The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/19/25

Good morning kids. Well for what it's worth, President Trump and Shecky Zelensky of Ukraine reportedly had a cordial meeting, coming on the heels of the former's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. At the very least there are strong indications that there will be some sort of trilateral meeting between all the parties with the aim of ending the Russo/Ukraine war.

President Donald J. Trump has said he hopes today’s bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and summit with major European leaders will pave the way for a trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and himself to negotiate an end to the war between the two Eastern European countries. Zelensky—and the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, NATO, and the European Union (EU)—gathered for an unprecedented summit at the White House on Monday after President Trump held bilateral discussions with Putin last Friday in what could mark a significant breakthrough towards ending the Ukraine war.“If everything works out well today, we’ll have a trilat—and I think there will be a reasonable chance of ending the war when we do that,” President Trump said. The America First leader emphasized that any trilateral meeting must be aimed at securing an enduring and lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine.

So while there was jaw-jaw war-war was still happening. . .

Ukrainian Drones Hit Refineries, Drive Russia’s Gas Prices to Record Highs . . . “Russia, one of the world's largest energy producers, relies heavily on oil exports to fund its full-scale war against Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have increasingly targeted Russian energy facilities that both supply fuel to its military and generate revenue for the Kremlin.”

No doubt this will have an effect on Putin, both personally and politically. From my perspective, it's imperative that we stay as far away from this mess as possible. There is talk of President Trump sending weaponry to Zelensky I assume to try and force the issue vis a vis Putin to make some sort of concessions. We shouldn't be sending even a Nerf Gun refill. And US troops? No way. Putin is not going to give an inch of what he has captured and I cannot envision Zelensky making any sort of concessions to stop the bloodshed, even though it's his people's blood being shed in the main and it's Russia that's the aggressor. The whole situation is a mess that's been going on since before the Soviet and Tsarist eras.

If President Trump can at least end this latest round of conflict, it certainly is a huge feather in his cap, and regardless of everything else, the end of the fighting is certainly a desirable outcome for the world, and not least of all for the people on both sides of the lines.

Meanwhile, back here in the States, while the Texas Democrat Flee Circus seems to have ended with their capitulation. . .

Yay for Texas, but . . .

. . . Yet another hack-in-black takes a rusty hacksaw to whatever is left of the Constitution:

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Louisiana‘s request to enforce its congressional redistricting map, initially passed by the Republican-majority legislature in 2022. Judges ruled the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of black residents through practices described as “packing” and “cracking” black voters, undermining their voting power.Notably, 83 percent of black voters nationwide backed Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.The court rejected Louisiana’s argument that race-based remedies are no longer necessary, stating, “There is no legal basis for this proposition, and the state offers no evidence that conditions in Louisiana have changed.” One judge issued a stay before the decision could take effect, though the Supreme Court had already stayed the map earlier in the year.The Supreme Court is also currently reviewing the case in Louisiana v. Callais and has requested additional arguments from both sides. The focus remains on whether Louisiana’s redistricting efforts were narrowly tailored to meet constitutional requirements. Justices are expected to weigh in further during the fall term.

Yes, we must have naked disgusting racialism in order to end naked disgusting racialism.

And then there are things that go boom in the night. . .

A cargo ship exploded in Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore on Monday evening.
“At this time, numerous emergency crews are responding to a cargo ship fire in the Baltimore Harbor on Chesapeake Bay, according to Maryland officials,” noted Rawsalerts. “The Baltimore City Fire Department reported that the ship caught fire in the Patapsco River near the site of the Key Bridge collapse.”
“While initial reports described it as an explosion, officials clarified that the incident involved an under-deck fire that sent smoke billowing into the air. The fire has since been contained, and the vessel is being removed from the channel. The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” it added.

Remember, we are still dealing with over four years and more really of at best a porous and at worst an intentionally wide open border where anyone and everyone from mere human traffickers and drug traffickers to terrorists and foreign saboteurs and agents can and have no doubt drifted in, meaning to do us harm.

In the wake of 9/11 (and I don't think I am giving away any big ideas or secrets here) I had often thought that as bad as that attack was, can you imagine multiple cargo ships (that are always sailing up and into New York Harbor) each loaded to capacity with AN-FO sailing up the harbor and grounding themselves under the bridges and over the Battery, Lincoln and Midtown tunnels then exploding. The death and destruction would've been orders of magnitude greater than 9/11.

AN-FO is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. As was used to devastating effect in Oklahoma City in 1995. And that was just a single Ryder Truck.

And so with the revelations and confirmation about the Deep State and the criminal traitors who ran it and sadly the many underlings that are likely still embedded in it, this item makes me go hmm?

It has always been hard to believe that the truck-bombing of the A.P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people, including 19 children at a daycare center, was planned by just one or two perpetrators acting alone. However, the official story states that the mastermind was Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh, and that the two others sentenced with him only helped him in various ways.

The bombing happened at the height of the Clinton era. And in the immediate aftermath Clinton was quick to blame conservatives and right-wingers, specifically he singled out Rush Limbaugh, his harshest and most effective critic, as perhaps inspiring the attack itself via his radio program. Later Clinton tried to explain/obfuscate that he was blaming some ham radio operator out in the sticks and not El Rushbo.

Remember that this is the same Clinton machine that engineered the Russia Collusion hoax with the same FBI and Intel agencies that worked their fingers to the bone to sabotage and attempt to take down candidate and then President Trump. And the very same operatves, Brennan Comey and Clapper and many if not all of their underlings were working in the FBI, CIA, DoJ and elsewhere in the Deep State when the Murrah Building was leveled.

So, engineer a right-wing terrorist attack as a pretext to drive the GOP and conservative movement as well as the alternative media completely out of existence. Just like they attempted with Trump. Rush Limbaugh broke the Leftist stranglehold on news dissemination and in a similar fashion, the MAGA movement if indeed it flourishes into a legitimate movement is an existential threat to Leftists/Democrats/Globalists. And so, by any means necessary.

As I said, Hmm. . . indeed. If they are willing to steal elections, subvert the Judiciary, open the borders and flood the nation with criminals, illegals and terrorists as well as use the apparatus of government to take down elected political enemies and as we know all too well, merely lowly citizens, there is nothing they will not consider beyond the pale to preserve protect and defend their hold on power (hello the J-6 Pelosi engineered Reichstag weenie roast).

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

“While initial reports described it as an explosion, officials clarified that the incident involved an under-deck fire that sent smoke billowing into the air. The fire has since been contained, and the vessel is being removed from the channel. The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” it added.
Watch: Cargo Ship Explodes in Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore
When accusation becomes law, fatherhood becomes a crime.
I Lost My Freedom, Money, And Guns Based On No Evidence And With No Chance To Defend Myself
A new book details a web of connections, coincidences, and “suicides” far too broad to ignore.
Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?

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

Between 200 and 300 people lost their visas for supporting terrorism.
State Dept. Revokes 6,000 Student Visas Over Terrorism Support, Assault
The arrest was of the woman we've told you about—a TikTok influencer we call TikTok Tatiana whose raison d'etre, since she illegally broke into the country under Joe Biden's open border, is explaining to her nearly 40,000 viewers where ICE busts are happening and doxxing agents.
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Investigating 'Laughing' Tow Truck Driver Who Illegally Towed ICE Vehicle in L.A.
By the time TikTok Tatiana is officially booted from the United States, we assume she’ll have caught her breath, perhaps collected her lingerie, and had her Tesla prepared for public auction by the feds.
DHS: The Busted ICE-Doxxing TikTok Influencer Is a Criminal Illegal Alien

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Repulsive meesekeit Gigi Sohn, backed by Soros cash and fiber lobbyists, is urging states to block Trump’s effort to strip DEI from internet policy and protect consumer choice.
Failed Biden Appointee Wants States To Resist Trump’s Crusade Against DEI And Government Cronyism
Glenn H Reynolds: The other big changes Nwanevu and his fellow leftists push for center on the supposedly undemocratic Senate and Electoral College, which only a constitutional overhaul could revise. My first instinct is to quote The Beatles: “You say you’ll change the Constitution — well, you know, we’d all love to change your head.” (Preferably with a guillotine - jjs)
Democrats demand a new Constitution — maybe America should take them up on it

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Like so many of his Democrat brethren, Comey doesn't worry himself with policies or plans, he's just obsessed with having the ick for Trump.
James Comey's tween-like Taylor Swift obsession shows how pathetic the Never Trump movement is
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law by President Donald J. Trump in July, will reduce federal taxes for individual filers by an average of $3,752 in 2026, according to new estimates from the Tax Foundation. The legislation marks the most significant update to federal tax policy since the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which the America First leader also pioneered.
Trump Has Won the Average American $4k in Tax Cuts: Report.
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
The deal could pave the way for a temporary cessation of violence and the release of detainees, though Israel has yet to respond.
Hamas, Israel Reach Deal on Ceasefire & Hostages Pioneered by Trump Envoy.
Countering propagandist media.
Bibi Makes His Country’s Case
Meet the Hamas-kind of journalist.
Anas Al-Sharif, Hamas Terrorist and Al Jazeera ‘Journalist’

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A longstanding Palestinian declaration.
Palestinian Authority Columnist: Christian Traditions are ‘Nonsense,’ ‘Jesus Belongs to the Palestinians’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
A teacher in Connecticut was removed from the classroom for refusing to take down a crucifix hanging by her desk that had been there for ten years with no previous complaints.
Classroom diversity and inclusion: for students Only?
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Multiple towns and cities in England saw locals pour out onto the streets again over the weekend, in a continuation of the protest movement that was sparked in June in the town of Epping in Essex after a hotel migrant from Ethiopia, Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl just days after arriving in Britain illegally by boat across the English Channel.
‘Make Our Streets Safe Again!’ — Thousands Protest Migrant Hotels Across England as Movement Grows
Daniel Greenfield: 125,000 Christians murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed.
Trump Can End Obama’s Christian Genocide in Africa
Israeli Knesset Member Simcha Rothman blasted Australia for capitulating to Islamic extremists after the government banned him from visiting Jewish communities suffering from a surge of antisemitism, declaring that “caving to terror apparently—that’s the new Australian way” when faced with threats from the country’s Muslim population.
Exclusive: Israeli MK Barred from Australia over Fears He’d ‘Radicalize Muslims’ — Slams Gov’t for ‘Caving to Terror’

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Though rebrand is meant to ease 'brand confusion' as MSNBC breaks away from Comcast, CNBC will keep its moniker
Embarrassment for MSNBC as It’s Forced To Drop Prestigious ‘NBC’ From Name in Favor of Widely Mocked ‘My Source News Opinion World’
The beneficiaries of the CPB have not proven themselves anywise preferable to privately funded media.
Three American Cheers For Defunding The Corporation For Public Broadcasting
On Aug. 11, Trump announced his administration would be taking back control of the nation’s capital after decades of government failure. Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, which gives his administration authority to take control of the city’s police department. Trump also declared a pubic safety emergency in the nation’s capital and instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help aid in crime-fighting.
6 Days After Calling DC Crime Crisis ‘Nonexistent,’ NYT’s Peter Baker Complains Trump Isn’t Fixing Crime
Even before Israel released a medical document showing Marah Abu Zuhri's condition, an Italian media report mentioned her 'acute leukemia'
Associated Press Suggests Gazan Evacuee Died of Starvation—Without Mentioning She Suffered From Leukemia
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The abrupt shift is a dramatic one for a governor who has attacked the fossil fuel industry throughout his six-plus years in office, and who has to appease climate change activists in his state and the Democrat Party.
Greasy Greaseball Gavin Newsom Flip-Flops on Oil: Wants More Production to Avoid $8/Gal Prices
This is how the global warming consensus is faked.
Environmentalist Groups Sue EPA Over Report Written by “Skeptics of Climate Change”
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Flanagan was caught hurling a series of threats and trying to intimidate officers with her job title in chaotic bodycam footage released by the department.
RI prosecutor threatens cops to shut off body cameras while being arrested for alleged trespassing: ‘You’re going to regret it’
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED,” he continued. “WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Trump to Sign Executive Order Outlawing Mail-in Ballots
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Most of all, voters seek release of all government files about the convicted sex offender.
Did Jeffrey Epstein Commit Suicide? Or Was He Murdered? Americans Want Answers: I&I/TIPP Poll
"I appreciate the Trump Administration’s commitment to transparency."
DOJ To Start Giving Congress Epstein Docs By Week’s End, House Oversight Chair Says
During Monday’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, Barr testified Trump never offered any input or direction regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case or his death.
Bill Barr Says Trump Never Intervened In Epstein Case, No Evidence Of Crime
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
As Ben Smith wrote on Sunday, the Democrats will likely not enjoy the results of a nationwide redistricting war.
Texas Democrats Return to Austin Amid Redistricting War
Fateh, who currently serves as a Minnesota state senator, announced his mayoral candidacy last year and was recently endorsed by the Minnesota Democrat-Labor-Farmer (DFL) Party. He became the first Somali American and Muslim elected to the Minnesota Senate after defeating Democrat Jeff Hayden in 2020.
Socialist Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Has Rally With Almost No English
The ruling is a temporary win for the ACLU and plaintiffs, with the Supreme Court expected to issue the final decision.
Court Blocks GOP Redistricting Reforms to Preserve Black ‘Voting Power.’
Miriam Krinsky left Fair and Just Prosecution months after staffers said she 'oppressed, slighted, and discriminated against' them (mostly by her presence. Despite being a self-gasser, she got it good and hard from the savages she befriended.
EXCLUSIVE: Founder of Soros-Backed Legal Group Resigned Amid Internal Accusations of Racism
POLITICS
The surge in public approval comes in the wake of Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin last Friday.
Trump’s Approval Rating Spikes Amid Ukraine Peacemaking Efforts, New Poll Finds
Republican Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity on Monday launched a campaign to torpedo Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection bid.
30-Year-Veteran With Three Deployments Launches GOP Bid For Governor In Key Swing State
The socialist’s base is composed of young, college-educated adults—not the poor.
Mamdani’s Success Is Not a Response to Austerity
John Stossel: Socialism destroys lives - and in NYC, its socialist Zohran Mamdani.
My Socialist Mayor, Part 2

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Russia has lost an estimated 11% (about 30 million tons) of its annual refining capacity, as a result of the strikes. . . Additionally, in response to the domestic shortages created, the Kremlin has imposed a temporary ban on oil exports. The ban is scheduled to end in October, but has already been extended once. It was originally set to expire at the end of August.
Ukrainian Drones Hit Refineries, Drive Russia’s Gas Prices to Record Highs
“If everything works out well today, we’ll have a trilat—and I think there will be a reasonable chance of ending the war when we do that.” — President Donald Trump
Trump Wants Trialateral Meeting With Putin, Zelensky to End the War.
During a day full of crunch peace talks with leaders from the United Kingdom, the European Union, NATO, and Ukraine, President Trump broke off to personally call Moscow, arrange a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky, and an ultimately set up a “trilat” three-way meeting in which he will act as mediator for a final peace agreement.
Trump Calls Putin During Talks With Europeans, Makes Plan for Zelensky-Putin Peace Meeting… Predicts Deal Within Weeks
Monday's meeting featured a historic gathering of world leaders, and a chastened Zelensky grateful for Donald Trump's help.
With Historic Zelensky Visit, Donald Trump Moves The World One Step Closer To Peace
From the very beginning it was clear that Ukraine’s borders, a relic of Soviet propaganda, would have to change.
The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way
Germany, the largest, wealthiest European NATO member, still appears reluctant to help guarantee European security, after decades of relying on the American military while acting as one of Russia’s largest energy customers.
Germany Doesn’t Want to Send Troops to Ukraine.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The rest of the West sees mass casualties as a terrible thing. Russia does not.
The Trump/Putin Faceoff
“Russia in general, particularly the Far East, are of the significant interest for investing. It can already be said at present that China is the largest investor in this region,” said Khobrakova, who is a partner in the B1 firm.
China Is the Source of over 90% of Foreign Investment in Far-East Russia
“I mean, you could also understand President Xi would not be exactly thrilled by doing it,” Trump mused, in response to Fox host Brian Kilmeade observing that Xi could set Lai free “just by [lifting] one finger.”
Trump Promises to ‘Do Everything I Can’ to Save Hong Kong Political Prisoner Jimmy Lai
What the Mullahs won't learn.
Iran’s Distorted and Destructive Mindset
Trump has made cracking down on drug cartels a central goal of his administration.
U.S. Deploys Warships Near Venezuela To Combat Drug Threats, Sources Say
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Cool image time!
Colorful spiral galaxy
While much of the site is still under Russian lease, Kazakhstan acquired the 100 km² Zenit launch site and assembly centre in 2018, and earlier this year took over the former “Gagarin” launch pad, which is now a tourist attraction. This opens the door for Astana [Kazakhstan’s capital] to negotiate directly with foreign operators.
Kazakhstan looking for commercial rocket startups outside Russia to launch from Baikonur
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
If the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling on same-sex marriage is overturned, state bans on same-sex marriage could be reinstated, similar to the aftermath of Roe v. Wade‘s reversal.
Hillary: SCOTUS Is Coming for Gay Marriage.
LCPS opened an investigation into three male students months prior after they complained about the female student’s presence, and the district has now decided to suspend two of the boys, according to WJLA, an ABC affiliate. The female student, who purportedly claims to be male, allegedly used the boys locker room several times and even filmed inside to catch “the reaction of male students.”
School With Pro-Trans Policy Reportedly Suspends Boys Who Wondered Why Girl Was In Their Locker Room
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The Polari Prize, a prominent LGBT literary award in Britain, has been cancelled for 2025 amid pro-trans backlash over author John Boyne’s inclusion on its longlist. Boyne, best known for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, drew criticism in July for writing a newspaper article supporting Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s views in favor of women’s rights over transgender ideology.
Lit Prize Scrapped Because Author Defended JK Rowling on Transgenderism.
Christian Toto: Late-night cryer decries Colbert cancellation, quiet on other speech-related matters
Jimmy Kimmel Pretends to Care About Free Speech
The book, titled Heroes of Hope, is intended to provide children with examples of “black and brown saints, often erased and whitewashed from history, who formed the church and therefore modern society as we know it today."
Church of England depicts St Augustine as black in children’s book
In a culture obsessed with reimagining classic characters to satisfy modern ideological trends, Dame Helen Mirren has delivered a rare dose of common sense. The 80-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who proudly describes herself as a feminist, recently told Saga Magazine that James Bond should remain a man.
Helen Mirren is right: James Bond should be a man
'Can't we just escape politics and wokeism for a measly 3 hours and watch football?' (No, not until Khrushchev has buried us - jjs)
‘End Racism’: NFL To Keep Virtue Signaling With End Zone Messages
Creating flawed characters, dangerous ideologies, and bad habits among our young.
How Did Child-Rearing Get So “Gentle”?
Leftist politics with ‘psycho’ roots.
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Wind Turbine
Or, why great movies like 'The Godfather' aren't being made today. (good essay but misses the mark a bit - jjs)
The Novel as the Foundation of Art
The reason? African Union member unhappy with the relative size of the continent presented on those maps, as it makes them feel…marginalized.
African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”
HITHER & YON
Dr. Zhang Qifeng, founder of Kaiwa Technology, said the project is already in a “mature stage.”
Chinese company develops humanoid robot to gestate babies, set for commercial sale in 2026 for $14,000

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Comments

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 07:34 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

3 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 19, 2025 07:34 AM (0N4FZ)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2025 07:34 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Hi, everyone! I have finished my coffee so things are looking up.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 19, 2025 07:36 AM (OPGS/)

6 We shouldn't be sending even a Nerf Gun refill. And US troops? No way.

I think we need a 5 year plan to get out of Europe except 1 base.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

7
Among the problems of dealing with Russians is their long-rooted tendency to see anything intended to be defensive as offensive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:38 AM (kkTda)

8 Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?

Or IC.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

9 The fire has since been contained, and the vessel is being removed from the channel. The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” it added.

It was probably IKEA bath fixtures. They are bringing back wooden towel rings in Nordic pine. They made a movie about this in the 70s: The Towel Ring Inferno.

Posted by: biteme at August 19, 2025 07:40 AM (xWS9V)

10
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 19, 2025 07:40 AM (tljrc)

11 No doubt this will have an effect on Putin, both personally and politically. From my perspective, it's imperative that we stay as far away from this mess as possible.

I love how Europe, which forgot the importance of generating her own energy, especially hydrocarbons, is egging on Ukraine to continue to destroy any potential exportable energy source, thereby driving up Europe's energy costs even further.

In the meantime, the US is expanding its ability to export hydrocarbons globally.

This is what happens when you let demons play War using humans as their game pieces.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

12 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 19, 2025 07:40 AM (hoCmQ)

13 morning horde, back to the office grind

time for covfefe & content

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 19, 2025 07:41 AM (nXhwP)

14 It was probably IKEA bath fixtures. They are bringing back wooden towel rings in Nordic pine. They made a movie about this in the 70s: The Towel Ring Inferno.

How long have you had this joke waiting for the opportunity?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)

15 Why would the English be in Minneapolis?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 19, 2025 07:42 AM (ZmEVT)

16
Palestinian Authority Columnist: Christian Traditions are ‘Nonsense,’ ‘Jesus Belongs to the Palestinians’

Palestinians are the pitbulls of the Middle East and progressives always say, "But they're so sweet!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:42 AM (kkTda)

17 We shouldn't be sending even a Nerf Gun refill. And US troops? No way.

Though I'm pretty sure that was the Left's plan - to send out young military capable American men out to die while in the meantime flooding the remnants of this nation with foreign military aged men.

J13 is looking more and more like Divine Intervention.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)

18
Willowed

At my advanced age, I have just now discovered the name to one of those melodies you hear all your life without knowing what it is or where it came from. La Paloma, made popular by Sebastian Iradier.

https://youtu.be/clE-hvcmsyY?si=upZYel6hCNgzcy_D

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:45 AM (kkTda)

19 Pundits on the news were just relieved that Zelensky wore pants.

I guess the trick is to set the expectations of others towards you so low that even basic accomplishments seem like huge victories.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 07:47 AM (jvJvP)

20 Among the problems of dealing with Russians is their long-rooted tendency to see anything intended to be defensive as offensive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:38 AM (kkTda)

In the past 34 years, NATO has advanced (despite solemn promises to the contrary) from Germany to the Russian border... defensively. I'd say that the Russians have cause to think that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

21 8 Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?

Or IC.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

Who was John Doe #2?

Richard Lee Guthrie

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

22 If the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling on same-sex marriage is overturned, state bans on same-sex marriage could be reinstated, similar to the aftermath of Roe v. Wade‘s reversal.
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Which very few, if any, would.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (l6t7R)

23 Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (77rzZ)

24 The fire has since been contained, and the vessel is being removed from the channel. The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” it added.

It was probably IKEA bath fixtures. They are bringing back wooden towel rings in Nordic pine. They made a movie about this in the 70s: The Towel Ring Inferno.
Posted by: biteme at August 19, 2025 07:40 AM (xWS9V)

golf clap....

-_-

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 19, 2025 07:51 AM (nXhwP)

25 23 Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (77rzZ)

Good luck Bulg....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 07:51 AM (jvJvP)

26 Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (77rzZ)

Good luck Bulg....
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 07:51 AM (jvJvP)

Not to worry. It'll all come out right in the end.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

27 James Comey is a truly pathetic unman.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 19, 2025 07:54 AM (kTd/k)

28 Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.
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I’m always prepped.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 19, 2025 07:54 AM (l6t7R)

29
In the past 34 years, NATO has advanced (despite solemn promises to the contrary) from Germany to the Russian border... defensively. I'd say that the Russians have cause to think that way.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

That may be, but even if it hadn't happened, they'd still see NATO as a threat. Edward Crankshaw described the thinking even during Tsarist times. We look at Russia as being some looming menace. They look at their border and think how big and how hard it is to defend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:55 AM (kkTda)

30
Diana is demanding her breakfast (chicken, hamburger, oatmeal, beef broth, medicines), so I may as well go take care of the brute. BRB.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:57 AM (kkTda)

31 That may be, but even if it hadn't happened, they'd still see NATO as a threat. Edward Crankshaw described the thinking even during Tsarist times. We look at Russia as being some looming menace. They look at their border and think how big and how hard it is to defend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 07:55 AM (kkTda)

They've been invaded a lot of times. They might have a point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

32 Roberts and Tucker talk about OKC

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/
1952414531184885823

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

33 Further, what is the point of NATO in 2025 other than allowing EU nations to stick their chests out while assuming Americans will die to back them up?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

34 Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.

Ah yes. I remember staying within arm's reach of the toilet and being worried that I was expelling things I hadn't eaten yet and was going to cause a time paradox.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 19, 2025 07:58 AM (OPGS/)

35 > Mornin’, All. Happy Colonoscopy Prep Tuesday.
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Biggest disappointment?

Expected weight loss was insignificant in contrast to the amount expelled.

Sad.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2025 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

36 JJ. thank you for spelling it “tsarist.”

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 08:02 AM (77rzZ)

37 In the past 34 years, NATO has advanced (despite solemn promises to the contrary) from Germany to the Russian border... defensively. I'd say that the Russians have cause to think that way.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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They've got few natural defensive barriers and have a history of wars in every direction. Swedes in north, Poles, Lithuanians and Germans to the west, Mongols to the west, and Tatars south. That has to play some role in their collective memory.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 19, 2025 08:02 AM (XvL8K)

38 JJ, you have nothing about Kathy Griffin joining a dating app.
OkStupid.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

39 "Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?"

is there anyone out there who thinks that they weren't?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 19, 2025 08:03 AM (ppG5b)

40 So, youtube has decided that they're going to embed an AI prompt in the recommended page so you can ask for what you want... your way.

The prompt "Give me videos about getting youtube to stop ignoring my preferences" yields videos about autocad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

41 Abolish the Senate No
Return it to the States representative.
States no longer have their appointed Reps in the Senate to protect their Rights as part of the Union.

Repeal 17th.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

42 Good morning!

Posted by: gp NOW at August 19, 2025 08:04 AM (8mLBT)

43

lolololo

Fake News is sour today. Very sour.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 08:04 AM (KDEC8)

44 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 19, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

45 If they want a government like France or Britain, they should emigrate to there.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 19, 2025 08:05 AM (ZmEVT)

46 Daniel Greenfield: 125,000 Christians murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed.
Trump Can End Obama’s Christian Genocide in Africa

==

Just curious. The Pope made a pointed statement calling out the supposed Gazan "genocide" a couple weeks ago. Has he made any mention of the actual Christian genocide that's been going on in Africa??

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 19, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

47 Have a great day, everyone.

May your day be filled with crepuscular rays from a cloud-dappled sky.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 19, 2025 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

48 I had often thought that as bad as that attack was, can you imagine multiple cargo ships (that are always sailing up and into New York Harbor) each loaded to capacity with AN-FO sailing up the harbor and grounding themselves under the bridges and over the Battery, Lincoln and Midtown tunnels then exploding.

This has been war gamed to death, and you have the Maritime Transportation Security Act and International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) and all of the security measures beginning at the originating port all the way through to entering any US navigable waterway.

It is far more than allowing some rusting hulk of a unnamed cargo ship from North Korea dropping anchor under the GW Bridge.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

49 Flanagan was caught hurling a series of threats and trying to intimidate officers with her job title in chaotic bodycam footage released by the department.

Did Rhode Island just end up with all of the Irish that NYC and Boston didn’t want?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

50 - The feebers behind the OKC bombing?
Oh please. What's next?
That they were behind the 1993, WTC bombing?
Buncha conspiracy loons.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (RGbzo)

51 Comey was walking on the beach with TayTay and then as he saw the 8647 seashells there was only 1 set of footprints.

Thats when TayTay carried Big Jim.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

52
The hope yesterday, by the Fake News, was all Euro "leaders" would gang up on Our Favorite President(tm) and publically give him the What-For on ukraine.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (KDEC8)

53 The Patapsco itself is flammable. But this ship had a weird destination, too, per those smarter than me posting lasting night. Curious as to the findings, if there are any.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (PRqXW)

54 Did Rhode Island just end up with all of the Irish that NYC and Boston didn’t want?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

BUT NO IRISH

Posted by: Johnson Johnson at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

55 Baltimore harbor is really unlucky. Of course, that is where coal for Germany is loaded.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (QyRN9)

56 Trump to Sign Executive Order Outlawing Mail-in Ballots

I do appreciate the effort but unless Congress is going to make this law (good luck with that), this is going to be in the courts for the next two years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 19, 2025 08:09 AM (6ydKt)

57 52
The hope yesterday, by the Fake News, was all Euro "leaders" would gang up on Our Favorite President(tm) and publically give him the What-For on ukraine.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (KDEC

DE tried, I loved Meloni’s expression during it. I know Europe rolls their eyes at us for being so young (boy do I know this), but we are the big fish and they are….well dressed. The end.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:09 AM (PRqXW)

58 I don't think the Federal agencies are smart enough to pull off the attacks. They're just smart enough to take advantage of the chaos that follows.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 19, 2025 08:10 AM (OPGS/)

59 Since the beginning of the war, Israel has let in close to 2 million tons of aid! I know of no other army that has enabled such aid to go to the civilian population in enemy territory.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

60 48 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)

Thank goodness we have competent national security and law enforcement always on guard. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 19, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

61 39 "Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?"

is there anyone out there who thinks that they weren't?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 19, 2025 08:03 AM (ppG5b)

Me. Because Timothy McVeigh was the cousin of someone I was closely acquainted with, and the man was a crazy loon. I never met him personally, but the stories were enough.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:12 AM (PRqXW)

62 Fiber lobbyist? Sounds like someone RFK Jr. would appoint to head the FDA.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

63
This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:

Abraham was the father of Isaac,

Isaac the father of Jacob,

Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

64 Comey was walking on the beach with TayTay and then as he saw the 8647 seashells there was only 1 set of footprints.

I heard it that Comey was wandering the beach sunbathing Joe Biden "Cobra, Cobra, Cobra" style thinking of TayTay while liberally applying lotion to sensitive skin when he stumbled upon the 8647 shell arrangement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

65 From Pixy's:

Where's the BOING!?

Posted by: m at August 19, 2025 05:56 AM (aURVT)
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BOING!

Was on the road for 3 hours. Now in Tel Aviv.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 19, 2025 08:15 AM (V+K+8)

66 59 Since the beginning of the war, Israel has let in close to 2 million tons of aid! I know of no other army that has enabled such aid to go to the civilian population in enemy territory.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Are you letting facts get in the way of the narrative? It is stunning to me the inclination of the left to attach themselves to the bad guys. Every single time.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:15 AM (PRqXW)

67 I heard it that Comey was wandering the beach sunbathing Joe Biden "Cobra, Cobra, Cobra" style thinking of TayTay while liberally applying lotion to sensitive skin when he stumbled upon the 8647 shell arrangement.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

comey was thinking of taytay while rubbing biden?
wow

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)

68 58 I don't think the Federal agencies are smart enough to pull off the attacks. They're just smart enough to take advantage of the chaos that follows.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 19, 2025 08:10 AM (OPGS/)

I'm not sure you need to be that smart in every case, not when you have massive institutional and media propaganda support. Narratives are constructed with blinding speed and force. Only in time can the truth leak out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 19, 2025 08:15 AM (WHfpM)

69
Fiber lobbyist >> real estate novelist.

Posted by: Piano Man at August 19, 2025 08:16 AM (XQo4F)

70 Are you letting facts get in the way of the narrative? It is stunning to me the inclination of the left to attach themselves to the bad guys. Every single time.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:15 AM (PRqXW)

I predict 2026 will be the year of 90/10.
Libs will move on from 20% favorable items to the 10% line.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

71 Commercial shipping is weird. The various laws, treaties, habits, etc. of Mariner's has to go back centuries.

There was a cargo ship that had an engineering causality and was adrift in the ocean (Atlantic IIRC) for friggin weeks before it was agreed who was responsible for assisting it.

The owners? Who supplied the cargo? Who the cargo was for? The government of registry? The nearest government with a Coast Guard? Captain's country of origin or crew's?

Ship drifted a hundred of miles while all that was going on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

72 Cool spiral galaxy pic! I was pretty loaded last time I witnessed something like that. Later that night, I seen punkin heads coming at me.

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (G5+As)

73 What exactly is so horrible about the Democratic party? This country has always been better economically, socially and fiscally under democrats that is well documented. Why all the distrust and hate?

It's quite simple. We like black people and other minorities. They used to have an ugly phrase for it. But we made them stop saying it. And they really hate us for that.

Still flummoxes me how we can be bleeding minority support vs. Trump/GOP AND have 25% of our registered voters stay home for the 2024 election. If that continues, it makes a comeback almost impossible.

2 reasons. They don’t want a woman president. And Hispanics especially are horrified at anything called “socialism”.

Biggest weakness: Reacting instead of Acting. The GOPers are masters at controlling the narrative. But rarely do Democrats throw out a popular POLICY (say Medicare For All) then sit back and wait for the reactions.

Nobody can say anything here without getting twitterpated and reported as a closet Republican because your view of the party doesn't agree 100% with theirs.

Echo chambers are for people that want their ears tickled and soothed, not truth

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)

74 comey was thinking of taytay while rubbing biden?
wow

You misspelled eeeewwwwwwwww.

Posted by: clarence at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (zxQ/L)

75 Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:12 AM (PRqXW)

You do know about John Doe #2?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

76 Me. Because Timothy McVeigh was the cousin of someone I was closely acquainted with, and the man was a crazy loon. I never met him personally, but the stories were enough.

The JBS publication "The New American" did an extensive drawn out investigation uncovering all kinds of connections to government, both foreign and domestic. Names, dates, activities, relationships, involvement, etc.

Where did he come up with the cash for all the ANFO and the recce?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

77 Trump is on F &F now

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

78
Nobody can say anything here without getting twitterpated and reported as a closet Republican because your view of the party doesn't agree 100% with theirs.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)

Well this commenter needs to be blasted into the sun, obviously.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:20 AM (PRqXW)

79 Biggest weakness: Reacting instead of Acting. The GOPers are masters at controlling the narrative. But rarely do Democrats throw out a popular POLICY (say Medicare For All) then sit back and wait for the reactions.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)

Medicaid Google About 47,600,000 results
The (D)s have destroyed the Medicare for All by chasing the Medicaid cut squirrel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

80 Where did he come up with the cash for all the ANFO and the recce?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August

The extended family were drug dealers.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:21 AM (PRqXW)

81 It's National Potato Day. 🥔

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

82 Mail in ballot fraud and harvesting is the only way Democrats keep control of Blue States. It corrupts not only federal elections but also state elections. Governors like Hochul are nothing but products of electoral fraud as are NY State legislative leaders.

Without that fraud there would hardly be a Democrat left in office. It’s why they fight so hard against cleaning up the process.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2025 08:22 AM (M/UeF)

83
What exactly is so horrible about the Democratic party?

Got a few hours?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 08:22 AM (kkTda)

84 wooden towel rings"

Next to the wooden toilet seats...

Posted by: man at August 19, 2025 08:22 AM (tubbA)

85 The way to,solve the gerrymandering racial doodad is to pass a law that only white folks can vote for white folks, black folks can only vote for black votes and octoroons and hexadecaroons are out of luck, no votes for them.

Posted by: Col. Sanders, Chicken Man at August 19, 2025 08:23 AM (Z3Vfa)

86 Medicaid Google About 47,600,000 results
The (D)s have destroyed the Medicare for All by chasing the Medicaid cut squirrel.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

You can be absolutely certain that if the Dems ever got Medicaid for All that they'd insist that gov't workers got a Better Medicaid for Us Though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

87 Where did he come up with the cash for all the ANFO and the recce?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

Richard Lee Guthrie.

Guthrie’s name meant nothing to Jesse Trentadue, but in the far-right radical scene, he had some notoriety. In 1994 and 1995, Guthrie and his gang, the Aryan Republican Army, carried out an impressive series of 22 bank robberies across the Midwest, netting some $250,000 that they used to support the white-supremacist movement.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

88 I think NATO needs to end for a lot of reasons, but up front: "North Atlantic?" Seems more expansive than that.

Make a new alliance. Everyone Pays A Equal Share Here, or EPAESH.

$50 billion cover charge, then all expenses divided by the number of members.

If a member can't afford their share at any time, there are agents in Sicily (all with the middle name "The" like Marco The Knife) who can assist with financing options.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:24 AM (uvfbN)

89 Germany Doesn’t Want to Send Troops to Ukraine.

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We've tried that ! it did not work !

Posted by: Germany remembers 1942 at August 19, 2025 08:24 AM (g47mK)

90 Yeah, I believe I saw McVeigh in Costa Rica sharing a margarita with Elvis.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 19, 2025 08:25 AM (M/UeF)

91 Make a new alliance.

Or not. Why do we need an alliance? How does it benefit US citizens?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

92 My understanding is that a lot of the records for the Whitewater Clinton investigation were lost in the OKC bombing, effectively ending that investigation.

Posted by: ruralcounsel at August 19, 2025 08:25 AM (u9OdC)

93 Wasn't medicaid used to fund obamacare ?

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2025 08:25 AM (g47mK)

94 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 08:26 AM (X98Jy)

95 75 Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:12 AM (PRqXW)

You do know about John Doe #2?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August

Like everyone else, I remember reading about this, but I am also aware as to how flawed eye witness accounts are, especially in traumatic events. I won’t be convinced this is a psyop anymore than I will 9/11 was. Do I think our government is squeaky clean? Heck no. I mean we see what is going on the with FBI, Obama and Clinton. But I also see how amazingly inept the government is- if they could pull off something like this without any one knowing anything and stopping it? We could build roads and bridges.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:26 AM (PRqXW)

96 We've tried that ! it did not work !
Posted by: Germany remembers 1942
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But it did in 1918, till they lost in the West.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 19, 2025 08:26 AM (XvL8K)

97 I listen to a Bible study from 7AM until 7:40 or so, then click over here to the Morning Report. It's a comfort seeing JJS on the job daily. We are blessed.

Posted by: Abbondanza at August 19, 2025 08:27 AM (G5+As)

98 The Patapsco itself is flammable. But this ship had a weird destination, too, per those smarter than me posting lasting night. Curious as to the findings, if there are any.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:07 AM (PRqXW)

I don't think the ship's destination of Des Moines is all that unusual.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:27 AM (uvfbN)

99 Posted by: rhennigantx at August

And I don’t mean you specifically, I mean the collective you.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:28 AM (PRqXW)

100 77 Trump is on F &F now

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

Great.

I can't wait for the cable company to come tomorrow between 8am and 5pm to fix the cable in the kitchen. Convenient.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 08:28 AM (jvJvP)

101 ...if they could pull off something like this without any one knowing anything and stopping it?

Why, they could massacre a bunch of people in Waco. Or frame a Presidential candidate. Or stage "bombs" during an election certification. Or cover up the crimes, if any, of the rich and famous. Or try to get a Presidential candidate assassinated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

102 90 Yeah, I believe I saw McVeigh in Costa Rica sharing a margarita with Elvis.
Posted by: Vengeance

I was there too!

Posted by: Amelia Earhart at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (XQo4F)

103 98
I don't think the ship's destination of Des Moines is all that unusual.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:27 AM (uvfbN)

Aye color! Someone had false information?!? Unheard of. Also, shame on me for just believing. lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (PRqXW)

104 A cargo ship exploded in Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore on Monday evening.
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I understood it was carrying coal. I understand that coal dust is begging to to be ignited.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (V+K+8)

105 What exactly is so horrible about the Democratic party?
____________________________

Imagine telling a pre-Obama Democrat that by 2025 their party would adamantly demand sex changes for children, keeping violent illegal immigrants in the country, and eight dollar a gallon gasoline.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (Skc+N)

106
But it did in 1918, till they lost in the West.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 19, 2025 08:26 AM (XvL8K)

Germany whining about Versailles sounds ridiculous when you look at Brest-Litovsk.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 08:30 AM (kkTda)

107 Socialist Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Has Rally With Almost No English

Jazzy Crocket does that daily.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

108 "Yeah, I believe I saw McVeigh in Costa Rica sharing a margarita with Elvis."

Bullshit. He was on zeta reticuli vii partying with art bell and some greys. I think they were drinking miller and passing around a fifth of wild turkey.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 08:30 AM (89Sog)

109 Bulg, I hope your prep and procedure(s) go as well as possible and you get an answer to your problem very soon.

Posted by: Lights! Camera(s)! Glub! at August 19, 2025 08:31 AM (G5+As)

110 We could build roads and bridges.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:26 AM (PRqXW)

Here's the problem. A road, or bridge, built is a funding opportunity lost. As long as out infrastructure is crumbling, no one will vote against funding infrastructure. And there's a LOT of money floating around in infrastructure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

111 am excited about Stacy Garrity. she's much beloved here in PA

And now Doug the Weird F*ck needs to drop out and back her (for what his endorsement is worth, which is not much)

Joshie is useless and does basically nothing but hire decent social media youngsters

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 08:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

112 But it did in 1918, till they lost in the West.

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you know who else lost in 1918 ?

Posted by: runner at August 19, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

113 Great.

I can't wait for the cable company to come tomorrow between 8am and 5pm to fix the cable in the kitchen. Convenient.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 08:28 AM (jvJvP)
******
It was a really good interview. Sorry you missed it.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

114 101 ...if they could pull off something like this without any one knowing anything and stopping it?

Why, they could massacre a bunch of people in Waco. Or frame a Presidential candidate. Or stage "bombs" during an election certification. Or cover up the crimes, if any, of the rich and famous. Or try to get a Presidential candidate assassinated.
Posted by: I used to have a different

Ahhh…but they didn’t do any of that well, did they? None of that went off flawlessly and without incident. Waco was no coverup, we watched the horrible actions and decisions play out in real time.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:33 AM (PRqXW)

115 I don't think the ship's destination of Des Moines is all that unusual.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:27 AM (uvfbN)

Aye color! Someone had false information?!? Unheard of. Also, shame on me for just believing. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:29 AM (PRqXW)

--

Hey, the shipping harbors of Iowa get a lot of traffic, only rivaled by those in Nebraska. They have a very strong maritime presence in international commerce.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:33 AM (uvfbN)

116 ICE dragging TicToc Tatiana from her Tesla while screaming, slamming her on the ground, handcuffing her and taking her into detention or rapid deportation is EXACTLY what I voted for.

Posted by: CNN at August 19, 2025 08:33 AM (PTDkx)

117 Ahhh…but they didn’t do any of that well, did they? None of that went off flawlessly and without incident. Waco was no coverup, we watched the horrible actions and decisions play out in real time.

hmm Piper

I think we were supposed to see that. and it was basically on purpose.

The FedGov showing ownership, of all of us

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 08:34 AM (Pv3Rg)

118 you know who else lost in 1918 ?
Posted by: runner at August 19, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

The Chicago Cubs?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

119 I have a theory that roads could be built to last a lot longer without cracking or potholes. The material science exists. But they don't build them that way because road repair contracts are so lucrative for politically connected cronies.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 19, 2025 08:34 AM (Skc+N)

120 I can't wait for the cable company to come tomorrow between 8am and 5pm to fix the cable in the kitchen. Convenient.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

Just how do they bury the cable under the tundra muck and permafrost up there?

Posted by: The Great White North at August 19, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)

121
*It was a really good interview. Sorry you missed it.*
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I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The Internet at August 19, 2025 08:35 AM (XQo4F)

122 Ahhh…but they didn’t do any of that well, did they? None of that went off flawlessly and without incident. Waco was no coverup, we watched the horrible actions and decisions play out in real time.
Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:33 AM (PRqXW)

Don't try to confuse things with your sorcerer's ways.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

123 I recall one beautiful day when I was in Lincoln and watched a cargo ship pull into the harbor. It was great to watch how efficiently it was all done.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:35 AM (uvfbN)

124 Why, they could massacre a bunch of people in Waco. Or frame a Presidential candidate. Or stage "bombs" during an election certification. Or cover up the crimes, if any, of the rich and famous. Or try to get a Presidential candidate assassinated.

Or shoot down 747s and no one knows how it happened, or distribute over a half-million children to sex traffickers, or blow up undersea pipelines carrying natural gas to our "allies", or pin the slaughter of 61 and the wounding of well over 400 in Las Vegas one just one lone guy...

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)

125 Now if only ICE had shown up at my kids last soccer game and dragged off the obese, obnoxious Mexican lady that wouldn't stop screaming (in Spanish) the whole game.

Posted by: CNN at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (PTDkx)

126 118 you know who else lost in 1918 ?
Posted by: runner at August 19, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

The Chicago Cubs?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for a few shekels in 1918.

Posted by: Smart People Up There at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (G5+As)

127 Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47

President
@realDonaldTrump
showing President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hat

https://tinyurl.com/5d4dhjef

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

128 Thanks for the good wishes, All.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (77rzZ)

129 Looking Glass sang about me laying whiskey down in Dubuque.

Posted by: Brandy at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (XQo4F)

130 125 Now if only ICE had shown up at my kids last soccer game and dragged off the obese, obnoxious Mexican lady that wouldn't stop screaming (in Spanish) the whole game.

dude there's a hotline! call it!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM (Pv3Rg)

131 In 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves played an MLB record 20 scoreless innings before the Pirates win 2-0 in the 21st inning.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:38 AM (uvfbN)

132 The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for a few shekels in 1918.
Posted by: Smart People Up There at August 19, 2025 08:37 AM

And no no Nanette.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 08:38 AM (MGB5H)

133 Jesse Waters and Hannity will probably show clips tonight. It's weird having a US President so visible. And yet CNN and MS whatever don't take advantage. Screw ratings.

Just how do they bury the cable under the tundra muck and permafrost up there?

Posted by: The Great White North at August 19, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)

I'm not sure. I'm outside of gun range of Detroit...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM (jvJvP)

134 The Soviets were none too pleased about SDI - a purely defensive system against ICBM, too. Was that purely because they wouldn’t want to try and replicate that on their own? It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM (yKoRs)

135 "Well, technically Norfolk has more gross tonnage."

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM (XQo4F)

136 Ahhh…but they didn’t do any of that well, did they? None of that went off flawlessly and without incident. Waco was no coverup, we watched the horrible actions and decisions play out in real time.

Lets see, they immolated women and children, gunned down anyone fleeing the inferno, took over neighboring homes to stage their turkey shoot (3rd Amendment violation) assassinated particular people and the only ones who were charged with any crimes were the few victims that escaped with their lives.

The murderer at Randy Weaver's house was also present and earned himself another promotion.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

137 If the adversary has superior defensive capabilities, then offensive actions become more of a threat.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:41 AM (uvfbN)

138 the adversary has superior defensive capabilities, then offensive actions become more of a threat.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:41

This is the story of the 85 Bears.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 08:42 AM (MGB5H)

139 The Soviets were none too pleased about SDI - a purely defensive system against ICBM, too. Was that purely because they wouldn’t want to try and replicate that on their own? It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation"

That it was purely defensive is a matter of opinion. If your opponent is safe from one form of attack how likely are they to use it themselves?

Statements of no first use don't count.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 08:43 AM (89Sog)

140 The murderer at Randy Weaver's house was also present and earned himself another promotion.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

---------------

* Assassin Lon Horiuchi, Assassin Michael Byrd before he was cool, has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 08:44 AM (BENy5)

141 That it was purely defensive is a matter of opinion. If your opponent is safe from one form of attack how likely are they to use it themselves?

Statements of no first use don't count.
Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 08:43 AM (89Sog)

It throws all of the assumptions of MAD out the window.

And I don't trust Alfred E Neumann.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:45 AM (uvfbN)

142 Hey, the shipping harbors of Iowa get a lot of traffic, only rivaled by those in Nebraska. They have a very strong maritime presence in international commerce.

Why won't you recognize the juggernaut that is Wyoming international shipping?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

143 But they don't build them that way because road repair contracts are so lucrative for politically connected cronies.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

It's why they only widen one lane at a time. Guaranteed future employment.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 19, 2025 08:45 AM (FxH7T)

144 Hey kids- do you remember the troubled apartment complex in Aurora, Co where there totally wasn't a problem with TdA gang activity? Well this happened:

https://is.gd/1pmVfe

30 indicted after undercover investigation targeting Tren de Aragua in Colorado

Thirty people, including eight suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang, are facing federal drug trafficking, firearms offenses and murder-for-hire charges after a months-long undercover operation based out of a troubled Aurora apartment complex.

Posted by: muldoon at August 19, 2025 08:45 AM (/iMjX)

145 The Soviets were none too pleased about SDI - a purely defensive system against ICBM, too. Was that purely because they wouldn’t want to try and replicate that on their own? It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM (yKoRs)

MAD was the theory everyone had for preventing war. SDI upended that. SDI may have been defensive but a country which has no fear of being attacked is more likely to be willing to be aggressive.

All these things are easily understandable if you can get past the "Russians are always the bad guys" mindset.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

146 A new children’s book written by Church of England officials portrays St. Augustine as a black man named La'Darius who had fed the whole church on a Churches 2 piece snak pack.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

147 So in regards to the redistricting/gerrymandering issue, it's unconstitutional or something to draw congressional districts a certain way, but no one seems concerned that 85-95% of a particular demographic consistently votes in only one way? Maybe that's the problem, not the lines on the map.

One man. One vote, and all that, but we've gone from someone being 2/3 a person to someone being a person x2. Of course, if you're the party getting the votes, you see no reason to change.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (MZ+PY)

148 It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation
Posted by: Common Tater

It affected the M.A.D. calculation

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (FxH7T)

149 Thirty people, including eight suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang, are facing federal drug trafficking, firearms offenses and murder-for-hire charges after a months-long undercover operation based out of a troubled Aurora apartment complex.

That reads like the contents of a "What did you do this week" email to some wet work guys in the CIA.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)

150 119 I have a theory that roads could be built to last a lot longer without cracking or potholes. The material science exists. But they don't build them that way because road repair contracts are so lucrative for politically connected cronies.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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A lot of how long a road lasts depends on the road subbase prep, geology of the area, and climate. For example, the South has problems for example with concrete cracking by thermal expansion. North has problems with uses of deicing agents affecting the road surface and so on.

There were some pilot projects though using pre stressed pre fab concrete sections of road that were carted in (late 70's or early 80's). That was less costly and from my memory did better as the concrete was cured and made in a controlled facility rather than on site.

So you could be right.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (ctrM5)

151 Good morning!
Anything interesting happening in the world?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (GbwPZ)

152 Excellent monologue, brother JJ. If I may add... They engineered Nixon out of office; Woodward was Naval Intel, not a journalist. Watergate burglars were CIA...

TWA800 anyone? See Jack Cashill on that dandy...

There were many government files in the Murrah building that vanished that day, many surrounding the Mena Arkansas airport that was given to Barry Seal and Roger Reaves in their drug escapades.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 19, 2025 08:49 AM (1E4GV)

153 All these things are easily understandable if you can get past the "Russians are always the bad guys" mindset.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

Cold war thinking is just like heroine. A habit very hard to break.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 19, 2025 08:49 AM (89Sog)

154 134 The Soviets were none too pleased about SDI - a purely defensive system against ICBM, too. Was that purely because they wouldn’t want to try and replicate that on their own? It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM (yKoRs)

Regan and Bush both claim in their books that we were going to offer the USSR access to the SDI technology.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

155 This is the story of the 85 Bears.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 08:42 AM (MGB5H)

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Heh. I won a lot of money betting on them in Super Bowl XX (Walter Payton was my idol). "Sweetness" Highlight Films FTW!

[True Story: I only ever wore dress shoes to interviews with a suit (other than that, I was the literal "Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes"), Happened to travel to Chicago in '93 for work, and a co-worker joining me on the trip who'd grown up there said that we needed to go to Walter Payton's restaurant (or club?) there. I was wearing tennis shoes (sneakers) per usual, and THEY WOULDN'T LET ME IN! Good times, good times ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 08:51 AM (BENy5)

156 So in regards to the redistricting/gerrymandering issue, it's unconstitutional or something to draw congressional districts a certain way, but no one seems concerned that 85-95% of a particular demographic consistently votes in only one way? Maybe that's the problem, not the lines on the map.

There is your problem, you think that a certain demographic votes 85-95% a particular way. No one counts votes, they count ballots and in those districts there is no correlation between "votes" and "ballots". Rather, one thing is for certain, there are far more ballots than votes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)

157 Has anyone here purchased Sidney Sweeny's bath water?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2025 08:51 AM (g8Ew8)

158 Yes, 1918 was a banner year. Troops headed home from a brutal war we had no business in. If you survived the trenches, 45,000 troops died of Spanish flu in 1918-19, about the same number that perished in combat.

Posted by: Mask Up! at August 19, 2025 08:51 AM (G5+As)

159 The Daily Sneed™
@Tr00peRR
Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

160 Regan and Bush both claim in their books that we were going to offer the USSR access to the SDI technology.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

Which IMO isn't a bad as it sounds. Building a complex system like that is hard enough if you don't know what you're doing. It's the maintenance that kills you.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM (x0cJQ)

161 Regan and Bush both claim in their books that we were going to offer the USSR access to the SDI technology.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

According to Putin, at least on US President was open to the idea of better relations with Russia... but someone in the US government nixxed that. I see no reason to believe that SDI, even if Presidents at the time were really willing to share it, wouldn't also have been held up until it could be stopped.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

162 The Daily Sneed™
@Tr00peRR
Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs
Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM

They should have set up a chicken tenders skim operation like abed in community.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 19, 2025 08:53 AM (MGB5H)

163
The murderer at Randy Weaver's house was also present and earned himself another promotion.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August

Which part of that was the cover up?

I need to go teach my 815. Sometimes people do crappy things, and terrorists exist. We are not immune from them. Waco is a whole different section proving our government is inept.

Posted by: Piper at August 19, 2025 08:53 AM (PRqXW)

164 159 The Daily Sneed™
@Tr00peRR
Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs
Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

They don't call it Carnival for nothing...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

165 >>Hey kids- do you remember the troubled apartment complex in Aurora, Co where there totally wasn't a problem with TdA gang activity? Well this happened

They were sweeping the whole thing under the rug, despite numerous tenant complaints to a very vocal member of the city council (who was ignored) until one of them set up the doorway camera that recorded some of the TdA charging up the stairs w/guns, pounding on the door across the hall, then entering (and they killed the guy inside).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)

166 Thirty people, including eight suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang, are facing federal drug trafficking, firearms offenses and murder-for-hire charges after a months-long undercover operation based out of a troubled Aurora apartment complex.

"But American citizens commit more crimes than that! Why are you so meeeeean to those poor little brown people!" -Typical leftist answer.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 19, 2025 08:54 AM (OPGS/)

167 I have a theory that roads could be built to last a lot longer without cracking or potholes. The material science exists. But they don't build them that way because road repair contracts are so lucrative for politically connected cronies.

What is currently in vogue with far too many municipalities is the "Fuck You" gesture of "paving" with Chipseal.

Give us all of your tax money, now we'll replace your roads with stuff even third world drivers curse at.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 19, 2025 08:54 AM (a4flb)

168 All these things are easily understandable if you can get past the "Russians are always the bad guys" mindset.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Soviets already had ABM sights around key areas like Moscow dating from before the ABM treaty. US scrapped its ABM systems.

Soviet Communism was an expansionist revolutionary movement, current Russia is not. The only commonality that both share is expansionism--one was based in revolutionary theology--the current justification is pan Russian that Russia can intervene anywhere its citizens are even in titular independent countries.

The latter is much less threatening to American interests than the former.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 08:55 AM (ctrM5)

169 The legacy media's coverage of the peace negotiations has set new standards for adolescent viciousness and ignorance. The hatred for Putin, contempt for Trump, desperate need to find a way both to embarrass him and derail a peace deal, is so wildly obvious one wonders how they survive it. They've learned nothing. They have one mind, one purpose, one speed -- all out Trump derangement.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 19, 2025 08:55 AM (WHfpM)

170 One man. One vote, and all that, but we've gone from someone being 2/3 a person to someone being a person x2. Of course, if you're the party getting the votes, you see no reason to change.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 19, 2025 08:48 AM (MZ+PY)

The Texas overturn of 9, 18, 29, and 33 was because they created a minority block that did NOT exist.
Example
Precinct 1 62% Black
P 2 58% Black
P 3 25% Hispanic and 30% Black
These we added to create a District to create a protected Minority Majority. Well P3 is not a Minority Majority.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)

171 >>Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs

Looks like fun! /sarc
Not a vacation that relieves the fatigue. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 08:56 AM (GbwPZ)

172 A lot of how long a road lasts depends on the road subbase prep, geology of the area, and climate. For example, the South has problems for example with concrete cracking by thermal expansion. North has problems with uses of deicing agents affecting the road surface and so on.

There were some pilot projects though using pre stressed pre fab concrete sections of road that were carted in (late 70's or early 80's). That was less costly and from my memory did better as the concrete was cured and made in a controlled facility rather than on site.

So you could be right.
Posted by: whig

There's a road outside of Alexandria, Louisiana that goes from Alexandria to a military base. Was built back in the forties. Concrete. Still as flat and level as when it was built. I'm sure the Army Corps of Engineers had a huge hand in building it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 08:56 AM (X98Jy)

173 The giveaway that the election night bomb threats were staged by the left could be seen in real time during the election night coverage. Every single network was breathlessly reporting on bomb threats, even claiming they had been "traced to Russia," and suddenly every single network dropped in completely. Watch several election night coverage vids from different networks and it's uncanny.

They all simultaneously went from Bombs! Bombs! Bombs! to nothing but crickets in a heartbeat. The word had to have gotten out that the threats were coming from the left. Would be quite a story there, if we had any journalists left.

Posted by: Delurker at August 19, 2025 08:57 AM (NhiOW)

174 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 19, 2025 08:57 AM (53oGX)

175 Ukrainian Drones Hit Refineries, Drive Russia’s Gas Prices to Record Highs . . .

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Next you'll be telling me that Ukraine has recently targeted Russian nuclear power plants.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 08:57 AM (BENy5)

176 I have a theory that roads could be built to last a lot longer without cracking or potholes. The material science exists. But they don't build them that way because road repair contracts are so lucrative for politically connected cronies.

What is currently in vogue with far too many municipalities is the "Fuck You" gesture of "paving" with Chipseal.

Give us all of your tax money, now we'll replace your roads with stuff even third world drivers curse at.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Gypsies are standing there going "WTF?"

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 08:58 AM (X98Jy)

177 >>They have one mind, one purpose, one speed -- all out Trump derangement.

And in the current Trump administration, his press people are treating the press with the same contempt, such as responding to silly press inquiries with memes.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 08:58 AM (GbwPZ)

178
They don't call it Carnival for nothing...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

No way, no way at all I'd take a cruise. It may be more comfortable than a plane flight, but you're stuck with the same people for longer. Jail, with the opportunity of sinking.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 08:58 AM (kkTda)

179 Ask a Leftist why they shouldn't be pleased and proud that our president is working tirelessly to end a war and mass slaughter that he had nothing to do with starting. Look at their dumb cow stare turn into a snarling mask of hatred as they spew out stale Leftist imprecations.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 19, 2025 08:58 AM (WHfpM)

180 It has always been hard to believe that the truck-bombing ... was planned by just one or two perpetrators acting alone.

No, it wasn't. For people who have no idea what goes into an attack like that, maybe. But it was very easy to plan. Just like planning an attack on bridge-tunnels is actually pretty easy, once you overcome the obtaining of explosive material.

There's no need for the FBI to help with these things. Even though they've been involved in all sorts of conspiracies in the last 20 years....

Posted by: GWB at August 19, 2025 08:59 AM (rSsQh)

181 Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs

Looks like fun! /sarc
Not a vacation that relieves the fatigue. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Section 8 Cruise Lines.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 08:59 AM (X98Jy)

182 Chinese company develops humanoid robot to gestate babies, set for commercial sale in 2026 for $14,000

***********

Available at all Ute "R" Us stores.

Posted by: muldoon at August 19, 2025 08:59 AM (/iMjX)

183 We shouldn't be sending even a Nerf Gun refill.

------------

Would you settle for a a Nerf Basketball and Hoop?

/Man, I and my younger brothers would entertain ourselves (to my poor Sainted mother's chagrin) for hours in our tiny bedroom with that toy ... good times, good times.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 08:59 AM (BENy5)

184 There's a road outside of Alexandria, Louisiana that goes from Alexandria to a military base. Was built back in the forties. Concrete. Still as flat and level as when it was built. I'm sure the Army Corps of Engineers had a huge hand in building it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 08:56 AM (X98Jy)

Are you sure you were in Louisiana?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

185 Jail, with the opportunity of sinking.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 08:58 AM (kkTda)

Long as you can resurface, submerged is a smoother ride.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

186 Muslims in general, and Palestinians in particular, reflect the inferiority of Islam as a culture, religion and ethos.

It has to make claims on persons, places and things that their culture had no connection to, even after rejecting what it actually stands for.

They claim Jesus was a Palestinian, but the Gospel expresses so much of how Mohammed was 180 degrees from what Jesus is about. Islam is a lie that lies about its lies.

Being devoid of reason, ability or scruples, Muslims try to make up for their deficiencies by lieing. But they still know that they are inferior.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 19, 2025 09:00 AM (47/pr)

187
I remember reading (while standing in a bookstore) something by Henry Petroski about road building. Yes, you can make roads to last, but the time and cost is a great deal more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2025 09:00 AM (kkTda)

188 LCPS opened an investigation into three male students months prior after they complained about the female student’s presence, and the district has now decided to suspend two of the boys, according to WJLA, an ABC affiliate. The female student, who purportedly claims to be male, allegedly used the boys locker room several times and even filmed inside to catch “the reaction of male students.”
___

Loudoun County needs an enema.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2025 09:01 AM (Dv3i1)

189 In 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves played an MLB record 20 scoreless innings before the Pirates win 2-0 in the 21st inning.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:38 AM (uvfbN)

The real tragedy was that the stadium ran out of beer during the 15th inning.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2025 09:01 AM (g8Ew8)

190 What is currently in vogue with far too many municipalities is the "Fuck You" gesture of "paving" with Chipseal.

Give us all of your tax money, now we'll replace your roads with stuff even third world drivers curse at.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
=======
Chip and seal makes economic sense for reviving the surfaces of minor roads. One of the major problems with asphalt (or chip and seal) is as the binder becomes tired, it cracks, deforms, etc. leading to water infiltration into the road subbase. That leads to out right blowouts--potholes, etc. Asphalt replacement requires stripping the old layers of asphalt and placing new lifts down--more expensive, more permanent, and more time consuming.

If an transportation agency acts before the road surface of an asphalt road deteriorates thoroughly, then chip and seal can prevent and extend the life of the asphalt below by sealing the surface from water infiltration.

FWIW, chip and seal almost always is in highway construction summer season as the tar needs hot temperatures to help the road tar fully bind with the previous road surface and the aggregate.

Chip and seal over concrete though is a cosmetic fix.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:02 AM (ctrM5)

191 ... and I cannot envision Zelensky making any sort of concessions to stop the bloodshed ...

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The end of billions in grift for he and his oligarchic friends -- and certainly his non-piano-playing "political puppet career" and likely his life -- should The War end?

Not very likely ... (but if anyone can do it, it certainly would be The Trumpster).

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:02 AM (BENy5)

192 In 1918 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves played an MLB record 20 scoreless innings before the Pirates win 2-0 in the 21st inning.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 19, 2025 08:38 AM (uvfbN)

The real tragedy was that the stadium ran out of beer during the 15th inning.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2025 09:01 AM (g8Ew

The real tragedy was that there were workers with enough free time to attend the game. -- WEF

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

193 Are you sure you were in Louisiana?
Posted by: rhennigantx

LOL. Yes. It goes from Alexandria to a military base on the way to, I believe, Marksville. We took it going to a casino 30 years ago or so from my ex's grandparent's house. My now ex f-i-l told us how the military built it. That road was as flat and smooth as any new road built.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 09:03 AM (X98Jy)

194 Looks like fun! /sarc
Not a vacation that relieves the fatigue. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 08:56 AM (GbwPZ)

I also here many stories where at next port o call they are left dockside.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

195 I also here many stories where at next port o call they are left dockside.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 19, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

Because they miss movement or are they put ashore?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

196 Nothing gives me the warm fuzzies like reading that Maureen Dowd's sister's car was repeatedly stolen, crashed into, and the subject of many bogus speeding tickets.

Except maybe that video of the two banshees in "I"m an AG!" Newport getting arrested. I hope that shrill bitch kicking and screaming gets a roomie whose nickname is Butch Bertha.

Posted by: vivi at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (KruEU)

197 You mean The Pacific Princess, Captain Stubing, Gopher, Doc, Isaac, and Julie was Hollywood hype? I'm saddened.

Posted by: Lido Deck Lonnie at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (G5+As)

198 Also, didn't come cruise line recently ban blacks? Is that true?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

199 [snip]

Chip and seal over concrete though is a cosmetic fix.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:02 AM (ctrM5)

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Unless I meet whig at the TX MoMe, I'm convinced that this is an advanced AI ChatBot (or the smartest Renaissance Man living).

j/k Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (BENy5)

200 Our road sees a lot of heavy traffic. When patching it, and the county's involved, it's a half-assed chip and seal job done by hand that lasts about a week.

And is worse off when winter rolls around and the plows tear it up even more.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2025 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

201 Muldoon News Item #327: Serving a vital role in the egg industry, the chicken tenders pull alongside exhausted hens, refueling them for another night of egg-laying.

Posted by: muldoon at August 19, 2025 09:07 AM (/iMjX)

202 There's a road outside of Alexandria, Louisiana that goes from Alexandria to a military base. Was built back in the forties. Concrete. Still as flat and level as when it was built. I'm sure the Army Corps of Engineers had a huge hand in building it.
Posted by: rickb223

A lot depends on truck traffic. Heavy trucks (often well overloaded) deteriorate roads much faster than car traffic. Our older interstates were designed around a 73k limit on weight--thus they began to fail more rapidly when 80k truck limits became the law of the land.

In farm states, it is not uncommon for farm trucks toting grain from harvest to be as much as 30-40k over that 80k limit if they can get away with it or try to judge loads without going across a scale. Common in some other local industries as well to send out overloaded trucks.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:07 AM (ctrM5)

203 The Lone Star lockup opened this morning. 5,000 capacity

Posted by: Ben Had at August 19, 2025 09:07 AM (dxWFK)

204 Also, didn't come cruise line recently ban blacks? Is that true?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

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"Black Passengers Say They Feel Targeted By Cruise Line After Discovering Its Policy: The new Carnival Cruise rules are under fire for allegedly targeting Black culture and music"

https://is.gd/FKuzeY

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:08 AM (BENy5)

205 198 Also, didn't come cruise line recently ban blacks? Is that true?

no but they banned certain music from being played over the intercom on board

I assume hip hop or rap or whatever

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 19, 2025 09:08 AM (Pv3Rg)

206 Imagine telling a pre-Obama Democrat that by 2025 their party would adamantly demand sex changes for children, keeping violent illegal immigrants in the country, and eight dollar a gallon gasoline.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Isn't progress amazing!?!? Think how wonderful things will be in 2042 if we can get AOC elected president!!! Progress is uncomfortable for those in power and with privilege, so we may have to be a bit deceitful and ease people into, but once in place, they can't complain about the results!

Posted by: Far Left Activist at August 19, 2025 09:08 AM (JCZqz)

207 - One of the hardest things to do is get people to accept that they've bought into a lie/had the wool pulled over their eyes.

Or even to get them to look at evidence, like say news reports from a local TV station's interviews immediately after the fact, or over a thousand experts in their field signing onto a view that goes against a widely accepted narrative.

Yes, I've been there, too.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 19, 2025 09:08 AM (RGbzo)

208 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2025 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

209 Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs

Carnival used to market their ships as the "Fun Ships." I think I'd rather run with the bulls in Pamplona.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 19, 2025 09:10 AM (rJ48h)

210 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 19, 2025 09:10 AM (5xVe6)

211 Also, didn't come cruise line recently ban blacks? Is that true?

no but they banned certain music from being played over the intercom on board

I assume hip hop or rap or whatever
Posted by: Black Orchid

And personal portable speakers.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 09:10 AM (X98Jy)

212 Unless I meet whig at the TX MoMe, I'm convinced that this is an advanced AI ChatBot (or the smartest Renaissance Man living).

j/k Cheers!
Posted by: ShainS
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ShainS.
In this case, it was because I was in Air Force Civil Engineering for a hitch to pay for grad school. A lot of what we did was maintain runways even for the big boys like tankers and bombers plus the roads around air bases. Road building is a science (and I guess you can include runways as part of that).

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:10 AM (ctrM5)

213 Any truth to the rumor James Comey will be a backup dancer on the upcoming Swift tour?

Posted by: Lurch Does The Frug at August 19, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

214 One of the hardest things to do is get people to accept that they've bought into a lie/had the wool pulled over their eyes.

I supported the GWoT... at least until I realized it was a war on American kids dumb enough to sign up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

215 Except maybe that video of the two banshees in "I"m an AG!" Newport getting arrested. I hope that shrill bitch kicking and screaming gets a roomie whose nickname is Butch Bertha.
Posted by: vivi at August 19, 2025 09:05 AM (KruEU)

Vapid entitlement, potty mouths, defiant wine-soaked refusal to accept reasonable and lawful directives -- all the elements. The comments on X are hilarious.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 19, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)

216 Rap and hip hop aren’t music.

Posted by: Bulg at August 19, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

217 Anna Lulis
@annamlulis

This is beautiful.

@Riley_Gaines_
reveals her dog was the first to know she was carrying her unborn baby.

Dogs can sense hormonal changes in pregnancy — often becoming extra protective and clingy. Sometimes they know before you do.

https://tinyurl.com/3ar3tdbe

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

218 Bonjour horde and best wishes for a productive and healthy day!

PS: airplane travel sucks these days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 19, 2025 09:12 AM (7n/yw)

219 200 Our road sees a lot of heavy traffic. When patching it, and the county's involved, it's a half-assed chip and seal job done by hand that lasts about a week.

And is worse off when winter rolls around and the plows tear it up even more.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Winter is tough on pavements in the snowy and icy areas. Summer is tough on pavements in the South.

You get both conditions between the South and the North aka border states--hot summers AND snow and ice.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (ctrM5)

220 > Also, didn't come cruise line recently ban blacks? Is that true?
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Carnival (aptly named) banned "black music" according to some people associated with booking cruises on the "Floating Waffle House."

This, after repeated riots over food, drinks, entertainment, etc. onboard several ships.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

221 In the wake of 9/11 (and I don't think I am giving away any big ideas or secrets here) I had often thought that as bad as that attack was, can you imagine multiple cargo ships (that are always sailing up and into New York Harbor) each loaded to capacity with AN-FO sailing up the harbor and grounding themselves under the bridges and over the Battery, Lincoln and Midtown tunnels then exploding. The death and destruction would've been orders of magnitude greater than 9/11.

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The Battle of Porktown?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (BENy5)

222 Road building is a science (and I guess you can include runways as part of that).
Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:10 AM (ctrM5)

People who know things about roads can be so annoying. My youngest is about to graduate with a civil engineering degree and whenever I bitch about something related to road construction or traffic they throw facts at me. Ugh, kids today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

223 Vapid entitlement, potty mouths, defiant wine-soaked refusal to accept reasonable and lawful directives -- all the elements. The comments on X are hilarious.
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American culture in the 50s is horrible due to racism and women being kept out of the workplace. Today's culture is way better because there's no racism and women being in the workplace. I guess.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (Dv3i1)

224 >>Chinese company develops humanoid robot to gestate babies, set for commercial sale in 2026 for $14,000

Aaaaand then. . . . https://tinyurl.com/4dft33ax

Imagine every post-it note is a human life. Oh wait.
Even Michael Bay understands industrial human farming is evil (seehis "The Island").

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 09:13 AM (GbwPZ)

225 Rap and hip hop aren’t music.
Posted by: Bulg

You can't spell crap without rap.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 19, 2025 09:14 AM (cYBz/)

226 In farm states, it is not uncommon for farm trucks toting grain from harvest to be as much as 30-40k over that 80k limit if they can get away with it or try to judge loads without going across a scale. Common in some other local industries as well to send out overloaded trucks.
Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:07 AM (ctrM5)

So? Gotta get the harvest in any way they can or nobody ain't eating.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2025 09:14 AM (g8Ew8)

227 My memory is John Doe #2 matched a known federal agent that was working white supremacist circles in the early 90s.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2025 09:15 AM (t0Rmr)

228 Iowa might not have a port but MN has a very large international port. Most people don't know that.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 19, 2025 09:15 AM (ycs3a)

229 136 -lon horiuchi. *spit* at both Wace and Ruby Ridge.

Posted by: vivi at August 19, 2025 09:15 AM (KruEU)

230 Congratulations to the lively Riley Gaines and her husband! Babies are a vote for the future of our country. Bless this family!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 19, 2025 09:16 AM (7n/yw)

231 Every road upon which the city's Metro bus runs, the right lane gets all tore up, and especially about the bus stops and intersection stops. It's the braking and acceleration forces of these behemoths.

No matter if asphalt or concrete, though concrete do take a bit longer to show the effects.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2025 09:16 AM (wVcYX)

232 Old school concrete had more aggregate, or better aggregate (sand). Once in a while around town you’ll see pre-war driveways and sidewalks that are almost perfect, it’s a kind of tan color. I think like most things, preparation is 90 percent of it too. Good base prep, and drainage. Frost heave. Tree roots are the bane of sidewalks. But it is remarkable to see new sidewalks cracking within a few years.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 09:17 AM (yKoRs)

233 Remember that this is the same Clinton machine that engineered the Russia Collusion hoax with the same FBI and Intel agencies that worked their fingers to the bone to sabotage and attempt to take down candidate and then President Trump. And the very same operatves, Brennan Comey and Clapper and many if not all of their underlings were working in the FBI, CIA, DoJ and elsewhere in the Deep State when the Murrah Building was leveled.

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* Filegate has entered the chat *

"Filegate" occurred during the Clinton administration in the 1990s and involved the improper retrieval of FBI background files on hundreds of individuals, including many from previous Republican administrations.

Craig Livingstone, director of the White House Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested these files in 1993 and 1994 without the subjects' permission. This led to political accusations, including claims that senior White House officials or First Lady Hillary (later "Killary" of The Arkancides and Benghazi) Clinton may have sought the files for political purposes.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:18 AM (BENy5)

234 193 Are you sure you were in Louisiana?
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Louisiana, because of New Orleans hospitality was one of the last states to raise its drinking age to 21. They lost highway trust funds from the US govt for over a decade because of it putting them in a hole as far as road maintenance across the state. So during that time, the state prioritized what money it had toward the highest priority roads like from Baton Rouge to New Orleans (j/k).

Roads are kind of like roofs and siding on houses or a car--they will deteriorate just from weather alone so regular maintenance is a must.

Get behind the curve and it costs a lot more to fix over time.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:18 AM (ctrM5)

235 ‘Ukrainian Drones Hit Refineries, Drive Russia’s Gas Prices to Record High.’

Yea, sure they did. I believe nothing coming out of this war. It’s all pro-Uke bullshit. Somehow, a backwards country of drunks and hot THOTs, which before the war was barely functioning, suddenly has Heechee drone tech that is so very scary to Putin. Please.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 19, 2025 09:19 AM (DODe4)

236
"Filegate" occurred during the Clinton administration in the 1990s and involved the improper retrieval of FBI background files on hundreds of individuals, including many from previous Republican administrations.

I was amused that after the FNM spent a long time denying Clinton's Lewinsky affair, and arguing that of course he should resign if it was true, when the blue dress came out the FNM instantly pivoted to "well everyone does it and it doesn't matter oh and here is evidence Newt and Bob Livingstone had affairs to"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2025 09:19 AM (t0Rmr)

237 Yea, sure they did. I believe nothing coming out of this war. It’s all pro-Uke bullshit. Somehow, a backwards country of drunks and hot THOTs, which before the war was barely functioning, suddenly has Heechee drone tech that is so very scary to Putin. Please.

REMEMBER SNAKE ISLAND! AND THE GHOST OF KIEV!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2025 09:20 AM (t0Rmr)

238 It is weird that defensive moves were considered a provocation
Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 08:39 AM
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The Rooskies feared that if we could shoot down their incoming ICBMs, we would be more likely to shoot ours at them.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 19, 2025 09:20 AM (xp13L)

239 The left will never lose power because they will always have courts to back them up. You can’t win games when the refs are on the other team’s side.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 19, 2025 09:20 AM (4HxCT)

240 >>Any truth to the rumor James Comey will be a backup dancer on the upcoming Swift tour?

NFL cheerleader is the best I can offer

Posted by: Pawn Shop Guy at August 19, 2025 09:21 AM (GbwPZ)

241 I remember having this argument in the 1990s. On text only BBS. You kids get off my lawn!

Music, by definition, has harmony, melody, and rhythm. “Rap” was arguably missing one or more of those components. Q.E.D.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 09:21 AM (yKoRs)

242 The left will never lose power because they will always have courts to back them up. You can’t win games when the refs are on the other team’s side.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 19, 2025 09:20 AM (4HxCT)

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Tell us about it...

Posted by: Anyone Who Plays the Kansas City Chiefs at August 19, 2025 09:22 AM (ycs3a)

243 Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?

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The chorus from a parody I wrote in '99 after Waco when Karpetbagger Killary was running (being anointed to) the New York State Senate seat:

"Bye, bye, Miss American Lie
Drove Vince Foster to Death's Roster
But Ron Brown chose to fly

Them girls and boys were killed by Your FBI
Screaming 'This Will Be The Day That We Die ...
This Will Be A Village You Fry'"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:22 AM (BENy5)

244 The giveaway that the election night bomb threats were staged by the left could be seen in real time during the election night coverage. Every single network was breathlessly reporting on bomb threats, even claiming they had been "traced to Russia," and suddenly every single network dropped in completely. Watch several election night coverage vids from different networks and it's uncanny.

They all simultaneously went from Bombs! Bombs! Bombs! to nothing but crickets in a heartbeat. The word had to have gotten out that the threats were coming from the left. Would be quite a story there, if we had any journalists left.
Posted by: Delurker at August 19, 2025 08:57 AM (NhiOW)

Most broadcast media use a subscription service called CNN News Source. The stations I worked at used it as well. The service provides everything required to put together a news "show", including sound bites, video clips, copy, Chyron, and graphics. The material is fed via satellite and through the internet to the stations, with servers set up so the news director and producer could access the material and build a show. Been going on for years.

https://www.cnnnewsource.com/

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 19, 2025 09:23 AM (5xuJ/)

245 >>Nobody can say anything here without getting twitterpated and reported as a closet Republican because your view of the party doesn't agree 100% with theirs.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

IT'S FUNNY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR CONVERSATION IS HEAVILY CENSORED YOU GUYS

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 19, 2025 09:23 AM (GbwPZ)

246 I remember having this argument in the 1990s. On text only BBS. You kids get off my lawn!

Music, by definition, has harmony, melody, and rhythm. “Rap” was arguably missing one or more of those components. Q.E.D.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 09:21 AM (yKoRs)

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* Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in '93 had entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 19, 2025 09:24 AM (BENy5)

247 NY Harbor hosted a huge explosion in 1916 when 2 million pounds of ammunition was blown up by German agents. The ammo was headed to England. Called the Black Tom Explosion, after Black Tom Island, technically New Jersey. 5.5 on the Richter Scale, the explosion broke windows in several boroughs and in NJ. Only about 10 killed, though. Shrapnel hit the Statue of Liberty.

Posted by: Ker-Pow! at August 19, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

248 >>Music, by definition, has harmony, melody, and rhythm. “Rap” was arguably missing one or more of those components. Q.E.D.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE RAP HAS MANAGED TO GET WORSE, MUCH WORSE, OVER TIME, INSTEAD OF BETTER.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 19, 2025 09:24 AM (GbwPZ)

249 Maybe they should have simply nuked Moscow in that relatively brief 4 year window where the USA had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. Intended for Berlin, deployed on Hiroshima. But them fellers needed nukin’ too. Save everyone a whole lot of trouble.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 19, 2025 09:25 AM (yKoRs)

250 The Louisiana case is already on SCOTUS docket, oral arguments scheduled Oct 15th.

Potentially huge. Possible SCOTUS finally strikes down Section 2 of VRA. Which would mean no more VRA minority majority raciially gerrymandered districts. Which would cost the D’s about 25 House seats.

Posted by: Aarradin at August 19, 2025 09:26 AM (SohJ5)

251 Any truth to the rumor James Comey will be a backup dancer on the upcoming Swift tour?

He'll be dancing and she'll keep saying, "Back up."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 19, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

252 232 Old school concrete had more aggregate, or better aggregate (sand). Once in a while around town you’ll see pre-war driveways and sidewalks that are almost perfect, it’s a kind of tan color. I think like most things, preparation is 90 percent of it too. Good base prep, and drainage. Frost heave. Tree roots are the bane of sidewalks. But it is remarkable to see new sidewalks cracking within a few years.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Rebar used to be used for routine concrete jobs including driveways, sidewalks, etc. And neither are high traffic areas where you run heavy trucks on them routinely. So the concrete can last in such situations barring surface deterioration.

Ideally though, builder's sand is used rather than playground sand as it is rougher (you can tell by feel) and takes to adhering better in mortar or concrete applications.

But due to expense, you use the aggregate and sand common in your area rather than shipping the best all around the country. Some places use seashells/coral/crushed limestone because they that is what geography handed them to use locally.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:26 AM (ctrM5)

253 Netflix has a 3 part doc on finding and killing bin Laden. It tries to be apolitical and for the most part stays neutral. But for the Obama part a lot of the people involved talked about how their decision making was based on politics .Foe the Bush people that was never an issue, they did what they did (right or wrong) based on what they thought would work.

It was an interesting juxtaposition between the two. For Obama everything was about how the mission would affect re-election. For Bush, it wasn’t a thing. At least not according to the people who worked under him. It’s a nasty twist of irony that Obama got the credit when he basically had to be pulled kicking and screaming into authorizing the mission.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 19, 2025 09:27 AM (4HxCT)

254 73 Biggest weakness: Reacting instead of Acting. The GOPers are masters at controlling the narrative. But rarely do Democrats throw out a popular POLICY (say Medicare For All) then sit back and wait for the reactions.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 19, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)

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I love these people so much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 19, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)

255 Potentially huge. Possible SCOTUS finally strikes down Section 2 of VRA. Which would mean no more VRA minority majority raciially gerrymandered districts. Which would cost the D’s about 25 House seats.
Posted by: Aarradin
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It will also affect state legislatures and local commissions, etc.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:27 AM (ctrM5)

256 Summer is tough on pavements in the South.

You get both conditions between the South and the North aka border states--hot summers

Posted by: whig

108 degree heat with six to eight semi's hauling rock & sand to the cement plants around Dallas, making three to four trips each six days a week.

The county contracts with a company called Four Flushers (Feathers) who do cold patching. Lasts less than a day on certain curves where the tires hit harder. Same spot last three years.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 09:27 AM (X98Jy)

257 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE RAP HAS MANAGED TO GET WORSE, MUCH WORSE, OVER TIME, INSTEAD OF BETTER.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 19, 2025 09:24 AM (GbwPZ)
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I'm pretty sure thats racist.

Posted by: Rachel Dolezal at August 19, 2025 09:28 AM (n9M/T)

258 I love these people so much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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For entertainment purposes?

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:28 AM (ctrM5)

259 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
What is going on with Tampon Tim that this lunatic is begging him to get his sh*t together?

https://tinyurl.com/yrkb7vp5

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

260 255 Potentially huge. Possible SCOTUS finally strikes down Section 2 of VRA. Which would mean no more VRA minority majority raciially gerrymandered districts. Which would cost the D’s about 25 House seats.
Posted by: Aarradin
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It will also affect state legislatures and local commissions, etc.
Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:27 AM (ctrM5)

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And just like that, black women found themselves to be really unimportant to Democrat politics.

Right as they are going to reach their height of internal power in 2028, by the way. It's an interesting juxtaposition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 19, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

261 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE RAP HAS MANAGED TO GET WORSE, MUCH WORSE, OVER TIME, INSTEAD OF BETTER.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER

Tell us about Hick Hop Ben!

Posted by: Country-Fried Snake at August 19, 2025 09:29 AM (G5+As)

262 Even in Zero Dark Thirty you can see the politics of the era if you are paying attention to it.

Obama knew where Osama was for over a year before he finally decided to let the military kill Osama.

Good thing for us I guess that Pakistan had no interest in moving Osama in that time frame...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2025 09:29 AM (t0Rmr)

263 258 I love these people so much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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For entertainment purposes?
Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:28 AM (ctrM5)

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They're like a retarded dog.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 19, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

264 The Daily Sneed™
@Tr00peRR
Meanwhile on a Carnival Cruise.

Allegedly over chicken tenders.

https://tinyurl.com/y5w37sfs
Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)
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How were the tenders? Maybe worth fighting over?

Those guys were so drunk they could barely stand up. That one guy threw a punch and almost fell over. It’s the unlimited booze packages. You have grundles of problematic passengers drinking themselves zotto. Of course there will be violence.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 19, 2025 09:29 AM (DODe4)

265 >>It’s a nasty twist of irony that Obama got the credit when he basically had to be pulled kicking and screaming into authorizing the mission.

I recall reading rumors that Obama and Jarrett kept denying authorization - that it dragged out for weeks and weeks, all the while the team prepared and practiced.
Wonder if we'll ever get the details firsthand.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 09:30 AM (GbwPZ)

266 I came here to chew bubble gum and use this box of tampons on school boys

And I'm all out of bubble gun

Posted by: Tampon Tim at August 19, 2025 09:30 AM (t0Rmr)

267 Nood art

Posted by: rickb223 at August 19, 2025 09:31 AM (X98Jy)

268 >>Good thing for us I guess that Pakistan had no interest in moving Osama in that time frame...

Unfortunate for the Americans held hostage by ISIS that Obama refused to rescue despite knowing their location.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 19, 2025 09:31 AM (GbwPZ)

269 I recall a novel with a plot element of an LNG tanker being used as a weapon in NY Harbor. Can't recall the title or author.

Turn off the LNG cooling, the gas expands and fills in the surface of the harbor until a spark happens. Then, KA-BLAMMO!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 19, 2025 09:31 AM (wVcYX)

270 Fully 50% of black women college grads work government jobs in some form. Fed, State, Local.

Posted by: Nit Picker Ned at August 19, 2025 09:32 AM (G5+As)

271 Fully 50% of black women college grads work government jobs in some form. Fed, State, Local.

And will tell you "next line" after you waited in line for 2 hours because you didn't fill out some form correctly...where the government already has all the information on the form

Posted by: 18-1 at August 19, 2025 09:33 AM (t0Rmr)

272 108 degree heat with six to eight semi's hauling rock & sand to the cement plants around Dallas, making three to four trips each six days a week.

The county contracts with a company called Four Flushers (Feathers) who do cold patching. Lasts less than a day on certain curves where the tires hit harder. Same spot last three years.
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Unfortunately that happens as well. On older concrete interstates, you notice the rougher road surfaces at exit ramps and before bridges, etc. due to braking and acceleration. Asphalt ruts.

That though is beyond my paygrade to figure out the math of that other than weight kills roads--publius or aop could, me, not so much. The greater the weight on the vehicles, the faster it deteriorates as force equals mass times acceleration.

Curves do also suffer water accumulation more as they drain, almost always the lowest end is the part that deteriorates first versus the top bank side of the curve if done right.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:34 AM (ctrM5)

273 They're like a retarded dog.
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I would say rabid but that is just me.

Posted by: whig at August 19, 2025 09:37 AM (ctrM5)

274 Ukrainian Drones Hit Refineries, Drive Russia’s Gas Prices to Record High.’

Yea, sure they did. I believe nothing coming out of this war. It’s all pro-Uke bullshit. Somehow, a backwards country of drunks and hot THOTs, which before the war was barely functioning, suddenly has Heechee drone tech that is so very scary to Putin. Please.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 19, 2025 09:19 AM (DODe4)

Agree. Everything on YouTube is pro-Uke.

Hey, ya'll! Wanna see a Russian tank blown up by a Uke mine? (It's never a Uke vehicle.)

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 19, 2025 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

275 We either need to engineer roads to handle the weight of the trucks or limit the weight of the trucks. This seems like a classic case of a socialized cost and a private benefit.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 19, 2025 09:41 AM (Skc+N)

276 Trump also declared a pubic safety emergency in the nation’s capital

J.J.,

You may want to fix the above sentence...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 19, 2025 09:47 AM (/HDaX)

277 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

The US needs to take itself away from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict even if it affects several, large U.S. NPs. Zelensky has one "but" after another, and that'll never end if he's not held responsible.

End U.S. Humanitarian Parole for all male Ukrainians ages 18 on up that can be conscripted into military service in Ukraine. (It should have been done long ago. BTW, every home window installation contractor around the tri-state area has those "fighting age" men on payrolls. Perhaps good jobs American citizens would like to have?)

Send them back, directly to Kyiv, and allow Zelinsky to deal with his country's problems. (Oh, then he won't get reelected? Too bad.)

>AP, World News, 'Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to replenish its beleaguered troops'

Note: Actually, the Age of Mobilization was lowered from 27 to 25. Men aged 18-60 must register for the draft, and men aged 25-60 can be mobilized.

But: BBC, 'Conscription squads send Ukrainian men into hiding' 17 June 2024

KYIV Independent, 'As US pushes Ukraine to lower conscription age, why won’t Kyiv draft younger men?' by Elsa Court, Updated Jan. 13, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 19, 2025 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

278 The joys of redistricting!

From those brave TX democrats who could not honestly face their own constituents.

NBC News, yesterday, in part, "And the redistricting plan passed the state Senate earlier this week over the protests of state Democrats. While most of the Democratic state Senators walked out during the debate over the bill, two remained, allowing the bill to pass."
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To Louisiana, a state with a significant issues with the tracking and welfare of unaccompanied migrant children in the United States. Any why not? Could it be the, You join us, we'll hide those people in your area, and you're guaranteed a political seat in the future. Yay!

Proportionality, like we played in PA?
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Aww, poor former FBI Director James Comey is scared.

>NBC News, Oct 7, 2020, 'Taylor Swift endorses Joe Biden for President' Swift had largely stayed out of politics before 2018 out of fear of isolating her audience.

She had provided cover for their dirty deeds - and not just for Comey but slews of others - even if that were never ever her intention. (Now it may be, "... Never Ever Getting Back Together," at least as it once seemed to be.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 19, 2025 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

279 Regarding the OK City bombing... Although widely reported as such, this was not an ANFO bomb. It was actually ANNM, which is Ammonium Nitrate-Nitromethane, which is a far more witchy brew than ANFO. In particular, the detonation velocity of ANNM is significantly higher than for ANFO, and ANNM is far easier to initiate as an explosive.

Posted by: DaveK at August 19, 2025 10:07 AM (zAQ/x)

280 When Pepsi held an online contest in 2012 to name a new Mountain Dew flavor, 4chan users hijacked it, flooding the rankings with names like “Diabeetus.” That same year, they rigged a contest where fans could vote for Taylor Swift to perform at their school. I hesitate to tell you this part, but they rigged it so that the winning school was the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.

Posted by: SMOD at August 19, 2025 10:17 AM (RHGPo)

281 I'll always remember that picture of the OKC firefighter carrying the lifeless little girl after the 1995 bombing. A conservative talk radio personality interviewed him after Clinton stuck his fat foot in his mouth, the firefighter admitted he listen(ed) to El Rushbo.

Posted by: Rex B at August 19, 2025 10:35 AM (+xk6Q)

282 off topic, but that Victoria banshee in Newport is in senior management at Pepsi. A website reports "Her skills include communicating with senior business leaders on complex data, analytics and artificial intelligence solutions."
Maybe her problem is too much time on artificial intelligence and not on the old-fashioned kind.

Posted by: vivi at August 19, 2025 10:50 AM (KruEU)

283 "even though it's [Ukrainian] people's blood being shed in the main"

That's partly true, and partly false.

With respect to civilians, it's absolutely correct. The Russians deliberately target civilians with missiles and drones, while the Ukrainians make a conscious effort to aim for Russian military and economic targets.

War criminals do love their war crimes.

But with regard to military personnel, it's not true at all. Military attrition rates are anywhere from 2.5 to 5 Russian casualties for every Ukrainian casualties. Mostly because Ukraine benefits from the defender's advantage on the battlefield. But perhaps some of that is attributable to Russia being more beholden to moribund Soviet tactics.

(Of course, Russia's population is 3x that of Ukraine's. So, attrition rates have to be higher than 3 for Ukraine to win the attritional war.)

Posted by: JTP at August 19, 2025 02:24 PM (8daDi)

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