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New absurd Hamas jihadi propaganda drops:

This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores.

But the government isn't paying these stores money -- they're merely giving them tax breaks. And these tax breaks are offered to accomplish the left-wing goal of opening grocery stores in the left-wing hallucination of "food deserts."

There is no money just sitting around waiting to be spent.

When Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral nominee, defends his idea of socialist grocery stores, he says he can pay for them by cutting city subsidies to "corporate grocery stores."
This claim is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city's current grocery subsidies. The money he plans to use to pay for his city-owned grocery stores is money the city doesn't have.
Specifically, he wrongly believes that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores, and he thinks he can take half of that money and use it to build government groceries.
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According to Mamdani, his five grocery stores would cost $60 million.
"That should be compared to the city's existing program called City FRESH, where they are set to spend $140 million, subsidizing corporate grocery stores ... So we would take less than half of the money the city is already set to spend, and actually deliver results," he said.
What is this FRESH program?
The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health is a bundle of tax breaks and special regulatory relief for grocery stores that open up in so-called food deserts: poor neighborhoods where the city has concluded residents don't have adequate access to produce and other healthy foods.
The subsidy includes some tax breaks: building taxes stay at the pre-improvement level for a few years, land taxes are abated, there are some tax breaks for building the store, and some of the transfer taxes are cut. (The store still collects and remits sales tax, pays payroll taxes, pays corporate income taxes, et cetera.)
The FRESH program can also include some zoning and regulatory relief.
The tax breaks have saved the grocery stores a few million dollars each year.

If you take those tax breaks away, these stores in the "food deserts" will probably close because companies have determined it's a money-losing proposition to open up stores there. Which is fine by me, but ending the tax breaks does not suddenly make money appear in the government's bank accounts.

The Democrat-Media Party keeps claiming that Mamdani isn't a communist just as much as Biden wasn't senile.

You will not be surprised to learn that the Democrat-Media Party is lying.

Just the News:

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described "democratic socialist" and presumptive Democratic Party nominee to be mayor of New York City, has been supported by so-called "fact-checkers" and legacy media in denying that he is a Communist -- but his oft-repeated past comments strongly contradict his denials. Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but he denies that he is a Communist.
An investigation by Just the News shows that in tweets, speeches, and affiliations, Mamdani, at his core, holds a strong affinity for straight-up Communism: praising and campaigning with a Marxist state senator in New York; declaring that NYC needed a mayor just like a famously young Indian mayor who was a member of an explicitly Marxist and Communist Party; praising the 1917 Russian Revolution which led to the overthrow of the Czar and, soon, the establishment of the Soviet Union at the cost of millions of lives; arguing about the need to "seize the means of production" in a reference to a core Marxist principle; praising famous radical Communist figures; and much more.
After the win by Mamdani on Tuesday, President Trump weighed in by declaring Mamdani "a 100% Communist Lunatic."
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The self-described fact-checking website PolitiFact declared last week that "Zohran Mamdani is favored to win the NYC mayoral primary. Claims he's a communist are False." The outlet said that "some politicians and social media posts falsely labeled him a communist" and that "experts say he hasn't espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property."
PolitiFact also alleged that "accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathizers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans" and that "it is a red scare tactic that has existed in U.S. politics for decades, but has been transformed by the success of some democratic socialists."
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The denials notwithstanding, Mamdani's own words may very well reveal what is behind the facade.
Mamdani has repeatedly praised his fellow "comrades" in the DSA, and seems to have been especially close with New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, who endorsed him and with whom he campaigned during his 2020 run for the New York state assembly, and whom he also praised and thanked for her endorsement when he was running for mayor in 2025.
Salazar is a self-described "Democratic Socialist" who has repeatedly declared that she is an avowed Marxist. Mamdani made it clear in 2020 that he was well aware of Salazar's Marxist views -- and strongly suggested he agreed with them, meaning Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour is not Mamdani's only controversial close associate.
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[Salazar] tweeted that "I'm a Marxist" in January 2019, and tweeted again in April 2020 that "I have a Marxist worldview." Salazar tweeted again that "to be clear, as ever, I'm a Marxist" in October 2023.
Salazar also played a role in helping Mamdani win during his 2020 race for New York state assembly. Mamdani repeatedly touted being endorsed by Salazar in his 2020 race, and the two collaborated on issues and virtually campaigned together in the lead up to the election.
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Mamdani has also repeatedly praised famous Communist figures and leaders. A tweet by him from December 2020 was especially striking, as it suggested that he believed NYC needed a Communist mayor -- a job he would pursue himself just a few years later while denying that he is a Marxist.
"them: so what kind of mayor does nyc need right now? me:" Mamdani tweeted as he shared a Twitter thread from the Indian Puducherry State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -- or the CPI(M).
"Comrade Arya Rajendran, age 21, new Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She will be the youngest mayor of a major city in the world. Here she leads a detachment of Red Volunteers in @CPIMKerala. #CPIM #LeftAlternative #Communist," the Indian Communist Party tweeted. The profile for that branch of the Communist Party included a hammer and sickle emoji in its Twitter description.
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When Mamdani tweeted in June 2020 that NYC should pull down a statue of Christopher Columbus, among the three options he suggested for statues to replace Columbus was a famous Italian Communist.
"In 2017, NYC ordered a review of public works constituting "symbols of hate" for potential removal. But a statue of Columbus remains in Astoria, in defiance of the values of humanity, empathy & justice that we stand for. It has to go. Sign the petition," Mamdani tweeted. He then ran a Twitter poll, asking, "The Italian-American community has a rich history in Astoria. Who should we honor instead? Tony Bennett (Astoria native, music icon) Walter Audisio (Communist partisan, killed Mussolini) Sacco & Vanzetti (Executed due to anti-Italian sentiment)."
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Mamdani has repeatedly posted approvingly about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the fall of Czar Nicholas II, which soon ushered in Communist rule in Russia and the establishment of the brutal Communist-led Soviet Union.
Mamdani tweeted in March 2023 -- and then again with the exact same language in March 2024 -- praise for the 1917 February Revolution in Russia, which led to the abdication and murder of the Romanov family and the Bolshevik takeover.
"On March 8, 1917, women textile workers in Russia organized a massive strike, calling for 'bread and peace,' an end to war and the fall of the Czar. A week later, he abdicated. Women received the right to vote. The 1st #InternationalWomensDay in Russia was a revolution," Mamdani tweeted in both 2023 and 2024.
An analysis by History.com made it clear that this February Revolution -- named such because the Russians used the Julian calendar -- led almost directly to Vladimir Lenin's dictatorship in Russia.
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Mamdani spoke of "the end goal of seizing the means of production" in 2021 while he was a New York state assemblyman.
Karl Marx's book Das Kapital repeatedly uses the term "means of production," which has become a central pillar of Marxist theory. "Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks," is just one example of the phrase appearing in Marx's work.
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Momdani seemed to have previewed this sentiment in a December 2020 tweet. The Democratic Party had tweeted that "the Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants." That didn't go far enough for Mamdani, who responded by saying that "if we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production."
Mamdani hasn't just used the "Comrade" moniker for his Marxist ally Julia Salazar, but it is rather a term of endearment he repeatedly uses with his fellow DSA members and allies.
The term "comrade" has a long -- but not exclusive -- association with Communist movements. Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin was referred to as "Comrade Stalin" and Chinese Communist Party dictator Mao Zedong called himself "Comrade Mao" -- among many such examples. When Mamdani spoke at the YDSA winter conference in February 2021, he referred to the other elected socialist officials as his "comrades."
Mamdani loves to call his fellow leftwing and socialist candidates his "comrades" on Twitter. As one example, he tweeted his congratulations to Lee J. Carter in November 2019 when the Virginia socialist won reelection in the Virginia House of Delegates.

The Cheapfake Media is claiming that it was just some youthful exuberance that has led Mamdani to repeatedly call for the seizing of the "means of production" and delivering them over to the proletariat.

He was 30 when he said these things. He's now 33.

The Democrat-Media Party is also trying to claim that "seizing the means of production" Akshually Isn't Communist at All. It's just seizing the money and equipment of the exploitative capitalist class and turning them over to the revolutionary proletariat to be held communally, that's all.

Where are you seeing "communism" in this, Bigot? Is it because his face is slightly more brownish than yours, Racist?

Trump's DOJ is suing California for its insurrectionary blocking of federal agents from carrying out their appointed duties.

The DOJ lawsuit targets Los Angeles' sanctuary city ordinances, claiming they directly violate federal law and enable illegal aliens to evade deportation.
The complaint links Los Angeles' refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement to recent "rioting, looting, and vandalism" that forced the deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines.
U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the city's policies "contributed to a lawless and unsafe environment," adding that the Constitution "prohibits the City from picking and choosing which federal laws will be enforced."

FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building and move FBI operations to the Ronald Reagan Building.

FBI Director Kash Patel is shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building and moving its headquarters across Washington to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a Tuesday memo Patel sent to the FBI, notifying employees of the relocation, and stressing that it is "most cost-effective way" to serve the American people, Fox News Digital has learned.
Patel, in May, first hinted that the bureau would be reallocating its workforce around the country, and would move agents out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened in 1975.
The FBI and the General Services Administration (GSA) have been looking at options for a new FBI headquarters for more than a decade, including locations near D.C. in Maryland and Virginia.
"Team, the FBI Headquarters will be moving down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, and the Hoover building will be shut down," Patel wrote in the memo, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.
Trump told Fox News Digital that the Ronald Reagan Building is "a wonderful building," and said the FBI is "a wonderful group of people.
"The FBI will finally have the kind of building they deserve," the president told Fox News Digital. "Congratulations to Kash Patel, Dan Bongino and all the great people at the FBI."

At least they're not going with the Wray/Biden plan of spending billions of taxpayer dollars on a new, completely-undeserved Palace of Justice.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
BREAKING: USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations, Secretary Rubio announces
This was a TOP priority of @ElonMusk while he was at DOGE, even calling it a "CRIMINAL organization."
The Democrat slush fund for kickbacks and corruption is no more.

Here's how CNN reported it:

🚨ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID.

Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!" pic.twitter.com/1Mr9qPRu4z
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 1, 2025

This guy wants to bankrupt Medicaid by importing millions of illegal immigrants and giving them healthcare that ought by right go to his fellow citizens. Now he pretends to care about them.

The dishonesty is off the charts. https://t.co/M1h9dZG5Lc
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 1, 2025

Trump promotes NC-native Lara Trump to replace disgraceful Democrat saboteur Thom Tillis:

I�ve said from day one�Lara Trump shouldn�t be appointed to a Florida Senate seat. She should primary Thom Tillis in North Carolina instead.

Could that actually come to fruition? pic.twitter.com/9Aimu0KS4m
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 1, 2025

NEW: Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN pic.twitter.com/aITxd7m7Qb
— dustin mills (@dustinemills24) June 29, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM

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1 with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."

With bars of steel, but a nice view of the yard.

Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 06:37 PM (98iWb)

2 MadManI scares me because he's an attractive guy that can talk.

Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

3 >>>Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

don't sell them on it, they'll say yes

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

4 I wish that retard/sugar trap story was true.
They deserve it and worse.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 06:41 PM (xcxpd)

5 ooo, yeah, gimme a hit off that!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (Z5NUn)

6 I find it very hard to believe that, in post Biden NYC, you could open grocery stores for just 12 million each.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (od0dV)

7 And MattY is a hack fraud and has been for decades. He's both deeply unserious and deeply stupid.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (xcxpd)

8 Yeah, I'm completely convinced every single one of those Muslim mothers freely offered up their kids.

I also believe the BBB cuts spending by a trillion dollars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

9 3 >>>Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?

don't sell them on it, they'll say yes

Posted by: ace at July 01, 2025 06:40 PM (KRtlO)

They already are.

Oh, "Stargirl" on Amazon. 3 seasons. Fun show. Solomon Grundy. Kick ass robot. Not really woke. It was fun.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (jvJvP)

10 "He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores."

LOL this guy's an economic retard.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (1l+t9)

11 Is it too late to donate to The Gaza Humanitarian Fund?

Do it today!

Posted by: George Costanza at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (R/m4+)

12 Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran

Target rich environment.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 06:43 PM (TSfHI)

13 Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

Not just a commie Trudeau. Osama bin Lenin is all for the Global Intifada, too. I guess he includes neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.

Couldn't vote in the closed primary so all I can do is vote for Adams iin the General. Without Mandami in the race, I'd vote for Sliwa. But I want to beat this commie muzzzie or muzzie commie, whatever the fuck he is. So I'll go with Adams. I know he'll get the black vote and the sane vote as well.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 06:44 PM (gKDq2)

14 >>>That should be compared to the city's existing program called City FRESH, where they are set to spend $140 million, subsidizing corporate grocery stores ... So we would take less than half of the money the city is already set to spend, and actually deliver results

Ooh, that makes sense. I didn't actually nail down what he meant by "corporate subsidies" during the campaign because really, who cares?

That's kind of funny though. So we'll likely lose some C-Towns in shit neighborhoods, to be replaced with nothing and the people in those neighborhoods can go back to eating McDonalds and bodega sandwiches as their primary food sources.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:44 PM (uCjyK)

15 Socialists/Commies, Tomato/ToMotto don't care about what comes after they succeed.

They only care about the destruction.

Posted by: jsg at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (1l+t9)

16 Hmm, the main cutout for Democrat funding, USAID, is gone.

Interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (tT6L1)

17 That 'sugar pit' idea is great.
And I think the Palis are dumb enough to fall for it.

If any truth to sugr demand would be that they are making prison toilet hootch with it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

18 Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM (jvJvP)

What percentage of New Yorkers do you think know who Justin Trudeau is?

Keeping in mind that 40% of people living in New York City today were not born in the US, and most of them are far from fluent in English.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (uCjyK)

19 Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran

Wait a minute... I'M the martyr?!

Posted by: Iranian Baby at July 01, 2025 06:46 PM (WFXLZ)

20 WitchDoktor: those Espada Oscuros are really nice. Yep, covered in dumb bands. I reviewed them on Weasel's thread a ways back. Let them rest for a week or two if you can, they just get better. Enjoy.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:46 PM (1m82a)

21 They only care about the destruction.
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Don't you know you can count me out...

Posted by: Zombie John L. at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

22 If Trump wants to help defeat Madmani his best course of action is step back. There is probably a fair size group of Democrats NYers who are on the fence. But if Trump says don’t vote for him they’ll just knee jerk do the opposite of what he says.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (nwGCR)

23 This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

Like Donkey-Chompers it is a Cum Dumpster too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (/lPRQ)

24 The plan is to recreate the food deserts so government stores can open to fill the need. Increasing poverty is a method of draining wealth from those just above it.
A receding tide strands all boats.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (IG7T0)

25 Damn it. Dominion Day. Beer drinker. Pizza in the fridge. And the animals I have a home for 2 years.

Time to lose my virginity and watch "Alien."

I have seen "Aliens' a few times. I don't see a lot of movies..There is a Wiki! I may pass the the next quiz.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

26 More like effendi khaan over in london,

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (bXbFr)

27 16 Hmm, the main cutout for Democrat funding, USAID, is gone.

Interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:45 PM (tT6L1)

Oh, I'm sure the money is still flowing through their other, numerous funding sources across the federal government.

What happened to DOGE doing a full audit of the fed gov, by the way? USAID is a tiny little blip on the radar, I thought we were opening the books on the entitlements and Defense. That's where the real money is, and where it would be easiest to hide gigantic slush funds.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (uCjyK)

28 Quick hits take a long time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (63Dwl)

29 Shouldn't have to wait too long for a Democrat to wail about President Trump creating martyr babies.

Of course, pointing out to Democrats they're for abortion, no matter the age, will be a waste of breath.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (tT6L1)

30 At least they're not going with the Wray/Biden plan of spending billions of taxpayer dollars on a new, completely-undeserved Palace of Justice.
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Maybe we should build the crappiest HQ possible, and name it after Wray.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (od0dV)

31 >>This may surprise you, but the 33-year-old former "rapper" and jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani has about the same level of basic competence as Alexandria Donkey-Chompers.

He claims he will pay for his "government run grocery stores" using "subsidies" that are currently paid to for-profit grocery stores.
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Nothing is impossible to a man who doesn't have to pay for it himself.

Posted by: Gref at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (aBgBM)

32 Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (nwGCR)

33 They need to get organizized.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (22Uv/)

34 What percentage of New Yorkers do you think know who Justin Trudeau is?

Keeping in mind that 40% of people living in New York City today were not born in the US, and most of them are far from fluent in English.
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IF there were an easy way to completely remove the illegals from just 3 cities (NYC, LA, & ATL), I wonder what percentage of the total illegal population that would represent and how it might affect future voting?

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

35 Those Iranian women got nothing on Abraham.

Posted by: huerfano at July 01, 2025 06:50 PM (n2swS)

36 > Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN

When my son was born, I remember tearfully thanking God that He trusted me enough to raise one of His special children. I still thank Him every day for my family.

These people who twist their children to such hatred are alien and evil.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 06:50 PM (lIio7)

37 Momdani seemed to have previewed this sentiment in a December 2020 tweet. The Democratic Party had tweeted that "the Biden-Harris administration is committed to rebuilding an economy that welcomes everyone as full participants." That didn't go far enough for Mamdani, who responded by saying that "if we want everyone to be full participants in the economy, we need worker ownership of the means of production."

You can call yourself a sack of potatoes for all I care, the point is that the things for which you advocate are Communist nuttery.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (Riz8t)

38 Zohran Mamdani will make a brilliant mayor and eventual President of the world.

Posted by: Penguins On The March at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

39 The FBI should be out of DC and moved to Padooka.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (rvwwT)

40 MadManI scares me because he's an attractive guy that can talk.

Does New York City REALLY need their own Justin Trudeau?
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:38 PM

Self-governance means the people have the right to be wrong and should get what they vote for, gooder and harderer.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (xn0Ie)

41 ABSURD: CNN reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the OFFICIAL dismantling of USAID.

Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"

And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt. I'm not stocking up on bananas, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (Riz8t)

42 24 The plan is to recreate the food deserts so government stores can open to fill the need. Increasing poverty is a method of draining wealth from those just above it.
A receding tide strands all boats.
Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (IG7T0)

The reason there are few grocery stores in bad neighborhoods is because
a) there isnt a huge demand. A lot of people in poor neighborhoods just prefer to eat garbage. I can't really explain it, but it does seem to be the case
and
b) the shoplifting / armed robberies are out of control and make it difficult to make money in those neighborhoods.

For example, if you go up to 125th st and check out the Whole Foods up there, you'll notice that the place looks like a fucking casino with the number of security guards and cameras everywhere, but they still have rampant theft.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:51 PM (uCjyK)

43 What happened to DOGE doing a full audit of the fed gov, by the way? USAID is a tiny little blip on the radar, I thought we were opening the books on the entitlements and Defense. That's where the real money is, and where it would be easiest to hide gigantic slush funds.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:48 PM (uCjyK)

Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

44 Netanyahu is travelling to DC next week to meet with Trump and Co. Who will be the Democrat/Communist lame brain that will make a fool of themselves to protest this? Will Mamdani try to stage an arrest of Bibi? Will the squad members chain themselves to the WH fence? Tune in next week for the continuing saga of "I am a Slimy Political Ass-wipe" on your local channels.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (oiNtH)

45 If Democrats understood economics ... they wouldn't be Democrats.

(Please note, this is merely ONE entry on a nearly infinite list.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (HlyYF)

46 with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."

With bars of steel, but a nice view of the yard.
Posted by: t-bird at July 01, 2025 06:37 PM (98iWb)

Unfortunately, Trump probably won't treat the FBI like they should be.

Trials followed by long-term prison sentences for the worst offenders, including Obama himself.

But, that's not who we are are something.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (r2ymA)

47 The activities that USAID formerly conducted - well those that have not been discontinued - have been moved to regional bureaus of State. Rubio has a short statement that gives some bare-bones on this on the State website.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:52 PM (1m82a)

48 Are we still funding NPR and PBS?

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 06:53 PM (xn0Ie)

49 Was the pit lined with stakes?

Ball pit?

Jello?

Cuck chairs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

50 Their first reaction?

"Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
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According to Grok, roughly 60 million people die every year. Divide 14 million by 5 years and you're pretty much talking a rounding error, year over year.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 06:54 PM (tT6L1)

51 Democrats: Humans are a parasite on mother Earth! People need to stop having children!

Also Democrats: Cutting USAID will kill MILLIONS!

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:54 PM (q177U)

52 IF there were an easy way to completely remove the illegals from just 3 cities (NYC, LA, & ATL), I wonder what percentage of the total illegal population that would represent and how it might affect future voting?

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

I don't know, and I don't know how many of them are illegals. Think about it -- if someone showed up illegally at the border in 2022, she very likely has at least 2 or 3 US-born kids now. Or if someone is here on a visa, same story. And we have a wide open legal immigration system as well, lets not forget, that lets in millions of people a year.

For context, the population of New Hampshire is 1.4 million. We're issuing about that many green cards annually.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (uCjyK)

53 Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...
Posted by: Romeo13

He is but my understanding is that the DOGE boys team is still working although we've not seen any more announcements/information on what is current status.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (oiNtH)

54 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.
“America’s about an economy, a flourishing economy, OK? And you know what it’s not about? Free stuff.”
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Aljazeera
News, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jul1, 2025
'UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?'
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.

Her latest report is scheduled to be presented at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (NFX2v)

55 > Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?

Building a new Costco costs anywhere between $15-30 million dollars. It really isn't that far fetched to believe five NYC grocery stores could cost that much.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM (lIio7)

56 Isn't it strange that even after losing three presidential elections in a row, and despite all this constant talk about them needing to appeal to "mainstream America", the Democrats are not moderating their "message" even slightly... and in fact have moved to straight up 24/7 marxist communist illegal alien tranny jihad.

Makes you wonder if they know something we don't. Maybe something about their "opposition"...

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (E0p3T)

57 Are we still funding NPR and PBS?
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They're both national treasures. I enjoy the thought pieces from NPR and the "This Old House" reruns from PBS.

Posted by: Conservative Senator Lankford at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)

58 Regarding the Iranian mothers offering up their babies to by martyrs:

"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”

-- Golda Meir

Golda did not get a chance to see peace in her time, or in the following two generations.

I wonder how long it will be before her observation becomes true? If ever?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)

59 What can a baby martyr possibly accomplish?

Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (q177U)

60 >>Musk is gone... Big Balls resigned a couple weeks ago... not seeing anymore DOGE press conferences...

Big Balls is back.

He actually took a new job in the Social Security Administration.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (viF8m)

61 I just push-mowed for 15 minutes and I'll never go back to that "yard of death."

*lays down*

I need some sugar.....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)

62 Hegseth welcomed the DOGErs to the Pentagon a few weeks ago, photos and stuff. Have no idea what they're doing or where it stands. And somewhere my eye caught that "Big Balls" had returned in some capacity, to some federal perch.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (1m82a)

63 Hey, I am going upstairs to watch "Alien."

Dominion Day. The animals aren't homeless. I'm drinking,

But HEY! If you want to see probably the most Patriotic, pro-American bit of American tv in the last 10 years, Just watch the first 3 minutes of 'Stargirl', episode 1, season 3.

"Coming to America" playing,
It was a beautiful scene.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (jvJvP)

64 I need some sugar.....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)

Watch out for the pit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

65 I, for one, was really looking forward to a full audit of the Fort Knox reserves

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 06:58 PM (LPgB/)

66 *lays down*

I need some sugar.....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 06:57 PM (Q4IgG)
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I'm here for you, big boy!

Posted by: Triggly Puff at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (tT6L1)

67 The picture of the women holding up their babies to die for the cause reminds of nothing so much as the Phillistines = Palestinians in Latin (the real ones from the Old Testament) making their first-born male child to “pass through the fire” to Moloch. In other words, burning him to death! The details are even worse. If you aren’t eating look up the details behind a “Saturnine grin”. The current claimants to the name Palestinians seem to be no better than the true Palestinians = Phillistines.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (1paM0)

68 FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building

I hope they demolish it with C4.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)

69 What can a baby martyr possibly accomplish?
Posted by: Max Power at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (q177U)

PR.

Posted by: Hooray For Pallywood! at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (gKDq2)

70 If Trump wants to help defeat Madmani his best course of action is step back. There is probably a fair size group of Democrats NYers who are on the fence. But if Trump says don’t vote for him they’ll just knee jerk do the opposite of what he says.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM

I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (e5NfL)

71 Amazon Prime

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (jvJvP)

72 [O/T -- Okay, I have a new favorite idiom/meme:]

Was listening to (fill-in for Larry Elder) radio talk show host Carl Jackson, who was speaking admiringly of Trump's foreign policy and how much he liked it that, vis-à-vis Iran:

Trump "tapped that booty and got out of there ..."

lol

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (oDSG/)

73 I, for one, was really looking forward to a full audit of the Fort Knox reserves
Posted by: 496

They wrote it off, Jerry. They just wrote it off.
(apologies to whomever put it here first)

Posted by: MkY at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (cPGH3)

74 I hope they demolish it with C4.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 01, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)
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C4, C5. Whatever it takes.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (LPgB/)

75 The sugar-pit tweet REALLY sounds like someone ridiculing hamas propaganda.
If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.

Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

76 56, boom, there it is!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (Z5NUn)

77 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.

LOL, Smith is about as an installed establishment voice that you can get.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (r2ymA)

78 Get armed, get trained, get organized, get ready. Don't fucking tell me it can't happen here.

4 July 2026. Let’s give the founding fathers a 250th that would make them proud.

100% agree. It is happening here and we just had a president say explicitly he has the right to expel anyone from the country that he sees fit "deport". And deport doesn't mean just leave the country, he is funding prison camps around the world that those people he sees as his enemies will spend the rest of their days on this earth at, no trial, no charges, just disappeared to a foreign prison indefinitely

Now we are supporting gun-humping ammosexuals. That'll help us gain votes.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (ycI94)

79 Didn't some pop tart have a pop song about her sugar pit?

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

80 /off gelatinous tub of goo sock

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (tT6L1)

81 I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (e5NfL)

The cops arent walking away from their pensions, and I don't know if you've been to Times Square lately, but uh... way ahead of you on that one.

Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown). Which is a big part of the reason the Chinese voted for Trump. They don't like their scam being elbowed in on.

It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (uCjyK)

82 >>Are we still funding NPR and PBS?

Passed the House. Thune said the Senate wouldn't be taking it up until after the BBB passed.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (viF8m)

83
For all the Fucknozzles complaining about the BBB, what do you think harris' first piece of major legislation would be like?

Something awful, yes?

Something that makes everything Worse, right?

At least this BBB goes in the Right Direction.

Fags.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (qQgZS)

84
"Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (egH3D)

85 Musk got run out of DOGE.

Posted by: pawn at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (QB+5g)

86 Omar Hamd - what a nut. Even if that story was true, WTF?

1) desperate for ...sugar?

2) fell for the cheapest and most obvious deception possible?

3) Then they got buried by the Americans? What, did they just stand around after they fell in?

4) And the reason for this would be...what? I mean, we don't HAVE TO provide them with anything. If we wanted to kill them, we could just let them starve to death. Hell, just shoot them while they are standing in line.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (D1vbu)

87 78, LOL, we can only hope; gene pool needs some bleach ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (Z5NUn)

88 to leftists, a corporate tax rate of 25 percent is a subsidy when it could just as easily be 40 percent. after all it's their money not yours or mine

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (CWTWj)

89 Didn't some pop tart have a pop song about her sugar pit?
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

I only know of this one:

https://tinyurl.com/3auktvjt

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:04 PM (tT6L1)

90
And I've had my fill of Elon fucking Musk.

President Trump did A Lot, (too much, in my opinion) for the South Africans. And he ONLY did that for Elon Musk.

No One, especially me, gives no shit about the "white" "South Africans" who Created The Mess They're In.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (qQgZS)

91 Mamdani is a little brunch boy leftist who will get thousands killed if he's elected. Julia Salazar the so called "Marxist" is another little liar . She alleged Sephardic heritage but her family knew nothing about it. Everything about her says power hungry liar . She'll work with Mamdani until one or the others ego leads them to throw the other under the bus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (eBgDF)

92 For all the Fucknozzles complaining about the BBB, what do you think harris' first piece of major legislation would be like?

Something awful, yes?

Something that makes everything Worse, right?

At least this BBB goes in the Right Direction.

Fags.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM (qQgZS)

You can't turn a ship of state around on a dime. Especially as big a behemoth as our ship of State is.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:05 PM (gKDq2)

93
Out: Suicide vests

In: Baby diaper bombs...and not the kind you are thinking of

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (XeU6L)

94 Wait a second. It will cost $60M to build 5 grocery stores? Da fuuuuqqq?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 01, 2025 06:49 PM (nwGCR)

5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

95 The self-described fact-checking website PolitiFact declared last week that "Zohran Mamdani is favored to win the NYC mayoral primary. Claims he's a communist are False."

I'm in a lousy mood right now for reasons that I will not burden you with but I am slap outta sh*ts to give about New York and its stupidity. If they can't see what's right in front of their faces then they deserve to get exactly what they want.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (qeyVO)

96 "Its closure could contribute to some 14 MILLION DEATHS in the next five years!"
............................
CNN came up with that number the same way Bono did.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (sAmhv)

97 Because I need to fold laundry, or something, I missed a thread regarding the ICE app. Mea culpa.

News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio
CNN, "Why this developer created an app to alert ICE sightings."

Joshua Aaron, a musician and developer, created an app called ICEBlock, where people can post sightings of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers across the country.

CNN's Clare Duffy speaks to Aaron about what motivated him to create the application and the efforts he has made to keep it accurate and prevent it from identifying users.

Transcript available.
(Btw, the app won't work on Android.)
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Seems to be the same gentleman:

You Tube, Description
Joshua Aaron is an award-winning American-Israeli independent singer and songwriter who was recently listed as one of the Jewish Global 100 influencers. He and his wife Jeannie raised their five children in Israel near the Sea of Galilee. Their eldest (Sergeant Emma) recently finished her IDF service, and their son, Shuki, currently serves in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) in the Combat Corps of Engineering.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (NFX2v)

98 Hammad is a humble pharmacist and filn critic a cross between mr gower and roger ebert so totes that seems true

The gaza foundation doesnt grift for the ngos

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (bXbFr)

99 84
"Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)

100 Too much sugar is bad for you. Just look what happened to those Palestinians.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

101 yup, 93, just what I was thinking, strollerbombs

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (Z5NUn)

102 People who are evil are no human weevils.

Posted by: Eromero at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (DXbAa)

103 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (tT6L1)

104 That whole pit with a tarp thing - me and my friends did it in sixth grade, and nobody fell for it. But then again, we were already high on sugar.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (D1vbu)

105 No One, especially me, gives no shit about the "white" "South Africans" who Created The Mess They're In.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I feel sorry for them. Half didn't vote for that shit, and many of the rest were tricked

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:08 PM (ycI94)

106
Israel agrees to a 60-day cease fire with Iran.

Posted by: four seasons at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (3ek7K)

107
The activities that USAID formerly conducted - well those that have not been discontinued - have been moved to regional bureaus of State. Rubio has a short statement that gives some bare-bones on this on the State website.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Yeah, this is the thing I wanted to drill down on. The Dean of DEI is dead, long live the Dean of Student Outreach? How much bogus aid is still flowing, under new letterhead?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (egH3D)

108 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

109 That Hamas post above: did this poster just give away a Hamas tactic? Sure seems like it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (sAmhv)

110 "Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive."

It's got to be a joke.

See previous comment and substitute "Gaza" for "New York."

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (qeyVO)

111 There will be a People's Grocery Store with mostly empty shelves stocked with crap nobody eats like canned beets. Outside it will be marked PGS #1 but infested with criminals bum scat trash rats....

Then there will be a 'secret' grocery store for the Party elites stocked with everything but crap like canned beets. It will be unmarked outside but fancy inside. Guarded by secret police.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (gAG18)

112 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...
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Per the AoS Style Guide its "Saint Rachel of Pancake".

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (TN0g+)

113 My guess - They put the pit in to catch the ones shoving old ladies down to get to the front of the line, so they could take all the sugar.

Muzzies do pretty horrible things to each other, given half a chance.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (D1vbu)

114 The sugar-pit tweet REALLY sounds like someone ridiculing hamas propaganda.
If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.
Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

I believe everything I read on the internet.

After all, it would be damn near impossible for anyone to pull out a device and video the goings on. Which is a shame, because we all LLLLOOOOOOOOOOVE seeing people buried alive in sugar pits.

So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)

115 Had she not have been bulldozed she would have martyred herself

Yeah its been two generations since apartheid ended

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (bXbFr)

116 That bulldozer made a skip kitty out of Rachel Corrie.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (gAG18)

117 It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

It's difficult to realize we live in the same country. I can't imagine what it is like to have to accept that as part of the activities of daily life.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (F3Dlr)

118 5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

There is no shortage of grocery stores in most neighborhoods.

I have 4 full sized (well, NYC full sized) within 4 or 5 blocks of me.

In poor neighborhoods, there are way fewer. Some would argue due to racism, most would argue that there used to be grocery stores there, but they went out of business due to a combination of shop lifting and low sales.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

119 > CNN, "Why this developer created an app to alert ICE sightings.
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Someone needs to make an app that tracks and can DOXX politicians. Bet this shit stops yesterday.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (Q4IgG)

120 So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)
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.....this is CNN

/most likely

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

121 Lured to their deaths with sugar, huh?

Wait'll they find out about the beads.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (MX0bI)

122 The best name I saw for the NYC gubmint grocery stores was "Holodo-mart." Saw it on this venue, to be precise.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)

123 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

124 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.
Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

109 That Hamas post above: did this poster just give away a Hamas tactic? Sure seems like it.
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Another secret tactic is--check this out--they lay out this loop of rope on the ground and tie it to tree limb that has been pulled downwards...and then when someone steps inside the loop....

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)

125 I believe you can actually buy that sugar trap directly from Acme.
Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (+opPw)

You can, but the problem is, when you try to trap a small bird with it, the bird can just come and peck away at all the sugar, then just walk off.

But if you're a coyote, as soon as you step onto the tarp, yoink! In you go.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (dGCAG)

126 5 stores for a city with what, 15 million peeps? 3 million people a day?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:06 PM (8avO+)

There is no shortage of grocery stores in most neighborhoods.

I have 4 full sized (well, NYC full sized) within 4 or 5 blocks of me.

In poor neighborhoods, there are way fewer. Some would argue due to racism, most would argue that there used to be grocery stores there, but they went out of business due to a combination of shop lifting and low sales.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (uCjyK)

There won't be once the government is in direct competition with them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

127 It's difficult to realize we live in the same country. I can't imagine what it is like to have to accept that as part of the activities of daily life.
Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (F3Dlr)

It's infuriating. And yeah, yeah, I know, NYC has always been a bit like this.

But it is noticeably worse since COVID. Like crazily worse.

The homeless problem is also out of control. I have to deal with screaming schizophrenics at least 10% of the time I take the subway, but (assuming I leave my apartment), I don't go a single day without seeing homeless people who should be in a mental hospital or somewhere other than sleeping on the streets.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (uCjyK)

128 We flatten people with tank treads. Nice of Joe to leave us working tanks.

Posted by: ISIS at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (gAG18)

129 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Wasn't she the one who rode a zebra for a video or something? Not that I care. Just a vague memory of her doing that.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (gKDq2)

130 Thats how science works

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (bXbFr)

131 81. Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes
--

Philadelphia Africatown

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (NFX2v)

132 Probably been mentioned before, but nonetheless, Happy Canada Day to all our like-minded brethren north of the 49th Parallel!

Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (LcfSi)

133 There won't be once the government is in direct competition with them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

No one's building a government grocery store in my neighborhood, ha.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (uCjyK)

134 The cops arent walking away from their pensions, and I don't know if you've been to Times Square lately, but uh... way ahead of you on that one.

Also, you'll be glad to know that the Africans have set up a bazaar on Canal Street (in Chinatown). Which is a big part of the reason the Chinese voted for Trump. They don't like their scam being elbowed in on.

It's fun walking to the court house and a bunch of gigantic west african dudes are shoving massive baggies of weed, stolen ipads, and knock off purses in your face.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:03 PM

The last time I was in NYC I was a truck driver and that was 20 years ago. When I stopped in some places in the Bronx and Brooklyn the cops would pull up behind my truck to make sure nothing was stolen when I went inside to make a delivery. I once told a couple of cops in Queens that my truck was empty and they didn't need to watch it, they asked me if I wanted my truck to be there when I got done with my paperwork. They stayed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (e5NfL)

135 Another secret tactic is--check this out--they lay out this loop of rope on the ground and tie it to tree limb that has been pulled downwards...and then when someone steps inside the loop....
Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)
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Those never work, though. Either the tree falls over on the person setting it up or it catches the person trying to set it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (tT6L1)

136 So we're just going to have to believe it happened, until someone proves it didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (dGCAG)
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.....this is CNN

/most likely
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 01, 2025 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

Where's Charles Jerko with a microphone when you need him?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (dGCAG)

137 If only someone or something could be more tone deaf and clueless than a party running a nepot, faux-Third Worlder who thinks every one of his sophomoric utterances is a bolt of truth-lightning in the dark world, starved for his enlightenment....

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the NY GOP.

Posted by: Zek at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (VnYzE)

138 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Think it actually Sugar Walls.

Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (r2ymA)

139 A sugar trap! Dammit, and I've always used honey!!

Posted by: Chinee Spy at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (0eaVi)

140 Sheena Easton was hot, but her voice was really unremarkable. But, then, that wasn't the point, was it?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (0aYVJ)

141 My GF puts out sugar traps for the hummingbirds but they always get the sugar before they're trapped.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gAG18)

142
FBI chief Kash Patel says he will shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building and move FBI operations to the Ronald Reagan Building.

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I was hoping he'd move it to Flyover Country. Buy one of those dead malls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (egH3D)

143 Sheena Easton was the one with the song about her sugar pit.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

Wasn't she the one who rode a zebra for a video or something? Not that I care. Just a vague memory of her doing that.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:14 PM (gKDq2)

They probably spray painted a horse. I hear zebras aren't cool with riders.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (8avO+)

144
Wait, is the App still up & operating??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (qQgZS)

145 Harry Paratestes,

It's funny. The day after the election, the street vendors clogging up the streets in Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue were gone. After the inauguration, you can walk around during the day and the crowds are way down.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gKDq2)

146 "Think it actually Sugar Walls.
Posted by: chavon

Oh, well. Look who's the music expert now.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

147 Hush little baby
Don't you cry
Momma's gonna be proud when you die
Momma's gonna make you a suicide vest
Teach you how to cry out "Death to the West"

Tehran lullaby

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (gm9Sb)

148 A sugar trap! Dammit, and I've always used honey!!
Posted by: Chinee Spy at July 01, 2025 07:15 PM (0eaVi)

Yeah, Ji Jiping keeps ordering more honey pots for some reason.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (dGCAG)

149
And why not charge the PLATFORMS hosting the App, like Android & Apple?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (qQgZS)

150 Yeah, this is the thing I wanted to drill down on. The Dean of DEI is dead, long live the Dean of Student Outreach? How much bogus aid is still flowing, under new letterhead?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:09 PM (egH3D)

I would guess most if not all of it is flowing through different cut outs and NGO's under different memo lines in different budgets.

Not that I'm against shutting down USAID. It absolutely should have been shut down back in the 1970's after it became clear that USAID was the cut out used to spin up wars all over Indochina. But I guarantee it is far from the only funding source of getting fed dollars to deep state-sponsored activities.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (uCjyK)

151 She had that charming irish lilt

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (bXbFr)

152 Mmm, floor-pie!

*snare grabs his foot*

*Sadly* d'oh!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (0aYVJ)

153 Let me take you somewhere you've never been
I can show you things you've never seen
I can make you never want to fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls
****
Nice
Put me down for one night.

Posted by: torabora at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (gAG18)

154 Mamdani Is a friggin' op.
His whole thing is bullsh*t.
This dumbass probably can't balance his checkbook. Fu*k him.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 01, 2025 07:18 PM (1bdKO)

155 137, lol Zek, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (Z5NUn)

156 According to Mamdani, his five grocery stores would cost $60 million.
.......

Beet Mart.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (v0R5T)

157 The picture of the women holding up their babies to die for the cause reminds of nothing so much as the Phillistines = Palestinians in Latin (the real ones from the Old Testament) making their first-born male child to “pass through the fire” to Moloch.
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Last letter from Magda Goebbels:

Life will not be worth living in the world that will come after Hitler and National Socialism.

Therefore, I have also brought the children here with me. They are too precious for the life that will come after us; a merciful God will understand me when I myself help them to a merciful deliverance. You will live on, and for you I have but one request; never forget that you are a German. Do nothing against your honour and take care that you do nothing with your life that will have made our death purposeless.
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Then...she poisoned the six children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

158 112 IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 01, 2025 07:07 PM (ycI94)
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Yet, this always makes me snicker...
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Per the AoS Style Guide its "Saint Rachel of Pancake".

Posted by: Crusader at July 01, 2025 07:10 PM (TN0g+)
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I prefer to think it was actually a steamroller that got Ms. Corrie instead of a bulldozer.

Posted by: 496 at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (QbJcY)

159 It's funny. The day after the election, the street vendors clogging up the streets in Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue were gone. After the inauguration, you can walk around during the day and the crowds are way down.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM (gKDq2)

I'll bet. Didn't one of the vendors get caught killing a pigeon to eat for lunch over there recently?

I haven't been in a few months, I rarely make it farther than Astoria these days.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (uCjyK)

160 Does IKEA offer a cuck chair?

Asking for David F.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

161 151

Who had an Irish lilt?

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:20 PM (+opPw)

162 "Then...she poisoned the six children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer"

She doesn't seem nice.

Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

163 And yeah, yeah, I know, NYC has always been a bit like this.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Honestly, I can't imagine your life. I need to stop being so naive and realize that our life is not everyone's life.
I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Independence Day.

Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (F3Dlr)

164 "Think it actually Sugar Walls.
Posted by: chavon

Oh, well. Look who's the music expert now.
Posted by: fd at July 01, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

When she was in her early 20s it was Sugar Walls.

Now it's prolly Sour Pustule Flaps.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (dGCAG)

165 USAID was pure graft.

The problem is there are thousands of programs that are pure graft.

It's like sticking a finger in a dyke.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

166 Time to lose my virginity and watch "Alien."

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 06:47 PM (jvJvP)

How you doin'?

Posted by: Chest Buster at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (0eaVi)

167 I can't believe those dumb Palis feel for the Ruthless Podcast's monkey banana moat trick!

Posted by: yoyopg at July 01, 2025 07:22 PM (YZlOS)

168 Mamdani announcing he will establish a world-class salsa manufacturing outfit would go a long way to ameliorating some of the anti-NYC sentiment out there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)

169 -
They probably spray painted a horse. I hear zebras aren't cool with riders.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 01, 2025 07:16 PM
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That is also how we earn a living. I won't bring up our second jobs.

Posted by: Tijuana Burros Local #132 at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (XkkIn)

170 USAID was pure graft.

The problem is there are thousands of programs that are pure graft.

It's like sticking a finger in a dyke.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (XV/Pl)

You misspelled CIA Sugar Pit.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

171 Black bread - Wednesdays only.

Posted by: wth at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (v0R5T)

172 Sheena easton

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:23 PM (bXbFr)

173 Why are so many people regurgitating the line that this mohammedani guy is charismatic and good looking.
He looks like a melon headed cab driver in a cheap suit.
I'm judging you ladies.
"squints eyes"

Posted by: Cmonman at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (Pm+t0)

174
About Mamdani the commie, he could easily slither out of most of that gotcha story from Just the News. Of course he supports the Russian Revolution! Would you want a CZAR in America? Isn't that what we fought our own Revolutionary War for? I never said I supported what came after!

etc.

It's interesting background, but I'd analyze his free buses and government-run grocery stores.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (egH3D)

175 Mamdani has a hip new Idea for you Cool Cats:

Government-owned Community Land Trusts, to buy housing for community ownership.
He's going to end subsidies for luxury housing and use it to build "beautiful, high-quality social housing projects."

Yes.
He wants to bring back the projects.

Ho Lee Fuk.
The stupid kids are going to vote for this. Because they all think they are going to get free apartments in NYC.

This is going to be so awesome! I can't wait for them to build a wall to keep us out of their paradise.

Go, go Mamdani!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (LbQ3Z)

176 Honestly, I can't imagine your life. I need to stop being so naive and realize that our life is not everyone's life.
I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Independence Day.
Posted by: old chick at July 01, 2025 07:21 PM (F3Dlr)

Thank you. And yes, I have lived all over the East Coast, I know this isn't exactly "normal" for most people, but it is a harbinger of what's to come as our New Americans spread out across the country. And spreading out they are.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (uCjyK)

177 I foresee a familiar New York Post headline in the next few years if Madmani gets elected:

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (6ydKt)

178 Then...she poisoned the six children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

She was a 'family annihilator'. But at least she annihilated herself. (Thinking of John List.)

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (gKDq2)

179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.

Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

180 Wow, so much winning the last several days, I feel like I might need a dose of naloxone.

Posted by: Paco at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

181
Why are so many people regurgitating the line that this mohammedani guy is charismatic and good looking.
He looks like a melon headed cab driver in a cheap suit.
I'm judging you ladies.
"squints eyes"
Posted by: Cmonman

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

His looks don't appeal to me, but I can see how one would call him objectively attractive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (egH3D)

182 Mamdani announcing he will establish a world-class salsa manufacturing outfit would go a long way to ameliorating some of the anti-NYC sentiment out there.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Hummus...would you go for hummus?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

183 The rats will get the apartments

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (bXbFr)

184 77 Stephen A. Smith, a rare voice of reason. Hope someone is listening.
"Democrats will ‘have no chance’ if they become like Mamdani!"
“You might have a democratic socialist sprinkled here and there, but that ain’t what America is. America’s about capitalism! America’s about dollars and cents,” Smith said.

LOL, Smith is about as an installed establishment voice that you can get.
Posted by: chavon at July 01, 2025 07:01 PM (r2ymA)

Wasn't he the down-low bro who went after that kid wearing face paint at that KC Chiefs game?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 01, 2025 07:26 PM (bA75n)

185 From above:

NEW: Hundreds of women hold up their babies into the air to show they're willing to offer them up as martyrs in Tehran, Iran according to CNN

Run out the video until the end 1:39, expand and freeze it and look at the women's faces.

There are many distressed, unhappy.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (NFX2v)

186 She was a 'family annihilator'. But at least she annihilated herself. (Thinking of John List.)
Posted by: RickZ
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Yup. Faint praise, but noteworthy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (XeU6L)

187 @170

>>You misspelled CIA Sugar Pit.

I bet programs like USAID and others were the source of Epstein's funding.

If you gave me the necessary clearances and access to Sentinal, Trident and Echelon, I got some queries I'd like to run.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (XV/Pl)

188 Blonde Morticia don't think it's a similar situation, Rubio is distributing things (mostly, I'd guess) by regional bureaus, removing a separate USAID hierarchy and placing things under, for example, the Asst. Sec. for Latin America, thence to the the Brazil, southern cone, Central America desks etc. Idea being to align activities (and budgets) with national policy.

Which of course doesn't really parse out if, as should be the case, you're policing USAID as you should be in terms of alignment, but whatever. Doesn't really track with the way things were way back, but I strongly suspect things went waaaay off the rails starting with Obama and the nutcase he put in charge as administrator.

Of course you've got the inherent problem of the quality and mindset of State personnel, but that's an old challenge Rubio faces anyway. Basically you can count on the funding for Brazilian transgender operas being gone, but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

189 He's going to end subsidies for luxury housing and use it to build "beautiful, high-quality social housing projects."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 01, 2025 07:24 PM (LbQ3Z)

Did he say that?

If so, now I think he's a plant.

Hear me out: the biggest (and I mean biggest) complaint of the rich people in NYC is that all new apartment buildings need to have "affordable housing".

So if you want to live in a $8,000 a month apartment with a parking garage and pool on the roof, and that building has been built in the last 10 years or whatever, something like 10% of your building will be "affordable housing" types. Now, in some contexts thats okay -- NYC is weird with how they define poor (my friend makes $150k a year and is one of those apartments). But usually that means you have ghetto people partying in your pool 24/7.

If this chucklehead is saying he's going to eliminate that and segregate the poors in to projects, the rich will be over the moon about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (uCjyK)

190 171 Black bread - Wednesdays only.
Posted by: wth

Edward Teach > Black bread

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (ycI94)

191 The rats will get the apartments
Posted by: Miguel cervantes
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AKA, 'food'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (XeU6L)

192 TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD

Trump to city: watch out for that sugar pit.
City: F*ck you, don't tell us what to do!

Posted by: Oddbob at July 01, 2025 07:29 PM (9IGJf)

193 180 Wow, so much winning the last several days, I feel like I might need a dose of naloxone.

Posted by: Paco at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (mADJX)

I've been seeing the weirdest ads on YouTube in the last few weeks.

Apparently, some government agency is funding public service ads telling regular people to carry around Naloxone with them, you know, just in case somebody around you has an overdose.

WTF.

Are we all living in Pulp Fiction now?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 07:29 PM (6ydKt)

194 New absurd Hamas jihadi propaganda drops:
______________________________

I'm relieved to see that Hamas has access to mid 20th century Looney Tune Cartoons. That tarp trick was used in at least 40% of them.

I guess that makes Hamas Wile E. Coyote. *Meep *Meep

Posted by: Orson at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (dIske)

195 Edward Teach > Black bread
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM

Was the Moose a black beard?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (0sNs1)

196 but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

This African river blindness. Is it cured by screwing virgin girls?

Asking for a continent.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)

197 Black bread - Wednesdays only.
Posted by: wth

Edward Teach > Black bread
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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[tries to make comment using 'Queen Anne's Revenge'. Fails]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:30 PM (XeU6L)

198 Pardon my french but after they had a (redacted) rat epidemic sweeping the city, they are going for this tool!

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 01, 2025 07:31 PM (bXbFr)

199 Golda did not get a chance to see peace in her time, or in the following two generations.

I wonder how long it will be before her observation becomes true? If ever?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)

"Martyr Babies" goes all the way back to the PLO and Fatah and other Islamist expressions of terrorism. Sunni and Shi'a. The Sunnis even make cute little cammies and fake bomb vests for their kids.

Besides, the US has seen this before - namely the Hitler Jugend and Japanese school children armed with bamboo spears and rudimentary explosives. In the case of Germany, US GIs did what they had to do. For the Japanese kids and their mothers, the US XXI Bomber Command fire bombed every major city in Japan followed by two nukes, which ended that business.

I sure hope the Ayatollahs pay attention to US military history.

Posted by: mrp at July 01, 2025 07:31 PM (rj6Yv)

200 Basically you can count on the funding for Brazilian transgender operas being gone, but I'd expect African river blindness programs and disaster relief to proceed much as before.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 01, 2025 07:27 PM (1m82a)

Yeah, yeah, but the bigger picture here is that USAID was set up like a money laundering operation. We have no idea if the money was used for transgender operas in India (as the line item said), or if it was used to fund black lives matter. The money disperses in to a web of non profits and becomes difficult if not impossible to follow.

So instead of the line item being "transgender operas" and coming from USAID, change it to "assistance for minority farmers" and throw it in the Dept of Ag budget, and send it through a similar web of NGO's, and it ends up with black lives matter at the end of the day anyways.

That's the real scandal here. And that's why I'm not sure shutting down USAID will have any long term impact on that money laundering structure at all.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (uCjyK)

201 If someone actually wrote that while thinking it was believable, that is some VERY impressive stupidity.
Posted by: irright at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM (XkkIn)

Some guy named "Soliman" or something like that posted a series about how Mossad were hiding actual Star Destroyers under Tel Aviv business offices. A depressing number of pro-Israel accounts dropped by to say "no, this isn't true" in the replies. Clearly hadn't watched the whole thing; just jerked knees.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (gKWVE)

202 Look Omar this is America. We've got attack Killer bees if we need them and the stickiest honey on the planet.

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (FhXTo)

203 179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

IIRC, it was not always this way - the colors were reversed at one point in the past. Too lazy to look it up.

*pauses*

Just looked it up. It was codified in the 2000 election, but before that it was a bit of a free-for-all, depending upon the broadcaster. In 1980, ABC used red for Ds and blue for Rs, for instance.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (0CU3H)

204 nood pussy

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (uCjyK)

205 Could that actually come to fruition?

Pride Month is almost over!?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (0bqfM)

206 I sure hope the Ayatollahs pay attention to US military history.
Posted by: mrp
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I hope that *our* politicians pay attention to U.S military history.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (XeU6L)

207 Cafe is open.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 01, 2025 07:33 PM (h7ZuX)

208 172 Sheen Easton

Oh. I thought's that who you meant. She's Scottish.

Posted by: STV at July 01, 2025 07:34 PM (+opPw)

209 As I did not want to click on a CNN propaganda video, what were the mothers offering their babies for? Sugar?
Come bomb me?

I love babies and am sorry you have these women for mothers.

The sugar pit deal sounds like a bunch of baloney as well. Who drove the bulldozer? Need more facts Omar Taqiyya.

No cannibals involved in this thread.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (6PCLE)

210 and lives the more, the more labor it sucks,"

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (0bqfM)

211 i[]That's the real scandal here. And that's why I'm not sure shutting down USAID will have any long term impact on that money laundering structure at all.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:32 PM (uCjyK)

Oh I think it does. The Dems wouldn't be squealing so loudly if it wasn't.

A lot of NGO funding via third parties of Democrat campaigns ended.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (gKDq2)

212 Ah...they want their sweet babies to be martyrs.

Now I see. NOT

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 01, 2025 07:35 PM (6PCLE)

213 179 I want Trump to do an executive order to change the current red/blue dynamic. WE should be blue, THEY should be red. They’re commies.
Posted by: Blutarski at July 01, 2025 07:25 PM (b294k)

I once heard that it was NBC News that first came up with the red/blue thing back in the early 2000's. Obviously, it stuck. NBC was doing propaganda way back then. To the surprise of nobody.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 01, 2025 07:36 PM (dadcM)

214 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 01, 2025 07:28 PM (uCjyK)

Did he say where he's putting them. 🤔

Posted by: ... at July 01, 2025 07:37 PM (E0p3T)

215 I once heard that it was NBC News that first came up with the red/blue thing back in the early 2000's. Obviously, it stuck. NBC was doing propaganda way back then. To the surprise of nobody.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 01, 2025 07:36 PM (dadcM)

Prior to that, the electoral map changed color for the Parties each election. Growing up, there was no such thing as a Red State or a Blue State. That's a recent addition to our vocabulary.

Look at campaign posters from back then. All colors were used by both Parties, the red, the white and the blue.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 07:39 PM (gKDq2)

216 A couple of notes on the "successful" young "democratic" communist mayor in India: 1. Power centers were divided up in advance. 2. Much of the money for the area came from remittances from abroad. 3. The locals tend to kick the communists out every five years or so.

https://x.com/peterboghossian/status/
1939075238538682601

Posted by: KT at July 01, 2025 07:43 PM (xekrU)

217 I'm sure we've all got a list of Hoover Building employees we'd invite to the demolition ceremony. Closely.

Posted by: DaveA at July 01, 2025 07:43 PM (FhXTo)

218 Shit I just watched a video of the Sex Pistols playing Road Runner. It will be in my head for the rest of the week

With the radio on.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 01, 2025 07:44 PM (wBaIH)

219 Instead of a pit, The Americans should set up big box held up by a stick with a long string on it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 01, 2025 07:44 PM (xn0Ie)

220 Did anyone call nood? Cause cafe is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 01, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

221 161 151

Who had an Irish lilt?

I took that as a quote from 'Ronin'. Dierdre was the character's name. It was from her first meeting with the mercenary team; Sean Bean (posing as a former SAS soldier) asked something like

'And what are we to infer from your charming Irish lilt?'

And she just batted it back to him. 'Ye can infer whatever ye like'.

Great action movie even though I would love to c*nt punt De Niro into a giant garbage can.

Posted by: Nelly at July 01, 2025 08:05 PM (cHLus)

222 I would rather that madman win the election, then NYC would get fvcked good and hard like they deserve to be after voting for this freak. Once all of the cops quit and times square turns into barter town maybe they will wake up and stop being stupid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 01, 2025 07:00 PM

Considering NYC is a "sanctuary city", I doubt it will stop being stupid. If Mandami wins, consider NYC conquered by the Marxist Islamist left, similar to all the cities in the UK which have been conquered and are now controlled with Muslim mayors/leaders. Similar to how the Marxist left has taken over Minnesota and California and Colorado.

There is going to be no one left in NYC to save it, considering the Marxist policies are going to drive out anyone with any sanity. Kiss NYC goodbye if he wins. And that will be a massive victory for the Islamists, just 24 years after they attacked arguably the USA's greatest city, now they would taken control of it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 08:10 PM (P5BPp)

223 He is but my understanding is that the DOGE boys team is still working although we've not seen any more announcements/information on what is current status.

Posted by: Cheri at July 01, 2025 06:55 PM

From the DOGE X feed:

Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE

Contracts Update!

Over the last 7 days, agencies have terminated 312 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.8B and savings of $470M, including a DoD $286k professional and management development contract for an “entrepreneurship course at Harvard University”, and a $485k USAID contract for a “senior general development advisor at USAID Madagascar."

8:39 AM · Jun 26, 2025 - https://bit.ly/44pBJJY

GSA @USGSA

Outdated contracts & redundancies are being removed as @USGSA sharpens focus on wasteful contracts, efficiency, & taxpayer return -- reducing admin burden & strengthening acquisition performance. Thank you for help on this effort @DOGE!

2:03 PM · Jun 26, 2025

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 01, 2025 08:22 PM (P5BPp)

224 Soothsayer -

You know apartheid ended in 1994: 31 years ago. How do young white South Africans bear any responsibility for a system they had no part in? I think of Serpentza from YouTube or Elon Musk himself. They no longer belong in the country they were born in! Modern day white South Africans were supposed to be forgiven for the crimes of the past: they had national commissions to do this. But instead it’s all “Kill the Boer,” and “Seize the land!”
But the people they give the land to after the owners have been killed, can’t even farm! South Africa is setting itself up for famine! But we shouldn’t give asylum to white South African farmers just because they are being persecuted for the color of their skin! You do know the Zulus are the recent interlopers, right? The Dutch settlers got there 400 years ago. The Zulus invaded from the north in the late 1800s. If anybody deserves to be called the original inhabitants of South Africa it would be the Hottentots!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 01, 2025 08:24 PM (1paM0)

225 132 Probably been mentioned before, but nonetheless, Happy Canada Day to all our like-minded brethren north of the 49th Parallel!

Posted by: John Drake at July 01, 2025 07:1

Thank you so much.

I have a 12 pack and am apparently a contrarion?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 08:28 PM (jvJvP)

226 USAID is shut down and suddenly the Democrats are broke. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Posted by: Warmongerel at July 02, 2025 01:17 AM (iUyX0)

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