The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 11/10/25

Good morning kids. Well, it certainly appears that the Schumer Shakedown Shutdown Shitshow has come to an end, after 40 days. Essentially Schemer and the Dems got nothing in return for passing what amounts to just another continuing resolution and the hardcore Maoists are blowing a gasket. Cue a very loud sad trombone

Whatever one thinks of polling, even before last Tuesday's horrendous election day results, polls had consistently indicated that Americans were blaming the Democrats for the perceived and in maybe a few instances real pain being felt by the government shutting down. So if their calculus was to use this as a weapon to beat up on Trump and the GOP in the run up to next year's midterms, perhaps Schumer felt it wise to just lick his wounds, fold up the tent and as Democrats always do, pray that the economy tanks and Americans suffer so they can ride that to victory next November and again in 2028 while discrediting the America First economic and political agenda.

This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it. The deal is simple. Schumer’s caucus agreed to advance a package of spending bills that will reopen the government and extend funding through January.
That’s it.
No sweeping policy concessions, no big wins tucked into the fine print, no “historic framework” or “moral victory.” Just a basic continuing resolution, dressed up with some boilerplate back pay for furloughed workers and funding for food assistance through next fall. In other words, exactly what Republicans had put on the table before the Democrats decided to make a scene.
This shutdown began because Schumer thought he could strongarm the GOP into extending Obamacare subsidies that were set to expire and repealing Medicaid reforms that closed a loophole handing out free healthcare to illegal immigrants. President Trump and Republican leaders had already said they planned to address those subsidies separately, aiming to rein them in and curb abuse. But Schumer wanted drama. He shut down the government over it, thinking Republicans would blink.
They didn’t.
After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it. Their only “win” is a vague promise of a future vote on Obamacare subsidies in December—a meaningless gesture that even they know is dead on arrival.

In the first year of Trump's second term, the economy is indeed improving. The direction upward on many fronts, from inflation to employment and other indices is unmistakeable. But of course as the estimable Victor Davis Hanson reminds us, it takes time for the average American to feel it and that gives the enemy time to lie and propagandize to their black heart's content, which they will do anyway.

The current economic indicators, at least those attributable to the 10-month Trump administration, are strong.
Fourth-quarter GDP is estimated to grow between 2.7 and 4 percent, the robust latter figure according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank.
Inflation from June to August ranged from 2.7 to 2.9 percent, significantly lower than the 5 percent annual average during Biden’s 2021-2025 term. . .
. . . the recent off-year elections, albeit in blue states like California, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, were decided mostly on perceptions of “affordability,” shorthand for the economy.
When independent voters heard little from Republican candidates about the good economic news or of the sharp contrast from the prior Democratic train wreck, they simply bought the left-wing line that the lack of “affordability” was due to the administration in power—that is, Trump.
Third, most of Trump’s key economic initiatives are long-term and will not be fully realized by the end of 2025 or in early to mid-2026.

That right there is key. The timing of when things will be felt is crucial. No doubt local and national Democrat Pols will do all they can to make their own constituents suffer so they can then blame the President and his party. Of course the media as is their wont and raison d'être will be to broadcast that message 25/8/366 all the way through 2026 and beyond.

Switching gears for a moment . . .

[Friday] marked the 108th anniversary since the Bolshevik Revolution, which took place on November 7th, 1917 (October 25th, according to the Julian Calendar). Rarely has a local event produced such a profound global effect as the October Revolution, which ultimately enslaved billions around the world and caused mass murder and famine at an unprecedented rate.. . . Today, over a century later, the results are dismal — over 100 million murdered globally and billions starved and deprived of opportunities for normal lives. What is even more insidious, perhaps, is that the ideology of the October Revolution infected and conquered the education, media, and culture of the self-doubting West.

Also, Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the great Northeast blackout that left millions in the region and parts of Canada without power for 13 hours, and which gave rise to the expression, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

The irony of the anniversaries of both those events is that they come within days of an election in NYC wherein the residents of NYC have chosen a Communist/Muslim jihadist to be their mayor. More chillingly are the indicators that more and more young people are openly espousing a desire for socialism and a forcible if not violent rejection of free-market capitalism and all of the social and human advancement that were engendered by it and could only have come about because of it.

The lament of then British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray at the outset of the First World War comes to mind: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."

It remains to be seen if the miraculous victories of Donald Trump as well as the all too brief life and influence of the late Charlie Kirk are blips on an inevitable trajectory to decline and fall, or are harbingers of a great reawakening of American, Western and Judeo/Christian culture and the advancement of civilization and humanity.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s first-year economy is surging, but the race ahead hinges on perception, messaging, and whether voters see the boom before the 2026 midterms.
The Race for the Trump Economy

J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,

If a former Capitol Police officer was actually part of the January 6 pipe bomb plot, we need to ask Kamala, “What did you know and when did you know it?”
By Stumbling Into the Alleged J6 Bomb Plot, Kamala Became Part of It
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
. . . the Red-Green Alliance — a coordinated effort between radical communist and Islamist forces seeking to dismantle Western capitalism and fundamentally transform America’s largest city.
EXCLUSIVE — Son of Hamas Founder Warns Mamdani Is ‘Trojan Horse’ for Red-Green Alliance Seeking to Undermine America from Within
Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R) called him “Comrade Zohran,” and predicts he’ll be little more than a “radical DSA puppet,” saying, “It was always obvious that he would carry the will of the most radical among us to the highest seat of power in our city. Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.”
What The Democratic Socialists Are Demanding From Mamdani Is Truly Terrifying
. . . we are already witnessing the rise of the glory age of Linda Sarsour. the Hamas Louse
Mamdani’s people make demands — hate Israel and America, or we will end you
This election wasn’t about free food; it was about something much more profound...and dangerous.
Revolution Comes to New York City
New York’s next mayor embraces socialism with rent control, fare-free transit, and government grocery stores—policies repeatedly proven to fail.
The Socialist Hypothesis Has Been Falsified — Did New York Get the Memo?
The unapologetic commie preparing to take over New York City showed his hand by praising one of the early 20th century’s most energetic fellow travelers. (The communism is horrid enough. It's the Islam that scares me shitless- jjs)
Zohran Mamdani and the Ghost of Eugene Debs
Roger Kimball: The Heritage Foundation’s Halloween fiasco revealed less about antisemitism on the right than about the establishment’s renewed war on Trump’s populist movement.
The Heritage Foundation’s Meltdown
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The shooting occurred near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue when an unknown male in a black Jeep fired shots at federal agents before fleeing the scene, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Others at the scene threw a paint can and bricks at Border Patrol vehicles.
Man Allegedly Fires At Border Patrol Agents In Chicago
Carlos Zapata Rivera, an illegal migrant from Ecuador, refused any medical help and displayed “absolutely zero” signs of medical concerns just moments after appearing to suffer a seizure, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Administration officials released the response after viral footage appeared to show him convulsing in his car on Thursday while Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents tried to arrest his wife during a targeted operation in Massachusetts. (RELATED: Investigation Finds Judge Was Aloof About Plan Allowing Illegal To Escape ICE Arrest)
DHS Says Man In Viral Video Faked Seizure To Delay Deportation Of Wife Who Stabbed Coworkers
The detention numbers highlight ongoing challenges in managing immigration and enforcement policies.
ICE Detention Numbers Hit Record High.
“California broke the law and now three people are dead and two are hospitalized."
Road Carnage Caused by Illegal Aliens
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Eight Senate Democrats voted with 42 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance.
Democrats Cave on Government Funding, Will Receive Nothing for Ending Schumer Shutdown
One thing the shutdown seems to show is that there may very well be quite a few federal employees America could do without.
Longest Shutdown Ever Reveals U.S. Could Stand To Fire A Lot Of Federal Workers
The group of Democrats argued their party should withhold their votes until Republicans agree to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. (RELATED: Thune Warns Democrats Against Seizing On Election Results To Keep Shutdown Going)
Hakeem Jeffries, Progressive Dems Rage Against Deal To End Shutdown
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Let’s explain the answer, for Zohran Mamdani’s sake.
Why Are Things Unaffordable?
What is not working right now is the mountain of government programs and regulations and left-wing conceits that are piled high on capitalism like spices from India on an overloaded camel.
Whaddya Mean: Capitalism is not Working?
It's entirely possible to have a stable currency if you make the affirmative decision not to devalue it.
How To Get Zero Inflation For Three Centuries
Corporations don’t pay taxes, and they never will. That’s the big secret leftists don’t want you to know.
The Illusion of the Corporate Tax
Trump shared an image on Truth Social comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose administration created the 30-year mortgage during the Great Depression. The president campaigned on making housing affordable for younger Americans but faces challenges as prices continue climbing.
Trump Admin Confirms Plans To Introduce 50-Year Mortgage Terms For Homebuyers
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Beef prices set records in 2025.
Justice Dept Probes Meatpackers Over ‘Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing’ Driving Up Prices
A pair of highway truck crashes, caused by Indian nationals who entered the country unlawfully, sparked national outrage over trucking regulations and prompted the Trump administration to issue sweeping restrictions on commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) for illegal migrants. Trucking experts point to a combination of mass illegal immigration and lax vetting procedures as the recipe that not only attracted unqualified migrant truckers, but also a significant uptick in freight thefts.
Trucker Theft Rings Stealing Millions As Industry Reels From Horrific Crashes
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Thad McCotter: Terrorism is a crime, not a creed—and confusing faith with fanaticism only empowers evil while eroding the freedoms that define America. Sorry Thad, you are wrong and you first paragraph is a doozy of cluelessness of Islam! - jjs
Terrorism Is a Political Act, Not a Religious Act
Dubbed a "milestone for the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community."
Texas: Sprawling 150,000-Square-Foot Islamic Center Opens in Houston
A country that fails to protect its women has given up its moral right to exist.
The UK Freed Mohammed After He Raped and Killed, So He Killed Another Woman
The case could set a precedent for effectively legalising polygamy in Europe, sparking concerns about the erosion of traditional cultural values.
Europe Is on the Brink of Recognizing Polygamy in Muslim ‘Human Rights’ Case.
War crimes en masse against Sudanese civilians.
Arab-Islamic Supremacy Continues to Destroy Sudan
Police herded protestors against a ban on Maccabi fans attending the game into a fenced basketball court, dubbed a “Jew cage” by observers.
Anti-Semitic Agitators Overshadow Aston Villa’s Victory Over Maccabi Tel Aviv.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Old and Tired: “Climate Catastrophe.” New and Hot: “Weather Reports.”
In Quest for Real Journalism, CBS Head Bari Weiss Takes Axe to “Climate Desk”
Akin to Glenn Greenwald drooling over fresh feet
Mainstream Journos Simp for Nazi Twink
“hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock”
Media Research Center: Networks Running Cover for Democrats Throughout Shutdown
PBS’ newest Frontline documentary, “The Rise of Germany's New Right” concerns the rise of the AfD in Germany (Alternative for Germany) party and it’s supposed links to Nazism and Putin's Russia. Germany’s migrant problem surged after 2015, when former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the borders to people fleeing the Syrian war. Over three million refugees and asylum seekers have entered Germany since, some bringing Islamic-style terrorism with them and causing understandable backlash toward the open-border policy.
PBS Frontline's Latest Hit Piece Against Opposition to Violent Refugees in Germany
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
President Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election – including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, the White House announced.
Trump pardons Giuliani, Powell, Chesebro and dozens more involved in 2020 ‘fake electors’ case
It was always implausible that Comey was unaware that Russiagate was a Clinton smear — and now his own notes prove that untrue.
James Comey’s Own Notes Prove He Knew The Russia Hoax Was A Clinton Plot
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Daniel Greenfield: A new wave of censorship and mass propaganda is coming.
UN Turns COVID Censorship to Climate Censorship
“It issued an ‘equity language guide,’ which warned employees to be cautious about using the words ‘vibrant’ and ‘hardworking,’ because they reinforced racist tropes.”
‘Toxic Intersectionality’: Sierra Club in ‘Downward Spiral’ After Pivot to Social Justice Warrioring
Brussels’ climate policy a poverty engine -- one that is systematically draining Europe’s industrial base in global competition.
The Climate Cult Fails Europe
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) issued a vital water permit for the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline Friday, in a reversal from its previous rejections, according to NYSDEC. The project has been hotly contested by some Congressional New York Democrats, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and others urging Hochul to consider the environmental impacts of the pipeline on Oct. 15.
New York Finally Advances Trump Endorsed Pipeline Despite Democrats’ Enviro Pleas
Though some locals raged against the prospect of a data center in Devlin Tech Park for years, Stanley Martin Homes LLC reportedly sold the land to Amazon Data Services on Oct. 31, according to the Washington Business Journal. After a judge ruled that the land bordering neighborhoods and schools could be used for data center proliferation, locals raised concerns over how another energy-hungry data center may spike their utility bills, according to multiple local reports.
Big Tech Reportedly Gobbles Up Land For Massive Data Center In Suburbs
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Franklin County’s DEI Office has funneled over $600,000 to the program since 2023
Ohio’s Largest County Funds A Medical Education Program That Only Admits Black Students. Experts Say It’s Illegal. (Only for WHICH doctors? - jjs)
As more employers consider creating company microschools to support their workers’ families, some clear, simple federal measures can help.
Microschools: A New Education Option
The fewer students, the more money.
NYC Lost 10% of Students, School Spending Rose 8%
Incumbents were reelected to the same school board that hired an illegal immigrant convict to serve as superintendent.
Des Moines Election Proves Once Again You Can’t Fix Stupid
The American Federation of Teachers president’s new book is less a defense of public education than a testimonial for her union’s interests.
Randi Weingarten’s Revisionist Narrative
Highly politicized private groups are given fiefdoms within our government, and their left-wing views are not regarded as opinions, but facts.
The Government Gives Too Much Authority To Leftist Academics, And That Needs To Stop

ABORTION
The lawsuit seeks $350 million in damages and accuses Planned Parenthood of misleading women and violating RICO statutes. (Now do the Democrat Nat'l Committee - jjs)
Florida Sues Planned Parenthood, Invoking Mafia Law.
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Too many stories out there about mishandled ballots, odd voter registration lists, missing ballots, and the like
That lingering stench of fraud from Tuesday's election

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
You’ve never heard of Joe Tache, but chances are that over the next year, you will hear a little more about him for all the wrong reasons. Although the 30-year-old Northeastern University graduate is running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts to unseat incumbent Democrat Ed Markey, we surprisingly know very little about him at this stage.
Fed-Up Normies on X Ratio Socialist Senate Candidate Over ‘Pharmacy Desert’ Claim
Gavin Newsom did what he does best: lie.
Prop 50 was yet another successful Newsom power grab
After a crushing Prop 50 loss, California Republicans sue to block new congressional maps they call unconstitutional, as Newsom celebrates a win that could fuel his 2028 ambitions.
After Crushing Prop 50 Defeat, California GOP Turns to the Courts
Frey spoke for nearly a minute in Somali to a crowd of supporters, thanking them repeatedly in their native language before switching to English. Video of the speech circulated widely on social media, drawing sharp criticism from conservative commentators. (maybe if he chewed off his clitoris they'd have given him a standing O - jjs)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Blasted On Social Media For Victory Speech In Somali After Winning Third Term

POLITICS
And they don’t have to wait until the midterms next year to do it.
The GOP Can Make Up for November’s Losses
Democrats have a long history of defending and electing party leaders engaged in the worst behavior imaginable, while Republican voters are still rejecting extremists.
Trump Is Not To Blame For Democrats Electing Violent Extremists
Malig-Nancy Pelosi may be leaving Congress, but her brand of progressive power politics isn’t—her era is not ending, it’s only just beginning.
The Pelosi Era
Republicans can't count on them.
Latinos Are An Economic Swing Vote
Just 24% of those without a college education voted for Mamdani.
Mamdani’s Win Provides Still More Evidence That College Makes You Stupid
Clarice Feldman:"Think tanks" work on engaging voters to vote for their candidates and you’re paying for a lot of their work undermining your candidates’ chances of victory.
'Think' Tanks vs. Doers
Eric Trump’s Under Siege offers a rare, heartfelt inside look at the Trump family’s unity, resilience, and determination in their battle to defend America’s future.
Front Line View in the Fight Against Nasty Politics
When you’re living paycheck to paycheck, facing $6 milk and $1,000 rent hikes, peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is irrelevant.
Trump Is a Macro President in a Micro World
Speaking to a packed crowd at East River 9 Golf Course in Houston, Abbott unveiled a bold agenda focused on property tax relief, border security, and economic freedom. “Texas is the blueprint for America’s future,” Abbott declared, touting the state’s top rankings in job creation, business development, and innovation. “Since I’ve been your Governor, Texas is number one for new jobs, number one for the best state for doing business, number one for business relocations and expansions, and number one for electrical generation.”
Abbott Declares War on Texas Property Taxes, Border Chaos, and Woke Left in Fiery 2026 Re-Election Campaign Launch
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
The plot first came to light on Friday, when Israel’s Embassy in Mexico released a short statement thanking Mexican authorities for helping foil an assassination plot by Iran against its ambassador, Einat Kranz Neiger. The statement did not reveal details of the plot, nor did it mention whether any arrests or operations had taken place. Israel noted that Iran has been behind prior plots, including one against the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992, where they killed 29 people and injured 242 others. A second attack took place two years later in that country at a Jewish community building where Iranian terrorists killed 85 victims.
Israel: Mexico Stopped Iranian Assassination Plot Against Its Ambassador
Iran-sponsored terrorist group Hezbollah “replenishing weapons supplies, and recruiting and training new fighters.”
Israel Intensifies Strikes on South Lebanon as Hezbollah Tries to Rebuild Terror Infrastructure
Dead man walking.
Sardar Ammar, Iranian Mastermind of Terror Plots, Now with a Target on His Back
And why it now ties Israel’s hands.
Why America Avenged a Raid

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Syrian migrants have committed over 100,000 crimes in just 2024.
Will Germany Deport 1.2M Syrian “Refugees”?
"You are the only major world leader fighting for religious freedom," the leaders tell President Trump in a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.
Ahead Of Meeting With Syria’s Al-Shaara, Faith Leaders Implore Trump To Speak Out For Persecuted Religious Groups
The incident highlights a resurgence in Somali piracy, partly driven by regional instability from Houthi rebel activity.
Crew Rescued After Somali Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker.
The initiative aims to address Spain’s declining birth rate and aging population by providing financial support to families.
This Western Country Is Offering Parents Cash Incentives to Boost Birth Rate.
One of the most influential human rights advocates within the Biden junta failed to convince the White House to act.
The Human Rights Activist Who Couldn’t Save Her Cause: How A Top Biden Official Failed Armenia

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The initiative aims to strengthen U.S. military readiness, reduce reliance on foreign manufacturers, and modernize the Army’s approach to drone warfare.
US Army Purchasing One Million Drones to Catch Up to Russia, Ukraine.

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
ByHeart Inc. has begun recalling two lots of the company’s Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Saturday. Thirteen infants were hospitalized after drinking formula from lots 206VABP/251261P2 and 206VABP/251131P2, CBS News reported. The incidents happened in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington.
Baby Formula Recalled After Reports of Infant Botulism in Nearly a Dozen States
In what might be described as a Canadian mini-Waco, a long-stewing confrontation between the intergenerational owners of a small ostrich farm in British Columbia and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has come to an ignominious end.
Health Officials Gun Down Hundreds of Ostriches on Family Farm For Bird Flu
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the golden age of biotech.
Dr. James Watson, Who Helped Reveal DNA’s Double-Helix Structure, Dead at 97
Mission commander Chen Dong, fighter pilot Chen Zhongrui, and engineer Wang Jie have been aboard the space station since April. (Dong and Wang left hanging out there! - jjs)
Chinese Astronauts Left Stranded in Orbit as Space Debris Hits Return Module

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Mayor Dean Trantalis revealed that a brawl broke out between him and Daniel James Curran on November 1 outside his house when the 34-year-old former boyfriend allegedly pushed him and the mayor fought back.
LGBTQQIAAP2S+ Violence: Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Allegedly Attacked by Ex-Fiancée Half His Age(He Wrecked 'im! - jjs)
Both Laughton and Groves face up to 30 years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for February. (Put them in general population where the inmates just love pedophiles, to death! - jjs)
Psycho Pervert Pederast, Transgender Lawmaker Stacie Laughton Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation.
New polling offers a growing opportunity for Christians to present God’s natural order as good and Christ’s offer of salvation as necessary.
Will Polls Keep Showing Less Support For Queer Policies As Zoomers Age?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Colbert, Mrs. Kimmel share far too much about shows' anti-Trump mania
Shocking Interviews Reveal Late-Night Arrogance
HITHER & YON
Churchill promptly recognized the Bolshevik danger. In several speeches throughout his career, and as early as 1919, he advocated for “strangling” Bolshevik ideology “in its cradle.
108 Years Since the Bolshevik Revolution: The Sealed Train to Fire and Brimstone

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Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 06:58 AM (MXjT6)

2 So, it's technically not over yet...Senate still has to vote on the bill (this was just cloture, but bill only needs 51), then House has to vote and pass it, which might be a bit touchy depending what's in the 3 appropriation bills b/c Massie will be a No, Ds have 1 more vote than last time when they get in, and Dems were going nuts yesterday.

That said, like Kaine from VA being the last vote for the 60 in the Senate, I expect a VA D to be a vote if needed in the House. VA is getting to the "really hurting" part of the game, and Ds don't want to start their new electoral positions here by having a tanked economy at the get go.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:01 AM (tOcjL)

3 After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it.

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I'm not sure what we really got out of it. Status quo always seems to benefit the Dems.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 10, 2025 07:01 AM (sX1BW)

4 Top ten?

Posted by: gdoubleu at November 10, 2025 07:02 AM (s9TOl)

5 3 After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it.

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I'm not sure what we really got out of it. Status quo always seems to benefit the Dems.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 10, 2025 07:01 AM (sX1BW)

Yeah, I'd like to see the 3 appropriation bills before I celebrate. With Dems on board for them, they can't be in our favor. Then again, I didn't think Rs could pass any favorable appropriation bills with the current House and Senate make ups...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:03 AM (tOcjL)

6 Not a dime for illegals
Not a dime

Posted by: Gonzotx at November 10, 2025 07:05 AM (nGraA)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:07 AM (ExV1e)

8 This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it.

What ever happened to referring to Trump as TACO ?

This isn't capitulation. They got their precious RIF'd pigs on the Animal Farm their sinecures.

The money was deleted or shifted, so the "administrators" or whatever they are calling the functionaries of the Deep State these days, no longer had a gig.

I want to know if these restored retards are going to have a welcome back ceremony as great as the wake thrown for them at their leaving.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:07 AM (8j3DX)

9 8 This is what capitulation looks like, and the left knows it.

What ever happened to referring to Trump as TACO ?

This isn't capitulation. They got their precious RIF'd pigs on the Animal Farm their sinecures.

The money was deleted or shifted, so the "administrators" or whatever they are calling the functionaries of the Deep State these days, no longer had a gig.

I want to know if these restored retards are going to have a welcome back ceremony as great as the wake thrown for them at their leaving.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:07 AM (8j3DX)

Only the ones from Oct 1 onward will be brought back. All RIFs from last fiscal year (through Sept 30) stay gone. It was what got Kaine's vote. It was probably always Trump's intent to get VA's votes that way (his folks can count to 60, too). Same reason he said he'd start to not pay feds, even though that was almost certainly never gonna hold legally.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:10 AM (tOcjL)

10 Greetings and good morning, everyone. It's a nice cold day here in the GPROMD which means that when we Marines set buildings on fire for our birthday, we can cool off quickly.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:10 AM (jjoN6)

11 So the Schumer Shutdown Shitshow lasted forty days and forty nights?
Seems appropriate.

Posted by: Build an ark at November 10, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

12 Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

I have always been told that folks in the NE took the opportunity to do some fuckin'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

13 After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it.

They still have that warm feeling of piling up trillions yet another trillion dollars in debt every 158 days, and being able to hurt people without suffering any true consequences.

The Demonic base of the Demonic Party are not going to rage themselves into voting for anyone other than another member of the Demonic Party. They may just primary in someone closer to Stan's higher command.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:12 AM (8j3DX)

14 Yonder Horde

Brisk 24F here in Bourbon Country this morning with a dusting of snow.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:12 AM (NwnyJ)

15 Happy cake day NR Pax. Semper Fi.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 10, 2025 07:13 AM (luW68)

16 Rudyard Kipling wrote "Russia To the Pacifists" about the Communists takeover. I think he would be horrified by what's happening here and in Europe.

https://tinyl.co/3wnO

"Singing:— Let down by the foot and the head—
Shovel and smooth it all!
So do we bury a Nation dead . . .
And who shall be next to fall, good sirs,
With your good help to fall?"

Posted by: SDN at November 10, 2025 07:13 AM (rzWS7)

17 Willowed:

Many of us here have been saying for a long time what Gen. Flynn is saying:

https://tinyurl.com/4j76hddz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2025 07:14 AM (G/BeD)

18 Trump Admin Confirms Plans To Introduce 50-Year Mortgage Terms For Homebuyers

Oh look; something that can't possibly backfire and will have no negative consequences whatsoever. And you know it's bad when Marjorie Taylor Green is the one pointing out the flaws.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:14 AM (jjoN6)

19 I read the post by Jeffries. He blathers on about how expensive America is, health care, etc.

Hakeen tried his best to avoid saying "Obamacare" but I don't think he got away with it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:14 AM (UJMvS)

20 Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum

Given that it's NYC, we'll be bombarded with an endless stream of either "it's the greatest thing since ever" or "all of western civilization is about to fall".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:15 AM (ExV1e)

21 I'd like to see Trump appoint Vance as a sort of "Capitalism Czar" to launch a dual civic education program on the history and benefits of capitalism and the scourge of socialism/communism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2025 07:15 AM (h/ffs)

22 Good morning. I noticed yesterday that gasoline had dropped to $2.29 at Kroger. I like it, keep going.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2025 07:15 AM (wVcYX)

23 Not a dime for illegals
Not a dime

Posted by: Gonzotx at November 10, 2025 07:05 AM (nGraA)
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We already peso much as it is.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2025 07:15 AM (G/BeD)

24 15 Happy cake day NR Pax. Semper Fi.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Thank you, sir. Happy Birthday to you as well.

Let's see....bail money? Check! Alcohol...check! Pants?

...I knew I forgot something. Be right back.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:16 AM (jjoN6)

25 Well, the gubmint "workers" got a 6 week paid vacation.

They should be happy.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 07:18 AM (W7XSX)

26 Seems that a deadly arctic death blast of cold air will be hitting us this evening.

Temps will dip down to 29 degrees for about one hour near 6AM tomorrow, before jumping back up to the mid thirties.

I hope we survive......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 10, 2025 07:18 AM (a1415)

27 I read an interesting book by an F.B.I. special agent Skousen, called The Naked Communist published in 1960 and he goes into the historical roots of Marx and Engels and Lenin and Trotsky, what is amazing generally is how influential some people can be, they can’t even run their own family, but they want to run the world.

We see this exact same kind of fairy tale thinking today. A bunch of naive kids declared “autonomous zones” and thought they could get rid of property rights, law enforcement, and grow their own food. It’s easy!

Just throw some garden seeds down along with some potting soil over plastic and Bob’s Yer Uncle. Simple, really.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:19 AM (5119n)

28 Temps will dip down to 29 degrees for about one hour near 6AM tomorrow, before jumping back up to the mid thirties.

I hope we survive......
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 10, 2025 07:18 AM (a1415)
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I thought we died due to all the warming? Are we now dead or dying from cooling?

Can someone please get me a program and point to which page we're on?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:20 AM (UJMvS)

29 "Temps will dip down to 29 degrees for about one hour near 6AM tomorrow, before jumping back up to the mid thirties.

I hope we survive......
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

The local "news" says it will be a "blistering cold". Expected low is 29 degrees.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

30 I see bizarroworldsmith has posted something 180 degrees out of line with reality.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:22 AM (UJMvS)

31 Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.

Had an Uncle who worked at the state psychiatric hospital. He always had a wad of keys on a big key ring looped through his belt. When I, of tender years and young and impressionable, asked why did he keep jangling them every so often, he remarked that it was a reminder to himself that he belonged on the outside and could leave.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2025 07:23 AM (wVcYX)

32 Pants?

...I knew I forgot something. Be right back.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:16 AM (jjoN6)
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This ain't the Sunday Morning Book Thread.

Pants are optional.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2025 07:23 AM (IBQGV)

33 "Temps will dip down to 29 degrees for about one hour near 6AM tomorrow, before jumping back up to the mid thirties.

I hope we survive..."

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The dawn came late, and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot at November 10, 2025 07:23 AM (XQo4F)

34 Socialism is judged on what it promises, not what it delivers.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:24 AM (mjIMP)

35 The local "news" says it will be a "blistering cold". Expected low is 29 degrees.
Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)
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Having lived in MN for a couple of decades I can safely tell you 29 degrees is a heat wave after a couple of weeks of -10.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:24 AM (UJMvS)

36 Hey look! More "blistering stupid" from ASS.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

37 > Temps will dip down to 29 degrees for about one hour near 6AM tomorrow, before jumping back up to the mid thirties.

I hope we survive......
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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It's 24 degrees here in KY. Tonight will be in the teens here. The crisis went from "global warming" to "climate change" to account for things like this.

You know. Stuff like "weather" and "seasons."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:24 AM (NwnyJ)

38 We were surprised to wake up to an inch of global warming on the ground.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:25 AM (mjIMP)

39 I'd like to see Trump appoint Vance as a sort of "Capitalism Czar" to launch a dual civic education program on the history and benefits of capitalism and the scourge of socialism/communism.

I would start with introducing people who propose these edjumakashun missions the Bell Curve, recognizing that the Demonic Base comprises primarily the left side of the curve, and with recent immigration far more data points are on the left than the right.

That is, they are uneducatable. it would just be another pointless jobs program.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:25 AM (8j3DX)

40 Good morning Horde, happy Monday. Thx JJ, great early report.
I'm thinking like Costanza today " is it wrong to smile about a potential Somali clan war in Minneapolis?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 07:25 AM (bfwj/)

41 Minnesota is on my list of places to never go again.

Went there in a Winter (85/86) for a job fair (I was an employer). Cold. Very cold.

No thanks.

Posted by: no one at November 10, 2025 07:26 AM (W7XSX)

42 This Western Country Is Offering Parents Cash Incentives to Boost Birth Rate.

Hasn't this been tried before, multiple times in multiple places, and never succeeded?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

43 Meanwhile, we continue to have beautiful days here in the High Desert.

Overnight lows in the mid forties with a daytime high of 80.

My wallet is sighing with relief at the thought of no heating or cooling bills.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:27 AM (UJMvS)

44 Two Cleveland Indians (shaddupa you face) pitchers indicted in gambling probe.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 10, 2025 07:27 AM (Y1sOo)

45 “Free Markets” is a better term. Capitalism is a loaded term, not surprisingly.

They have to confront head on the entire framework of leftist marxist economics, it is a unified field theory of Everythang.

Property is theft, family, God and country, the 4 Olds, you see the variations everywhere. Struggle sessions. It’s not paranoia, they have been wildly successful, mostly because there has been no institutional defense of American values. Long march through the institutions.

“Tax cuts for the rich”, open borders, stupid wars overseas. There’s some Compassionate Conservativism right there! That’s how you Got Trump, incidentally

Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:27 AM (5119n)

46 Trump Admin Confirms Plans To Introduce 50-Year Mortgage Terms For Homebuyers

___________________

So your mortgage payment goes down by ten avocado toast per month but you end up paying the mortgage company an extra hundred thousand avocado toast over the life of the loan.

Trump understands the economic illiteracy of the electorate.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:28 AM (mjIMP)

47 Morning again, news folken,

Looks like my insulation project of last week is working. No cold drafts from around the window A/C. It's 46 F. outside, and 72 in here -- without running the heat.

I may head out for a coffee later this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2025 07:28 AM (wzUl9)

48 35 Socialism is judged on what it promises, not what it delivers.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

And when you point that out you get "But that's not REAL socialism!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:29 AM (jjoN6)

49 I paid off a 30 year in 15. Maybe a reasonable goal nowadays is pay off a 50 in 25.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

50 According to posts on 𝕏, Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (NwnyJ)

51 G'mornin' everyone! & thx, JJ!

26, lol, they never miss an opportunity to spread agita and FUD

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (kHop/)

52 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 07:31 AM (ofkVZ)

53 Minnesota is on my list of places to never go again.
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I often think about my iceback ancestors in Minnesota and Iowa. The cold is legendary for good reason, but it gets HOT as hell too. With humidity. I know Alabama and Mississippi are supposed to be miserable with their heat but 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity isn’t any better up north than it is down south. They don’t have to worry about -25F

Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:32 AM (5119n)

54 According to posts on 𝕏, Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (NwnyJ)
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Government operated tractors will be used to supply government run grocery stores!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:33 AM (UJMvS)

55 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 10, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

56 Good morning Horde and Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at November 10, 2025 07:33 AM (RoO7G)

57 According to posts on 𝕏, Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (NwnyJ)
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Wait until the rest of the trucking companies follow suit.

NYC will starve to death because no one can afford to send in supplies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2025 07:33 AM (IBQGV)

58 Many of us here have been saying for a long time what Gen. Flynn is saying:

https://tinyurl.com/4j76hddz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2025 07:14 AM (G/BeD)

This is an op designed to get you emotional about shit.

All these people on social media strut around clamoring for 3am raids and mass arrests and executions because everyone they read on social media is clamoring for 3am raids and mass arrests and executions...

The DOJ is still the most corrupt organization in the federal government. The judges are still hindering everything. The Congress is still working against the President. What will happen will happen but it will take time. Running around bitching that it hasn't happened yet is just sowing unhappiness in our weakest supporters.

Ask yourself who benefits from that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

59 Here's a business that takes Mamdani's words seriously:
https://x.com/CaptKylePatriot/status/1987606815891399141

Mamdani will replace them with all the 3rd world truck drivers that NY gave CDLs to. That ought to work out great.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 07:34 AM (Da7Vv)

60 I strongly suspect that trucks will still go to NYC. But prices are going to necessarily skyrocket

Posted by: blaster at November 10, 2025 07:34 AM (RoO7G)

61 The swindle continues…for now.

Posted by: Its A Swindle, A Swindle at November 10, 2025 07:35 AM (VE6nQ)

62 Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.

And that will be used to say "It's not communism's fault! It's those GREEDY COMPANIES that want you to starve!!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:35 AM (jjoN6)

63 13, yup, exactly right

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2025 07:36 AM (kHop/)

64 Wait until the rest of the trucking companies follow suit.

NYC will starve to death because no one can afford to send in supplies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2025 07:33 AM (IBQGV)
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Morning, perfessor! Where my wife and I live, it appears we're getting an influx of trucking companies moving some operations out of CA to AZ. We're close enough to the border it appears the economics work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:36 AM (UJMvS)

65 https://tinyurl.com/4j76hddz

What upsets me is my fear about what these criminal traitors will do once they again manage to seize power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 07:36 AM (ofkVZ)

66 NYC will starve to death because no one can afford to send in supplies.
_____________________

They'll start a government run truck company.... And New York will starve because it will be run by incompetent Communists

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:36 AM (mjIMP)

67 This Western Country Is Offering Parents Cash Incentives to Boost Birth Rate.

Hasn't this been tried before, multiple times in multiple places, and never succeeded?

Take a look at China's population from 1950 to present. Given a One Child Policy that began in 1980, the population went from 983 million to 1.41 billion despite having a forced population decreasing birthrate.

The irony is in 2010 it plateaued (after 30 years of 1-Child the population grew despite a forced negative growth rate) with the removal of the 1-Child program, the population is literally declining.

Der mentsh trakht un Got lakht

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:37 AM (8j3DX)

68 Many of us here have been saying for a long time what Gen. Flynn is saying:

https://tinyurl.com/4j76hddz

I invite that "big chunk of MAGA" to just go ahead and vote for the donkrats. They are never going to be happy anyway. So why bother trying to make them so.

The administration will go as fast or slow as they want. Vote for the other side if you want or not. None of my business.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 10, 2025 07:38 AM (89Sog)

69 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

70 According to posts on 𝕏, Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (NwnyJ)

The photo on the original post contains a sign saying "nothing on this page is real".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

71 "Mamdani will replace them with all the 3rd world truck drivers that NY gave CDLs to. That ought to work out great.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President"

This is the best possible outcome.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

72 They'll start a government run truck company.... And New York will starve because it will be run by incompetent Communists

We have already seen the fruits of government run truck company, courtesy of the DMV of California, Oregon and Washington State.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:39 AM (8j3DX)

73 After 40 days of a shutdown over a laundry list of demands, Democrats have nothing to show for it.

Excuse me, they have the VA governorship and a very solid majority in the state legislature to show for it. VA will soon pass a lot of "improvements" to their voting processes and become a permanent deep blue state. That is what they got out of it.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 10, 2025 07:40 AM (Swr8B)

74 Thank you, JJ.
Many prayers for you and your wife.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at November 10, 2025 07:40 AM (gxokI)

75 I just checked Swift's X feed and they don't have anything about avoiding NYC. Wouldn't be surprised that that develops with a lot of companies, but it doesn't appear to be true right now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 07:41 AM (bfwj/)

76 All a 50 year mortgage will do is get people deeper in debt for a longer period of time.

If they create that financial instrument, the minimum down payment should be 25pct to acquire that instrument with no less than a 4x multiple of you annual income.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2025 07:41 AM (XV/Pl)

77 They'll start a government run truck company.... And New York will starve because it will be run by incompetent Communists

They'll use the Soviet military (lend lease) trucks from WW2 and the Chinese -imitation Micheline tires that all went flat in the winter when the Russians invaded Ukraine.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 07:41 AM (Da7Vv)

78
"Excuse me, they have the VA governorship and a very solid majority in the state legislature to show for it. "

It probably would have gone the same way without the shutdown.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

79 “Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.”

Psalm 150:1

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2025 07:42 AM (s1dWN)

80 Thank heaven Democrats finally agreed to pay air traffic controllers. Thanksgiving week was going to be a flaming bonfire of disaster if airports were closing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (ISA3i)

81 The photo on the original post contains a sign saying "nothing on this page is real".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

People will be reporting this to be true for at least another week.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (89Sog)

82 I do not understand the wringing of hands over the idea of a 50 year mortgage.

Doesn't the average homeowner move every 7 years or so?

Also, by the time homeowners get to the point they're ready to pay off their mortgage, I suspect the kids are out of the house and they've refinanced to a lower rate and shorter term.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (UJMvS)

83 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 07:45 AM (77rzZ)

84 79
"Excuse me, they have the VA governorship and a very solid majority in the state legislature to show for it. "

It probably would have gone the same way without the shutdown.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

Nah, the shutdown ensured the AG and the wild House majority. It was a 1 vote majority before the election (51-49) - it's now 64-36.

They wanted VA to be an open and every abortion state, which should help it stay blue for the near future. They got that, b/c that will be on the next election ballot, as will redistricting now (both have to be confirmed by voters after Ds vote for them again this year)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:45 AM (tOcjL)

85 What's more likely is trucking companies and retail establishments will raise prices because of the new taxes and fees and the gay race communists will screech "Look at those greedy capitalists!" And the Boxwine Bolsheviks will say "All this sucks, but at least I could get an abortion if I were younger and a hundred pounds lighter."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:45 AM (mjIMP)

86 They'll use the Soviet military (lend lease) trucks from WW2 and the Chinese -imitation Micheline tires that all went flat in the winter when the Russians invaded Ukraine.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 07:41 AM (Da7Vv)

Studebakers. Over 400,000 sent.

400,000.

Posted by: What Happened To Them All at November 10, 2025 07:46 AM (VE6nQ)

87 Excuse me, they have the VA governorship and a very solid majority in the state legislature to show for it. VA will soon pass a lot of "improvements" to their voting processes and become a permanent deep blue state. That is what they got out of it.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 10, 2025 07:40 AM (Swr8B)
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I think you're looking at this from the wrong direction. If Democrats believed these elections mattered nationally, they'd not have caved on the shutdown.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:46 AM (UJMvS)

88 81 Thank heaven Democrats finally agreed to pay air traffic controllers. Thanksgiving week was going to be a flaming bonfire of disaster if airports were closing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (ISA3i)

They still won't get a paycheck in their personal bank accounts til Nov 24 (unless something changes and they do an interim pay)...which means that weekend prior to Thanksgiving might still be very, very problematic...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:46 AM (tOcjL)

89 Prior to the GI Loan era, before the Great Depression, mortgages were generally 50% down 7 year notes, callable at any time. The postwar 30 year government backed loans worked well, because the dollar was stable, and there was very little financial jiggery-pokery with the banks.

The root of a lot of our misery is the fact the dollar is just vapor ware at this point. The congress spends way more than they take in and borrow/prints the rest. It’s absolutely criminal what they did to our money

Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:47 AM (5119n)

90 Maddami is a piece of work but his wife is a sho-nuf Lady Al-McBeth type of the first order.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

91 I do not understand the wringing of hands over the idea of a 50 year mortgage.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (UJMvS)

People live to wring their hands over something.

Something I think would be useful is a required course in HS on basic economics...

- Are you planning on borrowing money to attend college? How much will your degree earn you?
- Are you planning on making minimum payments on credit cards? How much are you gonna pay in interest?
- Are you planning on voting for Democrats? How much opportunity cost will you pay for their policies?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

92 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
My outside air temps laugh at your one hour of below freezing.

Bask in the warmth that is in your coastal area.

Winter is here in the heartlands.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

93 The Bezos Dildo was tentatively rescheduled for 2 PM this afternoon. Hope it goes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 07:49 AM (ISA3i)

94 The root of a lot of our misery is the fact the dollar is just vapor ware at this point. The congress spends way more than they take in and borrow/prints the rest. It’s absolutely criminal what they did to our money
Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:47 AM (5119n)

Your Welcome!

Posted by: Moochers and Looters Oh My! at November 10, 2025 07:49 AM (VE6nQ)

95 The case could set a precedent for effectively legalising polygamy in Europe, sparking concerns about the erosion of traditional cultural values.

==

For Europe, that train left the station years ago. Their cultural values are on life support, and are about to be supplanted with the most violent, foul "culture" to have ever plagued the earth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

96 87 Excuse me, they have the VA governorship and a very solid majority in the state legislature to show for it. VA will soon pass a lot of "improvements" to their voting processes and become a permanent deep blue state. That is what they got out of it.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 10, 2025 07:40 AM (Swr8B)
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I think you're looking at this from the wrong direction. If Democrats believed these elections mattered nationally, they'd not have caved on the shutdown.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:46 AM (UJMvS)

All politics is local, which then effects national. They got VA...if they continued longer, they might lose VA. Thus, VA Ds caved right when they needed to - after winning the election, before a catastrophic holiday season hit the state's economy. It will likely get them 2 new D seats for the House next year and keep Youngkin out of running for the Warner Senate seat.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

97 "Nah, the shutdown ensured the AG and the wild House majority"

Ensured, maybe. That implies it was not a sure thing to start.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2025 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

98 - Are you planning on borrowing money to attend college? How much will your degree earn you?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)
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This one always killed me. As Karl Denniger points out, the people who claim college graduates, on average, earn more, never factor in time out of the job market, because of college, and the cost of student loans.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:51 AM (UJMvS)

99 I can't see young people taking on a note for a house, let alone 50 year note mostly because they have a tough time saving for a 3-10% down payment.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 10, 2025 07:51 AM (luW68)

100 Trump Admin Confirms Plans To Introduce 50-Year Mortgage Terms For Homebuyers

Brought to you by Blackstone, Invitation Homes and Progress Residential.

People who stay in a home for fifty years is rare. (at least now it is) the median tenure is between 11.8-12 years, the average between 11.9 and 13 years. (for reference, in 2006 it was 6.5 years).

What makes lock-in is mortgage rates, transaction costs and inventory. Raise rates, transaction costs or reduce inventory and people stay in place longer.

I'm thinking that extending 30 to 50 just means that the banks prosper because nearly all payments are not equity building, equity growth comes from inflation and market pressure.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 07:52 AM (8j3DX)

101 For all of his plotting, Sardar Ammar has yet to have had even a single success in his attempt to attack Jewish and Israeli targets worldwide. And now his name and photograph and details of his terror plots have been made public.
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Good. He's toast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 07:53 AM (UnrFW)

102 I thought this space might mention Trump's attendance at the Detroit Lions @ Washington Commanders game. AF1 buzzed the stadium, and later, Trump was in the booth with Kenny Albert to talk football. It was pretty cool.

Posted by: Don Black at November 10, 2025 07:53 AM (AOsQT)

103 Thanks JJ… I’d never heard of the great northeast blackout. Of course, I was a tyke and lived in the Midwest so that’s not surprising

What is surprising is the shutdown ending with a wimper rather than a bang. I didn’t think the Dems would fold but it appears that’s exactly what they’ve done… and so soon after “electoral sweeps” (in blue havens)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 07:53 AM (YobFY)

104 The case could set a precedent for effectively legalising polygamy in Europe, sparking concerns about the erosion of traditional cultural values.

Once you legalize gay marriage, the arguments against polygamy sound pretty false. I figure were less than a decade from Europe lowering the age of marriage to 9.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

105 I remember when college tuition was really cheap. And the government said we can do better. Now they seem to think that mortgages need the same treatment.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:54 AM (jjoN6)

106

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 10, 2025 07:54 AM (DDJSl)

107 Part of the post war cold war distress, Stalin was really pissed off Lend Lease ended, when the war was over. He thought it should go on indefinitely.

The Whiz Kids in government thought if we give all that stuff to the Soviets, why, they will see what great guys we are in the West and they’ll play nice.

It didn’t work out that way, not even a little bit, and they gobbled up 100 million behind the Iron Curtain, and invaded/backed the commie invasion of South Korea, the loss of China to the communists, Hungary invasiion, Czechoslavakia, Cuba, Vietnam, etc etc.

They should have Nuked Moscow and saved everyone a whole lot of trouble

Posted by: Common Tater at November 10, 2025 07:54 AM (5119n)

108 This one always killed me. As Karl Denniger points out, the people who claim college graduates, on average, earn more, never factor in time out of the job market, because of college, and the cost of student loans.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:51 AM (UJMvS)

I'd like to see that broken down by degree.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

109 Can't wait either today or tomorrow to watch AOC blow up at Schumer. It seems to a lot of Dems, and others, that Schumer effed up the entire shut down and got nothing that he couldn't have had in early October. The Dems in the Senate are mostly older so they won't rebel against his leadership, but younger senators such as Spartacus might try to fight him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (bfwj/)

110 What do you mean the dollar is vaporware? Just because the $1.40 worth of dimes and quarters I had in my pocket as a teenager in 1964 is now worth $50.12 because of its silver content...

See, pocket change for a kid in 1964 to a $50 bill today...

LOL

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (Da7Vv)

111 Depending on the age you acquire a theoretical 50 year mortgage, it will likely outlive you and will have to be assumed by someone.

That’s the problem with 50 year mortgages.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)

112 Looks like Senate might try actually passing the shutdown bill and its amendments today and then House will reconvene later this week to consider the package (no exact date yet, but I'd imagine Wed at the earliest with Vet's Day tomorrow). I'd say gov shutdown should be over in time to pay the military on Nov 15 (that's probably the shutdown date goal) which means signing has to all be done by Nov 14 (Fri)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 07:56 AM (tOcjL)

113
I'd like to see that broken down by degree.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)
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My good man, you would ask for specifics when someone sells you a bill of goods speaking in generalities?

What kind of lunacy is that?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:57 AM (UJMvS)

114 Brought to you by Blackstone, Invitation Homes and Progress Residential.

More like brought to you by the economically illiterate American voter who wants everything yesterday with as little effort as possible.

Why are 7, 8, 9 year car loans a thing? Because people want them. You can hold back the tide of stupid for a time but, eventually, the people will touch the hit stove.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

115 I think some trucking companies, along with delivery companies may take a second look at doing business in NYC. The fee increases are one reason. Being demonized for "raising prices" is another.

Because the price hikes are not going to be because the corporations are greedy. Regardless what Mamdani says.

Whether NYC residents believe him is another matter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:58 AM (NwnyJ)

116 They should have Nuked Moscow and saved everyone a whole lot of trouble

Would have been a good use of the Demon Core.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 07:58 AM (Da7Vv)

117 100 This new 50 yr note worst idea since ARMs of 2003-2008. Hank and friends never did lose their house on the Hamptons nor did they ever do the perp walk.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat & Globalist Bastards at November 10, 2025 07:58 AM (HeR4S)

118 Also, Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the great Northeast blackout that left millions in the region and parts of Canada without power for 13 hours, and which gave rise to the expression, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
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As I recall there was a surprise ice storm overnight and the powerlines got encased in ice and dropped throughout the northeast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 07:58 AM (CTokg)

119 Pretty grim results in Virginia. Another state permanently lost to the forces of evil.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 07:59 AM (QracL)

120 I thought we died due to all the warming? Are we now dead or dying from cooling?

Can someone please get me a program and point to which page we're on?

Global warming is causing an ice age, according to the latest science. Something to do with how carbon breaks down rocks. Insty had a link to an article about it over the weekend.

In other words, warming hysteria didn't work so we're back to the 1970s "settled science".

Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2025 07:59 AM (KLKSV)

121 Kids need to understand that a mortgage is a gateway to financial stability when properly structured, budgeted and managed. The fact that we don't teach kids fundamental economics and money management is our own fault and they're gonna pay for it long after we're gone.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 10, 2025 07:59 AM (luW68)

122 So the shutdown at 40ndays cpuld be considered an autumnal Lent.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:00 AM (1dKwP)

123 Someone should ask Hakeem how Trump's ass tastes this morning. Discount 0bama talked a lot of shit during the Shakedown.

Posted by: Don Black at November 10, 2025 08:00 AM (AOsQT)

124 All politics is local, which then effects national. They got VA...if they continued longer, they might lose VA. Thus, VA Ds caved right when they needed to - after winning the election, before a catastrophic holiday season hit the state's economy. It will likely get them 2 new D seats for the House next year and keep Youngkin out of running for the Warner Senate seat.
Posted by: Nova Local

And I expect the VA Dems to quietly pass "improvements" to VA election procedures to give them the state permanently. You can argue we would have lost the Gov race anyway, but the shutdown guaranteed the down ballot stomp. The VA races absolutely factored into the shutdown calculus for the Dems.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 10, 2025 08:01 AM (Swr8B)

125 Thank heaven Democrats finally agreed to pay air traffic controllers. Thanksgiving week was going to be a flaming bonfire of disaster if airports were closing.

Was that the real reason for the Demonic Party's alleged "cave"? Because dragging out the illegal alien 300# Shi-the-ad riding the mobility scooter and her litter of illegitimate offspring piling up institutional quantities of brand-name junk food and steaks into a convoy of shopping carts saying that her lifestyle was being threatened because of EBT/SNAP wasn't the optics generating the sympathy that their manipulation machine wanted.

People observing yet another Thanksgiving eating $20 soy burgers with ten thousand of their fellow "travelers" in a passenger waiting room and backed up toilets was far more motivational.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:02 AM (8j3DX)

126 And I expect the VA Dems to quietly pass "improvements" to VA election procedures to give them the state permanently. You can argue we would have lost the Gov race anyway, but the shutdown guaranteed the down ballot stomp. The VA races absolutely factored into the shutdown calculus for the Dems.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 10, 2025 08:01 AM (Swr8B)

Probably related to felon voting.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 08:03 AM (tOcjL)

127 Two Cleveland Indians (shaddupa you face) pitchers indicted in gambling probe.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 10, 2025 07:27 AM (Y1sOo)
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The gubmint accuses one (Emanuel Clase) of corrupting the younger pitcher (Luis Ortiz), and has stringer evidence against Clase. At a guess, prosecutors hope to get Ortiz to testify, so they can make an example of Clase. But why should Ortiz agree? He will never pitch again in MLB, and his previously outstanding opportunity for lifetime riches are gone, no matter what.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:04 AM (yOauX)

128 I remember when college tuition was really cheap. And the government said we can do better. Now they seem to think that mortgages need the same treatment.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 07:54 AM (jjoN6)

Coupled with the general push to have absolutely everyone attend college even if they had no scholastic interest and the explosion in the federal and state bureaucracies to employ the people who got degrees in useless and love to strut around waving their degree like it means something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

129 Morning all. Gitche Gumee time.
Fifty years ago today. R.I.P. crew.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:04 AM (kMqUr)

130 Hillary Clinton

You make Schumer look good. That is a ... skill.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

131 Our first snow last night has resulted in everybody who drives a vehicle to forget how do drive when it's slick.

It's almost sad.

3 dozen wrecks so far. Scanner is lit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 08:05 AM (NwnyJ)

132 Good morning, friends! I was away from news the entire weekend, which is both good and bad. I need to catch up, so thank you,JJ, for making that easier on me!

It’s really cold today. Yikes!

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:05 AM (OoFl2)

133 I think it's compounded even more so than just the opportunity cost of not earning during those years in college. Money earned early is worth far more on balance than money earned later, both by simple interest considerations and by ubiquitous inflation.

Also consider that in your earlier years, you have fewer bills, so you can save more. You don' have to pay for fifteen kids and thirty medications. A dollar saved in your twenties grows to a much bigger number by the time you retire than one even in your thirties.

Those four years in your early twenties is prime earnings that are "worth" way more than they are on paper.

But, then again, the idiot garbage babies going into hock for a ten year degree in Critical Nothing Studies wasn't exactly in a prime position to be raking in a solid income and living frugally, otherwise. So.... meh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2025 08:06 AM (JwNbV)

134 132 Good morning, friends! I was away from news the entire weekend, which is both good and bad. I need to catch up, so thank you,JJ, for making that easier on me!

It’s really cold today. Yikes!
Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:05 AM (OoFl2)

Gonna be 82 here today

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:06 AM (VE6XX)

135 The VA races absolutely factored into the shutdown calculus for the Dems.

So basically, it validated the "shoot the children in their mother's arms to weaken them up politically" political strategery.

Inflict pain, trauma, fear and uncertainty into a population, and Stockholm Syndrome kicks in.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:07 AM (8j3DX)

136 Morning, Horde!

Got here at 7:28 thinking I had a shot at a FIRST.

But JJ jumped the gun this morning.

So I read his links.

Then I read the comments.

And here I am.

Perhaps I'll just go back to bed.....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2025 08:07 AM (LxER7)

137 123 Someone should ask Hakeem how Trump's ass tastes this morning. Discount 0bama talked a lot of shit during the Shakedown.

>>
This made my day. Props. In the shower I go

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat & Globalist Bastards at November 10, 2025 08:07 AM (HeR4S)

138 Happy 245th birthday USMC.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:08 AM (kMqUr)

139 But, then again, the idiot garbage babies going into hock for a ten year degree in Critical Nothing Studies wasn't exactly in a prime position to be raking in a solid income and living frugally, otherwise. So.... meh?

Its a way to pass time until the parents die and leave a substantial inheritance. The parents didn't die fast enough, so now they pass the time rioting for someone else's cause.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:09 AM (8j3DX)

140 82 degrees in November is obscene.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

141 138 Happy 245th birthday USMC.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:08 AM (kMqUr)

Semper Fi

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:09 AM (VE6XX)

142 Warai-otoko

For the far-sighted, the word is out there. Get a degree that pays, a very limited selection, or go trades. Avoid college otherwise. The weaker colleges are already closing.

One thing I am seeing is in-housing training employees in creative corporations. HR is not getting the good candidates. I see the start of apprentice programs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

143 Happy 245th birthday USMC

Correction 250th. Read the wrong date. My apologies.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:10 AM (kMqUr)

144 140 82 degrees in November is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

Eh, I grew up in South Texas. We called that a cooling trend.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2025 08:10 AM (LxER7)

145 Happy 245th birthday USMC.

Semper Fi!

Marines, the Mens Department of the Department of War.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

146 As I recall there was a surprise ice storm overnight and the powerlines got encased in ice and dropped throughout the northeast.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 07:58 AM (CTokg)
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A whole winter full of those storms 1992-93. It was brutal. One storm a week for one long stretch.

My wife was due to deliver one of our kids that winter and made go buy a four wheel drive vehicle so she could be sure I'd be able to get her to the hospital.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:11 AM (8sV4J)

147 82 degrees in November is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg

Flip it. It's 28 here.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:11 AM (kMqUr)

148 250th. Made the same mistake.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

149 Martini Farmer

Be careful out there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

150 Well, the National Review( Yes, yes; I know) says Latinos are souring on Trump feeling unfairly targeted by ICE and are not feeling economic relief. ICE is allowed to stop people based on their language or accent. Yeah, ICE says "That guy sounds like he's from Equador. Let's get him" Com'on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2025 08:12 AM (2sfNr)

151 A judge has ruled that surveillance cameras run by government and paid for by taxpayers is subject to FOIA requests by people. Case was in Washington State. The result is that Washington state is turning off the cameras.

Should work for Red Light cameras too.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 08:12 AM (Da7Vv)

152 129 Morning all. Gitche Gumee time.
Fifty years ago today. R.I.P. crew.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:04 AM (kMqUr)

Amazing how fast Gordon Lightfoot wrote, recorded and released the song. Faster than it took the Edmund Fitzgerald to sink.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 10, 2025 08:13 AM (x0n13)

153
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2025 08:13 AM (tljrc)

154 I see the start of apprentice programs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

If SCOTUS were to overturn the abysmal Griggs v Duke Power decision we could see the absolute collapse of higher education in this country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

155 So each Marine has to eat 245 crayons today? Yikes!

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

156 > The VA races absolutely factored into the shutdown calculus for the Dems.

So basically, it validated the "shoot the children in their mother's arms to weaken them up politically" political strategery.

Inflict pain, trauma, fear and uncertainty into a population, and Stockholm Syndrome kicks in.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:07 AM (8j3DX)
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The Jay Jones method.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 08:14 AM (NwnyJ)

157 39 Degrees here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:14 AM (MXjT6)

158 "Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R) called him “Comrade Zohran,” and predicts he’ll be little more than a “radical DSA puppet,” saying, “It was always obvious that he would carry the will of the most radical among us to the highest seat of power in our city. Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.”"

I blame Andrew Cuomo. He lost his (D) primary and made the ego-based decision to run on a ticket that had, at best, a tertiary spot on the ballot. Curtis Sliwa, for all his quirks (and I'd lived in NYC long enough to see them), was the official (R) candidate. There was always going to be a significant cohort of people who would never have voted for Gov. Granny Killer - never. If Ackman and all the other billionaires who came late to the party decided to back an actual Republican, NYC may have had a better chance - and a truly stark choice.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at November 10, 2025 08:14 AM (0CU3H)

159 OT: Trump's tariff announcement probably means they got word that the Supreme Court is looking to overturn his tariffs in some way, and it's his way to pressure them.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 08:15 AM (tOcjL)

160 "Just a basic continuing resolution, dressed up with some boilerplate back pay for furloughed workers "

So the workers were not only Not Fired, but they got six weeks of paid vacation as a bonus. That is disappointing. I was hoping GOP would take the opportunity to trim the DC bloat.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 08:15 AM (vbXSk)

161 144 140 82 degrees in November is obscene.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:09 AM (77rzZ)

Eh, I grew up in South Texas. We called that a cooling trend.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama

I was going to say that is what we call normal. And what it was Saturday. Now it is 42, high of 51.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:15 AM (OoFl2)

162 147 28 is more like it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

163 > Martini Farmer

Be careful out there.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I ain't leaving the house!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (NwnyJ)

164 So the workers were not only Not Fired, but they got six weeks of paid vacation as a bonus. That is disappointing. I was hoping GOP would take the opportunity to trim the DC bloat.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 08:15 AM (vbXSk)

A "judge" stopped Trump from firing...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (VE6XX)

165 So I watched 6 seconds of the fuentes and tucker vid.
He is a little boy in a suit playing grown up.
He is the nerd boy I have seen at many High School debates (my Daughter debated).
He seems to actually know nothing.

I can see why NYT claims he is the boy ruler of conservativism.
PS Letting NYT pick your conservatives leaders is like accepting a dinner invitation with Hannibal Lector.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

166 Why are 7, 8, 9 year car loans a thing? Because people want them. You can hold back the tide of stupid for a time but, eventually, the people will touch the hit stove.

I'm not accustomed to seeing the world as a series of single variable equations. The 7,8,9 year car loans are a combination of inflation, underfunded pension and benefits plans, government mandates, Mimetic Theory, innumeracy, EZ Kredit, more efficient repossession mechanisms (see Tri Color for their operations manual) and sales weasles "counseling" people not on getting the right car, but for getting the right payment.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (8j3DX)

167 Two observations (opinions really):

A 50 year mortgage is a retarded idea. Most won’t live long enough to pay it off

I got a college degree (in engineering… many moons ago). There’s no way I’d have had the same economic success without a degree. STEM degrees are still worth the time in college.. easily worth it. Now gender studies are a different thing entirely…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (YobFY)

168 150 Well, the National Review( Yes, yes; I know) says Latinos are souring on Trump feeling unfairly targeted by ICE and are not feeling economic relief.

The Latinos in question are illegal. Citizens are just fine with the deportations and would like more of them and faster.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (jjoN6)

169 Have a spectacular day, everyone.

May you have all the warm gear you need to turn the cold into a blessing. Mosquitos are gone. Soil rests in the fields, and the cows huddle for warmth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

170 "Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R) called him “Comrade Zohran,”

You may remember her as the Council Woman who was carrying at a Jihadi protest.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 10, 2025 08:18 AM (Da7Vv)

171 Would like to see another source confirming the Swift Transportation story.

Posted by: But that's just me at November 10, 2025 08:18 AM (XQo4F)

172 I see the FAA has issued an emergency AD grounding all MD11s for inspection. Without saying what to inspect for. Hmmm.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 10, 2025 08:18 AM (luW68)

173 164 So the workers were not only Not Fired, but they got six weeks of paid vacation as a bonus. That is disappointing. I was hoping GOP would take the opportunity to trim the DC bloat.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 08:15 AM (vbXSk)

A "judge" stopped Trump from firing...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (VE6XX)

Like I said last night - if Trump signed an EO stating that gov't workers wouldn't get paid in a shutdown, with no back-pay either, shutdowns wouldn't last more than three days. It wouldn't even matter if Congress still paid themselves.

Trump should sign the EO and dare Congress to stop him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at November 10, 2025 08:19 AM (0CU3H)

174 ... sales weasles "counseling" people not on getting the right car, but for getting the right payment.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (8j3DX)

Which boils down to "people wanted them".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

175 Bessent just made a great point on TV, pointing out the new withholding schedules in effect beginning Jan 1, thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, will put an average $1,500 in the pocket of middle class families next year. Plus, blue collar wages are again rising at above inflationary rates. Combined, the middle class (he calls it "Main Street") will do very well.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:19 AM (Gr2Nw)

176 Loose bolts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:19 AM (MXjT6)

177 Linus, the trouble is that STEM degrees are not for everybody. A lot of folks (including moi) just don’t have the kind of brain that can pull it off.

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

178 Someone should ask Hakeem how Trump's ass tastes this morning. Discount 0bama talked a lot of shit during the Shakedown.

Like tuna fish and cranberry juice!

Posted by: Hakeem Jeffries, Ass Eater at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (VE6nQ)

179 Today is also...
Forget Me Not Day

November 10 is a day to ensure that we really won’t forget. The holiday pays tribute to returning soldiers who have lost blood and limbs — things that truly can’t be forgotten — in the line of battle. Forget Me Not Day has been around since World War I, although it’s often lost in the hustle and bustle of preparing for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

180 Like I said last night - if Trump signed an EO stating that gov't workers wouldn't get paid in a shutdown, with no back-pay either, shutdowns wouldn't last more than three days. It wouldn't even matter if Congress still paid themselves.

Trump should sign the EO and dare Congress to stop him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at November 10, 2025 08:19 AM (0CU3H)

It'd be tossed b/c it's against the law he himself signed in 2019. Blame old Trump for taking away new Trump's power...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL)

181 82 I do not understand the wringing of hands over the idea of a 50 year mortgage.

Doesn't the average homeowner move every 7 years or so?

Also, by the time homeowners get to the point they're ready to pay off their mortgage, I suspect the kids are out of the house and they've refinanced to a lower rate and shorter term.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 07:44 AM (UJMvS)

Because you won’t build equity that way which will make selling and moving every 7 years hard. It will also entice people without good sense to buy more house than they can afford and cause even more of a financial issue. I remember our friends buying these huge houses and 3/4s of the rooms didn’t have furniture in them because they couldn’t buy furniture. Our first house was an apartment pretending to be a house. 😃.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (aEau+)

182 50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.

https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (1dKwP)

183 So I watched 6 seconds of the fuentes and tucker vid.
He is a little boy in a suit playing grown up.
He is the nerd boy I have seen at many High School debates (my Daughter debated).
He seems to actually know nothing.

I watched the whole thing and realized that those canceling as many conservatives as possible made their opinions on nothing but smears travelling through social-media. The exact same mechanism that led up to shooting Charlie Kirk.

Fuentes is not someone I would want as a neighbor or friend. His chief fault is that he asked the Question That Should Not Be Asked and when rebuked politely he doubled down, then got hammered, then he made his whole schtick on Asking The Question That Should Not Be Asked.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (8j3DX)

184 So I read the study on Real Sea Rise that looked at all the real sea monitoring stations to see if the seas were rising, they are not.

But deep in the study it noted that of 100 something data sets (I assume meaning published data by NOAA and the like) only TWO were statistically defensible.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 10, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

185 I got a college degree (in engineering… many moons ago). There’s no way I’d have had the same economic success without a degree. STEM degrees are still worth the time in college.. easily worth it. Now gender studies are a different thing entirely…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (YobFY)

Yes, but HS councilors (aka college pushers), don't say that. They say that college... any college, any degree... is your ticket to prosperity. Unless you're an attractive girl, in which case just go OF, baby!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

186 There are two factors that explain why Zohran won. First, a large and growing Muslim population that turnout and vote as a block.
Article: The fall of NYC in 8 charts
https://tinyurl.com/ycpwyaxa
This was first posted here by someone else and it shows the demographic shifts in NYC. It's not my Da's NYC anymore.

The second, is Left-leaning young people who come here from elsewhere. The rest of the country should be thanking us for taking in your wretched refuse yearning to be free.

Together they have outsized voting power because so many who work in NYC -- and thus have an interest in NYC -- live and vote elsewhere. This leads to weird politics from low turnout with fringe candidates winning.
Trump will make Zohran a poster child for all that's wrong with the unholy alliance of Woke and Islam. They're both ersatz religions. Like Scientology and Joel Osteen: Follow their program and you'll be rewarded in this life (and 77 virgins in the next!)

Let's not forget that Soros was an early backer of Zohran. High ROI, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2025 08:22 AM (dtajH)

187 Would like to see another source confirming the Swift Transportation story.
Posted by: But that's just me at November 10, 2025 08:18 AM (XQo4F)

It's not real. There's a section of the image which says that it's not real.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

188 Had an Uncle who worked at the state psychiatric hospital. He always had a wad of keys on a big key ring looped through his belt. When I, of tender years and young and impressionable, asked why did he keep jangling them every so often, he remarked that it was a reminder to himself that he belonged on the outside and could leave.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Remember going candlepin bowling in New Hampshire about 40 years ago. There seemed to be a competition over which bowler had the most keys on a key ring attached to his belt.

Posted by: The Key Man at November 10, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

189 A 50-year mortgage is a great way to incentivize first-time homebuyers

You don't necessarily need to take 50 years to pay it off. You can refinance. You can take an equity loan. You can sell and pay it off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (m6HS6)

190 I see the start of apprentice programs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

My 39 year old god son left a good job at a bank to join an apprenticeship program to become an electrician. Three years. He just didn't want to spend the rest of his life behind a desk I guess. I'm kinda proud of him.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (yjljJ)

191 According to posts on 𝕏, Swift trucking company is not going to provide service to the 5 Burroughs in NYC due to Mamdani's plans to raise the taxes, licensing, permits, inspections and tolls on commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 07:30 AM (NwnyJ)

I hope my company follows suit. I severely dislike delivering into NYC.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (1dKwP)

192 “ Also a part of the deal is reversing mass firings from the federal government that were central to the Trump administration's stated goals of shrinking the federal government—an effort spearheaded at the time by OMB Director Russ Vought. The new plan would retroactively eliminate those mass firings. The plan also pushes through a "minibus"…

So, the GOP did add something. They’re going to rehire all the gov workers who just voted in a complete Democrat slate in Virginia, including a Republican/child murder fantasist.

Got it.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (t64lJ)

193 Bessent just made a great point on TV, pointing out the new withholding schedules in effect beginning Jan 1, thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, will put an average $1,500 in the pocket of middle class families next year.

Which means that people will either owe more at the end of the year or get a smaller refund which the Democrats will turn into "you're paying more in taxes because dRumpf luvs billionaires".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

194 A 50 year mortgage is a retarded idea. Most won’t live long enough to pay it off

I got a college degree (in engineering… many moons ago). There’s no way I’d have had the same economic success without a degree. STEM degrees are still worth the time in college.. easily worth it. Now gender studies are a different thing entirely…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The bank gave a 60 yr old a 30 yr mortgage. (Me)

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:25 AM (kMqUr)

195 >>>Loose bolts?

Yes. The AD points to inspection of nacelles and pylons.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 10, 2025 08:26 AM (Y1sOo)

196 "as the estimable Victor Davis Hanson reminds us..."

Inestimable, thank you very much.

Posted by: VDH at November 10, 2025 08:26 AM (1Nv0l)

197 It ain't Jeopardy, ffs.

*Bloo-doop!*

"Jews are evil and control everything!"

"Oh, no, i'm sorry, we can't accept that."

*Bloo-doop!*

"WHY are Jews evil and control everything?"

"That's what we were looking for."

Posted by: Warai-otoko is Just Asking Questions at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (JwNbV)

198 Fwiw, Chatgpt calls BS on the Swift trucking story
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There is no verifiable public announcement or press release from Swift or its affiliates stating “we will no longer service NYC” or “we are stopping service to NYC” if the tolls go up.
• The Facebook post quoted in some social-media threads (“the nation’s largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City…” appears unverified, lacking a reliable source or attribution to Swift.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (2mTB2)

199 Today is also...
Forget Me Not Day

November 10 is a day to ensure that we really won’t forget. The holiday pays tribute to returning soldiers who have lost blood and limbs — things that truly can’t be forgotten — in the line of battle. Forget Me Not Day has been around since World War I, although it’s often lost in the hustle and bustle of preparing for Thanksgiving.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

I guess tomorrow is for those of us who served and emerged unscathed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

200 Just throw some garden seeds down along with some potting soil over plastic and Bob’s Yer Uncle. Simple, really.
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It's hilarious.
Like they literally know nothing outside of TV.

You notice that, though, how every dystopian or sci-fi, the only thing they're ever growing is tomatoes?*

In the "need to grow to survive" hierarchy of foods, tomatoes are right down at the bottom. Nice to have but you're going to stave if that's all you have.

*Interstellar but crop failure was a plot point

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (HXT0k)

201 It seems to me that changes to the rules governing mortgages should be made legislatively, not through executive action.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

202 This shutdown began because Schumer thought he could strongarm the GOP into extending Obamacare subsidies that were set to expire and repealing Medicaid reforms that closed a loophole handing out free healthcare to illegal immigrants. President Trump and Republican leaders had already said they planned to address those subsidies separately, aiming to rein them in and curb abuse. But Schumer wanted drama. He shut down the government over it, thinking Republicans would blink.
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I doubt it. This was about placating the radical left portion of the Democrat base in the distant hope that the Uniparty would come through on some number of small concessions when the *other* Democrat base in the FedGov and inner cities started to hurt.

That hope was dashed. Schumer appears at first blush to have gotten nothing at all, which is an unusual condition. It hasn't happened in my lifetime, so it's odd and unexpected. But the Party *needs* the bureaucrats back at work cutting checks and directing policy fa, far more than anyone else does.

It might be the first time I've ever seen the Party bet a fart and lose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (zxP/x)

203 Re: Zohran wanting government-run stores in NYC to fix high grocery prices."

My local mart in the South Bronx is Western Beef, which is the polar opposite of Whole Foods. It's a chain in The Bronx and poor parts of Queens. It's got great stuff at low prices. The meat section is a huge walk-in chilled room.

It's been owned by the Gambino family going back to Paul Castellano. It's even mentioned in The Sopranos.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM (dtajH)

204 Everyone put their pants on!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM (m6HS6)

205 Ya know, she'd have made Whitefish Bay if she'd just put fifteen more miles behind her...

Posted by: The searchers at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

206 Thune should have given the Michael Corleone response (from Godfather II):

"Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (HMWox)

207 >> That hope was dashed. Schumer appears at first blush to have gotten nothing at all, which is an unusual condition.

See my post above. Redstate is reporting that part of the deal is to rehire all the fired gov workers.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (t64lJ)

208
Yes, but HS councilors (aka college pushers), don't say that. They say that college... any college, any degree... is your ticket to prosperity. Unless you're an attractive girl, in which case just go OF, baby!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

There are degrees outside of stem that also offer solid job prospects- but you have to understand what the degree does. History can make you a teacher or send you to law school, as an example. Business degrees can send you to all kinds of places. Psychology won’t do jack taco without at least a masters. I have a bachelors and an MBA. I would not have made the money I used to make without it. Not even close. J has a BA in History and an MBA (from a far more prestigious institution than mine), and he would not make anything close to what he makes without it. College isn’t all bad.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (Wmg4n)

209 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)
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His point is that tax rates and ranges are changing, and taxpayers will owe less

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (A9kSL)

210 Lightfoot says Detroyit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (MXjT6)

211 So I watched 6 seconds of the fuentes and tucker vid.
He is a little boy in a suit playing grown up.
He is the nerd boy I have seen at many High School debates (my Daughter debated).
He seems to actually know nothing.

I can see why NYT claims he is the boy ruler of conservativism.
PS Letting NYT pick your conservatives leaders is like accepting a dinner invitation with Hannibal Lector.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 10, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)
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Tucker is trying to divide the Republican Party and I think he gets great pleasure in having so much power.
He wants Nick Fuentes to be the face of the Republican Party.
Last night I happened to catch Mark Levin's show. He was really excellent and had Ted Cruz on.
They went after Tucker, Fuentes, and others that are trying to tear us apart the party without naming names.
Levin did it in a very calm manner.
People need to watch it if they can.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

212 As if the Dems are going nuts enough over the potential shutdown, Trump pardoned Giuliani, Meadows and dozen of others who has been the subject of prosecutions or potential prosecutions concerning the 2020 election. Cue the Dem screeching and Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (bfwj/)

213 Everyone put their pants on!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM (m6HS6)

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Wait, you own pants?

/We're all not Jonah Goldberg here with our one pair ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (HMWox)

214 There's nothing inherently wrong with 50-year mortgages. Most mortgages don't run to maturity anyway. So whatever arguments there are against 50-year mortgages also apply to 30-year.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (1Nv0l)

215 They're having their own little McConnell Moment, aren't they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (JwNbV)

216 204 Everyone put their pants on!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM (m6HS6)

Do we have guests? Is this a drill?

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Wmg4n)

217 The British can't say h properly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (MXjT6)

218 It seems to me that changes to the rules governing mortgages should be made legislatively, not through executive action.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

It seems to me that it should be made by the bank and not the government. At any level. By any branch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

219 Shutdown end.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 08:31 AM (bfwj/)

220 >>See my post above. Redstate is reporting that part of the deal is to rehire all the fired gov workers

Only the ones furloughed during the shutdown. So a return to the level the government was at before Schumer shut it down.

Not much of a win.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 08:31 AM (viF8m)

221
214 There's nothing inherently wrong with 50-year mortgages. Most mortgages don't run to maturity anyway. So whatever arguments there are against 50-year mortgages also apply to 30-year.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November

Amortize it out and look at the difference. 20 years is a big difference.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:32 AM (Wmg4n)

222 208 College isn’t all bad.
Posted by: Piper

True but for the most part I am fond of saying "College is a scam. The trick is making it a scam in your favor."

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 08:32 AM (jjoN6)

223 It's Edmund Fitzgerald day.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 08:32 AM (1Nv0l)

224 Today, over a century later, the results are dismal — over 100 million murdered globally and billions starved and deprived of opportunities for normal lives. What is even more insidious, perhaps, is that the ideology of the October Revolution infected and conquered the education, media, and culture of the self-doubting West.

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At least it hasn't completely destroyed NYC ... yet!

Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 08:32 AM (HMWox)

225 18 degrees here but no wind. Feels better than it did yesterday.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (znHU2)

226 Do we have guests? Is this a drill?
Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Wmg4n)
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VDH is here.
/cruelly

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (m6HS6)

227 I would like to extend a laurel, and hearty handshake to our favorite crayon connoisseurs on their 250th birthday!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (bFu5X)

228 189 A 50-year mortgage is a great way to incentivize first-time homebuyers

You don't necessarily need to take 50 years to pay it off. You can refinance. You can take an equity loan. You can sell and pay it off.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (m6HS6)

Would I recommend a 50-yr mortgage to anyone? Only if the other option is renting. Try to pay down the principle as quickly as possible, whatever type of mortgage you have.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (1dKwP)

229 I hope my company follows suit. I severely dislike delivering into NYC.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:24 AM (1dKwP)
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Especially now, with all the various road restrictions, I bet trying to drive a truck in NYC is a miserable experience.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (A9kSL)

230 >> Not much of a win.

Did you read the text of the bill? Because that’s not what’s being reported. It goes beyond that.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (t64lJ)

231 I applaud anyone seeking to split up pseudo-ideological monoliths.

The victory condition is not "everyone agrees about everything", it's "when someone talks patent nonsense and bullshit, we call it that".

The worst part about cretins like Carlson is all the precious dainty whining. Talk all the bullshit you like, but stand your ground and quit mewling like a little bitch when you get called a bullshitter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2025 08:33 AM (JwNbV)

232 Depending on the age you acquire a theoretical 50 year mortgage, it will likely outlive you and will have to be assumed by someone.

That’s the problem with 50 year mortgages.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2025 07:55 AM (XV/Pl)
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Which isn't that odd. Banks hand out 30-year notes to old people all the time as it is. They don't care. Nobody - not the borrower, not the lender - expects a mortgage to paid off with the encumbered property then transferring to the borrower. That doesn't happen anymore. People don't stick around that long, and either refinance or move within a decade. The only thing that matters is the transaction cost and the bet on a 50-year loan is in essence the same as the bet on an ARM: that appreciation offsets the transaction costs when the time comes to retire the note (by moving, refinancing or dying).

If you're not counting on having an estate (inheritance for your survivors), it doesn't really matter beyond being yet another can-kicking exercise that reduces actual unencumbered asset ownership potential and putting yet less daylight between renting and owning. It has bad implications, but in practical terms it's not much of a change.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (zxP/x)

233 That hope was dashed. Schumer appears at first blush to have gotten nothing at all, which is an unusual condition. It hasn't happened in my lifetime, so it's odd and unexpected. But the Party *needs* the bureaucrats back at work cutting checks and directing policy fa, far more than anyone else does.

According to Mike Johnson, Schumer and Jeffries were demanding both healthcare for illegals and re-constituting USAID. They got neither of those things, because causing pain for NoVA hurt them worse and faster.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (QZThv)

234 Also, Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the great Northeast blackout that left millions in the region and parts of Canada without power for 13 hours ...

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How many of you NE hordelings were born nine months later?

/I can only say this as one who was likely conceived on Thanksgiving of 1960 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (HMWox)

235 See my post above. Redstate is reporting that part of the deal is to rehire all the fired gov workers.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (t64lJ)

Only the workers fired since the start of the shutdown. Somewhere around 4000. I, for one, choose to not plan a suicide over it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

236 Minnesota is on my list of places to never go again.
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Watching the X-files last night, the serial killer that skipped a generation one.
Set in Minneapolis.

Local FBI agent, explaining that they can't put out a BOLO, that'll it'll cause a panic:
People here still leave their doors unlocked at night!

LOL, just 30 years ago ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (HXT0k)

237 I love Lightfoot’s Edmund Fitzgerald song.

As I understand it, all proceeds from it go the survivors of the men who were lost.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

238 Haitch.

Posted by: The British "H" at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (1ENDs)

239 Amortize it out and look at the difference. 20 years is a big difference.
Posted by: Piper

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A big difference in what? Payments are necessarily lower (same interest, lower principal), and if most are refinanced long before 30 years (and hence long before 50 years), I don't see the issue.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (1Nv0l)

240 238 Haitch.
Posted by: The British "H" at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (1ENDs)

Bless you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (JwNbV)

241 The British can't say h properly.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM

True, but in 'artford, 'ereford, and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen.

So they have that going for them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (bFu5X)

242 Math says that 50-year debt should cost more than shorter term, because of the slightly higher risk entailed.

You rarely see corporate debt longer than 30 years, and even 30-year debt is unusual.

The sweet spot for lots of purposes is 10-year.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (dtajH)

243 How Jimmy Kimmel’s Controlling, Trump-Hating Wife Destroyed His Career

The truth is, Jimmy’s wife, Molly McNearney, isn’t some stay-at-home suburban wine mom; she’s the power behind the curtain. McNearney is the co-head writer of Kimmel’s floundering late-night show, but her influence doesn’t stop there. She also runs the roost at home and, by all accounts, does it with a manipulative iron fist.

This is the kind of woman who sends family-wide emails dictating how everyone should vote, then plays both the victim and the enforcer when they don’t obey.

https://tinyurl.com/yreuzr47

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

244 Is it a pig in a poke?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:36 AM (MXjT6)

245 As if the Dems are going nuts enough over the potential shutdown, Trump pardoned Giuliani, Meadows and dozen of others who has been the subject of prosecutions or potential prosecutions concerning the 2020 election. Cue the Dem screeching and Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM (bfwj/)
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I cannot wait to hear the screeching from the left today. Nobody likes those lefty puckers anyway, so going Conan on them is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:36 AM (A9kSL)

246 "Looks like my insulation project of last week is working. No cold drafts from around the window A/C. It's 46 F. outside, and 72 in here -- without running the heat."
Posted by: Wolfus

I used to work outside in NOLA area. 46 feels like freezing down there. 20 here a couple hours ago, will get to 35, but the cold snap is just for a couple days.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 08:37 AM (vbXSk)

247 Tough week for Global Warming at my house this week.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 10, 2025 08:37 AM (jc0TO)

248 204 Everyone put their pants on!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:28 AM
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Why? We gonna wang chung?
At this time of day?

Posted by: Person who rarely wang chungs at November 10, 2025 08:37 AM (XQo4F)

249 [iTucker is trying to divide the Republican Party and I think he gets great pleasure in having so much power.
He wants Nick Fuentes to be the face of the Republican Party.
Last night I happened to catch Mark Levin's show. He was really excellent and had Ted Cruz on.
They went after Tucker, Fuentes, and others that are trying to tear us apart the party without naming names.
Levin did it in a very calm manner.
People need to watch it if they can.

Everything you said here is a lie - especially the "Levin did it in a very calm manner".

Levin and Cruz independently jumped the shark years ago. Levin is upset because Tucker has a greater and growing audience. Tucker also is a Kirk supporter and filled in on TurningPoint.

Levin and Cruz have been ordered by their handlers to go after Fuentes, and by extension Carlson for Asking The Question That Shouldn't Be Asked.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (8j3DX)

250 College isn’t all bad.
Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:29 AM (Wmg4n)

No, it isn't.

Getting a gender or racial grievances degree CAN get you into law school... but mostly it won't. At that point it's pretty close to useless.

An education degree may get you a job as a teacher but those, generally speaking, don't pay for out-of-state, private school tuitions so you've got student loans out the ass.

College isn’t all bad but it isn't all good either. And it's being sold to ignorant children as all good. And they take out loans that they don't consider in order to attend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

251 How much will bundled 50yr mortgages be worth?

Posted by: davidt at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (Q+gd/)

252 51 degrees this morning in our neck of the woods. Balmy, even. Still short sleeve shirt weather.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 10, 2025 08:39 AM (5xuJ/)

253 Backing into parking spaces is really dumb.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)

254 Levin and Cruz have been ordered by their handlers to go after Fuentes, and by extension Carlson for Asking The Question That Shouldn't Be Asked.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (8j3DX)

They are ALL being paid by the Uniparty to work on destroying MAGA. Keep hyping something that doesn't matter, so good news never makes it to MAGA voters...what news is covered is as revealing as what news isn't...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 10, 2025 08:39 AM (tOcjL)

255 Math says that 50-year debt should cost more than shorter term, because of the slightly higher risk entailed.

You rarely see corporate debt longer than 30 years, and even 30-year debt is unusual.

The sweet spot for lots of purposes is 10-year.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (dtajH)
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It costs a lot more. The amortization table is brutal.
30-year mortgage, $250,000 financed, 5.5%:
- $1352/month
- $233,139 total interest cost

50-year mortgage, $250,000 financed, 5.5%:
- $1135/month
- $431,208 total interest cost

That savings of $45,720 in monthly payments over 30 years costs you almost $200k in interest.

It's insane - but only if you want to pay off the house. If you're just looking to play property leap-frog and periodically cash in on appreciation (the normal play for most people), it doesn't matter as long as you come out ahead on transaction costs when you refinance or move.

It's betting on appreciation, not working toward ownership.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:40 AM (zxP/x)

256 Math says that 50-year debt should cost more than shorter term, because of the slightly higher risk entailed.

Posted by: Ignoramus

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If total payment (interest + principal) is higher for 50 than 30, then the product won't sell anyway. If it's lower, it will allow (marginally) more people to buy homes.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 08:40 AM (1Nv0l)

257 The "Flesh" colored crayons tasted mighty good, but TPTB just couldn't let us have that.

Posted by: Waxing Nostalgic at November 10, 2025 08:40 AM (oftw2)

258 Backing into parking spaces is really dumb.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:39 AM (77rzZ)
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I do it all the time.

:: gets offended ::
:: pauses ::
:: reconsiders ::

Checks out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:41 AM (zxP/x)

259 This is the kind of woman who sends family-wide emails dictating how everyone should vote, then plays both the victim and the enforcer when they don’t obey.

https://tinyurl.com/yreuzr47
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
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My sister, to a "T"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:41 AM (kOPxh)

260 "Sorry Thad, you are wrong and you first paragraph is a doozy of cluelessness of Islam! - jjs
Terrorism Is a Political Act, Not a Religious Act"

yeah, except that Islam is more a political machine than a religion, but he still misses the terror that is Islam. "Conquer by infiltration and fear/terrorism, kill or enslave the rest."

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 08:41 AM (vbXSk)

261 Morning Horde and JJ. Excellent quote on Sir Grey JJ.

Mustard gas destroyed a whole generation of the finest Allied young men

Posted by: Jonah at November 10, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

262 Math on the blog! Math on the blog!!
(blows whistle)

Posted by: Zebra shirt with yellow laundry at November 10, 2025 08:42 AM (XQo4F)

263 True, but in 'artford, 'ereford, and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen.

So they have that going for them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (bFu5X)

OTOH, places where 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen get the shit kicked out of them when they do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

264 What about pulling through.?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:42 AM (MXjT6)

265 I love Lightfoot’s Edmund Fitzgerald song.

The lyrics are OK, but repeating the same eight bars of music dozens and dozens of times gets tedious about half way into the tune.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:43 AM (GPNSy)

266 It's betting on appreciation, not working toward ownership.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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It's not betting on appreciation any more than a 30-year is betting on appreciation, given that almost all those are refinanced or paid off before maturity.

It's actually betting on the standard path of home ownership, in which most people's housing requirements change several times during their life.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 08:43 AM (1Nv0l)

267 OTOH, places where 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen get the shit kicked out of them when they do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)
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Yup. Like people making fun of the South for cities locking up under two inches of snow.

Setting aside that nobody knows (or usually remembers if they did) how to drive in the snow, nothing is geared for snow. Micro, people are less worried about stuff like tires being in good shape because it matters so much less. Macro, there's not much snow clearance equipment, sand, salt, etc. available. Nothing is set up or managed to deal with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (zxP/x)

268 I think a Haitch is some sort of magical animal, as British online game characters... say in Elden Ring or the like, rely on something called Haitch Pee for their health.

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (1ENDs)

269 I do not understand the wringing of hands over the idea of a 50 year mortgage.
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Mortgages don't exist so you can buy a house, they exist so the bank can sell you money.

Your house, despite often being your largest asset, is not an investment. Everyone who told you that was selling something.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (HXT0k)

270 250 An education degree may get you a job as a teacher but those, generally speaking, don't pay for out-of-state, private school tuitions so you've got student loans out the ass.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

While many teachers get early pay off of their student loans, keeping up with said loans in the interim must be a pain. Then again, who wants their kids taught by somebody who wpuld waste money on out-of-state, private school tuition to get an education degree?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (1dKwP)

271 74 Thank you, JJ.
Many prayers for you and your wife.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at November 10, 2025 07:40 AM (gxokI)

wait - what happened?

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at November 10, 2025 08:45 AM (0CU3H)

272 Levin and Cruz independently jumped the shark years ago. Levin is upset because Tucker has a greater and growing audience. Tucker also is a Kirk supporter and filled in on TurningPoint.

Levin and Cruz have been ordered by their handlers to go after Fuentes, and by extension Carlson for Asking The Question That Shouldn't Be Asked.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (8j3DX
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People are afraid of Tucker. Charlie Kirk liked Tucker as well as all of us, but then Tucker changed or he showed his true colors. He really needs to stay clear of turning point USA. I am not on Tucker side at all. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Tucker despises Israel and is an antisemite.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

273 That's right. Kick him when he's down.

Rep. Ro Khanna Calls for Schumer to Be Replaced After Shutdown Deal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 08:45 AM (L/fGl)

274 Pop-media financial advisor Ric Edelman is of the opinion that you should never pay off your mortgage. Just keep refinancing at a lower rate.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

275 Disgusting how Wall Street is kissing Mahdani's ring.

Please don't send your communist army to my Penthouse on Central Park West

Posted by: Jonah at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

276 Happy Monday!

>>Well, it certainly appears that the Schumer Shakedown Shutdown Shitshow has come to an end, after 40 days.

40 days? Biblical, heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (GbwPZ)

277 Your house, despite often being your largest asset, is not an investment. Everyone who told you that was selling something.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (HXT0k)
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The all-in costs of ownership - which are significant, and maintenance is a very real expense that hits you constantly - make it about a wash on inflation most of the time. Not bad, seeing as you get a place to live during that time, but not a great investment in most cases.

Houses are durable goods far more than they are investments. They're a place to live.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (zxP/x)

278 If a 50 year mortgage can exist and find funding sources, it axiomatically helps borrowers get a chance to build net worth, if well structured and if taxes don't destroy appreciation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (dtRKo)

279 So you've paid off your mortgage.
Congratulations.
You think you own your home?
Try not paying me and then you'll find out who owns it.

Posted by: Your local property tax collector at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)

280 Too bad Lightfoot couldn't stay around for the 50th. It should remind us that we are dust.

Posted by: Memento Mori at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

281 It's betting on appreciation, not working toward ownership.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:40 AM (zxP/x)

I took out a 30 year mortgage when I could have afforded shorter. I paid it off in 15.

I chose the 30 year because it gave me a lower required payment and, therefore, leeway in the event of a financial setback.

I'd guess that most of the people who take out 50 year loans will make the minimum payment... but folks who do that were always going to make bad decisions.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

282
Creepy litle Axolotl, Nick Fuentes, seems to exist only to generate offensive 5-second soundbites that Democrats can then pin on all Conservatives.

He's nothing but a meme-generator for the Left and retards in general.

Point and Laugh at him often.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

283 Can't they bundle and securitize 50 year mortgages?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:47 AM (MXjT6)

284 Backing into parking spaces is really dumb.

Combat parking? Its a tactical advantage to back in park. Do it for the garage as well. Good OPSEC too. For example, police usually patrol hotel parking lots with their ALPRs scooping up license plate data to add to the government's tracking database.

And decent cars will back in park for you anyway. I fail to see how having visibility when pulling out of parking spaces is a dumb thing. I would think that leading your car into the parking area with blind spots is dumb.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (GPNSy)

285 Levin and Cruz have been ordered by their handlers to go after Fuentes, and by extension Carlson for Asking The Question That Shouldn't Be Asked.
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Thanks for Posting the Stupid That Shouldn't Be Posted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (m6HS6)

286 It might be the first time I've ever seen the Party bet a fart and lose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:27 AM (zxP/x)

What does bet a fart mean? I’ve never heard that expression but like the sound of it… I wanna use it correctly!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (YobFY)

287 >>Rep. Ro Khanna Calls for Schumer to Be Replaced After Shutdown Deal

Justice Democrat takeover continues apace.
Who would replace Schumer? Most likely a Commie.
Good going, Democrats!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (GbwPZ)

288 The lyrics are OK, but repeating the same eight bars of music dozens and dozens of times gets tedious about half way into the tune.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

That's the point. It's not supposed to be catchy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

289 241 The British can't say h properly.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:30 AM

True, but in 'artford, 'ereford, and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly 'appen.

So they have that going for them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2025 08:35 AM (bFu5X)

In fact, there are lots of different British accents and only some of them drop the haitches.

You know who was a master of all this? Benny Hill.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (LxER7)

290 Creepy litle Axolotl, Nick Fuentes, seems to exist only to generate offensive 5-second soundbites that Democrats can then pin on all Conservatives.

Oh, like the "Good People On Both Sides" soundbite?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:49 AM (GPNSy)

291 Like people making fun of the South for cities locking up under two inches of snow.

We just look at each other knowingly and smile when we see news reports of hundreds dead because temps got up to 90.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

292 They wanted VA to be an open and every abortion state,"

"They"? Let us speak the truth as to who "they" are...

And the 50 year bit seems like a McGuffin... just as the new DC stadium name bit was last week.

We'll see.

Posted by: man at November 10, 2025 08:49 AM (tubbA)

293 >>I'd guess that most of the people who take out 50 year loans will make the minimum payment... but folks who do that were always going to make bad decisions.

The idea is to spur home buying be first time buyers. The average age has risen significantly to approximately 40 years old. That's not good for anyone.

As many have noted, few stay in the same home for 30 years let alone 50. Get people in the game, let them start to build some equity and bring that average 1st time purchase age back down. Seems like an idea worth trying.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

294 Levin and Cruz independently jumped the shark years ago. Levin is upset because Tucker has a greater and growing audience.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:38 AM (8j3DX
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Levin and Cruz are upset because Tucker supports both antisemitic neo-Nazis and Arab jihadists.

I'm upset about Tucker too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:50 AM (dtRKo)

295 Can't they bundle and securitize 50 year mortgages?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 10, 2025 08:47 AM (MXjT6)
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Of course. It will be a private-label MBS. Fannie and Freddie won't buy them (they don't buy non-conforming loans, at least they're not supposed to) but your pension fund will. Will probably put up a decent return, too, since the initial cashflow is virtually all interest (in the example at 255, the first *year* retires less than $1200 in principal) and the lifecycle of the loan is likely no different from a 30-year loan: that is, about 7-10 years (longer on average, since transaction costs are thing).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:50 AM (zxP/x)

296 We just look at each other knowingly and smile when we see news reports of hundreds dead because temps got up to 90.

Fertility also stops when the temperatures exceed 80°F at least that is what the UK's BBC claims.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:50 AM (GPNSy)

297 Come for the mortgage financing advice.
Stay for the parking practices debate!

Posted by: This place at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (XQo4F)

298 I love Lightfoot’s Edmund Fitzgerald song.

As I understand it, all proceeds from it go the survivors of the men who were lost.
Posted by: Bulg

He did.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (kMqUr)

299 Your house, despite often being your largest asset, is not an investment. Everyone who told you that was selling something.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:44 AM (HXT0k)

I don't know... Our house is worth 300 thousand more than what we paid for it ....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

300 What does bet a fart mean? I’ve never heard that expression but like the sound of it… I wanna use it correctly!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:48 AM (YobFY)
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"He bet on a fart and lost" means that he shit his pants. He thought it was gonna just be a fart, but, well, wasn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (zxP/x)

301 BTW, "Lightening Crashes" by Live re-imagined as a soul song (by AI) is pretty damned good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (HXT0k)

302 @Eric Daugh

Liberals are demanding Chuck Schumer IMMEDIATELY be ousted as Minority Leader and primary challenged by AOC.

He is so COOKED.

Dude lost grip on the “moderates” of his party and has now pleased NO ONE!

Donald Trump politically pummeled him!

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

303 Wait. MAGA has invaded Hollywood?

Variety Is Melting Down Over the “MAGA Hollywood Takeover”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (L/fGl)

304 The reason Tucker has been defending Maduro and drug traffickers recently:

“After Tucker Carlson's bizarre defense of Nicolás Maduro—the narcoterrorist wanted by the US—it was revealed that his latest guest works as a lobbyist for the Venezuelan regime and received millions of dollars.

Tucker's guest this Friday, Robert Amsterdam, remains an active, FARA-registered agent of Venezuela.

Amsterdam's firm earned over $4 million in just the first four months of the contract with the Maduro regime, starting in January 2020.

According to the relevant FARA filing, Amsterdam was hired to persuade the US to "mitigate or remove sanctions" against Maduro's dictatorship.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (eQmnE)

305
We, very early on,* decided that we were going to provide undergrad degrees for the kiddos, so-

we prioritized our spending to be able to pay off our mortgage before said kiddos entered college.

It worked out well for us.

YMMV.

*Talk a lot with your spouse to be to make sure that you both are together and agree on your major future plans. My best marital advice.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (iJfKG)

306 Levin and Cruz are upset because Tucker supports both antisemitic neo-Nazis and Arab jihadists.

I love the internet. People can make all kinds of hate-filled smears and not get rewarded by a punch in the face.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (GPNSy)

307 I don't know... Our house is worth 300 thousand more than what we paid for it ....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (VE6XX)

Or... your house is worth the same but the dollar is worth less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

308 Dude lost grip on the “moderates” of his party and has now pleased NO ONE!

Donald Trump politically pummeled him!
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)
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There are no moderates.

There are radical communists who vote for revolution, welfare-dependent urban core residents who vote for a living and government employees who vote for a living.

The "moderates," if any, are all in the last group.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:53 AM (zxP/x)

309 >>Setting aside that nobody knows (or usually remembers if they did) how to drive in the snow

Moved down here from Michigan in 2018, Got hit last winter with six inches of snow. Like riding a bicycle, I drove in it just fine. Natives, not so much.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 10, 2025 08:53 AM (Y1sOo)

310 Good morning! Snow is on the ground and the sun is shining. Perhaps the weather in Moscow was like this in February 1917 when the Russian Revolution occurred as well as in October 1917 during the Bolshevik coup d'etat against the Kerensky government.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 10, 2025 08:53 AM (GPa4z)

311 It's not so much a song as it is a mood.

Posted by: Somber and melancholy at November 10, 2025 08:53 AM (XQo4F)

312 Fannie and Freddie won't buy them (they don't buy non-conforming loans, at least they're not supposed to"

Franklin Raines says "hold my beer"

Posted by: man at November 10, 2025 08:54 AM (tubbA)

313 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot. They do it even if I’m right behind them in the parking lot and they make me wait while they maneuver in… sometimes multiple tries back and forth to straighten up (while I wait)… sigh. FWP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:54 AM (YobFY)

314 >>This is the kind of woman who sends family-wide emails dictating how everyone should vote, then plays both the victim and the enforcer when they don’t obey.

https://tinyurl.com/yreuzr47

Oh yes, Kimmel's wife.
Interesting how she admits hubby was a political tool when she saws her family voted against her husband, who is doing battle against Trump every day.

Welp, there's your problem! You guys decided his 'late night comedy' show was a nightly political rally, forced upon the rest of us who wanted to be left alone. Sounds like even her family did not appreciate this.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)

315 298 The Mariners Church in Detroit rings the bell for each of the sailors on the Edmund Fitzgerald. They ring it one more time on Lightfoot's birthday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 10, 2025 08:55 AM (gm9Sb)

316 Creepy litle Axolotl, Nick Fuentes, seems to exist only to generate offensive 5-second soundbites that Democrats can then pin on all Conservatives.

Oh, like the "Good People On Both Sides" soundbite?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:49 AM (GPNSy)

Not sure what your point is-

Please elucidate.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

317 Or... your house is worth the same but the dollar is worth less.

Which makes low interest mortgages (below the rate of inflation) more desirable since the note is being paid back in inflated dollars.

Of course, the taxing authorities love the paper gains made on real-estate holdings.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 08:55 AM (+tPQV)

318 Ro Khanna is married to the only daughter of a tremendously wealthy Trump donor/supporter. He can afford to be a lefty critic of Chuck Schemer, as is usually the way

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (dtRKo)

319 against her husband, who is doing battle against Trump every day."

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tubbA)

320 "He bet on a fart and lost" means that he shit his pants. He thought it was gonna just be a fart, but, well, wasn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (zxP/x)

LoL…. Thanks Joe. Can’t believe I’ve never heard that before…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (YobFY)

321 >>It's not so much a song as it is a mood.

We are completely fogged in here this morning. Rain and big temperature swings. I woke this morning to the sound of foghorns on the bay and leaves committing suicide.

Monday mood.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)

322 So in the end government workers beat illegals in the leftist stack rank? Since the former will get paid and not fired and the latter get no more free healthcare (unless the blue states want to pay for it)

Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

323 Eight Senate Democrats voted with 42 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance.

... WRONG ..

Eight Senate Democrats voted with 52 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

324 Have plans been announced for a high-quality plant for the production of picante sauce been announced for New Yawk City? I fear my GAS meter shall remain stuck on zero until then.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (0sNs1)

325 Good morning and happy birthday to all my brother Marines in the Horde!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (hlNLQ)

326
Eight Senate Democrats voted with 52 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance.
Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

And Rand Paul voted no....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

327 It's not the house. It's the property the house is on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (NwnyJ)

328 What'd the sumbitch think he was doing?!!!

Georgia Cop Under Investigation After Telling Man to Leave Women’s Restroom

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (L/fGl)

329 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot. They do it even if I’m right behind them in the parking lot and they make me wait while they maneuver in… sometimes multiple tries back and forth to straighten up (while I wait)… sigh. FWP
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Yep. Everyone else has to wait while the snowflake backs into the spot.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

330 So the workers were not only Not Fired, but they got six weeks of paid vacation as a bonus. That is disappointing. I was hoping GOP would take the opportunity to trim the DC bloat.
Posted by: illiniwek

No. A lot of them, like my son, were still working but without pay. Fortunately, the base he works on had a "bad weather" fund that kept a bunch of people paid. Not everyone, but the essential workers are still getting paid. That fund could run out in the next ten days so I hope this shutdown will end before that happens. But we're fly over people. The DC crowd does indeed need to be thinned.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (2J/Lj)

331 Of course, the taxing authorities love the paper gains made on real-estate holdings.

Bideninflation increased housing prices by 50% or so which means I'm paying 50% more in property taxes even though I have the same real value of house.

It is disgusting how the government can get fat and rich off of the taxpayers in so many different ways.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)

332 But wait, there’s more: Tucker did not discuss Venezuela with Amsterdam, but during that Friday show, Tucker said that his guest was "one of the people that I talk to most off camera about what is happening to the Christian population of the world."

The Tucker Carlson guest on Friday who slammed @tedcruz and declared that there is no campaign of targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, lobbyist and PR flack Robert Amsterdam, had for years represented a leading Nigerian official closely associated with Fulani Islamists — including the very militias that have been slaughtering Christians in Nigeria.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (eQmnE)

333 "He bet on a fart and lost" means that he shit his pants. He thought it was gonna just be a fart, but, well, wasn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM

Always bet on fart!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (+lAcN)

334 We got nuthin' left to live for
Looks like nuthin' gonna come our way

Posted by: The leaves at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (XQo4F)

335 313 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot. They do it even if I’m right behind them in the parking lot and they make me wait while they maneuver in… sometimes multiple tries back and forth to straighten up (while I wait)… sigh. FWP
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 08:54 AM (YobFY)

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My observation after years of being assigned to parking duty at school events is women who back into parking spots are excellent at it and do a beautiful job. Men who back into spaces are like a box of chocolates.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (GPa4z)

336 Welp, there's your problem! You guys decided his 'late night comedy' show was a nightly political rally, forced upon the rest of us who wanted to be left alone. Sounds like even her family did not appreciate this.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 08:54 AM (GbwPZ)
*******
Thanksgiving at their house must be really fun.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

337 Still need to end the filibuster and pass the entire MAGA agenda before the circular firing squads cost us the midterms.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (50AHF)

338 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot.
____________________

Laws yes, they block traffic while they maneuver in just so they can pull out fast like they're robbing a bank.

There's a spot in a very mid version of hell for those people, right next to the people who don't return grocery carts.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (gOmQX)

339 "He bet on a fart and lost" means that he shit his pants. He thought it was gonna just be a fart, but, well, wasn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 08:51 AM (zxP/x)

LoL…. Thanks Joe. Can’t believe I’ve never heard that before…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I've never heard it phrased that way, but I've said many times "never trust a fart over 50".
Different phrasing - same outcome. LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (kMqUr)

340 324 Have plans been announced for a high-quality plant for the production of picante sauce been announced for New Yawk City? I fear my GAS meter shall remain stuck on zero until then.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (0sNs1)

Get a rope....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (LxER7)

341 The way I've heard it is "never trust a fart."

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

342 My observation after years of being assigned to parking duty at school events is women who back into parking spots are excellent at it and do a beautiful job. Men who back into spaces are like a box of chocolates.
Posted by: Oglebay at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (GPa4z)

I assume that your wife is reading over your shoulder and backs into parking spots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

343 328 Downtown Fort Smith has diagonal parking on Garrison Ave, a very busy street. Easy to park, miserable to get out of especially when you have a monster truck parked on each side.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (gm9Sb)

344 Because you won’t build equity that way which will make selling and moving every 7 years hard. It will also entice people without good sense to buy more house than they can afford and cause even more of a financial issue. I remember our friends buying these huge houses and 3/4s of the rooms didn’t have furniture in them because they couldn’t buy furniture. Our first house was an apartment pretending to be a house. 😃.
Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2025 08:20 AM (aEau+)
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I'll concede it may be an issue. I guess I always assumed people would see the sense in paying off their house at some point in their life.

But then again, I also see articles about people getting good size mortgages after they retire, because, hey, their financial advisor said "no problem!"

Personally, I think they should have fired their advisor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (UJMvS)

345 There's a spot in a very mid version of hell for those people, right next to the people who don't return grocery carts.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:00 AM (gOmQX)
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They had it comin'....

Posted by: people who talk in the theater at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (IBQGV)

346 And Rand Paul voted no....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE
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Did he? What was he thinking?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (JdhGg)

347 346 And Rand Paul voted no....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE
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Did he? What was he thinking?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (JdhGg)

He pretends to want to cut spending

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

348
The Tucker Carlson guest on Friday who slammed @tedcruz and declared that there is no campaign of targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, lobbyist and PR flack Robert Amsterdam, had for years represented a leading Nigerian official closely associated with Fulani Islamists — including the very militias that have been slaughtering Christians in Nigeria.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (eQmnE)
*******
Tucker knows exactly what he's doing and the more I watch and see him, the more I think he's evil.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

349 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot. They do it even if I’m right behind them in the parking lot and they make me wait while they maneuver in… sometimes multiple tries back and forth to straighten up (while I wait)… sigh. FWP
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Yep. Everyone else has to wait while the snowflake backs into the spot.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah, it's an asshole move.

The excuse the Backintards used to give was that "it saves time".

Really? All that back and forthing to s-l-o-w-l-y park saves time?

Nope.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (iJfKG)

350 I'm not into the whole mortgage cost analysis thing, BUT there are a lot of people that had very small payments after ten years or so (assuming a fixed rate loan), and it was much cheaper than rent, and they had an appreciating asset (and deductible interest). Though plans to escalate RE Taxes could throw a wrench in long term planning, idk.

I'd guess that will be true for the 50 year as well, though in general "Living in Debt" is not a great idea, though our government has lived off debt for a long time (as it "made us" the world's superpower).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (vbXSk)

351 Re: eating 250 crayons- actually it's 252, 'cause we eat one extra for Chesty and one more for the Corps! Ooh Rah! Also, Youtube is running Full Metal Jacket for free right now. Best/most realistic portrayal of boot camp at Parris Island ever!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (hlNLQ)

352 So the workers were not only Not Fired, but they got six weeks of paid vacation as a bonus.
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It's paying for the new floors in my house. To be fair, this is the politicians fault, not the workers.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (gOmQX)

353 Bideninflation increased housing prices by 50% or so which means I'm paying 50% more in property taxes even though I have the same real value of house. ...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2025 08:58 AM (sKqQm)
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Local jurisdiction *really* matters on that front. Some place like California (for all its other faults) and Tennessee have mechanisms in place to constrain that. Most places do not AFAIK, but it will likely become a serious issue as time goes on. Escalating costs absent escalate value makes for serious instability and a lot of resentment - bad stuff, especially when it comes to compliance and resentment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (zxP/x)

354 Not sure what your point is-

Please elucidate.

"Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."

It was only the last part that the Enemedia kept repeating when supporting their narrative that Trump supports neo-Nazis.

That is, I honestly don't care what Fuentes says because he is yet another person seeking attention in an already crowded market. They all are. That is how they get their food pellet by attracting and keeping an audience BAMN.

its the people who resent Fuentes for whatever reason who feel obligated to do what they do to Conservatives in general and Trump in particular, by "grabbing them by the pussy".

That is just plain audience and following building. Once you know that, you find something better to perseverate on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (+tPQV)

355 Democrat Rep. Brendan Boyle says he is completely “perplexed” after 8 Democrats voted to re-open the government.

MSNBC: Can you explain how you interpret why this deal came together now?

Boyle: I can't explain it because to be frank, to me, it makes absolutely no sense. I am completely perplexed by today's developments.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

356 One of my personal pet peeves is people who insist on every occasion and at all times on backing into their parking spot.
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Laws yes, they block traffic while they maneuver in just so they can pull out fast like they're robbing a bank.

There's a spot in a very mid version of hell for those people, right next to the people who don't return grocery carts.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Depending on the parking lot, the majority isn't "backing in", but "pull thru".

I do it whenever I can. Much easier/safer when leaving. Especially at a crowded Sam's. Way easier to see pedestrians and cars.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (kMqUr)

357 *Talk a lot with your spouse to be to make sure that you both are together and agree on your major future plans. My best marital advice.
Posted by: naturalfake

Agreed. The wife was a bit uncertain about my retirement plans and getting out of the GPROMD but staying in this state is not a good idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (jjoN6)

358 OK, so after reading thru comments, our side both won and lost the shutdown faceoff.

Posted by: Don Black at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (AOsQT)

359 >>Ro Khanna is married to the only daughter of a tremendously wealthy Trump donor/supporter. He can afford to be a lefty critic of Chuck Schemer, as is usually the way

Apparently, his two kids are quite wealthy as well. They've been investing like Pelosi, and building quite the little portfolios!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)

360 Brian Schatz of Hawaii, will be minority leader if Schumer steps down. Durbin is retiring, and Patty Murray is not up to the task.

Schatz is a far left hack from a small state

Posted by: Jonah at November 10, 2025 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

361 I hope the truckers do boycott NYC. Business people shouldn't have to deal with crap like that.

In my corner of Ontario, while I was taking care of my parents, the basement needed repairs. We hired a company. There was one day where the truck was stopped by government stooges.

Just because one piece of paper wasn't in the vehicle, he received a $2000 - yes TWO THOUSAND - dollar fine! In a sane country, they'd let him resolve that and get no penalty. But this is Canada.

I was pissed for him!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Sco7b)

362 351 That looked identical to my squadbay (3rd Bn) at PI in 69. It was filmed at a closed Brit military base.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 10, 2025 09:05 AM (gm9Sb)

363 Earthquake weather today. Overcast and 75.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2025 09:05 AM (7nrYO)

364 The one missing message out of this shutdown and reopening is that the Republicans stood for fiscal restraint, something Republicans have done historically that they were faulted for not doing in recent years.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

365 Yeah, yeah, yeah Carlson is a febrile paranoiac who hates Jews, or at least pretends to. Whatever. Blah blah blah.

If that specific point bothers you, fine.

I'm more bothered by the generalities of the man, and it's why I never liked him, even when he was playing a tune that was catchy and kinda made me wanna dance.

1.) He has an annoying personality and a loathsome shtick that gets old in about 5 milliseconds.

2.) He is a consummate ConInc media snake whose crepey veil of "beliefs" blows away in every prevailing breeze.

This was true when he was a bowtied GOP society elitist working for Bill Kristol 30 years ago.

It was true when he was a liberal, Compassionate Conservative warmongering on CNN and MSNBC.

It was a true when he was playing Mega MAGA Man on Fox.

It's true now, and it'll be true when he's doing a Keffiyeh Story Hour reading of the Turner Diaries at some public library in the Northeast, somewhere.

He's just a particularly slippery worm who burrowed into movement politics and that's all he'll ever be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2025 09:05 AM (BI5O2)

366 Did not realize how ugly Spanberger of Va is.

Posted by: Jonah at November 10, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

367 And Rand Paul voted no....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE
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Did he? What was he thinking?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (JdhGg)

This particular version has to go back to the house now. Will Thomas Massie vote no? What’s up with Kentucky anyway??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (YobFY)

368 I do it whenever I can. Much easier/safer when leaving. Especially at a crowded Sam's. Way easier to see pedestrians and cars.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (kMqUr)
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Same.

At my age, the neck doesn't work so well for looking around. Plus, idiots who wander through parking lots looking at their phones and not for backup lights are a hazard.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (UJMvS)

369
I assume that your wife is reading over your shoulder and backs into parking spots.
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I watched a female Door Dash driver struggle for almost ten minutes backing into a space and impeding traffic in both directions once.

The kicker is, there was a pull-through slot like three spaces over from where she was struggling.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (gOmQX)

370 our side both won and lost the shutdown faceoff.
Posted by: Don Black

I say we have won since the free stuff for illegals did not happen. But the legacy media will refuse to acknowledge it.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (jjoN6)

371 Houses are durable goods far more than they are investments. They're a place to live.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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This I agree with. Land, OTOH, is an investment. Your house is a liability. The land it sits on is an asset.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (1Nv0l)

372 BREAKING NEWS:

The Olympics are set to ban ALL transgender athletes and those with Imane Khelif's reported condition from female events after 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (0sNs1)

373 Always bet on fart!
Posted by: Eric Swalwell

Don't listen to him!

Posted by: Al Roker and Jerrold Nadler at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)

374 And Rand Paul voted no....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE
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Did he? What was he thinking?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (JdhGg)

He pretends to want to cut spending
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)
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Rand Paul is too much of an ideologue.
He ran for president, which is really a laugh. It just shows that he has really no leadership ability..

I would like to know if he had won the presidency how he would be handling this shut down.

I wish someone would ask him that question.
It's easy to sit back and vote the way he does because it makes him look so principled.
To me it makes him look like a fool.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

375 We are completely fogged in here this morning. Rain and big temperature swings. I woke this morning to the sound of foghorns on the bay and leaves committing suicide.

Monday mood.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 08:56 AM

Ayuh. Drizzly and misty here in town, and all the leaf cleanup I did at the RMBS Mom's place this weekend is undone.

*adds more raking to Saturday's to-do list*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 10, 2025 09:08 AM (bFu5X)

376 Way easier to see pedestrians and cars.
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Which don't exist when you're backing into a space apparently.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gOmQX)

377 > 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'
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don't forget the significant disadvantages
it's a wash

Posted by: Don Black at November 10, 2025 09:08 AM (AOsQT)

378 KY elections are strange. Conservative state that loves electing far left Governor's.

Obvious Rand is retiring in 2028. He does not need to act loyal anymore

Posted by: Jonah at November 10, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

379 I know someone who refers to backing into a space as "princess parking."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:09 AM (gOmQX)

380 There would be no immigration problem is non-citizens were removed from the calculus of determining Congressional districts. This non-voting population give the voters in their districts a vote that commands more weight than those who do not have them.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

381 This particular version has to go back to the house now. Will Thomas Massie vote no? What’s up with Kentucky anyway??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (YobFY)
*******
Thomas Massie go vote now.
He's clueless on how to govern this country. He's not living in the real world... another ideologue.

A thorn in Trump side.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

382 362- I was 1st Battalion, platoon 1019 in 1986. All the squadbays were new then, but the old 3 BN barracks were used for the two weeks at the rifle range, so they looked exactly the same to me too.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2025 09:10 AM (hlNLQ)

383 Will Germany Deport 1.2M Syrian “Refugees”?
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Another lefty meltdown, incoming

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:10 AM (JHp89)

384 [ Still need to end the filibuster and pass the entire MAGA agenda before the circular firing squads cost us the midterms.

That is my angle. It seems that nominal Conservatives have next to no ability to be transactional and be mindful of what is truly the prize.

That, or the prize just is forcing others to submit to one's personal values and vanity.

I blame the church in its desire to "win the lost" has diluted the message of total depravity and Fallen sinful behavior into a quirk or inconvenient habit.

That is, people say and do bad things because people are wicked and depraved outside regeneration.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 09:11 AM (+tPQV)

385 >>I say we have won since the free stuff for illegals did not happen. But the legacy media will refuse to acknowledge it.

Doesn't seem that way. Here's CNN.

>>Enough Democrats caved.

>>A Sunday night Senate deal may be on the verge of resolving the longest government shutdown on record — after a group of moderate Democrats dropped their key demand — a guaranteed extension of Obamacare subsidies.

>>But the compromise was opposed by some key party leaders and is already igniting a firestorm of protests from progressives who accuse their more moderate colleagues of disastrously backing down, handing President Donald Trump a victory and turning their backs on millions of Americans who can’t afford spiking health care premiums.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4urezh

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 09:11 AM (viF8m)

386 Bideninflation increased housing prices by 50% or so which means I'm paying 50% more in property taxes even though I have the same real value of house. ...
Posted by: 18-1

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That's not how it works in most jurisdictions. The property tax rate is set based on the budget, not vice-versa. So unless your local authority's budget increased by 50%, you shouldn't be paying 50% more in property taxes.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:12 AM (1Nv0l)

387 Which don't exist when you're backing into a space apparently.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gOmQX)
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Less likely to have cross-traffic - pedestrian or vehicular - in a parking space than in the aisle leading to the parking space.

It makes departure easier and some lots are geared to back-in more than nose-in parking.

:: shrugs ::

I usually back in. I like how it eases departure and would rather pay the costs of maneuvering at the beginning of the transaction rather than the end. I'm also pretty good at it. It doesn't take me any longer than backing out does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 09:12 AM (zxP/x)

388 Which don't exist when you're backing into a space apparently.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

As opposed to backing out? No.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:12 AM (kMqUr)

389 The Christianity of tomorrow at Christianity Today!

Christianity Today
@CTmagazine
How does ChatGPT’s new erotica content offer opportunities to share the gospel?
@drmoore and @MikeCosper discuss with philosopher Brandon Rickabaugh:

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)

390 At places like Walmart and Costco, I just like to park as far away as possible from vehicles and jog into the store. Well, Walmart. Costco is always packed.

People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Sco7b)

391 It was funny how even in the Corps we made up rivalries. All the 3rd BN recruits I met at Infantry Training School used to say they had it the hardest because since they were on the back 40 the drill instructors still hit them and 1st BN guys had it easy because we were the ones always getting filmed by the media. 1st BN guys were like, your a bunch of poseurs getting called "private" like you were a real Marine, we were called "recruits" (or much worse) and they still hit us too, just when the cameras weren't around. Of course, we all agreed 2nd BN had it easy- practically as wimpy as San Diego "Hollywood" Marines.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (hlNLQ)

392 Yep…. Jerrold Nadler bet a fart and lost big time… the sideways shuffle off the stage…. LoL!!

Biden bet a fart in front of the pope, no?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (/iXAp)

393 People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Sco7b)
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Same. First spot I can easily get into and easily leave, I park. If I need to walk an extra 20 yards, oh well.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (UJMvS)

394 I usually back in. I like how it eases departure and would rather pay the costs of maneuvering at the beginning of the transaction rather than the end. I'm also pretty good at it. It doesn't take me any longer than backing out does.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 09:12 AM (zxP/x)

Personally, I like it for when Buford T. Justice or Roscoe P. Coltrane show up and try to ruin my good time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (BI5O2)

395 >>BREAKING NEWS:

The Olympics are set to ban ALL transgender athletes and those with Imane Khelif's reported condition from female events after 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'
- - -

That was fast!
Good.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:16 AM (GbwPZ)

396 At places like Walmart and Costco, I just like to park as far away as possible from vehicles and jog into the store. Well, Walmart. Costco is always packed.

People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless
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Lol. That's my wife. On the rare occasion I go shopping with her and I am driving, I always get "just park here" pointing to some spot at the far corner of the lot. She treats it as exercise.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:16 AM (1Nv0l)

397 Personally, I like it for when Buford T. Justice or Roscoe P. Coltrane show up and try to ruin my good time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (BI5O2)
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As I heard it put when I was learning to drive: "getaway position"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 09:17 AM (zxP/x)

398 Who's up for a great new idea?

50-year home ~~mortgages~~ rental enslavement!

[Insert rolling eyes emoji GIF here]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 09:17 AM (OrY6K)

399 People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

Yeah, that's another pet peeve of mine. Somebody who's waiting for someone else to leave so that they can get that parking spot, blocking traffic in the meantime. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT PARKING SPOT AND ONLY THAT PARKING SPOT.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

400 I should've de-canopied the gazebo yesterday. Roof spider frame imploded.

At least the snow blower works.

Posted by: DaveA at November 10, 2025 09:17 AM (FhXTo)

401 Not sure what your point is-

Please elucidate.

"Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."

It was only the last part that the Enemedia kept repeating when supporting their narrative that Trump supports neo-Nazis.

That is, I honestly don't care what Fuentes says because he is yet another person seeking attention in an already crowded market. They all are. That is how they get their food pellet by attracting and keeping an audience BAMN.

its the people who resent Fuentes for whatever reason who feel obligated to do what they do to Conservatives in general and Trump in particular, by "grabbing them by the pussy".

That is just plain audience and following building. Once you know that, you find something better to perseverate on.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 10, 2025 09:03 AM (+tPQV)

Well, here's the difference.

Donald Trump is the President and is in the arena every day doing good things for us as Americans and Conservatives. Actions/words

Creepy Little Axolotl, Nick Fuentes, is just spouting off with damaging 5 second memes.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 09:17 AM (iJfKG)

402 346 And Rand Paul voted no....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 08:57 AM (VE
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Did he? What was he thinking?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:01 AM (JdhGg)

He pretends to want to cut spending
Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)
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Congress hasn't even controlled spending, much less actually reduced it, in my memory. Certainly not since Newt Gingrich forced a balanced budget on Clinton. Rand Paul has actually accomplished zero on that score in his entire career, and now he is defying the one man who is actually trying to reduce headcount in the civilian federal workforce.

You might almost conclude, given the difference between what he says and what he does, that he is full of shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:19 AM (A9kSL)

403 Please stop calling Nick Fuentes an "axolotl." Axolotls are cool.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

404 So I understood the House was going to be out all this week. Anybody know if that's changed now that the Senate reached a deal?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 10, 2025 09:19 AM (LxER7)

405 >>Christianity Today
@CTmagazine
How does ChatGPT’s new erotica content offer opportunities to share the gospel?
@drmoore and @MikeCosper discuss with philosopher Brandon Rickabaugh:

Uhhhh. . .?

I seem to recall reading that Soros was investing in Christian orgs to corrupt them from within. After reading this, that would not surprise me.

Show me in the Bible where anyone 'uses erotica to share the gospel.' Gah!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:19 AM (GbwPZ)

406 EBT checks are back eh? Lol.
Our long national nightmare is over.

Posted by: Socialism and Groypers at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (ViSCT)

407 BREAKING NEWS:

The Olympics are set to ban ALL transgender athletes and those with Imane Khelif's reported condition from female events after 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 10, 2025 09:06 AM (0sNs1)

https://youtu.be/QNqZkSEOObE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

408 I hit me this morning… I’m philosophically opposed to property taxes. As long as they exist I don’t truly own my house. Annoying…

Sales taxes are a better and more fair way to generate government revenue. I’m then in charge of what I buy and what taxes I pay… even income tax is better than property tax! Have I lost my mind?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (/iXAp)

409 >>Please stop calling Nick Fuentes an "axolotl." Axolotls are cool.

"cockroach" seems more fitting

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

410 “its the people who resent Fuentes for whatever reason”

I wonder if it’s because we object to those who say Hitler was great, who talk about how much they admire Stalin. And who has recently said, and I quote “Nobody should vote for Trump. Nobody should vote for Republicans. And what needs to happen next by the way, the Republicans must be hanged in the midterms.”

In fact resent is much too weak a word. He is a chaos agent , a focus of Evil in this world who must be driven out entirely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (eQmnE)

411 Personally, I like it for when Buford T. Justice or Roscoe P. Coltrane show up and try to ruin my good time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2025 09:15 AM (BI5O2)

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Great new commercial featuring The General and the original Duke boys:

https://is.gd/IEcGIR

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (OrY6K)

412 Ok. Computer people. Question. Which micro fan is better? I'm having trouble with the numbers. One supposedly spins ultra fast but hardly moves air. One spins a quarter as fast but moves a ton of air.

25mmX25mmX10mm 5v micro fan
12,000 rpm
2.45 CFM
Dual ball bearings

25mmX25mmX10mm 5v micro fan
3500 rpm
14.3 CFM
Sleeve Bearings

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (kMqUr)

413 A new study published in Nature reveals that Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon more than 30 million years earlier than any other known ankylosaur. It also featured a distinctive bony collar lined with meter-long spikes extending outward from each side of its neck.

Spicomellus is recognized as the oldest ankylosaur ever discovered, dating back over 165 million years to the Middle Jurassic period. It lived near what is now the Moroccan town of Boulemane and represents the first ankylosaur found on the African continent.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

414 409 >>Please stop calling Nick Fuentes an "axolotl." Axolotls are cool.

"cockroach" seems more fitting
Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)

Bloated tick

Posted by: It's me donna at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

415 Sales taxes are a better and more fair way to generate government revenue. I’m then in charge of what I buy and what taxes I pay… even income tax is better than property tax! Have I lost my mind?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (/iXAp)
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I think all government should be financed by sales taxes on new goods and services only, or external assets (e.g., tariffs).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (zxP/x)

416 Mondays be like . . .

https://is.gd/7ivucb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (L/fGl)

417
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
The Handmaid’s Tale women are no longer just protesting for abortion. They’re now carrying Mexican flags at ICE detention facilities.

Please make it stop.

https://tinyurl.com/3vbjwajc

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

418 Show me in the Bible where anyone 'uses erotica to share the gospel.'
Posted by: Lizzy

Well, there is the Song of Solomon. Some claim that it's an allegory of Christ and the Church. I don't buy that, myself, but YMMV.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

419 Here it is .. the real reason the government is ropening ...

FAA prohibits most private jets at 12 major airports amid shutdown’s air traffic staffing problems

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

420 Of course, we all agreed 2nd BN had it easy- practically as wimpy as San Diego "Hollywood" Marines.

*ahem*

Parris Island was so easy they sent the women there.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (jjoN6)

421 I hit me this morning… I’m philosophically opposed to property taxes. As long as they exist I don’t truly own my house. Annoying…

Sales taxes are a better and more fair way to generate government revenue. I’m then in charge of what I buy and what taxes I pay… even income tax is better than property tax! Have I lost my mind?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Not at all. You are 100% spot on.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:22 AM (kMqUr)

422 Look Fat, I've soiled my pants in front of world leaders more than anyone else in history! Kings, Popes, Prime Ministers, no matter.

Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at November 10, 2025 09:22 AM (oftw2)

423 >>So I understood the House was going to be out all this week. Anybody know if that's changed now that the Senate reached a deal?

Johnson said he's calling the House back in session. He wants to be ready to pass the CR as early as Wednesday if possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)

424 I know someone who refers to backing into a space as "princess parking."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:09 AM (gOmQX)

I will often back in at restaurants where I know that people drive too fast through the parking lot. It provides me an additional opportunity to not be t-boned by someone doing 40.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

425 People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.
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People who drive around close to the entrance of the store (instead of using the outer drive) and get mad because people are leaving and entering the store and using the pedestrian crosswalk .

Some old geezer almost ran me down walking into Menards last weekend.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:23 AM (CPUQK)

426 420- Lol! (And excellent way to illustrate my exact point)

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2025 09:23 AM (hlNLQ)

427 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'

No-one is 'born male'. Your gender is assigned at birth. By coin-tossing obstetricians. Bigots.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:24 AM (1Nv0l)

428 The Russian Revolution?

Ah yes, the Tsarist protected cruiser Aurora helped kick off the whole mess. What a pivotal ship in so many ways. She survived the Battle of Tsushima Strait that vaulted Japan onto the global scene and even saw combat in World War II. Now she is a museum ship.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 10, 2025 09:24 AM (0QRGP)

429 Democrat Band of Eight:

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

430 I will often back in at restaurants where I know that people drive too fast through the parking lot. It provides me an additional opportunity to not be t-boned by someone doing 40.
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Which if course they absolutely cannot do while you are backing in because physics or something.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:24 AM (CPUQK)

431 turning their backs on millions of Americans who can’t afford spiking health care premiums.

Someone should let them know that healthcare has been affordable for almost two decades now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

432 408 I hit me this morning… I’m philosophically opposed to property taxes. As long as they exist I don’t truly own my house. Annoying…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (/iXAp)

Do you not own your car because you have to pay registration fees every year?

I’ve never really bought into this idea.

Taxes sucks no matter what. Income property sales. It’s all the govt taking your money to give it to someone else.

Posted by: Socialism and Groypers at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ViSCT)

433 “its the people who resent Fuentes for whatever reason”

I wonder if it’s because we object to those who say Hitler was great, who talk about how much they admire Stalin. And who has recently said, and I quote “Nobody should vote for Trump. Nobody should vote for Republicans. And what needs to happen next by the way, the Republicans must be hanged in the midterms.”

In fact resent is much too weak a word. He is a chaos agent , a focus of Evil in this world who must be driven out entirely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (eQmnE)

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If Tucker Qatarlson wasn't a cuck, he would have read some grotesque genocidal passages from "The Gulag Archipelago" and "Man's Search For Meaning" -- and asked mini-Hitler if he agreed with them ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (OrY6K)

434 I know someone who refers to backing into a space as "princess parking."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Backing into the parking space is very popular down here. I've seen people make 4 or 5 attempts to back into the space.
I guess they're gonna save a couple of seconds when they pull out.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (Lo97M)

435 Your gender is assigned at birth.
... NO

Your gender is assigned at conception.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

436 >>Some old geezer almost ran me down walking into Menards last weekend.

Oh, no.

How fast was the old geezer walking?

Posted by: one hour sober at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)

437
Please stop calling Nick Fuentes an "axolotl." Axolotls are cool.
Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

Now, I have to denounce myself for offending axolotls?!?!

What happened to this place?

Next you're going to forbid any mention of tapirs.

Tapirs!!!!

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!1111!!11!

I denounce myself and my cool analogies.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (iJfKG)

438 At places like Walmart and Costco, I just like to park as far away as possible from vehicles and jog into the store. Well, Walmart. Costco is always packed.

People who drive around looking for a closer spot make no sense to me.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Sco7b)

I shop as early as possible to avoid 'people'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

439
Please stop calling Nick Fuentes an "axolotl." Axolotls are cool.

"cockroach" seems more fitting

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM

poofter? twink?

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (tljrc)

440 Dick Durbin in the band of eight? Interesting…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (YobFY)

441 I love the sidebar video of the UN fool complaining about the impact of sanctions on her, when she spends all her time encouraging sanctions on everyone else. Maybe sh will someday learn her lesson, though right now it appears doubtful. Great video.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (zIN/y)

442 Tucker Qatarlson. Haha I like that.

Posted by: Socialism and Groypers at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (ViSCT)

443 COP (out) 30 has begun in Brazil

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

444 he would have read some grotesque genocidal passages from "The Gulag Archipelago"

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And Fuentes would say "Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn was a Jewish liar, lying for the Jews." It's all just performance art.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (BI5O2)

445 Wait, what?

San Francisco police shot dog and then the owner?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (0QRGP)

446 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (XQo4F)

447 433 “its the people who resent Fuentes for whatever reason”

I wonder if it’s because we object to those who say Hitler was great, who talk about how much they admire Stalin. And who has recently said, and I quote “Nobody should vote for Trump. Nobody should vote for Republicans. And what needs to happen next by the way, the Republicans must be hanged in the midterms.”

In fact resent is much too weak a word. He is a chaos agent , a focus of Evil in this world who must be driven out entirely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2025 09:20 AM (eQmn
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Please keep reminding everyone of this quote until it is ingrained in their brains.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

448 >>Dick Durbin in the band of eight? Interesting…

He's retiring.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (viF8m)

449 >>The Handmaid’s Tale women are no longer just protesting for abortion. They’re now carrying Mexican flags at ICE detention facilities.

Please make it stop.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THESE WOMEN ARE TOTALLY CONFUSED IDIOTS. CALM DOWN!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (GbwPZ)

450 426 420- Lol! (And excellent way to illustrate my exact point)
Posted by: Farmer Bob

Funny story with the rivalry: It's my last day at MOS school and me and the other Reservist are waiting for our plane tickets. A discussion happens with a couple of other students and one guy says "Well, I'm a real Marine since I'm active duty and went to PI."

The discussion was on at that point. A few seconds later, I look out of the corner of my eye and see the Warrant Officer peeking in. I call attention on deck and he walks up to me.

"Everything OK?"
"Yes, sir. Just having a bit of a disagreement. It's getting settled."
"Good, good." He takes a step, looks back and says "I can't help but notice that the Reservist was the only one smart enough to call attention on deck" before walking out.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (jjoN6)

451 I guess they're gonna save a couple of seconds when they pull out.
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People park like they fock I guess.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (CPUQK)

452 435
Your gender is assigned at birth.
... NO

Your gender is assigned at conception.
Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

This. It's science.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (2NfkW)

453 Tapirs are also cool.

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)

454 Your gender is assigned at birth.
... NO

Your gender is assigned at conception.
Posted by: SMOD

Your gender is assigned in college.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 09:28 AM (L/fGl)

455 Markets look happy that Shutdown is Over ... up about 1%, gold/silver miners up like 3-5%, on inflation fears I suppose.

Trump indicates he plans to inflate his way out of debt, while (hopefully) controlling cost of living type inflation. Putting "reciprocal tariffs" on many nations has helped that cause. I guess he wants inflation in stocks and housing, and middle class income ... or some such thang.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2025 09:28 AM (vbXSk)

456 Tapirs best performance in a movie? 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 10, 2025 09:28 AM (0QRGP)

457 Two Major League Baseball pitchers allegedly conspired with sports bettors to rig pitches they threw so the bettors would profit from illegal wagers, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and the FBI announced in an indictment on Sunday. Cleveland Guardians player Luis Leandro Ortiz was arrested Sunday at Logan Airport in Boston. Emmanuel Clase, also of the Guardians, was not yet in custody as of Sunday afternoon. According to the indictment, the pitchers started conspiring with sports bettors in 2023 on specific pitches they would throw during MLB games.

.. say it aint so Joe

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

458 Your gender is assigned at conception.
Posted by: SMOD

So is your DNA 🧬.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:29 AM (kMqUr)

459 The fact that the MFM is fluffing twink Nazi Nick Fuentes should make any sapient being despise him.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:29 AM (CPUQK)

460 Trump indicates he plans to inflate his way out of debt, while (hopefully) controlling cost of living type inflation.

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Yeah good luck with that.

Posted by: Socialism and Groypers at November 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ViSCT)

461 Your gender is assigned at conception.
Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

Reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin has been acting up and his mom yells at his dad, "It's YOUR fault we didn't have a sweet little girl! YOUR stupid chromosome, not mine!"

Posted by: Bulg at November 10, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

462 Newsom blasts 'pathetic' Democrats for 'surrendering' to Trump, then remembers that he is a Democrat

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

463 Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:21 AM (kMqUr)

1. I'm thinking that the 12000 rpm fan is mostly for liquid cooling where you need pressure more than airflow whereas the 3500 rpm fan is for air cooling where you need the opposite.
2. Higher fan speeds means higher fan noise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

464 It's not gender it's sex.

Posted by: Grammar nerd at November 10, 2025 09:30 AM (XQo4F)

465 Gargles Newscum is always bleating thinking it makes him look Presidential.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 10, 2025 09:31 AM (0QRGP)

466 Zoomer discovers ELO

https://youtu.be/M1tW1bKKz_I

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:31 AM (CPUQK)

467 Art nood

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2025 09:31 AM (kMqUr)

468 Trump now blathering about 2k stimmy checks?

Retarded like the BIG HOUSING PLAN that turned out to be a 50yr mortgage..

Which also unhelpful and retarded.

This admin....if this is the best they got in look forward to the Dems stuffing me into a train car in 2028.

I can't even!

Posted by: GigantorX at November 10, 2025 09:32 AM (6u+Gq)

469 A fifty year mortgage nearly doubles the interest the borrower pays over the life of the loan versus a 30 year mortgage.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 10, 2025 09:32 AM (0U5gm)

470 >>It's not gender it's sex.

BINGO

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 10, 2025 09:32 AM (GbwPZ)

471 Newsom is going pivot effortlessly from DSA radical in the primaries to moderate in the general in 2028 because he is as slimy as they come.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:33 AM (CPUQK)

472 > It's not gender it's sex.

Yeah, but if you say "sex is assigned at birth" they'll agree with you and claim "gender is different". I prefer just to use "gender" and tell them to go f**k themselves.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:33 AM (1Nv0l)

473 The fact that the MFM is fluffing twink Nazi Nick Fuentes should make any sapient being despise him.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Speaking of thinks . . .

https://is.gd/z90Kuu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 10, 2025 09:33 AM (L/fGl)

474 Zoomer discovers ELO

https://youtu.be/M1tW1bKKz_I
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 10, 2025 09:31 AM (CPUQK)

Our youngest recently got into ELO.

It's funny how "teh yutes" are finally tiring to lame-ass rap and discovering the fun of good melodies, good songs from the 60-90s.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

475 Dick Durbin in the band of eight? Interesting…

He's retiring.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 10, 2025 09:27 AM (viF8m)

But true to his name he had to be a dick when discussing his vote.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 09:34 AM (EYmYM)

476 A fifty year mortgage nearly doubles the interest the borrower pays over the life of the loan versus a 30 year mortgage.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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By this argument, we shouldn't have longer than 1-year mortgages. Better still, buy your house with cash.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 10, 2025 09:35 AM (1Nv0l)

477 Posted by: GigantorX at November 10, 2025 09:32 AM (6u+Gq)

We’re all doomed !!!!

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 09:35 AM (EYmYM)

478 Good morning, all. 🙏 J.J.

Federal News Network, Nov. 9, 2025, 'Senate takes first step toward ending the government shutdown'

In part, A bipartisan agreement
"Democrats had voted 14 times not to reopen the government as they demanded the extension of tax credits that make coverage more affordable under the Affordable Care Act. Republicans said they would not negotiate on health care, but GOP leaders have been quietly working with the group of moderates as the contours of an agreement began to emerge.

The agreement includes bipartisan bills worked out by the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund parts of government — food aid, veterans programs and the legislative branch, among other things. All other funding would be extended until the end of January, giving lawmakers more than two months to finish additional spending bills.

The deal would reinstate federal workers who had received reduction in force, or layoff, notices and reimburse states that spent their own funds to keep federal programs running during the shutdown. It would also protect against future reductions in force through January and guarantee federal workers would be paid once the shutdown is over."

cont'd

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 10, 2025 09:37 AM (NFX2v)

479 UNTIL January 2026. (Emphasis added.)

Remember, what finally drives this little 'settlement' was furloughing federal contractors - way more so than any federal employees &/or SNAP recipients - AND funding for the Legislative Branch.

It provides a full-year funding bill for Congress and its support agencies. Funds the GAO at $812 million and the Library of Congress, avoiding significant cuts.

It also increases funding for member security and the Capitol Police.

>US Congressional Election 2026 - Ballotpedia -
In part, "Elections to the U.S. Congress will happen on November 3, 2026. All 435 districts in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 seats in the U.S. Senate are up for election. Five of the chamber's six non-voting members are also up for election.

Heading into the 2026 general elections, Republicans control both chambers of Congress. They hold a 53-45 majority in the Senate with two independents who caucus with the Democrats. In the House, Republicans have a 219-212 majority with four vacancies."

Remember that.
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Have a good day, Horde!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 10, 2025 09:37 AM (NFX2v)

480 A fifty year mortgage nearly doubles the interest the borrower pays over the life of the loan versus a 30 year mortgage.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Hmmm almost double the term of a 30 year mortgage has almost double the interest paid. Yep the math checks out.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 10, 2025 09:38 AM (EYmYM)

481 Oh, btw, they also always play with the definition of "federal workers," now never meaning just federal employees as it once was.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 10, 2025 09:40 AM (NFX2v)

482 President Trump Pardons 77 Alternate Electors and Several Top Associates from 2020 Election, Including: Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:41 AM (RHGPo)

483 Peter Thiel tells Shawn Fisher at the Free Press that: Capitalism is not working for a lot of people in New York City.

... it would never occur to them to move

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2025 09:46 AM (RHGPo)

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