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The Morning Report — 8/8/25

Good morning kids. Democrat/Leftist hypocrisy in service of tyrannical evil tops the news on the domestic side, with the Democrat scum Texas Flee Circus at the top of the heap. In complete abrogation of their oaths of office, rather than do their duty as they had sworn by debating and then voting on the plan to redraw congressional districts, which would have bolstered the GOP's majority of seats in the state, and is something the vast majority of Texans voted for and want, these filthy criminals hit the road and fled to Illinois and New York. And speaking of my former home state, its wax works harridan of a governor announced this:

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that everyone should stand up and not let the FBI “hunt down” the 50 Texas Democrat legislators who left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.

The Democrat Party is a lawless, insurrectionist terrorist organization dressed in the trappings of a political party, that has been undermining our nation and society in its unslakable lust for absolute power for over 200 years. From slavery, to civil war, to government-sanctioned racism and concentration camps for the Nisei, to election rigging,

Dear FBI, anyone and everyone including this slithering cadaver who gets in the way of your agents doing their duty should have the cuffs slapped on them and hauled off to a jail cell. But as we all know, lawlessness is as lawlessness does. And on that note, the beatdown from a corrupt leftist controlled/manipulated judiciary goes on:

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams—an Obama appointee, naturally—issued a temporary restraining order Thursday to halt construction at Florida's migrant detention facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz.” The 14-day order stops all construction projects at the facility, including lighting, paving, excavation, and fencing, though it doesn't affect current detainees. Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."
Can you hear my eyes rolling? Let's be crystal clear about what's really happening here: This judge prioritized hypothetical environmental damage over actual border security and the safety of American citizens.

And Psaki-Psircling back to my railing against the Democrats' history of misery, evil and crime:

The battle between Texas and Democrat states over gerrymandering seems likely to touch on the biggest driver of Democrat gerrymandering which fundamentally altered the political balance of power in state after state. Louisiana v. Callais is likely headed for a big Supreme Court decision that will fundamentally change how the Voting Rights Act enforces minority districts.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the 60th anniversary of the VRA, a civil rights era relic which long ago stopped fighting segregation and instead enforced partisan gerrymandering with no end in sight. When the Supreme Court began allowing VRA ‘monitoring’ of elections in some states to sunset, Democrats cried that segregation and slavery were about to come back.But for all the talk of democracy and racism, Louisiana v. Callais shows what keeping the zombie VRA alive is really about. The case is about whether federal courts can force Louisiana to create two Democrat congressional seats under the guise of creating two black seats. It’s a common form of gerrymandering that uses race as a trojan horse for mandating Dem seats.
When heavily gerrymandered Democrat states like California, New York and Illinois eliminate Republican seats, that’s not seen as a Voting Rights Act violation even though much as Democrat seats are disproportionately minority, Republican seats are disproportionately white.
Democrats are not fighting to keep the VRA alive because they care about black people, but because they care about maintaining the racially gerrymandered seats produced by VRA abuses.

Given the miracle of the Dobbs decision that dismantled the evil of Roe v. Wade, and the torrent of vitriol and actual terrorism against pro-life organizations and churches as well as average citizens

Man Who Brutally Beat Elderly Pro-Lifers Dodges Prison Time — He was sentenced to only one year of home detention after the brutal attack outside a Planned Parenthood facility.

As we discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, the notion that the Russia Collusion hoax pimps/purveyors will be prosecuted let alone convicted are slim to none.

Most especially Barack Hussein Obama, because of the firestorm of racialist violence it would unleash that will make the 2020 Summer of Floyd look like a smoldering cigarette butt drooping from his purple dog-eating lips. Given all of that do you think that SCOTUS especially this one is going to even hint at reversing the hideous VRA?!

Moving on to the international scene, this item caught my eye this morning:

The Trump administration on Thursday offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. “Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted on X. The Drug Enforcement Administration has thus far seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said, and “nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico.”

One wonders if this is a shot across the bow against Brazil's commie dictator Lula Da Silva, who fancies himself as a Bolivarian anti-Trump. Hopefully Maduro goes the way of Manuel Noriega late of Panama and this mortal coil.

And in the Middle East, as we also discussed on the podcast, it looks as if Israel at long last is going to re-occupy Gaza in part if not completely in a final bid to free the remaining hostages and stomp out Hamas.

Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan early on Friday to take control of Gaza City, as the country expands its military operations despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war. “The IDF will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces.

Let's hope the Israelis have finally rejected the insanity of land for peace.

Israel Can’t Win Without Beating the Muslim Brotherhood And the same is true for America.

Certainly this is true, but at the end of the day what is the muslim Brotherhood? And what is Hamas, Hezbollah and all the rest, be they head choppers, Islamikaze suicide bombers or merely ululate and pass out candy when Jews are raped, beheaded and roasted alive in front of their parents? All of them are ISLAM.

And whatever became of this effort. Yeah go after Maduro, but I think this is pretty damned crucial as well.

Congressman Randy Fine Introduces a Bill to Designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

White collar conspiracy cases are mind-numbing. Murder mysteries with dead bodies and blood are riveting. And the mysterious Rich case has all of the above.
Seth Rich: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Daniel Greenfield: And the Supreme Court may be about to end it.
The Voting Rights Act is Illegal Racial Gerrymandering

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals." (Disregard this order and proceed - jjs)
Judge Blocks Construction at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’—You Won't Believe Why
The move could face legal challenges and significantly alter population counts, potentially affecting congressional representation and electoral college votes. (As it bloody well should - jjs)
Trump Declares Illegal Immigrants Will Not Be Counted in Census.
State Sen. Analise Ortiz, a Phoenix Dem, admits she ‘shared information about ICE’ — an act that a DHS official says ‘looks like obstruction.’
Defiant Arizona Lawmaker Could Face Charges After Tipping Off Illegals To ICE Presence

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
These people are insane - but serious and committed.
Democratic Socialists of America Hold Panel on Abolishing the Family
"Last night I was informed that tomorrow will be my last day in the FBI."
Trump Fires Former Acting FBI Director Who Stonewalled Admin Over J6
President Trump called the Democrats “deranged,” and he couldn’t be more right.
Democrats’ Perversion of Democracy
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Trump has picked a necessary fight with organized federal workers.
Another Step Toward Freeing Washington From The Union Grip
The Democrat said that transitioning the DOGE staffers to career federal service workers could “potentially run afoul of laws that explicitly ban political considerations and loyalty tests in hiring practices.” (Translation could fuck up the Leftist stranglehold on power - jjs)
Democrats Says DOGE Employees’ Continued Presence in Federal Bureaucracy ‘Alarming’

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard allegedly overruled officials in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other agencies to redact more “sensitive information” in her July release of documents regarding “Russiagate,” anonymous sources told the The Washington Post (WaPo).
Deep State Leakers Scramble To Mitigate Russiagate Fallout
Fred Fleitz: The 2017 Russia ICA wasn’t intelligence—it was political sabotage, rushed and rigged to smear Trump before he even took office, the House report now reveals.
How Intelligence Community Analysis Rules Were Flagrantly Violated in the Fraudulent Russia Collusion Intelligence Assessment
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
For the first time in 70 years, America opened a rare earth mine—but even with Trump’s push, breaking China’s grip on critical minerals may take decades.
For the first time in 70 years, America opened a rare earth mine—but even with Trump’s push, breaking China’s grip on critical minerals may take decades.
Rare earth elements (REE) are the new commodities that will dominate global trade. Nations that have these elements can control vital parts of the world economy.
Securing rare earth independence from China
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
While Netanyahu said on Thursday Israel intended to take military control of the entire Gaza Strip, the plan approved on Friday focused specifically on Gaza City, the largest city in the enclave, located in its north.
Israel approves Netanyahu’s plans to take control of Gaza City
Officials also announced hate crime charges against Elias Rodriguez for the shooting deaths.
Death Penalty On The Table For Killer Of Israeli Embassy Staffers
Name a military that has delivered more aid to an enemy population during war.
Israel’s Aid to Gaza Has No Precedent
Hamas official credited Oct 7 for 'entire world' moving toward Palestinian recognition 'with force'
'This Is the Result': Vandals Deface Israeli Airline's Paris Office With 'Genocide' Graffiti After Macron Moves To Recognize 'Palestinian' State
Investigators are reviewing instances in which Hamas commandeered aid trucks and placed terrorists in UN facilities
Federal Investigators Compile Evidence of Systematic Hamas Aid Theft, Undercutting Leaked USAID 'Report'
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student and prominent pro-Hamas activist, described the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel as “unavoidable” during an interview with New York Times journalist Ezra Klein. Khalil, who narrowly avoided deportation earlier this year, claimed the attack stemmed from Israel’s alleged disregard for Palestinians and their grievances.
Mahmoud Khalil to NYT: Palestinians ‘Couldn’t Avoid’ Oct. 7 Massacre. (Well, damn if every time I changed my mind about roasting a Joo-baby alive the oven just grabbed the pan from my hands and did it anyway! - jjs)
And the same is true for America.
Israel Can’t Win Without Beating the Muslim Brotherhood (The MB is Islam - jjs)
Not the first radical Muslim group to be linked to the soft drink giant.
When Pepsi Partnered With a Hamas Financier to Distribute Food in Pakistan
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
Protecting Christians from genocide.
On the Ground in Syria

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Supporters include Chuck Schumer’s anti-Israel rabbi, Jewish Voice for Peace's political director, and three staffers or volunteers for Mamdani's campaign
Meet the ‘Many Jewish Voters’ the NYT Says Back Zohran Mamdani

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
. . . across northern Mozambique in July, forcing more than 46,000 people — nearly 60% of them children — to flee.
ISIS Soldiers Storm Christian Vigil, Behead Several People
Are Jewish patients safe in hospitals from pro-Hamas medical professionals?
Don't Allow A Medical 9/11
“All Zionists can die, inside healthcare and beyond, and I’m happy to help with that!”
Another Muslim Nurse Threatens to Murder Jewish Patients
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Mark Zandi should be in jail—instead, he’s out spreading fake news.
One of the media’s favorite economists is at it again
Robin Alderslowe, a 20-year-old bagpiper from Scotland, has stirred debate after posting videos of himself showcasing Scottish culture in various countries. He says his mission is to celebrate and preserve his heritage in a world where Western traditions often face criticism or are becoming diluted.
Bagpiper Banned from TikTok for Being A Proud Scot?! (Bill Millin look down from Heaven and weeps - jjs)
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Daniel Greenfield: State agencies remain in an “administrative and planning phase,."
Much of the ‘Green Energy’ Funding Was Money Laundering
The study’s inclusion of Uzbekistan’s faulty GDP figures skewed its results and cast doubt on its conclusion that global GDP could be roughly 62% lower by 2100 due to climate change than it otherwise would be, according to the Post. Numerous prominent media outlets touted the study upon its release as proof of climate change’s imminent economic threat, but a new analysis and experts who spoke to the Post argue the paper is undermined by Uzbekistan’s “data anomalies.”
Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled By Media Relied On Bunk Data
In July, the European Commission unveiled a sweeping plan to slash the EU’s carbon footprint by 90% by 2040, partly by allowing member states to use carbon credits earned by funding climate projects in developing countries to offset emissions. Despite the policy’s potentially massive economic and environmental ramifications, EU officials admitted they did not conduct an internal analysis of its impacts before proposing it, Politico reported.
Plan That Whole World Seemed To Hate Wasn’t Even Reviewed, EU Officials Now Admit

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Both wounded Troopers are in stable condition.
Two Pennsylvania Troopers Ambushed, Alleged Shooter Dead
The rise in juvenile crime has sparked debate over curfews, penalties, and federal intervention in D.C. crime policies.
Over Half of D.C. Carjacking Suspects Are Minors. (Imprison the parents, if they can even be found - jjs)
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Oklahoma is the first state to add this kind of America First certification test—but it shouldn't be the last.
Oklahoma's weeding out woke teachers—other red states should too
Though it hides behind euphemisms like “inclusive excellence,” the organization continues to promote divisive racial ideologies and unscientific theories.
Don’t Buy the American College of Surgeons’ DEI Rebrand
SECOND AMENDMENT
Justice Paul Thissen wrote the majority opinion, noting, “Because federal law does not require a serial number on the firearm that Vagle possessed, we reverse.”
Minnesota Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Unserialized Guns
. . . less than two months after the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. . . Since then, Colorado Democrats’ push for gun control has continued unabated. Most recently, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a semiautomatic ban that represents “one of the most restrictive regulations ever adopted in Colorado,” according to the Colorado Sun.
Firearm Homicides Surge in Colorado Following Adoption of Gun Control
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The announcement marks an escalation in the fight over redistricting.
FBI Assisting Texas In Hunt For ‘Runaway’ Democrats, GOP Senator Says
Solution: Slap the cuffs on Hochul and every donut-sucking apple-robbing cop protecting her - jjs
Hochul: We Are Not Letting FBI ‘Hunt Down’ Texas Dems
Seemingly desperate to boost his nationwide profile ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run, the Golden State Democrat telegraphed earlier this week his intent to support a scheme to redraw California’s congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms. The prospective move is aimed at helping his party offset any potential GOP gains resulting from Texas and other red states‘ redistricting efforts.
Californians Voted To Stop Dems From Gerrymandering. Greasy Bastard Scumbag Newsom Is Plotting To Overrule Them
Since the conclusion of the Biden junta, (self-gassing criminal piece-of-shit) Blinken has kept a low profile, doing some speaking engagements and penning an op-ed. But now the former secretary of state has joined the board of directors at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning D.C. think tank, according to the organization’s website.
Biden Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Returns To The Swamp
POLITICS
. . . while the GOP is taking up more and more of the MAGA Agenda, the Republican establishment has yet to “have had certain changes of heart” and is instead looking to conserve its power.
‘Leadership from the Base’ Forcing GOP Lawmakers to Grow a Spine.
"The Democrat brand is in the basement." (May it one day soon be 6 feet under - jjs)
Democrats in Disastrous Shape as Midterms Loom
Trump’s new antitrust playbook walks a fine line—tough on Big Tech, wary of crony capitalism—but progressives are itching to hijack MAGA for their own socialist ends. (Won't work; you also have to be loudly pro-American - jjs)
Beware Progressives in Populists’ Clothing

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted on X.
Trump admin announces $50M reward for capture of Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro
"Social media platforms have been inundated with hashtags such as #ThanksTrump, #PresidentOfPeace, and #TrumpForPeacePrize."
Cambodia’s Leader Pushes Trump For Nobel Peace Prize
Trump’s comments came at the very end of a lengthy on-camera interview with Breitbart News at his luxurious seaside golf resort Turnberry here in southwestern Scotland last Monday. While in Scotland, Trump had succeeded in negotiating the biggest trade deal in world history between the United States and the European Union while also negotiating an immediate unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia.
Exclusive — Donald Trump: When America Is Great Again, We Will Have ‘A Much More Peaceful Nation’ and ‘A Peaceful World’
“It isn’t just the prosecutors who are out of control.”
The Origins of Brazil’s Judicial Tyranny
Nawrocki campaigned on holding the government accountable by using the powers of the presidency to force lawmakers to vote on the very promises they made.
POLISH MEP DOMINIK TARCZYNSKI: Nawrocki victory a 'checkmate' against globalists as Conservatives eye return to power
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Trump’s statement came after U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to Intel’s board chair raising concerns over Tan’s connections to China and a criminal case involving his previous company, Cadence Design. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, leading Intel shares to drop by approximately 4 percent in premarket trading.
Trump Demands Intel CEO Linked to China Resign, ‘There Is No Other Solution.’
Technology is now the greatest battlefield advantage. It’s time for Taiwan—and a new generation of innovators—to heed the call to build. (Hat Tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
Palmer Luckey: I Saw the Future of War. Now It’s Up to Us to Prepare for It.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“[C]onsumption of mean calories from ultra-processed foods among adults decreased.” — CDC study. . . The study highlights the role of ultra-processed foods in chronic diseases and obesity, sparking calls for dietary changes.
The MAHA Effect!? Ultra Processed Food Consumption Starts to Decline.
By now, MAGA voters have learned that in Washington, getting rid of a problem doesn’t always mean it stays gone.
The FDA Needs a MAGA Style Reboot
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Now, Webb’s observations from its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are providing the strongest evidence to date of a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A. …Based on the brightness of the planet in the mid-infrared observations and the orbit simulations, researchers say it could be a gas giant approximately the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A in an elliptical path varying between 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth.
Webb: Evidence of gas giant exoplanet orbiting the central star of Alpha Centuri
It is believed, based on present theories, that this black hole is at the uppermost limit possible in mass. It also must be underlined that there are many uncertainties in this data. (to be named as the WHoopi-Abrams pie hole - jjs)
Astronomers claim to discover biggest supermassive black hole yet
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Wendy Sachs explains Hollywood's silence on campus hate, pro Hamas protests
‘October 8’ Director Reveals Threats Against Film Exposing Antisemitism
On Wednesday, Penske Truck Rental tried to Bud Light itself by releasing a virtue-signaling statement criticizing the Department of Homeland Security for using one of its vehicles during an immigration enforcement operation.
Penske Tries To Bud Light Itself With Snide Anti-DHS Post
Yes, South Park is coming for Turning Point USA. And for those familiar with the show, this is far from an insult; it’s a pop culture badge of honor.
Charlie Kirk gets the South Park treatment—and that’s a win
New York State uses weak evidence to impose costly mascot bans on schools.
The Flimsy Research Behind Native American Mascot Bans
Delbert Carver, 23, was reportedly arrested for throwing a sex toy onto the court during the Valkyries-Dream game in Atlanta on July 29 and charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure and criminal trespass.
Crypto Group Claims Responsibility for Dildos Thrown at WNBA Games
HITHER & YON
Among the key discoveries from the study, visible rings around bloodstains — or serum halos — were found on the linen when examined with a UV light.
Shroud of Turin study unlocks new, key details of Jesus’ burial — reinforcing accuracy of biblical accounts

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Comments

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1 coming in hot and hard ladies,, hot and hard!

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 08, 2025 07:36 AM (5hfjS)

2 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

3 happy FRIDAY!!!

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 08, 2025 07:37 AM (nXhwP)

4 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

5 I alerted the tech thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

6 i've needed this weekend, even if it is time to move sturm jr to college.

i'm over work. maybe i can win the powerball and retire. plus it would allow me to upgrade from the cardboard membership...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (nXhwP)

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Good morning, Hordians. Took a 400 mg Gabapentin before going to bed and it knocked me right out. Slept until 6:15.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:38 AM (kkTda)

8 Yonder Horde

"Hunting Democrats" should be a national past time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

9 I saw the Waxworks Harridans open for the Dresden Dolls at the 930 Club.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 07:40 AM (kpS4V)

10 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

11 Good morning!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 07:41 AM (0I+GC)

12 1 coming in hot and hard ladies,, hot and hard!
Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 08, 2025 07:36 AM (5hfjS)

I saw the Flyin Green Dildoes open for the Flying Burrito Brothers and Flying Lizards at the Bottom Line in '81

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 07:41 AM (x0n13)

13 Wiullowede:

{{{TecumsehTea }}}

Blessings to you for a quick recovery.

There are easier ways to meet cute doctors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

14 Magnificent collection of links! MR is the best news source I know. Thank you JJ.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 07:45 AM (kL7AM)

15 great write up as always, jj. thanks for all the commentary.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 08, 2025 07:46 AM (nXhwP)

16 Abolishing the family? Of course. Likewise the Church. These goals were enunciated a long time ago. That people evince surprise and shock over this is disappointing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 07:46 AM (UseAb)

17 The J.J. commentary make staid news pop!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

18 Hadrian the Seventh

Did the dogs lick you awake?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

19 The irony of wishing to abolish the family is that it is the only social model within which communism actually can function without disaster.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 07:48 AM (UseAb)

20 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 07:48 AM (rqka2)

21 Thank you JJ and happy Friday!

This judge that halted construction at alligator Alcatraz…. I’m really sick of the tyrants in black robes. I believe I’ve changed my mind; I’m temperamentally conservative and until now felt Trump et al should play the long game and get such cases overturned by sane judges. But now I’m ready for Trump, DeSantis whoever to tell these judges to pound sand. They’re out of control

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 07:49 AM (FNvF+)

22 Democratic Socialists of America Hold Panel on Abolishing the Family
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At least they admit it. Reminds me of the line at the start of Waugh's Men at Arms, about the Hitler-Stalin pact. (From memory). "There stood the enemy, huge and horrible. It was the Modern Age in arms."

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 07:49 AM (od0dV)

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g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2025 07:49 AM (tljrc)

24 The Burrito bros folded in early 70s I did actually see them at the new T party, not the old one in the synagogue
NPR found a lost video from Jan 6 showing a Jam 6 "tourist" repeatedly calling on the other tourists to kill the police
He was appointed to Trump's DOJ in a high position
Anyone want to Google that and further comment on "lawlessness" in politics?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 08, 2025 07:50 AM (fLweb)

25 Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that everyone should stand up and not let the FBI “hunt down” the 50 Texas Democrat legislators who left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.
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Why not? I mean, besides the obvious reason of Party preference.

I have no idea if I am right, but it *looks* straightforward to me:
1. The Texas Democrat congressmen have fled the state to avoid performing their duties as congressmen.
2. Fleeing the state to avoid performing congressional duties is a violation of Texas law
3. Texas demands extradition of the fled congressmen back to Texas so they can face prosecution
4. The destination state refused extradition

Correct me if I am wrong (seriously), but isn't this one of those fairly rare examples of the legitimate and constitutional uses of federal police powers? This is an extradition disagreement between two states.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 07:51 AM (6bTRc)

26 >Texas Flee Circus
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well done!

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 07:51 AM (AOsQT)

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I am in favor of abolishing families:

The Clintons, Pelosis, Bidens, and Bushes....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)

28 I’ll have 2 Green Dildos and a side of lard please.

Posted by: Lizzie, Sloppy Fat Fuck at August 08, 2025 07:52 AM (9GE2E)

29 Tecumseh Tea, I saw your German info. I can't pronounce it, but I appreciate knowing it exists!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 07:53 AM (omVj0)

30 And in the Middle East, as we also discussed on the podcast, it looks as if Israel at long last is going to re-occupy Gaza in part if not completely in a final bid to free the remaining hostages and stomp out Hamas.
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Recall that Jews lived in Gaza along with their Arab (not so peaceful) neighbors as recently as 2005. Also, Gaza was Egyptian territory up until 1967 when they gambled and lost with war on Israel. No one ever asks why Egypt doesn't demand the territory back

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:53 AM (Dv3i1)

31 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2025 07:53 AM (53oGX)

32 Hochul: We Are Not Letting FBI ‘Hunt Down’ Texas Dems

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I'd lay $$$ down that this communist beaverface was fully supportive of the FBI hunting down grandmas who were "parading" in DC on 1/6.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

33
Did the dogs lick you awake?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

No. Frequently I have to rouse them from their sighthound slumber to go out. Afterwards, Diana hops on the bed and licks Her Majesty awake.

Varus (The Big Dummy) will whine piteously unless he's let loose as well. He will trot to the bedroom and nuzzle HM before lying down at the foot of the bed like a noble Hound should.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:54 AM (kkTda)

34 They’re out of control
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 07:49 AM (FNvF+)

I think it's pretty clear by now that this judicial obstructionism (insurrectionism) will not be stopped or deterred even by the Supreme Court. It's a concerted plan, formed almost two years ago by a cabal centered at Georgetown Law School.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 07:54 AM (UseAb)

35 I don't really understand the whole launching of dildos at the WNBA players., aside from it showing in a sophomoric way a dislike of women's basketball and the obnoxious attitude of some of the players . I read something in passing talking about this action with crypto currency or some financial thing. Huh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 07:56 AM (2GCMq)

36 Can you hear my eyes rolling? Let's be crystal clear about what's really happening here: This judge prioritized hypothetical environmental damage over actual border security and the safety of American citizens.
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This is a wildly inaccurate statement. Nothing of the sort happened.

The judge prioritized Party objectives over law, reason or sense. The Party objective is to interfere with immigration enforcement. The judge's job was to advance that objective. The judge found a way to advance that objective. That's it.

The actual rationalization used for the ruling - in this case it was the environment (and wrongly, per my understanding of the laws/rules cited, but I dunno), but it could have been anything - is irrelevant. The judge did *not* choose to put hypothetical environmental damage over the actual security and safety of citizens. The judge *did* choose to advancing Party objectives over everything else, at all costs.

It's time to stop letting these people claim that it's a dislocation between some judge's priority X, Y or Z over some other person's priority A, B, C. It is *never* about that. Ever. It's Party Objective vs Other. Every time. Without exception.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 07:56 AM (6bTRc)

37 I think it's pretty clear by now that this judicial obstructionism (insurrectionism) will not be stopped or deterred even by the Supreme Court. It's a concerted plan, formed almost two years ago by a cabal centered at Georgetown Law School.
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It's the Jesuits!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (Dv3i1)

38 I saw a news item this morning that a crypto company is behind the dildo throwing at WNBA games… they’re doing it for publicity. I find this ironically funny…. If you want attention the WNBA is one of the last places you’d go, especially with Caitlin Clark mostly injured and not playing this season

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (FNvF+)

39 Given the miracle of the Dobbs decision that dismantled the evil of Roe v. Wade, and the torrent of vitriol and actual terrorism against pro-life organizations and churches as well as average citizens
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Party-approved terrorism isn't a crime, it's just policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (6bTRc)

40 I've suggested putting Ciampino on the Absent Friends roster several times, and even wrote to Ace directly about it. So far bupkis. AFAIK everybody loved the guy. Is there a reason why his name doesn't get posted?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (0I+GC)

41 Happy Friday, everyone! I have managed to close out a couple of tickets so I feel like I actually accomplished something at work.

All goes well, the wife and I are going to a county fair. Given my knee's condition, she has said that I am going to be using my cane. sigh

Those three magic words: "At My Age."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 07:58 AM (NR6c1)

42 It's time to stop letting these people claim that it's a dislocation between some judge's priority X, Y or Z over some other person's priority A, B, C. It is *never* about that. Ever. It's Party Objective vs Other. Every time. Without exception.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Yep. You could apply same analysis to this -

Man Who Brutally Beat Elderly Pro-Lifers Dodges Prison Time — He was sentenced to only one year of home detention after the brutal attack outside a Planned Parenthood facility.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:59 AM (Dv3i1)

43 One wonders if this is a shot across the bow against Brazil's commie dictator Lula Da Silva, who fancies himself as a Bolivarian anti-Trump. Hopefully Maduro goes the way of Manuel Noriega late of Panama and this mortal coil.
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Eh, I kinda doubt it. This reward will never be paid, and neither will some equivalent for anyone else. Maduro - or Da Silva, or anyone similar - is not going to be captured without military action. It's irrelevant in practical terms.

So it has a different purpose. It could be as simple as marketing (like the Iraq leadership playing cards), or there could be some legal technicality that is being satisfied by making the head of state of a designated state sponsor of terrorism formally a "wanted man." I dunno.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:00 AM (6bTRc)

44 Another Step Toward Freeing Washington From The Union Grip

Generals Johnston and Beauregard could have done that after Bull Run but...

Oh, you mean labor unions. Never mind.

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

45 38 I saw a news item this morning that a crypto company is behind the dildo throwing at WNBA games… they’re doing it for publicity. I find this ironically funny…. If you want attention the WNBA is one of the last places you’d go, especially with Caitlin Clark mostly injured and not playing this season
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (FNvF+)

1. Throw green dildos on the floor during WNBA games
2. ???
3. Profit!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:01 AM (Dv3i1)

46 Congressman Randy Fine Introduces a Bill to Designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
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I'll take, "proposed legislation to reflect what has been obvious reality for decades, with no hope or intent to pass, written for political marketing purposes" for $500.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:01 AM (6bTRc)

47 > I think it's pretty clear by now that this judicial obstructionism (insurrectionism) will not be stopped or deterred even by the Supreme Court. It's a concerted plan, formed almost two years ago by a cabal centered at Georgetown Law School.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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I'm not sure it matter who, or where it was formed. It's a coordinated effort, yes. And without any sort of direction from up on high, they will continue doing what they're doing anyway. These are basically like-minded judges so of course they'll obstruct Trump.

The administration has taken to calling it a "judicial coup." It's past time they start treating as such.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

48 Yep. You could apply same analysis to this -

Man Who Brutally Beat Elderly Pro-Lifers Dodges Prison Time — He was sentenced to only one year of home detention after the brutal attack outside a Planned Parenthood facility.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:59 AM (Dv3i1)
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Egg-zactly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:02 AM (6bTRc)

49 Beware Progressives in Populists’ Clothing
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Maybe. But I see more of libertarians attacking us because we aren't Simon-pure Rothbard types.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 08:02 AM (od0dV)

50 Plan That Whole World Seemed To Hate Wasn’t Even Reviewed, EU Officials Now Admit
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Why would they bother to review a plan that gave the EU more control? To see if they could tweak it to give them even more?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 08:04 AM (od0dV)

51 Eggs Ackley.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:04 AM (0I+GC)

52 During the trial, Brice said that he was sorry for what he did and said that he “snapped” based on a comment he claimed Schaefer made to him that was racial in nature. He said, “I was having a bad day,” and that he was not an abortion activist.

The dude is white. What kind of racial remark could have possibly set him off?

And yeah, I'm annoyed that he only got one year of home detention. Basically, the attacks are going to continue.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 08:04 AM (NR6c1)

53 Thanks, Salty.

Wasn't really on the lookout for cute anybodies, but was trying to have a nice vacation with MrTea and the grandkids. It became a vacation none of us will forget any time soon.

Thanks to all/any here who have been praying for me. I have other, on-going health issues, so this was a big set-back for me. But God is good, and I trust He is working things out in His plans for me.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 08:05 AM (mZ/55)

54 Much of the ‘Green Energy’ Funding Was Money Laundering

If I had to guess, approximately 100%.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

55 Over Half of D.C. Carjacking Suspects Are Minors. (Imprison the parents, if they can even be found - jjs)

Endorsed with a slight modification: Imprison the parents AND their miscreant spawn in the same cell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)

56 "Over Half of D.C. Carjacking Suspects Are Minors. (Imprison the parents, if they can even be found - jjs)"

Send the little shits to CECOT forever.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:06 AM (0I+GC)

57 I'm not sure it matter who, or where it was formed. It's a coordinated effort, yes. And without any sort of direction from up on high, they will continue doing what they're doing anyway. These are basically like-minded judges so of course they'll obstruct Trump. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)
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This is they key point that so very many people fail to understand. There are various "shot callers" throughout the Complex, but there is no unified plan. No head hencho. No dictator defining what needs to happen at all levels. There doesn't need to be and such a structure is, in reality, a liability.

Much better to just have fellow travelers who know what to do.

Upon assessment of how Nazi Germany operated, Kershaw described it as "Working Toward the Fuhrer." Hitler (or his lieutenants) didn't have to issue orders for most routine things. Those in positions of control at all levels - the social secretary of a village, the production coordinator at a factory, whatever - knew what the Fuhrer wanted and just "worked toward" it in his own way. No orders needed. No vast conspiracy. Just alignment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:06 AM (6bTRc)

58 Much of the ‘Green Energy’ Funding Was Money Laundering
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Much. All. Whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:07 AM (6bTRc)

59 Seth Rich: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Excerpt from JJ's link to the article:

"There is more than enough circumstantial evidence in Rich’s death to warrant a complete and thorough criminal investigation, to determine or disprove if Seth’s murder was committed to protect the exposure of the Russian Collusion as false from before the 2016 election. The FBI has gone to extraordinary lengths to obstruct the release of Rich’s information, citing classified documents, ongoing investigations, and other specious reasons. Why?

Rich’s death is the tip of the iceberg and is the Achilles heel of the Cabal."

May the incriminating docs be found and shared with the public.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:07 AM (Dv3i1)

60 Top 100!!!

Woke up in chair. Scratched around. Woot!

Posted by: scottst at August 08, 2025 08:08 AM (CiXFI)

61 "46 Congressman Randy Fine Introduces a Bill to Designate CAIR as a Foreign Terrorist Organization"

Oh for Chrissakes. I'm so sick of this protracted song and dance over CAIR. It's been 20 years. They're f*cking terrorists, our mortal enemy, and we have to introduce bills and debate it before we can even say it?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 08:08 AM (UseAb)

62 "This is an extradition disagreement between two states."

Shades of Dred Scott, no? How'd that turn out?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (dtajH)

63
It's the Jesuits!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (Dv3i1)

"The Jesuits profit by the exaggerations of their enemies. Accused of killing ten men and a dog, they triumphantly produce the dog."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (kkTda)

64 G-d bless Trumps ordering of a new census!

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (klw0w)

65 29) Tecumseh Tea, I saw your German info. I can't pronounce it, but I appreciate knowing it exists!

I didn't hear it pronounced, either, son sent it to me via email.
But you wondered if there was a German word for that feeling, and OF COURSE there is! lol
So now you know it.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (mZ/55)

66 70 Baltimore Man Who Brutally Beat Pro-Lifers Faces Years In Prison.

Nah, not really. Guilty of Misdemeanor charges only. He'll be fined and have to do community service. It's Baltimore city.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 07, 2025 08:12 AM (w3u3d)

Called it yesterday at 8:12 am. No real jail time.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (w3u3d)

67 Some of you guys are awfully pessimistic given what we have just lived through the last 200 days. A lot of really impossible things keep happening.

Trump has helped negotiate an end to 7 wars around the world in 7 months including a war between Rawanda and the DRC that had gone on for 3 decades and everyone said was impossible to stop.

It's Friday, the weather is spectacular, we continue to kick leftist ass while their party implodes. As long as the yellow haired honey badger is in place nothing is impossible.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)

68 Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled By Media Relied On Bunk Data
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To be fair, I'm pretty sure all climate studies use bunk data.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:10 AM (Dv3i1)

69 "Over Half of D.C. Carjacking Suspects Are Minors. (Imprison the parents, if they can even be found - jjs)"

March them into meat grinders, feed the output to pigs, then shoot the pigs. I am so sick of unchecked rampant Enword Violence in this country. Trump has a real blind spot about this problem.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:10 AM (0I+GC)

70 Oh for Chrissakes. I'm so sick of this protracted song and dance over CAIR. It's been 20 years. They're f*cking terrorists, our mortal enemy, and we have to introduce bills and debate it before we can even say it?
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 08:08 AM (UseAb)
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Not even.

It's just political marketing. Fine wants something to claim he did in the next election, while actually doing nothing. He "proposed legislation" to do something obvious. That's as far as it will go, as far as it ever goes, as far as it is *designed* to go. This is pick up a talking point and do nothing. Probably 80% of Congressional activity is political marketing. Most of what they do is either obvious or outrageous, and designed to fail but accumulate talking points.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:11 AM (6bTRc)

71 I deeply appreciate the Horde's restraint in not bastardizing The Ballad of the Green Berets for WNBA snark.

Posted by: Zombie SSGT Barry Sadler at August 08, 2025 08:11 AM (wVcYX)

72 Good morning Horde, happy Friday. Thx JJ.
Good update on what greasy scumbags the Newsoms actually are at X and Twitchy. Wife Newsom runs NGOs involving movie making which get big bucks from the state. Wife Newsom maintains proprietary rights and gets nicely laundered money.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 08:11 AM (r/xMY)

73 O.K. Why wouldn't they throw them at a more high profile sport game ( ?) , aside from the fact that "
"We're dicks. We throw dildos at sports games. Become rich today!! Doesn't seem like the best advertisement for your crypto business.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 08:12 AM (2GCMq)

74 Texas demands extradition of the fled congressmen back to Texas so they can face prosecution

If returned, they would almost certainly not be prosecuted. They'd be forced to attend legislative sessions where they would lose a vote but they would almost certainly not be prosecuted.

Other than that, you are correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

75 It's Friday, the weather is spectacular, we continue to kick leftist ass while their party implodes. As long as the yellow haired honey badger is in place nothing is impossible.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)

I agree Jack… except for the weather part as it nears 100 here in north Texas; sweating!

But the just thing ticked me off this morning

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (FNvF+)

76 Time for some coffee and back to the content.

Well done JJ. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (w3u3d)

77 ... Trump has helped negotiate an end to 7 wars around the world in 7 months including a war between Rawanda and the DRC that had gone on for 3 decades and everyone said was impossible to stop. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)
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It's really remarkable how well Trump's rationalization of conflict negotiation has gone. Not a perfect track record (Russia and Ukraine are still at war, Iran is barely contained, etc.) but a damn good one, and much better than any of his predecessors going back many decades. And he has a few years left to keep going.

Yet Arafat has a Nobel Peace Prize and Donald Trump never will. Laughable. Contemptuous laughter, but nonetheless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (6bTRc)

78 73 It's just another staged publicity stunt to build buzz around the WNBA. It's so obvious.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:14 AM (0I+GC)

79 I'd lay $$$ down that this communist beaverface was fully supportive of the FBI hunting down grandmas who were "parading" in DC on 1/6.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

That's different. Those people weren't elected Democrats. -- Kathy Hochul

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

80 75 — Judge thing ticked me off

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:14 AM (FNvF+)

81 "No one ever asks why Egypt doesn't demand the territory back"

Israel effed up by not giving it back to Egypt.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 08:14 AM (ZmEVT)

82 >>I agree Jack… except for the weather part as it nears 100 here in north Texas; sweating!

This is why I hug so close to the coast line. I'm too pretty to sweat.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:14 AM (viF8m)

83 If returned, they would almost certainly not be prosecuted. They'd be forced to attend legislative sessions where they would lose a vote but they would almost certainly not be prosecuted.

Other than that, you are correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
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Likely. But that's still the basic reason: extradite them because they violated our laws.

If Abbot has any balls, he *will* remove them from their offices, which apparently he can do in Texas. I doubt he will, but he should.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (6bTRc)

84
To be fair, I'm pretty sure all climate studies use bunk data.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:10 AM (Dv3i1)

Soooooo, what percentage of Climate Change hysteria is actually funded by the heathen Chinee? Those anti-nuclear demonstrations in the 80s? Funded by the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (kkTda)

85 The Jesuits profit by the exaggerations of their enemies.

I read a book by a former SEAL who was active back in the 70s and 80s. He was on assignment to a Central American country and the local Jesuit priest was deliberately working against the Americans.

One day he got a delivery. It was a human silhouette range with several head and chest shot. On it was written the range of the shooter and that the target was an anti-American Jesuit.

The problems with him stopped immediately.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (NR6c1)

86 "I don't really understand the whole launching of dildos at the WNBA players"

Sweet Fen, it is saying the women are all lesbians.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (ZmEVT)

87 Called it yesterday at 8:12 am. No real jail time.
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The purpose of the "justice system" is to uphold the power structure.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (h7iwD)

88 To be fair, I'm pretty sure all climate studies use bunk data.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:10 AM (Dv3i1)
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Climate studies.
Trade studies.
Military studies.
Economics studies.
Medical studies.
Social studies.

I am pretty much at the point now where I translate "studies show that ..." to "liars say that ..."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (6bTRc)

89 "...The Democrat Party is a lawless, insurrectionist terrorist organization dressed in the trappings of a political party, that has bee undermining our nation and society in its unslakable lust for absolute power for over 200 years. From slavery, to civil war, to government-sanctioned racism and concentration camps for the Nisei, to election rigging..."

Quoting this because everyone needs to see this truth and digest it for what it is.

Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (gxokI)

90 It's really remarkable how well Trump's rationalization of conflict negotiation has gone. Not a perfect track record (Russia and Ukraine are still at war, Iran is barely contained, etc.) but a damn good one, and much better than any of his predecessors going back many decades. And he has a few years left to keep going.

Yet Arafat has a Nobel Peace Prize and Donald Trump never will. Laughable. Contemptuous laughter, but nonetheless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:13 AM (6bTRc)

I got my Nobel Peace Prize in less than 8 months from starting my first term of office.

Posted by: Barack Obama, LightBringer at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)

91 In my day, Kathy Hochul might have risen to be the administrator of a county DMV office-tops!

Posted by: Peter Principle at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)

92 86 "I don't really understand the whole launching of dildos at the WNBA players"

Sweet Fen, it is saying the women are all lesbians.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (ZmEVT)

They should've thrown carpet samples and jokeshop clattering teeth?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

93 I got my Nobel Peace Prize in less than 8 months from starting my first term of office.
Posted by: Barack Obama, LightBringer at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)
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And you fired more cruise missiles and toppled more nation-states than any other Peace Laureate!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:18 AM (6bTRc)

94 I translate "studies show that ..." to "liars say that ..."

I translate it thus: "Studies I've never actually read and couldn't even cite show that ..."

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:18 AM (0I+GC)

95 They should've thrown carpet samples and jokeshop clattering teeth?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)
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*snort*

Actually, yes. That would have been funnier. Much, much funnier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:19 AM (6bTRc)

96
I saw a news item this morning that a crypto company is behind the dildo throwing at WNBA games… they’re doing it for publicity.

I didn't care about the WNBA before.

I don't care about the WNBA now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:19 AM (kkTda)

97 Shades of Dred Scott, no?

The Democrat legislators are not slaves and, presumably, the Democrats in NYS/Illinois don't mean for them to cease being legislators just because they crossed their border so I'd say that it differs, a bit, from Dred Scott.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

98 Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (ZmEVT)

Yes; I figured out that part 😉aside from the fact that there are at least two women on the team who are apparently straight- not that I follow this stuff. It was a passing note on the 'net. I was asking what it had to do with some financial thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 08:20 AM (2GCMq)

99 91 In my day, Kathy Hochul might have risen to be the administrator of a county DMV office-tops!
Posted by: Peter Principle at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)

...risen from an embalming table before Herman Munster went on his lunch break at Gateman Goodubry and Graves.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 08:20 AM (x0n13)

100 I saw a news item this morning that a crypto company is behind the dildo throwing at WNBA games… they’re doing it for publicity. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (FNvF+)
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If true, this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. What's the point of a publicity stunt if you don't use your name for it? Why dump publicity into an unattributed vacuum?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (6bTRc)

101 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

102 "I didn't care about the WNBA before. I don't care about the WNBA now."

I would not even know of the very existence of the WNBA if it weren't for conservative media hyping it every day.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (0I+GC)

103 > Judge thing ticked me off
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Yea, me too. Because it's effective. And they know it. Trump's administration will do nothing to warrant an actual suspension of policy by disregarding any of these judges.

I admire their moxie in staying the course and not stringing the judges up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

104 I would not even know of the very existence of the WNBA if it weren't for conservative media hyping it every day.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (0I+GC)
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Pick a target. Isolate it. Etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (6bTRc)

105 What's actually been going on is that the Earth has been warming for other reasons that have nothing to do with Man. It's "sun cycle" variations that were studied in the past but ignored today.

CO2 in the atmosphere has been increasing but that's a lagging effect of, not a cause of, the Earth's warming. As the oceans warm they can't hold gases as well so a small amount of those gases moves into the air, CO2 included. It's science!

As a youth, I unwittingly ran an experiment that proves this. More than once I let my tropical fish tank get too warm which drove out the O2 (and CO2) so my guppies went belly up. Where's my Nobel Prize?

Zeldin just had the EPA propose rule changes to overturn the Endangerment Finding that CO2 is the cause and more. This will have momentous consequences but you won't hear of it in our Media which only covers its own circus.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (dtajH)

106 49 Beware Progressives in Populists’ Clothing
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Maybe. But I see more of libertarians attacking us because we aren't Simon-pure Rothbard types.

Posted by: Eeyore

They can go get high behind the gym for all I care. Either help or get out of the way.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (QcUc+)

107 @91 Hochul did reach the top of the county DMV perch, she was the County Clerk of Erie County. The local Republican Congress critter got popped for corruption and she won the special election to fill his term. She was redistricted in 2010 and didn't run. Cuomo wanted a woman as Lt Gov and the rest is history

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 08:22 AM (r/xMY)

108 67 Some of you guys are awfully pessimistic given what we have just lived through the last 200 days. A lot of really impossible things keep happening.
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I'm optimistic when it comes to the US. Very good things are happening. And I'm hopeful that we can finally crush the demon party that has been plaguing the US for two centuries. Despite the many elected RINOs that seem intent on keeping the D's in power.

But I also see what is happening in Western Europe Canada and Australia. It is certainly coordinated. I think the coordinators are in a hurry to try to make it so that whatever happens in the US becomes irrelevant. We'll see. I hope at least that the Irish return to their natural state of being ungovernable and give their current globalist leaders the heave-ho.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:23 AM (Dv3i1)

109 Today's Telegraph leads with a demographics story, saying the human race faces a sputtering extinction if people don't start having more babies.

Going out with a whimper and not a bang.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:23 AM (oqrv7)

110 >>"I don't really understand the whole launching of dildos at the WNBA players"

We've been talking about it for a couple weeks non-stop. That was the reason for it.

Crypto companies do a lot of guerrilla marketing. Pretty good return on investment.

>>A spokesperson for the group behind a meme coin called Green Dildo Coin spoke to USA Today in an interview published Thursday, taking credit for what the group called "pranks" at six different WNBA games since July 29. The spokesperson remained anonymous for the interview, with USA Today citing "the sensitive nature of the issue."

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:24 AM (viF8m)

111 U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."

... this is Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 08:24 AM (RHGPo)

112 101 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.
Posted by: Don Black

Football can go squeeze a breeze, along with red toasters!

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ron at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (G5+As)

113 Going out with a whimper and not a bang.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:23 AM (oqrv7)

Well, I guess if you're not banging, you're whimpering.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (0eaVi)

114
Actually, I don't care about basketball at all. Although I'm reading right now A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein, about Bobby Knight and the 1985-86 Indiana basketball season.

I used to think Knight was just an asshole, but this book, which he hated, actually changed my mind. He was frequently an asshole, but more often he was a demanding coach who worked tirelessly to bring out the best in his players and who ran a clean program were everyone was expected to graduate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (kkTda)

115 Oh, I'm sure the FBI is pursuing these Party men as if the entire world's supply of ham and eggs and Boy Scout merit badges was riding on it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)

116 Today's Telegraph leads with a demographics story, saying the human race faces a sputtering extinction if people don't start having more babies.

Going out with a whimper and not a bang.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:23 AM (oqrv7)
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Possible, but doubtful. But what it *does* face is a dramatic decline and fundamental reconstruction. The world ends.

The species will survive after its reduction, but absolutely nothing will be socially, politically and probably religiously recognizable. A new chapter. Perhaps a new book.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (6bTRc)

117 The left has apparently realized how insane their Sydney Sweeney furor was so their new line? It never happened, the whole thing was caused by the right.

Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 08:26 AM (YwEeS)

118 If true, this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. What's the point of a publicity stunt if you don't use your name for it? Why dump publicity into an unattributed vacuum?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (6bTRc)

Uber-cheap. Tickets are probably almost free, as are props.
Able to go viral to the exact audience they want (men).
They'd always admit it was them, upping the "cool" factor.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:26 AM (tOcjL)

119 > A spokesperson for the group behind a meme coin called Green Dildo Coin spoke to USA Today in an interview published Thursday, taking credit for what the group called "pranks" at six different WNBA games since July 29. The spokesperson remained anonymous for the interview, with USA Today citing "the sensitive nature of the issue."
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Who manufactures the green dildos being used? That's where the money's at.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

120 They should've thrown carpet samples and jokeshop clattering teeth?
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Insert the "scissoring" gif Disparu uses on his YT channel

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 08:27 AM (h7iwD)

121 Today is National CBD Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

122 107 @91 Hochul did reach the top of the county DMV perch, she was the County Clerk of Erie County.

The County Clerk is a Cluck!

Posted by: Spanky McFarland at August 08, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

123 101 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

Go Eagles (and Ravens for the kid!)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:27 AM (tOcjL)

124
Oh, I'm sure the FBI is pursuing these Party men as if the entire world's supply of ham and eggs and Boy Scout merit badges was riding on it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)

Fibbies on the job.

https://youtu.be/6Orde7FtHh0?si=B-0ilAPO-ojGuc3k

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:28 AM (kkTda)

125 The left has apparently realized how insane their Sydney Sweeney furor was so their new line? It never happened, the whole thing was caused by the right.
Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 08:26 AM (YwEeS)
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And they're *almost* right about that. Almost.

It was never a majority position among the left. Most of the left didn't notice or care. It was, as it always is, an extremely shrill, extremely stupid and extremely loud corps of social media denizens going insane. That's all it *ever* is. But this time - as is increasingly happening as the preference cascade does its thing - it didn't work. The right amplified the crazies and didn't let up on taking them to the rhetorical woodshed.

The non-Left *did* amplify it hard and cause it to go into an escalation cycle that left the Left looking more and more insane and retarded. But the Left also needs to be careful about admitting this. Much of their social power has been coming from these retarded blue-hairs shrieking on X and TikTok. it was never any more real than this incident was, and they should be cautious when it comes to admitting that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:29 AM (6bTRc)

126 Correct me if I am wrong (seriously), but isn't this one of those fairly rare examples of the legitimate and constitutional uses of federal police powers? This is an extradition disagreement between two states.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 07:51 AM (6bTRc)

No, it is not, but the reason is that *everyone* on all sides is lying about what’s going on for their own political purposes. (I can’t say enough how much this story annoys me). The whole thing is a big gay Kabuki theater dance and anyone who’s involved knows it. Start with the most recent - no, Patel did NOT agree to get the FBI involved, except for information. What is that information? It’s looking at any media outlet and reading about the hotel in Illinois where they’re all staying and holding nightly public parties and saying “look at us! Here we are, Nyah Nyah!” And then they drop their pants and moon everyone. Yeah, it’s real hard to figure out where they are.
Actual fact: no, they cannot be detained by anyone outside of the State of Texas because they are *Not* charged with any actual crime. (Cont’d)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 08:30 AM (q+E/R)

127 Having the WNBA players play naked might be an interesting marketing strategy. Plus it would answer a lot of questions about Brittney Griner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 08:31 AM (r/xMY)

128 The left has apparently realized how insane their Sydney Sweeney furor was so their new line? It never happened, the whole thing was caused by the right.
Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 08:26 AM (YwEeS)
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To your point, the NYT complains today "How the right shaped the Sydney Sweeney argument"

Twits.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:31 AM (oqrv7)

129 It's also....
National Pickleball Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

130 >>But I also see what is happening in Western Europe Canada and Australia.

Absolutely. As we conspiracy theorists have been saying for years the globalists at the UN/WEF/every other globalist institution, were hell bent on their plans for an open border, global governance regime and they were well down the road implementing it.

And then along came Trump. Look what they tried to do to him. Put aside the outrage for a second and just factually look at what they did just to try and keep him out of office not to mention silence us. It was never a conspiracy theory. It was a conspiracy and it wasn't just confined to the US.

The trade deals Trump is doing are way bigger than just financial. He is resetting global relations and ending wars. And he's destroying their open borders myth while inspiring like minded people around the world.

It is a war of a different type and we were losing. Not so much anymore. Miles to go but we are fighting and winning.

Off to find out why my shoulder is broken. Have great day, morons.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:32 AM (viF8m)

131 Why do we have Dem state elected officials fleeing their state every so often and not Rs?

Also, could TX have done this is a surprise addition to a session already in quorum?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 08:33 AM (t0Rmr)

132 The Green Dildos story is mildly entertaining, but WNBA is not.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:33 AM (oqrv7)

133 They did a whole segment on how racist the ad was on Good Morning America, that is not fringe.

Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 08:33 AM (YwEeS)

134 - "At My Age."

Kind of surprised you're not looking at it as how handy having a cane can be.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 08, 2025 08:33 AM (oCJg8)

135 WNBA dildo story (goes to ESPN)

https://tinyurl.com/2rmdmbxb

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM (WdMlw)

136 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

Go Eagles (and Ravens for the kid!)...
Posted by: Nova Local

The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM (rqka2)

137 To your point, the NYT complains today "How the right shaped the Sydney Sweeney argument"

Twits.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:31 AM (oqrv7)
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Again, this is pretty much true. The Left did its thing and the retards went on social media to bitch and complain about Muh Identity Politics, to get the non-faith-promoting thing shut down.

The Right took it, amplified it, and turned it back on them. The Right *did* "shape the argument" insofar as it ever actually was an argument. But it wasn't actually an argument. The argument never existed. Retarded crazies looking to flex bigger-than-it-appears social power existed, and the Right called their bluff as it has been doing more frequently.

Did we "shape the argument?" You're damned right we did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM (6bTRc)

138 A broken shoulder? Thats not good, as a certain five year old of my acquaintance would say. Good luck with the medico.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:35 AM (oqrv7)

139 Kind of sad if the dildo tossing was a publicity campaign and not spontaneous.

Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 08:35 AM (YwEeS)

140 Let's hope the Israelis have finally rejected the insanity of land for peace.
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Netanyahu and his yes men aren't saying that.

You have RINOs. We have LINOs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 08:35 AM (lkmGL)

141 >The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.

Posted by: rickb223
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Coach Prime's kid is at the bottom of the depth chart

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (AOsQT)

142 Seems like the tossed dildos should be of the strap-on variety if they are meant to symbolize lesbianism in the WNBA.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (Y1sOo)

143
What annoys me about women's sports isn't that women are in them but that somehow women in sports are special and heroic. Nobody much notices, for example, whether the rider in an equestrian event or a handler at a dog show is a man or a woman. But the WNBA is something we have to have pushed in our faces, the mediocre level of play notwithstanding.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (kkTda)

144 The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM (rqka2)
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To include 2027, if history is any guide

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (oqrv7)

145 If the Browns are that bad they could get the top pick and select a QB. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (r/xMY)

146 So who is pushing talk of the FBI? John Cornyn’s failing Senate re-election campaign, that’s who. He is behind Paxton by double digits and has done nothing for Texas for years. So suddenly he jumped out of the bushes a couple days ago and demanded a meeting with Kash Patel to see how the FBI could do.
Well Kash hemmed and hawed and tried to be respectful to the Senator, but he also knew the demand was ridiculous - there are no actual charges against any of them. So he offered to give Cornyn “information” as to where they are, which involves looking up either Daily Beast or Politico and reading about the hotel parties in Illinois that the runaway Dems are having every night.

And now Cornyn’s PR team is flogging the thing as hard as they can, to try to say “look what I am doing for Texas! Don’t vote for that chump Paxton!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (q+E/R)

147 Okay… two things ticked me off this morning: the judge thing AND the Texas Dems fleeing the state while the GOP huffs and puffs but does NOTHING

(Grits teeth silently)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (WdMlw)

148 I've never watched a WNBA game. Also, I haven't seen an NBA game in about 20 years.

No interest at all. Am I the only one?

Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)

149 Coach Prime's kid is at the bottom of the depth chart
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (AOsQT)
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But somehow the starter in the dirst preseason game

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (oqrv7)

150 I've suggested putting Ciampino on the Absent Friends roster several times, and even wrote to Ace directly about it. So far bupkis. AFAIK everybody loved the guy. Is there a reason why his name doesn't get posted?
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (0I+GC)
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Ask CBD.... he probably knows.
I have know idea and I wish we all had some reason.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

151 Never stoop to their level.

Stoop lower.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (pERWT)

152
Having the WNBA players play naked might be an interesting marketing strategy.

*puts hand over mouth*
*runs to bathroom*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (kkTda)

153 Kind of sad if the dildo tossing was a publicity campaign and not spontaneous.
Posted by: steevy

Eeeeeeeeeew! Spontaneous? That would mean they wore them in.

I'd much prefer a publicly campaign and they snuck them in.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (rqka2)

154 Governor Pritzker Appreciation Thread! I want to continue to express my gratitude for the strength that Governor Pritzker is exhibiting. He didn't have to, but he's doing this because it's the right thing to do.

Love my governor! Like the rest of us, he seems to get angrier at each insult, indignity, and unconstitutional/criminal action. I appreciate that he's not afraid to speak his mind.

Governor Pritzker is a damned good human being. Toss politics to the side. He is striving for good over bad, right over wrong. Two reasons he is not a Republican.

He Should be President. Right on all the issues. A real billionaire, doesn't need the money. He seems like the kind of guy you would enjoy having a beer with. Illinois Democrats make great Presidents!

conservatives like to whine about the taxes, gas prices in Chicagoland, property tax. But I wonder if they whine when they get on the L and get across Chicago in 20 minutes. I've seen that supposedly the population is declining, but that's mostly in the red counties and places where Republicans are in charge. Illinois is booming, thanks to Governor Pritzker.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (ycI94)

155 The Democrat Party is a lawless, insurrectionist terrorist organization dressed in the trappings of a political party
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Unless the Trump admin and conservative pols and judges use the very same tools that these national criminals keep on using to this very moment, good isn't going to triumph over evil.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (lkmGL)

156 The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.
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They might have remained in contention for a game, at least mathematically, if their 2nd round pick rookie RB, who was expected to start, wasn't under investigation for domestic abuse charges.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (Dv3i1)

157 What annoys me about women's sports isn't that women are in them but that somehow women in sports are special and heroic. Nobody much notices, for example, whether the rider in an equestrian event or a handler at a dog show is a man or a woman. But the WNBA is something we have to have pushed in our faces, the mediocre level of play notwithstanding.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (kkTda)
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Because there's no market for it. Most female sports exist on pseudo-charity extracted from either male leagues or taxpayers. They *have* to be heroic, because it takes heroic effort to keep their organizations afloat.

If they were paid what they're worth, they'd all be playing amateur league games after work. They have to run this kind of messaging - of making their existence an incredibly important moral victory - because the reality is that there's no reason for any of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (6bTRc)

158 Never stoop to their level.

Stoop lower.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Welcome. We all float down here.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:39 AM (rqka2)

159
He is behind Paxton by double digits and has done nothing for Texas for years.

He voted with Trump 99% of the time! That's what commercials in TX are telling me. Yeah, and the 1% were all the important votes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:39 AM (kkTda)

160 And now Cornyn’s PR team is flogging the thing as hard as they can, to try to say “look what I am doing for Texas! Don’t vote for that chump Paxton!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (q+E/R)
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Thanks for the added context. I knew they hadn't been charged with anything, but forgot that charging is a precondition for extradition. I appreciate your assessment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:40 AM (6bTRc)

161 Did we "shape the argument?" You're damned right we did.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM (6bTRc)

Basically the Ron White Debating Strategy.

"Yeah? Well F******ck you."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:40 AM (pERWT)

162 Governor Pritzker Appreciation Thread! I want to continue to express my gratitude for the strength that Governor Pritzker is exhibiting. He didn't have to, but he's doing this because it's the right thing to do. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison
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Subverting Democracy Through Criminality: The Right Thing To Do!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:40 AM (6bTRc)

163 149 Coach Prime's kid is at the bottom of the depth chart
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:36 AM (AOsQT)
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But somehow the starter in the dirst preseason game

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:37 AM (oqrv7)

The other 3 QBs already got hurt in practice...not even kidding b/c they had to sign a 5th guy a few days ago to get through the preseason games...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)

164 Because there's no market for it. Most female sports exist on pseudo-charity extracted from either male leagues or taxpayers. They *have* to be heroic, because it takes heroic effort to keep their organizations afloat.

If they were paid what they're worth, they'd all be

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Paying to play.

Like we did in Adult D League softball.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:41 AM (rqka2)

165 If Abbot has any balls, he *will* remove them from their offices, which apparently he can do in Texas. I doubt he will, but he should.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:15 AM (6bTRc)

Supposedly, the Texas SotH has indicted that if they're not back by EoB today that he will request that the AG pursue having them removed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

166 Governor Pritzker is a damned good human being. Toss politics to the side. He is striving for good over bad, right over wrong. Two reasons he is not a Republican. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (ycI94)
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Well, that and cutting kids' dicks off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:41 AM (6bTRc)

167 Another thing funny about the WNBA. Two of Caitlin Clark’s teammates posted themselves on instagram poolside in bikinis. To say they were flat chested would be understatement… amongst the yahoo comments:

A carpenters dream! Flat as a board and easy to nail

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:41 AM (WdMlw)

168 TGIF, all!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:42 AM (GbwPZ)

169 Let's see what ya got, kid.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)

170 because the reality is that there's no reason for any of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (6bTRc)

You can bet on WNBA games on most major sports books.

If that is the cart or the horse is an exercise left to the reader.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:42 AM (pERWT)

171 Pritzger is the green dildo of politics

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:42 AM (oqrv7)

172 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

Go Eagles (and Ravens for the kid!)...
Posted by: Nova Local
_________

We should have a moron survivor pool for nothing but bragging rights.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (XvL8K)

173 In my day, Kathy Hochul might have risen to be the administrator of a county DMV office-tops!
Posted by: Peter Principle at August 08, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)

Madame of the local whorehouse, being too unattractive to serve clientele herself.

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

174
I see a female umpire will be working for the first time in a regular-season MLB game this weekend. I can't see any reason why she can't be just as good (or bad; hello, Vic Carapazza!) as the rest of them. And, considering how awful the conditions for umpires working their way up is, I admire her dedication and gumption.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (kkTda)

175 Because there's no market for it. Most female sports exist on pseudo-charity extracted from either male leagues or taxpayers. They *have* to be heroic, because it takes heroic effort to keep their organizations afloat.

If they were paid what they're worth, they'd all be playing amateur league games after work. They have to run this kind of messaging - of making their existence an incredibly important moral victory - because the reality is that there's no reason for any of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (6bTRc)

Nah, women's tennis supports itself b/c on certain surfaces, it's the more entertaining sport.

Women's gymnastics does as well, as does women's figure skating.

It's team sports that women struggle to make enough money to play...maybe beach volleyball, but even then, teams of 2 isn't really a team...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (tOcjL)

176 If that is the cart or the horse is an exercise left to the reader.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:42 AM (pERWT)
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Ehh, cart, probably. You can bet on anything. I am sure the bookies and oddsmakers who specialize in WNBA don't want to see their meal ticket expire and will loudly defend it, but I doubt it's the main driver for the NBA subsidizing them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (6bTRc)

177 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (77rzZ)

178 I didn't care about the WNBA before.

I don't care about the WNBA now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:19 AM (kkTda)

What if they all wore matching shirts proclaiming that Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

179 >>Nobody much notices, for example, whether...a handler at a dog show is a man or a woman.

I noticed Cassandra Carpenter often, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (Y1sOo)

180 Nah, women's tennis supports itself b/c on certain surfaces, it's the more entertaining sport.

Women's gymnastics does as well, as does women's figure skating.

It's team sports that women struggle to make enough money to play...maybe beach volleyball, but even then, teams of 2 isn't really a team...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (tOcjL)
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It's why I said "most." But yeah, I can't think of a single profitable women's team sport.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (6bTRc)

181 Mars rover tires showing some wear

https://tinyurl.com/bdez83mp

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (AOsQT)

182 Supposedly, the Texas SotH has indicted that if they're not back by EoB today that he will request that the AG pursue having them removed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Was supposed to have happened at EoB Monday.
Never bluff unless you are ready to have your bluff called.

Hot Wheels fucked up. He bluffed and wasn't ready.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (rqka2)

183 Shawn Farash
@Shawn_Farash
So now, according to Candace Owens, Brigitte Macron was born a woman, died, and with her dying wish passed on her identity to her brother.

There's no way anyone still believes this crap right?

Come on guys...

You all got taken for a ride by an insane grifter.

@thejackiedutton
She also implies that Macron is “Bridgette”’s son or nephew in her 7 part series.

I N S A N E

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

184 The NFL went WAY overboard demonstrating that they hated conservatives specifically and white folks in general since 2020 or so. If you can in good conscience support this, you don't have a conscience. My time and money are not going to support Thug Culture.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (G5+As)

185 Ehh, cart, probably. You can bet on anything. I am sure the bookies and oddsmakers who specialize in WNBA don't want to see their meal ticket expire and will loudly defend it, but I doubt it's the main driver for the NBA subsidizing them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (6bTRc)

Don't come at me with your facts and logic, sir. I'm trying to be facetiously conspiratorial here.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (pERWT)

186 Nobody much notices, for example, whether...a handler at a dog show is a man or a woman.

I noticed Cassandra Carpenter often, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: one hour sober

Her yabbos be bouncing?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (rqka2)

187 Also, could TX have done this is a surprise addition to a session already in quorum?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 08:33 AM (t0Rmr)

If the Texas House Speaker was a conservative, they probably could have, but he’s a CofC / GOP-e “Republican” who got some of the Republicans and all of the Democrats to vote for him for Speaker, in order to block an actual Conservative from being Speaker. (Yes he has the backing of the Bush Family org). So it had to be brought up in a special session called by the Governor.

And yes the CofC/GOP-e/Bush Family “republicans” love the that Dems have run away. They pretend to be “conservative” to get votes, while in office they work as hard as they can to sabotage everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (q+E/R)

188 It's why I said "most." But yeah, I can't think of a single profitable women's team sport.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (6bTRc)

Technically, I guess gymnastics does sorta qualify...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (tOcjL)

189 Enough of this WNBA nonsense. Football is back. Now, I know most here do not like football, but I'm happy.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

I suspect that a lot of us here, possibly most of us, like football - unless you mean soccer in which case... What most of us have a problem with is the NFL, and college since they started the paying players BS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

190 Womens soccer rode pretty high for years, it was more popular than mens soccer and way more successful, until the women started shooting off their mouths on politics, publishing ass photos, and marrying each other.

So much for soccer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (oqrv7)

191 >>Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that everyone should stand up and not let the FBI “hunt down” the 50 Texas Democrat legislators who left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.

Rich coming from the governor of the state in which so many of the politically motivated lawfare attacks on Trump originated. Remind me -- in which state was Trump arrested?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:47 AM (GbwPZ)

192 I disagree about Obama. Nobody cares about him any more. I think most Democraps would rather everyone forgets about him and his slimy penis-having wife. Let the FBI arrest him for Russia Hoax crimes. There won’t be a single riot.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (0WlRx)

193 I didn't care about the WNBA before.

I don't care about the WNBA now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:19 AM (kkTda)

What if they all wore matching shirts proclaiming that Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I would care about a bunch of lesbians claiming Sydney Sweeney was a Nazi.

Still wouldn't give two shits about the WNBA.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (rqka2)

194
Technically, I guess gymnastics does sorta qualify...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (tOcjL)

that's my thought, as is figure skating, which goes back to Sonja Henie , almost a 100 years ago

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

195 It's why I said "most." But yeah, I can't think of a single profitable women's team sport.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:44

Softball MAY get there. The new league this summer did quite well. If they keep the teams in the south and travel somewhat limited they have a shot.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (MGB5H)

196 Women sports either have to be better to watch or done better to get viewers...

Women's Tennis is the better watch, especially on hard courts...
Women's gymnastics and figure skating have more art and flexibility than men's (and better looking folks, let's be honest)...
Women's beach volleyball can also be the better watch b/c there's more back and forth (again, men can be too good and make it less fun to watch serve, spike, redo)...

Women's swimming and track probably draw equally to men - swimming being big here and track in Europe, but again, not exactly team, and look and drama probably plays a role (as does our own country's talent).

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (tOcjL)

197 That Florida judge worried about the wildlife is nuts. We love Alligator Alcatraz!
— Florida alligators

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

198 Womens soccer rode pretty high for years, it was more popular than mens soccer and way more successful, until the women started shooting off their mouths on politics, publishing ass photos, and marrying each other.

So much for soccer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (oqrv7)
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The US team did well for a bit, then got uppity.

But women's soccer outside this country is still largely subsidized by FIFA. I don't know about domestically and whether's a subsidy from the men's teams, but soccer also isn't a big pro sport here in the first place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:49 AM (6bTRc)

199 Tennis?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:49 AM (GbwPZ)

200 My thinking on the WNBA dildo tossing has evolved.

I think it would be funnier if they managed to smuggle remote controlled vehicles into the building and have them drag the dildos around the court while players and officials try to capture them.

If they could get multiple vehicles onto the court, people could place bets.

Everyone have a happy day!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 08:50 AM (jvJvP)

201 Tennis?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:49 AM (GbwPZ)

yes, definitely

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:50 AM (g47mK)

202
I noticed Cassandra Carpenter often, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (Y1sOo)

In Breast of Breed competition?

Her Majesty and I were discussing the other day about women handler's choice of clothes. The longstanding rule was, don't wear anything that distracts from your dog.

Although at one show, Roberta Campbell was the Breed judge and Dorothy MacDonald was doing the Group. HM wore a tartan skirt and a red jacket. Group 2.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:50 AM (kkTda)

203 Womens soccer rode pretty high for years, it was more popular than mens soccer and way more successful, until the women started shooting off their mouths on politics, publishing ass photos, and marrying each other.

So much for soccer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:46 AM (oqrv7)

Only the national team. They have had like 4 failed pro leagues.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (MGB5H)

204 Is gymnastics any kind of thing outside of college and the olympics?

It ain't like people are out getting tickets for when the Chicago Chalkhounds play the Philadelphia Flippybois.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (pERWT)

205 The women’s sports that are popular all involve hot women. It’s not complicated… female tennis players tend to be hot (eg Anna Kournikova who wasn’t even all that good at tennis but was definitely hot… and she was one of the most popular players on tour)…. But check out the female soccer or WNBA players… we a few exceptions they’re dogs or look like men… remember Megan Rapinoe ugh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (WdMlw)

206 148 I've never watched a WNBA game. Also, I haven't seen an NBA game in about 20 years.

No interest at all. Am I the only one?
Posted by: dantesed

Haven't watched NBA since Jerry Lucas retired.

Posted by: 1960 Gold Medal Olympian at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (G5+As)

207 Trump has helped negotiate an end to 7 wars around the world in 7 months including a war between Rawanda and the DRC that had gone on for 3 decades and everyone said was impossible to stop.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)

—

Trump is supposed to meet with Putin as early as next week. If that goes well Zelenskyy will meet with them both at a later date.

I don’t know if this means peace in Ukraine by the end of the year, but it’s finally a good start to ending that conflict.

If Trump gets that deal done, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, whether it’s worthless or not.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (6ydKt)

208 195 It's why I said "most." But yeah, I can't think of a single profitable women's team sport.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:44

Softball MAY get there. The new league this summer did quite well. If they keep the teams in the south and travel somewhat limited they have a shot.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (MGB5H)

Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Even, though, yes, it's another sport Americans excel in.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)

209 Nah, women's tennis supports itself b/c on certain surfaces, it's the more entertaining sport.

Women's gymnastics does as well, as does women's figure skating.

It's team sports that women struggle to make enough money to play...maybe beach volleyball, but even then, teams of 2 isn't really a team...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:43 AM (tOcjL)
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It's why I said "most." But yeah, I can't think of a single profitable women's team sport.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:44 AM (6bTRc)

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[Grins]

— Porn Industry

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (0WlRx)

210 Women's swimming and track probably draw equally to men - swimming being big here and track in Europe, but again, not exactly team, and look and drama probably plays a role (as does our own country's talent).
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:48 AM (tOcjL)
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And with rare exceptions, very few major household-name kind of stars even where it's popular enough to survive. To get that kind of star power - and the paycheck to match - you have to be in one of the big ones. And that's relevant because it does come down to money.

Women's soccer and basketball in particular have bugs up their asses about earning so much less than the male teams. Well yeah. The male teams put butts in seats. The female teams don't. Nobody cares, and the female teams exist on subsidies.

Outside of the big sports, sometimes female versions of the thing are worth it - but the paychecks aren't big enough to really bitch about anyway. Tennis is, but it's also an individual game (except doubles, I guess).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:52 AM (6bTRc)

211 204 Is gymnastics any kind of thing outside of college and the olympics?

It ain't like people are out getting tickets for when the Chicago Chalkhounds play the Philadelphia Flippybois.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (pERWT)

Yeah, it has its big meets that sell out...and it also has its tours that do as well. It's less "sports league" and more "exhibition" though...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:52 AM (tOcjL)

212 Democrats are not fighting to keep the VRA alive because they care about black people

But, according to Joseph Robinette Biden, if you don't vote Democrat, you ain't black!!!

Square that circle!!!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:53 AM (0sNs1)

213 The women’s sports that are popular all involve hot women. It’s not complicated… female tennis players tend to be hot (eg Anna Kournikova who wasn’t even all that good at tennis but was definitely hot… and she was one of the most popular players on tour)…. But check out the female soccer or WNBA players… we a few exceptions they’re dogs or look like men… remember Megan Rapinoe ugh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (WdMlw)
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Four words:
Canadian Women's Curling Team

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:53 AM (6bTRc)

214 151 Never stoop to their level.

Stoop lower.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 08:38 AM (pERWT)

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

215 To your point, the NYT complains today "How the right shaped the Sydney Sweeney argument"
_______________________________

It's never the left's fault for behaving deranged, it's always the right's fault for noticing.

The left's deranged response to Sidney's Sweeneys was not just a few fringe lunatics on TikTok. The NYTimes, CNN, MSDNC, Good Morning America, and NPR all did stories supporting the "fringe left" narrative on this story

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 08:53 AM (rtXcu)

216 Hot Wheels fucked up. He bluffed and wasn't ready.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (rqka2)

It’s not that he wasn’t ready, it’s that he oversold his threat for political purposes. The actual process to remove a legislator from office requires filing a motion at a district court requesting a finding of abandonment of office, and hoping to get a sympathetic ruling. (That will depend on his judge shopping skills). Maybe it could work that easy, maybe it will get bogged down in months of appeals and delays.
A Texas Governor does not have the power to do this on his own; by design the Texas Governor’s office is one of the weakest of any of the States. I actually give credit to Abbot for having been able to do so much with it by bluffing most of the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (q+E/R)

217 >>He Should be President. Right on all the issues. A real billionaire, doesn't need the money. . . .

These DUmmies know that the Pritzger family is incredibly wealthy and has used their money an influence to sway government decisions for decades, right?

Like, ya know, he's one of those "oligarchs" AOC and Bernie like to yammer on about. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)

218 Women should stick to sports where they can showcase their femininity: figure skating, equestrian, gymnastics, etc.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

219 Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Even, though, yes, it's another sport Americans excel in.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM

Softball is HUGE in the south. The AUSL has a real shot at profitability within 4 more years, if they are smart about where they play and where they put teams.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (MGB5H)

220 Four words:
Canadian Women's Curling Team
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:53 AM (6bTRc)

I love those Black and White Olympic clips showing curlers drinking and smoking.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

221 These DUmmies know that the Pritzger family is incredibly wealthy and has used their money an influence to sway government decisions for decades, right?

Like, ya know, he's one of those "oligarchs" AOC and Bernie like to yammer on about. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)
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He isn't an oligarch, he's a selfless freedom fighter putting his money where his mouth is!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM (6bTRc)

222 I've never watched a WNBA game. Also, I haven't seen an NBA game in about 20 years.

No interest at all. Am I the only one?
Posted by: dantesed

Haven't watched a men's roundball game ever.
Haven't watched women's round ball either.
Just clips here & there. And clips of Caitlyn Clark being mugged.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM (rqka2)

223 Some simple changes could vastly improve attendance and revenues for women's sports.

Women's gymnastics and swimming, in particular, would benefit from competing in the nude.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM (0sNs1)

224 Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Even, though, yes, it's another sport Americans excel in.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM

Softball is HUGE in the south. The AUSL has a real shot at profitability within 4 more years, if they are smart about where they play and where they put teams.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:54

There is a reason softball in the LA Olympics are being played not in CA, and it goes beyond that CA doesn't have a big enough stadium for it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:56 AM (MGB5H)

225 >My time and money are not going to support Thug Culture.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend

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Noted

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:56 AM (AOsQT)

226 Just clips here & there. And clips of Caitlyn Clark being mugged.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM

No clips of foreign objects landing on the courts?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:56 AM (0sNs1)

227
Women's gymnastics does as well, as does women's figure skating.

But each is different from the men's equivalent. By crafting around women's physical distinctions, figure skating and gymnastics are attractive. Whereas women playing sports like men are just not as good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:56 AM (kkTda)

228 NYPost:

This bird sang like a canary!

A loud-mouthed parrot snitched on his owner by squawking drug-dealing slang in video footage found by cops — leading to a massive crack and heroin bust in England, police said.

“Two for 25, two for 25!” the feathered rat chirped in the footage, according to cops, who said it was code for the price of dope

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

229 I like watching womens tennis. And women play high level racket sports generally.

As an aside, I watched Andre Agassi playing in a pickle tournament recently, partnering alongside the number 1 female player (a high school aged girl) and she carried the team! His baseline habits just aren't suited for rapid change of direction volleying. She was really good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (fW6K6)

230 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

CAIR is dirty, dirty, dirty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (JvZF+)

231 >>The left's deranged response to Sidney's Sweeneys was not just a few fringe lunatics on TikTok. The NYTimes, CNN, MSDNC, Good Morning America, and NPR all did stories supporting the "fringe left" narrative on this story

Because they are staffed with a generation of Gender Studies degree-holders. The tiktok rants "contextualizing" why the Sweeney ad was so "offensive" are mini-dissertations.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (GbwPZ)

232 Her yabbos be bouncing?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:45 AM (rqka2)

In a way. Former bodybuilder who is back to normal, non-muscular size. Shows Bullmastiffs almost exclusively. Very attractive.

https://tinyurl.com/ykez5zf4

Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (Y1sOo)

233
Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

The center field camera and those uniforms, though...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (kkTda)

234 219 Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Even, though, yes, it's another sport Americans excel in.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM

Softball is HUGE in the south. The AUSL has a real shot at profitability within 4 more years, if they are smart about where they play and where they put teams.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 08:54 AM (MGB5H)

Maybe parts of the south...I don't see folks running here to watch softball, and it won't make national sponsorships...it's like women's ice hockey, which is also huge...in about 4 places...

And honestly, if anything could work, I'd think women's ice hockey could work better b/c it would be higher scoring than men, and women could bring more grace than grit (so it could be a "different but equal" watch - aka, they'd look more like Russian teams than American ones)...but ice hockey, like baseball, is on the bottom of the big 4, and probably now under soccer at 5...so, it's already bleeding interest on the men's side and wouldn't rekindle it with women...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (tOcjL)

235 Pritzger is the green dildo of politics
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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that was hurtful...

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (5hfjS)

236 He isn't an oligarch, he's a selfless freedom fighter putting his money where his mouth is!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM (6bTRc)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE CAN'T HELP IT MONEY JUST GETS SCHLORKED ALONG VIA VENTURI EFFECT AMIDST THE FLOW OF ALL THE FOOD HE CRAMS INTO HIS LIE HOLE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at August 08, 2025 08:57 AM (pERWT)

237 Womens Curling is a watchable pasttime

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2025 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

238 Women's giant slalom

hot girl skiers, what's not to like

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

239 Haven't watched a men's roundball game ever.
Haven't watched women's round ball either.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:55 AM (rqka2)
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I've been to a couple of basketball games. I had a boss who liked basketball and would use the company card to buy tickets as "attaboys" for going above and beyond. Happened to me a few times, so I went. I'll go if it's free, but basketball was never a sport that particularly interested me.

I have seen enough it, however, to notice that Lacrosse is the same game. Much, much more like basketball than it is like soccer. The play, motion, etc. are actually really similar. I suspect the skills would translate between the two fairly well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 08:58 AM (6bTRc)

240 Womens soccer rode pretty high for years, it was more popular than mens soccer and way more successful, until the women started shooting off their mouths on politics, publishing ass photos, and marrying each other.

Was it... really? The media said that it was but was it? Oh, people would say that they were happy the US won the world cup, but no one watched the games. It's all make believe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

241 Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Even, though, yes, it's another sport Americans excel in.

Posted by: Nova Local

My dad's cousin played in a men's fast pitch league in St. Louis. They were sponsored by a funeral home. The funeral home had a trophy case like a high school.

But again, at the start of the season, someone had to pay the league entry fees. No one was being paid to play.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:59 AM (rqka2)

242 Sports where fan interest depends on the physical attractiveness of the players isn’t a sport. It’s voyeurism. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not a sport.

Nobody watches female beach volleyball because they want to see volleyball.

Nobody watches men’s water polo because they want to see water polo.

The WNBA’s problem is nobody wants to watch girls play basketball, and the players are almost uniformly hideous dykes both inside and out. There’s no reason to watch other that to laugh at dildos thrown onto the court.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:00 AM (0WlRx)

243 Womens Curling is a watchable pasttime
Posted by: Count de Monet

If only their uniforms were like the Swedish Bikini Team.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:00 AM (rqka2)

244 🚨 Report in the British "Times": Israel threatens to sever its security ties with Britain if it recognizes a Palestinian state. The "Times" adds that Israel provides a lot of information regarding terror threats in Britain, and this could have 'serious consequences.'

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

245 If only their uniforms were like the Swedish Bikini Team.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:00 AM (rqka2)
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But curling is chilly! The poor girls would poke right through!

Wait a tick. You might be on to something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:01 AM (6bTRc)

246 If Trump gets that deal done, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, whether it’s worthless or not.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (6ydKt)

They'll rename it the Nobel War Prize for the next four years and give it to Muslim terrorists.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

247 Maybe parts of the south...I don't see folks running here to watch softball

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Ya I said the south.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (MGB5H)

248 Nah, softball is boring...it has baseball's problem without as much talent.

Better boobs though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

249 Those close up shots of women's curling when they're sweeping certainly show the appealing aspects of the sport.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (0sNs1)

250
Was it... really? The media said that it was but was it?

I suspect it was more media hype. Face it, basketball is a sport largely watched by black men and soccer is a sport largely watched by Hispanic men. Neither of which is particularly sympathetic to the idea of women's equivalency.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (kkTda)

251 What we're looking for is the human drama of athletic competition

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (AOsQT)

252 244 🚨 Report in the British "Times": Israel threatens to sever its security ties with Britain if it recognizes a Palestinian state. The "Times" adds that Israel provides a lot of information regarding terror threats in Britain, and this could have 'serious consequences.'
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

And Starmer replies, "Promise?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 09:03 AM (pERWT)

253 Bill Barr Held Secret Meetings to Plot Prosecutions of Trump and Block His Political Comeback

“Bill Barr was like, ‘We should bring RICO because it's a very difficult type of charge to defend.’” - Patrícia Lélis, Whistleblower

“You took my documents and phones and never returned them. Now you think you can move against me? Let me be clear, your time is running out… Letting you live was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made.” - Armstrong Williams

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

254 come on guys

HOCKEY! esp international - the Dutch and Argentinian women's FH teams are incredible

the men's play is good but like tennis it ends up being less watchable due to weird hard hits (that can and have killed other players) and a lot of "me pass to me" play. the women tend to play a system with alterations - they play like teams!

hockey - on turf, grass, sand or especially hard court (Hockey 5s and 7v7 indoor) - is amazing.

I'm also enjoying women's rugby especially 7s

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 09:03 AM (Pv3Rg)

255 Hot Wheels fucked up. He bluffed and wasn't ready.

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He'll never be ready. He's GOP. He'd sooner cut-off his remaining limbs than expel a bunch of Democrats from the state house.

This is theater of the stupidest variety.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 09:03 AM (eNLGh)

256 As a college swimmer, I was informed by more than one young lady spectator that they weren't there for the swimming.

The female gaze. It's real.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (0sNs1)

257
What we're looking for is the human drama of athletic competition

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:02 AM (AOsQT)

What! We're looking for the godless Bolsheviks or the New York Yankees to have the tar beaten out of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (kkTda)

258 If Trump gets that deal done, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, whether it’s worthless or not.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 08:51 AM (6ydKt)
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I'll take the other side of this. I hope Trump doesn't get it. Ever. Not because he doesn't deserve it or hasn't earned it - he has - but because the prize itself is such a festering boil.

Donald Trump does *not* belong in the same club as Barack Obama, Al Gore and Yasser Arafat. The Nobel Peace Prize is a grotesque exercise in hideousness that brings shame to the winner's family. Why subject Trump to that? It isn't worth it, not even if it represents the Nobel panels bending the knee.

The prize is just so ugly and contemptible now that the best thing to do would be for him to reject it in the unlikely event that they do offer it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (6bTRc)

259 Project Veritas
@Project_Veritas
‼️Texts, notes, and emails EXPOSE
@FultonCountyDA
Fani Willis and Bill Barr worked together on the RICO case targeting
@RealDonaldTrump
!

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

260 They'll rename it the Nobel War Prize for the next four years and give it to Muslim terrorists.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

Give the Peace Prize to the Iranian Atomic Energy Scientists.

....

"There's a piece over here, there's a piece over there, there's pieces of 'em everywhere!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 09:05 AM (pERWT)

261 Ok, the South Park link is pretty funny, referring to Charlie Kirk as the "master-debator"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 09:05 AM (BKxx1)

262 Roundball bores me because it's pretty much the same action over and over again until the game is over. Same way NASCAR is watching cars turn left. And that was even before it got woke. Football and hockey are more dynamic so more entertaining. Except pro football, which is just spectacle anymore, which I also don't find entertaining. At least in that context anyway. NFL games have become like Marvel movies; a lot of CGI throw at the audience constantly to distract them from realizing what they came to see isn't that inherently interesting.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:05 AM (rtXcu)

263 I'll take the other side of this. I hope Trump doesn't get it. Ever. Not because he doesn't deserve it or hasn't earned it - he has - but because the prize itself is such a festering boil.

Donald Trump does *not* belong in the same club as Barack Obama, Al Gore and Yasser Arafat. The Nobel Peace Prize is a grotesque exercise in hideousness that brings shame to the winner's family. Why subject Trump to that? It isn't worth it, not even if it represents the Nobel panels bending the knee.

The prize is just so ugly and contemptible now that the best thing to do would be for him to reject it in the unlikely event that they do offer it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09

How bout he wins it, then rejects it saying exactly that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (MGB5H)

264 The female gaze. It's real.

there's a reason I dated like three wrestlers in high school

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (Pv3Rg)

265 I suspect that outside of the few big (men’s) team sports, all other sports are fake and gay and supported mostly by USAID-style subsidies and bored billionaires.

The NBA keeps the WNBA afloat as a bribe to keep people from noticing the NBA is filled with wife-beating degenerates and criminals.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (0WlRx)

266 How bout he wins it, then rejects it saying exactly that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (MGB5H)
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I'd be down with that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (6bTRc)

267 Ok, the South Park link is pretty funny, referring to Charlie Kirk as the "master-debator"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 09:05 AM

The Kristi Noem stuff from that same episode had me ROFL.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (MGB5H)

268 The whole "thing" with the WNBA is that the players tried to make a spectacle of themselves not realizing that the "gurrl power" phase was a couple years ago. The silly attempts to promote themselves, the fighting, the "pay us what you own us" horseshit just makes them seem like bitter old ladies.

The green dildo phase, while it's amusing, isn't going to save the sport.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)

269 As a college swimmer, I was informed by more than one young lady spectator that they weren't there for the swimming.

The female gaze. It's real.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (0sNs1)
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And thank heaven for that!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (BKxx1)

270 The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM

Aren't you a tad tender of years to be this cynical?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

271 The green dildo phase, while it's amusing, isn't going to save the sport.

well how about purple dildoes then?

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)

272 Since I started the topic, I should finish - so what is the desk about “arresting” the runaway legislators? The Texas Constitution allows the Texas Governor to ask Texas State LEO (Rangers, State Police, DPS) to detain missing legislators and deliver them to the State Capitol when there is a quorum call and they are not present. This is called “arrest” but it is more properly called temporary detention. No charges are filed, and as soon as they make an appearance at the Capitol building all is dropped.

Since no actual charges are in play, no other State has to recognize this, and Texas LEO have no jurisdiction outside State boundaries.

Long story short, as long as they’re out of state, it’s an empty threat. Which is why they are out of state. (And everyone knows this)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (q+E/R)

273 there a reason why his name doesn't get posted?
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 07:57 AM (0I+GC)
********
Ask CBD.... he probably knows.
I have know idea and I wish we all had some reason.
Posted by: redridinghood

We don't run the place. Not our business. Keep your missing friends list in your own heart and visit as often as you wish.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (n4GiU)

274 I suspect that outside of the few big (men’s) team sports, all other sports are fake and gay and supported mostly by USAID-style subsidies and bored billionaires. ...
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (0WlRx)
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The latter of which is fine. Russian oligarchs want to have vanity women's basketball teams? Have at it. Tech billionaires want vanity soccer teams? More power to 'em.

But the people on the receiving end of those subsidies should be cautious about bitching about what they're "worth."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (6bTRc)

275 The prize is just so ugly and contemptible now that the best thing to do would be for him to reject it in the unlikely event that they do offer it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:04 AM (6bTRc)
******
It will be given to Zohran Mamdani as soon as he becomes mayor of NYC.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

276 Good morning! Thanks, J.J.

Re: Alligator Alcatraz
How much $ is it worth to 'Native Americans' who've bonded with the Climate change nuts? Have they had to provide environmental studies for their extensive holdings of casinos, swamp burial grounds, etc?

John Podesta thinking ahead: Press Release
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Miccosukee Tribe Sign Co-Stewardship Agreement for South Florida Wildlife Refuges
Jan 8, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, cellphone at August 08, 2025 09:08 AM (DvTJj)

277 I suspect that outside of the few big (men’s) team sports, all other sports are fake and gay and supported mostly by USAID-style subsidies and bored billionaires.

The NBA keeps the WNBA afloat as a bribe to keep people from noticing the NBA is filled with wife-beating degenerates and criminals.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (0WlRx)

In college, yes I know it's different but hang with me, only about 50 men's bball programs turn a profit, over the last about 5 years of baseball only 4 teams have turned a profit, and in the last 5 of softball only 2. (or thereabouts). All other sports are paid for by football

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 09:09 AM (MGB5H)

278 Eddie Feigner was one of the best athletes in history. He barnstormed around the country playing softball with a four man team, playing against other 9 man teams. County, state, fairs, hundreds of games on military bases, even on an aircraft carrier once. Struck out 7 HOF baseball players in a row in the 60s, including Mays, Aaron, Killebrew. I saw him at a state fair In PA around 1967. It was fun! Imagine that! He played in uniform from 1948-2000.

Posted by: King And His Court at August 08, 2025 09:09 AM (G5+As)

279 >>But each is different from the men's equivalent. By crafting around women's physical distinctions, figure skating and gymnastics are attractive. Whereas women playing sports like men are just not as good.

Yes!
In gymnastics and skating, being small and graceful are an advantage.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:09 AM (GbwPZ)

280 The Cleveland Browns have just been numerically eliminated from Super Bowl contention for the 2025-2026 season.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:34 AM

Aren't you a tad tender of years to be this cynical?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I haz friends from Cleveland. It's a contest every year to see who says it first after spring training opens. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:09 AM (rqka2)

281
Georgetown University Law in the news:

Georgetown law professor previously convicted in bank robbery found guilty of beating wife

https://tinyurl.com/33k7f4pj+

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 09:10 AM (uz6ub)

282 *We* don't know (with rare exceptions) what notations have been made in a Commentator's Permanent Record.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:10 AM (0sNs1)

283 >If Trump gets that deal done, he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, whether it’s worthless or not.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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deserving has nothing to do with it
the Nobel Peace Prize is a political endorsement of sorts, and I would wager the Committee is left-leaning enough to exclude Trump from even being considered

The selection committee awarded obama just for being a mixed-race radical, FFS

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:10 AM (AOsQT)

284 Not surprised you are falling for the "racial" angle for Hussien. Stir the pot.

How about one or more lied to poor Barry? Not guilty. Got bad info. Lame but realistic.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 08, 2025 09:11 AM (s9EN2)

285 Bad News. Allianz, a European insurance company says climate change is so bad they may not be able to write insurance anymore.

Meanwhile they’re still writing insurance. lol.

This kind of shit is hysterical. It’s like ok if the erf is about to boil why don’t you guys just shut down the company now and get out while you can? Because you know it’s all nonsense that’s why.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:11 AM (AiNp4)

286 The whole "thing" with the WNBA is that the players tried to make a spectacle of themselves not realizing that the "gurrl power" phase was a couple years ago. The silly attempts to promote themselves, the fighting, the "pay us what you own us" horseshit just makes them seem like bitter old ladies. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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It's been more recent than that. I think the Blue Origin NS-31 trip - the Estronaut mission - likely marks the critical turning point, and it was only a few months ago.

Even last year, Katy Perry and Gale King crowing about being astronaut heroes would have been able to carry the narrative and it would have fizzled out. But I think we are in the inflection point now and this time, the grrrrl power thing could not carry the day, nor could the media outlets and the blue-hairs on X and TikTok.

The Sydney Sweeney ad *could* wind up being a turning point on the "everything is racist" thing, but it's too early to tell. It also acts as a confirming data point for the changes to the general level of tolerance for grrrrl power narratives.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (6bTRc)

287 >>The NBA keeps the WNBA afloat as a bribe to keep people from noticing the NBA is filled with wife-beating degenerates and criminals.

Which reminds me, as with Caitlyn Clark, a lot in the NBA don't loke Jokic.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (GbwPZ)

288
This kind of shit is hysterical. It’s like ok if the erf is about to boil why don’t you guys just shut down the company now and get out while you can? Because you know it’s all nonsense that’s why.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:11 AM (AiNp4)

I notice banks still hand out 30 year mortgages.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (kkTda)

289 I suspect that outside of the few big (men’s) team sports, all other sports are fake and gay and supported mostly by USAID-style subsidies and bored billionaires. ...
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:06 AM (0WlRx)
++++
The latter of which is fine. Russian oligarchs want to have vanity women's basketball teams? Have at it. Tech billionaires want vanity soccer teams? More power to 'em.

But the people on the receiving end of those subsidies should be cautious about bitching about what they're "worth."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:07 AM (6bTRc)
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True, but that’s between the players and their sugardaddies. I think whining and moaning that teams owe you money when you reek and the terms are losing money is a bad look. But it might just work. How badly does a sugardaddy want to keep his whore?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (0WlRx)

290 We* don't know (with rare exceptions) what notations have been made in a Commentator's Permanent Record.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:10 AM (0sNs1)
*******
I'll never be on it because I happen to love French toast with maple syrup.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

291 Since no actual charges are in play, no other State has to recognize this, and Texas LEO have no jurisdiction outside State boundaries.

Long story short, as long as they’re out of state, it’s an empty threat. Which is why they are out of state. (And everyone knows this)
Posted by: Tom Servo

The difference now is, supposedly, they can be tried in absentia and removed from office.

That was the bluff Hot Wheels played with and lost.
They should have been removed from office at SoB day Tuesday morning.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:14 AM (rqka2)

292 Bad News. Allianz, a European insurance company says climate change is so bad they may not be able to write insurance anymore.

Meanwhile they’re still writing insurance. lol. ...
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:11 AM (AiNp4)
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:: fires up translator ::

Allianz is looking to increase rates in regulated markets and is tailoring politically-correct messaging for the politicians and bureaucrats who have to approve it.

Anyone want to provide odds?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:14 AM (6bTRc)

293 He'll never be ready. He's GOP. He'd sooner cut-off his remaining limbs than expel a bunch of Democrats from the state house.

This is theater of the stupidest variety.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 09:03 AM (eNLGh)

As you see I’ve been critical of the issue, but I actually give credit to Abbott for having played this well politically so far. (Could the entire special session crash and burn soon? Possibly, maybe even probably)

But what Abbott has done is to make a national issue out of a big series of bluffs in which he’s been claiming to have power that he simply does not have. So he’s got to get lucky and get a series of friendly judicial breaks to go on from here.

So far he’s made the best of a very weak hand. We’ll see what he can do from here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 09:15 AM (q+E/R)

294 264)he female gaze. It's real.

there's a reason I dated like three wrestlers in high school
Black Orchid

Yes, it's real.
And I married the wrestler I dated. Hated the wrestling part, loved the uniform.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 08, 2025 09:15 AM (mZ/55)

295 I notice banks still hand out 30 year mortgages.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 09:12 AM (kkTda)

All over Florida too. Which is supposed to be under water any second.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:16 AM (AiNp4)

296 Allianz is looking to increase rates in regulated markets and is tailoring politically-correct messaging for the politicians and bureaucrats who have to approve it.

Anyone want to provide odds?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Sucker bet. Not touching it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:16 AM (rqka2)

297 Women's Beach Handball players are quite athletic and very easy on the eyes. Big fan of both the Danish and Norwegian teams.

Posted by: Athletic Supporter at August 08, 2025 09:16 AM (G5+As)

298 They should have been removed from office at SoB day Tuesday morning.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:14 AM (rqka2)

Texas Governor does not have the power to do this, never did. That’s just another part of the Big Bluff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 09:17 AM (q+E/R)

299 >Roundball bores me because it's pretty much the same action over and over again until the game is over.

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I can't get into a sport where you can give up 100 points and still win

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)

300 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:19 AM (z4XJW)

301 I can't get into a sport where you can give up 100 points and still win
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:17 AM

Points are a tool of the white heteronormative patriarchal power structure!

Posted by: WNBA at August 08, 2025 09:19 AM (0sNs1)

302 I can't get into a sport where you can give up 100 points and still win
_______________

I canna get into kickball because any sport that considers a 1-1 tie an exciting game is not for me.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM (rtXcu)

303 Roundball bores me because it's pretty much the same action over and over again until the game is over.

Golf is even dumber: Walk up to ball, whack it, walk up to ball again, whack it again. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM (z4XJW)

304
I can't get into a sport where you can give up 100 points and still win
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)

Better than soccer, where it’s easy to only score 1 point in the entire game and still win.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM (q+E/R)

305 >>there's a reason I dated like three wrestlers in high school

I dated a bike racer

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

306 In my mind, a basketball game should last 5 minutes.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:21 AM (AOsQT)

307 I canna get into kickball because any sport that considers a 1-1 tie an exciting game is not for me.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

That's why we need to bring back crab soccer. You get to force your arch enemy into a corner and kick the shit out of him.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:21 AM (z4XJW)

308 I canna get into kickball because any sport that considers a 1-1 tie an exciting game is not for me.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM

No love for us, we guess.

Posted by: Chess Tournaments at August 08, 2025 09:21 AM (0sNs1)

309 Diversity is not our strength. These Texas Democrats are ethnic representatives concerned only with the power to loot society as a whole in order to maintain themselves in comfort while diminishing society's will/ability to resist it's own diminishment. "Democracy" is a nice word for looting.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 08, 2025 09:22 AM (lHzme)

310 There is this you tube guy lit boned I watch. He’s a Japanese Yank who travels the world and pontificates. He’s made a fortune as a quant trader and now is basically a bum with money.

Anyway he has a video on why watching pro sports is gay and retarded from an economic point of view . But made a convincing economic argument for watching college sports or sports where you cheer for your country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:23 AM (AiNp4)

311 Hockey is what soccer wishes it could be.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:23 AM (GbwPZ)

312 maybe 10 minutes. That's long enough to determine which team is better at throwing the ball thru the hoop.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

313 So far he’s made the best of a very weak hand. We’ll see what he can do from here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 09:15 AM (q+E/R)

Making the best out of a weak hand is pretty much the job description for Texas governor.

One thing that no one outside of Texas ever gets about our governor, is that it's an incredibly weak office. On purpose. A legacy of Reconstruction.

Same with our AG to a significant extent. Our executive branch is pretty toothless.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 09:23 AM (SSEhk)

314 Hockey is what soccer wishes it could be.
Posted by: Lizzy

And heckling should be required during golf and tennis matches!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:24 AM (z4XJW)

315 Also NBA players are such prissies. Leaving the game after a little boo-boo. Hockey players have been known to finish the game with broken ribs and knife sounds.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:24 AM (rtXcu)

316 Also NBA players are such prissies. Leaving the game after a little boo-boo. Hockey players have been known to finish the game with broken ribs and knife wounds.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:25 AM (rtXcu)

317 Anyway he has a video on why watching pro sports is gay and retarded from an economic point of view . But made a convincing economic argument for watching college sports or sports where you cheer for your country.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:23 AM (AiNp4)
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Whatever. It's an entertainment product. People like to be entertained and will spend their money to be entertained. Is entertainment strictly productive? Not really, based on the return on capital for most of it. But there will always be a market for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:25 AM (6bTRc)

318 Victor, you can say that again!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:25 AM (z4XJW)

319 Being in the nba or nfl is winning the lottery for ghetto kids. If they couldn’t run fast they’d be in prison or dead. You’d think they’d appreciate it for that’s but they insist they’re slaves and exploited by the white man and shit. Fuck off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:25 AM (AiNp4)

320 Women who know love rugby players.

IYKYK.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (0sNs1)

321 Tomorrow I am going to be heading to the local American Legion. They are running a lemonade stand in memory of a young man who died from the flash floods we had last week.

The worst part of the whole tragedy was that the fire house was a very short distance from where it happened and even then, the boy could not be saved.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (NR6c1)

322 I canna get into kickball because any sport that considers a 1-1 tie an exciting game is not for me.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:20 AM (rtXcu)

Years ago I had a friend who is into hockey, He invited me over to watch a Stanley Cup game involving the Stars. Ended regulation a 0-0 tie.

He was like, "Yeah, I can see that I'm never gonna convince you that this is awesome."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

323 Yeah any sport where they stitch you up and send you back in has my attention

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (AOsQT)

324 Today is National CBD Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 08:27 AM

Party at CBD's place!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (kgE5c)

325 Wrestlers are the weirdest athletes and that's a compliment.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (rtXcu)

326 Yeah any sport where they stitch you up and send you back in has my attention
Posted by: Don Black

Dating a redhead?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:27 AM (z4XJW)

327 Also NBA players are such prissies. Leaving the game after a little boo-boo.

WNBA players leave cuz their hair falls off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

328 The portal system in college football has ruined it for me.
Loyalty to $ not your school team is what it's all about nowadays.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

329 The 14-day order stops all construction projects at the facility, including lighting, paving, excavation, and fencing, though it doesn't affect current detainees. Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."

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Funny how none of these judges are ever concerned about sensitive environments wherever solar panels or wind turbines are erected.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 09:28 AM (unUNN)

330
No love for us, we guess.
Posted by: Chess Tournaments at August 08, 2025 09:21 AM (0sNs1)

"It's high! It's deep! It's Bc8+!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 09:28 AM (kkTda)

331 These Texas dem politicians ain’t worth a bird dog.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 09:28 AM (jgmnb)

332 Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said (without proof) Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the Trump administration was showing “corruption” on every level.

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

333 >Dating a redhead?

Posted by: Tonypete
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I never had the pleasure
I always wanted to see one up close

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)

334 Wrestlers are the weirdest athletes and that's a compliment.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM

I dunno. I remember our junior high wrestling room had a sign on the ceiling that said "If you can read this, you are losing."

Life wisdom right there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:29 AM (0sNs1)

335 1) as others have noted, whatever caselaw the clown judge relied upon to enjoin construction at Alligator Alcatraz was over-ruled, directly or by implication, just months ago. In the UD case, SCOTUS said, merely raising an enviro concern doesn't justify halting construction.
There is an insurrection in the country, a creeping fascism, a defiance of the Constitution: It is the judiciary.

2) Clown Judge Bonerbuger is working toward releasing the grand jury testimony of Kash Patel in re. J6 Witchhunt. Based on the flimsy excuse of the Senate D's "investigation" during his already-past confirmation. Mootness, standing and public interest are irrelevant to attacking Trump.

3) The Hate Feed has whining about Trump's 16th consecutive win at SCOTUS. Crying that he's using the "shadow docket." Well bitches, if the clown judges weren't issuing illegal order, with no basis in law or fact, then the record would be 0-0.
Especially since the more retarded clown judges don't understand that the shadow docket is binding and precedential--not the dissents.
Oh well, you're just giving Trump more power.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 09:29 AM (IIsq3)

336 Whatever. It's an entertainment product. People like to be entertained and will spend their money to be entertained. Is entertainment strictly productive? Not really, based on the return on capital for most of it. But there will always be a market for it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:25 AM (6bTRc)

Entertainment is one thing. But sports people take it to a whole new level. Wearing the jerseys, putting flags on their houses, painting their faces. And the whole “we” won or “my” team. Nah bruh you’re the guy who pays for it all, you’re not part of the team.

It’s silly but whatever everyone spends their money on things they enjoy. If that’s your thing rock and roll. .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:30 AM (AiNp4)

337 Party at CBD's place!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 09:26 AM (kgE5c)
*****
Sounds good to me.
Is CBD back from France?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

338 I never had the pleasure
I always wanted to see one up close
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 09:29 AM

It's spectacular!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 09:31 AM (0sNs1)

339 >>Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."

It's boilerplate at this point - they love the whales and birds so long as there's not a hale and bird-slaughtering wind farm to be built.

We all know that it's not about the wildlife, yet we're all expected to play along that this was a legitimate ruling.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:31 AM (GbwPZ)

340 Mark McCloskey Retrieves his AR-15 from St Louis Police

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

341 Noodus gratia artis. And boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

342 Hockey: "Arm got cut off? Eh, we play on ice, it'll keep 'til after the game and then we'll sew it back on. Happened three times last season..."

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 08, 2025 09:32 AM (OUMaO)

343 Entertainment is one thing. But sports people take it to a whole new level. Wearing the jerseys, putting flags on their houses, painting their faces. And the whole “we” won or “my” team. Nah bruh you’re the guy who pays for it all, you’re not part of the team.

It’s silly but whatever everyone spends their money on things they enjoy. If that’s your thing rock and roll. .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:30 AM (AiNp4)
++++
Doesn't bother me. I don't really get it, but whatever. It's entertainment and a social event and a major brand affiliation. As long as you don't want my money for it, have at it. Buy all the jerseys you want.

The only think that really rankles me is when they take my money (stadium subsidies, etc.) for it or try to use social power to exploit their fans for sociopolitical purposes ("fuck you, whitey," etc). The latter is self-limiting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 09:32 AM (6bTRc)

344 Points are a tool of the white heteronormative patriarchal power structure!
Posted by: WNBA
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Shut up bitches! Don't make me come down there!

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 08, 2025 09:33 AM (5hfjS)

345 >>Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said (without proof) Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the Trump administration was showing “corruption” on every level.

*types*
*deletes*

Always a pleasure to be lectured about corruption by someone who was born and raised in a country that specializes in it.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)

346 328 The portal system in college football has ruined it for me.
Loyalty to $ not your school team is what it's all about nowadays.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

Eh. It was always minor league football. You think LaQuan gave a fuck about THE Ohio State University? He was there for the chance to make it to the nfl. Now he gets a couple of bucks for his efforts. Why not?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 09:33 AM (AiNp4)

347 Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."

In an ideal world:

"Despite the ruling, Governor DeSantis ordered the construction to continue and has authorized the National Guard to use lethal force at any attempt to stop the construction.

"President Trump issued a statement suggesting that Williams 'Cry Harder' to see if it would help."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 09:34 AM (NR6c1)

348 "League wants to keep the media and the fans in the dark" - Skip Bayless conjectures on WNBA hiding Caitlin Clark suffering season-ending injury

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

349 Williams justified her decision by claiming environmental concerns, citing potential damage to "sensitive wetlands" and threats to "protected plants and animals."

__________________________

Alligator Alcatraz was built on the site of an airport that was built thirty years ago. There is no environmental impact unless an alligator chokes to death on a gang banger.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 09:40 AM (rtXcu)

350 🚨@NYPost
: Biden abused his authority by turning FEMA into a far-left political machine

“When responding to an emergency or a natural disaster, FEMA employees were directed to make voter registration a ‘key priority.’”

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

351 “The Democrat Party is a lawless, insurrectionist terrorist organization dressed in the trappings of “, BLAH BLAH BLAH. Guess what, nothing will change until arrests/trials/punishment takes place.
Blondi is busy at washed up cheerleader practice.

Posted by: Noovuss at August 08, 2025 09:45 AM (s2fTr)

352 NYPost:

“FEMA’s job is to make sure Americans who have suffered catastrophic loss due to some disaster in their community [can access] food, water and shelter … Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can’t think of anything more disgusting.”
FEMA snubbed GOP

FEMA employees were so fixated on voter outreach that, when they visited hurricane-ravaged Florida last October, they didn’t even bother knocking on the doors of houses that had Trump signs in the yard.

Instead of assisting Hurricane Milton survivors, they were instructed to “avoid homes advertising Trump,” according to an Office of Special Counsel complaint.

FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington was fired as a scapegoat after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called foul on the scam and the Daily Wire reported that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags had been skipped by FEMA and denied the opportunity of qualifying for federal assistance.

It stands to reason that if FEMA’s priority was getting out Democrats to vote, the last people they would want to visit were Trump supporters.

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2025 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

353 Get the ICEBlock app and stop by your local Penske Rental place. Report it as an ICE location. Rinse, repeat, as often as possible.

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 08, 2025 03:51 PM (KBds0)

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