Quick Hits

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino promise a "wave of transparency" with never-before-seen Russiagate documents to be released in the next two weeks.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox News that "truckloads" of previously unreleased documents related to the Russia probe known as Crossfire Hurricane and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will soon be made public in a "wave of transparency."
He said the previous FBI leadership hid documents and information pertaining to the Russia probe "where people weren't supposed to look."
Patel, alongside Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, said on the Fox News show "Sunday Morning Futures" that the release could happen within two weeks.
"Just give us about a week or two," Patel said.

A tall-masted Mexican navy ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge.

Authorities are investigating after a Mexican Navy ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on May 17, leaving two dead and 19 injured.
The Cuauhtémoc, a sail training vessel for the Mexican Navy, lost power before striking the bridge connecting the Brooklyn and Manhattan boroughs around 8:20 p.m. ET, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.
Social media videos of the crash showed the ship's 147-foot masts sheared off by the impact.
Adams said on X that there were nearly 300 people on board. In addition to the two sailors who died, two people are in critical condition, Adams said.

A Mexican ship crashed into a bridge in a blue city port and Charles Schumer has only one question: How did DOGE and Musk cause this?

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
NEW: Chuck Schumer has blamed DOGE for the Brooklyn Bridge ship accident
Man, the Elon Derangement Syndrome is STRONG here
According to Schumer, DOGE is the reason a MEXICAN SHIP reversed itself into a bridge at a high rate of speed, which it was too tall to clear.
WTF is wrong with these people?

Video of the senile obsessive Chuck Schumer here.

Video of the Musk-caused collision here. Too bad. It's a beautiful ship.

Marxist grifter AOC has removed her engagement ring.

Look closely and you'll see: Something is missing from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D., N.Y.) ring finger.
Ocasio-Cortez hasn't been pictured wearing her engagement ring since November 2023, according to an extensive Washington Free Beacon review of Getty and Associated Press images, as well as the lawmaker's social media posts and public appearances. The ring's 17-month absence, which has gone unnoticed in the press until now, raises questions about the status of her betrothal to her low-profile fiancé, web developer Riley Roberts, who proposed to Ocasio-Cortez during a vacation to Puerto Rico in April 2022. No news of their nuptials has emerged in the three years since.
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Far from being mere tabloid fodder, the legal status of Ocasio-Cortez's relationship with Roberts also carries significant financial and ethical ramifications for the potential 2028 presidential candidate. By virtue of remaining unmarried to Ocasio-Cortez, Roberts retains certain privacy privileges not afforded to the legally married spouses of other lawmakers.
He has been exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, and his places of employment as a part of Ocasio-Cortez's annual financial disclosure reports. It's a level of secrecy not granted to the spouses of Ocasio-Cortez's married colleagues such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), whose husband's market-busting stock trades frequently make national headlines.

I mentioned on Friday that Jen Psaki's ratings crashed the day after she debuted. Free Beacon:

Psaki debuted her new show, The Briefing, which will occupy Maddow's coveted 9 p.m. weekday time slot (except on Mondays, when Maddow hosts), on May 6. MSNBC's new boss, Rebecca Kutler, reportedly views Psaki as the "face of the network's new era." The ratings for the debut weren't bad, presumably because some Maddow fans were unaware of the switchover. They crashed down to earth the following day. On May 7, viewership in the crucial 25-54 age demographic--the only number advertisers care about--plunged from 139,000 to just 65,000, a decline of 53 percent. The Briefing was crushed in the demographic by time-slot competitors at Fox News and CNN. Psaki was also outperformed by reruns of Bob's Burger, King of Queens, and Paw Patrol.
During her first week in primetime, Psaki averaged 92,000 viewers in the demographic, a 47 percent decline compared to Maddow's last full week. On Tuesday, The Briefing drew just 79,000 viewers in the coveted age group, putting Psaki in fourth place among MSNBC's weekday hosts. Even Nicolle Wallace, the obnoxious personality known for her flirtatious infatuation with convicted felon Michael Avenatti, got more viewers. Only the Maddow look-alike Chris Hayes at 6 p.m. and Stephanie Rhule at 11 p.m., well past the bedtime of MSNBC's elderly viewers, had lower ratings in the demographic. Hayes is widely regarded as one of the worst hosts in the history of cable news.

The leftwing "analyst" at AdWeek finds good news for CNN: Kasie Hunt was their most-watched propagandist on Friday. That's the headline.

They ran that headline instead of the real headline: CNN's ratings are a disaster.

Their ratings in the all-important demo are well below one hundred thousand all day long:

You're not going to believe this: A former press secretary to "Doctor" Jill Biden said there was a "culture of concealment" in the Biden, Inc. crime family.

Biden family insider Michael LaRosa opened up about the former administration's culture of concealment while speaking to Fox News on Sunday, telling "FOX & Friends Weekend" co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy that the people surrounding the former president during his tenure in the White House were unwilling to be transparent.
"This was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency, and I'm talking about just in the East Wing," he said. "The very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired, and I couldn't get reporters straight answers, because nobody would give me straight answers."
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"What I am suggesting... [is] it was not intuitive... it was not their style to be transparent about anything. They took days and months to be deliberative, and I'm talking about the small things, about when the dog bites occurred," LaRosa said, referencing the former first family's dog, Major, who had reportedly bitten multiple people.
"Or about the wedding with the grandkids," he continued. "They got caught lying to the press about press coverage, because they were so scared to be transparent about anything.
"I said to myself at some point, 'If it's this hard to get them to just be transparent and disclose things and to just be upfront from the beginning about anything, even the small things... My God, what would happen if there were big things?'"

Good thing those "big things" never happened. (Sarcasm.)

David Axelrod's call for us to put aside questions about the Biden Senility Conspiracy while he "struggles" with cancer -- and note, this cancer is now incurable, so he'll have it for as long as he lives -- is rejected.

If anything, Hur was too gentle with Biden. He patiently listened to the president's rambling, incoherent anecdotes, and attempted to steer him back to the topic at hand: alleged improper storage of classified documents. Biden's behavior during the five-hour interview raised serious questions about his fitness for office at that time, let alone whether he remained sharp enough to perform the most demanding job in the world for another four years.
Top Democrats, however, echoed Biden's talking points that behind closed doors, the president was at the top of his game. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) said Biden's mental acuity was "as good as it's been over the years," and that the pair would talk several times a week. The message from virtually every Democratic leader who interacted with Biden was the same: Hur is a partisan actor and shouldn't be trusted, Biden is absolutely fine. Everyone knows that's false.
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It would be very convenient for the Democratic leadership, then, if the media and the public simply moved on from the Biden cover-up. Unsurprisingly, at least one prominent Democratic pundit is advising just that. David Axelrod, former advisor to President Barack Obama and current CNN talking head, said on Sunday that conversations about Biden's cognitive decline "should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this."
That's a preposterous suggestion made in service of an obvious, partisan cause. Biden and his handlers steadfastly maintained that he was fit for office and should seek a second term, even amidst mounting, well-founded concerns about his health. They attempted to pull a fast one on the American people, and they were caught.
It is perfectly possible to remain respectful, magnanimous, and well-meaning toward Biden in terms of his battle with cancer while continuing to seek answers about who knew what, and when.

Roger Simon: It's time for the conspirators to resign in disgrace.

He calls them "traitors."

Alex Berenson has an accurate enough description of the rather lengthy leaked portions. (You can listen for yourself here if you have the stomach):

"They are awful. They show a man in severe cognitive decline. Biden couldn't recall even basic facts, like when elections are held. Yes, Joe Biden -- who had lusted for the presidency his entire life -- thought Donald Trump had won in November 2017, not 2016. It wasn't a verbal slip. He didn't know. An aide had to correct him.
"Even that summary doesn't capture Biden's struggles.
"What he says is bad. How he says it is worse. His voice is weak and whispery. He goes silent for stretches, loses his train of thought, offers oddly emotional asides about his son Beau -- though he could not remember when Beau died. He seems not to remember being vice-president; he speaks of being a senator and then jumps to running for president."
Is there anything remotely surprising about this? Not at all. If anything, it's understated. Nevertheless, it's good that we could finally hear some of the interview. The reasons it was covered up are all too obvious.
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You can also be sure that every major and most of the minor nations of the world were well aware of what was happening simply by watching television, as the rest of us did, or through their intelligence agencies in greater detail. They may even have known about the cancer before any of us.
To put it bluntly, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei and Kim Jong-on, to name a few, all knew the so-called Leader of the Free World was "gaga." They also may know more of who was really calling the shots behind him.
Meanwhile, inflation ran rampant and illegal immigrants of all sorts flooded into our country weakening it, destroying our economy and threatening the safety of our citizens.
And yet Democrat Party leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries said nothing. Indeed, they did the opposite. They insisted Biden was fine, as did the vast percentage of the mainstream (aka legacy) media when almost all knew better. They did it for so long that when Biden finally fell apart they had no choice but to turn to Kamala Harris, far from the most formidable of competitors.
In this country, treason is defined as levying war against the United States or "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."
This coverup or coverups sounds like the latter to me. Whether it would hold in a court of law is another question, but nonetheless the perpetrators are people who still act as if they deserve to lead us. They decidedly do not. They are, quite clearly, liars.

Even CNN's DEI Propagandist Abby Phillip thinks Biden sounds pretty bad in those tapes that Biden fought desperately to conceal forever. (Maybe that was a clue Phillip could have followed up on two years ago.)

CNN anchor Abby Phillip said Friday that Special Counsel Robert Hur "undersold" former President Joe Biden's cognitive issues in his report on Biden's handling of classified documents.
Phillip made the comments on NewsNight after Axios released audio clips of Hur's 2023 interview with Biden, which included moments where the president appeared confused, struggled to recall dates, and grew emotional discussing the death of his son Beau.
In one excerpt, Biden paused before saying, "What month did Beau die? Oh God, May 30th," after stumbling over the timeline of events.
Another clip featured Biden saying, "Well, um... I, I, I, I, I don't know," when asked to recall details related to documents from 2017 or 2018.
Hur's written report about Biden's mishandling of classified documents described Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
At the time, Democrats accused him of attempting to undercut Biden's credibility and peppering the report with political bias.
But Phillip said Friday night that Hur may have actually downplayed what the audio revealed.
"In a way, Robert Hur kind of undersold this," Phillip said. "He kind of threw Joe Biden a lifeline. It was an opportunity, actually, for Democrats to take it seriously, maybe change gears at that point, maybe give a potential nominee more time."

Sadly, Scott Adams announced he too has prostate cancer and does not expect to survive the summer.

I'm sure David Axelrod will call for a reversal of newspapers' cowardly decision to stop running his Dilbert cartoon because he was pro-Trump. Just while he struggles with cancer.

Right? Nor no?

The audio shows what the transcript lacks � Biden's dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
There is also a clock in the background as a metronome. pic.twitter.com/Q782dT1f5n
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025

Throughout his interview, Biden sounded more like a nostalgic, grandfatherly storyteller than a potential defendant who could be accused of hoarding secret papers.
He waxed on about several topics including shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
Here is that exchange. pic.twitter.com/I6QHiomhW8
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025

Stop what you're doing. Watch this.

The way they effortlessly lied to the public about Biden's health should infuriate you. Never trust these propagandists again.pic.twitter.com/geHe0Q2FFO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025

Instapundit linked this important context: Don't go so hard on "journalists." They're all low-functioning alcoholics.

Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average, according to a new study
Lindsay Dodgson
May 19, 2017, 11:12 AM UTC
Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.
The study, led by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, analysed 40 journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and online platforms over seven months. The participants took part in tests related to their lifestyle, health, and behaviour.
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The results showed that journalists' brains were operating at a lower level than the average population, particularly because of dehydration and the tendency of journalists to self-medicate with alcohol, caffeine, and high-sugar foods.
Forty-one percent of the subjects said they drank 18 or more units of alcohol a week, which is four units above the recommended weekly allowance. Less than 5% drank the recommended amount of water.

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM

Comments

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1 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.

Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (GYt5+)

3 I still find it odd that first ladies have press secretaries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

4 What did we term 'high functioning' these days?

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

5 the news about Scott Adams hurts

Posted by: bored383 at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (4Kzkx)

6 Ace, getting a first on your own post is like... the band you go to see wearing their own shirts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

7

The Trump administration is set to pay out nearly $5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, a rioter fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

The settlement will resolve a $30 million suit brought by Babbitt's estate and the conservative group Judicial Watch alleging the Capitol Police officer who shot her as she attempted to breach a broken window of the House speaker's lobby was negligent in his duties.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (63Dwl)

8 Hopefully, Dr. Jill Biden will get a physical and her pap smear, mammogram and colonoscopy all come back with nothing but good news.

Posted by: CNN at May 19, 2025 06:27 PM (R/m4+)

9 Howdy! What a day!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 19, 2025 06:27 PM (EaL1v)

10 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace

Okay, then. I was getting worried.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2025 06:28 PM (b294k)

11 The leftwing "analyst" at AdWeek finds good news for CNN: Kasie Hunt was their most-watched propagandist on Friday.
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The question I put to the Horde is does Hasie look more like a frog or like a fish.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2025 06:28 PM (od0dV)

12 "Rioter," Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2025 06:28 PM (i0F8b)

13 I'm hoping the settlement for Ashli Babbitt comes out of the Congressional or Capitol Police budgets. Hopefully it comes out of the Congressional medicine budget... it's probably big enough.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (VNX3d)

14 Roberts also carries significant financial and ethical ramifications for the potential 2028 presidential candidate. By virtue of remaining unmarried to Ocasio-Cortez, Roberts retains certain privacy privileges not afforded to the legally married spouses of other lawmakers.
Posted by: Ace

He should be investigated for insider trade with info from AOC... the bartender now worth about 30million.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (GzegX)

15 Willowed:

184 hear even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Why'd they change it?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:20 PM (lrfZA)

Was a Dutch colony, Brits took it over as a prize from some war with the Dutch.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)

The English kicked out the Dutch and renamed the city.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:23 PM (sAmhv)

WRONG!!!

The correct answer is: I can't say, people just liked it better that way.

I'm ashamed of you people.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (lrfZA)

16 "Just give us about a week or two," Patel said."

So. Two weeks.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

17 There were people arrayed along the top mast (I don't know ship terms) of the ship when the collision occurred causing the casualties. Two deaths I believe and one was a young navy gal. I can't fathom (I don't know ship terms) what they were thinking.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 06:30 PM (cduTK)

18 AdWeek used to be a useful industry trade paper when it was called "Media Agency Client."

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 19, 2025 06:31 PM (7dS7s)

19 Hayes is widely regarded as one of the worst hosts in the history of cable news.

Chris H was lousy when he wrote for the WSJ editorial pages. Not worth reading even way back then.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2025 06:31 PM (GzegX)

20 Apparently it's a Mexican Navy tradition to climb the rigging while a tall ship is entering port.

Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2025 06:32 PM (i0F8b)

21 Uhuh. Kash and Dan would be well advised to quit flapping their lips while dicking us around and actually produce.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 19, 2025 06:32 PM (/Ghsb)

22 #twoweeks bishes!

Such a specific expectation has never let us down!

Posted by: blaster at May 19, 2025 06:32 PM (QfvaV)

23 Be honest. Who knew Mexico had a navy?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2025 06:33 PM (b294k)

24 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

What about crackheads?

I know when I've been insulted.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:33 PM (lrfZA)

25 They are called yardarms and the "people arrayed" on them were there because this is traditionally how sails are either set or taken in.

Posted by: the old mariner at May 19, 2025 06:33 PM (c6hLR)

26 >>> Apparently it's a Mexican Navy tradition to climb the rigging while a tall ship is entering port.
Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2025 06:32 PM (i0F8b)

It's a f'ing stupid tradition.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 06:33 PM (cduTK)

27 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace

Whew! Many of us dodged a bullet!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 19, 2025 06:34 PM (GzegX)

28 Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

I laughed so hard I almost choked.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 06:34 PM (oJrfS)

29 I can actualy believe Schumer when he says Biden was as sharp as ever, because I don't think he's ever been sharp. Maybe that was the problem, they had all gotten used to a bumbling boob version of Biden, so any decline was not that noticeable.

Posted by: Patrick at May 19, 2025 06:34 PM (yW9Ag)

30 WRONG!!!

The correct answer is: I can't say, people just liked it better that way.

I'm ashamed of you people.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:29 PM (lrfZA)
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I left a willowed post that had it mostly right. My folks listened to a lot of show tunes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 19, 2025 06:34 PM (0aYVJ)

31 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee May 18

Thomas Crooks shot Pres Trump and we still know nothing even though we are in charge.

Ryan Routh tried to assassinate him and we still have not seen his trial.

James Comey threatens to assassinate him and publicly calls for it and he’s on his way to a best seller.

Trump makes a phone call to Zelensky and gets impeached.

Trump says “go peacefully and make your voices heard” and gets impeached again.

Bannon and Navarro go to jail for refusing to show for a sham congressional subpoena, but Christopher Wray walks free for refusing to show for our congressional subpoena.

Don’t tell me to get outraged when nothing is done to hold these people accountable.

No accountability means people stop caring

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:35 PM (j9+uM)

32 Be honest. Who knew Mexico had a navy?
Posted by: Blutarski

I did!

I didn't know they had moved up from inflatable swim rings to sailboats, though.

Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2025 06:36 PM (DgGvY)

33 I left a willowed post that had it mostly right. My folks listened to a lot of show tunes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 19, 2025 06:34 PM (0aYVJ)

First time I heard it was They Might Be Giants version.

It's such a prototypical TMBG song, I was flabbergasted when I learned they didn't write it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:36 PM (lrfZA)

34 Did you know Comey is in the midst of a political firestorm for walking on the beach!?

This gaslighting tool will never stop lying.

Oh, and the book tour is still on. / slaps forehead

(spaces)

https://x.com/DefiantLs/
status/1924565998344028246

Posted by: Ann at May 19, 2025 06:36 PM (4neFu)

35 "Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, "

What a news flash.

Posted by: fd at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

36 Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee 2h

It was 2018 for me after the “midterms are safe” turned out to be a lie. Then Pelosi became Speaker after people didn’t turn out to vote for Republicans bc R’s did nothing to fight to protect Trump and did not pass the agenda.

Feels the same now for many.

Before the “do something” comments start, I have one vote,
don’t have the power to arrest or prosecute people,
don’t control the congressional calendar and
can’t control which bills we vote on.

If I could control all that, the MAGA base wouldn’t feel this way

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (j9+uM)

37 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) said Biden's mental acuity was "as good as it's been over the years,"
_______________

Sadly, that could be true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (YqDXo)

38 >Amsterdam

worst movie ever

Posted by: cherries in season at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (N+i4e)

39 Rebecca Kutler, reportedly views Psaki as the "face of the network's new era.

They coulda had Karen Jawn Peierre for one tenth the money.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

40 >>Apparently it's a Mexican Navy tradition to climb the rigging while a tall ship is entering port.

Not just Mexican. It's called Manning the Yards and was a traditional sign of respect when a sailing ship entered a port they were visiting.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (viF8m)

41 Somewhere, out there, in the wilds of 'X', there is a picture titled; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fiancée in an intimate moment with Alexandria.

He's sitting, staring intently forward, and holding his smartphone, recording and taking pictures.

Heh...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:39 PM (sAmhv)

42 What did we term 'high functioning' these days?
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone

I laughed so hard I almost choked.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I think this is "high functioning." The ability to laugh without spitting out your drink, or choking on it. No waste!

Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2025 06:39 PM (DgGvY)

43 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

44 Instapundit linked this important context: Don't go so hard on "journalists." They're all low-functioning alcoholics.

They're still low-functioning when they're high...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (ynpvh)

45 The English - Dutch wars were rather shameful; the Dutch never really did anything to the English, but they had a lot of nice stuff and the English wanted it. So they took it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (buOX2)

46 The last paragraph of Roger Simon's article -

"Meanwhile, much digital ink is being spilled these days about how the Democratic Party is at sea, has no center, no leader. Even old-timers like Maher and Carville are admitting as much in different ways. The explanation for this is the fundamental dishonesty in which the party has been wallowing for some time. I learned a phrase in French class years ago that sums it up. “Mentir est honteux.” To lie is shameful."

"To lie is shameful." Yet we know the Democrats are shameless. In truth, they do not know the concepts of personal or collective shame. How we as a nation and a national society get out of the present peril brought on by the Democrats, I do not know. They have no intent to learn shame.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 06:42 PM (aBgBM)

47 The maritime guy John Konrad's twatters has a very interesting and very expert (yes, expertise does exist) regarding the Mexican tall ship disaster. Sal Mercoglianos also is well worth following for things naval and maritime.

I guess I wasn't too far off with my very non-expert comment earlier about whether tidal flow might have contributed. I forgot wind. But Konrad highlights a photo appearing to show a wake from the ship's bow, indicating powered movement (i.e. propulsion stuck in reverse).

Lots of recondite but apposite detail on how NY harbor pilots and tugs operate, vs. say European, and how this might have contributed to the failure.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2025 06:42 PM (1m82a)

48
Republican majority, House of Representatives

https://tinyurl.com/2tx6srjh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:42 PM (j9+uM)

49 45 The English - Dutch wars were rather shameful; the Dutch never really did anything to the English, but they had a lot of nice stuff and the English wanted it. So they took it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (buOX2)

That's the history of many wars, that and getting angry that someone took stuff in the past and wanting revenge.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:43 PM (ynpvh)

50 1 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

Firsting your own post. This is a sleight and a provocation that will be going on your permanent record.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2025 06:43 PM (TdYBy)

51 I always preferred FNC's Marie Harf to her former co-talking head, MSDNC's Jen Psaki. Harf seems less crazy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:43 PM (IMBwW)

52 FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox News that "truckloads" of previously unreleased documents related to the Russia probe known as Crossfire Hurricane and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will soon be made public in a "wave of transparency."

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Truckloads? Of toy trucks?

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2025 06:43 PM (unUNN)

53 Watching those videos of the Mexican ship I noticed there was a tugboat right in front of it as it went in stern first under the bridge.

You can barely see one poor cadet flying on a line from a middle mast to the back mast in one of the clips in that video.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

54 I just really like how that feels
Hey, hey, hey, hey (don't know, off my face, don't know, off my face)
Off my face don't where I am
'Cause I got my drugs from Amsterdam
Hey
Hey...

Posted by: MAU P at May 19, 2025 06:44 PM (R/m4+)

55 If Kasie Hunt was ever assigned a 'nix account the sys admin, without thinking twice, would give her khunt as a user name that people would spend all day fingering***

*** The preceding text only concerns POSIX standard network protocol commands and have no connotation beyond that narrow definition

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (cduTK)

56 53 Watching those videos of the Mexican ship I noticed there was a tugboat right in front of it as it went in stern first under the bridge.

You can barely see one poor cadet flying on a line from a middle mast to the back mast in one of the clips in that video.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

At least we didn't lose a bridge this time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (ynpvh)

57 There is also a clock in the background as a metronome.

I'm just waiting for Jake Tapper to blurt out IT'S THE BEATING OF HIS HIDEOUS HEART

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

58 1 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)

Firsting your own post. This is a sleight and a provocation that will be going on your permanent record.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2025 06:43 PM (TdYBy)
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Is there a COB tribunal that has oversight over the Head Ewok In Charge?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (GlyvH)

59 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

I'm pretty sure we'll never see them because there are too many people this administration needs to work with, on both sides of the imaginary aisle, who would be implicated.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (lrfZA)

60 Rebecca Kutler, reportedly views Psaki as the "face of the network's new era.

==

with all that money, they could not find a better face??

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (g47mK)

61 37 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) said Biden's mental acuity was "as good as it's been over the years,"
_______________

Sadly, that could be true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2025 06:38 PM (YqDXo)

It IS true.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (aBgBM)

62 There were people arrayed along the top mast (I don't know ship terms) of the ship when the collision occurred causing the casualties. Two deaths I believe and one was a young navy gal. I can't fathom (I don't know ship terms) what they were thinking.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 06:30 PM (cduTK)

The top of each mast is the "topmast". A horizontal wood spar the sails hang from is a yard and the tips are yardarms.

They should have had time to get down from there unless they were rerigging the ship.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)

63 What did we term 'high functioning' these days?
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)
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Anyone able to close many (or even most) of their bracket-thingees?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (IMBwW)

64 43 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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He's always worked within the bureaucracy except for his time at Truth Social. Too bad Trump didn't spot the problem before he promoted Kash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

65 Cue the caterwauling by the nevertrumpers

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Canada has effectively suspended most of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (mlg/3)

66 Gref - when Dems like Biden or Obama can get zillions of votes (most of them, obviously not all, real), despite the dishonesty (which has become brazen on the level of North Korean or Iranian defense ministries, as a comparison) .... we have a serious problem. You know that, but as always the key is the electorate, not the political class (either flavor). The GOP-ish side at least still will rise up and say "no" - see the 2010 mid-terms, and especially the 2016 and 2024 prez nominations - to some extent.

Still apparently no chance of disastrous GOP congressional types paying a price for their disastrous behavior.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (1m82a)

67 Amsterdam

worst movie ever

Posted by: cherries in season

====

Didn't even enjoy Taylor Swift's high impact scene?

Posted by: Village of Somerset at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (rUjus)

68 @catturd2

Predicting the midterms is easy …

If Republicans codify Trump’s agenda, unite, and stand behind the President, they’ll win a landslide.

If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

69 Off smelly old sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (rUjus)

70 Rebecca Kutler, reportedly views Psaki as the "face of the network's new era.

==

with all that money, they could not find a better face??
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (g47mK)

Some one famous for hiding information by saying she would circle back and never doing so?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

71 29 I can actualy believe Schumer when he says Biden was as sharp as ever, because I don't think he's ever been sharp. Maybe that was the problem, they had all gotten used to a bumbling boob version of Biden, so any decline was not that noticeable.
Posted by: Patrick

Exactly. Biden has always been stupid, venal, and corrupt. He blended right in with everybody else in the Senate. Nobody noticed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (sAmhv)

72 It's his blog, Ace can do what he pleases.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (/Ghsb)

73 with all that money, they could not find a better face??
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (g47mK)
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or they could buy her some plastic surgery.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (IMBwW)

74 68 @catturd2

Predicting the midterms is easy …

If Republicans codify Trump’s agenda, unite, and stand behind the President, they’ll win a landslide.

If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

As part of the same uni-party, they actually do, if that gives them the opportunity to say, "We don't have a majority, so we can't pass anything! Send money to my campaign!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)

75 64 43 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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He's always worked within the bureaucracy except for his time at Truth Social. Too bad Trump didn't spot the problem before he promoted Kash.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

Oh the worst part is how he was 'Epstein did not kill himself' before he got into the FBI. Now the's singing the Uniparty line. Someone got to him, I want to know who and why. (Actually, I suspect I know who)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (xcxpd)

76 Regarding J6, what would be a good idea to release are all the surveillance tapes from the day so people can see for themselves. Tucker Carlson started doing that at Fox and then he was fired.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2025 06:48 PM (unUNN)

77 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) said Biden's mental acuity was "as good as it's been over the years,"

Is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) mental acuity as good as it’s been over the years? I’m just asking because he doesn’t seem to know how to grill a burger.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

78 Cue the caterwauling by the nevertrumpers

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Canada has effectively suspended most of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (mlg/3)

Appointed PM whats his face did that before the election he won by standing strong against Trump's tariffs. No wonder Trump said he's be easy to deal with.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

79 "This was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency, and I'm talking about just in the East Wing," he said.

Group? Just in the East Wing?
That's the entire Biden White House, Administration, and Democrat party you're describing there.

They all thrive under opaque lies, misdirection and distraction.
Enabled by you and your fellow 'journalists'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (6ydKt)

80 59 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

I'm pretty sure we'll never see them because there are too many people this administration needs to work with, on both sides of the imaginary aisle, who would be implicated.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:45 PM (lrfZA)

Yeah. Or Epstein was an Intel asset along and the IC REALLY doesn't want that confirmed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

81 That tall ship was Mexico's 911.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (wBaIH)

82 76 Regarding J6, what would be a good idea to release are all the surveillance tapes from the day so people can see for themselves. Tucker Carlson started doing that at Fox and then he was fired.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2025 06:48 PM (unUNN)

There are STILL quite a large group on the Left saying that J6ers killed cops...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

83 55
That is funny but true.

Posted by: Ciampino - Good UNIX practice at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (sPQoU)

84 All right, time to walk dogs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

85 If it wasn't for Kash Patel we wouldn't know much of anything about the Russia collusion hoax. He was the lead investigator for Devin Nunes and he uncovered the entire hoax. Probably saved Trump's presidency.

You might want to cut him a bit of slack. It might not be as fast as we want it but he will get the information out.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

86 If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

Trump was asked about Medicaid cuts. His response: "We're not going to touch Medicaid."

The Republican Congress is touching Medicaid.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (ZANBw)

87 1/ About the Mexican square rigger, some clarifications (I spent 12 years in the NYC Harbor crewing on a Class B tall ship, the Pioneer).

1--Ship, not boat.
2--All Class A tall ships, like this one, have to have a NY harbor pilot, by law. They con the big ships, whether freighters, ocean liners, or tall ships, out of the harbor well past the Verrazano Bridge, and only turn the piloting back over to the ship's captain at that point. So the harbor pilot was driving.
3--The ship was being swept upriver, going backwards, by the infamous East River tidal current, because her engine had obviously died, and they had no control over her at that point.
4--The pointy end on any boat or ship is the bow, or front, of the vessel. She backed into the Brooklyn Bridge.
5--The bridge is VERY close to the South Street Seaport, where the ship had been docked. IOW, no time for everyone to get down from the rigging.

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (Epeb0)

88 77 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D--N.Y.) said Biden's mental acuity was "as good as it's been over the years,"

Is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) mental acuity as good as it’s been over the years? I’m just asking because he doesn’t seem to know how to grill a burger.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

As long as he eats those gray-meat burgers I'm fine with it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:50 PM (ynpvh)

89 >>>I'm pretty sure we'll never see them because there are too many people this administration needs to work with, on both sides of the imaginary aisle, who would be implicated.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Half of whom should have already been indicted and arrested.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:50 PM (j9+uM)

90 86 If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide.

It’s almost like they want to lose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:46 PM (j9+uM)

Trump was asked about Medicaid cuts. His response: "We're not going to touch Medicaid."

The Republican Congress is touching Medicaid.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (ZANBw)

"Show me were on the Medicaid Congress touched you"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (ynpvh)

91 Is it kosher if the meat is uncooked with the cheese?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (7dS7s)

92 Lend me those sunglasses from They Live. I want to check out Patel and Bongino!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (ZVgZ4)

93 Yeah. Or Epstein was an Intel asset along and the IC REALLY doesn't want that confirmed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xcxpd)

Right, but there are "allies" that will be implicated. Both foreign and domestic.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (7+eRf)

94 There are STILL quite a large group on the Left saying that J6ers killed cops...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)
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Those lefties aware this is untrue but wanting to preserve the fiction elide their way past the truth by saying "a cop died of trauma suffered that day".

Such an easy falsehood.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (IMBwW)

95 43 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

He can't. The Epstein files are gone. Anything incriminating was shredded, burned, mixed into cement, and dropped in the Marianas Trench, years ago. You can't release what is long disappeared.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (sAmhv)

96 or they could buy her some plastic surgery.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (IMBwW)

what makes you think they did not ?

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (g47mK)

97 I haven't seen any heads rolling yet. There should be heads rolling.

Posted by: Guy who wants to see heads rolling at May 19, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

98 OT- Happy story-not political . Florida fisherman uses drone to save girl from rip current. "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/3xdvcn8u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 06:52 PM (ZHc1v)

99 >>>You might want to cut him a bit of slack. It might not be as fast as we want it but he will get the information out.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I did. When they start talking and don't back up their words it's seeds of doubt. When they continue to not produce, doubt becomes reality.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (j9+uM)

100 Turns out, the best version of Joe Biden was comparable to an average version of a dementia patient.

Huh.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (RLLZj)

101 We need urologists to weigh in on the benefits of sexual activity to avoid prostate cancer.

Wilt Chamberlain did not die of prostate cancer. He died of congestive heart failure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (u82oZ)

102 i don't know why but the mexican navy story reminded me of an 'ad' in mad magazine like 60 years ago:

captain potrzebie, going out for flounder, coming back with empty beer cans, whiskey bottles and one or two less passengers

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (CWTWj)

103 I'm sure David Axelrod will call for a reversal of newspapers' cowardly decision to stop running his Dilbert cartoon because he was pro-Trump. Just while he struggles with cancer.

Right? Nor no?

I don't think Adams was cancelled over his Trump support, although that was certainly poart of it.

I think he got cancelled when he said that it was best, if you're white, to avoid black people and don't associate with them, or words to that effect.

He was reacting at the time to some poll of black people and their attitudes towards whites, or something, I believe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

104 1 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace

*pulls whisky bottle out of desk drawer*

Anybody need a snort?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (W2Pud)

105 I want to thank all of you for being wonderful people all these years.

I really appreciate all of you.

Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (jvJvP)

106 Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (Epeb0)
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thank you for stating the facts so concisely.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (IMBwW)

107 "Show me were on the Medicaid Congress touched you"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (ynpvh)

The thing that goes up.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (7+eRf)

108 97 I haven't seen any heads rolling yet. There should be heads rolling.
Posted by: Guy who wants to see heads rolling
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Comey is out shucking his book he should be in a jail cell shucking corn.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (j9+uM)

109 Holy crap! A full day of blog content in one Quick Hits post.

Ace is feeling chippy, but let's try to stay hydrated for the rest of the week.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (zKVqU)

110 Beverly, good points all. #3 might be not so simple - see John Konrad's thread on the twatters. He includes a photo that appears to show a wake off the bow, indicating powered movement in reverse. Which might also explain lack of time to clear the upper rigging prior to the collision.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2025 06:54 PM (1m82a)

111 The bridge is VERY close to the South Street Seaport, where the ship had been docked. IOW, no time for everyone to get down from the rigging.
Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 06:49 PM (Epeb0)

You could slide down a stay pretty quickly if you 'knew the ropes'. Being a trainee crew, many of them may not have.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)

112 *pulls whisky bottle out of desk drawer*

Anybody need a snort?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (W2Pud)
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time to cook, and for that I probably have a little Bushmills

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:56 PM (iF1KJ)

113 IOW, no time for everyone to get down from the rigging.
Posted by: Beverly
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So the Mexicans were too high?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (UBKzV)

114 2/

6--The crew were aloft on the yards (those horizontal thingies) because it's traditional for tall ships on a port visit to "dress the ship" upon ceremonial departure: crew climb up, fan out on the yards (standing on the footrope but you are clipped into a becket for safety) to make a nice show of it.
7--In this particular case, having girls in the crew was immaterial: with the sails all furled, the crew weren't working the ship, the pilot was.
8--When any vessel is going backwards without either engine or sail power, you lose steerage-way: the rudder is useless without water passing on either side of it in the proper direction.
9--Two crew, as of last night, were killed, and some dozen or so seriously injured, because they were aloft when their masts broke. I've worked on a square rigger (the HMS Rose, a good bit smaller than this big Mexican vessel), and Believe Me, you can't get to the mast and swarm down the ratlines that fast.
10--No Ship of her height EVER even tries to go up the East River (nor are they allowed to). That was never The Plan.

Footnote: It's sad that 99% of New Yorkers (including, apparently, the "reporters") know anything about their port or the ships.

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (Epeb0)

115 To put it bluntly, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei and Kim Jong-on, to name a few, all knew the so-called Leader of the Free World was "gaga." They also may know more of who was really calling the shots behind him.

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Of course they knew who called the shots, those who talked to them.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (unUNN)

116 >>Apparently it's a Mexican Navy tradition to climb the rigging while a tall ship is entering port.

>>Not just Mexican. It's called Manning the Yards and was a traditional sign of respect when a sailing ship entered a port they were visiting.

Plus, it made it easier for the sailors to find Sandra Fluke on the docks. Hey-Oh!

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (144I4)

117 How do you ever trust Democrats again? I’m completely serious. We have never had this type of insidious abuse of our republic and ultimately the citizens in our history. This is another level stuff.

And they still are lying about it. Still fighting against us at every turn. They can never be in power again. They simply can’t be trusted with any power at all. They will try to crush the people and the republic. Even the courts are in on it now. There is no impartiality, only a liberal script and the desire to execute it at all costs.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (oSFyF)

118
Speaking of fucking incompetent nincompoop ship captains...

Ever hear this audio from the Concordia? Ace will like it because it's in Italian.

What you'll hear is the Italian Coast Guard Commander find out "captain" Schettino had abandoned his ship, Concordia, immediately was on a lifeboat. The Ginzo Coast Guard commander went ballistic and ORDERED Schettino to get BACK on board his ship and evacuate his passengers!

https://is.gd/UZXsdj

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (953xC)

119 71 29 I can actualy believe Schumer when he says Biden was as sharp as ever, because I don't think he's ever been sharp. Maybe that was the problem, they had all gotten used to a bumbling boob version of Biden, so any decline was not that noticeable.
Posted by: Patrick

Exactly. Biden has always been stupid, venal, and corrupt. He blended right in with everybody else in the Senate. Nobody noticed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:47 PM (sAmhv)

My take: Biden was stupid enough that he never figured out how tap into the graft super-gravy train while a Senator. So the others tolerated him. No threat. Forcing Joe to attempt to get rich quick as his VP perks neared their end, while he gained more and more grandchildren whom he wanted to live like princesses and princes.

Also, his Senate pals could point to Biden's stupid statements to distract from their own. Using the Media. I expect Joe was the butt of many, many jokes in the Senate cloakroom and upscale DC bars.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (aBgBM)

120 Dinner consists of a protein medley with a covering of fromage with a tomato reduction on a Mediterranean flatbread.

Also known as a frozen pizza.

Yeah. Been watching too many cooking shows.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (5QooU)

121
*pulls whisky bottle out of desk drawer*

Anybody need a snort?

Posted by: nurse ratched
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Mexicans called the store manager at one of my accounts 'camerone'. I asked why. Because (he was Irish) after noon he turns pink.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (j9+uM)

122 And here I thought the press was willfully stupid. Little did I know they function barely above the level of homeless drug addicted street bums.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (tT6L1)

123 He can't. The Epstein files are gone. Anything incriminating was shredded, burned, mixed into cement, and dropped in the Marianas Trench, years ago. You can't release what is long disappeared.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 06:51 PM (sAmhv)

Word is, there are terabytes of data, on numerous servers, not all of which have been "found" by the so-called intelligence community.

I think if these guys would come out and say we're looking for proverbial needles in haystacks, and there are so many haystacks, nobody can be sure we'll find it any time soon... then I'd be satisfied.

I just don't want to hear they have seen the data. WE NEED TO SEE THE DATA!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (7+eRf)

124 Ocasio-Cortez's relationship with Roberts also carries significant financial and ethical ramifications for the potential 2028 presidential candidate.
___________________________

"Potential 2028 presidential candidate"? Really?

Hey, guys. Remember when you were a kid and some relative asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up...you'd automatically say "I'm going to be president"?

You'd answer that way because it was a very prestigious position that required a special sort of skill. At least, that was what you used to think. But, after a potato head buffoon, a DEI hummer queen without any basic attributes, and, then, this borderline retarded socialist we've come to realize that that there really are no baseline factors to qualify for president. Any "Corky Sherwood" dimwit can get the job.

Posted by: Orson at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (dIske)

125 Oh, and Upchuck Schemer is a dipwad. He just vomits up whatever he thinks will dirty up his opponents. He's not stupid, he's evil.

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (Epeb0)

126 We need urologists to weigh in on the benefits of sexual activity to avoid prostate cancer.

Do male kegels. When your peeing and you want to stop peeing, you squeeze your muscles involved to stop. Do this 10-15 daily even when your not peeing. Strengthens everything and your side piece will thank you. Do 3 seconds on, 3 seconds off x 10-15 reps.

Your welcome!

Posted by: The Penis Gym at May 19, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

127 >>Beverly, good points all. #3 might be not so simple - see John Konrad's thread on the twatters. He includes a photo that appears to show a wake off the bow, indicating powered movement in reverse. Which might also explain lack of time to clear the upper rigging prior to the collision.

I know there are some strong currents in and around NYC but I've never seen a boat move that fast by current alone.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)

128 Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.
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Then how is it that they are so much smarter than the rest of us?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2025 06:59 PM (od0dV)

129 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM (KRtlO)
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Sounds like someone got hit by a torpedo which circled back.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 19, 2025 07:00 PM (tT6L1)

130 Is it kosher if the meat is uncooked with the cheese?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

So, in other words, when the cheese stands alone.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2025 07:00 PM (cYBz/)

131 *pulls whisky bottle out of desk drawer*

Anybody need a snort?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 06:53 PM (W2Pud)
=================
time to cook, and for that I probably have a little Bushmills
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 06:56 PM (iF1KJ)

***

Going with Wild Turkey 101. My Brother in Law's favorite.
To absent comrades.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 07:00 PM (W/lyH)

132 Beverly the role and capabilities of the tug are also key here. Konrad (and a European pilot whose posts he links) discuss this. US tugs tend to be stationed on the quarter - this one had no line to the ship, and is an older tug, without thrusters or "tractor" capability. This might have rendered it unable to arrest the rearward motion.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2025 07:00 PM (1m82a)

133 Chris Cillizza rejected Axelrod's plea. When you've lost that idiot...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (ef25Y)

134 Cool story, Kash.
Now release all the Epstein files, unredacted.

You hack.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 19, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

I'm pretty sure we'll never see them because there are too many people this administration needs to work with, on both sides of the imaginary aisle, who would be implicated.
Posted by: BurtTC

Then Trump should them for what they were made for.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (/lPRQ)

135 I want the video of the tail ship crash put to Mariachi music and I want it yesterday

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (wBaIH)

136 I haven't seen any heads rolling yet. There should be heads rolling.

I don’t want heads to roll. I want heads on pikes, pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

137 Hur's written report about Biden's mishandling of classified documents described Biden as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

No, no, no! Hur explained his decision not to prosecute Biden by saying that the defense would PRESENT Biden as such, and that the DC jury would accept it!

I cannot argue that such might not have occurred, but even if he was found not guilty, it would have demonstrated that:
A. Republicans were right all along.
B. Democrats were lying all along.
C. "Nobody is above the law" is bullshit - Dems are!!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (MdhjG)

138 Karine Jean-Pierre might make a good crisis communication point person for the Mexican Navy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (iF1KJ)

139 136 I haven't seen any heads rolling yet. There should be heads rolling.

I don’t want heads to roll. I want heads on pikes, pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

I want bodies on pikes. Impalements.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (aBgBM)

140 Hey, guys. Remember when you were a kid and some relative asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up...you'd automatically say "I'm going to be president"?

I said I wanted to be a garbage man.
I liked the truck.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (TdYBy)

141 El Capital forgot to put the ship in "Lowrider" Mode. Or the crew could not hear the orders from the harbor pilot or Capitan at the bridge to the engine room due to the incessant banda feista music piped in to all the speakers....

or the crew was trying address each other over the intercomm: "Capitan Gonzales-Ibarra Montraco Leyna Maldonado Cruz y de la Jolla, Ensign Rodriguez-Saltotillo Pensato Camarillo-Marqes y Muchado says the gear lever is jammed in reverso and there is a fire in the compartment and LT Pedrodona-Steinfeld y Maradoan is dead!"

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (LKMDZ)

142
Chris Cillizza rejected Axelrod's plea. When you've lost that idiot...
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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

Cillizza only did it because he intends to use the same "standards" to ride herd on Trump.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (n7rxJ)

143 Engagement rings are stupid. I proposed to my wife with a twisty-tie from a bread bag.

We’ve been married for 261/2 years.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

144 Hur decided not to press the issue with Joe because he didn't want to commit suicide with three bullets to the back of the head.

The Junta was playing for keeps and Hur knew it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (tT6L1)

145 133 Chris Cillizza rejected Axelrod's plea. When you've lost that idiot...
Posted by: Smell the Glove

LoL

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (sAmhv)

146 This might have rendered it unable to arrest the rearward motion.
Posted by: rhomboid

The Messican ship was twerking?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (cYBz/)

147 I know there are some strong currents in and around NYC but I've never seen a boat move that fast by current alone.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)

I saw somebody explain it on a site earlier.

The NY harbor flows into the Hudson and East rivers at high tide, so the currents are really strong there.

Plus the current will speed up around the bridge pillars as well, almost like a whirlpool effect.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (6ydKt)

148 How do you ever trust Democrats again? I’m completely serious. We have never had this type of insidious abuse of our republic and ultimately the citizens in our history. This is another level stuff.

And they still are lying about it. Still fighting against us at every turn. They can never be in power again. They simply can’t be trusted with any power at all. They will try to crush the people and the republic. Even the courts are in on it now. There is no impartiality, only a liberal script and the desire to execute it at all costs.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 19, 2025 06:57 PM (oSFyF)

These Dems? Never. In 20 years or so, they might have reformed. The Republic needs a functional , patriotic opposition party to check the other one.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (8avO+)

149 Going with Wild Turkey 101. My Brother in Law's favorite.
To absent comrades.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 07:00 PM (W/lyH)
===========
Absent comrades
*raises glass*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (CIgUV)

150 to democrats, truth is what you need people to believe.

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 19, 2025 07:03 PM (CWTWj)

151 Engagement rings are stupid. I proposed to my wife with a twisty-tie from a bread bag.

We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg

She must like a man who can improvise. And is long lived... is it 261 or 262?

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:04 PM (ftFVW)

152 We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

Still waiting for your son, Isaac, to come along, are you?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:04 PM (7+eRf)

153 Engagement rings are stupid. I proposed to my wife with a twisty-tie from a bread bag.

We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

And losing the twist tie on the bread bag is instantly fixable.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

154 You guys are too focused on details. Let's just call it an act of war and invade Mexico.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (TdYBy)

155 I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was a kid.

Until I went on farm calls with the local vet.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (77rzZ)

156
Dinner consists of a protein medley with a covering of fromage with a tomato reduction on a Mediterranean flatbread.

Also known as a frozen pizza.

Posted by: rickb223

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

Snack consists of a classic roll of lemon-vanilla genoise, scooped out and filled with a delicate sweet cream.

In other words, a Twinkie.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (n7rxJ)

157 She must like a man who can improvise. And is long lived... is it 261 or 262?
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:04 PM (ftFVW)

At that age, who remembers!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (7+eRf)

158 I emailed the lawyer and asked him to get my will together.

Everything to my friends.

Crap, the dog just stumbled down the stairs. He's my last responsibility. Maybe screw it.

Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)

159 I doubt Hur had any say in whether Biden was prosecuted or not. That call was made by Garland or even more likely Lisa Monaco. She's a real scumbag.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (viF8m)

160 Er…26 1/2 years, I meant.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:06 PM (77rzZ)

161 By the way, do not travel through Newark Airport. Ever, if possible. I left my hotel in San Francisco yesterday at 8 AM, left coast time, and walked in my door at home this morning at 2 am, fifteen hours later.

Salute to United and the FAA, and all who assisted them in torturing us.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:06 PM (CIgUV)

162 And losing the twist tie on the bread bag is instantly fixable.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

Being the hopeless romantic I am, I'm sitting here thinking more than one divorce, and perhaps a spousal homicide or two, have occurred over lost bread bag twisties.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (7+eRf)

163 Stateless, what is going on?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (rT96s)

164 154 You guys are too focused on details. Let's just call it an act of war and invade Mexico.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (TdYBy)

But do we have to keep it win we win?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (6ydKt)

165 Ai yai, yai, yai yai, no llores para el barco…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

166 Thank all of you.

Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (jvJvP)

167 >>We’ve been married for 261/2 years.

>>She must like a man who can improvise. And is long lived... is it 261 or 262?

130.5 years?

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 19, 2025 07:07 PM (144I4)

168 I emailed the lawyer and asked him to get my will together.

Everything to my friends.

Crap, the dog just stumbled down the stairs. He's my last responsibility. Maybe screw it.

Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)

I hope your dog is OK, Stateless. You don't need any other issues.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (VNX3d)

169
Watching that mexican ship sail into the bridge...

almost looks intentional, some fuckface got that ship underweigh with enough momentum to strike that bridge before there was time for any corrective input to avoid the bridge.

Was that person an idiot? Malicious?

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (953xC)

170 "The Republic needs a functional, patriotic opposition party to check the other one."

Having no such party for some time appears to have had consequences. As in, neither party fitting that description (even if one has spun out into unknown territory much more than the other).

Of course lots of wheels turning here. Dumbed down electorate. Collapsed institutions. No real press (on many key subjects).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (1m82a)

171 Every Fox program has a higher audience than CNN and MSNBC combined. I don't watch Fox but the new show Will Cain even tops both include the "popular" Kasie Hunt. Pathetic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (ef25Y)

172 I know there are some strong currents in and around NYC but I've never seen a boat move that fast by current alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)

If it were in reverse, then it would not just be the current.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)

173 Patel, alongside Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, said on the Fox News show "Sunday Morning Futures" that the release could happen within two weeks.

Yep, #twoweeks, code words for "never".

The Three Stooges aren't ever going to investigate, arrest or prosecute the criminals since they have expanded the definition of "Too Big To Jail" to include every member of The Party.

They will gas light us continuously about "transparency" but that is a flat out lie. They will turn over the documents, such as they are, to Congress, many of whom are the villains in the story, and they will promptly burn, redact and destroy anything that is in the least bit damaging.

At least we get a four year reprieve from the Left going after anyone who even knows Trump.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (a4flb)

174 We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)
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130.75 ?

I was told there is no math on the blog, and yet here we are.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (CIgUV)

175 My uncle the retired "journalist" was a raging alcoholic, but quit drinking decades ago. It's hard to believe he could have been an even bigger insufferable rectal itch than he is now if he had not stopped drinking. I mean I think someone would have killed him.

Posted by: Score 9 from Jackie Gleason at May 19, 2025 07:08 PM (qUkBO)

176 By the way, do not travel through Newark Airport. Ever, if possible. I left my hotel in San Francisco yesterday at 8 AM, left coast time, and walked in my door at home this morning at 2 am, fifteen hours later.

Salute to United and the FAA, and all who assisted them in torturing us.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:06 PM (CIgUV)

Did they perhaps turn left instead of right?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:09 PM (7+eRf)

177 Oldcat, true, but I think only for steel stays. Our ratlines were tarred hemp. Lashings at every step. Don't know about the Mex. ship.

If the ship had a wake trailing from her bow, one possibility is that she may have still had some way on from backing out of the SSSM berth. Another would be that the gear shift got jammed somehow (a nightmare).

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 07:09 PM (Epeb0)

178 By the way, do not travel through Newark Airport. Ever, if possible. I left my hotel in San Francisco yesterday at 8 AM, left coast time, and walked in my door at home this morning at 2 am, fifteen hours later.

Salute to United and the FAA, and all who assisted them in torturing us.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:06 PM (CIgUV)

Did they perhaps turn left instead of right?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:09 PM (7+eRf)

They shouldn't have made that left turn at Albuquerque!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2025 07:10 PM (VNX3d)

179 Do we have to keep it when we win?

Historically, no, but we’d better have a company of Texas Rangers to keep the peace the first night in occupied Ciudad de Mexico.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:10 PM (ZVgZ4)

180 Er…26 1/2 years, I meant.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:06 PM (77rzZ)

it just seems like 261...

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:10 PM (8avO+)

181 >>> We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

I was told there wasn't going to be any math on the test.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 07:10 PM (cduTK)

182 Stateless- you've previously said that you've had a lot to drink, you're upset by bad news from a lawyer and now you're talking about making a will. You either need to call a friend NOW or you need to call the crisis hotline in Canada:

9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 07:11 PM (ZHc1v)

183
The Cuauhtémoc

pronounced Kwow-toh-muck. It's Aztec for Imbecile.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 07:11 PM (953xC)

184 >>>Didn't even enjoy Taylor Swift's high impact scene?

it was the very best part

Posted by: cherries in season at May 19, 2025 07:12 PM (N+i4e)

185 Oldcat, true, but I think only for steel stays. Our ratlines were tarred hemp. Lashings at every step. Don't know about the Mex. ship.

If the ship had a wake trailing from her bow, one possibility is that she may have still had some way on from backing out of the SSSM berth. Another would be that the gear shift got jammed somehow (a nightmare).
Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 07:09 PM (Epeb0)
\
Think in the old days you'd have a short bit of rope with a knot in it that you loop over the stay and use it to absorb the friction and adjust your speed.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 19, 2025 07:12 PM (8avO+)

186 How do you ever trust Democrats again? I’m completely serious. We have never had this type of insidious abuse of our republic and ultimately the citizens in our history. This is another level stuff.

How many in the GOP went along with this charade?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:13 PM (a4flb)

187 100 years ago, it was Teapot Dome. Now it is a government coverup of Biden’s senility and inability to hold office.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 07:13 PM (vm8sq)

188 FYI: If any of you like Tallships in Large numbers, try to get to Amsterdam for Sail2025 August 20-25. It happens every 5 years and all the European Tallships (and old Dutch sailing vessels) are on display on the River Ei northeast of Centraal Station along the wharf. That is when the redlight district reverts to the time when it was bustling with sailors. I went in 2010 by happenstance and it was cooling seeing 30 tallships moored bowsprit to stern for over a mile like olde timey painting or engraving!!

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at May 19, 2025 07:13 PM (LKMDZ)

189 169
Watching that mexican ship sail into the bridge...

almost looks intentional, some fuckface got that ship underweigh with enough momentum to strike that bridge before there was time for any corrective input to avoid the bridge.

Was that person an idiot? Malicious?
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First
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That person was a NY Harbor Pilot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 07:13 PM (j9+uM)

190 The Cuauhtémoc

pronounced Kwow-toh-muck. It's Aztec for Imbecile.
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 07:11 PM (953xC)
================
A great new name suggestion for Jen Psaki's show

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 07:14 PM (CIgUV)

191 Was that person an idiot? Malicious?

Mexican?

No, it was nominally under the presumably New Yorker Pilot’s control. Why el capitán did not spare part of the crew to man the anchor, just in case, is the real question.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:14 PM (ZVgZ4)

192 We’ve been married for 261/2 years.

130.5 years?
Posted by: haffhowershower

So we found a couple of those 150-year-olds collecting Social Security.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 19, 2025 07:14 PM (DgGvY)

193 Is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) mental acuity as good as it’s been over the years? I’m just asking because he doesn’t seem to know how to grill a burger.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Also, his wife looks like a dude. For real.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2025 07:14 PM (b294k)

194 if things go right
i'll getcha some ice creem samples
youtu.be/8Hml0_BUiOU
aww yeah

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 07:14 PM (gKWVE)

195 "Meanwhile, inflation ran rampant and illegal immigrants of all sorts flooded into our country weakening it, destroying our economy and threatening the safety of our citizens."

Oh, that's just for starters. Let's tack on that the DOJ blatantly went after political enemies, billions of taxpayer dollars were shoveled to political cronies and making sure illegal aliens were comfortable, and the military was forced to allow women into physically arduous combat arms roles, standards be damned. The Biden Administration couldn't have been more destructive if it had been run by Cobra Commander.

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 19, 2025 07:15 PM (se/Tc)

196 Stateless, your family may be driving you to drink , but you've got friends here . Have faith

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 07:15 PM (ef25Y)

197 Apparently it's a Mexican Navy tradition to climb the rigging while a tall ship is entering port.
Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2025 06:32 PM (i0F8b)

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I thought the ship was leaving. Things will happen when you don't know if you are coming or going.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2025 07:15 PM (unUNN)

198 How many meetings did Speaker Johnson have with Bribe'em? Several and the little shit did nothing. I depise the Republicans more than the democrats.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:16 PM (NVNRw)

199 Is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) mental acuity as good as it’s been over the years? I’m just asking because he doesn’t seem to know how to grill a burger.

He lost his mind decades ago and it has been under operational control by various demons since then.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:16 PM (a4flb)

200 176 A wrong turn at Albuquerque.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:16 PM (77rzZ)

201 143 Engagement rings are stupid. I proposed to my wife with a twisty-tie from a bread bag.

We’ve been married for 261/2 years.
Posted by: Bulg

You were unemployed then too?

Posted by: Yikes at May 19, 2025 07:17 PM (Q845S)

202 Of course journalists are lushes; it's been a hard drinking profession since the 30s. What's worse is that they are almost uniformly self righteous dolts.

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 19, 2025 07:17 PM (se/Tc)

203 @liz_churchill10 6h

Not a coincidence…soon after President Trump posts on Truth Social about Treasonous Obama and Public Military Tribunals…

Regime Media and the Communists are demanding
‘Prayers for Joe’ after finally admitting he has terminal cancer…which they’ve known about for a long time

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 07:18 PM (j9+uM)

204 How many meetings did Speaker Johnson have with Bribe'em? Several and the little shit did nothing. I depise the Republicans more than the democrats.

I'm beginning to believe that Johnson probably spoke to surrogates of Obama or HRC, and he is in on the scheme to torpedo the American Experiment.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:18 PM (a4flb)

205 Funny story (happy ending): Schooner Pioneer was doing her first sail of the season, Years Ago, with only a couple of sails bent on (attached and set, for landlubbers), and about 20 passengers.

We pulled out of the very same South St Seaport, under engine power (2 sails aren't sufficient to power and control the ship) and got to the center of the East River -- and the diesel engine choked and died.

We were being swept by the East River current at about 4-5 knots (the East River goes up through Hell Gate, and is notorious for its tidal flow), heading straight for Brooklyn. The captain, a very experienced old salt, had us throw out fenders (tires) all around as bumpers, told us to keep the passengers calm -- and one of our crew did the heroic thing: got into the bilge, found out the fuel line was jammed with something from the harbor, SUCKED it out and spat it over the side, and we got her going -- about 1 minute before pranging the old Domino Sugar factory!

The passengers were happily oblivious to the drama, thought it was just part of the evening's entertainment....

So yeah, in that old river (tidal strait, actually) you can really get going lickety-split.

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 07:18 PM (Epeb0)

206 >>FYI: If any of you like Tallships in Large numbers, try to get to Amsterdam for Sail2025 August 20-25.

They used to come to Newport for a similar event. Very cool. We still get the Eagle most years when the new cadets are out on their training mission. This year they are heading back to the west coast for the first time in years.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 07:18 PM (viF8m)

207 A Mexican ship crashed into a bridge in a blue city port
------

When that happened, it caused a recollection of 'The Erie Canal' lyrics. For those under 29:

'Low bridge, ev'rybody down!
Low bridge, for we're comin' to a town!'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

208 1 my snide mention of "journalists" as low-functioning alcoholics is not intended to be demeaning to the very high-functioning alcoholics on this site.
Posted by: ace at May 19, 2025 06:22 PM

Thank you, Ace. I do like commenting here from time to time.

Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (0sNs1)

209
Oh, that's just for starters. Let's tack on that the DOJ blatantly went after political enemies, billions of taxpayer dollars were shoveled to political cronies and making sure illegal aliens were comfortable, and the military was forced to allow women into physically arduous combat arms roles, standards be damned. The Biden Administration couldn't have been more destructive if it had been run by Cobra Commander.
Posted by: UGAdawg at May 19, 2025 07:15 PM (se/Tc)
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This comment has all the hallmarks of a Hydra disinformation product.

Posted by: 51 Cobra Intel Agents at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (RLLZj)

210 187 100 years ago, it was Teapot Dome. Now it is a government coverup of Biden’s senility and inability to hold office.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 07:13 PM (vm8sq)

100 years ago we were only about 5 years out from Edith Wilson running the White House because Woodrow had a severe stroke and the severity was hidden from the American public.

Funny how so much has changed and how so little has changed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (6ydKt)

211 If anyone here knows Scott, or has X, please tell him to get on Joe Rippins cancer protocol with ivermectin

He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if it works for him as it has for many, not all, but many

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (nGraA)

212 Regime Media and the Communists are demanding
‘Prayers for Joe’ after finally admitting he has terminal cancer…which they’ve known about for a long time

Imprecatory Prayers are Biblical and we have templates in the Psalms by no less authority than King David.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (a4flb)

213 I depise the Republicans more than the democrats.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yes! I dislike duplicity as a rule, but actively fucking the constituents who voted for you is especially despicable.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (ftFVW)

214 Whatever the cause of the accident involving the Mexican ship, I think we can all agree that Chuck Schumer should be keelhauled.

Posted by: Paco at May 19, 2025 07:20 PM (mADJX)

215 I blame DHS and that jackbooted Kristi Noem for lowering the Brooklyn Bridge at the last moment to create an international incident similar to the Tonkin Gulf situation.

When the Mexican Navy puts a blockade on the Gulf of America, IT'S GO TIME!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 19, 2025 07:21 PM (zKVqU)

216 @liz_churchill10 8h

Zerohedge exposes the Criminal Clinton Cartel on Live TV 🔥

“President Trump posted a Truth Social video highlighting what most people call the Clinton Body Count…which is the strange number of suicides that seem to happen in Clinton’s Circle…
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Hadn't heard about that. Maybe it'll post on the ONT.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 07:21 PM (j9+uM)

217 Rhomboid: Good point about the tug. Heard she had a 1500-hp engine, and being an older boat, no Z-drive, though I don't know if that would've helped.

I almost got killed, srsly, driving the photog chase boat for the Hudson River Tugboat race one year. But that's another saga. ;-)

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 07:21 PM (Epeb0)

218 182 Stateless, what FenSpoke said.

We are all here for you, too.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:22 PM (77rzZ)

219 I depise the Republicans more than the democrats.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:16 PM

Well, except for me, right?

Posted by: J. Cornyn (R-TX) at May 19, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)

220 Back on Bulg's twist tie ring... did he at least bend it into a fancy ring I wonder.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:22 PM (ftFVW)

221 He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if it works for him as it has for many, not all, but many
Posted by: Gonzotx at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (nGraA)

He said he already tried the fenbendazole and ivermectin last year - his PSA numbers went up instead of improving.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 19, 2025 07:22 PM (rT96s)

222 Keelhauling is too good for Chuck Schumer, unless we use a Nimitz class carrier.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2025 07:23 PM (QGS/I)

223 BTW, the height of the Brooklyn Bridge determined the height of the cage masts of our battleships, through WWI.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2025 07:24 PM (od0dV)

224 220 Actually, I think that it was my wife’s idea, and she did the twisting.

We still have it, too.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:24 PM (77rzZ)

225 186 How do you ever trust Democrats again? I’m completely serious. We have never had this type of insidious abuse of our republic and ultimately the citizens in our history. This is another level stuff.

After COVID, you’re asking this?! How do you trust anyone in a position of authority, nowadays? Those few who fought it were crushed. They were very few, and I just hunkered down and shot my mouth off about what was really going on to anyone who would listen. Almost no one did. I did get my pulmonologist, smartest doctor in the county, to privately agree with me, but he did nothing to buck the tide, publically.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

226 Engagement rings are stupid. I proposed to my wife with a twisty-tie from a bread bag.

==

..and for a honeymoon you took her through a carwash or something ?

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 07:24 PM (g47mK)

227 Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)

And I provided the twisty tie. 😜 He’s that irresistible.

Posted by: La Troienne at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (A4txm)

228 The president of Mexico has already chastise Schumer for politicizing and an accident that resulted in the death of two cadets and 20 others injured..

Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (p6xbI)

229 WWJAD?

What Would Jack Aubrey Do?

Posted by: Paco at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

230 100 years ago we were only about 5 years out from Edith Wilson running the White House because Woodrow had a severe stroke and the severity was hidden from the American public.

Funny how so much has changed and how so little has changed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (6ydKt)

I’m trying to remember how long that situation lasted. What, the final year of Wilson’s term?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (vm8sq)

231 John Cornyn, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire in my front yard and about to burn my house down.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (NVNRw)

232 I seem to remember some movie where the guy proposed to the girl with the old-style ring pull from a soda can, circa 70s and early 80s.

I can kinda picture it, but the name escapes me.

Could be my imagination or I'm confusing it with another scene.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:26 PM (6ydKt)

233 Watching that mexican ship sail into the bridge...

almost looks intentional, some fuckface got that ship underweigh with enough momentum to strike that bridge before there was time for any corrective input to avoid the bridge.

Was that person an idiot? Malicious?
Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First
------------------------------

That person was a NY Harbor Pilot.
Posted by: Braenyard

So much for unions.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:26 PM (5QooU)

234 We still have it, too.
Posted by: Bulg

Awwww, now that is very sweet.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:26 PM (ftFVW)

235 226 We had a non-honeymoon, as I was unemployed at the time.

We’ve made up for it since, however.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:27 PM (77rzZ)

236 Keelhauling is too good for Chuck Schumer, unless we use a Nimitz class carrier. - Anna Puma

Here's an idea: how about two Nimitz class carriers end-to-end?

Posted by: Paco at May 19, 2025 07:27 PM (mADJX)

237
Livestream
President Trump Participates in a Kennedy Center Board Dinner

https://is.gd/FLmgtT

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 07:27 PM (953xC)

238 Okay, I am better.

Nothing horrible is happening.

How many times am I going to apologize to the Horde today?

I wish I was better. The Horde needs a better stateless.

Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 07:28 PM (jvJvP)

239 John Cornyn, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire in my front yard and about to burn my house down.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (NVNRw)

If you need me to, I'll come over with a stick and roll him into the street.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:28 PM (RxS+u)

240 Publically -> publicly

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:28 PM (ZVgZ4)

241 She Hobbit, my wife and I were made for each other.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:28 PM (77rzZ)

242 135 I want the video of the tail ship crash put to Mariachi music and I want it yesterday

hmmm... *scribbles note* mariachi band covering yakkety sax

Posted by: anachronda at May 19, 2025 07:29 PM (sGtp+)

243 Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi 28m

I was proud to stand with @POTUS as he signed the Take It Down Act. Thank you @FLOTUS for your work in safeguarding children from deepfake exploitation

May 17
I have been briefed on the explosion at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California that took place today. Federal agents are on the ground now responding alongside local law enforcement

May 16
It was an honor to visit @ATF_Tampa today and hear the incredible story of Matt Murray, a brave agent who suffered a devastating gunshot wound while trying to break up a fight on his night off.

May 15
Today, I laid a wreath in honor of the brave law enforcement officers we have lost in the line of duty.
---

Pam, what we want are warrants, arrests and indictments.
Show us some perp walks. Arrest Ashley Babbitt's murderer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 19, 2025 07:29 PM (j9+uM)

244 If there's one, there's another:

@Kagan_M_Dunlap
📸 BREAKING: Retired four-star Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke, aged 63, has been found guilty on federal charges including bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, acts affecting a personal financial interest, and concealment of material facts.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 19, 2025 07:29 PM (mlg/3)

245 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2025 07:30 PM (b294k)

246 I wish I was better. The Horde needs a better stateless.
Posted by: Stateless...25% - mental state clawing up from 10% at May 19, 2025 07:28 PM (jvJvP)

That's not true.

We just need you to not be so hard on yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:30 PM (RxS+u)

247 Thom Tillis is the sleaziest sleazeweasel in the Senate though. He's all big MAGA on his Twitter and then votes down the nominations. I can't wait until he's primaried and on Linkedin looking for private sector employment

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 07:30 PM (gKWVE)

248 I’m trying to remember how long that situation lasted. What, the final year of Wilson’s term?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (vm8sq)

Yeah, it was about a year and a half.

Stroke was in October 1919, through 1920, until he left office in March 1921.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 19, 2025 07:30 PM (6ydKt)

249 How many times am I going to apologize to the Horde today?

As often as you feel the urge, Stateless, and be glad that you have received Mercy, not Justice.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:31 PM (ZVgZ4)

250 Stateless, no apologies necessary. Just take good care of yourself. Hang with us as you need to, but also take breaks to pursue the interests you love.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:32 PM (77rzZ)

251 Keelhauling is too good for Chuck Schumer, unless we use a Nimitz class carrier. - Anna Puma

Here's an idea: how about two Nimitz class carriers end-to-end?
Posted by: Paco at May 19, 2025 07:27 PM

Keelhauling is done from one side of the ship to the other, not bow to stern.

To accomplish your goal, you'd probably want the two Nimitz-class carrier athwart each other.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 19, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

252
I wish I was better. The Horde needs a better stateless.
Posted by: Stateless

Take it easy on yourself.

Posted by: Soothsayer Said It First, as usual at May 19, 2025 07:32 PM (953xC)

253 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 19, 2025 07:30 PM (b294k)

I'll go one further: They learned, from the massive experiments they did with the clot shot, how to essentially inject cancer into people.

Not an accident.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:32 PM (RxS+u)

254 Keelhauling is too good for Chuck Schumer, unless we use a Nimitz class carrier.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 19, 2025 07:23 PM (QGS/I)

How about using a Virginia class attack submarine?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 19, 2025 07:32 PM (VNX3d)

255 183 The Cuauhtémoc

pronounced Kwow-toh-muck. It's Aztec for Imbecile

hmmm.... *scribbles notes* saga of cuauhtemocoatl, the aztec god of imbeciles

Posted by: anachronda at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (sGtp+)

256 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

That thought has crossed my mind, too. Though I also have doubts if TPTB crowd ever actually got the jab, because I'm all in on conspiracy now.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (ftFVW)

257 BREAKING: Retired four-star Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke,

Okay, look. What if that bribe didn't even exist, huh? Did you ever think about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went in and made a major security issue out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. So I made a decision and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (gKWVE)

258 nothing. I depise the Republicans more than the democrats.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:16 PM (NVNRw)

Nah. We don’t deserve that!

Posted by: Romney, McCain and Cheney at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (pvyg7)

259 What are you all doing down here?

There's a nood upstairs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 19, 2025 07:34 PM (zZu0s)

260 Rain and wind.

I bet there’s a rain bow out here somewhere !

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 07:34 PM (pvyg7)

261 245 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.

If so, ironic justice.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 19, 2025 07:34 PM (ZVgZ4)

262 That thought has crossed my mind, too. Though I also have doubts if TPTB crowd ever actually got the jab, because I'm all in on conspiracy now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (ftFVW)

There's video from way back when, of Biden supposedly getting the shot, then later, rubbing the other arm.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2025 07:34 PM (RxS+u)

263 We still have it, too.
Posted by: Bulg

Probably want to toss that bread now though. Gonna be mighty stale.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 07:34 PM (W/lyH)

264 Cuahtemoc was the last Emperor of the Aztecs. A nephew of Moctezuma, if I’m not mistaken.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 07:35 PM (77rzZ)

265 217 Rhomboid: Good point about the tug. Heard she had a 1500-hp engine, and being an older boat, no Z-drive, though I don't know if that would've helped.

ah. that would explain the two-dimensional thinking. fascinating.

Posted by: mr. spock at May 19, 2025 07:35 PM (sGtp+)

266 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.

You guys kill me.

This regime lies about absolutely everything, but the prostate cancer story you suck up and believe as if it was written on stone tablets.

I submit that they chose prostate cancer because they want to communicate that he is terminal, but want to maintain that he was competent in office.

The terminal disease is brain related, not prostate.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:37 PM (a4flb)

267 McDonald's is now offering fish filets made from ornamental carp.

They're the real McKoi.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:39 PM (5QooU)

268 Thom Tillis is the sleaziest sleazeweasel in the Senate though. He's all big MAGA on his Twitter and then votes down the nominations. I can't wait until he's primaried and on Linkedin looking for private sector employment

I'm absolutely certain that Tillis has managed to embezzle, grit and insider trade his way to Generational Wealth, he will do fine.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 19, 2025 07:39 PM (a4flb)

269 Cancer ridden, mentally non functional. I don't give a shit. The fuckwad had the backing to hurt this country more than anyone else ever has. May he burn in hell.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:41 PM (NVNRw)

270 Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.

He never got a clot shot. They KNEW how dangerous an untested vaccine was. None of them took the clot shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:42 PM (5QooU)

271 Sail4th 250

Largest number of tall ships will assemble in NY harbor for the nation's 250th birthday, 7/4/2026

Posted by: IrishEi at May 19, 2025 07:42 PM (3ImbR)

272 That thought has crossed my mind, too. Though I also have doubts if TPTB crowd ever actually got the jab, because I'm all in on conspiracy now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 19, 2025 07:33 PM (ftFVW)

There's video from way back when, of Biden supposedly getting the shot, then later, rubbing the other arm.
Posted by: BurtTC

Saline shots do that.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:43 PM (5QooU)

273 >>> McDonald's is now offering fish filets made from ornamental carp.
They're the real McKoi.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:39 PM (5QooU)

Ouch.. LOL obviously. but ouch

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2025 07:46 PM (cduTK)

274 117 How do you ever trust Democrats again? I’m completely serious. We have never had this type of insidious abuse of our republic and ultimately the citizens in our history. This is another level stuff.”

Read a very good piece (lost the link) on how the Dems are no longer a legitimate political party, instead they’ve become an apocalyptic cult. Which is why they are compelled to keep doubling down on all of their worst ideas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 07:47 PM (buOX2)

275 229 WWJAD?

What Would Jack Aubrey Do?
Posted by: Paco at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

Great book series and one of the best seagoing movies ever, Master and Commander.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 07:47 PM (LHPAg)

276 Re Congress and the Death Jab: they EXEMPTED themselves and their staffers from the "vaccine" mandate.

That bit of info was made public somehow, but disappeared soon after like dust in the wind....

Posted by: Beverly at May 19, 2025 07:49 PM (Epeb0)

277 231 John Cornyn, I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire in my front yard and about to burn my house down.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 07:25 PM (NVNRw)
The old ways are best.

Posted by: Eromero at May 19, 2025 07:53 PM (LHPAg)

278 >>> Okay, hear me out. They really did not know about Joe's cancer. It's a turbo cancer from a clot shot.

He never got a clot shot. They KNEW how dangerous an untested vaccine was. None of them took the clot shot.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 07:42 PM (5QooU)

Biden never got the shot, they instead used a very large capybara that was disguised in Biden's clothes.

Shortly there after Biden died from an unrelated illness so they had to keep using the capybara, trained it to mostly talk, walk, point at reporters, and sniff kids. But capybaras only live 8-10 years so they have make something up for retiring the poor guy.

Posted by: banana Dream - Investigator For Hire at May 19, 2025 07:54 PM (cduTK)

279 I'll go one further: They learned, from the massive experiments they did with the clot shot, how to essentially inject cancer into people.

Not an accident.
Posted by: BurtTC

Hence the various formula.
Hey! This one will make a HS star athlete drop dead from a heart attack in almost six months... This one a year!

For all we know the vast majority were placebos with a sprinkling of seriously random toxic shit thrown in just to see "What if...?"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 19, 2025 07:56 PM (/lPRQ)

280 It's a NOOD.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 19, 2025 08:00 PM (od0dV)

281 221 He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if it works for him as it has for many, not all, but many
Posted by: Gonzotx at May 19, 2025 07:19 PM (nGraA)

He said he already tried the fenbendazole and ivermectin last year - his PSA numbers went up instead of improving.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 19, 2025 07:22 PM (rT96s)

Damn

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 19, 2025 08:27 PM (nGraA)

282 I am a journalist and didn't know it

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at May 19, 2025 08:31 PM (mV7kM)

283 Bog Brother Jake told Tom Hanks "2 weeks" in The Money Pit. I feel like that is more accurate than what Kashbino is telling us now.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 19, 2025 09:08 PM (EES2L)

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