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The Morning Report — 5/ 26 /25

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Good morning kids. Hope you all had an enjoyable start to the long three-day weekend holiday, but today is Memorial Day, so please take a moment to think about and say a prayer for those who gave their lives in service. I know I will, as I remember my uncle for whom I am named.

The following video is just as appropriate for Veterans Day, yet the emotion that Eugene Sledge feels for his fallen friends and no doubt the incredible guilt he had for making it home alive when so many others did not, is indeed a fitting tribute for all who made the ultimate sacrifice. God bless their memory.

For those who do not know, Sledge's book With the Old Breed at Pelelieu and Okinawa is considered the greatest first person account of frontline combat ever written, and it was the basis for the series "The Pacific."


Unfortunately, today marks the fifth anniversary that a low-life career criminal, whose wasted life was brought to an end when he resisted arrest for passing counterfeit money and because rather than risk being returned to prison for a very long stretch decided it was a good idea to ingest his stash of narcotics. Meanwhile, the police officer, Derek Chauvin was railroaded on a murder charge and so the Left had yet another "martyr" to mythological white supremacist police brutality with which they could continue their goal of societal destruction in the cause of seizing absolute power and turning our society and nation inside out.


The anniversary of Floyd’s overdose death on May 25th, 2020 led to an outpouring of political
commemorations of his death and musings about the need for yet more ‘racial justice’, none of which accounted for the 2,000 more black people killed in 2020 than in 2019.

The Floyd reckoning killed more black people than Hurricane Katrina did. The real legacy of the BLM race riots were 2,000 dead black people. The real legacy of the fists and kneelings were entire cemeteries filled with dead black bodies over the course of only one single year.

And coffins being placed in cemeteries across the country, planted there by the ‘reckoning’.

More Americans died in the BLM wars than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. Or at Pearl Harbor. To find a conflict that was more lethal to Americans, you would have to go back to Vietnam. Far more were killed by the BLM crime wave than perished in Hurricane Katrina, not to mention Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Ike and the California wildfires.

George Floyd’s death was the single deadliest non-drug or disease event of any war or natural disaster in the United States in the last 40 years.

I am glad my poor uncle and all the other men and women who were killed in service are not around to see exactly what they died for. Horrible as this is, let's hope and pray that the cultural/political tide is turning and that America will return to a saner age, for the sake of those who gave their lives for it and certainly for the sake of future generations.


With all that said, I maintain that the greatest threat we face is from the aforementioned Democrat Left that have spent the better part of the past 200 years to tear us apart, regardless of the cost in blood, treasure and the waste of human potential their venality, and lust for power their words and deeds have cost.


The gunning down in cold blood of two Israelis last week in front to the Israeli embassy was carried out by an avowed communist, cheered on by those who cheered on and participated in the incineration of several dozen urban areas five years ago among other acts of domestic terrorisim in the ensuing years and years before that by their mentors and antecedents.

Monsters like Elias Rodriguez don’t suddenly emerge from under a rock. Their anti-American and anti-Israel hatreds are honed over time by a revolutionary ecosystem composed of different organisms. Years before he shot in cold blood a couple that worked at the Israeli Embassy in the prime of their lives, Rodriguez was taught to loathe the West.

Given the parlous state to which we have mindlessly allowed our universities to descend, Rodriguez may have imbibed some of this anti-Western dogma at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from which he graduated with an English degree in 2018.

But we know for sure that concurrently with his “education,” Rodriguez was associated with two leading institutions of the revolutionary ecosystem, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and one of its front groups, the ANSWER Coalition, an acronym for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.

He attended several marches coordinated by both groups in 2018, and was identified as a member of the PSL. Now that Rodriguez has been caught committing a heinous crime, however, both groups are distancing themselves from him.

Black Lives Matter Chicago also admitted that Rodriguez was a supporter and took part in several marches. BLM Chicago was one of the groups that cruelly posted pictures of paragliders with Palestinian flags after the terrorist group Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, the New York Post reported at the time. Rodriguez shouted “Free Palestine,” moments before his arrest. . .

. . .“The People’s Forum, IPA, and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S., advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda,” said NCRI.

Moreover, NCRI added that these three far-left groups “are part of a network linked by close financial, interpersonal, and ideological ties to Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, a power couple within the global far-left movement with close ties to the CCP”

Evans is the co-founder of CodePink, a group that organizes street mayhem. Evans announced on X two days after Rodriguez’s murderous rampage that she was “fasting for Gaza.”

Singham, a multi-millionaire, lives in Shanghai, China, “where he shares premises with Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Ltd., a Chinese propaganda firm focused on presenting a positive image of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the global south.”

According to a 2023 report by the New York Times, one of the rare instances when the legacy media has reported on this network, Singham’s “ties to the propaganda machine date back at least to 2019, when, corporate documents show, he started a consulting business with Chinese partners. Those partners are active in the propaganda apparatus.”

China and the old Soviet Union have funded and backed subversive groups for decades. OF course groups like the Black Panthers, Earth Liberation Front, the Weathermen, La Raza, Mecha and others have substantial backing from monies raised right here at home. I was hoping Kash Patel and Pam Bondi would make the dismantling of the domestic threats to our country a top priority. It's a fair assumption that if you follow the money much of it leads right back to the Democrat Party as well as to sources within our government itself which no doubt DOGE, if given the chance will reveal in all its ugly detail,



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1 Good morning, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 07:22 AM (7xrfc)

2 Peter Wang, JROTC at Parkland High School, was recognized as an honorary graduate of West Point.

https://tinyurl.com/2ccxcnxf

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 07:24 AM (7xrfc)

3 I noticed a bunch of democrats coming out against the big beautiful bill because it adds to the deficit. Irony can be pretty ironic at times.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2025 07:27 AM (e5NfL)

4 Thank you, JJ! Bloody well right, as usual!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 26, 2025 07:28 AM (/Ghsb)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:28 AM (Q4IgG)

6
I noticed a bunch of democrats coming out against the big beautiful bill because it adds to the deficit. Irony can be pretty ironic at times.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 26, 2025 07:27 AM (e5NfL)


Democrats don't care about the deficit. They care about the principle that all money belongs to government.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:30 AM (QnmlO)

7 May you have a grateful Big Beautiful Memorial Day.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 07:30 AM (dg+HA)

8 Hochul betrays the biggest federal spending scam:

The amount of fraud, waste, abuse and misuse that DOGE revealed?
Ten times that is being funneled to blue states to prop them up.

Note: I believe one of the current illegal injunctions against Trump is to force him to spend still-sceduled Covid funds for blue cities.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:32 AM (NwfFc)

9 "It’s time Republicans got equally tough."

In your dreams.

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

10
Note: I believe one of the current illegal injunctions against Trump is to force him to spend still-sceduled Covid funds for blue cities.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:32 AM (NwfFc)


COVID opened my eyes (late, I know) to the curious phenomenon that there's a considerable gap between the money appropriated and the benefit times the number of intended recipients.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:35 AM (QnmlO)

11 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

12 Johnson says there is 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicare?

Sure, just like these are only 11 million illegals in this country.

There's at least 3 times that.

$17,500 average spent every year on Medicare means over $84 billion annually. Almost all of that going to blue states and blue counties.

No money for Americans but billions for everyone else.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:41 AM (NwfFc)

13 "AI, at its best, simulates thinking, but does not actually think."

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Posted by: Marvin the paranoid android at May 26, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

14 Fine. Trump's big beautiful bill isn't very good. So, what have you bastard GOPers done over the last few years to avoid this? Oh, nothing? Well then, maybe it's your own f'ing fault. Stop wasting our time. Either do your f'ing jobs, or get out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 07:44 AM (0eaVi)

15
Quasi-willowed

There needs to be a Constitutional amendment that if you served in an elected or appointed government position at any level you can't have anything built with public money named after you.

The sole exception is for those in the military. But you must have died in line of duty.

I don't care how unfair this is. Lex dura, sed lex.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:45 AM (QnmlO)

16 "Szeg"? Don't you mean segg? Was that a typo?

Posted by: bof at May 26, 2025 07:47 AM (jewoC)

17
$17,500 average spent every year on Medicare means over $84 billion annually. Almost all of that going to blue states and blue counties.

No money for Americans but billions for everyone else.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:41 AM (NwfFc)

Oh, it gets even better. How many of those illegal migrants have had a childhood with adequate healthcare? We are covering the costs of a life time of deferred care for millions. They aren't costing anything close to average.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 26, 2025 07:47 AM (pIfcn)

18
"Szeg"? Don't you mean segg? Was that a typo?
Posted by: bof at May 26, 2025 07:47 AM (jewoC)


Her Magyara cousin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:48 AM (QnmlO)

19 16 "Szeg"? Don't you mean segg? Was that a typo?
Posted by: bof at May 26, 2025 07:47 AM (jewoC)


Fixed, basz mag!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 26, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)

20 > Johnson says there is 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicare?
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He's obviously cherry-picking those numbers from one of probably a dozen estimates. None are likely close to the actual number because those that commissioned the estimates have an agenda.

Same with the $17.5K on Medicaid recipients.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 07:49 AM (Q4IgG)

21 Not Canada, not Greenland, not Gaza. It’s one that almost no one has thought of.
The Real Candidate for America’s 51st State


I vote for none of the above.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

22 RE: Christian Reaches Settlement over Alleged Firing for Bible-Themed Shirts Worn During ‘Pride Month’

A few years ago, my employer (a big corporation) sent out a survey "Tell Us About Your Pride!" I responded by telling them Pride is inordinate self-regard and they needed to stop violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because the only employees they singled-out for praise were NOT heterosexual white men.

I never got a response, but things started to change for the better. My supervisor later told me that senior leadership was becoming concerned that so many employees were telling them they were being discriminated against for being white men.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 26, 2025 07:53 AM (pJWtt)

23 Yes, the lower courts are issuing illegal orders.

The early Supreme Court Justices and all the Founders would have been outraged at their usurpation of Executive power.
Yes, they did understand that courts could issue illegal orders.

And they would have demanded the impeachment of a president who complied.

Oh, and to understand that the courts intend to deceive from the beginning, they are calling their illegal orders "injunctions"
They are not writs of injunction, they are writs of mandamus--ordering the President to act.
They know well this distinction but intend deception because properly naming it an "order to act" exposes the truth of their usurpation of power.
Especially since a writ of mandamus isn't permitted emergency orders, which is essential to the judicial fraud, like how an email scam demands urgent action

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:54 AM (NwfFc)

24 Crockett: We Will Investigate Trump, Family When Dems Take House Back

Count us in!

Posted by: GOPe at May 26, 2025 07:55 AM (0eaVi)

25 Is she a descendant of Davy Crockett?

Posted by: He was king of the wild frontier! at May 26, 2025 07:56 AM (dg+HA)

26 Mornin,’ All. May we all have a reflective and blessed Memorial Day.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 07:57 AM (77rzZ)

27 Slapped, shoved, or just Madame Macron wiping the cocaine off his snout?

https://tinyurl.com/5dpk4hdm

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 26, 2025 07:58 AM (0JWOm)

28
Especially since a writ of mandamus isn't permitted emergency orders, which is essential to the judicial fraud, like how an email scam demands urgent action
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 26, 2025 07:54 AM (NwfFc)


Urgent Action Needed!! Your Constitution is about to expire.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 07:58 AM (QnmlO)

29 Good morning all.

Remembering SGT Medas, CPT White, PVT Johnson, and PVT Cavalier.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 08:00 AM (cYBz/)

30 Johnson says there is 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicare?

Medicaid. Medicaid is for poor old farts. Medicare is for rich old farts.

Of course, Illegals don't care they just want a hand out.

Posted by: Old Fart at May 26, 2025 08:00 AM (R/m4+)

31 ***After President Trump branded the EU “very difficult to deal with” and warned that due to its intransigence, it could face a potential 50 per cent
----
On the other side of the same coin ...
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Below is the open letter on international conventions signed by Denmark, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic:

Italy and Denmark have promoted a clear and courageous letter, already signed by other European nations. We have the duty to defend our citizens, our values, our democracy. We are leaders of societies that protect human rights, yet too often the European Convention on Human Rights is interpreted in a way that prevents states from expelling foreign criminals or protecting their borders. We cannot accept this.

For this reason, together, we ask:
• More autonomy at the national level to decide when to expel foreign citizens who have committed crimes;
• Greater freedom of control over those who cannot be repatriated;
• Stop using rights as a weapon against our borders.

Defending rights also means defending security, legality, freedom. Italy is there and leads this change

_Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni May 23

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:03 AM (BMJSC)

32
the ANSWER Coalition

----

*kicks ANSWER in the balls*

Posted by: THE QUESTION at May 26, 2025 08:04 AM (ES1Rb)

33 Oh, and for the judges, have you noticed not one of the judges has actually held Trump in contempt. They all threaten it, but they never actually do it. As I, not a lawyer, understand it, If they actually find him in contempt, it triggers an immediate(!) Supreme Court review of not only the contempt charge but the underlying issue as well.

That would totally bypass the judicial slow walking, so they aren't going to do it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 26, 2025 08:07 AM (pIfcn)

34 It's a game Brigitte and I like to play. It's called "Slap the Co-prince of Andorra." I kind of get off being dominated by a woman who is 25 years older than me.

Posted by: Little Emmanuel at May 26, 2025 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

35 I would love to see wannabe hood rat Jasmine Crockett get into a real life situation. Her car quits running in a sketchy neighborhood. She is suddenly the attention of a group consisting of pipe hitting mofos, admiring her car. And her. She is on the phone. "Daddy, I'm lost and I don't like the looks of these men around me. I think they want the Lexus. And me. I called the police and gave them my name and they said get back with them later. Maybe you can send some of the staff down to help me. Maybe Cook and that gardener fellow".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 26, 2025 08:08 AM (gm9Sb)

36 Macron's very bad day. The slap seen round the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 26, 2025 08:10 AM (NVNRw)

37 Hope y'all have a wonderful Memorial Day! 🇺🇸

Posted by: redridinghood at May 26, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

38 Whenever I see “Elias Rodriguez,” my mind wants to read “Elian Gonzalez.”

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)

39 Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson has died at 79. I'm sure the gay mafia will cheer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 26, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

40
"Our Democracy" in Europe means repeating the same question until the sheep-like subjects recite the correct answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 08:14 AM (QnmlO)

41 Lost on August 15, 1991 while flying from the USS Camden (AOE-2) about 100 miles West of Wake Island whilst heading home from a WestPac deployment with the USS Nimitz, when their CH-46 Sea Knight lost a rotor blade and crashed:

Lt. Eric W. Allison, 26; Lt. (j.g.) Kenneth D. Pickens, 24, Airman William A. Jackson, 20, and Petty Officer 1st Class Johnny L. Caulder Jr., 28.

They were with HC-11 out of San Diego.

Rest in Peace, brothers. You were almost home.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:15 AM (/RHNq)

42
Whenever I see “Elias Rodriguez,” my mind wants to read “Elian Gonzalez.”
Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)


We had no qualms whatsoever about deporting him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 08:15 AM (QnmlO)

43 For this reason, together, we ask:

Better statement would be For this reason, together, we demand.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 08:16 AM (7xrfc)

44 Because Apple is fucking stupid.
_Pixy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:17 AM (BMJSC)

45 Elian Gonzalez has become a good little commie and blames the USA for the death of his mother.

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

46 Blessed George Floyd, Patron Saint of Shoving a Lethal Dose of Fentanyl Up Your Own Asshole, pray for us.

🙏

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:18 AM (/RHNq)

47 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 26, 2025 07:58 AM (0JWOm)

Looks like a slap. And totally off topic, maybe it's the angle, but she looks like she has quite skinny legs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 08:19 AM (M5lJD)

48 Who did Pam Bondi indict last week?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

49 For this reason, together, we ask:

Do not ask. Demand. Either you are the PM of Italy or the Mayor of Pizzaville.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

50 Whenever I see “Elias Rodriguez,” my mind wants to read “Elian Gonzalez.”

--

I do the same thing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 26, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

51 48 Who did Pam Bondi indict last week?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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When Harmeet Dhillon is promoted to Bondi's job who will take her place in NY?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:21 AM (BMJSC)

52 Good morning morons and happy birthday

Minor point: not in front of the Israeli embassy, in front of the Capital Jewish Museum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

53 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

I don't know. I'm not in the inside circle over there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 08:22 AM (M5lJD)

54
Do not ask. Demand. Either you are the PM of Italy or the Mayor of Pizzaville.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)


Mmmmmm, pizza!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 08:22 AM (QnmlO)

55 Do not ask. Demand. Either you are the PM of Italy or the Mayor of Pizzaville.

--

Yes! I thought the same thing. "Please, please, please, Mother may I...?" is the way it comes across. No, you don't ask. You demand in no uncertain terms.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 26, 2025 08:22 AM (qBdHI)

56 Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:18 AM (/RHNq)

Nope. I don't want George Floyd to pray for me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2025 08:23 AM (M5lJD)

57 Pelosi says Rahm Emmanuel is running for president. Great, he can win and appoint his death panel brother to coordinate a plan to euthanize all people 70 and older.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 26, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

58 Countries that surrendered their autonomy to the EU can't demand anything.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 26, 2025 08:26 AM (NVNRw)

59 "Astronomers analyzing a dark energy survey by a ground-based telescope have discovered what might be another dwarf planet orbiting the Sun"

Let's send Snow White there.

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2025 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

60 Mu uncle Conrad is one of those who "didn't come back." He was in law school when the United States entered WWII; he enlisted shortly after and was soon selected for Officer Candidate School.
From a letter he wrote home from England (I believe March, 1944): "Soon ... I do not know how soon ... I shall have to demonstrate not only how much or how well I have learned the art of killing, but how well I have taught that abominable art to others. I know what's ahead. It won't be another pleasure trip, but though it may cost me my life, I wouldn't want to miss it! Should I be among the many who inevitably must fall, remember that I didn't go without realizing the possibility that I might lose my life. Remember, too, that I give my life willingly, that I do so out of love for my country and all its people ... even the traitors and selfish slackers. If I should die on the battlefield, I beg you to leave my body there. Some day our government may provide you the opportunity to visit my grave. If so, avail yourself of that opportunity."

The commanding officer of a heavy weapons platoon in the 116th Regiment, 29th Division (the regiment portrayed in the opening

Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 26, 2025 08:26 AM (yg9XE)

61 Dhillon told Carlson how Trump’s anti-discrimination and anti-DEI agenda “catalyzed hundreds of lawyers to quit the civil rights division.”

“Wait, they quit because you informed them of the law?” Carlson asked.

“Yes, and the law and the priorities. Their pet projects had changed. They weren’t going to be able to do those the way that they wanted,” Dhillon said.

Between Trump’s inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ’s civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.

Carlson asked Dhillon if the lawyers who were upset about Trump’s victory believed that the DOJ “was just immune to democracy” and if elections “just had no bearing” on the department.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:26 AM (BMJSC)

62 Rahm can be my VP.

Posted by: Screamin' A. Smith at May 26, 2025 08:27 AM (dg+HA)

63 continuation of post 60:
The commanding officer of a heavy weapons platoon in the 116th Regiment, 29th Division (the regiment portrayed in the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan"), he survived Omaha Beach on D-Day.
He wrote a "Victory Gram" from France on June 11th, 1944 (5 days after D-Day):
"Dear Folks,
Alive and well. Don’t worry. The Hun is strong, clever, and brave, but we are beating him. The past few days here have seemed like years – so much has happened.
France is beautiful. I think I’ll like it better than England. Maybe all of this free wine and champagne makes the difference! You see, it’s purer than the water from the wells which the Germans may have poisoned.
Au revoir,
Conrad"
He was KIA three days later, on June 14th, 1944. He is buried in the American cemetery in Normandy, France.

Posted by: exhelodrvr at May 26, 2025 08:27 AM (yg9XE)

64 Meloni's wording might be fine. Depends on the cultural context and her individual style.

Does her intended audience read it as weak or strong is the main thing.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 26, 2025 08:28 AM (Wx316)

65 Who did Pam Bondi indict last week?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 08:19 AM (dg+HA)


1. The AG doesn't indict people, but you probably knew that.
2. The AUSAs, who do indict people, aren't being conformed by the Senate, but you probably knew that.
3. Indictments don't just happen because someone snaps their fingers. A grand jury must be empaneled, evidence presented, and the GJ must decide to indict the defendant, but you probably knew that.
4. Here's the list of 34 things that the DOJ has press releases for in the past week - https://tinyurl.com/5adru27s+

Still, go ahead and bitch about Bondi every day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

66 Between Trump’s inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ’s civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:26 AM (BMJSC)


Golly. Why isn't the DOJ getting things done faster?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

67 He blesses the boys as they stand in line
The smell of gun grease
And the bayonets they shine
He's there to help them all that he can
To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man
Sky pilot
Sky pilot
How high can you fly?
You'll never, never, never reach the sky...

Posted by: The Animals at May 26, 2025 08:30 AM (R/m4+)

68 May the memory of those who gave their lives for our freedom be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

69 The story of the Four Chaplains is amazing. Always makes me tear up. True heroism in action.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

70 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 08:31 AM (ypFCm)

71 Good morning, JJ and kids. Rainy Monday in Texas, but much cooler than the past few days so I'll take it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 26, 2025 08:31 AM (lTGtQ)

72 >4. Here's the list of 34 things that the DOJ has press releases for in the past week - https://tinyurl.com/5adru27s+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 26, 2025 08:28 AM

Kewl. Thanks.
Not bitching. Just asking.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 08:33 AM (dg+HA)

73
RIP SFC Thorne
RIP SSG Jurigue

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 26, 2025 08:34 AM (MsrgL)

74 Raise a glass as we toast George Floyd as he celebrates 5 years of sobriety.

Posted by: Rum Dum at May 26, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)

75 >>>An individual was arrested Tuesday and charged with four felonies after using a bike lock to assault a group of students associated with the University of Texas at Dallas chapter of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization with hundreds of branches on college campuses across the United States.

Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen is being held at the Collin County Jail and has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of attempting to take a weapon from an officer and one count of assault of a peace officer. Nguyen was also charged with three misdemeanors: resisting arrest and two counts of criminal mischief. A bail amount has not been set.
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A Vietnamese violenly assaulting is rare.
Communists are doing some solid brain washing out there.

dallasobserver.com/ news/ utd-biker-arrested -for -assault-on- conservative- speaker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:34 AM (BMJSC)

76 A Vietnamese violenly assaulting is rare.

And he's a troon. Who knew that transgenders could be so violent?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 08:37 AM (7xrfc)

77 My oldest uncle was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the invasion in 1940.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at May 26, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)

78 Emlekszem, JJ Ur

Posted by: Miklos named after an uncle killed flying against Nazis at May 26, 2025 08:38 AM (K6h4I)

79 My oldest uncle was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the invasion in 1940.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at May 26, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)


Rev's father was in the Swedish Navy and pointed the Germans toward Norway.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 26, 2025 08:39 AM (SfhV1)

80 79 The Germans didn’t know where Norway was?

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

81 And he's a troon. Who knew that transgenders could be so violent?
Posted by: NR Pax

It's not like hormones have anything to do woth emotions

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 26, 2025 08:42 AM (OTdqV)

82 The Memorial day parade starts at 9am, have a bit of time after to get to its end but better get moving

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 08:43 AM (ypFCm)

83 >>>64 Meloni's wording might be fine. Depends on the cultural context and her individual style.

Does her intended audience read it as weak or strong is the main thing.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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She and the other 8, notice Europe map the 9 country's have Germany surrounded, are facing the E.U. That's the heaviest statement they've received. She's been pushing them on the illegal problem since elected. It appears the pushback is slowly working.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 08:43 AM (BMJSC)

84 NASA needs to be shuttered and sold for scrap. The crew-cutted, serious men have all retired or died. The rotting hulk is all that is left.

Posted by: Utility Muffin Research Kitchen at May 26, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)

85 It's not like hormones have anything to do with emotions
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport


It's almost as if pumping your body full of hormones that it doesn't naturally produce on account of your gender causes bad things to happen to your mental state.

hm. Nah. It must be the patriarchy's fault somehow.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 08:44 AM (7xrfc)

86 Horrible as this is, let's hope and pray that the cultural/political tide is turning and that America will return to a saner age, for the sake of those who gave their lives for it and certainly for the sake of future generations.

America has returned to the norm of human civilization: one marked by lawlessness, blood, tyranny and strife.

It was Calvinism, Guns and the Printing Press that moved us to the advances we have today. I believe in the doctrines of Grace, but also that cultures can be changed as people LARP Christianity for the sake of pretending to abide by a transcendent code of ethics and morals.

Once the salt and light of believers weakens, the whole culture degrades to utter rot and we are back to where mankind has been for millennia albeit an enlightened 500 years: cheating, stealing, warring - pretty much the antithesis of the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 08:44 AM (a4flb)

87 Nope. I don't want George Floyd to pray for me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke




Me, either. It was a joke post, which allowed me to type out his official title.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:45 AM (/RHNq)

88 Thank you JJ

As far as I’m concerned, the smaller the number of lawyers in the DOJ civil rights division the better. We’re much better off without the ninnies that quit. More Trump winning

IMHO whatever Spielberg’s personal inclinations or Tom Hanks’, Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece…. It’s hard to watch (first 30 minutes especially) but wow… even decades after I first saw it, still takes my breath away

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2025 08:46 AM (nrfI8)

89 Everyone knows that bike-lock assault is never punished by authorities, as it is 100% done by leftist hooligans.

Posted by: Injustice For All at May 26, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

90 We’re much better off without the ninnies that quit. More Trump winning-
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Trash taking itself out

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 26, 2025 08:48 AM (OTdqV)

91 That interview of Eugene Sledge is excellent. As was his book, With the Old Breed. He also wrote "China Marine," about his exploits in China after the Japanese surrendered. So excellent.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:49 AM (/RHNq)

92 Test

Posted by: ErikInTexas at May 26, 2025 08:49 AM (6xrUr)

93 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
This weekend I asked SecDef Pete Hegseth about the ‘Three Flag Rule’

His answer did not disappoint…

I’m really proud these guys are running our Military.

https://tinyurl.com/2spcuxmd

Posted by: redridinghood at May 26, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

94 *Also* excellent.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 08:50 AM (/RHNq)

95 The Memorial Day parade is the biggest civic event of the year in my small town. The crowds seem to be a little smaller than they once were, and politicians make up an increasing share of the marchers. My geriatric dog had an accident and I am cleaning up after her this morning. I may be one of the many absentees today.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 26, 2025 08:52 AM (2ap+5)

96 "The crew-cutted, serious men have all retired or died. The rotting hulk is all that is left."

But we're celebrating diversity!

Posted by: Blue haired tattooed tackle box faced receptionist at the NASA main entrance at May 26, 2025 08:52 AM (dg+HA)

97 Jasmine Crockett should move to South Africa, she would fit right in with her "Kill Whitey!" rhetoric.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 08:53 AM (cadAt)

98 Heh. If Melania slapped The Donald on Air Force One, it would be the media event of the month. And then of course, a feeding frenzy for a year, as 375 different jurisdictions + the federal government simultaneously charged Donald Trump with domestic violence, and both houses of Congress launched bipartisan investigations. Comey and Brennan and maybe even the mummy of Bob Mueller would solemnly intone on cable shows that being slapped by a Slovenians is an emolument. Al Green would announce an impeachment. And so on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 26, 2025 08:54 AM (BI5O2)

99 Golly. Why isn't the DOJ getting things done faster?

They were not going after the things they should have been. If anything the level of mischief is down.

This is why I'm grateful for four years of the DOJ doing nothing because for the past many decades they were destroying everything.

We may wake up one day and wonder why the world managed to thrive without the DOJ, then when the DOJ got its full head of steam, the world started falling apart.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 08:55 AM (a4flb)

100 And we would love it.

Posted by: Shrews on The View at May 26, 2025 08:56 AM (dg+HA)

101 Put coffee on , as soon as it's done will grab travel cup and go

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 08:57 AM (ypFCm)

102 NASA needs to be shuttered and sold for scrap. The crew-cutted, serious men have all retired or died. The rotting hulk is all that is left.
Posted by: Utility Muffin Research Kitchen

. . . and "perhaps foremost," reaching out to the Muslim world to engage with predominantly Muslim nations and highlight their historic contributions to science, math, and engineering.

-- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden

Um, how about "No"?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/)

103 Supreme Court Stands By While Lower Courts Carry On Ripping Up The Constitution
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It was always foolish to expect them to rein this in. OF COURSE they are in favor of judicial supremacy. The real answer should lie with Congress.

But Congress has been utterly useless since before I was born. So get used to it. We live under a New Order.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 26, 2025 08:58 AM (od0dV)

104 Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks. - E. Macron

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 26, 2025 08:58 AM (Aqu9a)

105 Golly. Why isn't the DOJ getting things done faster?

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I hear this a lot, and have to remind people that a good 90 percent of the DOJ, FBI, etc. are simply refusing to cooperate with Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino. It is going to take many more firings and personnel replacement before things start moving.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 26, 2025 08:59 AM (lTGtQ)

106 1. USDA finds that penguin guano is the perfect plant food. Could boost yields by 35%.
2. Trump announces emergency penguin breeding program, partnering with Greenland.
3. The cause marches forward with vigor.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at May 26, 2025 09:00 AM (G5+As)

107 Big props to George Floyd for being 5 years sober!

Posted by: logprof at May 26, 2025 09:00 AM (Yyjzd)

108 Hochul openly admits she's okay spending our money on non-citizens.

She, Gavin and Whitmer should just get a room.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 26, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

109 It was a bit unsettling yesterday; went to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription and the pharmacist behind the counter (a female… I think) had short, bright neon pink hair. Bright enough to be near-blinding. I would really prefer that the people handling my medicines looked like they just walked out of church in 1955

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2025 09:02 AM (nrfI8)

110 Fixed, basz mag!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

There is a difference between spoken and literary Hungarian.

Proper Hungarian "fuck you, fuck that" is commonly spelled basz meg

Just to cuss who cares

Posted by: Linguistic Miklos at May 26, 2025 09:02 AM (K6h4I)

111 Norway and the other war in Europe, the Cold War.

The mystery of the Isdal Woman has been solved. The partially burned body of a woman was found near Bergen Norway in the Isdalan Valley in 1970. Within three days the Norwegian authorities had ruled she had committed suicide.

Through comparison of her dental records with the digitized records of the former East Germany, it was determined she was a woman from Dresden. Then using the DNA method of CANA they positively identified her. Her name was Hoffman and had been recruited by the Stasi. Her father had worked with the Soviet nuclear program. Her mission in Norway was to steal sonar technology.

But all these years later, no one knows why she ended up dead. It appears Norwegian intelligence was onto her. But at the same time, an East German 'diplomat' left Norway just days after her body was found.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:03 AM (FeaQ/)

112
There is a difference between spoken and literary Hungarian.

Proper Hungarian "fuck you, fuck that" is commonly spelled basz meg

You learn something new here everyday.. And I don't mean that as a compliment...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

113 I hear this a lot, and have to remind people that a good 90 percent of the DOJ, FBI, etc. are simply refusing to cooperate with Trump, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino.

NASA DOJ needs to be shuttered and sold for scrap. The crew-cutted, serious men have all retired or died. The rotting hulk is all that is left.

I like simple repeatable solutions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

114 > Golly. Why isn't the DOJ getting things done faster?
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As noted elsewhere, the DoJ is "doing stuff." The impatience is, however, justified when it comes to "stuff" that is directly related to ongoing judicial coup. Whether there is activity behind the scenes is debatable, but what is not debatable is that the Democrats are able to operate under similar conditions with unimaginable speed.

Yes, the left controls much, if not all of the federal bureaucracy. That shouldn't be the prevailing excuse everytime the issue is brought up. It appears there are still two sets of rules. Congress doesn't seem interested in fixing it and neither does the judiciary. So who's left?

IMO that is the issue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

115 Today, there will be an ceremony at the county courthouse honoring all from our location lost in in our Country's wars. In our case, notably, there are approximately an equal number of KIAs that fought for the North, and those that fought for the South - brothers in some cases.

We make no distinction between them - Old Glory is flown of course but so is The Stars and Bars.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 09:05 AM (cYBz/)

116 What is jarring is seeing older women, I mean in the 60s, now sporting the pink or green hair. Really? Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:06 AM (FeaQ/)

117 I see the usual race hustlers held a little commemoration of St Floyd.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2025 09:06 AM (VE6XX)

118 He was KIA three days later, on June 14th, 1944. He is buried in the American cemetery in Normandy, France.

Posted by: exhelodrvr




May he rest in peace.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2025 09:07 AM (/RHNq)

119 Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?

Unfortunately, Madonna has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 26, 2025 09:08 AM (7xrfc)

120 It's how you know Trump isn't a real tyrant. If I were in charge, America's stylists would have a banner month as every dumbfuck with danger hair across the country rushed through the doors to fix that shit before they got snatched up by my black marias.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 26, 2025 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

121

"Baz Meg" in Hungarian is functionally equivalent to "Fuck" or "Dude" in English.

Can mean anything, depending on context

Posted by: Miklos thinks Magyar is a great Sekrit language at May 26, 2025 09:09 AM (K6h4I)

122 Thanks again, J.J. for your work.

It's quite dismal to think of how many people were killed during the fiery but mostly peaceful riots in the name of "racial justice." Of course, the usual suspects will never admit those killed in the name of "racial justice" were Black.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (tT6L1)

123 The "free" gold Floyd coffin was "gifted" with was only a five year loan. We will be reclaiming it as soon as the anniversary hoopla dies down.

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd. at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (G5+As)

124 When I visited the American Cemetery in Normandy years ago, My young nephews were amazed how many Jewish Veterans were buried there. I told them that Brooklyn had more soldiers per capita than anywhere in the country. Happy Memorial Day

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (YCxFk)

125 116 What is jarring is seeing older women, I mean in the 60s, now sporting the pink or green hair. Really? Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:06 AM (FeaQ/)

On the one hand, I support their right to self-expression. They think it's "fun" and edgy, maybe (LOL), and it's the new version of I Shall Wear Purple or the Red Hat Society. Whatevs--means nothing to me.

On the other hand, I support my right to disrespect and mock their life choices.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (h7ZuX)

126 There's a lady in our minyan who dyes her like that. When Boy F. had his bar mitzvah she dyed it blue to celebrate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (RIvkX)

127 I thought the money grifting race hustlers were orbiting around Karmelo Anthony?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:10 AM (FeaQ/)

128 what is not debatable is that the Democrats are able to operate under similar conditions with unimaginable speed.

All kinds of things happen at great speed if you disregard the rules, laws, regulation and standard process.

• 13½ months to build the Empire State Building
• Less than a year to build the largest by volume and distance pipeline from East Texas to the East Coast
• Just a single afternoon for a US District Judge to dismantle Article II of the USC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 09:11 AM (a4flb)

129 Floyd also beat up his woman too

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:11 AM (YCxFk)

130 Good morning! Prayers said for those who sacrificed everything for us. May we turn this ship around in respect to them.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 09:12 AM (p4NUW)

131 127. Anthony pleaded guilty to spare the Death Penalty I believe

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:12 AM (YCxFk)

132 >>For those who do not know, Sledge's book With the Old Breed at Pelelieu and Okinawa is considered the greatest first person account of frontline combat ever written, and it was the basis for the series "The Pacific."


I didn't know that -- thanks!!
Thank you to all who have served and died for this country!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:13 AM (F/B4x)

133 My grandfather passed away in March of 2024 after making it to 101 years old earlier that month. He was in the 1st Armored Division, 6th Armored Infantry during the North Africa and Italian campaigns, then re-assigned to occupation duty in Germany after a length field hospital stay.
He'll finally be laid to rest along with my grandmother in Arlington National Cemetery in September.
His entire life was consumed by overwhelming and sometimes suicidal levels of survivor's guilt. His stories of battle - at places like Anzio and Montecassino are both inspiring and horrifying. I've got his service 1911 hanging in a box on my wall, right next to his bronze star.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 26, 2025 09:13 AM (WYStd)

134 Saving Private Ryan and the Longest Day for me this afternoon. Maybe She wore a Yellow Ribbon also

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:14 AM (YCxFk)

135 Donald J.Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 26, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

136 >>Hochul: We’ll Lose Money Under GOP Bill, ‘Don’t Want to Go’ to Cutting Services for Migrants


Maybe go check under the sofa cushions at the de Blasio household - wifey "lost" almost a billion of government money. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:15 AM (F/B4x)

137 Donald J.Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!
Posted by: redridinghood at May 26, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
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DO IT!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 26, 2025 09:15 AM (tT6L1)

138 Also, for what its worth - my grandfather seems to be the only one who was a fan of General Mark Clark. After having read an Army at Dawn, he proclaimed to me that the only reason he's not buried at Nettuno is because Clark halted/delayed the advance out of Anzio.

Just goes to show you how history's people and events are viewed much differently depending on your point of view.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 26, 2025 09:15 AM (WYStd)

139 137 Donald J.Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!
Posted by: redridinghood at May 26, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
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Nope

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at May 26, 2025 09:15 AM (VE6XX)

140 >>I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!


Only if it's spent on **American** students, Donnie!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:16 AM (F/B4x)

141 Floyd also beat up his woman too
Posted by: Jonah

Me too, bitch ass

Posted by: Big Mike at May 26, 2025 09:16 AM (K6h4I)

142 Raw Story: 'Extremely upsetting': Republican veterans leaving GOP because of Trump policy.

...reporter Jade Tran takes a look at veterans in Maryland who are openly expressing their disdain for Trump's Ukraine policy. The Maryland veterans, according to Tran, are members of Republicans for Ukraine — a national group associated with Defending Democracy Together, which was founded by Never Trump conservatives Bill Kristol and Mona Charen.

Kristol and Charen (once a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan) are writers for the conservative website The Bulwark and have become unlikely allies of Democrats and liberals in recent years. In 2024, both of them supported Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

Tran explains, "Launched in 2023, Republicans for Ukraine is part of an umbrella group that also leads projects such as Republicans for Voting Rights and Republicans for the Rule of Law. It spotlights GOP voters who still support U.S. aid to Ukraine and back the country's fight against Russia — a stance increasingly rare within the party."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (Vv5Qq)

143 133. Your Grandfather was a great man. My father saw Combat in Korea, and is buried with my Mom at Abe Lincoln Military Cemetery in Illinois. Its not Arlington, But is so well run and Beautiful, unlike Illinois

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (YCxFk)

144 I'd guess someone forgot to grease the bow skids on that North Korean warship launch.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (Aqu9a)

145 I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!

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The $3B in grants to Harvard has just been doubled, and a further $6B must also be given to Tren de Aragua's Escuela de Matar.

Posted by: Black-Robed Pickle Puffer at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (BI5O2)

146 Cut funds from Haaaaaahvard?

That Trump is such a philistine.

*clutches pearls*

Posted by: Susan Cuthbertson-Quillen from New Canaan at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (RIvkX)

147 DO IT!
Posted by: blake


DOOO EEET

Posted by: Miklosian interpretations at May 26, 2025 09:18 AM (K6h4I)

148 2020…. We erected statues of St George and pulled down those of Bobby Lee and Stonewall Jackson and even Teddy Roosevelt IIRC. Very Taliban-ish… like we collectively lost our minds (present company excepted). I know those first two fellers were on the wrong side of the civil war but still important figures in our history

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2025 09:18 AM (WdMlw)

149 The Maryland veterans, according to Tran, are members of Republicans for Ukraine



How about no

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2025 09:18 AM (VE6XX)

150 Maryland is a Deep Blue state. MSM never learns

Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:18 AM (YCxFk)

151 I am thinking considering taking away Three Billion Dollars in Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA and so badly needed!!!

I am intrigued by how the Left will scream out about yet another three billion clawed back from an ivy and "invested" in trade schools.

Achmed, Priya and Wei aren't exactly coming to the US to learn to fix air conditioners.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 09:19 AM (a4flb)

152 Only watch Saving Ryan's Privates for the landing. Skip the rest.

Watch the 1949 black&white movie Battleground instead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:19 AM (FeaQ/)

153 >>The Maryland veterans, according to Tran, are members of Republicans for Ukraine


So, Adam Kitzinger-style "GOP" veterans.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:19 AM (F/B4x)

154 Floyd also beat up his woman too
Posted by: Jonah

Me too, bitch ass
Posted by: Big Mike at May 26, 2025 09:16 AM (K6h4I)

Me too.

Posted by: Brigitte Macron at May 26, 2025 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)

155 Christian Reaches Settlement over Alleged Firing for Bible-Themed Shirts Worn During ‘Pride Month’
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I cannot figure out what they make that I can boycott.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 26, 2025 09:21 AM (od0dV)

156
Me too.
Posted by: Brigitte Macron at May 26, 2025 09:19 AM (Aqu9a)



LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at May 26, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

157 Republicans for Ukraine, so that is what the Abraham Lincoln Brigade is calling themselves now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:21 AM (FeaQ/)

158 Bill Kristol and Mona Charen are twin skidmarks on the undies of the GOPe.

Posted by: Fruit of the Loom at May 26, 2025 09:22 AM (G5+As)

159 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J. Excellent.

Going to the local VFW for the Memorial Day ceremony this morning. The crosses and markers of those KIA are held on the lawn separately from those of the other deceased service members, and a bell rang when each of their names called. (Up until two years ago, each name - several hundred - was read outloud but the number of deceased memorialized has become lengthy and difficult for most of the participatory service members, so all names now appear in the lovely annual program.)

In addition to the names of the KIA called, the new crosses and markers for the past year will also be acknowledged at the ceremony. It's touching and still so very nice to see some young families attend to honor their grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, or siblings.

There are fewer actual service members each year and this Post, as most, is now primarily supported by associate members. Thank G-d. But it saddens me; the best of ourselves, our traditions are fading.

Peace, when possible.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 26, 2025 09:22 AM (NFX2v)

160 Your Grandfather was a great man. My father saw Combat in Korea, and is buried with my Mom at Abe Lincoln Military Cemetery in Illinois. Its not Arlington, But is so well run and Beautiful, unlike Illinois
Posted by: Jonah at May 26, 2025 09:17 AM (YCxFk)

We took our kids to Abe Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield years ago. Very interesting and pretty place. Learned that around 100 years ago or more some tomb robbers tried to steal his body so some esteemed citizens of Springfield got to peak inside the coffin to confirm he was still there… and apparently he was and so well preserved it was like he’d been mummified. They reburied the coffin under tons of concrete to prevent any more robbery attempts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 26, 2025 09:23 AM (WdMlw)

161 That's probably a good sign. If piggies like Kristol and Charen are now snuggling up slop directly from the defense contractors' troughs, it means that the Democrats no longer consider ConInc worth the money.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 26, 2025 09:24 AM (BI5O2)

162 Kristol and Charen (once a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan) are writers for the conservative website The Bulwark and have become unlikely allies of Democrats and liberals in recent years.

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I have to laugh that these folks don't seem to understand, or intentionally misrepresent, that neo cons are card carrying democrats who only supported republicans when they were starting or continuing wars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 26, 2025 09:24 AM (lTGtQ)

163 > Republicans for Ukraine, so that is what the Abraham Lincoln Brigade is calling themselves now?
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Ukraine purportedly attempted to shootdown Putin's helicopter the other day with a volley of drones, but failed.

Seems like neither side's interested in peace.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

164 >>Between Trump’s inauguration in January and May, an estimated 250 attorneys in the DOJ’s civil rights division, which is roughly 70%, resigned, according to NPR.


Reminder: Obama and Holder cleared out the DoJ Civil Rights division at the beginning of his presidency, then hired a bunch of Lefty radicals. I would imagine a lot of those who've left since January 2025 were true blue Holder/Obama radicals.

GOOD RIDDANCE!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:25 AM (F/B4x)

165 Speaking of people desperately trying to remain relevant, I give you Rear Admiral Billi Krystal and Moana Charon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:26 AM (FeaQ/)

166 8. Note: I believe one of the current illegal injunctions against Trump is to force him to spend still-scheduled Covid funds for blue cities.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

👍 And for "others," too: The COVID-19 incident period ended on May 11, 2023. FEMA will continue to provide funeral assistance until Sept. 30, 2025, to those who have lost loved ones due to this pandemic.
--
And not to mention the American Rescue Plan funds:
AI - The obligation deadline for ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) is December 31, 2024. However, recipients must still expend the obligated funds by December 31, 2026. Unobligated funds must be returned to the Treasury after the obligation deadline.)

And the The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law in 2021, a five-year law.
AI: Its formal authorization period, which defines the funding for surface transportation programs, ends in September 2026. While the legislation's funding authorization ends then, construction projects funded by the IIJA will likely continue beyond that date, and some associated tax credits extend even further.

I believe even the IRS & EPA show affects through at least 2029.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 26, 2025 09:26 AM (NFX2v)

167 Wuhan Flu funds?

Are we still doling out money for the Spanish-American War?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:27 AM (FeaQ/)

168 For the people that need to know I am a redneck, without me telling them where I grew up...


https://9gag.com/gag/aAyXDvR

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 26, 2025 09:28 AM (MsrgL)

169 >>Kristol and Charen (once a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan) are writers for the conservative website The Bulwark and have become unlikely allies of Democrats and liberals in recent years.

>>I have to laugh that these folks don't seem to understand, or intentionally misrepresent, that neo cons are card carrying democrats who only supported republicans when they were starting or continuing wars.


"have become unlikely allies of Democrats and liberals in recent years."

LOL, no, not all that unlikely.
Also, check out who's funding the Bulwark (because it's not subscriptions paying those big salaries) and one will see how unconservative that publication is.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:29 AM (F/B4x)

170 I have to laugh that these folks don't seem to understand, or intentionally misrepresent, that neo cons are card carrying democrats who only supported republicans when they were starting or continuing wars.

• WW1: Wilson (D)
• WW2: FDR (D)
• Korean: Truman (D)
• Vietnam: Truman (D), Eisenhower (MIC), Kennedy (D), LBJ (D)

I consider "War" to be anything that involves a draft, everything else is just missionary work for the MIC and CIA

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 09:29 AM (a4flb)

171 Are we still doling out money for the Spanish-American War?

Posted by: Anna Puma



True story: the Spanish American war tax (phone tax) was in place from 1898 to 2006.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 26, 2025 09:31 AM (lTGtQ)

172 >>For the people that need to know I am a redneck, without me telling them where I grew up...


https://9gag.com/gag/aAyXDvR


Heh!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 26, 2025 09:31 AM (F/B4x)

173 What is jarring is seeing older women, I mean in the 60s, now sporting the pink or green hair. Really? Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:06 AM (FeaQ/)

It's a warning...stay away! stay away! Crazy Bitch...stay away!

Posted by: Bright Colors In Nature at May 26, 2025 09:31 AM (R/m4+)

174 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

175 https://9gag.com/gag/aAyXDvR

Oh, my.

*grasps pearls*

Posted by: Susan Cuthbertson-Quillen from New Canaan at May 26, 2025 09:32 AM (RIvkX)

176 163 Ukraine purportedly attempted to shootdown Putin's helicopter the other day with a volley of drones, but failed.

Seems like neither side's interested in peace.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26

I am not sure I believe this one just yet.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 09:32 AM (p4NUW)

177 "The mystery of the Isdal Woman has been solved. The partially burned body of a woman was found near Bergen Norway in the Isdalan Valley in 1970. Within three days the Norwegian authorities had ruled she had committed suicide."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:03 AM

+++

Thoughty2 did a nice treatment of the story:

https://youtu.be/nOlomqm12k4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 09:32 AM (dg+HA)

178 167. Posted by: Anna Puma

👍 Yup.

Taxes and now the "Biden" bills will never end.

>Pennsylvania still collects the "Johnstown Flood Tax" on liquor sales. Initially imposed to help rebuild Johnstown after the 1936 flood, the 18% tax is now a permanent fixture, and the collected funds go into Pennsylvania's general revenue fund.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 26, 2025 09:33 AM (NFX2v)

179 Seems like neither side's interested in peace.

I admire Mexico's stance on the Ukraine/Russia lover's quarrel.

The US should copy this policy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 26, 2025 09:33 AM (a4flb)

180 173 What is jarring is seeing older women, I mean in the 60s, now sporting the pink or green hair. Really? Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?


it's a sign we're living in A Clockwork Orange

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Pv3Rg)

181
Brigitte Macron


Channeling Klaus Nomi, was she?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Tv15w)

182 Brigitte is 72.
Emmanuel is 47.

But as I understand it, math is frowned upon in this establishment.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 09:45 AM (dg+HA)

183 1. USDA finds that penguin guano is the perfect plant food. Could boost yields by 35%.

Noone can abide the smell.

2. Trump announces emergency penguin breeding program, partnering with Greenland.

There are no penguins in Greenland, thank the Lord!

3. The cause marches forward with vigor.
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at May 26, 2025 09:00 AM


Fake news.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 09:47 AM (0sNs1)

184 What is jarring is seeing older women, I mean in the 60s, now sporting the pink or green hair. Really? Who are you trying to impress with your vain attempt to 'stay in style'?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 26, 2025 09:06 AM


And the fresh tattoos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 26, 2025 09:48 AM (0sNs1)

185 They're all in the pay of Big Guano.

Posted by: Conspiracy theorist in Apartment 3G at May 26, 2025 09:55 AM (dg+HA)

186 Reistroffer, Daniel

Eighteen years old. The sweetest boy i ever knew.

I remember, Danny.

Posted by: creeper at May 26, 2025 10:02 AM (zFwIe)

187 "Remembering the 14,000 People Killed by BLM," is flagrant bullshit. Nearly all of the excess deaths since George Floyd was graduated have been at the hands of the non-negroid, spicspanic Biden imports. George Floydites did NOT kill Laken Riley.

Posted by: Marooned at May 26, 2025 10:18 AM (kt8QE)

188 Fekete Kutya Segg-lyuk Crockett: We Will Investigate Trump, Family When Dems Take House Back

In other words, a continuation of their illegal activities to persecute and prosecute their political enemies. I'm sure there are plenty of skeletons in their closets and basements; it would be nice if their illegal activities were in the spotlight.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2025 01:27 PM (ynpvh)

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