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI.” He expressed his commitment to collaborating with the dedicated men and women of the Bureau to restore faith in the bureau. “Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.” Perhaps most chilling was Patel's warning to our nation’s enemies. “And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning. We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.” This bold statement signals his readiness to confront external dangers, bolstering the bureau's commitment to national security.
Here’s How Kash Patel Responded To Being Confirmed
POLITICS
The octogenarian and longest-serving party leader in Senate history has held on through numerous falls and health issues, including moments where he froze for almost half a minute.
Report: Mitch McConnell to Announce Senate Retirement
Trump had a plan of attack. Why didn't GOP lawmakers?
While Trump Blazes, Congress Fumbles And Bumbles
Trump has enacted 108 executive actions in the first four weeks of his presidency, including 73 executive orders, 23 proclamations and 12 memorandums. The House speaker announced during his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference that Congress would arrange these orders into a systematic code to protect them from future presidents.
Mike Johnson Says House GOP Will Make Sure Future Presidents Can’t ‘Unwind’ Trump’s Flurry Of Executive Orders
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Let’s compare Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and President Trump, and see who the real statesman is.
A quick overview of the Russo-Ukrainian war, from 2008–2025
Fred Fleitz: Trump’s push for Ukraine peace talks angers Zelensky and European leaders, who resist compromises and fear U.S.-Russia negotiations.
Temper Tantrums by Zelensky and European Leaders Could Scuttle Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts
This campaign is not likely to prevent an end to the fighting in Ukraine. The information warriors, however, will have their eye on a bigger objective: hamstringing Trump’s ability to effect a broader reorientation of American foreign policy.
Reality Is Winning the Ukraine Narrative War
The important thing is to distinguish between Trump’s short-term goals and his long-term strategy.
The Trump Strategy for Ukraine
Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Zelensky overnight, with his Downing Street office revealing the Prime Minister had told the Ukrainian he is not a dictator and that it had been “perfectly reasonable” to suspend democracy because of the Russian invasion.
Starmer Rebuffs Trump, Reassures Zelensky It’s ‘Perfectly Reasonable’ to Cancel Elections in Wartime
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Referring to his recent speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Vice President explained that “the point that I tried to make to our European friends… is that [our] friendship is based on shared values. You do not have shared values if you’re jailing people for saying we should close down our border; you don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result—and that happened in Romania—[and] you do not have shared values if you’re so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.”
Vance Warns Europe: American Taxpayers Will Not Subsidize the Defense of Countries That Jail People for ‘Mean Tweets.’
While the European Commission criticizes Hungary and Bulgaria for taking a tough stance on illegal migration, our countries have successfully prevented the social unrest and rising crime seen in Western European capitals.
As a Bulgarian, I appreciated VP Vance's stern wakeup call to Europe
The legislation now heads to the National Assembly, France’s lower house, for further debate. The move underscores a rightward shift in French politics, spurred by last summer’s legislative elections that left parliament deadlocked, with Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) winning the most seats of any single party.
French Senate Backs Bill Banning Illegals from Marrying.
In his remarks in Munich, Vance gave examples of Germany arresting people criticizing feminism, Sweden arresting individuals for criticizing religion and Scottish police arresting a man for silently praying for his aborted son outside of an abortion clinic.
VP Vance Vindicated, Scottish Police Arrest Woman for Silent Vigil Outside Abortion Clinic

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"[W]e must act swiftly to deter current and impending threats and make the best use of taxpayers' dollars in doing so."
Hegseth Tells Pentagon To Shift $50B From ‘Woke Programs’ To Trump Priorities
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is reportedly on a list of suggested dismissals provided to congress, according to CNN. The move comes as Trump seeks to make good on his campaign promise to root out “wokeness” in the military. (Fekete kutya-szar - jjs)
Trump Admin Reportedly Set To Can Notorious Liberal General
Hegseth outlined several programs that Trump is prioritizing.
Hegseth: U.S. Not Cutting Defense Spending, Is Reallocating Some Existing Spending

DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, Philly, Toronto Air Crashes AFTERMATH
A recent deadly collision over Washington, D.C. involving an Army helicopter has brought sudden national scrutiny to the service and its missions over the nation’s capital, but a master Army aviator told Breitbart News that they had been at risk for years. In fact, the aviator said, the Army was so strapped for experienced pilots that up through 2023 it was sending its most junior pilots fresh out of flight school to fly these specialized missions. At one point, an estimated 40 percent of the pilots assigned to these missions, which can include evacuating leaders in the event of an attack, were on their first assignment, the aviator said.
Exclusive: Army Was Sending Junior Pilots Straight from Flight School to Fly Top DC Missions Until 2023
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A holistic approach to solving the country’s chronic disease epidemic is the only way to reverse it.
Trump’s Whole-Of-Government Approach To MAHA Is The Holistic Health Strategy We Need
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
He completed three orbits in a five hour flight. (But he crash landed in the Senate as a Democrat - jjs)
On this day in 1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
The article provides a nice summary of the planned mission.
China’s first asteroid sample return mission is being readied for launch this spring
Launch is targeting February 26, 2025.
Intuitive Machines next lunar lander, Athena, is now installed in its Falcon 9 rocket for launch
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Viral video captures what's intellectually dishonest about show in 21st century
Why That ‘SNL’ Tom Hanks MAGA Sketch Matters
Disney+ teased the show with a hint of the storyline: “Malcolm ([Frankie] Muniz) and his daughter are drawn into the family’s chaos when Hal ([Bryan] Cranston) and Lois ([Jane] Kaczmarek) demand his presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party.”
Disney Would Ruin Warm ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Reboot Vibes With ‘Nonbinary’ Kid
Daniel Greenfield: It's over. ("Wet-Ass" Pussy Galore? - jjs)
Get Ready for Woke Black Lesbian James Bond
HITHER & YON
The 38-year-old woman is suing the fertility clinic over the mix-up. (Potential Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercial concept?! - jjs)
IVF Mix-Up: White Woman Shocked To Give Birth To Black Baby After Using White Male Donor

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

2 Nice colors

Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

4 OOhh... very blue and slinky...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 21, 2025 07:41 AM (luW68)

5 Hello Horde! We have made it to Friday. To quote the intro of a Sunday night radio program: Amen, Hallelujah, Right On, Shalom.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2025 07:41 AM (RjOoY)

6 Ha! Figures.... Happy Birfday, JJ.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 21, 2025 07:41 AM (luW68)

7 Well, Kash has been installed for more than an hour now. Where's the Kaboom?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 21, 2025 07:43 AM (luW68)

8 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at February 21, 2025 07:44 AM (fwDg9)

9 Oh Canada! You won a hockey game.

Posted by: Who cares at February 21, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

10 Over here, congratulations to Kash Patel who I hope will be able to purge the Hoover building of the traitors in his midst, find and or promote actual moral, ethical, competent and patriotic Americans to fill the agencies ranks and set them loose on the criminal scum who transmogrified that agency into a Globalist/Democrat Gestapo in the first place.

I suspect that the FBI, at least the folks in DC, were criminal scum from day 1. Hoover used it to hold his position and make the bureau untouchable. I'll grant that there may have been some upstanding citizens in the outlying offices who were never allowed to know about the corruption at the heart, but it was always there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

11 I take it this hyped-up hockey game wasn't a NHL thing? Not the Olympics either?

*shrugs* whatever

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 07:46 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Food tastes better, girls are prettier, sky’s are bluer.
This is a wonderful time in America.
Better living through Trump.

Posted by: Redenzo at February 21, 2025 07:46 AM (V/pbu)

13 Completely off topic but, Kristi Noem's plastic surgery puffiness has gone away. She looks amazing.

Carry on.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 07:46 AM (Dv3i1)

14 And on a separate note, the notion of giving everyone a $5,000 check to me is antithetical to DOGE's mission and the MAGA mission in the first place. I hope Trump reconsiders this. It just keeps the Uncle Sugar mentality alive and that needs to die along with the bureaucracy that enabled it in the first place.

It's about solidifying support for the cause among the weak-kneed and getting them hungry for more cuts. I'd prefer to see the debt paid down - assuming we eliminate the deficit - myself but the 20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

15 good morning JJ, Horde

It's 6:47, and another day closer to victory

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 21, 2025 07:47 AM (XKgym)

16 So Hawaiian/Canadian judge Ali, seated by the Junta at Thanksgiving last year after practicing law for about two weeks, has issued an order to force the State Department to resume paying out corrupt monies to USAID "grantees". So far, State is very slowly complying.

"Theft from taxpayers is a good thing for the Washington economy!" is my summary of his order.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 07:49 AM (hbhsM)

17 Spot on as always JJ. That Hamas parade was subhuman and disgusting…

On a positive note, JD Vance just gave a huge rhetorical beat down to Niall Ferguson on X regarding the Ukraine war and efforts to end it (which Ferguson doesn’t want apparently). It’s a thing of beauty; beats Ferguson like a red headed step child

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 07:50 AM (6RwsA)

18 14 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

Better idea: repeal the 16th amendment and abolish the IrS

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

19 Kash Patel is in for a wild couple of months and years. Maybe he can let us know which Fibbie planted the pipe bombs on Jan 6.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (hbhsM)

20 "20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic "

Getting back even 10% would be tremendous for public relations.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

21 I'm hearing some yammering Uterus on MSNSDAP going on about Trump blaming Ukraine for the war with Russia saying "can you imagine if Canada invaded the US and we blamed ourselves for the war?

In fairness, the blame should mostly fall on the US/UK/France, since they set up the circumstances and pushed for the conditions which caused the war. Then, further blame on the UK - officially, at least - for telling Zelensky to scuttle the agreement he had with Russia which would have ended things after a month.

Zelensky is an amoral idiot whose killed/maimed hundreds of thousands of his citizens for a blood-money payout but he'd never have done it without the pushing of the big boys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

22 Good morning fine people. Thanks for the Wall-O-Links, JJ

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (SfhV1)

23 20 "20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic "

Getting back even 10% would be tremendous for public relations.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

"10% for the Little Guy."

Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2025 07:53 AM (i0F8b)

24 > And on a separate note, the notion of giving everyone a $5,000 check to me is antithetical to DOGE's mission and the MAGA mission in the first place. I hope Trump reconsiders this. It just keeps the Uncle Sugar mentality alive and that needs to die along with the bureaucracy that enabled it in the first place.

It's about solidifying support for the cause among the weak-kneed and getting them hungry for more cuts. I'd prefer to see the debt paid down - assuming we eliminate the deficit - myself but the 20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.
---------
I'd rather eliminate the personal income tax. For 50 years my taxes have been stolen for that shit. I want my money back. Or quit paying for it. One or the other or both.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

25 I can only imagine how much money Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson got from Amazon for giving up control over James Bond, especially since they apparently intend to turn the character into a transgender Maori warrior with a stutter.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (hbhsM)

26 I'd rather eliminate the personal income tax. For 50 years my taxes have been stolen for that shit. I want my money back. Or quit paying for it. One or the other or both.

one way or another, we need to stop pouring oil (our money) on the fire (lazy govt thieves we call FedGov)

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (Pv3Rg)

27
Egg Report:

$7.99/dozen at a Nashua, NH supermarket

Stock Status: full shelves

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (zcJzD)

28 Thank you for being a taxpayer. Here's Your DOGE Dividend check. Be sure to check out the signature line!

Posted by: It came in the mail at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

29 Brrrr... it's cold.

Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (Oy/m2)

30 Not at the top of my request list for Kash Patel, but probably worth looking into -

(LifeSiteNews) — Shortly after the first inauguration of President Trump in 2017, an open letter was published in The Remnant Newspaper requesting an investigation into potential involvement by the Obama Administration in the affairs of the Catholic Church. Specifically, the authors asked whether the U.S. Government was involved in the sequence of events that resulted in the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 11, 2013 and the Conclave that elected Pope Francis on March 13, 2013. This open letter was widely circulated throughout the world, but no action was taken during the first Trump administration. Consequently, the questions that were raised remain unanswered.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 07:55 AM (Dv3i1)

31 22 Good morning fine people. Thanks for the Wall-O-Links, JJ
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (SfhV1)

How did our candidates do in last tuesday's primary. And who is the candidate we should vote for in April?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

32 that game last night was fantastic btw. it was amazing hockey

the only downside bc I generally liked the CA team and coaches (Tocchet!!!) was that Cindy Crosby won

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 21, 2025 07:55 AM (Pv3Rg)

33 Better put a lock on your mailbox. Unless they're going to do direct deposit.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 07:56 AM (SfhV1)

34 25 I can only imagine how much money Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson got from Amazon for giving up control over James Bond, especially since they apparently intend to turn the character into a transgender Maori warrior with a stutter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 07:54 AM (hbhsM)

PUssy Galore is old and bused. Wet-Ass Pussy galore is to be the new hotness.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)

35 Kash Patel needs to institute recording of all FBI interviews and interrogations.

Not the current practice of written accounts after the fact.

Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2025 07:57 AM (i0F8b)

36
For laughs, compare a chart of the GDP of India vs. Pakistan since independence. Whatever could be the difference?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 21, 2025 07:57 AM (dxSpM)

37
"bare shelves biden"

This meme began in 2021 and continued through 2022. The Fake News fake "fact-checkers" immediately fake "debunked" this as a "false" and said "the images" shown in online posts weren't current. In other words: Don't believe your lying eyes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 07:57 AM (zcJzD)

38 How did our candidates do in last tuesday's primary. And who is the candidate we should vote for in April?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

To my shame, I paid very little attention to the Supt of Schools race, what with Rev being in hospital and all. I know we are supposed to vote for Schmiel in the judge's race. Sorry, JJ

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 07:57 AM (SfhV1)

39 LA Mayor Says Her Office Is Investigating Why She Was Allowed to Go on a Tax-Funded Trip to Ghana During LA Wildfires
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Translation: who on her staff will draw the short straw and take the hit for Bass.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 07:58 AM (Dv3i1)

40 Karen Bass: "I did something stupid. Let's get a committee to figure out why."

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 08:00 AM (SfhV1)

41 38 To my shame, I paid very little attention to the Supt of Schools race, what with Rev being in hospital and all. I know we are supposed to vote for Schmiel in the judge's race. Sorry, JJ
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 07:57 AM (SfhV1)

No worries. Praying for his full and speedy recovery.

I read Schmiel and thought Schlemiel... ;-)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)

42 The Hamassholes are demanding that Israel return the body that they sent instead of Shiri's.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:01 AM (mB6WH)

43 Back in August, Patel was asked what he would do if he did become the director of the FBI, and his answer was pure gold.

“One of my biggest personal recommendations,” Patel said, “is you shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State, and you send those 7000 agents in the headquarters building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers, to chase down drug traffickers and let the cops be cops on the streets across America.

~~~ Kash Patel

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 08:01 AM (k7oMN)

44 Pagers for Gaza!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)

45 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 08:03 AM (sGNMS)

46 "The Hamassholes are demanding that Israel return the body that they sent instead of Shiri's.
Posted by: Ben Had"

These people are just asking for an ass kicking.

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

47 If you find yourself listening to some yammering Uterus on MSNSDAP, perhaps it's time to ponder your life choices that got you to this place...

Posted by: But that's just me at February 21, 2025 08:03 AM (dg+HA)

48 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 21, 2025 08:04 AM (53oGX)

49 I just finished the final chapter of "The Return of the King". Feeling both happy and sad to come to the end of the tale. I was surprised at how much more I got out of this rereading.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 21, 2025 08:05 AM (kpS4V)

50 I'm for the Smotrich/Ben Gvir plan for gaza. No water, food, electricity or fuel.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:06 AM (mB6WH)

51 I'd rather eliminate the personal income tax.

No, not that! Sounds insurrectionary! First they eliminate the income tax, then where will it end? Before you know it the whole federal government would be eliminated then where will we be? Starving people living on the streets, rampant crime and drug use in our major cities, unprotected borders and endless wars thousands of miles away, people being jailed for expressing their beliefs and homosexual groomers in every school and church, fixed elections...

Oh, wait. Never mind.

Posted by: The Truth at February 21, 2025 08:06 AM (NAF5O)

52 This is the most exciting time in politics in my lifetime. There have been some great victories like Reagan and Trump's first win but there has never been anything close to this complete takeover of the levers of power as we have now.

Trump got ever single one of his cabinet members and they are all playing from the same playbook. Musk is marching through the bureaucracy and taking apart the corruption in a blitz so fast and complete the left doesn't even know how to respond. The culture war is finally turning toward our values and without government stealing our money to fund the left's death cult we will makes this look like America again.

And if Trump stays on course with Ukraine we will finally break the neocon stranglehold on our foreign policy that has brought us nothing but decades of war, debt and death.

This is an amazing time to be alive and I am loving every minute of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:07 AM (LkLld)

53 "It’s ‘Perfectly Reasonable’ to Cancel Elections in Wartime"

Everybody does it!

Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

54 I see the NY Post, in the article against refunding money to the American people, merely dressed up language used by Jasmine Crockett.

And, of course, the usual suspects in the comments are in high dudgeon over sending money stolen from taxpayers back to the taxpayer because we need to pay down debt first.

Umm, idiots, DOGE and President Trump's proposal has been 20/20/ 20% refund, 20% to debt.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (tT6L1)

55 Diesel Cal-Fire chief found stabbitty X12 was a mystery. According to the presstitutes and authorities. Turns out to be her wife. Motive unknown.

Posted by: torabora at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (zO5SI)

56 Why are reporters so determined to demand how stupid they are?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (kTd/k)

57 The Britcucks are rejoining the EU.

Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (UnA8+)

58 I keep thinking about that poor mother and her little children. How horrifying and sickening to see their bodies (mystery about the mother's corpse, notwithstanding) paraded around by these demonic animals, their women and children included. There is no rehab on earth that will make these savages compatible with the world. I pray that G*d will bring about the conditions necessary to level them all to dust.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

59 **Kiko Lefebvre: Columbia University grad student who travels the world with a handmade ukulele on a viral quest to persuade the Furry community to "divest from Zionism."**

That's not an influencer, that's a pretty decent SNL sketch

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (SdfMC)

60 Temper Tantrums by Zelensky and European Leaders Could Scuttle Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts

Withdraw from NATO. These shitheads talk tough because they have us behind them. They are 180 degree out from the direction the US should be moving. They are not allies. They are not friends. Fuck them all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

61 >> How did our candidates do in last tuesday's primary. And who is the candidate we should vote for in April?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:55 AM (x0n13)

JJ, Jill Underly is the dem approved incumbent, she and Brittney Kinser were the top two vote-getters in the primary. We need to vote out Underly

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (+EHqL)

62 Speaking of Amazon's James Bond...

This is hilarious:

...Also available to come to life in the new deal finally are a slew of Bond villains and women in their own series or features.

Finally!

"BLOFELD! : The Musical"

Lyrics-

I'm just a guy who's name is Blo
I'm in a terrible mess
When someone asks me to rule the world
I always answer, "I guess..."

Cuz I like bunnies and kitty cats and daisies
But this bully called James Bond
Maaaaakes Meeee Craaazeeeeeeeeee!

*high kicks*
...
...
And so forth.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (iJfKG)

63 This is an amazing time to be alive and I am loving every minute of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:07 AM (LkLld)

As one of the Fox News pundits said: "Welcome to History!"

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

64 Ian Fleming was a top British spook. There's a lot of fact in his fiction.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 21, 2025 08:10 AM (XKgym)

65 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

66 LA Mayor Says Her Office Is Investigating Why She Was Allowed to Go on a Tax-Funded Trip to Ghana During LA Wildfires

Iowahawk: I'm investigating why my pickup truck crashed into a liquor store and looted all the booze.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 21, 2025 08:10 AM (/HDaX)

67 No, not that! Sounds insurrectionary! First they eliminate the income tax, then where will it end? Before you know it the whole federal government would be eliminated then where will we be?
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How will they punish people en masse and have a looming threat over the productive, normal class while never needing to see the individuals or set foot on their property?

We need to be careful if we are thinking about giving up that useful government power.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:11 AM (2yHlw)

68 Morning, J.J. Thanks again for all your work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:11 AM (tT6L1)

69 54 I see the NY Post, in the article against refunding money to the American people, merely dressed up language used by Jasmine Crockett.

And, of course, the usual suspects in the comments are in high dudgeon over sending money stolen from taxpayers back to the taxpayer because we need to pay down debt first.

Umm, idiots, DOGE and President Trump's proposal has been 20/20/ 20% refund, 20% to debt.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (tT6L1)

Which gets everyone committed to the effort b/c honestly, folks like to see something for the effort...and a nebulous debt drawdown that Dems would just reverse in the next term is not that...you need taxpayer buy in that cuts are an overall good. Nebulous numbers is not enough...a direct check back in the pocket is. A direct check to the pocket 3 months before midterms would be an R landslide at midterms...

And remember, at most, DOGE is considering a one time 20%...BUT, that 20% then continues to stay down every future year so you compound savings on the debt for a single one time pay out...giving folks their own money back as a thank you for letting Elon do his work and supporting it

Posted by: Nova Local at February 21, 2025 08:12 AM (exHjb)

70 Hamas assholes gave Israelis the wrong keys for the coffins.

Disfuckingusting! Vermin. Nothing more.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 21, 2025 08:12 AM (1E4GV)

71 "[W]e must act swiftly to deter current and impending threats and make the best use of taxpayers' dollars in doing so."
Hegseth Tells Pentagon To Shift $50B From ‘Woke Programs’ To Trump Priorities
_____

You know who else wanted his government to fund his own spending priorities....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 08:13 AM (Dv3i1)

72 60 Temper Tantrums by Zelensky and European Leaders Could Scuttle Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts

Withdraw from NATO. These shitheads talk tough because they have us behind them. They are 180 degree out from the direction the US should be moving. They are not allies. They are not friends. Fuck them all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

Withdraw from all Ukraine aid. Cash only if anyone in Europe or Ukraine wants to buy our weapons at full price. Let them continue the war solo while we make peace with Russia.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 21, 2025 08:13 AM (exHjb)

73 I grew up with Bond but those days are over. No chance Amazon will let Bond be Bond.

But we'll always have From Russia With Love.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:14 AM (Gqoy+)

74 Morning Horde, thx JJ. It's so cold the bottom of the report froze and turned blue.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (cMcMn)

75 NYPost:

It appears Major League Baseball will be off ESPN’s airwaves after the 2025 season. The two sides “mutually agreed” to cut their national television deal short after this year, according to a memo from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, via The Athletic.

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

76 LA Mayor Says Her Office Is Investigating Why She Was Allowed to Go on a Tax-Funded Trip to Ghana During LA Wildfires

==

ugh...another one...they forgot to set her up for success , y'all!

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (g47mK)

77 >>As one of the Fox News pundits said: "Welcome to History!"

Think where we were on November 4th and where we are now.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (LkLld)

78 Mike Johnson Says House GOP Will Make Sure Future Presidents Can’t ‘Unwind’ Trump’s Flurry Of Executive Orders

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Please make this happen. Otherwise, all that President Trump is doing will ultimately be for naught, as it all will be reversed as soon as the next D is in the White House...a thought that gives me nightmares, btw.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

79 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 21, 2025 08:16 AM (e5NfL)

80 Better idea: repeal the 16th amendment and abolish the IrS
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

Trump has made noises in that direction. I don't know that they'd actually repeal 16 but, OTOH, if the personal income tax could be abolished, even for a moment, I don't know if they could ever re-instate it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

81 Zelenskyy did a 180 yesterday. After considering everything that was said to him. I guess his Euro friends told him where he stands at the moment.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:17 AM (g47mK)

82 75 NYPost:

It appears Major League Baseball will be off ESPN’s airwaves after the 2025 season. The two sides “mutually agreed” to cut their national television deal short after this year, according to a memo from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, via The Athletic.
Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

Since I'm never getting ESPN, that's good.

Although, for my kid, my phone gives me MLB TV free every year...some years, we watch a few games together, and some years, we just don't...we'll see how this year goes...we also get MLS TV free from the phone (I need to redeem my current code), and it's the same...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (exHjb)

83 - Feb. 12: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Zelensky in Kyiv to offer a proposal that would give the U.S. access to Ukrainian mineral rights in return for de facto U.S. protection. Trump later told reporters Zelensky was "rude" and delayed his meeting with Bessent because he slept in.
- Feb. 14: At the Munich Security Conference, Vance and Rubio met Zelensky to get his approval for the mineral rights deal. But, the officials said, Zelensky surprised the Americans by saying he didn't have the authority to unilaterally approve it without parliament.
- Feb. 15: Zelensky publicly rejected the offer at the conference. White House sources noted that his remarks to reporters — that the deal was "not in the interests of a sovereign Ukraine" — were markedly different from more positive-sounding comments he'd made on X the day before.

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (RHGPo)

84 I don't want see any woman of any sexual orientation as Bond. I didn't even see the latest Bond films after the one with Piece Brosnan. If they want to do some sort of spy thing with a woman why don't they do one with the character of Emma Peel from "The Avengers"? I loved the series and I'm sure at least some of the men who are straight
Agree that Diana Rigg was quite sexy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (yW8YE)

85 That was weird... Refreshed the comments only to discover we're now centered...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (7fElN)

86 Uh oh.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (lTGtQ)

87 79 It's Flapjack Friday!
____

Oooh, Hi Sailor!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (Dv3i1)

88 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

89 You all make excellent points. Thank you for expressing them so articulately.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (AOsQT)

90 Mike Johnson Says House GOP Will Make Sure Future Presidents Can’t ‘Unwind’ Trump’s Flurry Of Executive Orders

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I don't approve of this.

Make EOs ineffective and applying to no one except for federal employees. Because EOs over free people are BS

If it's important enough to create a new law, create a new law.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (2yHlw)

91 CENTERED!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

92 And not being familiar with youngish actresses I don't know who could play Emma Peel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (yW8YE)

93 Maybe I'm just dense, but, if I were elected Mayor of a large city, I'd not believe I had the right to spend taxpayer dollars to fly to another country.

But, then again, I probably don't really understand how politics is supposed to be done.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (tT6L1)

94 if the personal income tax could be abolished, even for a moment, I don't know if they could ever re-instate it.

Any politician who tried would live in fear of angry mobs. I approve.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (svLOV)

95 There is no such place as 'palestine.' It's a made up excuse for the 4th century goat humpers to murder Jews, period.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

96 I’m feeling so centered right now.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

97 And, we're no longer centered.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

98 7 Well, Kash has been installed for more than an hour now. Where's the Kaboom?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at February 21, 2025 07:43 AM (luW6

Some kind of kaboom at ATF yesterday. ATF Chief Counsel, pretty high position, was not only fired yesterday, but was escorted out of the building by armed security guards.

I’m thinking of a scene in “Oh Brother” (I think) where Ulysses gets tossed out of a store by the proprietor and lands with his face in the dirt. That would be fun to see!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (73vBl)

99 Were the feds able to claw back that $2 billion from Tank Abrams' phony "green" corporation? I sure hope so.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

100 Hey!
This smart military blog is left AND right justified!

Posted by: torabora at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (zO5SI)

101 Blond. Jane Blond.

Posted by: Double O Ditz at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

102 Lamont THE Big Dummy is tanned, rested and ready.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

103 Wow
It's gone already.

Posted by: torabora at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (zO5SI)

104 Ian Fleming was a top British spook. There's a lot of fact in his fiction.
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 21, 2025 08:10 AM (XKgym)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a real car?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (Aqu9a)

105 Were the feds able to claw back that $2 billion from Tank Abrams' phony "green" corporation? I sure hope so.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)
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It's going to be interesting to see how the cockroaches behave now that sunlight has been introduced into that slush fund.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (tT6L1)

106 Zelenskyy did a 180 yesterday. After considering everything that was said to him. I guess his Euro friends told him where he stands at the moment.

Posted by: runner

I guess the euros are going to come up with a few hundred billion worth of weapons and a million troops, and take care of things themselves, without the US.

I make myself laugh.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (lTGtQ)

107 “ Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.”

Job 8:13

Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (H/XYA)

108 101 Blond. Jane Blond.
Posted by: Double O Ditz at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

I have been told there is a British dame doing granny porn under this name.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (x0n13)

109 Make Kyiv Kiev again!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (kpS4V)

110 Trump got ever single one of his cabinet members...

So far. There're still a few left to go.

https://tinyurl.com/mw9ps6zs+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

111 I could see Sydney Sweeney as Emma Peel.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (77rzZ)

112 Today is National Sticky Bun Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

113 Blond. Jane Blond.
Posted by: Double O Ditz at February 21, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

Since there was a character named Pussy Galore, will now there be one named Dick Schlonged?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

114 92 And not being familiar with youngish actresses I don't know who could play Emma Peel.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (yW8YE)

Karen Gillan could do justice to the role.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (73vBl)

115 Today is National Sticky Bun Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

Right down the middle . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (Aqu9a)

116
I have been told there is a British dame doing granny porn under this name.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (x0n13)

I'm not searching it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Only Diana Rigg can play Emma Peel.

Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

118 Make EOs ineffective and applying to no one except for federal employees. Because EOs over free people are BS

If it's important enough to create a new law, create a new law.

--

Yes, I was under the impression Johnson meant creating actual laws, not some jujitsu House hocus pocus.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

119 The absolute evidence of brain damage of the left was Mayor Bass statement that they're investigating why she was allowed to go to Africa when the fires were increasing.
The proper investigation is why Los Angeles voters are stupid enough to vote for a complete idiot.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (cMcMn)

120 "Today is National Sticky Bun Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

*showers*

Posted by: Double O Ditz at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

121 "It’s ‘Perfectly Reasonable’ to Cancel Elections in Wartime"

Everybody does it!
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

Russia didn't.

Yeah, I know your comment was snark.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

122 55 Diesel Cal-Fire chief found stabbitty X12 was a mystery. According to the presstitutes and authorities. Turns out to be her wife. Motive unknown.
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Lesbians can be very, very scary. And there are snakes in the grass, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (pLaQB)

123 Liz Truss Calls For 'Elon & His Nerd Army' To Investigate 'British Deep State'

"We want a Trump revolution in Britain!"

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss told the audience at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that her country is "failing," and needs a MAGA-type movement to save it.

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (RHGPo)

124 The proper investigation is why Los Angeles voters are stupid enough to vote for a complete idiot.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (cMcMn)
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So, you're saying Kamala has a chance to become governor?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (tT6L1)

125 Islam needs a Pope.

Right now there's a lack of organization that does a couple of things. It permits variability in the faith and provides plausible deniability for all. Anyone can call themselves an Imam, hang up a shingle, and pronounce themselves as the One True Faith. A huge population of underemployed twenty year olds looking for either a scapegoat or something to do provides the fodder.

Think about all the times that after a terrorist attack we had the same old players say "that isn't true Islam" when the reality is that there's no one in authority who can say if it is or isn't.

A lack of canonical precepts is enabling all of this. Now, will Islam settle on a figure like the Catholics did after their internecine conflicts? After all this time, I doubt it. So here we are.

Now there's no clear path for Islam and the world to coexist. All I can see is either Islam adapts or it goes extinct. And right now, I gotta say at this point, extinction is the unfortunately reasonable path to take.

A lot of words to say "burn them!!!" Sorry about that.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (GLmO1)

126 117 Only Diana Rigg can play Emma Peel.
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

Not anymore…

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:25 AM (yjz94)

127 117 Only Diana Rigg can play Emma Peel.
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This is true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 08:25 AM (pLaQB)

128 Only Diana Rigg can play Emma Peel.
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)

I agree. Besides, everything they remake, they ruin, so might as well leave it to the greatness that it was and be done with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

129 106 Zelenskyy did a 180 yesterday. After considering everything that was said to him. I guess his Euro friends told him where he stands at the moment.

Posted by: runner

I guess the euros are going to come up with a few hundred billion worth of weapons and a million troops, and take care of things themselves, without the US.

I make myself laugh.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (lTGtQ)

Europe's male population is Low T and low in numbers. Hence, the importation and breeding like cockroaches of Muslims. Will they go fight Russia for their stupid hosts? They'll take the guns and turn Europe Muslim country by Country.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:25 AM (x0n13)

130 Turns out to be her wife.

Think I identified the problem.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away! at February 21, 2025 08:25 AM (NAF5O)

131 And not being familiar with youngish actresses I don't know who could play Emma Peel.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (yW8YE)

Karen Gillan could do justice to the role.

Posted by: Tom Servo

She has the voice for it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (lTGtQ)

132 I'm sold on the idea of a redhead playing Emma Peel. It would keep Steed on his toes, too, because one never knows.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (tT6L1)

133 Good morning, everyone!

Wellness checks --
JT
Hrothgar
Galveston Jim

Anyone have word on any of them?

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (9ByDD)

134 guess the euros are going to come up with a few hundred billion worth of weapons and a million troops, and take care of things themselves, without the US.

I make myself laugh.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (lTGtQ)

Belgian Navy will show up and Russia will rue the day !

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

135 Okay, I searched.

Jane Blond, DD7

lol

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (Y1sOo)

136 The other scary thing about Bass was that she was actually in consideration for being Biden's VP in 2020. She actually makes Kamala look less stupid.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (cMcMn)

137
Was there no swearing-in ceremony for Kash?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (zcJzD)

138 The proper investigation is why Los Angeles voters are stupid enough to vote for a complete idiot.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:23 AM (cMcMn)

Liberalism is a mental disorder. It's why Andrew Cuomo will be the next Mayor of NYC. He literally ordered your grandparents to die, yet you still give him power. There's no more stupid in society than the liberal voter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Look at what Trump is done in one month. Where is Congress? Where are bills to solidify the EOs? Get off your asses.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (UseAb)

140 I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (i5Vkf)

141 guess the euros are going to come up with a few hundred billion worth of weapons and a million troops, and take care of things themselves, without the US.

I make myself laugh.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:21 AM (lTGtQ)

Belgian Navy will show up and Russia will rue the day !
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

We're ready to do our share!

Posted by: Duchy of Grand Fenwick at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (Aqu9a)

142 Poland Is Once Again Poised To Become Washington's Top Partner In Europe

Its self-exclusion from the proposed “army of Europe” coupled with creeping informal concerns about Germany and Ukraine’s territorial intentions make Poland the perfect US partner...

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (RHGPo)

143 Was there no swearing-in ceremony for Kash?

Posted by: Soothsayer

I looked for it, unsuccessfully. Maybe it was a secret swearing in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (lTGtQ)

144 125 Islam needs a Pope.

Right now there's a lack of organization that does a couple of things. It permits variability in the faith and provides plausible deniability for all. Anyone can call themselves an Imam, hang up a shingle, and pronounce themselves as the One True Faith. A huge population of underemployed twenty year olds looking for either a scapegoat or something to do provides the fodder.

Think about all the times that after a terrorist attack we had the same old players say "that isn't true Islam" when the reality is that there's no one in authority who can say if it is or isn't.

A lack of canonical precepts is enabling all of this. Now, will Islam settle on a figure like the Catholics did after their internecine conflicts? After all this time, I doubt it. So here we are.

Now there's no clear path for Islam and the world to coexist. All I can see is either Islam adapts or it goes extinct. And right now, I gotta say at this point, extinction is the unfortunately reasonable path to take.

A lot of words to say "burn them!!!" Sorry about that.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (GLmO1)

I mean, technically, that's what the Caliph is supposed to be.

Posted by: XTC at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

145
What religion is Kash?
Would he place his hand on a Big Mac for the Oath??

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (zcJzD)

146 140 I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (i5Vkf)

+1…

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (yjz94)

147 This is an amazing time to be alive and I am loving every minute of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:07 AM

https://bit.ly/4jNPmJF

I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (P5BPp)

148 @129 JJ, I doubt British troops are going to like their womenfolk being ravaged while the men are off in Ukraine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (cMcMn)

149 The only remaining nominee possibly in trouble is the Labor nominee, because several conservative senators don’t like her. I’d let Trump have his choice because he thinks she could be politically useful, and Sec of Labor isn’t going to be a very important position this time around. At cabinet meetings I visualize her as the one who will go around the table making sure everyone’s coffee is filled, and bringing little plates of cookies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (73vBl)

150 "Army Was Sending Junior Pilots Straight from Flight School to Fly Top DC Missions Until 2023"

You know how so many "conspiracy theories" turn out to be true?

Posted by: Double O Ditz at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

151 "We're Seeing Heavy Traffic": Musk's Grok Chatbot Tops No. 1 On App Store, Overtaking ChatGPT & TikTok

"...until our servers melt.

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (RHGPo)

152 My speculation: what he's really deleting are his DMs, which probably feature a fair few Deep State operatives coordinating with him. Don't worry, Elon Musk will resurrect those DMs.
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Peterstroke is a mentally unbalanced, reckless dipshit with no impulse control, so G-d only knows what's in that Twitter feed.

These Leftists are all unable to stop tweeting a hundred times a day, though. I bet there are a lot of Deep Staters cursing their addict fingers at the moment.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

153 Okay, I searched.

Jane Blond, DD7

lol
Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (Y1sOo)

Rated R. Not granny porn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

154 Liberalism is a mental disorder. It's why Andrew Cuomo will be the next Mayor of NYC. He literally ordered your grandparents to die, yet you still give him power. There's no more stupid in society than the liberal voter.
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Both my wife's Mother and Father-in-law died due to Cuomo. NYers are strange people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (pLaQB)

155 I have been told there is a British dame doing granny porn under this name.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 08:22 AM (x0n13)

Stick it in me bum! Stick it in me bum! That's a good lad! Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Emma Peel 2025 at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (NAF5O)

156 J.J., the first time in many years that I have seen the word "fekete". My Hungarian mom used it quite a few times when I was growing up.

The second word was not usually attached to the first. But, yeah, that's an apt description of Crockett.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (dgRL6)

157
"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."

Goldfinger was the campy comedy that the Moore movies tried to emulate and couldn't.

Try something new, Amazon. I'm tired of old 'franchises' being exhumed and displayed.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 08:29 AM (j4U/Z)

158 Belgian Navy will show up and Russia will rue the day !

Posted by: runner

The Germans are ready to mobilize their 14 9 tanks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (lTGtQ)

159 The cockroaches in Congress are still trying to prevent some nominees from happening. Trump got his full cabinet with Patel, now it's the second in command for defense dept. Who was already part of Trump1.0 Defense. His crime? China hawk! I guess CCP still has funds to buy some front groups, who can buy DC lobbyists to call senators, so those go whine and stamp their feets on the Senate floor!

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (g47mK)

160 79 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Don't tread on me!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

161 Ian Fleming took much of Bond from the real-life Sydney Reilly who spied for the Brits and others, but mostly for himself. His exploits are unbelievable, but are fading into obscurity, although there was an early '80s BBC ten-episode starring Sam Neill as Reilly.

His "career" ended with an unsuccesful attempt to stage a coup against the Bolsheviks and intstall himself as #1. It might have worked but the Brits welched and sent too few men to Archangel.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (Gqoy+)

162 Almost five years after liberal journalists whined about feeling “unsafe” because the New York Times published Cotton’s op-ed about restoring law and order in American cities, the Republican senator has just released a new book about China that has thoroughly aggravated a handful of Chinese communists and other joyless incels, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of book reviews on the Barnes & Noble website.

Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (RHGPo)

163
oh dear
Kash Patel's bug-eyed pic is his official image on Wiki.

I guess he's been sworn-in, but it's odd we didn't see it. Maybe he didn't have to be sworn in, I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (zcJzD)

164 @125, if Islam tried to create a Pope it would set off a savage religious war between Sunni and Shia.
On second thought Islam does need a Pope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:31 AM (cMcMn)

165 oh dear
Kash Patel's bug-eyed pic is his official image on Wiki.

I guess he's been sworn-in, but it's odd we didn't see it. Maybe he didn't have to be sworn in, I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (zcJzD)

Wiki sucki dicki

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

166 I just saw a news blurb from 8am saying that a judge has ruled that the foreign money laundering is required to continue m

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:32 AM (2yHlw)

167 And not being familiar with youngish actresses I don't know who could play Emma Peel.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:19 AM (yW8YE)

If they're doing a re-make of The Avengers then Nicole Byer is the obvious choice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

168 146 140 I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (i5Vkf)

+1…
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The Rice Bowls say nay!

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 08:32 AM (pLaQB)

169 Wife and I looking for a show to watch stumbled across and watched the first episode of something called Agatha Raisin last night… British comedy/crime drama. Agatha would be about as credible as any female as Bond (meaning completely not credible). It was pretty bad and boring. We shan’t be continuing with it….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:32 AM (i5Vkf)

170 I guess he's been sworn-in, but it's odd we didn't see it. Maybe he didn't have to be sworn in, I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (zcJzD)

I think he's being sworn in today.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 21, 2025 08:33 AM (SfhV1)

171 The Germans are ready to mobilize their 14 9 tanks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (lTGtQ)

no, no, those were already blown up in the Ukranian steppes.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

172 Vanessa Kirby as Emma Peel
she currently holds the title of 'that British actress who's in everything'

https://tinyurl.com/3s3wkeed

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 08:33 AM (AOsQT)

173
Can't really blame wiki. It really is his "official" pic from when he was FCC Commish.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:33 AM (zcJzD)

174 > The only remaining nominee possibly in trouble is the Labor nominee, because several conservative senators don’t like her.
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At this point in time... why is there even a Secretary of Labor? As an example of something irrelevant but persisting as tradition.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (Q4IgG)

175 "California Lithium Battery Facility Catches Fire Again, Residents Told To Close Windows"

Wut? Don't the Cali Authorities want their citizens to be like Gwen Walz, leaving windows open to smell the odor of the demise of evil? In this case, the odor of the demise of evil fossil fuels???

Posted by: Gref at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (aBgBM)

176 125 Islam needs a Pope.

They steal everything else from us and claim it as theirs. What's one more thing?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (svLOV)

177 Kash has no time to look at his pic, that will be the domain of his press person/office, he is now having conversations with Pat Bondi...about things, and stuff. And Tulsi, and Kristi.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (g47mK)

178 Well, time to wander. Pooch walking seems to come earlier and earlier.

later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (tT6L1)

179 >Trump Urges Federal Takeover of Washington D.C. to Restore Law and Order.
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as originally written in the Constitution
'home rule' has been a failure

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 08:34 AM (AOsQT)

180
The pic needs to be changed, though. It's "not a good look," as they say. Kinda reinforces the bullshit narrative that he's a "crazy" "conspiracy theorist."

(I know, I know: it doesn't matter & who cares. It does matter, though. Smarten up.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (zcJzD)

181 >>I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.

NATO has been the globalists wet dream for decades. It has allowed for endless expansion while twisting its original mission of defending against Russian aggression to aggressive action against Russia. It no longer serves the interests of the American people and much like the UN we should leave.

As I've been saying for 4 years the war in Ukraine was caused by Biden's teasing the idea of NATO membership for Ukraine. Trump knows this which is why he is not blaming Putin.

Listen to what Jeffrey Sachs just told the European Parliament. It's way past time to end this idiocy.

https://tinyurl.com/yk6fuj8d

Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (LkLld)

182 140 I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (i5Vkf)

SEATO, created in 1954, was the Asian version of NATO and was abolished in 1977, not long after the fall of the Republic Of Vietnam as it's remaining members simply gave up interest and walked away.
NATO deserves the same fate.

Posted by: Zombie Lon Nol at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (NAF5O)

183 I mean, technically, that's what the Caliph is supposed to be.
Posted by: XTC

And very good point. I think that the Caliph is an honorary position with all of the relevance of King Charles though. He's a nice guy to remind us of our glory days, but really he wouldn't have a ton of authority. For example, is there even a singleCaliph right now or is the title still being fought over?

Or not. Smarter people than me have analyzed all of this.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (3Aazl)

184 It's about solidifying support for the cause among the weak-kneed and getting them hungry for more cuts. I'd prefer to see the debt paid down - assuming we eliminate the deficit - myself but the 20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

It's going to be a popular move among the squishes. I'd rather it go toward debt. On the other hand, it's money that was stolen from us in the first place, and DJT wants to return it to us.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (OX9vb)

185 Anyone have word on any of them?
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (9ByDD

Hrothgar was on here yesterday briefly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (uzjO9)

186 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

5m
Hamas still has the bodies of four Americans in Gaza.

Hamas still has an American hostage alive, named Edan Alexander.

US Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler tells Anderson Cooper that Hamas “needs to release everybody or they’re going to face total annihilation right now.”

https://tinyurl.com/2re2k3nj

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

187 132 I'm sold on the idea of a redhead playing Emma Peel. It would keep Steed on his toes, too, because one never knows.
Posted by: blake

You know Stacy Adams has been signed for that role.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 08:36 AM (j4U/Z)

188
Well, time to wander. Pooch walking seems to come earlier and earlier.

later!
Posted by: blake

Who wears the pants in your household? You or your pet?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:36 AM (zcJzD)

189 There are no Caliphs now… but there are various Grand Muffins scattered about….

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:37 AM (yjz94)

190 if Islam tried to create a Pope it would set off a savage religious war between Sunni and Shia.
On second thought Islam does need a Pope
Posted by: Smell the Glove

😁

It certainly is a reckoning that is LONG past due. And really, let them sort it out and leave everyone else alone.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:37 AM (3Aazl)

191 Can't really blame wiki. It really is his "official" pic from when he was FCC Commish.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:33 AM (zcJzD)

Doesn't change my opinion of Wiki.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

192 Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss told the audience at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that her country is "failing," and needs a MAGA-type movement to save it.
Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:24 AM (RHGPo)

That would require some Brit with the balls to do it and for the people to pull their collective heads out of their asses.

I suspect that they're doomed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

193 The English actress Vanessa Kirby is very pretty. Thanks to Don (?) who posted the picture.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:38 AM (2FqVL)

194 >>>Rated R. Not granny porn.

Weird that a studio named XXX Hardcore would produce a R-rated film.

Product details
Rated ‏ : ‎ Suitable for 18 years and over
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 g
Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 17 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 7 Sept. 2015
Studio ‏ : ‎ XXX Hardcore
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013SLUN8G
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (Y1sOo)

195
You think blake puts a doggie sweater on his 4-legged companion?

You think blake and his pooch are out there right now in *matching* sweaters?

I do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (zcJzD)

196 188
Well, time to wander. Pooch walking seems to come earlier and earlier.

later!
Posted by: blake

Who wears the pants in your household? You or your pet?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21,

I am going with neither.

Posted by: Piper at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (QzINz)

197 Addendum: I really don't know. This is just something that's been knocking around in my head for the past few weeks. I have no special expertise or knowledge of Islam. Maybe I'm looking at this all from a practical lens that is unrealistic.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (3Aazl)

198 I believe Trump is greasing for our exiting NATO. The oither member countries won't boost their spending let alone to 5%. Starmer's saying the other members will send troops to Ukraine is both silly and dangerous.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (Gqoy+)

199 If the US pulls out of NATO France and Germany will be at each other's throats within six months. Pax Americana kept Western Europe from fighting each other as well as keeping the Soviets out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (cMcMn)

200 Anyone have word on any of them?
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:26 AM (9ByDD

Hrothgar was on here yesterday briefly.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (uzjO9)

OK, thanks

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (9ByDD)

201 Look at what Trump is done in one month. Where is Congress? Where are bills to solidify the EOs? Get off your asses.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (UseAb)

Congress is still busy trying to figure out how to screw over Trump in the reconciliation bill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

202 The U.S. has many CDA’s across the globe. NATO is only one. It’s not about the arrangements, per se. it is about the leadership. Trump is proving that.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 21, 2025 08:40 AM (H/XYA)

203 No, It's our money that was stolen, DOGE is just giving it back to the rightful owners. If the Fed needs money for a rightful expense they can cut something less important. I voted for LESS government as well as eliminating waste.

Posted by: Noni Moose at February 21, 2025 08:40 AM (J8ANC)

204 The Muzzies can have Pope Frankie as far as I’m concerned.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

205 People are kind of evil and shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 08:40 AM (bss/y)

206 I think Zelensky and Putin are both dictators. Not only did Zelensky cancel elections but he shut down Russian Orthodox churches because they might be spying.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:41 AM (2FqVL)

207 "Militants decapitated 70 Christians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 13. The victims reportedly include women, children, and the elderly."

Anybody here with creds to Legal Insurrection's chat board should hustle on over there and inform Mary Chastain the correct term is "Muslims", not "Militants".

The term "Militants" is just candy-ass doublespeak.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at February 21, 2025 08:41 AM (MkuC5)

208 I wonder if Karen Bass will have a hard time investigating herself… she’ll have to interview herself: Why did you go to Ghana during a fire hazard period? Good question let me think on it…. Is she Stephen King’s Carrie?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:41 AM (ANuwa)

209
What about Jim of New Sunk Dawn?

Has he checked in lately?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:41 AM (zcJzD)

210 Jane Blonde DD7 (2006)
Adult
R
01/02/2006 (US)
Comedy, Action, Romance
1h 58m

Maybe I found the wrong movie, then......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

211 148 @129 JJ, I doubt British troops are going to like their womenfolk being ravaged while the men are off in Ukraine
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (cMcMn)

The British have no troops left, that’s the pathetic joke of it. Starmer first talked about sending 25,000 men and it was quickly pointed out that Britain only has 76,000 men left in its entire army. Starmer first tried to walk the number down to 10k, and after hearing that there are only 25 operational battle tanks left in the entire country, he sheepishly dropped the entire plan.

Britain has no effective military left at all, as Starmer belatedly just found out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (73vBl)

212 Better idea: repeal the 16th amendment and abolish the IrS
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

Hear,hear!

Posted by: Derak at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (8tltp)

213 “So a new person comes out of flight school, they’re basically qualified in the Black Hawk. Now you have to get them qualified in the unit’s mission. So in D.C., you got to get them familiar with all the helicopter routes, all the landing zones, the airspace, all the different places [they] go. That’s the structure,” the aviator said. “There’s a lot that goes into it. And so when you, when you have a W-1, or a lieutenant fresh out of flight school, they’re struggling just to keep the spinny side up, you know? And then now, now I’m throwing all this air and it’s challenging.”

DEI
Deadly Every Instance

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

214
I am going with neither.
Posted by: Piper

heh.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (zcJzD)

215 I am not a fan of the current NATO structure - that is we are NATO, but we still need it. In some form. Because who knows what will come after Putin. Maybe someone in line with Stalin, or something. People who never served ith e West, or had any serious dealings with the West.
Putin's circle has a number of those, like Patrushev for example. They view the West through the Cold War prims, who think that decadent West as much inferior to Mother Russia.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

216 Anybody hear from SMH lately?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

217
OK, thanks
Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (9ByDD)

I'll try to remember to reach out to Jim SND later today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

218 If they want to do some sort of spy thing with a woman why don't they do one with the character of Emma Peel from "The Avengers"? I loved the series and I'm sure at least some of the men who are straight
Agree that Diana Rigg was quite sexy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:18 AM (yW8YE)

They could do Jack July's "Amy Lynn" series. She's a badass.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2025 08:43 AM (OX9vb)

219 Another random thought. Does Islam want to define itself, or will it let others do it for them?

Right now we are defining it, and in my opinion we have just as much authority to do so as any Imam out there.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:43 AM (3Aazl)

220 199 If the US pulls out of NATO France and Germany will be at each other's throats within six months. Pax Americana kept Western Europe from fighting each other as well as keeping the Soviets out.
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At each other's throat with what? Baguettes and Sausages?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

221 I can’t think of one good reason for the US to stay in NATO. When did the USSR dissolve? 1991? NATO is that obsolete. Why should we go to war to protect Turkey?? Erdogan is not our friend…. Its a Cold War relic; get out.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:27 AM (i5Vkf)

The Warsaw Pact was dissolved in July 1991. The USSR was dissolved in December 1991. For 32 years NATO served no purpose and so it became an aggressor to justify it's existence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

222 When Ian Fleming passed on, his brother Peter and his wife Celia Johnson had control of the Bond genre. Peter was a swashbuckling adventurer type, and Celia was a wonderful actress and good person herself.
When they all passed, things went to crap, as did UK and Europe in general. Sad.

Watch Brief Encounter, In Which We Serve, and This Happy Breed if you want to see a great actress.

Posted by: What Once Was at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)

223 209
What about Jim of New Sunk Dawn?

Has he checked in lately?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February

I was wondering the same thing- I haven’t been on as much as the flu is knocking the hades out of my staff and those of us who can are all scrambling to keep things covered, so I may have missed it.

Posted by: Piper at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (QzINz)

224
Do we need to start taking AoS Attendance every day?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (zcJzD)

225 I heard Tim Walz has a secret plan to end the Ukraine war.

He's going to give every Russian orphan a speech that war is not the answer and his penis.

But...mostly his penis

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (t0Rmr)

226 Listen to what Jeffrey Sachs just told the European Parliament. It's way past time to end this idiocy.

https://tinyurl.com/yk6fuj8d
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2025 08:35 AM (LkLld)

Wow… you bring the receipts as always Jack. That is damning of Sullivan and the Biden junta

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (ANuwa)

227
I hope President Trump hasn't fallen into the Barky O'bama 'issue scary red line warning and then walk away' routine.

If there's a better time for glassing over Gaza I don't know when it could be.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 08:44 AM (j4U/Z)

228 Poland Is Once Again Poised To Become Washington's Top Partner In Europe

Its self-exclusion from the proposed “army of Europe” coupled with creeping informal concerns about Germany and Ukraine’s territorial intentions make Poland the perfect US partner...
Posted by: SMOD at February 21, 2025 08:28 AM (RHGPo)

Open, public, dissolvable, bi-lateral agreements are the way to go. Maybe even have a mechanism requiring that they be positively re-affirmed periodically.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

229 199 If the US pulls out of NATO France and Germany will be at each other's throats within six months. Pax Americana kept Western Europe from fighting each other as well as keeping the Soviets out.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (cMcMn)

It would almost be worth it to watch Germany conscript their angry Arabs and send them to go fight France’s angry Arabs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (73vBl)

230 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Leftist calls for violence against Trump to “get rid” of him
@FBI

https://tinyurl.com/25euzezb

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

231 The Protestant Reformation brought Christianity closer to the Bible. Let's not try to get Islam closer to the Koran, eh?

Posted by: SOTMHK at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (zatP9)

232 In the UK even your average man and woman on the street knows that rule Britannia does not have enough troops to fill a stadium. I am surprised the Prime Minister is not aware of this.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

233 Sponge, I texted him last week and haven't gotten any reply

Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (mB6WH)

234 Karen Bass investigating herself will be like Fielding Mellish cross examining himself in Bananas

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (cMcMn)

235 I can't see why Russia would invade Western Europe. There's no rational upside. The Soviets were different because they believed in the inevitablity of Global Communism ascendant.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (Gqoy+)

236 Nice exposition on the "real problem".

Now do Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: The Lies Never Stop at February 21, 2025 08:46 AM (MPR4k)

237 >In fact, the aviator said, the Army was so strapped for experienced pilots that up through 2023 it was sending its most junior pilots fresh out of flight school to fly these specialized missions. At one point, an estimated 40 percent of the pilots assigned to these missions, which can include evacuating leaders in the event of an attack, were on their first assignment, the aviator said.

Maybe if the DoD hadn't spent the last 20 years demonizing white males, there would more experienced pilots.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 21, 2025 08:46 AM (rJ48h)

238 What religion is Kash?

No doubt there'll be shrieking over this but...

he was raised Hindu. I don't know if he still considers himself to be one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

239 Ok, less weight thinking. What the hell happened to CAO cigars? They used to be interesting. I'm having a Flathead right now and it's...pedestrian.

Maybe their acquisition by General Cigar screwed it up by making the brand into a sales tier instead of a decent product in its own right.

Shit my brain is too active today. It's messing with my day drinking.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (3Aazl)

240 California Lithium Battery Facility Catches Fire Again, Residents Told To Close Windows"

-

I challenge anyone to show the math on how environmental fanaticism hasn't caused more damage and pollution than just maintaining a reasonable course and improving engines so that 300k - 500k lifespans were normal.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (2yHlw)

241 SMH is doing well

Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (mB6WH)

242 Karen Bass investigating herself will be like Fielding Mellish cross examining himself in Bananas

More like Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb examining himself.

Would I send myself to Africa? Hell yeah I'd send myself yo Africa! I would SOOOOO send myself to Africa!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)

243 @libsoftiktok
Leftist calls for violence against Trump to “get rid” of him
@FBI

https://tinyurl.com/25euzezb
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

Make Insane Asylums Great Again.

She puts the batshit in cray cray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

244 Wrong dead mom handed over: Incompetence or maliciousness?

Posted by: pookysgirl, shaking off the Nyquil haze at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (Wt5PA)

245 The only remaining nominee possibly in trouble is the Labor nominee

I'd assume Education will be tough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

246 Sponge, I texted him last week and haven't gotten any reply
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (mB6WH)

Uh oh.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

247 241 Thanks, Ben Had. Good to hear.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

248 I saw a tweet that said forensics determine that the Bibas kids were murdered ("at point blank range" ) in November 2023. Implying shot.

I don't think the mom Shiri is alive; I think her remains show such horrific trauma that they decided to switch someone else's body; either that or Shiri was dumped into a mass grave and they aren't sure which body is her.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (0JWOm)

249 Fen, you're welcome
she was Princess Margaret in "The Crown"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

250 > Trump Urges Federal Takeover of Washington D.C. to Restore Law and Order.
--------
The downside is that when the Democrats take over again the city will be in worse shape than it is now.

Related: last year Trump indicated he was interested in some sort of "urban renewal" for the capitol city. IMO that's a huge money pit of worthlessness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

251 @220 Chuck Martel , Germany v France would be Ennui v Schadenfreude

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (cMcMn)

252 Sponge, I texted him last week and haven't gotten any reply
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (mB6WH)

Uh oh.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

---

Seconded.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (3Aazl)

253 I'll try to remember to reach out to Jim SND later today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Same here

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (9ByDD)

254 Maybe Trump should announce a tax holiday for the remainder of this year or something like that. Would that work?

Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

255 I am not a fan of the current NATO structure - that is we are NATO, but we still need it. In some form. Because who knows what will come after Putin. Maybe someone in line with Stalin, or something. People who never served ith e West, or had any serious dealings with the West.
Putin's circle has a number of those, like Patrushev for example. They view the West through the Cold War prims, who think that decadent West as much inferior to Mother Russia.
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

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

That's Europe's problem, not ours.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (1Au9i)

256 Has anyone wondered what Trump's second portrait, the one where he's lit from below with a scowl on his face, does to bureaucrats when they have to hang it up in their offices? When they see it down the hall everyday?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

257
Starmer travelling to the Ukraine and signing the "BFF for 100 YEARS!" pact should have you all shivering.

I think their submarine failed a Trident launch last year.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (j4U/Z)

258 am not a fan of the current NATO structure - that is we are NATO, but we still need it. In some form. Because who knows what will come after Putin.
-

Runner, WE'RE the bad guys. We're the aggressors. We're what came after the USSR.

It's why Europe has to save their Healthcare dollars and start thinking about their defense instead.

Same as Canada, frankly. Or, I guess, become a state.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (2yHlw)

259 Maybe Trump should announce a tax holiday for the remainder of this year or something like that. Would that work?
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

What would this mean? They stop robbing my paycheck blind for a year?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

260 It would almost be worth it to watch Germany conscript their angry Arabs and send them to go fight France’s angry Arabs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (73vBl)

Germany's 4th Murder and Rape Jihadist Battalion
VS
France's 1st Jihadist Rape and Murder Battalion

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (iJfKG)

261 Trump got his full cabinet with Patel

Fun facts:

- FBI Director is NOT a cabinet position.
- Labor and Education ARE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

262 This is an amazing time to be alive and I am loving every minute of it.
Posted by: JackStraw

And it's only been a month!!!!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (0JWOm)

263 Give DC back to Maryland. Keep a square mile or so for the Capitol and WH. Should be easy to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

264 Good morning, everyone!
Wellness checks --
JT
Hrothgar
Galveston Jim
--
Anyone have word on any of them?
Posted by: Doof
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I haven't heard, but here's the North Alabama bird bath status.

Frozen. Feeder was refilled yesterday AND today. Hungry little boogers.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (MsrgL)

265
We still have lots of Confirmation hurdles to jump.

One such hurdle is Harmeet Dillon as "Assistant Attorney General" for Civil Rights.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (zcJzD)

266 252 Sponge, I texted him last week and haven't gotten any reply
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (mB6WH)

Uh oh.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

---

Seconded.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (3Aazl)

He been sick or something??

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (yjz94)

267
Same as Canada, frankly. Or, I guess, become a state.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (2yHlw)

I'm quite disappointed that Team USA Amber Heard against Canada last night. VERY disappointed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Make Insane Asylums Great Again.

She puts the batshit in cray cray.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)
******
It's always the eyes that are a give away.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

269 The need for NATO died in 1991.

The enemy the alliance was designed to fight doesn't exist anymore.

And these bozos have refused to help us in any real way in further conflicts. How many Euros died beside Americans in Stan/Iraq?

How many are going to be send to Mexico if we engage the cartels there?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (t0Rmr)

270 Donna of the Ampresands. Last I remember hearing she had said she and her sister in law were fighting cancer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (bss/y)

271 Do we need to start taking AoS Attendance every day?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Good idea. Do you volunteer to call the roll? And how will you keep track of the Sockpuppet brigade?

Posted by: Dick Hertz at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (G5+As)

272
He been sick or something??
Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (yjz94)

He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's late last year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

273 262 This is an amazing time to be alive and I am loving every minute of it.
Posted by: JackStraw

And it's only been a month!!!!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (0JWOm)

Love the pic on X… one month down, 47 to go, libs…

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (yjz94)

274 At each other's throat with what? Baguettes and Sausages?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

I saw Baguettes and Sausages open for Red Hot Chili Peppers at the TCCC in 2002.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

275 I guess he's been sworn-in, but it's odd we didn't see it. Maybe he didn't have to be sworn in, I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 08:30 AM (zcJzD)

He stripped down to a loincloth and sat cross-legged.
Bondi asked him what was best in life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

276 272
He been sick or something??
Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:50 AM (yjz94)

He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's late last year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Ah… thanks, Sponge..

Posted by: tubal at February 21, 2025 08:52 AM (yjz94)

277 Ho Lee Fuk!

Jake Sullivan caused the Ukraine war.

Thanks for that Jeffrey Sachs video link.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:52 AM (Gqoy+)

278 For example, is there even a singleCaliph right now or is the title still being fought over?“

I think the last true Caliph died when Ghenghis Khan’s hordes took Baghdad, slaughtered everyone in it, and made a giant pyramid out of their skulls. After the Ottomans conquered all of the Middle East I think the Ottoman Sultan claimed he was the Caliph, but that claim died with the Ottoman Empire. Every now and then Erdogan says he has rightful claim to the title, but no Arab today will put up with some Turk usurping it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2025 08:53 AM (73vBl)

279 The idea that Russia wants to overrun Western Europe is ridiculous. Always has been, even when the Soviets were in charge.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

280 That's Europe's problem, not ours.
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 21, 2025 08:49 AM (1Au9i)

Yes, we should teach them how to fish. But France and Germany and Italy are still markets for US. And we need stability and primacy there.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:53 AM (g47mK)

281 Good idea. Do you volunteer to call the roll? And how will you keep track of the Sockpuppet brigade?
Posted by: Dick Hertz at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (G5+As)

Sockpuppeteers make things difficult. Most do not helpfully put their handle in their nic like Miklos. OTH, sockpuppeting conveys a certain amount of desire for privacy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 08:53 AM (bss/y)

282 241 SMH is doing well
Posted by: Ben Had at February 21, 2025 08:47 AM (mB6WH)

Glad to know it. I've been wondering about her as well.

Thanks for keeping up with everyone, Ben Had.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2025 08:54 AM (OX9vb)

283 >>Maybe I found the wrong movie, then......

The product details I posted was a DVD from Amazon UK

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 08:54 AM (Y1sOo)

284 He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's late last year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 21, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

He was on my heart this morning for some reason. Text sent and prayer lifted.

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 08:54 AM (9ByDD)

285 Jake Sullivan caused the Ukraine war.

Thanks for that Jeffrey Sachs video link.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 08:52 AM (Gqoy+)

Oh please.

Jake Sullivan was my bag boy.

Posted by: Antony Blinken at February 21, 2025 08:54 AM (MPR4k)

286 For example, is there even a singleCaliph right now or is the title still being fought over?“

The Sunni Muslim view is the rightful caliph would be shown to the Islamic world by controlling most of it...just like how the Ottomans seized the title.

So right now there isn't one.

Shiite Islam is odder about all this with secret immortal imams hiding in wells.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:55 AM (t0Rmr)

287 Maybe not a roll taker as much as an ersatz registrar?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:55 AM (3Aazl)

288 At this point in time... why is there even a Secretary of Labor?

Because there is a Department of Labor. Now, you can ask yourself which of these functions are so important as to require a separate department to house them...

https://www.dol.gov/general/dol-agencies

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

289 Sending a DOGE dividend to taxpayers is absolutely appropriate! Those are our tax dollars that were stolen; we deserve some portion back and use the rest to reduce debt. Every taxpayer getting even a onetime check is also great politics. Remember it’s our money

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (6RwsA)

290 Sorry. Had to do some deep diving and try yo verify a claim. Goes to Breitbart. And it's worse than it looks.

Joe Biden Gave 53 Researchers, Student Volunteers Access to IRS Data

https://tinyurl.com/4jfku42k

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (sGNMS)

291 287 Maybe not a roll taker as much as an ersatz registrar?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:55 AM (3Aazl)

Papers, please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 08:57 AM (bss/y)

292 Oh please.

Jake Sullivan was my bag boy.

Posted by: Antony Blinken at February 21, 2025 08:54 AM (MPR4k)

You guys are cracking me up!

Neither one of those stooges could get a million white, Orthodox Christians Slavs to kill each other.

It takes a woman's touch.

Posted by: Victoria Nuland at February 21, 2025 08:57 AM (MPR4k)

293 Agreed just get rid of the three letter organization and leave us be. The only thing that will cure muslims of their cult of death is God. And soon enough it will come.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 21, 2025 08:57 AM (WRDub)

294 A DOGE rebate is an awesome idea. But ONLY to people who actually pay taxes to begin with and aren't Stupid Tax Credited out of liability.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:57 AM (3Aazl)

295 I posed this yesterday. I think it's still a great idea. It would totally flip out the Euroweenies and the Left to even make this offer.
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Palestinians: Give Them What They Want

"These assholes are begging to be killed.

I think the IDF should help them out by offering to bomb a certain location at a certain time to help them out. Image a Pali celebration of mass martyrdom. Thousands of willing victims crowded into a city block turned to a mass grave. Just add bulldozers.

I think these twisted fuckers would go for it plus all the depopulate the Earth idiots could celebrate too."

Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2025 08:58 AM (QB+5g)

296 288 At this point in time... why is there even a Secretary of Labor?

Because there is a Department of Labor. Now, you can ask yourself which of these functions are so important as to require a separate department to house them...

https://www.dol.gov/general/dol-agencies
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

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Dammit...I don't want to blame William Howard Taft for this...but it's his fault! He signed the bill making the Labor Department...on his last day of his presidency.

Eh, it's not like Wilson wouldn't have signed the same bill the next day.

Still, I'd rather blame Wilson for it than Taft.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

297 "can you imagine if Canada invaded the US and we blamed ourselves for the war?"

I remember after 9/11 a slew of folks doing just that by saying we are to blame or look inward first.

Did this bint attend the Margaret Brennan school of history?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2025 08:58 AM (JkCto)

298 290 Sorry. Had to do some deep diving and try yo verify a claim. Goes to Breitbart. And it's worse than it looks.

Joe Biden Gave 53 Researchers, Student Volunteers Access to IRS Data

https://tinyurl.com/4jfku42k
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (sGNMS)

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Who elected them and why did they steal my granny's social security check?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

299 Well, it was fun hanging out with you guys in the morning for once, but the 37,000 KB file I was uploading has finally finished. Back to work.

Be of good cheer, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (OX9vb)

300 Keep in mind that Europe has one of the highest GDPs in the world.

If they want to they can easily building a military more then sufficient to defeat Russia, Turkey, and the various north African states.

They don't need NATO, its basically just a handout of billions of dollars a year for them

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (t0Rmr)

301 Phil Haney had a target on his back for exposing islam. So does Robert Spencer and many more.

Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (jgmnb)

302 > Sending a DOGE dividend to taxpayers is absolutely appropriate! Those are our tax dollars that were stolen; we deserve some portion back and use the rest to reduce debt. Every taxpayer getting even a onetime check is also great politics. Remember it’s our money
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Providing the term "taxpayer" is used literally. Welfare layabouts that have never paid a dime in taxes should receive nothing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

303 Give DC back to Maryland. Keep a square mile or so for the Capitol and WH. Should be easy to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel

It is called retrocession, and it already happened with the western half, to Virginia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (lTGtQ)

304 Two interesting headlines being discussed at DU:

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say. Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.

Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over "Just Working on Israel All the Time". The exodus of staff continued Thursday with two new departures. The exits of the longtime staffers reflects a deep disillusionment in Fetterman’s office with his disavowal of progressive politics and turn toward the right in both his openness to working with President Donald Trump and his embrace of strident pro-Israel positions.

“This is a guy who came in talking about being a champion for labor and he’s gone pretty quiet on it. This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans. He’s supporting stuff and it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan, we got Fetterman.’”

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (JCZqz)

305 Yes, we should teach them how to fish. But France and Germany and Italy are still markets for US. And we need stability and primacy there.
Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 08:53 AM

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They've had over 30 years to learn to fish. They never will if we keep doing all the fishing for them. We should have announced in 1992 that we were pulling out of NATO by the year 2000. Not that we wouldn't help Europe any more but that they had primary responsibility for their own defense.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (1Au9i)

306 Regarding the potential for a repeal of income taxes, one of the biggest concerns has always been how to deal with the "industry" that has spun up around income taxes.

Many people are in situations where they are simply incapable of doing their own taxes due to the complexity, and must hire a professional.

Unfortunately, the kids these days are uninterested in finance, banking, accounting and are not pursuing these carriers. That has put cpa firms in a dire situation, they have a shrinking pool of talent and applicants. Small cpa firms are merging with larger firms, and the fees they charge are exorbitant.

The result is also that most firms are not accepting new clients.

I think the time is now to strike at this beast and eliminate it once and for all.

These accounting firms are also the industry that have been responsible for auditing everything from government to education, let alone corporate entities. And what have they revealed? That they, too are in the back pocket of the deep state.

Begone. Now is the time.

Posted by: Derak at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (8tltp)

307 300 Keep in mind that Europe has one of the highest GDPs in the world.

If they want to they can easily building a military more then sufficient to defeat Russia, Turkey, and the various north African states.

They don't need NATO, its basically just a handout of billions of dollars a year for them
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (t0Rmr)

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But they'd have to make tradeoffs! We can't demand that of them.

Instead, we'll just handle the burden because we don't worry about tradeoffs. We just give away trillions of dollars without consequence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

308 If the US pulls out of NATO France and Germany will be at each other's throats within six months.

Gosh, that'll suck for France and Germany.

It could be an interesting twist on history, though, since France produces electricity and Germany doesn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

309 Jake Sullivan was definitely there from whoever was running obama's foreign policy. He smoothly transitioned to Biden's policy chief. Limp writed little bitch.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 09:00 AM (g47mK)

310 Morning JJ

Posted by: Jonah at February 21, 2025 09:01 AM (YCxFk)

311 I guarantee Canada has a strategy for invading the US, just like we do for pretty much every country out there.

Kind of like Batman knowing exactly how to dispose of the rest of the Justice League. Just In Case scenario planning.

I'd love to see how Canada thinks NFD would contribute. 🤐

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 09:01 AM (3Aazl)

312 304 Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say. Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid

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Where in the Constitution does it say, "Executive power is vested in independent agencies that do not report to the body politic"?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

313 > Joe Biden Gave 53 Researchers, Student Volunteers Access to IRS Data
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Like giving Chinese "researchers" access to decades of oceanic survey data used by our Navy to create better maps of the various oceans that our nuclear subs operate in?

Yea... that happened. Pointing it out was "racist."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

314 I guarantee Canada has a strategy for invading the US, just like we do for pretty much every country out there.

The Jihadis figured out a strategy that works, I can't see the Canuckistanis willing to do it though.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

315 I think the last true Caliph died when Ghenghis Khan’s hordes took Baghdad, slaughtered everyone in it, and made a giant pyramid out of their skulls. After the Ottomans conquered all of the Middle East I think the Ottoman Sultan claimed he was the Caliph, but that claim died with the Ottoman Empire. Every now and then Erdogan says he has rightful claim to the title, but no Arab today will put up with some Turk usurping it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The Ottoman Sultans were the Caliphs after they conquered Egypt, where the Abbasid Caliphs had resided under Mamluk protection, in 1517. Ataturk abolished it in the early 1920s. Ibn Saud, I think, tried to claim the title after that, but it didn't take.

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

316 believe Trump is greasing for our exiting NATO. The oither member countries won't boost their spending let alone to 5%.
Posted by: Ignoramus

I believe it's 3% is the goal

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (JkCto)

317 289 Sending a DOGE dividend to taxpayers is absolutely appropriate!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 08:56 AM (6RwsA)

More than that, it subverts and flips the script on the Democrat/Left. A DOGE dividend, the prospect of future dividends, would seal the deal on the limited government movement.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (UseAb)

318 Regarding the potential for a repeal of income taxes, one of the biggest concerns has always been how to deal with the "industry" that has spun up around income taxes.

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Sadly, a tax system that simplifies the code to a filing on a single easy postcard boils down to "What did you make last year? Send it in!"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 09:03 AM (3Aazl)

319 Related: last year Trump indicated he was interested in some sort of "urban renewal" for the capitol city. IMO that's a huge money pit of worthlessness.
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LBJ did this to DC. Oddly, the areas he didn't tear down and build Soviet Housing are the red hot real estate areas today.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:03 AM (pLaQB)

320 I think Zelensky and Putin are both dictators.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 08:41 AM (2FqVL)

Why do you think Putin is a dictator? Because everyone thinks that? Because all those media outlets being paid by the US government say so?

He was re-elected last year in an election that even western intelligence agencies admitted was legit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

321 Providing the term "taxpayer" is used literally. Welfare layabouts that have never paid a dime in taxes should receive nothing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

Totally agree. I meant taxpayer quite literally. Only people who actually paid taxes get a check

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 09:04 AM (6RwsA)

322 We will not be kicked out of Europe on account of CCP or Russia. Period. But they need to grow up. It's like telling your 30 yo son that it is time to move and get a job. By changing the locks and leaving his stuff outside. BUt he can still count on you for love, support, and holiday dinners.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 09:05 AM (g47mK)

323 Ibn Saud, I think, tried to claim the title after that, but it didn't take.

They got rich, but didn't turn it into direct control of land.

Had the Saudis been more aggressive say and ended up controlling a bunch of the smaller Muslim states PLUS controlling the Hejaz they would have much more success

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 09:05 AM (t0Rmr)

324 >>“I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump said, responding to a question posed by a member of the press pool. “I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawlessly beautiful. And I think we should take over Washington, D.C.”

Dooooooooooo it!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2025 09:05 AM (Cki93)

325 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Leftist calls for violence against Trump to “get rid” of him
@FBI

https://tinyurl.com/25euzezb
Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

Pay the unhinged bitch a 3 AM visit, arrest her for making terrorist threats and throw her ass in prison. Enough of this crap.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 21, 2025 09:05 AM (dgRL6)

326 Saw a funny tweet

Trump fired the only employee at Yosemite NP who had the keys to all the bathrooms

grain of salt, etc

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

327 What about that Food guy? Anybody seen him around lately?

Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

328 I’m not a hockey fan. Didn’t watch the game last night. Even so it galls me that the US team lost to the team from the 51st state… I wanted Trudeau to be downcast

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (6RwsA)

329 > Related: last year Trump indicated he was interested in some sort of "urban renewal" for the capitol city. IMO that's a huge money pit of worthlessness.
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LBJ did this to DC. Oddly, the areas he didn't tear down and build Soviet Housing are the red hot real estate areas today.
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If there really is a desire to "federalize" the capitol city then I'd welcome turning it into a Soviet style compound with museums. All politicos, their staff and all associates would be required to live in barracks. Eat at a commissary. Shop at Federal Department Store.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

330 It could be an interesting twist on history, though, since France produces electricity and Germany doesn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

But they've been heavily investing in wind and solar for the last couple decades, so they should have the advantage over France right?!

Posted by: Clueless Lefty at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

331 317. Agree. It is a great idea, great for the economy

Posted by: Jonah at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

332 Regarding the potential for a repeal of income taxes, one of the biggest concerns has always been how to deal with the "industry" that has spun up around income taxes.

Learn to choad.
Ain't that what Joey Shitpants told 10,000 pipeline workers on day one?

The precedent has been set.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (sGNMS)

333 326 Saw a funny tweet

Trump fired the only employee at Yosemite NP who had the keys to all the bathrooms

grain of salt, etc
Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

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It seems to have actually happened. And it's either malicious compliance by the department or evidence of deep, deep brokenness within the department.

I don't think Trump is going to slow down because the one employee who sat around all day with keys (probably watching porn all day) could never be bothered to make copies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

334 303 Give DC back to Maryland. Keep a square mile or so for the Capitol and WH. Should be easy to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel

It is called retrocession, and it already happened with the western half, to Virginia.
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This is true. But VA forgot to build a wall to keep the Yankees out. Where is Jubal Early when you need him?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:08 AM (pLaQB)

335 Why I'm in favor of the DOGE dividend:

It makes the cuts real.

Saying they're cutting billions is great, but what's the tangible benefit for the everyday person?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 21, 2025 09:08 AM (KbCG3)

336 @WallStreetApes
WOW 🚨 James O'Keefe just got evidence California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass KNEW THE FIRES WERE COMING

The real reason Karen Bass was busy in Ghana, Africa is she was obtaining a contract TO INTEGRATE MORE AFRICANS INTO CALIFORNIA

https://x.com/OKeefeMedia

Posted by: Lizzy at February 21, 2025 09:08 AM (Cki93)

337 Take over DC not Gaza. America First.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:08 AM (UseAb)

338 BenHad has contact with JT

No news since saying the tablet that was hopefully going to reconnect JT with the Horde didn't work for him.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 21, 2025 09:08 AM (Eo96p)

339 Totally agree. I meant taxpayer quite literally. Only people who actually paid taxes get a check

They should actually exclude federal workers from receiving a check, or else you'll be sending Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer a check to reimburse them $5000 for the money they wasted on themselves and their cronies, who, coincidentally, will probably also receive $5000.

Posted by: Just saying at February 21, 2025 09:09 AM (MPR4k)

340 I remember after 9/11 a slew of folks doing just that by saying we are to blame or look inward first.
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After? Try during; I was online and witnessed the blogs and bulletin boards and the lefties were doing just that.

There was this weird moment too, I watched some years later, members of Congress were on the steps of the Capitol singing “God Bless America” or something - and Chuckie schumer was off to the side, declining to participate? I dunno. Pretty strange

Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2025 09:09 AM (gpdYK)

341
he real reason Karen Bass was busy in Ghana, Africa is she was obtaining a contract TO INTEGRATE MORE AFRICANS INTO CALIFORNIA

Um, didn't they used to call this "slave-trading" back in the olden days?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 09:09 AM (zcJzD)

342 What about that Food guy? Anybody seen him around lately?
Posted by: Bulg at February 21, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah, he's still here being obtuse

Posted by: Doof at February 21, 2025 09:10 AM (9ByDD)

343 I remember the most common sentiment on the left on 9/11 was that the jihadis were supposed to kill red state people not good blue state people.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

344 Trump upped the ante:

"Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump wants NATO members to spend a whopping 5 percent of GDP on defense — more than double the alliance’s current spending target."

Art of the deal, baby!

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (Gqoy+)

345 Gosh, that'll suck for France and Germany.

It could be an interesting twist on history, though, since France produces electricity and Germany doesn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

They'll be at each other's throat with what? Clubs? Over what, whose immigrants are worse?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (bss/y)

346 "It seems to have actually happened. And it's either malicious compliance by the department or evidence of deep, deep brokenness within the department."

Those keys are arguably Government property. He needs to give them back or face consequences.

Enough of this BS.

Posted by: pawn at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (QB+5g)

347 327 What about that Food guy? Anybody seen him around lately?
Posted by: Bulg

Picketball season is almost upon us. He's on a strict training regimen to impress his GILF Army.

Posted by: Lance Romance at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

348 Late to the party but I disagree with that headline analogy. I understand the point but it’s an illogical analogy that the Left do all the time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (VofaG)

349 335 Why I'm in favor of the DOGE dividend:

It makes the cuts real.

Saying they're cutting billions is great, but what's the tangible benefit for the everyday person?
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It is the direct opposite of Dems paying their voters to continue to vote for them - the eaters being paid. Here it would pay the feeders and create competition to further shrink government.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:12 AM (pLaQB)

350 344 Trump upped the ante:

"Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump wants NATO members to spend a whopping 5 percent of GDP on defense — more than double the alliance’s current spending target."

Art of the deal, baby!
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 09:11 AM (Gqoy+)

'Spending target'. How many hit that target?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 09:12 AM (bss/y)

351 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 21, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

I don't really know what American news outlets say. I don't have a working TV except I read the NY Post several times a week.

I think Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union while not calling it that, He started the Ukraine War. He has shut down opposition media and he had opponents killed off. .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (42Vb+)

352 326 Saw a funny tweet

Trump fired the only employee at Yosemite NP who had the keys to all the bathrooms

grain of salt, etc
Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now!

I may have seen a similar one with photos of protesting, recently laid-off "5’4 125lb they/themberjacks of the US Forestry Service"

https://tinyurl.com/e467s9tk

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

353 He’s supporting stuff and it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan, we got Fetterman.’”

Now these dummies know how we feel about shitheads such as MooCowSki, McTurtle, and MainePainCollins.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (MsrgL)

354 > "Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump wants NATO members to spend a whopping 5 percent of GDP on defense — more than double the alliance’s current spending target."
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European NATO member should pay for all of it. Or don't. IDGAF

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

355 Here it would pay the feeders and create competition to further shrink government.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:12 AM (pLaQB)

Yes. It would popularize and energize DOGE and its mission. Extinction level threat for the Left.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:14 AM (UseAb)

356 351 Meant don't read American papers except for parts of the NY Post sometimes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 09:14 AM (42Vb+)

357 Make Congress fall out for roll call at 6:00 am for roll call. A little PT, a short 2 mile run. SecDef can call cadence. Then piss tests to see what kind of drugs the more scrofulous individuals are on. Most of the Democrat Senators will have trouble because they can’t pee if someone is watching.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 21, 2025 09:14 AM (gpdYK)

358 353 He’s supporting stuff and it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan, we got Fetterman.’”

Now these dummies know how we feel about shitheads such as MooCowSki, McTurtle, and MainePainCollins.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (MsrgL)

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Well, McCain actually tanked the ACA repeal. We gotta remember how our "mavericks" actually end up stabbing us in the back on real policy, not theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:14 AM (GBKbO)

359 He has shut down opposition media and he had opponents killed off. .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (42Vb+)

So has Zelensky.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:16 AM (UseAb)

360 Nat Sec Waltz said that he/Trump expects ALL NATO be at 3% spending by June 30th(?) NATO summit. The only one I think who is meeting the target is Poland.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

361 'Spending target'. How many hit that target?"

They can't and won't try. Which is what Trump wants. Greases our exit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 21, 2025 09:16 AM (Gqoy+)

362 In order to receive a DoGE dividend, one should have to have been a net payer of income tax, not employed by the federal government, nor deriving a percentage of their income greater than 10% from federal contracts, nor working for a company that has received payments from the federal government (i.e. school teachers, college professors, media companies, tax preparers, doctors, etc);

You should actually have to be a net provider and producer for society in the private sector that creates wealth.

To send Elon Musk's engineers a government rebate check for wasteful spending while Tesla or SpaceX, that pays their paychecks out of that federal spending, receives huge amounts of federal spending is just asinine.

Posted by: Just saying at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (MPR4k)

363 The Avengers movie with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman wasn’t good but the two actors did pretty good with what they were given.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (tWzNG)

364 Well, off to that "job" thing.

Thanks for being around, you all. Talk to you all later!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (PzXaK)

365 The locksmith with the only keys at Yosemite was a probationary employee.

You can't make this stuff up.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (Y1sOo)

366 I think Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union while not calling it that, He started the Ukraine War. He has shut down opposition media and he had opponents killed off. .
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Fen, Putin didn't start the war, we did. Zelensky is our guy. Putin blocked it and is just waiting for Ukraine and NATO to come to their senses.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (pLaQB)

367 McCain assured us we had nothing to fear from an obama presidency

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)

368 314 I guarantee Canada has a strategy for invading the US, just like we do for pretty much every country out there.

The Jihadis figured out a strategy that works, I can't see the Canuckistanis willing to do it though.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 21, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

That would be a waste of time and money to create an invasion plan. But I do believe they probably have a plan to repel an invasion by the US.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (VofaG)

369 I was floored yesterday when watching Trump. He praised Pfizer CEO Bourla at a white house event... of course they booed loudly... the look on Trumps face... he was surprised, he really doesn't get it. Someone (RFK) needs to take Trump aside and tell him the real story about the vax. The other story, not the one where he thinks he saved millions of people....

Posted by: Wardo at February 21, 2025 09:18 AM (T24y3)

370 Since every muslim must make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their life and since every muslim must turn to Mecca when praying, if Mecca ceased to be, would islam also cease to be?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 21, 2025 09:18 AM (y9ksN)

371 311 I guarantee Canada has a strategy for invading the US, just like we do for pretty much every country out there.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

They'll send little Greta clones down to lecture us on acid rain and bore us to death.

Their original plan to emigrate to Cuba and live like kings hit a snag.

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 09:18 AM (j4U/Z)

372 So has Zelensky.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:16 AM (UseAb)

That's why I said that I think they're both dictators.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 09:19 AM (EaDJf)

373 "Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump wants NATO members to spend a whopping 5 percent of GDP on defense — more than double the alliance’s current spending target."
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European NATO member should pay for all of it. Or don't. IDGAF
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Pay for all of it or become a Russian satellite state.
IDGAF.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2025 09:19 AM (sGNMS)

374 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

AG Pam Bondi sends strong warning to every child predator in America:

“I just got to transfer a federal inmate to Oklahoma to be executed. There is NO LONGER a moratorium on executions.”

https://tinyurl.com/2p8de7na

Posted by: redridinghood at February 21, 2025 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

375 20 "20% of savings returned to the people is a powerful incentive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic "

Getting back even 10% would be tremendous for public relations.
Posted by: fd at February 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

Reminds me a little bit of the scene in Mr. Robot where the hackers take the Deus Group oligarchs' combined fortune and distribute it to everyone. Not as dramatic, but seeing the looters of the system have to give it back to those they stole it from would be refreshing and cathartic.

Posted by: Rent seekers, grifters, and snouts in the trough at February 21, 2025 09:19 AM (yzp7T)

376
AG Blondi: This Time It's Personal

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 09:20 AM (zcJzD)

377 197 Addendum: I really don't know. This is just something that's been knocking around in my head for the past few weeks. I have no special expertise or knowledge of Islam. Maybe I'm looking at this all from a practical lens that is unrealistic.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 21, 2025 08:39 AM (3Aazl)

Addendum = Gay Sex toy
Innuendo = Italian suppository

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2025 09:20 AM (x0n13)

378 363 The Avengers movie with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman wasn’t good but the two actors did pretty good with what they were given.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 21, 2025 09:17 AM (tWzNG)

Unsurprising omission of Sean Connery.

To be fair, they seemed to be having fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 09:20 AM (bss/y)

379 I agree that DOGE checks would give the general public some skin in the game, and disagree that giving people back 20% of the money that was stolen from them is a handout.

By analogy, the Alaska Permanent Fund only exists because a portion of the annual return gets paid out to citizens, which means that any time some politician proposes looting it (and there have been many such attempts over the last 45 years) the tar, feathers, and pitchforks come out. Without the dividend checks, the Fund would have been blown long ago. Instead, the Fund has grown to over $80 billion, and Alaskans not only get an annual check ($1,702 this year), we also enjoy NO state income tax and NO state sales tax, the only state for which that is true (all other states have one or the other, most have both).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:20 AM (W5ArC)

380 I’m with you on the $5K govt check. This was done plenty in 2020/21 and had negative consequences - just cut spending and the income tax, and let a healthy govt be the reward. Or at least put it into industrial infrastructure or something that will grow Americans baseline in a meaningful way.

Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on onlyfans, restaurants, and vacations.

Posted by: H at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (4N/0w)

381 Zelensky's more dick taster than dictator, but he is certainly both.

Posted by: I'm sure he earned it through merit though at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (yzp7T)

382 Putin blocked it and is just waiting for Ukraine and NATO to come to their senses.
Posted by: Pudinhead

4-D chess playing genius Putin? The guy pioneering 4th story window safety in Roosha?

Posted by: Auspex at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (j4U/Z)

383 Former probationary federal employed Nate Vince, the holder of the keys at Yosemite:

https://tinyurl.com/ecmnawd6

Posted by: one hour sober at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (Y1sOo)

384 Canada is going under, just at a slower rate than Australia and the UK.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (XKgym)

385 My view is I couldn’t care less if Putin is a good guy or not. Ending that war is good for the US, so do it. One thing this war proved is that Russia is not a military threat… they had trouble with 3rd world s-hole corrupt Ukraine for Pete’s sake. They’re not gonna legitimately threaten Western Europe anytime soon. But ending the war is necessary because Russia has a large nuclear arsenal…. FAFO is not wise with that arsenal

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (i5Vkf)

386 The entire US Military should be defunded until Nidal Hassan is executed.

Posted by: Bullets Are Relatively Cheap at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (G5+As)

387 don't really know what American news outlets say. I don't have a working TV except I read the NY Post several times a week.

I think Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union while not calling it that, He started the Ukraine War. He has shut down opposition media and he had opponents killed off. .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2025 09:13 AM (42Vb+)

Fenelon, USSR existed to push Global Communism. An idea. What Putin wants he says. There is no need to guess. He wants NATO away from his borders. Because NATO became not only a military alliance but morphed into a Political one. And that Political one decided that it will behoove Europe to Balcanize Russia and remove him. As you can imagine, Putin does not think that is a good idea.

Posted by: runner at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (g47mK)

388 382 Putin blocked it and is just waiting for Ukraine and NATO to come to their senses.
Posted by: Pudinhead

4-D chess playing genius Putin? The guy pioneering 4th story window safety in Roosha?
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Remember to ask the British how easy it was taking the Crimea.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (pLaQB)

389 Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on onlyfans, restaurants, and vacations.
Posted by: H at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (4N/0w)

Better that than tranny preschool opera lessons in Lichtenstein or wherever the fuck.

Posted by: A nutless monkey could spend it better at February 21, 2025 09:23 AM (yzp7T)

390 Is it just me, or should anyone who tries to "close" an outdoor venue (national parks, say) be fired for stupidity?

Yeah, I get that Ranger Rick might not be there to shake down the tourists for an entrance fee.

So what? Just open the gates.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:24 AM (W5ArC)

391 The DOGE dividend is great politics, but a terrible precedent. I have visions of ancient Rome, and each new emperor having to give greater gifts and benefits than the last emperor to the proles of Rome to prevent riots and gain acceptance.

That's another one-way benefit ratchet that will cause problems down the line...but the people will love it, and Trump's approval rating (and maybe midterm outlook) will be much improved.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 21, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

392 @358;TJM, "mavericks " can be scumbags too

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 09:25 AM (cMcMn)

393 There are other national parks he can apply for a job.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:25 AM (VofaG)

394 Well, McCain actually tanked the ACA repeal. We gotta remember how our "mavericks" actually end up stabbing us in the back on real policy, not theater.
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And now the hobbits are scouring the shire (DC).
Haha!! B*tch!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)

395 393 There are other national parks he can apply for a job.
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He comes with a shit ton of keys, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (pLaQB)

396 The Constitution of North Korea actually guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press…

Without #2 it is worthless.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

397 >
Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on onlyfans, restaurants, and vacations.
Posted by: H at February 21, 2025 09:22 AM (4N/0w)

If I want to spend MY money (you know, the money that was taken from ME at gunpoint) on eating out, that's my business.

I'd definitely prefer getting a nice meal to paying for transgender comic books in Peru.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (W5ArC)

398 I remember after 9/11 a slew of folks doing just that by saying we are to blame or look inward first.
Did this bint attend the Margaret Brennan school of history?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 21, 2025 08:58 AM (JkCto)

In my essay written shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I called some World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns.”

Posted by: Ward Churchill, Fake Indian Professor at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (NAF5O)

399 Keep the dividend and pay down the debt and lower tax rates.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (VofaG)

400 390 Is it just me, or should anyone who tries to "close" an outdoor venue (national parks, say) be fired for stupidity?

Yeah, I get that Ranger Rick might not be there to shake down the tourists for an entrance fee.

So what? Just open the gates.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:24 AM (W5ArC)

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I lived in Charleston during the Obama government shutdown.

I drove past the Charles Pinkney house every day to and from work. It's a very small, not terribly significant national historical site. It's a recreated house of one of the least important Founders next to a field with a dirt parking lot next to it.

They closed the metal gate. Locked it. Put out a sign (that they obviously had to print out for the occasion) about how the place had to be closed because the government was off.

It's hardly ever visited at all. I can understand locking the house in a shutdown if you can't pay for the...volunteer who sits there everyday. I guess?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

401
Had it ever occurred to any of these federal employee Shitheads to Re-Apply for their jobs?

I mean, if the position was indeed necessary, the admin will hire someone for the job.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 21, 2025 09:27 AM (zcJzD)

402 It could be an interesting twist on history, though, since France produces electricity and Germany doesn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That was exactly what I was thinking.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 21, 2025 09:27 AM (lTGtQ)

403 As usual, the Babylon Bee anticipates the news:

LOS ANGELES — In the wake of total devastation brought about by the LA fires, Mayor Karen Bass has promised her constituents she would authorize a full investigation into why she was allowed to become mayor of Los Angeles.

"I have no idea what I'm doing and I need to figure out why people thought I could do it," Bass said in a statement. "This whole thing has really been unfair to me."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (CLFWO)

404 380 ... Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on restaurants, and vacations.
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Who are you to decide what is squandered? ... I want my f'n money back. Make the cucks in congress cut spending ...

Posted by: Wardo at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (T24y3)

405 > t's hardly ever visited at all. I can understand locking the house in a shutdown if you can't pay for the...volunteer who sits there everyday. I guess?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

Right. Closing a building that's subject to vandalism or looting is one thing. "Closing" Mount Rushmore or the Mall in DC is quite another.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (W5ArC)

406 Willowed from the TEch Thread: "Do the sport jackets have patches on the elbows like an English teacher seeking undergrad fems looking for a better grade?"
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No, they were all out of them.

So I got some nice dress socks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 21, 2025

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I have several such tweed jackets, too warm to wear most of the year here. My mental image for myself in it is not so much the coed-seeking teacher, as it is the Pipe-Smoking Author, Professor, or Attorney in His Office Surrounded by Books.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (J2vNu)

407 I kind of tend toward the Tax holiday over rebate simply because it reminds people how pervasive and weighty the government hand is. I don't give a fuck what they spend it on. If they want to spend that money on Tessa Fowler vids, let them. Letting them keep more of the check they earn reminds them it is THEIR money.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (bss/y)

408 Doesn't maverick literally just mean "a horse who's kind of a dick and no one wants to lay claim to"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (jKo6M)

409 Personally, I favor paying down the federal debt with any DoGE savings.

I'd rather my grandchildren not be slaves to the central bankers the rest of their lives more than I'd like $5,000.

Posted by: Just saying at February 21, 2025 09:29 AM (MPR4k)

410 @390 they shut down the WWII memorial in DC. It's a park . Thuggery and control

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 21, 2025 09:29 AM (cMcMn)

411 I'd definitely prefer getting a nice meal to paying for transgender comic books in Peru.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I get that. And yes a refund is absolutely better than that. I just think the point was to cut govt spending, and also watching the effects of those handouts during COVID was net negative, so I don’t see it as returning stolen money. Turning off a hose more like.

Posted by: H at February 21, 2025 09:29 AM (4N/0w)

412 Doesn't maverick literally just mean "a horse who's kind of a dick and no one wants to lay claim to"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (jKo6M)

Except for Hildago. He was a cool maverick.

Man I loved that movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (VofaG)

413 he was surprised, he really doesn't get it. Someone (RFK) needs to take Trump
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Trump appointed RFK. If "doesn't get it" he would hardly have done that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (UseAb)

414 > 408 Doesn't maverick literally just mean "a horse who's kind of a dick and no one wants to lay claim to"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (jKo6M)

Originally unbranded cattle. Maverick was a guy who used the somewhat shady practice of slapping his own brand on any unbranded cow he came across.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (W5ArC)

415 404 Who are you to decide what is squandered? ... I want my f'n money back. Make the cucks in congress cut spending ...
Posted by: Wardo at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (T24y3)

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I talked to the guy in the house once.

He was a volunteer. The government didn't pay him.

But he couldn't show up anymore because the money spigot of discretionary spending was off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

416 Buying stuff that you want with your money, so that people who make the stuff get your money to spend on the stuff they want....

My God, with system like that we're all doomed!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (jKo6M)

417 404 380 ... Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on restaurants, and vacations.
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Did I tell you a new Cadillac starts at $117k each?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (pLaQB)

418 I'd rather my grandchildren not be slaves to the central bankers the rest of their lives more than I'd like $5,000.
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Yes. You should have the freedom to return the refund to the treasury.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

419
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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

420 Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on onlyfans, restaurants, and vacations.
Posted by: H at February 21, 2025

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The notional five grand to come back to the citizens? It'll go to pay my taxes next year (this year will be odd as far as earnings go). If I don't have any taxes, or not much to speak of? THEN I'll blow it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

421 Noodus ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 21, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

422 maverick

NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
an unbranded calf or yearling.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 09:31 AM (AOsQT)

423 Bathrooms in National Parks? Why? Plenty of trees and shrubberies. And even the bears carry toilet tissue, according to commercials.

Posted by: Schitt's Creek at February 21, 2025 09:31 AM (G5+As)

424 Yes. You should have the freedom to return the refund to the treasury.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 21, 2025 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)

I will use it to pay my taxes so yes I’ll be returning it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2025 09:31 AM (VofaG)

425 mav·er·ick
[ˈmav(ə

rik]
noun

an unorthodox or independent-minded person:

Posted by: Don Black. Message: whip inflation now! at February 21, 2025 09:32 AM (AOsQT)

426 >>Doesn't maverick literally just mean "a horse who's kind of a dick and no one wants to lay claim to"?

Nope, it means I'm totally gay but trying real hard to convince myself that I'm not.

Posted by: Lt. Pete Mitchell at February 21, 2025 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)

427 This post is rife with the kind of Islamophobia that free speech is designed to prevent!

Posted by: CAIR, caring for you at February 21, 2025 09:32 AM (a3Q+t)

428 Trump fired the only employee at Yosemite NP who had the keys to all the bathrooms

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The (D)so don't realize that this sort of thing only damages their arguments.

I saw an interview on ABC about government employees being fired because their performance wasn't adequate, and their arguments, on camera, were that they'd been employed for two or three years and had never had a performance review.

Guys, do you not realize what you did there?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 09:33 AM (2yHlw)

429 Who are you to decide what is squandered? ... I want my f'n money back. Make the cucks in congress cut spending
Posted by: Wardo at February 21, 2025 09:28 AM (T24y3)

Exactly! It's my money and I want my money now! The debt go to the devil. Future generations can pay it off. Give them something to do.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at February 21, 2025 09:33 AM (NAF5O)

430 will use it to pay my taxes so yes I’ll be returning it

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That's going to be the best part. We might see a tax holiday and a complete repeal and move back to the original tariff funding.

Trump will be at 80% by July if so.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid questions if McConnell survived after having polio at February 21, 2025 09:36 AM (2yHlw)

431 Exactly! It's my money and I want my money now!
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at February 21, 2025 09:33 AM

We concur! Can you dig it?

Posted by: J. G. Wentworth at February 21, 2025 09:36 AM (a3Q+t)

432
Eh, a refund, whatever is just smart politics.

Plus, a Big Plus is it's cold, hard cash proof in hand that we don't need to spend or be taxed at the level that Democrats/Communists/GOPe demands.

You know, sometimes we actually need to play the game to win big-

instead of some stupid shit like "wE GotTA kIll Ss and MedicaRE First!!!1111`1!!!" which is pure political death wish.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 21, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

433 I have long thought the only way to save the Bond franchise would be to make them period pieces set in the early Cold War, as the character was written. What modern filmmakers want to do is the equivalent of making a movie called "Muddy Waters" and then casting Gwen Stefani and setting it in 2025. What's the point?

Posted by: azjaeger at February 21, 2025 09:53 AM (3/XaG)

434 380 ... Hate to say it but I know a lot of that $5K would just get circulated back up and squandered away on restaurants, and vacations.

Hotel clerks and restaurant chefs would be glad. And they'll spend or invest that money on other things... thus goes the flow of commerce.

Posted by: Adam Smit's Invisble Hand at February 21, 2025 10:22 AM (/uwTS)

435 How many Palestinians need to die to pay for those dead babies? All of them is a legitimate answer.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 21, 2025 10:34 AM (kTd/k)

436 Funny how after 10/7 heard from many of our Jewish friends/ family etc. After getting this poor little babies back in such a state and not the mother…..what do we hear crickets….sigh typical.

Posted by: Paisley at February 21, 2025 10:44 AM (5PlSC)

437 I have to disagree strongly about the $5,000 refund.

A key part of keeping this whole project going with DOGE is getting BUY-IN from the citizens.

I have tried as a manager to Institute new programs that would be beneficial and even make employees lives easier, but without getting their buy-in at the beginning, I wasn't able to carry through with my reforms. Lesson learned.

Also, DOGE has uncovered such massive waste and theft and misdirection of funds that the $5,000 refund to the citizens really is just a drop in the bucket and isn't going to materially delay our getting to solvency.

But we will Never get to solvency if the citizens don't support the project all the way down the line.... That means they need to FEEL the benefit.

Posted by: Beverly at February 21, 2025 10:44 AM (Epeb0)

438 Most humans make decisions based on emotions and then rationalize those decisions after the fact. This is something that rationalists struggle with grasping. So yes, the $5,000 refund is a bit of a bribe -- but if it works, the payoff will be tremendous down the road.

Posted by: Beverly at February 21, 2025 10:46 AM (Epeb0)

439 'Morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

>(Newsletter) Israel Hayom, 'There is no future in Gaza for Palestinians' Israeli governments throughout generations, the security establishment and Western nations clung to the idea that if Gazans' material economic lives improved, they would prefer this over plotting murder and destruction. By Dror Eydar Published on 02-21-2025
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From above, "Militants decapitated 70 Christians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 13. The victims reportedly include women, children, and the elderly."

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

440 >United Nations S/2024/969
Security Council Distr.: General
27 December 2024
Original: English; n2437337 dot pdf
Letter dated 27 December 2024 from the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo addressed to the President of the Security Council

A small part of Summary (to the 160 page report): "In South Kivu, the disengagement of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in mid-2024 led to a degradation of the security situation, and affecting civilians, who were left exposed to human rights abuses by State security forces and armed actors."

>But, BBC, 'US aid pause hits DR Congo humanitarian work - UN,' 12 February 2025

Which begins, "A pause in US foreign aid has "severely impacted" humanitarian efforts in conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior UN official in the country has said."

Of course, of course. The US, Trump, Rubio, and so on.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

441 >A week later: News dot UN dot org: Civilians at breaking point in eastern DR Congo warns top aid official, in call to resume talks

In part, "19 February 2025, As the Security Council prepared to gather on Wednesday to debate the international community’s response to the growing emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN’s top aid official there urged all warring
parties to allow lifesaving relief supplies to reach the most vulnerable."

So, as the Security Council prepared to gather to debate on Wednesday, beheadings had already 'occurred' on February 13th, the day after the before mentioned BBC article.
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>The UN, Our Work

"The United Nations coordinates its work with the funds, programmes, specialized agencies and other organizations of the UN System.

The United Nations itself is one part of the UN System. Cooperation between the UN and the other entities of the UN system is essential in order to achieve the purposes of the Organization laid out in the UN Charter.

Since its Charter was written, the United Nations has been mandated to do new work which was not envisioned at the

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:10 AM (NFX2v)

442 time of its creation. The Organization has set goals to build a more sustainable world, and it has agreed to collective action to slow down climate change.

As the problems facing humanity have grown, the work of the United Nations has also grown."

So funneling $ for 'sustainability' and 'climate change' while renegade armies of murderous psychopaths continue to roam freely under its watch.

> Now: D.W. dot com, 'US sanctions Rwandan minister Kabarebe over DRC conduct' by Tomi Oladipo, 7 hours ago

The US has imposed sanctions on a Rwandan government minister for fueling the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. M23 rebel group have captured two major Congolese cities in recent weeks, amid fears the conflict could spark a wider regional war.
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Let's sit back a year or two and see how the cleanup is going under this administration and then we can step back in again, say some Democratic strategists.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:10 AM (NFX2v)

443 436 Funny how after 10/7 heard from many of our Jewish friends/ family etc. After getting this poor little babies back in such a state and not the mother…..what do we hear crickets….sigh typical.
Posted by: Paisley

Stop, please.

Let them grieve and plan in peace & in their time.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:36 AM (NFX2v)

444 400. They closed the metal gate. Locked it. Put out a sign (that they obviously had to print out for the occasion) about how the place had to be closed because the government was off.

It's hardly ever visited at all. I can understand locking the house in a shutdown if you can't pay for the...volunteer who sits there everyday. I guess?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

All non-essential operations close, all non-essential workers remain home 🤣 awaiting call backs.

And all non-essential workers are paid for the time they are non-essential 'workers.'
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O&Joe closed every National Park service operation - including bathrooms - around the nation, including Salem, MA, in October years ago. What a mess!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 11:43 AM (NFX2v)

445 NY Post, World News
Hamas terrorists brutally murdered hostage brothers Kfir and Ariel Bibas with their ‘bare hands’: Israeli officials
By Emily Crane, Published Feb. 21, 2025
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Yesterday, at the time of viewing some related videos I didn't think all of the coffin bearers were adults just because of their gait or demeanor.

And then last evening it struck me pretty hard that the appearance and participation of many children at the time the four coffins were turned over to the Red Cross meant they were being groomed to kill, and that it was also likely children had participated in the murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, and perhaps had also engaged in other murders, hostage and otherwise.

And now I believe that, like ISIS in Syria and other militant groups in Africa, the children of Hamas and those of the other related militant groups are being trained to kill and few - including orphans - will ever be socially redeemable.

FYI, The “Paris Principles” include explicit guidance for the treatment of child soldiers accused of crimes during armed conflict...such as restorative justice and social rehabilitation - for which the UN gets voluntary contributions.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 02:35 PM (NFX2v)

446 Good write-up. I certainly love this site. Thanks!

Posted by: DA 70 SEO Backlinks at February 21, 2025 02:41 PM (mfLUM)

447 LIVE: 'Hamas says remains of Israeli captive Shiri Bibas given to Red Cross,' Al Jazeera Live, by Usaid Siddiqui and Alex Kozul-Wright, Published On 21 Feb 2025

In part, "Hamas says it has handed the remains of Israeli captive Shiri Bibas to the Red Cross, after Israel said her body was not among those released this week.

The Palestinian group has named six Israeli captives who will be freed in Gaza on Saturday in exchange for the release of 602 Palestinian prisoners.

US President Donald Trump says he will “recommend” his plan to “take over” Gaza and displace Palestinians, rather than impose it, amid continued opposition from Palestinian leaders and Arab states."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 03:33 PM (NFX2v)

448 Red Cross confirms receiving coffin from Hamas
Nour Odeh, Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

What we can now report is that the Red Cross has confirmed receiving a coffin from Hamas, which the Gaza-based group says has the body of Shiri Bibas.

The Israeli army will receive the coffin from the Red Cross as soon as coordination for that happens.

The situation on the ground is quite complex.

Any movement in the night for the Red Cross will have to be closely coordinated with the Israeli army, which remains in a so-called buffer zone that remains 700 metres (2,296 feet) to one kilometre (0.6 miles) deep into the territory.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 21, 2025 03:37 PM (NFX2v)

449 Islam is a heresy.

Judaism is satanism.

Posted by: ccoffer at February 21, 2025 05:58 PM (TfqLA)

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