Politico: Trump's Enforcement of the Law to Save Human Lives and Reduce Human Suffering Is a "Ploy"

Oh, a ploy, huh? Are the 3.3% growth rate and 2% inflation rate also ploys?

Or just good policies that increase the sum of human weal and prosperity?

It's definitely a "ploy," Politico's Senior AWFL Rachel Bade says.

Oh, and Democrats are falling into the "trap" of opposing Trump's ploy.

To many Washington insiders, President Trump's early August Beltway crime crackdown seemed like an opportunistic and hamhanded pivot after getting walloped for weeks over the Jeffrey Epstein affair.
But if it wasn't clear then, it is now: The White House's public safety play is a deliberate ploy to refocus the narrative on an issue that favors Republicans ahead of the midterms -- one that's already backing Democrats into a corner.
The president in recent days is leaning even further into using the National Guard as a glorified police force, visiting the troops and allowing them to be armed. He's suggested he's eyeing Chicago and New York next for their next deployment. On Sunday, he needled Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for Baltimore's notorious crime statistics, hinting he could send troops there as well.
It's a sign that despite polling showing how unpopular Trump's moves are in Washington, the president is playing to a national audience -- and betting this is a battle he and the GOP can win. If his recent escalation was an attempt to goad Democrats into declaring that crime isn't a problem, repelling swing voters in the process, top Democrats did not disappoint him.
Over the weekend, Democratic Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Kathy Hochul of New York released statements arguing that crime in their cities was down or that there's no "emergency" requiring the National Guard. Other Democrats have glossed over voters' concerns about public safety, deriding Trump as an "authoritarian."

The problem is that while some voters might not like overtly political power grabs, history shows they dislike feeling unsafe even more. Expanding homeless encampments and drug overdoses in plain view have left many of them fearful.
Dan Turrentine, a Democratic strategist and host of the 2Way podcast "The Morning Meeting," called crime "an 80-20 issue."
"Just like with immigration, Trump has found another issue where the Democratic Party is on a back foot. They don't want to admit that there's a problem -- even though nobody in New York City, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles or San Francisco would say things are good," he said. "The fact that we have people arguing that crime is not a problem is crazy."
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A White House official said Trump is giddy about the prospect of "forcing the Democrats to defend the indefensible." Nobody wants to walk outside and have to worry about getting mugged or carjacked, the person argued. Democrats will have to "either side with Donald Trump, or side with crime and murder."
"To the president, this is basic, common-sense shit," the official said.

💡The moment when MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski finally realize Democrats have been duped by Trump into defending violent crime in DC:

“It’s a trap!" pic.twitter.com/J3AlvIKGHA
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 13, 2025

"Dear Trump,

I hate you so much that even the possibility of you saving me from being victimized by a carjacker is repulsive.

I am a virtue-signaling masochist.

PS: No, I'm not thinking about other people being prevented from victimization. I'm the main character." pic.twitter.com/m8mRcR79H9
— Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man (@wrong_speak) August 23, 2025

That Virtue Signaler has been complaining about her carjacking for six whole years. It only took Trump reducing crime to turn her Pro-Carjacking.

Apparently she deleted her account when this was discovered.

Armed carjacker in D.C. says that he's been released from jail SIX TIMES

"I've been out of D.C. jail six times for the same one... They release me. It's the same thing every f***king time."

THIS is why Trump decided to crack down on crime. Democrats let criminals run loose in… pic.twitter.com/AnqTxL8cXs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 26, 2025

It's a "ploy" to reduce crime, which 81% of adults say is a "major problem."

81% of Americans say crime is a "major problem" in large cities.

Democrats are in denial. President Trump is taking action. pic.twitter.com/ApVf1awrQh
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 27, 2025

On the other hand, we should definitely take Global Warming seriously, along with the Threat to Our Precious Democracy that happens every time we lose an election.

Joe Scarborough attempted to get Black Power Nazi Brandon Johnson to say that, along with all the "root causes" boondoggles he craves, funding for 5,000 additional cops on the streets would reduce crime.

He refused to say that, and kept insisting that police weren't the answer to crime. (Only reparations are, disguised as "social safety net" spending.)

'That's not the question I asked!' an exasperated Scarborough responded, before asking again whether '5,000 more cops' would make Chicago safer.
Johnson replied: 'I don't believe that we should narrow it down to just police officers... What I'm saying, that is an antiquated approach.'
Scarborough then told the mayor he agreed that social programs were also important in combatting crime, but continued to press him.
'Are you hearing what I'm saying?' Scarborough asked, before repeating the question.
But Johnson went back to his default response, telling Scarborough: 'I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer.
'What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing. It's policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It's policing and youth employment. It's a full package.'

Meanwhile: Accept the Rapes of Babies, Bigots, to prove that you're tolerant of Vibrant and Diverse Cultures.

BREAKING: 2 Guatemalans indicted in FL for rqping a 7 year old, which carries the death penalty in FL pic.twitter.com/lskz5HiBl9
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 25, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:14 PM

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1 Why is he taking away our crime?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

2 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

3 "He's just trying to protect the American people for political purposes. You should vote instead for people who don't want to protect the American people for non-political purposes."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

4 >>>Trump's Enforcement of the Law to Save Human Lives and Reduce Human Suffering Is a "Ploy"

That sneaky bastard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:16 PM (i24o9)

5 I told the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

6 Scarborough then told the mayor he agreed that social programs were also important in combatting crime, but continued to press him.

'Are you hearing what I'm saying?' Scarborough asked, before repeating the question.

But Johnson went back to his default response, telling Scarborough: 'I don't believe that just simply putting out an arbitrary number around police officers is the answer.

'What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing. It's policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It's policing and youth employment. It's a full package.'

Scarborough: I'm trying to throw you a lifeline here.
Johnson: I hate whitey!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

7 Peace and safety are subversive.

Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:17 PM (98kQX)

8
I told the previous thread.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:16 PM (ExV1e)

_________

You expect to be congratulated for doing what you should?

/60s Fathers

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:18 PM (hAxMn)

9 "2 Guatemalans indicted in FL for rqping a 7 year old, which carries the death penalty in FL"

As it should in any state. But in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Colorado they probably get $10,000/ year per life.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:18 PM (17s+e)

10 Are you hearing what I'm saying?' Scarborough asked, before repeating the question. Are you retarded?

But Johnson went back to his default response, telling Scarborough: "Root causes and reparations" *bleep*

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

11 Tangential, it seems like Trump's promise to send the National Guard to places like Chicago has morphed, quite logically, to just increased DHS presence.

"Several hundred" DHS officers are going to Chicago to beef up current efforts.

It was only a few hundred NG in DC to get crime to drop to almost nothing.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

12 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

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They go right up and make an ass of themselves. A great ass.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (17s+e)

13 Sumbitch is duping them by improving their lives!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (L/fGl)

14 I checked for a nood.

I left a comment.

I was willarded anyway.

This place!

Posted by: mindful webworker - what, me willarded? at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (HETr4)

15
Makes you wonder what kind of arrangements blue-city mayors have with gangs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (hAxMn)

16 >>>"Just like with immigration, Trump has found another issue where the Democratic Party is on a back foot. They don't want to admit that there's a problem -- even though nobody in New York City, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles or San Francisco would say things are good," he said. "The fact that we have people arguing that crime is not a problem is crazy."

Stunning admission there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (i24o9)

17
'What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing. It's policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It's policing and youth employment. It's a full package.

Affordable housing ! That's the answer ! Let's build a bunch of low rent/ free housing and watch it turn into the inevitable crime ridden tenements we've all come to love.. That's the answer...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2025 01:20 PM (VE6XX)

18 I'm old enough to remember when Democrats actually campaigned on the promise of fighting crime.

Posted by: Socratease at August 29, 2025 01:20 PM (YgfoU)

19 The carjacked whackjob deleted her X account rather than attempt to defend her insane post.

Usually when a crime happens to you, you become more conservative in your policing outlook. Apparently, it doesn't happen to everyone.

That lady is crazy.

Posted by: Ann at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (4neFu)

20 I like Dan Turrentine.

Yes, he's a liberal Dem strategist. But he's the first one I've heard that calls the Dems stupid when they're doing stupid stuff, instead of constantly pushing the Niedermeyer line whenever someone sticks a microphone in front of them. The Sunday shows are useless, largely because any Dem that shows up spouts official talking points, instead of telling us when their emperor really has no clothes on. That's totally aside from the NeverTrumpers they employ to spout official Dem talking points as well.

If I want to hear from a Dem (or Rep) strategist, I want to know that they are at least acknowledging the inevitable problems that stem from their policies, instead of being a cheerleader for their team 24/7/365. If I want that, I'd watch the evening news.

Halperin has a good team with him on this stuff, and Turrentine elevates their game. The Dems would be in better shape if more of their side gives them some tough love.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (RWBLh)

21 Makes you wonder what kind of arrangements blue-city mayors have with gangs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (hAxMn)
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PROFITABLE ONES.

Very profitable.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (17s+e)

22 Ah, yes, the "antiquated" solution of enforcing the law. Because the new, current model of letting people who've broken the law pay no penalty is working so, so well for Chicago!

Posted by: pookysgirl should not need a sarc tag at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (Wt5PA)

23
Policing? Policing? Even while George Floyd's funeral is going on?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (hAxMn)

24 Rachael Bade is a partisan hack slutlord, but my take on her article is a little different than Ace's.

My take is that this is her (and Politico) throwing in the towel on the crime issue. The article all but admits that Trump is killing the Democraps on the issue, and Democraps better wise up or they'll get killed in 2026.

Of course there's the usual throat-clearing of bullshit hits on Trump and maligning of his motives. But the article is basically saying "he beat us, we must join him."

Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

25 White, liberal, shithead women like Jill are what make places like Chicagostan the place it is. Hopefully she has had a tubal and someone will break her other arm.

Posted by: Jill Is A Shithead at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (R/m4+)

26 17 Affordable housing ! That's the answer ! Let's build a bunch of low rent/ free housing and watch it turn into the inevitable crime ridden tenements we've all come to love.. That's the answer...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2025 01:20 PM (VE6XX)

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It's become the default response as to why both crime is out of control in blue cities and why blue states are losing population.

It's probably some small part of the overall equation, but still only a small part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

27 21 Makes you wonder what kind of arrangements blue-city mayors have with gangs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:19 PM (hAxMn)
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PROFITABLE ONES.

Very profitable.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (17s+e)

That's the word on Chicago, at the very least.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM (RWBLh)

28 25 White, liberal, shithead women like Jill are what make places like Chicagostan the place it is. Hopefully she has had a tubal and someone will break her other arm.
Posted by: Jill Is A Shithead at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (R/m4+)

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The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.

"This is how progressives like it. Stay out."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

29 'What I'm saying is policing and affordable housing. It's policing and mental and behavioral health care services. It's policing and youth employment. It's a full package.

Affordable housing ! That's the answer ! Let's build a bunch of low rent/ free housing and watch it turn into the inevitable crime ridden tenements we've all come to love.. That's the answer...

They've been parroting the same old shopworn lines since the 50s. Interestingly, they never cite a single instance where their approach has worked, despite the fact they've controlled most cities since then.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

30
Affordable housing ! That's the answer ! Let's build a bunch of low rent/ free housing and watch it turn into the inevitable crime ridden tenements we've all come to love

_________

We could call it Pruitt-Cabrini-Igoe-Green!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM (hAxMn)

31 Another crazy white woman, I'd guess.

Jill Ciminillo, a popular Chicago-based automotive journalist and content creator who posts on various social media platforms including YouTube, TikTok and X and also co-hosts a podcast called 'Car Stuff.'

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (NFX2v)

32 >>Affordable housing ! That's the answer ! Let's build a bunch of low rent/ free housing and watch it turn into the inevitable crime ridden tenements we've all come to love.. That's the answer...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2025 01:20 PM

My former boss was a black guy about my age who grew up in the Chicago projects. He said his family moved into a new high-rise Section 8 apartment when he was a kid. Within two months, it smelled like piss, everything outside was broken or stolen and it was just like every other slum in the city, inside and out.

Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)

33
I read that as "Cat Stuff"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (hAxMn)

34 Democrats are the party of murderers, rapists, pedophiles, child molesters, sexual predators, and terrorists. They're just showing their ass a little more than usual.

Posted by: They've been at this for a long time at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

35 Expand midnight basketball programs in the Blue hellholes and label them as tranny-friendly. A vastly superior solution than 5000 more cops on the beat.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (5yDGQ)

36 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (WvZaB)

37 My former boss was a black guy about my age who grew up in the Chicago projects. He said his family moved into a new high-rise Section 8 apartment when he was a kid. Within two months, it smelled like piss, everything outside was broken or stolen and it was just like every other slum in the city, inside and out.
Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)

I wonder why?

Posted by: DNA at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (R/m4+)

38 "It's a sign that despite polling showing how unpopular Trump's moves are in Washington, the president is playing to a national audience -- and betting this is a battle he and the GOP can win. If his recent escalation was an attempt to goad Democrats into declaring that crime isn't a problem, repelling swing voters in the process, top Democrats did not disappoint him."

And Trump wants a mid-term Republican Convention to drive that point home ahead of the 2026 elections.

This man is a very stable genius.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (RWBLh)

39 >>> Democrats will have to "either side with Donald Trump, or side with crime and murder."

Even before Trump this was their position.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 29, 2025 01:26 PM (/lPRQ)

40 A ploy to make America great again?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 29, 2025 01:26 PM (GhIJO)

41 Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

That nose.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:26 PM (i24o9)

42 "The problem is that while some voters might not like overtly political power grabs, history shows they dislike feeling unsafe even more."

An observation so astonishingly insightful it makes my eye twitch.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pinkeye pantheris at August 29, 2025 01:26 PM (HETr4)

43
Democrats will have to "either side with Donald Trump, or side with crime and murder."

________

Side with "that thing in the White House"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (hAxMn)

44 Usually when a crime happens to you, you become more conservative in your policing outlook. Apparently, it doesn't happen to everyone.

That lady is crazy.
Posted by: Ann at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (4neFu)

She was conditionally pro-policing. As long as the policing was being directed by a black Democrat - who wouldn't increase policing, then she was all in favor of increased policing. She is a true believer, prepared to lay down her life to ensure the success of the Jackass Party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

45 NO ! "Wired reports that a secretive nonprofit organization with ties to a powerful leftist dark money group is quietly bankrolling a network of high-profile Democratic influencers, offering them up to $8,000 per month to join an astroturf machine pushing leftist talking points online."

"Chorus Creator Incubator Program", y'all.

Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (g47mK)

46 23
Policing? Policing? Even while George Floyd's funeral is going on?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (hAxMn)

And this close to Pride Month!

Posted by: Josephistan at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (y9ksN)

47 The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.

"This is how progressives like it. Stay out."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM

I'm starting to think that these lefties aren't the sooper geniuses they think they are.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (Wnv9h)

48 24 Rachael Bade is a partisan hack slutlord, but my take on her article is a little different than Ace's.

My take is that this is her (and Politico) throwing in the towel on the crime issue. The article all but admits that Trump is killing the Democraps on the issue, and Democraps better wise up or they'll get killed in 2026.

Of course there's the usual throat-clearing of bullshit hits on Trump and maligning of his motives. But the article is basically saying "he beat us, we must join him."

Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

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It's really hard to look at what is literally a 99-1 issue (some poll found that 88% said crime was very important and 11% said crime was somewhat important leaving 1% saying not important) and come out saying, "Trump shouldn't try to help with crime because he might deploy the National Guard in a slightly illegal manner."

Which he hasn't done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

49 An observation so astonishingly insightful it makes my eye twitch.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pinkeye pantheris at August 29, 2025 01:26 PM (HETr4)
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It make-a da ganglia TWITCH!!!

Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at August 29, 2025 01:28 PM (WvZaB)

50 47 The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.

"This is how progressives like it. Stay out."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM

I'm starting to think that these lefties aren't the sooper geniuses they think they are.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2025 01:27 PM (Wnv9h)

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"This is just how cities are, crime ridden, and you just need to get used to it."

It sells well for people who love their cities no matter what. I sells terribly to just about everyone else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

51 See the nice four story condos and luxury townhouses being built enmass in every suburban area? Live more than 20 years and watch the shitholes they've become.

It was done decades ago and the results were no different unless there was a sense of community.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (NFX2v)

52 And Trump wants a mid-term Republican Convention to drive that point home ahead of the 2026 elections.

This man is a very stable genius.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Don't you know Trump is a dumb dementia patient for winning and beating the tar out of the donks?

Well according to all the smarter "experts in democrat propaganda media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (17s+e)

53 It appears that Mayor Conehead is actually brain damaged. He simply keeps spouting out the same leftist crap. He cannot adapt to anything intellectually. He a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago teachers union. He makes Mayor Groot look good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (Kp8LC)

54 would you say that Rachael Bade is a online influencer ???

Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

55 My former boss was a black guy about my age who grew up in the Chicago projects. He said his family moved into a new high-rise Section 8 apartment when he was a kid. Within two months, it smelled like piss, everything outside was broken or stolen and it was just like every other slum in the city, inside and out.

Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)

You can take people out of the slums, but you can't take the slums out of some people?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

56 Legalizing murder, rape and assault would totally reduce crime

-The Democrats

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (EH1Gq)

57 Rachael Bade is a partisan hack slutlord, but my take on her article is a little different than Ace's.

...

Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

https://dodoodad.com/rachael-bade/

That's a face I want sitting across the breakfast table.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (ExV1e)

58 It make-a da ganglia TWITCH!!!
Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at August 29, 2025 01:28 PM (WvZaB)

Home is a-where you wear-a your hat!

Posted by: Red Lectroids from Planet 10 at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (TbWk/)

59 "2 Guatemalans indicted in FL for rqping a 7 year old, which carries the death penalty in FL"

Wasn't there something in that thar Constitution about swift justice? May there be!

Pour discourager les autres, as the saying goes.

Posted by: mindful webworker - pinkeye pantheris at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (HETr4)

60 53 It appears that Mayor Conehead is actually brain damaged. He simply keeps spouting out the same leftist crap. He cannot adapt to anything intellectually. He a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago teachers union. He makes Mayor Groot look good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (Kp8LC)

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Political machines do not produce good politicians. They produce corrupt yes men.

The Chicago machine has been operating for a long time, and Johnson is very much a product of it (sucked the Teachers' Union's cock to get the job).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

61 We should do a crazy social experiment. We should punish people when they do something wrong. No, no. Hear me out. We tell people they have to not commit crimes and / or violence. If they do, they will have to go to jail, and part of jail is contributing to society to pay for their upkeep in jail. As luck would have it, lots of jobs picking fruit are now available, I have heard. Like a chain gang. In fact, pot holes need fixing, buildings need painting, trash needs picking up. Toilets need scrubbing. Oh? You don’t want to work out there in the hot sun? Hmmm. Well. Maybe follow the rules of a functional society then.

Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (p4NUW)

62 56 Legalizing murder, rape and assault would totally reduce crime

-The Democrats
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (EH1Gq)

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Bruh, this isn't even satire.

It's just straight reporting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

63 My former boss was a black guy about my age who grew up in the Chicago projects. He said his family moved into a new high-rise Section 8 apartment when he was a kid. Within two months, it smelled like piss, everything outside was broken or stolen and it was just like every other slum in the city, inside and out.
Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)

I wonder why?
Posted by: DNA at August 29, 2025 01:25 PM (R/m4+)
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Mostly two reasons: (i) the tenants are mostly poor renters and poor renters give no shits about rental properties and (ii) gangs. As soon as any new housing project goes up, the first thing that happens is it gets infected with gangs. They take it over and rape it to death.

So even if there were tenants who actually did care about the place -- and there are -- they have no chance against the gangs.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

64 This man is a very stable genius.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Don't you know Trump is a dumb dementia patient for winning and beating the tar out of the donks?

Well according to all the smarter "experts in democrat propaganda media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (17s+e)

How lucky can one man get?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9)

65 Skyrocketing crime rates, in urban centers AND in rural areas, was the reason why Dark State operators like Soros, Inc. backed no-bail, catch-and-release DAs. Years of watching very dangerous people returned to the streets within hours of their arrests is not only a threat to the lives of innocent people, it's demoralizing for the public at large. The election of DJT and the Administration's emphasis on law enforcement AND election reforms have put a major crimp in the plans of those who are actively plotting to destroy our country.

Posted by: mrp at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (rj6Yv)

66 ploy: (noun) Something that is done or said, often dishonestly, in order to get an advantage; a trick:

You may be wondering if this was just an elaborate ploy to get a free cup of coffee.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (wVcYX)

67 Meanwhile, in California Gavin Newsom, announces is going to deploy crime suppression units. Ha, ha, ha. These will be deployed as long as it takes not to suppress crime to bolster his 2028 president poll numbers.

If Newsom ever makes it to the White House the whole country will be a train wreck within days.

https://is.gd/0ds7cv

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (aJQjq)

68 I checked for a nood.

I left a comment.

I was willarded anyway...

You were bitten to death by rats?!?!

Dang, this place is hard core.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (iJfKG)

69 That Jill lady deleted her X account. It would be the height of irony if she was carjacked again.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (Kp8LC)

70 BTW...

Trans shooter: "where is your god now"

Gavin Newsom: "these children were literally praying as they got shot"

Given the context, these two statements are basically the same. In a sane, normal world, this would immediately end your career.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (EH1Gq)

71 I'm still waiting, though, for TN's governor, Bill Lee, to use his authority to call in the National Guard to clean up Memphis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

72 Fuck Chicago.
It's an evil monster of a city.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

73
Crime is a business for the dems. They profit from it. All the anti-crime programs that just slush funds for their coffers.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (IifOV)

74 The carjacked whackjob deleted her X account rather than attempt to defend her insane post.…
Posted by: Ann

"She's probably on Bluesky." -MiladyJo

Posted by: mindful webworker - channeling an honorary ette at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (HETr4)

75 72 Fuck Chicago.
It's an evil monster of a city.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

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You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

76 15
Makes you wonder what kind of arrangements blue-city mayors have with gangs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Thoroughly integrated with politics in Chicago. Likely true in most major metro areas--drug money, illegal voting operations aka harvesting, fraudulent registrations, filling out ballots, and so on. Pols, just like Capone got, give protection for the gangsters for profit and power.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (ctrM5)

77 2 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

and a great pooper

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)

78 You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He is into Beyond Meat now.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:34 PM (ctrM5)

79 75 72 Fuck Chicago.
It's an evil monster of a city.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

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You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

I can't take a fry cook on Venus seriously.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

80 71 I'm still waiting, though, for TN's governor, Bill Lee, to use his authority to call in the National Guard to clean up Memphis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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So far, he has stationed over 50 Tennessee State Troopers there--they are cutting down on the insane drivers through there and causing some reduction in crimes overall.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (ctrM5)

81 All housing is affordable, if you get a damned job and pay for it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (1Gsou)

82 That Jill lady deleted her X account. It would be the height of irony if she was carjacked again.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM (Kp8LC)
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Karma jacked.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (WvZaB)

83 48 days.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (jgmnb)

84 Looks to me like politico is admitting that high crime rates in cities is a choice. If reducing it is a gimmic or ploy, why don't they do it?

Posted by: Tom at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (4mhi+)

85 Thoroughly integrated with politics in Chicago. Likely true in most major metro areas--drug money, illegal voting operations aka harvesting, fraudulent registrations, filling out ballots, and so on. Pols, just like Capone got, give protection for the gangsters for profit and power.
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (ctrM5)

Oh, and to "combat crime" and to "get criminals off the street", there are the golden-oldie "jobs programs" for dessert.

Posted by: mrp at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)

86 69 That Jill lady deleted her X account. It would be the height of irony if she was carjacked again.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29

And it was 7 years ago, she wouldn’t shut up about it.

Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

87 @60 TJM, agreed. It seems that machine politics wear down and you end up with gibbering idiots as the Mayor . Say what you want about the Daley's in Chicago and the Dem machine closer to me in Albany, but they kept things running relatively well. Albany is having a lot of murders and the infrastructure , specifically sewers and water lines are now collapsing regularly. Albany mayor Kathy Sheehan is a dingbat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (Kp8LC)

88 79 You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

I can't take a fry cook on Venus seriously.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

======

I demand science reanimate John Hughes to make a legacy sequel to Ferris Bueller where Bueller is some nobody in a law firm who takes a day off to help his friend Cameron, mayor of Chicago, and the two non-chalantly fight crime through song and good vibes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

89 I think Trump is trying to do the right thing. But I think this will end with NGs enforcing law in blue hellholes around the country - propping up the budgets and electoral viability of corrupt blue city mayors and their vile police bureaucracies.

Personally, I'd leave DC and every other blue city to labor under the weight of their corruption. They aren't worth saving at all, let alone exposing American servicemen to potential danger protecting America's enemies. Fuck 'em. Let 'em all burn.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (txWQC)

90 2 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

and a great pooper
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)

That outfit is just a ploy to get attention and free drinks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (wVcYX)

91 Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

https://dodoodad.com/rachael-bade/

That's a face I want sitting across the breakfast table.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Smirking leftist, failed ballet dancer, and a reporter. Toxic.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:38 PM (ctrM5)

92 It is Politics.

Do what you do well and make your opponent focus/ derend what they do bad.

Rachel Bade is an idiot.

As for the two Guatemalans. GP in prison and we don't have to worry about the trial or the sentencing.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 29, 2025 01:38 PM (FxH7T)

93 Fuck Chicago.
It's an evil monster of a city.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:32 PM (xcxpd)

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You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
_

Odds there's a gay porn with a "sausage king of chicago"? High.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

94 I lived in Chicago in 1985. It smelled awful, the weather is horrid, I watched no less than three men pee in public, twice in my yard, in the first week I was there. I left in 1986. The week after I left, the fare-taker at the El station in my neighborhood was shot dead in his booth.

Chicago has always been something of shithole, and it has only gotten worse since then.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:38 PM (1Gsou)

95 Oh, and to "combat crime" and to "get criminals off the street", there are the golden-oldie "jobs programs" for dessert.
Posted by: mrp at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)

Midnight basketball!

Posted by: It's brilliant! at August 29, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

96 That outfit is just a ploy to get attention and free drinks.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Advertising in action for high quality males. The rest are not noticed as even human by la belle sans merci.

Yet, the same fate will befall la belle upon aging. Choose wisely as the carousel always packs up with the circus after a time.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)

97 I like Chicago much better than the other two megalopolises. But I still hate it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (txWQC)

98 87 @60 TJM, agreed. It seems that machine politics wear down and you end up with gibbering idiots as the Mayor . Say what you want about the Daley's in Chicago and the Dem machine closer to me in Albany, but they kept things running relatively well. Albany is having a lot of murders and the infrastructure , specifically sewers and water lines are now collapsing regularly. Albany mayor Kathy Sheehan is a dingbat
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (Kp8LC)

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The incentive structure to be good at politics, to be able to appeal to people who vote and do good for them, simply disappears the more powerful the machine becomes, insulating it from the people.

So, first generation creates the machine and is immensely tied to he will of the people.

Second generation, brought up by the first, understands the game and plays it, but they can never replicate the same appeal.

Third on, it's just a degradation and only a question of how fast into a racket. Public heads become figureheads where the real powers don't want smart people responding to the will of the people at all.

This also explains Kamala Harris.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

99 The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.

----

But Jussie Smollet said he was assaulted by two white guys wearing red MAGA hats at 2:30 am in 8F degree weather, while he was getting a sandwich at 2:30 am. People like her totally believed him too. Did I mention it was 2:30 am

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (EH1Gq)

100 "It's definitely a "ploy," Politico's Senior AWFL Rachel Bade says.

Oh, and Democrats are falling into the "trap" of opposing Trump's ploy."

Whoa! Wait a doggone minute. POLITICO, JoeMika, and every Democrat politician and pundit have told me for 10 years Trump is too stupid to do anything but read a McDonald's menu and order a BigMac.

Which is it, you clowns? Clever Trump or Stupid Trump?

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (aBgBM)

101 ===
Smirking leftist, failed ballet dancer, and a reporter. Toxic.
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025

You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (p4NUW)

102 And it was 7 years ago, she wouldn’t shut up about it.
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I didn't realize skinny white women needed to brag about their street cred.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (1Gsou)

103 You tell that to Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago, to his face!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

I can't take a fry cook on Venus seriously.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)

======

I demand science reanimate John Hughes to make a legacy sequel to Ferris Bueller where Bueller is some nobody in a law firm who takes a day off to help his friend Cameron, mayor of Chicago, and the two non-chalantly fight crime through song and good vibes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Bueller and the Animal House movies are two that I have completely different views about depending on when I saw them. In my younger days, I thought Ferris was cool. Now? He's an annoying twat I'd punch in the mouth. And AH? The Dean was right all along.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

104 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

***

I've always been a leg man!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (2WIwB)

105
Saw a news item yesterday. Pedo illegal in CA found living in a daycare center.

Is it possible he has a friend who is employed by the daycare?

Posted by: fourseasons at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (3ek7K)

106 Love to see someone do a vid of Admiral Akbar saying " it's a trap" morphing into Mika saying "it's a trap"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (Kp8LC)

107 The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.

"This is how progressives like it. Stay out."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

Juicy Smollet says there sure are red hats in Chicago, and shut up.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (Hx0tZ)

108

Is that ridiculous bald faggot Sam Brinton still employed by the government?

Posted by: E Buzz at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (QFqcq)

109 One big reason to argue against more cops/jails is the cost. Plus leftists scream all the time about private prisons profiting off of arresting all the black people or something.

Which might be a point. So why not listen? Why send criminals to prison?

In ye olden days, countries didn't do incarceration. They just chopped off the thief's hand and let them go. Pretty much a "you can steal twice" policy. And it came with a pretty good warning sign: "This guy with one hand only is likely a thief."
Mandatory eunuch's for rapists. And if you murdered, well, a rope and a branch and a horse. Or the equivalent.

Sure, some prisons were around, but it was cheaper and likely more effective.

That is truly what 'eye for an eye' justice was: Talionic justice. Did to you what you did to others.

Perhaps bring back some of that now for many crimes. Give someone a good lashing for drug offenses and then let them go. No need to jail them. At least at first.

Posted by: SimoHayek at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (PxIWo)

110 Oh and I looked her up. She's surprisingly not hideous. Not bad looking, in fact.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

https://dodoodad.com/rachael-bade/

Not bad.

Resting Smirk Face instead of resting bitch face.

Though that's just as tiresome over the long haul.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (iJfKG)

111 I like Chicago much better than the other two megalopolises.

Is that like a giant octopus?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (Riz8t)

112 OK, OK, OK. My son-in-law (the opera major major) asked me if I could identify the war movie, probably WWII, in which a soldier in a squad besieged in a house subjected to artillery fire etc. burst out into operatic singing. Any thoughts?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

113 Did I mention it was 2:30 am
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (EH1Gq)

Somebody should have told him about doordash.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (1Gsou)

114 108

Is that ridiculous bald faggot Sam Brinton still employed by the government?

Posted by: E Buzz at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (QFqcq)

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He got fired when he was criminal charged for stealing luggage in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

115 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper
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Yep. People that fail to get their dreams come true often become toxic as they age. Given it had no bearing on her present job, why put it in a biographical sketch?

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)

116 112 OK, OK, OK. My son-in-law (the opera major major) asked me if I could identify the war movie, probably WWII, in which a soldier in a squad besieged in a house subjected to artillery fire etc. burst out into operatic singing. Any thoughts?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

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But the emperor has outlawed opera in his theater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

117 Did I mention it was 2:30 am

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (EH1Gq)

MAGAs mostly come out at night. Mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (i24o9)

118 Bueller and the Animal House movies are two that I have completely different views about depending on when I saw them. In my younger days, I thought Ferris was cool. Now? He's an annoying twat I'd punch in the mouth. And AH? The Dean was right all along.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

I always thought there was good core message in FBDO: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it." It's a wise massage, and one I wish I'd taken to heart.

Posted by: The meek get pinched, the bold survive at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

119 >>So even if there were tenants who actually did care about the place -- and there are -- they have no chance against the gangs.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:31 PM

Randy said his mom kept their apartment spotless and his step-dad worked two jobs to eventually get them out and into their own home. He also said his parents would have beaten the shit out of him and his brothers if they'd gotten involved with gangs. They either went to college or joined the military, or both.

Posted by: huerfano at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (98kQX)

120 Not bad.

Resting Smirk Face instead of resting bitch face.

Mollie Hemingway has a resting smirk face. It's very appealing.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (Riz8t)

121 Resting Smirk Face instead of resting bitch face.

Though that's just as tiresome over the long haul.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Genuine smiles light up the entire face--smirks do not. Both reveal inner character if that is the face you put forward to others as an intro.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

122 "Several hundred" DHS officers are going to Chicago to beef up current efforts.

If merely adding DHS officers to blue cities is enough to reduce crime significantly (and I suspect it is), it gives an entirely new meaning to “jobs Americans won’t do”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 29, 2025 01:44 PM (EXyHK)

123 Fun fact:

The average IQ in Guatemala is 47.7 with a whopping five years average of schooling.

(I don't want to brag, but my Black Lab has a higher IQ than that, and he went to Obedience school regularly)

Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2025 01:44 PM (dIske)

124 I've not been. But those are nice pins.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

125 2 minutes is the difference between an original comment and being Amy Schumer

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Hx0tZ)

126 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper
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Yep. People that fail to get their dreams come true often become toxic as they age. Given it had no bearing on her present job, why put it in a biographical sketch?

I think there might have been a message in Piper's comment.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

127 I've always been a leg man!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2025 01:41 PM (2WIwB)

That was in response to the above.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (i24o9)

128 If there's a Ferris Bueller sequel I demand more Mia Sara.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Kp8LC)

129 The absolute best part was her brag that there are no "red hats" in Chicago, a place of crime where she got her arm broke and her car stolen.
---------

Well, aside from the guys that 'assaulted' Jesse Smollet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (XeU6L)

130 128 If there's a Ferris Bueller sequel I demand more Mia Sara.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Kp8LC)

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She's been recast by Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

131 > You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper
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Best friend's mom was a ballet teacher. Lots of E. European girls. Skinny, smoked like chimneys and cussed like sailors. Absolute hoots to go clubbing with when I lived back in MD. Take a half dozen down to Georgetown and let them run amok.

Highly entertaining.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (Q4IgG)

132 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper
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Yep. People that fail to get their dreams come true often become toxic as they age. Given it had no bearing on her present job, why put it in a biographical sketch?
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)
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Come on, you don't know? Same reason guys will put gratuitous references to their former wrestling or football or some other macho sport activities wherever they can. Whether it's relevant or not.

I dated a former ballet dancer. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

133 These Central American illegals seem to be particularly feral in their violence. Although feral isn't really the word I want; it connotes wildness and savagery, yes, but the violence is so beyond the pale that it appears to have a diabolical element. Maybe this makes me as bad as they are, but I think each of these two Guatemalans should be deported, one limb at a time.

Posted by: Paco at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (mADJX)

134 OK, OK, OK. My son-in-law (the opera major major) asked me if I could identify the war movie, probably WWII, in which a soldier in a squad besieged in a house subjected to artillery fire etc. burst out into operatic singing. Any thoughts?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

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But the emperor has outlawed opera in his theater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge

Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

135 Embarrassing soy DC resident crying about ICE: https://tinyurl.com/5efj2j3w

There are tons of undocumented immigrants in red states, but Trump only picks blue areas that he hates for immigration crackdowns because the crackdowns are horrific and destructive, not heroic.

They cut $50b from USAID condemning the lives of countless people around the world and ending the jobs of thousands of Americans.. to spend onn this? I was laid off and this is what my measly salary is now paying for? Makes me fucking irate.

There have been several suggestions to mark these arrests with handcuffs painted white a bit like the bikes painted white where cyclists have been hit by cars.

Wow! With the name of the ICE victim! That sort of consistent visual reminder could be powerful. We need to spread the word!

(I think that's a GREAT idea...for Trump. Actually show his effectiveness. Constant reminders of all the foreigners deported.)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (ycI94)

136 But those are nice pins.

Also stems and gams.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (Riz8t)

137 I demand science reanimate John Hughes to make a legacy sequel to Ferris Bueller where Bueller is some nobody in a law firm who takes a day off to help his friend Cameron, mayor of Chicago, and the two non-chalantly fight crime through song and good vibes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

Current Ferris with old, porky Matthew Broderick would just be sad. Tragic even.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (iJfKG)

138 Democrats are falling into the "trap" of opposing Trump's ploy.

---

Democrats are so off the rails that doing the things that the majority of Americans want is a "ploy".

He is doing these mayors' and governors' jobs and it's a "ploy"

They are mad that he proved that it wasn't difficult at all and the people are quickly realizing that they could have had significantly safer streets for their kids for the last 40 years. This shines a bright light on the negligent and corrupt policies and behavior of these democrat mayors and governors.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (EH1Gq)

139 and you people told me AI is useless

Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

140 Chicago is, of course, a lost cause. Look at what they call "pizza".

Posted by: Mr. Bacciagalupe at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (G5+As)

141 Genuine smiles light up the entire face--smirks do not. Both reveal inner character if that is the face you put forward to others as an intro.
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:44 PM (ctrM5)

You shouldn't smile at all the first time you meet someone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2025 01:47 PM (txWQC)

142 112 OK, OK, OK. My son-in-law (the opera major major) asked me if I could identify the war movie, probably WWII, in which a soldier in a squad besieged in a house subjected to artillery fire etc. burst out into operatic singing. Any thoughts?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:42
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Battleground 1949. According to Brave search

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2025 01:47 PM (zGabF)

143 You know what’s worse than republicans “pouncing and seizing”? It’s when they set up “ploys”. Such villainy and scum.

Posted by: Cray Cray at August 29, 2025 01:47 PM (UlcHJ)

144 Wealth cannot last beyond the third generation...

(Supposedly Chinese saying...)

Posted by: man at August 29, 2025 01:47 PM (tubbA)

145 Why does man kill? For food but not for food alone. Frequently there must be a beverage.

- Woody Allen

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)

146 135 There are tons of undocumented immigrants in red states, but Trump only picks blue areas that he hates for immigration crackdowns because the crackdowns are horrific and destructive, not heroic.

They cut $50b from USAID condemning the lives of countless people around the world and ending the jobs of thousands of Americans.. to spend onn this? I was laid off and this is what my measly salary is now paying for? Makes me fucking irate.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (ycI94)

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1. TX is the second most ICE'd state in the union right now. FL is third, I believe. Only CA is higher than them. Local help is something ICE appreciates and acts on.

2. Of course. Fired fed in a Reddit thread bitching about things. "I was helping by managing a spreadsheet for where funds could go."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

147 It wasn't actually operatic. Song was Santa Claus coming to town.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (zGabF)

148 Yep. People that fail to get their dreams come true often become toxic as they age. Given it had no bearing on her present job, why put it in a biographical sketch?

Failing at life hurts. A lot. All the time. Makes you long for oblivion. But taking it out on other people is stupid.

Posted by: At least it ends eventually. Just not soon enough. at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (TbWk/)

149 Turning your city into a Carpenter-esque hellscape in order to solidify your power and control is kind of a ploy too. Journalists only reporting the left's side of any issue is also a bit of a ploy.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Autumn Spice Balls Dream at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (cduTK)

150 I always thought there was good core message in FBDO: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it." It's a wise massage, and one I wish I'd taken to heart.
Posted by: The meek
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Knowledge Is Good

Posted by: Faber College at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

151 Come on, you don't know? Same reason guys will put gratuitous references to their former wrestling or football or some other macho sport activities wherever they can. Whether it's relevant or not.

I dated a former ballet dancer. Highly recommended.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Sorry, I don't take personal dating advice from single dudes. Married happily for decades now.

And yes, I agree it is not much different than Walz describing himself as 'coach' or that pervert Hastert doing the same.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (ctrM5)

152 137 Current Ferris with old, porky Matthew Broderick would just be sad. Tragic even.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (iJfKG)

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*Bill and Ted 3 has entered the chat*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

153 Posted by: olddog in mo

Thanks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (L/fGl)

154 I read a post years ago where someone said if you watch Ferris as Jeffrey Jones chasing Ferris in order to photograph him naked the movie becomes really creepy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (Kp8LC)

155 Wow, just wow. Talk about people who REFUSE to get the message.

NEW - All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1961324940663148985

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (Riz8t)

156 Politico?
LOL.

Posted by: Most people at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (V5Ka4)

157 126 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper
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Yep. People that fail to get their dreams come true often become toxic as they age. Given it had no bearing on her present job, why put it in a biographical sketch?

I think there might have been a message in Piper's comment.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Riz8t)
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Tell us how the mean old choreographer wounded you, Piper.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (uxAXv)

158 Things were so much better during Obama's 3rd term.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (aJQjq)

159 And it was 7 years ago, she wouldn’t shut up about it.
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I didn't realize skinny white women needed to brag about their street cred.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (1Gsou)

It's not unlike Al Bundy bragging about one football game back in HS. Sometimes it's all you've got.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)

160 I demand science reanimate John Hughes to make a legacy sequel to Ferris Bueller where Bueller is some nobody in a law firm who takes a day off to help his friend Cameron, mayor of Chicago, and the two non-chalantly fight crime through song and good vibes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

Current Ferris with old, porky Matthew Broderick would just be sad. Tragic even.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (iJfKG)

Son of Ferris?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (wVcYX)

161 Trump's policy of enforcing the law is racist in nature.

It disproportionally targets minorities.

52% of Trump's crackdown targets just 13% of the population.

Posted by: N-Word Culture at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (43by1)

162 ...behavioral health care services...

***********

Stop for a second and consider the ramifications of this phrase.

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (/iMjX)

163 I thought Trump had dementia, is a Russian Agent and only wants revenge. Now he's doing ploys?

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (EyJrI)

164 If's an admission that the behavior in question is not healthy.

behave /bĭ-hāv′/
intransitive verb
1. To conduct oneself in a specified way, especially in relation to others; exhibit behavior.
"The child behaved badly at the party."
2. To conduct oneself in a proper way.
"I told the child to behave."

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (/iMjX)

165
ChatGPT:

A profile on “Biden’s Basement” lists a “Current Employer: Core Solutions Consulting”, with a title of Founder, but this entry lacks corroborating mainstream coverage or validation elsewhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (GlwZS)

166 Ace the 3.3% GDP growth and 2% inflation is just Bidenomics kicking in after 4 1/2 years. Ask any economist expert on either side.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 29, 2025 01:51 PM (17s+e)

167 Wow! With the name of the ICE victim! That sort of consistent visual reminder could be powerful. We need to spread the word!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (ycI94)

WTF is an "ICE victim?"

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:51 PM (1Gsou)

168 Posted by: Elric The Blade
_______________________

Epic calf muscles, but they tend to kick ("playfully") when you zing them with a burn.

Posted by: Orson at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (dIske)

169 >>> NEW - All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1961324940663148985
Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 01:49 PM (Riz8t)

This is just a leading indicator that any vote has already been decided.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Autumn Spice Balls Dream at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (cduTK)

170 To many Washington insiders, President Trump's early August Beltway crime crackdown seemed like an opportunistic and hamhanded pivot after getting walloped for weeks over the Jeffrey Epstein affair.

What walloping? Dems shot themselves in the foot over it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (UZOIv)

171
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (GlwZS)

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woops, that was about Sam Brinton.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (GlwZS)

172 Um, why is Ernst not seeking reelection ??

Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

173 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

Ahem

Posted by: Titanic at August 29, 2025 01:53 PM (tubbA)

174 They are mad that he proved that it wasn't difficult at all and the people are quickly realizing that they could have had significantly safer streets for their kids for the last 40 years. This shines a bright light on the negligent and corrupt policies and behavior of these democrat mayors and governors.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (EH1Gq)

Imagine how much he could accomplish if he did his homework and wasn't only always just worried about his ego and who is kissing his ass, not to mention focusing too hard on the stolen 2020 election.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2025 01:53 PM (EyJrI)

175 172 Um, why is Ernst not seeking reelection ??
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025 01:52 PM (g47mK)

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1. She made an enemy of Trump by trying to tank Hegseth, which didn't work.

2. There was probably brewing anti-GOP establishment running in Iowa that made her primary less sure than comfortable even before that.

3. She's gotta get paid by defense contractors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

176 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

Ahem
Posted by: Titanic

YOU HIT ME FIRST !

Posted by: Iceberg at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

177 Damn. I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (V5Ka4)

178 NEW - All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne.
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You can have any kind of viewpoint about immigration as long as it is positive. Or else.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (17s+e)

179 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg
Posted by: Comrade

Indeed.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (n4GiU)

180 You shouldn't smile at all the first time you meet someone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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You shouldn't smirk either. But people with beautiful souls often can't help themselves from smiling. Not going to condemn beauty. Me, I have a resting son of a bitch face. Smiles are rare and wintry. Wry grins more common.

Know thyself is a pretty good precept.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)

181
I like Dan Turrentine.

The teeth on that guy!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (63Dwl)

182 It's not unlike Al Bundy bragging about one football game back in HS. Sometimes it's all you've got.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)
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To be fair, he did score 4 touchdowns.

That's gotta count for something, right?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (7fElN)

183 I always thought there was good core message in FBDO: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it." It's a wise massage, and one I wish I'd taken to heart.
Posted by: The meek
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Knowledge Is Good
Posted by: Faber College at August 29, 2025 01:48 PM (XeU6L)

No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (ExV1e)

184 178 NEW - All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne.
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You can have any kind of viewpoint about immigration as long as it is positive. Or else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 29, 2025 01:54 PM (17s+e)

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It would entertain me if AfD won an outright majority of all possible ways to count the Parliamentary votes, and then the EU declared the AfD ineligible to hold office in Germany.

I wish for this to happen.

I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

Make it so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

185 Damn. I need a drink"

Me too.

Posted by: Capt. Edward Smith at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (tubbA)

186 They still have the electric chair in Florida- right?

Because I would pay good money for a front row seat.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (JCFQ1)

187 One crackdown that seems easily doable is to eliminate those phone call scams from the pajeets and Pakis.

They target the elderly and ought to be stopped. In an era where they can track almost any electronic transmission, it's almost weird that it hasn't been addressed.

I realize that mega-corporation like to use a bunch of dirt cheap street-shitting labor to work call centers overseas, but it's unacceptable. Trump should threaten tariffs if the dot-head curry-eaters don't put an end to that shit.

Posted by: Saar, Do Not Redeem! at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (43by1)

188 If you read Politico as a secret conservative front group, designed to deliberately mis-inform and keep the left in a constant state of anger and unknowing, it makes more sense.

Like read it as "what lies need to be believed by the left and what can we keep them agitated about so as to prevent them from 1) actually knowing what is going on and 2) never capable of calm reflection or reason long enough to ever discovery they are being manipulated?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (oFt/K)

189 I don't have to behave (i.e. control myself) because I have a Behavioral Health™ problem.

I lack agency.

It's not my fault.

Don't blame me.

I'm the friggin' victim here, dammit!!

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 01:56 PM (/iMjX)

190 189 I don't have to behave (i.e. control myself) because I have a Behavioral Health™ problem.

I lack agency.

It's not my fault.

Don't blame me.

I'm the friggin' victim here, dammit!!
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 01:56 PM (/iMjX)

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Well, people without agency belong in zoos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

191 Politico? I thought they went out of business after USAID and all the government subscriptions ended.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (JCFQ1)

192 WTF is an "ICE victim?"
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:51 PM (1Gsou)

Scrat

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (ExV1e)

193 52% of Trump's crackdown targets just 13% of the population.
Posted by: N-Word Culture

Well, when the 13% of wizards that cast over 50% of Avadakedavras are the dark ones...

Posted by: Recent Meme at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (ycI94)

194 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

The latest Leftist-proclaimed victim group. The tranny victim group's propaganda and fundraising usefulness must be losing steam pretty fast.

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (aBgBM)

195 154 I read a post years ago where someone said if you watch Ferris as Jeffrey Jones chasing Ferris in order to photograph him naked the movie becomes really creepy
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Les jeux sont faits takes on an whole different meaning.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (ctrM5)

196 OT but newsworthy. PDT and Secretary Rubio have revoked the visas of Abbas, PLO and PA parties to come to UN General Assembly this month. Macron gets another kick in the nuts.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (dxWFK)

197 You shouldn't smile at all the first time you meet someone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Glare! Glare at them until you dominate and they look away.

Then laugh contemptuously.

Posted by: naturalfake's How to Make Friends and Influence People" at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (iJfKG)

198 And it was 7 years ago, she wouldn’t shut up about it.
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

I didn't realize skinny white women needed to brag about their street cred.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 29, 2025 01:40 PM (1Gsou)

It's not unlike Al Bundy bragging about one football game back in HS. Sometimes it's all you've got.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

This one time at band camp...

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (UZOIv)

199 OT. Apparently Quickbooks payroll thinks today is national holiday in US. Philippine support lady said that in US on 3 day holiday weekends no one works day before start. Banks are closed. So are employees weren't getting paid until 9/2. They found their mistake around 6a today.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (zGabF)

200 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

Ahem
Posted by: Titanic
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*cough*

Posted by: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (XeU6L)

201 197 You shouldn't smile at all the first time you meet someone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Glare! Glare at them until you dominate and they look away.

Then laugh contemptuously.

Posted by: naturalfake's How to Make Friends and Influence People" at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (iJfKG)

Scientology is weird...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (xcxpd)

202 Glare! Glare at them until you dominate and they look away."

I like it!

Posted by: man at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (tubbA)

203 Like read it as "what lies need to be believed by the left and what can we keep them agitated about so as to prevent them from 1) actually knowing what is going on and 2) never capable of calm reflection or reason long enough to ever discovery they are being manipulated?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Or you can simply figure out that it is a WEF/Soros/Dem mouthpiece and move on to more reputable sources.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 01:58 PM (ctrM5)

204 lol. I bet those Guatemalans thought they were just going to be deported. That’s why the one guy is smiling. They didn’t think they would be fried and sent home in a box. lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 29, 2025 01:59 PM (JCFQ1)

205 Well, people without agency belong in zoos.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Or on a farm.

To be harvested for their tasty organs...

--The WEF

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2025 01:59 PM (7fElN)

206 >>> WTF is an "ICE victim?"
Ahem
Posted by: Titanic at August 29, 2025 01:53 PM (tubbA)

Dance, rush the speaker that booms
Killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony

Posted by: banana Word To Your Mother Balls Dream at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (cduTK)

207 Rachael Bade is a Cracker Barrel (7).

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (J15tX)

208 Macron gets another kick in the nuts.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 29, 2025 01:57 PM (dxWFK)

Usually he has to be a good boy for his wife/mommy to do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)

209
You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper

You really have to be on your toes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (63Dwl)

210 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2025 01:55 PM (oFt/K)

I noticed when leftards are in power the media makes their job making us angry. When we're in power they make their job making leftards side angry.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (EyJrI)

211 I posted the video of the DC mayor saying crime was down and crediting Trump. A leftist friend said it's only happening because trump threatened to stop fed money. The left will never get it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (Kp8LC)

212 Trump is going to campaign in '26 like he's on the ticket, and in a real sense he will be. There's even talk of his holding a convention, the fourth that he'd win.

Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

If Trump keeps getting it from the Working Class and fellow travelers, it won't be an ordinary mid-term.

Let us pray!

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2025 02:01 PM (dtajH)

213 It's not unlike Al Bundy bragging about one football game back in HS. Sometimes it's all you've got.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 29, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)

*Solemn fist-bump*

Posted by: Uncle Rico at August 29, 2025 02:01 PM (PSEDc)

214 *cough*

*a-choo*

Posted by: Roald Amundsen at August 29, 2025 02:01 PM (tubbA)

215 211 I posted the video of the DC mayor saying crime was down and crediting Trump. A leftist friend said it's only happening because trump threatened to stop fed money. The left will never get it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (Kp8LC)

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So, Democrats are craven monsters who will say anything to keep funding going?

That's a defense?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

216 I don't get how Gavin can repeatedly and publicly say that his intent is to elect only Ds to Congress and deny any R representation without it being overturned by the courts. IIRC Gavin is overiding an independent commission.

SCOTUS has ducked dealing with extreme gerrymandering starting with "minority districts" and here's where it's brought us.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2025 02:02 PM (dtajH)

217 NEW - All parties except the AfD have pledged to speak "only positively about migration" in the upcoming local election campaign in the West German city of Cologne.
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So the election is rigged and Germans should take up arms against all parties except the AfD.

Posted by: Crusader at August 29, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+)

218 It make-a da ganglia TWITCH!!!
Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at August 29, 2025 01:28 PM (WvZaB)

Home is a-where you wear-a your hat!
Posted by: Red Lectroids from Planet 10 at August 29, 2025 01:30 PM (TbWk/)

great references, monkey boys!

Posted by: John Bigbooté at August 29, 2025 02:02 PM (8hxDK)

219 people with beautiful souls often can't help themselves from smiling.

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This is true. My wife is like this.

But neither can people with horrible souls - they instinctively do it because they try to rook everyone they meet.

Better to be thought a dick than to remove all doubt.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2025 02:02 PM (txWQC)

220 187 One crackdown that seems easily doable is to eliminate those phone call scams from the pajeets and Pakis.

They target the elderly and ought to be stopped. In an era where they can track almost any electronic transmission, it's almost weird that it hasn't been addressed.

I realize that mega-corporation like to use a bunch of dirt cheap street-shitting labor to work call centers overseas, but it's unacceptable.
Posted by: Saar, Do Not Redeem!
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Yep. Even the Chinese are getting pissed about other Asians trying their grift on them.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:03 PM (ctrM5)

221 130 128 If there's a Ferris Bueller sequel I demand more Mia Sara.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Kp8LC)

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She's been recast by Sydney Sweeney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

First good news all day...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (xcxpd)

222 But neither can people with horrible souls - they instinctively do it because they try to rook everyone they meet.

Better to be thought a dick than to remove all doubt.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Those have dead eyes--the mechanics of the smile are there but the eyes are dead, cold, and calculating.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

223 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

There I was, minding my own business when ....

Posted by: Otzi the Iceman at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (wVcYX)

224 "Ploy" is focus grouped.

They did the same when Trump did that balls out walk to the church through the rioters.

The entire media and political class called it a "photo op".

It's just branding. Or rebranding. And it works.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (EyJrI)

225 Why so serious?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2025 02:05 PM (viF8m)

226 Talk only positively about migration= talking only positively about butt rape

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 02:05 PM (Kp8LC)

227 221 130 128 If there's a Ferris Bueller sequel I demand more Mia Sara.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 01:45 PM (Kp8LC)

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She's been recast by Sydney Sweeney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

First good news all day...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (xcxpd)

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"I remember when we were in high school together!"
-Sydney Sweeney as Sloane

"My back! I moved wrong!"
-Matthew Broderick

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

228 Those have dead eyes--the mechanics of the smile are there but the eyes are dead, cold, and calculating.
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

John Agar had that look.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 29, 2025 02:05 PM (PSEDc)

229 Is this about us?

Posted by: Dirt cheap street-shitting laborers at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (V5Ka4)

230 SCOTUS has ducked dealing with extreme gerrymandering starting with "minority districts" and here's where it's brought us.

I don't know how you distinguish "extreme" gerrymandering from the garden variety kind.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

231 204 lol. I bet those Guatemalans thought they were just going to be deported. That’s why the one guy is smiling. They didn’t think they would be fried and sent home in a box. lol.
Posted by: Vengeance
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We have perfectly good landfills here, not need to send them home in a box. Fitting final resting place for human trash.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

232 Is that Al (not so) Sharp-ton in the MSNBC clip?
Dude looks ready for the casket, no lie....

Posted by: TXMarko at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (aODNx)

233 *cough*

*a-choo*
Posted by: Roald Amundsen
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Yeah, but you survived.

Posted by: Captain Sir John Franklin at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

234 2 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

Cue ZZ Top.

Posted by: Farquad at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (NtFTC)

235 he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes."

Posted by: Quint at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (tubbA)

236 What hump?

Posted by: Marty Feldman at August 29, 2025 02:06 PM (V5Ka4)

237 52% of Trump's crackdown targets just 13% of the population.
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But they're in 100% of the television commercials.

Posted by: Crusader at August 29, 2025 02:07 PM (TN0g+)

238 John Agar had that look.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo
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So do a lot of politicians--higher ups in big organizations, etc.

Taking the ticket costs one's soul.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:07 PM (ctrM5)

239 Coconuts migrating is a good thing!

Posted by: King Arthur at August 29, 2025 02:07 PM (wVcYX)

240 Six time carjacker-why the hell do we tolerate that? He should have been exiled or executed after his second attempt.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 29, 2025 02:07 PM (rJ48h)

241 >>Those have dead eyes--the mechanics of the smile are there but the eyes are dead, cold, and calculating.

Like a dolls eyes.

And then you get the smile.

https://tinyurl.com/mvkyvajb

Posted by: JackStraw at August 29, 2025 02:07 PM (viF8m)

242 235 he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes."
Posted by: Quint
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Back in the old days,often a sign of opioid abuse. Pupil dilation effect.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:08 PM (ctrM5)

243 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper

You really have to be on your toes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (63Dwl)

They're real nutcrackers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 02:09 PM (i24o9)

244 If 48% of the country identifies as Democrat, perhaps half of them are just so politically stupid that even THEY don't realize that their true beliefs don't align with the Democratic party. My mom was this way for years before figuring it out.

The other half are very, very bad people, and a good many of them are *evil*.

Posted by: Crusader at August 29, 2025 02:09 PM (TN0g+)

245 Usually he has to be a good boy for his wife/mommy to do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

She/he/it prefers giving Macron wedgies.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

246 he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes."
Posted by: Quint
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Back in the old days,often a sign of opioid abuse. Pupil dilation effect.

Also seen in recent presidential debates.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 29, 2025 02:10 PM (Riz8t)

247 244 If 48% of the country identifies as Democrat, perhaps half of them are just so politically stupid that even THEY don't realize that their true beliefs don't align with the Democratic party. My mom was this way for years before figuring it out.

The other half are very, very bad people, and a good many of them are *evil*.
Posted by: Crusader at August 29, 2025 02:09 PM (TN0g+)

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Political affiliation is more a cultural marker than an expression of policy preferences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

248 Legs.

http://alturl.com/j2ihg

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 01:15 PM (i24o9)

Good lord....

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:10 PM (snZF9)

249 WTF is an "ICE victim?"

*************

Flick in A Christmas Story

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 02:10 PM (/iMjX)

250 Also seen in recent presidential debates.
Posted by: Archimedes

Biden was drugged out of his gourd but even before his stroke, he was a malicious, stupid, corrupt piece of shit. Senate floor staff used to talk about his shit to us House floor staff in the early 80's.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:11 PM (ctrM5)

251 You really need to lookout for failed ballet dancers. They are as questionable as they come. 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper

You really have to be on your toes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2025 02:00 PM (63Dwl)

They're real nutcrackers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 02:09 PM (i24o9)

Mrs B slowly nods in approval.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 29, 2025 02:11 PM (snZF9)

252 "I don't know how you distinguish "extreme" gerrymandering from the garden variety kind."

Easy. Respect natural borders like rivers. Respect historic lines for cities and counties. That would take care of most of it.

Recall that original "gerrymander" was because on a map the district looked like a salamander.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2025 02:12 PM (dtajH)

253 250 Also seen in recent presidential debates.
Posted by: Archimedes

Biden was drugged out of his gourd but even before his stroke, he was a malicious, stupid, corrupt piece of shit. Senate floor staff used to talk about his shit to us House floor staff in the early 80's.
Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:11 PM (ctrM5)

=======

"That man is an idiot."
-Pat Murray

"That woman outsmarted me."
-Paul Ryan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

254 86 69 That Jill lady deleted her X account. It would be the height of irony if she was carjacked again.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29

And it was 7 years ago, she wouldn’t shut up about it.
Posted by: Piper at August 29, 2025 01:36 PM

She wants to be seen as cool and gritty like Debbie Harry in NYC in the 70s back before Giuliani cleaned up the city.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 29, 2025 02:12 PM (77W69)

255 Any thoughts?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Maybe Caje in an episode of Combat on TV?

Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2025 02:12 PM (n4GiU)

256 Trump reducing crime is Chicago is Racist !!!!!!

How are the Gangbangers going to make a living ????

Posted by: Jackson at August 29, 2025 02:13 PM (ast/7)

257 Ballet is pointeless...

*wait for it*

Posted by: man at August 29, 2025 02:14 PM (tubbA)

258 "That man is an idiot."
-Pat Murray

"That woman outsmarted me."
-Paul Ryan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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"Are you smarter than a 5th Grade Kid--Congressional edition" gameshow would be most amusing.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

259 Back in the old days,often a sign of opioid abuse. Pupil dilation effect.
Posted by: whig

*********

*cough* pinpoint pupils *cough*

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (/iMjX)

260 ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025

Ai taking fun out of everything.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (n4GiU)

261 260 ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025

Ai taking fun out of everything.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (n4GiU)

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I don't know what movie that opera singing is from, but it's not Hacksaw Ridge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

262 MSM keeps telling me Trumps numbers are worse than ever. Something like 93% disapprove plus millions are dying from his policies. Dark times we live in.

I have doubts.

Posted by: Ripley at August 29, 2025 02:16 PM (GUOwU)

263 Ballet is pointeless...

*wait for it*

Posted by: man at August 29, 2025 02:14 PM (tubbA)

No elbows?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 29, 2025 02:16 PM (i24o9)

264 @248 Yowza!

Cue up ZZ Top

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2025 02:16 PM (dtajH)

265 A seven year old.

Think of the emptiness of the soul of a person who would even consider that. The complete disconnection of the idea of another's humanity.

And then democrats will defend it, while denouncing prayers for shooting victims at a Catholic school.

Come, Lord Jesus. And soon.

Posted by: red speck at August 29, 2025 02:16 PM (0Id0S)

266 *cough* pinpoint pupils *cough*
Posted by: muldoon

Dammit, you are correct. Then again, M.D., I would hope you would be. Ruined my whole post except the conclusion. Biden was and is a evil stupid piece of trash.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:17 PM (ctrM5)

267 262 MSM keeps telling me Trumps numbers are worse than ever. Something like 93% disapprove plus millions are dying from his policies. Dark times we live in.

I have doubts.
Posted by: Ripley
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They were surveying DC bureaucrats.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:18 PM (ctrM5)

268 The thought of Democrats reacting to common sense policies like a vampire to holy water amuses me.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 29, 2025 02:18 PM (tT6L1)

269
Come, Lord Jesus. And soon.
Posted by: red speck at August 29, 2025 02:16 PM (0Id0S)

I can't comment on that, types and deletes.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 29, 2025 02:19 PM (hQZDY)

270 Come, Lord Jesus. And soon.
Posted by: red speck
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The sequel of The Return is the one with a lot of smiting and judging.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

271 Wylie Coyote is a super genius compared to these dolts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2025 02:19 PM (gWRQ1)

272 ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025

Ai taking fun out of everything.
Posted by: From about That Time

Is falsely claiming an AI source a crime yet?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2025 02:19 PM (XeU6L)

273 Democrats are projecting again.

Everything they do to "help" people is nothing but a ploy to acquire more money and power.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 29, 2025 02:19 PM (j6Ika)

274 Ballet Dancers are plie-able.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (wVcYX)

275 Democrats reacting to common sense policies like a vampire to holy water amuses me.
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Its not a ploy. They are vampires.

Posted by: Snarfy R. Dogg at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (a1QbA)

276 ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025

Ai taking fun out of everything.
Posted by: From about That Time

Is falsely claiming an AI source a crime yet?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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No.

Posted by: Grok at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

277
6-time carjacker has a point. Why bother sending him to jail? Judge will release him. "It's the same thing every time."

It makes me ask again, what are carjackers in DC doing now? That particular crime is down 87%???? What are they doing for transportation and money? Are they waiting out this National Guard surge so they can get back to work? Or will they have to relocate to cities with better "career opportunities"?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (GlwZS)

278 268 The thought of Democrats reacting to common sense policies like a vampire to holy water amuses me.
Posted by: blake

If it was a student government with scant ill effects on others, it might be amusing. When applied to cities,states, and nations--horrifying .

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (ctrM5)

279
WTF is an "ICE victim?"

Falling ice from skyscrapers scares US cities

https://t.ly/89CbD

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM (63Dwl)

280 Raped a 7 ye as year old? Of course that’s a death penalty crime.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 02:21 PM (jgmnb)

281 260 ai told me it's...hacksaw ridge
Posted by: runner at August 29, 2025

Ai taking fun out of everything.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (n4GiU)

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I don't know what movie that opera singing is from, but it's not Hacksaw Ridge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

Heartbreak Ridge?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 02:21 PM (wVcYX)

282 Telling the truth is a ploy.
Gee, this could be fun!

Posted by: Speller at August 29, 2025 02:21 PM (pSotA)

283 I will agree with Johnson insomuch that the hood is what it is not because of a lack of policing. There is a cultural issue there that none of those city leaders wants to admit to or talk about.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 29, 2025 02:22 PM (4+e+V)

284 271 Wylie Coyote is a super genius compared to these dolts.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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He at least understands gravity and that Acme must be getting their defective and harmful goods from China.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)

285 Biden was and is a evil stupid piece of trash.
Posted by: whig

*********

You'll get no argument from me on that.

Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 02:22 PM (/iMjX)

286 219 people with beautiful souls often can't help themselves from smiling.

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This is true. My wife is like this.

But neither can people with horrible souls - they instinctively do it because they try to rook everyone they meet.

Better to be thought a dick than to remove all doubt.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2025 02:02 PM (txWQC)

What if you have a miserable soul and almost never smile because you think it makes you look even more stupid and ugly?

Posted by: Is that integrity or just sadness at August 29, 2025 02:23 PM (TbWk/)

287 Never skip leg day.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at August 29, 2025 02:25 PM (0sNs1)

288 Back in the old days,often a sign of opioid abuse. Pupil dilation effect.
Posted by: whig

*********

*cough* pinpoint pupils *cough*
Posted by: muldoon at August 29, 2025 02:15 PM (/iMjX)

Stimulants cause dilation.

Posted by: Meth and a coke and smile at August 29, 2025 02:25 PM (TbWk/)

289 Nood tik tok

Posted by: rickb223 at August 29, 2025 02:26 PM (UZOIv)

290 Ballet Dancers are plie-able.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2025 02:20 PM

That was a great jeté!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 29, 2025 02:27 PM (0sNs1)

291 DC carjackers are becoming rappers and getting their lives together

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 29, 2025 02:27 PM (Kp8LC)

292 What if you have a miserable soul and almost never smile because you think it makes you look even more stupid and ugly?
Posted by: Is that integrity or just sadness
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There are moments of incredible beauty all around us if you look. The warmth of a spring or fall day, the smile of someone who is truly happy, the kindness and gentleness of most people if you pay it forward with simple things like opening a door for someone burdened, letting them pass by or go ahead in a line if not in a hurry, etc. Even eyes to see beautiful plants, colors, etc.

Beauty is a gift to us from our Creator. And truly serves to remind us that evil cannot extinguish what it true and beautiful starting with our own souls.

Invite the Lord into one's life and you can find peace if you follow his footsteps.

Posted by: whig at August 29, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)

293 56 Legalizing murder, rape and assault would totally reduce crime

-The Democrats
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 29, 2025 01:29 PM (EH1Gq)
The islam way.

Posted by: Eromero at August 29, 2025 02:32 PM (jgmnb)

294 Commie Rule #1: The Party is always right.

Posted by: mrp at August 29, 2025 02:34 PM (rj6Yv)

295
But if it wasn't clear then, it is now: The White House's public safety play is a deliberate ploy

So what Politico is saying is that the Donks would prefer the bloodbath of higher crime rates, almost all of which are Black Americans.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 29, 2025 03:15 PM (y9nCu)

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