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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Piet Mondrian
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (DIXP3)
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (kY/X3)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 24, 2025 09:32 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 09:32 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: kallisto at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (wIvDP)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)
This piece is very nice. Would hang.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: kallisto at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (wIvDP)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)
"Vesper-side", i assume?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (AOsQT)
It's shark week ya know.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (DIXP3)
Posted by: The Commissar Hrothgar at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Like a Sepia-tone Photograph at July 24, 2025 09:34 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Frankie Ford at July 24, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)
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Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 24, 2025 10:04 AM (89Sog)
They really are fancying themselves as imperials, answerable to no one.
1) the Maryland Man is becoming an embarrassing debacle of a radical judiciary completely refusing to follow any law or rules, conjuring orders out of thin air with no basis in statute or precedent merely to obtain their preferred political outcome.
2) the NJ judiciary--usurping the power of the Executive--to appoint their own US Attorney, is bad enough.
That she is vowing to take office, despite being fired by her boss, is an obscene affront to the rule of law.
Both of these show a judiciary hell-bent on placing themselves above the Constitution, the laws and all other branches of government.
And I'll say it again: Never but never has the Democrat Party ever, ever fought as hard for American citizens as they have for illegal aliens.
Not even 10% as much.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:07 AM (1tQZO)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2025 10:07 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: First Mate Bubba Wallace at July 24, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: The Flying Dutchman at July 24, 2025 10:08 AM (rfMRc)
Posted by: Charon at July 24, 2025 09:55 AM
Thanks for adding your two cents.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2025 10:09 AM (kgE5c)
Not even 10% as much.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:07 AM (1tQZO)
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The funny thing is that the focus on Garcia is so...empty.
Literally thousands a day are going. ICE gets 70-80% of those they pick up to sign waivers and get immediately deported. The rest go to detention facilities where they wait for whatever little IJ action necessary to deport them with final orders happens.
And those facilities seem to be reaching full capacity, all while more ICE agents and facilities are being trained and built because of the OBBB.
A "win" for Garcia with him walking free in the US masks the fact that thousands more are going every day.
It's narrative grasping while ceding the ground on actual policy results. And the narrative sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 24, 2025 10:11 AM (144I4)
Posted by: From about That Time
They're all Dutch-Reformed splinter groups, and they all hate each others' guts.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 10:11 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 10:12 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:12 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Somewhere South
Sure, you can borrow the lifeboat, Natalie.
-- Robert Wagner
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Weasel at July 24, 2025 10:14 AM (a4dG3)
Posted by: From about That Time
They're all Dutch-Reformed splinter groups, and they all hate each others' guts.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:11 AM
Someone is about to be defenestrated.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: weew at July 24, 2025 10:14 AM (EaEMG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 10:14 AM (N72/9)
I mean, there's no other outcome.
"Advise and consent" does not encompass "preventing the office from being filled via inaction or opposition."
I'm betting SOCTUS will say that, so long as there is a pending nomination before the Senate, the interim appointee can remain in office.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:15 AM (1tQZO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2025 10:15 AM (kgE5c)
Not even 10% as much.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I had a thought. (I know. Scary that I'm allowed to)
I can't figure out WHY the left has staked out this is the hill to die on. Seriously.
It's not like the help, Consuela and Pepe, get deported and they're never coming back. They just come back in two to three weeks like every other wetback.
So WHY is the left going all out on the front side?
Let them get deported, let them quietly sneak back and everyone is happy. But NO. The left has to go into meltdown mode over the attempt to deport them.
THAT'S what I can't figure out. WHY?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:15 AM (rw9H/)
Gas is $4.50/gal in California?! Average.
Those stupid assholes in California are about to Shut Down TWO refineries!
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:18 AM (3TbF6)
So WHY is the left going all out on the front side?
Let them get deported, let them quietly sneak back and everyone is happy. But NO. The left has to go into meltdown mode over the attempt to deport them.
THAT'S what I can't figure out. WHY?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:15 AM (rw9H/)
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It's congressional apportionment, mostly. Some federal NY Democrat congresswomen admitted it in an interview in the last few days. "I need migrants for redistricting," essentially.
It should also be noted that the narrative of illegal immigration has become almost background noise in establishment press. The NYT didn't have a single immigration story on its front page yesterday.
When they want to push narrative, they flood the zone, everyday, finding new stories and new angles. Yesterday? Nothing.
I suspect it's because it's not actually working, combined with the fact that these orgs have the attention spans of hyperactive puppies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)
**************
That's What We Do With a Drunken Sailor
While approaching the high canal locks
I sailed my ship aground at the docks
"What the hell was I thinkin'
I shouldnt've been drinkin'
But I like my Cutty Sark on the rocks!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 24, 2025 10:19 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Wake Up, People! at July 24, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Well, those refineries take up a lot of land. Need that land for pot farms.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Dumbfuck local fake news "anchor" in CA asks "What are companies doing to lower gas prices?"
Companies, she says!
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:20 AM (3TbF6)
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It's by design.
If the Trump administration starts to treat the judicial coup as, you know, an actual coup the Democrats are going to have a field day claiming some sort of "constitutional crisis" that requires Trump be impeached. They'll twist the narrative from lawless judges to a lawless president.
Failing to goad the administration into action, they'll keep on pushing until the public has had enough and takes matters into their own hands. Thus giving the Democrats another reason to go after the administration as incompetent.
They want war. They think they'll win.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 10:21 AM (Q4IgG)
Dumbfuck local fake news "anchor" in CA asks "What are companies doing to lower gas prices?"
Companies, she says!
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:20 AM (3TbF6)
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Trying to drill for oil? Or that bad?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)
California has ONE nuclear power plant.
One. Uno. 1.
And that Nuclear power plant is scheduled to shut down in 2030! Originally set to close in 2024, it was extended six more years.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:23 AM (3TbF6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2025 10:24 AM (uU94S)
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 10:25 AM (ciJ04)
That’s it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2025 10:24 AM (uU94S)
Here in NorCal it's all Epstein all the time and ICE in the local rag
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:26 AM (VE6XX)
if the Old Man doesn't have 34 Senators in his back pocket ? Then he gets what he gets. Same as the first term.
Every defense of every failing always comes down to "they'll remove him". Last I checked - that takes 67 Senators. So again, if he didn't check to make sure he had 34 Senators ready to back him ? Then that's on him.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 10:27 AM (ciJ04)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:15 AM (rw9H/)
Abrego-Garcia was involved in human trafficking, and got a "let him go" call from the Feds when he was picked up doing a run.
This is my guess, that or someone got the idea that there was a precedent to be made, and it just snowballed from there
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 10:28 AM (D7oie)
TJM, ok. I get that. When's the next count? They'd be back by then. Why such a public scene when they could hide everything in the dark?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:28 AM (rw9H/)
It's narrative grasping while ceding the ground on actual policy results. And the narrative sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Many of the judges issuing these decisions are most likely collaborating quietly in teh background either directly or through their law clerks, ex parte conversations with attorneys, etc.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 10:29 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 24, 2025 10:30 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:28 AM (rw9H/)
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2030.
If the GOP loses the 2028 election, it's possible a bunch more will flood back.
It's important to win the 2028 election to ensure that doesn't happen.
Maybe Democrats will give up on open borders and transing kids as their core, public platform by then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:31 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 24, 2025 10:30 AM (xcxpd)
He should have used his later Abstract expressionism color palette.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 10:28 AM (rw9H/)
The scene itself is the point, i think. The more electoral politics looks like it's slipping away from their grasp, even with all their crooked bullshit, the more they're going to rely on whipping up a frenzy in a small core of radicals, and using the media to amplify the crazy and make normies start to panic.
Someone who is panicking is one of the easiest marks on the planet. The "I don't care just make it stop" reflex.
Posted by: Hans Solo at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
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I wouldn't count on it. They seem locked in on their insanity.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: Charon
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Rural Heaven - a limerick
Our friend Charon got himself in a fix
When he tried living out among the hicks
He chose to live on his boat
And though he shouldn't goat
He loves his rustic place out in the Styx
Posted by: muldoon at July 24, 2025 10:34 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:34 AM (VofaG)
Beautiful. Love the Sonoma Mission. And Fort Ross.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Yes it is lovely here.. Except the politics of course
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:35 AM (VE6XX)
Let them get deported, let them quietly sneak back and everyone is happy. But NO. The left has to go into meltdown mode over the attempt to deport them.
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The wall.
Nearly zero illegal crossings.
And the border is only getting more secure.
The freak-out is because they can't have the public get used to the idea that anyone can be deported.
Remember, this is the "camel's nose" Party--they've been using that tactic to great effect for decades.
And they know how tenuous their power is that it can't withstand the tactic against them.
It's why they are desperately trying to construct a narrative of the horrors upon innocents of deportation.
And ... it's not working.
The public 1) is sick and tired of the BS and 2) knows the left is lying.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:35 AM (1tQZO)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 24, 2025 10:36 AM (JRP2U)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:37 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: It's me donna
California is like the state version of the women that Rule #1 was formulated for.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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No, I think they want a war because they are losing. War is the last desperate roll of the dice to come out on top. It was the same way in the ACW and for many of the same reasons--the planter-slave economy was going away for the South as cotton and other crops had already ruined the soil of the oldest colonies.
In the case of blue state/urban models, the money is gone--state, federal, etc. to pay for it. It is inexorable crushing debt that is going to curtail the ngo industry, gubmint state and local spending, and fed gov. They have destroyed their own economies and no one want that model in other states or localities.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 24, 2025 10:36 AM (JRP2U)
Not unusual that he's very hard to find.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:38 AM (VofaG)
OT/ I'm wondering why the push to talk with Maxwell ? Would she really tell the truth ?
Posted by: It's me donna
Probably not, and I don't think this is a good idea.
She will say whatever is best for herself.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:38 AM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 24, 2025 10:36 AM (JRP2U)
I don't think that boat is sea worthy
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
was irrelevant that Russiagate was illogical and cooked up, it is irrelevant that there is nothing there with Epsteingate is nothing and cooked up , they think they got a hook
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)
It's about building a nation of immigrants. OK, fine, it's about importing a slave labor underclass and padding out the census. OK, fine, fine, it's about destroying civilization and the very concept of nationhood and citizenship.
It's about getting healthcare to those who can't afford it. OK, fine, it's about lining our pockets in a de-facto monopoly with a bottomless well of funny money. OK, fine, fine, it's about destroying the entire healthcare system and the very concept of healthcare as a service.
Posted by: Warai-otoko keeps seeing the same dance steps... at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
I used to go abalone diving at Fort Ross. Easy beach access, and it was gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM (SuQXo)
Aren't we overdue for another fake "--gate" hoax?
The last was "signalgate."
epsteingate, perhaps?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM (3TbF6)
It's narrative grasping while ceding the ground on actual policy results. And the narrative sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Many of the judges issuing these decisions are most likely collaborating quietly in teh background either directly or through their law clerks, ex parte conversations with attorneys, etc.
Posted by: whig
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Not to mention that the US government is still, most likely, involved in human trafficking. I think it will eventually come out that many of the "missing" children that were escorted to the border and then abandoned to the care of NGO's and the US Health and Human Services are, in fact, being trafficked in the US.
There has to be a legal component to this effort.
The dots are being connected. Slowly.
From a purely legal point of view I cannot see why a purported human trafficker like Garcia would be released unless there's risk for the judiciary involved in his case. Or, more likely, more "Orange Man Bad" rage. Or both.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 10:41 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
I used to go abalone diving at Fort Ross. Easy beach access, and it was gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM (SuQXo)
I preferred Fort Rachel.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:41 AM (VofaG)
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
was irrelevant that Russiagate was illogical and cooked up, it is irrelevant that there is nothing there with Epsteingate is nothing and cooked up , they think they got a hook
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)
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Russian collusion worked so well as a narrative that they had to cook up covid and then shut down ballot counting in the middle of the night across six states to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory.
The press's ability to create and maintain narratives isn't dead. With certain segments of the population it's very alive and strong.
But as a whole? It's much diminished.
Just because the media messages, it doesn't mean that it's actually convincing people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2025 10:41 AM (Pce4l)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM (3TbF6
That ones be going for a while... Biden had the stuff for 4 years and no interest and now it's # 1 with the Dems/press.. I still think while they had it they tampered with it..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)
The press's ability to create and maintain narratives isn't dead. With certain segments of the population it's very alive and strong.
But as a whole? It's much diminished.
Just because the media messages, it doesn't mean that it's actually convincing people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)
It will shrink with time as some voters die off.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2025 10:42 AM (Pce4l)
F'ing hilarious.
They posted a clip of them locking gates at the border to the "La Puerta Negra," a very famous Mexican song.
Taunting the left.
And every time the lefties in the comments tried to chime in, "the next line says, 'but your doors and 100 locks aren't going to stop me' ha ha!" they respond--in Spanish, "Thank you, so I can keep working day after day. And with overtime. [laugh emoji] They keep entering illegally."
LO-f'ing-L
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:42 AM (1tQZO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
So YOU'RE the asshole who was stealing our abalones!
-- Fort Ross Sea Otters Local 305.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
Again you can't ignore the big assist by people on our side.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)
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seems to work with some people on the right, who should know better
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Aw baloney!!!
Posted by: muldoon at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (poXs5)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. So did anyone check the spelling of Weesperzijde?
Goes looking for coffee
Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Aw baloney!!!
Posted by: muldoon at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (poXs5)
That pun was a bit ham-fisted.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko keeps seeing the same dance steps... at July 24, 2025 10:40 AM
But what if you have no health for which to care?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (Pce4l)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2025 10:42 AM (Pce4l)
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1,000,000 boomers a year.
Mostly evenly split ideologically.
Being replaced by Gen-Z, the most right leaning demo in America, and they don't get their news from ABC or the NYT.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)
in the post-Boomer USA (and maybe world), the left/Dems are COOKED
I hope to stay alive to see it
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (Md4iB)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: muldoon at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (poXs5)
That pun was a bit ham-fisted.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (PzXaK)
A mighty cold cut.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (JRP2U)
theoretically, but the harpy wives force their meek husbands to vote D
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (Md4iB)
Sorry some golf nerd asshole soured Taylor on this site. Tell her she's welcome back at any time.
How'd your meeting go? Did the slide issue get resolved?
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)
Again you can't ignore the big assist by people on our side.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:43 AM (VofaG)
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Their ability to sway is...questionable at best.
Polls (spit) are saying Trump's support among Republicans has actually hardened and increased over the last few weeks.
I'm going to need more than some podcast bros waving their arms around to be convinced that it's...having any effect at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
it does, doesn't it?
I think some of us (maybe me too) have a form of PTSD after everything that's happened
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 10:46 AM (Md4iB)
theoretically, but the harpy wives force their meek husbands to vote D
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (Md4iB)
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According to most exit polls (spit) of 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (1tQZO)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)
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Just having Trump's number in Epstein's rolodex (which he probably did) would probably be enough to get Trump's names in "the Epstein files".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)
How'd your meeting go? Did the slide issue get resolved?
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)
Typical corporate meeting.
Started off with five minutes of small talk.
Technical issue with the Teams invite.
Self-important schmuck talked outside of the agenda that was of interest to maybe three people, including himself.
Only one business cliche though, something about having us find "our center space" or something stupid like that.
And, scene.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 10:48 AM (PzXaK)
Or were you just after the mother-of-pearl?
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)
I hope to stay alive to see it
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 24, 2025 10:45 AM
*fistbump*
I plan on being the last Boomer standing.
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
F'ing hilarious.
The extent to which Trump 2.0 fully embraces social media and memes across the entire government is amazing.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (2ocoG)
Sorry I was wrong. I guess you can ignore it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:47 AM (GBKbO)
Did you hear that I wan on the Olympic Team ?
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Walls are closing in, Orange Man Bad, other bullshit hangups that leftists have.
They no longer think, they only recycle their noxious political mantras over and over again abetted by the news media which are their preachers and priests.
That is why they are reacting so badly to Colbert being cancelled--their impulse is religious, not logic.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)
And, scene.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
So, no drilling down with granularity to leverage bleeding-edge and best-of-breed solutions?
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 24, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
You should read my post from the other day -you of all people would appreciate it. I'll see if I can link it just for you if you're gonna be here.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 10:52 AM (7HpjT)
If there was nothing about "alignment" you did well. That's my current hot-button business-speak word.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 10:52 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
Good luck. *hands toby928 a totally unpoisoned cookie*
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
Sorry I was wrong. I guess you can ignore it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)
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You may be right.
But I've seen too many talking heads talking about too many -gates over the years to be convinced that current day's version is more effective than the last dozen.
I'll need to see...something.
Also, aren't we always told that 18 months is an eternity in politics? What does presidential approval, narrative, or generic congressional ballot questions have to do with an election a year and a half away? The people supporting or not something going on right now doesn't matter if it's all forgotten or ignored more than a year later.
This? The latest saga of the Epstein Saga? I just don't think it...matters electorally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
What are the KPI's demonstrating sufficient ROI?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 10:54 AM (GbwPZ)
Said a prolific painter named Piet,
Who had never sold anything yet,
"My bank account's hurtin'.
I'll just paint shower curtains!"
Now he's got his own wing at the Met.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 24, 2025 10:54 AM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Just like it's spelled at July 24, 2025 10:54 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)
>>Just having Trump's number in Epstein's rolodex (which he probably did) would probably be enough to get Trump's names in "the Epstein files".
So, when they say "Epstein Files," what do they mean precisely?
I was assured that there was no such thing as "Epstein Files."
Could they mean dossier?
Can we just start calling it the Epstein Dossier, because everyone likes Dossier's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Most of the stray voltage floating around right now on that story is speculation. I am learning how much bullshit has attached to the story. For example, even some of the 'facts' reported such as Acosta claiming intel was protecting Epstein in the Palm Beach case are actually not statements by Acosta himself but rather hearsay alleging he made those statements during his confirmation hearings.
My guess is that Trump himself was an FBI 'asset' in that he was in the position to hear and see things, especially as he was sober while others were drunk/stoned around him and he floated about high society/high rollers. So he probably told FBI and law enforcement information he had overheard from time to time.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 10:56 AM (ctrM5)
Yes. What matters is all the things Trump has been doing for the past 6 months - deportations, shutting down the border, DOGE cleaning out waste and redundant/unnecessary federal staffing, making big-azz trade deals, defunding universities. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 10:56 AM (GbwPZ)
Mostly evenly split ideologically.
Being replaced by Gen-Z, the most right leaning demo in America, and they don't get their news from ABC or the NYT.
---
A lot of "everybody knows" things go away with the Boomers.
Especially the "government should do/fund this" things.
Education, retirement, health care.
Those last two exclusively benefit the elderly and are hugely expensive--and increasing.
It's not discussed enough, but in the next 5 years, a whole bunch of public schools are going to be forced to close.
They too, have been propping up their "enrollment" with illegals.
There's going to be a whole lot of "fuck your tears, I'm not paying for your shit anymore."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 10:56 AM (1tQZO)
I was assured that there was no such thing as "Epstein Files."
Could they mean dossier?
Can we just start calling it the Epstein Dossier, because everyone likes Dossier's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)
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The whole thing is stupidly opaque and fluid.
I remember when the flight logs were the Epstein files. Those were released. But it's not good enough.
Instead, we need video of kiddie diddling by powerful people from Epstein Island.
I have no idea what's there, what's not there, or what's just pure imagination. I don't think anyone outside the federal government knows either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Epstein didn't die.
The whole thing was a sham, and the dude is still alive and doing his thing.
Hey, if you're going to create a crazy theory, create a crazy theory, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
Wow, Keith Richards is a 'Ron!
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
It would matter if Trump didn't have the ability to fight it. But he does so it won't matter. There is a big op that's just been deployed meant to take the energy of the Epstein story and dump it on Trump (and MAGA's) head.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (7HpjT)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 24, 2025 10:39 AM*
Nor is the man in it sponge worthy.
Posted by: Elaine Benes at July 24, 2025 10:58 AM (kDa4+)
I'm not saying that it's certainty that this will hurt Trump or the mid-terms. My point is that not just a few on the Right gave the Left an assist and pulled them into the lifeboat to allow them to grab on to this issue.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)
It would matter if Trump didn't have the ability to fight it. But he does so it won't matter. There is a big op that's just been deployed meant to take the energy of the Epstein story and dump it on Trump (and MAGA's) head.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (7HpjT)
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The Congressional GOP just not joining in on narrative du jour does so much to not keep the current thing in the news for more than a couple of cycles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)
I'm not saying that it's certainty that this will hurt Trump or the mid-terms. My point is that not just a few on the Right gave the Left an assist and pulled them into the lifeboat to allow them to grab on to this issue.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)
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Sure.
That's obvious. People screaming about what they definitely know about documents they've never seen.
But...18 months. It won't matter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
Wow, Keith Richards is a 'Ron!
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
You're not technically a Boomer if you were born in the 20s.
When Herod was tetrarch.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM (RlmPm)
I'm not saying that it's certainty that this will hurt Trump or the mid-terms. My point is that not just a few on the Right gave the Left an assist and pulled them into the lifeboat to allow them to grab on to this issue.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)
Bondi's dog and pony show, Kash and Bongino's 180, and them saying nothing to see here on a Sunday night fueled the fire.
Don't blame the right. Blame the admin.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM (KbCG3)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
Hey! Ho! Last standing Boomer has got to go! Hey! Ho!
Posted by: Dirty Old Boomer Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM (rfMRc)
Yeah, easily identified by the recent demands by Democrats and NeverTrump to investigate Epstein.
Can you say DISTRACTION?
I want the DC/deep state investigated/prosecuted/removed from power as much as anyone, but an old sex scandal is not the best way to do it. What Tulsi is doing is fabulous.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 11:00 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 11:00 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 11:01 AM (fV+MH)
Piet Mondrian
Interesting composition. The round end of the log or sail (?) is about dead center of the composition and fixates the eye there; there is never a sense of receding line that takes the eye deep into the image. After that comes the boat's A shaped riggings that are repeated as A shape spires. Lastly the clouds' chunky shape repeat the the shape of large mass shapes. If there is pull to depth it is in these two image clusters. This is executed with great skill. The serenity comes in the placid water, the boat at rest, and the fading light, minutes after sunset. The loose paint style adds a bit a indefinite gauze to the scene.
Would Hang.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 24, 2025 11:01 AM (NXz8h)
Hey Lizzy. I recommended this to Orchid - linking my own comment like a maniac - but I think you would appreciate it too:
https://is.gd/GtqCwm
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 11:02 AM (7HpjT)
Posted by: Dr_No at July 24, 2025 11:02 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)
Wow, Keith Richards is a 'Ron!
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
You're not technically a Boomer if you were born in the 20s.
When Herod was tetrarch.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM
I shall become the next Great Old One who is not remembered in Absent Friends.
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 11:02 AM (jc0TO)
I wouldn't want to take the blame either.
Posted by: polynikes at July 24, 2025 11:03 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 24, 2025 10:59 AM (KbCG3)
It kind of seems like they're trying to make lemonade. Sure, there was that fustercluck at DOJ that's muddied the waters and looked embarrassing as hell... but what to do now? Panic, fire everyone and start over, and let that be The Story? Or embrace the FUD and harness the media's gullibility to go whole hog fixating on this preposterous garbage gossip story, while you run around ending wars and making trade deals and field-dressing a freshly killed Ivy League with nary a peep out of the normies over it all?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 11:04 AM (RlmPm)
the flemish language is totally gracht ootgezondered.
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2025 11:04 AM (GAyiy)
Posted by: toby928"
You know what you did.
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 11:04 AM (fV+MH)
Or were you just after the mother-of-pearl?
Posted by: Bulg
Yes they do. An episode of Anthony Bourdain had them cracking them open on the boat and eating them.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 11:05 AM (rw9H/)
Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 11:02 AM (jc0TO)
I mean Keith, not you.
You don't look a day over 1,940.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 11:06 AM (RlmPm)
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
But [buffs nails] some people refuse to listen and see what's right in front of them ...
I mean, FFS, assume 100% of the most salacious and vile allegations made about Epstein are true:
Do you really think the media is going to even mention one single Democrat was involved?
Ridiculous.
Facts:
We KNOW several Democrats went to his island.
And NONE of them are being talked about.
ONLY Trump and photos from 3+ decades ago.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 11:07 AM (1tQZO)
https://is.gd/GtqCwm
Nailed it!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2025 11:07 AM (GbwPZ)
>>Instead, we need video of kiddie diddling by powerful people from Epstein Island.
What we need to unpack is how a college dropout was recruited by a former OSS operative, who in his spare time, wrote novels about aliens abducting and sexually abusing people, to be a math teacher at a prestigious boarding school, gets fired, goes on to work the money laundering assets desk at Bear Stearns, gets fired, starts a company with the sole client being a notorious arms dealer, is somehow on a plane with a government bigshot taking meetings at the Pentagon, has billionaires signing over power of attorney and access to vast real estate and other assets, is whisking the elite of the elite on his jet to his r*pe island in the carribiean, gets indicted and prosecuted for charges that should have landed him in jail for a minimum of 20 years, somehow walks, is able to continue whatever he was doing for another decade until he was arrested, thrown in lockup and didn't kill himself in a jail run by the son of the man who gave him his first break.
That's a hell of a story right there.
Aren't they any intrepid former naval intelligence officers that can take up the cause?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 11:08 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2025 11:08 AM (GAyiy)
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Why yes, they DO! I first tasted abalone 'way back in the mid-'60s when I brought a date to a Chinese restaurant near Lake Pontchartrain. It was pricey, but dang!, was it worth it! I also learnt that, if you've brushed your teeth really really good before you eat it, it SQUEAKS when you chew it. Food with sound FX. What more can you ask ... ?
Posted by: Dr_No at July 24, 2025 11:08 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)
Democrats also lie about everything.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 24, 2025 11:09 AM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 11:09 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: George at July 24, 2025 11:12 AM (kDa4+)
Posted by: cmeat at July 24, 2025 11:16 AM (GAyiy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I think part of it is some people on the right think it might be true because they adopted the Q narrative of lizard people ruling us unconsciously. Others think the Deep State whether US CIA, Britain (MI-6), or Mossad did it. Some are opportunists (political or media trying to pose as protectors of yutes), butthurt Never Trumpers, and of course Democrats that are sure this time they'll get the Orange Man.
The timing of this story is explicitly a Dem op designed to deflect attention from the horrifying details that our Dems worked a massive coup op along with their Deep State pals for the entire Trump first term and then doubled down on it with lawfare designed to break Trump.
I think ultimately when the 'documents' are released, there will be a big letdown as it will be more like a paper blizzard, internal comms, names and id redacted, and so on. Just like the JFK files, the RFK files, and my guess the MLK files. Plenty of hints, vague mentionslike George Bush present in Dallas, etc.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 11:19 AM (ctrM5)
Do you really think the media is going to even mention one single Democrat was involved?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Right now, people make unsubstantiated claims because they can and because it involves sex--people are intrinsically more interested in it than boring old stories of a coup launched against a republic by its own officials. I can see why Dems like that narrative because otherwise they got nuttin but misery caused by their policies including sex trafficking on such a vast scale that dwarfs anything Epstein did.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)
>>Bender, you are wrong about the arms dealer bit. Epstein got his start managing Wexner's private affairs. Wexner owns Victoria Secrets, etc. but is not an arms dealer.
After leaving Bear Stearns, Epstein opened his own business, his first client was Adnan Kyshogi of Iran Contra fame, during the time frame of Iran Contra.
I hate to say this because I like you, you are simply not up to speed on the history of Epstein and should do more research.
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