Lumpy Jack: The Loving and Tolerant Left Is Wishing Death Upon Me and Praying For a Lethal Stroke

John Fetterman and his life-partner Lumpy Jack recently spoke with the Free Press about the severe depression he suffered after his stroke and, let's face it, serious damage to his brain. And probably a change in personality. This change in personality resulted in him becoming more reasonable and less Trust Fund Communist.

Fox excerpted the interview.

Fetterman now admits that we were right -- he should have quit the Senate race when he suffered a serious stroke during the campaign:

Fetterman's condition improved, "but in hindsight I should have quit."

He says he was so depressed his wife told him to leave and go live with his parents (seems like old times...), because she didn't want his depression weighing down on the children.

And, he says, he contemplated suicide, at least once that he admits to.

He was constantly mentioned on Fox, or under attack by Dr. Mehmet Oz and his allies: "Uncle Festerman [in an] oversize gym-rat costume," "unfit to run," "the guy can't talk," a "wax dummy," "where does the man end and the machine." And on social media "Vegetable. Moron. Retard."

Yeah those last three were me. My bad.

This got in his head: "a defining quality of depression, the building blocks of which I had probably struggled with ever since I was a kid. My parents were 19 when I was conceived, and I have always felt it was because of me that my parents were unable to follow their own dreams. When your self-image is negative, as mine was growing up, you gravitate toward shame. You gravitate toward feeling unwanted."
"This inclination persisted even as an adult..."
"Is this my life now?"

Then came the debate against Oz. He was awful.
"This was a make-or-break moment that would determine the outcome of the election, and I had wilted. I'd choked."
"For the entire three-and-a-half-hour ride back from the debate, I read reactions on X, shooting myself up with the shame that is too often the sustenance of the depressive..."
"For months, I was suicidal. Paranoid. Not eating. Not sleeping. Not speaking. Not functioning. Resigned. Ashamed. Despairing. Despairing everywhere I was. Up was down, and down was up." He won anyway by 5 points.
"Once, as I lay in bed," Fetterman said, "I asked myself, What would you do if there were a pill on the nightstand you could take and not wake up? I would have taken it."
Gisele told him "I could not come home until I was back to being myself: The impact on our kids was just too great." So the senator moved in with his parents.
"By February, I wasn't eating, and I wouldn't talk to anybody..."
"I began to feel more alive and animated than I had in months. I was present. I felt energy."
"There were still enormous challenges, though. I was terrified to see my family."
"A young therapist-in-training came in to talk to me one day. 'Gisele and the kids are thinking about coming to visit,' she said."
"I don't think that's a good idea." The next day: "The kids are better off without me."

"At that point, she stepped out of her professional mode and said the most important thing that has ever been said to me in my life:"
"Children need their daddy."
The visit at a Wendy's went well. Everyone was relaxed. He needed their love.

I don't want to be Joe Maudlin Manipulator, but here's the depressed stroke victim that the left is currently wishing death on.

Dana Bash pretended to be surprised to hear that her fellow leftists were "praying for [Fetterman's] next stroke." CNN, of course, refused to cover the thousands of angry Democrats celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.

Maybe if she actually covered the news she wouldn't always be surprised by it.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) describes the truly awful things that the Left has said to him as he voted to reopen the government.

Basically, they openly called and wished for him to lose his life.

These people who’ve said this to him are truly disgusting.pic.twitter.com/Q2lqgfv0GX
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 12, 2025

The "In This House, We Believe LOVE IS LOVE" left is now routinely booing John Fetterman, and even worse, booing Lumpy Jack.

LUMPY JACK DID NOTHING WRONG

This happened on what ABC maintains is a "legitimate news program" -- which means they don't have to offer equal time to Republicans -- The View:

"We can talk to him about this tomorrow... Senator John Fetterman will be here tomorrow," Goldberg said, drawing a loud "boo" from an audience member.
Goldberg appeared to shoot a brief glare in the heckler's direction before continuing, "So we're going to ask him [Fetterman], 'What the hell?'"

This was a "Republican Shutdown," but Democrats are shrieking about a Democrat who wants to open the government. Check. Got it.

Fetterman and Lumpy Jack were already hate objects on the left before he began stating, correctly, that Democrats "need to own" the "Republican shutdown." And then that hate reached levels that... well, levels that previously resulted in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

As you know, the House voted to end the shutdown, and Trump signed the CR into law.

🚨 The House just PASSED the bill to end the Schumer Shutdown.

Final vote: 222-209.

Democrats used American families as “leverage” for 43 days and got nothing.

Enough with the missed paychecks, delayed flights, and empty dinner tables. @POTUS will sign it tonight. pic.twitter.com/kwyoNkg6l0
— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) November 13, 2025

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has officially signed the CR to RE-OPEN the government from the Schumer Shutdown

Trump REFUSED to budge. Not a SINGLE PENNY went to illegals, as Chuck Schumer wanted

GREAT WORK, 47! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1lpWWcKygZ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2025

🚨 LMAO! The White House just posted a video trolling Temu Obama and Chuck Schumer after their shutdown failed MISERABLY

Give the White House media team a raise 🤣

Expect an meltdown from Hakeem and Chuck E. Schumer 😂 pic.twitter.com/gCezveBvf2
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2025

It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

And I try to get four Friday posts on Thursday so that Friday is a half-day.

What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 Morning Ace.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

2 I told 'em.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

3 morning!

Well, afternoon, really. I am no longer a nightowl and I don't get up at the crack of 10:30 any longer.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:13 PM (1wjle)

4 Fetterman has -35 approval from Democrats in Pennsylvania.

He has +40 approval from Republicans in Pennsylvania.

Now...who votes in Democrat primaries in Pennsylvania? Democrats or Republicans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

5 >>>Minecraft YouTubers pull more than that [ 5M].

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 13, 2025 12:12 PM (OUMaO)

Yeah, it's laughable as a supporting point about someone's influence over anything except their own niche interest group.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM (i24o9)

6 RE: Dana Bash.

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.

Posted by: ATF at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM (TezPK)

7 I don't quite understand the purpose of the sombreros on Jeffries and Schumer. It was to remind people that they were advocating for entitlements to illegals ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM (dSKRp)

8 Off deep state sock.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 13, 2025 12:16 PM (TezPK)

9 >>>7 I don't quite understand the purpose of the sombreros on Jeffries and Schumer. It was to remind people that they were advocating for entitlements to illegals ?

yes. That they are putting Illegal Aliens' interests over those of American citizens.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:16 PM (1wjle)

10 He says he was so depressed his wife told him to leave and go live with his parents (seems like old times...), because she didn't want his depression weighing down on the children.

My divorce attorney will be in touch.
Posted by: Senator Fetterman

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:16 PM (FkmEP)

11 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party. Assuming he'd like to remain politically active.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (NwnyJ)

12 I don't quite understand the purpose of the sombreros on Jeffries and Schumer. It was to remind people that they were advocating for entitlements to illegals ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM (dSKRp)

That is the beauty of it. You INNATELY understand it, even though you think you don't.

Trump is the Grandmaster.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (i24o9)

13 I want to see Lumpy stand in the well of the Senate and start dancing to "Putting on the Ritz".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)

14 Now...who votes in Democrat primaries in Pennsylvania? Democrats or Republicans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

The AWFL's in Philly and collar counties will see that Lumpy gets it good and hard. Hell hath no fury like a neurotic Main Line wine mom.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (GTqXr)

15 Liberals wishing death upon people!

These are not the Liberals I know.

Oh, wait, yes they are.

And actually, Fetterman came out of this entire mess better than pretty much anyone else. He was the wilted rose poking out from the Democratic pile of subhuman crap.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

16 >>Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.

I don't know why, but I thought, "she looks like a dybbuk."

Google's crap AI:

A dybbuk is a malicious, possessing spirit in Jewish folklore that takes control of a living person's body, speaking and acting through them. Often the dislocated soul of a dead person who was not properly laid to rest, it is believed to enter the body due to a grievous sin or some spiritual imbalance.

Something about her face looks like a weak-chin ghost in torment.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (1wjle)

17 11 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party. Assuming he'd like to remain politically active.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (NwnyJ)

======

He still thinks men can become women.

He's a doctrinal leftist on every issue except Israel and calling us Nazis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

18 Glad to be here. I hope all are well.
It's a new day, therefore I loathe democrat more.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (gxokI)

19 I hope he doesn't regain his democrat aptitude. He'll have to get some flowers for Algernon.

Posted by: Minuteman at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (47/pr)

20 Dana Bash is hauntingly plain.

She's a Spirit Halloween 3.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:19 PM (1wjle)

21 Sounds like his wife wasn't supportive at all

You don't tell your husband to get out and come back when you aren't fucked up after a stroke

Leave that bitch in a heartbeat I would

Posted by: Melodicmetal at November 13, 2025 12:19 PM (81lK9)

22 Has any Democrat spoken out against the venom?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 13, 2025 12:19 PM (TudcJ)

23 >>>21 Sounds like his wife wasn't supportive at all

yeah. I did a funny Ken Burns-style post about their relationship.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:20 PM (1wjle)

24 >11 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party. Assuming he'd like to remain politically active.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (NwnyJ)

Never happen. And candidly, PA doesn't need another Spector. Plus, he's still retarded...stroke damage not withstanding.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:20 PM (GTqXr)

25 If it was the stroke that turned Fetterman reasonable, then strokes all around for the entire Democratic party.

A stroke for you Crockett.

A stroke for you AOC.

A stroke for you Bernie.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:21 PM (Sco7b)

26 23 >>>21 Sounds like his wife wasn't supportive at all

yeah. I did a funny Ken Burns-style post about their relationship.

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2025 12:20 PM (1wjle)

======

"You mean, let me understand this cause, you know maybe it's me, it's a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fucking amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
-the post

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

27 L’affaire Fetterman poses a conundrum for me. I see him as a man, and I see him as a Leftist. What to do, what to do??

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2025 12:21 PM (PCK5/)

28 The AWFL's in Philly and collar counties will see that Lumpy gets it good and hard. Hell hath no fury like a neurotic Main Line wine mom.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (GTqXr)

Wonder if Lumpy will be forced out so Gov Shapiro can install some hard leftist in his stead?

Posted by: Thrawn at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (9Ovst)

29 Was there a poison pill with the CR?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (JVuEd)

30 Vegetables, Morons, and Retards of the world unite!

Posted by: The Immoral Majority at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (oftw2)

31 That's kinda sad about Fetterman's struggles with his depression. They sound profound. I hate the way he votes, yes. But he's not the typical foaming at the mouth, insane, evil politician that currently comprises all of the D's in Washington.

In other news, Dana Bash has horse face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

32 I have to be scolded by a judge today so I'm going to have tacos for a late lunch and think about time travel rules. My hair looks really good so I'm thinking today is gonna be great.

Posted by: NCKate at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (uQzkA)

33 I miss college.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (xcxpd)

34 "Children need their daddy."

Where did they find a right-wing therapist?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (ExV1e)

35 Has any Democrat spoken out against the venom?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Venom is electoral gold for democrats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (uHzgy)

36 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party. Assuming he'd like to remain politically active.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM

I'm guessing he'll finish out the term and not seek re-election. Probably join a Creed cover band or something

Posted by: Josephistan at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (y9ksN)

37 He still thinks men can become women.

He's a doctrinal leftist on every issue except Israel and calling us Nazis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

He seems capable of learning, though. Treat him with some kindness, and maybe he will continue to throw off the mental shackles of Leftism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (npFr7)

38 The brain damaged deserve representation too.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (jc0TO)

39 Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (qBdHI)

I agree with you about Fetterman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 12:23 PM (dSKRp)

40 Fetterman is doomed. He has committed political apostasy in the eyes of the left.

But I give him credit for highlighting how people- supposedly on his side- have wished actual disease and death upon him for holding a different point of view.

But that's left v right these days. We say they are wrong. They say we should die.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't throw it on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (AOsQT)

41 31 Speaking of horse faces, has anybody here seen Pelosi's daughter? Pacer or trotter, discuss.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (gm9Sb)

42 It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

Which means today is Friday.

Like I been telling you people.

Posted by: Miklos considers illuminating the Drinking Lamp according to Daylight Drinking Time at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (u+AWT)

43 29 Was there a poison pill with the CR?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2025 12:22 PM (JVuEd)

=====

The only thing I've heard of is a fund to allow Senators to sue the DOJ for the Arctic Frost spying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

44 I want to see Lumpy and AOC have hot monkey sex on the floor of the senate. You know, like those 2 fags did awhile back.

Posted by: Having Lumpy's Baby at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (iISCR)

45 Nooded.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Sco7b)

46 I had a dream last night my wife told me she wanted to start dating. That woke me up in a sh*t mood and I haven't been able to shake it. Work is the last thing I feel like doing at this moment.

Posted by: Nelly at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (SJF/H)

47 11 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party.
___

He votes with the Democrat-Communists like 98% of the time. No thank you.

Posted by: How About a Republican-Flavored Republican? at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (qUkBO)

48 The way Fetterman's wife treated him is fucked up. Your husband is suicidally depressed and your response is to throw him out of the house and say he's not fit to be around his children?

Run, do not walk, away.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (viF8m)

49 Sounds like his wife wasn't supportive at all

You don't tell your husband to get out and come back when you aren't fucked up after a stroke

Leave that bitch in a heartbeat I would

Posted by: Melodicmetal at November 13, 2025 12:19 PM (81lK9)

People have asked me why I haven't left Pooky. I've been told the church would sanction the divorce because he's essentially a different person than the one I married.

I tell people that when I said, "In sickness and in health," I *meant* it. Sometimes I tease Pooky that I'm not stuck with him, he's stuck with ME. :-D

Posted by: pookysgirl, official VA caregiver at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Wt5PA)

50 17 11 An ethical thing Fetterman might want to consider is leaving the Democrat party. Assuming he'd like to remain politically active.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:17 PM (NwnyJ)

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He still thinks men can become women.

He's a doctrinal leftist on every issue except Israel and calling us Nazis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

If I can debate someone without them trying to kill me, I can live with that person. I can prove them wrong. I might be even able to persuade them.

This makes Fettermonster better than 99% of his fellow Democrats.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

51
Also nightmare fuel:
Dana's Gash

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (TezPK)

52 I like Fetterman. Not enough to vote for him, but I empathize. I know a young lady, classic avoidant. She’s the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy. She’s never been loved unconditionally. Loved, yes, but with the subtext that she’s a burden and unwanted (I could give examples, but I won’t). It creates significant barriers to emotional intimacy due to fear. It’s sad. Looks like Fetterman has similar struggles.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (hlNLQ)

53 I dunno. There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home. We can hand waive that away, and tell them to grow up. But that’s not the solution. They’re being tempted by the shiny objects and false promises of Democrats, especially the socialist communist promises. There needs to be some focus on affordability, including things like health care. We made fun of McCain’s funeral going on forever, but I think Congresses BBB victory lap may challenge that for the record.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (UYkra)

54 I was wondering the other day what had become of Lumpys once ever-present wife.

Posted by: Ktgreat at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (33LJY)

55 A stroke for you Crockett.

A stroke for you AOC.

A stroke for you Bernie.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

*GLARE*

Posted by: Peter Sztrok at November 13, 2025 12:26 PM (u+AWT)

56 50 If I can debate someone without them trying to kill me, I can live with that person. I can prove them wrong. I might be even able to persuade them.

This makes Fettermonster better than 99% of his fellow Democrats.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

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Which is fair.

He's a reasonable in tone leftist who wants to think of me as a human.

Who will still vote for every policy and personnel who works against me.

I'm just glad in the knowledge that he's going to fail miserably in his primary in a couple of years. That means I won't have to hear from PA Republicans saying, "He's a reasonable Democrat. So much better than the crazy lies I hear about the GOP candidate that are obviously lies but I have to believe them because the NYT reported it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

57
>>"This was a make-or-break moment that would determine the outcome of the election, and I had wilted. I'd choked."

----------------------

I trust he has now learned that there is no breaking, wilting, or choking that is so bad the Dems won't vote for it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (I3KId)

58 What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?

Mrs D says I have to vacuum.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (2WIwB)

59 54 I was wondering the other day what had become of Lumpys once ever-present wife.
Posted by: Ktgreat at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (33LJY)

Didn't she move to Cuba or some crazy shit? I forget.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (JwNbV)

60 >>>"For the entire three-and-a-half-hour ride back from the debate, I read reactions on X, shooting myself up with the shame that is too often the sustenance of the depressive..."

It's lovely of him to put that practice into words that describe it so well.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (RuTUS)

61 Good afternoon Ace.
Watching Schumer trying to stay afloat in his position reminds me of Hemingway. How does one go bankrupt "two ways. Gradually then suddenly." How does Chuck lose his job "gradually, then suddenly"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (bfwj/)

62 True story: I was flying black from SFO to EWR yesterday and sitting next to some Muslim in Lululemon and ... a hijab. She seemed "off."

After a few hours, I come back after going to the bathroom, and she's not there. After another 30 minutes some older white lady comes and sits in her seat, saying she changed seats. Seemed odd, but whatever.

I noticed at the time that a lot of people were turning their heads trying to look at the back of the plane. Seemed odd, but whatever. The plane was packed with San Francisco Karens and faggots, so I didn't think too much of it.

We land and the captain comes on saying we have to stay in our seats to allow the police to board the plane. The cops board, go all the way back, and -- sure enough -- take the Muslim lady into custody. They take her bags too. No handcuffs, but clearly they were there to get her and wouldn't let her leave without them.

Then, even weirder, another set of cops comes on board and takes an older white lady into custody, and she was sitting right in front of me.

All very odd. I googled this morning to see if there were any news reports, but nothing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

63 The way Fetterman's wife treated him is fucked up. Your husband is suicidally depressed and your response is to throw him out of the house and say he's not fit to be around his children?

Run, do not walk, away.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (viF8m)
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I noticed that too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (UJMvS)

64 Now I feel terrible I made fun of him and the left needs to stop, they are ghouls.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (BvTfc)

65 What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?

Arthritis.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (zW2w3)

66 Let us remember it was widely speculated that the lovely Mrs. Fetterman was quite annoyed when her husband failed to die and she wasn't appointed to fill his Senate seat.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (5QSoL)

67 BTW. Democrats have noticed that nothing got done during the shutdown and it had a monumental impact on the economy. You have another cliff coming up on January 30th and my bet is that Democrats will shut it down again.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (UYkra)

68 53 I dunno. There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home. We can hand waive that away, and tell them to grow up. But that’s not the solution. They’re being tempted by the shiny objects and false promises of Democrats, especially the socialist communist promises. There needs to be some focus on affordability, including things like health care. We made fun of McCain’s funeral going on forever, but I think Congresses BBB victory lap may challenge that for the record.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (UYkra)

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People do not realize how much effect deporting millions of people is going to have.

We can already see some effect in rents:

https://x.com/georg3/status/
1988640593216426033

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

69 42 It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

Which means today is Friday.

Like I been telling you people.
Posted by: Miklos considers illuminating the Drinking Lamp according to Daylight Drinking Time at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (u+AWT)

It's Friday Eve. Practically Friday.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

70 From the previous thread, thanks for the HT to the Sargon podcast (man, if my Dad were still alive he'd have no idea what I just said).

The White revolution is gonna be spectacular.

Speaking of my old man, he wondered what was going on with the racial composition of the America and its attendant degradation but had no idea that he was ultimately responsible for it.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 13, 2025 12:28 PM (qwx/I)

71 The TV assures me that no matter how depressed you are, adding Rexulti to the cocktail of brain meds will get you right, toot suite.

Posted by: The Dancing Brain Dead at November 13, 2025 12:28 PM (oftw2)

72 16, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 13, 2025 12:29 PM (kHop/)

73 This makes Fettermonster better than 99% of his fellow Democrats.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

***

I compare Fetterman with Adam Smith, the Representative from the Renton area.
Fetterman seems genuine in his chats.
Smith also seems genuine, but he just talks a good game. He's as hard core as they come.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2025 12:29 PM (2WIwB)

74 It sounds like the stroke damaged the emotional side of his personality, and emotion is 90 percent of his party's ethos.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2025 12:29 PM (uHzgy)

75 They are going to restock the trough.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2025 12:29 PM (JVuEd)

76 67 BTW. Democrats have noticed that nothing got done during the shutdown and it had a monumental impact on the economy. You have another cliff coming up on January 30th and my bet is that Democrats will shut it down again.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (UYkra)

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Imagine Schumer's position now if he had quietly gotten his caucus to vote for the CR 6 weeks ago, before the shutdown started.

"He could have fought, but oh well. We have completely forgotten about it now."

Instead of "We had this fight for 6 weeks and got nothing!"

There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

77 Asked to comment, Mitch McConnell said, "

Posted by: Wally at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (o1wYM)

78 Things I would like to see. Fetterman is a really big guy. Kind of like Jim Arness, you don't realize how big until in scale. Fetterman goes campaigning and gets loaded on a case of Iron City in Pittsburgh. Proceeds to go on a drunken rampage where he knocks out a horse.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (gm9Sb)

79 I tell people that when I said, "In sickness and in health," I *meant* it.

That's my position. I made a vow, in the presence of God, and I'm not gonna try and back out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

80 RE: Dana Bash.

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
Posted by: ATF at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM

I bet she was something before electricity.

Posted by: Al Czervic at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (Wnv9h)

81 barriers to emotional intimacy due to fear. It’s sad. Looks like Fetterman has similar struggles.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (hlNLQ)

Part of the problem is his wife is terrible and she was probably hoping he would be gone so she could inherit his seat, I'm sure.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (BvTfc)

82 >>All very odd. I googled this morning to see if there were any news reports, but nothing.

DHS has been cracking down on people transiting EWR from major cities. Apparently it’s being used often by people hear illegally of wanted in some way. They’re reviewing most flight manifests to see who is on board.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (UYkra)

83 All very odd. I googled this morning to see if there were any news reports, but nothing.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

Tease.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (i24o9)

84 I'd bet that if there were no possible recriminations from the party, Fetterman would denounce the trans horseshit in a heartbeat. It's a completely insane position to hold.

The GOP doesn't hold their members to any such discipline, thus they periodically wander off the farm and join up with the Democrats. But if there was a monetary or political price to pay?

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (NwnyJ)

85 People have asked me why I haven't left Pooky. I've been told the church would sanction the divorce because he's essentially a different person than the one I married.

I tell people that when I said, "In sickness and in health," I *meant* it. Sometimes I tease Pooky that I'm not stuck with him, he's stuck with ME. :-D
Posted by: pookysgirl

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (FkmEP)

86 The way Fetterman's wife treated him is fucked up. Your husband is suicidally depressed and your response is to throw him out of the house and say he's not fit to be around his children?

Run, do not walk, away.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:24 PM (viF8m)
_____

"Wife" was an rancid social-climbing bitch who used the marriage to advance her standing. Remember when she was prancing around on social media, with pics cropped so her "husband" couldn't be seen? They were practically pics single ladies would put on dating apps.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

87
I'm just glad in the knowledge that he's going to fail miserably in his primary in a couple of years. That means I won't have to hear from PA Republicans saying, "He's a reasonable Democrat. So much better than the crazy lies I hear about the GOP candidate that are obviously lies but I have to believe them because the NYT reported it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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

Is there any chance he'll think over his situation in life and choose not to run again?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (I3KId)

88 Elric, check the Daily Mail, they are reporting an incident that may be the same ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (kHop/)

89 #62 Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

That's weird. I seem to get all the airport/airplane arrest videos in my YouTube feed, I'll keep an eye out for that one

Posted by: Josephistan at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (y9ksN)

90 Ace, I remember the Fetterman love letters. So, so great.

Posted by: Wenda at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (qQnsV)

91 Morning.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (1Yy3c)

92 " I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week."

You 29 year olds had it easy. iirc, we had M-W-F or Tu-Th, but Tu-Th were either less credit or longer classes.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (vbXSk)

93 87 Is there any chance he'll think over his situation in life and choose not to run again?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (I3KId)

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It's what Sinema did.

She was going to lose her primary, so she changed to independent. Then polls kept coming out saying she'd get 10% of the vote.

So, she just retired.

I expect something similar from Fetterman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

94 >>I dunno. There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home. We can hand waive that away, and tell them to grow up. But that’s not the solution. They’re being tempted by the shiny objects and false promises of Democrats, especially the socialist communist promises. There needs to be some focus on affordability, including things like health care.

So their solution is to run to the people who put them in massive student debt, blew up the housing market with a combination of 10s of millions of illegals and massive inflation and ruined the healthcare system with Obamacare?

This really shouldn't be a surprise. Young people have the wisdom of a golf ball. Trump inherited a country on fire, hell, a world on fire, and he has been triaging it for 10 months.

There will be a focus on the economy and despite the media it is much better than 10 months ago. Gas is way down, groceries are down, housing solutions are being proposed, healthcare is on the table because Obamacare is about to implode. And on and on.

Young people can grab an oar and help or do whatever. I'm tired of hearing it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (viF8m)

95 There needs to be some focus on affordability, including things like health care.

One of the reasons that the left is fighting so hard to protect their illegals. That's a big portion of the problem and Trump catches a lot of the blame.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:32 PM (ExV1e)

96 80 RE: Dana Bash.

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.
Posted by: ATF at November 13, 2025 12:15 PM

I bet she was something before electricity.
Posted by: Al Czervic at November 13, 2025 12:30 PM (Wnv9h)

***

If she were giving me my $20 worth, I'd keep the lights off.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

97 BTW, what's up with this "empty dinner table" crap? People were starving or something?
Where were they?

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (9idMp)

98 Gisele is one of those "dreamers" as well

she is a piece of work

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (emBoF)

99 The beauty of all of this is that the left's foundation is already weakening. We have two elections we need to win to pull it all down. The Treasury is mapping where the money is coming from overseas, and the left is now openly calling for the death of their political adversaries and their voters have no problem with it. That is not popular. Fetterman and the dems will lose the senate seat at the next election there.

With Islam and Commies having made peace with one another, it is the final nail in the victims group setup the dems have been running for years. It won't hold, because if the muslims think they are gaining strength, they aren't prone to sharing. It will be a breakup for the ages.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (GZYu7)

100 There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who up for a throwdown!?

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (u+AWT)

101 Elric, check the Daily Mail, they are reporting an incident that may be the same ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (kHop/)
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Link? I'm not seeing anything ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

102 "John Fetterman Says Left on Bluesky Crueler Than MAGA." The left on Bluesky didn't just make insurance unaffordable for over 40 million Americans.

Playing the victim, John Fetterman is full on Republican. More bitch baby tears from the senate’s largest snowflake.

The brain damage radically changed Fetterman’s personality. Literally, he is no longer the man Pennsylvanians elected.

Yall got to get over saying this and making excuses for this man. Bro was a piece of shit before hand, he was literally just running against Oz.

He ran as a progressive and was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and AOC. Now, he claims he is a moderate and has alienated himself from his colleagues. He was also a Biden surrogate in 2020. Looks like he plays all sides

Tots and pears. Don't forget to block his accounts on Bluesky. Few things would make me happier than to see Fetterman behind bars with his republican terrorists friends.

I recall some slapstick cartoons where they'd bonk someone on the head and they'd be all weird and make no sense. Then they'd bonk them again on the head and they'd be normal. Fetterman needs another bonk.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (JCZqz)

103 Lumpys once ever-present wife.
Posted by: Ktgreat at November 13, 2025 12:25 PM (33LJY)
Didn't she move to Cuba or some crazy shit? I forget.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I thought she started identifying as a dinosaur, specifically a lickalottapus.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (BpyRO)

104
There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home.

The latest forever buzword is AFFORDABILITY.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 13, 2025 12:35 PM (pkeXY)

105 >> There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.

$100 says you’re wrong, especially if they don’t get their Obamacare handout, which people like Van Drew are ready to vote for and for which he is actively soliciting votes. Their only fallback is to say this was about healthcare and they will ride that like a pet pony. The one thing the took from this is it helped to slow down Trump and Republicans efforts. Nothing was done the entire time. Johnson didn’t work on a single bill and that delayed everything, especially looking at the affordability issue which is going to eat Republicans alive for the midterms if they don’t get off their asses and start looking at solutions.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:35 PM (UYkra)

106 102 "John Fetterman Says Left on Bluesky Crueler Than MAGA." The left on Bluesky didn't just make insurance unaffordable for over 40 million Americans.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid

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Misinformation.

The ACA fixed health care in America, and to say otherwise is a racist dogwhistle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

107 They already hate Fetterman since he came out in support of Israel after 10/7. I gotta admit, I did not have John Fetterman being the Senate's fiercest defender of Israel on my Bingo card. I guess the stroke knocked some sense into him.

Posted by: Cymbaline at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (B2VsB)

108 It's Friday Eve. Practically Friday.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

For the entire rest of my life, I have to work exactly one more Friday and tomorrow ain't it. Three day weekend, baby!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

109 especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt"

Interesting... I'm constantly reading about that, but my youngn's don't worry about it, and when asked, don't seem to know anyone worried...

Hmm

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (9idMp)

110 Stupid Osprey has been running his motors for 10 minutes. Hurry up and go ! We have to go back to work

Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (z33/r)

111 Fetterman could get a clue from the side that wishes him dead is not ours. Never heard that once here, or anywhere else for that matter.

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (PCK5/)

112 105 >> There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.

$100 says you’re wrong, especially if they don’t get their Obamacare handout, which people like Van Drew are ready to vote for and for which he is actively soliciting votes. Their only fallback is to say this was about healthcare and they will ride that like a pet pony. The one thing the took from this is it helped to slow down Trump and Republicans efforts. Nothing was done the entire time. Johnson didn’t work on a single bill and that delayed everything, especially looking at the affordability issue which is going to eat Republicans alive for the midterms if they don’t get off their asses and start looking at solutions.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:35 PM (UYkra)

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Deporting millions of people is already having an effect on affordability. And millions more are going to go.

We don't need big sweeping bills from Congress.

We need the 16 million Biden let in pushed out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

113
Lumpy Jack? I thought the proper his / they was Fetterman's Lump.

Or Lumpy Rutherford. But the kids wouldn't get that.

Posted by: Auspex at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (Y8DZL)

114 108 It's Friday Eve. Practically Friday.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

For the entire rest of my life, I have to work exactly one more Friday and tomorrow ain't it. Three day weekend, baby!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

Wow, congrats.
Or...I'm sorry. I suppose it depends on why.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

115 There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who up for a throwdown!?
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett

Let me bat those eyelashes for you. ~ Pete Rose

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (TezPK)

116 Wait, Jesse Jackson is still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (RhjSY)

117 There will be no shutdown again in this Congress.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who up for a throwdown!?

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at November 13, 2025 12:33 PM (u+AWT)

How about Thunderdome? Highlander?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:38 PM (i24o9)

118 What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?

Online training is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 13, 2025 12:38 PM (WPL6O)

119 I suppose the difference between us and them is that we are crude, crass, and vulgar - but not murderous.

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2025 12:38 PM (PCK5/)

120 We need to come up with a great big list of all the shit each generation had to contend with. Boomer on down to present.

Posted by: NCKate at November 13, 2025 12:38 PM (uQzkA)

121 79- I agree, but remember the other side gets a vote too, and don’t lose yourself in caring for them- a lesson I learned the hard way. 81- Agree completely- I think she sees him dying as the solution to all her problems, and from ace’s post, he, at least for a time, agreed. Also been there- only alive by the grace of God, and Him using people (including many here) as His instruments to pull me out of it.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 13, 2025 12:38 PM (hlNLQ)

122 >> Young people can grab an oar and help or do whatever. I'm tired of hearing it.

I don’t I agreed with it. But it’s showing up as an issue in a lot of places. That’s why Trump is talking more about it and you have ideas like the 50 year mortgage, which is a terrible idea but they are obviously brainstorming on this. It’s also not a great economy for a lot of people. There continues to be massive job layoffs including today where Verizon said they’re laying of 15k. People aren’t feeling it like they did in Trumps first term.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (UYkra)

123 BTW. Democrats have noticed that nothing got done during the shutdown and it had a monumental impact on the economy. You have another cliff coming up on January 30th and my bet is that Democrats will shut it down again.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (UYkra)
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LOL! That is funny. The only reason anything happened is because the dems knew they would be blamed for shutting down holiday travel. They didn't give a rat's ass about SNAP - and now it is funded for a year. There will be a shutdown in Jan. And it will hurt the democrats again. But the far left is all about purity, in the absence of strategy. They fail to notice that all the things that propped them up and used to run cover for them are much less dependable than before. Yet they follow the same tired old playbook. It's death throes time. WE just need to smartly manage it.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (GZYu7)

124 Turn the Capitol i to the Circus Maximus.

Oh, wait.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (RhjSY)

125 I'll get my collander.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (JVuEd)

126 109 especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt"

Interesting... I'm constantly reading about that, but my youngn's don't worry about it, and when asked, don't seem to know anyone worried...

Hmm

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (9idMp)

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It feels very much like a city centered thing. The places where people congregate who've taken out hundreds of thousands of dollars for shit degrees.

There are other issues with college graduates (Something like 25% of STEM graduates actually work in STEM, is something I've seen), but the massive student loan debt is carried by doctors, lawyers, and people who got degrees in Studies.

Also, the percentage of the population with college degrees is actually declining overall with time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

127 Would love to see legislatures jack up residential property taxes on non-homestead houses below a certain square footage.

Get the renters out of there and sell those homes to first time buyers.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (GD2xa)

128 The left on Bluesky didn't just make insurance unaffordable for over 40 million Americans.

No. Obama did that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

129 "John Fetterman Says Left on Bluesky Crueler Than MAGA." The left on Bluesky didn't just make insurance unaffordable for over 40 million Americans.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid

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Misinformation.

The ACA fixed health care in America, and to say otherwise is a racist dogwhistle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

ACA = Obolacare

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (FkmEP)

130 116 Wait, Jesse Jackson is still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (RhjSY)

Still crossing the street to avoid groups of young black people.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (Sco7b)

131 "Temu Obama." Go, Ace.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (YlWIZ)

132 I dunno. There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home. We can hand waive that away, and tell them to grow up. But that’s not the solution. They’re being tempted by the shiny objects and false promises of Democrats, especially the socialist communist promises. There needs to be some focus on affordability, including things like health care. We made fun of McCain’s funeral going on forever, but I think Congresses BBB victory lap may challenge that for the record.

Trump took office at the end of January. The BBB was passed at the end of July. Most of it doesn't take effect until 2026. Take a breath.

Posted by: boatbuilder at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (Or4NH)

133 Deporting millions of people is already having an effect on affordability"

This. Overall costs of living have flattened... a very nice change from the previous half decade...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (9idMp)

134 My plans? Imagining all the stupid work stuff I never have to do again.

Posted by: Weasel at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (+OnsA)

135 > Fetterman needs another bonk.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (JCZqz)

Glad to see the party of 'hate has no home here' has weighed in.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (GTqXr)

136 It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

You were lucky . My classes were M-W-F and T-Th. But then we were still on the quarter rather than semester system.

Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (lJ0H4)

137 Say what you will about Fetterman, no one owns him. Not even the doctor who created him.

Posted by: Wally at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (o1wYM)

138 Wow, congrats.
Or...I'm sorry. I suppose it depends on why.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

I am retiring. My choice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:41 PM (ExV1e)

139 Via GP:
In the latest twist from the trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails released by House Democrats, a 2016 message from the convicted pedophile to disgraced author Michael Wolff appears to allege that Hillary Clinton had a sexual affair with former White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster.

The exchange began with Wolff asking Epstein for a “thumb nail” summary on “Nussbaum/foster,” prompting Epstein’s response implying an illicit affair between Hillary and Foster.

The email, dated May 25, 2016, cryptically states: “nussbaum white house counsel. . hillary doing naughties with vince.” This appears to reference Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton, and Vince Foster, who died under suspicious circumstances in 1993.

Posted by: Crusader at November 13, 2025 12:41 PM (TN0g+)

140 Didn't Ace have a bunch of letters from Fetterman's wife to him while she was hanging out with roadies doing shots? Funny and cruel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2025 12:41 PM (bfwj/)

141 They need to be mocked, mercilessly. We've made it normal for Congress to advocate for and spend billions on illegals.

THIS IS NOT RIGHT.

Mock them with sombreros...and more.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2025 12:41 PM (PMtkd)

142 >> Trump took office at the end of January. The BBB was passed at the end of July. Most of it doesn't take effect until 2026. Take a breath.

What have Republicans done since then? Zero.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (UYkra)

143 We need to come up with a great big list of all the shit each generation had to contend with. Boomer on down to present.
Posted by: NCKate

18-20% mortgages in the early 80's.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (FkmEP)

144 133 Deporting millions of people is already having an effect on affordability"

This. Overall costs of living have flattened... a very nice change from the previous half decade...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (9idMp)

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While wages are growing at a faster rate.

The "affordability" narrative is really just a narrative.

Things are improving, but the progress is slow and under the radar while people want Congress to "do something", to put on a show.

Congress can do nothing for the next 10 years as Trump and then Vance deport millions of people and eviscerate the regulatory environment in America. That'll do much, much more than anything Congress can come up with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

145 Here's a chart that proves Trump is bringing back affordability. Share with young people.

https://tinyurl.com/5ayx849k

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (viF8m)

146 It feels very much like a city centered thing."

Hmm. Interesting point.

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (9idMp)

147 Johnson didn’t work on a single bill and that delayed everything, especially looking at the affordability issue which is going to eat Republicans alive for the midterms if they don’t get off their asses and start looking at solutions.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:35 PM (UYkra)

Remember, the Number One priority of the GOPe is always to reduce the tax rate on forward carried interest of trust-shielded capital gains that are generated by third-party partnerships.
The interests of their voters are a distant second. Or maybe third.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (5QSoL)

148 "There is a growing discontent with the economy, especially with the younger crowd who is heavy in student loan debt and unable to afford a home."

I think the "growing discontent" is largely if not completely a leftwing op. Trump inherited a train-wreck and has been doing what he can. You can't work an economic miracle overnight. He's made some very important reductions in prices. More will come.

Similarly, I think a lot of the complaining from the younger gens about not being able to afford a house is mostly also bullshit. Every time I hear this -- or with rent -- when you really look at it, the real problem is not that they can't afford "a house," it's that they can't afford the really nice house in a really nice area that they really want. I'd like a Fenomeno too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

149 My plans? Imagining all the stupid work stuff I never have to do again.
Posted by: Weasel at November 13, 2025 12:40 PM (+OnsA)

That sounds awfully productive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

150
Online training is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm

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We must be in the same class

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (q/4Kc)

151 lol. Yes the key to winning the midterms is deporting 16 million people.

I can already see the commercials. Don’t worry, once we deport all these illegals things will get better for you. No. Really. Vote for me.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (UYkra)

152 In the latest twist from the trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails released by House Democrats, a 2016 message from the convicted pedophile to disgraced author Michael Wolff appears

to allege that Hillary Clinton had a sexual affair with former White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster.

There went lunch.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (FkmEP)

153 146 It feels very much like a city centered thing."

Hmm. Interesting point.

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (9idMp)

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Once you realize that the Democrat critique of America is actually a critique of American city life, run by Democrats, a large swath of American politics makes a lot more sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

154 Link? I'm not seeing anything ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

There was a story about a crazy Karen ranting about shutdown that some Congressweasels were on.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (i24o9)

155 Vince Foster, who died under suspicious circumstances"

"Suspicious "?

Heh

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (9idMp)

156 My classes were MWF or TT but I just didn't go to the Friday classes unless there was a test on those Fridays. Thursday night was a Tequila night in college.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (xvV+O)

157

Wait until Scott Goatse gets selected to replace Stretch Pelosi.

The Dems will have an out and proud pedo who doesn't care about it at all.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (och2J)

158 I'm just glad in the knowledge that he's going to fail miserably in his primary in a couple of years. That means I won't have to hear from PA Republicans saying, "He's a reasonable Democrat. So much better than the crazy lies I hear about the GOP candidate that are obviously lies but I have to believe them because the NYT reported it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Is there any chance he'll think over his situation in life and choose not to run again?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 13, 2025 12:31 PM (I3KId)
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Of course I'd rather have a Republican win in the general against Fetterman, but if that's not to be, I'd rather have Fetterman as the Democrat senator as opposed to a Mamdani type.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (NpAcC)

159 Fetterman is not fit to serve as SecDef because he is mentally deficient and cannot remember names. Fetterman is only SecState because he is black and trisexual.

He should resign because he is.... ah...ah... ah...

Well whatever ......

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (J9q9v)

160 When the Pastor said in sickness or in health, apparently my wife heard in sickness (as long as it's not too serious or requires any effort on my part because fuck that) or health. When we were driving home from the hospital she told me I needed to either stay with my son or have him stay at the house to help me because she wasn't going to. She meant it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (2UnvF)

161 "insurance premiums will double or triple due to the heartless Republicans"

Yeah, from $50/month to $100-150 a month. With taxpayers picking up the other $1000+ per month the insurance company gets.

Premiums were were already heavily subsidized, during COVID they were absurdly subsidized. That was always billed as "temporary.". Now we're back to plain old heavily subsidized. Boo hoo.

Posted by: Bigsmith at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (1Au9i)

162 That sounds awfully productive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (ExV1e)
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You're right. I'd better take a nap.

Posted by: Weasel at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (+OnsA)

163 18-20% mortgages in the early 80's."

25% car loan...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (9idMp)

164 And I try to get four Friday posts on Thursday so that Friday is a half-day.
......

Don't forget to charge those four hours to PTO.

Posted by: wth at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

165
Then, even weirder, another set of cops comes on board and takes an older white lady into custody, and she was sitting right in front of me.

All very odd. I googled this morning to see if there were any news reports, but nothing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

Sounds like a fun flight! At least you were not diverted. The UK DM has a story of a white Karen, very vegetarian looking and hollowed out face, leaving in a snit with police in this "fascist state."

Things happen and are taken to the back of the plane if the flight continues. Glad you are ok.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (MAl//)

166
18-20% mortgages in the early 80's.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:42 PM (FkmEP)

I think my first mortgage was over 12 percent but the house was under 100,000 so I had that going for me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (BvTfc)

167 They didn't give a rat's ass about SNAP - and now it is funded for a year.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 13, 2025 12:39 PM (GZYu7)

I saw that. Anybody know when the deadline would be in comparison to Election Day?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (pIfcn)

168 Link? I'm not seeing anything ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

There was a story about a crazy Karen ranting about shutdown that some Congressweasels were on.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (i24o9)
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No, there was no ranting on my flight. Just an odd Muslim. Something happened while I was in the bathroom. But I would have heard shouting.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

169 Say anything about Fetterman, but the guy is honest...to a fault.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (PMtkd)

170 151 lol. Yes the key to winning the midterms is deporting 16 million people.

I can already see the commercials. Don’t worry, once we deport all these illegals things will get better for you. No. Really. Vote for me.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2025 12:43 PM (UYkra)

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People over-emphasize the importance of midterms. The real crown is the presidency.

"Oh, no...Congress won't do anything if Democrats gain control! They'll impeach Trump!"

While Trump continues to deport millions of people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

171 It feels very much like a city centered thing.

Probably, but it's also a social media thing. Which means that 'everyone' thinks that everyone is experiencing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

172 33 I miss college.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I don't think you would find college today that appealing. After I retired after more years than I thought I would ever spend in my life on a college campus, I really have not had any pangs of wanting to go back nor much nostalgia.

The ill winds promoted by Obammy, media, and Democrats destroyed much of what was good, decent, and noble of college. The new hires did the rest along with the newer crops of students picked for DIEversity reasons.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

173 Gisele sounds like a horrible, selfish excuse of a human being, using their kids as leverage to kick John out because she can't be arsed to support him during a low time in his life. "For better or for worse, in sickness and in health" only seems to run one way.

Posted by: An all too common story though at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

174 In the latest twist from the trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails released by House Democrats, a 2016 message from the convicted pedophile to disgraced author Michael Wolff appears

to allege that Hillary Clinton had a sexual affair with former White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster.

There went lunch.

Posted by: rickb223
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So Vice's death was really a suicide.... of shame and disgust.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (xvV+O)

175 We have an hour and a half to kill but nothing really to do.

Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (UNCeV)

176 The interests of their voters are a distant second. Or maybe third."

Third? Not even in the top 10

/VA Commonwealth GOP

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (9idMp)

177 Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (BvTfc)

178 I think my favorite was Uncle Festerman

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (YwEeS)

179 "Subsidized" my asshole. Charge me a monthly premium, fine whatever, then send me a form in January saying "oh by the way that premium was based on a huge monthly subsidy we never really told you about, and that you make too much to deserve, so now you owe us $2,000. Pay up, fucker, or we're taking your house".

Damned insolence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (JwNbV)

180 I would like to clarify that "doing naughties with Vince" did not refer to sex with Vince Foster but was instead a reference to me wrestling for Vince McMahon under the name King Kong Bundy

Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (o1wYM)

181 172 33 I miss college.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I don't think you would find college today that appealing. After I retired after more years than I thought I would ever spend in my life on a college campus, I really have not had any pangs of wanting to go back nor much nostalgia.

The ill winds promoted by Obammy, media, and Democrats destroyed much of what was good, decent, and noble of college. The new hires did the rest along with the newer crops of students picked for DIEversity reasons.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

Probably true, I just want to re-live 1988 to 1994 over and over again. I think I was happiest then.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (xcxpd)

182 > For the entire rest of my life, I have to work exactly one more Friday and tomorrow ain't it. Three day weekend, baby!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

I have a little more than six months until I'm done. Planning on having the discussion with my boss early Jan. I cannot wait!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:48 PM (GTqXr)

183 I see the word 'Bluesky' and read it as 'blooski'

anyone else?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't throw it on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 12:48 PM (AOsQT)

184 Misinformation.

The ACA fixed health care in America, and to say otherwise is a racist dogwhistle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

As usual, the Left has a convenient excuse for that:

Jesus Fucking Christ! The only reason they (the ACA subsidies) were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2025 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

185 Speaking of wishing lethal strokes
On opponents...

Entitled geriatric nepo baby Jack Schlossberg (JFK grandson) is making like he's going to run against Jerry poopypants Nadler.

Sandy Cortez will probably run for Schumwr's seat.

Pelosi's seat up for grabs.

Jasmine Crockett will run for TX senate.

The radical woke wing of the left is clearing out the dead wood.Who am I missing from the list?

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2025 12:49 PM (0xnfT)

186 Keep in mind that the left wants Fetterman to die for occasionally saying non-leftist things.

Fetterman is no Zell Miller.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

187 >>>What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week

Fabio.com.ar always puts out his "ruleta rusa" on Thursdays, and it is my traditional day for downloading podcasts.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (rbvCR)

188 184
As usual, the Left has a convenient excuse for that:

Jesus Fucking Christ! The only reason they (the ACA subsidies) were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2025 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

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But costs keep going up at a much faster rate of inflation, faster than pre-ACA rates of price growth in health insurance. How can that be if the ACA fixed healthcare?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

189 160- I remember one time, towards the end, I asked my ex to help putting some stuff in storage and she dropped a box of (her) old books on her foot. She screamed at me “don’t ever ask me for help with anything again!” She’d already checked out of the marriage, I just didn’t know it or understand.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (hlNLQ)

190 The radical woke wing of the left is clearing out the dead wood.Who am I missing from the list?

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AOC will run for precedent !

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (g47mK)

191 Gen X had puberty during AIDs. First gulf war and all the shit since. Younger gens seem to think they live in a vacuum of current woes only affecting them.

Posted by: NCKate at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (uQzkA)

192 169 Say anything about Fetterman, but the guy is honest...to a fault.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (PMtkd)

And he's at least willing to have a real conversation. He's been on Hannity and other Fox shows.

You at least talk to the guy.

The radio host that kissed Crockett's feet was on Hannity yesterday. Her and Hannity apparently went back 30 years. But 3 minutes in, after covering the sneaker incident, Hannity brings up the shutdown and she spent the rest of the interview pushing Epstein and other talking points.

I hadrespect that she was on FoxNews but that evaporated quickly.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (Sco7b)

193 156 My classes were MWF or TT but I just didn't go to the Friday classes unless there was a test on those Fridays. Thursday night was a Tequila night in college.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious
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I taught Friday classes on occasion to help get students through or had seminars, etc. Some blew off their Friday classes, others actually appreciated being there. A lot of people showing up depends on how engaging the professor is, whether the course is a required pass, and the class dynamic/course content.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)

194 @181 -- in the words of Archie and Edith, those were the days

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (qwx/I)

195 Happy Thursday! The lady who lives across the street and I were both out raking leaves. She looked up at the oak tree in my yard, still full of leaves, and said she hoped this was the last time she would need to rake this fall. I wonder what she meant.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (GPa4z)

196 I recall some slapstick cartoons where they'd bonk someone on the head and they'd be all weird and make no sense. Then they'd bonk them again on the head and they'd be normal. Fetterman needs another bonk.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 13, 2025 12:34 PM (JCZqz)
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*** Basil Fawlty has entered the chat ***

"Don't mention The War!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (IBQGV)

197 Probably true, I just want to re-live 1988 to 1994 over and over again. I think I was happiest then.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 13, 2025 12:47 PM (xcxpd)

I want to relive My College days 1968-1972 But I can't remember any of it...... I kid... And yes I am that old...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

198 Are the younger radical woke Dems any different from the geriatric ones? Not really, just a bit more open about wanting their opponents to die.

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (YwEeS)

199 >>> 183 I see the word 'Bluesky' and read it as 'blooski' anyone else?

Too much Bluey on the brain?

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (0xnfT)

200 ... his stroke and, let's face it, serious damage to his brain. And probably a change in personality. This change in personality resulted in him becoming more reasonable ...

A solid arguement that all progs should get massive strokes.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (bXbak)

201 I have a little more than six months until I'm done. Planning on having the discussion with my boss early Jan. I cannot wait!
Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 12:48 PM (GTqXr)

I gave my employer 10.5 weeks notice - weird, I know - and I'm finding the last 4 really hard slogging. I'm just so tired of the BS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

202 It feels very much like a city centered thing.

Probably, but it's also a social media thing. Which means that 'everyone' thinks that everyone is experiencing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

Resharing a nutshell of an earlier story, 10/10 observed teens who were not actively engaged in the required activities had their heads buried in their phones, even when they were sitting side by side.

Never has there been a generation more at risk of information ops.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

203
I bought my first house in 1980 when conventional 30 year mortgages were close to 17%. Got a land contract instead. Paid it off early by overpaying principle.

What's killing new construction here is state and local regulation adding 20 grand to the cost so the green weenies and overpaid inspectors can get a piece of you.

Posted by: Auspex at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (Y8DZL)

204 Then, even weirder, another set of cops comes on board and takes an older white lady into custody, and she was sitting right in front of me.

All very odd. I googled this morning to see if there were any news reports, but nothing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

Sounds like a fun flight! At least you were not diverted. The UK DM has a story of a white Karen, very vegetarian looking and hollowed out face, leaving in a snit with police in this "fascist state."

Things happen and are taken to the back of the plane if the flight continues. Glad you are ok.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 12:45 PM (MAl//)
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At least they weren't coming to get me! After the cops left, everyone was really quiet, wondering wtf just happened. The Blade, ever the comedian and troublemaker, then blurted out "And here I was, thinking the cops were coming to get me for bringing an extra carry-on!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

205 after more years than I thought I would ever spend in my life on a college campus

Seven years of college down the drain

Posted by: Sen. John Blutarsky at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (u+AWT)

206 The lady who lives across the street and I were both out raking leaves. She looked up at the oak tree in my yard, still full of leaves, and said she hoped this was the last time she would need to rake this fall. I wonder what she meant.
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There is unrest in the forrest--there is trouble with the trees.

Posted by: Crusader at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (TN0g+)

207 But costs keep going up at a much faster rate of inflation, faster than pre-ACA rates of price growth in health insurance. How can that be if the ACA fixed healthcare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

Greedy Insurance Companies.

Boomers.

Russia.

Duh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (JwNbV)

208 *** Basil Fawlty has entered the chat ***

"Don't mention The War!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM

They started it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2025 12:52 PM (kgE5c)

209 Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2025 12:49 PM (0xnfT)

Sorry about that everyone.

Not lethal strokes by the way. Just enough to change their personality and make them more reasonable.

Which is better than they'd wish for any of us.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 12:52 PM (Sco7b)

210 "insurance premiums will double or triple due to the heartless Republicans"

Obamacare already did that.

They are demanding more money from the people currently paying tripled premiums so the that the FSA doesn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

211 204 At least they weren't coming to get me! After the cops left, everyone was really quiet, wondering wtf just happened. The Blade, ever the comedian and troublemaker, then blurted out "And here I was, thinking the cops were coming to get me for bringing an extra carry-on!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

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Let's workshop that.

"Good thing they didn't find this bomb!"
"Allahu Ackbar!"
"These pretzels are making me thirsty!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

212 Also during COVID Thursday was the day they released the worst, most depressing news. This was probably because it gave the newsfaces four days of impact before anything countering could be brought out.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 12:52 PM (rbvCR)

213 207 Greedy Insurance Companies.

Boomers.

Russia.

Duh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (JwNbV)

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Well, let's not make it a law that everyone has to have insurance anymore. Let's repeal that law that made that the case.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

214 Evidently, FSJ has decided I am not going to take a nap, but rather help him play with his stuffed alligator "gator baby".

Posted by: Weasel at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (+OnsA)

215 >>Gen X had puberty during AIDs. First gulf war and all the shit since. Younger gens seem to think they live in a vacuum of current woes only affecting them.

We only had to deal with the fallout from Vietnam, race riots, domestic terrorist bombings, inflation and constant presidential assassination attempts.

On the other hand at least we had good music.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (viF8m)

216 For the entire rest of my life, I have to work exactly one more Friday and tomorrow ain't it. Three day weekend, baby!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

I have a little more than six months until I'm done. Planning on having the discussion with my boss early Jan. I cannot wait!
Posted by: Heavy Meta

*kicks rocks
Four more years

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (FkmEP)

217 @185 Nadler is not running for reelection. There is a scramble for the Dem nod in a very Dem district.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (bfwj/)

218 "What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?"
>>

I just ordered two new tires for the truck. Whee!

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)

219 It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.

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I was in engineering, many times I was doing homework on the weekends while the business and education majors were working on their 4 day weekend.

Then in my career in manufacturing I was often doing project installations during the holidays, weekends and on call for maintenance troubleshooting support while the business majors worked on their cocktails and plans moving up the corporate ladder (which often included taking credit for my work).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (Vh9CX)

220 One of my neighbors hired a lawn guy who brought a truck with basically a giant vacuum cleaner which he used to suck up all the leaves so she didn't have to rake them.

It looked like a great idea until I found out how much it cost

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

221
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

I would have tried to get the fight attendant to tell me what happened. I'm really nosy and that would bother me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (BvTfc)

222 Anyone else remember Obama pontificating on "Bending the cost curve" down?

I do.

How'd that work out for you, leftists?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (UJMvS)

223 Bad juju, strokes. Walking around like the mummy. Took three weeks off work. Should have taken six.
Recovered ninety five percent. D*** lucky.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (vGzB3)

224 What do you have going on this penultimate day of the work week?
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I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (CwwHD)

225 Probably true, I just want to re-live 1988 to 1994 over and over again. I think I was happiest then.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Look on the bright side, memories cost nothing compared with college experience today and you don't face student tribunals for ordinary relations among the sexes.

By the time I retired, the administration was grabbing every nickel and dime they could from students often with the student acquiescence for new things like climbing walls, going division 1 in football, etc.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

226 "And here I was, thinking the cops were coming to get me for bringing an extra carry-on!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

lol

"No ticket!"

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)

227 But costs keep going up at a much faster rate of inflation, faster than pre-ACA rates of price growth in health insurance. How can that be if the ACA fixed healthcare?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

A subsidy puts a minimum floor under the price of anything, and so prices go up based on that minimum floor.
Anything you subsidize goes up in price. However at some point that rise in price is not being used for improving the care, but to make sure that the investors get their investment return, and the stocks keep their valuation.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

228 Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

I would have tried to get the fight attendant to tell me what happened. I'm really nosy and that would bother me.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (BvTfc)
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I did! She claimed she didn't know.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

229 172 33 I miss college.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

I don't think you would find college today that appealing. After I retired after more years than I thought I would ever spend in my life on a college campus, I really have not had any pangs of wanting to go back nor much nostalgia.

The ill winds promoted by Obammy, media, and Democrats destroyed much of what was good, decent, and noble of college. The new hires did the rest along with the newer crops of students picked for DIEversity reasons.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

I wish I could go back in time and do college over from *cough cough* to *coughcoughcough* knowing what I know now. I would have enjoyed my existence a lot more, and maybe even become an actual human being. Alas, time waits for no man and there are no do-overs. Whole thing's already in the can. You're stuck with the script and don't get to reshoot. Or even clean it up in post.

Posted by: The Mandatory March of Misery. Nice alliterative title. at November 13, 2025 12:56 PM (TbWk/)

230 If you look at costs over the last 40 years there is a direct correlation with how regulated an industry is.

Want to lower healthcare costs? Reduce regulation.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

231 *kicks rocks
Four more years
Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (FkmEP)

Think of TJM who's, like, 12. He has to make videos with badly thought-out lists of movies for decades.

How can anyone take a top 10 list seriously which doesn't include Porky's?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

232 My plans include gardening and chores that I haven't gotten done this week.

Apparently I am so delicate now that wind impacts my sleep and well being.

If it would just go ahead and snow and be cold and normal I'd be ok (this is what I think). There is a storm coming in this weekend. Unlike the weather barometer that makes people with arthritis ache, I don't have arthritis. I just have an allergy to wind in 2025, which roars down a canyon off the mountain when the weather changes. There should be a pill for this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 12:56 PM (MAl//)

233 I gave my employer 10.5 weeks notice - weird, I know - and I'm finding the last 4 really hard slogging. I'm just so tired of the BS.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

After my husband passed the very thought of going back to work literally turned my stomach. I just up and retired. My company was ok with it. No problems.

Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2025 12:56 PM (lJ0H4)

234 >>Probably true, I just want to re-live 1988 to 1994 over and over again. I think I was happiest then.

Weep not for the memories.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (viF8m)

235 227 A subsidy puts a minimum floor under the price of anything, and so prices go up based on that minimum floor.
Anything you subsidize goes up in price. However at some point that rise in price is not being used for improving the care, but to make sure that the investors get their investment return, and the stocks keep their valuation.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

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40% of all ACA enrollees don't file for anything. No doctor's visits. No prescriptions. Nothing.

Normal activity in insurance markets is 20% (healthy, young people, mostly).

Fraud? Or a shit ton of money to pay for health insurance that people don't need?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

236 Well, let's not make it a law that everyone has to have insurance anymore. Let's repeal that law that made that the case.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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IIRC, I think the GOP got rid of the penalty tax for not having insurance if not the stupid mandate itself along with IRS paperwork. Case of reconciliation rules bullshit wherein the Byrd rule needs to go off and die just like its namesake as outmoded and useless.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (WDjG6)

237 We only had to deal with the fallout from Vietnam, race riots, domestic terrorist bombings, inflation and constant presidential assassination attempts.

On the other hand at least we had good music.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM (viF8m)

Except for Vietnam we have much the same shit now.

Posted by: Not much has changed that much at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

238 Even when I went most college courses were a joke. If it wasn't math or science all you had to do was read whatever source the professor assigned and then write something on it you knew your professor would like.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

239
Biden had a stroke and a brain bleed in his 40's. He went on to be president.

There is hope for the braindamaged.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (IifOV)

240 Fraud? Or a shit ton of money to pay for health insurance that people don't need?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (UJMvS)

241 "Everything for the Death Cult Party, nothing outside the Death Cult Party, nothing above the Death Cult Party."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (uDeM2)

242 When we were driving home from the hospital she told me I needed to either stay with my son or have him stay at the house to help me because she wasn't going to. She meant it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I’m sorry. That’s not right.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (W2Pud)

243 Jeez, his wife is more than a bit of a bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)

244 One of my neighbors hired a lawn guy who brought a truck with basically a giant vacuum cleaner which he used to suck up all the leaves so she didn't have to rake them.

It looked like a great idea until I found out how much it cost

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

One of the many, many, things I don't miss about moving from NY to the SD prairies is not having to rake leaves. The wind alone sends them to NE.

Posted by: Archer at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (7u0eG)

245 Obama pontificating on "Bending the cost curve" down?

Peyronie’s ?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (CTFgw)

246 FREE LUMPY JACK!!!

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 12:58 PM (1Nv0l)

247 How high is the roof of Gracie Mansion, does anyone know?

I'm holding my LGTBQ+ "Thank You" party up there. Should be fun. Look out below!

Posted by: Zohran Mandami at November 13, 2025 12:59 PM (8yW+f)

248
I did! She claimed she didn't know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2025 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

Of course you did! Lol, I didn't think you'd be too shy to ask and was kind of surprised you didn't try that and I bet she did know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 13, 2025 12:59 PM (BvTfc)

249 238 Even when I went most college courses were a joke. If it wasn't math or science all you had to do was read whatever source the professor assigned and then write something on it you knew your professor would like.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah. Essay questions (blue book exams) allow you to hone your inner bullshit artist. That can be a useful skill, but it does not help you learn history, for example.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)

250 >I gave my employer 10.5 weeks notice - weird, I know - and I'm finding the last 4 really hard slogging. I'm just so tired of the BS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

I'm in a pretty niche corp role, and was just asked to initiate an RFP for some specialized software to replace a legacy system. My company has been very good to me so I think 6 months is appropriate to transition to my replacement. Plus I'll offer to stay on as a 1099 consultant if need be. If the convo goes sideways, I can clear out my office in 5 minutes.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (GTqXr)

251 Anything you subsidize goes up in price"

This. Slightly bugs me when the topic is healthcare "costs"...

It's prices. With the increases siphoned off for ....

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (9idMp)

252 HEY GUYS!

Hickory Farms is offering Free Shipping for a limited time!

Posted by: Ever Helpful Miklos at November 13, 2025 01:01 PM (u+AWT)

253 Everything the left claims the right is doing, they are moreso doing themselves.

And it's a day ending in "y".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2025 01:01 PM (wtvvX)

254 "Biden had a stroke and a brain bleed in his 40s. He went on to become president."

He did?!?!? I don't remember that.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 13, 2025 01:01 PM (o1wYM)

255 I gave my employer 10.5 weeks notice - weird, I know - and I'm finding the last 4 really hard slogging. I'm just so tired of the BS.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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Sounds hideous. I gave two weeks notice and promised to wrap a bunch of stuff up at my previous employer. That was bad enough by the end. I vowed to do the irish exit in future.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 01:01 PM (1Nv0l)

256 He says he was so depressed his wife told him to leave and go live with his parents (seems like old times...), because she didn't want his depression weighing down on the children.

-------------

* Ace's classic post of their love letters at that time has entered the chat *

If I wasn't mobile, I'd try to find that link ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 13, 2025 01:02 PM (uDeM2)

257 I hope he sees the light and leaves the Marxists side

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 01:02 PM (M7ic3)

258 Statement from Sen. Fetterman’s Spokesperson:

“During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in Braddock.

Out of an abundance of caution, he was transported to a hospital in Pittsburgh.

Upon evaluation, it was established he had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to Senator Fetterman feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries.

Senator Fetterman had this to say: ‘If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!’

He is doing well and receiving routine observation at the hospital. He has opted to stay so doctors can fine-tune his medication regimen.

Senator Fetterman is grateful for the EMTs, doctors, and nurses who are providing his care.”

Posted by: redridinghood at November 13, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)

259 Happy Jack > Lumpy Jack

Posted by: mr tmz at November 13, 2025 01:02 PM (rJ48h)

260 Never has there been a generation more at risk of information ops.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

There may be a movie coming out soon, it is a time travel movie where the main protagonist is trying to change the future, and sort of getting it wrong

youtu.be/AzBSsKqvXdI

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

261 Even when I went most college courses were a joke. If it wasn't math or science all you had to do was read whatever source the professor assigned and then write something on it you knew your professor would like.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

Even more so for a returning adult student. While everyone was taking cake classes as electives to prop up their GPAs, I was taking graduate course in genetic splicing, analog and digital signal processing, and machine vision.

I only had to drop machine vision, because I just could not keep up with the pace of the programming projects. The professor encouraged me to continue, and I suspect he would have given me a charity passing grade, but it just didn't feel right, so I dropped it.

But muh student loans or whatever. You get what you make out of your education dollars.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (i24o9)

262 Fraud? Or a shit ton of money to pay for featherbedding and other crap that people don't need?

FIFY

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (9idMp)

263 Well, let's not make it a law that everyone has to have insurance anymore. Let's repeal that law that made that the case.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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IIRC, I think the GOP got rid of the penalty tax for not having insurance if not the stupid mandate itself along with IRS paperwork. Case of reconciliation rules bullshit wherein the Byrd rule needs to go off and die just like its namesake as outmoded and useless.
Posted by: whig

Or the NFIB court case?

Posted by: Miklos, vaguely recalling at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (u+AWT)

264 I suspect that the shutdown was orchestrated to shore up VA and NJ for Dems.

Which if true says a lot, and none of it good for the Left.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (sVOFR)

265 251 This. Slightly bugs me when the topic is healthcare "costs"...

It's prices. With the increases siphoned off for ....

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (9idMp)

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Well, "price" to the consumer is what the left is focusing on. Price or cost, or whatever, the problem is the focus on the post-subsidy price to the consumer.

The actual cost, the actual overall price, is still jumping up hugely every year, but the subsidies hid the cost from the consumer. They still get their $10 per month plan or whatever.

And then that's all that matters in the argument. "People pay this, and now they will pay this." It's intentional obfuscation of the overall issue of cost/price in the health insurance market while treating efforts to actually talk about the overall issue as disingenuous because all that matters is Granny getting her insurance for $10 a month.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

266 Trollboi is putting the ASS in ASSCLOWN.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2025 01:04 PM (wtvvX)

267 I think Ass is actually ace trolling his own site just to see how people react to the kind of retarded shit he sees on that wanton strumpet "Ex-twitter".

That's my theory, anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 01:04 PM (JwNbV)

268 238 Even when I went most college courses were a joke. If it wasn't math or science all you had to do was read whatever source the professor assigned and then write something on it you knew your professor would like.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

------

My course work in mechanical engineering was brutal.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 13, 2025 01:04 PM (Vh9CX)

269 160 When the Pastor said in sickness or in health, apparently my wife heard in sickness (as long as it's not too serious or requires any effort on my part because fuck that) or health. When we were driving home from the hospital she told me I needed to either stay with my son or have him stay at the house to help me because she wasn't going to. She meant it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 13, 2025 12:44 PM (2UnvF)

That's your fault for not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, bouncing up off the canvas, getting back on the horse that threw you, and being the Christlike servant-leader God had called you to be.

Sardonic, obviously. That's just some of the usual bullshit men hear when things go bad. That's shitty and it never should have happened.

Posted by: Commiserative fistbumps for Duke at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

270 Well off to my appointment.

Y'all have fun storming the castle!

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

271 264 I suspect that the shutdown was orchestrated to shore up VA and NJ for Dems.

Which if true says a lot, and none of it good for the Left.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 01:03 PM (sVOFR)

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What is says is that the left will tolerate any amount of pain as an incentive to vote for Democrats.

Well, I say that Trump should oblige them. Send the pain, because being nice won't do anything either. Get the policy gains, and make the left hurt while you do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

272 >>>During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in Braddock.

Wow, first Rand Pau, then this. What is it with politicians and random accidents?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

273 Happy Jack > Lumpy Jack<Simple Jack

Posted by: man at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (9idMp)

274
Wow.. Fetterman did take a fall.. Or was he pushed ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

275 Dana Bash pretended to be surprised to hear that her fellow leftists were "praying for [Fetterman's] next stroke."

I'm trying to harmonize their "praying" for Uncle Festerman getting another stroke and their hatred of God because there is evil in this world and it is somehow God's fault that He lets it continue.

Fortunately, God doesn't hear the prayers of the unregenerate, and assigning the ability to hear prayers to any other entity implies omnipresence.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 13, 2025 01:06 PM (a3CJ+)

276 Jodey Arrington is out in TX-19.

He announced that Tuesday morning.

He was mid. I’m hoping for somebody better for my district. Why did redistricting HAVE to take my county out of TX-13?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 01:07 PM (sVOFR)

277 They call him Hungry Jack for a reason

Posted by: Mrs. Butterworth at November 13, 2025 01:07 PM (u+AWT)

278 Not gonna name who mentioned polls but I saw one yesterday that had Trump ahead of Obama and Bush in their second terms at this point....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (VE6XX)

279 >>It's Thursday! I've had a good feeling about Thursday since college, because most classes were M-W or T-Th which meant that Thursday was the unofficial end of the week.
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Previous job was 4 x 10hrs, Mon-Thurs., to Thursdays were always the best (next to days off)

S o
H appy
I t's
T hursday
!

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (rdVOm)

280 Did he really fall!?

Like today?

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (Sco7b)

281 "Lumpy Jack"

"Saucy Jack," by Spinal Tap:

You're a naughty one Saucy Jack
You're a haughty one Saucy Jack
When the streetlamp gaslight flickers and fails
Then you see the last light glinting off the entrails

...

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (7imtn)

282 Strolls are for pippers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (JwNbV)

283 Wow, first Rand Pau, then this. What is it with politicians and random accidents?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

Will Durant reminds us that there is very little difference between a politician and a gangster.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (sVOFR)

284 There may be a movie coming out soon, it is a time travel movie where the main protagonist is trying to change the future, and sort of getting it wrong

I saw a short video where a guy comes out of a time portal in a park and runs up to a stranger demanding to know if the stranger knows Hans Schmidt. When he doesn't the time traveler triumphantly announces, "I stopped him! I stopped the German dictator that killed thousands and took the world to the brink of a second world war!!!"

The person in the park realizes the import of the statement then asks the time traveller if he knows who Adolf Hitler is and when he says no loads an article on the history of Germany on his phone and hands it to the time traveller

Time traveller guy falls to the ground, "I screwed up...everything"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

285 280 Did he really fall!?

Like today?
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 01:08 PM (Sco7b)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (VE6XX)

286 One of the underlying assumptions about the constitutional protections of free speech is that you are ultimately loyal to the country and American citizens and that you wish no violence upon them. For the advocates of collectivism, one and often both of those assumptions is false. Collectivism offers nothing but compliance, whether voluntarily or through the application of violence.

The left is deeply disloyal to American culture and is drenched in a real thirst for violence. These "protest" movements operate outside of First Ammendment protections.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (33efi)

287 222 Anyone else remember Obama pontificating on "Bending the cost curve" down?

I do.

How'd that work out for you, leftists?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 13, 2025 12:54 PM (UJMvS)

How to write Legislation:

1) sunset a program to hide the costs and bend the curve over the out years.

2) When the sunset date approaches, attack Republicans for cutting programs.

3) act surprised when costs explode and call Republicans callous and/or racist.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (pIfcn)

288 I'm in a pretty niche corp role, and was just asked to initiate an RFP for some specialized software to replace a legacy system. My company has been very good to me so I think 6 months is appropriate to transition to my replacement. Plus I'll offer to stay on as a 1099 consultant if need be. If the convo goes sideways, I can clear out my office in 5 minutes.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (GTqXr)

My desk has been cleaned out since they sent us home for covid. I work really weird hours so I never had to RTO. They asked me a couple times to consider staying on longer but I was adamant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

289 The other Thursday saying:

T hank
G od
I t's
F (ing)
T hursday
!

Posted by: JQ at November 13, 2025 01:10 PM (rdVOm)

290 Obama has a fetish about speaking bullshit.

He gets off on the left sucking it up and the right knowing all along it's garbage, and they can't do a thing about it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 13, 2025 01:10 PM (PMtkd)

291 Sounds hideous. I gave two weeks notice and promised to wrap a bunch of stuff up at my previous employer. That was bad enough by the end. I vowed to do the irish exit in future.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 13, 2025 01:01 PM (1Nv0l)

It took them 4 weeks to come up with a plan for how to handle my leaving. If I'd given them 2 weeks notice they'd have literally shit themselves then and there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

292 Wow.. Fetterman did take a fall.. Or was he pushed ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)
*******
Either way the left wanted it to happen.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (NpAcC)

293
He gets off on the left sucking it up and the right knowing all along it's garbage, and they can't do a thing about it.

Hey some of us enjoyed the sucking part too

Posted by: Paul Ryan at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

294 Never has there been a generation more at risk of information ops.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

I don't think it's "at risk" at this point, more like fully actualized. College was bad enough on its own, but the brainwashing has been moved to algorithmically driven 24/7/365 bombardment - and it's been successful. The kids haven't reasoned themselves into believing the lies of the left, they've been propagandized, nudged, steered, pressured, and echo-chambered into immediately accepting whatever nonsense gets piped into their feed - men can be women, Trump is a Nazi, speech is violence, protesters killed cops on J6, etc.

Posted by: It's here and not going away without deprogramming at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)

295 When I retired from a really crap job due to stupid petty women and other things that irritated me, it came as a surprise to them. I'd complained to HR for the first time in 32yrs at the med center (as a RN case manager, a boring desk job for this one) about a new hire who was supposed to be a supervisor. She would arrive 2hrs late, just putz around yapping on the phone, & eat stinky onion sandwiches at her desk. Disgusting.

I should have known but did not, if you go to HR "you become part of the problem." The director, who was not a nurse, lied about me at the HR meeting. I sat there thinking, you need this job more than me you fat slob. I went home, told my husband about the "mediation" crap they dreamed up and he told me to quit.

So I did the next Monday and flipped out everyone who wanted to mediate me for the first time in my career of much harder jobs. Ha! Two weeks later I was outta there and my job share RN partner was as well. The little dept quickly went down the toilet. The person I complained about? She was walked off the grounds a month later for "stealing clients." I got to hear of karma! I'd only taken the job for the schedule so I could travel every other weekend.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (MAl//)

296 "Will Durant reminds us that there is very little difference between a politician and a gangster."

I don't trust any politicians. My votes are just Hobson's choices among evils.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:11 PM (7imtn)

297 Hate to reveal myself as a fool, but this post never explains who John Fetterman is.

So I am forced to ask: Who even is John Fetterman?

(Kind in mind that I tuned out most news 2020-2024, so I may have missed that era when he appeared in the news cycle.)

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2025 01:12 PM (oraVG)

298 Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2025 01:09 P

Interesting.

GatewayPundit has a nice article on top with Fetterman telling off the Democratic Larty especially the socialists.

And he 'falls' today.

Damn. I'm up to two conspiracy theories.
I'm still in the slightly interesting category....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 01:12 PM (Sco7b)

299 Time traveller guy falls to the ground, "I screwed up...everything"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

There is a French webseries in 5 or so seasons called Le Visiteur du Futur, which is a man coming back to change the future from all the disasters, including the Time Patrol.
First season the episodes were about 8 minutes long, and they built up from there. Eventually there was a movie.

"Stop! If you do that . . . "

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 01:12 PM (rbvCR)

300 nood

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:12 PM (7imtn)

301 HR isn't there to help you as an employ. They are their to protect the company.

If you reached that point you'd be better off going to your manager's manager though depending on their relationship that might not go well for you either

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

302 The job everyone wants, but can't have: one where you don't have to eat shit everyday. Even if you're self-employed and bossless, you still have to eat vendor shit and customer shit.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2025 01:15 PM (7imtn)

303 My opinion is that health insurance should be outlawed. The money from the "employer contribution" can be added to a 401k health saving account and after about 3 years there is enough in the account to handle 99.9% of medical events.

Health insurance companies add more costs than efficiencies in the system and thus are a net negstive.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 13, 2025 01:15 PM (Vh9CX)

304 Subsidized insurance for me as a low-income American still would cost me at least triple in premiums compared to what I pay for a healthcare-bill-sharing organization where we pay bills directly. But we don't share expenses for abortions or gender-deluding treatments and we also don't put piles of money in the pockets of connected or powerful people.

Posted by: Emmie at November 13, 2025 01:15 PM (FMtrg)

305 There's a lot that happens in the news cycles that's utterly predictable, because it's all mostly a show written by idiots, for idiots.

But I honestly, truly, never could have forseen that there would be a completely impotent doc dump trying to frame up Trump that, not only exonerates Trump, but somehow fingers HRC for murdering Vince Foster.

It's so ridiculous that not even the most creative mind could script it. It's so sad and stupid and hilarious that it couldn't possibly be not true.

It's like "releasing the Epstein Files" but it's actually a detailed history of the island that shows that Epstein never owned it or even stepped foot on it, but buried on page 87 is a photo of Gerald Ford shaking hands with a seven headed alien because why the fuck not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 01:15 PM (JwNbV)

306 So I am forced to ask: Who even is John Fetterman?

(Kind in mind that I tuned out most news 2020-2024, so I may have missed that era when he appeared in the news cycle.)
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2025 01:12 PM (oraVG)

He's the third silhouette from the right in that image that illustrates evolution. Also a US Senator from PA.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 13, 2025 01:16 PM (pIfcn)

307 The left is deeply disloyal to American culture and is drenched in a real thirst for violence. These "protest" movements operate outside of First Amendment protections.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at November 13, 2025 01:09 PM (33efi)

to quote the new president of South Korea: "Hate speech & misinformation shared on social media must be considered a crime that goes beyond the limits of freedom of expression"

He is backed up by Harvard, Stanford and the UN

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2025 01:16 PM (rbvCR)

308 "John Fetterman Says Left on Bluesky Crueler Than MAGA." The left on Bluesky didn't just make insurance unaffordable for over 40 million Americans.
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40 million can't afford health insurance less than 20 years after the Affordable Care Act was passed to solve the high cost of health insurance?

Also, what is the over-lap of that 40 million with the 42 million on SNAP?

Hey, maybe they can make the same choice I have to make since my taxes are so high to pay for both of those:
Either eat or go to the doctor--pick one.

Fuck 'em. Let 'em die.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 13, 2025 01:17 PM (Jz+9c)

309 >>Gen X had puberty during AIDs. First gulf war and all the shit since. Younger gens seem to think they live in a vacuum of current woes only affecting them.

We only had to deal with the fallout from Vietnam, race riots, domestic terrorist bombings, inflation and constant presidential assassination attempts.

On the other hand at least we had good music.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2025 12:53 PM

That blessed and fleeting period between The Pill and AIDS.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 13, 2025 01:17 PM (jc0TO)

310 301 HR isn't there to help you as an employ. They are their to protect the company.
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Wife learned this the hard way after two decades of employment. Ironically, when she started, HR actually was pro-employee.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 13, 2025 01:19 PM (s1DvK)

311 the footage of the final vote was enhanced by the wailing and moaning of Democrats in the background.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 13, 2025 01:19 PM (s1DvK)

312 Nood

Scotland rapists.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 13, 2025 01:20 PM (Sco7b)

313 If you reached that point you'd be better off going to your manager's manager though depending on their relationship that might not go well for you either
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

She knew. The two doctors of the dept knew and sympathized with me. I could not deal with it anymore, told the doc I was a friend that I was going to HR. I should have yelled "hostile environment and I am transexual!"

The first HR woman was a RN, and I had to go to a satellite hospital to talk to her.She filed the complaint. The HR person at the med center later did not know me, as others did and knew the other jobs I held and would have listened. It was simply time to bail and the fact that security walked this freak to her car and she was fired a month later proved they should have listened to me and my partner.

No regrets! I was done anyway with it and the politics that started with these nitwits. It was a very small dept and I was used to a large ED and/or the entire med center who knew me well.

This little petty dept was psycho. Like being locked in a mental ward two or three days/week. I could write a book about each character and you'd understand but I'd be sued.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2025 01:24 PM (MAl//)

314 249 238 Even when I went most college courses were a joke. If it wasn't math or science all you had to do was read whatever source the professor assigned and then write something on it you knew your professor would like.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2025 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah. Essay questions (blue book exams) allow you to hone your inner bullshit artist. That can be a useful skill, but it does not help you learn history, for example.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 13, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)

The trick to any Law School is that it's all essay questions. And the real trick is realizing that you can be completely wrong about the issue, and still get at least a B on the essay if you argue it well.
Explains a lot about Lawyers, and Lawyering.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2025 01:28 PM (uWKK8)

315 I wish my brother George were here.

Posted by: Lumpy Kuato at November 13, 2025 01:32 PM (Cjet/)

316 Ace, try having days of different colors which correspond to how big the lies are.

Finding out about the BBC editing a Trump speech.

Maybe a chunky brown day.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 13, 2025 01:34 PM (EyfuW)

317 "They call him Hungry Jack for a reason"

Hungry, Hungry Jack
They gobble 'em down
and the plate comes back
for Hungry Jack

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