The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/18/25

Good morning kids. First up, a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns off the coast. Prayers for all who may be in any area that could be impacted. Stay safe.

Elsewhere, with the Trump Putin Alaska Summit wrapping up without any major deal to end the fighting in Ukraine (as we had suspected), all that the propagandists could focus on was the threat to national security because a gift list and the menu were found in the hotel printer!

So now, the President is going to meet with corrupt comedian Shecky Zelensky. Look let's face it, the only way the war is going to end is by Ukraine officially ceding the territory lost to Putin. And thankfully President Trump seems to be standing firm on nixing the prospect of NATO membership for Ukraine. That, plus NATO's encroachment towards Russia ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, despite previous administrations guarantees that that would never happen were one of the factors, along with hundreds of years of historic Russo/Ukrainian confrontation and animosity as well as American and western interference via the color revolution engineered by Victoria Nuland and the Obama crew that overthrew a popularly and freely elected Putin friendly president.

I hope that President Trump does not agree to anything that might entangle us in a conflict that has absolutely zero impact on American national security. Yes, Putin invading Ukraine and the ensuing bloodshed was and is abhorrent. But, it's not our fight. If the soon to be Islamic Republic of E-U-istan wants to get their hair mussed with Putin, that's their affair.

Elsewhere in the world, and in a region that has much more importance to our security, some positive news for a change out of Latin America:

'Socialism defeated' — Bolivia boots its ruling leftists after 20 years in power — Hell has frozen over in Bolivia -- which is often a bellwether for the direction of South America's politics. . . The report notes that several conservative candidates didn't make the final cut for the runoff, Quiroga has been around for a long time, and Paz is a moderate. But something like this represents progress, given the long grip socialism has had on the battered Andean country, which is known for its valuable natural resources. And to read the article, Paz doesn't sound like a moderate -- he sounds pretty conservative, seeking to let markets determine prices. Meanwhile, the performance of the socialists in office over 20 long years was execrable . . . I'm just surprised the ruling socialists didn't rig the election enough to keep themselves in power. The article describes how Morales and other leftists have sought to spoil their ballots ahead of the coming runoff, but that's a rearguard action that won't work.

Well perhaps 40 years from now, we'll cheer socialism's final defeat in NYC as a geriatric Mamdani is wheeled out of Gracie Mansion. Unless he goes the way of Ceaucescu before that.

On another front, as the geschrei and handwringing over both the calling out of the National Guard to combat crime in Democrat controlled criminal breeding grounds also known as cities continues, we also have the predictable and disgusting threats against our President from the usual quarters. Not just on this issue but on every issue under the sun where President Trump's agenda and its wild successes have exposed the Democrats as the inept, incompetent and criminal tyrants that they are.

State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-TN) claimed that his party needed to pull out all the stops and fight back against Republicans — to whom he referred alternately as “fascists” and “neo-confederates” — and argued that it wouldn’t matter in the long run what they were willing to do as long as they won.
Pearson was ousted from his position in the Tennessee House when he helped lead his party’s efforts to “occupy” the State House in protest, and then was reinstated days later — after claiming that he’d been forced out by “racists.” During his appearance with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, he discussed the current state of American politics — particularly with regard to redistricting battles and Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) plan to “fight fire with fire.”

Does this tedious yammering eggplant not know he and his ilk are outgunned and outnumbered, figuratively and dare I say it, quite literally. Let's leave it at that.

Meanwhile, with corrupt hack-in-black judges along with crime and illegal aliens running wild in the streets, the implications of this story strike a chord, at least with me:

People have showered an alleged car thief in a California jail with donations after she beat up a fellow inmate who is charged, along with her husband, with torturing and killing her eight-year-old stepdaughter.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. But, when people feel that the justice system rewards/coddles criminals and is tilted against honest and decent people, I guess this kind of thing is to be expected.

Certainly where this kind of thing happens:

This Man Dodged Prison For Beating Two Pro-Lifers. Biden Jailed Pro-Lifers Over Peaceful Protests. Dozens of peaceful pro-life protesters were targeted during the Biden administration.

I think my point has been made.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

A State of Emergency has been issued by the Hyde County Board of Commissioners for Ocracoke Island, North Carolina due to the expected flooding that will come from Hurricane Erin and the impacts that it will have on Highway 12. The order is effective as of Sunday at 8:00 p.m. The board also ordered two mandatory evacuations. For visitors, they have to leave the area immediately, while residents need to begin evacuations Tuesday at 6:00 a.m. (RELATED: Hurricane Erin Expected To Restrengthen After Downgrading To Category 3)
Mandatory Evacuation Ordered In North Carolina Due To Hurricane Erin
The new release by Gabbard is a vindication for Trump, who stood alone in 2018, and strengthens his position ahead of the upcoming summit.
Bombshell DNI Emails Expose Fraud That Sabotaged 2018 Trump-Putin Summit
Based on the scientific method and the data collected, the Professor William Jacobson Theory of Current Academia is correct: It is broken beyond repair.
“Nature” Article Demands Replacing DEI in Science With Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge

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

Even more staggering . If you believed President Joe “Autopen” Biden, this should never have happened.
Let’s Pause To Marvel At Trump’s Incredible Border Victory
“Any sanctuary Jurisdiction that continues to put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens can either come to the table or see us in court,” she warned in a statement posted to social media. “Today, the Justice Department delivered demand letters to sanctuary cities, countries, and states—a key step in our strategic effort to eradicate sanctuary policies from California to New York.”
Trump DOJ Gives Sanctuary Jurisdictions One Week to Submit to Immigration Law. (Revoke city charters and statehoods if necessary! - jjs)
The pardon could vacate the killer’s deportation order, allowing him to remain in the U.S.
This Dem Governor Just Pardoned a Killer Migrant to Save Him From Deportation.
When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joe Edlow returned for another stint in the Trump administration, he expected to wrangle with a mess left by the Biden junta's border crisis.
EXCLUSIVE: Immigration Chief Reveals What He Found In Aftermath Of Biden Junta
. . . Harjinder Singh, a migrant from India who illegally entered the U.S. in 2018 across the U.S. border with Mexico.
Migrant Trucker Accused of Killing 3 on Florida Turnpike Identified
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Dozens of peaceful pro-life protesters were targeted during the Biden junta.
This Man Dodged Prison For Beating Two Pro-Lifers. Biden Jailed Pro-Lifers Over Peaceful Protests.
According to (Peer) Schweizer, Elias was able to swing the highly contested 2008 Minnesota senate race for Democrat Al Franken over Republican Norm Coleman by finding a specific court to legitimize over a thousand ballots that had previously been rejected because they had potentially been cast by convicted felons.
‘Breaking the Law’ Exclusive: President Trump Warns Rampant Judge-Shopping Is the Left’s ‘Final Weapon’ That Could ‘Take Down America’
This morally bankrupt scumbag needs to disappear. The flatus from his pie hole is smothering "our democracy" - jjs
David Brooks: Trump-Backed Redistricting Is Using ‘Mustard Gas on Our Democracy’
I have not yet gotten confirmation that the local port authority has approved this protest as the organization claims, but it also appears that this activist group intends to show up in boats regardless. If so, this protest could easily cause the next test launch, now scheduled for August 24, 2025, to be delayed endlessly.
A protest of boats now intends to violate the range and prevent the next Starship/Superheavy test launch (Meh, Throttle up the engines to full power and flambé the miscreants - jjs)
No, thanks! They don’t get to adopt positions like “defund the police,” throwing the country into a violent hell for nearly half a decade, and then have a say in how we pull ourselves out.
Democrats Don’t Get To Act Thoughtful About Solving The Crime Problem They Created
"You know, I think that we will be judged not by what we do, but by what we don’t do, to future generations."
‘There Is Nothing Off The Table’: Tennessee Dem Says Anything Goes In Fight Against ‘Fascist’ GOP (Meh, another yammering eggplant making terroristic threats - jjs)
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The administration targets a 12.5 percent reduction in the federal workforce, with most reductions coming from voluntary buyouts. (Call me when the figure gets past 75% - jjs)
Here’s How Many Federal Workers Trump Expects to Lay Off by Year’s End:
Trump honors FDR, vows to safeguard Social Security, yet actuaries warn the program may run out in just seven years.
Trump Vows Social Security Will Thrive for Another ‘90 Years’
Hurricanes only matter when Trump's in office.
Get Ready for Everyone in Puerto Rico to Die All Over Again
In its 2-1 decision, the panel’s majority revoked a temporary injunction issued in March by Obama-appointed District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. That edict attempted to stop the president from making significant layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and prevent Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought from “defunding the agency,” according to Newsweek.
D.C. Circuit Court Hands Trump Win In Bid To Downsize Federal Regulatory Agency

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”
James Comey Declares Himself a ‘Swiftie,’ Says Taylor Swift’s Music Helps Him Oppose Trump (Immolation is an even better strategy! - jjs)

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Prudence—not rash action—defines true conservatism, yet Trump’s recent tariff and rate-cut moves risk undoing his own hard-won victories.
Dear Prudence, Won’t You Come Out to Play?
‘Learn to code’ turned out to be one of the most misguided pieces of career advice, and college grads are bearing the brunt of it.
Americans Who ‘Learned To Code’ At Obama’s Behest Can’t Find Jobs Now
Government efforts to help workers and regions left behind by globalization have failed, but we have new opportunities—more effective than tariffs—to spur a manufacturing revival.
The Real Path to Industrial Renewal
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
IDF hits terror targets in Yemen, local sources claim Houthi leadership targeted.
Netanyahu: No End to War Without Hostages Freed, Hamas Defeated
Hamas wages war through terror and propaganda, while Israel is blamed for crimes it did not commit—facts ignored as the world embraces a false narrative.
Gaza Part One: The Situation
The U.S. government has a dismal track record at dealing with such propaganda. The campaign to expose false-flag operations and other lies in the leadup to Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine in February 2022 failed to deter Vladimir Putin, but it made clear to most observers who started the war and why.
What America Can Learn from the Hamas Propaganda War
The correct number of Islamic terrorism supporters to be admitted into the United States should be zero. (Islamic terrorism is a redundancy - jjs)
No One From Gaza Should Be Coming to the U.S., Period

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The agency's DEI-tinged programming is one of several reasons why the Trump administration may block a move to renew its mandate, sources familiar told the Free Beacon
UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Drawing Scrutiny From Trump Admin (Well clip my clit and call me Bro-Fo! - jjs)

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The fact that Democrats are once again forcing nuns to pay for abortions highlights the moral abyss and authoritarian intolerance of the modern Democrat party.
Degeneracy, Progressive Neo-Puritanism, And The Little Sisters of the Poor

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
A long overdue step toward confronting MB infiltration.
Trump Administration Considers Immigration Ban on Muslim Brotherhood and Other Islamic Groups
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“…the tolerability of racism is linked to how its acted out on brown bodies. The holocaust was not tolerable bc of white victims so it ended.”
‘New Yorker’ Under Fire Over Racist, Antisemitic Tweets From Woke Staff Writer (subhuman degenerate filth - jjs)
In a two-page order, the high court rejected a motion from NetChoice — an internet trade association — to “reinstate a lower court’s order protecting social media giants like Meta, X and YouTube from the new requirements,” according to a local Fox affiliate. The order did not list any dissents among the justices.
SCOTUS Greenlights Mississippi’s Social Media Age-Verification Law (For Now)
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Meanwhile, China has inspired other nations to make plans to reshore their rare earth mining and processing capacity.
DOE Unveils Nearly $1 Billion Fund to Boost Domestic Critical Minerals Supply Chain and Manufacturing
The latest shakedown scheme to make your life worse.
UN Plot to Ban Plastic Fails
Trump recinded waivers allowing California to impose harsh emissions standards.
Justice Department Sues California To End Electric Vehicle Mandate
The numbers do not look good.
Plant-Based Beyond Meat Denies It’s Filing For Bankruptcy Amid Falling Sales
Officials in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are facing lawsuits from Canadian citizen groups protesting the draconian forest use bans.
Canadians Are Pushing Back Against this Summer’s “Climate Lockdowns”
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym died because D.C.’s local leadership isn’t willing to enforce the law.
‘Nobody Deserves That’: Mom Of D.C. Crime Victim Says Nation’s Capital Needs Intervention
New York Times columnist and regular Donald Trump basher Maureen Dowd begrudgingly implied over the weekend that Trump is right on the politics and policy when it comes to crime in the nation’s capital.
Maureen Dowd Shocker: Trump Making the Right Moves on D.C. Crime
Why are these cities being singled out?
Trump is Discriminating Against Us, Say Mayors of Crime-Ridden Hellholes
"People feel safe again."
Folks In D.C. Already Feeling Safer, Praise Trump For Crime Crackdown
Republican states aren't high-crime states. Only Democrat cities are.
The Myth of High-Crime Red States
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York number four in the country for gun law stringency, yet three people were shot just before 1:30 a.m. shot Saturday, August 9, 2025, in gun-free Times Square.
Another Gun Control Fail: 11 Shot After People Open Fire Following Dispute in NYC
Howard M. Saal, 73, of Cincinnati, appeared in federal court in Cincinnati Tuesday to face the charges. On Wednesday, the State Medical Board of Ohio ordered the permanent surrender of his MD’s license, “effective immediately.”
Former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Doctor Charged With Possessing 153,000 Child Pornographic Images, Videos
The ordinance aims to encourage parental accountability and prevent youths from entering the juvenile justice system.
This Township Has a Plan to Hold Parents Responsible for Teen Crime.
Donors in Bakersfield, where details of the horrific child abuse case have been highly publicized, have maxed out the inmate account of Anita Doron at the Kern County jail after she pummeled 27-year-old stepmother Graciela Bustamante on August 8.
People Send Money to California Inmate Who Beat Up Alleged Child-Killer Stepmom
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
We all know that our universities are the very last place to go if you want a free and open discussion of ideas. Only approved progressive ideas are permitted, and don’t you forget it.
Why Are Academics -- and Others -- So Nasty?
ABORTION
The decision avoids controversy over selling abortion-related medications.
Costco Won’t Sell Mifepristone Abortion Pill.
SECOND AMENDMENT
As Normal Americans know, it’s difficult to convert Democrat true believers, particularly on the issue of guns.
A Black woman joins the Constitution
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
On (Monday (last week), Tea Party Patriots Action will roll out its inaugural Only Citizens Vote Bus Tour, a trek covering more than a dozen states.
Election Integrity Activists Hit The Road To Save The SAVE Act
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“He is trying to silence and indeed eliminate political opposition.”
Greasy Greaseball Newsom Redistricting Corruptly Eliminates Leading Critic
California Democrats released a new gerrymandered House map on Friday night that, if implemented, would carve up deep red areas of the state that have been under Republican representation for decades.
Newsom Vows To Pack California’s Conservative Outposts With Dem Voters, New Map Shows
Bastard is trying to find and DOX the agents. Bastard - jjs)
Angry Gavin Newsom Files FOIA Request on Border Patrol Raid Outside His Rally to Eliminate Republican Seats
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Attorney Ed Martin was spotted inspecting Democrat New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James’ home in Brooklyn on Friday.
DOJ Special Attorney Visits Leticia James’ Brooklyn Home At Center Of Federal Mortgage Fraud Investigation
This marks the first time a sitting New Orleans mayor faces criminal prosecution.
A Top Democrat Mayor Has Been Indicted for Corruption.
POLITICS
One of President Donald Trump’s biggest political strengths is his unpredictability. More
Three Big Moves in Washington and Not a Single Leak
“Tom Tiffany is in a solid position and is the clear front-runner in the Republican Primary for Wisconsin Governor,” the polling memo states. “An endorsement from President Trump and educating voters about Tiffany and his record would propel his lead even further, with either option essentially sealing the deal for the primary nomination.”
EXCLUSIVE: Clear GOP Frontrunner Emerges For Wide Open Governor Race, Polling Shows
Joseph Hernandez decided to enter the race in June as an Independent because of how much he despised the socialist platform that Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is running on. (RELATED: LARRY PROVOST: NYC Mayoral Election Echoes 1965 And 1969 Races)
Meet The Cuban-Born Biotech Entrepreneur Looking To Be The Anti-Mamdani In NYC Mayoral Race
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Trump called for Ukraine to drop its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a demand long held by Russia, and also said there would be “no getting back” Crimea – signaling to the nation to accept Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of the region during the Obama administration.
Trump says Zelensky can end war with Russia ‘almost immediately’ by doing these two things, ahead of White House meeting
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin yielded no ceasefire, but it revealed the contours of a possible peace—where diplomacy, exhaustion, and hard limits define the battlefield’s end.
Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace”
“Washington threw down a gauntlet to Moscow. . . Kennan was no voice in the wilderness. . . Cheney’s antagonism to Russia long predated Putin. . . The experience of Soviet Communism inevitably intensified their anti-Muscovite sentiments. . .Public opinion in Ukraine was overwhelmingly against NATO membership. . . This worldview denied Russia any legitimate claim to sovereignty. . . It had gotten America embroiled in a struggle of peripheral interest to it.”
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
“Now the president has traveled, you know, all the way to Alaska, all the way back, has dedicated months and months of work, him, our entire team on this matter, because we want to see an end to the war. But if tomorrow the war continues, life in America will not be fundamentally altered. So I think that what we have to understand is that this has been a priority for this president because he wants to promote peace. He wants to promote the end of a war. And I think we should be happy that we have a president that’s trying to promote peace and bring a war to an end.”
Marco Rubio: Ukraine-Russia Conflict Is ‘Not Our War’
Both sides must make concessions, the secretary of state said.
Rubio Reveals The ‘Only Way’ To Achieve Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal
Roger Kimball: Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin didn’t end the war, but it may have opened the door—from ceasefire talk to the possibility of peace in Ukraine.
Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Shifts Talk From Ceasefire to Peace
I’m not promising that he will end the war. I’m just saying that his particular personality and skill sets give him deal-making weapons unlike anyone else today.
Why Trump Is The Man Who Can End The Ukraine War
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the leaders’ visit is part of a coordinated effort, not a response to any pressure on Zelenskyy.
European Leaders To Join Zelenskyy At White House
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
What the left cannot understand is that Trump negotiates with and from strength, not weakness, and that makes all the difference.
Why Trump’s Alaska Summit Was a Masterstroke of Leadership And Why the Left Can’t Handle It
Populism and nationalism are again on the march.
Trump’s Peace Train Rolls into Anchorage
Clarice Feldman: Reality wins in the end, and Trump’s view, unlike Zelensky’s or Britain’s or Germany’s or France’s, is one that accords with it.
East to Alaska
Bolivians take their country back.
'Socialism defeated' -- Bolivia boots its ruling leftists after 20 years in power
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, has formally urged President Trump to recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state, citing its pro-Israel stance, democratic stability, and strategic importance in countering Chinese influence in the Horn of Africa.
Ted Cruz Urges Trump to Recognize Somaliland, Citing Emerging Israeli Ties and Its Role as a Key U.S. Ally
A lot of shouting and wailing but no relief for consumers in sight.
In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party's Kabuki Over Rice
The deployment aims to assist Haiti in reclaiming gang-controlled areas, but concerns remain over potential legal and sovereignty issues.
Blackwater Boss Sending Hundreds of Men to Combat Haitian Gangs.
Trump’s next diplomatic test: will he recognize East Turkistan’s fight for freedom and confront China’s brutal repression of the Uyghurs?
Freedom for East Turkistan: Challenging China’s Global Grip
The island nation makes itself (and the rest of the West) dangerously vulnerable by refusing to use nuclear energy.
How Its ‘No Nukes’ Policy Weakens Taiwan
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Miranda Devine: Marijuana is a disaster. It’s infinitely worse than alcohol on every metric, especially mental health. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible that marijuana triggers psychosis in susceptible people.
Trump knows the dangers of addiction — he must reject Big Weed’s push to reclassify marijuana
It’s time for policymakers, media, and the public to stop giving these institutions a free pass simply because they wear the “nonprofit” label.
New York’s skyrocketing health care costs are driven by 'non-profit' hospitals
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
. . . this spacecraft is one of the few projects built by Boeing in recent years that has done exactly what it was intended to do. If only Boeing’s other projects, such as Starliner, would run as smoothly.
Space Force preps for the next X-37B mission
In 2023 the Zhuque-2 rocket was the first to reach orbit using methane fuel, during the rocket’s second launch attempt. Overall it has launched six times, with two failures, on its first launch and Thursday.
Upper stage of Chinese rocket fails during launch

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The Education Department said these policies possibly violate Title IX and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Trump Admin Investigating Kansas Schools Due to Transgender Policies (What's wrong with Kansas, for real - jjs)
Their podcast is a microcosm of the attitudes held by the white, college-educated women who dominate the Democrat party.
The ‘I’ve Had It’ Women Show Why Democrats Have Lost America
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Americans would be better served if the Trump administration’s review forced the institution to have a fair and truthful depiction of their country, science, culture, history, and art.
Smithsonian’s American History Museum Is Wall-To-Wall Anti-American Propaganda
America First conservatism has transcended the geographic barriers of years past and has instead bridged the division America has dealt with for so long.
How Trump and MAGA are reclaiming America’s cultural heart in city and country
Christian Toto: Mouse House's 'creative differences' point to studio's latest woke rejection
Disney Ditches Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick Docuseries
Is he finally on the verge of being uncanceled?
A New Day for Tommy Robinson?
A kinder, gentler child sacrifice.
Defending Savagery in the Name of Multiculturalism
Lloyd Billingsley: NBA broadcaster Grant Napear was fired for saying it.
All Lives Matter, Every Single One

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Comments

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1 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

3 Good morning, one and all. Happy Monday.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 07:04 AM (OPGS/)

4 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

5 Almost due East you should see Mercury Venus Juipter the Moon and maybe a very faint Uranus.
Mar should be in the line up tomorrow.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

6 Trump is Discriminating Against Us, Say Mayors of Crime-Ridden Hellholes

If the end result is these various cities being cleaned up and safer, then I say more discrimination is necessary.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 07:06 AM (OPGS/)

7 Mornin' folks.

Hope the Ukrainians keep fighting Putin. And we stay out of it. Conceding to Putin now just means Putin sets his eyes on another former Soviet republic.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 18, 2025 07:06 AM (SawFp)

8 Thank you Senor Sefton!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:07 AM (aaiRr)

9 "Former FBI Director James Comey declared himself a Taylor Swift fan, a.k.a. “Swiftie,” in a video posted to social media on Sunday, saying the pop star’s music gives him the strength to oppose President Donald Trump."

This person is not unfamiliar with the flavor of a phallus.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

10 Conceding to Putin now just means Putin sets his eyes on another former Soviet republic.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 18, 2025 07:06 AM (SawFp)

I strongly doubt it. The Red Army and people are exhausted. No way Putin rolls into Belarus or wherever you think next.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2025 07:09 AM (x0n13)

11 Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC. The indictment was designed to create political chaos. Mueller knew that the 12 Russians were located in Russia and would never stand trial

I have always thought these were either Fake Names or names pulled from Moscow Phone Book.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:11 AM (gbOdA)

12
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 18, 2025 07:12 AM (tljrc)

13 I'm rootin' for Putin!

Not really but it just sounds catchy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:12 AM (5swlB)

14
Looking at the NWS Hurricane site, it looks like Erin won't make landfall on the East Coast at all. But the wind and current effects may hit NC.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)

15 I strongly doubt it. The Red Army and people are exhausted. No way Putin rolls into Belarus or wherever you think next.

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They really don't have a say in the matter.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 18, 2025 07:13 AM (SawFp)

16 Indigenous scientists are chronically underfunded internationally: they often receive fewer academic fellowships and research grants than their white colleagues do4. For example, in the United States, between 1996 and 2019, white principal investigators were consistently funded by the National Science Foundation at higher rates than were principal investigators of colour.

Sure we all know the Earth rest on the back of the great turtle, we are only arguing over what the turtle eats.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

17 Our pups in Charlotte NC said no expected problems there from Erin.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:14 AM (5swlB)

18 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 07:14 AM (Q4IgG)

19 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 07:15 AM (ExV1e)

20 “Any sanctuary Jurisdiction that continues to put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens can either come to the table or see us in court.” – Pam Bondi

And there are no people put behind illegals more than blacks and working poor whites.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:17 AM (gbOdA)

21 First up, a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns off the coast. Prayers for all who may be in any area that could be impacted. Stay safe.

There isn't a single model that puts Erin within a hundred miles of the eastern sea-coast.

Grossly over-reacting, injecting panic and hysteria into a crowd isn't improving things because a politician is afraid of being accused of being reckless in not giving advanced notice to a natural weather event.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

22 Sefton's in the Epstein files.

Posted by: tevildo at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (YfLtF)

23
When the NWS says about a tropical disturbance, "Formation chance through 7 days, 30%" this means "100%".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (kkTda)

24 A Mexican environmental group, Comité Global A.C., said it plans to protest the launch by sending boats into the Gulf of Mexico near Starbase. If they enter designated safety areas during the planned launch period, they could delay the mission.
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I'm betting American lefties are behind this plan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (DmY+C)

25 Looking at the NWS Hurricane site, it looks like Erin won't make landfall on the East Coast at all. But the wind and current effects may hit NC.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)

the mate on the charter boat yesterday said they're expecting 40-50 foot waves at the breakers near hatteras. He's pretty stoked about the surfing.

it's going to be interesting...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:21 AM (v6XNT)

26 Watch this (dot) Indian illegal immigrant kill 3 people without batting an eye

California gave him a CDL

https://tinyurl.com/ycxus3yb

goes to X

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:21 AM (AOsQT)

27 “We had about 450,000 cases that were pending on the asylum active docket,” Edlow said of the end of Trump’s first term. “When I got back, there were over 1.5 million cases.”

“Does anything surprise on me what they were doing? Yeah, what surprised me is they weren’t doing much,”

This is a great case for AI and DOGE. They should be able to scan these looking for key words or phrases. Also look for if then else rules.
Example: Did you present to legal point of entry? IF no...

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

28 Brennan and Radditz yesterday were like two middle-schoolers. "Putin came off as the cool kid, Trump looked lame..." The level of diplomatic understanding and critique was juvenile and laced with malice. Brennan's henpecking hand gestures and forward posture of outrage over kidnapped Ukrainian children -- "The kids! Reeee!" This after Biden either lost or handed over 300,000 immigrant children at the border to sex traffickers and she never said a word.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2025 07:22 AM (UseAb)

29 Oh, goody. Another weirdo troll at post 22.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2025 07:23 AM (2GCMq)

30 Good morning. Thanks for the news, JJ!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:23 AM (wVcYX)

31 >A protest of boats now intends to violate the range and prevent the next Starship/Superheavy test launch (Meh, Throttle up the engines to full power and flambé the miscreants - jjs)
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Screw it- launch
if things go explodey and people get hit on the head with wreckage, well, you were warned

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:24 AM (AOsQT)

32 >Posted by: tevildo at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (YfLtF)

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rhymes with 'dildo'

way to go, champ

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:25 AM (AOsQT)

33 24 A Mexican environmental group, Comité Global A.C., said it plans to protest the launch by sending boats into the Gulf of Mexico near Starbase. If they enter designated safety areas during the planned launch period, they could delay the mission.
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I'm betting American lefties are behind this plan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (DmY+C)

Navy should announce we are live round fire training and appreciate the targets.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:26 AM (gbOdA)

34 Don Black

Think of it as Evolution in action.

Spaceship does not have the best of records. Still no trip to orbit.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

35 Don Black

Would society be better without warning signs and lack of personal injury lawyers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

36 It seems that Zelensky is determined that the war/grift continue

this guy needs to have an accident
lean too far out a window or something

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:27 AM (AOsQT)

37 Don Black

Z man is going to be bitch-slapped.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

38 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 07:28 AM (ppG5b)

39 Sorry, wouldn't know
just having fun commenting

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:28 AM (AOsQT)

40 BehindTheBlack says the X37B launch in two weeks will be lit:

The eighth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, designated USSF-36, with a wide range of test and experimentation objectives. These will include demonstrations of high-bandwidth inter-satellite laser communications technologies and enhanced space navigation using the highest performing quantum inertial sensor in space.
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Not knowing what qualifies as a "quantum" inertial sensor, I asked an AI and got the following (which might interest no one at all, but you never know...)

A quantum inertial sensor is a device that uses principles of quantum mechanics, such as atomic interferometry, to measure acceleration, velocity, and rotation with high precision. These sensors can provide accurate navigation and positioning without relying on external references like GPS, making them valuable for applications in aerospace and defense.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:29 AM (kLP3+)

41 rhennigantx

Coast Guard needs live fire exercises more.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

42 Zelensky is the Ukrainian equivalent of Hamas. No negotiation possible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2025 07:29 AM (UseAb)

43 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)

44 Shecky Zelensky!? I fucked him and his mom!

Posted by: Zombie Shecky Greene at August 18, 2025 07:31 AM (Z3Vfa)

45 26 Watch this (dot) Indian illegal immigrant kill 3 people without batting an eye

That is one of those cases where mob violence is clearly required. And I hope that California has to pay out to the family.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 07:31 AM (OPGS/)

46 Ordinary American

I've noticed Russian drone and missile attacks are focused on the front lines.

2,000 drones attacking Ukraine per night for a week might be a counter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

47 “But I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don’t want us to become like Trump and his followers,” he said. “There are far more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are mean jerks. And don’t get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions of them.”

Dude does not have a mirror.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

48 42 Zelensky is the Ukrainian equivalent of Hamas. No negotiation possible.

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Not even close. Hamas has no right to any territory or nation-state status. It is a terrorist organization trying to eradicate Jews and the state of Israel.

Zelensky and the Ukrainians would be hunky-dory right now had Putin not invaded Ukraine.

Hope Zelensky continues to bring the fight to evil Putin and his lackeys, even after the "peace treaty" that will give Russia what it wants and no one will hold Putin accountable for the atrocities he has committed.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 18, 2025 07:33 AM (SawFp)

49 Trump Vows Social Security Will Thrive for Another ‘90 Years’

Social Security needs to end. People should be trying to determine a mechanism to end it which causes the least harm to everyone. Sadly, politics will keep it going until everything falls apart and then it'll be a catastrophe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

50 Watch this (dot) Indian illegal immigrant kill 3 people without batting an eye

California gave him a CDL

https://tinyurl.com/ycxus3yb

goes to X
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:21 AM (AOsQT)
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Amazing video.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:33 AM (aCAFt)

51 EXCLUSIVE: Immigration Chief Reveals What He Found In Aftermath Of Biden Junta
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Bad link. Psaki-circles right back here.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 18, 2025 07:33 AM (s0JqF)

52 ... after claiming that he’d been forced out by “racists.”

If that is an apology for violating ethics rules (and basic rules of civility) then Justin Pearson isn't a representative, he is a barbarian savage.

There is no reasoning, no compromise, no interest whatsoever in the proper function of a constitutional republic and human flourishing, just a Will To Power.

Given a hate-filled, emotional dumpster fire sociopath who has already declared that he has no morals or ethics and is driven purely by a quest for power, allowing him any sort of political power is the path of destruction.

I give you Justin Pearson.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

53 Watch this (dot) Indian illegal immigrant kill 3 people without batting an eye

That is one of those cases where mob violence is clearly required. And I hope that California has to pay out to the family.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 07:31 AM

newsome is blaming Trump as the illegal came into the country in 2018 when Trump was president. Problem with that is the fact that newsome and all of the other democrats had Trump's border policy tied up in the courts until the end of 2018 and Trump was unable to close the border because of those lawsuits and injunctions against him.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 18, 2025 07:35 AM (0N4FZ)

54 In its 2-1 decision, the panel’s majority revoked a temporary injunction issued in March by Obama-appointed District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

Just a little delay. Only five months. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson should be required to reimburse the taxpayers for all the money wasted by her partisan bullshit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

55 First up, a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns off the coast. Prayers for all who may be in any area that could be impacted. Stay safe.

There isn't a single model that puts Erin within a hundred miles of the eastern sea-coast.

Grossly over-reacting, injecting panic and hysteria into a crowd isn't improving things because a politician is afraid of being accused of being reckless in not giving advanced notice to a natural weather event.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

Over-reacting? I think not. Ocracoke Island sits way out in the Atlantic, has a mean elevation of 3 feet, and is connected to Hatteras Island then to Cedar Island by ferries. No bridges. Population is under 800 people.

Blackbeard died there.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:35 AM (wVcYX)

56 >Amazing video.

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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guy did a U-turn across the median of a freeway
in a tractor-trailer rig
I guess that's how they do it in Mumbai

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:36 AM (AOsQT)

57 2 plus years fighting between Ukraine and Russia. putin is a psycho and zelensky is a grifting asshole, that said something needs to be done to stop the bloodshed not felt by these two. There is no easy solution to peace and peace needs to be reached or thousands more will die. If it means that putin take the Donbas area so be it. Neither country can afford more war, not in dollars but in lives lost.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 18, 2025 07:37 AM (2NHgQ)

58 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)
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Between this and the federal investigation of ActBlue (and the end of USAID), Demofascists will have a very rough time. Thank heavens.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:37 AM (aCAFt)

59 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)

I see one small problem with that post:

I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS.

Trump looks behind himself and sees an empty podium.

Guys? Guys? Where did you go?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 07:37 AM (0eaVi)

60 I strongly doubt it. The Red Army and people are exhausted. No way Putin rolls into Belarus or wherever you think next.

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They really don't have a say in the matter.
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 18, 2025 07:13 AM (SawFp)

Did you read the Michael Reynolds article in Compact linked above? He lays out the history in an evenhanded and dispassionate way. Ukraine is unique and Putin is most definitely not looking for the next Soviet satellite to overrun. Read the entire article

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 07:37 AM (zViR+)

61 >Grossly over-reacting, injecting panic and hysteria into a crowd isn't improving things

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no no
it's an abundance of caution
got us thru Covid, right?

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:38 AM (AOsQT)

62 The correct number of Islamic terrorism supporters to be admitted into the United States should be zero.

It should be a negative number.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

63 First up, a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in North Carolina as Hurricane Erin churns off the coast. Prayers for all who may be in any area that could be impacted. Stay safe.

There isn't a single model that puts Erin within a hundred miles of the eastern sea-coast.

Grossly over-reacting, injecting panic and hysteria into a crowd isn't improving things because a politician is afraid of being accused of being reckless in not giving advanced notice to a natural weather event.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

Over-reacting? I think not. Ocracoke Island sits way out in the Atlantic, has a mean elevation of 3 feet, and is connected to Hatteras Island then to Cedar Island by ferries. No bridges. Population is under 800 people.

Blackbeard died there.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:35 AM (wVcYX)

see my comment at 25 - they're expecting 40-50 foot waves at the breakers for hatteras & oakacroak. there's a pretty good chance that significant overwash will occur.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:39 AM (v6XNT)

64 rhennigantx

Right. We have Superfund sites to clean up, with a spoon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

65 Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:36 AM (AOsQT)
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That's the incredible part. Tragic beyond belief, and its astounding how (as you said) he didn't bat an eye.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:39 AM (aCAFt)

66 Social Security needs to end. People should be trying to determine a mechanism to end it which causes the least harm to everyone. Sadly, politics will keep it going until everything falls apart and then it'll be a catastrophe.

The younger generations despise Social Security because it has been so utterly corrupted from its original purpose into yet another entitlement program. I get it.

But these same people are voting for socialism, others paying off tens of thousands of their personal debts, paying for their healthcare, daycare, subsidizing their housing so they can skip the "starter home" and go straight to what Mom and Dad have; they begged to be robbed over Climate Change, will fight until tazed to keep tens of millions of illegal aliens, and were willing to kill the elderly in the name of Covid.

Its hard to show any sympathy for their argument when it is basically a quest to steal more now than what they claim the genuine beneficiaries of SS would like to receive from their lifelong confiscated wages.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

67 see my comment at 25 - they're expecting 40-50 foot waves at the breakers for hatteras & oakacroak. there's a pretty good chance that significant overwash will occur.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:39 AM (v6XNT)

It'll be waves like the ending of Point Break.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:41 AM (wVcYX)

68 Hairy?

Posted by: Col Kilgore at August 18, 2025 07:43 AM (i0F8b)

69 The job market in my field is flooded with government workers who were cut loose or took the buyout. Most of my department was laid off in March and I'm the only one who has found work.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 07:43 AM (Skc+N)

70 I can understand the abundance of caution over hurricane Erin in N.C. I think it's really more about appearances than anything else after the shit ton of bad press the state (and federal) governments got for their previous lack of response.

And hurricanes have proven to be "unpredictable" so it's possible, if not likely, that elevated tides and high winds could cause some issues.

All it takes is one or two publicized deaths....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

71 Have a great day, everyone.

May you surf the big one into Duck, NC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

72 Over-reacting? I think not. Ocracoke Island sits way out in the Atlantic, has a mean elevation of 3 feet, and is connected to Hatteras Island then to Cedar Island by ferries. No bridges. Population is under 800 people.

Thought Experiment:

If you were an insurance actuarial would you recommend insuring property on Ocracoke Island?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)

73 James Comey Declares Himself a ‘Swiftie,’ Says Taylor Swift’s Music Helps Him Oppose Trump

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Before I finish the links, I was forced to stop after reading that. This has to be the gheyest thing I have ever, ever read coming from a man his age, let alone a former FBI Director!! How old is this man? If he were my father and actually said that, I would spontaneously combust from unbridled embarrassment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2025 07:44 AM (qBdHI)

74 God bless Donald Trump the most magnificent!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 18, 2025 07:45 AM (4e6oC)

75 59 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)

You'd think voting reform -- paper ballots and elimination of mail-in voting -- would be highest priority right now of Republicans in congress.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2025 07:46 AM (UseAb)

76 What made Gabbard persona non grata in the primaries? She seemed almost sane compared to some, she might have been a contender, at least as a VP. But they three her under the bus.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 07:46 AM (xkBEX)

77 >>Over-reacting? I think not. Ocracoke Island sits way out in the Atlantic, has a mean elevation of 3 feet, and is connected to Hatteras Island then to Cedar Island by ferries. No bridges. Population is under 800 people.

Water is a much bigger threat in hurricanes than wind.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 07:46 AM (viF8m)

78 hold me back

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)

79 But these same people are voting for socialism, others paying off tens of thousands of their personal debts, paying for their healthcare, daycare, subsidizing their housing so they can skip the "starter home" and go straight to what Mom and Dad have

__________________________

They have been conditioned by the education bureau to believe someone like Zohran Hochihminhdami that socialism is free shit paid for by other people. They have no concept of economics as the management of scarcity because they don't believe scarcity exists. They think everything is plentiful it's just being hoarded by "billionaires.'

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (Skc+N)

80 Have a great day, everyone.

May you surf the big one into Duck, NC.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 18, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

Ride the Wild Surf!
https://youtu.be/mxbjJbncMwE

movie clip and song

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (wVcYX)

81 This marks the first time a sitting New Orleans mayor faces criminal prosecution.

That is shocking. I would have assumed it a common occurrence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)

82 Ukraine: It is ALL our doing as we have been fucking with Russia since 1991 by moving NATO eastward after saying we wouldn't.

Our fucking government and their paymasters raped Russia in the 90's(purchasing their national assets for pennies on the dollar) and trying to do the same in Ukraine.

Putin told us not to move Ukraine into NATO and we prompted him by teasing it.

Putin is not a good guy, but I trust him right now more than our bureaucrats and their paymasters.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (klw0w)

83 and just like that, it's gone
huh

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (AOsQT)

84 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 07:47 AM (Skc+N)

"Hochihminhdami" Great moniker!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)

85 These sensors can provide accurate navigation and positioning without relying on external references like GPS, making them valuable for applications in aerospace and defense.

Garmin could put them into their sports-watches to aid swimmers.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

86 76 What made Gabbard persona non grata in the primaries?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 07:46 AM (xkBEX)

Her moderation, capability and character. A mortal threat to democrats.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2025 07:49 AM (UseAb)

87 " geschrei " is such a lovely word

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 07:49 AM (ppG5b)

88 >>Ukraine: It is ALL our doing as we have been fucking with Russia since 1991 by moving NATO eastward after saying we wouldn't.

I wouldn't say all but we certainly bare a very large part of the blame. It often gets overlooked, largely because our media refuses to cover it, but prior to the war the Ukrainian government was carrying out an ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russian men, women and children in eastern Ukraine. Thousands were murdered. Putin was none to happy about that.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (viF8m)

89 If he were my father and actually said that, I would spontaneously combust from unbridled embarrassment.

"Why do you want to change your name?"
"My father admitted on camera that he's a Taylor Swift fan-"
"Sign here and we'll get a new birth certificate and Social Security card mailed out."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (OPGS/)

90 > This marks the first time a sitting New Orleans mayor faces criminal prosecution.

That is shocking. I would have assumed it a common occurrence.
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The criminal activity is common.

The criminal prosecution that isn't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

91 Narrative theme of interviews of Rubio yesterday was making the war and any failure to stop it Trump's sole responsibility and problem.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (UseAb)

92 I am disgusted that 153,000 images of kiddo pr0n even exist.

Send the asteroid.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (Skc+N)

93 Blackbeard didn't just die

Teach's corpse was thrown into the inlet and his head was suspended from the bowsprit of Maynard's sloop so that the reward could be collected.[93] On their return to Virginia, Teach's head was placed on a pole at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay as a warning to other pirates and a greeting to other ships, and it stood there for several years

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:53 AM (AOsQT)

94 Before unpacking how and why only 97 of the 5,558 adult arrests that contained at least one charge for carrying a firearm without a license ended up in prison.

According to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, firearms are used in approximately 77% of all homicides in Washington, D.C.

That 1.7% conviction rate.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

95 Putin is not a good guy, but I trust him right now more than our bureaucrats and their paymasters.

They also say that Trump is worse than Hitler. That is, consider the source of why we are supposed to believe that Putin is some horrible Soviet psychopath.

Its Propaganda 101 to demonize your opponent who you hope to treacherously dispatch. If you are manipulated into believing that an actor's opponent is more evil than the actor, then you will excuse the actor's evil behavior because many people are wired to have relative morality.

One could argue, in terms of Deidrick Bonhoeffer, that Putin is a better man than most Americans because he is willing to do whatever it takes to protect his country.

We sit around on our asses doing nothing but bitch and moan to each other, accomplishing nothing, while Putin is getting shit done repelling in the globalists vanity war of destroying Russia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:53 AM (a4flb)

96 Hope the Ukrainians keep fighting Putin.

Resist to the last non-oligarch Ukrainian! The spice must flow. Resume shelling the people of the Donbas!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

97 “We just can’t help but feel in some kind of way that we’re being specifically profiled,” said Van R. Johnson, president of the African American Mayors Association and mayor of Savannah, Georgia.

Why is everybody always picking on me?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

98 > This marks the first time a sitting New Orleans mayor faces criminal prosecution.

That is shocking. I would have assumed it a common occurrence.
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The criminal activity is common.

The criminal prosecution that isn't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

"Sitting" is the operative filter word. Ray Nagin was convicted in 2014, after leaving the Mayor's office in 2010, of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering while in office. He got 10 years.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:56 AM (wVcYX)

99 "Hochihminhdami" Great moniker!

Praise from Caesar. Thank you.

But I mean, the guy has claimed to be everything else why not Asian?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 07:56 AM (Skc+N)

100 Being president of the African American Mayors Association and mayor of Savannah, Georgia fits a specific profile.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

101 @MAstronomers
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12h
BREAKING🚨: Scientists discover ultra-massive 'blob' in space with a mass of 36,000,000,000 suns

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:58 AM (AOsQT)

102 that u-turn video is insane.

wtf?

I see at least one cop; why is that illegal driver not face down on the ground in cuffs?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 07:58 AM (ppG5b)

103 Ukraine: It is ALL our doing as we have been fucking with Russia since 1991 by moving NATO eastward after saying we wouldn't.

The former US government has been ruled from a warring consortium of elites from London, Brussels, Tel Aviv and Beijing.

We are simply the idiot muscle that provides endless blood and treasure in tribute to the vanity and wealth of these worthless elites.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 07:58 AM (a4flb)

104 Good luck to those who might be affected by Hurricane Erin. I had N. Carolina suggested to me as a place to relocate; my response was, "Hurricanes and humidity? I have those now. Pass."

Having said that, I need to add it's probably a beautiful state and a good place to live outside summer and hurricane season.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 18, 2025 07:59 AM (omVj0)

105 @MAstronomers
·
12h
BREAKING🚨: Scientists discover ultra-massive 'blob' in space with a mass of 36,000,000,000 suns
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 07:58 AM (AOsQT)

Not this again!

Posted by: Zombie Steve McQueen at August 18, 2025 07:59 AM (wVcYX)

106 see my comment at 25 - they're expecting 40-50 foot waves at the breakers for hatteras & oakacroak. there's a pretty good chance that significant overwash will occur.
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:39 AM (v6XNT)

It'll be waves like the ending of Point Break.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 07:41 AM (wVcYX)

exactly, and he's STOKED to surf them tuesday and wednesday. and i'm wondering if it won't have the same ending. which would be a shame, he seemed a decent sort. but yeah, he's pretty sure a lot of reorganizing of the obx is coming courtesy of erin...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:59 AM (v6XNT)

107 that u-turn video is insane.

wtf?

I see at least one cop; why is that illegal driver not face down on the ground in cuffs?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 07:58 AM (ppG5b)

and bloodied, with multiple taser leads giving him a pincushion look?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 08:01 AM (wVcYX)

108 Zelensky and the Ukrainians would be hunky-dory right now had Putin not invaded Ukraine.

It's all Russia's fault! Nuke Moscow! Zelensky for Pope!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

109 David Brooks: Trump-Backed Redistricting Is Using ‘Mustard Gas on Our Democracy’

As always, "our democracy" is code for "permanent Democrat Party rule".

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2025 08:01 AM (5hs8R)

110 I see at least one cop; why is that illegal driver not face down on the ground in cuffs?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Because he knows he's on camera and would probably not be able to restrain himself from engaging in well-earned police brutality.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 08:03 AM (OPGS/)

111 Re: Comey and Swiftiness.
The pathetic imbecile Justin Castreau exchanged friendship bracelets with teenage girls at a Swift concert.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 18, 2025 08:03 AM (kTd/k)

112 he's pretty sure a lot of reorganizing of the obx is coming courtesy of erin...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:59 AM (v6XNT)

Hello!

Posted by: Oregon Inlet at August 18, 2025 08:03 AM (wVcYX)

113 J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation told a House committee last month. He added that the foundation has discovered nearly a quarter of New York’s statewide voter roll was missing Social Security numbers.

It takes about 30 seconds of coding to prevent the operator from SAVING a new record that is incomplete (eg last 4 SS#).

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

114 Did you read the Michael Reynolds article in Compact linked above? He lays out the history in an evenhanded and dispassionate way. Ukraine is unique and Putin is most definitely not looking for the next Soviet satellite to overrun. Read the entire article
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 07:37 AM (zViR+)

The people still railing about how Putin is personally, and solely, at fault are never going to change their perspective. I've given up trying to educate them and just mock at this point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

115 he's pretty sure a lot of reorganizing of the obx is coming courtesy of erin...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 07:59 AM (v6XNT)

Hello!
Posted by: Oregon Inlet at August 18, 2025 08:03 AM (wVcYX)

maybe this time you'll make a cleaner path under your bridge instead of meandering like hillary after another bender...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:05 AM (v6XNT)

116 David Brooks: Trump-Backed Redistricting Is Using ‘Mustard Gas on Our Democracy’

As always, "our democracy" is code for "permanent Democrat Party rule".
Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2025 08:01 AM (5hs8R)

No one with pretensions of being a conservative should use the term our democracy.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 18, 2025 08:05 AM (kTd/k)

117
David Brooks is the tame house conservative at the NYT. Every payday is at the suffrage of the lunatic staff there, so he knows what noises to make to keep them at bay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:06 AM (kkTda)

118 David Brooks: Trump-Backed Redistricting Is Using ‘Mustard Gas on Our Democracy’

Remember when the Left lost their minds because Sarah Palin's election conquest map marked certain critical districts with the cartoonish cross-hairs?

Mustard Gas? Those who fail to learn from history will compare everything to Hitler.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

119 113 - like just about every other program in existence.

weird, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:06 AM (ppG5b)

120 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 18, 2025 08:07 AM (XQo4F)

121 guy did a U-turn across the median of a freeway
in a tractor-trailer rig
I guess that's how they do it in Mumbai

There have been many lives lost because of illegals who can't read signs and don't know the rules. Whoever is hiring them needs to go to prison.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2025 08:08 AM (5hs8R)

122 110, yeah, you're right, I was just being rhetorical.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 18, 2025 08:09 AM (ppG5b)

123 Today is National Fajita Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

124 I was just being rhetorical.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

It was a legitimate question though. I was thinking something similar when I first saw the video.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 08:10 AM (OPGS/)

125 >There have been many lives lost because of illegals who can't read signs and don't know the rules. Whoever is hiring them needs to go to prison.

Posted by: Ian S
----

some cultures put a high premium on safety and skill

some cultures don't

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

126 maybe this time you'll make a cleaner path under your bridge instead of meandering like hillary after another bender...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:05 AM (v6XNT)

Lord, I was born a ramblin' inlet
Makin' a living and doin' the best I can

I was born in the backseat of a hurricane
rollin' down the Outer Banks in 1846

(I move southwards at about 66 feet per year)

Posted by: Oregon Inlet at August 18, 2025 08:11 AM (wVcYX)

127 75 59 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)

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Overruled!

--Judge Humuhumunukunukuapua`a

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 18, 2025 08:11 AM (uxAXv)

128 There have been many lives lost because of illegals who can't read signs and don't know the rules. Whoever is hiring them needs to go to prison.

Whoever is hiring illegals needs to go to prison whether lives are lost or not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

129 It takes about 30 seconds of coding to prevent the operator from SAVING a new record that is incomplete (eg last 4 SS#).

Its not the actual coding that is the problem, its the numerous meetings to agree on the use-case, then for the PO to submit the proper User Stories with an Acceptance Criteria to be posted on the board to be picked up the developer only after the architect has fully research the impact, integration and fully documented a Gherkin for the developer to work from.

Then the developer after making the simple change must create a battery of automated unit tests, integration tests and then submit a Pull Request which must be reviewed by at least one senior developer/architect, then demonstrated for PO acceptance, promoted to a QA environment for testing and certification before being moved to UAT, integrated with customer applications before being promoted to production.

Probably 5-10 story points during a sprint.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 08:12 AM (a4flb)

130
some cultures put a high premium on safety and skill

some cultures don't
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:11 AM (AOsQT)

_________

Video compilations of heavy equipment used in Third World countries provide hours of entertainment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:13 AM (kkTda)

131 >>some cultures put a high premium on safety and skill

>>some cultures don't

Some parts of some cultures put a high premium on safety and skill. Some parts of some cultures don't.

>ENFORCING ENGLISH PROFICIENCY FOR SAFETY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to keep American families safe on the road by ensuring anyone behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle is properly qualified and proficient in English.

https://tinyurl.com/3dh37s43

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:14 AM (viF8m)

132 maybe this time you'll make a cleaner path under your bridge instead of meandering like hillary after another bender...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:05 AM (v6XNT)

Lord, I was born a ramblin' inlet
Makin' a living and doin' the best I can

I was born in the backseat of a hurricane
rollin' down the Outer Banks in 1846

(I move southwards at about 66 feet per year)
Posted by: Oregon Inlet at August 18, 2025 08:11 AM (wVcYX)

golf clap... very well done lol

and yeah, this is the point when mother nature reminds humans that we con't control the planet and it's going to do what it wants, to include warming or cooling, and reorganizing the coasts....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:14 AM (v6XNT)

133 Today is National Fajita Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)
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Beef or chicken?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2025 08:15 AM (7fElN)

134 damn I was just thinking about that Punjabi truck driver

imagine him getting thru that crazy u-turn, then trying to merge into traffic going the other way at freeway speed

whoever issued that guy a CDL should be horse-whipped, and flayed alive

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:15 AM (AOsQT)

135 No one with pretensions of being a conservative should use the term our democracy.

--

It's a big tell, imo. Just exactly what makes David Brooks a "conservative" on any level? Even at the token level he apparently is at the NYT. He's nothing of the sort.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2025 08:16 AM (qBdHI)

136 Beef or chicken?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2025 08:15 AM (7fElN)
******
Beef, chicken and shrimp.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

137 Today is National Fajita Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)
---
Beef or chicken?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2025 08:15 AM (7fElN)

fresh blackfin tuna....

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:17 AM (v6XNT)

138 131 Enforcing English Proficiency for Safety. This will keep at least half of Congress from fulfilling their dream of being a Knight of the Highway, roaring down I40 in a Freightliner, talking on the CB, and taking little white pills.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (gm9Sb)

139
Beef or chicken?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2025 08:15 AM (7fElN)

__________

Anything but beef in a fajita is a Threat to Our Democracy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (kkTda)

140 >It's a big tell, imo. Just exactly what makes David Brooks a "conservative" on any level?
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black wingtip dress shoes by Florsheim

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (AOsQT)

141 Today is National Fajita Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

Awesome food. Too bad what once was a cheap byproduct cut of cow (skirt steak) has been elevated to premium prices. I look at restaurant fajitas with wistful longing and remembrance back to a time in the 1980s.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (wVcYX)

142 Just exactly what makes David Brooks a "conservative" on any level?

He's tame and speaks the correct words. That's all that is needed.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (OPGS/)

143 Took a few minutes to noodle a response to this.

The younger generations despise Social Security because it has been so utterly corrupted from its original purpose into yet another entitlement program. I get it.

I'm 61. I despise Social Security so it's not just the chirrens.

But these same people are voting for socialism, others paying off tens of thousands of their personal debts, ... and were willing to kill the elderly in the name of Covid.*

It wasn't the yoots killing off granny during covid. As for the socialism aspect, that seems to be, primarily, big city wymmins.

Its hard to show any sympathy ... lifelong confiscated wages.*

I suspect that any system to get rid of SS would require the yoots to pay their entire lives for a benefits they'd never see a penny of so my sympathy comes a bit easier.

*Ellipses used due to Pixy limit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

144 The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”

O_o

There's cringe, and then there's this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 08:20 AM (dPfyF)

145 [Awesome food. Too bad what once was a cheap byproduct cut of cow (skirt steak) has been elevated to premium prices. I look at restaurant fajitas with wistful longing and remembrance back to a time in the 1980s.

The price difference between skirt-steak and filet mignon is now at the point I use the latter when preparing fajitas at home. It truly makes a far more enjoyable experience.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

146 Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

Former FBI Director and 'Swiftie' James Comey releases a 5-minute video talking about how Taylor Swift inspires him and how she helps him deal with Trump.

"At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, CT, 14 years ago, she sang a song about this topic, asking..."

"Why you gotta be so mean?" Comey said while quoting Swift's 2010 song 'Mean' as he discussed how mean people on X are.

It's truly mind-blowing that this man served as the FBI director.

https://tinyurl.com/5edemmdn

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

147 No One From Gaza Should Be Coming to the U.S., Period

--

You just know some Trump-resistor(s) in the State Dept have been quietly letting them in under the radar. Now that it's been exposed that whole families have come for medical care (aren't there literally dozens of other, closer countries they could've gone to for medical care?), will they get their care and be sent back?

If Biden or Harris were president, half of Gaza would already be here. They'd make sure of it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)

148 imagine being the token conservative at the NYTimes

Brooks must know he's being kept as a sort of human pet

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

149 It's a big tell, imo. Just exactly what makes David Brooks a "conservative" on any level? Even at the token level he apparently is at the NYT. He's nothing of the sort.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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A long time ago, Brooks worked for the National Review. So he slid into William Safire's NYT post (who was actually a conservative of sorts) when he died. Same as the tired and tedious claims of the Weakley Standard crew and David French that something they did decades ago warrants them being the conscience of the conservatives playing to liberals (and taking leftist money to do so).

National Review has went down that road as well as to become unreadable. Basically these individuals and organizations figured they would rather get paid to pecksniff than to be truly of the right.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (ctrM5)

150 Notably, the left never really dwells on the likely 1.5 million dead, wounded, missing, and captured from three and a half years of war. It is a humanitarian nightmare, a modern Stalingrad that makes Gaza look like child’s play.

Not only that but the Progs would take another million or so dead white Europeans over a ODT win.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

151 The incident evokes the old saying by criminologists that there is some honor among thieves and that jails and prisons are dangerous places for perpetrators of crimes against children, the threat coming from fellow inmates.

__________________

Prison justice is the only real justice child abusers receive since our justice system is completely dysfunctional.

The purpose of a system is what it does. What our justice system does, mainly, is protect the left from consequences.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (Skc+N)

152 131 Enforcing English Proficiency for Safety. This will keep at least half of Congress from fulfilling their dream of being a Knight of the Highway, roaring down I40 in a Freightliner, talking on the CB, and taking little white pills.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (gm9Sb)

playing Red Sovine songs, asking for 40 acres to turn their rig around, spending six days on the road but gonna be home tonight . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (wVcYX)

153 A major millstone in our country's history occurred on this date in 1920 when women were given the right to vote.

Posted by: Hear Me Roar at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (G5+As)

154 guy did a U-turn across the median of a freeway
in a tractor-trailer rig
I guess that's how they do it in Mumbai

There have been many lives lost because of illegals who can't read signs and don't know the rules. Whoever is hiring them needs to go to prison.
Posted by: Ian

Whomever is giving them cdl's should go to prison.

Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (p+RwZ)

155 "Why you gotta be so mean?" Comey said while quoting Swift's 2010 song 'Mean' as he discussed how mean people on X are.

Why is Comey a 12-year-old girl?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (2aYv8)

156 James Comey is a very weird and mentally unstable individual… and he ran the FBI. Disturbing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (c99AZ)

157 Scientists discover ultra-massive 'blob' in space with a mass of 36,000,000,000 suns
———

I’m rooting for V’ger.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (+K1xO)

158 140 >It's a big tell, imo. Just exactly what makes David Brooks a "conservative" on any level?
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black wingtip dress shoes by Florsheim
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:18 AM (AOsQT)

spats and french davidian cuffs

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

159 Trump Administration Considers Immigration Ban on Muslim Brotherhood and Other Islamic Groups
===

shocking that they are not banned in the US

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (g47mK)

160 Scientists discover ultra-massive 'blob' in space with a mass of 36,000,000,000 suns
———

I’m rooting for V’ger.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (+K1xO)

It's a black hole. I don't know why they called it a blob. Click-bait, I guess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

161 playing Red Sovine songs, asking for 40 acres to turn their rig around, spending six days on the road but gonna be home tonight . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (wVcYX)

negotiating with lot lizards and cooking meth

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

162 Then the developer after making the simple change must create a battery of automated unit tests, integration tests and then submit a Pull Request which must be reviewed by at least one senior developer/architect, then demonstrated for PO acceptance, promoted to a QA environment for testing and certification before being moved to UAT, integrated with customer applications before being promoted to production.
Probably 5-10 story points during a sprint.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Or, make the code change, promote it into the Production environment, and test it there.

The 70's, 80's and 90's were the Wild West most of the time.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (cYBz/)

163 Another NYT "conservative" Bret Stephens editorialized for repealing the second amendment

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (Skc+N)

164 A Mexican environmental group, Comité Global A.C., said it plans to protest the launch by sending boats into the Gulf of Mexico near Starbase. If they enter designated safety areas during the planned launch period, they could delay the mission.
============
I'm betting American lefties are behind this plan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 07:18 AM (DmY+C)

Be a damned shame if something caused the vehicle to experience an issue during the time it's right overhead. A damned shame.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (5xuJ/)

165 144 The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”

O_o

There's cringe, and then there's this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
========
Nah, Comey is just coming to terms with becoming trans as he tries to hide behind his feminine feelz for the awful things he did. Sort of like a person putting on glasses before a fight and proclaiming that you would not hit a person wearing glasses.

I also think this is trying to play to AWFLs in the Dem party to try to protect him from being so a so brave slay queen of Orange Man bad.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ctrM5)

166 It's a black hole. I don't know why they called it a blob. Click-bait, I guess.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That's "Hole of Color" these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (cYBz/)

167 Why is Comey a 12-year-old girl?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (2aYv

156 James Comey is a very weird and mentally unstable individual… and he ran the FBI. Disturbing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (c99AZ)

hahaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

168 guy did a U-turn across the median of a freeway
in a tractor-trailer rig
I guess that's how they do it in Mumbai

There have been many lives lost because of illegals who can't read signs and don't know the rules. Whoever is hiring them needs to go to prison.
Posted by: Ian

Whomever is giving them cdl's should go to prison.

Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 08:22 AM (p+RwZ)

Giving? Hell no! We sell them for a tidy sum!

Posted by: You Know Who at the DMV Licensing at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (wVcYX)

169 “Our Democracy” is anything but, a consortium of bureaucratic organizations, unelected, unaccountable and utterly indifferent to representing the expression of citizen voters. It’s really quite a piece of work, I can imagine their consternation, even mere discussion of this arrangement causes a lot of anguish. They run everything and will not give up any power whatsoever. “Donald Trump and his kind must never be allowed to rise again” sort of gives the game away.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (IejsB)

170 151 and prisons are dangerous places for perpetrators of crimes against children, the threat coming from fellow inmates.

That's because many of them were abused as children. Knew a teacher that used to work in a prison. He said the lifespan for a pedo in general population was one week if he was lucky.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (OPGS/)

171 Trump Administration Considers Immigration Ban on Muslim Brotherhood and Other Islamic Groups
===

shocking that they are not banned in the US

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (g47mK)

They're just religious groups, the First Amendment permits no government intrusion on the free expression of religion except by Christians. Ban overruled. -- Federal Judges.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

172 I'm 61. I despise Social Security so it's not just the chirrens.

We are the same age, and as I continue to work because I love what I do, SS is not a concern. I have been maxing out the annual contributions since my early 20's and hate that I couldn't invest my own money. What I despise is Medicare being forced on me a few years from now.

BUT, my mother was able to live off of SS until she needed assisted living. Then Medicare saved her tens of thousands.

I'm resigned to the understanding that my purpose here on earth is to underwrite the expenses of countless others.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

173 We have the 10-millionth example of FNM lying and propagandizing… everywhere in the headlines today the “super team” of European leaders are “rushing” to Washington “alarmed” at Trump’s “caving” to Putin in Alaska to rescue Z and the world from Trump and Putin. It’s nauseating even though I’ve seen the same play run over and over

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (c99AZ)

174 playing Red Sovine songs, asking for 40 acres to turn their rig around, spending six days on the road but gonna be home tonight . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

"Mama Hated Diesels" by Commander Cody is the all-time best trucking song. Have your hankies and sponges ready, as it's a tear-jerker...

Posted by: Diamond Reo at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (G5+As)

175 165 Nah, Comey is just coming to terms with becoming trans as he tries to hide behind his feminine feelz for the awful things he did. Sort of like a person putting on glasses before a fight and proclaiming that you would not hit a person wearing glasses.

I also think this is trying to play to AWFLs in the Dem party to try to protect him from being so a so brave slay queen of Orange Man bad.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ctrM5)

The Left has been trying to push Taylor Swift as "THE Anti-Trump" for at least 3 years now.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

176 Well perhaps 40 years from now, we'll cheer socialism's final defeat in NYC as a geriatric Mamdani is wheeled out of Gracie Mansion. Unless he goes the way of Ceaucescu before that.

--------

Nah. Osama bin Lenin will fuck up NYC even worse than Kaiser Wilhelm did. NY Dems will then nominate some American with the sense to lie to voters about the agenda. He will roll back precisely none of bin Lenin's depredations, and pile on a few more of his own.

Rinse and repeat, ad nauseam, ad infinitum. It's a lost city. I think they're done with any kind of back and forth there. They're enthusiastically electing an America hating Muslim Communist. Those people aren't going to come to their senses and elect some new Giuliani.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 08:27 AM (BI5O2)

177 163 Another NYT "conservative" Bret Stephens editorialized for repealing the second amendment
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
====
Bret Stephens is an example of the rootless globo homo crowd that worships trans national corporations, has shallow roots in any culture other than that of his fellow rootless types, and views borders as imaginary.

I think Stephens, for a time was at the WSJ which is a perfect indication of where the Murdochs actually come down as far as their ideology. Globo Homo to the core.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ctrM5)

178 Or, make the code change, promote it into the Production environment, and test it there.

The 70's, 80's and 90's were the Wild West most of the time.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (cYBz/)

In my job there are a number of changes I have to make which can only be tested in production. When I retire in - checks calendar - 116 days, I don't doubt that they'll decide to send my position to India. Should be interesting for those who remain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

179 Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend everything is fine here (in DC). Because it’s not.
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Even if Maureen Dowd is an ass, we should not turn down what little support AWFL's like her can provide.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 08:28 AM (vyuWd)

180 Its hard to show any sympathy ... lifelong confiscated wages.*

I suspect that any system to get rid of SS would require the yoots to pay their entire lives for a benefits they'd never see a penny of so my sympathy comes a bit easier.

*Ellipses used due to Pixy limit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

I think a buyout for the wealthier retirees could help.
Both Bush and Romney wanted a plan to let young people buy into a new system more market based. Both were destroyed for that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

181 I'm resigned to the understanding that my purpose here on earth is to underwrite the expenses of countless others.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Thank you so much for that, and sure, I'll have some more bacon and premium coffee!

Posted by: Larry the Leech at August 18, 2025 08:29 AM (G5+As)

182 I told my wife about the phrase "our democracy" being Democrat speak for "permanent Democrat rule."

I got three eye blinks and a nod, that, yes.... that's exactly what they mean when they say it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

183 When I go to one of the local casinos, I'll often just go to the small slot parlor at the travel center (bad hip and knee days, park at the door). The parking lot looks like the UN mixed with the Breaking Bad hoods. Lots of Sikhs, lots of something resembling Spanish.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2025 08:31 AM (gm9Sb)

184 Sorry, a bit OT. I was semi-willowed in Pixy's thread and will be away most of the day, but:

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Anyone have a recommendation available for a good UPS?

Nominal 1500 VA capacity?

I've been a fan of APC since they first started but since they've been acquired by Schneider, I've heard rumblings that their products and support have taken a serious dive.

Posted by: pawn at August 18, 2025 08:31 AM (9heow)

185 We have the 10-millionth example of FNM lying and propagandizing… everywhere in the headlines today the “super team” of European leaders are “rushing” to Washington “alarmed” at Trump’s “caving” to Putin in Alaska to rescue Z and the world from Trump and Putin. It’s nauseating even though I’ve seen the same play run over and over

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As Rush Limbaugh always said, never wait for the "media" to ever come over to our side, or at the very least, be unbiased. If all this was happening under Biden, he'd be "historic" in his efforts to bring world peace. An unparalleled statesman; a good, honest and decent man who single-handedly is fixing the problems of the world. The accolades, tongue baths, prizes and awards would be astounding.

Alas, the media is thoroughly corrupted and biased.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2025 08:31 AM (qBdHI)

186 "Mama Hated Diesels" by Commander Cody is the all-time best trucking song. Have your hankies and sponges ready, as it's a tear-jerker...
Posted by: Diamond Reo at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (G5+As)

i would have thought that was "convy" be C.W. McCall...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:32 AM (v6XNT)

187 We are the same age, and as I continue to work because I love what I do, SS is not a concern. I have been maxing out the annual contributions since my early 20's and hate that I couldn't invest my own money. What I despise is Medicare being forced on me a few years from now.

I have no concerns about SS for me. I hate the fact that my children are being taken for the ride.

As for Medicare... my wife "gets" to sign up next year so I have been learning about the system. Ugh. It really seems to exist to waste the maximum amount of time/money for the minimum "benefit" of the covered.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

188 I'm resigned to the understanding that my purpose here on earth is to underwrite the expenses of countless others.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

If you want to pick who you are underwriting, I am available to accept donations! 😁

Good morning, friends!

Posted by: Piper at August 18, 2025 08:33 AM (2N3ca)

189 The Left has been trying to push Taylor Swift as "THE Anti-Trump" for at least 3 years now.
Posted by: XTC
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Yes as well as a role model for young women. And the hype is gearing up all over again with the tedious Vegas showgirl phase.

Funny thing was a low key Phil from Wings of Pegasus channel (YT) demonstrating that the masses going to her last concert gigs were getting a combination of lip syncing and pre recorded backing tracks with a few live vocals using pitch correction feeds to the amps spliced in the middle. Not just one concert but multiple.

The funny part is that fans of Swift are the ones that wanted Phil to shut down rumors and wanted him to prove Tay Tay wasn't doing the dirty with her 'sound'.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:33 AM (ctrM5)

190 Media is, and always has been, an extortion protection racket. It is what it is.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:34 AM (W3T6M)

191 We have the 10-millionth example of FNM lying and propagandizing… everywhere in the headlines today the “super team” of European leaders are “rushing” to Washington “alarmed” at Trump’s “caving” to Putin in Alaska to rescue Z and the world from Trump and Putin. It’s nauseating even though I’ve seen the same play run over and over
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (c99AZ)

It could all be ended by telling the Europeans "Okay, the US will leave NATO and we'll embargo your countries as we've done to Russia. Feel free to do what you gotta do but we're not coming to save you a third time."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

192 The price difference between skirt-steak and filet mignon is now at the point I use the latter when preparing fajitas at home. It truly makes a far more enjoyable experience.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

It's criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 08:34 AM (p+RwZ)

193 189 The Left has been trying to push Taylor Swift as "THE Anti-Trump" for at least 3 years now.
Posted by: XTC

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Will she even bother to make an endorsement in the TN gubernatorial race to finally take our her arch nemesis Marsha Blackburn?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 18, 2025 08:34 AM (GBKbO)

194 "Why you gotta be so mean?" Comey said while quoting Swift's 2010 song 'Mean' as he discussed how mean people on X are.

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Like I always say, it sure does suck being lorded over by corrupt, unaccountable spies. But the real galling part is the low caliber of the people lording over us. I mean, look at John Brennan, FFS.

It reminds me of the scene at the end of The Lives of Others where Dreyman disgustedly says to Comrade Hempf "to think... People like you once ruled a country."

Hempf was a serious statesman compared to his American counterparts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (BI5O2)

195 The Left has been trying to push Taylor Swift as "THE Anti-Trump" for at least 3 years now.
Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

I heard that but I shook it off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

196 173 We have the 10-millionth example of FNM lying and propagandizing… everywhere in the headlines today the “super team” of European leaders are “rushing” to Washington “alarmed” at Trump’s “caving” to Putin in Alaska to rescue Z and the world from Trump and Putin. It’s nauseating even though I’ve seen the same play run over and over
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 18, 2025 08:26 AM (c99AZ)

So the neighbor that lives right next door to the dude that keeps beating his wife are now coming to support her at the divorce court.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

197 Anyone have a recommendation available for a good UPS?

Nominal 1500 VA capacity?

I've been a fan of APC since they first started but since they've been acquired by Schneider, I've heard rumblings that their products and support have taken a serious dive.
Posted by: pawn
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Everything made in China sucks over time but Cyberpower is competitive with some models offering actual sine wave power conditioning as well as UPS.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (ctrM5)

198 I told my wife about the phrase "our democracy" being Democrat speak for "permanent Democrat rule."

I got three eye blinks and a nod, that, yes.... that's exactly what they mean when they say it.
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It’s simple word association. They yammer “democracy democracy democracy” as if it’s a given that it’s our system of government, while they are called “Democrats.” Then the idiots associate the two words and assume that’s the political party behind the foundation of the US. A type of NLP.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (+K1xO)

199 I'm resigned to the understanding that my purpose here on earth is to underwrite the expenses of countless others.
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I don't even feel like I have a purpose. So at least you have that

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (Skc+N)

200 Will she even bother to make an endorsement in the TN gubernatorial race to finally take our her arch nemesis Marsha Blackburn?

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Is Blackburn running for TN governor??

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (qBdHI)

201 192 It could all be ended by telling the Europeans "Okay, the US will leave NATO and we'll embargo your countries as we've done to Russia. Feel free to do what you gotta do but we're not coming to save you a third time."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

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"I am trying to end this war. We're not bankrolling it anymore. How, pray tell, do you plan on winning back all of the lost territory without us giving you billions of dollars in arms? Sure, you can buy it. We're happy to sell it to you to kill each other, but your strained social safety nets are not going to like it. Not. One. Bit."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 18, 2025 08:36 AM (GBKbO)

202 >I heard that but I shook it off.

Posted by: I used to have a different
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I know that feeling all too well

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 08:37 AM (AOsQT)

203
Another NYT "conservative" Bret Stephens editorialized for repealing the second amendment
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (Skc+N)

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Two thirds each of the House and Senate, then ratification by three quarters of the states. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (kkTda)

204 Is Blackburn running for TN governor??
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Yes.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (ctrM5)

205 Bye-bye mail-in ballots and Dominion machines!

https://tinyurl.com/r4hny969

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 07:30 AM (5swlB)
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HACK! HACK! HACK!

This is pathetic:

https://tinyurl.com/47fr8nnh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (5swlB)

206 203 Two thirds each of the House and Senate, then ratification by three quarters of the states. Good luck with that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (kkTda)

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A decades long march through the institutions to undermine and subvert the judiciary is actually easier than this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 18, 2025 08:39 AM (GBKbO)

207 So which big fish were indicted in the last week?
Uh huh.
Thought so.

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 18, 2025 08:39 AM (XQo4F)

208 144 The former FBI Director said that Swift’s music has been a major part of his family for several years as they have dealt “with adversity and celebration,” saying that the pop star’s example has helped him to resist “bullies.”
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Comey is embarrassing himself now, in his lame effort to find pop culture supporters for his coming trials. A ridiculous man, now that he is finally out of power.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 08:39 AM (nK+DP)

209 As for Medicare... my wife "gets" to sign up next year so I have been learning about the system. Ugh. It really seems to exist to waste the maximum amount of time/money for the minimum "benefit" of the covered.
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The dirty little secret about Medicare-certified providers, ie those physicians, practices and institutions who accept it as payment, is that they exist to service CMS, not their patients.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 18, 2025 08:39 AM (+K1xO)

210 These detractors try to rewrite history, claiming the Alaska Summit was pointless or that Trump “did nothing.” That’s pure nonsense. Trump showed up where others wouldn’t, engaged directly with the adversary, and extended a genuine offer of peace. That takes courage and conviction. It takes a leader willing to do what it takes to keep America safe and respected.

Sometimes just showing up gets you the desired results.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

211 Not well known, Bert Convy and CW McCall were pretty tight

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 08:41 AM (IejsB)

212 Just got parked and took a little stroll around. I glance at the front grill and, seeing something where there is notmally just empty space, I thought to myself "That is an unusually large moth."

I was mistaken.

It was actually a rather small bat. Sorry about that, little chiroptera.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 08:41 AM (R256O)

213 I suppose it's too late for Ocracoke residents now, but anyone interested should sign up for classes. We could save your life.

Posted by: Rodney King/Theo Huxtable Swim School at August 18, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

214 NYT defines as "conservative" those columnists (like Bret Stephens) who sometimes voted Republican until Obama came along and converted them into reliable Democrat voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 08:42 AM (nK+DP)

215 I think a buyout for the wealthier retirees could help.
Both Bush and Romney wanted a plan to let young people buy into a new system more market based. Both were destroyed for that.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

I would probably go with:

For people 55+...
- above some level of personal liquid resources (say, $5MM), you just lose SS (sucks, but it's gonna suck for everyone)
- next level down, you get some percentage of SS but less than you should
- next level down, you get SS but COLA is smaller

For people 35-55...
- SS is capped, amount lowers for younger folks

For people
- you don't get SS, period, but the amount you have to pay in taxes towards it goes down for younger folks.

Everyone has pain. It'll never work, though, because most older folks will not accept giving up anything. It's almost as if the people who designed the system counted on that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

216 203
Another NYT "conservative" Bret Stephens editorialized for repealing the second amendment
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:24 AM (Skc+N)

__________

Two thirds each of the House and Senate, then ratification by three quarters of the states. Good luck with that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (kkTda)

If it did pass a few lefty professor types would show up with their dads old 22 or maybe a shotgun.
No one I know would ever surrender their guns because of a law.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

217 153 A major millstone...

ha ha

ISWYDT

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 18, 2025 08:43 AM (bDCDB)

218 Not well known, Bert Convy and CW McCall were pretty tight
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 08:41 AM (IejsB)

I'd always thought Bert Convy was tight with plenty of guys. Then I found out he was married to a woman.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 18, 2025 08:45 AM (0eaVi)

219 >>Everyone has pain. It'll never work, though, because most older folks will not accept giving up anything. It's almost as if the people who designed the system counted on that.

Why would they? They've had money taken from them at the point of a gun for their entire working lives with the explicit promise of getting a return, a crappy one but some return. And now when they want the promise to be kept they are told to suck it up and take even less?

That's not greed, that is just expecting a promise to be kept.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)

220 I suppose it's too late for Ocracoke residents now, but anyone interested should sign up for classes. We could save your life.
Posted by: Rodney King/Theo Huxtable Swim School at August 18, 2025 08:42 AM (G5+As)

there's still time if they hurry. the finals won't happen until overnight on wednesday...

-_-

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 18, 2025 08:46 AM (v6XNT)

221
Stephens and Brooks are like the defense attorneys at one of Stalin's show trials.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:47 AM (kkTda)

222 A mouse died deep in an air conditioning duct and our first floor bathroom is unusable as a result., due to the decay. The French can take that as another reason to ban air conditioning in houses.

First World Problem material.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 08:47 AM (L6UpC)

223 I'm resigned to the understanding that my purpose here on earth is to underwrite the expenses of countless others.
__________________________________________________

I don't even feel like I have a purpose. So at least you have that
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (Skc+N)

Wait until you find out what your special purpose is for!!! It's great!!!

Posted by: Navin Johnson at August 18, 2025 08:47 AM (wVcYX)

224 The Ukranian power structure that suspended elections to keep Z in office as their puppet are avowed Nazis. And they were put in place by our Deep State.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2025 08:48 AM (dtajH)

225 Nah, Comey is just coming to terms with becoming trans as he tries to hide behind his feminine feelz for the awful things he did. Sort of like a person putting on glasses before a fight and proclaiming that you would not hit a person wearing glasses.

I also think this is trying to play to AWFLs in the Dem party to try to protect him from being so a so brave slay queen of Orange Man bad.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:25 AM

I have no doubt you're right. But it's still whole-body-cringe inducing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 08:48 AM (dPfyF)

226 198 It’s simple word association. They yammer “democracy democracy democracy” as if it’s a given that it’s our system of government, while they are called “Democrats.” Then the idiots associate the two words and assume that’s the political party behind the foundation of the US. A type of NLP.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 18, 2025 08:35 AM (+K1xO)

I had that figured out by the time I was in 2nd grade.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

227 So which big fish were indicted in the last week?
Uh huh.
Thought so.

I am dancing as fast as I can! Love me! Love meeeee!

Posted by: Pam Blondie at August 18, 2025 08:49 AM (Z3Vfa)

228 Two thirds each of the House and Senate, then ratification by three quarters of the states. Good luck with that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:38 AM (kkTda)

If it did pass a few lefty professor types would show up with their dads old 22 or maybe a shotgun.
No one I know would ever surrender their guns because of a law.
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Laws in Australia, NY state, and Connecticut suggest you are correct. The truth is our so called college educated elite class fear that the people having firearms constitutes a literal and final veto on that class using their political power.

They want to command the state with its police and military to force the non elites to go along with elite notions like Eat ze bugz, you will own nothing and love it, etc.

It vexes the globo homo class endlessly that average people can shoot their pet criminals in the midst of criminal actions, that they can constitute a vast uncertainty in the forces of the state that winning a civil war is possible, and owning firearms indicates adherence to the ideals of our Founders.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (ctrM5)

229 “ Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”

Psalm 146:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (nxfBy)

230 Happy Monday!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (GbwPZ)

231 LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s socialist movement has been defeated for the first time in two decades, according to preliminary election results, as voters chose a centrist senator and a right-wing former president to go head-to-head in a presidential runoff that could bring dramatic change for this South American nation.

Thats a first. Most Socialist power is only overturned with guns and hangings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

232 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Unhinged Democrat loses her mind after overhearing two women expressing support for Trump’s efforts to curb crime in DC.

https://tinyurl.com/y95f64z3

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

233 With Comey.... it's entirely plausible he is, and always was completely insane.

Who the fuck in their right mind hides behind drapes at his age?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

234 Why are totalitarian elites such idiots? That troubles me.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 18, 2025 08:51 AM (mo9mx)

235 231 LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s socialist movement has been defeated for the first time in two decades, according to preliminary election results, as voters chose a centrist senator and a right-wing former president to go head-to-head in a presidential runoff that could bring dramatic change for this South American nation.

Thats a first. Most Socialist power is only overturned with guns and hangings.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

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$5 says "Bolivian centrist" is more like a Democratic Socialist from Venezuela than a 1980s Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 18, 2025 08:51 AM (GBKbO)

236 It vexes the globo homo class endlessly that average people can shoot their pet criminals in the midst of criminal actions, that they can constitute a vast uncertainty in the forces of the state that winning a civil war is possible, and owning firearms indicates adherence to the ideals of our Founders.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM (ctrM5)

reminds me I need a new 9mm

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

237 I have no doubt you're right. But it's still whole-body-cringe inducing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

AWFLs have feminized the entire Democratic party--remember Comey himself claiming he tried to hide in the drapes at the WH from Orange Man Bad. What kind of guy would ever admit to such a stupid action? And that was 8-9 years ago.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (ctrM5)

238
We cannot deport 20 million illegal immigrants. But we can confiscate 600 million firearms, no problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (kkTda)

239 I'd always thought Bert Convy was tight with plenty of guys. Then I found out he was married to a woman.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Bert Convy was a very good athlete, played TripleA ball in the Dodgers organization. Excellent tennis player too. Made a movie-Racquet-in 1979, kind of an R-rated tennis movie. Died young, around age 50 of brain cancer. Not a fag.

Posted by: Tattletales at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

240 reminds me I need a new 9mm
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Buy a .45. When its time to shoot someone, send the best.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (W3T6M)

241 It's also...
National Ice Cream Pie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

242 reminds me I need a new 9mm
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Lots of good deals out there right now--especially in the plastic fantastics polymer types and also in used handguns as demand is slowing.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (ctrM5)

243 Old and busted: "But his mean tweets!" - why Trump is intolerable

New hotness: "Look at his sassy tweets!" - why Gavin Newson is brat*

*or whatever TF they think he is with this latest stunt

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (GbwPZ)

244
Trump is Discriminating Against Us, Say Mayors of Crime-Ridden Hellholes

That’s what I voted for. I badly want to discriminate against you incompetent, race baiting DEI crooks.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (jbnUc)

245 Meanwhile, the performance of the socialists in office over 20 long years was execrable . . .

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Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Donald the Lionhearted 2028! at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (BENy5)

246 It's also...
National Ice Cream Pie Day.
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Hot damn, Fat!

Posted by: Joey B. at August 18, 2025 08:54 AM (+K1xO)

247 Morn' all.. Yes Comey and Swift is cringe worthy.... That being said, who would hold her up as some sort of paragon of virtue? She sings about basically all the men she's slept with who dumped her while gyrating on stage nearly nude....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 18, 2025 08:54 AM (VE6XX)

248 >>People have showered an alleged car thief in a California jail with donations after she beat up a fellow inmate who is charged, along with her husband, with torturing and killing her eight-year-old stepdaughter.

Let me guess why this was OK. . .

Posted by: Daniel Penny at August 18, 2025 08:56 AM (GbwPZ)

249 while gyrating on stage nearly nude
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Maybe, someday, she will gyrate on stage completely nude?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:56 AM (W3T6M)

250 Before someone is allowed to randomly fling Nazi accusations around they need to prove they know what Naziism and fascism actually are--perhaps a well researched essay.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 18, 2025 08:56 AM (mo9mx)

251 243 Old and busted: "But his mean tweets!" - why Trump is intolerable

New hotness: "Look at his sassy tweets!" - why Gavin Newson is brat*

*or whatever TF they think he is with this latest stunt
Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 08:53 AM (GbwPZ)

We'll we've seen how well "brat" worked for Kamala... Pretty sure it will have the same results for Gov. Greaseball....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 18, 2025 08:56 AM (VE6XX)

252 Re: DNI Emails:

The article notes that CrowdStrike was involved in the "investigation" of the DNC servers, rather than the FBI.

Last year plus some months ago, CrowdStrike made a major "oopsie", deploying an update that near-bricked almost every machine that was using the tech. Some of the larger systems that were impacted included airlines, causing further problems.

Now, we're getting drip drip drips of news and facts about the things we thought were true, indeed were true. Versus the sycophants telling us it was obviously not true (and are now moving onto the "and you deserved it" part).

Any chances the "bad oopsie" was actually intentional? Used to cover tracks on older hardware somewhere, by masking it as an unfortunate victim? Much like hiding a tree in a larger forest. Especially one that has been burned to the ground by "lightning and swamp gas".

Yes, this is a theory about conspiracy. But right now logical deduction from A->B->C has a pretty frick'n good track record right now, in opposition to the Experts that keep telling us it isn't.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 18, 2025 08:57 AM (4h45B)

253 248 >>People have showered an alleged car thief in a California jail with donations after she beat up a fellow inmate who is charged, along with her husband, with torturing and killing her eight-year-old stepdaughter.
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So California has some redeeming qualities. This is good news.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:57 AM (W3T6M)

254 >>. Yes Comey and Swift is cringe worthy.... T

I assume it's code or some other stunt.
Not normal man of a certain age would gush about a silly pop star - not taking it at face value.

Posted by: Daniel Penny at August 18, 2025 08:57 AM (GbwPZ)

255 Buy a .45. When its time to shoot someone, send the best.
Posted by: pudinhead

Shot what you can shoot well. 45 acp (or 40 S&W) is not pleasant and is challenging in short barrelled (below 4 inch) polymer carry pistols and has little advantage ballistically doing so. Most of the 45 ACP carry ammo is designed around 4-5 inch barrelled service pistol types. To get the same terminal effect to expand hollow points, you often have to go lighter and faster to the 185 gr or to +p which aggravates the handling and shooting issues of light weight pistols.

9mm is a more efficient cartridge (literally as far as powder burn, etc.) in short barrels than the 45 and special short barrel ammo for 3 inch or so barrels is decent (Gold Dot among others).

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:58 AM (ctrM5)

256 Unhinged Democrat loses her mind after overhearing two women expressing support for Trump’s efforts to curb crime in DC.

spent the weekend going to art show and ren faire

the TDS (and worse!) was so open and obvious - I would try to look at someone's art, really like it, and they'd just start in! how hard it is to create now, how horrible Orange Man is ... it was depressing. Didn't feel like buying anything that's for sure!

This lady is complaining about two normal people talking about tangible benefits of a strong, America-loving President. OH NOES

bc the left never shuts up about how much they want him to DIE! and while they're trying to sell overpriced art?!? it's fine! they can safely say all kind of insane things

OT - the Red Faire sucks now, haven't been for years. they've "reimagined" it. maybe we'll go back when they reimagine it back to not sucking

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 08:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

257 Thats a first. Most Socialist power is only overturned with guns and hangings.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I'm fine with that happening after they are thrown out of office. Just so we are clear.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 08:59 AM (OPGS/)

258 237 AWFLs have feminized the entire Democratic party--remember Comey himself claiming he tried to hide in the drapes at the WH from Orange Man Bad. What kind of guy would ever admit to such a stupid action? And that was 8-9 years ago.
Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (ctrM5)

I don't understand why that's working on _older_ people, though.

I kind of get it with younger men, because they think they can make bank being whores on the internet.

But nobody has a fetish for old-ass James Comey.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (UnA8+)

259 Fucking awesome. GoFundMe prison beatings.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a ruptured asshole at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (1GTvn)

260 Jimmy "Drama" Comey is the poster child for all the careerists in our Federal government willing to do anything to get advancement.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (dtajH)

261 254 >>. Yes Comey and Swift is cringe worthy.... T

I assume it's code or some other stunt.
Not normal man of a certain age would gush about a silly pop star - not taking it at face value.
Posted by: Daniel Penny at August 18, 2025 08:57 AM (GbwPZ)

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It's important to remember that we're really just in the PR stage of any potential indictment/prosecution. The grand juries convening (assuming the rumors are true) are the current real action.

Until then, that black box remains out of sight and all people can do in public is try and consolidate political and public support.

DNI releasing documents of wrongdoing declassified by other departments is part of that. Comey talking about Swift is also part of that, implying that Trump is just so mean.

One hand seems stronger than the other to me.

But...black box. I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

262 Victor Tango Kilt

You mentioned earlier not having a purpose in life. Forgive me if I misinterpreted that. It seems to me from what I've read ,you're not a person of religious faith If I read that wrong as well, I apologize. However, faith in God gives people a purpose in life unless they're burdened down by unrelenting depression. However you are important to more people than you may realize and not just because you may help to fund Social Security . That is true of everyone here who is also loved by God

This is an article from a Christian perspective about the purpose of life. For the people who complain basically about the entirety of womankind, this article was -I'm guessing -written by a man. If it's too Christ centered for you , maybe our Jewish posters can suggest a religious Jewish writer's thoughts on the meaning of life.

May peace be with you:

https://tinyurl.com/3nubzfyx

I have to leave now, so I would not be ignoring your response.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (2GCMq)

263 sorry I'm still a little grumpy about woke gross PA ren faire

that I was NOT expecting!

it was like an open-air Comic Con basically. history is basically not even an afterthought there anymore

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Pv3Rg)

264 Off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 18, 2025 09:01 AM (1GTvn)

265 One woman, Lauren Handy, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for her role in an October 20 sit-in at the notorious D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic late-term abortion facility. Handy helped lead a protest inside the facility that involved the group singing, praying, locking arms in front of the facility’s staff entrance, and attaching themselves with ropes and chains to block doors inside the building.

This kind of shit has been going on since Mitch McConnell and his friends passed FACE. Protest abortion peacefully and get real prison time. Any leftwing protestors? Including actual terrorists? Slaps on the wrist and then $$$ from NGOs...

Posted by: Jeb Bush at August 18, 2025 09:01 AM (t0Rmr)

266 That's not greed, that is just expecting a promise to be kept.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)

It'd be nice if enough people could say, "Well, I got fucked but at least I can prevent it from happening, as bad, to others." That's not human nature, though.

Everyone is a hero in their mind's eye until the time comes to do something uncomfortable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

267 New hotness: "Look at his sassy tweets!" - why Gavin Newson is brat*
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Migrant Trucker Accused of Killing 3 on Florida Turnpike Identified
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Why did California give the illegal immigrant killer trucker a license, f*cker?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:02 AM (Dv3i1)

268 Gah I still have the stinky Bush sock...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:02 AM (t0Rmr)

269 Trump sure brings out the Daddy Issues many leftie women have.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2025 09:02 AM (dtajH)

270 Why are totalitarian elites such idiots? That troubles me.
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The winnowing process, “gatekeepers” at even the local level starts early. I don’t believe it is much more complicated than that. This is very much evident in the Democrats right now. They are selected for political reliability not competence, integrity, intelligence or any other factor.

They are team players, but don’t expect anything else.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2025 09:02 AM (IejsB)

271 Why are totalitarian elites such idiots?

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Imagine yourself as a smart leftist. You're basically Lisa Simpson. You go through school grubbing for grades, looking down on your "intellectual inferiors," with the system constantly praising you for being smart. You go to college, you get a degree, and then and advanced degree... Because the system tells you that are smarter and better than everyone else and your rewards are grades and acknowledgement from your teachers and professors of how smart you are.

Then, one of two things happen. If you have the right connections, you're given a position with power and lucrative remuneration. And you believe that being the best and the smartest you are entitled to dictate to your intellectual inferiors.

And if you don't have connections, well, you end up in an administrative and middle management role and you bitterly resent the system that denies you the status and money it promised you. The flaw cannot be you. You're smart and wonderful. All the teachers said so! It must be the system that is holding you back.

Either way, you end up a totalitarian socialist.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:03 AM (Skc+N)

272
Why did California give the illegal immigrant killer trucker a license, f*cker?

He was just killing the drivers Americans won't. Really it is an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at August 18, 2025 09:03 AM (t0Rmr)

273 247 Morn' all.. Yes Comey and Swift is cringe worthy.... That being said, who would hold her up as some sort of paragon of virtue? She sings about basically all the men she's slept with who dumped her while gyrating on stage nearly nude....
Posted by: It's me donna
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Taylor has a modicum of actual talent in singing and songwriting but like other things in this souless and artificial infotainment world, is overhyped, oversold, and tedious in excess. Eventually, the infotainment schtick is for female entertainers to get more and more sexually skin baring as they age to keep the public attention on them. Madonna's trajectory comes to mind among others like Britney.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:03 AM (ctrM5)

274 Thats a first. Most Socialist power is only overturned with guns and hangings.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 08:50 AM

Give the Bolivians time. They're just getting started.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 09:04 AM (dPfyF)

275 @mgEyesOpen
Guy who weaponized the FBI trying to take down a sitting president based on a hoax would like you to know it’s important to not be mean.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

276 263 sorry I'm still a little grumpy about woke gross PA ren faire

that I was NOT expecting!

it was like an open-air Comic Con basically. history is basically not even an afterthought there anymore
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Pv3Rg)

I'm not remotely surprised.

These things are just general Cosplay events anymore.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:04 AM (UnA8+)

277 >>The article notes that CrowdStrike was involved in the "investigation" of the DNC servers, rather than the FBI.

Yup. IIRC, Crowdstrike was funded by google's Schmidt, and co-founded by a - get thus! - Ukranian dude. In 2016, Perkins Coie (Marc Elias) represented OFA, Hillary campaign, Google, Crowdstrike, and FusionGPs. Hillary's campaign used Marc Elias to launder payments to FusionGPs (she paid him for services that he obtained from his other clients, instead of directly contracting for the services herself).

It's quite a rabbit hole, with a lot of this information already mined by people like John Solomon, Mollie Hemingway, Jeff Carlson at the time it was happening. Glad it's finally getting out, with extra-d@mning details from Tulsi Gabbard that confirm it.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)

278 Buy a .45. When its time to shoot someone, send the best.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM

And sometimes, fat and slow gets the job done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 09:05 AM (dPfyF)

279 Sat 9/13. Mark your calendars.

Tommy Robinson is calling for a massive rally in London. So far, this is flying under the radar of Media. It could get sporty.

He's being joined by Ant Middleton, an SAS guy and Local Hero who's already amping it to eleventy. Sounds Insurrectiony to me. Cue up the Braveheart freedom speech.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2025 09:06 AM (dtajH)

280 Isn't Comey under some sort of investigation by his previous employer (FBI) for his seashell stunt, and then, upon further review, his actions while director of said former employer?

He sounds like someone under a fair amount of stress and the insanity dwelling in is reptile brain is leaking out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 09:06 AM (Q4IgG)

281 Countries around the world, particularly in Europe, are giving themselves new censorship powers by enacting vague laws that require limitations on free speech online. Because most of the large tech companies have global content moderation policies, any changes to these policies will affect what content Americans can see and post within the United States, too.
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This, via the Telegraph, is Jim Jordan warning again that Euroshits are targeting Americans speaking "too freely". New laws in the UK and in the EU threaten social media directly, because Trump (of course) offends the bureaucrats in both places.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 09:06 AM (cRLyS)

282 And if you don't have connections, well, you end up in an administrative and middle management role and you bitterly resent the system that denies you the status and money it promised you. The flaw cannot be you. You're smart and wonderful. All the teachers said so! It must be the system that is holding you back.

Let me add another wrinkle in this...

If you get a degree in something worthless like Gender Studies, it doesn't prepare you for any actual job. So you might not even get one of those paper pushing jobs in this group.

And those people will argue vehemently "I have an advanced degree, I studied hard, I should be *paid* what I am worth not working as a barista"

And a good deal of this confusion is the difference between "I did well in school" and "I am providing a good or service people are willing to pay for"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:06 AM (t0Rmr)

283 These things are just general Cosplay events anymore.

correct. but this one used to be very good.

they fired most of the actors/performers and it's just cosplay and instagramming your costumes now

they turned away from the kids' things - no more maze, fewer games, no more mermaids etc - and just added more bars. not much food either, which used to be worth visiting just for that. now the little food they have is TERRIBLE (and the lines were insane)

I felt really bad for the families. it's not for them anymore. I guess it's "disneyfied"? it's for obese 20 somethings who like to play dress up

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)

284 Fenelon, it is as a result of my religious journey that I have concluded I have no purpose. I honestly think my life has been about God making me humble and He has succeeded in that. I think about the Marines tearing a young man down and rebuilding him as a Marine. I certainly have been torn down but I don't feel like there's any plan to build me into anything else.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (Skc+N)

285 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Joy Reid: "Whites can't invent anything" and they stole the ideas from blacks

https://tinyurl.com/w957u38z

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

286 >>It'd be nice if enough people could say, "Well, I got fucked but at least I can prevent it from happening, as bad, to others." That's not human nature, though.

>>Everyone is a hero in their mind's eye until the time comes to do something uncomfortable.

I think that is a bit more than being a hero. Bills don't stop coming for older, retired people. I haven't heard any banks saying they are willing to forgive mortgages or other loans, not even reduce the loan amount.

I think there is an assumption that the millions of older Americans who spent 40+ years paying into SS did it willingly. They did not. It was not voluntary, it was government confiscation and then that same government broke the promise.

The blame for the situation and more importantly the responsibility for fixing it lie with the government not the victims.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)

287 " Eventually, the infotainment schtick is for female entertainers to get more and more sexually skin baring as they age to keep the public attention on them. Madonna's trajectory comes to mind among others like Britney."

So, I'll get to see Tay Tay's Tits while she seductively eats a hot dog.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (dtajH)

288 278 Buy a .45. When its time to shoot someone, send the best.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM

And sometimes, fat and slow gets the job done.
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What goes down seldom gets up.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 09:08 AM (W3T6M)

289 *It's quite a rabbit hole, with a lot of this information already mined by people like John Solomon, Mollie Hemingway, Jeff Carlson at the time it was happening. Glad it's finally getting out, with extra-d@mning details from Tulsi Gabbard that confirm it.*

And yet no indictments.

Posted by: Nothing will happen at August 18, 2025 09:08 AM (XQo4F)

290 sorry I'm still a little grumpy about woke gross PA ren faire

that I was NOT expecting!

it was like an open-air Comic Con basically. history is basically not even an afterthought there anymore
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:00 AM (Pv3Rg)

The Texas Renaissance Festival is undergoing ownership changes. The peasants are revolting against founder King George!

https://tinyurl.com/yn3r8hkd

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (wVcYX)

291 279 Sat 9/13. Mark your calendars.

Tommy Robinson is calling for a massive rally in London. So far, this is flying under the radar of Media. It could get sporty.

He's being joined by Ant Middleton, an SAS guy and Local Hero who's already amping it to eleventy. Sounds Insurrectiony to me. Cue up the Braveheart freedom speech.
Posted by: Ignoramus

At this point of insanity infecting Ol' Blighty, I suspect if I flew into England, I'd be held up by customs and denied entry for wearing a shirt with the St. George cross flag emblazoned on it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

292 I don't understand why that's working on _older_ people, though.

I kind of get it with younger men, because they think they can make bank being whores on the internet.

But nobody has a fetish for old-ass James Comey.
Posted by: XTC
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Older people get set in their political socialization which is why the Boomer generation is still fighting the Vietnam War--the Silents that of FDR, and Gen X still remembers Reagan v. the Evil Empire.

So Trump is doing comparatively worse in the lefty part of the 65 plus era socialized during Civil Rights era and Watergate but comparatively better among younger voters.

Comey is appealing to those Millennials and older lefty Boomers with his Orange Man bad shit.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (ctrM5)

293 hey remember a little while ago, Biden and the autopen, how that was going to be a huge deal?

good times
I guess that all got cleared up?

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (AOsQT)

294 It was not voluntary, it was government confiscation and then that same government broke the promise.

"But poor people couldn't retire. Why are so meeeeean to them?" is the basic rationalization about SS.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2025 09:10 AM (OPGS/)

295
And yet no indictments.
Posted by: Nothing will happen at August 18, 2025 09:08 AM (XQo4F)

They're trying to connect them together to show it's actually on going... Otherwise they have to deal with the statute of limitations

Posted by: It's me donna at August 18, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

296
I think that is a bit more than being a hero. Bills don't stop coming for older, retired people. I haven't heard any banks saying they are willing to forgive mortgages or other loans, not even reduce the loan amount.

I'm starting to see a movement coming together to end property taxes for seniors. The argument is, "I paid off my house, why should the government get to take it from me with every increasing property taxes?" and...it makes a hell of a lot more sense then paying off a barista's gender studies loan.

Of course localities will fight this tooth and tail because in most places property taxes are the graft engine of local politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:10 AM (t0Rmr)

297
Countries around the world, particularly in Europe, are giving themselves new censorship powers by enacting vague laws that require limitations on free speech online.

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American progressives, scared that they might get jailed for criticizing the government, emigrate to Europe, where the governments jail people who criticize them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (kkTda)

298 240 reminds me I need a new 9mm
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Buy a .45. When its time to shoot someone, send the best.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 08:52 AM (W3T6M)

I have a few of those but I also have about 5k rounds of 9

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

299 He's being joined by Ant Middleton, an SAS guy and Local Hero who's already amping it to eleventy. Sounds Insurrectiony to me. Cue up the Braveheart freedom speech.
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Will they wear kilts and paint themselves blue and white?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (W3T6M)

300 >>Yup. IIRC, Crowdstrike was funded by google's Schmidt, and co-founded by a - get thus! - Ukranian dude.

Nobody, not even Crowdstrike, actually looked at the server. They just made assumptions which the FBI accepted. There has never been a shred of proof the server was hacked let alone by Russia.

If you remember the transcript of the phone call Trump had with Zelensky that started the Ukraine impeachment hoax, Trump asked Zelensky about "the server". Could it be that server?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (viF8m)

301 And if you don't have connections, well, you end up in an administrative and middle management role and you bitterly resent the system that denies you the status and money it promised you.
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Shutting of the funnelling of taxpayer funds to NGOs will greatly reduce availability of jobs for the politically connected.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

302 And sometimes, fat and slow gets the job done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 09:05 AM (dPfyF)

My new motto. Creed, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

303
He's being joined by Ant Middleton, an SAS guy and Local Hero who's already amping it to eleventy. Sounds Insurrectiony to me. Cue up the Braveheart freedom speech.

The Brits have more grounds to overthrow their current illegitimate government then the Patriots did in 1776...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:12 AM (t0Rmr)

304 At this point of insanity infecting Ol' Blighty, I suspect if I flew into England, I'd be held up by customs and denied entry for wearing a shirt with the St. George cross flag emblazoned on it.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Societies have to save themselves is something humbling to those outside. This is something that same between individuals and societies, a person has to make the decision to save himself because others cannot do it for him. No less is the same in societies/countries. They have to save their own souls and system from invaders and traitors--we cannot do it for them.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:12 AM (ctrM5)

305 JJ, if you provide evidence to Putin & Co. that pooping on Zelinsky for his Jewishness is ok, then you're going to make things difficult here.

Posted by: Rip N Read at August 18, 2025 09:12 AM (fr4zq)

306 Crowdstrike caused the biggest internet outage of all time last year.

Not only are they corrupt, they aren't even competent at their supposed actual services.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:13 AM (t0Rmr)

307 283 I felt really bad for the families. it's not for them anymore. I guess it's "disneyfied"? it's for obese 20 somethings who like to play dress up
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:07 AM (Pv3Rg)

A former co-worker of mine was a performer there for a couple of years, but I only went once, and that was way back in like 2005 or 2006.

But yeah, all of these things anymore are just for 20-something fat dudes who like to dress up as girls.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:13 AM (UnA8+)

308 "I paid off my house, why should the government get to take it from me with every increasing property taxes?"
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I've paid more in property taxes than I've paid for my house including the mortgage financing charges.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

309 The blame for the situation and more importantly the responsibility for fixing it lie with the government not the victims.

Ultimately (fraud aside), WE are the government. The government CANNOT implement a fix which causes pain because the voters will not accept it. The officeholders would lose their position to people who would immediately reverse the solution. Until, and unless, the PEOPLE are willing to do what must be done, nothing can be done.

Bills don't stop coming for older, retired people. I haven't heard any banks saying they are willing to forgive mortgages or other loans, not even reduce the loan amount.

No, they don't. And that's why the change, initially, would need to focus primarily on those who could afford to take the hit.

I hate progressive everything but it's the only way I can see to make it work. People will less get a bigger percentage of what they would have gotten. Older people, of the same means, get a bigger percentage of what they would have gotten. The young continue to pay into a system that's ripping them off even worse than it did to us, since they'll get nothing at all, but at a reduced rate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

310
I think my only interest in a Ren Faire would be a falconry demonstration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2025 09:14 AM (kkTda)

311 EXCLUSIVE: Immigration Chief Reveals What He Found In Aftermath Of Biden Junta

Good morning JJ. The above link doesn't work.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 18, 2025 09:14 AM (w3u3d)

312 So, I'll get to see Tay Tay's Tits while she seductively eats a hot dog.
Posted by: Ignoramus
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You can dig up the skin baring show girl outfits now for the next iteration of Tay Tay's shows if you wish--pix are around the internet to pre sell what is coming next for her.

One of those damn autofeed story links with pix coming up on my computer while looking for news about the Trump Putin convo.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:15 AM (ctrM5)

313 Everyone is a hero in their mind's eye until the time comes to do something uncomfortable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

*tugs collar uncomfortably*

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 18, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

314 Get Ready for Everyone in Puerto Rico to Die All Over Again

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How do you say "literally Hitler" in Spanish?

At least the Clinton Crime Family Syndicate Foundation will make more hundreds of billions in grift ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Donald the Lionhearted 2028! at August 18, 2025 09:15 AM (BENy5)

315 Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (ctrM5

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Spot on - interesting times, ahead... the Reaper will soon swing his scythe through the Boomers. This will totally change the face of our public life. Probably for the worse, perhaps for the better.

But no matter what, all of this is about to change, big time.

My hope is that Xers and Gen Z can somehow, some way, outflank the Millennials. If, as nature would have it, power devolves on this middle aged cohort, we're all in deep shit. The deepest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 09:15 AM (f1Xuy)

316 >>Why did California give the illegal immigrant killer trucker a license, f*cker?

Because it is a lawless state run by foreigners and those beholden to foreign states (e.g. Gavin owned by China?)?

What's happened to the trucking industry in recent years (particularly under Biden) is another rabbithole. No idea if it's true, but saw speculation that after the Canadian trucker strikes, the Biden admin sped up giving CDLs to foreigners to ensure supply chain wasn't threatened. Also, it's not just foreign drivers, it's foreign trucking companies that override trucker drive-time limits and constantly change names after bad things happen (see the TX company that "closed" right after the tragic I-70 crash in 2021 because foreign, non-English-speaking trucker's brakes failed).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 09:15 AM (GbwPZ)

317 Here's my .45

Ruger SR1911 Officer

https://tinyurl.com/tk495rps

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 09:16 AM (AOsQT)

318 What goes down seldom gets up.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 18, 2025 09:08 AM

When you're using anti-cow technology, yeah...

https://youtu.be/_iCxUXDn1sU

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 09:16 AM (sdudX)

319 I think my only interest in a Ren Faire would be a falconry demonstration.

that was excellent! the daughter of the original falconer was now the lead. she was awesome.

I showed her a photo of herself back when they had my own daughter (same age) help with the show. she was so sweet. but said they're not allowed (by the Faire) to include children at all anymore.

rrrrrr.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:16 AM (Pv3Rg)

320 > hey remember a little while ago, Biden and the autopen, how that was going to be a huge deal?
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A number of former *biden staffers were called to testify. At least a couple did. A number of others have given the administration the middle finger. I guess the DoJ/FBI is working behind the scenes to unravel that scandal because it is a fairly serious breech of protocol.

As for "clearing it up"? I'd think the administration is trying to figure out how to present the situation in such a way, with evidence, that much of *biden's reign can be wiped clean.

Officially. Legally. Including legislation and pardons.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

321 What's happened to the trucking industry in recent years (particularly under Biden) is another rabbithole. No idea if it's true, but saw speculation that after the Canadian trucker strikes, the Biden admin sped up giving CDLs to foreigners to ensure supply chain wasn't threatened. Also, it's not just foreign drivers, it's foreign trucking companies that override trucker drive-time limits and constantly change names after bad things happen (see the TX company that "closed" right after the tragic I-70 crash in 2021 because foreign, non-English-speaking trucker's brakes failed).
Posted by: Lizzy

Lizzy, if you think it's true, it's probably 10x worse.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (p+RwZ)

322 Is Michael Byrd in jail today?

Posted by: The ghost of Ashlii Babbitt at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (XQo4F)

323 My hope is that Xers and Gen Z can somehow, some way, outflank the Millennials.

I think it's definitely possible.

the Millies are pretty delicate creatures, and Im saying that as an ORCHID

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (Pv3Rg)

324 292 Older people get set in their political socialization which is why the Boomer generation is still fighting the Vietnam War--the Silents that of FDR, and Gen X still remembers Reagan v. the Evil Empire.

So Trump is doing comparatively worse in the lefty part of the 65 plus era socialized during Civil Rights era and Watergate but comparatively better among younger voters.

Comey is appealing to those Millennials and older lefty Boomers with his Orange Man bad shit.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:09 AM (ctrM5)

My entire life has been nothing but constant Sandbox shit.

From Khomeini, Qadaffi, and Arafat, to Saddam, to Osama Bin-Laden, to the Taliban, to Erdogan and Khamenei.

We should have just let the Soviets have Afghanistan.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (UnA8+)

325 Last year in a town near me they called for a massive property tax increase - 25% or so.

They had hired a bunch of permanent bureaucrats with their "temporary" state COVID funds and then those finally ended they decided there was nothing that could be cut in the budget...of course...and they would have to fire teachers and close schools if they didn't get their tax increase.

Anyway I followed the discussion on this and a number of older/less wealthy people pointed out they couldn't afford to pay this kind of tax increase. The answer each one of them got from the compassionate leftists calls for the tax increase?

If you can't pay the taxes move.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:18 AM (t0Rmr)

326 the Millies are pretty delicate creatures, and Im saying that as an ORCHID
Posted by: Black Orchid

Millennials are generally, as they say, the "R word".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)

327 Re: learn to code

Problem is tech went on a ridiculous hiring boom 2020-2022. Anyone with a pulse was getting hired. Tune in 2023, tech began correcting this imbalance. Lots of layoffs in 2023 and 2024. And now there’s are a ton of people who rushed into tech via boot camps who honestly never should have been there.

It’s a saturated market. But it’s temporary. Long term learning to code will pay off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 18, 2025 09:19 AM (9c0bR)

328 >>Ultimately (fraud aside), WE are the government. The government CANNOT implement a fix which causes pain because the voters will not accept it. The officeholders would lose their position to people who would immediately reverse the solution. Until, and unless, the PEOPLE are willing to do what must be done, nothing can be done.

That's a very romantic way of looking at it but I don't remember ever voting for SS nor do I remember running it. I've been deeply opposed to SS all my working life but nobody cared, they still took my money.

I don't view the situation as a zero sum game. We are currently taking in hundreds of billions, likely soon trillions, in new foreign tariffs. Stuff some of that money into the SS trust fund. This is all new "found" money that isn't going to cause any one group of Americans pain.

And then maybe put somebody actually competent in charge of running SS and stop allowing politicians to raid the fund and replace it with IOUs.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:19 AM (viF8m)

329 We should have just let the Soviets have Afghanistan.
Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (UnA8

None of the 'Stans are garden spots. But the one we """saved""" is the worst by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (f1Xuy)

330 Swift is tall enough to be an old-time Vegas showgirl. With headdress and high heels, she'll be like 8 foot tall.

Posted by: Legs All The Way Up... at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (G5+As)

331 PA Ren Faire report card (in case anyone wants to go, it's still a decent one, just not remotely like it was):

- Performers - A+++
- Falconry - A+
- Actors - C
- Vendors (non food) - A
- Food Vendors - F
- Drink Vendors - F
- Joust - C, they can have girl knights but for God's sake teach them to pretend-fight a little bit! it was just sooooo boring

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (Pv3Rg)

332 >>Joy Reid: "Whites can't invent anything" and they stole the ideas from blacks

https://tinyurl.com/w957u38z

Please return to your ancestral home of Ghana!
(And remove the dead battery from your smoke detector on the way out. . .)

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

333 The Left would rather Ukraine continue in a meat grinder and the US funding it than Trump successfully negotiating a peace deal. They are evil to the core.

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (EYmYM)

334 I see at least one cop; why is that illegal driver not face down on the ground in cuffs?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Because he knows he's on camera and would probably not be able to restrain himself from engaging in well-earned police brutality.
Posted by: NR Pax

There's a lot to be said for street justice.

Especially in this case. You know who the perp is. Not twenty five feet before the emergency turn around (for police & fire) you see the No U Turn sign.

It's not like you are going to get the wrong man.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (p+RwZ)

335 I think my only interest in a Ren Faire would be a falconry demonstration.

___________________

Go to a Ren Faire wearing Stargate uniforms.
Tell them the Goa'Uld are false gods and hand out P90s

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (Skc+N)

336 We should have just let the Soviets have Afghanistan.
Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:17 AM (UnA8

None of the 'Stans are garden spots. But the one we """saved""" is the worst by an order of magnitude.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 18, 2025 09:20 AM (f1Xuy)

It's one of the reasons the Soviet Union fell. Our assistance was worth it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 09:22 AM (EYmYM)

337 I have a friend who is in the insurance biz and his company does a lot of trucker work. He told me every client they have is non-American. Mainly Indian but some Arabs as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 18, 2025 09:22 AM (9c0bR)

338 I like Borscht Belt as a descriptor, but Jewish Alps works too.

Posted by: Henny Shecky Morty Monica at August 18, 2025 09:22 AM (G5+As)

339 Go to a Ren Faire wearing Stargate uniforms.

oh there was plenty of that. literally not a big deal - just adult dress up didn't have to be renaissance or Middle Ages at all

the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings. really really freaking creepy. big grins on their faces and bothering the poor kids

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

340 IDF Babe of the Day

https://tinyurl.com/y6b37d7j

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)

341 the Boomer generation is still fighting the Vietnam War--the Silents that of FDR, and Gen X still remembers Reagan v. the Evil Empire.

If you can't read and you won't go to school, there is a shit load you're not going to know about history. Some of you guys claim to think about Rome every day. Must be CB de Mille's Rome.

What 'generation' would you say God belongs to? Because you clearly believe in Generationalism more than you believe in God.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (zdLoL)

342 What goes down seldom gets up.
Posted by: pudinhead

That is overstating the effectiveness of the 45 ACP. All handgun rounds are defective wimps compared with shotguns or rifle cartridges. To get hydrostatic damage, you need a certain level of energy that is unattainable in a handgun package. A 30 Carbine, 223 at short range, and of course even a 20 gauge buckshot load has a lot more power and velocity to cause severe damage internally than any handgun cartridge.

So we use hollow points in handguns which require a certain fps energy level to fully expand to help make a hole bigger causing faster blood loss.

Easier to make that shot than rely on a CNS stop which does benefit the slower and heavier bullet over the lighter one (which is why police departments often went to 147 grains in 9mm along with its subsonic sound level). The newest 147 gr in 9mm penetrate better but yet expand ok up to about 50-100 percent of the initial bullet diameter.

A 45 in a short barrel often does not expand past the .45 diameter unless using a 185 gr. hp in them which speaking of bullet expansion is about a wash with a 147 gr hp 9mm.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (ctrM5)

343 Submitted for your consideration: farting on camera was Eric Swalwell's smartest political move ever. Now whenever his name is mentioned, that is what people think of, not his Chinese honeypot problem.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (3nLb4)

344 about to be willowed but one more thing I'm sad about today

McGlinchey's is closing!

the Glinch!

damn

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (Pv3Rg)

345 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings. really really freaking creepy. big grins on their faces and bothering the poor kids
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3R

Ewwwwww

Posted by: It's me donna at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (VE6XX)

346 335 I think my only interest in a Ren Faire would be a falconry demonstration.

I'd rather drive my Corvair Monza. Falcons were pedestrian until they stuffed a V8 in it.

Posted by: Air-cooled Al at August 18, 2025 09:25 AM (G5+As)

347 US transportation companies have been known to open up offices in Mexico and "train" their drivers there with trucks that meet Mexican standards. Then when a company contracts with them to move goods they send the cheap, questionable Mexican trucks to move those goods and make bank in the process.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

348 yeah I mean Donna this is why we never took the kids to any Cons

way back they were fun for families but not anymore

just a lot of pervs perving out

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

349 Americas problem is we’re too fucking American, lol. And by that I mean we’re greedy capitalists who will step over our mothers on the street to make an extra buck.

Now that kind of attitude is why Google and OpenAi and Nvidia are American. But it’s also why we import millions of slave labor at the expense of our country’s well being.

Double edged sword.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (9c0bR)

350 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings.

That's terrible.

And...where did you say this is happening again so I can go be horrified at it in person?

Posted by: David French at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (t0Rmr)

351 >>the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings. really really freaking creepy. big grins on their faces and bothering the poor kids

Frigging garrett.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (viF8m)

352 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (zdLoL)

Did you just show up again to insult people?

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (EYmYM)

353 What 'generation' would you say God belongs to? Because you clearly believe in Generationalism more than you believe in God.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
============
I could say cohorts instead and you find that in the Bible talking about generations and their tendencies.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (ctrM5)

354 >>The Left would rather Ukraine continue in a meat grinder and the US funding it than Trump successfully negotiating a peace deal. They are evil to the core.

They rely on laundered money from forever wars and "aid." I think DOGE just scratched the surface, and it may be that more of the money the US government spends is essentially scammed, either by insiders (see bloated bureaucracy, every DC NGO) or common criminals.

Safe to bet that Ukraine war has had nothing to do with the country's interest or that of its people. It is a giant graft pinata they want to keep hitting.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM (GbwPZ)

355 I hope part of the peace deal includes Zelensky paying back all the money from the US taxpayers that he decided to keep for himself.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Dv3i1)

356 That's a very romantic way of looking at it but I don't remember ever voting for SS nor do I remember running it.

Nope, but how many times did the Dems run with "The Republicans are gonna take away your social security"? Every election since it's inception? How often did it work?

Remember when W's privatization plan was demonized and killed? You may not have voted for SS but your neighbors sure did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 18, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

357 339 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings. really really freaking creepy. big grins on their faces and bothering the poor kids
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:23 AM (Pv3Rg)

In freaking Lancaster County, of all places.

Posted by: XTC at August 18, 2025 09:27 AM (UnA8+)

358 Frigging garrett.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:26 AM

Now , now...we don't know that was garrett...no mention was made of Crocs.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 18, 2025 09:27 AM (dPfyF)

359 I had assumed a Ren Faire would be like a cosplay event...

Women dressed in teeny tiny outfits because they are going as anime character X and then guys dressed as Deadpool so they can go flirt with those girls and not get kicked out...

Well, presuming there is a medieval equivalent of deadpool

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:27 AM (t0Rmr)

360 >Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 18, 2025 09:24 AM (zdLoL)

Did you just show up again to insult people?

Posted by: polynikes
----

She likes to pick fights

Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 09:28 AM (AOsQT)

361 The Left would rather Ukraine continue in a meat grinder and the US funding it than Trump successfully negotiating a peace deal. They are evil to the core.

Ironically if you force them to give a reason for this they'll use a version of Bush's "We have to kill them over there so we don't have to kill them over here"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

362 My entire life has been nothing but constant Sandbox shit.

From Khomeini, Qadaffi, and Arafat, to Saddam, to Osama Bin-Laden, to the Taliban, to Erdogan and Khamenei.

We should have just let the Soviets have Afghanistan.
Posted by: XTC

Yes. But the reason is US oil production waned and we relied (and even more our allies did) upon Middle East oil to make the world go round. As we are now producing roughly double that output from the last figures I saw, it means freedom to separate from the whole mess in the sandbox in our foreign policy. Same as what should have happened in Euroland after the Soviets fell. Reset of foreign policies.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:29 AM (ctrM5)

363 IDF Babe of the Day

https://tinyurl.com/y6b37d7j
Posted by: Don Black at August 18, 2025 09:23 AM (AOsQT)
===============
I just snapped to attention.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 09:30 AM (PuEEC)

364 Women dressed in teeny tiny outfits because they are going as anime character X and then guys dressed as Deadpool so they can go flirt with those girls and not get kicked out...

yeah the girls who weren't obese were cool!

just it was like ten to one... (obese to in shape)

lancaster county

lancaster county has a lot of nearby small liberal arts colleges. I'm thinking that's where most of the visitors (and staff nowadays) come from. these schools are almost MORE liberal than Philly ones bc they are try-hard and think it makes them "like Swarthmore" to be so.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:30 AM (Pv3Rg)

365 Ironically if you force them to give a reason for this they'll use a version of Bush's "We have to kill them over there so we don't have to kill them over here"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

Which is an example of their complete inability to make logical comparisons.

Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2025 09:30 AM (EYmYM)

366 I didn’t vote for anything that is supposedly sacred to Americans. Social security, Medicare, public education, gay marriage. The list is long.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 18, 2025 09:30 AM (9c0bR)

367 Well, presuming there is a medieval equivalent of deadpool

people were literally just dressed up as superheroes they didn't really care about the medieval aspect

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 18, 2025 09:31 AM (Pv3Rg)

368 There is art!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2025 09:31 AM (PuEEC)

369 >>Nope, but how many times did the Dems run with "The Republicans are gonna take away your social security"? Every election since it's inception? How often did it work?

All the time. I think you're kind of making my case. It's not just leftists who don't want to see the government's promise broken, voters of all stripes don't.

Again, find new ways to bolster the system before suggesting more pain for average Americans. There are new streams of money pouring into DC. Use some of that money to bolster up the current shortfalls and run the system better going forward.

I'm all for reforming the system but not on the backs of people who have already paid into it for decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2025 09:31 AM (viF8m)

370 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings. really really freaking creepy. big grins on their faces and bothering the poor kids
Posted by: Black Orchid

That is objectively awful and morally reprehensible that the organizers allow that. It will kill these in the future if they continue. No one quite literally wants to see that in public other than deranged leftists.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:31 AM (ctrM5)

371 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings.
____________________________

Which is why you bring P90s

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 18, 2025 09:32 AM (Skc+N)

372 Nood

Art worth looking at.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 18, 2025 09:33 AM (R256O)

373 GenX like usual will be ducked with SS.

genZ and millennials will vote to keep SS taxes low while reducing benefits. Once boomers die off that’s what will happen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 18, 2025 09:33 AM (9c0bR)

374 Which is why you bring P90s
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Remember, there are kids around--that is why you make those posing prancing demented elves play the game--Drink from the Firehouse!!!. Fun for everyone to watch.

Posted by: whig at August 18, 2025 09:34 AM (ctrM5)

375
Which is an example of their complete inability to make logical comparisons.

Yeah back in the day they would say something like, "Why do we need anyone to die? Let's just make peace by addressing their concerns..."

Say that about the Donbassians and Russia and they'll call your a NAZI Russian bot...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

376 the thing that made me livid were the old men dressing as "fairies" with leather straps over their nips and teeny tiny leather underwear and wings.

Well if people are dressing as random superheroes sounds to me like you should get some people to dress up as space marines with real Musk flamethrowers to go have a talk with these "fairies" about heresy...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:36 AM (t0Rmr)

377 Long term learning to code will pay off.

On the principle that knowing how to work on your car keeps you from getting ripped off at the dealership, sometimes.

My local blacksmith never wanted for work, and closed his shop when he was ready to retire and the interstate wanted the land, in 1965.

Despite the bleatings of MBA's in "see this my way" meetings, nobody ever lost their ass in the buggy whip business, if you had the guts to stay with it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 18, 2025 09:36 AM (zdLoL)

378 Art is up

Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2025 09:36 AM (t0Rmr)

379 Key facts: Taylor allegedly applied for Medicaid in 2019 using the fake name Candace Sailor and claiming that she earned less than $4,000 per month. That application was denied, but she allegedly submitted a successful application the next year using the same alias.

Authorities said that, while on Medicaid, Taylor spent $100,000 at the exotic car dealership Tactical Fleet and made $45,086 in vehicle payments to Audi Finance. She also supposedly spent $13,000 to help pay for a 2022 Lamborghini Urus, which has a retail price of $229,495.

Other alleged purchases included cosmetic surgery and high-end jewelry. State agents said they found the purchases on Taylor’s tax return, and she also showed them off on social media. She lives in Slidell, a suburb outside New Orleans.

Taylor’s businesses allegedly generated $9.5 million of revenue from January 2020 to December 2024. Prosecutors say that Taylor’s bank account funds increased by $481,000 in 2020, even though she claimed no income on her Medicaid forms.

Posted by: SMOD at August 18, 2025 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

380 Good Morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

NY Post, "Trump says Zelensky can end war with Russia ‘almost immediately’ by doing these two things, ahead of White House meeting"

Yay! Enough of this EU/UK, Zelensky, NATO crap & USA last. They don't want a proper settlement and peace therefore round up ALL of the Committee to Investigate Russia, all immediate members of the Obama and Biden families, Antony J. Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and whoever else needs to be resettled so they're supremely happy with their new government, and pay their freight to settle them in Ukraine. (Don't tell me they don't have substantial "investments" there already.)

State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-TN), 30 years old, Liberation Christianity. Just trouble. Known for (1960's-like) emotional outbursts and no strategy, like all the rest of the "kids" he decides the answer is to go all out on Republicans. It's silly, and it won't bring back his beloved brother who, sadly, committed suicide by gun.

BB, 'People Send Money to California Inmate Who Beat Up Alleged Child-Killer Stepmom'

Read how the beautiful little girl died at the hands of her stepmother & father, and how the other woman who

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2025 10:02 AM (NFX2v)

381 administered the beatdown inside prison had been in foster care as a child. (Terrible stuff stays with a person but doesn't dictate who they are for the most part.) So, also as a woman, I have no problem with the Go Fund Me page.

The story probably wouldn't be 'big' if it involved men in prison. (Not that I'd advocate the deceased child's father might benefit from a substantial beatdown, or several.)
---
The 2nd Anniversary of October 7, 2023, is almost upon us. Free the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hostages for once and for all!

(Seems as if they're back to gaining power through the recurrent food distribution snafus.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2025 10:02 AM (NFX2v)

382 In addition to Taylor Swift, I also love kittens, clouds, and Bud Light Lime.

Posted by: James Comey at August 18, 2025 10:09 AM (cHOHf)

383 What is with the “Blame America First” mentality around here? I don’t get it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2025 10:17 AM (vm8sq)

384 Dang, it's discouraging when I have comments to make but the Report is one or two later posts old and everyone has moved on.

I could go to CutJibNewsletter, but the audience would be about the same.

I didn't have anything all that worthwhile to say, anyway, I guess.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sourgrapeshot at August 18, 2025 10:30 AM (L05+f)

385 Sure we all know the Earth rest on the back of the great turtle, we are only arguing over what the turtle eats.

"Nice try sonny. It's turtles all the way down!"
-Indigenous Grandmother

Posted by: waepnedmann at August 18, 2025 01:35 PM (WqLAb)

386 "That, plus NATO's encroachment towards Russia ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall, despite previous administrations guarantees that that would never happen..."

No such guarantees were ever given. The closest thing to a "guarantee" was a verbal statement from James Baker to the Soviets that NATO troops would not be stationed in East Germany.

Verbal, not written down. Not a written treaty. Not a written agreement from the American Executive branch.

Moreover, James Baker was not president at the time. Did he have the authority to issue such an assurance?

Even if he had been president, he wouldn't have had the authority to speak on behalf of NATO. That was a policy that the rest of NATO should have been consulted on.

At any rate, the assurance was given to the Soviet Union, which is a political entity that no longer exists.

Posted by: JTP at August 18, 2025 05:46 PM (8daDi)

387 "the Obama crew that overthrew a popularly and freely elected Putin friendly president."

True, Yanukovych did fairly win the final runoff election for the presidency. (Unlike his 2004 win, which was annulled due to fraud.)

But, IIRC, in 2010 he ran on a platform calling for Ukrainian EU membership. Once elected though, he turned on a dime and abandoned EU accession talks, seeking membership in the Russian trade bloc.

Ukrainians had as much right to feel betrayed by his volte-face as Trump voters would feel if he had continued Biden's immigration policies despite campaigning against them.

Then there was the matter of the 108 civilians he murdered during the Maidan protests. And his 140 hectare estate complete with Spanish galleon and private zoo that he stole from the state. (Not to mention the very minor issue of the $37 billion he and his cronies looted from the country.)

No love for Obama from me, but my heart doesn't bleed for the expulsion of Putin's precious puppet.

Posted by: JTP at August 18, 2025 06:15 PM (8daDi)

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