Quick Hits

Live voting in the House to end the shutdown.

Lumpy Jack: The GOP isn't "taking away Obamcare subsidies." Those "emergency temporary subsidies" were always designed to expire.

During a portion of an interview with NPR aired on Monday's broadcast of "All Things Considered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away by Republicans, since "Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year." And Republicans were saying they would take about extending the tax credits.

You know when pay channels offer you teaser rates of $3 per month for three months? And then the price zooms up to $15 per month but they trust you're not paying attention and will keep paying forever to watch old episodes of Hello Larry?

That's every single Democrat spending "plan." They claim the spending will only be for a short period of time and then when that time is up, guess what? It was always intended to be permanent spending until the end of days.

Two major proxy advisory firms -- which I guess analyze corporations and recommend to shareholders who to vote for in corporate board elections -- are telling Cracker Barrel shareholders to dump the Woke DEI marketing executive who drove the stock into the ground.

Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis advised investors to vote against the re-election of Gilbert Dávila, a DEI specialist, at the annual shareholder meeting on Nov. 20 -- slamming his "faulty" board-level marketing expertise.
The proxy firms seemingly implied that Dávila -- also one of Cracker Barrel's top individual shareholders -- played a significant role in the company's rebranding.
"Dávila is highlighted in board materials as one of two marketing specialists among the independent directors. He is also a member of a standing board committee whose purview is to assess social and political risks to the company's business," ISS wrote in a note.
However, the proxy firms did not push for the removal of CEO Julie Felss Masino, who took over the chain in November 2023.

Why?

Let me guess: Because she's a woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses, which give her enhanced powers to Judge You, right? And we can't impose male standards of success or failure on woke women, who are alternately Super-Empowered Girlbosses or Damsels who need rescuing as the circumstances may require.

In more woke corporate news, the new non-woke head of Paramount devised a tricky way to get the woke non-workers to quit: He demanded that they "RTO," or Return to Office, and finally take off their Covid Jammies and put on normal work clothes and go to the office to work like all people have done since... well since people have had jobs.

Six hundred people quit, which I imagine was not unwelcome by the owners.

Fortune, which used to be a business magazine and is now just another woke propaganda outfit, highlights the "cost" to the company of the severance packages.

As if those aren't being paid gladly.

About 600 employees in the company's Los Angeles and New York offices at the vice-president level and below took the buyout, according to company disclosures filed on Monday--and the severance packages set Paramount back $185 million. The filings cited restructuring costs "associated with actions to align the business around our strategic priorities."

I do understand and appreciate the advantages of working from home. (Obviously.) And I know this is a boon to many, and many workers will put in a good day of work from home.

But I've also seen all those "Day in the Life" Tik-Toks of entitled non-workers spending their whole day "at work" drinking Himalayan frog tea or whatever. And if that's what a lot of Millennials and Zoomers are doing at work, I cannot imagine what they're doing at home in their jam-jams.

Musk's AI Grok is based. It refuses to role-play as a transgender, because that would require denying biological fact.

Julie Kelly does not think much of The Blaze's "bombshell" revelation of the J5 bomber based entirely on gait analysis. Actually, her theory is that there is no J5 bomber, and that the video of someone walking around the Capitol on the evening of January 5 does not show that person actually planting bombs. She thinks the bombs -- or "bombs" -- were planted on January 6h. I would guess (but do not know) she thinks that the bombs were planted opportunistically after trouble had started, to sweeten the case against MAGA and the J6ers.

Whatever the merits of that theory, here's her new reporting:

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
5h
I spoke this morning with the individual believed to be "Person of Interest 3" (POI3) in the FBI's original pipe bomb investigation related to January 6.
I will not name this individual to protect his privacy since he just found out today (by me) that he had been under FBI surveillance for allowing another individual--"Person of Interest 2" (POI2)--to use his Metro card to travel to Washington DC for Stop the Steal events on Jan 5 and Jan 6.

I think this is the Metro card the FBI believes was used by the "bomber." I don't know if Kelly believes that.

POI2, according to a Congressional report published last year, was seen on security cameras on the morning of Jan 5 "photographing a dumpster next to the location where the RNC pipe bomb would later be planted." In the days after Jan 6, the FBI considered "POI2's movements to be 'highly suspicious' and considered POI2 as a 'possible accomplice' to the pipe bomber."
Both POI2 and POI3 were placed under physical surveillance by the FBI's Washington Field Office.
POI2 told investigators in an interview on Jan 19. 2021 that he had "traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend First Amendment activities on Capitol Hill on January 5 and that throughout the day, POI2 photographed 'objects bearing numerals' including doors, dumpsters, and other objects and intended to use these photographs in a book he was writing."
Both men were ruled out as suspects by late Jan 2021.
POI3 is a 66-year-old man currently employed by the Air Force. Here is what he told me today about the use of his Metro card by his friend (POI2) who he has known for more than 55 years.
"I have a friend who came up for the January 6 Stop the Steal protest, he lives out of state. I've known him since 1969, we went to elementary and high school together. He's from my understanding not affiliated with anything illegal or immoral. He is kind of like an evangelist, a religious educator [who] goes all around the world preaching the gospel but he's very Republican, very pro-Trump person.
He is probably 67 [years-old] now. He was probably 63 on January 6.
He came up a day before or a couple days before the January 6 date and I took him to the Metro. He stayed at my house. I took him to the Metro and I let him borrow my Metro card. I have an extra Metro card, I have one that I use to ride the Metro every day and one that I keep [as] my personal thing.
This was during the pandemic so I was working from home the entire time. So he went downtown the day prior to January 6 and he was downtown on January 6. I know he was doing some type of journaling for this event. I know he posted some stuff on Facebook. He was keeping a log telling everybody about all the events and activities that took place.
And then I think on the 7th of January, I took him back to Dulles to catch his flight. He came up again for the inauguration [this year] and I let him stay at my house again.
Now that relates to my friend who I've known since elementary school who I grew up with.
I lived next door to this individual who supposedly is identified as the pipe bomber from everything that I've heard. I've lived in this house [in Falls Church, Virginia] since 2003. So in 2021, they had moved in the year before, her and a gentleman. I knew them purely in passing exchanges, pleasantries on the street. I never went into their house so I don't have any idea of their political leanings in any way, shape, or form.
I've been contacted and I did look into the paper and when a picture of this supposed person came up, I said, yes that looks like her.
All I can say is there's two people involved in this that I know--my friend who I went to elementary school and high school together who asked for a favor to let him stay at my house during the January 6 rally.
As it relates to this lady, this policeman, other than her living next door to me, I have no involvement with her in any way shape or form. It was my understanding they worked for the Metropolitan Police Department, that's all I know and they were not here that long.
They just lived next door to me."
I will have much more to say on this shortly.

She does not think much of The Blaze's "scoop" or of Kyle Seraphim's various accusations.

Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
The allegations in The Blaze, the deceptive (and inconsistent) framing by Seraphin and his acolytes--which I will get to soon including his suggestion POI2 was the alleged pipe bomber's boyfriend lol--and this so-called "whistleblower" report promoted by Tom Massie all rely on the notion that the FBI pulled surveillance of these two men to cover up for the "pipe bomber" neighbor.
But as this man told me today, the true account of what happened is very straightforward. And I can tell you after speaking with him, he is extremely sincere, talked very plainly about what happened over those few days, and had no idea he (or his friend) had been a subject of the initial pipe bomb investigation.
That is why surveillance of both men ended--not some batsh*t conspiracy theory promoted by the likes of The Blaze and the "Suspendables" that somehow the FBI KNEW the neighbor was the pipe bomber and pulled the agents off the case.

More about her take on Seraphim's claims here. Seraphim is now saying he was actually surveilling the suspect publicized by The Blaze much earlier, and was pulled off that surveillance detail. I don't know. I believe it when I hear someone else confirming this.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! It's now been exposed that 14 days into the federal government shutdown - Democrat moderates were about to REOPEN everything, but Chuck Schumer ordered them into a 'backroom' and said "NO. HOLD OUT."

"A group of moderates came to Schumer 2 weeks in and said, 'we're� pic.twitter.com/0xV33I5wE4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 11, 2025

Richard Leigh Bell was indicted on nine felony charges for the repeated sexual assault of a child.

He will now AVOID JAIL after striking a plea deal with Soros backed Texas DA Jose Garza.

Insane pic.twitter.com/z7Ems0qblz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2025

🚨 BREAKING: Harris County, Texas was just caught illegally sending more than $1.3 MILLION in taxpayer money to prevent the deportation of illegal alien criminals.

The funds are flowing into NGOs that fight President Trump in court. UNBELIEVABLE!

Texas Attorney General Ken� pic.twitter.com/nHYB4VR6cF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 11, 2025

Immigration Attorney: Foreign Nationals go to the DMV to get a driver�s license, the DMV automatically registers them to vote.. �This happens a lot.� pic.twitter.com/BPzbQeP3bb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2025

CRINGE: Leftist radio host Stephanie Miller kissed the feet of Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

These people are mental. pic.twitter.com/JZpfU13bJp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:25 PM

Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 06:27 PM (0N4FZ)

2 And lumpy jack for the win. He needs to switch parties.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 06:27 PM (0N4FZ)

3 Did I break the blog again?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2025 06:29 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Lumpy Jack: The GOP isn't "taking away Obamcare subsidies." Those "emergency temporary subsidies" were always designed to expire.

That's just Kuato talking.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 12, 2025 06:30 PM (jc0TO)

5 1 and a half million ? Not nearly enough

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2025 06:31 PM (VE6XX)

6 It's called Motor Voter here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:33 PM (ishno)

7 Can you fibish the Sailor Jerry's and then start on the old Number 7 in the same evening?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:35 PM (ishno)

8 Drama follows Shrek Fetterman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 12, 2025 06:35 PM (LjSYW)

9 >>Lumpy Jack:

Hairlip

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (viF8m)

10
Andrew McCarthy (the astrophotographer, not the other one) has been teasing that he captured something even more spectacular than the Falcon 9 transiting the Sun in H-alpha.

He's dropped the title of the shot, "The Fall of Icarus". He was shooting in the desert with somebody flying one of those paramotor craft on Nov. 9.

I'm betting he got a shot of that in front of the Sun with the big flare going off. I'm not sure, but that's what I'm guessing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (w6EFb)

11 Hello!

Posted by: National Voter Registration Act of 1993 at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (Jd5cC)

12 No Fetterman should stay a Democrat and team with like minded Dems to become the loyal opposition again instead of the Hate America party they have become.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (EYmYM)

13 Sure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (5a2dR)

14 A Hello Larry reference! McClean Stevenson made several terrible career choices. MASH had a bunch. Gary Burghoff and Larry Linville also had an inflated opinion of their value as a solo. Sad trombone!

Posted by: Hollywood Babylon at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (oftw2)

15 Good evening, horde. Thanks for quick hits, ace. I appreciate a roundup at the end of the day, since I've been at work all day. You da best!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 12, 2025 06:37 PM (zYpTz)

16 Lumpy’s just playing bipartisan

Posted by: Accomack at November 12, 2025 06:37 PM (9H7EW)

17 Garza is, at the very least, pedo curious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 06:37 PM (UJMvS)

18 Rosa has purple hair today. To think that at one time she was the weirdest and ugliest person I could refer to. Now she's spawned trans creatures.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 06:38 PM (MAl//)

19 Himalayan Frog tea?

Is that real?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

20 ...woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses"

This is a much better description than what i have been calling them: birth control glasses.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2025 06:38 PM (2WIwB)

21 MASH is waaaay overrated. Only Wayne Rodgers had any talent. The rest were trash.

Posted by: Accomack at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (9H7EW)

22 I can see a radio host doing a "bit" and kissing feet.

However, leftists are incapable of such humor, which is how one knows it's real.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (UJMvS)

23 In fairness to the broad with the trouble glasses, Cracker Barrel was in trouble before she took over. People are eating out at chain restaurants less in general, and CB's quality has gone south in recent years

Posted by: Josephistan at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (jwRmx)

24 Andrew McCarthy (the astrophotographer, not the other one)

The grifting retard from NRO?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)

25 12 No Fetterman should stay a Democrat and team with like minded Dems to become the loyal opposition again instead of the Hate America party they have become.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 06:36 PM (EYmYM)

Yep. I don't want him as a Republican. As an R, he would essentially be Susan Collins.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (zYpTz)

26
ChristyBlinky,

You are hilarious. You brighten my day!

Posted by: fourseasons at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (3ek7K)

27 19 Where'd you get that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (ishno)

28 People are eating out at chain restaurants less in general, and CB's quality has gone south in recent years
Posted by: Josephistan at November 12, 2025 06:39 PM (jwRmx)

I think i read something that said she was behind that though. No cooking of meals on site- just microwave reheating. Hell, I can do that at home.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

29 I should be in FL right now but I'm in NJ instead because I don't want to fly during this stupid shutdown.

Can they just vote already.

Posted by: Iasonas at November 12, 2025 06:40 PM (gUzGB)

30 Hollywood Babylon:

As I recall it, Burghoff left M*A*S*H due to personal issues, plus he was by far the least popular actor on the entire set.

Linville left because he felt he couldn't do anything more with the character and didn't want to get bored. He didn't foresee any big stardom or payday in his future. Plus he was really good with his money and lived off M*A*S*H investments for the rest of his life, I believe.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:40 PM (Ixlky)

31 "finally take off their Covid Jammies and put on normal work clothes and go to the office to work like all people have done since... well since people have had jobs."

About 80% of our company works remotely now, from 0% in 2019.

If they mandated a return to office, 3/4 of them would quit, myself included. There is no benefit to me being there in person that outweighs the absurd cost of living and commuting in that blue shithole. Anyone with a brain and plenty who are suspect on account of being leftist loons got the fuck out of that place.

From the company's end, they don't want to pay me what it'd cost to hire me there now either. Rent/mortgage is now about triple what I'm paying here living in real America, even for places with homeless druggies living in tents in your yard.

Another bonus is that I can work extra hours without incurring as much hassle when needed, on top of the 2-3 hours of free time I gain not having to play Mad Max commuting.

The fact that a huge number of office jobs are total bullshit isn't really related to whether or not someone doing a legit job needs to be in an office.

Posted by: heya at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (YJXRQ)

32 Garza is, at the very least, pedo curious.
------

Yet people like him getting put into places where they can do great damage.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (TN0g+)

33 The text:
But I've also seen all those "Day in the Life" Tik-Toks of entitled non-workers spending their whole day "at work" drinking Himalayan frog tea or whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

34
Willolled.

http://alturl.com/o49w7/pw=Wepaq

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (i24o9)

35 Make sure your engines are bolted on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (ishno)

36 >> The grifting retard from NRO?

Yep, that's the one it's not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 06:42 PM (w6EFb)

37 the way I see it: I agree with you re Fetterman. Love the guy and his pushback against hatefulness/stupidity/anti-semitism in his party, but on actual issues, he's still pretty much a hard D.

I also still really miss both Manchin and Sinema.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:42 PM (Ixlky)

38 To give you some idea how bad it's gotten with non-productive at home workers, someone invented "Mouse Jiggler" software. What this does is it moves your cursor around on your computer and registers keyboard activity even when you are not there. That way, employers monitoring employees at home are tricked into thinking they are working at their computers.

This was a rather large scandal with Wells Fargo Bank that resulted in a number of people getting fired. It, also, resulted in someone else creating software to identify computers employing the 'Mouse Jiggler' software.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2025 06:43 PM (dIske)

39 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Harris County, TX at November 12, 2025 06:43 PM (wVcYX)

40 Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Posted by: Harris County, TX at November 12, 2025 06:43 PM (wVcYX)

BREAKING NEWS: Harris County in Texas has now officially renamed itself Steve Urkel County.

BTW, anyone here enjoy that game show, Flip Side?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:44 PM (Ixlky)

41 I've used someone else's metro card I didn't know they were personalized? I thought you just put money on them when they're empty?

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 06:45 PM (fGmWu)

42 Funny thing about M*A*S*H:

Larry Linville played the most hated character, Burns, but was probably the most beloved guy on the set.

Gary Burghoff played the most beloved character, Radar, but was probably the most disliked guy on the set.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:46 PM (Ixlky)

43 Ace!

Love the "ginormouse Attitude Glasses!" Ha!

I wore them back in the 80's due to super dooper thick lenses (bless my heart). I see photos now with them on and want to have them photo shopped off my face. A few with our first newborn son.

Now I would be marked as a Dim womman of paleness vs a myopic lunatic who hated them and mostly wore contact lenses.

It is as clear as the bull nose ring, tattoos and purple hair that these "women" are liberal Dim hags!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 06:46 PM (MAl//)

44 41 That is what I gathered as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:47 PM (ishno)

45 >>Six hundred people quit,

Odds are that most of those people quite long ago, and they only just made it official. They probably moved, retired, or *started working other jobs* and kept getting paycheck because, why not. Going back to work just made their scam untenable.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:47 PM (rkTTp)

46 Six hundred new YouTube Channels.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:48 PM (ishno)

47
Gary Burghoff played the most beloved character, Radar, but was probably the most disliked guy on the set.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:46 PM (Ixlky)

Didn't he hold the stuffed animal or whatever he was holding in his hand because there was something wrong with his hand? Some sort of deformity? Can I still say deformity? I don't know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 06:48 PM (fGmWu)

48 >>Six hundred people quit,

They got paid to go away.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:48 PM (i24o9)

49
Make sure your engines are bolted on.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Is that from a Bruce Springsteen song?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (pkeXY)

50
It is as clear as the bull nose ring, tattoos and purple hair that these "women" are liberal Dim hags!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 06

More red flags than May Day in Tiananmen Square

Posted by: Josephistan at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (jwRmx)

51 41 I've used someone else's metro card I didn't know they were personalized? I thought you just put money on them when they're empty?
Posted by: CaliGirl

If you buy with credit card -- that's how they get you. I don't know DC, but a lot of places let you re-up them as needed using app.

Buy with cash using mask and keep phone at home. Also walk funny because apparently, "gait analysis" is a thing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (rkTTp)

52 My legal, Permanent Resident Alien Spouse of 40 years has to make sure she's not auto-registered to vote when she renews her DL. Because it's a crime for the alien but not the license officer worker.

Posted by: RS at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (SuU/K)

53 "1 and a half million ? Not nearly enough"

It's a start. I think I appreciate the complexities and issues involved in producing the even larger numbers required to materially reverse the situation that's developed the last 40 years. And want but don't expect more, faster.

But some things are discouraging. Indirect, body-language stuff. Such as the Trump comments to Ingraham in that recent interview. And his remarks to the Iowa rally the day he got the BBB passed. And also - and this is kind of a head-shaker - when the administration adopted a tired populist stunt in blaming the meat-packing industry for beef prices being so high.

I don't know the merits of the beef price situation. But to single out the meat-packers - and rightly pointing out they're largely foreign-owned now (including by Chy-nah) - while making this dubious populist pitch - *when that sector is among the worst/longest-standing/most easily fixed* abusers of illegal labor, and not making that both as rhetorical point AND a policy priority .... a head-shaker.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (U/Byj)

54 "38 To give you some idea how bad it's gotten with non-productive at home workers, someone invented "Mouse Jiggler" software.
Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2025 06:43 PM (dIske)"

Jigglers have been a thing forever, and common comms software like MS Teams has had really advanced productivity tracking/employer spy capabilities for years.

Generally speaking most people do work that can be measured by clear metrics (or automated away, now), and either it gets done or not. A minority does stuff that really drives revenue and have the skills and motivation to potentially use WFH advantages to improve quality, quantity, or revenue, or some combo of the three.

I'm one of maybe 200 experts, worldwide, in a specific set of things, in addition to having years of know-how on proprietary systems. I don't have to jiggle a mouse, I can just tell work chat that I'm fucking off for the rest of the day.

Posted by: heya at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (YJXRQ)

55 I would assume it will pass

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (+qU29)

56 How involved with the Blaze is G. Beck?

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (/6GbT)

57 Also walk funny because apparently, "gait analysis" is a thing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (rkTTp)

Steal one from the Ministry of Silly Walks. It's the perfect crime.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:50 PM (i24o9)

58 Wiki says he has some deformity in his left hand that caused 3 fingers to be much smaller

Posted by: Accomack at November 12, 2025 06:51 PM (Dpv2s)

59
Buy with cash using mask and keep phone at home. Also walk funny because apparently, "gait analysis" is a thing.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (rkTTp)

I'm going to put a pebble in my shoe when I'm in public to change my gait.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 06:51 PM (fGmWu)

60 Don't Democrats make these subsidies temporary so the CBI will score things to make it look like they won't meet some budget cap that would increase something so they can say that theyre not increasing spending or something so things only require 51 votes in the Senate?

Posted by: 29Victor at November 12, 2025 06:51 PM (0MjtC)

61 Senators having the ability to sue for being spied upon will only hurt taxpayers. But it might allow them to expose evidence by Court order that implicates Smith and the judges in wrong doing.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (+YRf1)

62 38 someone invented "Mouse Jiggler" software. What this does is it moves your cursor around on your computer and registers keyboard activity even when you are not there. Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2025 06:43 PM (dIske)

What is it that they are supposed to be doing? If all I do is jiggle a mouse, it will be very obvious that I'm not doing anything, because I have metrics that need to be met (and I exceed them by at least 200% on the average day).

A job with no measurable output should probably be eliminated entirely.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (zYpTz)

63 Himalayan Frog tea?

Is that real?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's not made of actual frogs, silly.

That would be gross

The Himalayan Frogs eat the tea and shit it out.

So Organic, sustainable and Free-Range

Posted by: That clue haired chick in the break room at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (u+AWT)

64 Himalayan Frog tea?
Is that real?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I saw Himalayan Frog Tea open for Neutral Milk Hotel at the Root Note Coffee Shop in 2014.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (nhCoE)

65 What is it you say you do here?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (ishno)

66 Richard Leigh Bell was indicted on nine felony charges for the repeated sexual assault of a child.

He will now AVOID JAIL after striking a plea deal with Soros backed Texas DA Jose Garza.

Insane
====

Disordered. Collusive. Perverted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 06:53 PM (A0sqA)

67 What is it you say you do here?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:52 PM (ishno)

Jiggle my mouse.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:53 PM (i24o9)

68 Joann Pflug in the original MASH movie was not overrated.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (0sNs1)

69 Frog $#!t Tea ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (ishno)

70 Richard Leigh Bell was indicted on nine felony charges for the repeated sexual assault of a child.

He will now AVOID JAIL after striking a plea deal with Soros backed Texas DA Jose Garza.

Insane
====

Disordered. Collusive. Perverted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 06:53 PM (A0sqA)

He'd make for a great made for TV movie base on a true story of vigilante justice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (i24o9)

71 58 Wiki says he has some deformity in his left hand that caused 3 fingers to be much smaller
Posted by: Accomack at November 12, 2025 06:51 PM (Dpv2s)

Who dis? I suddenly got lost.

That weird friend of Obama's lost his fingers due to frostbite. Trivia brain alert. Rahm Emanuel. That's what he said altho I figured the mafia was involved.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (MAl//)

72 My COBRA will be cheaper than B.O.Care.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (UjdFS)

73 ChristyBlinky: Gary Burghoff of M*A*S*H.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:55 PM (Ixlky)

74 What is it you say you do here?

Posted by: Boss Moss
.....

Lunch at my desk.
Nap.
Crack stupid jokes.
Nap.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 06:56 PM (UjdFS)

75 I always thought the actors at MASH were not having any fun.

You can tell, and it improves the show if they are having fun. I never liked MASH. I blamed Alda

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:57 PM (rkTTp)

76 Buy with cash using mask and keep phone at home. Also walk funny because apparently, "gait analysis" is a thing.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (rkTTp)

People should start skipping. Soon there will be a skip analysis study. A degree at Harvard.

I am really hungry and am waiting to eat so we can go drive up higher to maybe see the Northern Lights.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 06:57 PM (MAl//)

77 MASH was full of woke propaganda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (ishno)

78 Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away by Republicans, since "Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year." And Republicans were saying they would take about extending the tax credits.

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It is scary when the only honest Democrat is the Senator with brain damage.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (unUNN)

79 can't tell which of the two fruits in that pic is the pedo. my money's on both.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (kZEs9)

80 I enjoyed MASH in the 70s when I was a kid and didn’t understand much of the social
Commentary.

Now it’s awful.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (W2Pud)

81 Hopefully there is another federal shutdown in January and it's permanent. The States can do everything better anyways.

Posted by: Enough Of The Mooching Already at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

82 What is it you say you do here?

Posted by: Boss Moss
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First I jiggle my mouse.

Then I give the laxatives to the tea frogs.

If I have time, then I tighten the engine bolts.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:59 PM (rkTTp)

83 I enjoyed MASH in the 70s when I was a kid and didn’t understand much of the social
Commentary.

Now it’s awful.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 12, 2025 06:58 PM (W2Pud)

Yup, same here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 06:59 PM (snZF9)

84 It is scary when the only honest Democrat is the Senator with brain damage.
Posted by: Decaf

Brain damage didn't seem to help Retardo Joe's honesty

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 12, 2025 06:59 PM (kZEs9)

85 He'd make for a great made for TV movie base on a true story of vigilante justice.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 06:54 PM (i24o9)

Gary Plauche, where are you?

Your specific set of skills are needed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)

86 Gary Burghoff?

Couldn't even get a job on the Love Boat

Posted by: Miklos cites Congressman Fred Grandy at November 12, 2025 07:00 PM (u+AWT)

87 29Victor, great typo! But I doubt the China-Burma-India theater has anything to do with deficit projections - though it *is* the least known important theater of WWII.

But you're correct - CBO has been gamed forever in the manner you describe. Lots of other problems with their "scoring" unrelated to this, besides.

No idea if the "temporary" O-care measure was structured to game CBO, or was the usual faux-temporary-really-permanent kinda thing ace describes in the post.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:00 PM (U/Byj)

88 73 ChristyBlinky: Gary Burghoff of M*A*S*H.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 06:55 PM (Ixlky)

Ah. I thought it was possibly the pipe bomber, but knew she was wearing gloves as I am ass-tute with details.

I always tell my husband that he better hope I am with him if there is a crime. He is often clueless as to details. His sisters are as well, so genetic. On the bright side he's way smarter than his siblings and better looking as well. Things went downhill after him.

I WANT TO EAT MY DINNER! He'd better show up soon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:01 PM (MAl//)

89 68 Joann Pflug in the original MASH movie was not overrated.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Yes, tall, statuesque women for the win!
Amazing that someone could have such good taste in women, but such poor taste in wildlife!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at November 12, 2025 07:02 PM (oftw2)

90 Ground hog day, again. Round and round we go a circle jerk shit show. Mark Levin shouting thru my brain again and again, be well my friend, be well my friends . in the end we all go away, all go a way. don't care any more, samo samo .

Posted by: Kingsman at November 12, 2025 07:02 PM (ehY6c)

91 The video of Trump horsing around in the Oval with the Syrians deserves some mention. Spraying cologne on them, and even joshing Jolani about having only one wife.

Sadly this is something we are unlikely ever to see again.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (U/Byj)

92 CRINGE: Leftist radio host Stephanie Miller kissed the feet of Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
.......

Better have a doctor take a look at that.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (UjdFS)

93 I enjoyed MASH in the 70s when I was a kid and didn’t understand much of the social
Commentary.

Now it’s awful.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Proto-AWFLs were the target market

Posted by: Media Analyst Miklos at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (u+AWT)

94
Harris County, Texas was just caught illegally sending more than $1.3 MILLION in taxpayer money to prevent the deportation of illegal alien criminals.

Throw the Teen Commissar's ass in jail.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)

95 Yea, Iiked MASH when I was younger. It has NOT aged well. Especially the later seasons.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (sAmhv)

96 Theory: kissing the feet of Jasmine Crockett is the most normal thing you'll ever see Miller do.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 07:04 PM (UJMvS)

97 Two thoughts.

1. Democrats got tired of the slow invasion because the public resisted and the immigrants they brought in kept becoming Republicans. So they went with the blitz -- bring in enough people fast, before the public wises up. by then it is too late.

2. Democrats also understand that they can NEVER allow these people to live productive lives. There must be chaos and dependency or they will be Republicans.

This past 20+ years has been a planned op. A revolution.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 07:04 PM (rkTTp)

98 Early MASH: Funny, slapstick, poked fun at everyone and everything.

Older MASH: Commies Good, USA Bad, Koreans a noble race (not savages like they were and still are), Americans are racist, sexist homophobes.

Posted by: Col. Flagg at November 12, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

99 >> Richard Leigh Bell was indicted on nine felony charges for the repeated sexual assault of a child.

Try that in a red state!

>> He will now AVOID JAIL after striking a plea deal with Soros backed Texas DA Jose Garza.

Well, dammit.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:04 PM (l3YAf)

100 Watching the shitstorm called debate on C-SPAN. Quick takes:
1) Republican Senators were STUPID to add the "sue the FBI" provision. Just gives Dems a point to stress. In soccer that would be an "own goal".
2) Dems are laser focused on the "GOP is decimating Obamacare". GOP again "STUPID" in not having talking points straight.
3) The procedural vote passed 213-209, so expect that actual bill to pass as well.
4) Can't our elected reps just learn to STFU?

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 12, 2025 07:05 PM (e/Osv)

101 Use of public money to fight enforcement of immigration law is common. Astonishing, but there we are.

Of course, as some used to say, don't try that in Texas. Or something.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:05 PM (U/Byj)

102 Not sure what I enjoy more.
Smoking South American drug boats.
Or
Blowing Palestinian terrorists pagers.
Just cool how they are so surprised that their hip is gone.
Fun stuff.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 12, 2025 07:05 PM (jZ3ZM)

103 I never liked MASH, but I was precocious on that stuff.

I remember watching Twilight Zone as a kid and thinking the writers were a bunch of filthy commies. Not most of them, but once in a while it was commie crap.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 07:06 PM (rkTTp)

104 I got yelled at today by a retired game warden that I caught trespassing with his lady friend. I think I embarrassed him by saying you cant hike here and he lost his mind and screamed at me and my dog.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:07 PM (fGmWu)

105 About 600 employees in the company's Los Angeles and New York offices at the vice-president level and below took the buyout, according to company disclosures filed on Monday--and the severance packages set Paramount back $185 million.

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Those buyout packages better last them some time as these workers are unlikely to find replacement jobs any time soon as everyone in their industry is doing the same. They could of course change careers and do something else like apply for the jobs now vacant due to deported illegals.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2025 07:07 PM (unUNN)

106 I can tell you that my Grandpa, who was one of the first into Korea in 1950 iirc, did not like the MASH tv show.

Posted by: fd at November 12, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

107 "woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses"

Or spunk screens

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (kZEs9)

108 >> Democrats got tired of the slow invasion because the public resisted and the immigrants they brought in kept becoming Republicans.

That never happens. Immigrants favor Democrats. Second and third generation are often even more radicalized. I saw some great videos of old people in NYC who escaped communism only to be shocked their grandkids voted for Mamdani.

This is why we even accepting “based” asylum seekers is fraught with hazard. Second and third generations that never lived through Mao will happily vote to recreate that here. Sickening.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (l3YAf)

109 I saw Ginormous Attitude Glasses open for Elton John at GIANT Center in Hershey around '77.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (qNjkY)

110 The movie MASH was just miserable.

And I like boobs. But everyone is just miserable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

111 Speaking of M*A*S*H, mentioned before that at an inauguration party years ago had a nice talk with Loretta Swit and Jim Belushi. They were full of all kinds of legit gee whiz questions about DC stuff. Very friendly nice folks.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:09 PM (U/Byj)

112 I like this brunette Congress chick

She talks to the Dems like they're children which is an appropriate approach imo

Posted by: Iasonas at November 12, 2025 07:09 PM (gUzGB)

113 I don't know who the Hispanic/Black? member of Congress is that is speaking now. Saying "dis" and "de President."

I do note that I see Debbie Washerwoman Shitz behind him jabbering to a womman with her super crooked teefs.

Which reminds me, where is LaTeefa Simon? My favorite Dim of all! I know I am mean and too bad.

I am now hangry and told my dude. The time change, while it is the one I like, has me all messed up.

It is sort of partly cloudy and I want to rush up the road for the Northern Lights. Which we probably won't see.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:10 PM (MAl//)

114 The vote is a formality. According to NoVA folks I know, all of fed gov has been informed they will be returning tomorrow. So those in the know, know.

In more news (sure to make Bezos happy who set his Amazon BF Sale for Nov 20), some part of fed gov pay will go out Nov 19 (at least that is the publicly stated plan). No idea how much or what part, but that should especially help ATCs and air travel.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2025 07:10 PM (tOcjL)

115 Harris County, Texas was just caught illegally sending more than $1.3 MILLION in taxpayer money to prevent the deportation of illegal alien criminals.

Throw the Teen Commissar's ass in jail.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)

Along with Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, her puppet master.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2025 07:10 PM (wVcYX)

116 CaliGirl, on your property? I do love the former game warden part. Hilarious.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:10 PM (U/Byj)

117 Old Chucky tried to appease the radicals.

Hey, Chuck, you can't appease radicals. They will eat you for lunch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 07:11 PM (wCq0Y)

118 98 Older MASH: Commies Good, USA Bad, Koreans a noble race (not savages like they were and still are), Americans are racist, sexist homophobes. - Col. Flagg

I remember a scene from one of the later seasons, in which some of the MASH guys were helping out at a forward post somewhere, and they were being shelled, and an explosion rocked the tent Klinger was working in, and, as he bent over one of the wounded to protect him , he muttered "Damn Stalin, Truman, whoever". Perfectly encapsulates what you wrote.

Posted by: Paco at November 12, 2025 07:11 PM (mADJX)

119 The really cool thing about following the rules and posting "No Trespassing" signs per government regulation? Idiots who trespass and injure themselves can still sue.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 12, 2025 07:12 PM (UJMvS)

120 "woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses"

Or spunk screens
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (kZEs9)

Ha! +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2025 07:12 PM (wVcYX)

121 The movie MASH was just miserable.

And I like boobs. But everyone is just miserable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

🎶 suicide is painless
it brings on many changes 🎶

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:12 PM (l3YAf)

122 Working at home could be a good thing if the kiddies were involved. Take pre 1918 Spain. Whole families would get together around the dining table and manufacture Ruby pistols so the Frogs could fight the Hun.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 12, 2025 07:13 PM (gm9Sb)

123 And we can't impose male standards of success or failure on woke women, who are alternately Super-Empowered Girlbosses or Damsels who need rescuing as the circumstances may require.

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"Why all da white men keep failin' to position DEI BIPOC hires for success, h8rs! Dis is why we need trillions of dollars in Reparations, yo ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:13 PM (qNjkY)

124 116 CaliGirl, on your property? I do love the former game warden part. Hilarious.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:10 PM (U/Byj)

Yes and he's going to get trespassed. He should have said sorry and left but he wanted to argue with me about all the ways it was okay for him to be there and I finally had to scream leave a bunch of times and then he left. I bet his date was impressed. I was in a pink gator with the dog on my lap.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:13 PM (fGmWu)

125 No dea if the "temporary" O-care measure was structured to game CBO, or was the usual faux-temporary-really-permanent kinda thing ace describes in the post.
Posted by: rhomboid

It was to game the CBO scoring.

And,
1. Ds win in 2024 they'll extend it.
2. Rs win, it's an election year issue for the Ds.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 12, 2025 07:14 PM (FxH7T)

126 CRINGE: Leftist radio host Stephanie Miller kissed the feet of Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

What, was her a$$ too far away?

Posted by: Paco at November 12, 2025 07:15 PM (mADJX)

127
I hated the very premise behind M*A*S*H. Cool, rebellious, smart guys against their stupid, militaristic, incompetent superiors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 07:15 PM (tgvbd)

128 MASH and The Waltons are unwatchable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2025 07:15 PM (NBPRu)

129 109 I saw Ginormous Attitude Glasses open for Elton John at GIANT Center in Hershey around '77.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (qNjkY)

I read in the NY Post last night that Elton was a real Post Menapausal hissy fit, behind the scenes, the Dennis Wilson Rock Hall of Fame thing the other night. But then went on to give a gracious speech after his fit. Because! His jet was waiting!

I dislike him. I don't care if he can play the piano. Proof that they found a cure for AIDS, I guess.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:16 PM (MAl//)

130 I really hope that Crockett had stepped on dog poo just prior to Miller kissing her shoes. Her father was the 1964 Republican VP candidate. Daddy issues

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2025 07:16 PM (bfwj/)

131 Buy with cash using mask and keep phone at home. Also walk funny because apparently, "gait analysis" is a thing.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12, 2025 06:49 PM (rkTTp)

I think I first heard of gait analysis on a TV show ("Scorpion", I think). My reaction was something like, "Wow - yeah! That's definitely for real!"

That was because I'm near-sighted, and sometimes didn't wear my glasses. I remember working someplace with long, straight, mostly empty corridors. I would see somebody way down the corridor, but was unable to make a visual ID, but over time I came to realize that I could tell exactly who they were from how they walked. So I've basically used this myself.

In an interview I heard yesterday, the interviewee said that a military guy reviewed just the part of the analysis that has been made public and said that he would be comfortable ordering a snatch and grab based on evidence that strong - life and death stuff.

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 12, 2025 07:17 PM (hOOi9)

132 The person kicking Crockett's kicks was probably into toilet seat kissing during Covid.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 12, 2025 07:17 PM (gm9Sb)

133 104 I got yelled at today by a retired game warden that I caught trespassing with his lady friend. I think I embarrassed him by saying you cant hike here and he lost his mind and screamed at me and my dog.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:07 PM (fGmWu)

Good heavens, he was trespassing! You'd think as a game warden he'd know from illegally entering private property!

Posted by: moki at November 12, 2025 07:17 PM (wLjpr)

134 You know one thing thats interesting about the manosphere videos on ewetub is a lot of them are like ... almost porn. Telling stories of just whorish behavior by this or that woman. This gal is cheating on her husband and how he owned her. This guy is telling you how to be an alpha he-man and juggle a bunch of women as the key to happiness.

Its kind of retarded. This is not normal either. Confidence is not an... instruction type of thing, people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

135 My husband is losing his mind. Not all countries need to be democratic and there are some good ideas from socialism! I believe the pod people have taken him over. I gave him homework and asked for 5 good things about socialism. We'll see if he completes his assignment.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)

136 ...I finally had to scream leave a bunch of times and then he left. I bet his date was impressed. I was in a pink gator with the dog on my lap.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:13 PM (fGmWu)
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Hawt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (9ipOP)

137
MASH and The Waltons are unwatchable.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 12, 2025 07:15 PM (NBPRu)

The Waltons, starring Will Geer, commie and shirtlifter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (tgvbd)

138 Wayne Rogers ‘Trapper ‘ was the cast member who was financially well off other than his acting money. He used to have a financial show with a couple of others guys on Fox. He was conservative .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (EYmYM)

139 I dislike him. I don't care if he can play the piano. Proof that they found a cure for AIDS, I guess.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:16 PM (MAl//)

...or it wasn't deadly enough.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (snZF9)

140 MASH and The Waltons are unwatchable.
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Read the wikipedia page on the grandpa from The Waltons--he was a communist wretch of a human.

Posted by: Crusader at November 12, 2025 07:19 PM (TN0g+)

141
MASH?

Spoiler:

"It wasn't a chicken!!!"

Perhaps the worst, most lame MASH episode. I think Alda wrote it or directed it.

Oh, and although Alan Alda deserves a kick in the nuts for MASH. He needs a double outshot for "The Mephisto Waltz". Lame-ass horror.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 12, 2025 07:19 PM (iJfKG)

142 Can you buy those shot plastic measurer things they have in the bars?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 07:19 PM (ishno)

143 My husband is losing his mind. Not all countries need to be democratic and there are some good ideas from socialism! I believe the pod people have taken him over. I gave him homework and asked for 5 good things about socialism. We'll see if he completes his assignment.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)
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There are some good Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman videos that might help.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 12, 2025 07:19 PM (9ipOP)

144
Yes and he's going to get trespassed. He should have said sorry and left but he wanted to argue with me about all the ways it was okay for him to be there and I finally had to scream leave a bunch of times and then he left. I bet his date was impressed. I was in a pink gator with the dog on my lap.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:13 PM (fGmWu)

I love this. Trespass that jerk, and make him suffer the process.

Posted by: moki at November 12, 2025 07:20 PM (wLjpr)

145 130 I really hope that Crockett had stepped on dog poo just prior to Miller kissing her shoes. Her father was the 1964 Republican VP candidate. Daddy issues
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2025 07:16 PM (bfwj/)

He was from my city. He ran with Goldwater, so probably a good guy. His daughter must have been quite the disappointment for him.

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 12, 2025 07:20 PM (hOOi9)

146
Oh, and although Alan Alda deserves a kick in the nuts for MASH. He needs a double outshot for "The Mephisto Waltz". Lame-ass horror.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 12, 2025 07:19 PM (iJfKG)

I haven't watched mash since it was on when I was a kid and I can barely remember it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:20 PM (fGmWu)

147 My friends just left. That was a beautiful Christmas party.

The kids did an amazing job decorating the Christmas tree. They loved their puzzles and Advent Calendars. I saw how those work now - they are pretty cool. I'm wondering what's in the slime one.

The dog Ralphy and I got so many gifts. Candy, treats, stuff the kids made and infinitely valuable pictures of my late mother and of our past Christmases together.

They brought over carrots, corn, mashed potatoes and roast beef. I'm set for food for a few days. So today was a very happy day.

For Christmas, I may try to find a soup kitchen or somewhere to volunteer at. I still have to worry about the dog.

I'm wondering if this years' shutdown is over. I thought the vote was at 7pm.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:20 PM (Sco7b)

148 Its kind of retarded. This is not normal either. Confidence is not an... instruction type of thing, people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

If the guy makes it to 65 he’s going to be in for a surprise. He’s going to use a lot of money on hookers.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:21 PM (EYmYM)

149 Plaintiff: State of Texas

Harris County, Texas; Harris, County Commissioners Court;

Il Comandante, Lina Hidalgo, in her official capacity as Harris County Judge;
Puppet Master, Rodney Ellis, in his official capacity as Commissioner of Harris County Precinct 1;
etc., etc..
Defendants

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 07:21 PM (wCq0Y)

150 Christmad Party November the 12th?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 07:22 PM (ishno)

151 >>My husband is losing his mind. Not all countries need to be democratic and there are some good ideas from socialism!

Brutalist Architecture and Mass Graves have to appeal to someone, right?

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 07:22 PM (rO4EG)

152 I gave him homework and asked for 5 good things about socialism. We'll see if he completes his assignment.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)

If he brings up anything about Canada, several of us here have your back.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:23 PM (Sco7b)

153 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)
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Tell you’ll even start and give him the first one.

1. Everyone is equally miserable.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:23 PM (EYmYM)

154 Stateless, that sounds lovely! I'm glad you had a good "Christmas!"

Posted by: moki at November 12, 2025 07:23 PM (wLjpr)

155

Gary Burghoff had his own TV show called W*A*L*T*E*R

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203189

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 07:24 PM (pkeXY)

156 'Foreign Nationals go to the DMV to get a driver’s license, the DMV automatically registers them to vote'

NFS. That was the point of that Motor Voter scheme.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 12, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)

157 Another bonus is that I can work extra hours without incurring as much hassle when needed, on top of the 2-3 hours of free time I gain not having to play Mad Max commuting.

The fact that a huge number of office jobs are total bullshit isn't really related to whether or not someone doing a legit job needs to be in an office.
Posted by: heya at November 12, 2025 06:41 PM (YJXRQ)
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On the whole, remote workers are less productive than in office. There are no studies that are not based upon the employees own responses that says otherwise, outside of a call center study done in China about 10 years ago. And even then, there were caveats. There are a few jobs that can be done remotely, and some have been for a long time. But most people struggle to keep on task with their own stuff gathered around them.

That is why bosses want people back in the office. Now, many of them aren't necessarily located downtown in major cities anymore - just ask the commercial real estate guys about that.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (UVyKP)

158 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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Follow
Richard Leigh Bell was indicted on nine felony charges for the repeated sexual assault of a child.

He will now AVOID JAIL after striking a plea deal with Soros backed Texas DA Jose Garza.

Insane

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If that child was a relation of mine, both of these scum would mysteriously disappear ... and that's all I'll say about that.

Those who make criminal justice impossible will make vigilante justice inevitable ... *spit*

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (qNjkY)

159
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2025 07:18 PM (2NHgQ)

I'm so sorry and I have faith that you will get him to come around to the light.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (fGmWu)

160 >>Good heavens, he was trespassing! You'd think as a game warden he'd know from illegally entering private property!

Game Wardens, themselves, have no concern over Private Property. They can Trespass with impunity.
They are often used by other agencies to circumvent warrant procedures.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (rO4EG)

161 150 Christmad Party November the 12th?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 12, 2025 07:22 PM (ishno)

Canada. Thanksgiving was in October. Halloween's done.

Christmas is next. Outside lights will be done tomorrow before the cold really hits.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (Sco7b)

162 133 104 I got yelled at today by a retired game warden that I caught trespassing with his lady friend. I think I embarrassed him by saying you cant hike here and he lost his mind and screamed at me and my dog.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:07 PM (fGmWu)

Good heavens, he was trespassing! You'd think as a game warden he'd know from illegally entering private property!
Posted by: moki at November 12, 2025 07:17 PM (wLjpr)

Was he wearing a mask? They are the hikers I like to scare and would fake sneeze.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (MAl//)

163 Wayne Rogers left MASH because he was supposed to be the co star and it was becoming the Hawkeye Pierce show( which it increasingly was from then on)

Posted by: steevy at November 12, 2025 07:26 PM (YwEeS)

164 Cafe nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2025 07:26 PM (i24o9)

165 They are never going to vote until they all have their dramatic turn at the mic. It could be awhile.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 12, 2025 07:26 PM (MAl//)

166 Good things about communism:

- Kills a lot of communists
- Low immigration
- The AK-47/AKM was legit a better gun than the early, failure-prone M-16.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:27 PM (l3YAf)

167 Thanks moki.

We have the party so early because their kids like to decorate the tree. That's how this started.

4th year.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:27 PM (Sco7b)

168 My feeling about companies requiring employees return to the office isn’t based on productivity , etc.

Like mom used to reply when asked why?

Because I said so. End of story.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (EYmYM)

169 First I jiggle my mouse.

Then I give the laxatives to the tea frogs.

If I have time, then I tighten the engine bolts.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 12,

SNORT

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (+4S8X)

170 NO KINGS!
*kisses Jasmine Ratchet's feet like she's royalty*
What?

Posted by: Cognitive dissonance ain't just a river in Egypt at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (TbWk/)

171 That never happens. Immigrants favor Democrats. Second and third generation are often even more radicalized. I saw some great videos of old people in NYC who escaped communism only to be shocked their grandkids voted for Mamdani.

This is why we even accepting “based” asylum seekers is fraught with hazard. Second and third generations that never lived through Mao will happily vote to recreate that here. Sickening.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:08 PM (l3YAf)
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This is not true. Hispanics are voting more GOP, and Hispanic men are already majority GOP voters. Maybe by 26, but certainly by 28, their wives and girlfriends will as well. Hispanics see themselves as white - and the dems crazy cultural stuff absolutely turns them off. As they assimilate into their communities, they are voting GOP.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (UVyKP)

172 Immigration Attorney: Foreign Nationals go to the DMV to get a driver’s license, the DMV automatically registers them to vote.. “This happens a lot.”

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* 1993 California has entered the chat and has since transformed into Califzuela *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (qNjkY)

173
Game Wardens, themselves, have no concern over Private Property. They can Trespass with impunity.
They are often used by other agencies to circumvent warrant procedures.
Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2025 07:25 PM (rO4EG)

This one is retired and hasn't been employed in over 10 years. I met him once when he came to my house because I had a bear here and the game warden was training and they called this guy to come and check because they didn't believe me that it was a bear. He showed up in shorts and flip flops and then called the warden and said she's right it's a bear.
He acted like an ass because he used to be able to do that and a chick in a pink gator told him no in front of his date.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 12, 2025 07:28 PM (fGmWu)

174 "there are some good ideas from socialism!"

All animals are equal!

Posted by: fd at November 12, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)

175 127 I hated the very premise behind M*A*S*H. Cool, rebellious, smart guys against their stupid, militaristic, incompetent superiors. - Hadrian the Seventh

It was so obviously the Korean War viewed with a leftist Vietnam War-era sensibility. Hated the movie, disliked the TV series, except for the occasional episode that was fairly politics-free (like Alda trying to get ribs sent over from his favorite place in Chicago).

Posted by: Paco at November 12, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

176 CRINGE: Leftist radio host Stephanie Miller kissed the feet of Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

These people are mental.

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I don't call it the Democrat plantation for nothin' ...

Definitely. Not. A Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:30 PM (qNjkY)

177 166 Good things about communism:

- Kills a lot of communists
- Low immigration
- The AK-47/AKM was legit a better gun than the early, failure-prone M-16.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 12, 2025 07:27 PM (l3YAf)

-saving for old age isn't as stressful
-everyone pretty much knows the media lies to them.
-it's easier to get revenge on neighbor's you hate.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:31 PM (Sco7b)

178 That fucking whack-a-doodle Blaze running all that up the flagpole without a flag. That's why he's not bookmarked.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 07:31 PM (wCq0Y)

179 Rodgers was a financial advisor after acting, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:32 PM (U/Byj)

180 Who was the chick during the Lewinsky crap who said she’d give Clinton BJs because of his women’s rights record or some sort.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:32 PM (EYmYM)

181 163 Wayne Rogers left MASH because he was supposed to be the co star and it was becoming the Hawkeye Pierce show (which it increasingly was from then on) - steevy.

Definitely. The episode where Hawkeye bursts into the room where the Americans and the Norks are discussing a truce to bring hostilities to an end was pure Alan Alda narcissism.

Posted by: Paco at November 12, 2025 07:34 PM (mADJX)

182 Posted by: Paco at November 12, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

My marine Korean War vet conservative father liked MASH the movie and the series when Trapper was on it. I never asked him why.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:34 PM (EYmYM)

183 176 CRINGE: Leftist radio host Stephanie Miller kissed the feet of Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett

I wonder if we can find a black radio host to kiss a white conservative politician's feet.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 12, 2025 07:35 PM (Sco7b)

184 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, so celebrate it when you want.

Posted by: Timeline of History at November 12, 2025 07:36 PM (oftw2)

185 Rodgers was a financial advisor after acting, I think.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:32 PM

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Yes, he had his own investment firm and did very well for his clients. He often guested on Fox Business.

Posted by: Bigsmith at November 12, 2025 07:37 PM (1Au9i)

186 The Repubicans are back.

Apparently a small group led by Van Drew are trying to cut a deal on continuing the Obamacare subsidies.

Those would be the COVID subsidies that were given when Democrats asked for a temporary increase.

Posted by: That Guy at November 12, 2025 07:38 PM (Ybx9r)

187 Black JEM, the shift in Hispanic* voting is interesting and was material to outcomes in 2024. Recall that in the most secure, yet also obviously the most ridiculously insecure and likely fraudulent, election in history, 2020, the evil buffoonish racist anti-immigrant Trump became the first GOP nominee to win a few TX border counties.

Maybe it's hair-splitting but I'd say that more than "consider themselves white" that they share (what used to be) mainstream basic values with many non-Dem voters. Even calling these things "values" seems silly - respect for law, hard work, protecting children, etc. - are even more fundamental than "values".

* "Hispanic" is a particularly fuzzy and useless grab-all term for immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, but whatever.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:39 PM (U/Byj)

188
Ada Lluch
@ada_lluch

I was walking around in Warsaw and the guy in front of me had this bag.

Be like Polish people. Be based.

[Image of someone wearing a backpack with a patch on the back reading -- in English -- "HEAVEN HAS A WALL, A GATE AND A STRICT IMMIGRATION POLICY. HELL HAS OPEN BORDERS."]

https://is.gd/CVHQ0I

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:39 PM (qNjkY)

189 The Republicans were never gone. Several months ago a group of House members introduced a bill to amnesty* hospitality (and ag?) illegals. Don't know how many co-sponsors that thing has by now. Anyway, the context is instructive.

In the very first inning of (what I hope is?) Trump's long struggle to re-establish rule of law in immigration, with the degraded and alien institutions and people in high hysterics fighting every move (to include Civil War+ levels of encouraging violence against federal personnel) - these GOP members thought the thing to do was to introduce a soft/deceptive amnesty for a segment of the illegal alien population.

The only change that has happened is that Trump, miraculously, is president. For a while.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:44 PM (U/Byj)

190 Who was the chick during the Lewinsky crap who said she’d give Clinton BJs because of his women’s rights record or some sort.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 12, 2025 07:32 PM (EYmYM)

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Newsweek "journalist" Nina Burleigh.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 12, 2025 07:45 PM (qNjkY)

191 Oops, forgot

* "amnesty" is precisely the word for anything that, post-facto, has the effect of legalizing law-breaking, in this case the massive systematic violation of immigration laws. Of course the word would never be uttered in the course of discussion, might be noticed by the dim populace.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2025 07:47 PM (U/Byj)

192 Nood. Cafe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 12, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

193 Don't tell Pixy but the audio and video on that Steve Miller clip are from two different sessions.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 08:01 PM (wCq0Y)

194 aaaaannd, wrong thread

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 08:01 PM (wCq0Y)

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