Mid-Morning Art Thread

The True American
Enoch Wood Perry

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Hmmmmm. . . .

I just can't wrap my head around this one.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

3 They are looking at boobs.

Posted by: fd at June 05, 2025 09:31 AM (vFG9F)

4 Looks like a balcony in the French Quarter, ca. 1920 (when it was known as the "Italian" Quarter).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (omVj0)

5 Interesting lack of heads.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (N39Ws)

6 The MET

Title: The True American

Artist: Enoch Wood Perry (1831–1915)

Date: ca. 1874

Culture: American

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 16 1/8 in. (30.2 x 41 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

7 I like big butts and I cannot lie.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

8 Could be the veranda of the Shady Rest hotel.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (0nHVk)

9 After the bender....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

10 It also resembles some of Jack Vettriano's paintings.

Odd choice, that there are no faces visible -- in fact, no heads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

11 This won't end well.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

12 Looks like some Brokeback Mountain action going on between the two on the left.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

13 There's a lot of tilted chairs. Are the two behind the newspaper smooching?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (Ik12G)

14
So, the True American breaks into his neighbor's home while his neighbor is reading the newspaper on the porch?

Have I got that right?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (iJfKG)

15 They must be reading the NYT.

Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

16 The guy obscured by the window shutter looks he literally has no head.

It's all very weird positioning of each person in that picture.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (7fElN)

17 It says
The True American, also titled The Bummers (meaning a bum or vagrant), implies that the subjects of the painting are coarse, non-thinking citizens. The cropped sign above the door reads "The National Hotel." The mindless male figures, one of whom reads the newspaper "The True American," present only their backsides, with heads concealed, as does the depicted horse at left, and the dog at right. In these terms, the artist comments on the willful ignorance of the voting population in the United States during the Reconstruction era.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

18 Headless or heedless?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (fxCK2)

19 Could be the veranda of the Shady Rest hotel.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 05, 2025

***
"That's Uncle Joe; he's a-movin' kinda slow
At the Junction!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)

20 I don't get it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 05, 2025 09:34 AM (SfhV1)

21 Nobody in this town ever get a head.

Posted by: fd at June 05, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

22 gets

Posted by: fd at June 05, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

23 Another segment of Four Yorkshiremen.

or

Gloom, Despair, and Agony.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)

24 blew my own comment. later.

Posted by: fd at June 05, 2025 09:35 AM (vFG9F)

25 Is the artist implying that all Americans are asses?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 05, 2025 09:35 AM (Na5xP)

26 They must be reading the NYT.
Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)
******
The True American.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

27 21 Nobody in this town ever get a head.
Posted by: fd at June 05, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

Monica Lewinsky finally finds a town that doesn't leave a bad taste in her mouth.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 05, 2025 09:35 AM (N39Ws)

28 Alternate title:

"The Machete Serial Killer Beheads 5 Men and 1 Child Then Poses Their Bloodless Bodies on a Porch...Again"

Posted by: naturalfake at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

29

Inline at the gay bathhouse...

Posted by: Latrine Jean at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (ToWPX)

30 There's a lot going on in that painting, but I can't tell what it is and I don't think I want to know.

Posted by: huerfano at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (n2swS)

31 "They found her body beautiful, but never found her head".

Posted by: Fissure Of Rolando-The Cramps at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

32 Oh, so this is from the 1870s! No wonder they're all dressed like grownups, including the fellow on the right in the suit. Nowadays the "average voting public" would appear in shorts and T-shirts, sandals, and be staring out at the viewer, reading nothing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

33 Meh. Whatever. I get the sense the artist was an America hater.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

34 Is that a woman on the floor on the right?

Posted by: redridinghood at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

35 It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.

Posted by: Dr. Caron at June 05, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

36 Um. . .?

Are these whole people or random parts?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2025 09:38 AM (F/B4x)

37 Maybe the artist is suggesting that everyone has their heads up there asses or something.

Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

38 I get it; the paper is called "The True American."

But it still smells like vomit, cigarettes, urine, sweat and gin.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 05, 2025 09:39 AM (Q4IgG)

39 >21 Nobody in this town ever get a head.

Inorite?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 05, 2025 09:39 AM (lIgBp)

40 No heads.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 09:39 AM (Ik12G)

41 That feller is reading the inaugural issue of the Hooterville World Guardian.

Posted by: Sam Drucker, Editor-In-Chief at June 05, 2025 09:39 AM (G5+As)

42 Could be the veranda of the Shady Rest hotel.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz d

***
"That's Uncle Joe; he's a-movin' kinda slow
At the Junction!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

As a yute, I was convinced the girls were bathing in Petticoat Junction's water supply, NOT the water for the stem loco.

I was strangely aroused by the that.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 09:40 AM (cYBz/)

43 This is Thursday Night Fever.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2025 09:40 AM (Aqu9a)

44 This is Art!!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025 09:40 AM (Xw+1y)

45 I'm sure there's some sort of anti-American message here, but the fact is that I really just don't care. Learn to paint!

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 09:40 AM (s8j++)

46 Headless body at topless bar...

Posted by: Or something like that at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (lIgBp)

47 ...present only their backsides, with heads concealed, as does the depicted horse at left, and the dog at right. In these terms, the artist comments on the willful ignorance of the voting population in the United States during the Reconstruction era.
Posted by: rhennigantx
____________

Which way did the dog and horse vote go in the 1870s?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (UBKzV)

48 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE PERRY PAINTED A LOT OF PORTRAITS (HEAD STOTS) THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (F/B4x)

49 Love it or leave it.

Posted by: Used to be a popular sentiment at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (lIgBp)

50 Don't want to be IDed waiting their turn at the cathouse?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (MZ+PY)

51 Is that a woman on the floor on the right?
Posted by: redridinghood

No, that's a bathroom on the right.
-- John Fogarty

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 09:41 AM (cYBz/)

52 The storm shutter is partially open to hide another head.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 09:42 AM (Ik12G)

53 Perry:

"On the eve of the American Civil War, Perry moved back to New Orleans and opened a studio in 1860. He painted a portrait of Senator John Slidell and the signing the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana by early 1861. Later in 1861 Perry completed a portrait of Jefferson Davis posed before a map of the Confederate States of America, which was raffled off at a fair with the proceeds benefiting the southern war effort." (Wiki)

I'm curious to know where he lived in the city in those days. A lot of the center of NO hadn't been drained yet, and there was little settlement on the southern shore of the lake; so his choices were more limited than today.

Apparently he moved to Honolulu in the 1860s, and then later to NYC , where he died in 1915.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

54 Is that a woman on the floor on the right?
Posted by: redridinghood

***
Probably Twain's inspiration for Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:43 AM (omVj0)

55 During Reconstruction, my family had to deal with Dems who were vehemently anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic. In other words, people like the artist, except less well-traveled.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 05, 2025 09:43 AM (fxCK2)

56 Is that in Sleepy Hollow?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2025 09:43 AM (F/B4x)

57 *But it still smells like vomit, cigarettes, urine, sweat and gin.*

And Methodists.

Posted by: Blazing Saddles at June 05, 2025 09:43 AM (lIgBp)

58 Ichabod Crane approves.

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2025 09:43 AM (0HaGk)

59
What kind of Anti-American commie shit is this?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 09:44 AM (KSicE)

60 Tiny Tim did a lovely version of "On The Old Front Porch". He sang both parts of the story-the suitor and the damsel.

Posted by: Herbert Khaury Fan Club at June 05, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

61 Maybe Perry was a Southern sympathizer, and found the Republican Reconstruction era to be as horrifying as we have found Obozo's and F. Joe's.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

62 I admire the artistry displayed in the painting but had no idea what the point of the scene was. Turns out it is a slam at 1870s low information voters (lazy and content in their ignorance) who are messing up reconstruction after the Civil War.

Perry did some wonderful landscapes and many portraits of common people in everyday situations. Reminds me of some of the 18th century Dutch painters in that way. I wonder if he was an influence on Norman Rockwell. It has that vibe.

Posted by: JTB at June 05, 2025 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

63
Not worth the effort to extract the meaning.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 05, 2025 09:45 AM (hKoQL)

64 I like this painting very very much. So many Americans and none with their head still attached to their body!

Posted by: Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed at June 05, 2025 09:45 AM (t0Rmr)

65 These must be a bunch of Civil War vets. Poor guys are head amputees!

Posted by: Brain-Dead Lefty at June 05, 2025 09:46 AM (JCZqz)

66 I will add that I am not completely comfortable with the diameter of the railing balusters, as depicted.

Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025 09:47 AM (Xw+1y)

67 The guillotine was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at June 05, 2025 09:47 AM (lIgBp)

68 What the heck is going on here?

Posted by: Bulg at June 05, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

69 Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

That's interesting and I was about to disagree. At first I thought that because they're reading the newspaper that they'd be informed. It even looks like the 3 on the left are in a heated discussion too. Then I thought about today, how uniformed we are in the age of the internet.

I don't know the politics of the artist, but after reading "Klan War" by Fergus Bordewich, I can understand the frustration with Reconstruction Era voters.

Posted by: Kris at June 05, 2025 09:48 AM (C8YRI)

70 Turns out it is a slam at 1870s low information voters (lazy and content in their ignorance) who are messing up reconstruction after the Civil War.

I risked my life, fortune, and sacred honor, and this is how you repay me?!?!?

Posted by: Zombie Abe Lincoln (and current Elon Musk) at June 05, 2025 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

71 I will add that I am not completely comfortable with the diameter of the railing balusters, as depicted.

Right? They look like the kind of balusters used by Kansas City faggots.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 09:49 AM (s8j++)

72 Hey. I don't do heads.
Or railing balusters.

Posted by: Enoch Wood Perry at June 05, 2025 09:50 AM (lIgBp)

73 I will add that I am not completely comfortable with the diameter of the railing balusters, as depicted.
Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025

***
They are not evenly placed. There is a wider gap between the first two balusters on the left, and between the seventh and eighth, than exists between the others. I suppose a builder might do it that way on purpose for some reason.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 05, 2025 09:50 AM (omVj0)

74 Silly Americans. Always following our lead.

Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre at June 05, 2025 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

75 The True American
Enoch Wood Perry, Jr

The True American, also titled The Bummers (meaning a bum or vagrant), implies that the subjects of the painting are coarse, non-thinking citizens.

**********

Feh, They Did More Work Before Breakfast Than Most Bostonians Do All Day - a limerick

Enoch Perry, a Northeastern snob
Drew Americans as indolent slobs
That's particularly rich
From a son of a bitch
Who never even held a real job

Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)

76 Alt. Title: Moments Before Mongo Rode Into Town.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 09:50 AM (Wnv9h)

77 Who names their kid Enoch?

Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

78 Those who don't read the newspaper are uninformed.
Those who do read the newspaper are misinformed.

Posted by: S. L. Clemens at June 05, 2025 09:52 AM (lIgBp)

79 New Orleans was a backwater when this was painted. The true seat of government in the Valley was the Pixley/Crabwell Corners/Hooterville Axis of power

Posted by: Floyd and Charlie on the Cannonball at June 05, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

80 Some people flip through the Bible to name kids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 09:52 AM (Ik12G)

81 CBD relocates to Frogland and now he hates America.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 05, 2025 09:52 AM (mT+6a)

82 I get that they're reading a paper, "The true American" but to me it's not very appealing painting as their heads are all hidden.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 05, 2025 09:52 AM (EJtBU)

83 An uninformed electorate?

You mean like the libs that never address the fact that the dindunuffins, violent illegals, blue haired Karens and antifa fags are part of their side?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 09:53 AM (cYBz/)

84 Who names their kid Enoch?
Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:51 AM

Obligatory: Mr. and Mrs. Perry.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 09:53 AM (Wnv9h)

85 They'll calm a bit after the Soviet occupation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 09:53 AM (Ik12G)

86
"Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him."

Posted by: Genesis 5:24 at June 05, 2025 09:55 AM (lIgBp)

87 Lost horse notice on the road wall back there.

Posted by: Bulg at June 05, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

88 Who names their kid Enoch?
Posted by: dantesed

Hey, could be worse. I know of a;

Uniquo
Shit'head
Honey
BJ
and Thomas Thomas Thomas

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

89 >I don't know the politics of the artist, but after reading "Klan War" by Fergus Bordewich, I can understand the frustration with Reconstruction Era voters.
Posted by: Kris at June 05, 2025 09:48 AM (C8YRI)

Hmmm, the painting could also be a comment on the Klan itself. The heads here aren't visible and the neither are the Klan heads - hidden behind hoods and all.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 05, 2025 09:55 AM (eb5mD)

90 77 Who names their kid Enoch?
Posted by: dantesed at June 05, 2025 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

Jared.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 09:56 AM (uWKK8)

91 87 just *wall*

Posted by: Bulg at June 05, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)

92 I knew an Enoch in college. Samoan guy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 09:57 AM (DRiFU)

93 Who names their kid Enoch?

Mr. and Mrs. Powell.

Posted by: Archimedes, showing off his erudition at June 05, 2025 09:57 AM (s8j++)

94 Uniquo
Shit'head
Honey
BJ
and Thomas Thomas Thomas
Posted by: Tonypete

I once had a guy named Harrison Harrison Harrison working for me.

Posted by: Triple H at June 05, 2025 09:57 AM (G5+As)

95 I will add that I am not completely comfortable with the diameter of the railing balusters, as depicted.
Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025 09:47 AM (Xw+1y)
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When the inevitable drunken brawl breaks out, it makes it easier to knock someone through the railing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 05, 2025 09:58 AM (7fElN)

96 The True American
Enoch Wood Perry American

ca. 1874, On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 758

Perry painted this oil in preparation for a widely distributed chromolithograph that uses humor to mock the impossible ideal of national unity. The True American, also titled The Bummers (meaning a bum or vagrant), implies that the subjects of the painting are coarse, non-thinking citizens. The cropped sign above the door reads "The National Hotel." The mindless male figures, one of whom reads the newspaper "The True American," present only their backsides, with heads concealed, as does the depicted horse at left, and the dog at right. In these terms, the artist comments on the willful ignorance of the voting population in the United States during the Reconstruction era.

😬 I shall pass hanging (it). But, thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 05, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

97 "Samoan guy."

My favorite Girl Scout cookies.

Posted by: But I didn't eat a Brownie at June 05, 2025 09:59 AM (lIgBp)

98 Some people flip through the Bible to name kids.
Posted by: Boss Moss

"I know, Honey! Let's name him 'Begat!'"

Posted by: Bulg at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

99 I will add that I am not completely comfortable with the diameter of the railing balusters, as depicted.
Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025 09:47 AM

Is there an ideal ratio of baluster railing to watch diameter?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (Wnv9h)

100 I shall pass hanging (it). But, thank you.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Jokes on you! You can't hang us anyway, because we don't have heads!

Posted by: Dudes in the painting at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (JCZqz)

101 69. I don't know the politics of the artist, but after reading "Klan War" by Fergus Bordewich, I can understand the frustration with Reconstruction Era voters.
Posted by: Kris

Hi, Kris! Your viewpoint is always appreciated.

Hope you're doing well!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

102 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: coarse, non-thinking citizens at June 05, 2025 10:01 AM (lIgBp)

103 This is an earlier version of the Sid Fields Rooming House. Bud, Lou, Mike the Cop, Hillary Brooke, and Stinky Davis are all depicted here.

Posted by: Mrs. Crumbcake Next Door at June 05, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

104 96 "the impossible ideal of national unity"
==

The more things change...

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 05, 2025 10:02 AM (eb5mD)

105 Dude missed "How to Paint Faces" day at art school.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 05, 2025 10:02 AM (51J9I)

106 98 Some people flip through the Bible to name kids.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Tell me about it.

Posted by: If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone at June 05, 2025 10:03 AM (qpyNK)

107 Even Alexis deToqueville, an aristocratic Frenchman saw and acknowledged more of the true American spirit than this Perry fellow.

Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (/iMjX)

108 Speaking of names I was looking through my kid’s yearbook. Every other girl seems to be named Emma or Olivia. And Aidan for boys.

Kinda like Jennifer was for me. I was never in a class without at least 3 Jennifers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (DRiFU)

109
Still can't get over Tony Randall not being a gay. Why did I think he was? Well, it's good news, anyway.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (KSicE)

110 "The diameter ratio of a baluster typically refers to the proportion of its width compared to its height, which can affect both aesthetics and structural integrity. While specific ratios can vary based on design preferences and building codes, a common practice is to ensure that the baluster's diameter is proportionate to its height for visual balance and safety."

Posted by: I'm AI. I'm here to help. at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (lIgBp)

111 > If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone

You were lucky.

Posted by: I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

112 Dude missed "How to Paint Faces" day at art school.

Faces are overrated and unnecessary.

Posted by: Ren� Magritte at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (s8j++)

113 Is there an ideal ratio of baluster railing to watch diameter?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (Wnv9h)
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The watch diameter range of 40mm - 43mm is constant and unchanging.

Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2025 10:05 AM (Xw+1y)

114
In 20 days, Lassie's Mom (also Will, Penny, and Judy Robinson's Mom) will be 100 Years Old.

Think she'll make it?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:05 AM (KSicE)

115 Says here that the dumb-ass Martin kid fell in the well again and the family dog, Lassie alerted the rest of the family to come pull him out.

Kid plumb ain't got no sense God gave a mule.

Posted by: Old Timer on Porch at June 05, 2025 10:06 AM (Aqu9a)

116 Is there an ideal ratio of baluster railing to watch diameter?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

************

All I know is that the space between should be narrower than a two year old's head.

Posted by: muldoon at June 05, 2025 10:06 AM (/iMjX)

117 > Every other girl seems to be named Emma or Olivia.

Olivia I can live with.

"Alivia" seems common as well, and that one just sets my teeth on edge.

I know you think people are going to say "Wow, her parents are so creative!" when actually they're going to say "Wow, her parents are illiterate!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:06 AM (qpyNK)

118 This doesn't even rise to the level of hourly-rate motel decor.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 05, 2025 10:06 AM (51J9I)

119 "The diameter ratio of a baluster typically refers to the proportion of its width compared to its height, which can affect both aesthetics and structural integrity. While specific ratios can vary based on design preferences and building codes, a common practice is to ensure that the baluster's diameter is proportionate to its height for visual balance and safety."

That's a whole lot of words to say "eye of the beholder".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:06 AM (s8j++)

120 Kinda like Jennifer was for me. I was never in a class without at least 3 Jennifers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

In my parish, there are at least 46 Mary's. No fooling.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 05, 2025 10:07 AM (cYBz/)

121 Wait. What?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 05, 2025 10:07 AM (bss/y)

122
Yeah, June Lockhart will be 100, if she makes it another 20 days.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (KSicE)

123 *That's a whole lot of words to say "eye of the beholder".*

I'm AI. Its what I do.

Posted by: Grok, ChatGPT, and all the others at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (lIgBp)

124 106 98 Some people flip through the Bible to name kids.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Yet somehow Herod and Pontius Pilate have not been popular names.

Posted by: Nebuchadnezzar Johnson at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

125 The watch diameter range of 40mm - 43mm is constant and unchanging.

Akshually:
Current watches are ridiculously large, IMHO. They look absurd. As with boobs, I prefer the more proportionally sized ones.

Little known fact: Peaky Blinders caused a small fad in smaller watch faces, but I don't think it stuck.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (s8j++)

126 100. Jokes on you! You can't hang us anyway, because we don't have heads!

Posted by: Dudes in the painting

Ha! 🤨

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (NFX2v)

127 122
Yeah, June Lockhart will be 100, if she makes it another 20 days.
Posted by: Soothsayer

That reminds me, Penny is a cute name that nevertheless has fallen into disfavor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM (Dv3i1)

128 Heh... I'm thinking of the episode of Cheers where Carla is consulting a spirit medium.

"I'm getting a message from a dead relative of yours... her name is...Maria."

"Wow, you're real!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM (qpyNK)

129 In the parallel universe where everything is just off by a little bit and it all kinda sucks, this is a Norman Rockwell.

And Tim Waltz has jazz nubs.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM (51J9I)

130 Hey this is kinda of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have
to manually code with HTML. I'm starting a blog soon but have no coding skills so I wanted to get advice from someone with experience.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted by: Bongs at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM (GRJFU)

131
It's short for Penelope, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM (KSicE)

132 > Yet somehow Herod and Pontius Pilate have not been popular names.
Posted by: Nebuchadnezzar Johnson at June 05, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

No one wants to name their kid after me, either.

Posted by: Onan at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (qpyNK)

133
Peen-Loap

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (KSicE)

134 Morn' all.. Looks like those people in the painting are conveniently headless....Anyway.. On another note we don't have to worry about who was running the Country under Biden.... He came out and said he did.. he signed all the pardons and knew about all of it.... We can move on now

Posted by: It's me donna at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (VE6XX)

135 One of the balusters is missing: you can see the hole for it in the planks, but it’s been kicked out or otherwise removed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (+8v88)

136 "'Pilates' is such a pretty name for a girl," some chick who does Pilates, probably.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a little boy is named Pon'Shus.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (fxCK2)

137 Any time I see or hear of a Brooklyn (or the 100 cutesy spellings of it) I cringe. It’s not the kid’s adult obviously but yeah, no bueno. It’s kinda the white girl version of Shaniqua to me.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (DRiFU)

138 All I know is that the space between should be narrower than a two year old's head.
Posted by: muldoon

Hey, I was nine when I got my head stuck in the fence down at the park while looking for 4 leaf clovers. Judy Hensler never let me live that down.

Posted by: Theodore Cleaver at June 05, 2025 10:11 AM (G5+As)

139 Yet somehow Herod and Pontius Pilate have not been popular names.
Posted by: Nebuchadnezzar Johnson

I like the name Melchizedek.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:11 AM (s8j++)

140 That reminds me, Penny is a cute name that nevertheless has fallen into disfavor.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:09 AM

Movie trivia: The young actress who voiced the character Penny in The Rescuers is the same actress who noted in Airplane that she takes her coffee black.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:11 AM (kgE5c)

141 Is this about me?

Posted by: Judas of Cariot at June 05, 2025 10:12 AM (lIgBp)

142 > It’s kinda the white girl version of Shaniqua to me.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM (DRiFU)

See also: "Tiphanee", or one of the many dimwitted variants of that one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:12 AM (qpyNK)

143 Nowadays the "average voting public" would appear in shorts and T-shirts, sandals, and be staring out at the viewer, reading nothing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

They'd be glued to their cell phones.

Posted by: Tuna at June 05, 2025 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)

144 Any time I see or hear of a Brooklyn (or the 100 cutesy spellings of it) I cringe. It’s not the kid’s adult obviously but yeah, no bueno. It’s kinda the white girl version of Shaniqua to me.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:10 AM

Just this year:

Brooklynne
Brooklyn
BrookLunn

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 05, 2025 10:14 AM (fxCK2)

145 Hope you're doing well!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 05, 2025 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

I'm doing OK. Been busy.

Posted by: Kris at June 05, 2025 10:14 AM (C8YRI)

146 I like the name Melchizedek.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:11 AM

"We're going to see a Mr. Melchizedek of Aldgate."

"What?"

"Well, we could go see Mr. Aldgate of Melchizedek, but London's nearer."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c)

147 I had a student named Onan in one of my classes one time. Never said anything about it. My policy was to refer to students by their last names: Mr. Jones, or Miss Smith, or the like, so I just elided over the whole issue.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:14 AM (+8v88)

148 > Tiphanee

As someone on the long-ago net said about a similarly retarded name: "Wow... with a name like that you might as well just turn her over to the porn industry to raise."

Parents probably bought her a "My First Stripper Pole" for her third birthday.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM (qpyNK)

149 Couple of big wins today at the Supreme Court including a unanimous win in Smith & Wesson v Mexico.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM (viF8m)

150 Unless you plan to be a running back in the SEC.

Posted by: Quintarrius, D'monte, and L'avronne at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM (lIgBp)

151 I had a student named Onan in one of my classes one time. Never said anything about it. My policy was to refer to students by their last names: Mr. Jones, or Miss Smith, or the like, so I just elided over the whole issue.

Onan, would you care to spill on this topic?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM (s8j++)

152 147 I had a student named Onan in one of my classes one time.

Didn't Lawrence Welk name one of his kids Onan?

Posted by: Roy at June 05, 2025 10:16 AM (fO4QD)

153 60% of girls named Tiffany have worked the pole at some point in their life.

Interestingly, 100% of guys named Barack have sucked a cock at some point in their life.

Facts, yo.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 05, 2025 10:16 AM (51J9I)

154 Reading headlines about the big beautiful bill perfectly sums up why spending cuts never happen.

There’s a thousand headlines with “how the bbb will impact (fill in the group here). Everything from college students to retirees to children to left handed albinos from Alaska.

In reality the bbb cuts jack shit. Even so, the teeeniest of tiny cuts that do exist, are Defcon 1 in the media. Children will starve seniors will die. And on the circus goes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:16 AM (DRiFU)

155 I wonder if Onan's father tried to pull out, but failed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:16 AM (qpyNK)

156 I have an Onan generator.

Posted by: 220/221 Whatever It Takes at June 05, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

157 Couple of big wins today at the Supreme Court including a unanimous win in Smith & Wesson v Mexico.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM

Unanimous? I'm surprised. I expected Jackson and Sotomayor to be contrarians. I suppose some things are so obvious they just have to grit their teeth and rule the right way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

158 Peen-Loap
___

ICI Premier Montreal has a hostess named Penelope, pronounced as Pen-eh-loap. I prefer Pen-el-oh-pee

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:17 AM (Dv3i1)

159 Unanimous? I'm surprised. I expected Jackson and Sotomayor to be contrarians. I suppose some things are so obvious they just have to grit their teeth and rule the right way.

That has not been my observation.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:18 AM (s8j++)

160 150 Unless you plan to be a running back in the SEC.
Posted by: Quintarrius, D'monte, and L'avronne at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM (lIgBp)

He’s a great athlete.
- Dan Smith, BYU

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:19 AM (DRiFU)

161 We were pretty damn reliable.

Posted by: Onan Engines at June 05, 2025 10:19 AM (lIgBp)

162 >>Unanimous? I'm surprised. I expected Jackson and Sotomayor to be contrarians. I suppose some things are so obvious they just have to grit their teeth and rule the right way.

The Ames case, also unanimous. Big loss for the alphabet people.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:19 AM (viF8m)

163 Used to have to review payroll files while auditing health care facilities. Would amuse myself searching for odd names.
Ivy Tower is one I remember.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 05, 2025 10:20 AM (n4GiU)

164 It’s hard to get 9 Americans to agree the sun rises in the East. 9-0 rulings are interesting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:20 AM (DRiFU)

165 >>Unanimous? I'm surprised. I expected Jackson and Sotomayor to be contrarians. I suppose some things are so obvious they just have to grit their teeth and rule the right way.

Even better. Kagan wrote the opinion.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:20 AM (viF8m)

166 > Unanimous? I'm surprised.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

Even more surprising, Kagan (!) wrote the opinion.

I suppose one could interpret that as "Don't waste our time with this kind of bullshit, because not even the commies will be sympathetic."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:20 AM (qpyNK)

167 The guy on the right is not headless. His head is obscured by the window shutter.

Posted by: 370H55V I/me/mine at June 05, 2025 10:21 AM (kvDvI)

168 Delilah and Jezebel are not popular girls names for some reason.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 05, 2025 10:21 AM (Aqu9a)

169 Pilate does seem to have some sort of popular exercise routine these days.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:22 AM (+8v88)

170 My wife has a friend with a very cool last name. And her son has a Chad-like first name. I said to my wife when the kid was young, that boy is destined to be a QB with that name.

Sure enough he’s a QB on his HS team and pretty damn good.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:22 AM (DRiFU)

171 USA Today: Get ready for a flurry of activity from the Supreme Court. The next cluster of opinions will drop on June 5, though the biggest outstanding decisions may not come until later.

The time to recover their professional reputation has long since passed. They’re not coming back from the bought and paid for legacy.

Can’t wait to spend plenty on booze to deal with the mental gymnastics they pull in rulings as they remove rights

I do not care anymore. The Roberts court broke this country. This is like watching the smoldering following the train wreck.

Roberts - “OK, we all know how to vote. You four are with me and the president. You three… well, fuck off. We just don’t care what you say or do.”

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit SCOTUS Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 05, 2025 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

172 168 Delilah and Jezebel are not popular girls names for some reason.
____

Why Delilah? Why?

Posted by: Tom Jones at June 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Dv3i1)

173 We are the biblical Clayton, Jugdish, and Syndey.

Posted by: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego at June 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Aqu9a)

174 I read this painting as being derogatory to Americans. It's a bunch of headless, LIV morons oblivious to the world. I assume it's political commentary on the civil war or reconstruction.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:23 AM (iFTx/)

175 Of the 1 million Russian casualties, roughly 250,000 troops have been killed, while Ukraine has seen around 60-100,000 of its soldiers killed out of 250,000 casualties.

The wall for this war will be around 7 football fields long.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:24 AM (gbOdA)

176 "...that boy is destined to be a QB with that name."

My parents said the same thing.

Posted by: Joe Montana at June 05, 2025 10:24 AM (lIgBp)

177 Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is using President Trump’s legislative agenda to “secretly explode” the Pentagon’s budget by adding $150 billion in military spending onto the national debt. “This bill is going to spend $300 billion in the first two years … $300 billion on military and border,” Paul, a critic of the House-passed version of the GOP mega bill, told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow in an interview on Wednesday.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

178 "In a unanimous decision in the case of Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the high court tossed out a decision by a federal appeals court that dismissed Marlean Ames' case because she failed to clear a higher bar applied to members of a majority group in order for her employment discrimination case to proceed. The justices concluded that a "background circumstances" requirement cannot be squared with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

The background circumstances rule required plaintiffs who are members of a majority group to put forth more evidence showing that their employer is "unusual" because it discriminates against the majority. Ames had argued that the requirement unfairly imposed a higher burden on her as a heterosexual woman.

The ruling from the Supreme Court makes it easier to pursue claims of reverse discrimination in 20 states and the District of Columbia that are covered by federal courts of appeals that still applied the standard." (cbsnews.com)

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:24 AM (tOcjL)

179 My wife has a friend with a very cool last name. And her son has a Chad-like first name. I said to my wife when the kid was young, that boy is destined to be a QB with that name.

Sure enough he’s a QB on his HS team and pretty damn good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:22 AM (DRiFU)

__________

Dirk Powershaft?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (iFTx/)

180 We are the biblical Clayton, Jugdish, and Syndey.
Posted by: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego at June 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Aqu9a)

And the man upstairs, well, I hope that he cares
If I had a penny for my thoughts, I'd be a millionaire
We're just three MCs, and we're on the go
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego...

Posted by: Beastie Boys at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (PxmHT)

181 Knew a girl named Delilah in high school.

Yeah, she was kind of an evil slut.

Names are indeed destiny in some cases.

Speaking of which, that's another shit name, even if you spell it Destiny. Destinee is right out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (qpyNK)

182 Unanimous reversal in Catholic Charities v Wisconsin.

Not a bad day at the SC.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (viF8m)

183
"Buck Naked."

Posted by: George Costanza at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (lIgBp)

184 Onan the Barbarian.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Ik12G)

185 Speaking of which, that's another shit name, even if you spell it Destiny. Destinee is right out.
____

There is a lefty male blogger is named Destiny for some reason.

Posted by: Tom Jones at June 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Dv3i1)

186 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego -

Have you heard Redd Foxx’s retelling of your story?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:26 AM (+8v88)

187 /off sexbomb sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Dv3i1)

188 Reading headlines about the big beautiful bill perfectly sums up why spending cuts never happen.

Proposed Constitutional Amendment:

1. Congress is required to produce a budget annually. Any year in which Congress fails to produce a budget, the Members of Congress shall be executed by firing squad.
2. All budgets produced by Congress shall employ "zero baseline" budgeting and may appropriate no more than 95% of the funds raised by taxes in the previous year. Should Congress attempt to spend more than the permitted amount, the Members of Congress shall be executed by firing squad.
3. Any member of the Judiciary who utters an opinion on any matter related to the budget, even privately, shall be executed by firing squad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

189 Dirk Powershaft?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (iFTx/)

I aid QB. Not AVN award winner.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (DRiFU)

190 > 184 Onan the Barbarian.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Ik12G)

"To drive your enemies before you, and hear the disgusted "Ewww!" of their women as you wank off on them."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (qpyNK)

191 Gonad the Barbarian!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (+8v88)

192 What a stupid moronic picture.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (ERYKL)

193 The Ames case, also unanimous. Big loss for the alphabet people.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:19 AM (viF8m)

I skimmed that opinion and didn't really understand what she was saying. Is there a summary somewhere?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

194 Knew a girl named Delilah in high school.

Yeah, she was kind of an evil slut.

Names are indeed destiny in some cases.

Speaking of which, that's another shit name, even if you spell it Destiny. Destinee is right out.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (qpyNK)
_________

I know a Destiny. She's a hot Jamaican girl. "Destiny" is a popular name for black girls, it seems.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:28 AM (iFTx/)

195 Dirk Powershaft?
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:25 AM (iFTx/)

I aid QB. Not AVN award winner.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:27 AM (DRiFU)
_______

There's a difference? My bad ....

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:28 AM (iFTx/)

196 Aren't we all alphabet people?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:29 AM (Ik12G)

197 193 The Ames case, also unanimous. Big loss for the alphabet people.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:19 AM (viF8m)

I skimmed that opinion and didn't really understand what she was saying. Is there a summary somewhere?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

See post 178.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:29 AM (tOcjL)

198 My wife has a friend with a very cool last name. And her son has a Chad-like first name. I said to my wife when the kid was young, that boy is destined to be a QB with that name.

Sure enough he’s a QB on his HS team and pretty damn good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:22 AM (DRiFU)

Your wife is friends with Tyrone Thundercock's mom?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:29 AM (ExV1e)

199 196 Aren't we all alphabet people?
Posted by: Boss Moss

LTBQ2SA++. S for Straight?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:30 AM (Dv3i1)

200 192 What a stupid moronic picture.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser

That's...a little harsh. It's weird, but at least kind of interesting. I think there's plenty of art out there much more worth of the "stupid moronic" rating. Maybe you give this a 4 out of 10?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (JCZqz)

201 Of the 1 million Russian casualties, roughly 250,000 troops have been killed, while Ukraine has seen around 60-100,000 of its soldiers killed out of 250,000 casualties.

Where are you getting those numbers?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

202 We were more surprised than anyone.

Posted by: Bret Farve's parents at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (lIgBp)

203 Faith, Hope, and Charity used to be good names for daughters: you don’t hear about such sisters much these days.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (+8v88)

204 I was thought Gen. Chuck Bonesteel III had the best military name evah.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2025 10:32 AM (BI5O2)

205 Ames pretty much held that white and straight people (aka, those is "majorities"), don't have a higher burden of proof to claim and win reverse discrimination cases just b/c they come from majorities...their burden of proof is the same as everyone else. 20 states plus DC had not been ruling that way...now they must.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:32 AM (tOcjL)

206 When both sides lie like hell cassualties are rather hard to tabulate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:32 AM (Ik12G)

207 Sometimes it can be well meaning. Friends mother taught elementary school in Newark in the sixties. Had a little black kid named Boogaty, and on parent teacher night asked the mother about the name.
Was proudly told kid was named after great American Booker T. Washington.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 05, 2025 10:32 AM (n4GiU)

208 The background circumstances rule required plaintiffs who are members of a majority group to put forth more evidence showing that their employer is "unusual" because it discriminates against the majority.

It's so unfair!!!! It's impossible to discriminate against the majority!!!! Discrimination against the group in power is impossible! Why don't these racist judges understand that!?!? Reeeeeeeee!!!11!11!1

Posted by: Leftist Retard Racial Grifters with DEI Master Degree and >$100,000 in student loan debt at June 05, 2025 10:33 AM (JCZqz)

209 Forgive me Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore.

Posted by: Tom Jones at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (lIgBp)

210 Faith, Hope, and Charity used to be good names for daughters: you don’t hear about such sisters much these days.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (+8v8

___________

"Tell me about it ...."

-- Chastity

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (iFTx/)

211 So I'm happily going through the comments for JJ, even adding a couple, not realizing everyone has left!

Posted by: Ciampino - you're going to look? at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (sPQoU)

212 201 Of the 1 million Russian casualties, roughly 250,000 troops have been killed, while Ukraine has seen around 60-100,000 of its soldiers killed out of 250,000 casualties.

Where are you getting those numbers?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

Research paper by Co-author of the CSIS study Seth Jones

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (gbOdA)

213 Boogaty is a poorly spelled Italic brand.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (Ik12G)

214 Morten Harket, best known as the lead singer for the ’80s band A-ha, made a personal announcement this week about his health. In a statement on Wednesday, he confirmed that he has been battling Parkinson’s Disease for a while and doesn’t know if or when he’ll resume performing.

During a MTV Unplugged appearance in 2017, it appeared Harket was trying to be very careful with his voice, so this announcement isn't a total surprise.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

215 157 Couple of big wins today at the Supreme Court including a unanimous win in Smith & Wesson v Mexico.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:15 AM

Unanimous? I'm surprised. I expected Jackson and Sotomayor to be contrarians. I suppose some things are so obvious they just have to grit their teeth and rule the right way.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

It was an open and shut black letter law case. The only reason that it went to SCOTUS was because one liberal 3 judge panel from the 1st Circuit decided to completely ignore the law to favor Mexico, and hurt the gun manufacturers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM (uWKK8)

216 I don't get it..

Posted by: toby928 at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM (1cMie)

217 >>I skimmed that opinion and didn't really understand what she was saying. Is there a summary somewhere?

Ames worked for the Ohio Youth Services for years. She got a new boss who was a lesbian. She applied for a promotion in a different department and not only didn't get the job she was demoted and another lesbian got the job she wanted and a gay guy was hired to replace her.

She sued saying she was discriminated against because she was straight. She lost because of some bizarre ruling that said a majority group had to show "background circumstances" basically saying she need to prove that her employer had a history of discriminating against the majority group.

SC said LOL GFY you lower court morons and take your background circumstances and shove it.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM (viF8m)

218 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

219 Got the annual "our records show that you're covering a dependent who is about to turn 26" letter despite the fact that my oldest is only included on insurance as a backup life insurance recipient.

You'd think that with all the money BCBS has that they'd be able to understand their data better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

220 Of the 1 million Russian casualties, roughly 250,000 troops have been killed, while Ukraine has seen around 60-100,000 of its soldiers killed out of 250,000 casualties.

Where are you getting those numbers?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

Research paper by Co-author of the CSIS study Seth Jones
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:34 AM (gbOdA)
________

I'll bet any amount of money those numbers are total bullshit. There is no chance on this Earth or anywhere in the universe that 4x as many Russians are casualties than Ukes. Any amount of money. Anyone want this action?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (iFTx/)

221 205 Ames pretty much held that white and straight people (aka, those is "majorities"), don't have a higher burden of proof to claim and win reverse discrimination cases just b/c they come from majorities...their burden of proof is the same as everyone else. 20 states plus DC had not been ruling that way...now they must.
Posted by: Nova Local

Lol...right. Just like we had to issue concealed carry permits because of Heller and Bruen.

Posted by: 20 states plus DC at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

222 218 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.
____

20 years late, but better late than never. 1 down, 49 to go?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (Dv3i1)

223 207 Sometimes it can be well meaning. Friends mother taught elementary school in Newark in the sixties. Had a little black kid named Boogaty, and on parent teacher night asked the mother about the name.
Was proudly told kid was named after great American Booker T. Washington.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 05, 2025 10:32 AM (n4GiU)

Should have gone for Boogity.

Boogity Boogity Jones. Imagine that on a football jersey.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (uWKK8)

224 218 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

It never should have started. If all Americans can't have in-state tuition in TX, then illegals sure shouldn't...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (tOcjL)

225 You know, I think Steven A. Smith is the ONLY Democrat I have any respect for.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (kzHlT)

226 Don't attackers suffer 3 to 4 times more cassualties than defenders?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Ik12G)

227 I was a King!

Then the novel, "The Headless Horseman" came along, followed by a cartoon character Yosemite Sam and now I'm a punchline.

Posted by: Jehoshaphat at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Aqu9a)

228 https://www.csis.org/analysis/
russias-battlefield-woes-ukraine

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (gbOdA)

229 225 You know, I think Steven A. Smith is the ONLY Democrat I have any respect for.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (kzHlT)

Isn't RFK Jr still sorta a democrat...kinda? Or did he officially change parties?

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (tOcjL)

230 204 I was thought Gen. Chuck Bonesteel III had the best military name evah.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I had a team leader named Richard Dickerson. Parents can be cruel. Caught him surfing porn on a government computer during the duty day, too lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (JCZqz)

231 Glass half empty, or glass half full? I’m going with half full.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (+8v88)

232 You're name is Toby. It's a fine name.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (Ik12G)

233 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

It is to our eternal shame that this was ever a thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

234 229

I might have to add him to my extremely short list.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 05, 2025 10:40 AM (kzHlT)

235 233 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

It is to our eternal shame that this was ever a thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

I'm amazed VA does not have it...but we do make it hard for anyone to get it...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:40 AM (tOcjL)

236 226 Don't attackers suffer 3 to 4 times more cassualties than defenders?
Posted by: Boss Moss

No. That's just the recommended planning factor for an attacking force to be successful. You need troops to attack and fix a target, and other troops to maneuver around and flank.

Posted by: Military Moron at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

237 If you don't live in Texas you get more foreign students.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (Ik12G)

238 Kinda like Jennifer was for me. I was never in a class without at least 3 Jennifers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 05, 2025 10:04 AM (DRiFU)

Were we in the same classes?

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (2Rbgs)

239 I am the only one in my immediate family that has a biblical name. When I was a kid I asked my mom why my name didn't seem to go with my two older brothers names she said my dad named them, when l came along she named me. She got my name from the Bible. I was happy with my name ever since she told me .

Posted by: Case at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (a1g6Z)

240 If all Americans can't have in-state tuition in TX, then illegals sure shouldn't...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:37 AM (tOcjL)

Honestly, given the amount of money the university system has, all US citizens should get in-state tuition. Charge extra for legal foreigners.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

241 234 229

I might have to add him to my extremely short list.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 05, 2025 10:40 AM (kzHlT)

Turns out RFK is officially Independent now...once he dropped his 2024 Dem bid, he dropped the D and went I officially for his 2nd bid...so I guess not D, but kinda?

Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:42 AM (tOcjL)

242 It was an open and shut black letter law case. The only reason that it went to SCOTUS was because one liberal 3 judge panel from the 1st Circuit decided to completely ignore the law to favor Mexico, and hurt the gun manufacturers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM

I wasn't surprised at the ruling...just that those two managed to restrain their inner leftard.

That Kagan wrote the decision was a glorious benchslap to the 1st Circuit. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 05, 2025 10:42 AM (kgE5c)

243 >> You're name is Toby. It's a fine name.

That's his slave name. His real name is Kunte Kinte.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:42 AM (viF8m)

244 Delilah and Jezebel are not popular girls names for some reason.

Neither is The Red Whore of Babylon. Go figure.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:42 AM (s8j++)

245 It is to our eternal shame that this was ever a thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

That’s what happens when you are not a serious country.

Now, to educate those who need it on why passports and visas are a thing both here and elsewhere, and why borders and PoEs are important, especially when the PoEs are manned by, say, CBP officials.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 05, 2025 10:43 AM (2Rbgs)

246 Interestingly, 100% of guys named Barack have sucked a cock at some point in their life.
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I thought that only applied to the ones that were Kenyan Muslims?

Posted by: Crusader at June 05, 2025 10:43 AM (TN0g+)

247 Artist really hates head

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 05, 2025 10:43 AM (xcxpd)

248 https://www.csis.org/analysis/
russias-battlefield-woes-ukraine
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (gbOdA)

He starts off by stating that Russia has only taken a small amount of territory and is, therefore, failing. That, right there, causes me to question everything else in the paper.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

249 Not too many Shadrach Meshach and Abindigos around these days

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (Ik12G)

250 233 Texas just ended illegal alien instate tuitions at all state unis.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 05, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

It is to our eternal shame that this was ever a thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:39 AM (ExV1e)

Understand why this was allowed for so long, and you can understand the actual interests that run the system. Allowing illegals to pay lower in-state tuition makes them more easily eligible for student loans. It had the effect of increasing both University enrollment and University income, which of course the Universities greatly desired. They were the interest group which primarily advocated for this policy, and they have always been heavily tied in to the Texas Legislature.

So it really was not about illegals, it has always been about universities gaming the system for their own benefit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (uWKK8)

251 Jehoshaphat is a minced oath, which is what you say when you feel you have to swear but don’t want to invoke the Deity. Like dang, darn, or jeez…Indiana Jones’s father was right to strike him for that. Just like a half truth is still a lie, a minced oath is still an oath.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (+8v88)

252 Honestly, given the amount of money the university system has, all US citizens should get in-state tuition. Charge extra for legal foreigners.
___

I have a college in my suburban town that closed down last year, and the state university in the big city (mostly commuter school) has been shutting down their sports teams over the last few years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (Dv3i1)

253 During a MTV Unplugged appearance in 2017, it appeared Harket was trying to be very careful with his voice, so this announcement isn't a total surprise.
Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

The acoustic “Take On Me” sucks. It exists to cure insomnia.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 05, 2025 10:45 AM (2Rbgs)

254 I'm amazed VA does not have it...but we do make it hard for anyone to get it...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 05, 2025 10:40 AM (tOcjL)

As someone shelling out $$$ because child 2 decided that they absolutely had to attend VT, I can confirm.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:46 AM (ExV1e)

255 Baruch is a book of the Roman Catholic, and Orthodox, and Coptic, but not Protestant Bible.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:46 AM (+8v88)

256 220 ... yeah, its total BS. Zalinski lost all that territory and forced to kidnap people on the streets to keep the war going. yup ... BS.

Posted by: Wardo at June 05, 2025 10:46 AM (Z4/qP)

257 No. That's just the recommended planning factor for an attacking force to be successful. You need troops to attack and fix a target, and other troops to maneuver around and flank.
Posted by: Military Moron at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

unless you're Sam Houston and you get real lucky.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:46 AM (uWKK8)

258 Joe wasn't the only retard in the White House?

Byron York@ByronYork
Now it can be told: You'll be stunned to learn that Karine Jean-Pierre's former colleagues in the Biden White House don't think she did a very good job.

Townhall.com@townhallcom
NEW — Karine Jean-Pierre is getting TRASHED by her former colleagues after her announcement that she's fed-up with partisan politics and going "independent."
According to one person who worked with KJP, she "was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I've ever worked with...

"They went on to say that "she had meltdowns after any interview..."

"She didn't know how to manage a team...created more problems than she solved..."

Others commented that her book release is nothing more than a grift: "It's difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab."
Apparently her colleagues were spending more time "coddling and appeasing her" than doing actual work in the White House comms shop.
She just lost ALL of her friends & allies — if she had any in the first place.
One former White House adviser went as far as to plainly call her "dumb.
"BRUTAL.

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Pure homophobia, misogyny, and racism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

259 The Big Beautiful Bill from Stephen Miller's perspective via Townhall.

https://tinyurl.com/yfub3f2c

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

260 226 Don't attackers suffer 3 to 4 times more cassualties than defenders?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Ik12G)

Depends on how you do it.
Sometimes speed saves lives. Sometimes defenders break and run.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 05, 2025 10:47 AM (xcxpd)

261 251 Jehoshaphat is a minced oath, which is what you say when you feel you have to swear but don’t want to invoke the Deity. Like dang, darn, or jeez…Indiana Jones’s father was right to strike him for that. Just like a half truth is still a lie, a minced oath is still an oath.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (+8v8

oh geeze louise, now you tell me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

262 US supreme court sides with heterosexual woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ case
Judges rule 9-0 in case where Marlean Ames argued she was denied a promotion because she is heterosexual

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

263 I have a college in my suburban town that closed down last year, and the state university in the big city (mostly commuter school) has been shutting down their sports teams over the last few years.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:44 AM (Dv3i1)

The endowment for the Texas University System is, I believe, second only to Harvard. They're swimming in money... most of it they're not allowed to spend but they're still swimming in money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:49 AM (ExV1e)

264 Oli London@OliLondonTV
New York’s St. John the Divine Cathedral lights up in rainbow colors during Pride Month; flies LGBTQI+ flag outside.

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Well, isn't that inclusive? Bless their hearts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

265 Putin's revenge: Six dead, including a baby, as drones pound Ukraine

https://mol.im/a/14782583

Posted by: Ciampino - it was always coming at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (sPQoU)

266 226 Don't attackers suffer 3 to 4 times more cassualties than defenders?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Ik12G)

Depends on how you do it.
Sometimes speed saves lives. Sometimes defenders break and run.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 05, 2025 10:47 AM (xcxpd)

Oh, how I wish them Alamo guys had run out. - Gen. Santa Anna

Posted by: 13 Days of Glory at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (Aqu9a)

267 260 226 Don't attackers suffer 3 to 4 times more cassualties than defenders?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Ik12G)

Depends on how you do it.
Sometimes speed saves lives. Sometimes defenders break and run.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

Let's ask the French, circa 1940.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)

268 The Big Beautiful Bill from Stephen Miller's perspective via Townhall.

https://tinyurl.com/yfub3f2c

Miller's points are well worth reading, probably before any follicles are sacrificed.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (s8j++)

269 Miller's points are well worth reading, probably before any follicles are sacrificed.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (s8j++)

You're new here, aren't you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)

270 Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY
After directly engaging in one of the most egregious cover-ups in political history, @K_JeanPierre is pivoting away from Democrats & trying to cash in with a book deal.
I'd like to take this moment to congratulate Dems for ridding themselves of this untalented mediocrity

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Dude, that's just piling on.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

271 AMES v. OHIO DEPT. OF YOUTH SERVICES

Held: The Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule—which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard to prevail on a Title VII claim—cannot be squared with the text of Title VII or the Court’s precedents.

Posted by: SMOD at June 05, 2025 10:53 AM (RHGPo)

272 are the biblical Clayton, Jugdish, and Syndey.
Posted by: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego a

In "Animal House" is the guy introducing people he doesn't know.? Shadrach, Meshach and Abendego have odd names, yes, but no odder than their names were before As you know, their names were changed when they are taken into captivity by the Babylonians . They are very faithful Jews and friends of Daniel .

The more I hear about "Animal House" they more glad I am I missed it, and I get it's a iconic film and supposedly funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 05, 2025 10:54 AM (TPxyT)

273 Trump just got off the phone with Xi.

Here's the wrap.

https://tinyurl.com/zb6vprjm

Posted by: JackStraw at June 05, 2025 10:55 AM (viF8m)

274 270 Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY
After directly engaging in one of the most egregious cover-ups in political history, @K_JeanPierre is pivoting away from Democrats & trying to cash in with a book deal.
I'd like to take this moment to congratulate Dems for ridding themselves of this untalented mediocrity

-
Dude, that's just piling on.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
-----------------

She was bad but look at who she had to try make look good.

Posted by: WisRich at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (G0vdT)

275
Trump just got off the phone with Xi.

Here's the wrap.

https://tinyurl.com/zb6vprjm
Posted by: JackStraw

"No tickie, no washie!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (KSicE)

276 Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY
Dems finally say the quiet part out loud: They want MORE welfare and HIGHER taxes in this country.
This might be the most batsh*t crazy thing I've ever heard on TV.

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Dude, do you even know any Democrats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

277 257 No. That's just the recommended planning factor for an attacking force to be successful. You need troops to attack and fix a target, and other troops to maneuver around and flank.
Posted by: Military Moron at June 05, 2025 10:41 AM (JCZqz)

unless you're Sam Houston and you get real lucky.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The key to sweeping military victory is always bombing the ball bearing plant in Schweinfurt.

Posted by: Major Hochstetter at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (G5+As)

278 The French suffered some rather disastrous defeats in the Hundred Years War as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (Ik12G)

279 273 Trump just got off the phone with Xi.

Here's the wrap.

https://tinyurl.com/zb6vprjm
Posted by: JackStraw

It's not a wrap, it's a TACO! Trump chickened out again! Hur-hur-hur!

Posted by: Deranged Lefties Trying Desperately To Make TACO a thing at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (JCZqz)

280 268 The Big Beautiful Bill from Stephen Miller's perspective via Townhall.

https://tinyurl.com/yfub3f2c

Miller's points are well worth reading, probably before any follicles are sacrificed.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (s8j++)

So if I read Miller’s article correctly, it comes down to tax cuts for the individual and corporate entities vs reducing government debt ? An either/or, but not both situation?

Posted by: tubal at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (PCK5/)

281 The Big Beautiful Bill from Stephen Miller's perspective via Townhall.

https://tinyurl.com/yfub3f2c

Miller's points are well worth reading, probably before any follicles are sacrificed.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 05, 2025 10:50 AM (s8j++)
_________

Yea, I'm not as down on the BBB as most people. It's a compromise so of course it contains shit I'd rather it didn't. But Trump has a tiny majority in the House and Senate and both are filled with GOPe backstabbing cockheads. And to those screeching about the CBO scoring ... gimme a break, it's the fucking CBO. Almost as bad as the Fed when it comes to partisan hackery.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (iFTx/)

282 The Saharan dust is here big time in Central Fl.

Like a brown fog.

My eyes are burning a little.

Posted by: pawn at June 05, 2025 10:59 AM (QB+5g)

283 Trump just got off the phone with Xi.

Here's the wrap.

https://tinyurl.com/zb6vprjm
Posted by: JackStraw
_______

Like a sandwich "wrap"? Like a .... TACO?

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 05, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

284 227 I was a King!

Then the novel, "The Headless Horseman" came along, followed by a cartoon character Yosemite Sam and now I'm a punchline.
Posted by: Jehoshaphat at June 05, 2025 10:38 AM (Aqu9a)

I know the pain.

Posted by: Nimrod The Mighty Hunter at June 05, 2025 11:00 AM (V362x)

285 My scepticism for anything DC produced is based on years and years of being bullshitted, no matter the temporary occupants of offices ( and some perennials, sadly) .. it comes down to loss of, lack of faith..

Posted by: tubal at June 05, 2025 11:00 AM (PCK5/)

286 Reading Leftist Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)

287 282 The Saharan dust is here big time in Central Fl.

Like a brown fog.

My eyes are burning a little.
Posted by: pawn at June 05, 2025 10:59 AM (QB+5g)

The perfidy of the Mohammedans knows no bounds…

Posted by: tubal at June 05, 2025 11:01 AM (PCK5/)

288 Trump just got off the phone with Xi.

Here's the wrap.

https://tinyurl.com/zb6vprjm
Posted by: JackStraw

You been here four hour. You go now.

Posted by: Archer at June 05, 2025 11:01 AM (IDphi)

289 So if I read Miller’s article correctly, it comes down to tax cuts for the individual and corporate entities vs reducing government debt ? An either/or, but not both situation?
Posted by: tubal at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (PCK5/)

Mostly it comes down to the requirement that the CBO pretends that the bill will have no ancillary effects so their scoring is wrong, as is always the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 05, 2025 11:02 AM (ExV1e)

290

noood

nood rambling

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 05, 2025 11:02 AM (KSicE)

291 She was bad but look at who she had to try make look good.
Posted by: WisRich at June 05, 2025 10:57 AM (G0vdT)
-------

She wasn't even a halfway competent turd-polisher.

Posted by: ballistic at June 05, 2025 11:09 AM (5aZAZ)

292
My take on The Triple B is that-

We take the win, small as it is and keep moving forward.

Every time the Dims go to DefCon 5 over something Trump does, they lose credibility and political capital with the American People,

simply because the world doesn't end and we don't all die and even those who hate Trump can see that they benefit.

That allows movement forward on the next steps.

Yeah, a titanic, head-smashing, Democrat Party obliterating instant victory would be nice but-

eh, we gotta live in the real world.

Besides, tax breaks get more people onboard with us and I'm all for that.

YMMV.

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