The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/20/25

Good morning kids. So it certainly seems as if the Russo/Ukraine conflict might at long last be on the road or at the very least will have taken the first steps along the road to ending. And that is due in no small part to the efforts of President Trump. That said it is encouraging that he has loudly proclaimed that there will be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

And yet, WTF is this?!

American support would particularly take the form of air support. Whether that means combat air patrols and air policing or the deployment of intelligence assets to feed information to European forces on the ground is presently unclear. Nevertheless, President Trump said: “When it comes to security [the Europeans are] willing to put people on the ground, we’re willing to help them with things, especially… by air because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.”

No war, however it ended, either by a clear military defeat and official surrender of one side or by an armistice or some other political accord ever stopped the mutual animosity and distrust of the victor and the vanquished for each other. I can't imagine Zelensky provoking Putin but I do think Putin will likely probe the resolve of the EU and President Trump, and that means air to air combat and at that point things can and likely could get out of hand.

Aside from facilitating an end to the bloodshed, it is up to each side to behave in a civilized manner once the ink dries on the Neville Chamberlain stationery and it's up to the EU to secure their own damned borders and security if they really think Vladimir Putin has the manpower and ability to roll all the way to and even cross the English Channel.

From my perspective, and I could be dead wrong, it seems to be in in Russia's best interest, geopolitically, domestically and economically to end the fighting. The greatest threats to global security come from Communist China and the global Islamic cause. Regardless of Putin's behavior vis a vis invading Ukraine, down the road it would be in our interest to have him in our corner as an ally with a common cause against bth of the aforementioned threats. But the Chi-Coms are now linked closely with Putin and putting a wedge between those two would be a challenge for sure. That's another reason why getting America involved in keeping the peace is not in our best interest.

Speaking of the Communist threat, over here in the US of A, whether or not he can actually do it, the President got a giant cheer from me and every sane American for announcing his intention to do away with mail-in balloting for future elections.

Of course there was an equal and opposite reaction from the clinically insane crowd:

Democrat Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a man who identifies as a woman, claimed President Trump is waging an “all-out assault” against “American democracy” because he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines.
“This president is taking notes from his favorite dictator. Let’s be clear: a president with popular policies wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts, ban voting machines, or abolish vote-by-mail,” the transgender-identifying lawmaker said in a post to X on Monday evening.

American democracy is a myth, up there with Palestine and the Loch Ness Monster. Or at best a euphemism for Democrat-Party Dictatorship. At the very least kudos to the President for at the very least bringing this issue to the forefront of public discourse where the longer it remains in the spotlight, the more the Prsident's point of the threat to voting an election security is made.

Look at the reaction to calling out the National Guard in DC to combatting crime. And now look at the figures, that is the ones that the DC PD did not fake (see below) since he called out the Guard show how doing so has immediately made a difference.

The investigation raises broader questions about the reliability of crime statistics in Democrat-run jurisdictions.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Mental health diagnoses will spread like wildfire through schools, not because kids are sicker, but because being “special” has become a badge of belonging. (and a means to persecute non-leftist parents-jjs)
JB Pritzker's mandated 'mental health screenings' for school children is a data grab, not compassion
Daniel Greenfield: The book that the Communists wanted to kill is more relevant than ever.
Animal Farm Turns 80

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

Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez filed inside her Tesla when ICE officials apprehended her last Friday in Los Angeles, California. (Give us your scum, your criminals, your teeming human vermin yearning to breed and infect us - jjs)
Illegal Alien Influencer that Filmed ICE Raids Arrested While Livestreaming
The driver of the semi, Harjinder Singh, 28, of India, was arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and is being held on an ICE detainer, WFLA reported.
DeSantis Blames California’s Sanctuary City Policies For Deadly Crash in Florida Caused By Illegal Alien Truck Driver
Indian illegal immigrant alien who killed three with illegal U-turn was able to use the work permit to obtain a CDL from California.
Deadly Florida Crash Suspect is Illegal Alien Granted Work Permit by Biden Junta
A top federal prosecutor in California says most suspects his office has charged in anti-deportation riots are U.S. citizens, calling the trend “bizarre.”
EXCLUSIVE: Acting US Attorney Points Out ‘Bizarre’ Trend In California Anti-ICE Rioter Cases

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Rose-Jones, who had been previously making threats against the president, traveled to D.C., where she continued to call for Trump to be “eliminated,” Pirro explains in the video.
New York Woman Arrested in D.C. for Threatening to Kill Pres. Trump
. . . because he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines.
Mentally Ill Deranged Pervert (i.e.Transgender) Democrat Rep. "Sarah" McBride Accuses President Trump of ‘All-Out Assault’ on ‘American Democracy’
Roger P. Alford, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the first Trump administration and, until recently, as its principal deputy assistant attorney general in the second Trump administration, has expressed deep concerns about the DOJ’s susceptibility to influence-peddling. In an article published by UnHerd, Alford warned that while some DOJ officials like his former superior Gail Slater uphold MAGA values and the rule of law, there are also “MAGA-in-name-only lobbyists and… DOJ officials enabling them… pursuing a different agenda.”
Ousted DOJ Official Warns of ‘MAGA-in-Name-Only’ Types, And Names Names…

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said that it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with the city of Chicago, Illinois that called for both zoning and land-use reforms to limit the onslaught of polluting businesses in low-income parts of the South Side and West Side of Chicago.
Trump HUD Dismisses Biden Case That Targeted Recycling Company over ‘Equity’
Government benefits make nonwork pay more than work, while inflated housing costs trap younger generations—proof that America’s inequality crisis is built by policy, not fate.
The Motivations for American Inequality

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
History warns us that unchecked power breeds tyranny—Americans must heed Washington’s example and remember Obama’s coup attempt to preserve liberty.
The Past Needs Presence
Gabbard claimed they “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information in a post on X. Several were connected to the assessment of alleged Russian influence in the 2016 election ordered by former President Barack Obama, the New York Post (NYP) first reported.
Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Nearly 40 More Security Clearances In Wake Of Russiagate Fallout

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The U.S. economy could return to the "good, low-inflationary growth" of the 1990s, Bessent said.
Bessent Says U.S. Tariff Revenues To Rise ‘Substantially,’ Focus On Reducing Debt
Georgia, which has been called the “Hollywood of the South,” created an entire industry in the Peach State after a suite of tax breaks were initiated as an incentive to entice film and TV production to the state. Other nearby states, such as Louisiana, also jumped on the bandwagon. And it worked for years. But now, Hollywood has found another — and cheaper — sugar daddy overseas.
Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe
[So-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies allowed at least 400,000 foreign students at U.S. colleges to take U.S. white-collar jobs in 2024.
Citizenship Chief Says Federal Work Permits for Foreign Grads Are ‘Depressing Wages’
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
“Israel remains consistent in its policy and demands the release of all 50 hostages.”
Report: Israel Rejects Hamas’ Partial Hostage Deal, Wants Release of All Captives
"Choose three people that I’m going to kill and three people that I’m going to shoot in the knee."
Israeli Hostage Reveals Hamas’ Barbaric Execution Game

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We allowed a Muslim terrorist sprung by Hamas into America.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Muslim Terrorist Traded for Oct 7 Hostages to Appear at Same Event
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
He tried to shake off their comments, at first — until he said he heard the irate woman call him a “k–e” and shout that “your daughter deserved to die.”
Deranged neighbors hurl antisemitic slurs, mock grieving father of Georgia woman killed working for Israel’s border patrol: video
My children go to a Zionist Jewish summer camp. It’s the kind of place that instills pride in Jewish identity and love for Israel while giving kids the normal joys of camp: canoeing, hiking, and endless games of soccer. But on the last Friday before the session ended, the kids and staff experienced a scare that revealed just how fragile Jewish life in America has become.
A stranger told me I was sending my kids to ‘Nazi camp’ — this shows how mainstream anti-Jew hate has become
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The use of the hotel for migrants had sparked local outrage after an illegal alien from Ethiopia had allegedly sexually assaulted a local 14-year-old girl just days after breaking into the country and being put up by the government in the Bell.
Major Win for England Anti-Mass Migration Protests as Judge Orders Epping Migrant Hotel Shut Down
Tower Hamlets Council, led by Bangladesh-born Mayor Lutfur Rahman, of the pro-'Palestinian' Aspire Party, has drawn criticism for moving quickly to remove the English national flag, despite previously allowing 'Palestinian' flags to be flown from public infrastructure in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.
London Officials Are Tearing Down English Flags.

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The virus that ran its course in more than seven hundred people, mostly children, in the Mennonite and surrounding communities since January appears to have lost its virulence in the area. As TX DSHS reported, more than 42 days have elapsed since a “new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission.”
West Texas Measles Outbreak Ends, Foiling Media’s Efforts To Make It The Next Pandemic
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Meanwhile the U.S. is slowly getting away from the China-Syndrome inspired “Nuclear Winter” for these power plants, as shuttered facilities are reopening.
Swarm of Jellyfish Forces Shutdown of French Nuclear Power Plant
Politicized investing has hurt America’s domestic energy production, economy, and national security.
The ESG Bubble Is Bursting
Now is the time for policymakers in developing economies to stop treating plant food as public enemy number one.
How CO2 regulation endangers developing economies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"While Democrats continue to coddle violent criminals, President Trump [is] focused on putting them behind bars."
STATS ARE IN: D.C. Crime Already Dramatically Lower After Trump Crackdown
The investigation raises broader questions about the reliability of crime statistics in Democrat-run jurisdictions.
DOJ Investigates Manipulation of Crime Stats by D.C. Police Leaders.
The incident involved four robbers who busted into the Menashe & Sons Jewelers store. The crew reportedly stole an estimated $2 million worth of items that included diamonds, luxury watches, and gold.
VIDEO: Seattle Police Chief Was Yards Away When $2 Million Smash and Grab Occurred at Jewelry Store (was it Soviet Jewelry? Never mind - jjs)
Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan of Rhode Island had been asked to leave a restaurant before local police were called to the scene, according to TMZ. Bodycam video posted on YouTube by NBC 10 WJAR showed the interaction between Flanagan, her friend Veronica Hannan and the police, with Flanagan demanding the officer turn his bodycam off while saying she was “an AG” almost a dozen times.
‘I Don’t Give A Sh*t’: Cop Shuts Down Prosecutor’s Pathetic Power Trip, Throws Her And Drunk Friend In Jail
Henderson: “ I believe that this is a manufactured emergency to distract Americans from other pressing national issues of concern. But the only way for the president to justify having all of these troops deployed on American streets is for there to be some sort of incident. And so, I do believe that this is an effort to provoke the residents of the district into some violent act.”
D.C. Councilwoman: Trump’s Trying to Provoke Residents to Be Violent

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
An investigation found that all these school districts have policies that allow students to use facilities based on their gender identity.
Five Virginia School Districts Labeled ‘High Risk’ Over Title IX Violations
While CNN and Democrat leaders are freaking out over the notion that a conservative organization could have even the slightest influence over what happens in a school, the test developed by PragerU simply aims to ensure teachers are “not pushing a left-wing agenda on to our kids,” Oklahoma’s top education official said.
CNN Is Outraged that Oklahoma Wants Leftist Teachers to Pass PragerU’s Common Sense Assessment to Get a Job
This would encourage more traditional, less politicized instruction in military-run public schools and boost recruitment from the most pro-America demographics.
Defense Department May Adopt Pro-America Test For K-12 Schools, Military Academies
The campaign comes in response to a Justice Department determination that the school ignored anti-Semitism in violation of civil rights law
George Washington University Student Groups Revolt Over Trump Anti-Semitism Crackdown, Demand 'Sanctuary Campus' Free From Police

THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Ballot dumps are suspicious. Election law requires ballots be dropped off by the voter, a member of the voter’s family, the voter’s household
Drop Box Camera Catches Ballot Stuffing In Fraud-Plagued Michigan Town
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Gardon is not shy to take victory laps over what he sees as living “rent-free” in the president’s head...
Meet Newsom Press Flack Izzy Gardon: Trolling Trump, with $40 Billion in Fire Relief at Risk (Gardon with an H - jjs)
At least he's consistent. (Cancer is as cancer does - jjs)
Rep. Jamie Raskin Calls for Letting Criminals Roam Free in D.C. and Hamas in Israel
“Basically, every time we overturned a rock, we found something under it that was either filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients or reduced agency oversight,” he recounted to (Miranda)Devine.
Lee Zeldin tells ‘Pod Force One’ how Stacey Abrams and Obama, Biden alums cashed in on $20B climate ‘slush fund’
POLITICS
If you need a laugh, try to imagine Joe Biden or any recent president holding court in the way Donald Trump is doing it. To double the laugh, try to imagine any of the current presidential wannabes sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office.
Michael Goodwin: Trump’s unique talents make him a true leader – and have redefined what it means to be commander in chief
Trump was the choice of voters who had enough of the Obama Democrats who were wrecking the country.
The Backlash Presidency
'Donors see the DNC as rudderless, off message and leaderless,' a Democrat adviser says
DNC 'Wildly Trails' RNC in Fundraising as Donors Bemoan Party's Direction: Report (It's gone in the same direction since Woodrow freaking Wilson! - jjs)
Waiting for a natural course-correction and a pendulum swing after radicals have already taken power is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with America’s future.
Mamdani Versus the Statue of Liberty
Three guesses.
Who’s Behind Zohran Mamdani?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
U.S. President Donald Trump gave his personal assurance that there will be no American boots on the ground in a post-peace deal Ukraine security operation because that will be the job of European states.
President Trump Says American Planes in the Air But Not Boots on the Ground for Ukraine Security Mission
“There can be no end of this war without security guarantees,” he added. “I’ve got one goal here. To make sure there’s no third invasion. If America would tell the world, Russia and Ukraine, we have Europe’s back if there’s another fight in Ukraine, that you would be picking a fight with the United States if there was a third invasion, there will never be a third invasion. And Donald Trump is setting that in motion. As to land swaps, remember, China is watching. Don’t do anything in Ukraine that would entice China to take Taiwan.”
Light-Loafers Lindsay Graham: Ukraine Will Have to Recognize Parts of Ukraine Will Be Under Russian Control
Despite protests, President Trump delivers peace.
In Ukraine, the ‘Buts’ Win in the End
Representatives of NATO and the EU arrived uninvited at the Ukraine negotiations in Washington. And Donald Trump sent them back home with plenty of baggage.
Peace Talks in Washington: The New Center of Power
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Kim made his remarks while attending the launch of the new 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon at North Korea’s western port city of Nampo. North Korean state media claims the destroyer will be capable of carrying nuclear missiles when it becomes operational in 2026.
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un Orders More Nuclear Weapons
Move over, Prince Andrew.
A Blockbuster Royal Scandal in Norway
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The effort aims to protect livestock, secure the food supply, and bolster national security by preventing the spread of the New World screwworm. The parasitic, flesh-eating fly larva can decimate cattle populations and even burrow through human skin.
What Is the New World Screwworm, and Why Is the USDA Spending $750 Million to Stop It?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The black hole, estimated to have the mass of 300 million suns, sits in the center of one of the mysterious “little red dots” that Webb has discovered in the early universe that remain a mystery. This black hole suggests each is an early galaxy with its own super-massive black holes.
Webb discovers another “oldest black hole”
Scientists comparing the spectroscopy of samples returned from the near Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have found they closely resemble the much larger main belt asteroid Polana, suggesting all three formed at the same time and place.
Scientists link near Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu to much larger main belt asteroid (Bennu & Ryugu opened for Bennie & the Jets at the Fillmore East in '71 - jjs)

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
‘Ultimately we would love to see the Coalition of States reshape the culture of America towards the next generation so that child gender mutilation would become unthinkable.’
This Coalition Could Apply Pressure To Blue States Refusing To Protect Kids From Trans Mutilation
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Trump singled out the Smithsonian, which he deemed "OUT OF CONTROL" with wokeness.
Trump Vows To Gut Wokeness From Our Museums: ‘We Are Not Going To Allow This’
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is in the middle of an “orderly wind-down” across its operations after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting funds to NPR and PBS earlier this month, meaning the well of public money is almost dry.
Far-Left Documentary Filmmakers Scramble for Funding After Spending Cuts Kill Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Christian Toto: Does Kenya Barris' re-imagining fit into a President Trump 2.0 culture?
Could Woke Backlash Crush ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake?
Male cheerleaders and end zone social justice messaging.
The Woke NFL Hates Football Fans
'What Tomorrow Brings' becomes an unstoppable family affair
How This Indie Filmmaker Stared Down Identity Politics

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Comments

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1 I'll let the others know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 07:38 AM (O7YUW)

2 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Anyone else having serious lag accessing the 'acecomments.mu.nu' side of the site? (30 to 45 seconds to get a response...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 07:41 AM (O7YUW)

5 NYPost: Elon Musk reportedly eyeing JD Vance for 2028 as he hits the brakes on plans for a new political party

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:42 AM (GIf+b)

6 Observable narrative shift in the Trump-derangement media contingent over Ukraine. Now the question is not whether Trump can achieve a peace but can he guarantee it will last after he's gone and forever for all eternity???!!!!

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 07:43 AM (UseAb)

7 The NFL has officially ended its contract with LGBTQ+ advocacy group Stonewall and announced that team captains will no longer be allowed to wear rainbow armbands in support of LGBTQ+ inclusion. Additionally, other rainbow-themed items such as shoelaces and wristbands will be banned on the field. This watershed announcement follows a meeting held this Tuesday with captains from all 32 NFL teams, marking a surprising shift away from visible LGBTQ+ support during games.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:44 AM (GIf+b)

8 Air support.

Sure.

Some balloons and a few cannisters of helium. We'll ship them by FedEx. That should be it. No American involvement.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 07:45 AM (jvJvP)

9 If the Euros want to send their sons to fight for Ukraine let them.

Trump has no interest in that.

It's neocon wish.

They won't of course. Their objective is shitting on their own people and giving them Futbol.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 07:46 AM (fV+MH)

10
Veronica Hannan, "champion of diversity in STEM" & friend of "I'M AN AG" Devon Hogan Flanagan, went bananas during arrest. She escaped cuffs, growled, hissed, kicked, screamed, "NOOOOO!"

All they had to do was leave.

Police: "What's wrong with you? You're acting like a kid!"

Perhaps we should bundle up a Bronze Star and award it to her for being "a champion of diversity in STEM". I mean, come on -- CHAMPION!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 07:47 AM (Tv15w)

11 Anyone else having serious lag accessing the 'acecomments.mu.nu' side of the site? (30 to 45 seconds to get a response...)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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Yes. And sometimes it takes a while for just the main page to load. Started a couple of days ago.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 07:47 AM (XvL8K)

12 There's something reductive about Trump 2.0 that I am really liking. There's a pronounced "nice Gordian knot you got there" theme to a lot of the stuff he does. So many things that are obvious were never done because That's Not Who We Are, when it turns out that's exactly who we are, and we've just been gaslit into believing that everything has this impenetrable bubble of complexity and futility around it preventing anyone from doing anything.

Peace? There's no way to have peace. These are hatreds going back thousands of years, blah de blah de blah.... when it turns out that a great big superpower saying "I don't care who started it, I'll finish it for you if you don't knock it off" is enough to get people to simmer down.

Trade? Trade is so complex that not even the biggest brains in town can fully understand it... when it turns out all you had to say was "You need us more than we need you" and tax the bejeebers out of anything they try to sell us.

Stuff is simple. Anything that sounds too complex to ever be solved is usually that way because people you've never heard of have a vested interest in everyone else being afraid to do the obvious thing that would stop them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 07:47 AM (3pmZ8)

13 Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if verified, would contradict NASA’s classification of the Manhattan-sized object as a comet, the scientist argues in a new blog post. Loeb and a colleague analyzed photos released by NASA of the object in determining that the source of its glow is likely not from the sun. The astrophysicist wrote the “brightness profile around 3I/ATLAS implies that the nucleus dominates the observed light.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:47 AM (GIf+b)

14 Don't worry about the lag.

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at August 20, 2025 07:48 AM (i0F8b)

15 >President Trump Says American Planes in the Air But Not Boots on the Ground for Ukraine Security Mission
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so, Bosnia 2.0

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 07:48 AM (AOsQT)

16 Who interstellar beings be at the top of the oppression pyramid ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:49 AM (GIf+b)

17 Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 20, 2025 07:50 AM (ppG5b)

18 Warai, well said. Amazing what can happen when there is a leader not a consensus taker.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 20, 2025 07:50 AM (dxWFK)

19 "There's something reductive about Trump 2.0 that I am really liking. There's a pronounced "nice Gordian knot you got there" theme to a lot of the stuff he does."

Excellent.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 07:50 AM (fV+MH)

20 @11/Biff Pocoroba:

Thanks for the confirmation. I've emailed Pixy with a problem report.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 07:51 AM (O7YUW)

21
Bodycam video posted on YouTube by NBC 10 WJAR showed the interaction between Flanagan, her friend Veronica Hannan and the police

Well, I was going to say that "among" was the correct word, but if it was the two bimbos together against the police, then "between" would be right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 07:51 AM (kkTda)

22 There is iron in Warai-otoko's words for all to see.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 20, 2025 07:52 AM (ppG5b)

23 I've been noticing more and more that, even in general day to day life, nobody is ever really "crazy" or "stupid". When you see someone doing something that would clearly indicate that they are one or the other, it's usually because they're lying about something or hiding something or trying to screw over somebody who may or may not be you.

Hanlon's Razor is wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 07:52 AM (3pmZ8)

24 " There is iron in Warai-otoko's words for all to see.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

Read the whole thing as ace would say.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 07:52 AM (fV+MH)

25 Darn, I missed the Pixy thread.

Thanks to computers and the amazing power of AI, my cable appointment today will take place sometime between 8am and 5pm.

Sweet.

The CBC is all excited about Israel and Gaza. Perpetually. Canada shouldn't have 24 hour news.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 07:53 AM (jvJvP)

26 I view this site with Brave on my laptop and have had no issues at all.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 07:54 AM (fV+MH)

27 Waiting for a natural course-correction and a pendulum swing after radicals have already taken power is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with America’s future.
Mamdani Versus the Statue of Liberty

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From what I've been reading, and having never lived there, it doesn't sound like there will be any pendulum swinging back...no matter what Mamdani does to the city. Save for Staten Island, it sounds like nearly every resident is clamoring for what he's selling. It also sounds like the days when a Guiliani could get elected are gone.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2025 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

28 Hi, everyone! It's looking like a fun day today. It's amazing that telling a company "I want a tracking number or my money back" makes things progress.

As my mother said "Nobody wants to give a refund."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 07:54 AM (lXoJ5)

29 Problems with some of Biden's pardons unrelated to autopen. Seems they may have been too vague and could be nullities for that reason alone. Emails of DOJ attorneys released pointing it out before they were issued:

https://tinyurl.com/3vc9t4rn

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 07:55 AM (XvL8K)

30
I know there's a large body of moron skepticism over Ukraine, but if there's going to be western troops occupying any portion of that country it's a massive setback for Russia no matter how Putin spins it.

Posted by: Auspex at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

31 The scumbag neighbors harassing the grieving father look exactly like you would expect them to look.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (21iuJ)

32 Harjinder Singh needed a translator in court. He doesn’t know how to read English road signs. California gave him a commercial driver’s license. He made an illegal U-turn and killed 3 people in another vehicle.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (GIf+b)

33 Christopher Hitchens' prescient warning to the British 17 years ago now the reality.

https://tinyurl.com/33bzcf92

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (WHfpM)

34 >The Woke NFL Hates Football Fans
---

that's not it
the NFL wants to keep fringe protests away from The Money Machine
'...so here, here's a nice PC slogan stenciled in the end zone-
and here are some flamboyant guys as cheerleaders
happy now?'

it's a bottom line-protecting move

you will all now yell at me

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

35 Trump's use of "air support" can mean a lot of non-combat related things. Moving materials, troops from European bases or whatever.

We've been flying ISR (recon) flights over Ukraine, the Black Sea and various Easter/Wester European countries since the inception of the war anyway.

Trump frequently uses terms out of context.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

36
As my mother said "Nobody wants to give a refund."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 07:54 AM (lXoJ5)

I had to return something to Amazon the other day and went to a UPS store to drop it off. Looking at the clerk and the customers ahead of me, I told her when I got to the head of the line, "Looks like 80% of your business is returning things to Amazon." She agreed ruefully. Those in line behind me laughed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (kkTda)

37 The NFL has officially ended its contract with LGBTQ+ advocacy group Stonewall and announced that team captains will no longer be allowed to wear rainbow armbands in support of LGBTQ+ inclusion. Additionally, other rainbow-themed items such as shoelaces and wristbands will be banned on the field. This watershed announcement follows a meeting held this Tuesday with captains from all 32 NFL teams, marking a surprising shift away from visible LGBTQ+ support during games.

==

After the inclusion of dancing fairies (fembot boys) in cheerleading outfits, maybe the NFL thinks its mission is complete and there's no more need to inject Big Queer into the franchises.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

38 I view this site with Brave on my laptop and have had no issues at all.
Posted by: eleven
_________

I use Brave on my phone and Edge on my computer. The delays in loading are happening on both for the past few days. Never a problem before that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 07:58 AM (XvL8K)

39 Easter = Eastern

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)

40 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

41 A grieving husband witnessed the Tuesday execution of the man who abducted and killed his wife from a Florida insurance office over four decades ago — stating he “made a promise” to see her tragic case through. Randy White, 70, lost his wife, Janet Renee White, after she was abducted, raped, and stabbed to death by Kayle Bates in 1982 — just minutes after he last said goodbye to her, USA Today reported. Bates, 67, died by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

… I promise you this is nothing like swift justice

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:59 AM (GIf+b)

42 OK the blog needs to go to the shop
I click post and it's about 40 seconds til it posts

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)

43 13 Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 07:47 AM (GIf+b)

PFFT!!!! - -

Giant galactic Amoeba from Star Trek TOS

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2025 07:59 AM (x0n13)

44 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 07:59 AM (77rzZ)

45 Harjinder Singh needed a translator in court. He doesn’t know how to read English road signs. California gave him a commercial driver’s license. He made an illegal U-turn and killed 3 people in another vehicle.

--

Call me crazy, but don't you have to pass some kind of competency test to get a driver's license in CA or are they just handing them out like candy?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

46 “This president is taking notes from his favorite dictator.

Who would that be? Zelenskyy ?

Let’s be clear:

This is your warning that what follows is obfuscation and lies.

a president with popular policies
Yes, on the 80 side of 80/20 issue always means popular policy.

wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts
Trump doesn't control State redistricting in any way.

ban voting machines

How about corrupted ones that are rigged for heavy D bias? Or are those off-limits too?

or abolish vote-by-mail,”
How about dumping ballots? Can he abolish that?

the transgender-identifying lawmaker
Says the mentally ill lunatic who was perfectly fine with "President" Otto Pen and the Post Turtle.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

47
Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe

Let me guess.
* holds envelope to head *

In Ukraine ... next to clandestine CIA sites ... in which bioweapons research is being conducted.

Woo-Woo-Woo-Wuhan!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:00 AM (Tv15w)

48 SMOD.allegedly the DoT is going after the trucking company, the state agency that issued the license and the state officers that stopped him for a speeding violation and ignored his inability to speak English

Posted by: Ben Had at August 20, 2025 08:00 AM (dxWFK)

49 Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced it is placing Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William County Public Schools (the Divisions) in Northern Virginia on high-risk status with the condition that all federal funding flowing to these districts is done by reimbursement only. This action is being taken after all five Divisions have been found in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:00 AM (GIf+b)

50 Yay! The Morning Report! The only place anyone includes me among the "kids"!

Posted by: Ole Man Ribber at August 20, 2025 08:01 AM (G5+As)

51 Morning again all.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2025 08:01 AM (kIhGR)

52 Call me crazy, but don't you have to pass some kind of competency test to get a driver's license in CA or are they just handing them out like candy?

I would like to know more about the loose requirements for obtaining his insurance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:02 AM (a4flb)

53 *Looking at the clerk and the customers ahead of me, I told her when I got to the head of the line, "Looks like 80% of your business is returning things to Amazon."*

+++
Hey. It keeps the doors open.

Posted by: Kohls stores everywhere at August 20, 2025 08:02 AM (XQo4F)

54 "that's not it
the NFL wants to keep fringe protests away from The Money Machine
'...so here, here's a nice PC slogan stenciled in the end zone-
and here are some flamboyant guys as cheerleaders
happy now?'

it's a bottom line-protecting move

you will all now yell at me
Posted by: Don Black"

Yes you are absolutely right Don.

But The Left is still pissing off people who just want to watch a game. And be left alone.

They are dinosaurs.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:02 AM (fV+MH)

55 Animal Farm

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

56 Just testing the comment section.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 08:03 AM (jvJvP)

57 I'm partially of the mindset that there's no point in even having "boots" if we're going to be making promises we'll never put them on anyone else's ground. And it's unbecoming in a commander in chief to ever promise never to unleash the military anywhere, anytime he choses to (suck on that AUMF, Congress). How does anyone know what may or may not need to be done tomorrow? Even Canada and Mexico ought to live under the constant low-level hum of the infinitesimally small but non-zero chance that American boots might be on their soil one day.

I'm fine with a firm statement that there are no intentions to deploy significant military assets anywhere at this time, but "promises" are for horny teenagers trying to get laid, not heads of state.

But the only thing that makes me feel vindicated in taking that position is the corollary position that if you're going to be taking a swing at anyone, it had better be for a very, very damn good reason, and you had better connect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:03 AM (3pmZ8)

58 Nice and fast here in Canada from my tablet.

Did everyone try rebooting?

And I'm not being a smartass. That's always the 1st question.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 08:04 AM (jvJvP)

59 30
I know there's a large body of moron skepticism over Ukraine, but if there's going to be western troops occupying any portion of that country it's a massive setback for Russia no matter how Putin spins it.
Posted by: Auspex at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

Please understand that when I and others object to US involvement, it does not ipso facto mean we support Putin or his invasion.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

60 try this in the Edge browser

test
test
John has a long mustache

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:05 AM (AOsQT)

61 The faggy male cheerleaders creep me out.

Posted by: Most guys at August 20, 2025 08:05 AM (XQo4F)

62 you will all now yell at me
Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

Oh, ok.

I THINK YOU ARE CORRECT

I mean I was just going to say it normally, but if you want me to yell, that's cool too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:05 AM (3pmZ8)

63 Randy White, 70, lost his wife, Janet Renee White, after she was abducted, raped, and stabbed to death by Kayle Bates in 1982 — just minutes after he last said goodbye to her, USA Today reported. Bates, 67, died by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"The autopsy of Ms. White revealed that she had been stabbed twice in the chest by a single blade knife consistent with the type of knife that Kayle normally carried. The stab wounds were the cause of death. As a result of the stab wounds, Ms. White would have lost consciousness in a minute and would have died within five minutes. On her neck was a ligature contusion and hemorrhaging within her eyes was consistent with this contusion. There were numerous contusions and abrasions on Ms. White’s head, arms and legs consistent with a struggle."

Just so's you know he wasn't executed for stealing a loaf of bread for his starving family.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 08:06 AM (kkTda)

64 test

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:06 AM (AOsQT)

65 Please understand that when I and others object to US involvement, it does not ipso facto mean we support Putin or his invasion.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

No! No! You're a Putin stooge like Trump unless you give full-throated support with what I say!!

Posted by: Master of Quarters at August 20, 2025 08:06 AM (0eaVi)

66
The faggy male cheerleaders creep me out.
Posted by: Most guys

They're just another arena into which green dildos can be chucked.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:07 AM (Tv15w)

67 I can't imagine Zelensky provoking Putin

You need a better imagination. Zelensky is, and always has been, a tool of the globalists. While he might not have antagonized things if he were his own man, his handlers are not likely to give up their dreams now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

68 OK
on my machine at least, Firefox now hates this blog, but Edge works flawlessly

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)

69 The stats for crime in D cities has never been an issue. They're bogus in large part to pleading down and "re_imanaging" felonies as misdemeanors.

Don't charge someone for murder- gee, homicides went down. Who knew?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 20, 2025 08:07 AM (FxH7T)

70 Joe "foreign policy expert" Biden told us it was just "a minor incursion."

Posted by: Not a joke at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (XQo4F)

71 It's pretty funny how people are pretending the United States is "brokering peace" in Ukraine.

Let's be clear, the number of days Ukraine would have survived against Russia without the United States supplying munitions, intelligence, and equipment is closer to zero than it is to the present length of the conflict. Even with the assistance of all of Europe, who have largely become toothless octogenarian gumming their oatmeal.

With this reality in mind, what Trump is effectively doing is negotiating a surrender for American neocons to Russia, and artfully painting an illusion that he is the ring referee between the hapless featherweight Zelenskyy and the light-heavyweight Russia.

But the truth is you can't be a mediator when you are one of the belligerents.

Kudos to Trump, nonetheless, as he is extricating the United States from yet another boneheaded, profit-driven war. He deserves a Nobel Peace prize for taking on the biggest enemy to world peace, his own Deep State.

Posted by: Are We Not Men at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (cEs+D)

72 35 Trump's use of "air support" can mean a lot of non-combat related things. Moving materials, troops from European bases or whatever.

We've been flying ISR (recon) flights over Ukraine, the Black Sea and various Easter/Wester European countries since the inception of the war anyway.

Trump frequently uses terms out of context.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

I agree. Air support could also include AWACS, airborne jammers, and tankers. Tankers because the Euroweenies would want to base their combat aircraft as far from the battle zone as possible.

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (aBgBM)

73 Actual Hollywood Reporter Headline: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

All based on the same theory that you can predict how dead people would vote

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (GIf+b)

74 Using the Brave browser on my laptop there are no issues at all.

I don't know how to hint to everyone any more strongly than that.

Hint.

Hint.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:09 AM (fV+MH)

75 It's obscene that murderers from the 1980s are only now being snuffed out.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:09 AM (21iuJ)

76 Chuck Barris>>George Barris>>Kenya Barris

Posted by: The Rank Organization at August 20, 2025 08:09 AM (G5+As)

77 The faggy male cheerleaders creep me out.
Posted by: Most guys

They're just another arena into which green dildos can be chucked.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Except, the NFL has real money involved, and actually talented athletes, so if someone disrupts their game, their might be actual consequences.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (ycI94)

78 the NFL wants to keep fringe protests away from The Money Machine
'...so here, here's a nice PC slogan stenciled in the end zone-
and here are some flamboyant guys as cheerleaders
happy now?'

Seriously? Once the shark tastes the blood that is enough to satisfy the predator?

They won't stop even if you give them opportunity to present the most obscene parts of Burning Man and Folsom Street Affair during the half time show.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

79 I can clearly imagine the disappointed wails in the news room when the measles outbreak died with a whimper.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (lXoJ5)

80 That Indian truck driver needs to be executed at dawn. Yesterday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (77rzZ)

81
Joe "foreign policy expert" Biden told us it was just "a minor incursion."
Posted by: Not a joke

You neglected to add, "... at my invitation."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:11 AM (Tv15w)

82 "The faggy male cheerleaders creep me out.
Posted by: Most guys"

It's another excellent attempt at getting more male voters on 2026.

These are the logical people.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:11 AM (fV+MH)

83 They won't stop even if you give them opportunity to present the most obscene parts of Burning Man and Folsom Street Affair during the half time show.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

Who let you see the plans for the next Super Bowl?!

Posted by: NFL at August 20, 2025 08:11 AM (0eaVi)

84 “I don’t regret what I said, and I’ll say it a million times again. And I’m not a Jew-hater because I have Jew friends,” she told the outlet.

Why are we forced to share a country with these "people"?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 08:11 AM (lXoJ5)

85 The faggy male cheerleaders creep me out.
Posted by: Most guys

Yeah, these guys.

But I did look up George W Bush and his cheerleading days and 4 US Presidents were male cheerleaders. Reagan, Eisenhower and FDR.

Apparently male cheerleaders were the norm before WW2. Women filled in during the war and then it became mainly a female activity.

Unless Mr. Internet lied to me.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 08:11 AM (jvJvP)

86 what is this Brave browser you speak of

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:12 AM (AOsQT)

87 Even if there was an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia tomorrow, the US is going to be "involved" for the foreseeable future over there. Ukraine's like a drug addled family member who you've been tasked to take care of until they're clean.

But you just know there's more to it than that. And it'll likely be a long term, aggravating ordeal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

88 - "This black hole suggests each is an early galaxy..."

One of those "Galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought," galaxies?

Remember when there wasn't gonna be much of anything out past red shift of fourteen?
Ahh, good times.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 20, 2025 08:13 AM (RGbzo)

89 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 20, 2025 08:14 AM (53oGX)

90 Apparently male cheerleaders were the norm before WW2.
_________________

Somehow I doubt they led cheers in short skirts, falsies, and hair extensions.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:14 AM (21iuJ)

91 79 I can clearly imagine the disappointed wails in the news room when the measles outbreak died with a whimper.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 08:10 AM (lXoJ5)

Not for long. They're quickly caught up in their next narrative casus belli. There's no end to them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)

92 @86/Don Black: Brave - a chromium browser focused on user privacy and blocking advertisements.

Their site:
https://brave.com/

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 08:14 AM (O7YUW)

93 Donnie should know that the root cause of a bad divorce does occur overnight and for damn sure, the resolution of a bad divorce doesn't happen overnight either

in my estimation, the end of the UKR/RUS war is no where near settled and wont be until Z and the Euros accept defeat

they are acting like they won

and Z is only trying to stay in power

he could care less about the Ukrainian people

Posted by: sofasaver at August 20, 2025 08:15 AM (us2H3)

94
Actual Hollywood Reporter Headline: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

All based on the same theory that you can predict how dead people would vote
Posted by: SMOD

Oo! I know! I know!

Let's rig up an AI version of Christopher Reeves and ask it "What Would Christopher Do?" I'd bet that Jim Acosta is available to do the asking.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:15 AM (Tv15w)

95 sorry, doesn't occur

Posted by: sofasaver at August 20, 2025 08:16 AM (us2H3)

96 Apparently male cheerleaders were the norm before WW2.

Somehow I doubt they led cheers in short skirts, falsies, and hair extensions.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:14 AM (21iuJ)

That's where the guy with a megaphone started. Song leaders at college football games.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 20, 2025 08:16 AM (0eaVi)

97 Dudes who hold little coeds up in the air are Male Cheerleaders.

They have always been a bit suspect. But maybe they are hitting that shit. Who knows?

Twinks in satin "outfits" are a completely different thing.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:17 AM (fV+MH)

98 Grumpy,
thanks, I will check that out

meantime, I will view this site with Edge, which seems to be working perfectly

although everything is in Times New Roman again

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

99 Today, in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concluded that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional in (at least) two ways.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:17 AM (GIf+b)

100 Getting rid of mail-in voting and voting machines (the proprietary computer things) is totalitarianism?

I'm so old I remember voting using the big switch-throw machines and other 'ancient' tech (to Millenials and younger) without problems. They aren't against Trump's push because it may make voting less convenient for some, though.

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2025 08:17 AM (aBgBM)

101 97 Dudes who hold little coeds up in the air are Male Cheerleaders.

I saw a video of one guy doing that recently. Dude looked like his workout includes bench pressing truck engines.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 08:18 AM (lXoJ5)

102 Everything is always so apocalyptic with Demoncrats.

"Everyone will die forever if we don't have permanent Demoncrat rule!!!"

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:18 AM (UnA8+)

103 although everything is in Times New Roman again
Posted by: Don Black

The way God intended.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 08:19 AM (lXoJ5)

104 AoSHQ + comments subsite are loading speedily on Firefox now, indicating some sort of an intermittent problem upstream.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 08:19 AM (O7YUW)

105 EXCLUSIVE: Acting US Attorney Points Out ‘Bizarre’ Trend In California Anti-ICE Rioter Cases

I think we all can see that without the illegals the (D) Party would never win another Presidential election and would have 40 less Congress seats and 6 to 10 less Senators.

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

106 There's no lag here, as I simply won't allow it!

Posted by: Hyacinth Bucket at August 20, 2025 08:19 AM (G5+As)

107 Times New Roman is the only font. Don’t need any others.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

108 Today is National Bacon Lover's Day. 🥓

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

109 107 Times New Roman is the only font. Don’t need any others.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

Real Operators use Comic Sans.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (UnA8+)

110 ICE is outside my granddaughter's summer camp! She is in a Spanish immersion summer camp for a few weeks. Campers' parents got an email from the school this morning letting them know that ICE agents have been spotted around the school!

From tackling pizza delivery guys, to stealing their mopeds, to terrorizing toddlers. Are we great yet?

They think TrumpCo is cracking down on crime caused by "illegals." Fox and other right-wing media have them so terrified of big city crime that they have lost all sense of reason, if they ever had any. I'm so angry I feel sick.

Thank you for calling Sen. Tillis' office. I'm still literally shaking right now. TERRORIZING 4-YEAR-OLDS! This is beyond the pale and i am so pissed i need to check my BP. Thank you for sharing.

I guess it's a crime now to learn another language, especially Spanish since it's associated with migrants. MAGA thinks only English should be spoken all over the world to accommodate them, even though most of them don’t even speak it well.

2 weeks before someone gets shot at by the fascists. It's NOT a federal take over. It's a fascist take over. it's amazing people are so passive.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (ycI94)

111 Please understand that when I and others object to US involvement, it does not ipso facto mean we support Putin or his invasion.

Considering the safe bet that the more shrill the opposition is, the more likely the target of their rage is probably The Good Guy.

Also considering that there are NO reliable unbiased news sources on the Ukraine/Russia lover's quarrel - that is everyone is lying and shaping their preferred narrative, I have to rely on the Shrill Opposition readings to base any opinion.

Which is a crying shame that I'm being taxed into penury to support a worthless mission that has zero benefit to me regardless of the outcome - and every single person is lying about what is happening.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

112 I miss the old way of voting
for me, it was standing in line at a church, and once you got to the Table, a sweet silver-haired church lady would ask for my ID, then she would look me up in the Big Book Of Registered Voters before waving me thru to the Booth Of Privacy

good times

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)

113 They have always been a bit suspect. But maybe they are hitting that shit. Who knows?

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:17 AM (fV+MH)

They may not be getting as much as the guys in drama club, but most of us would hope they are hitting that.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (jvJvP)

114 The gayest guy in my high school went on to be a male cheerleader in college, FWIW.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:22 AM (21iuJ)

115 End of the beginning for Ukraine or beginning of the end?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 20, 2025 08:22 AM (4HxCT)

116
I'm so old I remember voting using the big switch-throw machines and other 'ancient' tech (to Millenials and younger) without problems.

I remember having to move and rolls those practically all metal monstrosities into school gyms for an election in early summer. Really heavy and solid those voting machines were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:22 AM (Tv15w)

117 Eisenhower, Regan and GW Bush were all high-school cheerleaders.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 20, 2025 08:23 AM (dxWFK)

118 Why would an illegal immigrant need to go to a Spanish camp? Don't they speak it already? Mostly?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:23 AM (21iuJ)

119 All based on the same theory that you can predict how dead people would vote
Posted by: SMOD

I know. Right?

Democrats

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 20, 2025 08:24 AM (FxH7T)

120 >Dudes who hold little coeds up in the air are Male Cheerleaders.
---

do you think the guys ever

peek? It seems like it would be bad form to peek

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:24 AM (AOsQT)

121 I'm trying to convert to the Amish religion, but can't find their website. Is this the wrong place to ask? Should I get up earlier and ask Pixy?

Posted by: No Tech Whiz Here at August 20, 2025 08:24 AM (G5+As)

122 "She is in a Spanish immersion summer camp for a few weeks. "

Ei yi yi.

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

123 114 The gayest guy in my high school went on to be a male cheerleader in college, FWIW.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:22 AM (21iuJ)

Any dudes even SUSPECTED of being gay in my high school got beat up (except the one who was people's weed hookup).

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:25 AM (UnA8+)

124 being a fanbois of the crainiacs and the big z-man is still the current thing? I've never been known to be a fan of supporting the current thing.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at August 20, 2025 08:25 AM (89Sog)

125 “When it comes to security [the Europeans are] willing to put people on the ground, we’re willing to help them with things, especially… by air because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.”
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Diplomacy of "speak softly and carry a big stick", I'm thinking.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 08:26 AM (Dv3i1)

126 Does any other sport regularly have cheerleaders?

My high-school basketball team had them, but that’s the only non-football example I know of.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

127 "She is in a Spanish immersion summer camp for a few weeks. "

Do they learn about the Spanish Armada immersion?

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

128 Glad to see Illinois is screening for nut jobs in the chirruns. The issue from those Yankee’s loins are crazier than a shit house rat.

Posted by: Rebel Yell! at August 20, 2025 08:27 AM (RQDXj)

129 "...everything is in Times New Roman again"

Nature is healing.

Posted by: Make Fonts Great Again at August 20, 2025 08:27 AM (XQo4F)

130
Any voting scheme that relies on the diligence, skill and objectiveness of the USPS workforce should be eliminated immediately. I have had to re-issue checks for paynents due five times during this past year because the originals became "lost during delivery" by the USPS.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:28 AM (Tv15w)

131 > A top federal prosecutor in California says most suspects his office has charged in anti-deportation riots are U.S. citizens, calling the trend “bizarre.”
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They're being paid, that's why they're "fighting so hard" for the illegals. I wonder if they'd "fight so hard" for any other job? Probably not because this job nets them free transportation to and from their place of "work" (riot), free meals and free legal services.

Plus they get to cosplay violent insurrections at every turn.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

132 Mostly making use of data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, Gramm went on to add the value of government benefits and private charity and deducted the value of federal, state, and local taxes. The results were decisively different from the above. Taking all of these factors into account, household earnings for the bottom quintile surged to $49,613 per year, only barely eclipsed by the second lowest at $53,924.

Our so called poor make the same as the average family in Spain or Italy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

133 Any dudes even SUSPECTED of being gay in my high school got beat up (except the one who was people's weed hookup).

_____ __________

He was rich, his dad was a lawyer, and his sister was hot. Which gave him a certain immunity. Ironically, I heard he died of AIDS.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:28 AM (21iuJ)

134 It's gone in the same direction since Woodrow freaking Wilson!

I guess it's just harder to ignore it now that the stranglehold that the MSM had on the discourse has been broken.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

135 Robin Williams once put on a cheerleader outfit and performed with the Denver Broncos.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:29 AM (21iuJ)

136 On December 9, 2016, one man, then-president Barack Obama, gathered 28 people, his few adamant loyalists, to criminally subvert the Constitution by the concerted efforts of his intelligence and investigative agencies, with the aid of a propagandist media, in a coup attempt to overthrow the duly and constitutionally elected presidency of Donald Trump.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

137 No one expects the Spanish Immersion.

Posted by: Sorry couldn't resist at August 20, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)

138 120 >Dudes who hold little coeds up in the air are Male Cheerleaders.
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do you think the guys ever

peek? It seems like it would be bad form to peek
Posted by: Don Black

Cheerleaders wear little booty shorts under their skirts. They go commando only in your fevered imagination.

Posted by: Mind In the Gutter? at August 20, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)

139 “ I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.”

John 3:12-13

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2025 08:30 AM (GH9Yd)

140
Does any other sport regularly have cheerleaders?

Our cheerleading squads covered both football and basketball games at all three levels: freshmen, junior varsity, and varsity.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:30 AM (Tv15w)

141 133 Lots of fags died of AIDS. What’s ironic about that?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)

142 118 Why would an illegal immigrant need to go to a Spanish camp? Don't they speak it already? Mostly?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

It's a language immersion camp, in the DC area, with a 4 year old little girl going....so I'm guessing rich white liberal parents send their kids, and a bunch of the staff are illegals. Old Democrat plantation owners raised their kids to manage slaves, and this is just the new version of developing kids to communicate and run the ethnic underclass.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (ycI94)

143 Look at the reaction to calling out the National Guard in DC to combatting crime. And now look at the figures, that is the ones that the DC PD did not fake (see below) since he called out the Guard show how doing so has immediately made a difference.
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Brilliant move by Trump. Get citizens to start thinking why can't the same things be done in their cities. Expose white liberals even more as insane for preferring that minorities live in dirty, homeless camp infested, graffittied crime ridden cities rather than admit that Trump is right.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Dv3i1)

144
The Epstein stuff and various other things like the BBB that have irritated other people haven't bothered me, because I never expected Trump to do different, and he's done a ton of other positive things concurrently that exceeded expectations.

But I *did* expect better than a security guarantee for Ukraine, and I'm disappointed in something he's doing for the first time since he took office this time.

The reason I didn't give a crap about the Epstein mess was that I understand there's a ceiling to Trump's power, and while he's proven it higher than I imagined, *that* is high above it. And so is the forever war faction of the deep state. Those people are entrenched so deep they can never be removed, and nothing short of a force of nature like Trump can keep them in check for very long.

He ain't gonna live forever, or serve a third term, and might lose control of them in this one, for that matter. The only thing this will guarantee is a big war in Eastern Europe sometime in the near future. He's giving away the store for a Nobel Prize he'll never get.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

145 Anyone else having serious lag accessing the 'acecomments.mu.nu' side of the site? (30 to 45 seconds to get a response...)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 20, 2025 07:41 AM (O7YUW)

Not today but I have in the past. I see it on other sites also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

146 “When it comes to security [the Europeans are] willing to put people on the ground, we’re willing to help them with things, especially… by air because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.”

Again, why am I dragged into financially supporting both the first and second most corrupt governments on Earth?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (a4flb)

147 So, mortgage fraud is this generation's criminal element's tax evasion, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (GBKbO)

148 No one at my high school was beaten up for being gay. I guess we were on the cusp where it was tolerated (with a certain level of ridicule) before gay became LGBTQ and it's celebration became mandatory.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (21iuJ)

149 127 "She is in a Spanish immersion summer camp for a few weeks. "

Do they learn about the Spanish Armada immersion?
Posted by: fd

Total immersion in rum isn't as great as you'd think.

Posted by: Admiral Nelson at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (ycI94)

150 Any dudes even SUSPECTED of being gay in my high school got beat up (except the one who was people's weed hookup).

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:25 AM (UnA8+)

The term of opprobrium in my school system was "Fem." I sat next to a proto-gay kid in junior high school. I liked him. I felt bad later when I did not defend him from the slurs that came his way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

151 112 I miss the old way of voting

me too!

I miss the big contraptions with the giant lever that closed the curtain, then when you were done you pulled it again and your vote was counted and the curtain opened

philadelphia! I went to vote in the vestibule of a small apartment building. one machine.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (Pv3Rg)

152 I feel centered.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

153 I feel so centered all of a sudden.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

154 "Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe"

Plenty of folks that will work cheap there. Make sure the sets are halal.

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

155 Why would an illegal immigrant need to go to a Spanish camp? Don't they speak it already? Mostly?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:23 AM (21iuJ)

Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school and take Spanish and get a C.

Posted by: Cheech Marin at August 20, 2025 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

156 Good morning everyone, thx a happy birthday JJ.
The story from the DC woman about her assault was crazy. She reported it, a man was arrested and pleaded guilty to a felony. The woman looked for the case in crime stats and it wasn't there. They recorded nothing because it wasn't First Degree. Crime doesn't exist if you ignore it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 08:34 AM (so5nu)

157 Lots of fags died of AIDS. What’s ironic about that?
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Because the previous sentence was about the IMMUNITY his social status provided him

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:34 AM (21iuJ)

158 >Cheerleaders wear little booty shorts under their skirts. They go commando only in your fevered imagination.
Posted by: Mind In the Gutter?
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dude you're ruining it for me

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (AOsQT)

159 135 Robin Williams once put on a cheerleader outfit and performed with the Denver Broncos.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

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https://youtu.be/xpOY4u8hL_E

Posted by: Simpsons reference at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (XQo4F)

160 Spanish isn’t a language, it’s an accent.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

161 It's a language immersion camp, in the DC area, with a 4 year old little girl going....so I'm guessing rich white liberal parents send their kids, and a bunch of the staff are illegals. Old Democrat plantation owners raised their kids to manage slaves, and this is just the new version of developing kids to communicate and run the ethnic underclass.

Its accepting the reality that the trajectory of their four year old daughter's career will likely have her taking a job at a drive--through window after graduating with her poison-ivy league degree in Woke Worthlessness.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)

162 Robin Williams once put on a cheerleader outfit and performed with the Denver Broncos.

You would kill yourself too if you did that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)

163 I was in HS band and the big dumb blonde drum major guy acted gay as fk but the drill team girls loved to hang out with him.

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:36 AM (vFG9F)

164 Mother Furious After Discovering 'Creepiest' Hidden Messages in Her Baby Daughter's Dress

https://tinyurl.com/22ba2ty4

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

165
I'm trying to convert to the Amish religion, but can't find their website. Is this the wrong place to ask? Should I get up earlier and ask Pixy?
Posted by: No Tech Whiz Here

Why not give the Shakers a look-see?

Do be aware, however, of the fierce doctrinal disputes between the Salt Shakers and the Pepper Shakers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:37 AM (Tv15w)

166 He had all those drill team girls sitting around him on the bus and I was lucky to get a clarinet player.

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:37 AM (vFG9F)

167 Spanish isn’t a language, it’s an accent.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

Olive . . . Moon . . . Eyes . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (wVcYX)

168 Cheerleaders wear little booty shorts under their skirts. They go commando only in your fevered imagination.

You obviously have not seen the cover to the July 1982 National Lampoon Sports issue.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

169 Why not give the Shakers a look-see?

Do be aware, however, of the fierce doctrinal disputes between the Salt Shakers and the Pepper Shakers.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:37 AM (Tv15w)

I'll never join a religion centered entirely upon furniture.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (3pmZ8)

170 Mmmmmm…drill team girls…

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

171 Again, why am I dragged into financially supporting both the first and second most corrupt governments on Earth?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (a4flb)

Second and third. We've been paying for the most corrupt one for at least a quarter century.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (BI5O2)

172 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

173 The story from the DC woman about her assault was crazy. She reported it, a man was arrested and pleaded guilty to a felony. The woman looked for the case in crime stats and it wasn't there. They recorded nothing because it wasn't First Degree. Crime doesn't exist if you ignore it

it's endemic. now consider the stats on crime drop in DC. it's SO MUCH BIGGER than even those stats, because crime is so underreported!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

174 Weird story. A missing African American woman from Texas has been found living with a "lost" African tribe living in a forest in ... Scotland. Makes about as much sense as anything else these days.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 08:39 AM (so5nu)

175 174 Weird story. A missing African American woman from Texas has been found living with a "lost" African tribe living in a forest in ... Scotland. Makes about as much sense as anything else these days.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 08:39 AM (so5nu)

Do they have a king?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:40 AM (3pmZ8)

176 You obviously have not seen the cover to the July 1982 National Lampoon Sports issue.

Oops, wrong cover - the 1964 Highschool yearbook issue.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

177 172 Is that “Yum” for Paula Deen or for the French toast?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

178 173 it's endemic. now consider the stats on crime drop in DC. it's SO MUCH BIGGER than even those stats, because crime is so underreported!
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

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There may be some behavior of an increase in reports overall with the increased police presence. People deciding that reporting that break in their windows is worth it again.

Going from fake numbers to real numbers is a messy business. It's similar to what we're seeing in GDP and employment numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (GBKbO)

179 Korea and Japan have the most cutest cheerleaders for Baseball.

they really love Baseball.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (fV+MH)

180 172 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.
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I thought the Africans ate her?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (W3T6M)

181 Weird story. A missing African American woman from Texas has been found living with a "lost" African tribe living in a forest in ... Scotland. Makes about as much sense as anything else these days.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 08:39 AM (so5nu)

Irrefutable proof, really, that It's A Small World After All.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (wVcYX)

182 it's a bottom line-protecting move

you will all now yell at me
Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

*Speaks softly and calmly*

There is no such thing as a bottom line-protecting move. The woke brigade will not stop agitating because you gave them stenciled end zones and penile cheerleaders. They'll see it, rightly, as a retreat on the NFL's part and push for more.

The NFL will, in turn, give them more because that's who the current leadership of the NFL is. Those retreats will irritate a growing percentage of the fanbase - yes, some people will never leave but their kids might not ever care. This will, in turn, collapse the system. Not overnight, but it'll happen.

Same holds true for paying college players. Good for the guys today, fatal in the long run.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

183 Meanwhile the U.S. is slowly getting away from the China-Syndrome inspired “Nuclear Winter” for these power plants, as shuttered facilities are reopening.

... apparently, one of the largest buyers of the VHS of "The China Syndrome" was the US Nuclear Industry. The accident in the film shows a relatively worst case accident that is confined to the plant grounds, thus limited liability of the plant operator.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

184 I'm trying to convert to the Amish religion, but can't find their website. Is this the wrong place to ask? Should I get up earlier and ask Pixy?

You will need to ask the AI running on the Amish's datacenter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (a4flb)

185 >>JB Pritzker's mandated 'mental health screenings' for school children is a data grab, not compassion

Oh, H#LL NO!

They think they can mandate access to kids' personal lives?

This is an incredible intrusion of privacy -- of minors, which is worse.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (GbwPZ)

186 now consider the stats on crime drop in DC. it's SO MUCH BIGGER than even those stats, because crime is so underreported!
Posted by: Black Orchid
_________

Was so underreported. I bet they're logging every jaywalking since Trump cracked down in order to make the drop seem even less.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (XvL8K)

187
You know who else were subjected to prolonged spells of immersion?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Tv15w)

188 179 Korea and Japan have the most cutest cheerleaders for Baseball.

they really love Baseball.
Posted by: eleven

Cute, but no blondes or redheads.

Posted by: Discerning Chap at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (G5+As)

189 DeSantis Blames California’s Sanctuary City Policies For Deadly Crash in Florida Caused By Illegal Alien Truck Driver
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DeSantis could have done better if he used a Trump tactic to move the Overton window. He could have added that his administration is looking at whether they will no longer recognize CDL's from states with sanctuary policies and charge the driver with driving with invalid licence if LEO does traffic stop. FLA won't do this for various reasons, but it gets the message out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

190 173 it's endemic. now consider the stats on crime drop in DC. it's SO MUCH BIGGER than even those stats, because crime is so underreported!
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 08:38 AM (Pv3Rg)

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There may be some behavior of an increase in reports overall with the increased police presence. People deciding that reporting that break in their windows is worth it again.

Going from fake numbers to real numbers is a messy business. It's similar to what we're seeing in GDP and employment numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (GBKbO)

*clears throat* Need I say it again?

Posted by: Zombie Adm Painter at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

191 Was so underreported. I bet they're logging every jaywalking since Trump cracked down in order to make the drop seem even less.

I didn't even think of that! so yeah, the new stats are great but the impact is likely - I would say definitely - STILL understated!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Pv3Rg)

192 *I'll never join a religion centered entirely upon furniture.*

Consider the headwear:

https://youtu.be/9PmWEElulG8

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (XQo4F)

193 I know there's a large body of moron skepticism over Ukraine, but if there's going to be western troops occupying any portion of that country it's a massive setback for Russia no matter how Putin spins it.
Posted by: Auspex at August 20, 2025 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

Please understand that when I and others object to US involvement, it does not ipso facto mean we support Putin or his invasion.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 20, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

Has anyone looked at the map of what used to be called Ukraine , Lately? Looks like Finaland scenario circa 1940. Karelia, man.

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

194 Meanwhile the U.S. is slowly getting away from the China-Syndrome inspired “Nuclear Winter” for these power plants, as shuttered facilities are reopening.

OK, this is a fair game topic for trashing Boomers and hoping that they will all quickly die.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)

195 Oh, H#LL NO!

They think they can mandate access to kids' personal lives?

This is an incredible intrusion of privacy -- of minors, which is worse.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (GbwPZ)

They aren't making enough cash from Adderall anymore. Gotta get hormone replacement drugs and anti-psychotics into the pipeline if they're gonna make Real Money.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:44 AM (3pmZ8)

196 150 The term of opprobrium in my school system was "Fem." I sat next to a proto-gay kid in junior high school. I liked him. I felt bad later when I did not defend him from the slurs that came his way.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

One fat guy at my school made the mistake of calling the one Muslim kid a fag.

He got beaten into a coma, his jaw completely shattered.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:44 AM (UnA8+)

197 188 179 Korea and Japan have the most cutest cheerleaders for Baseball.

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No yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 20, 2025 08:44 AM (XQo4F)

198 My children go to a Zionist Jewish summer camp. It’s the kind of place that instills pride in Jewish identity and love for Israel while giving kids the normal joys of camp: canoeing, hiking, and endless games of soccer. But on the last Friday before the session ended, the kids and staff experienced a scare that revealed just how fragile Jewish life in America has become.

A stranger told me I was sending my kids to ‘Nazi camp’ — this shows how mainstream anti-Jew hate has become
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Do better, Jewish summer camp kids:

https://tinyurl.com/44ezy6by

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 08:44 AM (skOp5)

199 >>Weird story. A missing African American woman from Texas has been found living with a "lost" African tribe living in a forest in ... Scotland.

Makes more sense in 2025 than it would in 2005.
Scotland has been bringing in masses of 3rd world refugees.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:45 AM (GbwPZ)

200 185 >>JB Pritzker's mandated 'mental health screenings' for school children is a data grab, not compassion

Oh, H#LL NO!

They think they can mandate access to kids' personal lives?

This is an incredible intrusion of privacy -- of minors, which is worse.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (GbwPZ)

It's specifically because he wants to Troon all the boys out.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:45 AM (UnA8+)

201 I miss the old way of voting
for me, it was standing in line at a church, and once you got to the Table, a sweet silver-haired church lady would ask for my ID, then she would look me up in the Big Book Of Registered Voters before waving me thru to the Booth Of Privacy

good times
Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:21 AM (AOsQT)
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That tradition is still alive and well in my small town.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 20, 2025 08:45 AM (7fElN)

202 Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan of Rhode Island had been asked to leave a restaurant before local police were called to the scene, according to TMZ. Bodycam video posted on YouTube by NBC 10 WJAR showed the interaction between Flanagan, her friend Veronica Hannan and the police, with Flanagan demanding the officer turn his bodycam off while saying she was “an AG” almost a dozen times.

Is it wrong that I'm still laughing hysterically about this?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 08:45 AM (dPfyF)

203
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2025 08:46 AM (tljrc)

204 Apparently male cheerleaders were the norm before WW2.

There were. They tossed girls. Not salads.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2025 08:46 AM (kIhGR)

205 Hope they make lots of macaroni pictures at Jew camp. That’s what Moses desires, after all.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

206 DeSantis could have done better if he used a Trump tactic to move the Overton window. He could have added that his administration is looking at whether they will no longer recognize CDL's from states with sanctuary policies and charge the driver with driving with invalid licence if LEO does traffic stop. FLA won't do this for various reasons, but it gets the message out.

I would do it just to flush out the Leftist District Judge who would instantly drop everything in their long queue of cases to issue a global TRO.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

207 Detroit Lions Owner Sparks Controversy by Rejecting NFL’s Male Cheerleader Request

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

208
Going from fake numbers to real numbers is a messy business.

Yoo-hoo! Oh, boys, what about us?

-- COVID death statistics

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (Tv15w)

209 >>London Officials Are Tearing Down English Flags.

Ah, "London official," you say?
About as London as the MS-13 Venezuelan, human-trafficking "Maryland dad."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (GbwPZ)

210 208 Yoo-hoo! Oh, boys, what about us?

-- COVID death statistics
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (Tv15w)

=======

No one died of the flu for like 2 years!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (GBKbO)

211 180 172 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.
--------------

First, get a stick of butter...

Posted by: Always, always, always at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XQo4F)

212 My cousin - girl- went to college on a cheerleading scholarship. Became a public school teacher. Good person, not woke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (so5nu)

213 Weird story. A missing African American woman from Texas has been found living with a "lost" African tribe living in a forest in ... Scotland.

Makes more sense in 2025 than it would in 2005.
Scotland has been bringing in masses of 3rd world refugees.
Posted by: Lizzy

They're gonna shit themselves when Jan/Feb rolls around.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (kIhGR)

214 127 "She is in a Spanish immersion summer camp for a few weeks. "

Do they learn about the Spanish Armada immersion?

Posted by: fd at August 20, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

LOL

Also, most of CBD's shipwreck-on-rocks paintings could be renamed to "Spanish Armada ship _______ foundering on the rocks near _____, Ireland"

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (aBgBM)

215 We prefer the term Aggie Yell Leaders.

Posted by: Texas A&M at August 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

216 Actual Hollywood Reporter Headline: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

All based on the same theory that you can predict how dead people would vote
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (GIf+b)

More to the point... who fucking cares. This is just more "we're famous, do as we're paid to tell you to do" bullshit that people started rejecting a while ago. If I were to spend my every waking moment for the rest of my life trying, I could not care less about what some actor thinks about politics.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

217 Is that “Yum” for Paula Deen or for the French toast?
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)
*******
French toast of course.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

218 212 Was she hot?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

219 209 >>London Officials Are Tearing Down English Flags.

Ah, "London official," you say?
About as London as the MS-13 Venezuelan, human-trafficking "Maryland dad."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (GbwPZ)

======

It's really too bad that the British people decided to split their votes between Conservative and Reform to give Labour a massive, massive supermajority, huh?

It's really too bad that they never punished the Conservative Party before for being explicitly pro-immigrant.

It's really too bad that Reform's party platform is, at best, mealy-mouthed about immigration.

It's really too bad that the British have given up their guns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

220 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.
--------------

First, get a stick of butter...
Posted by: Always, always, always

Eat that while preparing dish...

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (kIhGR)

221 >>Is it wrong that I'm still laughing hysterically about this?

Nope!

Police bodycam footage bites arrestees in the azz one more time!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:50 AM (GbwPZ)

222 Was it Christopher Reeve or Christopher Reeves who was the superman in a wheelchair?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:50 AM (3pmZ8)

223 NFL is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to boost viewing numbers by adding fag cheerleaders.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 20, 2025 08:50 AM (dxWFK)

224 216 Actual Hollywood Reporter Headline: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

All based on the same theory that you can predict how dead people would vote
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:08 AM (GIf+b)

More to the point... who fucking cares. This is just more "we're famous, do as we're paid to tell you to do" bullshit that people started rejecting a while ago. If I were to spend my every waking moment for the rest of my life trying, I could not care less about what some actor thinks about politics.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

======

I thought the funny part was that Reeve couldn't walk for the last decade or so of his life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:50 AM (GBKbO)

225 167 Spanish isn’t a language, it’s an accent.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

Olive . . . Moon . . . Eyes . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

or Blue -

https://tinyurl.com/3kkxcezn

Posted by: E. Humperdink at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

226 He's giving away the store for a Nobel Prize he'll never get.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

Trump doesn't give a fuck about a Nobel Prize. He is trying to engineer the end to the stupid war that our enemies all want to continue.

If he gave a pencil thin shit about what the Left thinks of him he could have sold us out many times before on a billion other issues.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (rME7O)

227 what is this Brave browser you speak of
Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 08:12 AM (AOsQT)

Assuming you're serious...

It's a fork of Chrome started by the guy wo used to be CEO of Mozilla until he was fired for opposing gay marriage in Cali. It's a pretty good browser.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

228 Gotta tear down the English flag to make room for the ISIS one.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (UnA8+)

229 I know there's a large body of moron skepticism over Ukraine, but if there's going to be western troops occupying any portion of that country it's a massive setback for Russia no matter how Putin spins it.

-----'

OK.

Now explain why we should place ourselves at risk to foil Vladimir Putin. I don't care if he grabs everything from the Don basin to Iberia.

No war for Europe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (BI5O2)

230 That tradition is still alive and well in my small town.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Same here in Eastern NC.

Posted by: Small Town-Big Deal at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

231
Q: How do you get a West Virginia University cheerleader in your dorm room?

A: Grease her hips and push.

Posted by: Classic at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (XQo4F)

232 227 It's a fork of Chrome started by the guy wo used to be CEO of Mozilla until he was fired for opposing gay marriage in Cali. It's a pretty good browser.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

Brendan Eich.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (UnA8+)

233 >>‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

Hey, how do you think he would've liked you creeps using his carcass to score political points?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (GbwPZ)

234 I thought the Africans ate her?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 08:41 AM (W3T6M)
*****
They wrongly hated her. The left tried to ruin her.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

235 "Controversy" is a word that is basically meaningless and can be made up by anyone anytime.

The definition is "a thing that is disagreed on by people."

Which is everything.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (fV+MH)

236 Detroit Lions Owner Sparks Controversy by Rejecting NFL’s Male Cheerleader Request
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

Maybe the NFL sparked controversy by asking.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 08:53 AM (rME7O)

237
Now explain why we should place ourselves at risk to foil Vladimir Putin. I don't care if he grabs everything from the Don basin to Iberia.

No war for Europe.

Putin would be a far better leader for Europe than the current crop of depraved, kleptocrat reprobates.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (a4flb)

238 It's also...
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

239 The NFL lives for drama. The cheerleaders controversy keeps the league front and center, just where it wants to be.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (rJ48h)

240 Remember when John Edwards claimed that Reeves could possibly walk again, but only if we didn’t ban fetal stem-cell research?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

241 180 172 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.
--------------

I'll bet Paula wept when heard about Bourdain

Posted by: sofasaver at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (us2H3)

242 " NFL is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to boost viewing numbers by adding fag cheerleaders.
Posted by: Ben Had"

They're hitting the iron while it is ice cold.

Which is what Hollywood is doing.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (fV+MH)

243
Her Majesty, Rosalind and The Big Dummy are in Sioux City, Iowa this morning after a long, hazard-riddled trip from Ogallala, Nebraska yesterday. A tire had to be replaced and the generator repaired along the drive, so they arrived at their destination very late last night.

HM said the roads in Colorado were about the worst she's ever encountered, and she's encountered a lot of bad roads over the years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 08:55 AM (kkTda)

244
It's also...
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Why spoil perfectly good pecan pies?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 08:55 AM (Tv15w)

245 226 He's giving away the store for a Nobel Prize he'll never get.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 08:31 AM (BI5O2)

Trump doesn't give a fuck about a Nobel Prize. He is trying to engineer the end to the stupid war that our enemies all want to continue.

If he gave a pencil thin shit about what the Left thinks of him he could have sold us out many times before on a billion other issues.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 08:51 AM (rME7O)

Yup. He knows that if he maneuvers/pushes both sides to agree to a peace deal, Z-Man will get the Peace Nobel as a consolation prize. Or a Palestinian for something, anything.

Posted by: Gref at August 20, 2025 08:55 AM (aBgBM)

246 I find it interesting that actors I've never heard of are declaring themselves to be smarter than me. Idiots.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 20, 2025 08:56 AM (kTd/k)

247 Meanwhile the U.S. is slowly getting away from the China-Syndrome inspired “Nuclear Winter” for these power plants, as shuttered facilities are reopening.
__________________________________

The anti nuclear movement is another commie rat Jane Fonda legacy.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:57 AM (21iuJ)

248 The NFL is a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Now with a side dish of gay.

Posted by: And the most lucrative sports league on the planet at August 20, 2025 08:57 AM (XQo4F)

249
Why spoil perfectly good pecan pies?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh!

Eh, pecan pie is just too sweet for my taste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 08:58 AM (kkTda)

250 248 The NFL is a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Now with a side dish of gay.
Posted by: And the most lucrative sports league on the planet at August 20, 2025 08:57 AM (XQo4F)

=======

It's the only must-watch live TV (or simultaneous TV) experience left.

Makes me wonder how tied it is to age since younger people simply aren't used to the model.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

251 But I *did* expect better than a security guarantee for Ukraine

Did you expect us to go to war with Russia over a conflict that our IC instigated?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

252 Pecans and chocolate sounds even worse than peanut butter and chocolate.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

253 "The NFL is a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.

Now with a side dish of gay."

Hah...it's true.

And I'm an NFL fan. It's all just silly garbage now.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (fV+MH)

254 It's a fork of Chrome started by the guy wo used to be CEO of Mozilla until he was fired for opposing gay marriage in Cali. It's a pretty good browser.
______________________

In that it doesn't spy on you or eat up your RAM like .. .. Chrome

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (21iuJ)

255 112 I miss the old way of voting
for me, it was standing in line at a church, and once you got to the Table, a sweet silver-haired church lady would ask for my ID, then she would look me up in the Big Book Of Registered Voters before waving me thru to the Booth Of Privacy
___

Our inner ring suburb used to have 3 voting sites, now crammed into one. Probably due to expectation of mail-in voting taking over. It took me 2 hours in line to vote for Trump last election. I would complain and try to get back to 3 sites, but our city's vote is reliably 2/3 for whatever lunatic liberals are on the ballot. I can live with it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

256 NFL cheerleaders are more of a dance squad, which is why this is flat out gay.

If a male cheerleader is using an old school bullhorn and not dancing, it's probably ok.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM (XvL8K)

257 Q: How do you get a West Virginia University cheerleader in your dorm room?

A: Grease her hips and push.
Posted by: Classic at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (XQo4F)

Large girl? Big through the hips? Roomy?

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM (wVcYX)

258 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

At this point I am ambivalent about who would be worse at leading Europe.

Eurofags Macron, Starmer and Merz or Putin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

259 The Director of Federal Housing has a question for a fellow Federal:

https://tinyurl.com/5xy8vjuh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM (skOp5)

260 Large girl? Big through the hips? Roomy?
Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM

About a size 14?

Posted by: Jame Gumb at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM (dPfyF)

261 Wabbit season!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM (skOp5)

262 Oh, H#LL NO!

They think they can mandate access to kids' personal lives?

This is an incredible intrusion of privacy -- of minors, which is worse.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:42 AM (GbwPZ)

They aren't making enough cash from Adderall anymore. Gotta get hormone replacement drugs and anti-psychotics into the pipeline if they're gonna make Real Money.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2025 08:44 AM (3pmZ

Just watch-

Soon, having a "PsychoKid(TM)" will confer top status in the AWFL Wine Mom Community.

TransKid, you're passe now.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM (iJfKG)

263 250 It's the only must-watch live TV (or simultaneous TV) experience left.

Makes me wonder how tied it is to age since younger people simply aren't used to the model.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

Younger people are all watching FC Austin (MLS team) on Apple TV and trooning out.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM (UnA8+)

264 Wabbit season!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM

Duck season!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:02 AM (dPfyF)

265 No war for Europe.
____

I've heard from the media that this attitude is fascist.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

266 Younger people are all watching FC Austin (MLS team) on Apple TV and trooning out.
Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM

Well, metric kickball is pretty ghey, so that tracks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (dPfyF)

267
Remember when John Edwards claimed that Reeves could possibly walk again, but only if we didn’t ban fetal stem-cell research?
Posted by: Bulg

Remember when Bill Maher said that Christopher Reeves got what he deserved for forcing a horse to jump over fences?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (Tv15w)

268 The NFL is boring ass rot.

Posted by: Major League BaseketBall at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (RQDXj)

269 The NFL lives for drama. The cheerleaders controversy keeps the league front and center, just where it wants to be.
Posted by: mr tmz at August 20, 2025 08:54 AM (rJ48h)

Slower, I'm taking notes.

Posted by: Jim France, NASCAR at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

270 >>It's really too bad that the British people decided to split their votes between Conservative and Reform to give Labour a massive, massive supermajority, huh?

It's really too bad that they never punished the Conservative Party before for being explicitly pro-immigrant.

It's really too bad that Reform's party platform is, at best, mealy-mouthed about immigration.

It's really too bad that the British have given up their guns.

It's a freaking travesty they've sacrificed their own citizens' daughters for some notion of diversity.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (GbwPZ)

271 Pecans and chocolate sounds even worse than peanut butter and chocolate.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
*******
Seriously?
Chocolate chip cookies with pecans, chocolate turtles and 7 layer bars.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

272 Trump couldn't give a fvck about the Nobel Prize.

It is no longer an accolade. It is an embarrassment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

273 266 Well, metric kickball is pretty ghey, so that tracks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (dPfyF)

It's a little bit creepy.

As both a team AND a fanbase, FC Austin is actively pushing for more dudes to troon out.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (UnA8+)

274 271 Pecans and chocolate sounds even worse than peanut butter and chocolate.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
*******
Seriously?
Chocolate chip cookies with pecans, chocolate turtles and 7 layer bars.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

======

People can not like things.

This is America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (GBKbO)

275 I was a HS football player, and I never got to date a cheerleader, much less a pompom girl

did date a nice Jewish girl with a lovely

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (AOsQT)

276 It's a freaking travesty they've sacrificed their own citizens' daughters for some notion of diversity.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:03 AM (GbwPZ)

Look how fast the Left here was to forget what a woman even is.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:05 AM (rME7O)

277 > I miss the old way of voting
for me, it was standing in line at a church, and once you got to the Table, a sweet silver-haired church lady would ask for my ID, then she would look me up in the Big Book Of Registered Voters before waving me thru to the Booth Of Privacy
-------------
We still do this. Last November when we went to vote it was pouring rain. The community center was like an oven with wet people stuffed inside.

The smells...

But it was all worth it. I voted for this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

278 Democrats falsify numbers to make themselves look better?

Fie! I am too young to be that cynical. I shan't believe it. I shall not!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)

279 Tulsi Gabbard has become BEAUTIFULLY vindictive, hasn't she? I guess putting her on the terrorist watch list didn't quite work out like the DemoNcrats had planned. .. . . .

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards and Professional Ethnic Types at August 20, 2025 09:05 AM (HeR4S)

280 " The NFL is boring ass rot."

As an NFL fan I can confirm this.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (fV+MH)

281 Trump doesn't give a fuck about a Nobel Prize. He is trying to engineer the end to the stupid war that our enemies all want to continue.

I love Trump, but let's not pretend he's not a bit vain, doesn’t have an ego, and wouldn't absolutely love to get a Nobel prize to go into the history books, piss off all the right people, and make it a big event.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (ycI94)

282 272 Trump couldn't give a fvck about the Nobel Prize.

It is no longer an accolade. It is an embarrassment.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

======

He may want it. I don't know.

I think he's earnest, though, about stopping wars where he can, presenting an alternate mode of thinking into geopolitics that prioritizes bilateral agreements, trade, and industry over the current malaise of nonsense that created...modern geopolitics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

283 According to Wiki, Lisbon is the second-oldest capital city in Europe, after Athens.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

284 *Seriously?
Chocolate chip cookies with pecans, chocolate turtles and 7 layer bars.*

---
Hello. Take a seat. I'll be with you shortly.

Posted by: Type II diabetes at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (XQo4F)

285 Okay, I'm going to try formatting here

warm up the barrel just in case this goes sideways

italics

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (AOsQT)

286 >>Soon, having a "PsychoKid(TM)" will confer top status in the AWFL Wine Mom Community.

Soon?

Having some mental disorder has been a "thing" for well over a decade. All of the kiddies suffer from "anxiety."
Hell, HBO darling Lena Dunham was making a big deal about her alleged OCD when she first hit it big. All came out of the "safe space" nonsense of the early 2000's.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:07 AM (GbwPZ)

287 Paula Deen is on F&F making vanilla ice cream French toast. Yum.

What's her opinion on maple syrup?

Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Oy/m2)

288 The Director of Federal Housing has a question for a fellow Federal:

https://tinyurl.com/5xy8vjuh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:00 AM (skOp5)
-

Explanation:

https://tinyurl.com/y2jfj46b

So many people need to go to prison.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:07 AM (skOp5)

289 I love Trump, but let's not pretend he's not a bit vain, doesn’t have an ego, and wouldn't absolutely love to get a Nobel prize to go into the history books, piss off all the right people, and make it a big event.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (ycI94)

Not caring about the Leftard Fag of the Day Prize and not being vain are two different claims.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:08 AM (rME7O)

290 I'm Sure Trump would like the Nobel prize but I genuinely believe he wants this war over ... And yes He's vain

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 09:08 AM (VE6XX)

291 272 Trump couldn't give a fvck about the Nobel Prize.

It is no longer an accolade. It is an embarrassment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

>>>

Yep. When the Odildo, the Chicago Thug in Chief, was awarded the NPP just for being Kenyan (as in non US born), well, the shine came off that jewel.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards and Professional Ethnic Types at August 20, 2025 09:08 AM (HeR4S)

292 280 " The NFL is boring ass rot."

As an NFL fan I can confirm this.
____

I did watch parts of a couple of preseason games. Surprisingly entertaining, probably because there were almost no penalties called. When the real games start, I expect this to change as the refs really like to see themselves on TV when the games 'matter'.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 20, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

293 It's a fork of Chrome started by the guy wo used to be CEO of Mozilla until he was fired for opposing gay marriage in Cali. It's a pretty good browser.
--------------------
Oddly, the 73% of California that said no to Gay Marriage don't count.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (W3T6M)

294 The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over a pair of mortgages, the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to increase legal scrutiny of Democratic figures and appointees.

The letter alleges that Cook “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud under the criminal statute.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

295 I'll never join a religion centered entirely upon furniture.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The whole celibacy thing is also a non-starter with me.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (lXoJ5)

296 I think he's earnest, though, about stopping wars where he can, presenting an alternate mode of thinking into geopolitics that prioritizes bilateral agreements, trade, and industry over the current malaise of nonsense that created...modern geopolitics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)
====

I think he sees war in economic terms as needless waste.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

297 Trump couldn't give a fvck about the Nobel Prize.

It is no longer an accolade. It is an embarrassment.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:04 AM

If I were Trump, I would display it proudly in one of the more out of the way White House bathrooms.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (dPfyF)

298 Trump is vain as fuck and I voted for that.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (fV+MH)

299
Baby steps, Don! Baby steps!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (Tv15w)

300 296 I think he sees war in economic terms as needless waste.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

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Which it probably is most of the time.

A better outlook than, "We can proportionally fight for decades and eventually reach an agreement."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

301 281 I love Trump, but let's not pretend he's not a bit vain, doesn’t have an ego, and wouldn't absolutely love to get a Nobel prize to go into the history books, piss off all the right people, and make it a big event.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (ycI94)

If he truly wanted to piss off all the right people, he'd just embrace the "Putin is the world's last hope for White Civilization" stuff.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

302 Wabbit season!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:01 AM

Duck season!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:02 AM (dPfyF)
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https://youtu.be/ndriWJJYirs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (skOp5)

303 >>Tulsi Gabbard has become BEAUTIFULLY vindictive, hasn't she? I guess putting her on the terrorist watch list didn't quite work out like the DemoNcrats had planned. .. . . .

Indeed!
Recall that Hillary pinned the 'Russian asset' slur on Tulsi after Tulsi effectively called he out during one of the Dem primary debates. The MSM ran with it, then Tulsi sued Hillary.

Think what she and Trump are doing now is well-deserved and very fun to watch.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (GbwPZ)

304 According to Wiki, Lisbon is the second-oldest capital city in Europe, after Athens.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

Somehow, I would think there are older cities that are not capital cities. Interesting.

Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)

305 280 " The NFL is boring ass rot."

As an NFL fan I can confirm this.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:06 AM (fV+MH)

I remember watching the Lions for years.

Two yards, three yards, 2 more yards....punt.

By week 8, I was happy they were mathematically eliminated.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 09:10 AM (jvJvP)

306 At least, Trump is capable of poking fun at himself.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

307 I do wish the Preznit would give up the bronzer

and button his coat for photos

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

308 290 I'm Sure Trump would like the Nobel prize but I genuinely believe he wants this war over ... And yes He's vain
Posted by: It's me donna

He prolly thinks this song is about him.

Posted by: Flying My Lear Jet To Nova Scotia at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (G5+As)

309 306 At least, Trump is capable of poking fun at himself.
Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)

Something Obama would never do...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (VE6XX)

310 A detailed geophysical study published in Nature in by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has refined our understanding of the Yellowstone supervolcano, uncovering new insights into its subsurface magma dynamics. Concurrently, climatological assessments by researchers such as Markus Stoffel (University of Geneva) have renewed discourse around the global systemic risks posed by a potential super-eruption — not only at Yellowstone, but at several other active volcanic complexes worldwide.

The dead giveaway? “Scientists Warn.” Whenever you see those two words sandwiched together above the fold, you know you’re about to step into a wonderland of wild extrapolation, qualified maybes, and models run so far into the future they boomerang back with “robots take over” as the y-axis.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

311
Having some mental disorder has been a "thing" for well over a decade. All of the kiddies suffer from "anxiety."

__________

And PTSD. Because of your toxic narcissism. Yeah, you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:12 AM (kkTda)

312 If Trump wanted their awards he could have "grown in office" like ten billion other fag Republicans before him.

Claiming he cares about these things after everything he has said and done to demonstrate he doesn't is just cheap point scoring because he has nice hair.

No one can prove what's in his head. But he probably wouldn't be threatening libtards and calling them Pocahontas if he really wanted their hardware so bad.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:12 AM (rME7O)

313 309 Donna, exactly.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

314 Moral men grow old and lament the squandering of young lives in senseless war.

Immoral men ... Bill Kristol, Max Boot ... get a warboner from squandering the blood of young men.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 09:12 AM (21iuJ)

315 If I were Trump, I would display it proudly in one of the more out of the way White House bathrooms.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:09 AM (dPfyF)

Melt it down into a urinal.

And stick Hillary's Russian reset button there as well.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 09:12 AM (jvJvP)

316 Trump's vanity is my fuck you to all those assholes who tried to kill him.

Because they were killing me.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:13 AM (fV+MH)

317 I know that Trump likes the glow of gold, but ...the oval is now looking like petit Versailles.

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)

318 Having some mental disorder has been a "thing" for well over a decade. All of the kiddies suffer from "anxiety."

In an ideal world, kids would be sent off to a camp that lasts for about three months. Out in the middle of nowhere, no internet, no signal of any kind. And then we force them to become normal people.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:14 AM (lXoJ5)

319 I do like the presidential gallery though.

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 09:14 AM (g47mK)

320 >Having some mental disorder has been a "thing" for well over a decade. All of the kiddies suffer from "anxiety."
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again, I blame Oprah and her deification of "The Victim"

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)

321 "The NFL is boring ass rot"

I stopped watching when it became "Snazzy graphics and idiotic chatter occasionally interrupted by a few moments of football."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (21iuJ)

322 What's her opinion on maple syrup?
Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Oy/m2)
*****
I've made other Paula Deen French toast, recipes, where it calls for maple syrup.
This particular one did not, and she used whipped cream.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

323 Seems no one wants to listen to Victoria Nuland anymore. I wonder why?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (W3T6M)

324 Latest outrage on the Left?

DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it. "...specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally..."

So Christian

Also: "Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall ". I can think of LOTS of things--like food, shelter, schools, bridges, roads --for the needy of this country, that this money could be better used for!!

This is surreal. They said "we will paint the wall black" but all I heard was "it has electrolytes". I thought it was an Onion article when I first read the title.

A colossal waste of money. They tell us the US is broke and we cannot afford anything for the people.

Build a 20 foot wall, I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders. Paint it black? I will invest in a Mexican glove and blanket source. Stupid fucks!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ycI94)

325 I agree, the Oval Office has been tarted up by Trump

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (AOsQT)

326 French toast = soggy bread. Yech.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

327 324 Also: "Homeland Security will be getting about $46 billion to complete the wall ". I can think of LOTS of things--like food, shelter, schools, bridges, roads --for the needy of this country, that this money could be better used for!!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ycI94)

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Can we cut grants to leftist organizations who just enrich themselves and then turn around and donate to the Democrat Party to find those savings for the poor?

Or...nah...?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (GBKbO)

328 - Pride

From the Hebrew Scripture - Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (RGbzo)

329 I see a border and I want it paint it black

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (rME7O)

330 Newscum 2028 -- Victory Through Hair Power!

/Oh I Hope Not ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (BENy5)

331 Build a 20 foot wall, I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders.

This is a joke, right?

Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:18 AM (Oy/m2)

332 French toast = soggy bread. Yech.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM

Concur. Pancakes, waffles, French toast...none of those ever did it for me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:18 AM (dPfyF)

333 "Having some mental disorder has been a "thing" for well over a decade"

_________

Yhey call it being 'neuro divergent' now, because big sciency words make it seem cool.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 09:18 AM (21iuJ)

334 324 A colossal waste of money. They tell us the US is broke and we cannot afford anything for the people.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ycI94)

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$5 says this person has complained that some $5 million investment in the White House, like the Rose Garden revamp, is going to bankrupt us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 20, 2025 09:18 AM (GBKbO)

335 Build a 20 foot wall, I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders. Paint it black? I will invest in a Mexican glove and blanket source. Stupid fucks!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ycI94)

Landmines it is then....

And AI snipers shooting at anyone approaching the wall.

Escalation is fun. I wonder where it ends.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (jvJvP)

336
And stick Hillary's Russian reset button there as well.

Of course the Russians deliberately humiliated Hillary over her botched "Do Over" button. They could get away with it, living on the other side of rhe world.

Vince Foster, on the other hand ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Tv15w)

337 So Christian

Coming from people who mock Christianity, I'm fine with their reaction.

I can think of LOTS of things--like food, shelter, schools, bridges, roads --for the needy of this country, that this money could be better used for!!

Well, we need to kick the illegals out and that costs money. Shame that their previous god couldn't handle helping out the needy or the infrastructure.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (lXoJ5)

338 I see a border and I want it paint it black

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:17 AM (rME7O)

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Dats raciss!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (BENy5)

339 I think Trump's interest in putting and end to the Ukraine - Russian conflict is this: Ukraine is still a huge source of graft for the people in office that oppose him.

Like most of Congress.

Turning off the various revenue streams those people have makes them more agreeable to certain things. Like doing their fucking job instead of grifting off the public tit forever. Not that they'll suddenly have some sort of epiphany about all that, but it puts Trump in a much stronger place moving forward if those asshats don't have all that money rolling in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Q4IgG)

340 The Mexicans were going to build some 21 foot ladders but they were having a siesta.

Posted by: ... at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (rME7O)

341 Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe

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And stay out!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (L/fGl)

342 I like it. Massive black wall.

Good optics.

now add a moat, and put black dye in the water

and crocodiles

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Pv3Rg)

343 The Oval Office has been tarted up by Trump

I really tarted it up…stuck a cigar up her hoohaa!

Posted by: Billy Jeff, raper at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (RQDXj)

344
Neurodivergent: A Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card for being an asshole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (kkTda)

345 I know that Trump likes the glow of gold, but ...the oval is now looking like petit Versailles.
Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)
******
I love Trump, but the Oval Office looks tacky.
Whenever I see it, I cringe. He keeps adding more gold. Someone needs to tell him to stop and tone it down a bit. It's too much.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

346 and crocodiles
Posted by: Black Orchid

Can we pain the crocodiles black too?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (lXoJ5)

347 And AI snipers shooting at anyone approaching the wall.
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We call those things CROWS these days. Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (W3T6M)

348 I know that Trump likes the glow of gold, but ...the oval is now looking like petit Versailles.
Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)
******
I love Trump, but the Oval Office looks tacky.
Whenever I see it, I cringe. He keeps adding more gold. Someone needs to tell him to stop and tone it down a bit. It's too much.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM

Are you suggesting Trump has a gilt complex?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (dPfyF)

349 ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ Filmmakers on How They Believe the Actor Would’ve Stood Up to Donald Trump Today.

Hey, how do you think he would've liked you creeps using his carcass to score political points?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 08:52 AM (GbwPZ)

This calls for a real life version of that scene from "Annie Hall" where the writer of this headline is spouting off about Christopher Reeve's theoretical Trump hatred and the specter of Chris Reeve appears and says:

"I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work, my life, my politics, or my views! How you got to write an article in anything is totally amazing!"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (iJfKG)

350 If Christopher Reeves were alive today I think he would stand up to President Trump with mechanical assistance.

What? Too soon?

Posted by: muldoon at August 20, 2025 09:21 AM (/iMjX)

351 I took my daily walk up the hill, and, as usual the construction tradesmen I see are speaking Spanish. Most construction workers around here ( and all roofers?) are latino. A lot of lawn mowers are Anglo, though.
I cant figure out where the low- skilled young black men work. Fast food places have plenty of very nice young AA ladies and Latinas.
State average AA pop. About 20%, local city about 30%, surrounding county less than 20%.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 20, 2025 09:21 AM (1FEc1)

352 So it wasn't a coincidence that the Pelosis bought black paint futures yesterday?

Posted by: Dutch Boy at August 20, 2025 09:21 AM (G5+As)

353 >>This is surreal. They said "we will paint the wall black" but all I heard was "it has electrolytes". I thought it was an Onion article when I first read the title.

Now do rainbow crosswalks!
What magic are these government expressions of pride that citizens have deviant sex supposed to accomplish?

>>A colossal waste of money. They tell us the US is broke and we cannot afford anything for the people.

Yeah, it's a real head-scratcher how stopping needy people from coming here illegally, who then use all sorts of government handouts, will have an effect on the US budget. DOH!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:21 AM (GbwPZ)

354 Build a 20 foot wall, I will invest in 21 foot Mexican ladders.

This is a joke, right?
Posted by: dantesed at August 20, 2025 09:18 AM (Oy/m2)
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He doesn't know many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoteneuse.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:22 AM (WvZaB)

355 It's easy to end this without a guarantee.

Just say "this was Obama and Biden's fault, not the American people's, and not mine. It's really too bad for Ukraine, and I'm sorry those two ruined your country, but I'm shutting off the taps now. It's over. Deal with it."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 20, 2025 09:23 AM (NcsUG)

356 I dig the gold! More gold! Naysayers are jealous because they can't afford gold! Ha!

Posted by: Pat Boone For Swiss America at August 20, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

357 If Christopher Reeves were alive today I think he would stand up to President Trump with mechanical assistance.

He'd have his service monkey throw a sandwich at an ICE agent. For Democracy.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 20, 2025 09:24 AM (ycI94)

358 Did Trump bring Churchill back to the OO?

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

359 Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs and Bomb-Bomb-Iran Demonstration have led to the ending of six wars (and prevention of a seventh?) thus far in 2025.

Let's hope they give the Nobel Peace Prize to Muslim Commie Mondami ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: One King To Rule Them All! at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (BENy5)

360 I know that Trump likes the glow of gold, but ...the oval is now looking like petit Versailles.
Posted by: runner at August 20, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)
******
I love Trump, but the Oval Office looks tacky.
Whenever I see it, I cringe. He keeps adding more gold. Someone needs to tell him to stop and tone it down a bit. It's too much.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM

Yes, President Trump needs to tone it down. Less is more.

Posted by: Auric Goldfinger at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (wVcYX)

361 Victoria who?

Posted by: Most people at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (XQo4F)

362 Pretty soon I expect to tune in and see that Trump has painted the Oval Office walls gold...he's got 3.5 years to do it.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

363 Eh, pecan pie is just too sweet for my taste.

Add more bourbon, or cayenne.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

364 He doesn't know many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoteneuse.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Geometry is racist too!

Posted by: Future Scholars at August 20, 2025 09:25 AM (ycI94)

365
Thank you for calling Sen. Tillis' office. I'm still literally shaking right now. TERRORIZING 4-YEAR-OLDS! This is beyond the pale and i am so pissed i need to check my BP. Thank you for sharing.

Nice use of a term connected with Joos, "Shakes"! Look up the origin of the phrase "beyond the pale".

The “pale” was the enclosed and safe area, inside the paling fence. To be “beyond the pale” meant being outside the accepted home area. Catherine the Great established the Pale of Settlement in Russia in 1791 for Jews, restricting trade between Jews and Russians. Some Jews were allowed to live “beyond the pale”.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 09:26 AM (Tv15w)

366 363 Eh, pecan pie is just too sweet for my taste.

Add more bourbon, or cayenne.
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Pecan Pie is much moar American than Apple Pie.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:26 AM (W3T6M)

367 My grandmother had a taste in decor that is similar to Trump's. Gaudy.

If it makes him comfortable and visitors uncomfortable then it's probably working as designed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2025 09:26 AM (Q4IgG)

368 Are you suggesting Trump has a gilt complex?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (dPfyF)
*****
I keep thinking to myself where is Melania? Does she really approve of this? Please Melania make it stop and take some of that gold out of there.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

369 chocolate chip pecan pie is the King of Pies

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:28 AM (AOsQT)

370 365 There was a “Pale” in Ireland, too. English inside, Irish outside.

Posted by: Bulg at August 20, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

371 "US Congress authorizes construction of 100 mile border wall."

"Mexican government authorizes construction of 100 mile wide ladder."

Posted by: Classic Headlines at August 20, 2025 09:29 AM (XQo4F)

372 >>Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe

A. They are choosing to hire foreigners over Americans because THEY made poor business decisions (e.g. bloated movie budgets on what was niche audience fare, etc.). Nice way to shift the pain onto people who didn't have anything to do with your current financial troubles.

B. Wasn't Trump going to implement Hollywood tariffs for work produced outside of America? Get on that, Donnie!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 20, 2025 09:29 AM (GbwPZ)

373 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 20, 2025 09:26 AM (Tv15w)
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There was also The Pale in Ireland, in Tudor times.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:29 AM (WvZaB)

374 351 I cant figure out where the low- skilled young black men work.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 20, 2025 09:21 AM (1FEc1)

Prison.

They're in Prison.

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:29 AM (UnA8+)

375 I love gold leaf. I have an 8'x9' piece of art by a master of gold leaf-Louis Ross from 1941.

Posted by: Gold, Jerry! at August 20, 2025 09:30 AM (G5+As)

376 "I stopped watching when it became "Snazzy graphics and idiotic chatter occasionally interrupted by a few moments of football."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo "

That's what is has become.

Posted by: eleven at August 20, 2025 09:30 AM (fV+MH)

377 And a quick check has confirmed that it is not time to go home yet. Much sadness.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:31 AM (lXoJ5)

378
Prison.

They're in Prison.
Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:29 AM (UnA8+)

__________

There is no hatred more incandescent than that which black women have for white women dating black men because the available pool of the last is so small.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:32 AM (kkTda)

379 We call those things CROWS these days. Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 20, 2025 09:20 AM (W3T6M)

Good to know.
Thanks!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 09:34 AM (jvJvP)

380 Democrat Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a man who identifies as a woman, claimed President Trump is waging an “all-out assault” against “American democracy” because he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines.

I would love to put these people on the spot and ask them how much voter fraud is acceptable.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:34 AM (lXoJ5)

381 the paint on the art isn't dry yet

Posted by: Don Black at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (AOsQT)

382 Everyone busy hitting F5, I collect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (WvZaB)

383 380 I would love to put these people on the spot and ask them how much voter fraud is acceptable.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 20, 2025 09:34 AM (lXoJ5)

Considering that Brian "Sarah" McBride's entire LIFE is a fraud...

Posted by: XTC at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (UnA8+)

384 I see a border wall and want it painted black.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 20, 2025 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

385 Art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (ExV1e)

386 I don't think Trump is overly vain. He has a highly robust and competitive ego but he channels it chiefly through accomplishments that benefit something larger, such as his businesses and now his country. His ego is purpose-driven and constructive rather than narrow and solipsistic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (WHfpM)

387 381 the paint on the art isn't dry yet
Posted by: Don Black

Heat gun or hair dryer.

Posted by: Oily To Rise at August 20, 2025 09:36 AM (G5+As)

388 Our dastardly government bureaucrat assholes, at the behest of their Arms paymasters, have been moving eastward toward Russia since 1994 - against the agreements made to not do so.

Whatever Trump has to do... US aircraft are flying all over the spaces anyway.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (1E4GV)

389 Paint it Black

https://youtu.be/OaXiTwgkDAw

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 20, 2025 09:37 AM (21iuJ)

390 “I find it very fascinating that U.S. citizens are fighting so hard to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. It’s quite bizarre, to be honest with you,” Essayli told the DCNF. “And one thing that’s been very shocking to me — whether it’s the defendants or the politicians — I’ve never seen people fight so hard for foreign nationals.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2025 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

391 There is no hatred more incandescent than that which black women have for white women dating black men because the available pool of the last is so small.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 09:32 AM (kkTda)

Perhaps black women could learn to behave in an appropriate manner that makes them more desirable to men. All men, regardless of pigmentation, detest that "yas slay qween" attitude and the foul mouthed, false eyelashes, skin tight clothing, and four hour hair and makeup time that goes with it.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM (2J/Lj)

392 detest that "yas slay qween" attitude and the foul mouthed, false eyelashes, skin tight clothing, and four hour hair and makeup time that goes with it.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2025 09:39 AM

Oh, chile ...

Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at August 20, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

393 Nice and fast here in Canada from my tablet.

Did everyone try rebooting?

And I'm not being a smartass. That's always the 1st question.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.0% at August 20, 2025 08:04 AM (jvJvP)

Clearing your browser's cache is the first step. I have no issues with this site at all. Using Windows 8.1 on a Toshiba gaming laptop with Chrome, or Brave at times. Never any problems with loading. I clear my history once a day, including cookies.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 20, 2025 09:55 AM (5xuJ/)

394 Eh, pecan pie is just too sweet for my taste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 20, 2025 08:58 AM (kkTda)

I don't understand those words in that order.

Too sweet? That's actually a thing??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 20, 2025 09:59 AM (5xuJ/)

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

Do not like it one bit. Zelensky is nothing but provocative and that's why he's the Ukrainian president.

>Philadelphia Daily News - Inquirer headline, August 19, 2025: Editorial - 'Weakened Warrior' After disastrous summit, Trump set to complete sellout of Ukraine.

In part: "Now, he appears poised to complete the sellout of Ukraine. In doing so, he will abandon Europe and open the door for China to invade Taiwan. Worst of all, Trump continues to show the world he is a paper tiger."

"He rolled out a read carpet for the former KGB spy, who has been accused to committing war crimes." (Context: By the ICC 😒.)

"Trump's feeble and embarrassing stagecraft was a prelude to backstabbing Ukraine - along with the rest of europe and the more than 400,000 U.S. soldiers who died fighting to preserve democracy and freedom against fascism and militarism."

"While Trump's submission is a betrayal of his presidential oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the U.S., other presidents also failed to stop Putin's aggression.

In 2014, then President Barack Obama was slow and ineffective in stopping Russia from annexing Crimea...."

Cont'd -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 20, 2025 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

396 "Former President Joe Biden then failed to provide Ukraine the military support needed to defeat Russia - especially when its military was faltering. The Republicans in Congress played a role in blocking the aid as well."

"In the end, the cost of stopping Russia would have been cheaper and more impactful than the appeasement plan now in the works."
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The US is supposed to go all in to war with another superpower because whoever or whatever is driving this conflict for many, many years is not pleased with the circuitous paths it has taken? How does the U.S. continue to 'fight' on so many fronts - including internally - engage to the satisfaction of the EU, UK, NATO and ??? and remain whole? (It doesn't seem possible.)
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Interesting article: researchinginternaldisplacement dot org
The Muslims of Ukraine: Demographics, displacement and faith during the conflict, Published on February 6, 2025
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Ali Hopper, President & Founder of GUARD Against Trafficking

She's last testified before Congress in July 2025.
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Baha breaking news: Miller: Newsom, Bass guilty of 'crimes against humanity' Aug. 16, 2025 ("child trafficking" and "sex trafficking")

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 20, 2025 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

397 It gets funnier everytime.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 20, 2025 11:08 AM (s9EN2)

398 Animal Farm turns 80 and the Pigs(Liberal Democrats)still think their more Equal then Others

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 20, 2025 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

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