Rhode Island Progressive Assemblyman Attacks ICE as "Nazi" "Gestapo" For Arresting Another Maryland Man

He declares the Maryland Man (of Rhode Island) wasn't arrested -- he was "kidnapped" in an "act of terror."

'ACT OF TERROR': Progressive Rhode Island lawmaker @EnriqueForRI unleashes heinous "Nazi Gestapo" insult at @ICEgov after agents arrested his "neighbor," but officials turn the tables on the far-left representative with a brutal reality check. The violent illegal alien taken into… pic.twitter.com/TYVU1kVg0d
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2025

So who is this newest Maryland Man? Take your best guess.

Too easy, you were right.

ICE @EROBoston arrested Ivan Rene Mendoza-Meza, an illegal Honduran alien and self-admitted MS-13 member, in Providence, RI. His criminal history includes 3 charges for fentanyl trafficking. RI's 6th District Court ignored an ICE detainer and released him back into the community. pic.twitter.com/DtPVRqvWug
— ERO Boston (@EROBoston) July 15, 2025

After Fox News reported on this scumbag, he sniffed, "Fox News has nothing better to report on" (than me inciting more violence against ICE while defending an admitted MS-13 gang member and fentanyl dealer).

I'm old enough to remember the days when that would always be a story. Even on CNN.

This is a Rhode Island Democratic state rep who called ICE “Nazi Gestapo thugs” for “kidnapping” a “neighbor” in Providence, RI in what he described as an “act of terror”.

The “neighbor” turned out to be Honduran MS-13 gang member w/ pending fentanyl trafficking charges in RI. https://t.co/Cz2sgtto5g
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 15, 2025

Meanwhile, this Cultural Enricher says that deporting illegals is "human trafficking" and that ICE is a human trafficking orgnaization.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D) says that ICE is carrying out "human trafficking" because they are arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/1C2Ib2N4z7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2025

While Democrats promote illegal alien MS-13 gangsters selling fentanyl in the US, Trump signs a law increasing penalties for trafficking the deadly drug.

An illegal migrant from Venezuela has pleaded guilty to causing a head-on crash in Missouri that killed a boy a day before his 12th birthday.
Endrina Bracho, 34, was driving with her own two kids on Dec. 20, 2023, when her Dodge van crossed onto the opposite lane in Hazelwood, a suburb of St. Louis, at 75 mph -- 35 mph over the speed limit, Fox 2 reported.
She smashed head-on into a Jeep carrying Travis Wolfe, who spent several months on life support until succumbing to his injuries on March 6, 2024, a day before his 12th birthday.

Bracho's two children were taken to the same hospital with serious injuries, while Travis' parents, Timothy and Stephanie, were treated at another hospital for multiple broken bones.
Bracho pleaded guilty in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Monday to first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault.

Click the link to see this boy in the hospital before dying of the injuries inflicted on him by this drunk criminal Cultural Enricher.

Posted by: Ace at 04:39 PM

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1 Sending people home is not "human trafficking"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 04:40 PM (t0Rmr)

2
More lie subhuman trafficking

It's all good!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 16, 2025 04:40 PM (xG4kz)

3 No nooders.

Posted by: toby928 is this a trope? at July 16, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

4 MY GONADS ARE AFIRE!

Posted by: MUMR at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (ppBhU)

5 "Maryland Man (of Rhode Island)"

Sneaky! They're the ones you have to look out for,.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (J4/Z5)

6 Let me guess, this guy is another Nobody like CA's other Senator?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (ULPxl)

7 Remember beating a woman to death because she is protesting a stolen election is just good policing.

But sending illegal aliens back home? Its like literally the NAZIs man.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (t0Rmr)

8 They keep using obviously incendiary terms like kidnapping for lawful detentions. They very clearly are inciting violence.

Posted by: steevy at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

9 First!

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (I4CNo)

10 Hmmmm. Centered.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:42 PM (I4CNo)

11 Related: Let's keep this Cultural Enricher and Cancer Curer too.

You forgot "asteroid deflector".

Posted by: This... is XiNN at July 16, 2025 04:42 PM (ULPxl)

12 From wiki: "Frost was born on January 17, 1997, to a Puerto Rican mother of Lebanese descent and a Haitian father. His biological mother had several children. He was adopted from birth; his adoptive mother is a special education teacher who migrated to the United States from Cuba in the Freedom Flights, and his adoptive father is a musician from Kansas. He reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021."

Guy's like a walking UN.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 04:42 PM (uCjyK)

13 So RI Man...Is he also Father of the year ? Time for a margarita summit....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (VE6XX)

14 Endrina Bracho, 34, was driving with her own two kids on Dec. 20, 2023, when her Dodge van crossed onto the opposite lane in Hazelwood, a suburb of St. Louis, at 75 mph -- 35 mph over the speed limit, Fox 2 reported.

She's just vehicular homiciding the 12 year olds American's won't.

Really its an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)

15 ace, I demand you uncenter us. This is cruel and inhuman.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (uCjyK)

16 *thinks about middling comment*

*refrains from middling comment*

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (vFG9F)

17 I get the feeling that
I am starting
to shrink

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (bNf8H)

18 "Guy's like a walking UN."

The next Obama.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (J4/Z5)

19 If we could convince the Dems that all illegals are right wing, anti gay, Christian conservatives, they'd help round them up.

Just saying....

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 11.7 % at July 16, 2025 04:44 PM (jvJvP)

20 Open Tags should be a Schedule I narcotic!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 04:44 PM (2yoRf)

21 They are doing politics anymore. They are relying on the ballot box.

1. Judicial revolt.
2. Nullification of federal law by states.
3. Triggering loan wolf attacks
4. ??????
5. Not profit

Posted by: Cultural enricher at July 16, 2025 04:44 PM (+oO5/)

22 My quick search tells me Sanchez is a neighbor to Meza much like I'm a close personal friend to President Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

23
Sneaky! They're the ones you have to look out for,.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:41 PM (J4/Z5)

__________

It's the Providence Plantation ones that are the real threat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 04:45 PM (HZi96)

24 The next Obama.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (J4/Z5)

If only he had a trans disabled adopted dad. Then he'd be ideal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 04:45 PM (uCjyK)

25 Loan wolf >> loan shark

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:45 PM (J4/Z5)

26 >>> 25 Loan wolf >> loan shark
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:45 PM (J4/Z5)

Wolfnado <<<<< Sharknado

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (ULPxl)

27 This is how these scumbags raise money. Take the most revolting position embraced by dumbfucks and watch the money roll in.

Posted by: spongeworthy at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (CDWlY)

28 New format?

DO NOT LIKE
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (F/35S)

29 (Rhode Island isn't really a state, you know)

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (AOsQT)

30 >>> 24 The next Obama.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (J4/Z5)

If only he had a trans disabled adopted dad. Then he'd be ideal.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 04:45 PM (uCjyK)

*scribbling notes*

Posted by: DIESney writers at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (ULPxl)

31 Stay in the center. The surrounding moat is filled with alligators and snakes!!!!

Posted by: Cultural enricher at July 16, 2025 04:46 PM (+oO5/)

32 This only makes sense when you understand that no democrat will ever lose an election for being completely insane in rhode island. In fact this will most likely bump him up a couple of points in the next election.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (e5NfL)

33 Wolfus Aurelius >>>>> Wolfnado

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

34 Now who will discover cancer?
Or cure gravity?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (2rdQx)

35 Rhode Island is a fake Hollywood state, like East Dakota and Maryland.

Posted by: toby928 is this a trope? at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)

36 Sending people home is not "human trafficking"
----
Not to the US Virgin Islands at least.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (2yoRf)

37 Did Ace send himself to the Barrel?

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (I4CNo)

38 Centered.
It's not that we have so many douchebags in RI, it's just that our douchebags embrace the suck so, so much.

Posted by: From about That Tim at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (v5U2D)

39 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

40 Stuck in the middle again.

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (Oy/m2)

41 (Rhode Island isn't really a state, you know)
Posted by: Don Black

Fun fact: It was the last of the original 13 to ratify the Constitution.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

42 So now that murderous illegal will be taken care of by us for 27 years ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (VE6XX)

43 Remain calm.

The Centeredness is just the exuberance of the moment.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (0sNs1)

44 Comments sections should be like politics

Always Justified on the left, only Justified on the left.

Nothing justified on the right.

Even the center is to right for the left.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (F/35S)

45 Yes, JUST LIKE THE NAZIS!

We all remember when all the Jews were trying to sneak IN to Nazi Germany, right? And Hitler was giving them free tickets back home?

Oh, wait: that's not how it worked at all, was it?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (qpyNK)

46
Steady boys
steady

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)

47 >>> 39 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

How can you be so cruel, expecting them to try to appeal to normal American citizens?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)

48

Maxwell Frost Agent 86

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (63Dwl)

49 RI's 6th District Court ignored an ICE detainer and released him back into the community.

Did they even put a tag on him or just oopsie, fell out of the net.

Posted by: DaveA at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (FhXTo)

50 🐊 🐊 Stay in the center. The surrounding moat is filled with alligators and snakes!!!! 🐊 🐊

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (2yoRf)

51 Jokers to the left of me, Clowns to the right.
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (6ydKt)

52 What part of Rhode Island is Enrique from???

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Oy/m2)

53 Did Ace send himself to the Barrel?
Posted by: Polka will never die

The Barrel needs new shelving installed.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

54 12 From wiki: "Frost was born on January 17, 1997, to a Puerto Rican mother of Lebanese descent and a Haitian father. His biological mother had several children. He was adopted from birth; his adoptive mother is a special education teacher who migrated to the United States from Cuba in the Freedom Flights, and his adoptive father is a musician from Kansas. He reconnected with his birth mother in June 2021."

Guy's like a walking UN.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
=======
Old trick to use such critters as infiltrators/puppet leaders to oppress the population when in offices.

They lack any empathy for their fellow citizens because they don't view them as people like themselves. Often that leads to themselves being filled with anger of rejection and commensurate feelings of superiority (while hidden insecurities lurk).

That is what estranging a person from their heritage, ancestors, and society does-produces stateless and isolated peeps that can be manipulated to do the dirty work in suppressing the natives. Anomie results.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

55 [/center]

Trying a fix.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (qpyNK)

56 But everybody hates hospital food.

In my short stay at the hospital I wasn't able to eat much but I thought the food was fine. Menu was kind of small, so I would have gotten tired of it in a hurry, but well made.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (dfIr7)

57 39 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

If the Dems lose illegal immigration they've lost the whole game

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (I4CNo)

58 I want this assemblyman deported.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (dWlcQ)

59
Loan dire wolf >> Loan wolf >> Loan shark

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (HZi96)

60 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.
===
Those you care about you defend. Everybody else is on there own. That's right, they don't prefer legal, law abiding, taxpayers Americans. Wonder why????

Posted by: Cultural enricher at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (+oO5/)

61 [/block]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (/HDaX)

62 >>> 54

=======
Old trick to use such critters as infiltrators/puppet leaders to oppress the population when in offices.

They lack any empathy for their fellow citizens because they don't view them as people like themselves. Often that leads to themselves being filled with anger of rejection and commensurate feelings of superiority (while hidden insecurities lurk).

That is what estranging a person from their heritage, ancestors, and society does-produces stateless and isolated peeps that can be manipulated to do the dirty work in suppressing the natives. Anomie results.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

*tee hee*

Posted by: see eye eh at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (ULPxl)

63 Ohm

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (W2Pud)

64 55 [/center]

Trying a fix.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM

Fat chance, Broheim.

Posted by: Minx 0.8 beta. at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

65 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.
Posted by: blake
=======
Without them, the Democrats become a rump party as the Cloward Piven strategy dies a messy death.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (ctrM5)

66 I had a wicked coffee milk down Providence.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (J4/Z5)

67 Steady boys
steady
Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM

We appreciate your steady hand. Otherwise we might tip over.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (0sNs1)

68 Funny how the Democrats don't know any illegals but violent felons up on charges.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 04:50 PM (8avO+)

69
Hospital food isn't bad. Not terribly good, but not bad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (HZi96)

70 Rhode Island is actually just a really big yacht club and resort center

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (AOsQT)

71 With guys like this I am always stuck trying to figure out which is the cause of their outrage:

Are they

1) genuinely upset because they are ignorant and foolish, so they jump to stupid conclusions
2) feigning upset because they know the deportation of illegals will severely harm their power and earning

It cant be both, in this case, so I cannot embrace the healing power of "and"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)

72 Enrique Sanchez, former 1B-OF who played in the Red Sox farm system, says on X "I am ready to be politically prosecuted and arrested by federal authorities if ICE performs raids and arrests residents in Rhode Island.

They will have to go through me first. I am not fucking around. Im ready to go down if it means protecting our most vulnerable communities."

Perhaps the authorities need to have a sit-down with this washed up slap hitter.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

73 Sending people home is not "human trafficking"

Posted by: 18-1

Every one of these do goode asshats screaming to keep these sparks of divinity doctors & engineers...needs to be forced to house the damned illegal alien invaders in their own homes while awaiting the trials and deportations they are protesting so vehemently.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (r8Cyv)

74 Rep. Frost is an imbecile. Nice job, Florida.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (/gTjv)

75 He would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those middling kids!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (63Dwl)

76
[/sup]

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (HZi96)

77 That is what estranging a person from their heritage, ancestors, and society does-produces stateless and isolated peeps that can be manipulated to do the dirty work in suppressing the natives. Anomie results.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

But everything you just wrote is racist.

*Covers Eyes*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

78 Steady boys
steady
-----
Just a few days ago I recorded the scene from TNG where the "alien projection" of Captain Picard starts singing "Hearts of Oak" in the ship's bar.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (2yoRf)

79 >But everybody hates hospital food.

My late mother would write Thank You letters to the hospital food staff telling them how good the food was. I'd talk with them and was told those little letters were put on a bulletin board in their work area.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 11.7 % at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (jvJvP)

80 63 Ohm

Resistance is futile

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (I4CNo)

81 I support Maryland Men because they realize that Old Bay Seasoning is the one essential spice/condiment in any kultured kitchen!

Posted by: Fanny Cradock at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (G5+As)

82 Boy that innocent farm worker at the "farm" who died falling off the roof sure has disappeared from the news...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (VE6XX)

83 Take your best shot, Maryland Man.

You'll never dethrone me!

Posted by: Florida Man at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (0sNs1)

84 > 70 Rhode Island is actually just a really big yacht club and resort center
Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (AOsQT)

The municipality I live in is larger than Rhode Island.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (qpyNK)

85 *tee hee*
Posted by: see eye eh
======
Spies often have similar personality disorders as puppet leaders.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (ctrM5)

86 I just had an alert about a 7.2 earthquake in Alaska.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (TmEds)

87
Hospital food isn't bad. Not terribly good, but not bad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I thought the food I had in the hospital two years ago was quite tasty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (63Dwl)

88 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.

Every illegal deported is one less person counted in the census for congressional apportionment. Every illegal deported is one less person likely to vote for them illegally in an election. Ever illegal deported is one less person getting benefits from programs that they administer, charities that they skim from, and NGOs that they get the biggest cut from.

Its amazing they aren't screaming louder and becoming even more violent.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (dfIr7)

89 Rhode Island is actually just a really big yacht club and resort center
Posted by: Don Black

The home of JackStraw's CBD Emporium!

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

90

HOLD
FAST

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (jc0TO)

91
(*) (*)

always look better centered.

Posted by: Florida Man at July 16, 2025 04:53 PM (0sNs1)

92
But everything you just wrote is racist.

*Covers Eyes*
Posted by: SpeakingOf
=======
People are not potatoes nor widgets. Blank slate idiocy is one of the things that Locke got wrong.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:53 PM (ctrM5)

93 >>If the Dems lose illegal immigration they've lost the whole game
Posted by: Polka will never die at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (I4CNo)
__
Bingo. They literally have nothing else. No ideas. Just vote-buying.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (bNf8H)

94 Just a few days ago I recorded the scene from TNG where the "alien projection" of Captain Picard starts singing "Hearts of Oak" in the ship's bar.

He does a fine job with it, very good singing voice. I enjoy the song that Pogo did with that:

https://youtu.be/bl5TUw7sUBs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (dfIr7)

95 The times I've eaten in hospitals (not as a inmate), the food was pretty good.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

96 (Rhode Island isn't really a state, you know)
Posted by: Don Black

Fun fact: It was the last of the original 13 to ratify the Constitution.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM

rhode island started as a slave owning plantation that kind of morphed into a state.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (e5NfL)

97 > 86 I just had an alert about a 7.2 earthquake in Alaska.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (TmEds)

Out off the Alaska Peninsula. Not much out there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (qpyNK)

98 >>> 24 The next Obama.
Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:43 PM (J4/Z5)

Frost is gay, so he's got that going for him.

Posted by: huerfano at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM (n2swS)

99 Had a friend who moved to RI for work. Asked him how he liked it and all he said was "Donut shops, nothing but donut shops as far as the eye can see..."

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM (0bjKf)

100 Ivan Rene Mendoza-Meza
......

Sounds rather Soviet.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM (v0R5T)

101 When in Rhode Island, be sure to see the bubblahs.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM (J4/Z5)

102 Out off the Alaska Peninsula. Not much out there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
.....

Crabs.

Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

103 After not being able to eat for 4 days, Cream of Wheat with cinnamon tasted like manna from heaven

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (dfIr7)

104
"Was it stupid & foolish when he campaigned on releasing the files? Are Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Alina Habba all foolish & stupid for peddling this for the past 6 months?

Why on earth is he doing this?"

-- Riley Gaines on 'X'

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (0sNs1)

105 Centerville!
A great place
to raise your kids

Posted by: This usually works at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (vFG9F)

106 After we deport all the Maryland Men, how about deporting all the Portugees in Rhode Island?

Posted by: Time For Change at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (G5+As)

107 Crabs.
Posted by: wth

Meanwhile, aboard the Northwestern...
-- Mike Rowe

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

108 Soylent Verde is Undocumented People!

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (oSEaw)

109 The Democrats don't rush to defend these scumbags out of idealism or a lack of understanding of what they are.

The are defending these scumbags because they are business partners.

The Democrat party is the political arm of the criminal and revolutionary element in America - just like all those jihadi groups have a "political wing" and a "military wing"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

110 Its amazing they aren't screaming louder and becoming even more violent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I think that is coming. Cartels reportedly had about one out of ten people on their payroll in Mexico and cutting off their lucrative drug and people smuggling operations is causing them massive economic distress. If they were smart, they would take the money and run to a faraway place but my guess is that they might try to do in American what they have been doing all along in Mexico for decades.

Then you have China egging this shit on while their own country is collapsing economically and socially. Turns out running a government of corrupt sociopaths headed by a power hungry old fart like Xi is not a good combination.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (ctrM5)

111 Anyone else notice the pattern? The fringe radicals of the Democrat party are the only ones making any noise. All the usual suspects are afraid to stick their heads up and put a DOJ target on their rather voluminous posteriors. They're all waiting out the storm, and if no one took the pulpit, that would be a valid strategy.

However, the vacuous, obtuse, radical idiots see it as their chance to be heard...and it's hilarious.

Posted by: Orson at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (dIske)

112 (Rhode Island isn't really a state, you know)
Posted by: Don Black

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Here is my plan
Lose delaware and rhode island -- incorporate them into other states
Lose all residences in DC, rejoining with maryland.
Join North and South Dakota

Then split CA into N, S, and inland empire. Maybe make a state out of East Oregon.

Whatever, keep the total at 50. Maybe Alberta in future and some other bits of CA.

Then a war with Mexico to reclaim Baja California. (It was part of California, no? So it needs to be reclaimed. Add it to the LA mess.)

Later we can declare everything N of the Canal a possession and tell the Mexicans to get off our lawn. And take the smelly city with them.

(I can go on. I have lot of plans like this.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (2rdQx)

113 Where have you gone, CBD?

A blog turns it formatting eyes to you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (0sNs1)

114 >>After not being able to eat for 4 days, Cream of Wheat with cinnamon tasted like manna from heaven

When you are truly hungry...it's amazing what tastes good.

Like Spam. Spend 3-4 days snowed into a tent and a can of Spam is the tastiest thing you can ever remember eating.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (oSEaw)

115 96 (Rhode Island isn't really a state, you know)
Posted by: Don Black

Fun fact: It was the last of the original 13 to ratify the Constitution.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 04:48 PM

rhode island started as a slave owning plantation that kind of morphed into a state.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
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Founders referred to Rhode Island as Rogue Island.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (ctrM5)

116
the leftards always deliberately say "abducted" when the word they should be using is "apprehended"

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (tljrc)

117 Is refusing to honor an ICE detainer against the law? And if not, why not?

Posted by: Josephistan at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (linKX)

118 >
rhode island started as a slave owning plantation that kind of morphed into a state.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (e5NfL)

Hmm... I don't think so. Rhode Island outlawed slavery way back in 1652, only 16 years after Roger Williams founded the place.

"Plantation" doesn't necessarily imply slave labor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (qpyNK)

119 RI's 6th District Court ignored an ICE detainer and released him back into the community.

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Conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, rape, murder, and terrorism.

BOOK 'EM, DAN-O!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (bwUR+)

120 "After not being able to eat for 4 days, Cream of Wheat with cinnamon tasted like manna from heaven"

I was in the hospital for a week after abdominal surgery. Day 6 I was finally able to eat something. Weak tea and jello tasted so good that I actually cried.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (J4/Z5)

121
Every county in Wyoming is bigger than Rhode Island.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (3ek7K)

122
That is what estranging a person from their heritage, ancestors, and society does-produces stateless and isolated peeps that can be manipulated to do the dirty work in suppressing the natives. Anomie results.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

I've noticed this behavior in diplomat and missionary kids as well. They are so attuned to living in foreign countries that they feel like outsiders here in the US, and don't develop the same filial bonds as US residents. One of my biggest regrets of the Foreign Service, and if I could do it over, I'd have studied agricultural science and tried to save the family farm. It would have been far more useful and rewarding.

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (wLjpr)

123 >>> 97 86 I just had an alert about a 7.2 earthquake in Alaska.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 04:52 PM (TmEds)

Out off the Alaska Peninsula. Not much out there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:54 PM (qpyNK)

Looks like it was yesterday. Found this:
https://shorturl.at/PZtD8
"On July 15, 2023, at 10:48 pm Alaska time, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the offshore Alaska Peninsula region, almost three years after the magnitude 7.8 Simeonof Earthquake occurred in the same region. The 7.2 event was located 50 miles S of Sand Point (about 100 miles SE of the M7.8 event) at about 20 miles depth. A tsunami warning was issued immediately after the earthquake, but downgraded about an hour later to advisory level and finally canceled just before 1:00 a.m. Tsunami waves with a maximum of .5 ft. were recorded in King Cove and Sand Point. Ground shaking was reported felt in multiple communities on the Alaska Peninsula and eastern Aleutian Islands, with intensity as high as V, moderate."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 04:59 PM (ULPxl)

124 Maybe the DOJ/FBI can open an investigation on how the Chinese Organized Crime using smuggled slave labor have cornered the legal pot grow industry in many states in the North East.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 04:59 PM (XV/Pl)

125 Forget the Epstein files! Trump has engineered the return of real sugar to Coke! No longer will we have to drink imported Mexican Coke! Greatest president ever!

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 16, 2025 04:59 PM (sFNX2)

126 So, Ace is in on the 'Let's Convince People that Rhode Island is Real' Conspiracy?

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 04:59 PM (oSEaw)

127 Every county in Wyoming is bigger than Rhode Island.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM

Even Absaroka?

Posted by: Walt Longmire at July 16, 2025 05:00 PM (0sNs1)

128 Word of advice: Be careful where you openly discuss liking Mexican coke and wanting to import it to the US

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:00 PM (t0Rmr)

129 [/blockquote]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 16, 2025 05:00 PM (/HDaX)

130 Crud.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (/HDaX)

131 So, Ace is in on the 'Let's Convince People that Rhode Island is Real' Conspiracy?
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 04:59 PM

Big Penguin buys influence everywhere.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (0sNs1)

132 Meanwhile, this Cultural Enricher says that deporting illegals is "human trafficking" and that ICE is a human trafficking orgnaization.

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F. Joe Mugabe -- via his proxy and butt-boy Alejandro Myorkis -- was a one-corpse one-way trafficking machine!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (bwUR+)

133 The VA does a pretty good job with the chow. I had an overnighter after foot surgery, and it was very good, except for my poor roomie being on a hospital bland and ready to start begging for scraps.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (gm9Sb)

134 Endrina Bracho, 34, was driving with her own two kids on Dec. 20, 2023, when her Dodge van crossed onto the opposite lane in Hazelwood, a suburb of St. Louis, at 75 mph -- 35 mph over the speed limit, Fox 2 reported.
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Sounds like Biden's first wife. And you don't get more enrichment than that.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (od0dV)

135 Karen Bass in LA is providing taxpayer money to illegal aliens so they can stay hidden from ICE.

I can maybe(?) see that if it was private money, and it was only going to aliens with civil charges.

I do NOT think she is vetting the individuals to make sure she is not helping those with federal felony charges.

Can we charge her with 1,000 counts of aiding and abetting a felon?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (HlyYF)

136 Hey, Ace!

We don't come here for centrist crap!

Posted by: Eeyore at July 16, 2025 05:01 PM (od0dV)

137 >>>Every county in Wyoming is bigger than Rhode Island.

"I shit bigger than you." - Wyoming, 2025

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (CwhoI)

138 Coke is going to switch to cane sugar.

Buy stock in sugar cane; short corn syrup manufactures.

Posted by: Topes for Sale! at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (/avtW)

139 Even Absaroka?

It confuses me why they filmed that show in New Mexico instead of Wyoming.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (dfIr7)

140 Soylent Verde is Undocumented People!
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But the taste varies from country to country.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (2yoRf)

141
Duncan, hey, I read it on the internet so it must be true, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (3ek7K)

142 I've noticed this behavior in diplomat and missionary kids as well. They are so attuned to living in foreign countries that they feel like outsiders here in the US, and don't develop the same filial bonds as US residents. One of my biggest regrets of the Foreign Service, and if I could do it over, I'd have studied agricultural science and tried to save the family farm. It would have been far more useful and rewarding.
Posted by: moki
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Regrets, I have a few, but what is done is done.

It is never too late to try to reconnect with the ghosts of the past and the present as long as one is drawing breath.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (ctrM5)

143 That is what estranging a person from their heritage, ancestors, and society does-produces stateless and isolated peeps that can be manipulated to do the dirty work in suppressing the natives. Anomie results.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

I'm right here!!

But a good point.

Okay, time to run. All of you have a great evening.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 11.7 % at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (jvJvP)

144 Maybe everyone should stand on the left side of the comments section, it would straightened out the blog.

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (Oy/m2)

145 BY THE POWER OF MORTON KONDRACKE, I COMPEL YOU!

Posted by: MUMR at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (ppBhU)

146 Democrats work hand in glove with the cartels. They might have raided Afghanistan ("the good war") for the heroin supply. Would explain a lot, no?

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (Qr870)

147 Karen Bass in LA is providing taxpayer money to illegal aliens so they can stay hidden from ICE.

Supposedly its private yeah but... let her do it then follow the papertrail right to their damned houses and arrest them LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (dfIr7)

148 The Providence Maryland man was caught two neighborhoods over from me.
Providence police chief Perez falling all over himself denying any involvement.
Assholes.

Posted by: From about That Tim at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (v5U2D)

149 What part of Rhode Island is Enrique from???
Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Oy/m2)

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I find it interesting that in even pale and stale Rhode Island it's the Enriques that Democrats have chosen to represent them. They couldn't be bothered to do it themselves. Another job Americans won't do?

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (unUNN)

150
Cartels reportedly had about one out of ten people on their payroll in Mexico and cutting off their lucrative drug and people smuggling operations is causing them massive economic distress.

whig

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Why would they need to smuggle people during the Biden years? All anyone had to do was join a caravan and stroll across the border.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM (HL/Ld)

151 Yep, "kidnapping", "disappearing", "gestapo", all of these words are to signal to justify the murder of ICE agents.

Purposeful and evil.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM (rvwwT)

152 "Punch a Nazi" Day --> Ban Alex Jones --> censor conservatives on social media --> ICE are Nazis --> shoot ICE agents

See how we got here?

Posted by: Topes for Sale! at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM (/avtW)

153 71 With guys like this I am always stuck trying to figure out which is the cause of their outrage:

Are they

1) genuinely upset
2) feigning upset
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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They are sociopaths who are generally upset when they don't get their way because they have no understanding of other people -- they are completely self centered, like a toddler.

AND they are feigning upset because they know it works. This is the problem with the cluster B mind -- they lie *and* they believe their own lies. This is because to them the lie is reality.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM (2rdQx)

154 >>> 149 What part of Rhode Island is Enrique from???
Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 04:49 PM (Oy/m2)

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I find it interesting that in even pale and stale Rhode Island it's the Enriques that Democrats have chosen to represent them. They couldn't be bothered to do it themselves. Another job Americans won't do?
Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM (unUNN)

"chosen"

*tee hee*

Posted by: see eye eh at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM (ULPxl)

155 Why would they need to smuggle people during the Biden years? All anyone had to do was join a caravan and stroll across the border.

I assume once Biden started paying people to bring illegals they cartels took the business over, or hell maybe he started with them

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (t0Rmr)

156 MUMR???

Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (Oy/m2)

157 Just a few days ago I recorded the scene from TNG where the "alien projection" of Captain Picard starts singing "Hearts of Oak" in the ship's bar.
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The one where Riker karaokes "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones is priceless.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

158 I may one day get tired of the left picking the worst people on earth to defend and placard, but that day has not yet come. They keep running to a camera sure they have THAT CASE that will flip the public to their side and it always ends up some guy that grinds childrens bones for flour or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (dfIr7)

159
It is never too late to try to reconnect with the ghosts of the past and the present as long as one is drawing breath.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (ctrM5)

Well, I've got several dozen growbags in my yard with tomatoes, squash and watermelons, so it' s a start!

Posted by: moki at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (wLjpr)

160 I was in the hospital for a week after abdominal surgery. Day 6 I was finally able to eat something. Weak tea and jello tasted so good that I actually cried.
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Heh! Heh! Heh!

Posted by: bill cosby at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (2yoRf)

161 Didn't a GOP candidate almost win a house seat in RI in the last go around?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:06 PM (t0Rmr)

162 reminds me of pelosi in 2020 calling feds arresting the rioters attacking a fed courthouse in portland 'storm troopers'

but the capitol cops who fired tear gas at the 1/6 protesters who were mostly standing outside were heroes

Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 16, 2025 05:06 PM (CWTWj)

163 I don't care about religion, race and ethnicity. I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (JvZF+)

164 If the Democrats were actively trying to lose the midterms, would it look much different than now?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (CwhoI)

165 TRUMP'S EVIL GESTAPO TERRORIZES FARM DEPRIVING YOU OF STRAWBERRIES!

(psst, its a pot farm)

OH WELL TRUMP STILL BAD

(there's over a dozen children being forced to work on it)

THEY WERE FAMILY!

(almost all of them are unaccompanied by any family member)

UH...

(they were working with a known sex offender who preyed on children)

JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (dfIr7)

166 but the capitol cops who fired tear gas at the 1/6 protesters who were mostly standing outside were heroes

Don't forget beating an elderly woman to death with a truncheon...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (t0Rmr)

167 Didn't a GOP candidate almost win a house seat in RI in the last go around?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:06 PM (t0Rmr)
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Much easier to steal a seat when it only takes about 10 votes to put a candidate ahead.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (tT6L1)

168 >>After not being able to eat for 4 days, Cream of Wheat with cinnamon tasted like manna from heaven

When you are truly hungry...it's amazing what tastes good.

Like Spam. Spend 3-4 days snowed into a tent and a can of Spam is the tastiest thing you can ever remember eating.
Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 04:57 PM (oSEaw)

Yes when I was in the hospital I was in the E room overnight just because and got admitted Sunday afternoon. Did some jogging the next day for a stress test. No food till Monday morning.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

169 when her Dodge van crossed onto the opposite lane in Hazelwood, a suburb of St. Louis, at 75 mph

SI SE PUEDE!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (n09jq)

170 >>> 162 reminds me of pelosi in 2020 calling feds arresting the rioters attacking a fed courthouse in portland 'storm troopers'

but the capitol cops who fired tear gas at the 1/6 protesters who were mostly standing outside were heroes
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 16, 2025 05:06 PM (CWTWj)

It was *mischievous* standing around! Just like those truckers up here, eh!!

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (ULPxl)

171
116
the leftards always deliberately say "abducted" when the word they should be using is "apprehended"
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (

They love their euphemisms. They get to frame the issue and I wish more people would push back on that. Like why is someone speaking on behalf of all Hispanic women, they're a monolith in belief's and behavior all of a sudden. We need to clone Stephen Miller.
I hate the way they frame everything.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (TmEds)

172 reminds me of pelosi in 2020 calling feds arresting the rioters attacking a fed courthouse in portland 'storm troopers'

but the capitol cops who fired tear gas at the 1/6 protesters who were mostly standing outside were heroes
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 16, 2025 05:06 PM

If it weren't for double standards the Left would have no standards at all.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

173 Didn't a GOP candidate almost win a house seat in RI in the last go around?

It is my position now that any close loss by the Republican means that they actually won.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (dfIr7)

174 If the Democrats were actively trying to lose the midterms, would it look much different than now?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (CwhoI)

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while continuously screaming it's a "winning issue!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (tT6L1)

175 AND they are feigning upset because they know it works. This is the problem with the cluster B mind -- they lie *and* they believe their own lies. This is because to them the lie is reality.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 05:04 PM

To be fair, I do enjoy sniffing mine.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (0sNs1)

176 I assume once Biden started paying people to bring illegals they cartels took the business over, or hell maybe he started with them
Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (t0Rmr)

This has been going on for a long time before Biden ever showed up.

NGOs go to Mexico & Central America, recruit people, organize all of the logistics of getting them to the US, then organize all of the logistics of moving them around the US. Obviously that includes working with the Mexican drug cartels and other gangs (and paying them protection money).

Many of those NGO's were getting USAID money and likely other federal dollars.

This has likely been going on for decades.

They just set engines to maximum warp during the Biden years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (uCjyK)

177 Hey we're justified!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (uCjyK)

178
Trump has engineered the return of real sugar to Coke!

Huh??

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (63Dwl)

179 If Democrats didn't give a shit what normal people thought, or even actively resented it, how would they be acting differently.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (Qr870)

180 It's just insane that the democrats would spend their political capital on illegal aliens. I wonder how much the cartels and the gangs have invested in the democrats.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (3Ope8)

181 MUMR sighting? I am excite

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM (xcxpd)

182 If the Democrats were actively trying to lose the midterms, would it look much different than now?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM

The Republicans will take it as a challenge.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (jc0TO)

183 It is my position now that any close loss by the Republican means that they actually won.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (dfIr7)
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I believe there's a known statistical oddity wherein almost all close races go to Democrats.

Yet, the people in charge of elections are never curious enough to investigate.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (tT6L1)

184 Ace is no fun any more.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (2yoRf)

185 I don't care about religion, race and ethnicity. I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

This.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)

186 I don't care about religion, race and ethnicity. I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture.

You want to get rid of college-educated women?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (Riz8t)

187 Amazing, really, how much Democrats are doubling, tripling even quadrupling down on preventing the deportation of criminals.
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I have never, in my brief 29 years, ever seen the Democrats fight this hard for Americans.

Suggests we're only about 10% in to discovering just how much illegal immigration is essential to the power of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (/avtW)

188 If it weren't for double standards the Left would have no standards at all.
Posted by: toby928 reminds you at July 16, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

The problem isn't a double standard it's that they have no standards.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (Qr870)

189 If Democrats didn't give a shit what normal people thought, or even actively resented it, how would they be acting differently.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:09 PM

You would almost think that votes don't matter in their districts.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

190 Why would they need to smuggle people during the Biden years? All anyone had to do was join a caravan and stroll across the border.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Cold hard cash. Something like 10k was normal and Cartels controlled the routes that illegals sought to use. You paid them or they could just shoot you and let you rot in the wild. Some pretty big mass graves in Mexico that keep popping up.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (ctrM5)

191 From GP:
A paranormal investigator on his creepy “haunted” Annabelle doll tour in the “haunted” battlefield town of Gettysburg has died … completely out of the blue.

Dan Rivera, 54, was in Pennsylvania for his “Devils on the Run” tour — hauling the infamous doll across the country — when firefighters and medics rushed to his hotel Sunday night.

Adams County dispatch logs reveal a call for CPR in progress on a man matching Rivera’s age. Rivera’s death was confirmed by the New England Society for Psychic Research, where he was the lead investigator. His exact cause of death remains unclear.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)

192 Great, now that I cannot drink sugary drinks Coke finally gets their act together. Fast food places are going back to beef tallow for fries too.

Kids are gonna find out what we meant about stuff being better back when we were younger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (dfIr7)

193 If the Democrats were actively trying to lose the midterms, would it look much different than now?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM

They wouldn't be pushing the Epstein stuff. But other than that....

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (B9Prs)

194 Checked it out online: Rhode Island outlawed slavery in 1843. It had a prominent place in the Mid-Atlantic Trade: molasses to rum to slaves. It was the most pro-slavery of all the northern states up to a certain point in time.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

195 It's just insane that the democrats would spend their political capital on illegal aliens. I wonder how much the cartels and the gangs have invested in the democrats.

If you're stupid to begin with, you find it difficult to develop a new ethos.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (Riz8t)

196 138 Coke is going to switch to cane sugar.

Buy stock in sugar cane; short corn syrup manufactures.

Posted by: Topes for Sale! at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (/avtW)

This was actually a ballsy move.

There are going to be a lot of pissed off corn farmers in the Mid-West.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

197 Rhode Island is three giant interlocking traffic circles where no one can get to the donut store.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (JvZF+)

198 177 Hey we're justified!
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Flush left.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (2yoRf)

199 Hmm... I don't think so. Rhode Island outlawed slavery way back in 1652, only 16 years after Roger Williams founded the place.

"Plantation" doesn't necessarily imply slave labor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 04:58 PM (qpyNK)

Yes, its just a large capacity "industrial" farm rather than the old "family farm" that the primary purpose was to sell surplus to allow the family to buy staples.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

200 His exact cause of death remains unclear.
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM

I'm going with succubus.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (jc0TO)

201 I have never, in my brief 29 years, ever seen the Democrats fight this hard for Americans.

Suggests we're only about 10% in to discovering just how much illegal immigration is essential to the power of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (/avtW)

Never forget how much the GOPe fronts for the open border.

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (Qr870)

202 Southcentral Alaska is under tsunami warning from a 7.3 quake off Sand Point. That'll disrupt a fair number of fisheries, if it really causes one. Happened half and hour ago, so far no reports.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (1Gsou)

203 This was actually a ballsy move.

There are going to be a lot of pissed off corn farmers in the Mid-West.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

Buy the cane sugar from local sugar mills. Might as well make some people happy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

204 Here’s a Newport Daily News cite on that 1843 date for the outlawing of slavery in Rhode Island:

https://is.gd/1h2t7S

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2025 05:13 PM (ZVgZ4)

205 147 Karen Bass in LA is providing taxpayer money to illegal aliens so they can stay hidden from ICE.

Supposedly its private yeah but... let her do it then follow the papertrail right to their damned houses and arrest them LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:03 PM

Thanks.

I can stomach private donations for CIVIL offenses.

How can they aid and abet felons? (I suspect this is another 80/20 issue for MAGA. And people not being able to rebuild their houses after the fire would probably also be OK with Bass going to jail.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 16, 2025 05:13 PM (HlyYF)

206 It was RI2 in 2022:

Commie Scumbag: 101K
Allan Fung: 94K

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:13 PM (t0Rmr)

207
What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)

208 >"Donut shops, nothing but donut shops as far as the eye can see..."
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I want to go to there

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (AOsQT)

209 192 Great, now that I cannot drink sugary drinks Coke finally gets their act together. Fast food places are going back to beef tallow for fries too.

Kids are gonna find out what we meant about stuff being better back when we were younger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (dfIr7)

I might go back to McDonalds, for the first time in over a year, just to see how the fries taste not being cooked in canola oil or whatever they use.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

210 197 Rhode Island is three giant interlocking traffic circles where no one can get to the donut store.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (JvZF+)

Anchorage is bigger than Rhode Island. The city. Bigger than that "state." It's cute.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (1Gsou)

211 Southcentral Alaska is under tsunami warning from a 7.3 quake off Sand Point. That'll disrupt a fair number of fisheries, if it really causes one. Happened half and hour ago, so far no reports.
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Is Murkowski rushing home to investigate?

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (TN0g+)

212 This is great. The more insane and screeching leftist losers and tools get, the more you know they are getting desperate. And they are getting desperate. Deporting illegals is an 80-20 issue. The only reason it’s not 95-5 is there’s a good portion in that 20 that don’t favor deportation. They want these criminal rotters shot in the face.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (GMCoO)

213 Checked it out online: Rhode Island outlawed slavery in 1843. It had a prominent place in the Mid-Atlantic Trade: molasses to rum to slaves. It was the most pro-slavery of all the northern states up to a certain point in time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

Those were the shipowners, not the regular folk.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (8avO+)

214 207
What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?

I like power.

Posted by: Dems at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (Riz8t)

215 Despite the never-ending sob stories, the public appears to be unmoved by the plight of the illegals.

Posted by: mr tmz at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (rJ48h)

216 Yeah Trump is shooting on his own goal with the Ep****n crap. But then you have the Dems, who are doing it repeatedly and with much hilarity.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (8hxDK)

217
ace's link to that awful drunk driver story got me to clicking around at the NY Post as long as I was there. Hunter Biden is mad at the Dems for not standing by his father.

"we had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration."

Dude is high on his own supply.

"We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party."

Dude absorbed a little too much Chi-com thought along with their money.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (HL/Ld)

218 Ivan Rene Mendoza-Meza
......

Sounds rather Soviet.
Posted by: wth at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM (v0R5T)

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Yes, it is. I read somewhere that Cuban and South American communists gave their children Russian names as a tribute to the politics they admired.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (unUNN)

219 What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?

Gotta find something to do with those heritage Americans whose jobs you outsourced.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (t0Rmr)

220 Suggests we're only about 10% in to discovering just how much illegal immigration is essential to the power of the Democrat Party.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (/avtW)

I think it just snowballed. I think it started with the UN's plan back in 2000 or whatever year to replace the babies white people weren't having with immigrants, because the talking point at the time was that culturally white people didn't want to have kids. That's a whole issue I could get in to, but maybe another time.

That was when the Bernie's of the world switched from "immigration hurts workers and the middle class" to "hola amigos!"

But then this entire Immigrant Industrial Complex popped up, and it just did what bureaucracies do. Gobble up more and more power and resources and money and grow for the sake of growing and it became a huge political constituency and the D's bet the farm on these immigrants being their new base, and... here we are.

I could be wrong, I know many people who think this was just a plan to get rid of / replace white people from the beginning and I'm overthinking it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (uCjyK)

221 What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?
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What is adultery? And how can we get involved?

Posted by: The Buffalo Bill Show at July 16, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

222 Go on you tube and check out Kensington Avenue to see what fentanyl turns people into.

Posted by: Lars at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (kJH1Z)

223 MUMR???
Posted by: dantesed at July 16, 2025 05:05 PM (Oy/m2)

Mirror Universe Mitt Romney. Old-timey troll from a ways back.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (/HDaX)

224 I don't care about religion, race and ethnicity. I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

To expand on my thought above: When I went to college, my big interest was foreign languages. While in college, I studied Russian and Mandarin Chinese (both at the same time, for awhile), and ended up majoring in linguistics. I loved the exotic, and loved being in a place like Ann Arbor where I could interact with lots of foreigners. In one of my intro linguistics courses, I had two guys I routinely studied with. One was a Nigerian (who spoke great English, by the way), and the other was Malaysian. And I thought that was SO COOL!

Now, except for maybe that Nigerian study partner, if he's still around, I want all the foreigners to go away (well, maybe not the hot Hispanic and Slavic babes, but anyway). That exotic stuff was fun when it was genuinely exotic. But it's not so exotic anymore. And I want traditional America back.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

225 How did that swarthy Latino scumbag get elected in Lilly-white Rhode Island? Or is RI not what it once was?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (GMCoO)

226 I believe there's a known statistical oddity wherein almost all close races go to Democrats.

Yet, the people in charge of elections are never curious enough to investigate.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:10 PM (tT6L1)

Certainly true in CA with their bonus 2 month cheat window.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (8avO+)

227 There's something slightly ass-backwards when the general manager of a company suggests hiring a tutor to teach local workers Spanish. Pinche cabron.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (/gTjv)

228
I might go back to McDonalds, for the first time in over a year, just to see how the fries taste not being cooked in canola oil or whatever they use.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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

Are they going back to beef tallow? For reals?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (HL/Ld)

229 RIP, Travis Wolfe.

Swing, democrats.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (i24o9)

230 > Looks like it was yesterday. Found this

No, that's a typo. It happened just a little while ago. People's phones are going off here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (qpyNK)

231 What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)

"Ten Percent for the Big Guy"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)

232 I would like to see the sealed indictments of Catholic Charities and the Lutheran Outreach Ministries.
Discovery would be mind-bending.

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (cPGH3)

233 Is Murkowski rushing home to investigate?
Posted by: Crusader

Murkowski was the model for today's Art.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

234 Buy the cane sugar from local sugar mills. Might as well make some people happy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

I don't know where they'd source all of it, though.
Not Brazil (the top producer) with 50% tariffs Trump just laid on them.

India, China, and Mexico will get some business, I guess.

The U.S. only produces about 30 million tonnes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

235 Beef tallow for fries and cane sugar in Coca Cola?

How low and dastardly can one get!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (tT6L1)

236 You would almost think that votes don't matter in their districts.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

Almost

Posted by: ... at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (Qr870)

237 Despite the never-ending sob stories, the public appears to be unmoved by the plight of the illegals.
Posted by: mr tmz at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (rJ48h

Same goes for the Gerbil warming hoax. Something like 85% don't care and think it is a scam.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (8wKVG)

238 104
"Was it stupid & foolish when he campaigned on releasing the files? Are Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Alina Habba all foolish & stupid for peddling this for the past 6 months?

Why on earth is he doing this?"

-- Riley Gaines on 'X'
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 16, 2025 04:56 PM (0sNs1)

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They will have to release everything they have on Epstein, there is no other way. I'm wondering whether Trump is just setting it up so he can wash his hands of the consequences when the shit hits the fan mostly on Dems and even some innocent people.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (unUNN)

239
What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

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

I think the argument is "due process."

The *reason* -- entirely different -- is illegal votes and general degradation of the society.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM (HL/Ld)

240 Trump has engineered the return of real sugar to Coke!

Huh??
=====
Yeah?

I know there's a brand new tariff on "specialty sugars" into the US [including real cane sugar], including IIRC tearing up an existing treaty with Mexico; but I'd think if Coke is going back to cane sugar, that it has more to do with MAHA than telling Iowa that the high-fructose corn syrup free ride is over.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:19 PM (2yoRf)

241 Burned-out Pacific Palisades residents are screwed:

BREAKING - California’s new bill SB549 to purchase fire-damaged properties is far worse than expected as it forces California taxpayers, including Palisades residents through their property taxes, to fund the buyout, requires 40% of new housing to be for the homeless, overrides community input, and allows rezoning without approval.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 05:19 PM (AOsQT)

242 Make McDonalds great again

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 05:19 PM (B9Prs)

243 What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?

If they are sent home, they are likely to be killed by rival gang members.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (jc0TO)

244 Are they going back to beef tallow? For reals?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (HL/Ld)

I've heard rumors.
Steak n' Shake announced a few months back they were switching to beef tallow, but I haven't seen anything definite from other places.

I hope they do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

245 I don't know where they'd source all of it, though.
Not Brazil (the top producer) with 50% tariffs Trump just laid on them.

India, China, and Mexico will get some business, I guess.

The U.S. only produces about 30 million tonnes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:18 PM

There are always sugar beets.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (8wKVG)

246 > What actually is the argument for NOT deporting illegal alien gang members distributing fentanyl?

Democrats want the voters.
Republicans hope to court the voters.
Big Agriculture wants the labor.
Chamber of Commerce thinks rapid population growth is a cheat code to financial growth.
etc etc etc

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (lIio7)

247 That exotic stuff was fun when it was genuinely exotic. But it's not so exotic anymore. And I want traditional America back.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

Well, I think that ship sailed.

But we can try to stanch the bleeding.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

248 Murkowski was the model for today's Art.
Posted by: Bulg

In the face, anyway. I doubt either of Murk's boobs look as good as today's model's did.

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

249 Make McDonalds great again
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 05:19 PM

You know you want me.

Posted by: Beef Tallow Fries and Fried Pies at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (jc0TO)

250 BREAKING - California’s new bill SB549 to purchase fire-damaged properties is far worse than expected as it forces California taxpayers, including Palisades residents through their property taxes, to fund the buyout, requires 40% of new housing to be for the homeless, overrides community input, and allows rezoning without approval.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 05:19 PM (AOsQT)
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Make any bets there are some well connected developers who "helped" write that bill?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:21 PM (tT6L1)

251 He declares the Maryland Man (of Rhode Island) wasn't arrested -- he was "kidnapped" in an "act of terror."

Okay - can he come and stay at your house until this misunderstanding is sorted out?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:21 PM (gDhA9)

252 men can have babies
arresting criminals = kidnapping
global warming will kill us by 2000
tariffs will destroy US, while other put them on US

They keep changing the meaning of words, and ignoring real science. Finally people are learning to ignore or laugh at the MSM.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 16, 2025 05:21 PM (vbXSk)

253 >>> 196 138 Coke is going to switch to cane sugar.

Buy stock in sugar cane; short corn syrup manufactures.

Posted by: Topes for Sale! at July 16, 2025 05:02 PM (/avtW)

This was actually a ballsy move.

There are going to be a lot of pissed off corn farmers in the Mid-West.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

We're going to need that corn to finish beeves as we re-grow our cattle population here in the US.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 16, 2025 05:21 PM (ULPxl)

254 Democrats want the voters.
Republicans hope to court the voters.
Big Agriculture wants the labor.
Chamber of Commerce thinks rapid population growth is a cheat code to financial growth.
etc etc etc
Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (lIio7)

And let's not forget the other elephant in the room:

Social security.

The entire system is premised on indefinite population growth.

Kind of like a Ponzi scheme, some might say.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (uCjyK)

255 194 Checked it out online: Rhode Island outlawed slavery in 1843. It had a prominent place in the Mid-Atlantic Trade: molasses to rum to slaves. It was the most pro-slavery of all the northern states up to a certain point in time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Including the founder of Brown University.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (ctrM5)

256 off commie sock!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (ULPxl)

257 I'm wondering whether Trump is just setting it up so he can wash his hands of the consequences when the shit hits the fan mostly on Dems and even some innocent people.
Posted by: Decaf

You've seen the meme where the Libtard says you'll be less happy when Reps get named too.
Answer, No. I won't.

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (cPGH3)

258 Now if someone can force Pepsi to bring back real sugar Mountain Dew (oop 2 years ago), the country can finally start to heal.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (4DY5T)

259 #240 Sorry, I misremembered.

It's a BAN on TRQ overages of specialty sugars into the US not an exclusionary tariff.

Dept. of Agriculture @USDA Jul 14
🇺🇸 America First Trade Win 🇺🇸

In alignment with @SecRollins' Farmers First policies, USDA is blocking additional specialty sugars imports beyond what U.S. international obligations dictate. Statement from @DepSecVaden ⬇️ usda.gov/about-usda/news/pre…

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (2yoRf)

260 To expand on my thought above: When I went to college, my big interest was foreign languages. While in college, I studied Russian and Mandarin Chinese (both at the same time, for awhile), and ended up majoring in linguistics. I loved the exotic, and loved being in a place like Ann Arbor where I could interact with lots of foreigners. In one of my intro linguistics courses, I had two guys I routinely studied with. One was a Nigerian (who spoke great English, by the way), and the other was Malaysian. And I thought that was SO COOL!

Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

When I was in College and grading papers for Computer Science, the Liberal Arts college had the bright idea to cross into Linguistics the advanced CS course that started with Turing Machines and ended with Assembly Language programs.

It was like throwing these liberal arts peeps into a wood chipper. Averages on the final were like 32 (of 100) and by got we tried to find something to credit them with. Total bloodbath.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (8avO+)

261 Democrats want the voters.
Republicans hope to court the voters.
Big Agriculture wants the labor.
Chamber of Commerce thinks rapid population growth is a cheat code to financial growth.
etc etc etc
Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (lIio7)

Okay, how about legal, not gang members who don't sell fentanyl?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:23 PM (gDhA9)

262 244 Are they going back to beef tallow? For reals?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (HL/Ld)

I've heard rumors.
Steak n' Shake announced a few months back they were switching to beef tallow, but I haven't seen anything definite from other places.

I hope they do.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Brahmins and Vegans hardest hit.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:23 PM (ctrM5)

263 > In the face, anyway. I doubt either of Murk's boobs look as good as today's model's did.
Posted by: Bulg at July 16, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

I saw her in a swimsuit not too many years ago.

She looked pretty good, TBH.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:23 PM (qpyNK)

264 You've seen the meme where the Libtard says you'll be less happy when Reps get named too.
Answer, No. I won't.
Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:22 PM (cPGH3)

These libs drastically overestimate how much most of us like most of our elected representatives.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 05:23 PM (B9Prs)

265 Despite the never-ending sob stories, the public appears to be unmoved by the plight of the illegals.
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My Hate Feed has a regular supply of them.

They are such over-the-top deifications you have to laugh.

George Washington has nothing on these true-blue, best-of-us Americans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (/avtW)

266 I miss the McDonalds fried pies that could literally melt your tongue.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

267 7.3 earthquake off Sand Point, AK. Tsunami warning issued.

https://tinyurl.com/2bdarde6

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (paSBy)

268 ¿Was Bracho borracho?

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (poXs5)

269 More like @enrique for PR, amirite

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (advWG)

270 Is Murkowski rushing home to investigate?
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:14 PM (TN0g+)

Why would she? She hasn't listened to her constituents in 20 years.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:25 PM (1Gsou)

271 re: Sugar.

A lot of dirty political deal making with the Sugar lobby means that we don't import much sugar at all.

There are a handful of companies, including a few mega corps in Florida and Louisiana who control almost all of the sugar in the US.

But those tariffs and import controls that we've been living under for 70 years or whatever aren't the bad kinds of tariffs apparently.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:25 PM (uCjyK)

272 266 I miss the McDonalds fried pies that could literally melt your tongue.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

Hot Pockets!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 16, 2025 05:25 PM (B9Prs)

273 > Okay, how about legal, not gang members who don't sell fentanyl?

See the abortion "debate." The people who want it are so entrenched in their position, they will fight to the death against ANY measure that might possibly curtail their preferred position. Just as most democrats won't entertain late term abortion restrictions, they also won't entertain deporting fentanyl distributing gang members.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (lIio7)

274 >>>ace's link to that awful drunk driver story

I don't see anywhere she was drunk. Just wrong way doing 70+ in a 40 mph zone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (i24o9)

275 I miss the McDonalds fried pies that could literally melt your tongue.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)
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Never did figure out how they got the crust on that tasty molten lava filling.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (tT6L1)

276 4.0 in Halibut Cove. This is a good set of shakers. Working its way east, looks like.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (1Gsou)

277 I've still got about 1/2 gallon of bear tallow from last year.
Talk about melt in your mouth pastry...

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (cPGH3)

278 Oh what fun, a Jury summons

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (dfIr7)

279 I don't see anywhere she was drunk. Just wrong way doing 70+ in a 40 mph zone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (i24o9)

And who among us haven't made a mistake like that?

lol

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (uCjyK)

280 Presione el uno para español. Press two for English.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (ZVgZ4)

281 I don't think we can even imagine how getting rid of USAID has affected the left and their financing of all this BS, but we know it has got to be huge.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (rvwwT)

282 >>> 230 > Looks like it was yesterday. Found this

No, that's a typo. It happened just a little while ago. People's phones are going off here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:17 PM (qpyNK)

>>> 276 4.0 in Halibut Cove. This is a good set of shakers. Working its way east, looks like.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM (1Gsou)

Yikes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (ULPxl)

283 National Chains with Beef Tallow Fries

Buffalo Wild Wings
Outback Steakhouse
Popeyes
Portillo’s
Smashburger
Steak ‘n Shake

From this article:

Beef Tallow Fries Will Soon Be Everywhere Again

https://tinyurl.com/258pu52b
(BurgerBeast.com)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

284 I bet if FBI looked hard enough they would find some kiddo pron on his computer. If they wanted to.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (/lPRQ)

285 The R.I. state rep's name is Enrique Sanchez.

Because of course it is.

Posted by: muldoon at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (poXs5)

286 Message for this dumb bozo (he's a Democrat, but I repeat myself). I'm tired of this whining about deporting bad guys.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (cB7nX)

287 Oh what fun, a Jury summons
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:26 PM

Point at the judge while intoning 'That motherfucker's not real'.

Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (jc0TO)

288 And let's not forget the other elephant in the room:

Social security.

The entire system is premised on indefinite population growth.

Kind of like a Ponzi scheme, some might say.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Social security is the easiest fix. Raise retirement age to 65 partial and 70. Would ease pressure on Medicare as well and provide more workers.

Medicare is the real problem as its costs are now more than Social Security with the payroll tax percentage that Social Security takes from paychecks. Take Medicaid and Medicare together, they account for 1.6 Trillion of the budget.

Add in Obamacare subsidies, about 1.7 trillion. Social Security plus disability comes in about 1.6 trillion.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (ctrM5)

289 I might go back to McDonalds, for the first time in over a year, just to see how the fries taste not being cooked in canola oil or whatever they use.

Far as I know they have not swapped over yet. Steak and Shake has and they are tasty just like I remember them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (dfIr7)

290 "They will have to go through me first. I am not fucking around. I'm ready to go down if it means protecting our most vulnerable communities."
Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

Um. Yeah. Thye are "vulnerable" because they are illegal alien gang member drug dealers.

That's like saying the Ukrainians are fighting against the most vulnerable part of their population, who happen to be invading Russian troops. I mean those poor Russians; they are in a foreign land and have no homes. They may be tired or injured. And those gestapo tactics of rounding them up and putting them in detention camps! Or deporting them! And many are just shot!

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (gDhA9)

291 These libs drastically overestimate how much most of us like most of our elected representatives.
Posted by: joe

True. Almost like we don't vote like it's a religion, eh?

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (cPGH3)

292 Sand Point is no-fukin-where, but Halibut Cove is not that far from Anchorage. Looks like a rock and roll day for the southern coast of AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (1Gsou)

293 And who among us haven't made a mistake like that?

lol

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:27 PM (uCjyK)

Should be an easy charge if she was. I am only saying I didn't see anywhere it was drunk driving. Could just be driving while no habla.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (i24o9)

294 I likewise attended college in Ann Arbor and for a time played bass guitar in a local band whose guitarist was the nephew of the president of Pakistan.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 16, 2025 05:29 PM (xTtk1)

295 I don't see anywhere she was drunk. Just wrong way doing 70+ in a 40 mph zone.

Hermione Granger got busted speeding for the fourth time and got her license yanked for 6 months in England.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:29 PM (dfIr7)

296 Checked it out online: Rhode Island outlawed slavery in 1843. It had a prominent place in the Mid-Atlantic Trade: molasses to rum to slaves. It was the most pro-slavery of all the northern states up to a certain point in time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2025 05:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

That date is when the last geriatric slaved died of old age. Many free states encouraged emigration or freed children at majority.

From online:

During the Revolution, Quaker abolitionists and the powerful Newport shipping interest clashed over slavery. In February 1784 the Legislature passed a compromise measure for gradual emancipation. All children of slaves born after March 1 were to be "apprentices," the girls to become free at 18, the boys at 21. As with other Northern instances of gradual emancipation, this gave slaveowners many years of service to recoup the cost of raising the children.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+)

297 > 266 I miss the McDonalds fried pies that could literally melt your tongue.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

Yes, the people who are researching how to build small nuclear reactors should try to recover the recipe for those.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:29 PM (qpyNK)

298 281 I don't think we can even imagine how getting rid of USAID has affected the left and their financing of all this BS, but we know it has got to be huge.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Current rescission bill before Senate drives a stake in AID's heart by codifying Trump's executive order.

Should be voted on by the Senate tonight and appears likely to pass based on past votes. Then to the House so it can be voted upon before Friday at midnight.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (ctrM5)

299 I guess I'm a "Past supporter" of President Trump.
WTF is going on with this guy?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (/U5Yz)

300 A car going the wrong way?! There's hundreds of them!!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (jc0TO)

301 Current rescission bill before Senate drives a stake in AID's heart by codifying Trump's executive order.

Should be voted on by the Senate tonight and appears likely to pass based on past votes. Then to the House so it can be voted upon before Friday at midnight.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (ctrM5)

But muh Epstein files!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (i24o9)

302 Social security is the easiest fix. Raise retirement age to 65 partial and 70. Would ease pressure on Medicare as well and provide more workers.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (ctrM5)

I don't see how that fixes anything. Kicks the can down the road a little bit.

Current beneficiaries are paid by current paycheck receivers.

That's a systemic problem. Unless you have a constantly growing population. But even if you brought every person on earth to the US to work, you'd still have a problem down the line when THOSE people retired unless you raised the retirement age so high that most people will die before receiving it, in which case, what's the point and why are we all paying in to this?

But yes, Medicare and Medicaid are even bigger clusterfucks.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (uCjyK)

303 True. Almost like we don't vote like it's a religion, eh?
Posted by: MkY
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Almost like real live voters instead of ballots from the dead, illegal, and nonexistent.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (ctrM5)

304 Are all Democrats degenerate idiots? They seem determined to prove the answer to this question is a resounding YES!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (XMwZJ)

305 Social security is the easiest fix. Raise retirement age to 65 partial and 70. Would ease pressure on Medicare as well and provide more workers.

They are kind of moving it up slowly. You can still retire at 65 right now but you get a lesser amount. Wait until 67 and you get more. Given that the average life expectancy of an American male in the 1940s was 65 it makes sense to move the retirement age up.

Ben Shaprio got a world of hate for saying people should get rid of this idea that you get to a certain age and just stop working, which I agree with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (dfIr7)

306 Buy stock in sugar cane; short corn syrup manufactures.

Posted by: Topes for Sale

Sugar is actually pretty cheap if they stopped making ethanol from it.

And beet sugar is not as good - it has an off taste to me, but not noticeable in most foods (I can tell in cookies though)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (2rdQx)

307 > 292 Sand Point is no-fukin-where, but Halibut Cove is not that far from Anchorage. Looks like a rock and roll day for the southern coast of AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2025 05:28 PM (1Gsou)

Several of the volcanos have been getting a little spicy of late. No idea if there's a connection.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (qpyNK)

308 I'm surprised Five Guys Burgers isn't on the beef tallow list.

I don't what they cook their fries in but when they hand you that paper bag full of fries the grease is dripping from it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

309 All those centered jokes.

Like tears....in the rain.

Posted by: eleven at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (fV+MH)

310 The R.I. state rep's name is Enrique Sanchez.

Because of course it is.
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He was a slap-hitting 1B-OF in the Red Sox system for a few years*. He won election with less than 600 people voting for him. He's proposed a $22 an hour minimum wage and enacting rent controls. He's sworn to go down fighting ICE.

*maybe

Posted by: The Buffalo Bill Show at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (TN0g+)

311 297 > 266 I miss the McDonalds fried pies that could literally melt your tongue.
Posted by: toby928 at July 16, 2025 05:24 PM (jc0TO)

Yes, the people who are researching how to build small nuclear reactors should try to recover the recipe for those.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Still available in Japan

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (2rdQx)

312 I guess I'm a "Past supporter" of President Trump.
WTF is going on with this guy?

Nobody knows. Lots of theories, some bitter and some hopeful but I am not sure even the president knows.

I HOPE he meant "guys like Elon Musk" when he said that but... yeah.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (dfIr7)

313 > Oh what fun, a Jury summons

I moved into my current county over a decade ago. Local government from my old county keeps summoning me for jury duty. I keep responding that I don't live there anymore. It's better than having to do jury duty, I suppose. My driver's license and other data is up to date, so they have no good excuse for continuing to send me jury duty notice.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (lIio7)

314 "Ben Shaprio got a world of hate for saying people should get rid of this idea that you get to a certain age and just stop working, which I agree with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

Stop working or stop working for a living?

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

315 They are kind of moving it up slowly. You can still retire at 65 right now but you get a lesser amount. Wait until 67 and you get more. Given that the average life expectancy of an American male in the 1940s was 65 it makes sense to move the retirement age up.

Ben Shaprio got a world of hate for saying people should get rid of this idea that you get to a certain age and just stop working, which I agree with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (dfIr7)

You might get more action if you cut government pensions 5x more proportionally.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

316 WTF is going on with this guy?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:30 PM (/U5Yz)

Winning??

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM (Nbxa4)

317 I don't what they cook their fries in but when they hand you that paper bag full of fries the grease is dripping from it.

Yeah I think they scoop up the fries with the bag. And give you way too many.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM (dfIr7)

318 Had a friend who moved to RI for work. Asked him how he liked it and all he said was "Donut shops, nothing but donut shops as far as the eye can see..."

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 16, 2025 04:55 PM

It is like that all over new england. Our small town in connecticut had two dunkin donuts places right across the road from each other.

One place was a stand alone shop and the other one was in a big gas station.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:34 PM (e5NfL)

319 I don't care about religion, race and ethnicity. I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 16, 2025 05:07 PM (JvZF+)

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This is where I'm at and always have been since high school when there were many students from all over the world and we all got along and fitted in because the culture was the same.

Posted by: Decaf at July 16, 2025 05:34 PM (unUNN)

320 Ben Shaprio got a world of hate for saying people should get rid of this idea that you get to a certain age and just stop working, which I agree with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (dfIr7)

"You have to work until you drop dead in the garden center at home depot from a heart attack because you were lifting up bags of mulch at 82 years old" is not exactly a winning political message.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:34 PM (uCjyK)

321 I guess I'm a "Past supporter" of President Trump.
WTF is going on with this guy?
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Not a popular opinion but tariff guy Howard Lutnick was an Epstein neighbour/associate in NYC.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 16, 2025 05:34 PM (2yoRf)

322 > I don't see how that fixes anything. Kicks the can down the road a little bit.

It will have to be unwound gradually, if at all.

You could cut it by five percent every year and get it unwound in 20 years, without TOO much pain. Compensate by putting that 5% into a real retirement fund (i.e., one that isn't a jumped-up Ponzi scheme).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (qpyNK)

323 Sugar is actually pretty cheap if they stopped making ethanol from it.

And beet sugar is not as good - it has an off taste to me, but not noticeable in most foods (I can tell in cookies though)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 16, 2025 05:31 PM (2rdQx)

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That's why Brazil produces so much sugar, 715 million metric tonnes.

They use a lot of it to make ethanol, which they've been doing since the oil shocks of the 70s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (6ydKt)

324 @EndWokeness
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh: "The real domestic threat is…. Whites"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (AOsQT)

325 312 I guess I'm a "Past supporter" of President Trump.
WTF is going on with this guy?

Nobody knows. Lots of theories, some bitter and some hopeful but I am not sure even the president knows.

I HOPE he meant "guys like Elon Musk" when he said that but... yeah.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I read his statement and my BP went way up. I'll wait to for some clarity. Thanks for talking me down...for now.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (/U5Yz)

326 How can you be so cruel, expecting them to try to appeal to normal American citizens?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I think this is their attempt to appeal to normal people.

"Hey all those regressive Trumpalos hate human trafficking, right?"
"Yeah?"
"Let's call all those deportations human trafficking so those stupid rubes will turn against ICE and demand they stop deporting people."
"Brilliant!"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (a+4eV)

327 I don't see how that fixes anything. Kicks the can down the road a little bit.

Current beneficiaries are paid by current paycheck receivers.

That's a systemic problem. Unless you have a constantly growing population. But even if you brought every person on earth to the US to work, you'd still have a problem down the line when THOSE people retired unless you raised the retirement age so high that most people will die before receiving it, in which case, what's the point and why are we all paying in to this?

But yes, Medicare and Medicaid are even bigger clusterfucks.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Which is why you take small bites that you can do. Pushing the Social Security age to 65 and 70 month by month saves billions. Also relieves billions in Medicare funding as they require you take it in order to get social security (exceptions exist for a few).

Perfection is the enemy just as getting rid of illegals, take bite after bite from the problem.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (ctrM5)

328 314 "Ben Shaprio got a world of hate for saying people should get rid of this idea that you get to a certain age and just stop working, which I agree with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

Stop working or stop working for a living?
Posted by: fd at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM (vFG9F)

Or what's behind door #3: stop living.

Posted by: Not much point at that, uh, point at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (TbWk/)

329 How can Biden be tried for crimes as POTUS when he doesn't even Remfber being elected or signing any documents ???

Like Joe Biden would say: "I would if I could but can't because I won't"

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (BltCC)

330 re: Sugar.

A lot of dirty political deal making with the Sugar lobby means that we don't import much sugar at all.

There are a handful of companies, including a few mega corps in Florida and Louisiana who control almost all of the sugar in the US.

But those tariffs and import controls that we've been living under for 70 years or whatever aren't the bad kinds of tariffs apparently.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Big Sugar and tariffs is why Hawaii became a territory... Onto statehood. They may not even produce any at all now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (/lPRQ)

331 @EndWokeness
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh: "The real domestic threat is…. Whites"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: unavailable at July 16, 2025 05:35 PM (AOsQT)

You'll know it when it is.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (i24o9)

332 I don't what they cook their fries in but when they hand you that paper bag full of fries the grease is dripping from it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

I had Freddy’s for the first time a couple weeks ago. That joint made a believer out of me I tell you what!
I am going to limit myself to once a month, but I think I need to get there before July ends to get their Key Lime shake.

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (Nbxa4)

333 Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh:
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He was a middle-infielder for Twins A and AA teams for a couple of years...couldn't hit a lick.

Posted by: Crusader at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (TN0g+)

334 "You have to work until you drop dead in the garden center at home depot from a heart attack because you were lifting up bags of mulch at 82 years old" is not exactly a winning political message.

Sure, but you don't have to do heavy physical labor to do work. The idea you should just stop at 65 and slack off the rest of your rapidly declining life is a modern and bad idea.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (dfIr7)

335 I was required to go onto Medicare when I turned 65, though I was not, and am not retired.
Change that, and there's a gazillion dollars (give or take).

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:39 PM (cPGH3)

336 >>BREAKING - California’s new bill SB549 to purchase fire-damaged properties is far worse than expected as it forces California taxpayers, including Palisades residents through their property taxes, to fund the buyout, requires 40% of new housing to be for the homeless, overrides community input, and allows rezoning without approval.

They should have named that the 'Man on Fire' Act.

Because if you want to see someone go off with no conscience involved...take his everything.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 05:39 PM (oSEaw)

337 Which is why you take small bites that you can do. Pushing the Social Security age to 65 and 70 month by month saves billions. Also relieves billions in Medicare funding as they require you take it in order to get social security (exceptions exist for a few).

Perfection is the enemy just as getting rid of illegals, take bite after bite from the problem.
Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:36 PM (ctrM5)

I agree social security and our ridiculous medical spending need to be addressed. I was just pointing out the original arguments for why we needed so many new immigrants.

I also think there needs to be very radical change, SS and Medicare / Medicaid are and have been from day one, unsustainable.

But that's more of a medium-term problem.

Immigration is much more of an immediate concern.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:39 PM (uCjyK)

338 You might get more action if you cut government pensions 5x more proportionally.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 16, 2025 05:33 PM

I don't know about state pensions but federal pensions got cut big time in 1984 with the FERS act.

All fed employees (including congress) are enrolled in fers, TSP which is a 401k and social security. Those golden federal pensions are gone for anyone hired/elected after 1984.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:40 PM (e5NfL)

339 >>> 334 "You have to work until you drop dead in the garden center at home depot from a heart attack because you were lifting up bags of mulch at 82 years old" is not exactly a winning political message.
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Sure, but you don't have to do heavy physical labor to do work. The idea you should just stop at 65 and slack off the rest of your rapidly declining life is a modern and bad idea.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (dfIr7)

Part of the problem is that no matter what the lawyers say, there is reduced hiring opportunity once you get past a certain age.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 05:40 PM (ULPxl)

340 Can these Democrats actually define Naziism or fascism?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 16, 2025 05:40 PM (kTd/k)

341 Which is why you take small bites that you can do. Pushing the Social Security age to 65 and 70 month by month saves billions. Also relieves billions in Medicare funding as they require you take it in order to get social security (exceptions exist for a few).

Posted by: whig

You could also allow people to opt out of both contributing and collecting. Allow them to change whether they contribute and collect either every year or every time they change jobs. They already track how much you contribute for every year of your working life.

The worst problem with that program is that all parts of it are mandatory.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 16, 2025 05:41 PM (a+4eV)

342 I think the Social Security problem is self correcting if they get all the non-citizens off.

The last of the baby boomers will turn 65 in 2030. The population of that cohort is already dwindling faster than the replacements. Eventually GenX will start taking SS but they are a much smaller population so the number of recipients will go down significantly.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 16, 2025 05:41 PM (Vh9CX)

343 All fed employees (including congress) are enrolled in fers, TSP which is a 401k and social security. Those golden federal pensions are gone for anyone hired/elected after 1984.
Posted by: Mister Scott

What's Fauci's pension take right now?

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:41 PM (cPGH3)

344 Sure, but you don't have to do heavy physical labor to do work. The idea you should just stop at 65 and slack off the rest of your rapidly declining life is a modern and bad idea.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (dfIr7)

Yeah but for a lot of people at 65, they physically can't work anymore. Or they're just hoping to enjoy some time off when they still have their health before they die.

I don't agree with the argument at all, I think a lot of people hate their jobs and work to live and the only thing they have to look forward to for the last 10 years of their working lives is being able to finally retire. They spend their entire working life putting money in a retirement account so that they don't have to work until they drop dead at their desks.

And a lot of people do continue to work past 65 if they can and have a job that allows them to, either by choice or financial necessity.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:42 PM (uCjyK)

345 I had Freddy’s for the first time a couple weeks ago. That joint made a believer out of me I tell you what!
I am going to limit myself to once a month, but I think I need to get there before July ends to get their Key Lime shake.

Posted by: kallisto at July 16, 2025 05:37 PM (Nbxa4)

I'd never heard of them.

Looked them up and there's one in the next town over.
I'll have to try them because the menu looks good.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 16, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

346 Conspiracy Contention:

Peeps marshmallow chicks are a joint-conspiracy between Big Sugar, Big Penguin, and Big Dental.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 05:42 PM (GAIyz)

347 Buy sugar from Cuba.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 16, 2025 05:42 PM (63Dwl)

348 The worst problem with that program is that all parts of it are mandatory.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Pastors and preachers make a one-time choice... SS or not. If I recall, it's not reversible (but that was years ago when I dealt with it).

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:43 PM (cPGH3)

349 347 Buy sugar from Cuba.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I prefer invade and take sugar from Cuba.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:43 PM (/U5Yz)

350 Can these Democrats actually define Naziism or fascism?
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Define them? They can't even spell them.

Posted by: The NEA at July 16, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)

351 *AMONG

Initially was going to list the first two ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 05:44 PM (GAIyz)

352 Part of the problem is that no matter what the lawyers say, there is reduced hiring opportunity once you get past a certain age.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 16, 2025 05:40 PM (ULPxl)

One hundred percent. It is difficult to get a good job past age, say, 50, unless you have a very niche skill or are willing to do more menial jobs for menial wages (like my home depot example)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 16, 2025 05:44 PM (uCjyK)

353 All fed employees (including congress) are enrolled in fers, TSP which is a 401k and social security. Those golden federal pensions are gone for anyone hired/elected after 1984.
Posted by: Mister Scott

What's Fauci's pension take right now?

Posted by: MkY at July 16, 2025 05:41 PM

Did you miss the part where the law changed in 1984? He was around long before that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 16, 2025 05:44 PM (e5NfL)

354 Freddy's has the best fries of any of the FF chains.

A&W is a close second.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2025 05:44 PM (oSEaw)

355 I'm tired of living among people who do not share my language history and culture"

As someone with relatives from other parts of the world...
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm expected to conform when there...I should be extended the same when they are here.

Posted by: man at July 16, 2025 05:44 PM (tubbA)

356 "Let's call all those deportations human trafficking so those stupid rubes will turn against ICE and demand they stop deporting people."
"Brilliant!"
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Even Better - Sentence to life at hard labor then contract them out on the international market.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 16, 2025 05:45 PM (/lPRQ)

357 nood!

dregs & skels!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 16, 2025 05:45 PM (dKEEs)

358 Jennifer Love Hewitt is being dragged on social media for this pic

https://tinyurl.com/JenLHewitt

I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 16, 2025 05:45 PM (dfIr7)

359 I prefer invade and take sugar from Cuba.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 16, 2025 05:43 PM (/U5Yz)

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Gov. DeSantis should do that to demonstrate his foreign policy and military experience ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 16, 2025 05:45 PM (GAIyz)

360 Did you miss the part where the law changed in 1984? He was around long before that.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I did not know that.

Posted by: Johnny Carson face at July 16, 2025 05:46 PM (cPGH3)

361 When SS was enacted the average life expectancies of males was somewhere just north of 63, I believe.
Now, what? 82? 83?
That's not right, folks.
I think we need to drastically shorten the lifespan of white males.

Posted by: WEF at July 16, 2025 05:48 PM (cPGH3)

362 You could also allow people to opt out of both contributing and collecting. Allow them to change whether they contribute and collect either every year or every time they change jobs. They already track how much you contribute for every year of your working life.

The worst problem with that program is that all parts of it are mandatory.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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That makes budget savings more difficult is why I think it is a non starter.

Posted by: whig at July 16, 2025 05:56 PM (ctrM5)

363 Gravel Newsome has a great election motto that will get him elected in 2028.......

"Hope and Change"

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 16, 2025 05:57 PM (BltCC)

364 When SS was enacted the average life expectancies of males was somewhere just north of 63, I believe.
Now, what? 82? 83?
That's not right, folks.
I think we need to drastically shorten the lifespan of white males.

Already happening with Processed Food and Obesity....

Posted by: Buster Hymand at July 16, 2025 05:58 PM (BltCC)

365 @358

>>I think she looks pretty good for being 46 and having 3 kids

Her body is fine, it's the facial plastic surgery that's off putting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 16, 2025 06:03 PM (nouTT)

366 So where dose this little Dip-Wad come from what distant Planet is he From? Heeres a example of Useful Idiot

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 16, 2025 06:08 PM (wGqjj)

367 I remember working a political campaign in Colorado in the '80s. A hot issue was that the Colorado sugar beet growers (who's product is essentially the same a cane sugar) were being chased out of the market by corn syrup subsidies.

The small point is that the politics of this is more complex than the cartoon.

Posted by: Old Toby at July 16, 2025 09:43 PM (eqWxE)

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