Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Funeral of a Viking
Frank Dicksee

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Diane Von Firstenberg

Posted by: Leland Stanford at February 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 And here it is, today, the anniversary of Rothko's death.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (WPL6O)

4 The Funeral of a Viking

I'm not sure the party started out as a funeral, but it did end that way.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (+j7Fj)

5 Now we're talking. Nice send off to Valhalla.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (VwHCD)

6 Oktoberfest?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

7 Heh.

heheheheh.

"Dicksee".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (jKo6M)

8 NICE!

Man Art.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (bss/y)

9 Dicksee?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

10
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (dxSpM)

11 Colorful and vivid. You can feel the cold as well as sense the heat of the flames. The fellow just to the right of center looks more like a Roman legionary than he does a Norseman going a-viking, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

12 Quite a masculine, manly painting.

Posted by: Roy at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (z+ik4)

13 I plan to be cremated, but I think they'll use a furnace.

Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

14 Heh.

heheheheh.

"Dicksee".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (jKo6M)

Right, his half brother Dickhear was also a painter.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (VwHCD)

15 10
No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:32 AM (dxSpM)

He's just out of frame, staring sadly at his fallen master.

Good boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (bss/y)

16 Sam Darnold did not live up to expectations.

Posted by: Leland Stanford at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

17 If ever there was an artist with a last name begging for Horde snarky comments......

Posted by: Tuna at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

18 The guy’s last name is “Dicksee?”

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

19 I'm Not Dead Ye

Posted by: Viking at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (i0F8b)

20 Again, too freaking dark.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (VofaG)

21 I was worried there would be frontal male nudity in the painting, because of the artist's name. I'm relieved.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 25, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

22 1 Diane Von Firstenberg
Posted by: Leland Stanford at February 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

LOL

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 09:34 AM (v0TzN)

23 Dicksee was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, 19th and 20th centuries. This one is from 1893.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

24 Alternate title

How the FBI sees itself when Destroying Files.
Thx CBD, would hang in my man cave

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (cMcMn)

25 Michael Crichton's "The 13th Warrior" was a pretty entertaining book. He even put a bibliography in the back that is pure fiction. Just hilarious.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (ZmEVT)

26 7 Heh.
heheheheh.
"Dicksee".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (jKo6M)

Pronounced "Dixie."

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (v0TzN)

27 Manchester Art Museum
Title
The Funeral of a Viking

Date
1893

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
H 186.4 x W 305.5 cm

Accession number
1928.13

Acquisition method
gift from Arthur Burton, 1928

Work type
Painting

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

28 The Funeral of a Viking
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Free shipping. Nice!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (vr7yq)

29 He is Conan, Cimmerian. He won't cry, so I cry for him.

Posted by: Subotai at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

30 Where's the painting of Vikings drinking? That's the one I want to see.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

31 No evidence Vikings ever wore horned helmets.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (VofaG)

32

Don't stick your dick in the turnip slicer...

Posted by: Elderly Git at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (YOMC/)

33 *three hours later*

"Odin damn it, Bjorg, *YOU* were supposed to put Svein's body in the boat!"

"Nuh uh, that was Thorulf's job!"

"Well, shit. Do we swim out there and try to get it back or something?"

"Pfffft. We'll just steal Thorulf's boat. He won't even notice it's gone until Monday."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (jKo6M)

34 The Funeral of a Viking
Frank Dicksee

Date: 1893
Style: Romanticism
Genre: history painting

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

35 No evidence Vikings ever wore horned helmets.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (VofaG)
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WRONG!

Hagar the Horrible.

You just don't know!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (vr7yq)

36 Michael Crichton's "The 13th Warrior" was a pretty entertaining book. He even put a bibliography in the back that is pure fiction. Just hilarious.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (ZmEVT)

The movie with Banderas wasn't bad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (VofaG)

37 33 *three hours later*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:36 AM (jKo6M)

"A three-hour tour."

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (v0TzN)

38 Dicksee's father was also a painter who taught Frank and his sister Margaret from a young age. Apparently he was quite successful in his own time thanks to his portraits of various "fashionable" women.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

39 ....and then they all got drunk.

Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

40 Alrighty mates, let's go have a bier!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2025 09:38 AM (w9Wax)

41 Dicksee's father, Thomas Dicksee, was a painter who taught Frank as well as his sister Margaret from a young age. The family lived in Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury. Dicksee enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1870 and achieved early success. He was elected to the Academy in 1891 and became its president in 1924.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2025 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

42 Thx CBD, would hang in my man cave

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 09:35 AM (cMcMn)

It looks even better at the link.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2025 09:38 AM (mWSu4)

43 40 Alrighty mates, let's go have a bier!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2025 09:38 AM (w9Wax)

We'll see a-boat that.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 09:38 AM (v0TzN)

44 or

We'll sea a-boat that.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 09:39 AM (v0TzN)

45 Are they singing So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye! ??

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

46 > I'm not sure the party started out as a funeral, but it did end that way.
Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2025 09:31 AM (+j7Fj)

That's the mark of a real rager. Raided by the cops, a few hospitalized, a divorce or two, and maybe the odd accidental (or intentional) death.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 09:40 AM (W5ArC)

47 "How did he die?"

"Boat fire."

"Huh."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:40 AM (jKo6M)

48 That's a large painting . 6x10 feet.

Art does adhere to the bigger is better imo.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:40 AM (VofaG)

49 The original Norwegian Cruise ship.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

50 Concept art for History of the World Part II

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:41 AM (akmNW)

51 > Thomas Dicksee

Not to be confused with the Catholic "Titular See", which despite the name has nothing to do with strip shows.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 09:41 AM (W5ArC)

52 I kinda knew Darnold wouldn't win a playoff game.

Since we're talking Vikings.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0HaGk)

53 Perfectly good ship going up in flames seems sub-optimal. Put the body into a junk car, crush it and send it to China for the scrap value.

Posted by: Practical Solutions, Inc at February 25, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

54 Reminder....always ventilate your bilge before starting your engine.

Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)

55 Manly men
Doing manly things.

Can you even show that anymore?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

56 That's a large painting . 6x10 feet.

Art does adhere to the bigger is better imo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025

***
Six by ten *feet*???? Wow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

57 54 Reminder....always ventilate your bilge before starting your engine.
Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)

*consults Urban Dictionary*

... I got nothin'.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (jKo6M)

58 The original Norwegian Cruise ship.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

Viking Cruises are fire! As the kids nowadays say.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (Aqu9a)

59 Dicksee's father was also a painter who taught Frank and his sister Margaret from a young age.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:37 AM (J2vNu)
-

So there we a cup'l of Dicksees.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (vr7yq)

60 Scandis then: We pillage, then rape, then murder.

Scandis now: If it sit down to pee does it have a bigger carbon footprint? Because Anja said she'd kick me out of she saw me doing it standing up again

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

61 I like self taught artists or at least those that developed their own style. I like looking at a painting and knowing immediately who painted it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:43 AM (VofaG)

62 With those waves, that boat isn’t getting far.

Hate to be the viking who has to clean up the beach the morning after..

Posted by: Encyclopedia America at February 25, 2025 09:43 AM (l3YAf)

63 "Sam Darnold did not live up to expectations.
Posted by: Leland Stanford"

Dang it.

Leland beat me to the punch.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 09:43 AM (0HaGk)

64 Ok, no viking funeral is complete without a video from Tyr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAmAN87nzY

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 09:43 AM (VwHCD)

65 The original Norwegian Cruise ship.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2025

***
"It's the Last Cruise You'll Ever Need!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:43 AM (J2vNu)

66 Darnold kinda did live up to expectations to be honest.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (0HaGk)

67 Sailing to Greenland.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

68 Norsemen covered the issue of horned Viking helmets or not.

Very funny show, but only 2 seasons.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (Aqu9a)

69 It's a little fuzzy, but they almost look dressed as Roman Centurions.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (1YwYn)

70 Looks like a good time.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (n4GiU)

71 Who doesn't love a warm sendoff?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (vr7yq)

72 Guys in foreground, "we didn't start the fire."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (akmNW)

73 That's a large painting . 6x10 feet.

Art does adhere to the bigger is better imo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025

***
Six by ten *feet*???? Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

A girthy Dicksee

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2025 09:44 AM (y9ksN)

74 Rocket Gibraltar

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (Cki93)

75 Diane Von Firstenberg
Posted by: Leland Stanford at February 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)
====

Points for style.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (RIvkX)

76 Is this the original meaning of 'pining for the fjords'?

Asking for the Commentariat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (a3Q+t)

77 I thought the funeral pyre was pushed out to sea and THEN it was lit on fire by a flaming arrow shot from a longbow from the shoreline.

Or was that in a movie?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (mT+6a)

78 You sure this is the way to Valhalla?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (mB6WH)

79 well, it doesn't lack for drama.

Actually, I love this kind of painting. The way the artist uses light reflecting off objects (in this case armor and water), the sense of motion and the strength to create that motion, the detail and the meaningful poses of the people. It all combines to create the emotional response of the viewer. In some ways it make me think of the Pre-Raphaelites, which is a good thing.

As someone who grew up on with the Atlantic ocean, I couldn't help but think they would have had an easier time if they waited for an outgoing tide. Must be in an irreverent mood.

Frank Dicksee brings many of these qualities to his less active scenes but they are still effective. I should look up what his book illustrations look like compared to the stand alone art pieces.

Posted by: JTB at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

80 Reminder....always ventilate your bilge before starting your engine.
Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025

***
Yes; left-over engine fumes. Seems to me I read that in one of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee adventures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (J2vNu)

81 A girthy Dicksee

Biggus Dickus?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (akmNW)

82 "I paid for a deluxe mahogany fully-rigged two-masted Viking warship but just prior to launch the shady funeral home director switched it out for a balsa wood dinghy with a tattered bedsheet!"

Posted by: Thor Butthurtson at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

83 Ok, no viking funeral is complete without a video from Tyr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAmAN87nzY

To many hands in that video

Posted by: Fenrir at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

84 56 That's a large painting . 6x10 feet.

Art does adhere to the bigger is better imo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025

***
Six by ten *feet*???? Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

In art, size matters.

Posted by: Kris at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

85 See Frank. Frank sees the viking. Frank sees the viking burn. But where is Sally?

Posted by: Janesee at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM (frjf1)

86 Six by ten *feet*???? Wow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

I'm sitting next to an art work that is 8'X9'. Not something that fits everywhere.

Posted by: Art Maven at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

87
So, this is going out in a blaze of glory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (dxSpM)

88 I thought the funeral pyre was pushed out to sea and THEN it was lit on fire by a flaming arrow shot from a longbow from the shoreline.

Drunken vikings were not know for their archery.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (t0Rmr)

89 Did they put any happy little bushes on the boat?

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (a3Q+t)

90 Manly men
Doing manly things.

Can you even show that anymore?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

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

Not without a "trigger warning."

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (1YwYn)

91 darnold had no offensive line

Posted by: muttering vikings fan at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (i0F8b)

92
All his wives are on board, correct?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (dxSpM)

93 Ever so often I will watch The Vikings with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.

The movie I haven't seen in a long time because it doesn't come on TV and doesn't seem to be streamed or On Demand is a the WarLord with Charlton Heston. Another good Viking subject movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (VofaG)

94 Failed Olympic sport - Drunken Viking archery

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (akmNW)

95 72 Oh, thanks for that earworm, Anna.

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

96 Manly men
Doing manly things.

Can you even show that anymore?

Well, in some places yes

Posted by: An NSA agent watching videos of piles of naked guys on top of each other while "working" at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (t0Rmr)

97 "I paid for a deluxe mahogany fully-rigged two-masted Viking warship but just prior to launch the shady funeral home director switched it out for a balsa wood dinghy with a tattered bedsheet!"

Posted by: Thor Butthurtson at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

Yeah, and then what're you gonna' do?...Yer f*cked.

Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (Yj6Os)

98 In art, size matters.
Posted by: Kris at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM

Many do say I am an artist.

Posted by: Paolo at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (a3Q+t)

99
Thermal masculinity

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (dxSpM)

100 All his wives are on board, correct?

He's Viking, not Indian (dot)

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (akmNW)

101 Where are the black women Viking warlords in this painting?!?

Posted by: Netflix at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (t0Rmr)

102 >>Dicksee's father was also a painter who taught Frank and his sister Margaret from a young age.

Peg Dicksee

Oh my

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (Cki93)

103 It's like looking into my own future...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)

104 Manly men
Doing manly things.

Can you even show that anymore?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025

***
"Men, men, men, men,
Manly men, men, men . . ."
( -- Beginning of the Two and a Half Men theme song)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

105 Manly men
Doing manly things.

Can you even show that anymore?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

There's men above
There's men below
There's men down in the galley
There's Butch
And Spike
And Buzz
And Biff
And one guy we call Sally!

Posted by: Martin Mull at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (Aqu9a)

106 Traditional Norwegian car-b-que!

Surstrommen and rye bread for everyone!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (D7oie)

107
He's Viking, not Indian (dot)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (akmNW)

________

Thanks. I always get my pyres wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:49 AM (dxSpM)

108 Meh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (pohLc)

109 Vikings did sacrifice slaves in burials and rarely wives.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

110 > 60 Scandis then: We pillage, then rape, then murder.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

Rape before pillage. It's hard to rape with your hands full of loot. The correct order is rape, murder, pillage, and burn.

Posted by: Viking Efficiency Expert at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (W5ArC)

111 I'd rather watch Eisenstein than a Viking movie.

Supposedly Kirk Douglas was a huge asshole. According to the internet.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (0HaGk)

112 So you got a-rye your pyres?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (akmNW)

113 >>Who doesn't love a warm sendoff?!

Have fun on your cruise! I hear the bananas flambe is to die for!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:51 AM (Cki93)

114 Ibn Fadlan's account of a Viking funeral is . . . disturbing by modern standards. Human sacrifice and some weird sexual stuff. They used some of it for the funeral scene in the movie "The Northman"

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 09:51 AM (jGJov)

115 Where are the black women Viking warlords in this painting?!?
Posted by: Netflix at February 25, 2025 09:48 AM (t0Rmr)

The Heineken beer commercial almost has that.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 09:51 AM (VofaG)

116 111 I'd rather watch Eisenstein than a Viking movie.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (0HaGk)

======

Well, do I have a surprise for you...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 09:51 AM (GBKbO)

117 All his wives are on board, correct?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 09:47 AM (dxSpM)

We need to chat.

Posted by: Sir Charles Napier at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (mWSu4)

118 60 Scandis then: We pillage, then rape, then murder.

Scandis now: If it sit down to pee does it have a bigger carbon footprint? Because Anja said she'd kick me out of she saw me doing it standing up again
Posted by: 18-1

Scandis then: We trade with and fight Muslims because they're our competitors in the raiding and slave trading business.

Scandis now: let's bring more Muslims into our nation to assault our people and rape our women...so we can virtue signal how compassionate we are to the world.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

119 I wanted a Viking funeral but I couldn't a-fjord it!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)

120 Eisenstein?

Going to fall through a frozen lank and drown?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (akmNW)

121 > 97 "I paid for a deluxe mahogany fully-rigged two-masted Viking warship but just prior to launch the shady funeral home director switched it out for a balsa wood dinghy with a tattered bedsheet!"

Posted by: Thor Butthurtson at February 25, 2025 09:45 AM (/iMjX)

"And if you think we gonna bury you with them diamonds and shit on, you got another think comin'." -- Richard Pryor's minister character

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (W5ArC)

122 Joey, do you like Viking movies?

Posted by: Captain Oveur at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

123 "Joey, do you like paintings about Vikings?"

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (1YwYn)

124 Where's Berserker?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Cki93)

125 Speaking of manly, I get the feeling a certain group of women are rather turned on by the burly manliness of Tom Holman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 09:53 AM (pohLc)

126 Posted by: Captain Oveur at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

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Dude!

Horde mind.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:53 AM (1YwYn)

127 This reminds me, The Northman is a brutal movie. Actual Vikings probably would have loved it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:53 AM (t0Rmr)

128 I remember when the late Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I were first living together, we had a parakeet for a time. He passed away young. So we wrapped him carefully in a nice box, made a kind of raft -- I don't recall what we used -- sprinkled the entire thing with lighter fluid, and set it afire and afloat on the nearby lake, just like this.

No idea why. The bird was not named anything like Harald Wulfsson or any Viking name.

I suppose nowadays we'd have been arrested for something, but this was the early Eighties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

129 Those Scandinavians sure knew how to finish someone off.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

130 Would hang. Bonus, fits my mood today. Thanks CBD.

Posted by: scampydog at February 25, 2025 09:54 AM (2bFN5)

131 Dude!

Horde mind.
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:53 AM (1YwYn)

It's real. And frankly, sometimes simultaneously wonderful yet terrifying. This is one of those times.

Posted by: Captain Oveur at February 25, 2025 09:54 AM (Aqu9a)

132 Maybe we should be thankful no one ever asked Johnny about Viking movies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:54 AM (akmNW)

133 > Rape before pillage. It's hard to rape with your hands full of loot. The correct order is rape, murder, pillage, and burn.

Posted by: Viking Efficiency Expert at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (W5ArC)

Question? Yes, Sveinbjorn? Good point. You can indeed switch murder and rape if you're into that sort of thing, as I know that you are.

Just don't sit next to me on the boat.

Posted by: Viking Efficiency Expert at February 25, 2025 09:55 AM (W5ArC)

134 I wanted a Viking funeral but I couldn't a-fjord it!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (/iMjX)

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Odin you really go there?

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:55 AM (1YwYn)

135 In art, size matters.
Posted by: Kris at February 25, 2025 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

The Mona Lisa’s not a better painting, it’s merely a more famous one. It’s – it’s tiny, you know? Th-the thing is like this big. So this is cheaper. By the… by the foot.

Posted by: Phantom Limb at February 25, 2025 09:55 AM (l3YAf)

136 128 Ex Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 is dead?

Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

137 Where's Ahnoldt ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at February 25, 2025 09:55 AM (ayRl+)

138 2/25/1913
16th Amendment began the destruction of what was a Republic.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

139 Where's Berserker?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Cki93)

I is here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (VwHCD)

140 Garth: Norway!

Wayne: Way!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

141 It's real. And frankly, sometimes simultaneously wonderful yet terrifying. This is one of those times.

Posted by: Captain Oveur at February 25, 2025 09:54 AM (Aqu9a)

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lol

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (1YwYn)

142
Frank Dicksee?

Teh ghey porno actor?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

143 Holy cow, it's blowing stink out here. Gusts to 60! The boat ride should be a hoot!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:57 AM (mT+6a)

144 Nice painting but it seems like a waste of a perfectly good boat.

Fun fact. The term starboard comes from the Vikings use of a steering board that was attached to the right side of the boat. Steering board = starboard.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 09:57 AM (LkLld)

145 I hope they didn't immolate those cute Viking kitties I used to see in the early internet days.

Posted by: Immigrant Song at February 25, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

146 Nurse

60ft seas?

Stay home

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (akmNW)

147 sprinkled the entire thing with lighter fluid, and set it afire and afloat on the nearby lake, just like this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Budgie means good to eat!

Posted by: An Aborigine at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (w9Wax)

148 Frank Dicksee?

Teh ghey porno actor?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM

Brother of Seymour Johnson. The guy they named the airbase after.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (Wnv9h)

149 What a lovely day. Got the kettle on, making some toast, I might go for a walk along the seaside. Got lots of books to copy, and tonight I'll go transcribe some Saxon poems nobody's done yet.
A day like today, you know nothing can go wrong.

Posted by: some monk in Lindisfarne at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (gKWVE)

150 Further north the funeral services usually feature a Lapp dance.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

151 114 Ibn Fadlan's account of a Viking funeral is . . . disturbing by modern standards. Human sacrifice and some weird sexual stuff. They used some of it for the funeral scene in the movie "The Northman"
Posted by: brak
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Disturbing to any Christian or Jew. Paganism is a brutalism disguised as various religious sects.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (ctrM5)

152 Garth: Norway!

Wayne: Way!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE GARTH IS AN OLD NORSE NAME!!!!

/obligatory Ben Roethlisberger

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (1YwYn)

153 >>Odin you really go there?

IKEAd you not, he did!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 09:59 AM (Cki93)

154 Ex Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 is dead?
Posted by: Bulg at February 25, 2025

***
Yes; passed away about ten years ago from cancer, age 52. I just happened to find the obituary when poking around the 'Net on her birthday in Jan. this year. A month or more back, I sent a card and a condolence letter to her mother, or at least to their old address. It never came back. I can only assume she got it and didn't want to reply. Oh, well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

155 Lapp dance? Better reign in your exuberance deer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:59 AM (akmNW)

156 Holy cow, it's blowing stink out here. Gusts to 60! The boat ride should be a hoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 09:57 AM

Might want to postpone breakfast until after you dock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (Wnv9h)

157 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

158 No fish puns til after 200.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (0HaGk)

159 Further north the funeral services usually feature a Lapp dance.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

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Nice.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (1YwYn)

160 >>I is here.

This one seems up your alley

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (Cki93)

161 I hope they didn't immolate those cute Viking kitties I used to see in the early internet days.
Posted by: Immigrant Song at February 25, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

https://youtu.be/C1SXCo-xSvk

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (ExV1e)

162 You Morons are cracking me up! Lol!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (Sf2cq)

163 Further north the funeral services usually feature a Lapp dance.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025

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Nice.
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025

***
"Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (J2vNu)

164 Got lots of books to copy, and tonight I'll go transcribe some Saxon poems nobody's done yet.
A day like today, you know nothing can go wrong.
Posted by: some monk in Lindisfarne

*********

Good luck. Somebody's about to rune your day.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (/iMjX)

165 Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (akmNW)

166 122 Joey, do you like Viking movies?
Posted by: Captain Oveur at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Aqu9a)

123 "Joey, do you like paintings about Vikings?"
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (1YwYn)

Y'all!

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (v0TzN)

167 Fish puns are wonderful. Comparable to zipping your dick up in your fly.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (pohLc)

168 Like an illustration for a book, and with the tide against the launching of the burning funeral ship. (Painting/Illustration #2 of a Viking funeral could have been when the burning ship washed back towards the shore and the village.)

The pattern of The Funeral of a Viking, Frank Dicksee, is available for cross-stitching. Before today, I never imagined that a painting such as this and 'cross-stitching' could appear within the same sentence. (Thread-Bare dot com/image)

I would pass hanging, but thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (NFX2v)

169 Anna Puma,
Winds to 60. Seas look about 4-5 feet.

The sea is frothy, for sure. Off to the boat!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:01 AM (mT+6a)

170 They liberally coated the guy in the boat with Elizabeth Arden Hand Creme so he wouldn't be thor anymore.

Plus the aroma, of course.

Posted by: Harry Charlesson at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (a3Q+t)

171 Disturbing to any Christian or Jew. Paganism is a brutalism disguised as various religious sects.

yeah, Christianity cleaned up a lot of dark stuff that went on in the pagan world

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (jGJov)

172 What a lovely day. Got the kettle on, making some toast, I might go for a walk along the seaside. Got lots of books to copy, and tonight I'll go transcribe some Saxon poems nobody's done yet.
A day like today, you know nothing can go wrong.
Posted by: some monk in Lindisfarne at February 25, 2025 09:58 AM

We would like to apologize for this comment. The monk responsible, and his monastery, have been sacked.

Posted by: Viking Customer Service Rep. at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (Wnv9h)

173 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

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No CNN camera crews with them?

/Please tell me they're using SWAT Teams and Pre-Dawn No-Knock Raids. Lie to me if you must ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (1YwYn)

174 157 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

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Giving seed money to Google, an American company, seems contra to the directive of the CIA to never operate on American soil, huh?

Oh, and then the whole trying to frame a president thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

175 They'll rune the day they wasted a perfectly good raiding ship on Ragnar. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (Cki93)

176 No fish puns til after 200.
Posted by: eleven

*********

I would comply, but I didn't get the message. I'm hard of herring.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

177 "Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (0HaGk)

178 Is the FBI using Meal Team Six to sit on the media?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (akmNW)

179 177 "Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (0HaGk)

=======

Actual news source this time.

Seems like it's actually happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

180 Vikings did sacrifice slaves in burials and rarely wives.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)
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Well done!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 10:04 AM (vr7yq)

181 "I would comply, but I didn't get the message. I'm hard of herring.
Posted by: muldoon"

Oh my Cod.

I will kick your Wrasse!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:04 AM (0HaGk)

182 Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?

One of the other scurrilous wags - Geeks & Gamers, not the guy in the cheap Dr. Doom costume.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (akmNW)

183 "Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?
Posted by: Anna Puma"
*
Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025

***
Why would this blessed event be scheduled for ten months away?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

184 We would like to apologize for this comment. The monk responsible, and his monastery, have been sacked.
Posted by: Viking Customer Service Rep

*********

LOL!

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

185 Disturbing to any Christian or Jew. Paganism is a brutalism disguised as various religious sects.

yeah, Christianity cleaned up a lot of dark stuff that went on in the pagan world

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (jGJov)

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

TBF, the Jews primarily were first.

[Things I learned reading Dennis Prager's "Rational Bible" Torah Commentaries.]

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (1YwYn)

186 >>No fish puns til after 200.

>>I would comply, but I didn't get the message. I'm hard of herring.

I'm heron it's more of a guidance than a rule. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (Cki93)

187 * gazes out at burned out embers of the Star Wars universe *

My work here is done.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (a3Q+t)

188 182 Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?

One of the other scurrilous wags - Geeks & Gamers, not the guy in the cheap Dr. Doom costume.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (akmNW)

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Originally reported by Puck.com (I dunno).

Repeated by World of Reel and DarkHorizons, I've seen.

50/50 chance.

Better than Doomcock which was always about a 5% chance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

189 This State Is Ready to Abolish Property Taxes
https://shorturl.at/8O5lH
PJMedia

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (Vqx30)

190 183 Why would this blessed event be scheduled for ten months away?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

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Succession plans in corporate America, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)

191 Giving seed money to Google, an American company, seems contra to the directive of the CIA to never operate on American soil, huh?

Oh, and then the whole trying to frame a president thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

Marc Andreessen said that it's basically standard operating procedure (at least now) for tech companies to get vetted by the government (he was vague on who in the government) and told at the start up stage that if they don't play ball, they will be destroyed.

Plus we now know many of our major tech companies were at least partially funded in the early days by our government.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (uCjyK)

192 Caption:

"Wait! you guys!

You forgot the BBQ sauce!

You forgot the barbecue saaaaaaaauce!!!!!

....

Great...now he goes to the nearest Arby's instead of Valhalla."

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (iJfKG)

193 We would like to apologize for this comment. The monk responsible, and his monastery, have been sacked.
Posted by: Viking Customer Service Rep

*********

LOL!
Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

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* Standing Golf Clap for RBMS *

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (1YwYn)

194 No fish puns til after 200.
*
>>I would comply, but I didn't get the message. I'm hard of herring.
*
I'm heron it's more of a guidance than a rule. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025

***
Well, don't carp about it. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

195 179 177 "Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:03 AM (0HaGk)

=======

Actual news source this time.

Seems like it's actually happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Interesting. Lots of other people in infotainment are bailing out too.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (ctrM5)

196 >>No fish puns til after 200.

>>I would comply, but I didn't get the message. I'm hard of herring.

I'm heron it's more of a guidance than a rule. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM

Is this really the plaice for arguing over fish puns?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (Wnv9h)

197 191 Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM (uCjyK)

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At the upper limits of coercion through capture of cultural centers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

198 A fitting end for Cap'n Bill as he stood on the burning deck of the Raging Queen.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (Sgq8y)

199 Anyone else here who thinks "Beau Geste" every time you hear the phrase "Viking Funeral"?

Posted by: Count Orlok at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (p9lBt)

200 I was forced yesterday to send my five bullet point list of "what I did this past week". Very demeaning and depressing. As if helping over 200 Veterans obtain and receive healthcare was not enough.. We had no choice but to answer to this shithead and his 20-year-old hackers. At least the wine is going down smoothly.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. They had no right to demand you justify your worth. The Secret Service told people to write something like: I did 100% of my tasks, with 100% effort, 100% of the day.

Why are people complying with real answers? I don't get it. They will fire people no matter the reason. I also thought i read that judge issued a stop order on this activity yesterday or the day before.

Hang in there! My agency, somewhat surprisingly, told us not to respond to an unverified and unencrypted email. I guess either they really have our backs or we'll all be out tomorrow!

My daughter was forced to do same. Also VA. why does it feel like east germany?

Better to have ignored the email. Musk had no legal authority to send it. So sorry you and your collegues were shown such disrespect.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

201 200

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (v0TzN)

202 * Standing Golf Clap for RBMS *
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:06 AM

*takes polite bow*

My work here is done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:08 AM (Wnv9h)

203 201 200
Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM

201, 200....whatever works.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:08 AM (Wnv9h)

204 Sometimes you throw a softball and nobody hits it, and sometimes RedMindBlueState goes up to the plate and knocks an asteroid into a different orbit.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 25, 2025 10:08 AM (gKWVE)

205 "Other rumours - Kathleen Kennedy is finally out. At the end of the year.

Where have we heard that before?
Posted by: Anna Puma"
*
Did you get that from the guy who's been saying that for like 7 years?
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025

***
Why would this blessed event be scheduled for ten months away?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

Exactly.

Someone like that you show the door toot sweet so they can't screw up anymore projects and you can cancel or improve her ongoing ones.

Fake news.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2025 10:08 AM (iJfKG)

206 200 I was forced yesterday to send my five bullet point list of "what I did this past week". Very demeaning and depressing. As if helping over 200 Veterans obtain and receive healthcare was not enough.. We had no choice but to answer to this shithead and his 20-year-old hackers. At least the wine is going down smoothly.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. They had no right to demand you justify your worth. The Secret Service told people to write something like: I did 100% of my tasks, with 100% effort, 100% of the day.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Li

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I kind of hate these people. But they entertain me. So it's only a little bit of hate.

The idea that you should never, ever have to justify what you do to a superior in your organization is so foreign to me.

That they can't realize the incentive structure in place is just a big red flag to their inability to, you know, think through things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

207 >>> 174 157 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

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Giving seed money to Google, an American company, seems contra to the directive of the CIA to never operate on American soil, huh?

Oh, and then the whole trying to frame a president thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

FRAME a President???

Oh wait, I see they tried to whack him, too...

Posted by: Zombie JFK at February 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Vqx30)

208 You feed Kathleen Kennedy to the Saarlac Pit so it can have indigestion for the next 10,000 years.

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

209 "201 200
Posted by: m"

Pun like the wind Will Wheaton!!!!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:10 AM (0HaGk)

210 Marc Andreessen said that it's basically standard operating procedure (at least now) for tech companies to get vetted by the government (he was vague on who in the government) and told at the start up stage that if they don't play ball, they will be destroyed.

Plus we now know many of our major tech companies were at least partially funded in the early days by our government.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Goes back to Inslaw at least. Poor inventor of Inslaw case management system had his software stolen by FBI during the Reagan Administration and some heavy hitters like Ed Meese, Bill Barr, etc. covered it up during the ensuing lawsuits about the theft. Used nat sec justification to avoid courts being able to resolve the issue.

Inslaw was later stolen/given to international company that peddled it to intel agencies across the globe. In this case, Inslaw was turned into a case management system to go after dissidents and political activists in those countries.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)

211 200 My daughter was forced to do same. Also VA. why does it feel like east germany?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

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Dear lord...

Telling a government agency, that you work for, what you've done the past week is like living in East Germany where it was illegal to leave, the government spied on private citizens, and put up a wall so that people had to stay?

Seriously, it's a window into their worldview:

The government is the nation. It's warped their entire thinking of politics. It's a disease spread from maleducation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

212 > 109 Vikings did sacrifice slaves in burials and rarely wives.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

"Many a Viking was startled when he realized that his Irish slave girl had somehow become his wife, and that there was now an Irish priest to tell him when he was allowed to sleep with her." -- Jerry Pournelle

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (W5ArC)

213 At the upper limits of coercion through capture of cultural centers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

Well, if we start drawing some lines ...

We know the CIA was / is heavily in to propaganda worldwide, up to and including things like MK Ultra where they were dosing unwilling / unknowing US citizens and attempting to mind control them. Much of what the CIA has been up to since the 1970's hasn't been revealed (yet), but let's assume they continued down the same paths.

And now, apparently through the magic of the free market, a substantial portion of the worlds population is addicted to their smart phones and specifically to social media, which just so happens to be the best propaganda tool ever developed. And, oddly, their algorithms do seem to be programmed for something other than only keeping users engaged, as they constantly push certain viewpoints at specific times in the US and abroad.

Put on your tin foil hat, and in my mind, there is a pretty tempting conclusion to draw here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (uCjyK)

214 60 Scandis then: We pillage, then rape, then murder.

Scandis now: If it sit down to pee does it have a bigger carbon footprint? Because Anja said she'd kick me out of she saw me doing it standing up again
Posted by: 18-1

Scandis then: We trade with and fight Muslims because they're our competitors in the raiding and slave trading business.

Scandis now: let's bring more Muslims into our nation to assault our people and rape our women...so we can virtue signal how compassionate we are to the world.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 25, 2025 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

Sigh...it really is....I don't even know the word for it. Example- The video I put up above at #64 is from a band called Tyr. They are from an island off the coast of denmark. Supposedly people from there are the closest living relatives to the vikings. Tyr is basically a viking metal band. The guitar player/singer told me one night one of his favorite shows he saw was twisted sister.(??!!) I just looked at him. I didn't even know what to say. Twisted...frigging...sister, are you kidding me?? A dude from a killer viking metal band tells me this shit. Twisted sister...unreal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (VwHCD)

215 I see some of the DU'ers are cottoning to the fact they better protect their phony jobs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (akmNW)

216 185 Disturbing to any Christian or Jew. Paganism is a brutalism disguised as various religious sects.

yeah, Christianity cleaned up a lot of dark stuff that went on in the pagan world

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:02 AM (jGJov)
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TBF, the Jews primarily were first.

[Things I learned reading Dennis Prager's "Rational Bible" Torah Commentaries.]
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:05 AM (1YwYn)

I was gonna say -- we Christians have a Bible in which the first two thirds God was working through and on behalf of His chosen people.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (Sf2cq)

217 213 Put on your tin foil hat, and in my mind, there is a pretty tempting conclusion to draw here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:11 AM (uCjyK)

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That transgenderism's sudden rise in prominence was completely natural and organic and from the ground up?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

218 I so wanna go on a tour of the White House!

https://tinyurl.com/yc2f64r3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 25, 2025 10:12 AM (vr7yq)

219 146 Nurse

60ft seas?

Stay home
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:58 A

What exactly is a 60-foot-sea? Waves that are 60 feet high?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:12 AM (kTd/k)

220 >> Very demeaning and depressing. As if helping over 200 Veterans obtain and receive healthcare was not enough..

Well, if true, then that’s what you lead off with, dummy.

They can list accomplishments on an anonymous website, but freak out when asked by their boss.

>> Musk had no legal authority to send it.

These people are so detached from reality.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 10:12 AM (l3YAf)

221 >>> Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

LOL

Cry harder, bitches.

Just wait until they *do* get they/them asses fired, and after 500 or so applications, finally get an interview...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 10:12 AM (Vqx30)

222 I kind of hate these people. But they entertain me. So it's only a little bit of hate.

The idea that you should never, ever have to justify what you do to a superior in your organization is so foreign to me.

That they can't realize the incentive structure in place is just a big red flag to their inability to, you know, think through things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Being a Democrat means you never have to say you're sorry.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)

223 Goes back to Inslaw at least. Poor inventor of Inslaw case management system had his software stolen by FBI during the Reagan Administration and some heavy hitters like Ed Meese, Bill Barr, etc. covered it up during the ensuing lawsuits about the theft. Used nat sec justification to avoid courts being able to resolve the issue.

Inslaw was later stolen/given to international company that peddled it to intel agencies across the globe. In this case, Inslaw was turned into a case management system to go after dissidents and political activists in those countries.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)

Wow, that triggered a memory in me. Didn't a lot of people oddly die / weird shit went down around this case? Including a reporter to claimed he was on to a CIA plot involving indian sovereign nations who committed suicide in a hotel in WV right before he was supposed to meet a major source? Or am I misremembering that whole incident?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (uCjyK)

224 To all the insulted government "workers". Tough titty, bitches.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (pohLc)

225 Might want to postpone breakfast until after you dock.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It's pretty flat out on Elliot Bay. Just raining on this side. The wind is around the point.

I live for this stuff. Makes you feel so very small and inconsequential. And people have the arrogance to believe humans can affect the weather.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (RWslB)

226 No fish puns?

That’s a crappie rule.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (UZ1co)

227 I have to wonder what their Annual Reviews that their supervisors conduct look like?

Probably pure Soviet style fiction of meeting expectations.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (akmNW)

228 >> Musk had no legal authority to send it.

These people are so detached from reality.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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We had some people here saying the same thing and aghast at possible labor grievances that might be filed.

I was amused.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (ctrM5)

229 222 Being a Democrat means you never have to say you're sorry.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (ctrM5)

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"I helped 200 veterans, and no, my boss should know nothing about this!"
-assuming the help was more than just, "I've forwarded your email to the appropriate doctor"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

230
Wow. So people who spend ALL DAY on DU are federal employees?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (UZWy2)

231 230
Wow. So people who spend ALL DAY on DU are federal employees?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (UZWy2)

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And probably old, based on some data I saw a couple of years ago. Also, they talk like they're olds.

I think they're older on average than we are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

232 ' No fish puns?

That’s a crappie rule.
Posted by: Lizzy"

I just made it up. It's Tuesday.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:15 AM (0HaGk)

233 Maybe the burning boat constitutes kraken bait. They are aiming for barbecued kraken for dinner.

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:15 AM (kTd/k)

234 Wow, that triggered a memory in me. Didn't a lot of people oddly die / weird shit went down around this case? Including a reporter to claimed he was on to a CIA plot involving indian sovereign nations who committed suicide in a hotel in WV right before he was supposed to meet a major source? Or am I misremembering that whole incident?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Yes. You are correct. Danny Casolaro and 'Octopus' Really sus behavior by Justice Dept and intel agencies there.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (ctrM5)

235 80% of FedGov needs a Viking funeral

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (akmNW)

236 I was gonna say -- we Christians have a Bible in which the first two thirds God was working through and on behalf of His chosen people.

I was talking about pagan Europe since we were on the topic of the Norse, which was mostly Christian missionaries, but yes that too

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (jGJov)

237 From the DU;

Why are people complying with real answers? I don't get it. They will fire people no matter the reason

Better to have ignored the email. Musk had no legal authority to send it.
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Take this advice, please. It makes Musk's job so much easier when you piss and moan, resist, punch back with inane bullshit or whatever. The non-responses will get shit canned right off the bat. The ones that reply with "F-U" will likewise get canned.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 10:17 AM (Q4IgG)

238 231 230
Wow. So people who spend ALL DAY on DU are federal employees?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:14 AM (UZWy2)

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And probably old, based on some data I saw a couple of years ago. Also, they talk like they're olds.

I think they're older on average than we are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

Products of the 70’s and 80’s I would bet…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 10:17 AM (PCK5/)

239 Later kids! Have fun storming the cas...er...sacking the monastery.

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:18 AM (/iMjX)

240 So slight devil's advocate.

If I, me, at my job, received an email like the one sent out worded exactly the same, I'd probably be a little miffed. I can get that core feeling.

BUT, I also have weekly meetings with my Director where I give status updates on my various projects. So he doesn't need to send out emails...he already knows.

Takeaway is that any frustration expressed over Musk sending out an email is in itself an indictment of how agencies have been managed for years. It's one thing to be told to give an update...but it's damning to management to have a boss have to ask for it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:18 AM (3Dcbq)

241 Ibn Fadlan's account of a Viking funeral is . . . disturbing by modern standards. Human sacrifice and some weird sexual stuff. They used some of it for the funeral scene in the movie "The Northman"
Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 09:51 AM (jGJov)

Tacitus also discusses this in his book on the Germans, though it is not so much a funeral as a ritual.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 10:19 AM (D7oie)

242 Yes. You are correct. Danny Casolaro and 'Octopus' Really sus behavior by Justice Dept and intel agencies there.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (ctrM5)

Interesting. Maybe another rabbit hole for me to go down.

But I do think we should have some serious questions about the extent and length of the cozy relationship big tech seems to have with the intelligence agencies. Especially since the posting of the twitter files.

And there's also the small issue of the big tech companies tripping over each other to hire former CIA people in positions of power at the tech companies. Doesn't look great.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:19 AM (uCjyK)

243 60ft seas?

Stay home
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 09:58 A
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What exactly is a 60-foot-sea? Waves that are 60 feet high?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025

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That'd be more like a tsunami after an earthquake!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

244
Vikings did sacrifice slaves in burials and rarely wives.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

_________

Whaaaaat? Only the United States has ever had slavery. Ask any university professor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (gj+ov)

245 "I helped 200 veterans, and no, my boss should know nothing about this!"
-assuming the help was more than just, "I've forwarded your email to the appropriate doctor"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I am sure that they thought fleetingly about those 200 veterans and consider that as job done.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (ctrM5)

246
Tom Massie might be the Turd in the punchbowl, as usual, on this budget thing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (UZWy2)

247 We are the most important employees on the planet. But telling you what we do all day is top secret.
- FedGov

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (3yoIY)

248 80% of FedGov needs a Viking funeral

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (akmNW)

Waste of a good long boat. Just cram them into a POS minivans and push them off a cliff.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (VwHCD)

249 246
Tom Massie might be the Turd in the punchbowl, as usual, on this budget thing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (UZWy2)

One of these days he will be sporting an Eyepatch..

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 10:21 AM (PCK5/)

250 Musk had no legal authority to send it
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Bet he did.

Besides what "legal authority" is required to send an email?

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:21 AM (kooD+)

251 Youtube has decided I'm a huge chess fan randomly.

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:21 AM (0HaGk)

252 Whaaaaat? Only the United States has ever had slavery. Ask any university professor.

Reminds me of a woman whose first book had to be rewritten because she had slavery within a fantasy setting and "people" got upset because only one race in the history of ever has been a slave.

Given the amount of money she was paid up front, she should have told them to go to hell.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2025 10:22 AM (jjoN6)

253 251 Youtube has decided I'm a huge chess fan randomly.
Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:21 AM (0HaGk)

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Youtube decided I wanted to see Bernie Sanders' official channel videos starting about a month before the election.

I never watch political stuff on Youtube.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

254 Are we scaling back on the puns?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2025 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)

255 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

Fingers and other things crossed...

Posted by: Orange Jumpsuits, Prison Suitcases and Two Buck Chuck at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (NAF5O)

256 247 We are the most important employees on the planet. But telling you what we do all day is top secret.
- FedGov
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM (3yoIY)

My impression of the general attitude of the "white collar" federal employees, especially those based in DC, is that they seem to think they're very smart and important, and being "on the inside" or "in the cool kids group" is the most important thing to them. Kind of similar to the finance bros working for Goldman Sachs or whatever. It's like a status thing to say "I work for Treasury. I can't really talk about what I do, I have a clearance. But it's VERY IMPORTANT WORK."

(I'm saying white collar because I know lots of "normal" people who work for USPS or are park rangers or whatever.)

That said, my guess is that they don't actually do much.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (uCjyK)

257 And probably old, based on some data I saw a couple of years ago. Also, they talk like they're olds.

I think they're older on average than we are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
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Not everyone can stay 29 forever...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (7fElN)

258 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

Sounds like BS. Dude’s been there 5 minutes. I assume it takes a while to put together a case and a raid for something like this. You don’t just snap fingers and make it happen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:24 AM (3yoIY)

259

201 200

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 10:07 AM (v0TzN)

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Whatever it takes.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:24 AM (1YwYn)

260 Someone born in 1960 is on Social Security/ Medicare… their formative years were in the 70’s.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 10:25 AM (PCK5/)

261 Whaaaaat? Only the United States has ever had slavery. Ask any university professor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Actually, before I retired, I actually taught about previous societies legal systems such as Babylon, Assyria, Jewish, Greek, Byzantine, Roman, and so on including slavery laws as well when I taught Dred Scott case in a history of the law class.

There is an interesting old legal treatise that is actually still in print regarding slavery in the US and its legal history spanning back to ancient societies. Look up T.R.R. Cobb as author as it aimed to be a summary of the laws on the subject in the late 1850's.

Pretty much the only one ever written on that subject in the US.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

262 Patel to FBI SWAT unit, "these CIA guys support Trump."

FBI SWAT, "we're on it!"

Patel, "all of you are fired."

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

263 The thing about federal service is that there's seldom "a product." It's mostly all services. And policy. Other than printed and minted money, what does the government produce by itself that is either sold or given to the public?

I'm sure there are some things... but 2.3M employees and a trillion dollar budget doesn't seem to provide much in the way of competent services or policies.

I can excuse the military to a point, but even they abuse the system.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 10:25 AM (Q4IgG)

264 My impression of the general attitude of the "white collar" federal employees, especially those based in DC, is that they seem to think they're very smart and important, and being "on the inside" or "in the cool kids group" is the most important thing to them.

--

If you want to see this in action, go to any bar in NE DC where there are White House / Congressional staff and interns. They would all prominently wear their badges and talk about how important they were.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:25 AM (IcEkX)

265 Not everyone can stay 29 forever...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (7fElN)

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I'll always be 19 ... at least emotionally.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:26 AM (1YwYn)

266 Sorry, NW DC

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:26 AM (IcEkX)

267 That said, my guess is that they don't actually do much.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (uCjyK)

Watching porn is something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:26 AM (3yoIY)

268 In government you're never measured by output. Only input.

Get that paradigm and you will have a long-ass career in Civil Service.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (IcEkX)

269
What I love are the assertions that the United States had slavery even before there was a United States. The British, the French, the Spanish, the Injuns? Innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (dxSpM)

270 258 Rumors, repeat, RUMORS that Patel's FBI is currently raiding the homes of certain senior CIA officials.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:00 AM (W5ArC)

Sounds like BS. Dude’s been there 5 minutes. I assume it takes a while to put together a case and a raid for something like this. You don’t just snap fingers and make it happen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:24 AM (3yoIY)

Agreed, they're not going to start interagency fights this quickly. The new head of CIA will be given time to clean up his own space first.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (wyMQY)

271 My impression of the general attitude of the "white collar" federal employees, especially those based in DC, is that they seem to think they're very smart and important, and being "on the inside" or "in the cool kids group" is the most important thing to them. Kind of similar to the finance bros working for Goldman Sachs or whatever. It's like a status thing to say "I work for Treasury. I can't really talk about what I do, I have a clearance. But it's VERY IMPORTANT WORK."

(I'm saying white collar because I know lots of "normal" people who work for USPS or are park rangers or whatever.)

That said, my guess is that they don't actually do much.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Sinecure is a good description. They got their posts not on ability for the most part but politics including having the right political patrons. Lot of that ties back to Capitol Hill and its mis- and mal- feasance.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:28 AM (ctrM5)

272 Why would it be illegal for Elon Musk to send out emails asking bureaucrats what they did last week? Couldn't anyone do that?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (kTd/k)

273 I'll always be 19 ... at least emotionally.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:26 AM (1YwYn)

Oh God no. Emotionally I'm like 10.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (kooD+)

274 I have zero sympathy for federal workers being asked to send an email outlining what they did this week and their ensuing histrionics.

1) I have been asked to do some version of that in some sort of cadence (weekly, biweekly, monthly) for as long as I can remember being in the private sector. Boo fucking hoo.

2) There ARE "zombie employees" that have left federal service and are still getting a paycheck. I know this because, get this, it happened to me. I quit my Fed job and they kept direct-depositing my check right on schedule for 8 months until I finally had to take my own ass down to the HR department where I used to work and tell them they fucked up.

3) If nothing else Musk sending this email shatters what was evidently a deeply-held belief that a Fedgov job means you don't have to do shit and nobody asks questions, and you'll never be subject to a RIF or layoff, unlike every private sector employee on earth.

4) Fuck 'em.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (RYi0m)

275 Posted by: Orange Jumpsuits, Prison Suitcases and Two Buck Chuck at February 25, 2025 10:23 AM (NAF5O)

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Charles Shaw wines are now Four-Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (1YwYn)

276
We have Two sets of Republican Shits in the House:

1. The phony "conservative" "fiscal hawks" who will only vote for 100% spending cuts, including cutting Soc Sec/Medicaid, e.g., Massie.

2. The phony "moderates" who will never vote for ANY spending cuts and will claim ANY spending cut will "hurt" "folks" on Soc Sec and Medicaid.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (UZWy2)

277 > That'd be more like a tsunami after an earthquake!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:19 AM (J2vNu)

(laughs in Gulf of Alaska)

https://tinyurl.com/yvvf938b

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (W5ArC)

278 272 Why would it be illegal for Elon Musk to send out emails asking bureaucrats what they did last week? Couldn't anyone do that?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (kTd/k)

I am the law peasant!!!
- Random District Court Judge

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (3yoIY)

279 248 80% of FedGov needs a Viking funeral

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:16 AM (akmNW)

Waste of a good long boat. Just cram them into a POS minivans and push them off a cliff.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Lure them into a Disney Cruise ship with free alcohol and then nuke from orbit in the middle of the Gulf of America.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qDWYL)

280 Woman at bar to guy, "so what do you do?"

Guy, "I am the Third Under Secretary of the Interior's pillow fluffer."

Woman walks away

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (akmNW)

281 Gawd, how many times does it have to be said - Trump himself is on a video clip saying this! The entire point of the "5 things" email is a ping to see if ANYONE AT ALL answers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (wyMQY)

282
Couldn't anyone do that?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (kTd/k)

________

Impertinent plebs like you aren't allowed to ask.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (dxSpM)

283 281 Gawd, how many times does it have to be said - Trump himself is on a video clip saying this! The entire point of the "5 things" email is a ping to see if ANYONE AT ALL answers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (wyMQY)

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Can't it also be to hurt fed employees' feelings?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

284 What I love are the assertions that the United States had slavery even before there was a United States. The British, the French, the Spanish, the Injuns? Innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (dxSpM)

Thats a huge piss off with me. You talk to some euroPEEons and they say well the united states had slaves. I would say, wtf, did Americans just drop out of space? It was settled by europeeons, you had slaves, and if you didn't, you came here and bought some.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 10:31 AM (VwHCD)

285 Brazil imported 10x the slaves that North America did and didn't outlaw slavery until 1887.

imagine that

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)

286 Oh God no. Emotionally I'm like 10.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:29 AM (kooD+)

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Heh.

Likely some traumatic (e.g. they say alcoholics remain emotionally at the age they begin drinking -- like 15 in my father's case) or perhaps transcendental event (the latter in my case).

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (1YwYn)

287 I'm so sorry this happened to you. They had no right to demand you justify your worth.

Reading crap like this makes me want Musk and his Musketeers to obliterate every damned FedGov department.

I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Q0kLU)

288 What are 'indentured servants'?

Slaves who can work off their contract. The great state of Georgia has entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (akmNW)

289 Having been through three corporate downsizings/re-orgs, I see nothing unusual in how the Trump admin is reducing headcount, with maybe one exception. Sometimes the headcount reduction was done through the management chain where each manager down the chain is told to cut "x" percent. It could vary, some getting a bigger cut, some lesser. But usually it was "your department is getting shut down because the work you do is not worth the money we are spending on you. Bye."

I was fortunate enough to either not be one of the "x" who were cut, or was able to jump to another department that was remaining in business.

Posted by: George V at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (ugbqN)

290 269
What I love are the assertions that the United States had slavery even before there was a United States. The British, the French, the Spanish, the Injuns? Innocent bystanders.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You left out blacks owning other blacks as slaves.

The history of slavery is a crooked path throughout history. Jefferson had it right in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Destroys the master morally as much as it does the slave. Pernicious and evil institution based on one person living off the other person's sweat and toil.

Plantation owners should have picked their own damn cotton (and sugar, indigo, etc.).

Human trafficking of third worlders into the US is basically from the same impulse and often the beneficiaries are the same damn upper crust types. Do your own damn yardwork, mind your own kids, etc. or pay someone decent wages and benefits to do so for you. There is no right moral or otherwise to cheap labor.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (ctrM5)

291 Somewhere the ancient Egyptians are pissed off for not helping the trailblazing of having slaves.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (kxQW1)

292
Thats a huge piss off with me. You talk to some euroPEEons and they say well the united states had slaves. I would say, wtf, did Americans just drop out of space? It was settled by europeeons, you had slaves, and if you didn't, you came here and bought some.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 10:31 AM (VwHCD)
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Ask them how the economies of all those European territories in the Caribbean functioned back in the day. That's always good for a hoot.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (RYi0m)

293 "Are we scaling back on the puns?
Posted by: dantesed"

I'm officially reporting you to Charlie Brown's Dildo!

Posted by: eleven at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (0HaGk)

294
"Dear Mr. Musk. Please excuse Susie from supplying a list of work last week. She currently has fibromyalgia, Morgellons, ADHD, PTSD, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, long COVID and agoraphobia."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (dxSpM)

295 The triad - slaves, sugar, rum.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (akmNW)

296 Reading crap like this makes me want Musk and his Musketeers to obliterate every damned FedGov department.

I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Q0kLU)

I saw Rotten Nicklefuckers open for the Bone Marrow Boys at the KFC YUM! Center in 2008.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (bss/y)

297 Whaaaaat? Only the United States has ever had slavery. Ask any university professor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:20 AM

No, no, no...only the US had race-based slavery. All the others enslaved everybody equally. Ours was waaaay worse.*

*yes, a professor made that argument while I sat in the back of the room facepalming

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

298 292 Ask them how the economies of all those European territories in the Caribbean functioned back in the day. That's always good for a hoot.
Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (RYi0m)

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French rule of San Domingo was just fraternity, equality, and liberty, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

299 I think in medieval England the slaves were called serfs.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (8dNj/)

300 "Dear Mr. Musk. Please excuse Susie from supplying a list of work last week. She currently has fibromyalgia, Morgellons, ADHD, PTSD, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, long COVID and agoraphobia."

Signed by Epstein's Mom.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (akmNW)

301 > The British, the French, the Spanish, the Injuns? Innocent bystanders.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (dxSpM)

The last slaves in what is now the United States were freed when the US took possession of Alaska on October 18, 1867, and freed the slaves held by the Tlingit tribe.

"Juneteenth" can go fuck itself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (W5ArC)

302 Including a reporter to claimed he was on to a CIA plot involving indian sovereign nations who committed suicide in a hotel in WV right before he was supposed to meet a major source?

Danny Casolaro.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (Q0kLU)

303 Lure them into a Disney Cruise ship with free alcohol and then nuke from orbit in the middle of the Gulf of America.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qDWYL)

Good plan

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)

304 This is art, dammit.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (NXYp1)

305 I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Q0kLU)

Lol

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (l3YAf)

306 Remember the wailing about having to report employee activities to the employer are the same ones who think a man can be a woman.

We're dealing with mentally ill people.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (VofaG)

307 304 This is art, dammit.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (NXYp1)

========

"Eh...it's a good start..."
-Frank Franzetta

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

308 The French was Port au Prince. It was the Spanish in Santo Domingo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (akmNW)

309 Thats a huge piss off with me. You talk to some euroPEEons and they say well the united states had slaves. I would say, wtf, did Americans just drop out of space? It was settled by europeeons, you had slaves, and if you didn't, you came here and bought some.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2025 10:31 AM (VwHCD)

Most of Europe was heavily involved in slavery, they just didn't want the slaves in Europe. They wanted them in the colonies. Which meant a lot of Europeans sent a lot of slaves to the various New World colonies. And it was a common place worldwide practice that had existed as far back as records exist, even though it was not practiced anywhere near as much in Europe as in Africa or the Ottoman Empire, etc.

What is now the US did not get the lionshare of those slaves by any means. And one of the first things the new govt did was ban the importation of more slaves.

I don't really know what people expected the US to do here, or how they could have (realistically) handled it better.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (uCjyK)

310 Aaaand, another boat is in our parking spot. So we are out here bob bob bobbing away waiting for them to leave.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (qDWYL)

311 I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM

Shame, because the bone marrow is the best part of them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (kgE5c)

312 295 The triad - slaves, sugar, rum.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (akmNW)

Molasses to rum to slaves
Who sail the ships back to Boston
Ladened with gold, see it gleam
Whose fortunes are made in the triangle trade
Hail slavery, the New England dream!
-Mr Rutledge

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)

313 It was not uncommon in the olden days, when a suspicion of ghost payroll existed at a particular plant, for home office suits to show up unannounced-like on payday and hand out the pay envelopes themownselves.

No shows got stricken from payroll records ricky-tick and local honchos had some serious 'splainin' to do.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (Aqu9a)

314 Anna Paulina Luna accuses Pam Bondi of stonewalling release of Epstein list and JFK files

Catfight?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (i24o9)

315 294
"Dear Mr. Musk. Please excuse Susie from supplying a list of work last week. She currently has fibromyalgia, Morgellons, ADHD, PTSD, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, long COVID and agoraphobia."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (dxSpM)

You left out "neurodivergent". That's recent.

Posted by: Susie at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (PiwSw)

316 Almost as many African slaves went east into the Muslim world as went west to the Americas. They were castrated upon arrival, though.

Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (jGJov)

317 Is a Viking funeral a type of warship service?

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (/iMjX)

318 I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM

Shame, because the bone marrow is the best part of them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (kgE5c)

Bone marrow is for closers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (i24o9)

319 The infiighting, backstabbing, asskissing that's gonna' happen to keep their jobs should be epic.

Posted by: BignJames at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (Yj6Os)

320 281 Gawd, how many times does it have to be said - Trump himself is on a video clip saying this! The entire point of the "5 things" email is a ping to see if ANYONE AT ALL answers.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I think a lot of people simply do not bother themselves to become informed when told of their ignorance. Saw a post this morning arguing AID had to be abolished by Congress as it was established by Congress in 1997. Read the link and it pointed to a vetoed law in 1997. The revised 1998 law specifically gave authorization to disband AID and return its functions to the State Department.

In any media report or social media shit, always go to the primary source first instead to confirm.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)

321 Here is my list of accomplishments for today, 2/25/2025:

1) Shaved my head and nutsack.
2) Sucked off a stranger in the parking garage.
3) Went to the airport and stole more luggage.
4) Put on a dog collar and romped with my fellow faggots as "Dog Boy".
5) Sucked a stranger off behind the dumpster in rear parking lot.
6) Shaved my nutsack again.
7) Went home.

Posted by: Sam Brinton, Fag And Luggage Thief at February 25, 2025 10:38 AM (NAF5O)

322 Shame, because the bone marrow is the best part of them.

RMBS, do you really want pasty FedGov marrow in your bone soup?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:38 AM (akmNW)

323 >
What is now the US did not get the lionshare of those slaves by any means. And one of the first things the new govt did was ban the importation of more slaves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (uCjyK)

And of course everyone ignores the huge number of African slaves imported into the Islamic world.

They don't have obvious African-descended people in their countries because they routinely castrated all the males, and the offspring of the females just blended in after several generations.

DNA as well as history tells the tale there, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:38 AM (W5ArC)

324 No, no, no...only the US had race-based slavery. All the others enslaved everybody equally. Ours was waaaay worse.*

*yes, a professor made that argument while I sat in the back of the room facepalming
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

I actually remember a teacher saying that in a history class in high school. I think someone asked a question about Roman slaves or something.

Kind of silly in retrospect, but I guess I accepted it at the time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:38 AM (uCjyK)

325 316 Almost as many African slaves went east into the Muslim world as went west to the Americas. They were castrated upon arrival, though.
Posted by: brak
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Also refer to the Ottomans and Barbary Pirates and what they did to slaves including many Europeans/Americans unlucky enough to be captured.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (ctrM5)

326 Eh... there are some federal jobs that are worthwhile. The people working behind the scenes at the VA, who actually care, some border patrol agents, competent ATC, and so on. The ones that matter are in positions that you've probably never heard of, but keep infrastructure together and the public safe.

That there are lapses and worthless individuals isn't unique to federal service. That these services would be better contracted out is debatable.

That government, as a service provider sucks donkey balls isn't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (Q4IgG)

327 Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (1YwYn)

https://is.gd/UkskfY

All bullshitting aside this girl makes me feel like I'm 12. I'm pretty certain it indicates a serious pathology. Nice voice too.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (kooD+)

328 316, 323: Horde Mind at work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (W5ArC)

329 Are those transgender activists/militants/terrorists all federal bureaucrats who never have to go to work?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (kTd/k)

330 299 I think in medieval England the slaves were called serfs.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (8dNj/)

Serfdom was essentially set up by Diocletian. The reaction to his dictates (that people could not move within the empire, had to keep the same job in the family) combined with the increasingly insular nobles led to feudalism.

He was trying to bring order out of the chaos of the Third Century Crisis, but essentially made slaves of everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (bss/y)

331 "Nickelfuckers" never gets old, MP4.

And I saw them open for Quarterflash at Spirit Mountain Casino in '13.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (1YwYn)

332 Aetius

I was close enough for FedGov work

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (akmNW)

333 "Dear Mr. Musk. Please excuse Susie from supplying a list of work last week. She currently has fibromyalgia, Morgellons, ADHD, PTSD, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, long COVID and agoraphobia."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (dxSpM)

LOL. There is much truth in good humor. I've seen this very thing in action at a former employer. Always excuses.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (Aqu9a)

334 Can't it also be to hurt fed employees' feelings?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes, and it's working. Some TDS Feds that have been trying to hold things together are just snapping under all the "stress" Trump and DOGE are inflicting on them. It's like Trump's immigration solution: it's a multifaceted approach, which includes self deportation.

Demoralizing Feds and getting them to voluntarily leave is a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 25, 2025 10:40 AM (JCZqz)

335 This painting also makes me feel good.

Posted by: Candidus at February 25, 2025 10:40 AM (XLyNn)

336 314 Anna Paulina Luna accuses Pam Bondi of stonewalling release of Epstein list and JFK files

Catfight?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 10:36 AM (i24o9)

Rowr!

Posted by: Obligatory at February 25, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)

337 I want these rotten nickelfuckers to be so bankrupt that they have to sell their own bone marrow for grocery money.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Q0kLU)

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Pure orthogonal poetry.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (1YwYn)

338 RMBS, do you really want pasty FedGov marrow in your bone soup?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 10:38 AM

*considers the Sam Brintons and Dick Levines of the FedGov*

On reflection, hell no. That would be like Chernobyl soup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Wnv9h)

339 The history of slavery is a crooked path throughout history. Jefferson had it right in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Destroys the master morally as much as it does the slave. Pernicious and evil institution based on one person living off the other person's sweat and toil.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (ctrM5)

Taxation?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (i24o9)

340 > 331 "Nickelfuckers" never gets old, MP4.

And I saw them open for Quarterflash at Spirit Mountain Casino in '13.
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (1YwYn)

Were Dimebag Daryl and 50 Cent anywhere around? How about Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, and Eddie Money?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (W5ArC)

341 The triad - slaves, sugar, rum.

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/56bb8eh3

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Q0kLU)

342 Just to get , many were indentured. Is that right word?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (D8OZA)

343 316 Almost as many African slaves went east into the Muslim world as went west to the Americas. They were castrated upon arrival, though.
Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (jGJov)

Even that understates it. The ottomans were HUGE players in the worldwide slave market. They enslaved many eastern europeans as well as Africans. Basically anyone who was not Muslim. And traded those slaves all over the world. It was a major export of theirs.

But somehow that gets overlooked.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:42 AM (uCjyK)

344 Anna Paulina Luna accuses Pam Bondi of stonewalling release of Epstein list and JFK files

Catfight?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

In jello!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:42 AM (lDA/q)

345
Demoralizing Feds and getting them to voluntarily leave is a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Military Moron at February 25, 2025 10:40 AM (JCZqz)

_________

"Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed." - Luke 16:3

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 25, 2025 10:42 AM (dxSpM)

346 339 The history of slavery is a crooked path throughout history. Jefferson had it right in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Destroys the master morally as much as it does the slave. Pernicious and evil institution based on one person living off the other person's sweat and toil.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:33 AM (ctrM5)

Taxation?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 10:41 AM (i24o9)

Wage Slaves?? Oh, wait, that’s Commie talk.. sorry.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

347 1) Shaved my head and nutsack.
2) Sucked off a stranger in the parking garage.
3) Went to the airport and stole more luggage.
4) Put on a dog collar and romped with my fellow faggots as "Dog Boy".
5) Sucked a stranger off behind the dumpster in rear parking lot.
6) Shaved my nutsack again.
7) Went home.
Posted by: Sam Brinton, Fag And Luggage Thief at February 25, 2025

***
Shaved . . . *twice* in one day? That's a lotta hair, Meester Brinton.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (J2vNu)

348 324 No, no, no...only the US had race-based slavery. All the others enslaved everybody equally. Ours was waaaay worse.*

*yes, a professor made that argument while I sat in the back of the room facepalming
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kgE5c)

I actually remember a teacher saying that in a history class in high school. I think someone asked a question about Roman slaves or something.

Kind of silly in retrospect, but I guess I accepted it at the time.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Easier to just dismiss it as an American only peculiar institution than to say that every society in history had had slavery in its past at some time.

For some reason, the charge that we are all sinners and the worst possible judge of our own actions is not a popular one to make these days.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

349 Almost as many African slaves went east into the Muslim world as went west to the Americas. They were castrated upon arrival, though.
Posted by: brak at February 25, 2025 10:37 AM (jGJov)

Even that understates it. The ottomans were HUGE players in the worldwide slave market. They enslaved many eastern europeans as well as Africans. Basically anyone who was not Muslim. And traded those slaves all over the world. It was a major export of theirs.

But somehow that gets overlooked.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

To. This. Day.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (lDA/q)

350 https://is.gd/UkskfY

All bullshitting aside this girl makes me feel like I'm 12. I'm pretty certain it indicates a serious pathology. Nice voice too.
Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM

We can haz Mohr Tess?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (Wnv9h)

351 Anna Paulina Luna accuses Pam Bondi of stonewalling release of Epstein list and JFK files

Catfight?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

In jello!
Posted by: rickb223

Pay per view would pay off the national debt

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (y9ksN)

352 349 To. This. Day.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (lDA/q)

=======

Slave markets opened in Libya after Hillary Clinton's orchestration of the toppling of Khaddaffi.

She's considered a hero to the left, still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

353 >> The last slaves in what is now the United States were freed when the US took possession of Alaska on October 18, 1867, and freed the slaves held by the Tlingit tribe.

Hawaii had slavery until 1900.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 10:44 AM (l3YAf)

354 Bone marrow is for closers.

************

A couple of my kids are on a paleo diet kick. They used to stay in their bedrooms til noon, but my son'll come out for marrow...

Betcher bottom dollar...

Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:44 AM (/iMjX)

355 Serfdom was not slavery. Serfs had many legal rights especially that they could (in theory) appeal to the King, and certainly to the Church. Slaves, or "thralls" as the Vikings called them, were livestock. Can your cow appeal to the King?

AngloSaxons actually had to deal with Celts and their slaves when they took over Wessex or, some say, converted the local Devonian Celtic kings to the Saxon way of life. And when the Normans came, they just banned slavery, which was lucky for the Saxons because the Normans were unkind to them otherwise.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 25, 2025 10:44 AM (gKWVE)

356 Easier to just dismiss it as an American only peculiar institution than to say that every society in history had had slavery in its past at some time.

For some reason, the charge that we are all sinners and the worst possible judge of our own actions is not a popular one to make these days.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)

Well *I* have never owned any slaves, and as far as I can tell, no one in my family has either. And my family was not in the US when anyone here owned slaves.

In fact, going back a few generations, it's fair to say my ancestors essentially were slaves who the British purposely tried to genocide through a man-made famine. (Irish).

So I don't know why I should take part in any "collective guilt" personally.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 10:45 AM (uCjyK)

357 I am so looking forward to the day Kash and Bongino walk into Adam Schiff's office, and Kash says "Book em Dano".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at February 25, 2025 10:45 AM (Da7Vv)

358 "Why should I paint the Vikings struggling to get the boat out onto the water?"

"Because of wind, Dicksee."

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 25, 2025 10:45 AM (NMT5x)

359 260 Someone born in 1960 is on Social Security/ Medicare… their formative years were in the 70’s.
Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 10:25 AM (PCK5/)

I go on Med in Jul and trying to get my SS disability.

born 7/60

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2025 10:45 AM (gbOdA)

360 https://is.gd/UkskfY

All bullshitting aside this girl makes me feel like I'm 12. I'm pretty certain it indicates a serious pathology. Nice voice too.

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:39 AM (kooD+)

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Great stuff -- have seen a couple of her previous videos, always links from this comment section. Thanks!

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:46 AM (1YwYn)

361 341 The triad - slaves, sugar, rum.

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/56bb8eh3
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

The Devil's triangle wasn't about drinking games! It was Trump and Kavanaugh forcing themselves upon me and boofing me into unconsciousness, repeatedly!

No, I don't remember specifically when or where, but I have two front doors because of it!!!

Posted by: Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford at February 25, 2025 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

362 I am so looking forward to the day Kash and Bongino walk into Adam Schiff's office, and Kash says "Book em Dano".

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at February 25, 2025 10:45 AM (Da7Vv)

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Dude -- that HAS GOT TO become a viral meme.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 10:47 AM (1YwYn)

363 I assume because we fought a war based much on slavery that the subject of slavery was focused on us like a laser by the ignorant when history is discussed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)

364 I just posted a guest essay... it's a good one!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2025 10:47 AM (mWSu4)

365 NOOD

CO transanity

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 10:48 AM (Vqx30)

366 The Biden IRS leaked tax info of over 405,000 Americans—including President Trump!

The IRS initially claimed just 70,000 were affected—but new disclosures prove the leak was 6x larger.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2025 10:48 AM (gbOdA)

367 Love the "akttooally" explanation to a throwaway post.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 10:48 AM (jUN6x)

368 Wage Slaves?? Oh, wait, that’s Commie talk.. sorry.
Posted by: tubal
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Actually it was quite common to have 'wage slaves' even in the US. Read Frederick Douglas for example. Legally he could not change his status but his working skills meant that his master could 'rent' him out to other employers and Douglass got paid a fraction of what his owner charged the other employers.

Simply put, hiring illegals that have no recourse to labor laws at ridiculously low wages is actually quite a form of slavery. Many of them have to pay substantial amounts to traffickers to be smuggled in and must repay those. Then you have sex slavery which populates the brothels and massage parlors and streets for pimps.

And yes, taxation becomes slavery at some point and we are pretty close to that historically speaking. A historian of China noted that peasant revolts tended to break out when the taxes exceeded fifty percent of what was raised as food by peasants.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:49 AM (ctrM5)

369 I just posted a guest essay... it's a good one!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2025 10:47 AM (mWSu4)

Well that goes without saying

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:49 AM (kooD+)

370 The last slaves in what is now the United States were freed when the US took possession of Alaska on October 18, 1867, and freed the slaves held by the Tlingit tribe.

Hawaii had slavery until 1900.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Slavery was one of the causes of the Moro War in the Philippines. Slavery was illegal in the US and our territories, and the Muslim Moros in the Philippines still owned slaves and wouldn't give it up.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2025 10:50 AM (0NPDS)

371 here's a good page about a Saxon/Celtic slave port (Bristol on the Severn: between Wales and Mercia) -
buildinghistory.org/bristol/saxonslaves.shtml
tl;dr, the Normans and the local bishop shut down that racket. (It took until AD 1102 apparently.)

Posted by: gKWVE at February 25, 2025 10:50 AM (gKWVE)

372 So I don't know why I should take part in any "collective guilt" personally.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Ireland had slaves before the Brits. It was the fashion of the time. Might want to read up on St. Patrick and what he found when he went to Ireland.

So yes, you as every other human does, have ancestors that were slaves and those that were masters.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

373 A couple of my kids are on a paleo diet kick. They used to stay in their bedrooms til noon, but my son'll come out for marrow...

Betcher bottom dollar...
Posted by: muldoon at February 25, 2025 10:44 AM (/iMjX)

Wow. Close up the thread, an Annie reference has been made.

Posted by: Obligatory at February 25, 2025 10:52 AM (bss/y)

374 Agreed, they're not going to start interagency fights this quickly. The new head of CIA will be given time to clean up his own space first.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 10:27 AM (wyMQY)

Maybe it's coordinated. Not an "inter-agency fight", but the head of CIA using the FBI to do some of his dirty work?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2025 10:52 AM (8zz6B)

375 Trump celebrates his court victory over AP in his typical understated manner.

https://is.gd/cc97he

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

376 355 Serfdom was not slavery. Serfs had many legal rights especially that they could (in theory) appeal to the King, and certainly to the Church. Slaves, or "thralls" as the Vikings called them, were livestock. Can your cow appeal to the King?

AngloSaxons actually had to deal with Celts and their slaves when they took over Wessex or, some say, converted the local Devonian Celtic kings to the Saxon way of life. And when the Normans came, they just banned slavery, which was lucky for the Saxons because the Normans were unkind to them otherwise.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Serfdom IS a form of slavery because you were bound to the land as a serf and bought and sold with the property. Having rights as a slave is actually common in slightly more developed societies going way back to Roman, Jewish, Byzantine, etc. laws. Basically there was a hierarchy of laws that applied depending on one's status in society.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 10:54 AM (ctrM5)

377 I live for this stuff. Makes you feel so very small and inconsequential. And people have the arrogance to believe humans can affect the weather.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2025 10:13 AM (RWslB)

It's why I love the spring storms on the southern plains. Uncontrollable weather made manifest. Violent precision.

"Behold, and know that I am God!"

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 25, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

378 Trump celebrates his court victory over AP in his typical understated manner.

https://is.gd/cc97he
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

LMAO

Posted by: ... at February 25, 2025 10:55 AM (kooD+)

379 think they're older on average than we are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison===
No group that old.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 25, 2025 10:58 AM (n4GiU)

380 Hey, wait! If he isn't using that shield and sword, I'll take it!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2025 10:58 AM (S729R)

381 Note that the Inslaw case, horrifically, does in fact end up connecting to Hillary Clinton, and many of the deaths allegedly tied to it are listed on the Clinton Body Count list accordingly.

Posted by: American Hawkman at February 25, 2025 10:59 AM (9VDxG)

382 Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid except for Nikes.

They "Just Did It”: Gang of illegal aliens charged with train heists across Southwest to steal unreleased Nikes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

383 Viking funeral was first a party drink before Vikings went overboard and turned it into the Viking funerals that we have today.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 25, 2025 11:02 AM (D8OZA)

384 Olaf Gose out Cremated what's to do with the ashes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (wGqjj)

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