Kash Patel Files First-Ever Terrorism Charges Against Two Antifa Men<br>Plus: John Bolton Surrenders Himself for Arrest and Booking

Kash Patel Files First-Ever Terrorism Charges Against Two Antifa Men
Plus: John Bolton Surrenders Himself for Arrest and Booking

What a dummy, doesn't he know that these two men don't even exist?

Good luck prosecuting ghosts, you big dope.

Two men identified as Antifa members were indicted Wednesday on federal terrorism charges for what authorities describe as a coordinated assault against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, accuses Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts of attempting to murder federal officers, providing material support for terrorism, and discharging firearms during the attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado on July 4.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the case a historic milestone. "For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism," Patel said in a statement obtained by Fox News. "This was a planned and coordinated terrorist attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where armed extremists tried to murder U.S. officers on July 4th." He added that the arrests were made "under President Trump's new authorities at record speed," noting that more than 20 individuals tied to the same Antifa network have been apprehended. "No one gets to harm law enforcement. Not on our watch," Patel said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi praised the indictments as a major step in the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing extremism, describing Antifa as a left-wing terrorist organization that will be prosecuted to the fullest. According to the Justice Department, the suspects were part of a larger group of black-clad individuals who opened fire on ICE personnel and local police officers outside the detention facility. Surveillance footage and recovered weapons show the attackers were equipped with AR-style rifles, body armor, and two-way radios.
Court documents describe how the suspects fired on an Alvarado police officer responding to a 911 call, striking him in the neck, while other gunmen unleashed up to 30 rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outside the facility. The indictment quotes one of the men shouting, "Get to the rifles!" moments before opening fire. Twelve sets of body armor were later recovered from vehicles and nearby wooded areas, along with spray paint and fliers reading, "FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!" and "FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS."

Meanwhile, Oregon declares that it's in open rebellion against the Union.

Portland's City Council voted Wednesday to officially enshrine its "sanctuary city" status into law -- defying President Donald Trump's intensified crackdown on illegal immigration and further insulating local law enforcement from cooperation with federal immigration agents.
The 12--0 vote approved both the "Protect Portland Initiative" and a companion ordinance that formalizes how the city will resist federal enforcement operations led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The move came after a lengthy public hearing dominated by activists and residents urging the council to stand against Trump, according to The Oregonian.
Mayor Keith Wilson celebrated the outcome, describing it as a "clear and powerful message" that Portland would not bow to federal pressure. "We are a proud sanctuary city in a sanctuary state, and we will continue to live our values -- even when federal directives make it difficult," Wilson said in a statement, vowing to use the new framework to push back against what he called "federal overreach."

And the morbidly-obese JB Pritzker says he's a neo-confederate.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is floating an extraordinary idea -- that Democrats could one day prosecute Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for doing their jobs. In an interview this week with FOX 32 Chicago, the Democrat governor suggested that state and local prosecutors may pursue criminal charges against Department of Homeland Security officials and ICE agents operating in Illinois, a self-declared sanctuary state. "The tables will turn one day," Pritzker said, hinting that prosecutions could come after President Trump leaves office. "These people should recognize that maybe they're not gonna get prosecuted today -- although we're looking at doing that -- but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration because the statute of limitations would not have run out."
Pritzker claimed he has been in discussions with Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and several state's attorneys about how they might pursue legal action against federal immigration enforcement officials. "We're talking to the state's attorneys and Attorney General to see how they can go at this because what we want to make sure is that they follow the law," Pritzker said, framing ICE's enforcement of federal immigration statutes as potential criminal behavior.

JB Pritzker is now threatening to prosecute ICE agents under the next Democrat president and says he’s trying to find ways to do it now in Illinois.

“The tables will turn someday.”

This will be an official policy position of the 2028 Democrats without a doubt. Communist thugs. pic.twitter.com/C5335WT5r2
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 13, 2025

Unrelated: John Bolton surrenders himself for arrest. Note that he was permitted to surrender himself, and wasn't subjected to a humiliating public leg-iron frog-march like Peter Navarro was.

John Bolton surrenders himself in federal court.

What a great day for America. pic.twitter.com/jDtztl7wT6
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 17, 2025

Hello everyone. Happy Friday!

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 17, 2025 12:11 PM (rbKZ6)

2 At least Portland is making clear what it is.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 17, 2025 12:11 PM (gKWVE)

3 And the morbidly-obese JB Pritzker says he's a neo-confederate.

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He says.

But he sent in the IL state police to manage the crowds in front of ICE, doing the NG's work to try and get Trump to back off.

He's all rhetoric because he's scared.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

4 Unrelated: John Bolton surrenders himself for arrest. Note that he was permitted to surrender himself, and wasn't subjected to a humiliating public leg-iron frog-march like Peter Navarro was.

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Gotta keep the judge and jury not automatically against you by embarrassing a prominent Never Trump.

"That could have been me!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

5 I called 'em!

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (rbKZ6)

6 I still want to understand Pritzker's claim that he earned $1.4M gambling.

How does the IRS normally investigate this? Because large gambling winnings for a politician are almost always going to be bribery.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (sKqQm)

7 No one

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (VPPG8)

8 How are you feeling today, Ace?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (LxER7)

9 Good luck prosecuting ghosts, you big dope.

wtf is Patel thinking??!?@!

smdh

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

10 Hi Ace how you feeling ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)

11 Get the XXXL leg irons ready for Pritzker.

Posted by: steevy at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

12 Who do you call when your erection lasts four years?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

13 JB Pritzker is now threatening to prosecute ICE agents under the next Democrat president and says he�s trying to find ways to do it now in Illinois.

Pretty sure this violates a slew of laws in letter and spirit and if you are willing to give a less beneficial view to Pritzker you could probably throw a whole raft of charges at him

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

14 Get the XXXL leg irons ready for Pritzker.

he is just grimy

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (dCxaZ)

15 Gotta keep the judge and jury not automatically against you by embarrassing a prominent Never Trump.

As posted yesterday, Bolton has Theodore Chuang to "judge" his case.
x.com/joma_gc/status/1978939957889638749

Posted by: gKWVE at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (gKWVE)

16 We need a lot more people being arrested- both from Antifa and from the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

17 Unrelated: John Bolton surrenders himself for arrest.

National Google Review is defending Bolton, of course - he's the perfect representative of the Republican wing of the Uniparty.

Remember the three core principles of True Conservatism!

1) Unlimited immigration.

2) Endless wars.

3) Lower corporate income tax rates.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xTIDn)

18 I recall that insurrection generally resulted in the Feds getting all up someone's shit until they quit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

19 He's all rhetoric because he's scared.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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If his 1.4 million from a casino poker winnings was fraudulent money laundering as I suspect, he too can join the long line of not so distinguished IL governors going to jail.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)

20 Democrats. Celebrating the rebellious Confederacy since 1861.

Posted by: Archer at October 17, 2025 12:16 PM (IDphi)

21 Portland's City Council voted Wednesday to officially enshrine its "sanctuary city" status into law --

Heh.
Idiots.
It would be incredibly easy to blockade and isolate Portland.
That aside, perhaps the rest of America should demand passports from Portland residents who venture outside of their precious city.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 12:16 PM (2WIwB)

22
"Seduced as you have been, my fellow countrymen by the delusion theories and misrepresentation of ambitious, deluded & designing men, I call upon you in the language of truth, and with the feelings of a Father to retrace your steps. As you value liberty and the blessings of peace blot out from the page of your history a record so fatal to their security as this ordinance will become if it be obeyed. Rally again under the banners of the union whose obligations you in common with all your countrymen have, with an appeal to heaven, sworn to support, and which must be indissoluble as long as we are capable of enjoying freedom. Recollect that the first act of resistance to the laws which have been denounced as void by those who abuse your confidence and falsify your hopes is Treason, and subjects you to all the pains and penalties that are provided for the highest offence against your country."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:16 PM (tgvbd)

23 National Google Review is defending Bolton, of course - he's the perfect representative of the Republican wing of the Uniparty.

Remember the three core principles of True Conservatism!

1) Unlimited immigration.

2) Endless wars.

3) Lower corporate income tax rates.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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NR's gotta keep that mouth firmly attached to GloboHomo buttocks for the spice to flow.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:16 PM (WDjG6)

24 JB Pritzker…. The fat tub of lard that set himself up as the paragon of good health practices for all Illinoians during covid… when he spent large chunks of time in Florida BTW…. Fat ass

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:17 PM (P/Wjn)

25 and today's entry in our Revenge of the Boomer series features the return of some out-of-favor Boomerish names:

“A-OK Boomer Names are the latest iteration of clunky-cool, counterculture baby names favored by trendsetting parents,” Kihm writes in the Nameberry report, noting that some will draw inspiration from specific boomer relatives while others simply appreciate the vibe of 1950s names “and the glamorized post-war era.”

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:17 PM (dCxaZ)

26 Sucks that Illinois doesn't have term limits.

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (EYmYM)

27 Back in the 60's and 70's the only good thing about Portland was a cafe called Roses. Best desserts EVAH!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (2WIwB)

28 Sounds to me like he was "sharing" national security stuff with foreign Countries primarily Iran...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (VE6XX)

29 "No one knows Im sending this. Don't tell anybody ...shhh..."
- JOHN BOLTON on AOL private email account.

The Stache is not the suave international intellectual deal maker he was role playing. John Bolton is just a douchebag deep state ingrown anal hair.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (VPPG8)

30 Some good news,
"BREAKING: The U.S. posted a massive $198 BILLION surplus in September — the largest September surplus on record, according to Scott Bessent.

"September’s monthly surplus of $198 billion was the largest surplus of any September on record and 147% higher than last year."

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

31 What did VDH call people like Pritzger, Antifa and the Portland city council, "Neo-confederate secessionists?" Cruelly accurate, per usual.

Posted by: ArmChair in sin at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (nAqn1)

32 29 "No one knows Im sending this. Don't tell anybody ...shhh..."
- JOHN BOLTON on AOL private email account.

The Stache is not the suave international intellectual deal maker he was role playing. John Bolton is just a douchebag deep state ingrown anal hair.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (VPPG

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"Great guy. Did nothing wrong."
-NRO

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

33 National Google Review is defending Bolton, of course - he's the perfect representative of the Republican wing of the Uniparty.

Remember the three core principles of True Conservatism!

1) Unlimited immigration.

2) Endless wars.

3) Lower corporate income tax rates.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xTIDn)

Rich Lowry is not fit to carry Bill Buckley’s jock strap….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (P/Wjn)

34 If anyone asks how you got the money, tell them you won it in Vegas playing craps.

--- Paul Cicero

Posted by: Archer at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (IDphi)

35 some Boomer names predicted to make a comeback:

Beverly

Bruce

Darla

Patti

Ralph

Wayne

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:19 PM (dCxaZ)

36 Get the XXXL leg irons ready for Pritzker.
Posted by: steevy at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

With the lymphedema he probably has? They'll need to be custom made.

Posted by: 6XL easy at October 17, 2025 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

37 We have unlimited craps!

Posted by: Golden Corral at October 17, 2025 12:20 PM (y9ksN)

38 If his 1.4 million from a casino poker winnings was fraudulent money laundering as I suspect, he too can join the long line of not so distinguished IL governors going to jail.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)

He's worth 4 billion dollars so it was probably just a regular Tuesday night poker game with the fellows.

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:20 PM (EYmYM)

39 15- As posted yesterday, Bolton has Theodore Chuang to "judge" his case.
x.com/joma_gc/status/1978939957889638749
Posted by: gKWVE at October 17, 2025 12:15 PM.

I know it probably won't matter in Maryland, but it's going to be a jury trial?

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 17, 2025 12:20 PM (rbKZ6)

40 Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

this is very good news

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:21 PM (dCxaZ)

41 Bolton is a scrap being thrown to us to compensate for the absence of prosecutions of the Biden Administration conspirators.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 17, 2025 12:21 PM (jbnUc)

42 30 Some good news,
"BREAKING: The U.S. posted a massive $198 BILLION surplus in September — the largest September surplus on record, according to Scott Bessent.

"September’s monthly surplus of $198 billion was the largest surplus of any September on record and 147% higher than last year."
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

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https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/
deficit-tracker/

These are always explained in a vacuum, but it's interesting to note that in the past 6 years, a surplus in September is unusual. Only happened once, last year, and to a smaller degree.

And look at the delta between last year and this year. We've been making up ground since January when we started behind 2024 to the point of finally actually being ahead of 2024 (lower).

Still a deficit overall, but progress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

43
Names not likely to make a comeback

Ethel
Mabel
Amaryllis
Percy
Adolph

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:22 PM (tgvbd)

44 I’m old enough to remember when we had an actual country club republican as governor… big Jim Thompson…. I’m sure if he were still alive he’d be a never-Trumper…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:22 PM (P/Wjn)

45 Bolton went on a huge rant about how Trump was guilty as sin for his classified documents. Even as he knew he'd been exfitrating classified material in order to pad his memoir.

The guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)

46 Comey and Bolton are two of the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They committed obvious crimes that were still within SoL. They didn't get pardons from Asswipe Biden.

They were thus vulnerable on real charges. So what do they do? Do they lay low and hope the Eye of Sauron doesn't turn their way? Nah. What do they do? They fucking constantly taunt and dis the guy who can singlehandedly put them in chains.

Just insanely stupid. Don't drop the soap!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 17, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

47 28 Sounds to me like he was "sharing" national security stuff with foreign Countries primarily Iran...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Bolton screwed himself back in the Biden years as he apparently admitted to federal investigators that his AOL account was hacked in 2021 (I think). So if top secret compartmentalized information was being sent via that unsecured route, he is cooked as he admitted the account and other incriminating evidence back in 2021 when he feared no repercussions from it.

The number of counts in the indictment makes it more likely he will spend time in the gray bars motel. Now, imagine what top secret compartmentalized info that Brennan and other deepstaters like Clapper have squirreled away and/or sent via ordinary emails. Perhaps Comey as well.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (WDjG6)

48 Meanwhile, in Louisiana . . .

Media says "Louisiana man" (Palestinian illegal alien) arrested by FBI for participating in October 7th terror attack

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (ExORx)

49 I have a hard time mustering up any emotion whatsoever one way or another about John Bolton. What a nonentity

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (P/Wjn)

50 Remember the three core principles of True Conservatism!

1) Unlimited immigration.

2) Endless wars.

3) Lower corporate income tax rates.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Don't forget supporting Big Pharma at any cost.

Posted by: John Thune at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (abIsI)

51 I’m old enough to remember when we had an actual country club republican as governor… big Jim Thompson…. I’m sure if he were still alive he’d be a never-Trumper…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:22 PM (P/Wjn)

Would he be a virtue signaling commie?

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (EYmYM)

52 It always cracks me up when city councils weigh in on national political issues. It's like getting unsolicited CERCLA guidance from a random janitor. Maybe just focus on your shithole burg, son. It's a thankless, unglamorous job. But it's the one you and your insufferable student government, debate club personality signed up for.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM (ikyYz)

53 OT when Trump endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker I thought Trump got snookered. It turns out MJ is the best speaker we could have. IMO

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (VPPG8)

54 I forgot that the fiscal year ended in September, so the final push gets 2025 to be better overall than 2024 despite 2025 starting the year at twice the size of 2024's deficit at the end of the first full month.

We closed the gap and actually made progress towards lowering the deficit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

55 35 some Boomer names predicted to make a comeback:

Beverly

Bruce

Darla

Patti

Ralph

Wayne
Posted by: kallisto

Heh, Fred Mertz is already running Germany.

Posted by: Ethel Mae Mertz at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (oftw2)

56 He's worth 4 billion dollars so it was probably just a regular Tuesday night poker game with the fellows.
Posted by: the way i see it
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I'll bet.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)

57 Antifa Man. Is that anything like Maryland Man?

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (6sd+t)

58 Is funny seeing Pritzker think he has a shot at President. Dude looks like a hydro test of a waterbed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (+Q63G)

59 John Bolton Surrenders Himself for Arrest and Booking
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Sorry. I just wanted to read it again.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2025 12:25 PM (6sd+t)

60 “South Park” Starts New Season With “Antichrist Expert” Peter Thiel Aborting Trump’s Baby With Satan

-
Edgy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:25 PM (ExORx)

61 Back in the early 80's there was a lot of contention between Oregon and Washington about the new bridge on I-205. Oregon was dragging its heels on their part of the construction. Bunch of assholes.
So a few of us up at Ft Lewis at the time drew up invasion plans. We laid out maps and Axis or attack for seizing the bridges and sending landing craft across the Columbia river. All in good fun and we made it a nice training exercise.
Alas, the boss saw it one day and told us to get rid of it before someone from the National Guard saw it and bitched.
He liked our work though.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

62
Who do you call when your erection lasts four years?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 17, 2025 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

Vivid Entertainment

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2025 12:25 PM (y9nCu)

63 What are the odds of Pritzger's heart holing up until Democrats have control?

Posted by: Dave's not here at October 17, 2025 12:25 PM (raPis)

64 Afternoon Ace, hope you're feeling better.
Has Andy McCarthy weighed in on Bolton yet? I'm so anxious to hear his opinion even though Bolton wasn't DoJ

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (yUhFq)

65
It always cracks me up when city councils weigh in on national political issues.

_______

You can be sure that cities whose mayors and councils weigh in on national matters have incredible levels of crime, potholed streets, rats running rampant and garbage not picked up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (tgvbd)

66 53 OT when Trump endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker I thought Trump got snookered. It turns out MJ is the best speaker we could have. IMO
Posted by: Captain Fantastic

Helps too that Trump is essentially Johnson's Whip for important votes. Most GOP members are worried about losing their House seats if the Trump's social media accounts start savaging them.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (WDjG6)

67 South Park has become completely irrelevant

Posted by: steevy at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (YwEeS)

68
Get the other 8.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (ldc7S)

69 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (/HtdT)

70 BREAKING: ICE has just arrested an illegal immigrant who is an ACTIVE Illinois Police Officer - now what?

ICE doesn’t *book* anyone. There is no due process, straight to the gulag to be deported or disappeared

Who said he’s illegal? What ICE says and the truth are often 180 degrees apart. Have you heard of innocent until proven guilty? Ice sure as hell hasn't.

It’s a targeted attack against Pritzker because he committed the sin of actually standing up to Trump.

Most undocumented immigrants don't use false papers because that compounds problems. To work for the police he would need false papers. It seems very unlikely.

what might be going on is that ICE arrested an immigrant with legal work papers, because they just seem to be arresting anyone who is an immigrant, as long as that immigrant is brown.

ICE raided a business and took away dozens of immigrants that all had passed the E-Verify system. The Miller administration has decided that no immigrants are legal.

I’d love to see ICE piss off a couple of them big cop unions and let them fight it out amongst themselves for a minute

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (ycI94)

71 They were thus vulnerable on real charges. So what do they do? Do they lay low and hope the Eye of Sauron doesn't turn their way? Nah. What do they do? They fucking constantly taunt and dis the guy who can singlehandedly put them in chains.

I suspect their strategy was "Make myself a big name opponent of Trump so the FNM can see he is going after political opponents if he has me arrested"

And...if Biden hadn't done this to Trump and his people it might have worked.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (sKqQm)

72 Afternoon, Ace. How ya feeling today?

Posted by: Bulg at October 17, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

73 So Oregon and Illinois are in an open state of insurrection and rebellion against the lawful authority of the US government. What to do, what to do...

Posted by: Join the Union Army! 3 squares a day! at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (TbWk/)

74 The tables will turn - and they'll be buffet tables, and dessert tables. With tranny servers!

Posted by: JB Pritzker at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (YxUp0)

75 ‘ And the morbidly-obese JB Pritzker’

The judges would also have accepted
‘And the glistening, gelatinous mountain of blubber, JB Pritzker’

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (jbnUc)

76 Comey and Bolton are two of the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They committed obvious crimes that were still within SoL. They didn't get pardons from Asswipe Biden.

They were thus vulnerable on real charges. So what do they do? Do they lay low and hope the Eye of Sauron doesn't turn their way? Nah. What do they do? They fucking constantly taunt and dis the guy who can singlehandedly put them in chains.

Just insanely stupid. Don't drop the soap!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 17, 2025

"Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."
-Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight

Posted by: Golden Corral at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

77 60 “South Park” Starts New Season With “Antichrist Expert” Peter Thiel Aborting Trump’s Baby With Satan

-
Edgy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Would not poke the Thiel. He took down Gawker and taking down Stone and Parker a notch probably won't be difficult either.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)

78 John Bolton Surrenders Himself for Arrest and Booking
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😂😂😂

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (6sd+t)

79 How does a city get to first defy federal law, and then "enshrine" into "their law" that because we've broken the federal laws overtly, we now will draft horseshit laws that are blatantly unlawful and think that will end up working out?

Your entire city is turning into a shit hole and the fastest legal reaction is for the CRIMINAL ALIENS PROTECTION?

How does any of that make any sense?

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (61TgR)

80 Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
#BREAKING: Popular Democrat homeless activist in Charlotte NC, Cedric Dean, has just been raided by the FBI for allegedly:

"Running a $14.5 MILLION DOLLAR health care fraud scheme by taking advantage of the homeless and submitting false claims to Medicaid..."

https://tinyurl.com/2tst4tf5

Posted by: redridinghood at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

81 John Bolton Surrenders Himself for Arrest and Booking
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...But Mostly Booking

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (6sd+t)

82 49 I have a hard time mustering up any emotion whatsoever one way or another about John Bolton. What a nonentity
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:23 PM

It still blows my mind that Greg Gutfeld used to have Bolton on Red Eye all the time! I have not heard him say anything about his current issues but I would love to know what he's thinking.

Posted by: Moonbeam at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (rbKZ6)

83 Too bad Shelby Foote is no longer with us… he could write a beautiful book with probably hundreds of parallels between the old confederacy and current day blue states and their sanctuary policies…. It would be a Sumter moment if Pritzker or another one of these idiots have their police forces fire on or try to arrest ICE officials…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (P/Wjn)

84 Comey and Bolton are two of the dumbest motherfuckers alive.

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And Jumanji thinks blacks are retarded.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (ExORx)

85
Beverly

Bruce

Darla

Patti

Ralph

Wayne
Posted by: kallisto
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Brenda. A nice name, seldom heard these days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (XeU6L)

86 omey and Bolton are two of the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They committed obvious crimes that were still within SoL. They didn't get pardons from Asswipe Biden.----

In law enforcement investigators always relied on a suspect who always thought they were the smartest person in the room, to indict themself eventually by being incredibly stupid.

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (EYmYM)

87
Who said he’s illegal? What ICE says and the truth are often 180 degrees apart. Have you heard of innocent until proven guilty? Ice sure as hell hasn't.

I see this kind of comment every time there is a high profile ICE deportation and yet I've yet to see one case yet where ICE deported an actual citizen.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

88 South Park has gotten tedious.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (1Nv0l)

89 Madigan was (allegedly) the guy that really ran Illinois for a couple decades or so.

"On Oct. 13, former Illinois Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, now also known as Inmate #90368-509, reported to federal prison to begin a 7.5-year sentence after being convicted on 10 counts of public corruption."

Posted by: illiniwek at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (vbXSk)

90 retardo's cock holster is here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (P7vXf)

91 Stupid DUtards. The police officer they arrested white. Name was Radule Bojovic. Sounds brown to me.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 17, 2025 12:29 PM (+Q63G)

92 > "Pritzker claimed he has been in discussions with Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul..."

That explains the bizarre "legal" advice Pritzker's getting.

Posted by: Just reporting at October 17, 2025 12:29 PM (9iUIZ)

93
"Please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach." - A. Jackson

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:29 PM (tgvbd)

94 Where are the SWAT teams and TV cameras to take Bolton into custody?

He's at least as dangerous as Roger Stone.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 17, 2025 12:29 PM (GD2xa)

95 87
Who said he’s illegal? What ICE says and the truth are often 180 degrees apart. Have you heard of innocent until proven guilty? Ice sure as hell hasn't.

I see this kind of comment every time there is a high profile ICE deportation and yet I've yet to see one case yet where ICE deported an actual citizen.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (sKqQm)

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And even if ICE does deport an American citizen...it's not irreparable harm.

They go to the consulate, get a new passport, and the US government gets sued for a lot of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

96 "Running a $14.5 MILLION DOLLAR health care fraud scheme by taking advantage of the homeless and submitting false claims to Medicaid..."
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Shocked, I tell you, I'm shocked!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (XeU6L)

97 Revert all federal entitlement program payouts to check form.

Close all Portland, OR Post Offices and send postal workers to offices in nearby cities/towns.

All Portland mail gets routed to Salem.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (M0V4/)

98 Will Bolton have to shave his 'stache in prison?

Posted by: Bulg at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

99 "Mayor" Keith Wilson and "Governor" J.B. Pritzker need to be treated as what they are: domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (qpyNK)

100 89 Madigan was (allegedly) the guy that really ran Illinois for a couple decades or so.

"On Oct. 13, former Illinois Speaker of the House Mike Madigan, now also known as Inmate #90368-509, reported to federal prison to begin a 7.5-year sentence after being convicted on 10 counts of public corruption."
Posted by: illiniwek
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The late, great, Mike Royko named the unholy uniparty grifting GOP and Dems officeholders in IL as the Machine.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (WDjG6)

101 BREAKING: ICE has just arrested an illegal immigrant who is an ACTIVE Illinois Police Officer - now what?

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We de-export him the hell out of here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (ExORx)

102 Would not poke the Thiel. He took down Gawker and taking down Stone and Parker a notch probably won't be difficult either.
Posted by: whig

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It would be a small notch. They're slightly bigger fish than that Gawker loser.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (1Nv0l)

103 ‘And the glistening, gelatinous mountain of blubber, JB Pritzker’
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Also in the running "Jabba the Putz"

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (Qr3CK)

104 what might be going on is that ICE arrested an immigrant with legal work papers, because they just seem to be arresting anyone who is an immigrant, as long as that immigrant is brown.

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As usual these people are retarded. The cop in question is from Europe. Some Slavic country. And he has not denied he’s here illegally.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (5Yz+T)

105
Brenda. A nice name, seldom heard these days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

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Brenda Starr. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (tgvbd)

106 99 "Mayor" Keith Wilson and "Governor" J.B. Pritzker need to be treated as what they are: domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (qpyNK)

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It's literally just talk now.

Pritzker sent the IL state police to protect ICE. They're cracking down on antifa who go too far.

He's posturing for 2028, that's all it is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

107 If Pritzker is the nominee in 2028, the Republicans should run ads with his picture saying, "Would you let this man babysit your child?"

Posted by: Paul at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (aPHK/)

108 88 South Park has gotten tedious.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (1Nv0l)

Headlines from 2003

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (6sd+t)

109
I still want to understand Pritzker's claim that he earned $1.4M gambling.

How does the IRS normally investigate this? Because large gambling winnings for a politician are almost always going to be bribery.
Posted by: 18-1

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Easy. The casino is required to give him a W-2G. Let him produce it.

Also, name the casino where he got it. They'll know damn well if anyone got that much money in a single night.

He said he got it "playing cards" but didn't specify whether that was poker or blackjack.

If poker, he's lying horribly. Vegas has the most talented poker players in the world aiming for the highest stakes, and he didn't get past them to the tune of $1.4mil.

If blackjack, he must have been winning on wild 5- and 6-figure bets.

But make him produce the W-2G.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (ldc7S)

110 Portland's City Council voted Wednesday to officially enshrine its "sanctuary city" status into law -- defying President Donald Trump's intensified crackdown on illegal immigration and further insulating local law enforcement from cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Actually, what was striking about Portland's new law is how devoid of content it is.

Posturing.

Unlike Chicago, they are not announcing that city property is an "ICE-free" zone where ICE agents are forbidden from entering.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (xTIDn)

111 107 If Pritzker is the nominee in 2028, the Republicans should run ads with his picture saying, "Would you let this man babysit your child?"
Posted by: Paul at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (aPHK/)

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He's going to be so forgotten by the time voting starts, people will remember Deval Patrick's campaign from 2020 in greater detail.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

112 "Running a $14.5 MILLION DOLLAR health care fraud scheme by taking advantage of the homeless and submitting false claims to Medicaid..."

https://tinyurl.com/2tst4tf5
Posted by: redridinghood at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

Time honored scam. You just have to be clever enough to not get caught. They have this shit down to a science in South Florida.

Posted by: Drug operations pivoted to Medicare fraud. Really. at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (TbWk/)

113 ________

Brenda Starr. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (tgvbd)

Heh. First thing I thought of, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (LxER7)

114 This is a good time to announce the prosecution of murderous antifatards.

The "No Kings" spasmos now have a good idea what awaits them when they get too frisky.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2025 12:32 PM (iJfKG)

115 26 Sucks that Illinois doesn't have term limits.

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (EYmYM)

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Forget term limits. Illinois needs WEIGHT limits.

Posted by: The_Hoser at October 17, 2025 12:33 PM (f4jia)

116 AOL, wow. That can't have ever been secure since 2002.

Posted by: mishdog at October 17, 2025 12:33 PM (Mfik9)

117 It would be a small notch. They're slightly bigger fish than that Gawker loser.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Thiel has a lot of money to spread around to unhappy litigants against the duo. And like most assholes in infotainment, there are probably people that they stepped on and treated badly to get where they are today.

He financed the Hulk's lawsuit is how he took down Gawker for outing him.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:33 PM (WDjG6)

118 While Pritzger may be crazy, I think he is also in the Democrat mainstream right now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:33 PM (CTi02)

119 until they suffer at the hands of illegal immigrants the Left will continue to support them over American citizens and even then many will try to make an excuse for them. Like a chronically abused wife.

Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:33 PM (EYmYM)

120 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (/HtdT)

121 Does Portland have an army?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (1Nv0l)

122 It’s a targeted attack against Pritzker because he committed the sin of actually standing up to Trump.

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Well, at least we know Homan can hit the broad side of a barn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (ExORx)

123 Marvel is doing a movie on Don Lemon.
They're calling it, Insurrection Man...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (TGPs7)

124 Left ; nobody is above the law

Also left: well if you’re an illegal alien cop or work as a nanny or a farm hand or my pool guy, yeah you’re above the law.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (5Yz+T)

125 83 Shelby Foote writing about parallels. Illinois was at one time host to a large concentration camp. Camp Douglas.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (gm9Sb)

126 Once upon a time, responsible people on the Democrat side would have keelhauled a dwarf politician like Pritzger for such irresponsible talk.

No more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (CTi02)

127 Bolton case just redundantly confirms what a farce the US is in many respects. Hillary's 7th Floor Espionage Act crime wave, which should have sent her and a dozen confederates to prison, was 10,000 times more serious than Bolton's dumb and reckless violations.

But remember, the "IG" for the DOJ found that the comical Third World non-investigation was fine, and involved reasonable investigative judgment calls. Darkly hilarious.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2025 12:35 PM (U/Byj)

128 Does Portland have an army?

Portland has about 100 hard-core Antifa, who have generally been getting away with mayhem for years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:35 PM (xTIDn)

129 JB Pritzker is using his government position to influence law enforcement by issuing threats. This is textbook obstruction of justice. He is extorting a desired result contrary to Federal law by making personal threats on law enforcement officers. This is illegal. This is actionable.

This is a political strategy by a fat guy in a little coat.

Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2025 12:35 PM (dIske)

130 FBI Director Kash Patel called the case a historic milestone. “For the first time ever, the FBI has arrested anarchist violent extremists and charged these Antifa-aligned individuals with material support to terrorism,” Patel said in a statement obtained by Fox News.

It's certainly the first time they've arrested Antifa, but it's not the first time they've arrested violent anarchists.

Hoover finally got his Bureau more work after the Anarchist bombings in 1919. They arrested a lot of them at that point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 12:35 PM (6ydKt)

131 95 percent chance Don Lemon will be arrested....

Alex Jones

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (TGPs7)

132 126 Once upon a time, responsible people on the Democrat side would have keelhauled a dwarf politician like Pritzger for such irresponsible talk.

No more.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (CTi02)

They think they're winning with this... The media has told them so...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX)

133 I'm betting the rest of Pritzger's family wishes he would STFU. Business doesn't need bad attention from the Federals.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (CTi02)

134 Who said he’s illegal? What ICE says and the truth are often 180 degrees apart. Have you heard of innocent until proven guilty? Ice sure as hell hasn't.

There's a point at which retardation and deliberate deceit become indistinguishable - but first off the immigration system and the criminal justice system are two very different things. And being proven guilty has never been a prerequisite for lawful arrest.

Posted by: They're stupid or lying or lying stupids at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (TbWk/)

135 > Have you heard of innocent until proven guilty?

1) That does not apply in immigration cases. The burden of proof for proving lawful residency is on the immigrant in question.

2) Until and unless they become citizens, immigrants reside in a country at that country's pleasure. They have NO right to remain if said country should want them gone, for any reason, or even for no reason at all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (qpyNK)

136 and today's entry in our Revenge of the Boomer series features the return of some out-of-favor Boomerish names:

“A-OK Boomer Names are the latest iteration of clunky-cool, counterculture baby names favored by trendsetting parents,” Kihm writes in the Nameberry report, noting that some will draw inspiration from specific boomer relatives while others simply appreciate the vibe of 1950s names “and the glamorized post-war era.”
Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:17 PM (dCxaZ)

But but but what about the names:

D'@ffidavid

Jihadi

Griddlecake

Neffertaytay

This smacks of white supremacy, it does!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (iJfKG)

137 Moar

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

138 133 I'm betting the rest of Pritzger's family wishes he would STFU. Business doesn't need bad attention from the Federals.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (CTi02)

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His brother who thinks he's a woman is one of the main reasons the Democrat Party is as insane as it is today as any other individual.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

139 And even if ICE does deport an American citizen...it's not irreparable harm.

They go to the consulate, get a new passport, and the US government gets sued for a lot of money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wait, what? I could have sworn deportation is the same as a death sentence.

Posted by: A News Consumer at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Dv3i1)

140 This is the tables turning, fat boy.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (MZ+PY)

141 Anyone have any Raid? We seem to have an infestation...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (wtvvX)

142 139 Wait, what? I could have sworn deportation is the same as a death sentence.
Posted by: A News Consumer at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Dv3i1)

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I thought it was life saving since America is racism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

143 I continue to believe that Portland is going to regret not simply accepting 200 local National Guardsmen to stand in front of Federal buildings and perhaps with a small presence downtown.

From the local rhetoric, you'd think that Trump wants to send the entire 82nd Airborne to Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:37 PM (xTIDn)

144 The homeless Medicaid scam comes on top of a homeless big $ scam just indicted in LA and after the jaw-dropping mega-$ COVID-related scam in MN (Somali NGOs). Goes without saying the level of corruption and fraud in the public sector/public-sector adjacent part of America is now truly approaching Haiti levels.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (U/Byj)

145 Hoover finally got his Bureau more work after the Anarchist bombings in 1919. They arrested a lot of them at that point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Fun fact, until Congress gave the FBI arrest authority in the 30's, they had to have a local yokel cop or federal marshal around to do the actual arresting.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

146 They think they're winning with this... The media has told them so...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2025 12:36 PM (VE6XX)
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They really do think this is a winning message? Or, maybe it's just they just don't have any other message, no idea what to say. I can't figure this out, just like I can't figure out this shut-down strategy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (CTi02)

147 Shelby Foote is like the Nick Fuentes of Civil War historians...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (TGPs7)

148 Wait, what? I could have sworn deportation is the same as a death sentence.

Yeah, I've wondered that.

Mexico must be a really, really, terrible place, considering what a crime it is to send anyone there.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (xTIDn)

149 "The late, great, Mike Royko named the unholy uniparty grifting GOP and Dems officeholders in IL as the Machine." Posted by: whig

yeah, he wrote "The Boss" about how they do it. I've also heard the term "The Outfit" (perhaps hinting at the mob side of The Machine?), or maybe I'm thinking of some old Bruce Willis movie.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (vbXSk)

150 And the morbidly-obese JB Pritzker says he's a neo-confederate.

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He says.

But he sent in the IL state police to manage the crowds in front of ICE, doing the NG's work to try and get Trump to back off.

He's all rhetoric because he's scared.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

A good point, actions matter more than words.
But nobody as rich and empowered as tubby is likely to be scared of anything unless someone puts a blade into his guts or a gun in his face.

New look at nailing an iron-maiden style mask to faces with a mallet?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

151 If someone names their baby "Jihad", we could likely save a lot of blood and treasure by just preemptively sending the kid to Gitmo at birth, along with the parents.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (qpyNK)

152 That chair Pritzker is sitting on has to be screaming.

Posted by: Lars at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (kJH1Z)

153 147 Shelby Foote is like the Nick Fuentes of Civil War historians...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (TGPs7)

Bullshit

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

154 "These people should recognize that maybe they're not gonna get prosecuted today -- although we're looking at doing that -- but they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration because the statute of limitations would not have run out."

Go for it, Fat Boy.
I want to see how this plays out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (6ydKt)

155 Wait, what? I could have sworn deportation is the same as a death sentence.

The left: Trump is the worst person ever for calling some 3rd world countries shit holes.

Also the left: If you send a immigrant back to their shitty home country they will be immediately killed by all the murder hobos that run free in those lawless shitty countries.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

156 Left: We must embrace all cultures because they are all better than ours

Also left: you’re deporting someone to one of those cultures? You’re worse than Hitler.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (5Yz+T)

157 Also left: well if you’re an illegal alien cop or work as a nanny or a farm hand or my pool guy, yeah you’re above the law.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:34 PM (5Yz+T)

Or a school superintendent

Posted by: Yeah I'm Guyana go there at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (TbWk/)

158 They really do think this is a winning message? Or, maybe it's just they just don't have any other message, no idea what to say. I can't figure this out, just like I can't figure out this shut-down strategy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (CTi02)
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Extinction Burst.

Posted by: ballistic at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (5aZAZ)

159 150 A good point, actions matter more than words.
But nobody as rich and empowered as tubby is likely to be scared of anything unless someone puts a blade into his guts or a gun in his face.

New look at nailing an iron-maiden style mask to faces with a mallet?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 17, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

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Not necessarily scared personally, but scared that Trump's long run of wins at the higher levels of the judiciary will just continue with anything brought against IL that he exacerbates (there is another case about NG deployment right now that's bound to lose soon which Trump is pretty much just not complying with).

Also...Bava reference. Nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

160 Fun fact, until Congress gave the FBI arrest authority in the 30's, they had to have a local yokel cop or federal marshal around to do the actual arresting.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

Ahhh.
Then Patel is right, since I guess all the FBI did was the investigations and not the arrests.

Learn something new every day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 12:41 PM (6ydKt)

161 He financed the Hulk's lawsuit is how he took down Gawker for outing him.
Posted by: whig

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Yeah, I know. But it was relatively cheap. Gawker couldn't afford to settle given whatever Thiel was promising the Hulk to fight. Parker and Stone are much closer to Thiel's league. Even a $100M judgement isn't going to hurt much.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:41 PM (1Nv0l)

162 “Attorney General Kwame Raoul“ I think I see the problem.

Ollie’s Snackbar.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (XqFM2)

163 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Besides Good news from Kash, have I mentioned I H8 my coworkers lately?

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (LLaNC)

164 The Pritzker family doesn't need to worry about El Gordo hurting the family business. Like the current Walton family, the Pritzkers don't run the family business. They just live off what their ancestors accomplished. It's amazing how the lazy, idle rich all end up as Democrats.

Posted by: Wally at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (YxUp0)

165

"Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts "

How much you want to bet their parents are wealthy lawyers.

I might look into it, but fuck these idiots.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (et1vG)

166 Calendar it now!

Netflix’s Next Insult? A Feminist Reimagining of “The Count of Monte Cristo”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (ExORx)

167 "The Outfit" (perhaps hinting at the mob side of The Machine?)

"The Outfit" means the Mafia in Chicago.

The really obscure term for the Chicago Mafia was "First Ward Influence" (the Mafia traditionally controlled politics in the First Ward, which is the Loop).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (xTIDn)

168 But but but what about the names:

D'@ffidavid

That's just Welsh.

Posted by: Sheep and coal at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (TbWk/)

169 That compilation in the side bar of the most important tech in the universe is wild, crazy that it was in so many productions.

It blinks and is useless, I dub it the Pritzker Machine.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 17, 2025 12:43 PM (n5tGW)

170 I remember Roses! Wonderful cakes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2025 12:43 PM (kUxzU)

171
"morbidly-obese JB Pritzker"

I prefer the descriptive name Master Donut Hunter JB Pritzker.

Posted by: Speller at October 17, 2025 12:43 PM (pSotA)

172
A Feminist Reimagining of “The Count of Monte Cristo”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

_________

A tale of bitchy revenge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (tgvbd)

173 Will Bolton have to shave his 'stache in prison?
Posted by: Bulg at October 17, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

He can keep it if he is nice to his cell mate, Bubba.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

174 Hammond IN joined the rebellion with the Mayor and city council forbidding ICE to use city property as a staging area. So they'll have to find another parking lot.

Posted by: DaveA at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (FhXTo)

175 30 Some good news,
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

Saw this yesterday on ZeroH...predicts deficits will be back in October and Sept may be a one month anomaly. Bottom line is interest on national debt is consuming too much of govt revenues.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (y171U)

176 I can't figure out this shut-down strategy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

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They're all shit-scared of being primaried if they don't stand up to the bad orangeman. It's the mechanism by which the hard-left now controls the entire Democrat party.

If we had actually planned this on the right, it would have been a genius strategy.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)

177 yeah, he wrote "The Boss" about how they do it. I've also heard the term "The Outfit" (perhaps hinting at the mob side of The Machine?), or maybe I'm thinking of some old Bruce Willis movie.
Posted by: illiniwek

"Boss" is an outstanding political biography and I think Daley died just before it was published. Later, Kelsey Grammer starred in a loose takeoff on the book in the Starz series also called "Boss".

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)

178 "The late, great, Mike Royko named the unholy uniparty grifting GOP and Dems officeholders in IL as the Machine."
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yeah, he wrote "The Boss" about how they do it. I've also heard the term "The Outfit" (perhaps hinting at the mob side of The Machine?), or maybe I'm thinking of some old Bruce Willis movie.

John Kass (Royko's successor) calls it "The Combine"

Unfortunately, Royko in his later years endorsed Daley II. I think he had became senile.

Mel Gibson's "Payback" used "The Outfit"

Posted by: Chuck C at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (0GLZr)

179 53:

Interesting fact: in 1986, Tip O'Neill retired and successfully turned over the Speaker position to his fellow Democrat James Wright. Since then, EVERY Speaker has left office under adverse circumstances.

Wright: forced to resign over thinly disguised bribes

Foley: defeated for reelection while simultaneously losing control of the House for the Democrats.

Gingrich: resigned due to an unexpectedly poor showing by the GOP.

Hastert: toppled when GOP lost control of the House.

Pelosi: toppled when the Democrats lost control of the House.

Boehner: stepped down under pressure from the GOP caucus.

Ryan: stepped down in the face of the coming loss of the House by the GOP.

Pelosi: toppled when the Democrats lost control of the House.

McCarthy: ousted by the GOP caucus.

So that's where we are today. Will Mike Johnson beat the Speaker's Curse?

Posted by: Paul at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (aPHK/)

180 I remember Roses! Wonderful cakes.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2025 12:43 PM (kUxzU)

The future Mrs D and I would go over there on dates. Good times.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

181
Brenda Starr. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian
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Brenda Lee, nice voice.

[*!*, recollects 'Radar Love']

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 12:45 PM (XeU6L)

182 As I recall, Parker and Stone pulled only one episode, one where they mocked Mohammed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:45 PM (CTi02)

183 A Feminist Reimagining of “The Count of Monte Cristo”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

_________

A tale of bitchy revenge.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (tgvbd)
_________________________________

You misunderstood. It's a cooking show. "The Count of Monte CRISCO"

Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2025 12:45 PM (dIske)

184 53 OT when Trump endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker I thought Trump got snookered. It turns out MJ is the best speaker we could have. IMO
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:24 PM (VPPG

This needs to be repeated. He's the best speaker since Newt. I'm still waiting for our equivalent to Nancy Pelosi (without the grifting), but a man can dream. I can't stand her, but she's probably the most effective Speaker in my lifetime.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 17, 2025 12:45 PM (0CU3H)

185 Who do you call when your erection lasts four years?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

A Mortician?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (gtmmu)

186 You know, the hours are pretty good, and the guv pays OK. When I have to do that scrapping of the stuff from between the fat folds I just whistle a happy tune and put the stuff in the mason jar. Now, that poor bastard that tends the guy when he goes to the can,whoa. The fucking union better be taking care of him.

Posted by: Chuck Kopscinski, Governor Pritzger's fat scraper at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (gm9Sb)

187 Portland and Pritzker nicely illustrating the relatively mediocre level of enforcement and strategy by the feds.

The tables will indeed turn - meaning the degraded/often defrauded American electorate will elect idiots again, and in one day US immigration law and the border will again evaporate into thin air. Just like that.

Time is running, and short. It's important to bag the (amazingly heinous and numerous) serious illegal alien criminals. But 95% of the mass illegal migration problem has nothing to do with these dregs.

Prosecution of public officials for sheltering/aiding illegals, and of employers for similar, were needed yesterday. No? Fine. Enjoy your de facto official lawlessness, and especially enjoy when the switch is thrown and everything goes back to 2024 in a flash.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (U/Byj)

188 I recall some years back when there was a report that a beluga whale had somehow traveled up the St. Lawrence Seaway and wound up in Lake Michigan.

It turned out it was just Pritzker going for a swim.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (qpyNK)

189 Brenda Starr. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Pffft. Torchy Blane

Posted by: Barton McClane at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (oftw2)

190 164 The Pritzker family doesn't need to worry about El Gordo hurting the family business. Like the current Walton family, the Pritzkers don't run the family business. They just live off what their ancestors accomplished. It's amazing how the lazy, idle rich all end up as Democrats.
Posted by: Wally
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To keep their money is one reason. Dem rank and file would divest them of all their money in a New York minute if Dem politicians were not bought off.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

191 176 They're all shit-scared of being primaried if they don't stand up to the bad orangeman. It's the mechanism by which the hard-left now controls the entire Democrat party.

If we had actually planned this on the right, it would have been a genius strategy.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)

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I think it's more about the Obama-era strategizing ethos.

Win the news cycle. Message with the media's backup, and watch the GOP fold because of bad press.

It's lazy Obama era strategizing that prioritizes narrative building over policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

192 How, in the age of Ozempic, is Pritzker still such a phat phuk?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)

193 Democrats Allegedly Threaten to Sue President Trump for Paying U.S. Troops

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Brilliant!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:47 PM (ExORx)

194 Hastert was a particularly notorious example - he was a known pedophile while being speaker and blackmailed into doing everything the left wanted

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

195 A Feminist Reimagining of “The Count of Monte Cristo”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

"The Countess of Ham on Rye"?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2025 12:47 PM (iJfKG)

196 > Now, that poor bastard that tends the guy when he goes to the can,whoa.

That used to be an actual job in the Court of England.

The title was "Groom of the Stool" and it was a high-prestige position.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (qpyNK)

197 A Feminist Reimagining of “The Count of Monte Cristo”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

_________

A tale of bitchy revenge.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (tgvbd)

She'll girlboss Kung-fu her way out of the Cheateu D'If without any help on day two.

Posted by: you know what you did, Mondego! at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (TbWk/)

198 You misunderstood. It's a cooking show. "The Count of Monte CRISCO"
Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2025 12:45 PM (dIsk

Speaking of janitors and Crisco, one of the janitors at my elementary school used to always greet me as "Crisco" (not far off of my name). He was a good dude. This was back when only PE teachers were trying to molest the kids, rather than all faculty and staff. It was better times.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (ikyYz)

199 It's lazy Obama era strategizing that prioritizes narrative building over policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

But until recently it worked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (5Yz+T)

200 t

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (gm9Sb)

201 I see that Bolton arrived with a smile, smirk and jaunty little high step.

I hope charges and a trial knock the jaunty right out of him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (6PCLE)

202 They're all shit-scared of being primaried if they don't stand up to the bad orangeman. It's the mechanism by which the hard-left now controls the entire Democrat party.

If we had actually planned this on the right, it would have been a genius strategy.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)
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But we already know they hate Trump. What more does the shut-down prove? What are they gaining? No way in hell the GOP gives them a trillion dollars to pay for free medial care for illegals. That would be a most massive cave in the history of caves, and I just cannot imagine Trump would agree to suiciding his party.

I hope, anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (CTi02)

203 199 It's lazy Obama era strategizing that prioritizes narrative building over policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

But until recently it worked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (5Yz+T)

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Because the guy who looked at a 50/50 Senate and said that the other side should control all committees was in charge of the GOP in DC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

204 So that's where we are today. Will Mike Johnson beat the Speaker's Curse?
Posted by: Paul

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All political careers end in failure. I remember reading that somewhere. It's not really true in the US though.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)

205 Besides Good news from Kash, have I mentioned I H8 my coworkers lately?
Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2025 12:42 PM (LLaNC)

I do too, sadly. A lethal combination of incompetence and belligerence

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (nrfI8)

206 Unfortunately, Royko in his later years endorsed Daley II. I think he had became senile.
Posted by: Chuck C

Royko was a long time Democrat who eventually got mugged by reality. He spoke favorably about Reagan before he died. In reality, GOP had little to nothing to do with Chicago politics--if you wrote about city politics--Republicans were an afterthought. And to be fair, Daley II was a better mayor than Jane whathername or Harold Washington. And they in turn were better than Rahm Emanuel who was better than the current shit show Brandon.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

207 Ace, how are you feeling today? I hope much better.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (6PCLE)

208 This was back when only PE teachers were trying to molest the kids, rather than all faculty and staff. It was better times.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (ikyYz)

In retrospect those nut-hugger coaches shorts should've been a dead giveaway.

Posted by: Hey boys, lookit my bulge! at October 17, 2025 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

209 Why are we not sending every illegal alien, every sidewalk camper, every drug addict off to Portland and Chicago? Kick start an economic miracle.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 17, 2025 12:50 PM (2ap+5)

210 What other choice do Dems have but to keep the shutdown going. If they even get 90% of what they want, instead of 100% their base will go apeshit. And in the past a primary was the result. Today? Could well be a bullet to the head.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:51 PM (5Yz+T)

211 207 Ace, how are you feeling today? I hope much better.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (6PCLE)

Ace is glad to say that the reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2025 12:51 PM (uWKK8)

212 Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav

“ICE raided the ride share area at Chicago airport. 2/3 of the Uber drivers were arrested”

“Don’t tell me that isn’t wage suppression. You can’t even get gig work without having to compete against illegals.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 17, 2025 12:51 PM (TGPs7)

213 Lol: AOC Says Trump Was “Obstacle to Peace” – Despite Ceasefire

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Brilliant!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:51 PM (ExORx)

214 Ryan: stepped down in the face of the coming loss of the House by the GOP.

Posted by: Paul at October 17, 2025 12:44 PM (aPHK/)

I'm pretty sure Ryan willed that into being to screw Trump over and then Paul could join the board of Fox News.

Worst speaker ever.
Screwed his own party over just because he and Romney and the rest of the GOP didn't like their own president.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 12:51 PM (6ydKt)

215 incompetence and belligerence

Describes several old employers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (GqhYr)

216 > GOP had little to nothing to do with Chicago politics--if you wrote about city politics--Republicans were an afterthought.

They served the same role that the Washington Generals fill at a Harlem Globetrotters game.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (qpyNK)

217 But we already know they hate Trump. What more does the shut-down prove? What are they gaining?

Posted by: Huck Follywood

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You have to put yourself in the shoes of your average retarded leftist. It is difficult, I know. Any vote that helps the GOP in any way is supporting the bad orangeman, and therefore the voter must be primaried.

Don't make the mistake of assuming rationality on the left. They're driven purely by emotion.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (1Nv0l)

218 209 Why are we not sending every illegal alien, every sidewalk camper, every drug addict off to Portland and Chicago? Kick start an economic miracle.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 17, 2025 12:50 PM (2ap+5)

I've thought this too....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

219 189 Brenda Starr. Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Pffft. Torchy Blane
Posted by: Barton McClane at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (oftw2)

Gee I used to watch those 1 hour Torchy Blane movies with Glenda Farrell and Barton McClane. Very entertaining and Torchy would be in peril doing crime investigations.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (y171U)

220 The tables may turn someday but Pritzker will always be first to eat off of them.

Posted by: Sammy Sammich Sandwich Spot at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (FxINA)

221 You'd think that with all the fearless posturing out there on behalf of Antifa l, there'd be a treasure trove of criminal information on the socials.

I really hope it's being looked into. These asshols can't help themselves by posting their intentions.

Also, while we're at it, round up all bank info of anyone who gave a penny to these idiots.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 17, 2025 12:53 PM (61TgR)

222 >> “The tables will turn one day," Pritzker said

Yes, the buffet tables you fat, bloated’ Michelin Man, mother f’ing bag of gas.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 17, 2025 12:53 PM (R1D6K)

223 206 Mike Royko had some of the most hilarious columns. Stuff like throw a chair threw the front window if you want attention from the cops. Or stuff about Cook County coroner's and their jewelry collection.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2025 12:53 PM (gm9Sb)

224 I think Paul Ryan betrayed Trump because otherwise his boys at the gym would stop lifting with him.

And by lifting I mean buttsechs

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)

225 “ICE raided the ride share area at Chicago airport. 2/3 of the Uber drivers were arrested”

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Uber drivers are all scamming. Fake licenses. Fake insurance. Fake registrations. And uber of course looks the other way. If Bondi had balls she’d arrest Uber’s CEO as well.

CEO for allowing this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:54 PM (5Yz+T)

226 203 199 It's lazy Obama era strategizing that prioritizes narrative building over policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

But until recently it worked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (5Yz+T)

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Because the guy who looked at a 50/50 Senate and said that the other side should control all committees was in charge of the GOP in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

It wasn't even 50/50. It was 48/50/2. I still don't know why "Independents" who caucus with the Dems are counted in the control numbers.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 17, 2025 12:54 PM (0CU3H)

227 At some point, Pritzker will become too fat to reach the table when sitting, and will require a personal feeder.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:54 PM (1Nv0l)

228 Don Lemon Urges Black Americans to Arm-up to Fight off ICE

During a Tuesday appearance on “The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali,” former CNN host Don Lemon suggested black Americans should arm themselves to fight off ICE.

Wajahat Ali/Left Hook "Thems fighin words"

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 17, 2025 12:54 PM (VPPG8)

229 It's another Trumpmas miracle!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 12:54 PM (i24o9)

230 This is the sniper team I talked to at a gun range in Houston. The tranny was the shooter. I'm surprised they didn't kill anyone. The shooter was very accurate with a .308, and the spotter made good wind calls.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (Da7Vv)

231 Brenda. A nice name, seldom heard these days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 12:28 PM (XeU6L)

my name is a Boomer name that has fallen out of favor

However a variation of it is fairly popular, hovering around the 200s

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (dCxaZ)

232
The left: You are more likely to be killed by a gun in your home then to use it in self defense

Also the left: Don Lemon Urges Black Americans to Arm-up to Fight off ICE

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

233 Uber drivers are all scamming."

Pretty much, yeah.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (tubbA)

234 incompetence and belligerence

Describes several old employers.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (GqhYr)

Gets you way up the corporate ladder though.

Posted by: And asskissing at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

235 The Wheeling Intelligencer had a wonderful right wing editorial page that included Mike Royko and Art Buchwald. I enjoyed the Royko and Buchwald columns, but about them did not seem as trustworthy as the others.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (2ap+5)

236 Why are we not sending every illegal alien, every sidewalk camper, every drug addict off to Portland and Chicago? Kick start an economic miracle.
Posted by: Oglebay

I’ve said this before…leave Chicago and Portland alone. Let the illegals take over. Send ice to get rid of illegals in small town America. It would be appreciated more and a lot more effective.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (5Yz+T)

237
I’ve said this before…leave Chicago and Portland alone. Let the illegals take over. Send ice to get rid of illegals in small town America. It would be appreciated more and a lot more effective.

They use the votes from the illegals to elected state wide officials that then pay off the local pols and the illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

238 This is the sniper team I talked to at a gun range in Houston. The tranny was the shooter. I'm surprised they didn't kill anyone. The shooter was very accurate with a .308, and the spotter made good wind calls.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (Da7Vv)

Yikes. Stress of the moment getting to them, or was there some other explanation, such as lack of commitment to the cause?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 12:56 PM (i24o9)

239 Actually, majority of the homeless in Portland are conservative. They don't vote though. Legalization of drugs is what did it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2025 12:56 PM (kUxzU)

240 201 I see that Bolton arrived with a smile, smirk and jaunty little high step.

I hope charges and a trial knock the jaunty right out of him.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Unlike Letitia James, Antifa activists arrested in Chicago and Portland, etc., Bolton can't rely on a friendly jury to nullify any conviction. Dems still think he's some war-criminal Nazi, and Republicans either don't know/care about him, or think he's a traitor. When you're praying for a Bulwark subscriber to be on the jury to save you, you're screwed.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 17, 2025 12:56 PM (ycI94)

241 Gee I used to watch those 1 hour Torchy Blane movies with Glenda Farrell and Barton McClane. Very entertaining and Torchy would be in peril doing crime investigations.
Posted by: Joemarine at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (y171U)

I remember reading that Torchy Blane was the original inspiration for Lois Lane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (uWKK8)

242 223 206 Mike Royko had some of the most hilarious columns. Stuff like throw a chair threw the front window if you want attention from the cops. Or stuff about Cook County coroner's and their jewelry collection.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Back in the days of Ma Bell, Royko suddenly started getting ATT service calls because if you did not dial 1-800 first, the last 9 digits were his phone number at the Sun Times. So he asked ATT nicely and they basically blew him off. So then he started replying to the service calls in various ways --like We are ATT, we don't have to do anything you want and so on.

ATT caved after a few columns and changed the service number.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (WDjG6)

243 I am seeing a lot of dire warning about the fate of the farmers due to tariffs.
Is there no market for their crops in America?

Posted by: MAC V SOG at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (P4Pk9)

244 How long has it been since conservatives had control in some of these blue shitholes?

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (EyfuW)

245 216 > GOP had little to nothing to do with Chicago politics--if you wrote about city politics--Republicans were an afterthought.

They served the same role that the Washington Generals fill at a Harlem Globetrotters game.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM (qpyNK)
________________

Excellent analogy. Man, I used to love seeing the Globetrotters. I was lucky enough to see them with Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, and Marquis Haines. I have no idea what they're like now. But, that was great entertainment in a small gym setting.

Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (dIske)

246 You have to love Pritzker. A huge concern of voters was the way Democrats weaponized the government against their enemies. It’s one reason of many they don’t want them back in power.

But go ahead and telegraph the coming abuses of power.

BTW, that’s not what’s going on now. There is materiality to the charges. They have an actual fact pattern that fits the law and indictments. They are precedents, and the are not unusual applications of law. They are made up out of thin air like the charges against a Trump and his administration were.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (R1D6K)

247 Alexander Hall: Kamala Harris Says "It's F----- Up" What RFK Jr's HHS Is Doing To America

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Well, it's no veni vidi vici.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (ExORx)

248 I suspect the forever whining "conservative" farmers have convinced Trump to avoid immigration enforcement in rural areas.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (2ap+5)

249 192 How, in the age of Ozempic, is Pritzker still such a phat phuk?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)

I'd say eating about 50 lbs. of food a day is the main problem.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (6ydKt)

250 The commiecrats in control of Portland and Chicago are sure trying hard to drive out normies. Who do they expect will pay the bills when regular people who work or run a business pack up and leave?

Posted by: PaleRider at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (lr2Y1)

251 243 I am seeing a lot of dire warning about the fate of the farmers due to tariffs.
Is there no market for their crops in America?
Posted by: MAC V SOG at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (P4Pk9)

Apparently Americans don’t eat.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (5Yz+T)

252 seeing a lot of dire warning about the fate of the farmers due to tariffs"

Try not watching msnbc. Or cnn.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 12:59 PM (tubbA)

253 How, in the age of Ozempic, is Pritzker still such a phat phuk?

Out: Rolling in your caddie

In: Rolling boxes of ho hos. Into your face

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

254 Yikes. Stress of the moment getting to them, or was there some other explanation, such as lack of commitment to the cause?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Moving targets. Shooting at the range is one thing, without experience hunting, much harder to lead moving targets. Plus, normal Western civilization types are socialized not to kill people--estimates from Col Gross, "On Killing" are that a few percentage of infantry are the killers--the rest kind of spray bullets around.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

255 Prickster belongs in prison for his violations of immigration law.

Posted by: night lifted at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (/YboP)

256 Gov. J.B. Pritzker, is a keen player. It was mentioned last night that Mr. Pritzker won $1+million dollars at the poker table in Las Vegas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (mKHjI)

257 How, in the age of Ozempic, is Pritzker still such a phat phuk?
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)

I'd say eating about 50 lbs. of food a day is the main problem.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I've seen analysis where it's speculated that he has been gradually losing some weight, which was taken as an indicator he's preparing for a 2028 run.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (ycI94)

258 avoid immigration enforcement in rural areas."

Que? Just because it doesn't get headlines...

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (tubbA)

259 Please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach." - A. Jackson
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That is absolutely beautiful

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (JkCto)

260 Farming isn’t what people think of. It’s not a 50 acre farm run by ma and pa. Most farming in America is Big Agri farming with millions of acres under control. And like all big corps they love illegal alien cheap labor.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (5Yz+T)

261 And to be fair, Daley II was a better mayor than Jane whathername or Harold Washington. And they in turn were better than Rahm Emanuel who was better than the current shit show Brandon.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

I completely understand why you didn't want to remember Mayor Groot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (6ydKt)

262 The judges would also have accepted
‘And the glistening, gelatinous mountain of blubber, JB Pritzker’
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 17, 2025 12:27 PM (jbnUc)

My preference is 'That Fat Bowl of F*ck".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (/HDaX)

263 248 I suspect the forever whining "conservative" farmers have convinced Trump to avoid immigration enforcement in rural areas.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Disrupting food supplies is not a wise thing to do when there are a lot of other low hanging targets. You build political support by taking out the trash first and demonstrate it can be done before going after the lower hanging fruit.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (WDjG6)

264 he's preparing for a 2028 run."

Perhaps he should start by walking. In 2026...

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (tubbA)

265 Let’s face it… some people are overweight because of health issues and/or inherent issues with metabolism… they should have our sympathy. But fatasses like Pritzker… their obesity is the product of a lack of discipline. They shovel food into their faces and never even take a walk for exercise… that fat fuck is a disgrace

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (nrfI8)

266 How long has it been since conservatives had control in some of these blue shitholes?
Posted by: dreamingrobot
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Last I recall is Pat McCrory, mayor of Charlotte.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 01:02 PM (XeU6L)

267 There are only a million non-owner/family farm hands in America.

Even if every one is an illegal, which I doubt, that's only something like 2 or 3% of the illegals in the country

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

268 I completely understand why you didn't want to remember Mayor Groot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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And Groot was slightly better at least by polling than Brandon. Brandon is in single digits for approval.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 01:02 PM (WDjG6)

269 Politico, Aug 30th 2025: JB Pritzker is losing weight. Even Donald Trump is taking notice. Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, would hardly be the first candidate to drop weight ahead of a campaign.

Gov. JB Pritzker doesn’t quite look the same on the campaign trail these days. His pants hang loose, his jacket buttons no longer strain — the Democrat known for his barrel-shaped frame cutting a noticeably trimmer silhouette in his bid for a third term.

“How about, just for health,” Pritzker said when POLITICO asked about his weight loss.

Or, as just about anyone familiar with the rich history of pre-presidential pound-shedding is starting to suspect, how about for 2028.

The fight over Pritzker’s appearance picked up this week, when President Donald Trump told reporters that the governor “should spend more time in the gym.” Pritzker, whose leaner profile has turned heads everywhere from Springfield to image-obsessed Los Angeles, responded that “it takes one to know one on the weight question,” calling Trump a “bully,”

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 17, 2025 01:02 PM (ycI94)

270 >>>@217 ... Don't make the mistake of assuming rationality on the left ... They're driven purely by emotion ... Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 12:52 PM
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Saw a post yesterday which said, "If you could rationalize with a liberal, there wouldn't be any."

Posted by: Kathy at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (zuKcR)

271 And like all big corps they love illegal alien cheap labor"

No labor is even better. Ag is incredibly mechanized.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (tubbA)

272 A common side effect of Ozempic is constipation, so, with Pritzker size, perhaps it's not the fat, it's that he's full of shit.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (Y1sOo)

273 Daily status update on gen alpha. They would like you to know:

6 7

Thank you that is all.

Posted by: banana gen alpha reporter Dream at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (MUhnC)

274 People don't hayride any longer.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (EyfuW)

275 I went back to local Produce Junction to get some fall finery for the front porch.

when I was checking out, I noticed the new cash register system, but also...the staff had a different complexion. There were African Americans and Caucasian employees whereas before it was 90 per cent vatos and senoritas.

self-deported, they have

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 01:03 PM (dCxaZ)

276 Yikes. Stress of the moment getting to them, or was there some other explanation, such as lack of commitment to the cause?

I suspect the same problem that Charlie Kirks shooter had: Shooting down hill. When your rifle is zeroed for flat ground and you shoot down hill the bullet strikes higher than your aim point. I think this shooter, like Kirk's shooter, was aiming for a chest shot and hit the neck instead. Amazed the police officer survived being shot in the neck.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 17, 2025 01:04 PM (Da7Vv)

277 I've seen analysis where it's speculated that he has been gradually losing some weight, which was taken as an indicator he's preparing for a 2028 run.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (ycI94)

Gradually being the key word there.
Almost imperceptible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2025 01:04 PM (6ydKt)

278 My understanding of Chicago politics was it was corrupt but the snow was removed quickly and the garbage was picked up, parks were well maintained maintained, etc.

So the residents shrugged at the corruption.

At least in the olden days like 40s to 80s.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:04 PM (5Yz+T)

279 253 How, in the age of Ozempic, is Pritzker still such a phat phuk?

Out: Rolling in your caddie

In: Rolling boxes of ho hos. Into your face
Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2025 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at October 17, 2025 01:04 PM (i49OE)

280 WATCH: Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger says it's "horrifying" that crossing the border illegally is "considered a criminal act."

https://is.gd/4yIjyF

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Like using the wrong pronoun.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ExORx)

281 With all the amazing tech available, an enormous crop farm can be run by a single farmer. I have heard that even traditional hands on farming, e.g., orchards, are becoming mechanized. My niece's husband has a large dairy farm and he says the milking is done by robots. I have not seen the milking operation and cannot imagine how that works. Now the only thing he needs to illegals to do is clean out the barn. Back in the olden days, we trained our cows not to crap in the milking barn.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (2ap+5)

282 I suspect the forever whining "conservative" farmers have convinced Trump to avoid immigration enforcement in rural areas.

migrant farmworkers can come in on temporary resident visas

H2-Bs

there is no reason for them to be illegal

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (dCxaZ)

283 Does Bolton's mustache get its own cell?

Posted by: CrustyB at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (3yau/)

284 I've seen analysis where it's speculated that he has been gradually losing some weight, which was taken as an indicator he's preparing for a 2028 run.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

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His accretion disk has shrunk.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (1Nv0l)

285 As I recall, Parker and Stone pulled only one episode, one where they mocked Mohammed.

They didn't pull it themselves, Comedy Central refuses to air it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (2ocoG)

286 Out: Rolling in your caddie

In: Rolling boxes of ho hos. Into your face
Posted by: 18-1

Ho hos? Dammit, it's Bill all over again. Look, drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.

Posted by: James Carville at October 17, 2025 01:05 PM (ycI94)

287 Pritzker has been banned from "The Big Texan"in Amarillo after devouring the 72 oz steak (get it free if you eat it) but demanding seconds on the taters and key lime dessert.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2025 01:06 PM (gm9Sb)

288 that's only something like 2 or 3% of the illegals in the country"

This. They're not picking peas.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:06 PM (tubbA)

289 Alexander Hall: Kamala Harris Says "It's F----- Up" What RFK Jr's HHS Is Doing To America

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I demand putting carcinogenic artificial colorings and flavorings back into our food supply!!!

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 17, 2025 01:06 PM (qBdHI)

290 "Farming isn’t what people think of. It’s not a 50 acre farm run by ma and pa. Most farming in America is Big Agri farming with millions of acres under control. And like all big corps they love illegal alien cheap labor."
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Around me it is all family farms, from 500 to maybe 10,000 acres. The families do incorporate, for various tax and inheritance reasons, but are still mostly families.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 17, 2025 01:06 PM (vbXSk)

291
Daily status update on gen alpha. They would like you to know:

6 7

Thank you that is all.
Posted by: banana gen alpha reporter Dream

===============

What's that, the ratio of babys who prefer socialism to hard socialism?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (ldc7S)

292 ’ve said this before…leave Chicago and Portland alone. Let the illegals take over. Send ice to get rid of illegals in small town America. It would be appreciated more and a lot more effective.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 12:55 PM (5Yz+T)

I've noted a time or two that there are no publicized ICE enforcements in the Metro DC area, where there is a shit ton of illegals from every part of the world. Either they are happening and not being publicized, or they are not happening because the feds don't want to bring the fight home.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (MZ+PY)

293 Unlike Letitia James, Antifa activists arrested in Chicago and Portland, etc.,
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Another member of her family is a felon on the run out of state and another is an only fans dancer. Felony, a family tradition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (mKHjI)

294 A thought:
When Trump meets Putin, he hosts him for dinner and has the chef serve Tomahawk steaks.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)

295 Republicans are big meanies!

Friend at the AG debate in Richmond just texted us this photograph of a @jonesjay campaign staffer seen in the hallway after the debate.

https://is.gd/aNqMOD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (ExORx)

296 Ha ha. I love 6 7. I’ve embraced it fully with my kids.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (5Yz+T)

297 241 I remember reading that Torchy Blane was the original inspiration for Lois Lane.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (uWKK

Yes, I can see the similarities.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (y171U)

298 >>> What's that, the ratio of babys who prefer socialism to hard socialism?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (ldc7S)

Nobody knows. It’s the new Ohio! I guess

Posted by: banana gen alpha reporter Dream at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (MUhnC)

299 182 As I recall, Parker and Stone pulled only one episode, one where they mocked Mohammed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

=======

I think they also apologized for ManBearPig. They're card-carrying climatards.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (1Nv0l)

300 > Most farming in America is Big Agri farming with millions of acres under control. And like all big corps they love illegal alien cheap labor.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:01 PM (5Yz+T)

Illegal pickers are mostly only a thing for luxury crops nowadays -- the kind of crap they grow in California.

The calories that actually keep the world from starving (corn, wheat, soybeans) are all harvested by machine. No need for illegals (or legals, for that matter... one guy driving a combine replaces hundreds of stoop-labor peasants).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:09 PM (qpyNK)

301 Oregon's state motto is: "She Flies By Her Own Wings" an update done in the 90's by Governor Kitzhaber, supplanting the original 1859 motto of "The Union" which still appears on the state flag .

Ever since the motto was changed, the state of Oregon has mostly survived on federal grants.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 17, 2025 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

302 >>>Around me it is all family farms, from 500 to maybe 10,000 acres. The families do incorporate, for various tax and inheritance reasons, but are still mostly families.
Posted by: illiniwek
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The govt should quit stealing from them and quit giving to the Con Agra's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 17, 2025 01:09 PM (mKHjI)

303 >>> Ha ha. I love 6 7. I’ve embraced it fully with my kids.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:08 PM (5Yz+T)

You have to do the whole hand jive too

Posted by: banana gen alpha reporter Dream at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (MUhnC)

304 > When Trump meets Putin, he hosts him for dinner and has the chef serve Tomahawk steaks.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)

Seems more appropriate for Elizabeth Warren.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (qpyNK)

305 asdf

Posted by: Kindltot at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

306 243 I am seeing a lot of dire warning about the fate of the farmers due to tariffs.
Is there no market for their crops in America?
Posted by: MAC V SOG

Modern farms produce such high yields they need to export. Brazil is also huge in soybeans and corn, so there is competition there also. And China is a major importer, but are doing what they can to stymie Trump.

Posted by: Farm Monitor at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (oftw2)

307 an enormous crop farm can be run by a single farmer"

This. As a kid, I saw busloads brought in for harvest. The year before the land was sold, the entire operation had three guys, plus drivers (from another firm).
All mechanized/ automated.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (tubbA)

308 A fleet of robots at first will be to expensive. It may become cheaper and cheaper and soon robots will be flipping burgers and the finger.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (EyfuW)

309 I was at a hi skool foosball game earlier this year. Number 67 on the team made a big play. The entire student section was doing the 6 7 things with their hands.

It was awesome.

I like that stuff, kids having fun with silly shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (5Yz+T)

310 > Seems more appropriate for Elizabeth Warren.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (qpyNK)

Correcting myself: in that case, they'd probably be imitation "plant-based" "steaks".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (qpyNK)

311 Around me it is all family farms, from 500 to maybe 10,000 acres. The families do incorporate, for various tax and inheritance reasons, but are still mostly families.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 17, 2025 01:06 PM (vbXSk)

Same here in Upstate NY.... I'm surrounded by the fields of a local farm, my only complaint is when they spray liquid shit on the fields to nourish the soil.... fucking stinks.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (i49OE)

312 Farming isn’t what people think of. It’s not a 50 acre farm run by ma and pa. Most farming in America is Big Agri farming with millions of acres under control. And like all big corps they love illegal alien cheap labor.
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Wrong and right. 90% of the farms in Ohio are family owned. Pretty much they use migrant labor for the harvest. Unless they only grow corn or soy which they can use machines to harvest. The ecomics of farmer are brutal. The processors squeezed all the margin out of farming.

Posted by: Clarkson at October 17, 2025 01:11 PM (+Wwxm)

313 The calories that actually keep the world from starving (corn, wheat, soybeans) are all harvested by machine. No need for illegals (or legals, for that matter... one guy driving a combine replaces hundreds of stoop-labor peasants).
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Pay attention to Autonomous Drive Farm Equipment. Tomorrow's farm will run itself - especially, grain farms.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:11 PM (AdHga)

314 Pritzker? Governor Backfat.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at October 17, 2025 01:11 PM (gxokI)

315 Sucks that Illinois doesn't have term limits.
Posted by: the way i see it at October 17, 2025 12:18 PM (EYmYM)

Or legitimate elections.

Posted by: Methos at October 17, 2025 01:12 PM (vSvIl)

316 Same here in Upstate NY.... I'm surrounded by the fields of a local farm, my only complaint is when they spray liquid shit on the fields to nourish the soil.... fucking stinks.
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Try paper mill towns.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:12 PM (AdHga)

317
Pritzker? Governor Backfat.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill

__________

J. Roaringham Fatback

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (tgvbd)

318 > Try paper mill towns.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:12 PM (AdHga)

Washington State joke:

My girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.

So I drove her to Everett.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (qpyNK)

319 Moving targets. Shooting at the range is one thing, without experience hunting, much harder to lead moving targets. Plus, normal Western civilization types are socialized not to kill people--estimates from Col Gross, "On Killing" are that a few percentage of infantry are the killers--the rest kind of spray bullets around.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

Thanks. Didn't know the details of the encounter and presumed static initial targets, then, potentially bunkered/static targets when attempting to determine location of fire. I presumed there would be some glitching when it came time for ultimately committing the act.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (i24o9)

320 >>>The calories that actually keep the world from starving (corn, wheat, soybeans) are all harvested by machine. No need for illegals (or legals, for that matter... one guy driving a combine replaces hundreds of stoop-labor peasants).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Had the opportunity to watch the picking, shucking, and baling of cotton. Three machines nose to tail, windows up, A/C on. Not one man on foot.
It was in independent farm not big corporate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (mKHjI)

321 Oh, and when I was a kid, I used to pick sweet corn for a local farm family every summer... hard work but it actually paid pretty well...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (i49OE)

322 208 This was back when only PE teachers were trying to molest the kids, rather than all faculty and staff. It was better times.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 17, 2025 12:48 PM (ikyYz)

In retrospect those nut-hugger coaches shorts should've been a dead giveaway.
Posted by: Hey boys, lookit my bulge! at October 17, 2025 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

In my school, it was one of the math teachers.

Though he was also the Baseball Coach.

Posted by: XTC at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (UnA8+)

323 Happy Friday, Ace. Looks like you're feeling better. Hang in there - the weekend's coming.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (va0Yo)

324
I am seeing a lot of dire warning about the fate of the farmers due to tariffs.
Is there no market for their crops in America?
Posted by: MAC V SOG

===============

There is something about a considerable loss on soybeans. China decided not to buy any, "which has transformed and export market of $12.6bil in sales in 2024 to one in 2025 with zero sales, perhaps leading to an impending industry-wide subsidy of $10bil for displaced farmers, with more losses and more subsidies to come."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (ldc7S)

325 >>> Try paper mill towns.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:12 PM (AdHga)

Washington State joke:
My girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.
So I drove her to Everett.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (qpyNK)

Savannah has that.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (3uBP9)

326 Washington State joke:

My girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.

So I drove her to Everett.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (qpyNK)

Why, when you could kiss her in Tacoma, the taint of the state.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

327 > Pay attention to Autonomous Drive Farm Equipment. Tomorrow's farm will run itself - especially, grain farms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:11 PM (AdHga)

I saw a video of one a while back that not only drives itself, it has an AI-powered laser system that can tell weeds from crops and zap the weeds. No need for herbicide.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (qpyNK)

328 Aliens have always been able to come into the country and work for farmers. They would only need a work visa. It was no big deal. But opening the border so anyone could walk in was never legal. At least with a work visa we would at least know who they were. That's the difference.

Posted by: Case at October 17, 2025 01:15 PM (9HFDU)

329 Try paper mill towns.
Posted by: Pudinhead

You could try us.

Posted by: Purina Kat Fud Factory at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (oftw2)

330 326 Washington State joke:

My girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.

So I drove her to Everett.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2025 01:13 PM (qpyNK)

Why, when you could kiss her in Tacoma, the taint of the state.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 01:14 PM (i24o9)

Don't get me started on those hotties from Camas

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (2WIwB)

331
Try paper mill towns.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 17, 2025 01:12 PM (AdHga)

________

Ah, the Kraft process. Unfortunately they haven't developed an alternative for making higher-strength cellulose fibers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (tgvbd)

332 China decided not to buy any,"

China bought to influence, not based on need. China is assho.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (tubbA)

333 saw a video of one a while back that not only drives itself, it has an AI-powered laser system that can tell weeds from crops and zap the weeds. No need for herbicide.
==
SURE its all fun and games until your field catches fire.

Posted by: Clarkson at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (+Wwxm)

334 nood

Trish

Posted by: banana Dream at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (3uBP9)

335 Don't get me started on those hotties from Camas

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (2WIwB)

Pound for pound, my money's on the Bremalos.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

336 I remember reading that Torchy Blane was the original inspiration for Lois Lane.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2025 12:57 PM (uWKK

Yes, I can see the similarities.
Posted by: Joemarine
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You guys aren't really 29, are you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 01:17 PM (XeU6L)

337 Don't get me started on those hotties from Camas

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:16 PM (2WIwB)

Pound for pound, my money's on the Bremalos.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 17, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

Practical women they are!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 17, 2025 01:18 PM (2WIwB)

338 video of one a while back that not only drives itself"

How else do we get mile long, perfectly spaced rows? It's uncanny.

Posted by: man at October 17, 2025 01:18 PM (tubbA)

339 er..

nood

Tish

Sorry, Trishes. Great, nickname for Patricia, beats Patty by a mile.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 17, 2025 01:18 PM (3uBP9)

340 >>You have to do the whole hand jive too

It looks like juggling huge hanging breasts.

Aaaannd, boob thread (again)

Posted by: one hour sober at October 17, 2025 01:18 PM (Y1sOo)

341
But back to the topic (of all things), if those twits are convicted of terrorism, will they be sent to Gitmo? Please?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 17, 2025 01:18 PM (ldc7S)

342 250 The commiecrats in control of Portland and Chicago are sure trying hard to drive out normies. Who do they expect will pay the bills when regular people who work or run a business pack up and leave?
Posted by: PaleRider at October 17, 2025 12:58 PM (lr2Y1)

US taxpayer entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 17, 2025 01:19 PM (N39Ws)

343 Oh, and when I was a kid, I used to pick sweet corn for a local farm family every summer... hard work but it actually paid pretty well...
Posted by: SSBN 656
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I picked tobacco. It was *the* cash crop.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 17, 2025 01:19 PM (XeU6L)

344 At 5'6" and 225lbs I have a bad weight problem. What you don't know is that I have basically spent my entire life on a continuous diet. My metabolism has become so efficient that I gain weight on 1200 calories a day. I write down everything I eat to keep track of how much I'm eating. Be happy you're not me.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 17, 2025 01:20 PM (Da7Vv)

345 I presumed there would be some glitching when it came time for ultimately committing the act.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Wild Bill Hickok was known for his ability to kill people in duels. And he was asked about it one time. He said, when his gun has left the holster he had already decided to shoot to kill--"a lotta men will hesitate to pull the trigger--I don't."

A similar gunfighter was Col Askins. If you read Unrepentant Sinner, his autobiography, he indicates the mindset where he served in wars and on the Border Patrol during the Wild Days, and then even in Vietnam where he was probably the first to use a 44 Magnum to kill a Viet Cong guy in combat.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)

346 Fat Boy Prickster is counting on still being governor when a new Democratic president is sworn in. Um … J.D. Vance,anyone? Marco Rubio? Ron DeSantis? Any number of Republicans compared to the weak sisters in the Democratic Party?

Posted by: RebeccaH at October 17, 2025 01:23 PM (VFung)

347 I may have dodged a bullet. A bank I have money in just sold their subprime auto loan operation in July. They have been in that business since 1995. Maybe the caught the stench coming out of that business. They have been at the top end of rates on CDs for a long time. Hope it wasn't just a stock deal.

Posted by: javems at October 17, 2025 01:23 PM (8I4hW)

348 I like that stuff, kids having fun with silly shit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 17, 2025 01:10 PM (5Yz+T)

Kids should not have fun with silly shit. They need to be beaten into seriousness, put to work in the mines, made to act like adults, and beaten some more. All mirth, joy, exploration and enjoyment must be exterminated if they're going to become responsible adults.

Posted by: Disgusting. at October 17, 2025 01:23 PM (TbWk/)

349 Be happy you're not me.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 17, 2025 01:20 PM (Da7Vv)

I don't know what to say, that is awful.

there are alt-medicine ways to address this, are there any naturopaths around your way?

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2025 01:24 PM (dCxaZ)

350
If Pritzker is the nominee in 2028, the Republicans should run ads with his picture saying, "Would you let this man babysit your child?"
Posted by: Paul at October 17, 2025 12:31 PM (aPHK/)

"....and allow him access to your refrigerator?"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2025 01:28 PM (y9nCu)

351 Good luck prosecuting ghosts, you big dope.

Lamont works for the FIB?
Oh, dope, not big dummy. Nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 17, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh)

352 FIN!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at October 17, 2025 01:42 PM (i49OE)

353 The Next Arrest Warrant should be for George and Alex Soros/Bill Gates and Dr, Fauci

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 17, 2025 06:13 PM (wGqjj)

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