The Morning Report — 3/ 14 /25

Good morning kids. In noting the passing of the longtime Democrat Rep-robate from Arizona Raul Grijalva, considering some of the items making news this morning , perhaps the word of the day is harbinger. And he's the second Dem congress-vermin to join the choir invisible this week. A few notes from his rap sheet at the invaluable DiscovertheNetworks:

Former Democrat Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Former member of MECha, which seeks to facilitate Mexico’s reconquest of the Southwestern U.S.
Former leader of the Raza Unida Party
Supporter of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens

Vaya con... something Raul. Certainly not Dios, since he is heading south of the border - between the Lithosphere and the 9th Circle of the Infernal Reaches. Let's leave it at that, but from my perspective we need more Wallenbergs, and no more Grijalvas.

Elsewhere, while we ponder the concept of harbingers, on the national political scene, it seems as if Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have been boxed into a neat little corner vis a vis the upcoming CR that passed in the House and now heads to the Senate.

With Democrats threatening to force a partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being confronted with a warning he delivered just last year.
The “Rapid Response” account on X for President Donald Trump’s White House posted on Thursday a “flashback” clip of Schumer’s remarks from September — when the top Democrat pinned a potential shutdown at that time on Republicans. “If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos …” Schumer said.
“So what changed, Chuck?” the White House account asked. . . “The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues,” said Sen. Thom Thillis (R-NC). “One of the first things Democrats did when they controlled the Senate was to make a failed push to nuke the filibuster because [Joe] Biden was President. Now they are shamefully filibustering and on the verge of shutting down the government to appease their radical base because Trump is President.” Elon Musk, who is overseeing the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), replied: “Paging 2024 Schumer …”

The Democrats for years as we all know have shrieked about how shutting down the government will cause death and destruction from coast to coast, unless they get to raid the treasury to fund their bureaucracy (the real doomsday machine as we all know. So now the Democrats are having to swallow their own bullshit rhetoric about shutting down the government lest the public finally understand how generally unnecessary thbulk of the federal government is. And that only reinforces what DOGE is all about. And, so long as Mike Johnson and the GOP don't cave (a tall order) they have the chance at accomplishing in Congress what w is their duty, in slashing the budget and size of government through the budgetary process. One way or another, a lot of politicians are going to be foisted on petards of their or Trump's making!

But here's Chip Diller insisting that everything's under control!

To me, it sounds like a nail bragging about its rivalry with a hammer. (Or a bag of doughnuts bragging about its rivalry with Lizzo.) But nonetheless, here we are:
“We have the Republicans on the run!” announced House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Turns out the Democrats aren’t just bravely battling back against President Trump. They’re actually winning — and now Old Man Trump is running scared!
In a call with party leaders, Jeffries described Trump’s recent speech to Congress as “one of the most divisive speeches by a president in American history” and predicted, because of the economy, MAGA’s end was nigh:

Keep huffing those whippets Hakeem.

Of course, when cornered, Democrats go to their strength: Incite violence. Do I really have to quote slithering vermin like Maxine Waters and Jeff Merkley? It's in the links for those who really need to get their blood boiling.

And talk like that gets the blood flowing, mostly from knife and bullet wounds, as well as from bricks hurled a la Ignatz Mouse at Krazy Kat's head - - prepositioned on pallets from sources unknown. Patel and Bondi need to go after Soros, Antifa and ActBlue because that's where all the violence ultimately begins.

And it raises some cromulent questions about the nature of free speech that CBD and I touched on in the latest episode of the podcast, here and in the sidebar.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Anyone affiliated with or even speaking an ounce of praise towards President Donald Trump’s administration have become targets of a violent left that knows they have no coherent arguments, or propagandistic arguments, that work anymore, so they’ve resorted to basically declaring Civil War against anyone that doesn’t chew their tongue like they do. After the “alleged” murder of InfoWars reporter Jamie White Sunday evening, yet another InfoWars reporter/host has been targeted by, “allegedly,” by an ideological counterpart. InfoWars host Chase Geiser posted to X, along with a video, that he was “swatted” twice within 12 hours.
Domestic Terrorism? Attempts on Conservative Journalists & Their Families Lives, 'Swatted' Multiple Times
Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva died Thursday morning at the age of 77 due to complications from lung cancer treatment, his office announced, just a week after the passing of late Texas Rep. Sylvester Turner.
Arizona Democrat Rep (robate). Raul Grijalva dead at 77, second House Dem to die this Congress
Bowman said, “It’s definitely organized at a broader level. There is a website up that people can go visit that’s out there today, and I’ve actually posted this on my X account, I’ve shared some of these events, but they’re coordinating it with people locally across…not just the Indivisible groups, really, but, like, multiple groups and individuals that are, like, posting these events where people show up and they already have, like, pre-printed graphics…signs and stickers and things like you mentioned that basically depict Teslas being set on fire.”
Revealed: Tesla Vandalism, Terrorism Coordinated Across Vast Leftwing Online Network

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

"We reimburse for chicken suits!!!" Indivisible co-executive director Leah Greenberg wrote on Bluesky. When a follower later asked Greenberg if Indivisible would ship the suits to members, she responded, "Historically we've mostly just sent people money to buy their own, but…stay tuned for March recess."
Left-Wing Group Indivisible Tells Local Activists: We Will Reimburse Your DOGE Protest Expenses, Including 'Chicken Suits'
Margot Cleveland: Here are the cases trying to derail Trump’s efforts to rein in federal spending.
Here’s Your Guide To The Lawsuits Challenging Trump’s Funding Freezes And Terminations https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/13/heres-your-guide-to-the-lawsuits-challenging-trumps-funding-freezes-and-terminations/
“Cold War foreign policy lay behind the initial instantiation of USAID.”
What Right and Left Get Wrong About USAID
The layoffs themselves aren't the problem. Anyone who has worked outside of government can relate to layoffs; when your employer isn't making enough money to pay you, she can't pay you. End of story. The government hasn't been making enough money since the Newt Gingrich days to pay its way, so there's that. But the way the layoffs are being administered is galling to those who have worked hard and played by the rules. These are the people who witnessed up close the sin of government waste, fraud, and abuse and who emphatically voted for Trump and DOGE. We want to keep them on board.
DOGE Is Ticking Off Some of the Good Guys
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In a court filing, Sarah M. Harris, the acting solicitor general, wrote that the Trump administration’s request was a “modest” one to “limit the pause to ‘parties actually within the courts’ power,'” according to the New York Times.
Trump Admin Calls for Supreme Court to Allow for Ending of Birthright Citizenship
The law would prevent certain illegal aliens from being eligible for asylum interviews or court hearings.
Trump Expected To Invoke Wartime Powers To Deport Illegal Tren de Aragua Members
U.S. intelligence officials have warned in recent years how the Chinese Communist Party has used America’s student visa program to further its own goals for regional and global dominance.
House Republicans Move To Block Chinese Nationals From Obtaining U.S. Student Visas
While ICE has not publicly disclosed the identity of the former Cuban intelligence officer at press time, HSI’s Miami division published a photo of the arrest Wednesday afternoon through social media, stating the arrest was carried out in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Former Cuban Intelligence Official Arrested for Obtaining U.S. Residency Illegally
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned ... He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore, he's a Palestinian.”
Trump Rips Schumer: ‘He Used To Be Jewish.’ Let’s Compare Trump Vs. Schumer On Support For Jews.
Daniel Greenfield: Purim and the Bible’s modern-day message for Israel after Oct 7.
King David’s Hostage Negotiations
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the report was nothing more than a conspiracy theory attempting to demonize the Jewish state.
Israel accuses UN of ‘blood libel,’ slams accusations of genocide, sexual violence in Gaza

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The Left says he is “martyr,” but is he?
Mahmoud Khalil and the Freedom of Speech
Foreign nationals who hate America are due a change of scenery. (and what about American nationals? - jjs)
I’m all broken up about Mahmoud Khalil’s rights
‘We will not comply, Mahmoud, we are on your side,’ anti-Israel agitators chanted (We will drink in the Zyklon B all on our own!!!!! - jjs)
NYPD Arrests Dozens After Jewish Voice for Peace Storms Trump Tower To Demand Release of Pro-Hamas Columbia Activist
Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.
A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding
The wife of the Columbia University rabble-rouser detained by the feds says he tried to prep her on what to do if an ICE agent showed up at their door — just days before he was nabbed.
Fed up Wife of Columbia anti-Israel agitator says she was ‘naive’ to think he wouldn’t face arrest
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
Arab League provides cover.
Syria Calls For ‘Independent Committee’ To Look Into Its Own Civilian Killings
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Welcome to Hospital Jihad.
Second Muslim Nurse in Australia Charged with Claiming to Have Killed Jews
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
(Fekete Kutya Szeg-Feh) Waters has a long history of making highly inflammatory remarks toward Trump.
Maxine Sewage-Effluent Waters Claims Trump Is Trying To Start A ‘Civil War’
I will assume, since he represents the state of Antifastan (aka Oregon), and simply because Democrat, mhe condones "direct action." Mano a Mangione?- jjs
Dem Sen. Merkley: ‘Now Is the Moment’ to ‘Take on Tyrant’ Trump
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The debate was the only one before the April 1 election between Dane County Judge Crawford and former Wisconsin Attorney General and current Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Schimel, and was moderated by ABC affiliate WISN 12 at Marquette University Law School.
Soros-Backed Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Susan Crawford Defends Light Sentencing for Pedophile During Debate
Additionally, the state would offer “rental vouchers” to new parolees.
Washington Bill Could Allow Early Release for Juvenile Killers—If They Didn’t Kill More Than Two People
By this logic, everything I have ever written gives me a legitimate reason to shoot any Leftist in the back?, - Not that I would!!!! - jjs
Luigi Mangione’s journal not ‘manifesto’ about healthcare industry grievances, attorney argues
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“Well George Stephanopoulos gave an interview and I think on 11 occasions he said Donald Trump committed rape. In the E. Jean Carroll civil suit, she alleged that she was sexually attacked by him. The jury found that he did not commit rape but that he had committed, there was a likelihood he’d committed sexual assault,” Hanson said.
Victor Davis Hanson Flags Possible Error That Could ‘Be Cause For Reversal’ In Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Case

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Sen. Eric Schmitt decried the censorship-industrial complex that enables public-private partnership to ‘censor Americans.’
Sen. Schmitt Warns Federal Censorship Complex Is ‘Existential Threat To The American Way Of Life’
The exchange was a masterclass in both rhetoric and substance, as Gorka completely ripped Tapper a new one. The only consolation for Tapper is that this was on CNN, and how many people are still watching CNN?
Watch As Sebastian Gorka Destroys Jake Tapper in Epic Fashion
Melber said, “[W]e see Trump trying to bend the government to help Musk, and it goes well beyond what you see just in these kind of sort of embarrassing efforts to hawk cars. If they’re great cars, why do you need the government involved in selling them in that manner? But a Trump prosecutor also made a possibly illegal vow to investigate members of Congress who criticize Elon Musk. That’s, again, helpful to Musk, coming from the Trump administration.”
MSNSDAP’s Melber: People Committing Anti-Tesla Violence Are ‘People Who Protest’ Tesla
Daniel Greenfield: A battle between the 2nd richest man and his employees offers a disturbing answer.
Who Owns the Media?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Promises made, promises kept. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last summer.
Producer Inflation Stopped Cold In Trump’s First Month, Core Prices Fell
Trump said the move was in response to a 50% tariff put on American whiskey.
Trump Threatens To Impose 200% Tariffs On EU Wine And Champagne
Asked what Trump’s team has already done to help fight this economic disaster that Biden left behind, Bessent said the “first thing” has been to get government spending “under control,” and he pointed to the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by businessman Elon Musk. Then he pointed to work U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins has done to bring down the price of eggs — and then to what Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are doing to unleash American energy production. This broad vision, he said, is an “all-hands-on-deck, all areas of government” approach to stabilizing the U.S. economy.
Exclusive- Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent: ‘All Hands on Deck’ from ‘All Areas of Government’ in Trump Admin to ‘Bring Down Inflation,’ ‘Help Affordability’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The Endangerment Finding will be reconsidered, a move that will shake the very foundation of the climate change movement.
EPA Targets Obama-Era Rules That Let Climate Zealots Hold America Hostage
The Brazilian government has called the highway “sustainable,” but critics have pointed to the irony of clearing rainforests for a climate summit. (they have to kill the planet in order to save the planet! - jjs)
Brazil clears Amazon rainforest to build highway for climate summit
just do as the gov't says, and all will be well.
Net Zero Means People ‘Will Have To Change Their Lives’
A green nonprofit connected to Democrats says it may have to fold if it cannot access the massive grant funding awarded by the Biden administration that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now working to terminate.
Dem-Linked Nonprofit Admits It’s Going Bust Unless It Can Access Biden Bucks
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Parents in the state still value education savings accounts for their kids, but they’re increasingly frustrated with the program’s bureaucratic overreach.
An ESA Lesson from Arizona
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
In his letter, Biggs also noted how nearly 20 “state attorney generals” had “made inquiries into ActBlue” over allegations regarding fraud, money laundering, and the “fraudulent and counterfeit use of credit and debit cards,” according to the outlet.
Rep. Andy Biggs Calls for FBI to Investigate Democrat Donor Platform Over ‘Suspicious Transactions’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The Democrat Party’s lawfare efforts against President Donald J. Trump during his first two months in the White House have reached unprecedented levels. In his first two months in office, President Trump has faced over 100 legal challenges to his administration’s policies, more than double that faced by any other president at the same point in their term.According to data published by Just Security that tracks court filings against the Trump administration, the total number of legal actions taken since the America First leader was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, has reached 119. Nearly 20 legal actions were filed against the Trump White House during President Trump’s first week in office.
LAWFARE: Trump Faces More Than Double The Number of Lawsuits Than Any Prior President In First Two Months.
The Democrat Party has a long history of failed marriages (and a body count into the hundreds of thousands - jjs)
Lust for Power: Dem Senator Chris Murphy Ditches Wife for Soros-Funded 'Soap Opera Villainess' Tara McGowan
CONFIRMATION HEARING News and Views
The nomination, announced last November, faced opposition primarily due to Weldon’s views on vaccines and autism. These views had aligned Weldon with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A medical doctor, Weldon has insisted, “I give shots, I believe in vaccination”—but he also believes the CDC has attempted to “short-circuit important research and draw premature conclusions” to dismiss any connection between vaccines and the development of autism in children.
Trump Admin Pulls Dave Weldon’s CDC Nomination Moments Before Senate Hearing.
Robert Zimmerman: "These facts suggest to me that within both the Trump administration and among Republican in the Senate there are now second thoughts about Isaacman."
Is the nomination of Jared Isaacman as NASA’s administrator facing political headwinds?
POLITICS
"So what changed, Chuck?" the White House asked.
Schumer’s Own Govt Shutdown Warning Comes Back To Haunt Him
“Under a shutdown, Trump and Elon Musk would have carte blanche to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now,” he added. “I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people, therefore, i will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.” Republicans have a 53 vote majority in the upper chamber. In order to overcome the 60-vote threshold, they will likely need eight Democrats on board because Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has opposed the House GOP measure to avert a government shutdown.
Chuck Schumer caves, won’t vote to block GOP plan to avert government Schumer-shutdown in dramatic U-turn
To me, it sounds like a nail bragging about its rivalry with a hammer. (Or a bag of doughnuts bragging about its rivalry with Lizzo.) But nonetheless, here we are:
The Dems Are… Winning?! Hakeem Jeffries: 'We Have the Republicans on the Run!'
“She seems to be making the case against allowing the government to shut down,” Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio wrote on X, after easily eavesdropping on the tense meeting, which lasted for over an hour.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand screamed at Democrat colleagues in intraparty dispute over looming government shutdown: report
Fetterman blasted Democrats’ opposition to the government spending bill as “total theater” and emphasized the importance of avoiding a lapse in government funding, citing the risk of a recession in a post on X Thursday morning. His scathing criticism upends Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that Democrats are unified in opposition to the GOP spending bill that will fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.
‘Total Theater’: John Fetterman Lays Into Dems’ Shutdown Antics
Buttigieg previously lost a White House bid in 2020 in the Democratic primary to former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden.
Buttigieg To Pass On Senate Run As He Eyes White House In 2028: Report
Harris can't talk straight, Newsom's a walking contradiction, and Shapiro's a rookie.
The Dems’ new stars are already fading fast
Walz, a former U.S. congressman who has been governor of Minnesota since 2019, told CNN this week that his work as former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate is not over.
Tim Walz Going on Tour of Republican House Districts, Tells Americans to ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump
According to Allen and Parnes, Kamala Harris sought the mantle of the “change candidate” — the one who’d shake up the status quo. With record numbers of Americans unhappy with the direction of the country (and “Bidenomics” 30 points underwater), even if she wanted to, Harris couldn’t run as Biden, Part II. It would’ve been political suicide.
‘No Daylight': How an Insecure Old Man Sabotaged Kamala’s Presidential Campaign
Daniel Greenfield: Serious candidate.
Kamala Demanded Chairs “No Less Than 15 Inches” To Look Taller (Orange Safety Cone enema. Problem solved, If only she hired me as an advisor - jjs)
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
America’s Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff flew into Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Thursday morning, having travelled from Doha, Qatar by way of European airspace on a Gulfstream executive jet. Witkoff and a team of negotiators are in the Russian capital to attempt to hammer out an agreement on the proposed Ukraine War 30-day ceasefire.
Witkoff, American Delegation Arrive in Moscow For Ceasefire Talks With Putin
They aren’t working for peace; they are preparing for war.
NATO, Ukraine, and the War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
President Donald J. Trump is directing the Pentagon to develop plans for a strategic increase in U.S. military personnel at the Panama Canal as part of the American First leader’s goal of retaking control of the vital shipping passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The move follows President Trump’s joint address to Congress last week, in which he pledged that “to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.”U.S. Southern Command is evaluating various strategies, ranging from enhanced collaboration with the Panamanian military to more aggressive measures such as a potential military takeover of the canal, Pentagon officials say. The necessity of military action would depend on Panama’s willingness to cooperate. A number of draft strategies are believed to have already been presented to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth by the head of Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey.
Trump Admin Weighs Military Options for ‘Reclaiming the Panama Canal.’
'Treasury will fight and disrupt any attempts by the regime to fund its destabilizing activities,' says Bessent
Trump Admin Slaps Fresh Sanctions on Iran's Oil Minister and 'Shadow Fleet' Ferrying Illicit Iranian Crude
"All innocent hostages have been safely rescued, and their evacuation is underway."
Pakistani forces free remaining hostages after train hijacking by separatist group
During the long Pax Americana, Europeans have completely forgotten how to fight tyranny and, instead, are themselves becoming tyrants.
From Churchill to Vance...Sounding Off About Tyranny
Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, "exploited and abused" the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while barring her from seeking other employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses, including facilitating illegal immigration, forced labor, and witness intimidation, the Independent reported.
UN Judge, Onetime Columbia University Human Rights Fellow, Found Guilty of Slavery
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Mohammad Sharifullah (also known as Jafar) was believed to be one of the orchestrators of the deadly suicide bombing at the Kabul airport as the U.S. withdrew troops from Afghanistan in August 2021. The attack killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians. Sharifullah managed to evade capture until early March 2025, when President Donald Trump announced during his Joint Address to Congress that the suspected terrorist had been apprehended and would “face the swift sword of American justice.”
‘Personal Manhunt’: Trump Officials Detail How Administration Prioritized Abbey Gate Terrorist’s Capture
DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION, Philly, Toronto Air Crashes AFTERMATH
“I am launching a full investigation into the DEI hiring allegations at the FAA immediately. If true, swift accountability will come for those responsible. We need the best and brightest, not buzzword, DEI hires,” Duffy wrote.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Launches Inquiry into DEI Activist Offering Exam Answers to Minority Air Traffic Controller Candidates
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
When bureaucrats detect a single ill animal, the whole herd must be killed. How long before it’s like that with people, too?
Scorched-Earth Disease Control
Utah has become the first state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
MAHA’s Latest Wins On Fluoride, Food, And Vaccines
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Last week, 2 earthquakes shook the Pacific Northwest….which is just the latest in a string of shakers reported in Washington.
Recent Seismic Events in Washington Lead to Updates to Response Plans for Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens
…Now that the undocking is complete, more docking attempts are expected to evaluate: How precisely ISRO can execute multiple docking maneuvers, how well the algorithms perform under various conditions, how the integrated inertial systems function and how the propulsion system performs during repeated operations.
Indian engineers successfully undock its two Spadex robot satellites
In a March 12 media roundtable, Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of ULA, said the anomaly was traced to a “manufacturing defect” in one of the internal parts of the nozzle, an insulator. Specific details, he said, remained proprietary. “We have isolated the root cause and made appropriate corrective actions,” he said, which were confirmed in a static-fire test of a motor at a Northrop test site in Utah in February. “So we are back continuing to fabricate hardware and, at least initially, screening for what that root cause was.”
ULA pinpoints reason a nozzle fell off a Vulcan rocket side booster during last launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Today we sent a strong message that West Virginia stands with women,” Morrisey said in a statement. “West Virginia will not bow down to radical gender ideology — we are going to lead with common sense, and the Riley Gaines Act does exactly that.”
WV Gov. Patrick Morrisey Signs Riley Gaines Act into Law Protecting Women’s Spaces
According to this, federal Judge Richard Young ruled that Autumn Cordellione (born Jonathan Richardson), a mentally ill man who believes he’s a woman, must be provided sex change surgery paid for by the state despite a state law banning the use of government funds for gender-bending procedures for trans-identifying inmates. The ACLU had filed a suit in defense of Cordellione, claiming that the state denying him his genital mutilation request violated his 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.
Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules 'Trans' Baby Killer Must Be Given Tax-Funded Gender Surgery 'At the Earliest Opportunity'
He is believed to have committed suicide after suffering severe complications from gender-transition surgery.
The Tragedy of Yarden Silveira
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Robert Spencer: “RFK'd Fries! Too much Flavor! Too much Winning!”
RFK Jr. Enjoys a Burger and Fries at a Steak ‘n Shake, and It’s a Significant Cultural Moment
Christian Toto: Ratner, Cumia, Hammer and more get second chance as Cancel Culture ebbs
Uncanceled: New Era Welcomes Back Fallen Stars
Douglas Murray: As President Trump once memorably put it, “Everything woke turns to s—t.”
Grumpy, Dopey and Woke — Disney’s Snow White disaster
HITHER & YON
Rainer Zitelmann's The Origins of Poverty argues that economic freedom, not socialism, lifts nations from poverty, using global case studies to show how incentives drive wealth and happiness.
The Liberty Road Trip Everyone Should Take

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1 Good morning horde! Happy Friday.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

2 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

3 Happy Fricking Pi Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 07:31 AM (jjoN6)

5 @2/I used to have a different nic: Thanks for the timely call-out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 14, 2025 07:32 AM (O7YUW)

6 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2025 07:32 AM (k3Vs9)

7 Trump Expected To Invoke Wartime Powers To Deport Illegal Tren de Aragua Members

In a better world, they are declared as legal to hunt with no bag limit but you can't have everything.

As for the nurses claiming they killed Jews. They've already claimed that it's a plot from the j00000s! and that they were deliberately taken out of context.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 07:35 AM (jjoN6)

8 Good Morning.

Posted by: Guy crapping into a Colorguard box at March 14, 2025 07:37 AM (/BPes)

9 Good morning again dear horde and happy Purim and birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

10 Hakeem/Haman

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

11 HAHAHA!!!

This is hilarious.

Watch this video of Obama announcing the formation o0f DOGE. Yes, it's real.

Bonus! An appearance by Sheriff Joe being all rootin-tootin for Government Efficiency

https://instapundit.com/708256/

This needs to go on the DOGE website humor section.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 14, 2025 07:39 AM (iJfKG)

12 “Amnesty” - doesn’t that by definition mean at least something is gained in return? Or put another way, words mean things, and making millions of foreign nationals Instant Citizens is … something. A reward for lawbreaking, for one thing.

I’m gratified this was all straightened out in 1986

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:39 AM (hF3wE)

13 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:40 AM (e5NfL)

14 I already crowed on Pixy thread but I'll do it here too, this year's hamentashen are apricot-cranberry and chocolate-peanut butter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

15 DOGE Is Ticking Off Some of the Good Guys

So, if I understand the gist of this correctly, Trump is great, DOGE is great... generally. But when DOGE's actions affect areas of government I care about then they're too young, too inexperienced and they fail to recognize the nuance of all the great people who spent decades watching the fraud and abuse but really, really hated it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

16 SanFranpsycho, I just saw an ad for plum butter lekvar and it is going to wart me until I make some.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 07:44 AM (WzLXQ)

17 Final bit of good news for Raul, was that he found out that the border into Hell is wide open.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2025 07:44 AM (z+ik4)

18 Washington Bill Could Allow Early Release for Juvenile Killers—If They Didn’t Kill More Than Two People

So your first two murders are free? That’s the most perverse 3 strikes law I’ve ever heard of.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2025 07:45 AM (QZThv)

19 >Fetterman blasted Democrats’ opposition to the government spending bill as “total theater”

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Fetterman's statement should be considered 'theater'
he's trying to appear maverick-y

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 07:46 AM (AOsQT)

20 Brazil clears rain forest to build highway for climate summit.

Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?

Posted by: democrat environmentalist whacko, Dumber Than Dirt at March 14, 2025 07:46 AM (Ic155)

21 The Left has only one setting on their dial. They cannot, organically cannot, compromise or even contemplate compromise. So any talk of unifying the country is a total delusion and dead-end. I can see the political temptation and rationale behind it but in fact it's a cruel deceit (or self-deceit). The American people need to be made much more aware of who the Left is, what they want and how they intend to achieve it. In a sense, this should be simple and even easy, as the Left is so luridly obvious in their ways and means.

PS -- Bondi isn't going after anybody. She'll do just enough to keep up appearances but never put her neck out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 14, 2025 07:47 AM (ZlOcj)

22 Happy Friday Morons and Moronettes.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at March 14, 2025 07:47 AM (bNf8H)

23 Trump is moving Overton windows.

GenPop couldn't grasp the enormity of what's been going on all at once. It's unfathomable, at first. So it's being revealed by degrees, as the head of the NSA, Tulsi Gabbard, makes connections in oceans of data stored in Utah using the latest AI tools. Elon is buying Tulsi time to do this by sawing women in half as an opening act distraction.

Sh*t will get real when skads of money are traced to the personal accounts of prominent Lefties and their GOPe fellow travelers. As this happens, public opinion will move. They'll have awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 07:48 AM (Gqoy+)

24 What happens when interest payments alone on the national government debt consumes the entire “budget” - how did they envision this would play out? What would our “expert” economists and the media brain trust suggest? The general theme for several years is reminiscent of looting a corpse. My crystal ball gets cloudy here.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:48 AM (hF3wE)

25 Yonder Horde

The eclipse last night was pretty cool. 🌒

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

26
>Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?

Snort.
Recycling. Our national religion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM (dg+HA)

27 Also, I had to look up what Purim is. I know the Jewish people have many high holy days, some of which are happy, while others are more somber. So I have no idea if it's appropriate to say "Happy Purim". So- Best Wishes to our Jewish friends.

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM (AOsQT)

28 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Replying to Ben Had from tech thread. No, not heading to lake this weekend. Storms brewing tonight so staying home.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM (hoCmQ)

29 plum butter lekvar

That sounds good, love the cooked stone fruit family of foods including all your jams and jelly types.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

30 The NYPost has a chart up this morning saying city schools sre spending $32k per student and over 70 per cent can't read at grade level

DOGE city schools!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2025 07:53 AM (Ijrh7)

31 You have to carefully divide your yard between the Purim decorations and the Ramadan decorations.

Posted by: It's kinda tricky at March 14, 2025 07:54 AM (dg+HA)

32 So your first two murders are free? That’s the most perverse 3 strikes law I’ve ever heard of.
————

One of the core problems with “progressive” lunatics is that the only thing that matters is intentions, not results, nor (perhaps) unintended consequences.

Shielding juveniles has been a long running disaster. Adult criminals routinely recruit children to commit felonies because they are basically untouchable and have not only anonymity they have a “get out of jail free” card. The youth soon learned, as they always do, just how far they can go, and what they can get away with. Watch.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:55 AM (hF3wE)

33 This lady is a reservist in the IDF

sign me up

https://x.com/IDFBabes/status/
1900354189563486322

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)

34 >Fetterman blasted Democrats’ opposition to the government spending bill as “total theater”
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The uniparty tactics just won't die

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2025 07:55 AM (Ijrh7)

35 Most Dangerous

MY Post
Reason
Real Clear They just aggregate mostly.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

36 Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?

Snort.
Recycling. Our national religion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM

When we lived in CT they refused to pick up our trash one day. I called them when I got home from work and asked why...they said the trash guy could see there was recyclable material in our trash can and state law prohibited them from emptying our trash until it was removed and recycled properly.

I stopped our trash pick up contract and got myself a town dump pass and did my trash and the neighbors trash myself after that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2025 07:56 AM (e5NfL)

37 willowed
Trump accused of charging 'protection fee' to foreign company

https://mol.im/a/14497201

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again? at March 14, 2025 07:56 AM (KjLnc)

38 Is Purim where the children dress up in old clothes?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

39 For your consideration an excellent Christopher Guest movie, a mockumentary about the awards campaign for a film called 'home for Purim'

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 07:57 AM (MGB5H)

40 Manned Launch and rescue mission

Launch Date: March 14, 2025 (EDT)
Launch Time: 7:03 p.m. EDT, 2303 UTC - March 15, 00:03 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/Nbp-ZRAULvY

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again? at March 14, 2025 07:58 AM (KjLnc)

41 24 What happens when interest payments alone on the national government debt consumes the entire “budget” - how did they envision this would play out? What would our “expert” economists and the media brain trust suggest? The general theme for several years is reminiscent of looting a corpse. My crystal ball gets cloudy here.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 07:48 AM (hF3wE)

We we put it on a Capital One card and make the min payments.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

42 The rules on free speech are simple. You are free to express whatever you want as long as you aren't a communist. In that case any speech that can be interpreted as supporting communism, or whatever if we're having a bad day, is a jailable offense, subject to a minimum of 20 years in solitary confinement.

But Ellipsis you will say - that goes against our Muh Principles!!! First of all it doesn't go against *my* principles - communists don't have rights as they plan to take yours and communism is deliberate poison.

"But but what about when they try to take those very same rights from YOU"? You may ask. And that's the beauty of it. They will never get the chance. And if someone turns communist once in power, even for a day, even as a joke, that's it, 20 years in solitary.

But that's not FREEDOM, you simper. And I clap back that, yes it in fact is... for everybody but communists.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 07:59 AM (MjxY/)

43 So, if I understand the gist of this correctly, Trump is great, DOGE is great... generally. But when DOGE's actions affect areas of government I care about then they're too young, too inexperienced and they fail to recognize the nuance of all the great people who spent decades watching the fraud and abuse but really, really hated it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

Lots of people on those government teats. We don't want the truth because deep down in places we don't talk about at parties, we want to be on those government teats. You need us on those government teats.

Posted by: Layabouts, moochers, slapdicks and freeloaders at March 14, 2025 08:00 AM (Ic155)

44 Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?

Snort.
Recycling. Our national religion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2025 07:50 AM

When we moved to an address the town deemed 'rural' they took are recycling can away and gave us a second trash can. I was quite pleased.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:00 AM (MGB5H)

45 Go after Soros.

Sure. Why haven't Hungary, Indonesia and many other countries filed extradition papers? Trump is president now. Why not? Because they don't want to? Seems he should be looking for a safe haven instead of still spending money here trying to destroy us.

Funny, isn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2025 08:01 AM (0eaVi)

46 Crack cocaine makes the TDS much more intense.

Posted by: torabora at March 14, 2025 08:01 AM (bVLn/)

47 Purim is unique in that it was a quasi historical event in which the divine arguably plays no role. And pastry.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 08:01 AM (RIvkX)

48 DOGE Is Ticking Off Some of the Good Guys

So, if I understand the gist of this correctly, Trump is great, DOGE is great... generally. But when DOGE's actions affect areas of government I care about then they're too young, too inexperienced and they fail to recognize the nuance of all the great people who spent decades watching the fraud and abuse but really, really hated it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)
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That was my impression as well. Those people spent *decades* watching it all happen--and even participated in it, however reluctantly--but did NOTHING to stop it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2025 08:02 AM (7fElN)

49 When we moved to an address the town deemed 'rural' they took are recycling can away and gave us a second trash can. I was quite pleased.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:00 AM (MGB5H)
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If you don't put the right garbage in the right can, you get a letter with a picture of the offending garbage, as a warning of possible fine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2025 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

50 USCIS Rules on Student VISA

A student’s visa status affects their responsibility to act ethically and honestly because if they do not abide by the rules and regulations of their visa, it could result in serious consequences, such as deportation or criminal charges. Moreover, as foreign visitors, students must observe the laws and regulations of the host country, respect its culture and customs, and act with integrity and honesty. Violation of these laws and regulations could lead to serious consequences, including financial penalties or even imprisonment.

So violation of student speech codes or unlawful assembly would apply.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

51 > DOGE Is Ticking Off Some of the Good Guys
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"Good Guys?"

In our government?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:04 AM (Q4IgG)

52 Schumer is getting disemboweled on Bluesky. Democrats and those who honor democracy are furious. Sober voices like Jen Rubin and Rachel Vindman making certain people get their outrage. I can’t wait to hear what Steve Schmidt has to say tomorrow on The Warning. No doubt there will be veins popping out of his neck.

As Rachel said tonight, he lit a roman candle in a phone booth lmao. Schumer did make one valid point. A shutdown would close the Federal courts, which are the only place we're succeeding right now.

Schumer needs to organize a squad of Democratic leaders to saturate the airwaves explaining why they did this for the people. Call press conferences, give interviews, have Mayor Pete go on Fox.

LOL With what MSM to actually cover any of it? We can't get them to tell the truth about Trump. Why would this be any different? The media is right-wing controlled. They just ignore what doesn't help them.

I bet he is retiring and just not announced it. His book tour schedule is posted on Bluesky. I think it might be quite uncomfortable for him. I hope it will be quite uncomfortable for him.

Posted by: Just the punchline at March 14, 2025 08:04 AM (ycI94)

53 happy Purim

Purim is the holiday with all the skits and whatnot? What's that all about?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

54 Mmmm...pastry.

Posted by: All of us non-tribe members at March 14, 2025 08:04 AM (dg+HA)

55 MSNSDAP’s Melber: People Committing Anti-Tesla Violence Are ‘People Who Protest’ Tesla

Remember that those that do not respect property rights usually have no problems violating your other rights.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

56 Morning Horde , thx JJ.
I have little sympathy for the person writing that there are good people in government who will be impacted by DOGE and are needed to run the government. They collected their check while doing nothing to stop the bloated corrupt incompetence. Those who are necessary and competent will be found

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:06 AM (2Km7O)

57 It's not doughnuts, it's DOGEnuts.

Posted by: Henry of Skalitz at March 14, 2025 08:07 AM (44D8d)

58 HAMAN! (stomps feet, shakes gragger, does mag dump with a Galil)

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 14, 2025 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

59 38 Is Purim where the children dress up in old clothes?

+++

You're thinking about Sackcloth And Ashes Day.

That's usually during wildfire season.

Posted by: Southern Californians at March 14, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

60 Sober voices like Jen Rubin and Rachel Vindman making certain people get their outrage.

Sober voices???

Posted by: dantesed at March 14, 2025 08:07 AM (Oy/m2)

61 JJ and CBD -- any reason why I can't get the podcast on Apple or Spotify anymore? I have to go to the website to listen, which is not easy if I want to listen in my car...

Posted by: RoxxeeRoe at March 14, 2025 08:08 AM (7TzAb)

62 I'm not too sanguine about the prospects of ending birthright citizenship. Not with the current makeup of SCOTUS. But it desperately needs to happen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 14, 2025 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

63 I have little sympathy for the person writing that there are good people in government who will be impacted by DOGE and are needed to run the government. They collected their check while doing nothing to stop the bloated corrupt incompetence. Those who are necessary and competent will be found
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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They LURVED them snow days and COVID months when the people sending them checks for staying home and doing nothing outright told them they, and their positions, were non-essential.

You'd think at some point they would've looked up the meaning of that term.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:09 AM (iv5Pb)

64 The woman writing about DOGE ticking off some government good guys, is a contributor of no particular status, with no particular expertise at all. Athena Thorne… ever heard of her??? This woman has an opinion… great… we all have opinions.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2025 08:09 AM (PCK5/)

65 How long until the hard left makes a move against Schumer's leadership? The Senate is obviously different than the House, but the Dems are angry, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:09 AM (2Km7O)

66 JJ, thank you for the excellent summaries and introduction, so much good writing to read today. Plus, the person that does your graphics really needs a promotion and a pay raise.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (hjWnr)

67 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (53oGX)

68 They collected their check while doing nothing to stop the bloated corrupt incompetence.
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And the same can be said for almost every Republican in Congress. Just sayin.'

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (paSBy)

69 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

I can't tell you how fucking infuriated that makes me.

Either everyone - no matter how little income you make - pays taxes, or nobody pays taxes.

This magical $150k threshold is stupid and divisive.

That is NOT what I voted for.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (yjG8S)

70 The NYPost has a chart up this morning saying city schools sre spending $32k per student and over 70 per cent can't read at grade level

DOGE city schools!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2025 07:53 AM (Ijrh7)

Better yet, give 25K/year to each student to spend at the school of their choice - with requirements that they pass a proficiency test at the end of the year and stop funding the schools directly. That saves 7k per year per student and, done correctly, saves all the money from illegals. SCOTUS may have said that they can attend public schools but they can't (haven't) said that tax dollars must just be shoved directly at them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

71 I was just swatted again moments ago, just before 2AM.
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Thank heavens no one got killed. This sounds like Bob from NSA could help.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (/6hiI)

72 *Sober voices???*

Not me.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at March 14, 2025 08:11 AM (dg+HA)

73 Some of Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers are from CUNY CLEAR. If only someone had been recording them for the past few years. Oh wait, that person was me.

Here is one of Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers, Shazza Abboushi Dallal, from a CUNY CLEAR training that I snuck into and recorded.

https://x.com/wiseoldowl1951/status/1899942291252654378

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at March 14, 2025 08:11 AM (YrqgQ)

74 “Defendants’ unlawful actions are causing Climate United to suffer real and immediate harm,” the March 10 filing warned. “Climate United does not have other committed sources of funding to replace the grant funds.

So it is a taxpayer fund system to abuse taxpayers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

75 https://x.com/IDFBabes/status/
1900354189563486322

I thought Jews weren't supposed to get tattoos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

76 I was kinda hoping for a shut down. Schumer is always fucking with my dreams. What a horrible oppressor.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 08:13 AM (pLaQB)

77 When we moved to an address the town deemed 'rural' they took are recycling can away and gave us a second trash can. I was quite pleased.

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Yep. Up until the USAID / money laundering exposure it was the biggest scam I'd personally seen successfully enacted upon Americans.

Pointless waste of energy accomplishing, at best, a break even, and at worst a pit of energy and financial waste. There is and has never been a single self-supporting all-items recycling facility. They can't exist.

And then around 2018 China disclosed that they would no longer accept our trash, which meant people learned that we were simply wasting time and effort to ship it across the ocean on enormous vessels so that the few that eventually reached that country with the cargo would burn the trash we so carefully washed and sorted.

Say, has anyone figured out where those enormous islands of plastic came from? What a mystery, eh?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:13 AM (iv5Pb)

78 The way to fix this, the only people who should pay income taxes are those making under $150,000 - everyone will bust their balls to exceed the threshold so they no longer have to pay income tax

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 08:13 AM (hF3wE)

79 75 https://x.com/IDFBabes/status/
1900354189563486322

I thought Jews weren't supposed to get tattoos.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

Not supposed to do a lot of things… sort of like us Christians.. nevertheless…

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2025 08:14 AM (PCK5/)

80 I was gonna get paid to protest for that Mahmoud Khalil guy...

Posted by: But I got high at March 14, 2025 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

81 Buttigieg To Pass On Senate Run As He Eyes White House In 2028: Report
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Buttigieg '28 - Tanned, Lubed, and Ready!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:15 AM (Dv3i1)

82 People complaining that DOGE is catching seemingly innocent do-gooders in the crossfire are missing the point.

You can't "take a scalpel" to the federal bureaucracy. Period. No such scalpel was used when expanding it. We will use the same order of magnitude to decrease the scope and power of the government that the left used to grow and empower it. Full stop.

I still can't get over them being butthurt over an email explaining what they did last week. Every week I have to fill out a timesheet that account for every single task I performed - in 15 minute increments - over the course of that week. Every task has to be billed to a project and has to have task code assigned to it, AND I have to put in a longer text description of what I did specifically.

So cry me a f*cking river about an email with 5 bullet points.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:15 AM (rkvaT)

83 Sober voices like ... Rachel Vindman...

Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

84
Hasta la bye-bye, Raul!

Hell, like the American Southwest, is not easily reconquered.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:16 AM (xG4kz)

85 During the long Pax Americana, Europeans have completely forgotten how to fight tyranny and, instead, are themselves becoming tyrants.
_______

JD Vance - Name and Shame European Tour 2025

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:17 AM (Dv3i1)

86 The Dems Are… Winning?! Hakeem Jeffries: 'We Have the Republicans on the Run!'

Boys we got the injuns on the run.

Custer

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

87
Sober voices like ... Rachel Vindman...

Like fingernails on a blackboard ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:17 AM (xG4kz)

88 Say, has anyone figured out where those enormous islands of plastic came from? What a mystery, eh?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:13 AM (iv5Pb)

I've always toyed with starting a Foundation to support the mythical plastic island.

Imagine the sheer magnitude of the diversity of marine life that could use it as a scaffold. Habitat for uncountable colonies of organisms to live and thrive on.

And some monsters want that destroyed. It's inhuman.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:18 AM (KtIIi)

89 Buttigieg vs Vance: Smackdown '28!

Posted by: Tonight on TNT at March 14, 2025 08:18 AM (dg+HA)

90 Good morning!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 08:18 AM (3l52y)

91 https://x.com/IDFBabes/status/
1900354189563486322
Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)

Day-am! She is stunning. And actually brave.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2025 08:19 AM (Dstek)

92 And the same can be said for almost every Republican in Congress. Just sayin.'
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (paSBy)

https://youtu.be/u0CLdVlJ4eA

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

93 actually I posted that link because the woman is very attractive

did you guys miss that part

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)

94 > Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers
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I see the problem right there.

As I opined the other day; Khali should be the ward of the idiot judge who demanded he be released until the case is adjudicated. Make the lawyers pony up a couple million in bail monies to be returned, to some degree, after Khali's deportation, minus government "fees."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:20 AM (Q4IgG)

95 We will have 79degF high temp today, 57MPH wind gusts tomorrow, and snow the next day.

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (3l52y)

96 Ian S gets it

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

97 >I've always toyed with starting a Foundation to support the mythical plastic island.
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A gift has been made in your name to The Human Fund.

Posted by: George Costanza at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (dg+HA)

98
I still can't get over them being butthurt over an email explaining what they did last week. Every week I have to fill out a timesheet that account for every single task I performed - in 15 minute increments - over the course of that week. Every task has to be billed to a project and has to have task code assigned to it, AND I have to put in a longer text description of what I did specifically.

So cry me a f*cking river about an email with 5 bullet points.
Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:15 AM (rkvaT)

About 50% of feds answered it and did so without whining or saying anything to the media...as I said at the time, that 50% is who you'd want to keep.

So, not all feds are bad, just the other 50% (which can be 10-99% of some departments, depending on what the mission of the department is)...but when there's 50% who are bad, and they aren't just bad, but vocal, you get where we are...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (exHjb)

99 Chabad: What is Purim:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2wtmau

פורים שמח ושבת שלום ומבורך

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (9761A)

100 Today Is PI Day.
And Albert Einstein's Birthday.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

101 69 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

I can't tell you how fucking infuriated that makes me.

Either everyone - no matter how little income you make - pays taxes, or nobody pays taxes.

This magical $150k threshold is stupid and divisive.

That is NOT what I voted for.
Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (yjG8S)

If it changes the standard deduction to $150K, why be mad? Your taxes would also plummet, even if they aren't zero...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 14, 2025 08:22 AM (exHjb)

102 Schumer is getting disemboweled on Bluesky.

Are they still calling posts on Bluesky "skeets" or did they finally see how Urban Dictionary defines that?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2025 08:22 AM (Dstek)

103 (Orange Safety Cone enema. Problem solved, If only she hired me as an advisor - jjs)

She might have liked that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

104 @93

Yes, "this page doesn't exist" is very attractive.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)

105 You can book "Mayor Pete" as the next nominee. No mystery there.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (MjxY/)

106 Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick say it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude. Yawwwwwwwwn

https://tinyurl.com/5n6msvvz

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (MGB5H)

107 Putin has rejected the ceasefire.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (WzLXQ)

108 Buttigieg To Pass On Senate Run As He Eyes White House In 2028: Report

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Oh, goodie. We're not going to be rid of the Ghey Alfred E. Neuman yet. Chasten must really want to be the first lady.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 14, 2025 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

109 Just one bin of your beer cans and pea tins can help support a family of 364 trillion plankton in the Indian Ocean. Won't you please help, today?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:24 AM (KtIIi)

110 Schumer did make one valid point. A shutdown would close the Federal courts, which are the only place we're succeeding right now.

Wait a minute, we *need* a shutdown then. Trump can disembowel FedGov with no resistance for real.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2025 08:24 AM (Dstek)

111 Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:25 AM (pkm6L)

112 - "... a quasi historical event in which the divine arguably plays no role."

So it's right there, recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures but it's "quasi" historical?

The Divine (upper case mine) arguably plays no role?
Houston, we have a problem.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 14, 2025 08:25 AM (LajFB)

113 Yes, "this page doesn't exist" is very attractive.

Paste it into your browser and then delete the space between the two lines before you press Enter.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2025 08:25 AM (Dstek)

114 "... it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude."

If it gets me a Section 8 discharge, what do I care?

Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger at March 14, 2025 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

115 94 > Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers
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I see the problem right there.

As I opined the other day; Khali should be the ward of the idiot judge who demanded he be released until the case is adjudicated. Make the lawyers pony up a couple million in bail monies to be returned, to some degree, after Khali's deportation, minus government "fees."
Posted by: Martini Farmer
_____

Khalil has a UK security clearance. I suspect it is the British taxpayers paying the tab for his expensive legal representation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:26 AM (Dv3i1)

116 Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick say it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude. Yawwwwwwwwn

https://tinyurl.com/5n6msvvz
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (MGB5H)

Close. But exactly wrong.

It's bullying for a dude to put on a dress and demand i call him Ma'am, lest i be hounded into unemployment and insolvency for my intransigence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:26 AM (KtIIi)

117 Putin has rejected the ceasefire.

--

Did he talk to Trump like he wanted? Did he specify why he rejected it?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 14, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

118 Buttigieg vs Vance: Smackdown '28!
Posted by: Tonight on TNT at March 14, 2025 08:18 AM (dg+HA)

My opponent talks about America getting fucked in the ass but has he ever experienced that? I have and I'm ready to take it for America! -- Mayor Pete - I have a sphincter as big as the whole outdoors

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

119 116 Well put!

Posted by: Ides Of gp at March 14, 2025 08:27 AM (3l52y)

120 I posted that link because the woman is very attractive

She is very pretty. Lovely eyes. Sad about being an "influencer" and, of course, the shoulder tat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

121 It's bullying for a dude to put on a dress and demand i call him Ma'am, lest i be hounded into unemployment and insolvency for my intransigence.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:26 AM (KtIIi)

Both Islam and Trans religions have no problems using force to make you observant.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

122 The Divine (upper case mine) arguably plays no role?
Houston, we have a problem.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 14, 2025 08:25 AM (LajFB)
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Jews these days!

השם ירחם

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 14, 2025 08:28 AM (9761A)

123 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2025 08:28 AM (77rzZ)

124 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

I can't tell you how fucking infuriated that makes me.

Either everyone - no matter how little income you make - pays taxes, or nobody pays taxes.

This magical $150k threshold is stupid and divisive.

That is NOT what I voted for.
Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (yjG8S)

If it changes the standard deduction to $150K, why be mad? Your taxes would also plummet, even if they aren't zero...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 14, 2025 08:22 AM (exHjb)
******
I'm not a fan because I believe that everyone should have skin I. the game.

It was clarified by Howard Lutnick that this proposal would happen only if we get to a balanced budget.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

125
Are they still calling posts on Bluesky "skeets" or did they finally see how Urban Dictionary defines that?
Posted by: Ian S

There's a skeeter on my peter.
Whack it off! (Whack if off!)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:29 AM (xG4kz)

126 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

I can't tell you how fucking infuriated that makes me.

Either everyone - no matter how little income you make - pays taxes, or nobody pays taxes.

This magical $150k threshold is stupid and divisive.

That is NOT what I voted for.
Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2025 08:10 AM (yjG8S)

Oh, I don't know. While I agree with your either/or example, because everyone should have skin in the game.

This seems to me to be also how the game is played if Trump truly is moving toward having our national expenses paid by tariffs.

So, he moves the tax-free line up to where you start seeing the incomes where Democrats form a majority. They're the people who are always spouting off about how they want to pay more taxes...well, go right ahead, Petunia! Pay away.

As inefficiencies, fraud, robbery, etc are squeezed out of the budget, that line will (should?) move upward, eventually eliminating the income tax or coming close to it.

It's a shame, but a certain amount of politics must be played cuz the naked ape is a political animal.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 14, 2025 08:30 AM (iJfKG)

127 Are they still calling posts on Bluesky "skeets" or did they finally see how Urban Dictionary defines that?
Posted by: Ian S

There is a whole song about it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:30 AM (MGB5H)

128 A long hard look at Witkoff. He is negotiating both supposed ceasefire and things are getting worse.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:30 AM (WzLXQ)

129 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

And the media is going to pay more attention to that than the time Biden said how under his plan, no one who makes under 400k would pay taxes.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 08:30 AM (jjoN6)

130 There's no "magical" threshold for paying/not taxes.

Individual or joint? Income sources? Etc.

My position on this issue as a tax payer for the last 40 years is this;
- Refund every cent I've paid over those 40 years, then fix the tax code(s)
- or-
- Eliminate the personal income tax for single/joint filers with no income ceiling

Either or. I don't care. But as a taxpayer, owing every year, I see that not a goddamn cent of my money was ever spent appropriately.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

131 >>Paste it into your browser and then delete the space between the two lines before you press Enter.

Yeah, I'm not doing that. Oh, well.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2025 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

132 Peter Skeeters was the garage band name for..

Posted by: Oh, never mind... at March 14, 2025 08:32 AM (dg+HA)

133 Trump is trying to build wealth and make us the most powerful country on the planet again. This is in direct response to the commies plan to have us join the third world and take down western civilization with it. Can the People spend money better than the government? FUCK YES. Can the government generate wealth? NOPE.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:32 AM (MjxY/)

134 Yes, "this page doesn't exist" is very attractive.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)

Either find and remove "%20" from the URL or use this.

https://tinyurl.com/3b2hk6zt+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

135 TGIF

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:33 AM (Cki93)

136 Elsewhere, while we ponder the concept of harbingers, on the national political scene, it seems as if Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have been boxed into a neat little corner vis a vis the upcoming CR that passed in the House and now heads to the Senate.

We should have got way more cuts if the Dems are going to roll over.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 14, 2025 08:34 AM (jc0TO)

137 Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick say it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude. Yawwwwwwwwn

Nothing like jumping on a bandwagon on fire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

138 >>Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel.

Heh

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:34 AM (Cki93)

139 Peter Skeeters was the garage band name for..
Posted by: Oh, never mind... at March 14, 2025 08:32 AM (dg+HA

Rammstein.

Everyone knows that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:34 AM (KtIIi)

140 I now regret my earlier post

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:35 AM (AOsQT)

141 It's Saturday Eve.

Posted by: Don't look now at March 14, 2025 08:35 AM (dg+HA)

142 Putin has rejected the ceasefire.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:23 AM (WzLXQ)

Link? I'm not seeing that anywhere.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

143 Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva died Thursday morning at the age of 77 due to complications from lung cancer treatment, his office announced, just a week after the passing of late Texas Rep. Sylvester Turner.

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Two down, only (213 + 47 = ) 260 left to go.

Trump Curse > Trump Mojo > Trump Voodoo

/I blame Putin -- and denounce myself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (pkm6L)

144 utin has rejected the ceasefire.

--

Did he talk to Trump like he wanted? Did he specify why he rejected it?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 14, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

Everywhere I looked, it said that he did. there are technical issues unresolved. But the negotiations are ongoing. Will probably take a few weeks. Like who will tell the Ukes to stop shooting, what to do with surrounded.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (g47mK)

145 >>Khalil has a UK security clearance. I suspect it is the British taxpayers paying the tab for his expensive legal representation.

Whaaaaaaaaaat????

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (Cki93)

146 Revealed: Tesla Vandalism, Terrorism Coordinated Across Vast Leftwing Online Network

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Make RICO and The Insurrection Act Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (pkm6L)

147 Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (pkm6L)

Can one undenounce? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (MjxY/)

148 >It's bullying for a dude to put on a dress and demand i call him Ma'am, lest i be hounded into unemployment and insolvency for my intransigence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
----

once again you have crystallized my thoughts exactly

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (AOsQT)

149 Just read a headline over at Instapundit about how Trump doesn't want anyone who makes under $150k a year to pay income taxes.

I can't tell you how fucking infuriated that makes me.

-

I like the idea of it, but the reality is that millions of people get a lot more out of tax-time than they ever put in. I'm not talking about welfare, food stamps, section 8, etc., either. Just the EITC alone is a lottery win for millions of low-income zero tax payers, and Biden expanded it to millions more. While people that pay taxes above some arbitrary line (and don't take any welfare) are punished.

Trump is a marketer and promoter. I think this is a way to get a BUNCH of people on board with what is about to happen, and hopefully eventually tariffs will be in place and taxes will be a moot point.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (iv5Pb)

150 It is wrong, but also difficult not to speak ill of the dead when they were pieces of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (/x6eu)

151 13 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

It's still not funny!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (G5+As)

152 Then very , very secret negotiations, territorial concessions are ongoing. And will not be splattered all over the news.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (g47mK)

153 Can one undenounce? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (MjxY/)

Re-nounce?

....

It's like that whole flammable/inflammable thing, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (KtIIi)

154 146 Revealed: Tesla Vandalism, Terrorism Coordinated Across Vast Leftwing Online Network

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It's mostly peaceful.

Posted by: Crappy News Networks at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (dg+HA)

155 It's also...
National Potato Chip Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

156 Buttigieg '28 - Tanned, Lubed, and Ready!
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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That's hot!

Posted by: VP Daivd Hogggggggg at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (5hfjS)

157 My wife always believed in recycle so we paid $1 a month for the special recycle container, even I would opine from time to time that it was pointless. Well here in East Texas, the only large scale recycling collector ((which every town used) burned down last summer, and no one has put out any money to rebuild it. The city had to admit “ok now it’s all just going to the landfill, sorry” and that was that.

Ps - why it burned down, apparently they had a parking lot and a storage warehouse full of dry pressed cardboard they couldn’t get rid of, and no working sprinkler system. Oops.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (T+ixL)

158 Either or. I don't care. But as a taxpayer, owing every year, I see that not a goddamn cent of my money was ever spent appropriately.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

-

Because taxes were always punitive. They didn't really need them since there was invisible printed money available whenever they wanted it, but taxes were a useful tool against you.

Same as how giving the same invisible printed money to the non-productive people below and above you was a reward.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (iv5Pb)

159 This is one reason a national sales tax replacing all other taxes would be good. EVERYONE would have to pay at some point. No cut outs. Also simplifies the tax code and collection.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (/x6eu)

160 Khalil has a UK security clearance. I suspect it is the British taxpayers paying the tab for his expensive legal representation.

==

This is confirmed, right ?

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

161 See: Irregardless.

Posted by: Regardless at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (dg+HA)

162 >>Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick say it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude. Yawwwwwwwwn

https://tinyurl.com/5n6msvvz

And I should care what these people think why?
Of course she's employed by Paul Ryan's Fox News.
Fake, cartoonish "conservative". . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (Cki93)

163 152 Then very , very secret negotiations, territorial concessions are ongoing. And will not be splattered all over the news.
Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (g47mK)

Almost certainly.. Media hates this.. the point at which they just start making stuff up..

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (PCK5/)

164 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:37 AM (iv5Pb)

He wants the Democrats to come out against it

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (MjxY/)

165 150 It is wrong, but also difficult not to speak ill of the dead when they were pieces of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (/x6eu)

The bastard never bothered to defend himself from shit I've said while he's alive, so why should i care that he can't now?

"Don't speak ill of the dead" ought to have a grandfather clause.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (KtIIi)

166 It's also...
National Potato Chip Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

You mean, I get Laysd today!

Woo-hoo!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (iJfKG)

167 >>See: Irregardless.

It's a doggie dog world.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:41 AM (Cki93)

168 Ps - why it burned down, apparently they had a parking lot and a storage warehouse full of dry pressed cardboard they couldn’t get rid of, and no working sprinkler system. Oops.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 08:39 AM (T+ixL)

Perhaps planned obsolescence.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:41 AM (MGB5H)

169 I used to have a different nic, it was just on the radio and a quick search shows several results.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:41 AM (WzLXQ)

170 Government bleeds me every year… pay and pay and pay

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (PCK5/)

171 Almost certainly.. Media hates this.. the point at which they just start making stuff up..
Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (PCK5/)

what else is new...

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (g47mK)

172 Ps - why it burned down, apparently they had a parking lot and a storage warehouse full of dry pressed cardboard they couldn’t get rid of, and no working sprinkler system. Oops.
Posted by: Tom Servo

-

There was no market even with laws - sorry, "regulations" - in place requiring X% recycled content that were written specifically to prop up the pretend recycling "market" for the items.

There was a time when you could find articles about the laws and percentages. IIRC newspapers were what got the whole thing rolling.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out that men cheat to pursue femininity? at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (iv5Pb)

173 “ …. demand i call him Ma'am, lest i be hounded into unemployment and insolvency for my intransigence.”

It’s also a sort of compliance test. Every new outrage is a way of culling out the undesirables. Very effective. Those with long memories recall “Tolererance” was the buzzword when everyone was asked to tolerate deviancy, out of a sense of fairness and decency and the rest of it.

The leftists depend on decent, peaceable people’s willingness to compromise, get along, avoid conflicts. Note well there is no tolerance offered in kind, as usual they were … lying. “No tolerance for the intolerant!” blah blah blah.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (hF3wE)

174 Either or. I don't care. But as a taxpayer, owing every year, I see that not a goddamn cent of my money was ever spent appropriately.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

Correct. The "income" tax is not there to fund the government, it is there to punish people who disagree or disapprove of the democrat run Deep State. Even suggesting this amount or that amount does not have to "pay" brings out the hate and discontent that you have some how escaped the punishment. Not to mention the "release their tax returns!" ruse to further punish those the Deep State dislikes.

Posted by: Turbo Tax, Just Another Teat Sucker at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (Ic155)

175 It is wrong, but also difficult not to speak ill of the dead when they were pieces of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2025 08:38 AM (/x6eu)

It's easy. Let not their name be spoken. Let them fade from memory as though they had never existed. Let their works crumble and turn to dust.

There is plenty of evil still active in the world. I have no time for evil which is removed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

176 "My wife always believed in recycle so..."

See? It's an article of faith.
National religion.

Posted by: With weekly rites at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (dg+HA)

177 Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?
Posted by: democrat environmentalist whacko, Dumber Than Dirt

I'e been ordering stuff I don't need on Amazon just so I have more boxes, foam peanuts, and packing materials to burn in my backyard.

Posted by: Doing My Part at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

178 "Don't speak ill of the dead" ought to have a grandfather clause.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (KtIIi)

Eh, kind of a collarary to going to a funeral, not for the dead but those left behind. Similarly, he is getting God's retribution if he deserves it, so any I'll you speak only affects loved ones who can't do any more about it now that you can.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2025 08:43 AM (/x6eu)

179 >>It's also... National Potato Chip Day.

>>You mean, I get Laysd today! Woo-hoo!

I like big Utz and I cannot lie. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:43 AM (Cki93)

180 He wants the Democrats to come out against it

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I enjoy doing similar things with my name field.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Single moms, your children are a detriment to society and potential mates, not a bene at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (iv5Pb)

181 This is one reason a national sales tax replacing all other taxes would be good. EVERYONE would have to pay at some point. No cut outs. Also simplifies the tax code and collection.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Bingo. Simple, low percentage, and taxes everyone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (lTGtQ)

182 The Republicans should make a move now to get Stefanik confirmed. They were worried about the margin in the House but the Dems have lost two this far. Move now so the election for the replacement will be in the same time as Turner and Grijalva.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (2Km7O)

183 The way I see it, on one side there is US and Russia who want a ceasefire to lead to long term peace. Because we do not want another Minsk and Istanbul - a pause to rearm and start again. On the other there is the EU, UK and Ukraine, who want to find a way to make it ..less than permanent.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (g47mK)

184 From a report in Human Events -
The Middle East Eye has revealed on Wednesday that Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University masters grad who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday night after his green car was revoked by the State Department, had security clearance from the British government. He worked, the outlet states, as a "programme manager at the Syria Office in the British embassy in Beirut from 2018 to 2022."

Khalil "worked as a local manager for the Syria Chevening Program, a prestigious UK government international scholarship scheme, as well as for the Conflict, Stability, and Security Fund," MEE states. Khalil came to the US in 2023, obtained a green card, and completed graduate studies at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs in December 2024.

British diplomats had kind words for Khalil. Former diplomat Andrew Waller said that to gain his position in the UK's embassy in Beirut, he "went through a vetting process to get the job and was cleared to work on sensitive issues for the British government." Waller said that the UK program with which Khalil was affiliated is a "flagship UK soft power policy."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)

185 Without USAID and the NGO’s, Buttiegieg is going to find that a pointless campaign will not be the cash cow it has been in the past.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (T+ixL)

186 It's a bit predictable that Putin wouldn't lunge at peace talks. The fact that he is even making noises like he's considering it is the story. Now begins the dance. Give the newsfaces a paper bag to breath into and let Events continue to unfold, i guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:45 AM (KtIIi)

187
Hakeem the Hand Puppet does not realize that the agitation he feels deep in his bowels is Pelosi's hand still pulling the metaphorical strings.

Hand puppets are inflicted with such a lack of self awareness.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:45 AM (xG4kz)

188 I spoke ill of Raul while he was alive now I never have to speak of him again.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:45 AM (WzLXQ)

189 This week saw one of the strangest movie promotional events ever. Skipping all the major cities, Disney decided to throw a premiere event for 100 people at a remote castle in Segovia, Spain.

I hear they bayoneted the 7 or 8 survivors.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)

190 If something can be effectively recycled, someone will come and pick it up from you for free. In fact they will also steal it, if they can)

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 08:46 AM (hF3wE)

191 The Republicans should make a move now to get Stefanik confirmed. They were worried about the margin in the House but the Dems have lost two this far. Move now so the election for the replacement will be in the same time as Turner and Grijalva.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (2Km7O)

Hochul was making mouth noises about how she was going to change the rules so stefanik wouldn't be replaced. No idea what happened with that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:46 AM (MGB5H)

192
afflicted, not inflicted

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:46 AM (xG4kz)

193 Dedenounce

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:46 AM (MjxY/)

194 >>It's also... National Potato Chip Day.

Americans could use a good colon cleanout.

Bring me back!

Posted by: Olestra at March 14, 2025 08:46 AM (Y1sOo)

195 Does this mean I still have to put out my 3 recycling containers curbside for pick up?
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I'e been ordering stuff I don't need on Amazon just so I have more boxes, foam peanuts, and packing materials to burn in my backyard.

-

It's sort of neat to realize one man is directly responsible for 25% or more of all household waste in the United States.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (iv5Pb)

196 Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

197 You mean, I get Laysd today!

Woo-hoo!
Posted by: naturalfake at March 14, 2025 08:40 AM (iJfKG)
******
Spud-tacular.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

198 176 "My wife always believed in recycle so..."

See? It's an article of faith.
National religion.
Posted by: With weekly rites at March 14, 2025 08:42 AM (dg+HA)

If you wanna save the environment...reduce your use of resources. If you can't do that, reuse some of your resources. Don't bother much with recycling b/c that's the least effective strategy, anyway...by a mile...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (exHjb)

199 Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)

Thanks !! Wish I could say that is surprise...Trump's people needs to have a chat with the UK skunks. Who will, of course, deny any knowledge, and will condemn his "unlawful" activities.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (g47mK)

200 “ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

James 1:4

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (uSWvs)

201 I like big Utz and I cannot lie. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:43 AM (Cki93)

Pretzy sneaky sis

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (MjxY/)

202 "Don't speak ill of the dead" ought to have a grandfather clause.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Given how much I disliked my grandparents, I agree with that statement.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (jjoN6)

203 160
Repost
REPORT: Mahmoud Khalil had security clearance from British Government

https://tinyurl.com/msyhf3rv

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? Again?! at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (KjLnc)

204 >>British diplomats had kind words for Khalil. Former diplomat Andrew Waller said that to gain his position in the UK's embassy in Beirut, he "went through a vetting process to get the job and was cleared to work on sensitive issues for the British government." Waller said that the UK program with which Khalil was affiliated is a "flagship UK soft power policy."

Take him -- he's all yours!

And really, Hum Abideen's family Islamic newsletter (founded by her late father, edited by Huma until 2008, etc.) is all about how to subvert the West from within. Just look at how deep Huma has burrowed into US power.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (Cki93)

205 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

James 1:4
Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (uSWvs)

Ok, fine, I'll get back to work.

Not my fault the laptop had to update.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (KtIIi)

206 On the issue of recycling, there are companies that recycle aluminum and some steel, because those can be done while making a profit. There are a few places that can recycle paper/cardboard, because that can be done at about breakeven, and some customers will pay a premium to say they use recycled. Nothing else makes economic sense.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (lTGtQ)

207 If you wanna save the environment...reduce your use of resources. If you can't do that, reuse some of your resources. Don't bother much with recycling b/c that's the least effective strategy, anyway...by a mile...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 14, 2025 08:47 AM (exHjb)
---
Heh. I remember the triangle they'd plaster all over recycling locations. It said, "Reduce - Reuse - Recycle."

I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (7fElN)

208 Stefanik is getting the short stick, but she must have saw this coming when she lobbied Trump for this spot.

It is tough to be a Republican in a marxist state

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

209 181 This is one reason a national sales tax replacing all other taxes would be good. EVERYONE would have to pay at some point. No cut outs. Also simplifies the tax code and collection.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Bingo. Simple, low percentage, and taxes everyone.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 08:44 AM (lTGtQ)

I would add a family debit card that is loaded with money equal to what the lowest quintile would pay in taxes.
So if that is $30k and the pay at the pump tax is 10% they get $3000/12=500/mth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

210 And really, Hum Abideen's family Islamic newsletter (founded by her late father, edited by Huma until 2008, etc.) is all about how to subvert the West from within. Just look at how deep Huma has burrowed into US power.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (Cki93)

There's def a Hillary rug munching joke in there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (MGB5H)

211 Trump is trying to build wealth and make us the most powerful country on the planet again. This is in direct response to the commies plan to have us join the third world and take down western civilization with it. Can the People spend money better than the government? FUCK YES. Can the government generate wealth? NOPE.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:32 AM (MjxY/)

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

I really liked your question from a couple days ago: "Can collectivism exist in chaos? Can individualism exist in order?"

BTW, ICYMI, this was a willowed response to you last night in The Cafe:

Just saw your response to my question this morning:

"Does God have and only need one ear?"

Scarily bizarre ... [and as I gleefully like to call you and tell others about it:] My sibling from another dribbling.

LOL

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (pkm6L)

212 This is confirmed, right ?
Posted by: runner
_____

see 184, FWIW. As to who is paying for his lawyers, it's probably equally as likely that US taxpayers are covering the cost as it is British taxpayers. But it's just my opinion based on my observations.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

213 203. WTF?

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

214 "My wife always believed in recycle so..."
-

Long ago there was a photo of a garbage barge that needed to wait to dock to be unloaded, and it caught on fire.

That was their George Floyd photo op moment for their absurd and unimaginably wasteful recycling push.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (iv5Pb)

215 Chevening? We can help with that.

Posted by: Gold Bond Medicated Powder at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (dg+HA)

216
Bring me back!
Posted by: Olestra

"Anal leakage" was such a vividly disgusting turn of phrase. It truly was a pity that "sharts", a laugh out loud word for much the same thing, did not come into wide use until later.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (xG4kz)

217 206 On the issue of recycling, there are companies that recycle aluminum and some steel, because those can be done while making a profit. There are a few places that can recycle paper/cardboard, because that can be done at about breakeven, and some customers will pay a premium to say they use recycled. Nothing else makes economic sense.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (lTGtQ)

With the scrubbers we have now the best use of plastic and paper may just be burn them to make electricity.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

218 Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University masters grad who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday night after his green car was revoked by the State Department, had security clearance from the British government.

-

They could have saved a lot of words and just said spy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (lTGtQ)

219 And really, Hum Abideen's family Islamic newsletter (founded by her late father, edited by Huma until 2008, etc.) is all about how to subvert the West from within. Just look at how deep Huma has burrowed into US power.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:48 AM (Cki93)

There's def a Hillary rug munching joke in there.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (MGB5H)

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Beat me to it; was going to "fix it" by noting "Just look at how deep Huma burrowed into Hillary's ass."

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:51 AM (pkm6L)

220 188. Well Said. I lived in Tucson area when Raul was a Pima County commissioner. I will take high road and say RIP

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

221 See: Irregardless.

It's a doggie dog world.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:41 AM (Cki93)

***

I could care less...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (1FWWQ)

222 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

https://tinyurl.com/2r3ewpny

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

223 @191BruceWayne, I'm a New Yorker and as far as I know that effort by some Dems in the Dem legislature supermajority has died. The rules are still 1) schedule the election within ten days of resignation or death 2) election in 70-80 days. Supposed to be completed within 90 days . Of course that could change

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (2Km7O)

224 That was their George Floyd photo op moment for their absurd and unimaginably wasteful recycling push.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 08:50 AM (iv5Pb)

Maybe it was just Viking garbage receiving a fond farewell.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (KtIIi)

225 If you wanna save the environment...reduce your use of resources.
-

But how are people going to know I'm an environmentalist trying to save the planet if I don't buy and drive a new $85K electric vehicle every two or three years?

If I'm in a used Corolla that has already been built and can easily travel 200K+ miles before needing to be replaced then people will just think I can't afford anything better, and I don't want them to get the wrong idea about my love for the environment.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (iv5Pb)

226 Just look at how deep Huma has burrowed into US power.
_____

Burrowed? Like a tick!

Cacklecacklecacklecacklecacklecackle!

Posted by: Hillary! at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

227 Brit Lass Wifey Chick has an iron constitution.
And back in like 2004 we were on vacation in a tiny motel room and she had a bunch from one of those olestra bags of Lays. I had told her it wasn't a good idea.

So one minute we were sitting on the bed talking, the next she bolted and I mean BOLTED to the bathroom.

We still talk about that smell to this day.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (MjxY/)

228 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

https://tinyurl.com/2r3ewpny
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

So?

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (MGB5H)

229 the problem with potato chips is all the breakage

Lay's do not hold up well in the journey to the grocery shelf

Fritos have a good record of survival

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (AOsQT)

230 Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (2Km7O)

Thnx for the update.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (MGB5H)

231 Economic indicators are fantastic right now, and once Tarrif situation is settled, the markets will roar, especially Chip Stocks

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

232 >>Khalil has a UK security clearance. I suspect it is the British taxpayers paying the tab for his expensive legal representation.

Whaaaaaaaaaat????

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:36 AM (Cki93)

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

Was he being handled by Christopher Steele?

/Unbelievable. I say F*ck Off to The Other "Four Eyes!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (pkm6L)

233 John Bolton is the Bozo The Clown of Cardinal Richelieus.

He's an emminence polka-dot.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (KtIIi)

234 The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

Acting like a 13-year-old girl who gets her clique to all wear matching clothes on the same day demonstrates an utterly embarrassing level of unseriousness. If you need fashion to boost your ego enough to pursue match and/or science, maybe you really shouldn't. Gah, I hate this nonsense!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (Cki93)

235 John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.
____

That the killing stops and WWIII is avoided is just the icing on the cake.

What a maroon.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (Dv3i1)

236 > John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Says the idiot warmonger, stripped of his security clearance and referred to as "a very stupid man" by the sitting President.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

237 I used to have a different nic, it was just on the radio and a quick search shows several results.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 08:41 AM (WzLXQ)

Weird. The only source I'm seeing that says it was rejected is The Kyiv Independent (a source of questionable independence on this topic). Most say that Putin wants some modifications - which I suppose could be framed as a rejection. Reuters and BBC (from just a couple hours ago) suggest concerns - which, again, I suppose could be framed as a rejection.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

238 the problem with potato chips is all the breakage

Lay's do not hold up well in the journey to the grocery shelf

Fritos have a good record of survival
Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (AOsQT)

Ruffles have ridges.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (MGB5H)

239 Nobody is taking John Bolton's call these days. He must sit at home and yell at the walls and his computer

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

240 81 Buttigieg To Pass On Senate Run As He Eyes White House In 2028: Report
________
Buttigieg '28 - Tanned, Lubed, and Ready!
Posted by: Chuck Martel

MAGA- Make Anal Great Again! Or Make America Gay Always!

As a candidate...I just don't get it with Pete. Gay will turn off a lot of the Dem minority base, he has no major accomplishments to brag about, and he doesn't have the charm and charisma of Obama to take advantage of his "blank slate" status. Stranger things have happened, but I can't see him as a serious threat.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (JCZqz)

241 754 and thru da links

thx jjs

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

242 good morning JJ, Horde

"Don't speak ill of the dead." Baloney. One of the crucial functions of studying history is to warn the living. "Don't be like Hitler / Lenin / Mao / Judas Iscariot etc"

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (uWKn/)

243 The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

Acting like a 13-year-old girl who gets her clique to all wear matching clothes on the same day demonstrates an utterly embarrassing level of unseriousness. If you need fashion to boost your ego enough to pursue match and/or science, maybe you really shouldn't. Gah, I hate this nonsense!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (Cki93)

On Wednesdays we wear pink.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (MGB5H)

244 239 Nobody is taking John Bolton's call these days. He must sit at home and yell at the walls and his computer
Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

I bet he picks up spam calls.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

245 Lol.

I'm wearing a purple tshirt today.

Wifey made fun of me.

None of this has anything to do with STEM.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (KtIIi)

246 the problem with potato chips is all the breakage

Lay's do not hold up well in the journey to the grocery shelf

Fritos have a good record of survival

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (AOsQT)

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Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY those Costco crack cocaine Kettle Krinkle Cut with Himalayan Salt potato chips.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (pkm6L)

247 Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (pkm6L)

I saw, its awesome, but if we commence having these 11 hour apart conversations for days and days people might start thinking we're weird.

The only solution is for you to quit your job.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (MjxY/)

248 Does anyone actually pay any attention to John Bolton anymore? He's as much of a dead letter as Kristol, the Lincoln Project or the propaganda ministries

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (2Km7O)

249 But how are people going to know I'm an environmentalist trying to save the planet if I don't buy and drive a new $85K electric vehicle every two or three years?

Your words are hurtful and now I will have to go to Starbucks in my new tesla and have a grande Moccha Chokaa Lotta in a recycled paper cup for $80.00 to calm my nerves while I do my taxes to get a refund of my own money that was kept from me without any interest paid to fund USAID programs.

Posted by: Karen McAwful, Wine Mom and Deadbeat at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (Ic155)

250 >>John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

OMG, that describes every American politician EVER who has tried to negotiate peace between two non-US countries. Exhibit A is John Kerry.

Next Bolton will tell that -- yes! -- wat is, in fact, wet!!

But pertaining to Trump, it's not "only" this, it's that he wants to stop the carnage on both sides, something Bolton has never cared about.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (Cki93)

251 Hemet Dillion cleared the Judiciary comm yesterday, and will be up for Confirmation soon for a Deputy AG spot. Once in, she will as important as Pam Bondi

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

252 He's an emminence polka-dot.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (KtIIi)

It's a put on.

Posted by: dantesed at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (Oy/m2)

253 Side effects include chevening and anal leakage.

Posted by: Legal disclaimers so we don't get sued at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (dg+HA)

254 236 > John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.
--------
Says the idiot warmonger, stripped of his security clearance and referred to as "a very stupid man" by the sitting President.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

For the Abraham Accords alone they should have given him Nobel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

255 Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 08:52 AM (1FWWQ)

I would just assume you and me not do this.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (MjxY/)

256 the problem with potato chips is all the breakage

Lay's do not hold up well in the journey to the grocery shelf

Fritos have a good record of survival
Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 08:53 AM (AOsQT)

Ruffles have ridges.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (MGB5H)
*****
There's always Pringles

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

257 John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Just like Hitler!

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (MjxY/)

258 But pertaining to Trump, it's not "only" this, it's that he wants to stop the carnage on both sides, something Bolton has never cared about.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 08:57 AM (Cki93)

It disgusts me that there actually is a difference.

Some want peace for the sake of peace.

Some want perpetual almost-war for the sake of acting like they're the ones struggling for peace.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (KtIIi)

259 Lol.

I'm wearing a purple tshirt today.

Wifey made fun of me.

None of this has anything to do with STEM.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (KtIIi)

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

You're simply celebrating Blueberry Pi Day.

/I imagine Pixy celebrates Rasberry Pi Day ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (pkm6L)

260 see 184, FWIW. As to who is paying for his lawyers, it's probably equally as likely that US taxpayers are covering the cost as it is British taxpayers. But it's just my opinion based on my observations.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

I did. thanks. Stinks to high heaves of M I agencies, that are thoroughly penetrated by islamists.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (g47mK)

261 Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

How about supporting men in STEM since they don't get any parades or support?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (jjoN6)

262 There's always Pringles
Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

Once you pop you can't stop.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (MGB5H)

263 229 the problem with potato chips is all the breakage

Lay's do not hold up well in the journey to the grocery shelf

Fritos have a good record of survival
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Pringle gave us potato chip magazines. Imma surprised they haven't been outlawed.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (pLaQB)

264 If anybody wants to have a few beers and laugh, watch the Lincoln project election night coverage on youtube. Kristol was crying

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

265 MALGA!

Posted by: Olestra at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (Y1sOo)

266 Burnt Orange (G D sunset color) vs Hunter Orange in SEC Basketball today.

Hookem Horns

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

267 The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

-

Want to see something fun? You've got to look carefully or you'll miss it, but it's hilarious. Go here, UC Davis:

"What Can I Do with a Chemical Engineering Degree?"

https://tinyurl.com/9evtp5rt

And read the article and, more importantly, the photos and text associated with all the women and non-white people in the photos.

Because guess what all the chemical engineers look like?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (iv5Pb)

268
The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

Acting like a 13-year-old girl who gets her clique to all wear matching clothes on the same day demonstrates an utterly embarrassing level of unseriousness. If you need fashion to boost your ego enough to pursue match and/or science, maybe you really shouldn't. Gah, I hate this nonsense!
Posted by: Lizzy

At what time today are we all to flit about and decorate one another's lockers?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (xG4kz)

269 Apple pie at the local store is selling at $3.14 .

Posted by: dantesed at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (Oy/m2)

270 65 How long until the hard left makes a move against Schumer's leadership? The Senate is obviously different than the House, but the Dems are angry, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:09 AM (2Km7O)

Who is next-up in the Democrat lineup? Who could get a majority of the all-crazy Democrat Senators? Durbin?

I cannot see Bernie, Pocahontas, Spartacus, or any who've been there two terms or less.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (aBgBM)

271 If a congressman dressed up as Napoleon and demanded I call him Your Excellency I would refuse. Why would I call a dude in a dress congresswoman?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (LkLld)

272 John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

--------

Hahahaha.

The first argument from ConInc was "we must defend Ukraine to the bitter end because the purest, Most Sacred Democracy since Athens is under assault by the hated Russians!"

When that turned out to be one of the biggest ever flops in the history of grifter propaganda, they shifted to "we must fight Russia to the bitter end, because Ukraine is the richest country in the world and we have to loot it before the Russians do."

Now that everyone has pointed out that it isn't, and we don't, the new and final argument is "there can be no peace that might benefit Orangeman politically."

TDS - the last refuge of the neocon scoundrel. Anyone who ever believed a word these scumbags said about Ukraine should go buy a dunce cap and wear it for a year.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (BI5O2)

273 Good publicity and a Nobel sounds better than 10K, don't it John. You should have held out.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (MjxY/)

274 264 If anybody wants to have a few beers and laugh, watch the Lincoln project election night coverage on youtube. Kristol was crying
Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

At the Bulwark they moved everyone to the first floor so they couldnt jump.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

275 Potato chips are NOT a healthy alternative to vegetables

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 09:01 AM (1FWWQ)

276 "Trump is moving Overton windows."

He's teasing big tax cuts and will soon be proving that half of government non-discretionary spending has been wasted or stolen. Then connect these dots. Most of America will benefit from the end of this waste and theft. Dirty denizens of DC not so much.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:01 AM (Gqoy+)

277 Buttgiggle focusing on 2028 is hysterical. It will give the voters a chance to see what a useless sack of hollow crap he really is.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:01 AM (2Km7O)

278 Pringle gave us potato chip magazines. Imma surprised they haven't been outlawed.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (pLaQB)

They even sell them as jungle clips.

Think of the children.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:02 AM (KtIIi)

279 John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

Also John Bolton: A real man would destroy the world in nuclear fire and dance in the ashes. Kali maa, Kali maa, Kali maa.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

280 The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

-

When did we revert back to talismans?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 14, 2025 09:02 AM (lTGtQ)

281 Also one more comical link, and maybe the funniest thing you'll read all week:

"I’m a psychologist who studies couples—if you say ‘yes’ to these 4 questions, your relationship is stronger than most

1. If you weren’t a couple, would you still be close friends?"

https://tinyurl.com/musxxz7v

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:03 AM (iv5Pb)

282 Why were the idiots in Trump Tower wearing red.
They looked like MAGA shirts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

283 I saw, its awesome, but if we commence having these 11 hour apart conversations for days and days people might start thinking we're weird.

The only solution is for you to quit your job.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (MjxY/)

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lol

Yes, it's like having some kind of time-traveling conversation.

AND my wifey agrees with you-- trying to get me to retire for the past decade!

Which would result in me likely being frequently listed here as a permanent member of the weekly "Wall of Shame" ...

/Sponge, whig, TJM, Mannix, Count de Monet, and you hardest hit!

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:03 AM (pkm6L)

284 277 Buttgiggle focusing on 2028 is hysterical. It will give the voters a chance to see what a useless sack of hollow crap he really is.
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When does Pete get fitted for his colostomy bag?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:04 AM (pLaQB)

285 The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

Not even trannies get as much fucking support as "girls in STEM". And I say that as a father of a girl in STEM.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

286 When did we revert back to talismans?

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(takes off mask made from old Garfield t-shirt when seated in multinational corporate restaurant to eat, replaces t-shirt face mask to stand and go to the bathroom in order to protect myself from COVID)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:04 AM (iv5Pb)

287 If they ever realized they could put a little spring in the bottom of a Pringles tube, civilization would collapse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:04 AM (KtIIi)

288 Schumer's speech yesterday was a thing of pathetic beauty. "I'm throwing myself in my sword to stop Trump from sucking more" . Sepaku by proxy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:05 AM (2Km7O)

289 I don't get Hawk Tuah Jeffries. He seems to me to be a fundamentally unserious person.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:05 AM (W5ArC)

290 "John Bolton: Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize."

Assumes facts not in evidence. We all know that Trump will never get that Prize, no matter what he does. Once again, he's the anti-Obama.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:06 AM (Gqoy+)

291 Stefanik confirmed. They were worried about the margin in the House but the Dems have lost two this far. Move now so the election for the replacement will be in the same time as Turner and Grijalva.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Confirmation doesn't go thru the house if I'm reading this correctly

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 14, 2025 09:06 AM (b8J4P)

292 277 Buttgiggle focusing on 2028 is hysterical. It will give the voters a chance to see what a useless sack of hollow crap he really is.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:01 AM (2Km7O)

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What's fueling it is he's polling in the top three for the presidential primary pretty consistently right now.

However, that sounds a lot more impressive than it is.

He amounts to about 10-15%. You know, the highest high point of his 2020 primary run.

Sure that could change, but Buttigieg is very doubtful to make a better impact with Democrat primary voters in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

293 284 277 Buttgiggle focusing on 2028 is hysterical. It will give the voters a chance to see what a useless sack of hollow crap he really is.
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When does Pete get fitted for his colostomy bag?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:04 AM (pLaQB)

Chasten's Prosthetic Sigmoid?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (x0n13)

294 @289 Hakeem Jefferies
1) Black
2) ...
3) Success!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (2Km7O)

295 Using recycled glass as part of a fresh load for the furnace, reduces the energy require to achieve a melt, since glass melts lower than sand, etc. and thus acts as a flux for the mixture.

This has nothing to do with flux capacitors.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (KjLnc)

296 261 Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

How about supporting men in STEM since they don't get any parades or support?
Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (jjoN6)

Men in STEM can afford to support themselves, as well as a family.

Posted by: Roy at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (z+ik4)

297 288 Schumer's speech yesterday was a thing of pathetic beauty. "I'm throwing myself in my sword to stop Trump from sucking more" . Sepaku by proxy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:05 AM (2Km7O)

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1. He's going to easily win re-election because Go Team Blue, and no one will remember this cave next year.

2. If he had forced through the shutdown, the left would have hated him a lot more, and maybe in ways to actually unseat him from power.

A shutdown would have given Trump so many keys to RIF the shit out of the federal workforce. Gotta balance the books somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

298 The answer is perpetual war!

Posted by: John "Michael" Bolton at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (MjxY/)

299 Chasten's Prosthetic Sigmoid?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (x0n13)

Pinch Shitter?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (KtIIi)

300 I don't get Hawk Tuah Jeffries. He seems to me to be a fundamentally unserious person.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:05 AM (W5ArC)

***

Stupid is an acceptable alternative...

see also: retarded

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (1FWWQ)

301 Nobody is taking John Bolton's call these days. He must sit at home and yell at the walls and his computer
Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

...but soon, yes!, soon my dearest, my treasure, they will all recognize your Greatness!, your Experience! and they will all, All!, everyone of them, cry out for your Advice. They will all beg you to guide them upon the proper path and then, and only then!, will you take the crown they offer and Then I shall mow them down like Vlad the Impaler's Mustache...er...uh...*cough* *cough*, then, then You, my Precious, shall cut them down and like Vlad the Impaler festoon the bodies of the doubters, of the impure, of the mustache mockers all over Washington DC!!! BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!...

Posted by: What John Bolton's moustache Whispers to Him in the Dead of Night at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (iJfKG)

302 What's fueling it is he's polling in the top three for the presidential primary pretty consistently right now.
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(looks to see who he was married to that got him in his position to run for president)

Huh. That's weird.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (iv5Pb)

303 298 The answer is perpetual war!
Posted by: John "Michael" Bolton at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (MjxY/)

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Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

304 > Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY those Costco crack cocaine Kettle Krinkle Cut with Himalayan Salt potato chips.
Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 08:56 AM (pkm6L)

I must be weird, but I don't care for "kettle chips". I like my chips to be delicate and easily frangible, not of a texture that could be used as a building material.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (W5ArC)

305 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

He is the next nominee.

Posted by: John at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (MjxY/)

306 >>The stupidest thing I've seen in a while: "Dress For STEM" - Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

Both Hillary and Bill wore purple when she gave her concession speech in 2016. Everyone was wearing purple at the Biden/Harris inauguration in 2020.

Color revolutions use specific colors as a sign of unity for the cause. Rose revolution in Georgia, Orange revolution in Ukraine (2004), etc.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (LkLld)

307 270 65 How long until the hard left makes a move against Schumer's leadership? The Senate is obviously different than the House, but the Dems are angry, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 08:09 AM (2Km7O)

Will never happen, because political issues have nothing to do with Senate leadership in either party. Leader is the one who has put together the corporate and grifting contacts which enable him to fund the campaigns of those fellow Senators who support him. This was the basis of McConnell’s power as well. As well as Pelosi’s in the house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (T+ixL)

308 Sure that could change, but Buttigieg is very doubtful to make a better impact with Democrat primary voters in 2028.
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I don't know TJM, the guy can polish a knob like no one's ever seen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (pLaQB)

309 There has always been a ban on Math on this blog. There shouldn't be an exception for "Pi Day".

Posted by: Borderline Illiterate and Innumerate at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (G5+As)

310 The hamassholes have agreed to release the one living American hostage and the bodies of the four others.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (WzLXQ)

311 I must be weird, but I don't care for "kettle chips". I like my chips to be delicate and easily frangible, not of a texture that could be used as a building material.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Not a Corn Nuts or pork skin cracklings fan?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (iv5Pb)

312
Want to see something fun? You've got to look carefully or you'll miss it, but it's hilarious. Go here, UC Davis:

"What Can I Do with a Chemical Engineering Degree?"

https://tinyurl.com/9evtp5rt

And read the article and, more importantly, the photos and text associated with all the women and non-white people in the photos.

Because guess what all the chemical engineers look like?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat?

As a formally trained and formerly practicing chemist, all I can say is "What the everloving fook are those pictured supposed to be doing?"

That's the work product of the "It's related to chemistry, so trot out pretty colored gear and solutions and let's make it laaaame!" school of urinalism.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (xG4kz)

313 @291 correct, but the Republicans in the House were worried about the margin and the Senate wasn't setting the confirmation schedule. With two Dems dying it gives a little bit of a cushion in the House

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (2Km7O)

314 305 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

He is the next nominee.
Posted by: John at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (MjxY/)

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Yeah, no.

Kamala has a better chance. Black women love her, and she's going to carry SC, now the first primary state, with ease.

It'll be a fight for 2nd place outside of her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

315 Buttgiggle focusing on 2028 is hysterical. It will give the voters a chance to see what a useless sack of hollow crap he really is.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Brothers in Detroit aren't voting for a gay man. Michigan state office is out of reach

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (b8J4P)

316 "I’m a psychologist who studies couples—if you say ‘yes’ to these 4 questions, your relationship is stronger than most

1. If you weren’t a couple, would you still be close friends?"

https://tinyurl.com/musxxz7v

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:03 AM (iv5Pb)

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"2. Do you like who you are when you’re around your partner?"

AKA Can you relate to the Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) character from As Good As it Gets? "You make me want to be a better man."

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (pkm6L)

317 261 Wear purple today to support females in STEM.

How about supporting men in STEM since they don't get any parades or support?
Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 08:59 AM (jjoN6)

Wear a Purple-helmeted Glans...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (x0n13)

318 308 Sure that could change, but Buttigieg is very doubtful to make a better impact with Democrat primary voters in 2028.
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I don't know TJM, the guy can polish a knob like no one's ever seen.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (pLaQB)

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Didn't do Kamala any good in the primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

319 > This has nothing to do with flux capacitors.
Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (KjLnc)

Nor the "bloody flux", of which numerous of my ancestors reportedly died back in the nineteenth century.

I think it might be cholera, but I'm not certain of that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:10 AM (W5ArC)

320 We're a Lays potato chip house. Tried other brands, but my wife is picky and prefers those. Useless for dipping tho'. The wavy ones are the bomb for that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (Q4IgG)

321 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

A 2003 CBS interview with an NIH scientist who’s been doing “nothing” for 7 years, while earning a six-figure government salary.

The same media that covered this stuff for decades pretends it doesn’t exist now that Trump is actually doing something about it.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7k9eta

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

322 These are the people who witnessed up close the sin of government waste, fraud, and abuse and who emphatically voted for Trump and DOGE. We want to keep them on board.

————

Witnesses or collaborators?

If you hang around a group of thieves and grifters for years or even decades, there is no room for distinctions.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (3NiEn)

323 Brothers in Detroit aren't voting for a gay man. Michigan state office is out of reach

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (b8J4P)

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At least Bootygag will have strong Muzzie backing (SWIDT?).

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (pkm6L)

324 > Not a Corn Nuts or pork skin cracklings fan?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (iv5Pb)

Nope. As far as Corn Nuts go, I like all my teeth right where they are.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (W5ArC)

325 322 Witnesses or collaborators?

If you hang around a group of thieves and grifters for years or even decades, there is no room for distinctions.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (3NiEn)

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I would have blown the whistle, but I was afraid for my pension.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

326 One of the leftist women I'm friends with on Facebook just got me laughing. Apparently there is now going to be a big " postcard to the White House campaign "to get Trump to stop. The performances never stop

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (2Km7O)

327 323 Brothers in Detroit aren't voting for a gay man. Michigan state office is out of reach

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (b8J4P)

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Doesn't help him with the presidency either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)

328 The best chips ever were Kitty Clover, a long-vanished midwest/midsouth brand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (W5ArC)

329 Why would they not confirm Stefanie? UN Ambassador is a pretty useless speech making appointment anyways, doesn’t do anything but talk to the news outlets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (T+ixL)

330 "Now that everyone has pointed out that it isn't, and we don't, the new and final argument is "there can be no peace that might benefit Orangeman politically."

It'll be especially rich when it's revealed who got to wet their beak on Ukraine specifically. It's already been leaked that Lindsay Graham did (which is why he now did a 180 on all things Ukraine).

The Bidens got no more than $50 million out of Ukraine out of many many billions. Where did the rest go?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (Gqoy+)

331 Wear a Purple-helmeted Glans...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (x0n13)

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lol

Old & Busted: Pink Pussy Hats.
New Hotness: Purple Dick Heads.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:13 AM (pkm6L)

332 AND my wifey agrees with you-- trying to get me to retire for the past decade!

Which would result in me likely being frequently listed here as a permanent member of the weekly "Wall of Shame" ...

/Sponge, whig, TJM, Mannix, Count de Monet, and you hardest hit!
Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:03 AM (pkm6L)

I got a mention! I'm somebody now! ~~Millions~~ Tens of people look at this blog post ~~phone book~~ every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now!

Thanks! Nice start to the day.

Posted by: Count Navin de Monet at March 14, 2025 09:13 AM (Aqu9a)

333 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

You really think the People are going to choose their nominee? For the first time in 20 years? That I'd like to see.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:13 AM (MjxY/)

334 We've got Dieffenbach's near us. Surprisingly good chips. I usually don't like "kettle" chips because it's like trying to eat stemware, but theirs are good.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (KtIIi)

335 Useless for dipping tho'. The wavy ones are the bomb for that.
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This guy is schmartz!

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (pLaQB)

336 Nope. As far as Corn Nuts go, I like all my teeth right where they are.

Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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I used to love both of them, but I've got some dental work that is really close to the edge of one tooth so now I have to avoid them.

I think it's similar to eating ice. I never cared for it except for the "airy" Sonic style of ice that just immediately crunches, but I know some people who eat it almost like a snack. Which probably isn't a bad idea if you're looking to lose weight.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (iv5Pb)

337 Kamala has a better chance. Black women love her, and she's going to carry SC, now the first primary state, with ease.
____

Also don't forget that Kamala ran the most perfect campaign in all of human history in 2024.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (Dv3i1)

338 Brothers in Detroit aren't voting for a gay man. Michigan state office is out of reach

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (b8J4P)

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Doesn't help him with the presidency either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (GBKbO)

***

They voted for Urkel...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (1FWWQ)

339 Morning, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2025 09:15 AM (MqtqS)

340 298 The answer is perpetual war!
Posted by: John "Michael" Bolton at March 14, 2025 09:07 AM (MjxY/)
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

Hahahahaha! Reminds of that idiot who was trying to open the locked doors at some shopping center a few years ago who kept hollering "Why are you closed?! Who are you to deny me access?!" while another set of doors were open on the other side of the building.

Posted by: I Point And Laugh at March 14, 2025 09:15 AM (Ic155)

341 Trump is going to the DOJ this afternoon before heading to Florida for the weekend. I guess we'll see what he thinks of Bondi's performance.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:15 AM (LkLld)

342 334 We've got Dieffenbach's near us. Surprisingly good chips. I usually don't like "kettle" chips because it's like trying to eat stemware, but theirs are good.
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I'm going to Dieffenback, Texas
Me and Wille and the boys

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:15 AM (pLaQB)

343 Why would they not confirm Stefanie? UN Ambassador is a pretty useless speech making appointment anyways, doesn’t do anything but talk to the news outlets.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 09:12

She's too valuable in the House with such a thin majority, Trump should have nominated somebody who wasn't a Representative for a largely symbolic gig.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 14, 2025 09:15 AM (y9ksN)

344 Who is it gonna be TJM? I can buy that they plan to pivot away from their bs due to being spooked by losing three times to Trump but I don't know who that would be.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (MjxY/)

345 Ben Had,
You around? I just want you to know that the medium sized dog you had me rescue is officially a large dog. 65 lbs and not fat at all.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (OHXdt)

346 It truly was a pity that "sharts", a laugh out loud word for much the same thing, did not come into wide use until later.
——-

One time I decided to try a can of “store brand” Chili w/beans instead of the fancy pants name brand. Almost .25c cheaper! How bad can it be?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (hlNSv)

347 289 I don't get Hawk Tuah Jeffries. He seems to me to be a fundamentally unserious person.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:05 AM (W5ArC)

He was positioned to become another penultimate Democrat Sacred First, after Nanzi. First black Speaker of the House. He has been in Congress only 12 years.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (aBgBM)

348 Also don't forget that Kamala ran the most perfect campaign in all of human history in 2024.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 09:14 AM (Dv3i1)

They had Beyonce AND Taylor swift. There was literally no one else to get. Literally. No one else. Two for two. Perfection.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (KtIIi)

349 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (T+ixL)

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I must doff my cap to you, Tom.

You predicted yesterday morning (and I wasn't buying it) that Chuck U. Schumer and his merry band of butt-pirates in The Senate would cave on the "shutdown" -- and it appears now that you were correct.

Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (pkm6L)

350 The answer is Chili Cheese Fritos

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (AOsQT)

351 "I don't get Hawk Tuah Jeffries. He seems to me to be a fundamentally unserious person."

He's Nancy's appointed sock puppet.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (Gqoy+)

352 The muzzies will be the wind beneath Buttgiggle's wings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (2Km7O)

353
What John Bolton's moustache Whispers to Him in the Dead of Night

What really perplexes John Bolton is when his moustache on one side of his face reaches around and taps him on the opposite shoulder -- "Wha ... whozzat?"

Gets him every time!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 09:17 AM (xG4kz)

354 333 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

You really think the People are going to choose their nominee? For the first time in 20 years? That I'd like to see.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:13 AM (MjxY/)

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Your thinking on the Democrat primary process is so...not in alignment with mine.

I see 2020 as the establishment desperately trying everything to get 4 preferred candidates in (Kamala then Buttigieg then Warren then Beto), failing miserably, and then settling with Joe who was running consistently in second. They never wanted Joe, they just didn't want Bernie, so they settled with Joe.

You see 2020 as a master plan to get Joe the nomination, the original goal of the whole affair.

If my reading is right, the voting base of the Democrat Party are vastly out of alignment with the establishment, and the establishment can't control the party at that level (they barely could in 16). If your reading is right, the establishment puts on a lot of theater to get what they want from the get go.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:17 AM (GBKbO)

355 Best chips ever produced are Old Dutch out of MN. Salty and greasy and delicious

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 09:17 AM (1FWWQ)

356 He's going to easily win re-election because Go Team Blue, and no one will remember this cave next year.

What if BigTits McDonkeyTeeth primaries him?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

357 Dayum

@IDFBabes just tweeted another hot soldier lady in a blue bikini

don't worry, I won't link

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:18 AM (AOsQT)

358 344 Who is it gonna be TJM? I can buy that they plan to pivot away from their bs due to being spooked by losing three times to Trump but I don't know who that would be.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (MjxY/)

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No idea.

Last man standing.

It's gonna be an outwoke each other contest that turns off many, many voters. The ones who try to go moderate (like Newsom) will have no base of support or get smothered by lack of coverage from Manhattan media that don't want moderation.

It'll open the party up to a hostile takeover, if someone with the money and inclination tries it.

Maybe Trump could do it. It'd be funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

359 Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (GBKbO)

This. Is. Library.

https://youtu.be/DHhy2Gk_xik?t=9

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

360 lin-duh, hahahaha. It must be the rations at your house

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (WzLXQ)

361 He was positioned to become another penultimate Democrat Sacred First, after Nanzi. First black Speaker of the House. He has been in Congress only 12 years.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (aBgBM)

Oooops. I forgot Kamala was the double- or -triple or quadruple- penultimate Sacred Democrat First! Because she is completely forgettable.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (aBgBM)

362 356 He's going to easily win re-election because Go Team Blue, and no one will remember this cave next year.

What if BigTits McDonkeyTeeth primaries him?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

=======

Flame out.

She barely has a constituency, and Schumer won't make the same mistake Crowley did by just assuming things are dandy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

363
Ignore my power at your peril

-Magic coin that landed on heads 47 times in a row for a Hillary primary victory

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)

364
I don't get Hawk Tuah Jeffries. He seems to me to be a fundamentally unserious person.

He's got a perpetual "deer in the headlights" vibe about him.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (xG4kz)

365 @_johnnymaga

A 2003 CBS interview with an NIH scientist who’s been doing “nothing” for 7 years, while earning a six-figure government salary.

The same media that covered this stuff for decades pretends it doesn’t exist now that Trump is actually doing something about it.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7k9eta
Posted by: redridinghood

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Paid $100K/year (plus federal benefits and pension) in 2003

Perspective: Median household income NOW is about 80K

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (iv5Pb)

366
I like Cape Cod reduced salt chips, and wavy Lays reduced salt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (x0n13)

367 Why would they not confirm Stefanie? UN Ambassador is a pretty useless speech making appointment anyways, doesn’t do anything but talk to the news outlets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2025 09:12 AM (T+ixL)

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The theory is that Speaker Johnson is slow-walking her confirmation (Thune says he's ready to get it done) to keep her voting in The House with the slim majority.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (pkm6L)

368 He was positioned to become another penultimate Democrat Sacred First, after Nanzi. First black Speaker of the House. He has been in Congress only 12 years.
Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2025 09:16 AM (aBgBM)
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The fact he's been in Congress "only" 12 years is a problem in and of itself. Implies he's still a young pup compared to the rest of the Congress critters.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (7fElN)

369 >What if BigTits McDonkeyTeeth primaries him?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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she will find herself knee-capped

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (AOsQT)

370 Odds, Trump would endorse Kamala for the Dem Ticket?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:20 AM (pLaQB)

371 A comparative unknown like Wes Moore the Maryland governor is a leading candidate. He's African American, a vet and makes a good presentation. Of course Maryland, specifically Baltimore could implode more , but he's a largely clean slate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (2Km7O)

372 363
Ignore my power at your peril

-Magic coin that landed on heads 47 times in a row for a Hillary primary victory
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 14, 2025 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)

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I often remember this.

Democrats had to cheat to get their preferred candidate to win against a sacrificial lamb.

And that's not because the establishment (which has since reduced its own power in the primary process because 16 was so fucked) is powerful, smart, or good at what they do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

373 Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (AOsQT)

374 The DNC knows they have an authenticity gap. So they will push forward someone who can take authenticity the best out of their bench of dildos and retards.

Newsome is to visible. Maybe some washed up Obama aide-de-camp no one has ever heard of. Probably not Emanuel. They hate juice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (KtIIi)

375 *fake

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:22 AM (KtIIi)

376 BigTits McDonkeyTeeth would be a good name for a rock band.

Posted by: Call Dave Barry at March 14, 2025 09:22 AM (dg+HA)

377 371 A comparative unknown like Wes Moore the Maryland governor is a leading candidate. He's African American, a vet and makes a good presentation. Of course Maryland, specifically Baltimore could implode more , but he's a largely clean slate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (2Km7O)

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I seriously doubt he gains any traction.

Especially if Kamala is the default black candidate with any serious name recognition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

378 312
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 14, 2025 09:09 AM (xG4kz)
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So women make up the bulk of chemical engineers together with colored men? I noticed everyone was working in a lab. My experience is that a large number of CEs work in physical plants such as refineries, bulk chemical manufacture, etc.
I noticed everyone wearing rubber gloves.
PIKERS.
In 50+ years of chemistry I probably used gloves under 20 times. No gloves = much faster to wash off anything irritating.
Also see Dimethylmercury.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? at March 14, 2025 09:22 AM (KjLnc)

379 In his letter, Biggs also noted how nearly 20 “state attorney generals” had “made inquiries into ActBlue” over allegations regarding fraud, money laundering, and the “fraudulent and counterfeit use of credit and debit cards,” according to the outlet.

Rep. Andy Biggs Calls for FBI to Investigate Democrat Donor Platform Over ‘Suspicious Transactions’

State Attorneys General.

Did Representative Biggs put "state attorney generals" in his letter or did the Fox News article incorrectly transcribe it?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (P5BPp)

380 371. Moore is a massive cheerleader for late term abortion

Posted by: Jonah at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (YCxFk)

381 Kamala will be on her second liver transplant by 2028

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (2Km7O)

382 They never wanted Joe, they just didn't want Bernie, so they settled with Joe.
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So how did they impeach Trump over "election interference against his opponent" before the first vote was taken? That was a helluva lucky guess for the guy who was in 5th place *and* totally demented.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (MjxY/)

383
LOL With what MSM to actually cover any of it? We can't get them to tell the truth about Trump. Why would this be any different? The media is right-wing controlled. They just ignore what doesn't help them.

Wow. This is pretty wild. Someone should do an in home check on this guy.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (OA79/)

384 @380 that's a big yes for most Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:24 AM (2Km7O)

385
Oooops. I forgot Kamala was the double- or -triple or quadruple- penultimate Sacred Democrat First! Because she is completely forgettable.
Posted by: Gref

Hey, what about me?

Posted by: J'Blowme, the First Semi-Sentient Vegetable -- In This Case A Rutabaga -- Ever Elected to the Presid at March 14, 2025 09:24 AM (xG4kz)

386 I like the fact that chips come in convenient single-serving size bags. I just don't get why they are labeled as "Party Size".

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2025 09:24 AM (Aqu9a)

387
State motto: "If you can dream it, we can tax it."

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at March 14, 2025 09:24 AM (dg+HA)

388 382 So how did they impeach Trump over "election interference against his opponent" before the first vote was taken? That was a helluva lucky guess for the guy who was in 5th place *and* totally demented.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (MjxY/)

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As we can see now...Ukrainian corruption is much, much bigger than Joe Biden.

Joe Biden was just the figure that Trump had focus on.

Protecting Joe before he was the candidate was protecting the Ukrainian corruption.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

389 A comparative unknown like Wes Moore the Maryland governor is a leading candidate. He's African American, a vet and makes a good presentation. Of course Maryland, specifically Baltimore could implode more , but he's a largely clean slate
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2025 09:21 AM (2Km7O)

***

We've gone from a $6 billion surplus under Fatboy Hogan to a $3 billion deficit under Moore. Even MD libtards are noticing and they are pissed.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (1FWWQ)

390 Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick say it's bullying to call a dude in a dress a dude. Yawwwwwwwwn

https://tinyurl.com/5n6msvvz

That's not what she said at all. Y'all are retarded to post this stuff. She said there is no reason to be mean to people (trannies included) just for the sake of being mean.

Good lord. Quit acting like a leftie.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (Zloi7)

391 The media is right-wing controlled. They just ignore what doesn't help them.

Wow. This is pretty wild. Someone should do an in home check on this guy.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 14, 2025 09:23 AM (OA79/)

"OOOOps."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (KtIIi)

392 I must be weird, but I don't care for "kettle chips". I like my chips to be delicate and easily frangible, not of a texture that could be used as a building material.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2025 09:08 AM (W5ArC)

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I have to admit, I've got some scar tissue from cuts in the old oral mucosa from those kettle chips.

I saw the Old Oral Mucosa open for The Dangling Participles at the East Lansing Coffeehouse in '19.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (pkm6L)

393 It's Pi Day!

MIT Cheerleaders: Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (kgE5c)

394 Trump v. NJ, et al is on the SCOTUS emergency docket. Along with other filings, If accepted, it has the potential to finally eliminate the judicial overreach from lower courts with respect to issuing nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch. Also, the order, this time out of a Democrat judge in Baltimore saying that fired federal workers should be reinstated was immediately appealed.

Lots happening.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 09:25 AM (uSWvs)

395 >>@FBIDirectorKash
I want to address the alarming rise in ‘Swatting’ incidents targeting media figures. The FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate and hold those responsible accountable.

Excellent.
Now, where's Pam Bondi.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (Cki93)

396 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Watch Dylan Mulvaney still pretending to be a “girl” running around Times Square handing out his book to strangers.

https://tinyurl.com/yefpy3tp

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

397 Also don't forget TJM I said since 2019 they were going to get Kamala in by hook or by crook and they came half an inch away.

I was pretty clear that if Joe went anywhere, it was her. Not Mooch, not Newsom, not anyone else. So I have a track record here.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (MjxY/)

398 Mayor Pete, Newsom, etc. get a slice of polls from name recognition. We'll be in a very different place in 2028 and I doubt they'll be in the discussion.

The D party needs to rebuild but I doubt that they will. They've lost White Non-college and those voters aren't coming back to the Ds as Trump is rebranding the Rs to be a just right of center populist party, minorities welcome.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (Gqoy+)

399 It redounds to our national shame that the chip aisle in the supermarket is 100 feet long. Watch film of people at a sports event 40 or more years ago. Hardly a blimp in the bunch, teenagers all lean and healthy looking. Now? Rotund Walmart Motorized Cart-Riding Fatasses. Stop eating that shit!

Posted by: Your Conscience at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

400 No gloves = much faster to wash off anything irritating.

Like when you have to reach inside a submarine battery cell to retrieve the fucking pen that the fucking officer brought with him despite the fact that it's specifically fucking forbidden.

Sulfuric acid starts itching real fast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

401 State Attorneys General.

Did Representative Biggs put "state attorney generals" in his letter or did the Fox News article incorrectly transcribe it?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

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We can't get college graduates to understand why they're not an alumni or convince Love Science Sexually people to not say "octopuses".

Or people in general to not add another absurd Y at the end of Zelensky

I'm not hopeful for this long term.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (iv5Pb)

402 Potatoes have a pretty decent nutrient mix and important minerals. Not great, but not bad.

The industrial lubricants used to fry them are the problem. Not very digestible and will &uck your gut up. Canola, Corn, Soybean, they use whatever they get the best deal on by the railroad car.

For a while I sated my salty snack junk food craving with potato spears or ho-jos. Parboil, dry, drench in your favorite seasonings, parm, and olive oil and bake. Yum.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (hlNSv)

403 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at March 14, 2025 09:28 AM (9hiok)

404 Morning again, news folken,

'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! I have a staff meeting at ten am (the last one for me!!!), at which we'll discuss the applicants for my replacement (Me: "They all look pretty stupid"). With any luck I can be out of here a little early this pm.

I like the fact that chips come in convenient single-serving size bags. I just don't get why they are labeled as "Party Size".
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2025

***
For somebody who remembers when a big bag of Doritos cost .69 -- yes, sixty-nine cents -- the prices and sizes of today are horrifying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2025 09:28 AM (J2vNu)

405 what if- and I know this is kind of out there- but what if potato chips came in a box, like Cheerios or Wheaties?

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:28 AM (AOsQT)

406 397 Also don't forget TJM I said since 2019 they were going to get Kamala in by hook or by crook and they came half an inch away.

I was pretty clear that if Joe went anywhere, it was her. Not Mooch, not Newsom, not anyone else. So I have a track record here.
Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (MjxY/)

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And I've been saying that same thing. Kamala was their preferred candidate in 2020.

And she flamed out spectacularly.

If the plot was to get Kamala in, it failed miserably. They had to squeeze the actual winner to put her in as VP. And then they had to wish that Joe would retire. Then they had to force him out. It took 5 years, settling with someone they didn't want, and forcing him out, but it worked!

If they planned that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

407 It's Pi Day!

MIT Cheerleaders: Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2025

***
It's all been downhill since 2015. Or 2016, if you want to round up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2025 09:29 AM (J2vNu)

408 We've gone from a $6 billion surplus under Fatboy Hogan to a $3 billion deficit under Moore. Even MD libtards are noticing and they are pissed.
Posted by: Life of Wryly

And they'll do nothing about it because the alternative is a Republican. They'll eat broken glass before admitting fault.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (jjoN6)

409 >>I seriously doubt he gains any traction.

>>Especially if Kamala is the default black candidate with any serious name recognition.

I think Harris is being given way too much consideration right now. She's polling well strictly on name recognition. Everyone saw what an incredibly inept campaign she ran last year.

She was forced to drop out before Iowa in 2020, she was that bad. She's never won a single primary election and only got to be VP as the DEI candidate.

She's a proven loser as a national candidate despite having unprecedented help much of which is being taken apart right now by Trump's team.

We are two months into Trump's term. Way too early to be making predictions about 2028.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (LkLld)

410 One thing I'm pretty certain on is it won't be a woman.

AOC is the most dangerous person in America as far as I'm concerned because she's a rabble rouser and has a team behind her that understands how to be a Trump.

But she's not great on her feet and she's a woman and I think the Democrats are going to be spooked on that front for years.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (MjxY/)

411 408 We've gone from a $6 billion surplus under Fatboy Hogan to a $3 billion deficit under Moore. Even MD libtards are noticing and they are pissed.
Posted by: Life of Wryly

And they'll do nothing about it because the alternative is a Republican. They'll eat broken glass before admitting fault.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (jjoN6)

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"Everything is great in MD and it's all Wes Moore's doing. Also, everything is terrible in MD, and it's all the powerless Republicans' fault."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

412 >>what if- and I know this is kind of out there- but what if potato chips came in a box, like Cheerios or Wheaties?

*winks*
-- Screaming Yellow Zonkers

Posted by: Lizzy at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (Cki93)

413 also, it seems JD Vance went to the Kennedy Center last night and was booed mercilessly

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (AOsQT)

414 Watch film of people at a sports event 40 or more years ago. Hardly a blimp in the bunch, teenagers all lean and healthy looking. Now? Rotund Walmart Motorized Cart-Riding Fatasses. Stop eating that shit!
———

“You’ll spoil your dinner!” Mom was right, as usual. Did they listen? Nope.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (hlNSv)

415
A
R
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Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

416 409 I think Harris is being given way too much consideration right now. She's polling well strictly on name recognition. Everyone saw what an incredibly inept campaign she ran last year.

She was forced to drop out before Iowa in 2020, she was that bad. She's never won a single primary election and only got to be VP as the DEI candidate.

She's a proven loser as a national candidate despite having unprecedented help much of which is being taken apart right now by Trump's team.

We are two months into Trump's term. Way too early to be making predictions about 2028.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:30 AM (LkLld)

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I remember this same analysis of Joe Biden pre-2020.

It's, like, exactly the same. Word for word.

Name recognition does A LOT.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

417 Rep. Andy Biggs Calls for FBI to Investigate Democrat Donor Platform Over ‘Suspicious Transactions’

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Andy Biggs will likely be the next (R) U.S. Senator from AZ, unless the Ds and Maricopa County McCain Machine RINOs (BIRM) succeed in stealing that seat for at least a fifth election cycle in a row.

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (pkm6L)

418 That's not what she said at all. Y'all are retarded to post this stuff. She said there is no reason to be mean to people (trannies included) just for the sake of being mean.

-

I sort of understand the social aspect of the women not understanding it or not wanting to address it, but it turns out there is.

Bullying kept normal society between the guardrails. Tranny stuff filled that vacuum when the state pretended to ban bullying (turns out they just replaced it with the sex perverts being the bullies against normal people). Remove bullying and here we are.

I'm not saying they should be beaten within an inch of their lives upon sight, but letting them know they're not welcome in polite society is probably the only realistic way to make it end.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (iv5Pb)

419 what if- and I know this is kind of out there- but what if potato chips came in a box, like Cheerios or Wheaties?
Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2025

***
A & P grocery stores once sold their own brand, "Ann Parker," in big tins like you see for Christmas goodies, except plain white with their logo. Good stuff as I recall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

420 Yes, I would still be friends with my husband even if we weren't married because we started out as friends before we first dated, and I like who I am when I'm around him unless I'm just having a bad day and feeling in low spirits, but he is a good listener and encouraging person.

( Answer to quiz in link above by Boron Cobbie/Robbie$

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (mn5GB)

421 AOC is the Rachel Zegler of political candidates.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:32 AM (Gqoy+)

422 >>>Watch Dylan Mulvaney still pretending to be a “girl”

Stop being mean!

Posted by: Toni Lahren and Danica Patrick at March 14, 2025 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)

423 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

I think they thought they could get rid of Trump (they tried several different ways and again missed by half an inch) and put someone not very good up against their machine, maybe even squeeze Joe in one more time and THEN have him step down and give it to Kamala.

Trump made beating them look easy. It's not. And back in 2016 I said he would do just that and got practically laughed off this board.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:33 AM (MjxY/)

424 The industrial lubricants used to fry them are the problem

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Stuff has been recently coming out about the fast food industry in the U.S. compared to other first world nations that makes me suspect it's less the oil and more the additives to make the oil last longer in order to save the corporations money on replacing the oil that is likely the big problem health-wise.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:33 AM (iv5Pb)

425 386 I like the fact that chips come in convenient single-serving size bags. I just don't get why they are labeled as "Party Size".
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Its like Jumbo Shrimp. Don't overthink it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:34 AM (pLaQB)

426 >>I remember this same analysis of Joe Biden pre-2020.

>>It's, like, exactly the same. Word for word.

>>Name recognition does A LOT.

I remember people saying there was no way Trump could win in 2024 because the election rigged.

Times change. DOGE is tearing apart the bureaucracy and ActBlue is done and will likely be prosecuted. We are not in pre-Trump times anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2025 09:35 AM (LkLld)

427
Rotund Walmart Motorized Cart-Riding Fatasses

Against an army such as these, it's no wonder that the Shriners can no longer field Brigades of Grown Men in Fezzes Executing Precision Driving Feats With Go Carts in the manner they once did.

Posted by: J'Blowme, the First Semi-Sentient Vegetable -- In This Case A Rutabaga -- Ever Elected to the Presid at March 14, 2025 09:35 AM (xG4kz)

428 I'm not saying they should be beaten within an inch of their lives upon sight, but letting them know they're not welcome in polite society is probably the only realistic way to make it end.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:31 AM (iv5Pb)

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+1

Make Ostracism Great Again!

[Saw a story yesterday: "The Peruvian government has officially categorized transgender and non-binary people as 'mentally ill.'"

Of course they had to use "irony quotes" ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Shutdown Schumer Caves in The Art Of The Kneel at March 14, 2025 09:35 AM (pkm6L)

429 A & P grocery stores once sold their own brand, "Ann Parker," in big tins like you see for Christmas goodies, except plain white with their logo. Good stuff as I recall.
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Charles Chips were once a thing, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:36 AM (pLaQB)

430 Yes, I would still be friends with my husband even if we weren't married because we started out as friends before we first dated, and I like who I am when I'm around him unless I'm just having a bad day and feeling in low spirits, but he is a good listener and encouraging person.

( Answer to quiz in link above by Boron Cobbie/Robbie$
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Sure, but if it's anything beyond a casual but pleasant church-type "hello, nice to see you" that you'd say to the spouse of a friend then for the male it means assuming boyfriend/mate roles with none of the rewards.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:36 AM (iv5Pb)

431 Wasn't "Ann Page" the A&P house brand?

Posted by: Seem To Recall at March 14, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

432
We'll be back, baby!

Posted by: Brigades of Grown Men in Fezzes Executing Precision Driving Feats With Go Carts at March 14, 2025 09:36 AM (xG4kz)

433 Chips fried in beef tallow might be pretty good.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2025 09:37 AM (Y1sOo)

434 "Trump made beating them look easy. It's not. And back in 2016 I said he would do just that and got practically laughed off this board."

Ditto. Ace banned me for effrontery.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:38 AM (Gqoy+)

435 AOC is the Rachel Zegler of political candidates.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:32 AM (Gqoy+)
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So many Rachels on their side

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at March 14, 2025 09:38 AM (r7gUi)

436
Wasn't "Ann Page" the A&P house brand?
Posted by: Seem To Recall

Yes. Somewhere in this household there is a little metal can that once contained an "Ann Page" spice.

Posted by: Brigades of Grown Men in Fezzes Executing Precision Driving Feats With Go Carts at March 14, 2025 09:38 AM (xG4kz)

437 Ditto. Ace banned me for effrontery.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 14, 2025 09:38 AM (Gqoy+)

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Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:39 AM (MjxY/)

438 There's actually an article called "Inside Jen Psaki.' I shit you not.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:39 AM (pLaQB)

439 Wasn't "Ann Page" the A&P house brand?
Posted by: Seem To Recall at March 14, 2025

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I think you're right! It's been a few years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2025 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

440 There's actually an article called "Inside Jen Psaki.' I shit you not.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 14, 2025 09:39 AM (pLaQB)

I think that's her show, really

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2025 09:41 AM (MjxY/)

441 400 No gloves = much faster to wash off anything irritating.

Like when you have to reach inside a submarine battery cell to retrieve the fucking pen that the fucking officer brought with him despite the fact that it's specifically fucking forbidden.

Sulfuric acid starts itching real fast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 14, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)
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LOL. That would be one case where I would have worn gloves.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? at March 14, 2025 09:41 AM (KjLnc)

442 We can't get college graduates to understand why they're not an alumni
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an alumnus as singular.

Posted by: Ciampino - Meanwhile at St Peter's house on Friday: Sardines!? at March 14, 2025 09:43 AM (KjLnc)

443 If Trump wins the Peace Prize I would say that means he has been compromised somehow. It's an award that says "Gooble Gobble, One of Us, One of Us."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)

444
There's actually an article called "Inside Jen Psaki.'

What is bile and phlegm. Thank you.

I'll take "Who Sharted in Public?" for $400, Alex.

Posted by: Brigades of Grown Men in Fezzes Executing Precision Driving Feats With Go Carts at March 14, 2025 09:44 AM (xG4kz)

445 Notwithstanding that many seed oils have high levels of Omega 6 fats, which cause inflammation and may complicate diseases such as cancer, it’s the refining process that really makes them toxic. Many are heated, bleached, sometimes deodorized and chemical solvents are used during the process including things like hexane. Some argue the chemicals are removed before the final product is made. *makes OK sign*. It’s one of the first things on the list of food items that major cancer doctors tell you to completely eliminate from your diet. I’ll take their advice over Big Ag.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 09:45 AM (uSWvs)

446 We can't get college graduates to understand why they're not an alumni
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an alumnus as singular.
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Yep.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:49 AM (iv5Pb)

447
Many are heated, bleached, sometimes deodorized and chemical solvents are used during the process including things like hexane.

How did you get a hold of the adverts for next month's special at our fine establishment? C'mon, out with it!

Posted by: Dim Ladies' Houses o' Butay! at March 14, 2025 09:50 AM (xG4kz)

448 446 We can't get college graduates to understand why they're not an alumni
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an alumnus as singular.
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Yep.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:49 AM (iv5Pb)

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Well, singular male.

Singular female is alumna.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 14, 2025 09:50 AM (GBKbO)

449 If you must have chips make sure they are cooked in unrefined avocado oil.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2025 09:50 AM (uSWvs)

450
And a gathering of alumni and alumna is referred to as an "aluminium"

Posted by: Fookin' Brits and Their Penchant for "ium" Suffixes for Metals. What's Next - "Goldium"? at March 14, 2025 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

451 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women, have you figured out men are pursuing femininity when they cheat? at March 14, 2025 09:36 AM (iv5Pb)

I have no idea what your critique is talking about, nor do I care to follow up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2025 09:58 AM (rkDQ+)

452 I LOVE potato chips but, correct me if I'm wrong, I think they are about 25% cooking oil by weight or volume and it ain't the best oil, I was working in central Asia years ago, munching on some Turkish potato chips, dropped one on the floor and it left a splatter of oil.

Posted by: yop at March 14, 2025 10:04 AM (RKj5x)

453 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

When there's U.S. Digital Service, Booz AH, etc., I don't get great concern over DOGE & its access to info.

For example, from USDS - "The TechFAR Handbook highlights the flexibilities in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that can help agencies implement “plays” from the Digital Services Playbook that would be accomplished with acquisition support — with a particular focus on how to use contractors to support an iterative, customer-driven software development process, as is routinely done in the private sector."

It seems the large majority of Federal gov. is supported by "contractor" private sector IT services. And, if so, why are there so there so many duplicative &/or unnecessary position descriptions in every agency of the executive branch?

Also, how could the VA, for example, need 40,000 probationary (new to a position) employees "the vast majority of whom were exempt from today’s personnel actions because they serve in mission-critical positions" in such a short period of time? Because of PACT, or was the expansion really needed to support USDS programs created to work for dishonorably discharged US veterans?

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 14, 2025 11:07 AM (NFX2v)

454 And all of a sudden, FEMA, NPS, etc. see the light and move to hire actual, federal FTEs? Heh.
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From above, NY Post US News, Noor Abdalla, wife of Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil, says she was ‘naive’ to think he wouldn’t face arrest, By Emily Crane, Published March 13, 2025

She didn't take ICE's warnings seriously. Noor Abdalla, wife of Mahmoud Khalil, reported to hold the position of (working) Dentist in NYC. (May she also have been the individual who attended Jordon University of Science and Tech & years later, the Univ. of Toronto for Clinical Fellowship, Anesthesiology? IDK.) And she's a US citizen who met her now husband in Lebanon in 2016 when she joined a volunteer program he was overseeing at a non-profit & then they had a seven year long distance relationship that led to their NY wedding 2023.
(Reuters, Mar. 12, 2025)

That's some interesting relationship & citizenship lines to follow.
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Hunter B. of the US hides out in South Africa to avoid probably an array of 'issues.' And Elon Musk, born in South Africa, gets put upon in the U.S. no matter how sincerely he works to help this country w/an array of "issues."
🙄

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 14, 2025 11:08 AM (NFX2v)

455 Probably EVERY local democratic politician or wannabe is a member of the Indivisible 'movement.'

"Our groups" - H-CAN or Havertown-Area Community Action Network; Indivisible Bucks County and Indivisible Lambertville/New Hope (Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Hunterdon County, New Jersey); RISE UP Indivisible Lower Merion, and Indivisible Main Line South. The elitist units, real or pretend otherwise.

Then there's Indivisible Philadelphia; Indivisible Upper Darby; Indivisible West Central PA; Social Justice Indivisible (based in Montgomery County, PA), and Wayne County 4 Action to give the cult that real people, diversity credibility.

Their families will seldom attend the same schools, have the same opportunities, etc. But 'Politics makes strange bedfellows,' indeed.
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foreignaffairs dot house dot gov/press release

ICYMI: Washington Post Exposes Democrats' Hypocritical Flip-Flow on USAID Reorganization, 02.07.25

(The poorest nations are probably so p*ssed over the 'jokes' that have been played by USAID & also that the bulk of "aid" routinely went to Ukraine.)
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Release the HAMAs Hostages! 🙏

Good weekend!

Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 14, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)

456 Re Trump v Schumer who's more Jewish?

Which one has Jewish grandchildren?

Posted by: Show me on the doll where she touched you at March 14, 2025 02:30 PM (kvDvI)

457 Footnote: I moved out to the country, Southern state, a couple of years ago. When I got here, I asked if they did the recycle tango, and the town clerk said with a wry smile, "We used to offer recycling pickup, but nobody was interested in fooling with it, so we dropped it."
"I think I'm gonna love it here," I replied. "And it was all BS anyway, they didn't really use the stuff."
"Got that right," she said.

Posted by: Beverly at March 14, 2025 02:39 PM (Epeb0)

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