THE MORNING RANT: Marsha, the Recovering Gluten Sufferer with a Trans Child, is Now a Witch

I recently documented here and at The Blaze the story of “Marsha,” the daughter of a couple I am close to. A few years ago, Marsha was a loud and vocal sufferer of gluten intolerance (self-diagnosed, of course.) Miraculously, she recovered from her gluten allergy once that fad played out. With trans children being a status symbol in her progressive circles, Marsha subsequently began cross-dressing her children, including a tween daughter that now identifies as a boy.

My thesis was that the trans fad is a short-term social contagion, much like the inexplicable epidemic of gluten intolerance that swept the country for a few years. Obviously, no one was prescribing the amputation of body parts during peak-gluten, and neither should children be receiving “gender affirming care” just because they have been swept up in a social contagion.

Now, there is another fad sweeping the Marsha demographic – identifying oneself as a witch. Predictably, Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch. And of course, she is producing Tik Tok videos that talk about casting spells, her coven, etc.

Ace recently documented – and heartily mocked – this witch fad. Specifically, he featured the “4 AM Club,” which is made up of self-proclaimed witches, mystics, and mediums who believe we have been living in an alternate reality since November 6, 2024 (e.g. Election Day.)

“The 4am Club: Meet The Lunatic Women Who Believe We're In the "Wrong Timeline," Who Claim We Have to Get Back to the "Right Timeline" Where Kamala Harris Won the Election” [Ace – 7/21/2025]

Feel free to rib me for being aware of this, but on reality TV shows, a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.

Naturally, universities are now providing courses for these women to get college credit by talking about being a witch.

“How feminist witch studies redefine magic and power” [The Current – UC Santa Barbara – 4/01/2025]

Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set out to change that narrative. Her latest book — a collaboration with co-author Soma Chaudhuri — introduces “feminist witch studies,” a new interdisciplinary field that explores the power, persecution and political dimensions of witchcraft across cultures.

The witch fad will blow over, just like the gluten fad did, and so will the transgender fad. Those fads appeal to people like Marsha, a demographic that seeks victim status while also seeking inclusion in the latest trendy identity group. But only one of these social contagions disfigures people for life. As I wrote in this piece titled “Her son wears dresses, her daughter’s a ‘boy,’ and it’s all for status” [The Blaze – 6/28/2025]”:

Marsha has once again been swept up in a social contagion — a phenomenon especially common among her age group. The gluten craze ended with little more than inconvenience. But the transgender trend leads to lasting harm. It encourages confusion, medicalization, and, in many cases, the sterilization of children.

Marsha is no longer gluten intolerant. In a year or two she will no longer be a witch. There are many of us praying that her daughter will survive the trans fad without being permanently harmed.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Ya Hoo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 11:01 AM (5uRA0)

2 Trans fat?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 15, 2025 11:01 AM (IztJE)

3 The witch fad will blow over, just like the gluten fad did, and so will the transgender fad. Those fads appeal to people like Marsha, a demographic that seeks victim status while also seeking inclusion in the latest trendy identity group.

It's going to be difficult to predict what the next bit of lunacy will be. Well, it would be, except I'm Nosferatu.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

4 THE MORNING RANT: Marsha, the Recovering Gluten Sufferer with a Trans Child, is Now a Witch

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Like, a real witch who can do magic spells or a fake witch who draws shapes on the ground and cries with other lonely, unsatisfied women searching for meaning in a materialist world that has rejected real religion for nothingness instead?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

5 willowed

According to the Texas Tribune:
In the Houston area, the 9th and the 18th districts, ... would be redrawn ..... [and] the nearby 29th District [would be redrawn]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 11:02 AM (5uRA0)

6 A few years back I wandered into a Barnes and Noble and was kind of stunned by how many witchcraft books were populating the Religions section. Far outnumbering the garden variety New Age stuff: astrology, crystals, etc.

Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2025 11:03 AM (dCxaZ)

7 Saw Peter Boghossian post on X: Has Christianity’s time passed?

I LOLl-ed.

Right after a number of "New Atheists" have actually, publically denounced "New Atheism", we're getting New-New Atheism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:03 AM (krQz2)

8 >>>Now, there is another fad sweeping the Marsha demographic – identifying oneself as a witch. Predictably, Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch.
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Buck, you gotta' get a new set of friends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 11:04 AM (5uRA0)

9 7 Saw Peter Boghossian post on X: Has Christianity’s time passed?

I LOLl-ed.

Right after a number of "New Atheists" have actually, publically denounced "New Atheism", we're getting New-New Atheism.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:03 AM (krQz2)

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Christianity is resurging for a few reasons.

One of those is the small thing of conservative Christian sects encourage babymaking and have for generations. Meaning, conservative sects tend to reproduce while the others that embrace catastrophisms in all their forms don't.

Those choices have effects over time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

10 In 2 years, Marsha: I...I think I'm AI.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:05 AM (krQz2)

11 Breaking news: the victim of the Hoagie Hurler has worse injuries than initially thought, and has checked into the Mayo Clinic.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

12 Pick a psychosis month!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2025 11:05 AM (dxWFK)

13 Old school western culture found a way to use status seeking AWFLs in a better way though even then there were issues - see Prohibition.

But they are now off the rails.

The problem is they have few real problems - plenty of money and time from government/NGO do nothing jobs or ex-husbands, and spend their time 100% status seeking in a culture that gives status for doing terrible things.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (t0Rmr)

14 So Marsha is the daughter of people you're close to. What do they think? Are they "supportive?"

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (bNf8H)

15 THE MORNING RANT: Marsha, the Recovering Gluten Sufferer with a Trans Child, is Now a Witch

What in the box-wine-soaked fuck did I just read?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (Wnv9h)

16 Christianity is resurging for a few reasons.

Those choices have effects over time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
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That's why I lol-ed. From my vantage point Christian belief is resurging.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (krQz2)

17 I blame Stevie Nicks.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2025 11:07 AM (kUxzU)

18 13 Old school western culture found a way to use status seeking AWFLs in a better way though even then there were issues - see Prohibition.

But they are now off the rails.

The problem is they have few real problems - plenty of money and time from government/NGO do nothing jobs or ex-husbands, and spend their time 100% status seeking in a culture that gives status for doing terrible things.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (t0Rmr)

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I saw a theory posited that generalized female opinion is actually a trailing indicator of where society is heading, not a leading one.

That generalized women tend to want to preserve the system as they have known it more than the generalized man.

It's an interesting theory. Could be true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

19 *gathers wood*

Posted by: toby928 at August 15, 2025 11:07 AM (jc0TO)

20 That's Witch Doctor

Posted by: Jill Biden at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (pIfcn)

21 You've got to pick up every stitch
Mm-hmm, must be the season of the witch

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

22 I identify as AI.

Now, I need a lot of research money to improve me.

If I don't get it, you all are bigots.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (krQz2)

23 Feel free to rib me for being aware of this, but on reality TV shows, a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.

Wonder how they'd feel if a bunch oof white men wanted to burn them?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (p+RwZ)

24 16 That's why I lol-ed. From my vantage point Christian belief is resurging.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (krQz2)

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When we got to Rome, it was the final three days of the Youth Jubilee.

Place was packed with young people celebrating their Catholic faith.

Also, my little church in south Charlotte is bursting with young families. Like, I have two kids and we're easily on the small side of family size.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

25 The problem is they have few real problems - plenty of money and time from government/NGO do nothing jobs or ex-husbands, and spend their time 100% status seeking in a culture that gives status for doing terrible things.

Women and children can afford to be careless. Not men.

Posted by: Don Corleone at August 15, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

26 That's Witch Doctor

Posted by: Jill Biden at August 15, 2025 11:08 AM (pIfcn)
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Atsa da problem, which-a doctor?!

Posted by: Chico at August 15, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)

27 Weight her down with stones and throw her into the lake to see if she floats.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM (VofaG)

28 Weight her down with stones and throw her into the lake to see if she floats.
Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM

Build a bridge out of her!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM (Wnv9h)

29 Don't underestimate the (inexplicable) popularity of that shitbag "Wicked" play and movie. It glorifies witches and makes them seem cool and sexy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

30 could be worse. could be shrunken heads.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM (pIfcn)

31 The entire month of October, Salem, Massachusetts will be bursting with ugly lesbians claiming to be witches. Drop a nuke on them. BTW, Salem was one of the last towns in USA to pretty much burn to a crisp, wholesale in a fire. Mrs' O'Leary's cow was nowhere around.

Posted by: Witchee Poo at August 15, 2025 11:11 AM (G5+As)

32 The Long March of the Munchausen Mommies

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 15, 2025 11:11 AM (v23vE)

33 *fingers to temples*

I predict a lot of Monty Python references upcoming.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 15, 2025 11:11 AM (PSEDc)

34 Build a bridge out of her!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 11:10 AM (Wnv9h)
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We should get her a hat, first... and a nose.

Posted by: Chico at August 15, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)

35 I predicted this.

Posted by: Nostradamus at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (jc0TO)

36 Marsha is a witch!

Posted by: Jan Jan Jan at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (viF8m)

37 *looks for millstone*

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (5uRA0)

38 I always thought the Trans thing in school was the replacement for the Goth kids. They were skirting the edge with make up and gender already.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)

39 Witch, stake and a fire . Oh look, she's hot!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (dxWFK)

40 That generalized women tend to want to preserve the system as they have known it more than the generalized man.

The current system rewards women over men in general, but very much so rewards AWFLs over more then any other group.

So it is a rational decision for them to demand the status quo continue, if an immoral one.

And I think that's part of this to. Look at Trump taking on USAID. I bet if you broke down those losing income from that change AWFLs were hit hard.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

41 Homer says 'never fuck crazy.'

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:12 AM (W3T6M)

42 THE MORNING RANT: Marsha, the Recovering Gluten Sufferer with a Trans Child, is Now a Witch

Marsha Marsha Marsha.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (XbTZe)

43 Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck
LOL: CNN’s Bakari Sellers is dumbfounded at Scott Jennings pointing out the fact that President Trump has brokered roughly a half-dozen global peace deals as of late, saying he’s never heard of the one with Azerbaijan (and Armenia), Rwanda (and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Israel and Iran
“Which six or seven? Which six or seven? Israel and Iran? What? What peace deal did I miss? I mean, so you — six or seven — I mean, that’s — no, but Rwanda? Azerbaijan? Rwanda? What? What are we talking about? I mean, no — I mean, the fact is — the fact is we still have — we still have a country that's — we still have a country — a world that's on fire and this is the problem”

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Well, Curtis, like the rest of CNN, doesn't get outside the bubble much.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)

44 I semi-dated a witch once. I thought she was just having fun, like an elaborate cosplay, and it was something to do with her friends. Then I saw that it might be more than that. Are these girls really serious about this? I soon worried that they were gonna sacrifice a live chicken in my apartment. I ran.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

45 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

46 Blame it on the Gluten Demon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09a0-xueBKo

LIBs use Pity as a Weapon, and Pity for themselves as a Weapon. Given them convenience or give them Death?
They will always opt for BOTH, their ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever ceaseless because the Value Illicitly obtain retains no value.

Their War On Normal People reaches it's inevitable conclusion: When Truth becomes a liability ALL PEOPLE become the enemy.

One Nation Under the Obamanomicon (and ctHILLARY)
https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-OneNation
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-JustDeserts
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (WzMbN)

47 Feel free to rib me for being aware of this, but on reality TV shows, a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.
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Buck watches all the the "Real Housewives" shows, apparently.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (krQz2)

48 17 I blame Stevie Nicks.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

I agree. That bleating ewe is responsible formost of the evil in the world.

Posted by: Bah! Bah! at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (G5+As)

49 Years ago a couple friend of mine had two children the wife insisted were gluten intolerant/allergic whatever. The lengths they went to avoid whatever the hell gluten is was mind boggling. Their lives revolved around it.

Posted by: Denzel at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (APj/I)

50 These cat ladies sure have a shitload of personalities.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (FK8FF)

51 I've found (the hard way), mocking people's so-called food allergies is right there on par with insulting their religion.

But then so is the tranny thing. And I'm sure the witch thing.

Why, it's almost like people WITHOUT any sort of deeply held faith tradition need to go looking for one.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (dGCAG)

52 We have always been at war with Gluten.

Posted by: Marsha at August 15, 2025 11:14 AM (krQz2)

53 If she doesn't weigh the same as a duck, she's a fraud.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (cDsob)

54 ‘ a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.’

This doesn’t surprise me.
It is an unconscious acknowledgment that their ridiculous and impossible worldview could never exist without magic.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

55 The witch episode of Two and a Half Men was a good one.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

56 At your service.

Posted by: The Cleansing Fire at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (jc0TO)

57 Saw a YT sometime back of a girl who believed her teen obsession with witches, inspired by Hollywood, welcomed actual demons into her life, that she would experience during periods of sleep paralysis at 20 years old. The only thing that would save her was mumble crying out for her roommate who would - eventually - wake her up out of it as these things infested her space while she was trapped in a waking sleep state.

One day her roommate wasn't there and she was completely stuck in it and the demons were getting bolder as she lay stuck - so instead of calling for her roommate who she knew wasn't there, she mustered all she could to call out Jesus's name - as her upbringing had taught her that He would protect her from such forces even though she never believed in them. The demons immediately went and the paralysis ended. In fact the entire condition ended.

She took all the witch imagery out of her life and renounced every bit of it.

Moral of the story? Dance with the devil - you are gonna get burned.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (yh2Fr)

58 It's surprising how stubbornly some of these fads hang on. The gluten fad lasted for a long time and is slow to fade. There's some on this blog that still buy into it. Same can be said for the no-corn syrup nonsense. A fad, but a stubborn fad.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (g8Ew8)

59 .. Are these girls really serious about this? I soon worried that they were gonna sacrifice a live chicken in my apartment. I ran.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

Hah, you think they wanted me?

They were after you !!!

Posted by: The Chicken at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (TTAGa)

60 Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch.

I bet she's heavily vaccinated, too.

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (IhVqi)

61 Taliban is right! Don't educated wymens past sixth grade!

Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at August 15, 2025 11:16 AM (G5+As)

62 chick sounds like a nut. But I don't doubt the gluten intolerance. Wheat as we knew it is gone, and everything is washed with round up to dry. it's poison. I have the blood and gut tests to prove it too.

Posted by: Esperman at August 15, 2025 11:16 AM (lxE1b)

63 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (2UnvF)

64 Old school western culture found a way to use status seeking AWFLs in a better way though even then there were issues - see Prohibition.

But they are now off the rails.

The problem is they have few real problems - plenty of money and time from government/NGO do nothing jobs or ex-husbands, and spend their time 100% status seeking in a culture that gives status for doing terrible things.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:06 AM (t0Rmr)

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I saw a theory posited that generalized female opinion is actually a trailing indicator of where society is heading, not a leading one.

That generalized women tend to want to preserve the system as they have known it more than the generalized man.

It's an interesting theory. Could be true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
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I think trailing and leading indicators swap places as culture ebbs and flows, circling around, folding in on itself, etc. The phrase "politics is downstream from culture" is correct, but it doesn't mean that the stream flows straight or even in one direction.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

65 55 The witch episode of Two and a Half Men was a good one.
Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

thirteen? a new personal best!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (pIfcn)

66 I feel sorry for the kids who will never enjoy a PB&J.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (VofaG)

67 *fingers to temples*

I predict a lot of Monty Python references upcoming.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk

And Brady Bunch references.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (p+RwZ)

68 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

Just a guess here, but I'm thinking it might have something to do with witchcraft not being real.

Although I then have a problem with the "Toss her in the water, if she floats, she's a witch, if she drowns she wasn't" thing.

You know she's not a witch, and you know women can't swim.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

69 She took all the witch imagery out of her life and renounced every bit of it.

Moral of the story? Dance with the devil - you are gonna get burned.
Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:15 AM (yh2Fr)
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You know, I saw a video from a para-researcher who said that if you check all the counts of alien abductions.

They end when people invoke the name of Jesus.

Posted by: Marsha at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (krQz2)

70 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?

Most of the witch burning in Europe happened in areas that had a complete collapse of civic and religious authority.

So the idea doesn't make any sort of sense because there was little sense was behind it. My understanding is labeling someone as a witch was generally done as a way to get retribution or take their property - similarly to how people became Monarchist agents in Revolutionary France...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)

71 Summit of the brain dead race hucksters.

New York Post@nypost
Jasmine Crockett denounces Republicans as ‘racist’ – after Al Sharpton heaps praise on ‘Jasmine Campbell’ in brutal gaffe

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"Campbell?" Mmm, mom, good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)

72 68 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

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I think it's more a generalized approach to dealing with heretics.

And most witches were hung not burned, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

73 23
‘ Wonder how they'd feel if a bunch of white men wanted to burn them?’

There’s only one way to find out.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)

74 I think trailing and leading indicators swap places as culture ebbs and flows, circling around, folding in on itself, etc. The phrase "politics is downstream from culture" is correct, but it doesn't mean that the stream flows straight or even in one direction.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Aka, circling the bowl.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (p+RwZ)

75 thirteen? a new personal best!
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (pIfcn

Hah. The ending was perfect when it was Implied Evelyn the mom was the head witch.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (VofaG)

76
I order everything with extra gluten.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (kkTda)

77 Like, Thomas More ordered a few heretics burned alive when he was in Henry VIII's government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

78 Relentlessly and openly mocking these people is the only thing that will succeed in the long term, short of public executions.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:19 AM (n4GiU)

79 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes

Fire purifies.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (p+RwZ)

80 Could be worse. Could be self-sterilzed. I look forward to having to swallow every comment till I croak. If you'll multilate, you can self terminate.

I need the delusion to live, for my kids sake. Happy Friday!

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (s9EN2)

81 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (2UnvF)
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Wasn't that in the 1990s?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

82 've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing.

The thing is, witches float- just like very small rocks- so you can't drown them.

Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (IhVqi)

83
Ackshewallee, Marsh does have magical powers of a sort.

If Marsha inserts a cucumber into her hoo-ha,

30 minutes later, it a pickle!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)

84
Peanuts, anyone?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (kkTda)

85 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

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If your cow dies weeks after a "witch" gave it the "Evil Eye", it's not like people who believed in magic believed in fire balls and Bewitched-type of magic.

It required potions, a curse developed like a sickness, it required time.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (krQz2)

86 81 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (2UnvF)
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Wasn't that in the 1990s?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

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I remember seeing videos about it in school, so I believe it was the 90s. 80s feels more like Satanic Panic times, but there could easily be overlap.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

87 The reckoning for this whole trans business will be a cast iron bitch. Which is as it should be, as it's the only way people learn.

Sadly, it won't be the people who need to suffer most that catch the most hell.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (OUMaO)

88 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

When you realize the people doing the witch accusations were likely the forefathers of today's Commie Left.

The witch accusations were an attempt at control, humiliation and most of all ostracization of unruly women who would not get in line and remember that "we're all in this together".

The fact that the solution doesn't make any sense is your first and biggest clue that they were Marxists before there were even Marxists.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (yh2Fr)

89 Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!

Posted by: Bulg at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

90 Three of my children died when some kid brought a peanut butter cookie to the lunch room.

Posted by: Marsha McKaren at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (G5+As)

91 The gluten was what made James Coney Island hot dog buns so good. That and the chemicals.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG)

92 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (2UnvF)

Not really. It didn't go away. Just the girls shriveled up, and you could no longer see them.

I must admit, when I hear of a young celeb like Michele Trachtenberg dying, then they announce it was diabetes, I'm wondering if maybe there was a bit of anorexia going on there too.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (dGCAG)

93 I know of a dude who, with his "husband", adopted a pair of boys and enrolled them in a private school. The dude at first was merely gay, and was allowed to work at the school as a substitute teacher with the expectation that he would keep quiet about his sexuality.

Later he started wearing dresses and makeup which raised questions among other parents and had the school reviewing their policies and employee handbooks. (Apparently the employee dress code was not specific about gender and makeup.)

The dude solved all their problems when he proudly announced on social media that he's a witch. THAT was a clear violation and they kicked him off their sub roster. LOL

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (GD2xa)

94 Although I then have a problem with the "Toss her in the water, if she floats, she's a witch, if she drowns she wasn't" thing.

You know she's not a witch, and you know women can't swim.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

The true test of a witch nowadays is if she can parallel park.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

95 Anorexics were told to eat too. Sane country just years ago.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (s9EN2)

96 90 Three of my children died when some kid brought a peanut butter cookie to the lunch room.
Posted by: Marsha McKaren at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (G5+As)

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*pause*
*longer pause*
*it's probably not funny anymore pause*
*yup, it's still funny pause*

They got better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

97 I am shocked that the demographic that overwhelmingly believes in horoscopes, astrology, spirit boards, etc., would be drawn to believe in witchcraft.

Why put in all the effort toward hard work and accountability when you can chant a few words?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (I4g9n)

98 66 I feel sorry for the kids who will never enjoy a PB&J.
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Oddly, I never knew kids had peanut allergies until I was 40. I guess all the kids I grew up with that had peanut allergies must have died.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (W3T6M)

99 I remember seeing videos about it in school, so I believe it was the 90s. 80s feels more like Satanic Panic times, but there could easily be overlap.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

The whole "unhealthy body image" thing is evergreen. We see a version with it now in the "any size healthy" bollocks.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

100 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

As shown in that 70s documentary, The Touch of Satan.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (PSEDc)

101 You've got to pick up every stitch
Mm-hmm, must be the season of the witch
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

I thought that was take off every stich.
Disappointed.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (n4GiU)

102 The Witchsmeller Pursuivant episode of Blackadder was hilarious.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (cDsob)

103 And most witches were hung not burned, I believe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

Hanged.

The ones who were hung were warlocks.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (dGCAG)

104 Most of the witch burning in Europe happened in areas that had a complete collapse of civic and religious authority.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)
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And this is one thing I think Bertrand Russell was right about: boredom.

He said they often happened in winter, where people were more idle.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (krQz2)

105 Not sure if she's a witch or just crazy.

Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

106 The really weird one for me was people falling in love with inanimate objects.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (VofaG)

107 99 I remember seeing videos about it in school, so I believe it was the 90s. 80s feels more like Satanic Panic times, but there could easily be overlap.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

The whole "unhealthy body image" thing is evergreen. We see a version with it now in the "any size healthy" bollocks.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

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The video I saw had Ally McBeal herself, Calista Flockhart, in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394770/

The Secret Life of Mary-Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

108 When women had to cook and clean all day. And make bread and all their food from scratch, they didn't have time for all this nonsense.

Posted by: RUReadingthis at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (aQ25I)

109 The true test of a witch nowadays is if she can parallel park.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (g8Ew

I have my own test. She will have sexual relations with me, and if she has an orgasm, she's a witch!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

110 103 And most witches were hung not burned, I believe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

Hanged.

The ones who were hung were warlocks.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (dGCAG)

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I wondered if I used the right word or not.

Not enough to actually look it up before hand, but I did wonder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

111 Paolo is how you say, a witch.

Posted by: Paolo at August 15, 2025 11:24 AM (yh2Fr)

112 Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM

She used to be a dude, right?

Posted by: toby928 at August 15, 2025 11:24 AM (jc0TO)

113 I think they started rehabilitating them with bewitched, they are probably more serena then samantha, but then in the 90s you had charmed and the crow,

of course there are witches of high station, like sally quinn by her own admission,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (bXbFr)

114 105 Not sure if she's a witch or just crazy.

Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

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You know what fixes that?

Bullet to the brain pan. Squish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

115 Like I said, these people have been trained to be in suspense over the weather. Retards.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (yh2Fr)

116 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.

I was going to mention this - and we didn't even have the internet to spread the fad then.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (NtvU0)

117 While I am a proponent of science and rational thought, the socratic method and the rest of it, our universe is a very strange place.

Don’t try to summon up anything you can’t put back down. The literature available, going back thousands of years seems to suggest strongly that this sort of thing ends very badly. I suppose it’s a variant of Pascal’s Wager that I subscribe to.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (lf5tB)

118 Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM

She used to be a dude, right?

You don't see a lot of people who are butt-ugly in two genders.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

119 The left have more projection than a super model bulimic at an all you can eat buffet.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)

120 The video I saw had Ally McBeal herself, Calista Flockhart, in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394770/

The Secret Life of Mary-Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

For the record, as an '80s kid I definitely remember it being an thing back then.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

121 Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM

She might just be woozy from living in a cloud of her own BO.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (PSEDc)

122 Dated a woman who went hardcore into this sort of thing in college. Incredibly sweet and smart, but sometimes you just know there's no way something will work out long term and just go along for the ride until the time for choosing comes, and that's what we did. To my great surprise, she coped pretty well with me being a fervent anti-communist right-winger, but after speaking to her dad, I understood WHY.

I suspect her subsequent vanishing from all social media was a sign that the real world changed her point of view a bit... hope she did, because she really was a sweet person, just on a path that wasn't ideal.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (9VDxG)

123 I've never understood the whole "burn a witch" thing. Usually, they're accused of casting spells on people. What would stop them from cursing everyone trying to burn them?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)
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Pure mob mentality. The mob doesn't act rationally. The mob wants blood and pain.

I highly doubt the witch-burning events were like portrayed on TV, where there's a semblance of a prosecution and then an organized execution.

I bet what really happened is some mob whipped themselves into a frenzy, then grabbed some poor girl out of her bed in the middle of the night. Then dragged her out into the street and murdered her right then and there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

124 Maybe we could teach women to wear wooden shoes so they can't run?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (W3T6M)

125 120 For the record, as an '80s kid I definitely remember it being an thing back then.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

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The video was released in 92, so it definitely could have been a response to something that had been going on for a few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

126
Cyclamates will kill you dead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (kkTda)

127 The true test of a witch nowadays is if she can parallel park.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

AAWaW.
All Asian Women Are Witches

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (p+RwZ)

128 When you realize the people doing the witch accusations were likely the forefathers of today's Commie Left.

The witch accusations were an attempt at control, humiliation and most of all ostracization of unruly women who would not get in line and remember that "we're all in this together".

The fact that the solution doesn't make any sense is your first and biggest clue that they were Marxists before there were even Marxists.
Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (yh2Fr)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say a number of the accusers would have had seckshooall relations with the gal in question too.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:27 AM (dGCAG)

129 who hexed her boss and lever clay felker, the one behind new York magazine, bubble bubble toil and trouble,

of course we don't need to revisit the whole Delaware brouhaha do we, except to say, the actual winner was more like a warlock,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:27 AM (bXbFr)

130 When women had to cook and clean all day. And make bread and all their food from scratch, they didn't have time for all this nonsense.

Posted by: RUReadingthis

Don't sell it short. Nonsense will find a way.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:27 AM (OUMaO)

131 So being a Wiccan has been a fad for a while now. Is this different or a subset of that?

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)

132 Cyclamates will kill you dead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM

Boo!

Posted by: Alar at August 15, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

133 I'm pretty sure my ex-mother in law was a witch.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (Q4IgG)

134 Now, there is another fad sweeping the Marsha demographic – identifying oneself as a witch. Predictably, Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch. And of course, she is producing Tik Tok videos that talk about casting spells, her coven, etc.
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Maybe she has a spell for avoiding the retribution of her children. She may well need that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (z8vUP)

135 4 am? That’s my usual getting up time. Maybe I’ll drive by their coven some time and throw a dead skunk over the fence.

Posted by: Eromero at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (jgmnb)

136 Calista Flockhart - this sounds like something you want to avoid in life.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (W3T6M)

137 I don't understand the appeal of Clamata.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (s9EN2)

138 I wondered if I used the right word or not.

Not enough to actually look it up before hand, but I did wonder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

And you know I'm never going to pass up an opportunity to correct you.

Glowie.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

139
Remember the Satanic pre-school prosecutions? Talk about a witch hunt. Janet Reno, our latter-day Torquemada.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (kkTda)

140 135 4 am? That’s my usual getting up time. Maybe I’ll drive by their coven some time and throw a dead skunk over the fence.
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Wear a glove.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (W3T6M)

141 Bored middle-aged women will eventually bring down American democracy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (xTIDn)

142 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say a number of the accusers would have had seckshooall relations with the gal in question too.

Posted by: BurtTC

Also the small issue of being able to hoover up the accused's land on the cheap. Never underestimate the power of good old fashioned greed and envy.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (OUMaO)

143 If someone has a food allergy or gluten intolerance or whatever then do your thing. But it pisses me off that just because some guy in row 26 seat B has a peanut allergy I can't get a bag of peanuts on an airplane.

How the hell does me eating peanuts cause a problem for anyone else? Do peanut cooties fly?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)

144 138
And you know I'm never going to pass up an opportunity to correct you.

Glowie.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

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*throws sandwich*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

145 ‘ a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.’

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Common ground! They think they're witches and so do I!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

146 When women had to cook and clean all day. And make bread and all their food from scratch, they didn't have time for all this nonsense.
…………

Reminded me of my second favorite Hank Hill quote

Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)

147 For the record, as an '80s kid I definitely remember it being an thing back then.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

I went on a trip to Europe with my parents, back in 1969/70. We went with another family, who had a daughter my age.

She was a slight, but beautiful girl. She "played with her food ... every damn meal.

Turned out she was anorectic / bulimic.

Damn shame ...

Posted by: browndog eating every last scrap at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (TTAGa)

148 She turned me into a newt.

Posted by: A peasant of the village at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (i3Gaq)

149 Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM

She used to be a dude, right?

You don't see a lot of people who are butt-ugly in two genders.
Posted by: Archimedes

Great genes gets you great jeans.
A butt ugly ass doesn't.
As Clint Eastwood says, "A man's got to know his limitations".

I know mine. You'll never see me as a model.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (p+RwZ)

150 well the accusation came after the Indian Wars that were rather traumatic to the small town of Salem,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (bXbFr)

151 What's all this I hear about women saying they are bitches?

Posted by: Emily Latella at August 15, 2025 11:30 AM (jc0TO)

152 127 The true test of a witch nowadays is if she can parallel park.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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All Asian Women Are Witches
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When driving behind them I call them Headless Drivers.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:30 AM (W3T6M)

153 The chubby long-divorced old white gal in my office has been telling everyone that she's a witch for at least four years now.

Early adopter I suppose.

I wish there was a spell that reduced the urge to post annoying gifs in our team chat everyday, but her crystals and shit just ain't got the juice.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (rx/UX)

154 but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power.
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So, a class in fiction.

"To understand as" is a curious construction. A thing is properly understood as itself. I don't "understand myself as a {man|American|Jew|etc.} - at least, not without first understanding myself as myself.

To "understand as" something implies either thorough expertise in the thing itself to the point where nuanced context becomes both legitimate and possibly valuable, or it implies whole-cloth fiction.

Why do I suspect the latter?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (z8vUP)

155 Never underestimate the power of good old fashioned greed and envy.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (OUMaO

Like I said - Marxists

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (yh2Fr)

156 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM (2UnvF)

Not really. It didn't go away. Just the girls shriveled up, and you could no longer see them.

I must admit, when I hear of a young celeb like Michele Trachtenberg dying, then they announce it was diabetes, I'm wondering if maybe there was a bit of anorexia going on there too.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:21 AM (dGCAG)
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She was really messed up, probably sexually abused as a child actress by the usual Hollywood perverts. Very mysterious death. No autopsy. I'm very confident substance abuse was involved.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

157 Reminded me of my second favorite Hank Hill quote

Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep them busy while their husbands did the cooking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)
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I never really got hooked on King of the Hill, for some reason. I may need to revisit it. I like Mike Judge a lot.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (PSEDc)

158 For the sake of the future, I hope that the Millennials will end up being the last feminist generation. There won't be a future if they aren't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:32 AM (z8vUP)

159 too much is made of this, perhaps the motives of the accusers were not entirely pure, but we know the uses this episode was applied in American culture

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:32 AM (bXbFr)

160 Anybody wanna buy a used Ouija Board?

Posted by: Flea Market Finds at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (G5+As)

161 Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”

Remember, "this is the coolest summer for the rest of our lives".

This is a religious incantation, firmly believed by the climate loons, even though it is easily disprovable - no, every summer is not hotter than the one before.

Portland has been having a very cool summer, but we had three hot days, and of course this statement was immediately deployed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (xTIDn)

162 I wonder what the odds - assuming they can be calculated - are of a single person living on her own in the wilderness being both gluten-intolerant and a magician, and having trans kids.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (z8vUP)

163 I bet most of those lunatic women can't even spell "witch"

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (I0N4X)

164 Yep.

Bad hairstyles and ugly clothing "fashions" go away after a while.

Tattoos and genital amputations do not.

Speaking of "fashions"...

Resolved: the pant suit is the single ugliest article of clothing ever perpetrated on the women of the world. No, and I mean NO, woman looks good in one of those, and most women look downright hideous.

If you want to wear pants, that's fine... there are plenty of styles that actually look good (and I'm not limiting "looking good" to "looking sexy" here). "Pant suits" are not one of them.

The very name is fucking stupid. "Pant suits" as opposed to what? "Shorts suits"? "Lingerie suits"? "Hoop skirt suits"?

Ladies: just don't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (qpyNK)

165 Witch >> << bitch?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

166 163 I bet most of those lunatic women can't even spell "witch"
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (I0N4X)

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I bet you can't make a limerick about witches that doesn't use the word bitches!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

167 well the accusation came after the Indian Wars that were rather traumatic to the small town of Salem,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (bXbFr)

Seems a rather strange connection.

We didn't like all those injuns scalping us, so we're going to burn and drown the loose women in town!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

168 While I am a proponent of science and rational thought, the socratic method and the rest of it, our universe is a very strange place.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 15, 2025 11:25 AM (lf5tB)
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So am I. Because Science is a proven, reliable way of knowing.

But it is not knowing, itself.

Science cannot demonstrate the exact physiological processes by which Kurt Goedel generated the Incompleteness Theorem.

The reason that I don't include Psychological, is that psychologists have *theories* and data models and explanations. The hardest "facts" of psychology tend to be about neural activity.

You simply have to acknowledge the reasonable position that Science has never proven (and probably can't prove) that the phenomena of the universe are closed under physical functions.

Science is *great* to tell us what can be measured by Science. But that is a measure of comprehensibility, and comprehensibility is not a bound on possibility.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (krQz2)

169 While we were in a 20 year self-described "Global Warming Pause", every year was still the "hottest year on record!". Clue bat?

It got to be even stupider than summoning witches and demons.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (yh2Fr)

170 more likely they were the upstanding members of the community,

of course the Communists used this episode to mask their own subversions,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:35 AM (bXbFr)

171 Kill her! Kill her now!

(See about a zillion Let's Kill Her Memes)
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I understand there's now a kid in the family who would like to be known as Ember, a sexually undefined spirit.

To interact with the family, I'm to be cheerful and 'all in' as to this latest foolishness. The 'child' involved has been an active and academically gifted, not hidden in some corner.

Nope. This is really upsetting and so I've decided I'll stay away and just send cards and $ all of the kids in the future - which OTOH will really please the parents who wish to parent on their terms.

F*&#ing nuts.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 15, 2025 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

172 If you don't know...

There's a new updated version of
"King of the Hill" open HULU.

Hank and Peggy have come back from an extended stay in Saudi Arabia. Bobby is running a Japanese-German food fusion restaurant. Some new folks added to the mix, some are gone.

Only two episodes in but it's okay.

Hopefully it will get better.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 11:35 AM (iJfKG)

173 Science is *great* to tell us what can be measured by Science. But that is a measure of comprehensibility, and comprehensibility is not a bound on possibility.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (krQz2)

Trying to completely understand a system from within that system is paradoxical in nature.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:35 AM (yh2Fr)

174 Michelle Trachtenburg had a liver transplant not terribly long before her death, and the tox screen said it was a diabetic issue that killed her, FYI. Apparently, she always had some chronic health conditions that she wasn't public about rather than it being the usual suspects.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 15, 2025 11:36 AM (9VDxG)

175 My gluten tolerance is at odds with the gluten I was assigned at birth...

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:36 AM (I0N4X)

176 Christians are the weird ones, in this bizarre inversion, actually not considering the Devil's work

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:36 AM (bXbFr)

177 So am I. Because Science is a proven, reliable way of knowing.

But it is not knowing, itself.

Science cannot demonstrate the exact physiological processes by which Kurt Goedel generated the Incompleteness Theorem.

The reason that I don't include Psychological, is that psychologists have *theories* and data models and explanations. The hardest "facts" of psychology tend to be about neural activity.

You simply have to acknowledge the reasonable position that Science has never proven (and probably can't prove) that the phenomena of the universe are closed under physical functions.

Science is *great* to tell us what can be measured by Science. But that is a measure of comprehensibility, and comprehensibility is not a bound on possibility.

I agree.
*sticks finger in ear, examines what is extracted*

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

178 > Kamala’s step-daughter says she’s really struggling because she’s experiencing “climate anxiety”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

A good hard scissoring session with Greta Thunberg should fix that right up.

(Sorry for the visual for anyone who happens to still be eating breakfast).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (qpyNK)

179 I never really got hooked on King of the Hill, for some reason. I may need to revisit it. I like Mike Judge a lot.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (PSEDc)

My all time favorite but Bob’s Burgers is a close second .

My favorite Hank Hill quote is when he was when Bobby got involved with a Christian Hard rock/rapper group and was defying Hank.

He confronted the leader of the group when Bobby ran away to perform.

“ Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making rock and roll worse”

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (VofaG)

180 I concede that there could be real magic in the world. But I'm willing to bet that real practitioners stay well away from these crazies.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (+4yJ5)

181 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
A very confused Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't understand what the National Guard is doing in DC.
"I look forward to hearing what their purpose is and we’ll see what that is."

-
So when Nanzi said she thought Joe was OK, she wasn't kidding.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

182 Feel free to rib me for being aware of this, but on reality TV shows, a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches.

It's tough times for white women. They've been shoved out of the limelight by obese black women and women who are not women. So white gals gotta work extra hard for attention.

Posted by: She Works Hard for the Money, So Hard for the Money at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (guCHD)

183 She was really messed up, probably sexually abused as a child actress by the usual Hollywood perverts. Very mysterious death. No autopsy. I'm very confident substance abuse was involved.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

Yeah, it was sad, regardless of what it was. I loved that show... way before we found out what an ass Whedon was, and I came to love her character.

Being serious about it for a minute, anorexia is a horrible condition, and the girls/women who suffer from it have the usual childhood traumas.

It is most definitely still a thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)

184 A dog couldn't possibly know what a dog is without being able to see and examine (is that what they're calling it these days?) another dog.

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (yh2Fr)

185 Twiggy became THE model in the mid-60's. According to Wiki she weighted 91 pounds at 5 foot 6 inches at the start of career. It seems that look reappears every few decades.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (ky7/T)

186 Let's not forget the most famous social contagion of them all, multiple personalities. At its peak, multiple personalities were showing up on TV and movies on a weekly basis. It was the easiest subplot for mid-70s 30 minute TV shows. And it could happen to ANYONE!

Posted by: Rando Calrissian at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (uTp11)

187 Hang the witches?

Seems like the right place to leave this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAPXSuEEms

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 11:38 AM (Wnv9h)

188 133 I'm pretty sure my ex-mother in law was a witch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Mine wasn't a witch. She was a BLABBERMOUTH!!

Posted by: Ralph Kramden, Gotham Bus Lines at August 15, 2025 11:38 AM (G5+As)

189 You need to gear down a little for King of the Hill. It mosies along.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 15, 2025 11:38 AM (s9EN2)

190 Japanese-German food fusion

**********

Yummm! Sashimischnitzel!

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:39 AM (I0N4X)

191 181 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
A very confused Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't understand what the National Guard is doing in DC.
"I look forward to hearing what their purpose is and we’ll see what that is."
---------------
Can she walk or is she riding around in Handicap Scooter?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:39 AM (W3T6M)

192 Finally, there's something even sillier than Black Girl Magic.

Posted by: She Works Hard for the Money, So Hard for the Money at August 15, 2025 11:39 AM (guCHD)

193 And of course King of the Hill has an episode on Witches and Warlocks.

My theory is KotH has an episode for every subject we discuss here.

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (VofaG)

194 I recall the most famous witch burned at the stake by a relatively moral/christian nation ..🤷🏻‍♂️

Posted by: Qmark at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (05r0M)

195 If you want to wear pants, that's fine... there are plenty of styles that actually look good (and I'm not limiting "looking good" to "looking sexy" here). "Pant suits" are not one of them.

The very name is fucking stupid. "Pant suits" as opposed to what? "Shorts suits"? "Lingerie suits"? "Hoop skirt suits"?

Ladies: just don't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (qpyNK)

Women look good in jeans. Even women who carry a little too much in the caboose. You have to be really wide before you look worse in jeans.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

196 It's tough times for white women. They've been shoved out of the limelight by obese black women and women who are not women. So white gals gotta work extra hard for attention.
Posted by: She Works Hard for the Money, So Hard for the Money at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (guCHD)
+++++
"Have a good day at work, honey. We have to deal with Junior when you get home to nip his problems now before they get worse. Also, remember to pick up some boxes for cleaning up the attic this weekend. I'm planning on pot roast for dinner tonight!"

Posted by: Continuous Attention Is Achievable at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (z8vUP)

197 Martha is just mentally ill. A hallmark of high-functioning mental illness is a strong tendency to "latch on" to relatively short-term obsessions for little to no reason. It could be because she saw it on TV. It could be for any reason. It could be a way of cooking noodles. But they become obsessed with X. Then they notice Y, become obsessed with Y, and forget X.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

198 > Being serious about it for a minute, anorexia is a horrible condition, and the girls/women who suffer from it have the usual childhood traumas.

It is most definitely still a thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)

However, unlike "transgenderism" we do not treat the delusion by pretending that the sufferers really are fat and prescribing crash diets and weight reduction surgery.

See also: people who sincerely believe they are Julius Caesar or Jesus Christ.

Do they get to demand that others treat them as though they really were those people?

They do not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (qpyNK)

199 Bobby is running a Japanese-German food fusion restaurant.

-
Axis Eats?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

200 It's tough times for white women. They've been shoved out of the limelight by obese black women and women who are not women. So white gals gotta work extra hard for attention.
---------------
Finally, someone hits a home run. Kudus.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM (W3T6M)

201 Michelle Trachtenburg had a liver transplant not terribly long before her death, and the tox screen said it was a diabetic issue that killed her, FYI. Apparently, she always had some chronic health conditions that she wasn't public about rather than it being the usual suspects.
Posted by: American Hawkman at August 15, 2025 11:36 AM (9VDxG)

I believe it's possible we were given the real story. I just also believe it's possible we were not.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM (dGCAG)

202 Hang the witches?

Seems like the right place to leave this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAPXSuEEms

Okay, that was funny.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

203 I actually feel sorry for young neurotics/psychoticstoday, since everyone the could turn to for help is now trained to instruct them to embrace their delusions, not cure or alleviate them.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM (n4GiU)

204 Can she walk or is she riding around in Handicap Scooter?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:39 AM (W3T6M)
++++
Do they make those with "member of the gerontocracy who is sliding into cirrhosis and dementia" decals?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:42 AM (z8vUP)

205 Japanese-German food fusion

**********

Yummm! Sashimischnitzel!
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:39 AM (I0N4X)

You're too late. It's called tempura, 😀

Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2025 11:42 AM (iJfKG)

206 Okay, that was funny.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM

The behind the scenes cut is even funnier.

"Get this man a tiny wine..."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 15, 2025 11:42 AM (Wnv9h)

207 I actually feel sorry for young neurotics/psychotics today, since everyone the could turn to for help is now trained to instruct them to embrace their delusions, not cure or alleviate them.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:41 AM (n4GiU)
++++
Long gone are the days when, even if it was just on paper, the role of the psychiatrist was to help his patient overcome the patient's neurosis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:43 AM (z8vUP)

208 However, unlike "transgenderism" we do not treat the delusion by pretending that the sufferers really are fat and prescribing crash diets and weight reduction surgery.

See also: people who sincerely believe they are Julius Caesar or Jesus Christ.

Do they get to demand that others treat them as though they really were those people?

They do not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (qpyNK)

Absolutely!

And I forget what it is now, but I think there was a "real" health condition that was linked to anorexia. Hell, it might have been diabetes!

With questions about cause and effect still unanswered.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:43 AM (dGCAG)

209 Long gone are the days when, even if it was just on paper, the role of the psychiatrist was to help his patient overcome the patient's neurosis.
-----------------
What about billable hours?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (W3T6M)

210 > Women look good in jeans. Even women who carry a little too much in the caboose. You have to be really wide before you look worse in jeans.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

Yep, jeans are fine.

The pantsuit thing was prompted by watching Lioness (a Taylor Sheridan show about a female covert CIA operator...good show), and noticing that not even a smokeshow like Zoe Saldaña can make a pantsuit look good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (qpyNK)

211 Wonder how they'd feel if a bunch oof white men wanted to burn them?

I'm sure they do think that. And it just proves how oppressed and righteous they are.

Posted by: Pogo at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (3nLb4)

212 >>>There are many of us praying that her daughter will survive the trans fad without being permanently harmed.

There are others who acknowledge that the daughter is already permanently harmed albeit maybe not yet physically or physiologically. And still others of the growing stronger whisper brigade would like to see Marsha imprisoned for psychological abusing her daughter.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (i24o9)

213 The very name is fucking stupid. "Pant suits" as opposed to what? "Shorts suits"? "Lingerie suits"? "Hoop skirt suits"?

Ladies: just don't.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Men just get suits. Women can wear a suit coat and skirt OR a suit coat and pants, aka "pantsuit"

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (p+RwZ)

214 How do these people have jobs?

Like, how is it not that the instant they say "I AM A WITCH!", their boss says "YOU'RE FIRED."

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (UnA8+)

215 Witches get stitches.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (63Dwl)

216 how did I forget the buffy series and angel, where vampires are just misunderstood,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (bXbFr)

217 /possum

Posted by: Oddbob at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (3nLb4)

218 Have these self proclaimed witches been dropped into wells just to see if they float?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (1Cdp9)

219 What about billable hours?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (W3T6M)
++++
Hell, forget the billable hours! What about my license to practice?

Posted by: Psychiatrist leafing through the DSM-V at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (z8vUP)

220 *sticks finger in ear, examines what is extracted*
Posted by: Archimedes

**********

Shhh everyone. Quiet! Archimedes is waxing nostalgic...

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (I0N4X)

221 >>>Wonder how they'd feel if a bunch of white men wanted to burn them?

Wait, is that wrong?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (i24o9)

222 Speaking of witches . . .

Ana Kasparian@AnaKasparian
You [Ted Cruz] sold America out to your masters and literally said that you were elected to be the #1 representative of Israel, a foreign country. You and the rest of the scum like you in congress should be tried for treason.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

223 Long gone are the days when, even if it was just on paper, the role of the psychiatrist was to help his patient overcome the patient's neurosis.
-----------------
What about billable hours?
Posted by: pudinhead

You should never see a psychiatrist long term. Because if you do, they aren't fixing anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (p+RwZ)

224 Shhh everyone. Quiet! Archimedes is waxing nostalgic...

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (I0N4X)

In limerick form, please.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (i24o9)

225 "....but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set out to change that narrative."

Oh B.S., back in the '70s they were talking about women's interest in witchcraft arising during the middle ages as a way of coping with having less power under a patriarchy.

Weird thing today is-- the patriarchy died in the 1970 with the sexual revolution, abortion, hormonal birth control and revision of the educational system to favor women.
So, why the interest in witchcraft today?
And does the interest today disprove the theories on why women in prior generations dabbled in witchcraft?

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (bmpUL)

226 ... Resolved: the pant suit is the single ugliest article of clothing ever perpetrated on the women of the world. No, and I mean NO, woman looks good in one of those, and most women look downright hideous. ...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:33 AM (qpyNK)
++++
Only if you wear one without me.

NEVER commit that faux pas!

Posted by: Shoulder Pads at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (z8vUP)

227 Let's not forget the most famous social contagion of them all, multiple personalities. At its peak, multiple personalities were showing up on TV and movies on a weekly basis. It was the easiest subplot for mid-70s 30 minute TV shows. And it could happen to ANYONE!
Posted by: Rando Calrissian at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (uTp11)

Well... here's the thing. Let's call it the shark attack syndrome.

Every summer it seems, we're treated to stories about shark attacks, and everyone seems to have a cousin who knew a guy he used to work with whose best friend's mother knew a guy who was killed in a shark attack.

In reality, there are usually less than 10 shark kills per year.

But there aren't zero. They do exist.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (dGCAG)

228 "a lot of the millennial-aged, white women are now proclaiming themselves to be witches. "
===

Change that first letter and they are right.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (17s+e)

229 Bored middle-aged women will eventually bring down American democracy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 15, 2025 11:29 AM (xTIDn)

Most likely the reason why 1300 years ago the Muslims lost their shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (FK8FF)

230 Witches get stitches.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 15, 2025 11:45 AM (63Dwl)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (i24o9)

231 > Axis Eats?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

Needs Italy in there as well.

Ramen noodles, marinara sauce, and bratwurst? (that actually sounds pretty good. Hmm....)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:48 AM (qpyNK)

232 If there was a very woman who deserved to have to eke an existence under a bridge without so much as a cardboard box to keep the weather off, it's Ana Kasparian.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 11:48 AM (z8vUP)

233 “Split personalities” was part of the … research… conducted on concentration camp victims and other lucky folks under the Nazi regime. They termed it traumatic conditioning or somesuch. Most effective on children, usually repeated rape. This was continued in the United States after the war, as part of the Paperclip scientists. Lots of propaganda specialists, and chemical warfare were imported, ostensibly as part of the Cold War but it looks more in hindsight just a way to fvck with Americans and drive them all crazy. Your Spook agencies at work.

There is a direct line from those concentration camp victims to “gender affirming care” here today, if you know the history.. They are creating time bombs. Some of them have already gone off.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 15, 2025 11:48 AM (lf5tB)

234 Challenge accepted:

My neighbors are a couple of witches
One of them catches and the other obviously pitches
I joined them one night
They were both fairly tight
But now my junk constantly itches

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 15, 2025 11:48 AM (rx/UX)

235 227 In reality, there are usually less than 10 shark kills per year.

But there aren't zero. They do exist.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (dGCAG)

This reminds me of a meme I saw once.

"The chances of being killed by Shaq are low...

...but never zero."

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (UnA8+)

236 It's actually rather easy to put women like Marsha back on the path to seeing reality. Bundle her up, pack her in a box, and send her to Afghanistan with a note in Afghan saying "Request to Finder: Please keep her for a few months until she has a proper understanding of how the world really works. Your choice as to how to educate her."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (uWKK8)

237 Hansel and Greta :witch hunters was a decent movie.

Greta and Hansel not so good imo though it had a 63% rotten tomatoes

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (VofaG)

238 We probably won't be around when medical science realizes that trans surgeries are akin to lobotomies to treat depression and schizophrenia. Too much money in trans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (xffwU)

239 trying too hard to impress chunk uyger

Posted by: miguel cervantes at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (bXbFr)

240 > Ana Kasparian@AnaKasparian

This scrunt appears on a show named after a group of genocidal savages who murdered her ancestors.

It's like a Jew appearing on the Sieg Heil Nazi Hour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (qpyNK)

241 Yep, jeans are fine.

The pantsuit thing was prompted by watching Lioness (a Taylor Sheridan show about a female covert CIA operator...good show), and noticing that not even a smokeshow like Zoe Saldaña can make a pantsuit look good.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:44 AM (qpyNK)

Women need to stop taking fashion advice from gay men and other women.

I'm pretty darned sure the marketing person who came up with the Sydney Sweeney ad was a straight man.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)

242 233 “Split personalities” was part of the … research… conducted on concentration camp victims and other lucky folks under the Nazi regime. They termed it traumatic conditioning or somesuch. Most effective on children, usually repeated rape. This was continued in the United States after the war, as part of the Paperclip scientists. Lots of propaganda specialists, and chemical warfare were imported, ostensibly as part of the Cold War but it looks more in hindsight just a way to fvck with Americans and drive them all crazy. Your Spook agencies at work.

There is a direct line from those concentration camp victims to “gender affirming care” here today, if you know the history.. They are creating time bombs. Some of them have already gone off.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 15, 2025 11:48 AM (lf5tB)

An ex of mine claimed to have multiple personalities (and still does), but also admits to having made them up. But doesn't care because they like the idea of having DID.

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (UnA8+)

243 Every mental institution had a Napoleon. The other residents and staff might have kiddingly gone along with it, but nobody bought them artillery and a stable of horses.

Posted by: Rockland Psychiatric Center at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (G5+As)

244 I bet you can't make a limerick about witches that doesn't use the word bitches!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 15, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

Best I can do-- not very funny.
There was a young bint who was rich,
But decided that she'd be a witch.
She cast a new spell;
Called a demon from hell
That threw all her wealth in a ditch.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2025 11:51 AM (GD2xa)

245 I'm pretty sure my ex-mother in law was a witch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Mine wasn't a witch. She was a BLABBERMOUTH!!

Posted by: Ralph Kramden, Gotham Bus Lines at August 15, 2025 11:38 AM (G5+As)

Mine was an angel. They exist. RIP.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:51 AM (i24o9)

246 There is a connection with women and fat men. Neither can see their sex without the use of a mirror.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 15, 2025 11:51 AM (W3T6M)

247 Now, there is another fad sweeping the Marsha demographic – identifying oneself as a witch. Predictably, Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch. And of course, she is producing Tik Tok videos that talk about casting spells, her coven, etc.

————

My opinion is that the Salem Witch Trials was the response to crazy women doing crazy shit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2025 11:52 AM (Vh9CX)

248 You should never see a psychiatrist long term. Because if you do, they aren't fixing anything.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 15, 2025 11:46 AM (p+RwZ)

I rarely sent plaintiffs to an independent psych exam to refute their claims because psychiatrists will always find something whether it's there or not,

Posted by: polynikes at August 15, 2025 11:52 AM (VofaG)

249 TRUMP CAN PROCEED WITH CFPB FIRINGS AS APPEALS COURT LIFTS HOLD

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 11:53 AM (5uRA0)

250 This reminds me of a meme I saw once.

"The chances of being killed by Shaq are low...

...but never zero."
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (UnA8+)

Yeah, sorta like the Twinkie risk. You're probably not going to catch some fatal disease by eating a Twinkie, but it's not impossible.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:53 AM (dGCAG)

251 I'm pretty darned sure the marketing person who came up with the Sydney Sweeney ad was a straight man.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)

Truth.

https://youtu.be/E8b4xYbEugo

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (i24o9)

252 "Those fads appeal to people like Marsha, a demographic that seeks victim status while also seeking inclusion in the latest trendy identity group"

Introduce her to Isam

Posted by: Easy The Elder at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (QU+QE)

253 Remember, "this is the coolest summer for the rest of our lives".

Ah, the summer before you start your senior year in HS. Old enough to drive, young enough that you might not have a job, girls might be interested in you. All downhill from there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

254 I'm pretty darned sure the marketing person who came up with the Sydney Sweeney ad was a straight man.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)

I'm still waiting for her Carl Jr. ad. Or whatever the hamburger chain is that does the hot girl ads.

Strike while the iron is hot and the liberals are freaking out.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (jvJvP)

255 Sounds like Marsha has spent too much time at the all-you-can-eat delusion buffet. There are now so many choices that you can pile your plate high.

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (I0N4X)

256 @249 Injun Liz is going to shit and have a real crappy weekend when she finds out her baby is being gutted

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 15, 2025 11:55 AM (xffwU)

257 We probably won't be around when medical science realizes that trans surgeries are akin to lobotomies to treat depression and schizophrenia. Too much money in trans

There is a lawsuit that may be going forward with a young woman who was mutilated in a quest to be a man. She overcame the objection of a three year statute of limitations.

More cases like that and medical professionals losing their licenses will escalate the downfall of these procedures.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 11:55 AM (+4yJ5)

258 Trying to completely understand a system from within that system is paradoxical in nature.
Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 11:35 AM (yh2Fr)
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Which is why complexity is added, if we try to comprehend our brains.

The materialist tries to leverage the idea of computers. Well, to what we know, computers are Turing-bound. If our brain is some sort of Turing-compatible mechanism, then it cannot be proven that it know any non-trivial thing about itself.

If the brain computes but is super-Turing, then we have theories about what is relatively computable from solving the Turing Halting Problem, but we do not know *how* something becomes super-Turing, provided all brains of all creatures are not all super-Turing.

So computability is a mathematical system to understand computation, which is kind of like thinking, but we don't know what thinking is.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:55 AM (krQz2)

259 > Ana Kasparian@AnaKasparian

This scrunt appears on a show named after a group of genocidal savages who murdered her ancestors.

It's like a Jew appearing on the Sieg Heil Nazi Hour.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 15, 2025 11:49 AM (qpyNK)

She's a witch!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (i24o9)

260 Now, there is another fad sweeping the Marsha demographic – identifying oneself as a witch. Predictably, Marsha is now proclaiming herself to be a witch. And of course, she is producing Tik Tok videos that talk about casting spells, her coven, etc.

————

My opinion is that the Salem Witch Trials was the response to crazy women doing crazy shit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2025 11:52 AM (Vh9CX)
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Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

261 An ex of mine claimed to have multiple personalities (and still does), but also admits to having made them up. But doesn't care because they like the idea of having DID.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (UnA8+)

It's an interesting topic. Everyone, strictly speaking, has several personalities, and you choose which one is appropriate. For example, you're not the same person at work as you are at a sports event, or your favorite bar. You're not the same person with your parents as you are with some friends, and so forth and so on. No big deal, as long as the central "You" is still in charge of everything.

My private theory in documented severe multiple personality cases is that the central ego has been so crushed by trauma that it runs away and hides, but the personalities live on and take over (as best they can) the necessities of trying to make it through everyday life.

Gollum and Smeagol are a great literary example of this kind of thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

262 Paganism has never gone away.

Posted by: Germanicus at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (NZV86)

263 I'm pretty darned sure the marketing person who came up with the Sydney Sweeney ad was a straight man.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)

I'm still waiting for her Carl Jr. ad. Or whatever the hamburger chain is that does the hot girl ads.

Strike while the iron is hot and the liberals are freaking out.
Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (jvJvP)

Egad, I hope she doesn't start doing hamburger commercials, because I'm trying to wean myself off of big greasy fast food sammiches.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (dGCAG)

264 My opinion is that the Salem Witch Trials was the response to crazy women doing crazy shit.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2025 11:52 AM (Vh9CX)

Yeah. Like wearing a scarf above your status.

Posted by: Reforger at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (pxUkb)

265 Better:

My neighbors say they are witches
The bigger one obviously pitches
One night we got drunk
And shared the same bunk
And now my junk constantly itches

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (rx/UX)

266 ICE showed up at Newsom's hate Trump rally and Big Mouf Bass is angry!

Sara Rose @saras76
Bass is having a meltdown ICE being outside Newsoms conference: "WHY would you do that??"
"There is no way this was a coincidence. They decided they were gonna come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's face"
Keep crying

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

267 I just thought of something, not sure why.

Does fake meat need refrigeration? I assume so, but why? Oxidation maybe, but they could fix that with suitable packaging.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (lf5tB)

268
Why put in all the effort toward hard work and accountability when you can chant a few words?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 11:22 AM (I4g9n)

It's a toss up whether either will get the desired results. Why burn the energy and resources just to get nothing in the end anyway.

Posted by: Connections and asskissing beat competence at August 15, 2025 11:58 AM (TbWk/)

269 Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

In fairness, there are some pretty annoying dudes out there, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:58 AM (i24o9)

270 Everyone, strictly speaking, has several personalities, and you choose which one is appropriate.

Why is it that the people online who have all these personalities don't have one who is an adult that goes to work and pays the bills?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (+4yJ5)

271 In fairness to Buffy and Angel, they ABSOLUTELY DID NOT claim that Vampires were misunderstood. They straight-up said that they were demons inhabiting the skin of the person that they were before they were turned, to the point where they were not in any way the same person. Angel was an exception in that he was cursed with the restoration of his soul, binding the demon underneath the tortured spirit of the man he'd been before having to live with everything the demon had done. When that stopped hurting him, the curse broke and the monster came back out until he got REcursed. Spike, who was MUCH happier being a soulless abomination, won back his soul by choice after he'd been "housetrained" by the government putting a chip in his head.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (9VDxG)

272 Why can't we have a social fad of people having jobs, earning their own income, and taking care of themselves...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (PzXaK)

273 Ever notice Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ are both JC?

Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (n4GiU)

274 More ... weight ..

Posted by: Giles Corey at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

275 Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

In fairness, there are some pretty annoying dudes out there, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:58 AM (i24o9)
________

True. There's certainly a few assholes out there I'd love to burn at the stake. Oh and btw, witches were hanged, not burned.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

276 In reality, there are usually less than 10 shark kills per year.

But there aren't zero. They do exist.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 11:47 AM (dGCAG)
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Every encounters dihydrogen oxide each day.

The chances from dying from dihydrogen oxide is not 0.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (krQz2)

277 What rhymes with cauldron?

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)

278 269 Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

In fairness, there are some pretty annoying dudes out there, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 11:58 AM (i24o9)

Interesting fact - over half of all the people executed for witchcraft in 1000 years of English History were executed during the 1640's, time of the English Civil Wars.

In other words, accusing someone of witchcraft has always been a great way to kill your enemies and take all their stuff, with the blessings of the Church.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK8)

279 All downhill from there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

You're not wrong. Between junior and senior year I got my first car. The brakes stopped working, I drove off a cliff, killing all my friends.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (dGCAG)

280 270 and 272: Horde sharing a mind again.

And I am reminded of my brother who is a Nurse. He wondered why the people who heard voices in their heads never heard one saying to give him money or paint his house.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (+4yJ5)

281 Little late to the show on this subject. Witches, empaths, “I’m spiritual” , crystals, dream catchers hanging in their car or home……all this shit is like catnip for loopy ass broads. Not new. Remember all that goofy ass new age shit back in the day? Being a single male you just gotta sort through them.

Posted by: JROD at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (IlL6s)

282 137 I don't understand the appeal of Clamata.
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 15, 2025 11:28 AM (s9EN2)

You have to have brain damage or be Canadian.

Posted by: Diseases of taste at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (TbWk/)

283 > Injun Liz is going to shit and have a real crappy weekend when she finds out her baby is being gutted
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It's almost as if every Senator has a "pet project" that's basically a source of funding for their lifestyle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

284 Per Joss Whedon, in Buffy the vampires were metaphors for all the troubles people have to face. It's part of why he was so fucking angry with Spike being popular since the studio told him he HAD to keep Spike instead of making him a limited character. At least that's what he told James Marsters.

I personally think he was making all of that metaphor shit up because he's not that deep of a thinker, but there you go.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (PzXaK)

285 273 Ever notice Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ are both JC?
Posted by: From about That Time at August 15, 2025 11:59 AM (n4GiU)

and there's that guy names Watts...

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

286 260 Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Proto-troons?

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (UnA8+)

287 No "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!" comments? It's like I don't know you people anymore.

Posted by: pookysgirl is not left-handed at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)

288 31 The entire month of October, Salem, Massachusetts will be bursting with ugly lesbians claiming to be witches. Drop a nuke on them. BTW, Salem was one of the last towns in USA to pretty much burn to a crisp, wholesale in a fire. Mrs' O'Leary's cow was nowhere around.
Posted by: Witchee Poo

But I used to adore it - especially when really hokey - minus the year Obama closed the National Parks over the budget dispute and there were no public bathrooms.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

289 Marsha basically has Munchausen's by Proxy with her daughter. The daughter "might" escape with body organs intact, but then will have to deal with the hexes.

If these wacko mothers were dealt with the Munchausen's diagnosis, and threats of losing their kids, they might find something else to do. Like grow a tomato and cross gender that with a bell pepper.

I agree it is a trend, along with facial piercings and body tattoos. Sometimes you escape trends, sometimes you don't. But these mothers forcing kids to be effed up early should be dealt with harshly. After Trump was elected last November, I read on local reddit (reddit makes me laugh) that the mothers were pulling kids out of school. I guess they thought they'd be kidnapped as I could not figure it out. I am pretty boring, but am not lurking around high schools to kidnap trans children.

She needs attention and she needs it now!
:cuts gluten farht:

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (6PCLE)

290 hat rhymes with cauldron?
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)

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No idea

Posted by: Buzz Aldrin at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (2UnvF)

291 Sara Rose @saras76
Bass is having a meltdown ICE being outside Newsoms conference: "WHY would you do that??"
"There is no way this was a coincidence. They decided they were gonna come and thumb their nose in front of the governor's face"
Keep crying

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

Way to crack that code, Joan Clarke.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (i24o9)

292
More cases like that and medical professionals losing their licenses will escalate the downfall of these procedures.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 11:55 AM (+4yJ5)

___________

Parents, doctors and "health-care professionals" are likely to be murdered as well by those whose lives were destroyed by mutilation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (kkTda)

293 The witch phase was hot when I was an older teen. Guess it is back full circle!

Posted by: Piper at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (OoFl2)

294 I personally think he was making all of that metaphor shit up because he's not that deep of a thinker, but there you go.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (PzXaK)

Bah - the original vampire stories were metaphors for repressed female sexuality in the Victorian Era. They were the naughty stories of the day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (uWKK8)

295 What rhymes with cauldron?
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)
++++
Squandron

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (z8vUP)

296 Gluten? Witches?

*cries*

Posted by: Dairy allergy at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (tubbA)

297 Everyone, strictly speaking, has several personalities, and you choose which one is appropriate.
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Morning me sometimes hates, with varying fury, last night me.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (krQz2)

298 What rhymes with cauldron?
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)
__________

"Penis?"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

299 277 What rhymes with cauldron?
Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)

Orange.

Posted by: the size of a tangerine at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (TbWk/)

300 Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 11:55 AM (krQz2

You're on my have a beer with list

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (yh2Fr)

301 What rhymes with cauldron?

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)
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All gone.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (krQz2)

302 Parents, doctors and "health-care professionals" are likely to be murdered as well by those whose lives were destroyed by mutilation.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And if that happens, I want to be on the jury. The killer will walk free after the coffers of the hospitals are emptied.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (+4yJ5)

303 The witch phase was hot when I was an older teen. Guess it is back full circle!
Posted by: Piper at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (OoFl2

400 years will do that

Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (yh2Fr)

304 Worst fad of the 1980s? Toxic Shock.

You young guys should be happy that you never endured the Natural Sea Sponge menstrual era.

Posted by: toby928 at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (jc0TO)

305 My private theory in documented severe multiple personality cases is that the central ego has been so crushed by trauma that it runs away and hides, but the personalities live on and take over (as best they can) the necessities of trying to make it through everyday life.

Gollum and Smeagol are a great literary example of this kind of thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK

Is your name Dr. Richard Schwartz?

If not, he might have a copyright claim to file against you.

No but seriously, you're describing a therapeutic model called Internal Family Systems. It's got solid research behind it, and takes an approach that is quite different from a number of other therapies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (dGCAG)

306 Twiggy became THE model in the mid-60's. According to Wiki she weighted 91 pounds at 5 foot 6 inches at the start of career. It seems that look reappears every few decades.
Posted by: Lirio100 at August 15, 2025 11:37 AM (ky7/T)

One might come to the conclusion that people in fashion are attracted to adolescent boys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

307 You're on my have a beer with list
Posted by: ... at August 15, 2025 12:03 PM (yh2Fr)
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Cheers!

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:04 PM (krQz2)

308 What rhymes with cauldron?

Pauldron
Buzz Aldrin.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (+4yJ5)

309 What rhymes with cauldron?

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)

People-Who-Follow-Every-Stupid-Fad-ron.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (PzXaK)

310

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (+4yJ5)

311 Hadron?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (5uRA0)

312 Back when I was in school, all we had to deal with was the creepy janitor who insisted he was a werewolf and creeped on all the teenage girls.

He eventually got fired and got a job at a convenience store.

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (UnA8+)

313 Every encounters dihydrogen oxide each day.

The chances from dying from dihydrogen oxide is not 0.
Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (krQz2)

BAN IT! BAN IT NOW OR WE'LL ALL DIE!!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (dGCAG)

314 I was looking into obtaining Swedish citizenship but the clerk was such a witch and told me she would have to turn me into a Knute.

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (I0N4X)

315 One might come to the conclusion that people in fashion are attracted to adolescent boys.

Thus the reason that women's clothes aren't designed with women in mind.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (+4yJ5)

316 Gluten Witches Ate My Puppy.

Posted by: The Dingo at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (4N1nl)

317
Twiggy became THE model in the mid-60's. According to Wiki she weighted 91 pounds at 5 foot 6 inches at the start of career.

_________

I thought she looked pretty good in The Blues Brothers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (kkTda)

318 Almost half the "witches" executed were men. The usual suspects have repackaged the story to make men seem worse and women seem like victims. But men were targeted too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

Proto-troons?
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (UnA8+)
_____

They were probably real men the powers-that-be wanted to get rid of. At least with the Salem Witch Trials, the causation was complicated, and the community was facing a lot of problems at the time. Indian attacks, smallpox outbreak, internal political and religious conflict. Perfect storm for getting rid of undesirables by calling them witches.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

319 miguel cervantes"

Posted by: I am I, Don Quixote... at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (tubbA)

320 What rhymes with cauldron?

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:00 PM (I0N4X)

Children.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (i24o9)

321 Pure mob mentality. The mob doesn't act rationally. The mob wants blood and pain.

I highly doubt the witch-burning events were like portrayed on TV, where there's a semblance of a prosecution and then an organized execution.

I bet what really happened is some mob whipped themselves into a frenzy, then grabbed some poor girl out of her bed in the middle of the night. Then dragged her out into the street and murdered her right then and there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

So.....a Democracy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (5xuJ/)

322 Parents, doctors and "health-care professionals" are likely to be murdered as well by those whose lives were destroyed by mutilation.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (kkTda)

I sincerely hope so. Yes I know that sounds terrible but I genuinely hope that Desmond is Amazing wakes up one night, goes into his mother's room, and stabs that demonic bitch to death.

Posted by: I would consider it justice at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (TbWk/)

323 What rhymes with cauldron?

Pauldron

Posted by: NR Pax at August 15, 2025 12:05 PM (+4yJ5)
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Yeah, that word came to my mind, too. Couldn't remember whether it was a real word or not.

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)

324 Is the Wicked Witch of the West gluten intolerant? Maybe she is transgender. She has a fondness for calling Dorothy "my pretty."

Posted by: Lex at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (l5xX+)

325 DailyMail is trying to create panic on the east coast about Hurricane Erin. Because of course. I assume every other media outlet is doing the same.

Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (aBgBM)

326 Staring at somebody with the Malocchio or being able to cast a spell would be handy in the areas less than friendly to concealed carry.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (gm9Sb)

327 “The 4am Club: Meet The Lunatic Women Who Believe We're In the "Wrong Timeline," Who Claim We Have to Get Back to the "Right Timeline" Where Kamala Harris Won the Election” [Ace – 7/21/2025]

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The Drunk In The High Castle?

Posted by: ShainS -- Donald the Lionhearted 2028! at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (CKXPc)

328 I bet what really happened is some mob whipped themselves into a frenzy, then grabbed some poor girl out of her bed in the middle of the night. Then dragged her out into the street and murdered her right then and there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

So.....a Democracy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (5xuJ/)

She turned me into a newt!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (uWKK8)

329 turn me into a Knute.

Rockne..

Posted by: man at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (tubbA)

330 265 Better:

My neighbors say they are witches
The bigger one obviously pitches
One night we got drunk
And shared the same bunk
And now my junk constantly itches
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 15, 2025 11:57 AM (rx/UX)

EPIC

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (GD2xa)

331 NOOD Melania

Posted by: ShainS -- Donald the Lionhearted 2028! at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (CKXPc)

332 Bah - the original vampire stories were metaphors for repressed female sexuality in the Victorian Era. They were the naughty stories of the day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2025 12:02 PM (uWKK

Yeah, that and the myths of "outsiders" coming into communities, causing people to shrivel up and die.

Sometimes those outsiders were people with non-Christian beliefs.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (dGCAG)

333 324 Is the Wicked Witch of the West gluten intolerant? Maybe she is transgender. She has a fondness for calling Dorothy "my pretty."
Posted by: Lex at August 15, 2025 12:07 PM (l5xX+)

The witch of the East was.

You can tell because he wore striped thigh-highs.

Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (UnA8+)

334 Cauldron?

--> Voltron

Posted by: Axeman at August 15, 2025 12:08 PM (krQz2)

335 Same joke in limerick form:

It's a matter of quite some dispute
And it's really not so easy to dispute
I met a Swedish witch
Who gave her nose a twitch
And darn it! Turned me into a Knute

Posted by: muldoon at August 15, 2025 12:10 PM (I0N4X)

336 I'm not surprised so many millennial women have embraced witchcraft.

They grew up on Harry Potter books & movies.

It's a short jump from wanting to be Hermione Granger as a child to finding Wicca and eventually believing you can be a real witch in adulthood.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 15, 2025 12:10 PM (6ydKt)

337 Trump's video game.

https://is.gd/40UW2i

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 15, 2025 12:11 PM (L/fGl)

338 283 > Injun Liz is going to shit and have a real crappy weekend when she finds out her baby is being gutted

Need to drug-test that crazy broad!

Posted by: Our President at August 15, 2025 12:11 PM (G5+As)

339 Being a single male you just gotta sort through them.
Posted by: JROD at August 15, 2025 12:01 PM (IlL6s)

Ahh. Like the good old days of the new age section of the local book store.

Posted by: Reforger at August 15, 2025 12:12 PM (pxUkb)

340 .
.
. . . Witchcraft requires abortion.
.

Posted by: Marooned at August 15, 2025 12:14 PM (kt8QE)

341 .
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P.S. Vis-a-vis Marsha's daughter, forget not to nourish the Tree of Liberty.
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Posted by: Marooned at August 15, 2025 12:18 PM (kt8QE)

342 We haven't even discovered there is a second letter on the cover of the book "how the universe works."

We might have an idea as to the first letter but are still debating whether there even is a letter.

That is how little we actually know.

Every sentence that has any variation of "scientists have proven" should have an asterisk that everyone understand adds "in this very limited, possibly artificial, and likely single occurrence."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2025 12:19 PM (I4g9n)

343 Back in the days of Hartman, Hooks, et al. when SNL was somewhat funny, there was a skit directly related to the thread topic:

"We find you guilty of the crime of... Bitchcraft!!"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 15, 2025 12:19 PM (/HDaX)

344 Veronica Lake / Elizabeth Montgomery witches have their positive sides.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 15, 2025 12:22 PM (wVcYX)

345 Eh, she was probably always a witch.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

346 86 81 Anyone remember the anorexia epidemic of the 80s? All these girls suddenly developed an eating disorder and then, poof, it was gone.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 15, 2025 11:17 AM
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Wasn't that in the 1990s?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 15, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

I remember seeing videos about it in school, so I believe it was the 90s. 80s feels more like Satanic Panic times, but there could easily be overlap.

Began in the 80's and really ramped up when Karen Carpenter died of it around 82 or 83.

Posted by: Mike B at August 15, 2025 12:38 PM (TuW4T)

347 The only good a Witch ever did was create SPELL check!!

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at August 15, 2025 12:59 PM (sfJwR)

348 WashingtonExaminer:

A man went to prison for assaulting me. DC Police crime stats show he was never arrested

Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the city’s crime statistics, you won’t find it. The truth of what happened to me and the D.C. government’s role in it is as much a public scandal as it is a personal trauma. D.C. police covered up the unspeakable wrong that the stranger did to me.

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:07 PM (RHGPo)

349 President Trump’s instincts are spot on: India is on the verge of becoming China 2.0.

Unfortunately, the tariffs will do little to stop this. Why?

Because India isn’t coming for our manufacturing. They’re coming for our technology sector—and they’ve been remarkably successful both at scooping up jobs, and flying under the radar.

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:09 PM (RHGPo)

350 Dow Jones Industrial Average Last Updated: Aug 15, 2025 at 11:44 a.m. EDT Currently: 44,954.83 Up 43.57 0.10% It opened at 45,203.52 (highest ever) early this morning before pulling back.

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:10 PM (RHGPo)

351 Roblox, the $27 billion online gaming platform pitched as a safe creative playground for kids, is now facing serious legal firepower from Louisiana’s top law enforcement officer. On Thursday, Attorney General Liz Murrill sued Roblox Corp. in state court, accusing the California-based company of enabling predators to target children and “facilitate the distribution of child sexual abuse material” on its platform.

The lawsuit alleges Roblox “knowingly and intentionally fails to implement basic safety controls to protect child users from predators” and fails to adequately warn parents about the dangers on its platform. It cites years of alleged failures, pointing to games that have appeared on Roblox such as Escape to Epstein Island, Diddy Party, and Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe, which the AG’s office says have included simulated sexual activity, including “child gang rape.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

352 New Gallup poll.

Republican Alcohol Consumption Plunges, While Democrats' Drinking Remains Steady Amid Ongoing Anxieties

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

353 Raskin: Trump has created a resistance to “monarchy and police domination” in DC.

“The freedom loving people of Washington are not going to put up with that."

LOL. They are resisting King Trump so hard that the mayor just skipped town to Martha’s Vineyard.

Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2025 01:17 PM (RHGPo)

354 Academic witchcraft is nothing new. In the late 60's we had a high school "Literature of Witchcraft and The Occult" literature concentration section, back in the day when the thinking was that if you could get the little darlings to read anything at all, sooner or later they'd catch on. Of course, it was "boring" because it was all literary witchcraft. Your little video games had not been invented yet.

In the early and mid-70's, there were witchcraft sections scattered through all the majors. I remember a paper from a good scholar in early American lit, who, at a time when the Salem trials were roundly mocked, found receipts that a coven actually practiced -- a generally accepted idea, two decades later.

We have never been without the shadow of feminist witchcraft in the modern era, say, since the period of the Inquisition. There's not a lot of use in acting like it just popped up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2025 01:50 PM (zdLoL)

355 The witchcraft/occult fad cycles in and out of fashion. It typically grows in popularity any time women are feeling disenfranchised or when Hollyweird decides to trot out some new trendy witch show—Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Outlander’s time travel theme/ powerful witch character, Disney’s Hocus Pocus, or Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches series. Twenty plus years ago my daughter walked into her middle school bathroom to find a group of girls sitting around a pink wig and chanting a witch’s spell for help on a test! Last year, I had an eye exam at my ophthalmologist and the vision tech had all kinds of wiccan tattoos and an evil eye necklace. I recognized one tat as Baphomet, the two-gendered goat-headed demon. I asked her if it was Baphomet and she was happy to share that she is a witch and why her faith is such a huge part of her life. She was surprised that I knew so much about occult practices. I explained that as an evangelical Christian, I found learning about other faith practices to be fascinating, and that it strengthened my own faith. Liberal women are once again turning to casting curses and sticking pins into voodoo dolls fashioned like Trump. Total silliness and hysteria.

Posted by: Annie Rose at August 15, 2025 03:30 PM (NzF2S)

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