The Morning Report — 6/ 25 /25

Good morning kids. So, pun intended Trump went ballistic on Iran and Israel vis a vis this so-called ceasefire. Continuing on from yesterday's editorial/rant a few things to consider.

Supreme Leader Khamenei insisted publicly that “Iran will never surrender to the enemies of Islam.” But the regime’s behavior contradicts this. And after Donald Trumps announcement there has been no IRGC press conference, no new vow of revenge. Messaging platforms long used to broadcast defiance have gone silent.
Leaks suggest younger commanders within the Guard are urging a strategic pause—not out of diplomacy, but survival instinct. Even China and Russia, both traditional allies, have issued only neutral statements.
There is no formal capitulation. But Iran’s actions—warning enemies of a missile strike, initiating the ceasefire, ceasing retaliation—amount to a modern, informal surrender.
This was not peace. It was exhaustion. Iran has not been conquered. But it has been contained, weakened, and temporarily silenced.

Indeed the word "temporarily" is the key, and it's not Iran the nation state, it's Islam that has been on the march in the Middle East and across the world for 1500 years, whether at the Gates of Vienna, or with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post the Treaty of Versailles or after getting its ass kicked by Israel in several major wars and other military operations after the October '73 humiliation. But the nightmares of 9/11/01 here, 2004 in Madrid 2005 in London and the butchery and slaughter of Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, Isis and every other Islamic terror group will no doubt continue regardless of what the polticial/governmental future of Iran as a nation state holds. Please God may it be non-Islamic for the sake of the Iranian people and indeed the region and the world, but if past is prologue, I'm not holding my breath.

So, Iran's nuclear weapons capability has been neutralized and perhaps at long last the Mullahs heads might be on the chopping block and the doors have been blown off of Evin Prison.

And despite that, or perhaps because of that, we have this tory:

Not the mass murder of Israelis that took place in the past, at the Nova Music Festival that was held in Israel on October 7, 2023, but a mass murder planned for the future, at the Boom Music Festival to be held in Portugal this July. Antisemites, encouraged by the hatred that has been heaped on Israel by so much of the world, with so many people both so ill-informed and so malevolent, have apparently been planning to do all kinds of terrible things to the 4,000 Israelis expected to attend this year’s festival. Perhaps the sudden revelation about the planning of that massacre will prevent it, if Portuguese authorities wake up from their stupor, from being attempted.

And did you catch this item the other day?

Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

As my good friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh states:

So the ongoing conflict in Iran should only end one way: with the destruction of the mullahs, the disestablishment of Islam, the eradication of Iran's nuclear capabilities, a stern warning backed up by force if necessary to other nuclear powers not to ship any nuclear bombs or other material to a fundamentalist Iran and the neutralization of the well at Jamkaran to end Shia Islam's belief in the resurrection of the hidden Twelfth Imam. The Jews have survived the destruction of the Second Temple and Christians the loss of Constantinople and the Church of Holy Wisdom (the Hagia Sophia, now a mosque), without any loss of belief; Islam ought to have the opportunity to do the same. The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . .

"Fuckin' A Bubba" to quote Gus Grissom from The Right Stuff, but what of the other 1.5 billion Muslims, both Shia and Sunni all over the world? Unless and until they have a, shall we say "Come to Jesus moment" about their beliefs vis a vis their imagined destiny of global conquest and supremacy, we shall surely see Notre Dame (underscored by CBD's eloquent essay) and Westminster Abbey if not the Vatican itself transformed into mosques just like Hagia Sophia in the next 20 to 50 years. Whether via the sword or the maternity ward.

On a completely different note, there goes New York City. Yes, I am well aware there are many here who could care less, and even I as a NYC native just shake my head in abject disgust and disappointment. And while this is only the Democrat Primary, the fact that as Daniel Greenfield suspects, and probably rightly so, the Tammany Hall machine still rigged it for one of the most outrageously maniac leftist candidates imaginable. And this in a city that suffered through two terms of Bill DeBolshevik, on top of a city council that is perpetually to the left of the Shining Path and Vietcong.

So given all of that, you can easily calculate the odds of Curtis Sliwa or whoever the GOP candidate may be in winning the general. Regardless of one's prejudices against the city and indeed any blue city in America, that we have lost them for generations and some unforeseen cultural sea change notwithstanding, likely forever, is still a tragedy and an infamnia. Leftist madness might not be confined to big blue cities. Over time, it spreads everywhere and one day, those who sleep comfortably in solid red states and districts might wake up to find their neighborhoods and towns fundamentally transformed, to coin a phrase.

Apropos of NYC, as Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." And out of City Hall. everywhere else Leftists are in control, the media. and most especially the schools.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Authorities in that country aren't taking it seriously.
Mass Murder of Israelis Planned at Portuguese Music Festival
Michael Walsh: The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs.. . (Fuckin' A bubba!!!! - jjs)
THE COLUMN: Unconditional Surrender

ISRAEL AND USA vs IRAN

Trump acted lawfully, decisively, and with precedent on his side—despite partisan claims that defy both the Constitution and common sense.
The War Powers Narrative Is False—And the Constitution Proves It
"I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible."
Trump Walks Back Regime Change Talk: ‘Don’t Want To See So Much Chaos’
The answer to those questions, in order, is “yes” and “probably not.”
Is Iran Ready for Regime Change, And Is The NCRI The Right Way To Change?
The bombings are a powerful deterrent to the ‘CRINK’ alliance; talk of America’s decline is merely wishful thinking; and leadership matters.
3 Takeaways From The U.S. Bombing Of Iran’s Nuclear Sites
'It is clear that there is one Iran—before June 13, nuclear Iran—and one now,' says IAEA's Rafael Grossi (Remember the UN is preternaturally anti-American and anti-Israel - jjs)
UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief: ‘Night and Day’ Difference Between Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities Before and After US Strikes
Daniel Greenfield: They’re not against nuclear weapons; they’re for our enemies.
Anti-Nuke Activists Fight for Iran’s Nukes

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Scott Jennings didn’t waste any time setting the record straight during a heated CNN panel discussion about President Trump’s recent military strike against Iran. As the conversation turned to whether Trump deserved credit for the operation, Jennings made it clear that, in his view, the president’s actions warranted praise — regardless of what previous administrations may have set in motion. (Jimmy Carter deserves credit for putting the Mullahs in power in the first place! - jjs)
Former Obama Aide: Obama and Biden Also Deserve Credit for Iran Strike
On June 22, ICE Atlanta arrested Ribvar Karimi in Locust, Alabama. Karimi reportedly served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021 and at the time of his arrest, in his possession, he had an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card. He entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, which is reserved for aliens engaged to be married to American citizens, in October 2024 under the Biden administration. Karimi never adjusted his status — a legal requirement — and is removable from the United States. He’s currently in ICE custody, where he’ll remain pending removal proceedings.
DHS: 11 Iranian Nationals Arrested Across U.S. over Weekend
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed it detained 11 Iranian nationals over a 48-hour period. According to the agency, several of these individuals entered the United States under the Biden administration and have committed serious crimes.
Biden’s Open Border Presidency Turbocharged Iranian Threats To U.S. Soil
Khalil calls the attacks ‘desperate attempts to be heard’ during first broadcast interview since release from ICE custody
WATCH: Anti-Semitic Acts of Terror Are a 'Direct Result' of US Support to Israel, Mahmoud Khalil Says
Khalil is a Syrian-born 'Palestinian' with a green card who received his graduate degree from Columbia University this past December. However, the DHS reported that Khalil has been heavily involved in leading protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia and the nearby Barnard College, even after graduating.
Titty-Caca AOC Escorts Pro-Hamas Supporter After Being Released From Custody
After years of loud posturing and covert war against the United States, Tehran bows—behind a cloud of rhetoric and an intercepted missile.
Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States (let me know when Islam surrenders to Civilization - jjs)
"NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS"
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin previously told Breitbart News that new data released by DHS showed that “law enforcement is now facing a” 500 percent increase “in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”
Claim: FBI Investigates California Politician’s Call for Gangs to Stop ICE
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
A federal judge blocked deportations for eight migrants Monday night in what the Trump administration called a “lawless act of defiance” of the Supreme Court.
Biden-Appointed Judge Appears To Skirt SCOTUS Ruling In Deportations Case
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, charged with human smuggling in Tennessee, was ordered released after a judge questioned the strength of the government’s allegations against him.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Once Again Facing Deportation.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California has called for a 'complete moratorium on all deportations'
Dem Rep Dave Min Requests $1.6 Million in Taxpayer Funds for Left-Wing Group That Teaches Illegal Aliens How To Dodge ICE
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The left is deeply disturbedThe Democrat Party Needs A Wellness Check
Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA), an openly gay lawmaker who migrated to the United States from Peru as a minor, has been elected by his House Democrat colleagues as the ranking member on the powerful House Oversight Committee. Garcia succeeds the late Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who passed away in May following a battle against esophageal cancer.The 47-year-old California Democrat and close ally of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is being billed by his party as a “coalition builder” and “cool and calm under the storm.” However, Garcia’s public statements and divisive political positions render descriptions highly questionable. The National Pulse reported in February that Garcia was the subject of an inquiry by then-U.S. Attorney Ed Martin over alleged threats the Democrat lawmaker had made towards the Trump administration, particularly Elon Musk and staff working at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
DEI Loving, Trump Threatening Dem Named Ranking Member of Powerful Congressional Committee.
A legal expert says that a race-based internship program could jeopardize the Croatan Institute's federal funding and non-profit status.
Go Woke, Go Broke: Nonprofit Could Lose Millions In Federal Funds Thanks To DEI Program
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back against Jackson’s suggestion that “the Court does not apply standing doctrine ‘evenhandedly.’”
SCOTUS Justice Takes Bold Stand Against The Constitution
Everything Democrats warned about before Trump returned to office is exactly what they’re either now celebrating or dismissing.
Democrats Warned About Unelected, Rogue Judges — Until Trump Started Fighting Them
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is facing mounting pressure both internally at the central bank and externally from the White House and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on Capitol Hill to begin reducing U.S. interest rates. Appearing before Congress on Tuesday, Powell was peppered by House Republicans and Democrats alike to explain his reasoning for not moving to reduce the cost of borrowing.“From our side, we’d love to see the rates go down,” Congressman Juan Vargas (D-CA) told the Fed chairman during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday. The California Democrat added: “I know a number of my colleagues on the other side would love to see the rates go down. I think it’s pretty unanimous.”
Fed Civil War as Even Democrats Push Powell to Cut Rates.

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
A virulent, old-world antisemitism is taking root in America, and it’s driven by the same forces that have always made Jews a target.
In America, It’s Not Your Auntie’s Antisemitism Anymore
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
According to Syria’s interior ministry, "a number of criminals involved in the attack" have been taken into custody.
Syrian authorities arrest ISIS suspects for suicide bombing that killed 25 Christians at Damascus church
Daniel Greenfield:Land of Hope and Glory. . . In the UK, if you tweet against illegal alien Muslim migrants, you will be arrested. If you are an illegal alien migrant, you will get a presentation from those very same police asking you, politely, not to assault the local women. . . . Pretty please.
UK Cops Ask Muslim Illegal Aliens Not to Assault Women (but goats and little boys are ok? - jjs)

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Boyle described the revelations as a massive scandal, raising questions about transparency and whether the Biden junta used its final weeks in office to lock in favored projects before the incoming administration could intervene.
‘Absolutely Infuriating’: Biden Junta Rushed Out $90 Billion in Green Loans After Trump’s 2024 Victory
New York is looking to expand nuclear power in the state by building a major nuclear plant, Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
Trump Admin Finds Unlikely Ally In Pursuit Of ‘Nuclear Renaissance’
. . . American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers said the tide is turning. After years of climate hysteria, he believes that “energy reality has finally taken hold in the United States” as Americans reject the left’s doomsday climate narrative.“We are not transitioning from anything to anything,” Sommers told Breitbart News. “We are going to need more energy, more kinds of energy going forward, and that is going to include a lot more oil and gas in the future.”
The Left’s Climate Hysteria Is Crumbling as Energy Reality Sets In
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier emphasized the importance of protecting children, stating, “The real heroes behind this operation are the law enforcement who built and executed this mission. As your Attorney General and a father of three young kids, protecting children is my top priority. If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.” The operation revealed the harsh realities of sex trafficking, including instances of young girls who were pregnant, one of whom was carrying the child of her trafficker.
Trump Marshals Rescue Dozens of Children From Sex Trafficking Ring.
"Pleased that we are moving forward."
Karmelo Anthony Indicted On First Degree Murder Charge
“Daniel Park was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles, California. Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. … Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. (what a tragedy - jjs)
Alleged Co-Conspirator in California Fertility Clinic Bombing Dies in Federal Custody
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The public school exodus continues unabated.
The Persistent Presence of Absence
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
NYC’s embrace of ranked-choice voting shows how the system can be utilized by radical leftists to gain power in blue enclaves.
NYC’s Democrat Mayoral Race Exemplifies The Pitfalls Of Ranked-Choice Voting
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
One of California’s top storytellers is repeating a troubling performance.
Greasy Bastard Newsom Targets Trump In New Blame-Game For Future Wildfires
POLITICS
Zohran Mamdani took the lead in the heated Democrat mayoral primary Tuesday night — a stunning upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, unofficial tallies showed.
Andrew Cuomo concedes as Zohran Mamdani wins NYC Democratic mayoral primary in stunning upset
Daniel Greenfield: I’ve seen widely loathed radicals win mayoral races in Chicago and Los Angeles in dubious ways. The LA race that gave the city Mayor Karen Bass had a whole lot of late-arriving ballots show up just in time twice. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t believe that election was legitimate. I don’t believe this one in New York City, my two hometowns, was either.
New York City’s Highly Dubious Mayoral Race
Reformers’ failure to gain traction can be explained, in part, by the political bases of Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. (no hope for NYC at all, period -jjs)
There's No Hope for the Center-Right in New York's Mayoral Race
The Texas congresswoman, who vowed to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump if she were to become chair of the powerful committee earlier this month, told the Dallas Morning News that she withdrew her name from consideration on Tuesday after receiving just six votes in the steering meeting.
Jasmine Crockett Drops Bid for Oversight Ranking Member After Dead Last Finish
"I don't have the answer to that question."
Bernie Sanders Can’t Answer When Asked How Humans Find Meaning If His Socialist Dream Is Realized
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
This treaty aims to end a decades-long conflict that has killed millions and displaced many more.
Trump’s historic peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo will fix Biden’s failures
As Iran reels and Russia weakens, China watches and endures—its challenge to the US is deeper, longer-term, and unlike any adversary of the past century.
What will China Do Post-Iran?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
I find this extremely odd, and seriously concerning.
Why did the US Army commission four technocrats as high-ranking military officers?
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Kennedy was joined by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz as part of a roundtable discussion with insurers to discuss pledges made by the health insurance industry to streamline and reform the prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed Care and Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace plans which account for most insured Americans.
HHS Sec RFK Jr. Announces Program to End ‘Scourge’ of Insurance Pre-authorization
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
This was the second prototype test flown by the company, the first launched on the inaugural flight of the Ariane-6 rocket. That test was unable to complete its mission because of a problem with the rocket’s upper stage, which prevented it from completing its de-orbit burn, which would have then permitted the prototype to be released and return to Earth for flight testing. Instead, no test was done.
2nd test flight of French cargo capsule prototype “partial success”
Cool image time! . . . What sets UGC 11397 apart from a typical spiral lies at its centre, where a supermassive black hole containing 174 million times the mass of the Sun is growing. As a black hole ensnares gas, dust, and even entire stars from its vicinity, this doomed matter heats up and puts on a fantastic cosmic light show.
A graceful spiral galaxy
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
In one year, 40,000 young adults turned to Planned Parenthood for gender transition hormones.
After Raking In $800M In Taxpayer Dollars, Planned Parenthood Now Offers Trans Services
UPDATE: Atlanta police are charging the four suspects, who range in age from 16 to 19, with a hate crime.
Atlanta Is Taking on the Real Criminals: Pride Flag Vandals
A progressive ruling by a Reagan-appointed judge.
Activist Judge Sides with Transgender Federal Prisoners
Christopher F. Rufo: A dispatch from Seattle Pride Month
“The Ocean Is Queer”
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Among other findings in the poll, nearly 90% of U.S. exhibition executives stated that their revenue has not recovered to pre-COVID levels,” reports the far-left Variety. “An overwhelming majority of them, 81%, also want an exclusive theatrical window on new releases lasting at least six weeks, while 77% believe that day-and-date streaming releases have a negative impact on the theatrical model.”
Most Movie Theater Execs Believe Moviegoing will Die Within 20 Years
Silicon Valley’s coders are dumping wokeness, rediscovering meritocracy, and quietly rebooting American politics—one red pill at a time.
Silicon Valley’s Red Pill Decade, Part One: Divorcing Wokeness
Christian Toto: Actors attack fellow Americans, ignoring impact on their bottom lines
These Stars Slammed Trump Voters, Not Just Trump

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Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:12 AM (NC42u)

2 Thank you JJ! Good morning to all the horde.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:14 AM (UHTm2)

3 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

4 Miss Me Yet?

Posted by: Joe Biden, High On Dope at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (HgFW6)

5 With AI generating so many articles, videos and images, lying no longer taboo, as society devolves into a low trust model, where exaggeration and hyperbole are required to turn the most mundane into click-bait, superlatives everywhere, propaganda as the lone remaining tool of communication, its easy to just black pill out and not trust anything anyone says ever. Including the accountant, the physician and the clergy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

6 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

7 Zohran Mamdani took the lead in the heated Democrat mayoral primary Tuesday night — a stunning upset over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, unofficial tallies showed.

Basically a choice between Be'ezelbub and Lucifer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

8 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Low trust societies are no fun. But we are there.

I want to be sure to thank the usual suspects.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

9
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 25, 2025 07:17 AM (tljrc)

10
Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

Could be Islamic terrorists, could be the crazed Karenstaffel insisting everyone gets vaccines and boosters.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (/HVsR)

11 In one year, 40,000 young adults turned to Planned Parenthood for gender transition hormones.

At what time can we call Planned Parenthood an Enemy of Civilization?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

12
So RCV didn't save the Grandma Killer? Or haven't they finished fixing things yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:19 AM (/HVsR)

13 “ 25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:25-26

Posted by: Marcus T at June 25, 2025 07:19 AM (kLbP8)

14 Adams is a Reagan Democrat like Trump. Corrupt like any Dem, but, not crazy like Reagan.

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 07:20 AM (D/iiI)

15 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

30 years ago. Sad that these deluded individuals are out of the gene pool. I foresee anger issues ahead.

Amish society is looking pretty good by comparison.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

16 Top 20! Go me!

Now for the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 07:21 AM (BpO1e)

17 Time to leave the a/c and go to work.

Posted by: Accomack at June 25, 2025 07:21 AM (tpyJL)

18 Thx, JJ!

Travis Bickle was just 50 years early; today he would fit right in ...

if all the Surrealists 100 years ago could see 2025 they would soil themselves, swear off dope & absinthe, and start going to church.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:22 AM (Z5NUn)

19 Boyle described the revelations as a massive scandal, raising questions about transparency and whether the Biden junta used its final weeks in office to lock in favored projects before the incoming administration could intervene.

"Raising questions" ?

How about arrests and charges filed?

Try cheating the Mob out of $90B and see if you get a different response than merely "raising questions".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

20 Fourteen arrested after nearly 150 people report being jabbed with needles at French music festival

The weird thing is, as far as I can tell from reading about it, that the authorities can’t determine if the people, mostly women and girls, were injected with anything.

Some of them went to the hospital but it’s never made clear if they were sickened or unconscious or what.

If we could see mugshots of the people arrested it might clear things up.

It certainly has all the hallmarks of a terrorist act.

Getting jabbed by random people at music festivals is surely a good way to terrorize young people enough to never want to go out on the town,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

21 5, boom, there it is.

or should I say, here we are ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:24 AM (Z5NUn)

22
Angry Communist scolds killed network news, movies, and American big cities.

"Woke" and "Progressive" are just aliases.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 07:25 AM (j4U/Z)

23 Great array of info J.J.

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

24 "The Left is deeply disturbed."

A recognition better late than never. Though I'm not sure it has yet been fully internalized.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (+8LpN)

25 Have a great day, everyone.

Work those Plan Bs. We may need them. And remember -- OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 25, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

26 I'm still processing the fact Jeb Bush put out a statement complimenting Trump for bombing Iran, and Trump thanked him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (l0k7j)

27 So now some democrats want some credit for the Iran strike that a week ago was sure to start WWIII?

And I see Tucker is now trying to sidle his way back into Trump's good graces.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (+8LpN)

28 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

29 Angry Communist scolds killed network news, movies, and American big cities.

My eyes just glaze over on any news w/r/t Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Iran/US, China/World, any explanation of market behavior, government policies...

The complete spectrum of hot-takes and "informed opinion" is told as the truth on pretty much any issue.

Did the US really bomb Iranian nuclear development sites? The lies, narratives and counter-narratives span across from "Nothing happened" to "The LORD has returned and Peace is Upon Earth".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:30 AM (a4flb)

30 Is Iran Ready for Regime Change, And Is The NCRI The Right Way To Change?
________
The first half, maybe. The 2nd, almost certainly not.

I am eternally dismayed (I should have learnt better) at how easily Americans forget that democracy was NOT considered a good idea by most of the founders, and by most earlier thinkers.

I even suspect that Tocqueville used the word because, to a Frenchman, "republic" would have negative connotations not present to others.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:31 AM (od0dV)

31 When anti-nuclear activists go into the streets to protest for Iran’s nukes, they reveal that none of their hysteria about nukes was serious or sincere. It was only a trick to dismantle our defenses and aid our enemies. The same ‘anti-proliferation’ organizations that acted to advance the USSR’s agendas now plot to aid the nuclear arsenal of an Islamic terror state.

They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.

It’s difficult to argue against Daniel Greenfield on this one.

They’ve been singing the same song since Reagan was in office and suddenly the entire left was “No Nukes!”.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

32 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?

Posted by: People of the Jello Mold at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

33 I am eternally dismayed (I should have learnt better) at how easily Americans forget that democracy was NOT considered a good idea by most of the founders, and by most earlier thinkers.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

- yet -

“Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all the others that have been tried.”

Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

34 >Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States
----

not buying this
feels like there may be a pause, even a long one, but not a decisive and definitive END

Surrender is when you sail your big battleship into the enemy's home port, and their leaders show up in formal attire and sign the documents of surrender in front of the eyes of the world

this doesn't feel like that at all

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 07:37 AM (AOsQT)

35 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?
Posted by: People of the Jello Mold at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

They locked him in the Memory Hole and covered the story with a pillow until it died of asphyxiation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:38 AM (6ydKt)

36 Is this it? It's not peace nor is it a victory.

Posted by: M. Gaga at June 25, 2025 07:38 AM (zeLd4)

37 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia. After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)

38 They’re not anti-proliferation; they’re anti-civilization.

Anti- Western civilization, I would argue. They've grown up swaddled in the comforts and peace that living in the West brings and despise it for existing, just as they will take Mommy and Daddy's money, but despise the parents for having the money in the first place. They're the idiot version of the "back to the land" movement.

As WS Gilbert put it, "The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone / All centuries but this and every country but his own."

And now back to work. Busy day today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (Dg2sF)

39 lol, you did make me look!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (Z5NUn)

40 A Post headline this morning concerns a Brit pedophile who went to Disney World and organized a mock-wedding to a fourth grade girl, and Disney apparently said "sure". Anything for a price, I guess.

I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

41 Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb

Why would you need a Constitution when you have a country of sturdy Englishmen, brave and true, who know what is right and proper?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (A62KL)

42 Eric Adams is running right ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (g47mK)

43 Reported but not verified. Pahlavi has unfollowed both PDT and Bibi on social media.
Ceasefire is not peace, just a delay.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ZIggv)

44 @36

>> Is this it? It's not peace nor is it a victory.

It’s an interregnum between hostilities.

Muslims do not know how to live in peace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)

45 Agoraphobia is not a mental illness.

It is a survival instinct.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ZmEVT)

46 A Post headline this morning concerns a Brit pedophile...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)
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Look up his name and his pic and ask yourself how he wound up being a Brit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:41 AM (NC42u)

47 It’s an interregnum between hostilities.

Muslims do not know how to live in peace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (XV/Pl)
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Just say "hudna" when you mean "hudna."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:42 AM (NC42u)

48 @42

>> Eric Adams is running right ?

As an independent.

I think Sliwa will drop out and get behind Adams as will the remnants of the sane democrat coalition and push Adams over the line.

RCV is not used in the general election so I think Adams can win.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

49 After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)
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There used to be a "Wolfie's Deli" on Miami Beach (years ago) but now its so cool and sophisticated they would never survive. Got to be a hugely overpriced "cafe" now, selling flavored soda water from Brazil or some such place.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (0dpQU)

50 That’s because democracy always eventually turns into a totally indebted mobocracy followed by tyranny.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

- Alexander Fraser Tyler (disputed)

There’s some truth to that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:43 AM (6ydKt)

51 According to Insurance company Insurify, Buick, followed by Hyundai and Kia will be wacked hardest by tariffs, each experiencing a price increase of at least 22%

Buick surprised me in discovering that the American brand is mostly built in China.

Worst of both worlds: Tariffs against China plus a huge percentage of the car's cost is underwriting union benefits.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)

52 NYC’s Democrat Mayoral Race Exemplifies The Pitfalls Of Ranked-Choice Voting
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Once again, like all I've seen before it, this article utterly fails to give a reason why RCV should favor the left, inherently. It is at least as likely that that is the result, as usual, of the left being more adept at adjusting their tactics than is the right.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:45 AM (od0dV)

53 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)

Blah Blah says he looks forward to Mahmoud as Mayor as it's time for this city to embrace the transexuals and homeless displaced immigrants and put them all in the subway so we do not have to see them as we sip our cocktails from the balcony of our penthouse in the Sutton Tower. Now if we could just get our COLA increase for our social security everything would be grand! Have to pay the hired help don't ya know tee hee!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrat boomers at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (HgFW6)

54 Why would you need a Constitution when you have a country of sturdy Englishmen, brave and true, who know what is right and proper?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM

The UK desperately needs another oliver cromwell to show up and deal with things.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (e5NfL)

55 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

https://shorturl.at/4SKgv

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

56 I suspect that two movies show the solution to some of our problems: Escape From New York, and Superman. Seal off Manhattan, and drop CA into the Pacific. What a wonderful world that would be.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:48 AM (od0dV)

57 ‘Absolutely Infuriating’: Biden Junta Rushed Out $90 Billion in Green Loans After Trump’s 2024 Victory

Nothing should be permitted to occur between election day and the seating of the new Congress. No regulations promulgated, no grants issued, no employment changes, no laws signed, no nominees confirmed.

Further, if a new President will be taking office, these prohibitions continue until after inauguration day.

It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

58 June Lockhart turning 100 today. That's 700 in dog years.

Posted by: Lassie at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (i0F8b)

59 42 Eric Adams is running right ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 07:40 AM (g47mK)

Yes, as an I.
As is Silwa as the R. I expect Silwa will now have to exit the race or tell all his folks to vote Adams b/c in a 3 way, the D will automatically win.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

60 The weird thing is, as far as I can tell from reading about it, that the authorities can’t determine if the people, mostly women and girls, were injected with anything.

Step 1: get people used to being randomly jabbed and thinking nothing of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

61 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

62 To put that in context, over 15 years, it had put out about $43 billion. Then we had an election on November 5 last year, right? And President Trump won that election. After that election day and until President Trump’s inauguration, $90 billion — over twice what was done in 15 years — was done in 76 days. More than half of that, $49 billion, in the last two days, Thursday and Friday, before inauguration the next Monday.

Big Govt loaning money is a terrible bad wasteful useless idea.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

63 im gonna eat some shit pebbles now

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (beL7L)

64 "The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . ."

Indeed. In fact, why put an end to a war that you've practically won? Especially if we don't really know how far back the nuclear program has been pushed.

WELL, MAYBE it's just that if the mullahs have to go, that it's bad optics to make that happen by Israel and/or America assassinating the regime. MAYBE there are ways to get the Iranian people to finish the job - which is the right way to go. MAYBE it's just good optics for Trump to explicitly say he's not interested in regime change. MAYBE.

Yesterday I was hearing about uprisings, so who knows? Maybe this thing isn't really over quite yet.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (hOOi9)

65 I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

It seems they believe it was a social media stunt.

The groom hired extras as guests (who were clueless about what was going on), the best man and maid of honor were all hired.

The little girl, 9, was brought from Ukraine by her mother, 40.

Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

The ‘groom’ paid $150,000 to rent Disneyland for the wedding.

All Disney saw was the money until they saw the bride and realized this was going to cost them more than that if they didn’t cancel it post haste.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (6ydKt)

66 55 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

https://shorturl.at/4SKgv
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

Did not see the story. Met her once many many years ago and she was a very charming classy woman.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 07:54 AM (x0n13)

67 It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Nothing like stealing all of the furniture and jewelry, selling off the children into slavery before torching the house and barn on the way out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

68 This Mamdani radical extremist character, who came here only 7 years ago, is going to be the next mayor of not only a big city, but one of America's most iconic in days past. What a country, eh!? Seems NYC will elect (by hook or crook) the worst of the worst. I guess Satan was busy or Mamdani would've had some stiff competition. Be sure to wear your fireproof clothing on the subways, all of you who are left.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

69 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:30 AM (a4flb)

Whatever the media is reporting - and they do it in lockstep - believe the opposite. That's your starting point.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (sfdl6)

70 Once again, the press proves it's filled with a bunch of people who believe "hard work" means watching Pedro take care of their yard.

The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months? Early reports indicate Israel has pounded and taken out roads and bridges leading to Fordow.

Even without the MOP's, that alone is years worth of infrastructure gone. Building roads and bridges capable of carrying the equipment necessary to dig out Fordow isn't done overnight.

Morning, J.J.! Thanks again for all your work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (tT6L1)

71 Morning again all.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 07:55 AM (zSKXS)

72 MAYBE there are ways to get the Iranian people to finish the job - which is the right way to go.

Guns, lots of guns.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)

73 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-

1- he wins in November, implements his promises, and the city completely fails, becoming an easy example of the failures of far Leftism in future elections and social commentary

2- moderate dems, Republicans and independents panic, rally together around an Independent candidate in the General (maybe Adams?), push him over the finish line, and Leftists melt down and riot at being backstabbed by the Dem Establishment

3- Mamdani doesn't implement his extreme policies, knowing they'll fail, disappointing the Far Left, and he eventually gets marked as a sellout corrupted by money/power/the Establishment.

All are hilarious and may result in great campaign ad fodder for the 2026 midterms and 2028.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (ycI94)

74 Met her once many many years ago and she was a very charming classy woman.

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That's good to hear. It's exactly how I'd imagine her to be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

75 JJ, under the Culture Wars at the bottom, you should add June Lockhart turning 100 today. Quite a milestone for this lovely lady.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)
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Aw c'mon, morons!

Don't degrade the Morning Report to talk again about boob itty boobs!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 07:57 AM (NC42u)

76 61 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

"*From this Jew’s perspective, it seemed to be a joyful service, and the priest’s voice echoing in this magnificent building was both magisterial and strangely personal."

Nah, I see it as someone who saw for the 1st time, a single instance of the greatness of what the Catholic community can do here on Earth for everyone in it...and it surprised him. One of those "the 1st steps on the path" experiences...who knows where it eventually takes him.

I mean, every day, the Catholic Church and faithful, like Donald Trump, has been dumped on by the media for decades and decades...and we're still here, standing strong, despite it...just like he is. But many have the view from the media b/c it becomes so ingrained til you get that moment and you say "but that's not what the media told me...what else might they be wrong about"...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 25, 2025 07:57 AM (tOcjL)

77 That’s because democracy always eventually turns into a totally indebted mobocracy

"The simpleminded electorate were visited every few years by rival politicians, who, in the desire to secure election, were accustomed to make the wildest promises involving increased public expenditure in the constituency and the satisfaction of all the cherished desires of the inhabitants. The latter, as was not unnatural, chose the candidate who promised them the most... The country was thus exposed to the evils of paternalism in its most extreme form. The people, instead of being trained to independence and self
reliance, became increasingly dependent on those who were placed in authority; instead of being trained to think in terms of the national interest, they were encouraged to think only of the interests of their own district. Even within a district, or a church denomination, there was no public spirit; in the struggle to secure a decent living, the average man sought only his personal advantage. The Government was looked upon as the universal provider, and it was thought to be the duty of the Member for the constituency to see that there was an ever increasing flow of public money."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (/HVsR)

78 “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

- yet -

“Democracy is the worst form of government—except for all the others that have been tried.”

Apparently Churchill wasn't keen on a Constitutional Republic, and that is why defenseless Brits are being thrown in prison for insulting their foreign born leadership.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something." -- Lazarus Long

"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?" -- also Lazarus Long

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

79 This Mamdani radical extremist character, who came here only 7 years ago, is going to be the next mayor of not only a big city, but one of America's most iconic in days past. What a country, eh!? Seems NYC will elect (by hook or crook) the worst of the worst. I guess Satan was busy or Mamdani would've had some stiff competition. Be sure to wear your fireproof clothing on the subways, all of you who are left.
Posted by: Lady in Black

He's a huge defund the blue crank.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (zSKXS)

80 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?

This is the opinion from TS clearance staffers in Trump's White House who decided that smearing Trump is more important than maintaining their clearances.

But this being DC, and Trump has yet to field a DOJ that shows any level of competence, it was a safe move of the traitors and may boost their social cocktail status.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

81 If Mahmoud wins the NYC mayoral race city council meetings will be lit. It'll look as organized as the grand Arab meeting at the end of Lawrence of Arabia. After a few of those, it's going to be the Miami Stock Exchange where after work you can stroll to Katz's for a pastrami on rye or go to the beach for a hot dog at Nathan's. Hank Johnson will worry about Florida tipping over.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (gm9Sb)

I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

82 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday.

Expect anything less from the Portugee?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

83 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-

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The only outcome that gives me any concern is that those who wreck that city and realize what an unlivable, toxic dump they've created will move to my state to get away from it. And obliviously start the process all over again.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

84 Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

If you cater to pedos you can always count on money from governments. -- Disney

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

85 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?

If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)

86 The Government was looked upon as the universal provider, and it was thought to be the duty of the Member for the constituency to see that there was an ever increasing flow of public money."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 07:58 AM (/HVsR)

I know it’s British but where’s that from?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:02 AM (6ydKt)

87 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?

If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.

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Ha!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

88
I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

Those will be the public face. Behind the scenes, aides will go out to the business community and say, "Look, if you don't make a deal with us, he's going to go crazy on you."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (/HVsR)

89 My favorite quote on democracy is:

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

- James Bovard

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:04 AM (6ydKt)

90 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?

Sounds like another excuse for America to keep bombing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (PMtkd)

91 The only outcome that gives me any concern is that those who wreck that city and realize what an unlivable, toxic dump they've created will move to my state to get away from it. And obliviously start the process all over again.

Clearly you are ignorant of the latest trends in Neo-Marxist governance: The Exit Tax where governments hold Producers and former Property Holders ransom with wicked high exit taxes and perpetual income taxes that continue years after one of their tax cows escapes.

Remember Rush Limbaugh in how he avoided staying overnight in NYC for the rest of his life because they would make claims against his income?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (a4flb)

92 The Anti-Trump coalition is simultaneously claiming that:
1. Iran never intended to build a nuke, so the raid was unjustified.
2. Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (4F0B6)

93 Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

That seems Islamophobic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

94 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

Hogwash. I saw no such thing in that essay and I can read between the lines with anyone. He was quite explicit about what moved him.

Anyone who has read here long enough knows that me and CBD don't exactly see eye to eye on many things.

If you find him insufficiently reverent of a religion that is not his own it might be a you problem..

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (sfdl6)

95 It seems they believe it was a social media stunt.

The groom hired extras as guests (who were clueless about what was going on), the best man and maid of honor were all hired.

The little girl, 9, was brought from Ukraine by her mother, 40.

Once Disneyland Paris figured out the bride was 9 years old they cancelled the thing, the actor ‘best man’ called the cops, and they arrested him, the groom the brides mother and the bride’s sister, who I believe was the maid of honor.

The ‘groom’ paid $150,000 to rent Disneyland for the wedding.

All Disney saw was the money until they saw the bride and realized this was going to cost them more than that if they didn’t cancel it post haste.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Should have labeled it a muzzie wedding.
Oh, wait. Too old.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (zSKXS)

96 32 So whatever happened to Tim Walz's assassin buddy who voted for Trump?
Posted by: People of the Jello Mold

Or anything about Trump's would-be assassins, selected school shooters, Hodgkinson, or Lee Harvey Oswald's buried FBI CIA info.

You! Just move along now, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (j4U/Z)

97 Where is that n f*cker?

https://tinyurl.com/mu6yspb3

He claimed that 90% of MAGA was *against* the strikes.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (WYStd)

98 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?

I've been told by the same sources that Iran didn't have a nuclear weapons program.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

99 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?

An anonymous leaker from the Department of Anonymous Leaks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (SfhV1)

100 klink klink klink. Klank klank klank. Klink klink klink.

Iranian trapped three hundred feet below Fordow, beating rubble with tin cup.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (gm9Sb)

101 I am not a nukkelar expert but once you cut power to those centrifuges they're done, man.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (g47mK)

102 Iranian Foreign Minister says the nuke sites are severely damaged.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (ZIggv)

103 The Iran nuclear program is only set back a few months?

If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)
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Hah! Morning, grammie!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (tT6L1)

104 An anonymous leaker from the Department of Anonymous Leaks.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:07 AM (SfhV1)

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This is exactly what I was thinking.

That way we can keep the military-industrial grift going.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (PMtkd)

105
I know it’s British but where’s that from?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:02 AM (6ydKt)

The Amulree Report from the 1933 Royal Newfoundland Commission. Newfoundland, which had been an independent country, was in such dire straits that malnutrition, beriberi and tuberculosis were spreading among the population. The government was bankrupt. Britain ended up establishing a commission to govern Newfoundland and the government dissolved itself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (/HVsR)

106 I assume that on day one he'll nationalize all business and properties in the city and order the round up and extermination of certain disfavored groups.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Probably not ALL the businesses on day 1, but he did say he wanted to open government grocery stores throughout the city.

I bet after people shoplift from them for a few months, he suddenly feels security and law enforcement are appropriate, at least in that specific case.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (ycI94)

107 Good morning blake!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (SfhV1)

108 the report was leaked from Pentagon's unit - DIA; Hegseth will need to be doing some cleanup after his NATO trip

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (g47mK)

109 The Anti-Trump coalition is simultaneously claiming that:
1. Iran never intended to build a nuke, so the raid was unjustified.
2. Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:05 AM (4F0B6)
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If I have to pick from all the theories, the 2 points above are my choice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (NC42u)

110 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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Leftards. The same people who insisted covid came from a market, the laptop wasn't Hunter's, etc etc...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (sfdl6)

111 An anonymous source in a hostile press is worthless. Generally one can rely on the opposite of what it says to be closer to the truth.

It's on a par with the famous media question formulas "some say..." or "what do you say to people who think..."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (jBB4+)

112 >Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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yes
'sources familiar with...'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)

113 Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Once Again Facing Deportation.

That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

114 Regarding Iran specifically, and the Muslim world at large.

First, regime change was ALWAYS going to have to come from the Iranians themselves, neither Israel nor the US have the ability, let alone the desire, to try to compel some 70 odd million people to create some form of government absent a massive land war and violent occupation for decades.

Bombing itself, even massively destructive bombings such as we did in Iraq including no fly zones, etc. against Saddam had little effect on his hold on internal power. And, inevitably the international consensus on containing him was breaking down. Iran is no different with its mullahs, IRGC, and internal secret police.

Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

All Israel and US can do is limit the spillage and reach of that regime until the people in Iran themselves choose sanity over endless war with the outside world.

The same is true of the Muslim world itself. We face the same problem that provoked George Kennan to write his Long Telegram to the State Dept. The West has to contain Islam until it collapses itself.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (ctrM5)

115 That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

He's his mother, he's his sister...

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (sfdl6)

116 Even trade: California for Alberta.

Posted by: grjx at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (3A2Vm)

117 Low trust societies are no fun. But we are there."

Ah, Diversity. The God to which we are all to bow, endlessly.

Posted by: man at June 25, 2025 08:11 AM (tubbA)

118 Morning again all. Thx JJ.
Living just 90m north of NYC I've got a front row seat to the lunacy. People think that Mamdani's proposals for free everything and refund police won't go anywhere. The NYC common council is crazier than he is. Full blown Marxism is not out of the question. People have fled up here since Deblasio was mayor and they bring their voting idiocy with them. The NYS. Court of Appeals just affirmed rent control in my city, the first upstate with such a law.
A lot of people here say good let NYC collapse and while I would care if leftists were slaughtered, the leftists will flee to your areas and do the same thing there. The Republicans and independents have to figure out a way to fight or Katie bar the door, the patients rule the asylum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (pwtJC)

119 I am not a nukkelar expert but once you cut power to those centrifuges they're done, man.
Posted by: runner

Oh no. It's barely a piffle.
I've been repeatedly told it just like unplugging an alarm clock & plugging it back in.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (zSKXS)

120 Today is National Catfish Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

121 Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

Solution: "0% Tariffs on Iranian Produced Items"

Fine print: provided that the Mullahs are no longer in charge.

You will see all sorts of high tariff countries trip over each other in a race to run their products through Iran and enormous pressure to remove the Mullahs from everybody except Israel and the US.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

122 That seems Islamophobic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

For all we know that may have been the groom’s point.

He specifically picked a 9 year old so maybe this was some kind of knock on Mohammed as a protest, for social media clicks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (6ydKt)

123 Defund not refund

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:13 AM (pwtJC)

124
Full blown Marxism is not out of the question.

Really, I wouldn't be bothered but when the whole thing collapses from its own irresponsibility and essential absurdity, the rest of the country will be expected to bail them out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (/HVsR)

125 If the Iranians can build back in just a few months, Newsome ought to stick them on his high speed rail project.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 25, 2025 08:01 AM (SfhV1)
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Promote that woman!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

126 Even trade: California for Alberta.
Posted by: grjx

Yukon for Oregon.
Northwest Territories for Washington state.
With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

127 Israel only cares about the existential threat posed by Iran, the nuke program, the proxies it was feeding , training, and supplying the weapons that surround Israel, the ballistic missiles program (thanks to North Korea - another "beauty" as Trump says). What they do inside Iran matter as much to them as what they do in Djibouti. Only if Djibouti starts yelling death to Israel and sending missiles into Israeli cities will they start paying attention to Djibouti.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (g47mK)

128 Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

I believe the argument is that they moved the uranium... away from the site that the "experts" claimed was impregnable, but it's still short of the concentration required for the Earth shattering kaboom and the equipment to concentrate is wasn't moved.

Hence, I assume, the argument that it's just a delay although it would seem like it would be a sizeable one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

129 "73 I can't see any downside to Mamdani winning (unless you're unfortunate enough to live in NYC). I see 3 possible outcomes-"

What the poor voting idiots don't seem to understand is that failure is not only a foregone conclusion but THE PLAN. Failure is the objective. Do people even ask themselves what Leftism defines as "success", or what it invariably achieves and therefore must intend, not through a noble ideal gone wrong but through actual praxis? The goal is failure -- disempowerment, pauperism, despair, enslavement -- all to the benefit of State power and to those who serve it.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:15 AM (+8LpN)

130 The Amulree Report from the 1933 Royal Newfoundland Commission. Newfoundland, which had been an independent country, was in such dire straits that malnutrition, beriberi and tuberculosis were spreading among the population. The government was bankrupt. Britain ended up establishing a commission to govern Newfoundland and the government dissolved itself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2025 08:08 AM (/HVsR)

I thought it was from an essay.

It really does apply everywhere in the West now.

It’s obvious what’s happening but nobody wants to stop the gravy train before it crashes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

131 Regime change is simply not in the cards for Iran without the Persian people themselves rising up to get rid of the detestable regime.

--

I can't remember, but what precipitated the uprising that started to happen when The Dog Eater was president? He did nothing to help them, obviously, and it went nowhere. Wonder where those people are today. Things were spicy there for a while, but without help, they were crushed and silenced.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

132 The gas centrifuges are very delicate. The shock from the bombs probably broke them IF they were being operated at the time.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (ZmEVT)

133 Have we seen the artist rendering of the Trump Tehran Tower yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (lIgBp)

134 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

135 JD Vance congratulates Zohran Mamdani as "the new leader of the Democratic Party" on Bluesky.
Lol.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

136 What the poor voting idiots don't seem to understand is that failure is not only a foregone conclusion but THE PLAN. Failure is the objective.

Do people even ask themselves what Leftism defines as "success"

No. They hear "free shit".

That's it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (zSKXS)

137 Exactly this is a reboot nothing more. It's been written and it will happen.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (jRVrw)

138 At the aquarium, Miss Stachio read from another book, Nen and the Lonely Fisherman, which adapted The Little Mermaid into a gay romance with a happy ending.

Alt Title:
Butt Fucking Fishermen

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

139 anonymous leaker

Option 1: who doesn't exist.
Option 2: who is a liar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

140 I can't remember, but what precipitated the uprising that started to happen when The Dog Eater was president? He did nothing to help them, obviously, and it went nowhere.

Wonder where those people are today.

Dead.
They're dead.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (zSKXS)

141 134 Will NYC run grocery stores have ~~S&H Green Stamps~~Soylent Green? Will there be city run redemption centers?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

142 110 Do we know who, specifically, said the Iran program was only set back a few months?
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It came reportedly from a low confidence BDA by a specific DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) analyst. We know not what the actual data was employed to make that assertion and the low confidence label could mean that it came from open source aka news in Iran, confidential sources like diplomats or informants, technical means like satellites, etc, signal intercepts, and so on.

A lonely analyst report 'leaked' usually means that someone is simply playing games just like the alleged Pee Tapes involving DJT and Russian Hookers.

That being said, it could be true, it could be false, and undoubtedly the Iranian mullahs will try to resume these activities, even at a low level, if they can.

Germany, even under the Weimar government sought to evade Treaty of Versailles limits on their forces because they looked forward to a time to recreate their armies. France and the UK looked the other way because neither country wanted to resume hostilities over what they saw as minor breaches of the Treaty.

So, Iran trying to rebuild its program is simply another Iraq situation from 91-02.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:19 AM (ctrM5)

143 Yes you can restart them. Grok what happens ? "Restarting centrifuges is complex, requiring precise recalibration and vacuum reestablishment, leading to significant downtime and cost." And that is just cutting power. If you drop a few 30,000lb bombs on them...downtime expands tremendously !

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (g47mK)

144 133 Have we seen the artist rendering of the Trump Tehran Tower yet?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (lIgBp)

I hear that the first 3 holes of the gold course are already done.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

145 I said last night that NYC getting rid of the Board of Estimate and removing that check against the mayor was all well and good when you had a Mayor Giuliani, but with Mayor Osama bin Lenin, that imperial mayoralty chicken is coming home to roost.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (FQTl0)

146 Trying to put myself in the mind of the Iranian mullahs, I would have to see the ceasefire as welcome. It stops Israel's devastating whittling down of their munitions and leadership ranks and buys them time to begin a rebuild. I'm surprised Trump was surprised that Israel would react the way they did. I was hoping he'd let them finish the job and only then sue for peace.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:20 AM (+8LpN)

147 How about congress explore passing a bill that allows people to avoid AI content? This bill would need to have some type of certification that what is presented is "Certified, Genuinely Human Content"

I've had enough of reading something and stopping a few sentences in because my mind was doing the uncanny valley thing.

Posted by: pawn, the original at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (QB+5g)

148 Saudi outlets let drop that Israelis know where they are hiding what remains of their enriched uranium.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (g47mK)

149 The same is true of the Muslim world itself. We face the same problem that provoked George Kennan to write his Long Telegram to the State Dept. The West has to contain Islam until it collapses itself.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (ctrM5)

Islam has had some schisms, but what it really needs is a Reformation, similar to Christianity in the 1500s.

If that’s truly possible, I have no idea.

At any rate, it won’t happen in our lifetimes if it ever does.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (6ydKt)

150 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?

--

They'll be required to serve "vulnerable" populations first. Whites to the back of the cheese line. And it won't be long before they'll paint a "No Juden" sign on their windows.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

151 So now we're going from "riots are the language of the unheard" to "terrorism is needing desperately to be heard." Wonderful. Thanks, Khalil!

Posted by: pookysgirl gets sick of these phrases at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (Wt5PA)

152 they being Iranians, not the Saudis.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (g47mK)

153 (Jimmy Carter deserves credit for putting the Mullahs in power in the first place! - jjs)

LOL jj! Biggest laugh I've had in a few days.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 08:21 AM (aBgBM)

154 I didn't read the story but the headline is disconcerting. Did someone think the pedo market was going to be good for Disney?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 07:39 AM (0dpQU)

It's a small world after all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (i24o9)

155 With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

I don't know that I'd want to port in a wife who required a 50 mile corridor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

156 I took a quick look at the process for enriching uranium.

The keyboard warriors who quickly trotted out the "only set back a few months" canard could just as easily have looked it up, as I did, and found out this isn't just a scratch that will quickly buff out. (I already knew that but wanted to look at some details)

But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

157 Doctrinaire Marxist Leninism in a biome where there is precisely zero proletariat.

Awesome.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (BjH5D)

158 The report from CNN was written by Natasha Bertrand who is a stenographer for the deep state. She was the one who put out the report the Hunter's laptop was thought to be likely Russian disinformation pursuant to national security "experts" . Believe nothing she writes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (pwtJC)

159 JD Vance congratulates Zohran Mamdani as "the new leader of the Democratic Party" on Bluesky.
Lol.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

LOL

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (sfdl6)

160
Probably not ALL the businesses on day 1, but he did say he wanted to open government grocery stores throughout the city.

Does this retard know that the typical grocery store has between 1-3% net profit margin, and that doesn't included elevated levels of shrink found in urban jungles?

Does this retard think that in short order he will be able to hire, compensate and retain top talent merchandisers, contract negotiators, supply-chain specialists, warehouse and distribution center strategists, get them all oriented to government work place rules, organized and out-do the established consolidated players in the industry who have decades of experience stream-lining things?

This is more naïve than Bloomberg's soil + seeds = bumper crop formulas.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (a4flb)

161 BREAKING: Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term - AP

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (AOsQT)

162 Is Brooklyn a Green Stamp desert?

Posted by: Ask Sam Kinison at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (lIgBp)

163 That pinhead is going to stay in the news until Trump leaves office. "He's back in El Salvador! He's back in the US!"
Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2025 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

Need to let someone on the inside make a little side hustle.

I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card... I'm gonna carve him up real nice.

Posted by: Tony Montana at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HgFW6)

164 MAGAt heads are exploding this morning, thanks to Mamdani’s victory. Good job NYC!

The owner of WABC Radio, John Catsimatidis, has threatened to close his Gristedes supermarket chain if Mamdani wins. His third-rate RW station will have plenty of copy to gripe about if Momdani is elected.

When anyone calls a Democrat a Socialist, that tells me he/she is fighting for the people.

What happened to the maxim that it takes a moderate to win? Maybe the DNC is out of touch with the American people? Democrats forced Al Franken out of the Senate because of a misguided prank, Cuomo? They made Jasmine Crockett its last choice out of 4 people to be ranking member of the Oversight committee, recommending Garcia, who originally was a Republican.

40 years ago, Mamdani’s policies would be considered moderate. That’s how far to the right the GOP and corporate media has pushed this country.

Mamdani needs to cool it about going after Wall Street. businesses and employment and capital investment will leave, and that will be very bad for Democrats. reading this board the last 12 hours is like reading a Far Left version of "own the libs" rationale.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ycI94)

165 128 Iran moved all of its nuclear materials beforehand and can totally build a nuke in a few months, so the raid was a failure.

I believe the argument is that they moved the uranium... away from the site that the "experts" claimed was impregnable, but it's still short of the concentration required for the Earth shattering kaboom and the equipment to concentrate is wasn't moved.

Hence, I assume, the argument that it's just a delay although it would seem like it would be a sizeable one.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

From what I've read, Israel intel warned the US that the enriched uranium (not the centrifuges, etc.) was moved to another site. Think it was Ishafan and not Natanz. The original US plan only included bombing Fordow but because of Israeli intel, the US also attacked both Natanz and Ishafan with Tomahawk missiles to take out the new enriched uranium locations.

It is clear that Israel has totally penetrated the Iranian nuclear program and its government itself with spies so the information probably was very credible. But as in all things, we shall see how accurate it was.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ctrM5)

166
Some folks try to get away
Make a hasty break from the neighborhood
Takin' flight for Miami Beach
Or anywhere good
But I'm roastin' a stray hound
In a barrel by a subway line
I'm in a New York State of mind

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (FQTl0)

167 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

Stuxnet changed things by 0.1% and destroyed around 2000 centrifuges.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

168 As an illustration of how impossible Regime Change is unless the people in question want the change themselves; Israel has been engaged in a 2 year long attempt at Regime Change in a relatively tiny piece of land called Gaza. In spite of having destroyed most of his he structures there, Israel seems no closer to “regime change” in Gaza now than when they started.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HEGiN)

169 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

You don't need special scientific knowledge to be up a mullah's ass.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (sfdl6)

170 JJ was overly excited by the Trump obliteration of Iran's nuclear facility. Turns out it was a big "nothing burger" with a delay of only 2 months.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 07:53 AM (beL7L)

Look at you with your mad BDA skills....FFS

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (luW68)

171 Another rejoinder to the "just a few months" argument:

So?

Either we strike up the tune again in Just A Few Months, or we kill more of them until it isn't Just A Few Months because the people who are the driving force are dead or fled.

Is that what they're arguing for?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (BjH5D)

172 A lot of people here likely know this, but for the uninitiated...

Mere possession of a clearance does not mean one has access to everything marked with that level of clearance. Need To Know is required.

In other words, a TS or SCI will not have the full picture. He will only see a bit. Example I use is that a TS may only have visibility on a hospital being bombed, but higher clearances will also know that said hospital was in reality a weapons depot. The first sees an atrocity, the second sees a valid action.

Unless these leakers are in the inner circle with access to everything (which I doubt...) they don't have access to everything. They may only be tasked with assessing damage to a limited subset of Iranian food carts outside of the former locations of the targets.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (jBB4+)

173 Two weeks!

Posted by: Iranian Atomic Minister at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

174 But I'm roastin' a stray hound
In a barrel by a subway line
I'm in a New York State of mind
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (FQTl0)

that fuckin funny right there

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

175 Who names their kid Zohran?

Posted by: Someone has to ask it at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (lIgBp)

176 >With a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

I don't know that I'd want to port in a wife who required a 50 mile corridor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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no no
50 WIVES
lotsa choices

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (AOsQT)

177 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)

178 40 years ago, Mamdani’s policies would be considered moderate
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Yes. A moderate muslim

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (sfdl6)

179 You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in New York who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

180 94 BTW, CBD's Notre Dame essay was far from eloquent, other than it's patronizing tone to Catholics, and Christians generally. "Good boys. You gave us something pretty. Now shut up about what you care about."

C S Lewis despised that approach.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 07:50 AM (od0dV)

Hogwash. I saw no such thing in that essay and I can read between the lines with anyone. He was quite explicit about what moved him.

Anyone who has read here long enough knows that me and CBD don't exactly see eye to eye on many things.

If you find him insufficiently reverent of a religion that is not his own it might be a you problem..
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:06 AM (sfdl6)
_______
Nonsense. He is a pure aesthete; there's no visible theology there. And he does have a heavy dose of praising "cultural Christianity." As if it were believed for the paintings, buildings, and the music. Rather than the reverse. (Again, this is where aestheticism is bound to lead.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (od0dV)

181 The media is nothing but a narrative factory, nothing more. Job number one is cooking up counter-narratives for every Trump move and accomplishment. This of course also means that they are single-mindedly opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (+8LpN)

182 Israel's MOSSAD stole the entirearchive of Iran's nuke program. That was in 2018. 100k documents or more. So Israel knew exactly what, where, how. Paper records, computer files, had warhead design. Everything. Phenomenal feat.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

183 It really does apply everywhere in the West now.

It’s obvious what’s happening but nobody wants to stop the gravy train before it crashes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

One guy does.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (i24o9)

184 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

185 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.
Posted by: blake

Apparently from what I've read, Fordow was the location of the second stage centrifuges intended to take the enriched uranium from other centrifuge sites to the level needed for bomb making.

What we do not know is whether Iran has a stockpile of such machinery off site that can be installed quickly or whether the previously enriched uranium (a bit less than 100 lbs or so) was effectively destroyed and dispersed in the US attacks on alternative nuke sites--Ishafan and Natanz.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (ctrM5)

186 177 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)

Well, I need to be felt.

So, go on. Get after it, honey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (BjH5D)

187 I like how all the news outlets rushed to push out polls laughably "showing" the majority of Americans opposed bombing Iran.

Which poll was;
1) completed before the cease-fire
2) pushed them with phony, ginned-up lies from the media. To wit, questioning that bombing would leave to greater conflict and prolonged involvement.

But, that last was the most embarrassing stupidity--zero factual basis if one knows Trump and a lie pushed by the same people STILL demanding endless "support" for Ukraine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2025 08:28 AM (NwfFc)

188 A survey of 246 “cinema owners and film professionals affiliated with exhibitors” found that more than half believe the “traditional cinema experience” will be dead as a viable business model within 20 years.

Maybe we can get the Brave New World where you can feel the actors dry humping each other.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

189 But, then again, the people who wrote the "just a few months" tripe would have to have some working knowledge of machinery.

I remember when Austin was upgrading their water pipeline that routed along the border with Williamson County (McNeil Rd). Somewhere near the intersection of Parmer Rd, the tunneling crews, operating in limestone country, hit a cave. The 14" pipe tunnel cutter had to be replaced with an 18" pipe tunnel cutter so that to complete the task the crews could encase the pipe and protect the freshly discovered cave.

The thing is, 18" pipe tunnel cutters don't abound and sit around waiting to be used, they are scheduled for months or years in advance. So the road sat all torn up for nearly a year waiting for the equipment to come in.

I'm supposed to believe out in the middle of no where specialized equipment is sitting on a warehouse shelf just waiting for this specific opportunity to arise and be used.

Hire these engineers and managers away from Iran Now! They can pull miracles in construction and would be worth their weight in gold anywhere else on planet Earth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

190 Well, time to wander.

Good to see you here again, whig, I always enjoy reading your take on the political scene in DC.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

191
a muslim stabs you in the back
a moderate muslim provides the knife

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)

192 Fourteen people were arrested in France after 145 people reported being stabbed with a mysterious syringe containing an unknown substance at a Saturday music festival.

The French Interior Ministry said the needle attacks involved 145 victims, including 13 in Paris. Thousands of people across the country were participating in the Fête de la Musique events.

14 people is quite an operation. And they'll get their hands slapped and let go.

But the French people will hear "go to an infidel music festival and someone might jab you with AIDS"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:30 AM (t0Rmr)

193 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

NYC in 2001: We will never forget!

NYC in 2025: *elects Muslim jihadist*

https://tinyurl.com/wsaf3r5k

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

194 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

195 Islam has had some schisms, but what it really needs is a Reformation, similar to Christianity in the 1500s.

If that’s truly possible, I have no idea.

At any rate, it won’t happen in our lifetimes if it ever does.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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No argument here. Ironically, some of the Arab world was modernizing but unfortunately it picked socialism as their model which is why nations like Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, etc. ended up as poor despotic regimes.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (ctrM5)

196 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

Morning! How did your weekend go with the reconnection you mentioned?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:31 AM (jBB4+)

197 YOu need about 100 centrifuges operating for a year to enrich weapon's grade uranium. Enough uranium for one bimb. 1 centrifuge weighs about 4.5k lbs. You cannot exactly put a centrifuge in you briefcase and move , you know.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

198 Good to see you here again, whig, I always enjoy reading your take on the political scene in DC.

Later!
Posted by: blake
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I'll do what I can while I can. Thx for the compliment.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ctrM5)

199 134 Will NYC run grocery stores have S&H Green Stamps? Will there be city run redemption centers?
Posted by: bill in arkansas

No. They will go with Plaid Stamps, like the A&P Stores.

Posted by: Redemption Is Nigh at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (G5+As)

200 Another rejoinder to the "just a few months" argument:

So?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:24 AM (BjH5D)

It's so obvious. A short delay is pointless so Trump should have committed millions of troops to overthrowing Iran. This would have permitted us to screech about how MAGA doesn't want this and Trump is a warmonger, or start impeachment, depending on whether we're in social media or government. D'uh.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

201 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

I'm pretty sure I came up with that sobriquet, but whatevs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (FQTl0)

202 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.

One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

Its solipsism but dumber.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

203 Nonsense. He is a pure aesthete; there's no visible theology there. And he does have a heavy dose of praising "cultural Christianity." As if it were believed for the paintings, buildings, and the music. Rather than the reverse. (Again, this is where aestheticism is bound to lead.)
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Translation: only Christians may write about the beauty of a great church, and the meaning of it's reconstruction.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

204 "And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani.""

Ohhh...that right!! Were going to need to come up with a devastatingly pithy moniker for the future King of New York.

Ace, you need to lead the way!!

BTW, I always liked your "Breakfast Club Evita" nic for AOC. Too bad it didn't catch on.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (QB+5g)

205 >more than half believe the “traditional cinema experience” will be dead as a viable business model within 20 years.
---

IMO, the problem with going to the movies is the other people in the theater with you

the fine art of STFD and STFU has been lost

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (AOsQT)

206 Well, I need to be felt.

So, go on. Get after it, honey.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (BjH5D)

I'm sorry. Can't do. I'm happily married, not a Hollywood actress and I have a feeling you are the age to be my son😉I do think you're a smart, clever and amusing man, though

in the ONT there was a question about what one thing peopke would like to get rid of to make the world a better place: My vote was getting rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (2GCMq)

207 Mere possession of a clearance does not mean one has access to everything marked with that level of clearance. Need To Know is required.

I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

208 they are trying to make it into Bush's "Mission accomplished" moment.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

209 In my town the incessant delays in everything the does are a constant topic on farcebook, and looking at the towns around me its everywhere...don't kill the job dude!

It will be fun to see that level of dedication brought to groceries in NYC...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (t0Rmr)

210 The media is nothing but a narrative factory, nothing more.

Just like Alex Jones marginalized himself when even a paper cut was a Jewish Conspiracy to bleed America dry and turn Americans into vampires.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

211 Islam already had its reformation.

It was reformed from a flabby, disjointed, self indulgent bauble for pashas and emirs, rousing just enough rabble to keep the social order chugging along, into a global revolutionary death cult. Right around the middle of the 20th century.

You want "reformed islam"?

You're standing in it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:34 AM (BjH5D)

212 The person who wrote the article at CNN about the Iranian nuclear program only being setback a short time is Natasha Bertrand.

She is the same person who rode point on the Russia collusion leaks and started the campagin that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation. Both of those stories also came from supposed leaks in the intel community.

The left is deeply unAmerican and should be treated that way. They don't just want to win, they would rather support murderous terrorists than normal Americans.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (viF8m)

213 Off the topic, I noticed the Hollywood actress narcissism of need to feel "seen," is spreading into mainstream awful women. What a horrible phrase. "I need to feel seen." The narcissist confession that they need to be the center of attention, wrapped in new age woke emotionalism.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:25 AM (4F0B6)

On the one hand, I need to feel seen. OTOH, banish the male gaze. -- confused narcissists

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

214
sobriquet
solipsism

Wow

Posted by: This place at June 25, 2025 08:35 AM (lIgBp)

215 What we do not know is whether Iran has a stockpile of such machinery off site that can be installed quickly or whether the previously enriched uranium (a bit less than 100 lbs or so) was effectively destroyed and dispersed in the US attacks on alternative nuke sites--Ishafan and Natanz.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (ctrM5)

Israeli sources have quietly said that yes, they were able to track where the enriched uranium went, and that currently it is buried under the rubble of some other destroyed buildings that they prefer not to name.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (HEGiN)

216 My vote was getting rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (2GCMq)

That's a good one, but my mother still would have been Borderline. Maybe in that case she would have at least had a conscience and I would have turned out halfway normal.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

217 Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (QB+5g)

Actually I think clever humor can be important in addressing critiques of the left.

And I'm not convinced that Mamdani IS the future king of NY. I think that's giving up too easily

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (2GCMq)

218
You want "reformed islam"?

You're standing in it.

Yep. Sayyid Qutb was their Martin Luther. Religions are not interchangeable and Islam at its heart is the religion for desert warlords.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (t0Rmr)

219 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

To Serve Man?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

220 ugh PA will be overrun with these bastages

AND BY THE WAY they come in, all "red-pilled," for maybe a year and then start the nonsense that turned NYC into what it is, they have learned nothing

locusts

can we PLEASE wall it off?!?! block the bridges? something? anything?

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

221 Christopher Hitchens wraps up Islam is 30 seconds.

https://tinyurl.com/y42k389w

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (+8LpN)

222 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

I've heard and seen some pretty good stories but I gotta say that's top of the list.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (jBB4+)

223 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Got Bars at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (5zjm+)

224 FBI is now investigating the DIA leak.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (g47mK)

225 Looking forward to all the limericks featuring "Mamdani."

Posted by: Hint, hint at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (lIgBp)

226 They’re not against nuclear weapons; they’re for our enemies.
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This is true. One can insert so many different "They're not against ___________; they're for our enemies." things and positions for the left.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (17s+e)

227 Its solipsism but dumber.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (t0Rmr)

Huh. Maybe it's bizarro-solipsim?

Instead of "You only exist if I can see you", it's "I only exist if you can see me".

Like some kind of suicidal inside-out Kantean Idealism.... If I can't force another Human Concept to involuntarily form a Human Concept of me in their head, then I don't actually exist anymore!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (BjH5D)

228 I once had a TS for 2 days

The soft costs of obtaining a TS are around $15k-40k, plus the ten year reach back into your personal history all which takes months to do.

just to read a page of a book.

Sounds like government.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

229 There used to be an old A&P store nearby where I was growing up as a kid.

I just remember it as being old.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (Oy/m2)

230 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (HEGiN)

Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (FQTl0)

231 Israel's MOSSAD stole the entirearchive of Iran's nuke program. That was in 2018. 100k documents or more. So Israel knew exactly what, where, how. Paper records, computer files, had warhead design. Everything. Phenomenal feat.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

The amazing thing is that Iran gave Sandy Berger access to their files so many times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

232 Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

Sorry about your mother. Parents can be such a devastatingly bad or good influence on kids. You seem like a normal, and smart person to me. People here seem to appreciate you. I do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (2GCMq)

233 It was the field office in Cincinnati.

Posted by: The Go-To answer at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (lIgBp)

234 Israel has been engaged in a 2 year long attempt at Regime Change in a relatively tiny piece of land called Gaza. In spite of having destroyed most of his he structures there, Israel seems no closer to “regime change” in Gaza now than when they started.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 08:23 AM (HEGiN)

There is still time to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund however!

1-888-WasteOfMoney...Call Now!

Posted by: George Costanza, Director and CFO at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (HgFW6)

235 also I used to be an accelerations, but not anymore

there's always "WORSE." (from a Cosby bit)

always

NYC will just keep getting worse. nothing will be learned.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (Pv3Rg)

236 I was hoping he'd let them finish the job and only then sue for peace.
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian
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Trump made it clear that he was not interested in regime change in Iran via bombing. Israel may be but if finishing the job means using bombing to bring it about, that has been tried by the US in the past in Iraq, a smaller country, and failed even with direct occupation.

The Persians themselves have to have the internal gumption to get rid of the mullahs and what comes after that, no one really knows with any sort of authority. Libya and Syria are perfect examples of that after the dictator falls.

Besides, testimony indicates that the US Navy was running out of anti missiles and my guess is that Israel itself worried about that as well which is the curse of advanced weaponry. Expending them is far quicker than building them.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (ctrM5)

237 I'll do what I can while I can.
Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:32 AM (ctrM5)

I can't really reply to this with the ten things I want to say so I will just say prayers continue for you, friend.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (sfdl6)

238 autocorrect sucks - AccelerationIST

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (Pv3Rg)

239 Islam's embrace of polygamy means that being an elite man in the Muslim world is a good deal but if you are below average status your life sucks.

You have two choices - go to war abroad to get women, or overthrow your own elites and replace them.

And this is why we see Islamic government constantly trying to ship their low status men abroad. Whether they win, die, or just end up on welfare in Europe at least they aren't going to cause YOU problems.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (t0Rmr)

240 196 WD, pretty well, thanks for asking.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)

241 NYC Progtards make me laugh like a little girl getting extra sprinkles on her cupcake.

"Finally. Finally!!! We really showed Trump by electing a muslim communist as mayor!!!!.

Hahaha! Man, did we really show Trump! He's got tube sooooo mad that THE PEOPLE(TM) rose up against would-be King Trump. Hahaha.

Ah HA HA HA...ha...Wait, why am I living in hell?"*

How soon did Detroit come back? Oh, wait it never did.
How soon will LA come back? Or, Portland?

Democrat/Communist mismanagement of Blue Shitholes is an awesome force!!!! I salute them!

*An incredibly realistic simulation of NYC voters after November

Posted by: naturalfake at June 25, 2025 08:39 AM (iJfKG)

242 FBI is now investigating the DIA leak.

Using the FBI's own glossary, "investigating" is a synonym for "covering-up"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

243 Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.

yeah I'm thinking it's fodder for the headlines really

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (Pv3Rg)

244 225 Looking forward to all the limericks featuring "Mamdani."
Posted by: Hint, hint at June 25, 2025 08:37 AM (lIgBp)

Hmmmm.....

flag it.
snag it.
bag it.
baguette?

I guess there's plenty of rhymes to work with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (BjH5D)

245 @221 that clip is perfect. I keep hammering it to my friends . To a Muslim if you're not Islamic you're an infidel. Infidels must be killed, converted or enslaved. Act accordingly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:40 AM (pwtJC)

246 The amazing thing is that Iran gave Sandy Berger access to their files so many times.

==

they gave him something

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (g47mK)

247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

248 Yes, I am well aware there are many here who could care less

With no good salsa, why would anyone care?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

249 That's a good one, but my mother still would have been Borderline. Maybe in that case she would have at least had a conscience and I would have turned out halfway normal.

I feel this but in the end I think I turned out normal-ish

At least I HAD to function to survive with both my parents essentially useless. maybe it was better as an oldest child I had to step up for my siblings

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (Pv3Rg)

250 247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

I like the people that apply this idea to firefighters and popo.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

251 Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Once the uranium 235 is mixed with soils, debris, etc., you have to centrifuge it all over again to remove the impurities that would stall a nuclear reaction by absorbing neutrons meant to continue the chain reaction. Plus, from all indications, this was just short of bomb grade and needed to access the more sophisticated stage 2 centrifuges that were allegedly destroyed at Fordow.

Israeli intel probably knows the score, the US should probably know assuming the Israelis passed on that intel and the US can corroborate it.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (ctrM5)

252 247 I listen to Hollywood actresses talking about needing to "feel seen" and diversity actresses talk about needing to "see someone who looks like me" on the screen or in a prominent role and I wonder how they can be so oblivious to how narcissistic this seems to normal people.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:41 AM (4F0B6)

No, no, silly, they just mean they really really don't want to get pigeonholed into doing only voice-over work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (BjH5D)

253 With no good salsa, why would anyone care?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

I got that reference!!

Man I'm getting old.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (jBB4+)

254 Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (sfdl6)

But then you wouldn't be you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (i24o9)

255 One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

256 If we're going to have limericks on Mamdani I think at least one should include "Irani

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (2GCMq)

257 11 In one year, 40,000 young adults turned to Planned Parenthood for gender transition hormones.

At what time can we call Planned Parenthood an Enemy of Civilization?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 07:18 AM (a4flb)

Teenage boys (and men in their early 20s) think that it's the quickest path to easy money.

Take the "titty skittles" (as troons call them) and become an e-thot streamer with an OF.

Camwhoring is still one of the easiest paths to money.

Posted by: XTC at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (UnA8+)

258 Also explains how so many Hollywood kids turn out trans. The only way to get attention from their narcissistic mothers is to become a trendy fashion accessory.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (4F0B6)

259 There is still time to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund however!

1-888-WasteOfMoney...Call Now!

Send your résumé to AIPAC, they can use someone with your vision.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)

260 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (2GCMq)

Thanks Fen. I appreciate you too.

I guess in the end after my father died young she really left me with nothing that hard drugs, grain alcohol, six therapists, a string of meaningless floozies and a whole lot of Jesus couldn't fix, so the joke is on her.

No I'm just kidding course, it wasn't six therapists.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (sfdl6)

261 Re: everybody's social media driven need to "be seen."

I can't relate to this. I know murder is wrong, but if I knew a guy had an invisibility cloak, I'd do just about anything to get it from him. Some temptations are just too great.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (FQTl0)

262 I'm supposed to believe out in the middle of no where specialized equipment is sitting on a warehouse shelf just waiting for this specific opportunity to arise and be used.

Hire these engineers and managers away from Iran Now! They can pull miracles in construction and would be worth their weight in gold anywhere else on planet Earth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

California's high speed rail line.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (zSKXS)

263 Eh, that's still not great... A few goatfuckers with excavators and Geiger counters should be able to retrieve that. Of course, I suppose the Israelis could just bomb the excavators.

Which is why this ceasefire doesn't make a ton of sense.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Pretty good strategy - if you don't know where the adversary has hidden something, and you have decent intel, just wait for the adversary to go get it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (jBB4+)

264 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (i24o9)

I also wouldn't be you apparently!!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (sfdl6)

265 Translation: only Christians may write about the beauty of a great church, and the meaning of it's reconstruction.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

It's possible that a Baptist who wrote what CBD wrote would have received the same whiney reception. I suspect that only Catholics (who think as the OP thinks) are permitted to opine on the matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

266 London is doing fine under Fariq Al-Aziz, so NYC has that to look forward to.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (sfdl6)

267 Two weeks to flatten the centrifuges!

Posted by: The Scarf Lady at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (lIgBp)

268 One of the odder things about our current modern moment is a significant portion of the population have become NPCs while at the same time believing they are the only player character in their social circle.

I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

80% of the population are NPCs.

https://shorturl.at/Dq9ky

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:46 AM (i24o9)

269 Israeli intel probably knows the score, the US should probably know assuming the Israelis passed on that intel and the US can corroborate it.

Given the fact that the US can't be trusted to keep any secret, why would Israel communicate anything actionable to the US?

Didn't we just see a very recent display of this treachery?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

270 I suspect that throughout history most people have been NPC. Social media has just made their interaction range larger so you get them setting each other off.

The modern incarnation of this though is the ability of the FNM to supply these people will constantly updating scripts.

If you were to talk with French peasants in 1025 perhaps you wouldn't have a deep conversation about philosophy BUT they wouldn't ALL sound the same either.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)

271 Reminder: if you are dealing with heat, you need salt to stay hydrated. Add a little to your drinking water or salt your food.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2025 08:47 AM (AcTAo)

272 “My Ma-an-dami does 185…”

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

273 "We will never forget!"

Well, forgetting is what people do.

It sort of reminds me of the bullshit boast after Breitbart died: "I am Breitbart!" No, you're not. Show some humility and respect.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 08:48 AM (+8LpN)

274 California's high speed rail line.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:44 AM (zSKXS)
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grammie beat you to it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

275 I also wouldn't be you apparently!!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:45 AM (sfdl6)

There can be only one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (i24o9)

276 Mamdami doesn't eat salami.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 25, 2025 08:49 AM (jBB4+)

277 To Serve Man?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

Nah. It was a procedural book to perform some specific tasks. Exactly none of what was written on the page I read had any reason to be classified at all but the rules say that the whole book had to be classified at the highest level that anything in the book required.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

278 Mamdami doesn't eat salami.

but he sure likes the bone

Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

279 >>London is doing fine under Fariq Al-Aziz, so NYC has that to look forward to.

London was only the first UK city to get a Muslim mayor. There are many now. There are Muslims at many levels of government throughout the UK, Ireland and beyond.

They've aleady taken over a good portion of Michigan and Minnesota and are even trying to build a whole city in Texas.

If NYC wants to turn itself into a socialist dump that's their problem. I don't want this infection spreading any further.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

280 No I'm just kidding course, it wasn't six therapists.

lol three dots

see! it was all worth it for the lulz right?

think of it this way - you're so awesome she couldn't really and truly eff you up, not in the end.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Pv3Rg)

281 The soft costs of obtaining a TS are around $15k-40k, plus the ten year reach back into your personal history all which takes months to do.

just to read a page of a book.

Sounds like government.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

Not in this case. I already had a secret clearance and my submarine's command granted the TS for this purpose... probably because they knew that there wasn't anything important on the page I read. Literally - hey, this job you do every day... it's important that you do it during this exercise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

282 If NYC wants to turn itself into a socialist dump that's their problem. I don't want this infection spreading any further.

unfortunately it is already spreading

dammit

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:53 AM (Pv3Rg)

283 Government grocery stores? Where the ridiculously high won't matter because there will be nothing to buy.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (17s+e)

284 unfortunately it is already spreading

dammit/i]

The hope is others will learn.

The problem is leftists believe learning from other's examples is racist, sexist, and homophobic.

Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (t0Rmr)

285 @DeItaone
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Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)

286 Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

I call what the civilized world is doing "self-burkization" - and now NYC is part of it.

The only solution will be letting it get to a certain point, the train has no reverse gear.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (sfdl6)

287 They tried this in the Warsaw Pact.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 08:55 AM (P389G)

288 My company, years ago, had to put me in for a TS after I was accidentally given classified system specs to the B-2 bombers.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (4F0B6)

289 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.

Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2)

290 but he sure likes the bone
Posted by: New Age Jihadi by Dead Eye Dick at June 25, 2025 08:50 AM (t0Rmr)

Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (2GCMq)

291 If islam can make it there, it can make it anywhere. It's up to you New York, New York.
But not in ETEX.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (LHPAg)

292 At least this Muslim Jew Hating Jihadi/Marxist in New York cannot run for POTUS. Born in Uganda, raised in Bel Air by rich parents

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

293 HAPPY 77TH BIRTHDAY TO CLARENCE THOMAS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

294 The real estate market in FL is already crazy.

This crap in NY is going to make things much worse in FL.

Trump already called this.

I hope these people find jobs and start paying taxes.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (QB+5g)

295 grammie beat you to it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

THAT'S where I saw it.

Sorry grammie.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (zSKXS)

296 Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Pv3Rg)

You're a doll Orchid, never believe anything else.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (sfdl6)

297 An 11 year old boy was shot to death yesterday in a Minneapolis park. Caught in crossfire between yutes.
How's that reimagining police going Minnie?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 08:57 AM (pwtJC)

298 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (P389G)

299 Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Me too and yet those men of al-Zutt woohoo.

Posted by: Muhammed in the Koran where is says they rode him all night long at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (t0Rmr)

300 "SCOTUS Justice Takes Bold Stand Against The Constitution"

KBJ's dissent is a window into what will happen if five Democrat-nominated Justices are on the Supreme Court. Using cases initiated in Cali and other Blue states, the five would eventually rule that their un-liked parts of the Constitution are un-Constitutional. Using a twisted meaning the 14th Amendment and whatever else they can usefully twist. Stare decisis? Bam - gone in new cases, as needed. Yesterday KBJ decried textualism. In a future with five hard-left Justices, textualism will be used to gut the 2nd Amendment and other pieces of the Constitution, as they wish.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (aBgBM)

301 Trump needs to step up and start getting rid of his properties in NYC. They tried to put him in Jail etc... Maybe Wall Street would follow

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 08:58 AM (YCxFk)

302 I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!

We won’t tell anybody, promise.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (6ydKt)

303
I once had a TS for 2 days. All so I could read one page of one book.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

And how was that part of "See Spot Run"?

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to happy shrieking at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (Wt5PA)

304 289 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed at June 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2

Who else had government run grocery stores? Lol.

So he's going to put them in the poorest neighborhoods and stock them all up and sell the food to people that all receive government vouchers for food?

Someone should ask this bright light how his plan is gonna work?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2025 08:59 AM (HFsIG)

305 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

When NYC organized crimes comes in and clears the shelves and then sells the products around the corner someone will be making money...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (t0Rmr)

306 Bring back Monty because we need us some grade A DooM! about now.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (89Sog)

307 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed

Shirley you jest comrade.
Posted by: Boris Badenov

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (zSKXS)

308 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

309 285 @DeItaone
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1h
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Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)

Propaganda intended for use by Leftist politicians in Europe and the US.

Posted by: Gref at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (aBgBM)

310 I can't really reply to this with the ten things I want to say so I will just say prayers continue for you, friend.
Posted by: ...
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Thanks. Direct the prayers for my salvation. Paul had his 'thorn' (not that I am anywhere near the holiness of him) and many others face daily challenges as to health and well being. This world is a vale of tears but also of surprising beauty and peace at times. So I try to take the best of it and fight the worst.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

311 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

Government lost money running a whorehouse.
No way they can run something with that thin a margin.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (zSKXS)

312 Aren't elections in November?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (P389G)

313 Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!

1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

314 307 Government run grocery stores are easy to spot. There are the ones with empty shelves.
Posted by: dantesed

Reagan used to makes jokes about such things in the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (+8LpN)

315 NYC went muzzie when they demanded a moskue be at ground zero. That was when NYC stuck the fork in itself.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (17s+e)

316 Why do all the modern socialists copy Chavez/Maduro in Venezuela?

What NYC needs is no police and government grocery stores.

We’ve already seen this movie and know how it ends, but:

“It’s never been done right before. We can make it work this time.”

Mayor Johnson in Chicago had the same bright idea last year, but I don’t know if anything real has come out of his brainstorm.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (6ydKt)

317 It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (4F0B6)

318 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Observant Jews tend to vote R. Non-religious Jews vote 90%+ D and are generally far leftwing.

So I suspect many people that call themselves Jewish, but not that many people that actually believe in Judaism.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

319 Tehran Times

By Faramarz Kouhpayeh
'Herald of Victory' : Iran hits biggest US base in West Asia

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

320 Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (P389G

Yes, that’s why I think it’s premature to say “It’s all over!!!”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (2GCMq)

321 NOW THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT IRANIAN SLEEPER CELLS IN THE U.S.?

Let’s get this straight…

The same Democrats who said the border is secure…
The same ones who claimed white males are the biggest terror threat…
The same ones who want you disarmed…
The same ones who keep shouting that “diversity is our strength”…

Are now panicking about Iranian terror cells inside America.

YOU LET THEM IN. YOU CALLED THIS FEAR-MONGERING. YOU MOCKED BORDER SECURITY.

Now you want to act surprised?
America deserves better than this hypocrisy.

#hodgetwins

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (zSKXS)

322 Given the fact that the US can't be trusted to keep any secret, why would Israel communicate anything actionable to the US?

Didn't we just see a very recent display of this treachery?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Same reason we share secrets with our allies that they then release or leak. Necessity.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (ctrM5)

323 Good morning! JJ, so very glad you escaped from NYC!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (6o/o0)

324 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

325 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM

Hah! Love it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (dPfyF)

326 good point. Considering the Dem US Senators are all leakers.

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

327 1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

—

I figured it was something from a technical manual.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (6ydKt)

328 Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

Sounds like a very positive and humble attitude

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (2GCMq)

329 1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM

So, the donkey dick?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

330 318 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?

Observant Jews tend to vote R. Non-religious Jews vote 90%+ D and are generally far leftwing.

So I suspect many people that call themselves Jewish, but not that many people that actually believe in Judaism.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

Jewish voters are to Judaism as Pelosi and Biden are to Strict Catholicism

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (x0n13)

331 Government would probably lose money running grocery stores. They have about a 1% prifit margin.

Posted by: Boss Moss
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Hey remember when government took over the whore houses in Nevada and they went broke? Yeah that was great.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (17s+e)

332 2025 09:00 AM (zSKXS)

308 Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?
Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)

A whole bunch. The Kapos are a huge problem for all of us; they feed the narratives of Candace and Tucker and other whack jobs on the woke right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (HEGiN)

333 It is entirely bullshit that the government has 2-3 full months to fuck over the country after they've been replaced.

Nothing like stealing all of the furniture and jewelry, selling off the children into slavery before torching the house and barn on the way out.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
+++
This should also apply to pardons. There should be no pardons allowed between election day and inauguration day.
If a president wants to pardon someone, force him to do it before the election so the voters can factor that into their decision.
This might result in far fewer pardons.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (Lo97M)

334 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

335 **Hate to bring this up, but how many Jewish voters in NY, voted for this guy last night?**

Based on what I read from the anti-Jews, the reason Jews used their immense power and control to install radical Islamist mayors in London and New York is because destroying civilization is their goal.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (4F0B6)

336 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

The Joy Reid wing of the Democrat party is ecstatic about the radical Mamdani’s primary win:

“This is a message about people's revulsion in the treatment of immigrants by this administration."

https://tinyurl.com/y47yru2k

Posted by: redridinghood at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

337 Off to PT. Be kind and don't run amuck with scissors while I am gone.

Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (ctrM5)

338 Johnson in Chicago had one cherry when elected, a Dem in The White House providing a financial safety net for him.

This Holocaust denier in NYC will not get squat for his projects

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

339 313 Don’t leave us in suspense.
Tell us what this highly classified book page said!

1. Nothing that had any need to be classified.
2. Nothing that anyone who didn't work on a submarine engineering plant would understand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

- Chapter III subheading A pp. 3-4: Cork installation and removal procedures

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (BjH5D)

340 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM
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Nice find. Consider this stolen Comrade FenelonSpoke.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (17s+e)

341 NYC is going to get the consequences of their votes (or not voting) good and hard:

Zohran Mamdani's mother, film director Mira Nair, on her son:

"He is not an American at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (6o/o0)

342 It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:03 AM (4F0B6)

They’ll be lucky to have any grocery stores in a generation if the government starts running them.

Half the stock will end up on the black market and the other half will be reserved for the commissars.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:07 AM (6ydKt)

343 I’m late today… had to do my morning run in the wee hours.

All I can say is:
1. NYC is insane; will Wall Street and other big companies finally flee to Florida or Texas?
2. I didn’t like Trump scolding both Iran and Israel as if there were some kind of moral equivalence. Iran is the bad guy full stop. I love him but he is puzzling and exasperating sometimes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (i5Vkf)

344 Having a clearance is a PITA. Every traffic ticket and speeding ticket has to get reported. Glad I haven’t had to deal with that BS anymore.
Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That would be any babe, honestly.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)

345 Sounds like a very positive and humble attitude
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:05 AM (2GCMq)
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welcome and too-rare qualities for an internet board

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (Bbwdx)

346 A grocery store in Clear Lake area of Houston ended the Soviet Union.

Yeltsin stood over the popsicle freezer for about 5 minutes and could not understand how Americans could even make the choice of what style and flavor to choose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)

347 Zohran Mamdani took the lead in the heated Democrat mayoral primary Tuesday night ...

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

What, the moniker "Muhammad Mao" wasn't available?

[h/t Charlie Kirk]

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Dropped 12 Bunker-Busters Followed By One F-Bomb at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (txgZm)

348 Tom, i disagree on Tucker. He is not a whack job. He also did a lot to help elect Trump

Posted by: Jonah at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

349 184 And in case nobody has mentioned it, I would like to congratulate Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor for coming up with the moniker "Osama bin Lenin" to describe nepo baby failed rapper and socialist Mamdani."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 08:27 AM (2GCMq)

Did the Republicans have a primary yesterday too? And did they pick that guy... *again*?

Sorry Republican NYCer's but the guy just isn't serious.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (WYStd)

350 Zohran Mamdani's mother, film director Mira Nair, on her son:

"He is not an American at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian"
Posted by: Lizzy

Idi Amin with a sing song British accent.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (zSKXS)

351 yummy shit pebbles

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

352 Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (txgZm)

353 FL Attorney General"...If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.”

*********

Does this include Childrens' Hospital gender clinics?

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (poXs5)

354 I guarantee you Uganda does not think of him as Ugandan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (BjH5D)

355 351 #332
Tom nationwide 80% of Jewish voters vote Dem
If you hate Dems, then you hate Jooos
Who here hates those Jews?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

Dont hate the playa
Hate the game

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

356 That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)

You didn't have to report the Filipina bar girls. They already knew more than we did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

357 If Mamdani wins there is going to be a real shit show in NYC between him and Homan. An east coast version of LA.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (viF8m)

358 Government lost money running a whorehouse.
No way they can run something with that thin a margin.

After we scheduled all the training sessions, mandatory practice sessions with me, the manager, and penciled in all the vacations, mandated lunch breaks, and self directed learning time it turns out the girls only have 2 hours a week to get anything or anyone done.

I guess we just need a bigger budget

Posted by: Some Government Whorehouse manager at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (t0Rmr)

359 Go run for mayor of Kigali then, if you don't think of yourself as American.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (BjH5D)

360 You didn't have to report the Filipina bar girls. They already knew more than we did.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

psstt
So of them are boys

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

361 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:06 AM

Dear G-2, I never thought this would happen to me, but I must report the following contact...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (dPfyF)

362 Kampala. Whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (BjH5D)

363 Posted by: whig at June 25, 2025 09:01 AM (ctrM5)

Done, and done. I know you won't want to hear this but you are a treasure and not just here at AoS.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (sfdl6)

364 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (Bbwdx)

365 126 a fifty mile wife corridor for a port.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 08:14 AM (zSKXS)

"Heap Big Woman!!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (x0n13)

366 "Tom nationwide 80% of Jewish voters vote Dem
If you hate Dems, then you hate Jooos
Who here hates those Jews?"

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

367 >>@EricLDaugh

>>🚨 JUST IN: Bombshell new findings say that the Iranian Fordo nuclear site was rendered "INOPERABLE" by President Trump's strike, the Israel Atomic Energy Commission revealed this morning.

>>The program was set back YEARS.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

368 Nobody votes in a primary, only very very very interested people. Don't vote - get a Muslim radical as mayor.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

369 So of them are boys
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

That's Thailand. The PI was pretty safe when I was there. The girls would have told you pretty quick if it was a guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

370 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (zSKXS)

Hey, she’s gotta be somebody’s baby alright! — Jackson Browne

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (i5Vkf)

371 Is this a trick question?
Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

Some syllogisms are busted.

Others are wedgied, pantsed, get a dick drawn on their face, and *then* busted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (BjH5D)

372 364 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (Bbwdx)

Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name. Zoli for short.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

373 omg his mom is Mira Nair?!!

wow how red diaper can you even get

Linus good for you running early! I will swim instead, but the bees are getting annoying by my pool

anyway yeah when this kid gets elected (does anyone think Sliwa has a chance in hell?!?) the bond market is gonna dive. actually maybe it will now, why wait. but after his election the big co's will start leaving

but NYC is too big. it won't die; it will stay heavily populated with insane zombies. it will remain a problem for the US. this is why I've retracted my former accelerationist outlook.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (Pv3Rg)

374 anyone want some of these shit pebbles?
delicious

Stringy half digested bites of Nadler's rotten Pastrami entangle the bits of barley

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (beL7L)

375 "Heap Big Woman!!!!!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM

That's cultural appropriation!

#BeumBetter

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at June 25, 2025 09:14 AM (0sNs1)

376 >> It's insidious. Put government in charge of grocery distribution and within a generation people will be unable to imagine distributing groceries without the government.

Public school lunches went from optional to free food for everyone (weekly invitations to sign up - NOW!), then free breakfast, free dinner, free food in backpacks over the weekend, to - get this! - summer meals delivered to the kids' neighborhoods.

I wonder how much money is wasted on those programs. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (6o/o0)

377 >>The program was set back YEARS.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

The trolls will be here next bragging that it's dog years.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (sfdl6)

378 Every time some hot babe with a Russian accent who's waaaaay out of your league comes up to you at a bar and starts chatting.

Dear Ms Anna Chapman,
I am writing to tell you to stay away. I know many, many American technology secrets and I spill everything I know after a vigorous sex session. Please do not call me at my phone number [redacted] and definitely don't send me any spicey videos.

Thanks,
18-1

Posted by: 18-1 trying to stay away from temptation at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

379 So of them are boys
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

That's Thailand. The PI was pretty safe when I was there. The girls would have told you pretty quick if it was a guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

"You like guys? No? You need to be ova heah then!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (zSKXS)

380 Honestly, I hate people as individuals, not ethnicities. And I hate a lot of individuals.

I'm metaphorically an albino who hates all darker skinned people.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:15 AM (4F0B6)

381 Free rectangular pizza?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (P389G)

382 368 Nobody votes in a primary, only very very very interested people. Don't vote - get a Muslim radical as mayor.
Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

======

Highest turnout in the NYC Mayoral primary in a while. Much more than 2021.

This is the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

383 The program was set back YEARS.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

The trolls will be here next bragging that it's dog years.
Posted by: ...

That's not the flex they think it is.
2 years = 14 years

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (zSKXS)

384 That would be any babe, honestly.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM

It ain't me, babe.
No, no, no,
it ain't me, babe.
It ain't me
you're searching for.

Posted by: Flo and Eddie at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (0sNs1)

385 299 Is this a joke about his supposedly being gay, because he's married to a woman.

Me too and yet those men of al-Zutt woohoo.
Posted by: Muhammed in the Koran

They keep their boyfriends warm at night? Sandy deserts and candy beaches...I feel we could get a Muhammed/Beach Boy "Islamic Girls" cover song going.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

386 Here in our Valley, our Metropolitan Triangle of Hooterville, Crabwell Corners, and Pixley, celebrate the 100th Birthday of our beloved Doc, Janet Craig, MD. She came to our Valley in 1968, setting up her practice at the Shady Rest Hotel. The Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band will give a free concert this evening down at Drucker's Store.

Posted by: Happy 100, June Lockhart! at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (G5+As)

387 >>but NYC is too big. it won't die; it will stay heavily populated with insane zombies. it will remain a problem for the US. this is why I've retracted my former accelerationist outlook.

It will become London. He was campaigning in mosques saying he will make it an Islamic city, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (6o/o0)

388 Every time I see the name "Zoltan" I am reminded of the "Zoltar" carnival machine from the movie "Big" that grants wishes. Wishes granted turns out to have a downside, and NYC something-for-nothing voters will learn that too. /i]

Funny thing about that movie...in it Hanks plays a kid in an adult's body that has sexy time with another adult.

In real life of course he was the adult in some kid's body

Posted by: According to other Hollywood victims at least at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

389 381 Free rectangular pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (P389G)

AKA a Sicilian style pizza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (x0n13)

390 Sliwa should honestly drop out of the race and just back Adams if the goal is to stop Mamdani.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

391 **Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name.*"

Every time there's a pregnancy on friends or family I suggest Zoltan. But too many millennials grew up with 'Dude, where's my Car" and have no other frame of reference for it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:18 AM (4F0B6)

392 Building apartments in NYC is already a nutso government-navigation process and will now be even worse. Grocery stores will now compete against government food distribution centers, driving them out of neighborhoods.

I predict homelessness and starvation are NYC growth businesses, now that Zoltan's new NYC administration is going to "solve" those problems.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Bbwdx)

393 Islam is a problem you say? Only a billion people, barely an inconvienence.

Posted by: Mongo at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Ef4Ak)

394

THe Zohan vs Zoltar vs Sefton's uncles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (x0n13)

395 Free rectangular pizza?
Posted by: Boss Moss

iFratelli's or Campisi's in Dallas.
Not free. But the best rectangular pizza evah!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (zSKXS)

396 Zoltan? I thought it was Don’t Mess With the Zohan…. One of Adam Sandler’s forgettable movies….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (ANuwa)

397

Zoloft. For depressed Hungarians...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (x0n13)

398 Andrew Cuomo concedes as Zohran Mamdani wins NYC Democratic mayoral primary in stunning upset

The voters get what they want, gooder and harderer.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (jc0TO)

399 392 Building apartments in NYC is already a nutso government-navigation process and will now be even worse. Grocery stores will now compete against government food distribution centers, driving them out of neighborhoods.

I predict homelessness and starvation are NYC growth businesses, now that Zoltan's new NYC administration is going to "solve" those problems.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Bbwdx)

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If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.

There will be no government run groceries. A proposal will be presented to the city council which will bicker for 4 years about who gets the contract while the powers that be feed that fight. The NYPD won't be abolished, but it will be in open warfare with Mamdani like it had been with DeBlasio.

He will be a SJW, using his platform to gain notoriety and probably even prep for a run for president in 2028 (which will go nowhere instantly, of course) and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

400 Well secluded, I see all.

Posted by: Magenta from NSA at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (0sNs1)

401 Zoltan and the 40 thieves.

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

402 This is the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)
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My kind of party!

Posted by: Lisa Murkowski, who sometimes visits Alaska at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (Bbwdx)

403 **This is the Democrat Party.**

An election coming down to a choice between a degenerate sex pest and a radical Stalinist? Both of them Nepo-babies?

Yeah, that's the Democrat Party.

And Gavin Newsom is all those things.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (4F0B6)

404 They keep their boyfriends warm at night? Sandy deserts and candy beaches...I feel we could get a Muhammed/Beach Boy "Islamic Girls" cover song going.

The story in the Koran says that Muhammed asked one of his friends to follow him into the desert one night. When they got a specific location he asked the friend to sit in one are and do not move or else bad things would happen to him.

Then Muhammed went a little further, but where his friend could see, and the men of al-Zutt came out to meet him. And it actually says they rode him all night long and "injured him" and wore him out.

Riding in this context is used in the same sense as in English, so either Muhammed carried random men on his shoulders all night long and was injured doing so or he had a Provincetown dogpile and they got a little too rough...the former just doesn't make any sense does it?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (t0Rmr)

405 >>THe Zohan vs Zoltar vs Sefton's uncles.

Zohan, as in Adam Sandler's "Don't Mess with the Zohan," lol?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (6o/o0)

406 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 25, 2025 09:09 AM (beL7L)

Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (2GCMq)

407 I remember when a slice of pizza went from .20 to a quarter.

Posted by: Pizza Town, USA at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (G5+As)

408 That's not the flex they think it is.
2 years = 14 years
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:16 AM (zSKXS)

Well no one ever accused them of being brain surgeons

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2025 09:22 AM (sfdl6)

409 He will be a SJW, using his platform to gain notoriety and probably even prep for a run for president in 2028 (which will go nowhere instantly, of course) and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.

he cannot run for US President thank GOD

also his proposals will in fact become reality. I set my marker down now! and for SURE he will be elected Mayor.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

410 Iranians are afraid that they'll get bimbed again. So, "no, no, very damaged! sooo damaged ! nothing left".

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (g47mK)

411 and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM

Would he have to put his makeup on with a trowel to compete against her?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (0sNs1)

412 Hizzonor Ed Koch said 'The people have spoken. Now they must be punished.'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: get down, get funky at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

413 Funny thing about that movie...in it Hanks plays a kid in an adult's body that has sexy time with another adult.

In real life of course he was the adult in some kid's body
Posted by: According to other Hollywood victims at least at June 25, 2025 09:17 AM (t0Rmr)

I still chuckle over the look on her face when he shows her the bunk bed and invites her to pick which one she wants.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (6ydKt)

414 I’m late today… had to do my morning run in the wee hours.

All I can say is:
1. NYC is insane; will Wall Street and other big companies finally flee to Florida or Texas?
2. I didn’t like Trump scolding both Iran and Israel as if there were some kind of moral equivalence. Iran is the bad guy full stop. I love him but he is puzzling and exasperating sometimes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2025 09:08 AM (i5Vkf)

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

Agree on both parts.

EVERY interaction to Trump, for good or for ill, is a negotiation. I recommend reading The Art of The Deal for those who haven't already ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Unconditional Surrender Great Again! at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (txgZm)

415 What, the moniker "Muhammad Mao" wasn't available?

**********

Surely someone has streamlined that to Maohammad" by now.

Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (poXs5)

416 409 he cannot run for US President thank GOD

also his proposals will in fact become reality. I set my marker down now! and for SURE he will be elected Mayor.
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Right. Forgot he's foreign born.

But...he'll definition be going for the governorship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

417 If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.

There will be no government run groceries. A proposal will be presented to the city council which will bicker for 4 years about who gets the contract while the powers that be feed that fight. The NYPD won't be abolished, but it will be in open warfare with Mamdani like it had been with DeBlasio.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM (GBKbO)
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I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (Bbwdx)

418 I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.

me and you huck - totally agree

let's see how it goes!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

420 Surely someone has streamlined that to Maohammad" by now.
Posted by: muldoon at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (poXs5)

At least Muzzsollini kept the caravans running on time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (BjH5D)

421 411 and then a run for governor, which he could win against Hochul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:21 AM

Would he have to put his makeup on with a trowel to compete against her?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 25, 2025 09:23 AM (0sNs1)

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It will be old school establishment NY vs. new school squad NY.

The prize is all the graft in Albany and NYC.

I suggest the GOP just stop putting up candidates (except House races) in NY for a couple of cycles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

422 When I hear “Zoltan” I think of Zoltan Karpathy from My Fair Lady.

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

423 Right. Forgot he's foreign born.

*Obama has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (zSKXS)

424 Does Zoltan winning in NYC, assuming he does in November, help Stephanic in her election against Hochul? Goodness, I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (Bbwdx)

425 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…
Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM

The Markets remain irrationally exuberant.

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (jc0TO)

426 Primaries are not indicative of success , especially the one like NY had. the granny killer and the Islamic socialist, after Khadaffi's heart. any turnout numbers ?

Posted by: runner at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)

427 417 I'll take that bet. The NYC City Council is way to the left and just itching to implement these ideas and more.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:24 AM (Bbwdx)

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The actual application of the ideas is where things will fall apart.

Throwing corrupt vs. true believers vs. true believer corrupts will just put everything on hold.

DeBlasio's wife just straight up stole $1 billion from the city. That's what the true believers do in NYC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

428 Long way until the general election. The money men will weigh in shortly now that primary is done.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (ZIggv)

429 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters. They will tie themselves in nots trying to justify the shoplifter actions and not prosecute them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (pwtJC)

430 180 degree course correction!!!
Trump has now dropped sanctions on oil to Iran's biggest customer!!!! Gyna

That can only mean that Trump is Netanyahu's, Khomeini's, and Xi's lapdog,.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (fL/bX)

431 Good morning, y'all. J,J., I was just about to launch into a lecture on "could care less" but then I found "infamnia".

You're forgiven. Have a fabulous birthday.

Posted by: creeper at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (zFwIe)

432 Knots damn autocorrect

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (pwtJC)

433 419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…
Posted by: tubal

Much evidence points to 2033 being the end of the world. Adjust your life accordingly.

Posted by: Nostrildamus at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

434 >>If Mamdani wins, I predict almost none of his proposals actually become reality.

Think he'll be most like Boston's Mayor Wu.
She was the at-large City Council member prior to running for mayor, and she was always on tv pushing for many of the same things (apart from the government grocery stores). He will make sure that every city government institution expresses preference for immigrants and non-whites, he will defang the police, he will spend all the city's money on things like free transit, and be incapable of handling even the most basic tasks such as clearing the snow off the streets and having garbage picked up regularly.
And the MSM will absolutely adore him no matter what.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (6o/o0)

435 It's okay Doc. It's only a scratch.

Posted by: Rocky Raccoon at June 25, 2025 09:27 AM (ZmEVT)

436 419 The mood here today seems pretty bleak…

yeah well SE PA is overrun with new New Yorkers after the covid mess - and it sucked here, but I guess was somehow worse there!

they started out saying all the right things but I'm still friends with many and guess what? they forget now. they are Leftist and frustrated with all the things that make this area what it is. and they are becoming very politically powerful - they were already rich (comparable assets here are much less expensive than up there).

so I'm looking at more and more of them coming here - to Chadds ford area and to up north by Eagles Mere - as they have been. and just those will be New York South and that is Not Good. so personally, I see the results firsthand.

they do not become red pilled, not really.

they are locusts.

they do not appreciate things like horses or farms or the quiet things that make Chester County really great. those things are getting crushed, apparently "fox rights" are important unless you are driving over the poor things in your Lexus SUV.

ARGHHHHHH

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:28 AM (Pv3Rg)

437 me and you huck - totally agree

let's see how it goes!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:25 AM (Pv3Rg)
===============
Good to be on the right team today!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (Bbwdx)

438 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.

I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty.

Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (fL/bX)

439 >>When I hear “Zoltan” I think of Zoltan Karpathy from My Fair Lady.

Spelled different, but I always think of Zolton Ferency, failed candidate for Michigan governor and far left professor of criminal justice at my alma mater.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 09:30 AM (Y1sOo)

440 438 It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.

I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty.
Posted by: t-bird at June 25, 2025 09:29 AM (fL/bX)

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Maybe one goes up in NYC in the next four years.

It'll be a dismal failure, cost way too much, be heralded as a huge success, and never followed up with more locations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

441 >> It will be hysterical watching government run grocery stores trying to deal with shoplifters.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU ASSUME THAT THE SHOPLIFTERS WON'T BE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 25, 2025 09:31 AM (6o/o0)

442 439 One Hour, I grew up in Michigan. I remember that name from my younger days.

Posted by: Bulg at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

443 Prop bet:

If there is an actual physical Government Grocery Store that opens up in NYC, it will have metal detectors and armed guards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (BjH5D)

444 ah I see Eric Adams is still running as an Indy

ok

he might have a chance

I'm less depressed now

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

445 "I've seen gov't-run grocery stores before, behind the Iron Curtain. They will deal with shoplifters by being empty."

The employees will get a first crack at the goods. Stuff that can't be sold will make it to the shelves.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (QB+5g)

446 You know what would be funny? If they only ever build one of these government run grocery stores in some tony neighborhood and specifically mandate people that live in that area can use it and actually police that and they make the store fabulous - every crazy trendy food item you could imagine...but now free for the NYC elites.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

447 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)
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If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

448 If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

That sounds more like Pyongyang's style.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

449 In most big blue shitties they have organized crime groups to clean out the shelves of city stores. I suspect they'll work hand in glove with Osama Bin Lenin to get products easy to re-sell and he'll get his share back.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

450 447 If your point was that these ideas will be sparsely implemented and total fricking failures, whose only benefit is intended to be the corrupt theft of public monies, then I agree wholeheartedly. But in the meantime, building new apartments and trying to buy groceries is going to make life harder
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

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The point of the failures will be graft.

Billions of dollars in graft for one shitty grocery store.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

451 ok wait this is a cheery factoid:

"Michael Bloomberg lavished $25 million on Cuomo’s primary campaign."

now THAT is funny!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

452 Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bbwdx)

That sounds more like Pyongyang's style.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

Feh, I meant to quote 18-1, not you, Huck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)

453 451 ok wait this is a cheery factoid:

"Michael Bloomberg lavished $25 million on Cuomo’s primary campaign."

now THAT is funny!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Bloomberg's money must smell like shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

454 A Dildo is never early, or late, but always Right On Time….

Posted by: tubal at June 25, 2025 09:35 AM (PCK5/)

455 So NY City hates the Jews and loves illegals ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (VE6XX)

456 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

can you have multiple indy candidates in the general?

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

457 456 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

can you have multiple indy candidates in the general?
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Pv3Rg)

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Of course.

Also...I guess this means that NY doesn't have sore loser laws.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

458 >>I grew up in Michigan. I remember that name from my younger days.

I took criminal justice 101 with him supposedly as the instructor. Being an intro-level course, we never saw him, of course. It was his TA who conducted all the lectures and administered the mid-term and final.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Y1sOo)

459 ok more hilarity - Cuomo is saying he is also going to run as an Independent!?!

Sore loser?

Posted by: toby928 at June 25, 2025 09:37 AM (jc0TO)

460 The president's announcement late this afternoon that a cease-fire between Israel and Iran has been reached is, therefore, disappointing absent the collapse of the mullahs. . .
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I hope the CIA ignores this message, as the President has done. If the Persians rise up and end the mullahs, I'm going to sheer them on, but if we do it (or Israel does), it's pretty easy to see bad collateral effects.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 25, 2025 09:38 AM (f7c5w)

461 Looks like the Art Thread is running behind. Ace, if you need another COB to step in for emergencies like this, I'm your squid-man!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (JCZqz)

462 Art is up

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AaWBX)

463 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at June 25, 2025 09:41 AM (53oGX)

464 Zoltan is a Hungarian name. I had two uncles with that name. Zoli for short.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 25, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

Yep. When I was a kid, in the 50's, three older guys in my Hungarian church had the name Zoltan. And, Zoli was what the other adults called them. Heard that name many times over the years.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 25, 2025 09:44 AM (5xuJ/)

465 You can’t hug illegal immigrants with bunker busting bombs that are preventing nuclear arms.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 25, 2025 09:53 AM (Ktl2W)

466 'Morning, all & thanks, J.J.

Some US/Iranian Naval history: The USS Trout (SS-566), a Tang class submarine, received orders in Dec. 1976 changing her home port to Philadelphia, PA. In 1977 and 1978, she underwent an extensive overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in anticipation of a planned transfer to the Imperial Iranian Navy.

Upon completion of the overhaul in 1978, Trout's home port was shifted to New London, CT where a training period for her the Iranian crew ensued. The training program was completed in Dec. 1978 and, on that day, the U.S. Navy simultaneously decommissioned Trout, struck her from the Naval Vessel Register, and transferred her to Iran.

The Imperial Iranian Navy renamed her Imperial Iranian Ship (IIS) Kousseh (SS 101), meaning "Shark." Her Iranian crew took control of her at New London in December 1978, but abandoned her there in March 1979 following the Iranian Revolution.

The Kousseh returned to PNSY where she languished for many years. She finally was returned officially to U.S. custody in 1992 & then sold at scrap value.

Nov. 1, 1977, a second Tang class submarine, the USS Wahoo, SS-565, began training a crew from the Iranian

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

467 Navy scheduled to take possession of her sister-ship, USS Trout, sometime the following year. That duty continued until the summer of 1978 when she began an extended overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (July 6, 197

to prepare her to be handed over to Iran & renamed Nahang.

Those plans were cancelled on 31 Mar. 1979 following the Iranian revolution. Wahoo was instead decommissioned on 27 June 1980 and cannibalized for parts for the other Tangs that were still in service to foreign governments.

And so the political fracture began roughly half a century ago at a time when the United States was happily celebrating its Bicentennial, and after Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale were voted in (Nov. 1976).

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

468 466 and 467. Wikipedia as one reference for most of the USS Trout and USS Wahoo information. Additionally, there were many other Naval sources available.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) made the decision to cease naval operations at PNSY in 1991.

PNSY and the bulk of Naval Station Philadelphia closed in 1995. (I was employed by/at both prior to their closing.) The US Navy maintains a (small) presence at the Navy Yard, operating Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station and the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 25, 2025 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

469 Thanks L.

That was very informative.

Posted by: pawn at June 25, 2025 10:31 AM (QB+5g)

470 The thing about Walsh's screed is that the history he cites is completely wrong.

Imperial Rome set borders at the Rhine, Danube, and Hadrian's Wall, and never eliminated the Parthians or Persians.
Constantine managed a single re-conquest of Dacia but otherwise did not expand the empire. While he established his rule throughout the empire, his dynasty lasted less than sixty years.
Bohemond established himself in the Levant, but the Crusades as a whole never came close to eliminating Islam.
Napoleon's defeat of the mamelukes in Egypt endured all of 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day before they returned to power. As for Napoleon's French empire, we also know how long that endured.

As for his citation of Clausewitz, he seems to have completely missed the parts about war, politics, and popular will, and that the "total war" Clausewitz wrote of was purely theoretical due to those factors.

And then of course there is the issue of how all of those leaders cited along with Clausewitz himself were all accomplished with the ever popular "boots on the ground" and imply significantly more than a mere "forever war" to accomplish, bringing us right back to Clausewitz and will.

Posted by: Sam at June 25, 2025 11:10 AM (7jMef)

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