The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 11/18/25

Good morning kids. Continuing from where we left off yesterday, our dear friend the VP and Director of Communications at the invaluable Heartland Institute, Jim Lakely, has dropped yet another poll that does not bode well for the restoration of our republic let alone for its survival.

42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school

I don't even want to imagine what the respondents who identified as liberal wanted. Way back in the 1960s, the lower end of the aforementioned cohort had the battle cry Never Trust Anyone Over 30 Bitterly ironic and catastrophic is how many of them reached that age to become academics, the very ones they railed against trusting.

Had they only met the same fate as their contemporaries Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, or blew themselves up in Greenwich Village townhouses making pipe bombs as their expression of universal love and brotherhood. How much better off we'd all be. Alas, the Communist myth of utopianism and self-hatred is a hell of a drug. So we're primed to get Mamdani'd right in the neck. Or are we?

Decades in the making, Western civilization faces a profound crisis in its political leadership. The problem the West confronts is clear: for too long, Western leaders in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. willfully abandoned the core principles of Western Civilization. They adopted policies that were both foreign and antithetical to the historical civilization of their countries and the societies that their fathers and mothers knew, which had, in fact, nurtured the very leaders who then labored to destroy it. These policies, including multiculturalism and progressivism, were anchored in Marxist-Leninist thought. Their impact has been catastrophic. Their consequence is that the future of Western Civilization is now in the balance. This was done deliberately.
The policies had the effect of weakening the Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment core principles of the West. These included intentional and sustained efforts to evict these principles from the public space while opening their borders to mass immigration from non-Western peoples. This has been done so massively and so quickly that most Western European states, including Ireland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, are at great risk of destabilization. Importantly, those states that rejected mass immigration, Hungary and Poland, are not. .. The West is thus in the curious position of permitting its statues to be toppled and its civilization destroyed by those who have the freedom to hold the West in contempt, a freedom that was made possible by that civilization. Of course, the West’s enemies do not care about that irony. The point is to destroy the West, and Western freedoms will be weaponized against Western peoples. In the end, it was Western Europe’s leaders who have intentionally and consistently made this situation possible.

The focus of this essay is on western Europe but is most certainly applicable to what we are experiencing right here in the good old US of A. And its these leaders who for the most part are or were the cream of the crop of Academia.

Some of them, not so much.

Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”
Crockett said, “I believe that we all need to pay attention to Trump and how he acts. He is the cause of all the confusion and the destruction that we have seen in politics. As far as I’m concerned, because it used to be we could disagree, and that was that. I disagree with a lot of Republicans, but it does not necessarily turn violent. Ever since he’s been introduced into politics, we have seen a consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

And yet this urine-saturated lice-infested whorehouse mattress somehow became an elected member of our House of rRepresentatives.

Elsewhere, is shit about to get real "down Souse American way" as Carmen Miranda would croon? John Bolton, the inept, egotistical warmongering buffoon reacted to our biggest carrier, the USS Gerald Ford arriving off the coast of South America, with what to me is a Luca Brasi/Johnny Fontaine Godfather reference:

“Well, I think the drug smugglers can obviously see what’s happening. It’d be stunning, as they do, that they don’t shift their routes and find other ways to get drugs into the United States. Let’s face it, it’s our demand for the drugs that’s giving them the incentive to try this; they’ll find other ways. But it also shows the confusion in the White House’s objectives. If it’s simply about illegal narcotics, that’s one thing, but it seems to be about overthrowing Maduro. Why else bring the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from the European theater to the Caribbean? Trump has now put the gun on the table. The question is, is he going to use it or not?”

Either his signature or his brains will be on the paper!

Aside from being a communist thug, whose legitimacy as that nation's president is dubious at best, his close strategic ties to both Iran and the Chi-Coms have made his regime a national security threat to both America and our allies in the region. Neither of the aforementioned can be allowed to have any kind of a foothold or influence. Am I looking for a war, no. But flexing of our muscles if done very carefully and intelligently can yield the results we desire and that are necessary.

Maduro must indeed go as well as every other Communist regime in South America and the Caribbean, let alone the world. And south of our seemingly reappearing southern border, thank you President Trump, the Mexican people are sick of the narco terrorists and their corrupt government, and are taking to the streets...

Is President Trump's show of strength against Venezuelan and Colombian drug traffickers having an unexpected knock-on effect in cartel-plagued Mexico?It's hard not to think that when one sees the intensity of protests like these at the center of Mexico City:

In the long term if the pressure is kept up, no doubt it helps our situation at the border, despite most of the violence coming from American leftists attacking our own ICE agents and police.

It's a fine thing to defeat communism abroad, but we are going to have to crush the life out of it right here at home before they can crush us.

This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago. It is a party determined to transform this nation and destroy the foundations of Western Civilization. Because of federalism and its overwhelmingly successful 250-year history as a capitalist-based constitutional republic, they will never succeed in peacefully transforming the United States into a one-party socialist oligarchy. However, it’s very likely that they will succeed in violently fracturing the nation, fomenting civil conflict, and hastening the death of Western Civilization.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Young Likely Voters Want Democratic Socialist to Win the White House in 2028
Leaders across the English-speaking world used the pandemic to trade democratic messiness for centralized control, revealing a ruling class that trusts abstraction far more than its own citizens.
The Dangerous Politics of Abstraction

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Jasmine Crockett is a urine-saturated, lice-infested whorehouse mattress - jjs
Crockett: Trump Has Caused ‘Consistent Spike’ in Political Violence
Conservatives fighting each other or doing nothing at all, blinds them to the Islamo-socialists’ well-advanced plans to end the American experiment.
The Democrat Party And The Death Of Western Civilization
Western nations face a breaking point as elites push policies their people reject, leaving the future of Western civilization hanging in the balance.
Quo Vadis for Western Civilization: The Rebirth of the West’s Civilizational Confidence
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
What could go wrong?
Muslim Illegal Alien With Terror Ties Was Allowed to Drive a Truck
The incident highlights the risks faced by law enforcement during immigration operations and underscores the federal push to address public safety threats.
Officer Injured as Suspect Rams Police Cars During Immigration Raid.
The early morning raid was executed at a makeshift nightclub in San Antonio on Sunday, leading to the detention of more than 150 patrons suspected of being in the United States illegally, according to sources familiar with the action. Law enforcement authorities suspect the club was being used by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, according to one news report.
San Antonio Nightclub Raid Nets 150 Arrests Amid Suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua Gang Ties
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Sec. Duffy: “Now we can refocus our efforts on surging controller hiring and building the brand new, state of the art air traffic control system the American people deserve.”
Airlines Can Resume Regular Schedules After FAA Ends Flight Restrictions
While speaking about the program during an interview on Newsmax, Rollins said, “Here’s the most unbelievable news I have really just over the last few days, that 5,000 dead people, that was just one month. The number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. Now, that is what we’re really gonna start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two.”
VIDEO — Brooke Rollins: ‘Unbelievable’ That 186,000 Dead People Are Getting SNAP Benefits
Betsy McCaughey: Cynically couched as a remedy for the affordable housing crisis, its real purpose is ideological: forcing Connecticut’s 169 towns to achieve what the bill calls “economic diversity.” Translation: If you’ve worked hard to own a home in a leafy suburb with quiet streets, you can’t live there unless everybody can — including those with low incomes and even the homeless. The state, through regional councils, will dictate how many people at each income level a town must house.
Beware false affordable-housing fixes — new Connecticut law hides a socialist wishlist
The government's multibillion-dollar minority contracting program is under fire.
The Core Part Of This Federal Race-Based Contracting Program Is Illegal, Judge Says
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The abduction highlights ongoing security challenges in Nigeria, where jihadist groups frequently target schools.
Gunmen Kidnap Dozens of Girls from Boarding School.

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which does not disclose its donors, has lobbied US lawmakers to create a 'digital regulator'
EXCLUSIVE: George Soros Gave $250K to British Group Working To Censor Conservative News Sites and ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter’
Christian Toto: Carr feeds terrible, anti-speech narratives at worst possible time.
It’s Time for FCC Chair Brendan Carr to Go
The BBC is determined to fight the claim, citing the need to protect its license fee payers, while grappling with internal staff frustration and public scrutiny.
BBC Leadership Want to Fight Trump in Court Over Doctored Speech Clip.
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Monaco reportedly ‘prevented Special Counsel Durham from releasing the 30-pp appendix to his final report b/c it implicated her old boss Obama.’
Exclusive: New Suit Seeks DOJ Records On Obama-Biden Official’s Role In Russiagate Cover-Up
Carroll’s story has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese used for target practice.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Throw Out the Worst Biden-Era Miscarriage of Justice Against Him
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
Thomas Crooks allegedly tried to take Trump’s life July 13, 2024, as a bullet struck his ear. Crooks allegedly killed Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously injured two others who were at the Butler rally.
Report: Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Was Interested in Furries, Used ‘They/Them’ Pronouns Online
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Participants at the event – which, according to Brazil’s state-owned outlet Agência Brasil, had some 70,000 attendees – reportedly demanded an end to the use of fossil fuels and that “rich countries” fund a “just transition” green climate project. Participants also used the venue to attack President Donald Trump for his refusal to adhere to the global climate agenda, in addition to a litany of other commonly repeated international leftist demands.
70,000 Join Green Protests at U.N. Climate Alarmism Conference COP30
If America wants to build things again, we need to restore the National Environmental Policy Act to its original purposes.
Federal Environmental Review Needs a Hard Reboot
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Once a moral and highly literate nation of people, America has become amoral, violent, and dumbed down.
American Education: From Biblical Roots to Atheism
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Sen. Rand Paul is asking U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release communications between the U.S. intelligence Community, and virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials.
U.S. Spy Agencies Had Ties to Wuhan Scientists Years before 2020 Covid Pandemic Began
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
“Arizonans are tired of excuses and chaos on Election Day. The Arizona Secure Elections Act gives voters clear rules, strong identification standards, and the confidence that only citizens are taking part in our elections,” bill sponsor and GOP Rep. Alexander Kolodin said in a statement. “These are straightforward reforms that put voters first. They ensure our elections run on time, follow the law, and earn the public’s trust.”
Arizona Republicans Introduce Constitutional Amendment To End Post-Election Day Counting ‘Chaos’
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Powerful families, millions of dollars and fake investigations.
How New Mexico Democrats Covered Up Epstein’s Crimes
It's another hoax, in other words, and one that exploits the suffering of Epstein's victims to go after Trump.
Democrats Doctored Epstein Evidence, and the GOP Has the Receipts
A brief introduction to Michael Wolff.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Secret Buddy
POLITICS
The survey, conducted on behalf of the Republican group Sentinel Action Fund and first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, finds that voters would choose Rogers over the three Democrat primary candidates in head-to-head matchups. Michigan voters also prefer Republicans on immigration, crime and the economy, giving the GOP several “tactical advantages” in the battleground state, according to the polling memo. (RELATED: Trump Clears Senate Field For GOP In Michigan As Dems Fight Messy Primary)
EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Senate Race Could Be GOP’s Best Midterms Offense Play, Poll Shows
Chi Ossé, a democratic socialist New York City councilman, promised to defund NYPD in 2020 and has repeatedly accused Israel of committing a 'genocide' in Gaza
Far-Left Mamdani Ally Launches Primary Challenge Against Hakeem Jeffries (radioactive Sepsis Lesions to challenge projectile colitis - jjs)
Is the “Muslim wave” a mirage or reality?
The ‘Minneapolis Mamdani’ Loses His Race for Mayor
Another tax-the-rich crowd booed Hochul — to her face — when she took the stage at a Mamdani event with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders a few weeks ago. . . The gov’s in a bind: She must either deliver for Mamdani early in the legislative session, or the hard left will gun for her in the June Democrat primary. We hope she finds her spine, because his demands mean disaster.
Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani is backfiring spectacularly
The effort to boost the independent candidate in Tennessee’s 7th District is being led by the “Democratic/Liberal” PAC, Your Community. On Oct. 31, the PAC quietly released a poll showing Republican Matt Van Epps leading Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn by eight points ahead of the Dec. 2 special election to replace Green.
Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Get Dirty To Take Key House Seat (Day-ending-in-Y dept. - jjs)
The filibuster will end sooner or later, so conservatives should act now while they have power in the House, Senate, and White House.
Trump Is Right. Senate Republicans Should End The Filibuster Before It’s Too Late
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
The resolution passed the council 13-0-2, endorsing the president’s plan, which Hamas agreed to on October 8 and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially endorsed in a signing with Trump on October 13.
U.N. Security Council Resolution on Gaza Passes, Trump Named Chairman of ‘Board of Peace’
Anything less than dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure risks recreating the exact conditions that made Oct. 7 possible.
Along the Israel-Gaza border, there’s only one path to peace: eliminating Hamas (in the whole world, eliminating Islam and Leftism - jjs)
Sazi Bongwe participated in anti-Israel campus activism, including illegal encampment
Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist'
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The deployment increases pressure on Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and enables potential U.S military action to remove strongman leader Nicolás Maduro.
IT’S HERE! USS Gerald R. Ford, World’s Largest Aircraft Carrier, Arrives in Caribbean.
Bolton said, “Well, I think the drug smugglers can obviously see what’s happening. It’d be stunning, as they do, that they don’t shift their routes and find other ways to get drugs into the United States. Let’s face it, it’s our demand for the drugs that’s giving them the incentive to try this; they’ll find other ways. But it also shows the confusion in the White House’s objectives. If it’s simply about illegal narcotics, that’s one thing, but it seems to be about overthrowing Maduro. Why else bring the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from the European theater to the Caribbean? Trump has now put the gun on the table. The question is, is he going to use it or not?”
Bolton: Trump ‘Put the Gun on the Table’ to Overthrow Maduro (half-assed Luca Brasi/Johnny Fontaine reference! - jjs)
In a geographic area where pirates once sailed, the Caribbean has now evolved into a busy supply chain for narcotics produced or protected inside Venezuela, with reports indicating U.S. forces intercepted and destroyed a suspected drug vessel in recent days.
The New Ho Chi Minh Trail? U.S., Venezuela, and the Narco Supply Line
Should the Trump Administration negotiate a term that requires Rio to keep American resources in America at this critical time of Chinese domination?
The Trump administration must stop partnering with mining giants tied to China
The remarks drew attention to the ongoing influence of Powell, who passed away in 1998, over the immigration debate and British politics legacy.
UK Labour Party Labels Farage ‘Today’s Enoch Powell’… As If That’s A Bad Thing?
There can be no debating that the UN is now unable to prevent the very wars, hate, injustice, and instability it was created to alleviate.
The UN Must Go!
Japan has made no secret of its support for Taiwan, but previous prime ministers have avoided using the exact language Takaichi chose because “survival-threatening” situations can trigger a military response under Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution. The Chinese felt Takaichi was more explicit than previous prime ministers in saying that Japan would fight China to protect Taiwan.
China Tells Tourists to Avoid Japan — Feud Escalates over PM Takaichi Sanae’s Taiwan Support
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
He cited recent examples in Ukraine and Russia to illustrate the scale and speed of devastation drones can produce.
‘Flying IEDs’: Army Sec Calls Drones ‘The Threat Of Humanity’s Lifetime’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan spoke of the dire national security need to revive U.S. manufacturing.
Secretaries Of War, Navy Talk Bringing Back Manufacturing Jobs, Covid Objectors, And Combat Readiness
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Its continuing medical education course violates multiple standards established by professional organizations in the field.
The Texas Medical Association Is Misleading Doctors on Transgender Health Care
Feminism, abortion, the decline in Christianity, the normalization of cohabitation, and rising divorce all played roles in this phenomenon.
Girls’ Steep Decline In Desire For Marriage Is The Destabilizing Consequence Of Feminization
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Across America, young men are drifting into digital isolation.
Boys Are Now Caught Under The Spell Of Predatory Algorithms
Crooks and Robinson both fit this profile perfectly: socially isolated, downwardly mobile young white men from middle or working-class suburbs, radicalized in the exact online spaces where economic resentment, racial grievance, and sexual deviancy all converge.
Making Beasts of Men: Why are two high-profile political assassins tied to the furry fetish?
“My hope for Heritage is that it will be unbending and unflinching in its fidelity to its founding vision, upholding the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the civic principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.”
Heritage Trustee Robert George Resigns From Board
“Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981, after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years,” the Times reported.
2025 Summer Box Office Worst Since 1981
Disney stock continues to slide, even though it took his advice and rehired Jimmy Kimmel.
Mark Ruffalo Call Your Office: Disney Stock Hits 10-Year Low Since Rehiring Jimmy Kimmel
It is only because Sweeney held firm, was unapologetically herself and completely unbothered, that we see just how far down the rabbit hole the left has gone.
Sydney Sweeney triggered the left by refusing to apologize for being white and pretty
Robert Zimmerman: "In both cases, the authors were handicapped by certain modern academic paradigms that crippled their ability to see the larger context of events. Those paradigms demanded that both historians treat all the cultures involved as morally equivalent, and because of this both writers miss entirely the greater moral fundamentals that moved the Western side of both stories."
The crippling effect of “woke” on historians

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

2 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

3 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

4 Greetings and good morning, one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:28 AM (RjOoY)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 07:28 AM (NwnyJ)

6 Good morning all and happyTaco Tuesday!

Posted by: Polka will never die at November 18, 2025 07:29 AM (kde92)

7 "...is shit about to get real in the Southern Hemisphere?"

No, because Venezuela in its entirety falls above the Equator and is therefore still in the Northern Hemisphere.

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at November 18, 2025 07:29 AM (YINx+)

8 However, it’s very likely that they will succeed in violently fracturing the nation, fomenting civil conflict, and hastening the death of Western Civilization.

That is the way it always has been.

Western Civilization requires faith, responsibility and industry. Everything else just needs a slogan and a War Lord.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:29 AM (WCaCG)

9 Also, the internet is down.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)

10 >>And yet this urine-saturated lice-infested whorehouse mattress somehow became an elected member of our House of rRepresentatives.

Thank Mr. Gerry Mander for this idiot

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:30 AM (GbwPZ)

11 Also, the internet is down.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)
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/checks undersea cables

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2025 07:31 AM (1o8D5)

12 This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago.

It is, actually. The only difference is that they finally feel safe in taking off the masks.

That party should have been crushed and made illegal as part of the surrender terms for the Civil War.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:32 AM (RjOoY)

13 7 Posted by: Exiled2Texas at November 18, 2025 07:29 AM (YINx+)

Edited, thank you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 07:32 AM (x0n13)

14 >>The number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. Now, that is what we’re really gonna start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two.”

Honestly, that seems low given there are 43 million or so people on SNAP?.
How many non-existent people and foreigners, Brooke?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:33 AM (GbwPZ)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 18, 2025 07:34 AM (tljrc)

16 12 This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago.

It is, actually. The only difference is that they finally feel safe in taking off the masks.

That party should have been crushed and made illegal as part of the surrender terms for the Civil War.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:32 AM (RjOoY)

Yes as I have stated a number of times. But still, Evil never rests and the eternal desire for absolute power would have taken some other form as some other party.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 07:34 AM (x0n13)

17 Report: Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Was Interested in Furries, Used ‘They/Them’ Pronouns Online

We were better off when these freaks were in the closet and not bothering normal people.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:35 AM (RjOoY)

18 But still, Evil never rests and the eternal desire for absolute power would have taken some other form as some other party.

Agreed 100%. But I think (legal disclaimer) that if they had been crushed and removed, the survivors would have come back in another guise but it would take them a long time to get power.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:36 AM (RjOoY)

19 In this world of sturm unt drang, let a little fun erupt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZYP5jn5w4

Or - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgyoO3fbjw

As for REAL terror, I dreamt I was stuck in Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport and had to get from Concourse C to Concourse D last night

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:37 AM (xouAs)

20 Crockett really truly believes in the cry of the serial abuser: See what you made me do!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 07:38 AM (UJMvS)

21 Crook as a Furry, we had a whole thread on that yesterday.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:38 AM (xouAs)

22 Seventy-four percent of young Americans, including 70% of self-identified conservatives, believe the “cost of housing in America has reached a crisis level.” More than half (56%) of self-identified conservatives would support a congressional proposal to expand government housing and a nationwide rent freeze.

Big Govt bring is 10 to 12 Million new people in less than 4 years and that creates a massive housing problem so the answer to that problem is a Big Govt Rent Controlled Housing.

The destruction of 500,000 (public) housing units in the 80s and 90s was a Progressive Plan to 1) move the poor into every suburban community, 2) open the city centers to be remade for the well-to-do, and 3) push (D) voters into (R) precincts.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

23 However, it’s very likely that they will succeed in violently fracturing the nation, fomenting civil conflict, and hastening the death of Western Civilization.

They're already shooting at us. What's to be done?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 07:39 AM (uQesX)

24 Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

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The pertinent question is, "Who is actually committing the violence?"

Posted by: davidt at November 18, 2025 07:39 AM (Q+gd/)

25 The filibuster will end sooner or later, so conservatives should act now while they have power in the House, Senate, and White House.

With all do respect to the commenters here who hold this same opinion, this is the stupidest thing ever. Erase the filibuster so that uniparty GOP - who can't get shit passed out of the House, which doesn't have a filibuster - can ram conservative priorities through the process and get them enshrined into law...

Until the Democrats take power and remove all of them because the filibuster no longer exists. Yay! We get to have the laws in this country whipsawed around as the sheeple lurch from side to side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

26 Western Civilization is just another word for white male supremacy. I welcome my muslim, hindu and animist brown brothers to come to america and show me the error of my ways and expunge my guilt and shame for being so successful! I do not want indoor plumbing and electricity any longer and wish to be one with nature and the dirt.

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at November 18, 2025 07:41 AM (5nX5P)

27 The question is, is he going to use it or not?”
Bolton: Trump ‘Put the Gun on the Table’ to Overthrow Maduro

I don't know, we should give this man all of his clearances back and let him show us the way.

Short Version: Kill everyone, then figure out a way where the entire MIC can be involved in ~~shaking down~~ nation building Venezuela.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (WCaCG)

28 “My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.“

Psalm 7:10

Posted by: Marcus T at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (s9qLo)

29 The name "Fad" has Arabic origins, meaning "sacrifice" or "ransom", and is associated with selflessness and willingness to give for a greater cause. The name "Fadi", a variant of "Fad", means "redeemer" or "savior" in Arabic, and is commonly used among Arab Christians and Muslims. It reflects qualities of bravery and protection, symbolizing someone who brings salvation.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (U8GGX)

30 I see aliasdoofus is one of the 10 percent who believe they represent 50% of the country.

yeah, no. Loud does not equal half the country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (UJMvS)

31 >>“Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981, after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years,” the Times reported.

I can't name one summer movie this year - think there was the final Mission Impossible movie?

That's why Hollywood is dead. *yawn*

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:43 AM (GbwPZ)

32 Two comments just went poof. Morning off to a good start.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:43 AM (xouAs)

33 Chi Ossé, a democratic socialist New York City councilman, Launches Primary Challenge Against Hakeem Jeffries (radioactive Sepsis Lesions to challenge projectile colitis - jjs)

I’m hoping Ossé wins for purely aesthetic reasons. Hakeem’s looks are horrifying. He looks like Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding in the devil’s rejects.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 18, 2025 07:44 AM (2ap+5)

34 I do not want indoor plumbing and electricity any longer and wish to be one with nature and the dirt.

Definitely be one with nature and dirt ... and lime ... face down in a ditch.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:44 AM (WCaCG)

35 That party should have been crushed and made illegal as part of the surrender terms for the Civil War.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:32 AM (RjOoY)

And today's Democrat party would simply exist under a different name.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

36 The filibuster will end sooner or later, so conservatives should act now while they have power in the House, Senate, and White House.
Trump Is Right. Senate Republicans Should End The Filibuster Before It’s Too Late

But.. but... then we'd have to govern and actually do something beside taking our paycheck and thwarting the will of the people!

Posted by: GOPe at November 18, 2025 07:45 AM (uQesX)

37 >>I’m hoping Ossé wins for purely aesthetic reasons. Hakeem’s looks are horrifying. He looks like Sid Haig as Captain Spaulding in the devil’s rejects.

Sanpaku eye

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:45 AM (GbwPZ)

38 Speaking of movies, in case anyone cares.

This December the third installment of James Cameron's obsessions with tall blue alien furries will hit cinemas - Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:45 AM (xouAs)

39 Honestly, that seems low given there are 43 million or so people on SNAP?.
How many non-existent people and foreigners, Brooke?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:33 AM (GbwPZ)

- 186K dead
- 500K double enrollees
- states fighting to prevent the federal government from getting data on foreigners
- who knows if there are any non-existent

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

40
Has Cloudflare been hacked again?

I keep getting an internal server error message that Cloudflare in the Dallas area isn't working.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 07:46 AM (iJfKG)

41 I had a coworker who was born in Poland in 1984 and was naturalized here. She remembers standing for hours in the bread lines as a little girl. She won't be a problem.

Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2025 07:47 AM (1Cncb)

42 There can be no debating that the UN is now unable to prevent the very wars, hate, injustice, and instability it was created to alleviate.

Hee hee. That's not why we created it.

Posted by: Commies inside Western Gov'ts at November 18, 2025 07:47 AM (uQesX)

43 22 Seventy-four percent of young Americans, including 70% of self-identified conservatives, believe the “cost of housing in America has reached a crisis level.” More than half (56%) of self-identified conservatives would support a congressional proposal to expand government housing and a nationwide rent freeze.

Big Govt bring is 10 to 12 Million new people in less than 4 years and that creates a massive housing problem so the answer to that problem is a Big Govt Rent Controlled Housing.

The destruction of 500,000 (public) housing units in the 80s and 90s was a Progressive Plan to 1) move the poor into every suburban community, 2) open the city centers to be remade for the well-to-do, and 3) push (D) voters into (R) precincts.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

Trump is now suggesting the same big government solution to healthcare...with large direct payments to Americans (ala "student loans" with no loans part)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

44 >> 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency…

What??? This doesn’t even make sense. That’d be like 42% of self-identifying Christians saying they don’t believe in Jesus.

Wait… I think I see the problem….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 07:47 AM (/iXAp)

45 Agreed 100%. But I think (legal disclaimer) that if they had been crushed and removed, the survivors would have come back in another guise but it would take them a long time to get power.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:36 AM (RjOoY)

Not really. The progressive promise that 'experts' will fix everything and we'll take from others to give to you would have had the same electoral success regardless of the label applied.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

46 The origin of the word "fad" dates back to 1834, where it was used to mean "hobby" or "pet project." Its etymology is uncertain, but it may be shortened from "fiddle-faddle" or derived from the French word "fadaise," meaning "trifle" or "nonsense," which ultimately comes from the Latin "fatuus," meaning "stupid".

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 07:48 AM (U8GGX)

47 Muslim Illegal Alien With Terror Ties Was Allowed to Drive a Truck

And the license has the Gold Star of a REAL ID.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

48 We get to have the laws in this country whipsawed around as the sheeple lurch from side to side.

The image you had me conjure up was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:48 AM (nCgQz)

49 Conservative young people want a socialist president. All I can do is laugh.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

50 38 Speaking of movies, in case anyone cares.

This December the third installment of James Cameron's obsessions with tall blue alien furries will hit cinemas - Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:45 AM (xouAs)

Pretty sure this is the one where people say enough and watch Angel Studio's David instead this Christmas...if they watch anything.

Yes, the blue things will still make a lot of money, but not $600M+ DOM BO money this time...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

51 I keep getting an internal server error message that Cloudflare in the Dallas area isn't working.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 07:46 AM (iJfKG)
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I'm getting a message Cloudflare LA is down.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 07:49 AM (UJMvS)

52 With all do respect

Sigh. Is constantly using the wrong spellings of words a sign of impending senility?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

53 >>Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist'

The global intifada is here: independent journalist Cam Higby is followed by a drone after attempting to enter a mosque in Deerborn, MI last night. Yes, the mosque has its own drones to harass people.

[I'd link to his X posts about it, but it's down]

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (GbwPZ)

54 The image you had me conjure up was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter.

You want Galloping Gerty, you will get Lumbering Lizzo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (xouAs)

55 40
Has Cloudflare been hacked again?

I keep getting an internal server error message that Cloudflare in the Dallas area isn't working.

Posted by: naturalfake

Cloudflare has been up and down constantly for the past hour-and-change.

Since I'm on call for monitoring the servers at work, my phone hasn't stopped ringing the entire time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (BLOW1)

56 I do not want indoor plumbing and electricity any longer and wish to be one with nature and the ~~dirt~~ SHIT.
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at November 18, 2025 07:41 AM (5nX5P)

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

57 CLOUD-flare... We know who has the weather control machine, right?

Posted by: davidt at November 18, 2025 07:51 AM (Q+gd/)

58 Well, that's a bleak serving of fresh hell.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 07:51 AM (va/bK)

59 Side note about the dogs we are babysitting.

The youngest one is hilarious and she has a high prey drive. The problem is when she sees prey, be it squirrel or cat, she lets out what I call a war scream.

Funny in the afternoon, not funny early in the morning.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:52 AM (RjOoY)

60 > 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school
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Translation:

The people who commissioned this poll would also like a so-called Democratic Socialist to win the presidency. Roughly 42% of employees at the polling firm said so. Over 52% of the staff said their employer favored Socialism while at work.
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It's all horseshit to make everyone believe this is the way to a better future.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 07:52 AM (NwnyJ)

61 Trump is now suggesting the same big government solution to healthcare...with large direct payments to Americans (ala "student loans" with no loans part)...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

He is close to a good idea.
Make families corps for Medical cost.
100% tax deductible.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

62 >> Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani is backfiring spectacularly

Disasters following New York's adoption of Mamdani's preferred policies is certain to result in New York's rejection of socialism.

They will adopt communism.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 18, 2025 07:52 AM (2ap+5)

63 Since I'm on call for monitoring the servers at work, my phone hasn't stopped ringing the entire time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:50 AM (BLOW1)
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I remember those days.

Not fondly, either.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 07:52 AM (UJMvS)

64 Not really. The progressive promise that 'experts' will fix everything and we'll take from others to give to you would have had the same electoral success regardless of the label applied.

They assume the role and fantastical results of Philosopher Kings in Plato's Republic. These are the same people who can't make it through the day without an extensive dependency on psychotropics, mood stabilizers, anti-depressives, anti-anxiety meds, hormone therapy, and anti-psychotic drugs.

We should trust them, they are vegans.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:53 AM (nAS9C)

65 Higher takes on businesses and billionaires?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith
_________

Freudian slip there?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 18, 2025 07:53 AM (XvL8K)

66 Pixy Misa-sama

Maybe this needs to be your alert ringtone then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB0758uZZhc

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:53 AM (xouAs)

67 Since I'm on call for monitoring the servers at work, my phone hasn't stopped ringing the entire time.

I'm imaging a room in your home that has a wall of 40" monitors all showing Datadog dashboards.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:54 AM (nAS9C)

68 On the 18-39 part, those of us with kids in that range have been telling you all there's a big problem with entry level full time jobs and entry level pay/benefits. The "they don't want to buy a house" or "they don't want a car to drive" or "they don't want to go out" isn't b/c they don't want them...it's b/c they don't believe they will ever be able to have them...and thus, their politics go wonky...and you have 43% conservative (probably the side conservative for social issues) saying they'd be okay with a socialist...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

69 58 Well, that's a bleak serving of fresh hell.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 07:51 AM (va/bK)

I got a serving of Fresh Hell the other day that seemed a bit skimpy and when I mentioned that the lady in the serving line she ladled about a quarter cup of some Fresh Shit and told me "you're welcome".

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

70 Drinker had a thing on avatar yesterday, films that made billions but had no cultural impact. Nobody goes around quoting lines from Avatar. There are no Avatar dress up conventions.

https://youtu.be/YZAcN_6PDn0?si=x1BPiP31UHRNvaaP

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 07:55 AM (va/bK)

71 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency

How the hell do these idiots self-identify as 'conservative' and still desire a Democrat Socialist? What does 'conservative' mean to them?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 07:55 AM (ufSfZ)

72 Well, what have Republicans offered in contrast to "democratic socialism?"

Tax cuts for corporations
Illegal immigration
NAFTA
(yes, I know it was Clinton, but that doesn't pass--and remain--without GOP defending it)

While the Boomers and Silents--who fought commies--are all "No Kings" and "Keep your hands off my (welfare)!!"

If that's the faces and defenses of the free market, of capitalism, is it any wonder the kids aren't interested?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 07:55 AM (xvJ6z)

73 Akira will always have more relevance than any Avatar movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:56 AM (xouAs)

74 The people who commissioned this poll would also like a so-called Democratic Socialist to win the presidency.

And they truly believe that this is the "good" kind of socialism where all the children get equal snacks. They have not grown out of the kindergarten mindset.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:56 AM (RjOoY)

75 The image you had me conjure up was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 07:48 AM (nCgQz)

When I was a lad in college, the prof showed us that video to introduce for us the concept of a structural resonance…. It stuck

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 07:56 AM (/iXAp)

76 Speaking of existing under a different name.

>>WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sunflower Services, a new Public Benefit Corporation financed by lead investor New Venture Fund (NVF) with financial support from the Windward and Hopewell Funds, today announced its acquisition of Arabella Advisors' fiscal sponsorship servicing business.

https://tinyurl.com/4z3tv9dm

I'm sure its just a coincidence that USAID gets nuked and Arabella gets disolved.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 07:56 AM (viF8m)

77 73 Akira will always have more relevance than any Avatar movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Lies detected: None.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 07:57 AM (RjOoY)

78 “But here’s the really stunning thing. This is just data from those 29 mostly red states. Can you image when we get our hands on the blue state data what we’re gonna find?” she added:

The real cheat is going to be the people with Ohio and WV SNAP. Or Tex and Okla.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

79 The over 40 crowd spits on the ground and curses the "young" people, but a whole bunch of those young people voted for Trump last year. Why? Because they have concerns - genuine or not - and they thought Trump would address them. The perception - again, real or not - is that he hasn't, so they are turning elsewhere.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (MZ+PY)

80 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (LbMjz)

81 >>I'm sure its just a coincidence that USAID gets nuked and Arabella gets disolved.

Wow.
Also helps covering the trail?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (GbwPZ)

82 > Since I'm on call for monitoring the servers at work, my phone hasn't stopped ringing the entire time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa
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Yea, that sucks.

My calls would be on weeknights just after my first Bourbon before dinner. Usually a Friday.

Oh, and weekends too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (NwnyJ)

83 The pertinent question is, "Who is actually committing the violence?"

--

I'm currently reading, and almost finished with, Grant by Ron Chernow. It's an enormous book, clocking in at over 900 pages, but it is a masterpiece of writing, imo.

I can't begin to tell you the parallels I've come across from how the Democrats were then, and how they are now. The southern D's after Reconstruction were off-the-charts with violence to achieve their goals. As much as I knew about it beforehand, it still astounded me. They are a violent, violent party. They have always been violent. They'll probably always be violent. The violence comes directly from them, then and now. This POS broad can shove it up her false eyelashes and weaves. They're all such liars.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)

84 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (6vGEN)

85 Socialism???? Exactly what is that?
Social Security???
EBT for kids and seniors which is 60%0 of all EBT benefits?
Paying farmers not to grow crops?
Public roads with no tolls?;
Retiring early at 62 to collect Social Security ?
Higher takes on businesses and billionaires?
High "death taxes" to prevent the continued concentration of wealth into generational oligarch families like in 3rd world countries??

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 18, 2025 07:59 AM (XYpAu)

86 Western leaders in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. willfully abandoned the core principles of Western Civilization."

It's 1485 all over again. The West is listless and bored, and there's no Nina to come back over the horizon... yet.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 07:59 AM (XuXeR)

87 How the hell do these idiots self-identify as 'conservative' and still desire a Democrat Socialist? What does 'conservative' mean to them?

==

IMO, so much of these utterly incongruent sentiments stem from a complete lack of education. Just the way the educators want it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

88 Trump is now suggesting the same big government solution to healthcare...with large direct payments to Americans (ala "student loans" with no loans part)...

I like the various medical cost sharing organizations model. The costs of acute medical care are spread around to all members (plus the administrative vig).

This puts skin in the game. They also cherry-pick their members by requiring relatively clean life-style (no profession cliff-divers, or chronically ill, obese, drug addicted or requiring counseling and psychotropics). A lot of the bills we had to help pay were baby delivery.

From what I understand, modern health care insurance is akin to auto insurance where "insurance" pays for wear items and your fuel. This is probably the fattest slice of the medical cost pie, with the secondary all of the various administrative grift and overhead.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:00 AM (U4c/V)

89 The West is listless and bored, and there's no Nina to come back over the horizon... yet.

Elon Musk, "I'm working on it! Now watch AI generated cat girl videos while I build the spaceships."

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (xouAs)

90 Yes, the blue things will still make a lot of money, but not $600M+ DOM BO money this time...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 07:49 AM (tOcjL)
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Critical Drinker put out a video the other day talking about this. The Avatar franchise makes tons of money at the box office, but no one ever talks about it. No one seems to care about the story or characters. And now that EVERYONE is using massive amounts of CGI in their movies for spectacle, Avatar no longer stands out as much.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (IBQGV)

91 This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago.
——-

Maybe, maybe not. I was reading about the Army Mcarthy hearings in the 1950s, the State Department files, Truman basically confiscated all the background checks and loyalty files of the entire workforce, and wouldn’t let anyone see them. The F.B.I. had the goods on a lot of scurvy characters, they were running ops and made sure Mao prevailed in China, and the loss of 100 million people behind the Iron Curtain, and tried the “limited war” in Korea, and screwed up Hungary, and Cuba, etc.

Guys like Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Symington, et al, the kind of Democrat that Republicans profess to love, had access to those files and knew what was what, but in open committee hearings would say exactly something opposite. The rot goes back a long, long ways and continues to this day.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (bg8nN)

92 "The crisis of legitimacy for the Western elite will be resolved either by crushing their publics by weaponizing the state against them or by heeding their people. The former is happening now. It must end immediately..."

It can't and won't end, immediately or ever, not unless it is forced to. We're beyond the point of an electoral event altering the implacable and self-destructive delusions of the elite. This is what so many of these well-meaning, naively hortatory essays miss. Perhaps because addressing the real issue, i.e., what being "forced to" means in real terms, would risk sounding "far right" (God forbid!).

Lincoln understood the crisis he faced when he said "measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation." This is the paradox of crisis the intellectual and political Right does not yet seem willing to confront.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (t+TFX)

93 >>>Has Cloudflare been hacked again?
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Possibly. X is down here in NJ.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (3ImbR)

94 Seems to be a lot of internet error this morning, connections slow or just not working.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (/ZNPI)

95 IMO, so much of these utterly incongruent sentiments stem from a complete lack of education. Just the way the educators want it.

Now you understand the value of Branding your product.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:01 AM (U4c/V)

96 Let's face it, no one has been promoting free markets on decades. Republicans love huge monopolistic corporations and secretly so do Democrats. Our system isn't capitalism it's Corporatism and it isn't working. Socialism is presenting the only alternative right now.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:02 AM (va/bK)

97 I saw Aerolastic Flutter open for Iron Butterfly in 70 at the Forum

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 18, 2025 08:02 AM (/6GbT)

98 They've succeeded in creating a generation of young people who decided "Fine, I'll eat the bugs and live in the pod, as long as someone I hate has to do it, too."

Posted by: XTC at November 18, 2025 08:02 AM (6Uni8)

99 And yeah, cloudfark is, well... farked. It's a mess out there. Probably Trumpf's fault.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:02 AM (XuXeR)

100 Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ.
Comedy gold for the day is seeing Hakeem Jefferies having to deal with a further left primary challenger. A preview for Chucky

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 08:03 AM (bfwj/)

101 And our local troll doesn't understand what socialism is. The funny part is that he used "muh roads!" as an example.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:03 AM (RjOoY)

102 X is offline as is GP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 08:04 AM (bfwj/)

103 good morning JJ, Horde

Socialism's butcher's bill is, what, at least 100 million dead in the 20th Century? And yet that damnable lie still isn't buried in the ash heap of history.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (lKJou)

104 Lincoln understood the crisis he faced when he said "measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation."

Trump is unwilling to violate the "No Trespassing" sign posted outside of the burning building that has trapped people inside.

OTOH, "W' said “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”

And look where that took us.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (kHd4y)

105 Critical Drinker compared Avatar to fast food. Something that gets the job of filling your stomach done but you don't remember anything about the meal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (xouAs)

106 They're already shooting at us. What's to be done?

We know what's to be done. It is increasingly clear that the ballot box is simply too compromised to be an effective block to the left.

And despite her hoodrat-level IQ, Crockett is actually right, for once. Trump is 'the cause of the confusion and destruction" in politics. His election and re-election have forced the left to abandon their soft-pedal, heart-tugging propaganda and resort to violence in a desperate attempt to regain the high ground. For all his faults (and I think he has a great many), Trump is the first man in a long time to punch back at the left in a way that is more than symbolic.

I am increasingly convinced that the only way forward for the right is either massive civil disobedience or unrestrained violence. I do not see normal, stable 'elections' (as if there are any) as a viable path. But YMMV.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (ufSfZ)

107 Also, the internet is down.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 07:30 AM (BLOW1)
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The where the heck am I?

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (3ImbR)

108 "Fine, I'll eat the bugs and live in the pod, as long as someone I hate has to do it, too."

The politics of resentment, lubed by "social media"

(I want what *insert name of influencer here* has!!!!)

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (XuXeR)

109 The Case Shiller index, which avoids distortions due to the "median" home changing across time, shows home prices to have increased at an annual rate equal to inflation plus 0.5%. The problem is wages are too low, but that happens with massive off-shoring. One policy that would help with home affordability would be a return to COVID-era remote work. Trends are going the other way, partly to keep big cities from turning into ghost towns, but remote work seems to me a more moderate policy than the elimination of private property.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 18, 2025 08:06 AM (2ap+5)

110 Socialism's butcher's bill is, what, at least 100 million dead in the 20th Century? And yet that damnable lie still isn't buried in the ash heap of history.

Yeah, I thought the number was closer to 250 million.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:06 AM (kHd4y)

111 From what I understand, modern health care insurance is akin to auto insurance where "insurance" pays for wear items and your fuel. This is probably the fattest slice of the medical cost pie, with the secondary all of the various administrative grift and overhead.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:00 AM (U4c/V)

I have always wonders if regular checkups really accomplish anything other than a bill.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

112 The where the heck am I?

On the line with "Peggy" at the Cloudflare help desk.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:07 AM (xouAs)

113 everything is down and I have a product launch tomorrow well Thursday but need to test campaign at least by tomorrow

shocked we're up! yay Pixy!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 18, 2025 08:08 AM (emBoF)

114 "Disasters following New York's adoption of Mamdani's preferred policies is certain to result in New York's rejection of socialism."

I wish it would be that simple. Mamdani's failure will likely only lead to an even more radical reaction-formation, as the ability within the system to assimilate failure and a natural response or correction is disabled and even inverted toward greater destruction.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:08 AM (t+TFX)

115 Well, Insty is down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:08 AM (bss/y)

116 High "death taxes" to prevent the continued concentration of wealth into generational oligarch families like in 3rd world countries??
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So stupid I can barely stand it.

Why are they 3rd world countries Big Dummy.

In China the only people with generational wealth are on the Central Military Commission.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (LbMjz)

117 The where the heck am I? "

Hekawi?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

118 Morn' all... Concerning the "conservative " Yutes who want a socialist President the loss of Charlie Kirk is clearly showing.. Yes TPUSA is still operating but without Kirk I don't have high hopes....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (VE6XX)

119 But Minx 0.8 Beta still works.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (xouAs)

120 Today is National Vichyssoise Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

121 Somebody needs to unplug the router and plug it back in.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (viF8m)

122 113 everything is down and I have a product launch tomorrow well Thursday but need to test campaign at least by tomorrow

shocked we're up! yay Pixy!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 18, 2025 08:08 AM (emBoF)

The benefits of a Steam Powered website.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (bss/y)

123 got a serving of Fresh Hell the other day that seemed a bit skimpy and when I mentioned that the lady in the serving line she ladled about a quarter cup of some Fresh Shit and told me "you're welcome".

Reminds me of a T-shirt one of the cooks in our battalion would wear on the weekends off duty.

“Death From Within!” and a skeleton Army cook ladling something out iirc, a play on the classic 82nd Airborne motto “Death From Above!”.

Apparently higher ups in the chain of command were Not Amused by this variant on the hooah attitude and proscribed anyone wearing them on base. I thought it was hilarious, and I kind of liked Army chow, by my time they were doing a pretty good job in a thankless task.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (bg8nN)

124 @105 Anna, watched his review and he is spot on. I watched the original Avatar and it made zero impression on me. Can't remember most of it. Never saw the second one.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (bfwj/)

125 I am increasingly convinced that the only way forward for the right is either massive civil disobedience or unrestrained violence. I do not see normal, stable 'elections' (as if there are any) as a viable path. But YMMV.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (ufSfZ)

I have always believed that the amount of Crooks and Robinsons out there is 5X what we hear about.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

126 Quo Vadis for Western Civilization: The Rebirth of the West’s Civilizational Confidence
_______
That was like most of the articles I'm reading lately, unfortunately. Empty boilerplate can only be useful if it's inspiring. That takes a kind of talent I don't see nowadays.

I learnt nothing. It suggested nothing. What was the point?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (s0JqF)

127 In China the only people with generational wealth are on the Central Military Commission.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (LbMjz)

Remember Venezuela before Chavez?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (bss/y)

128 @106

>>I am increasingly convinced that the only way forward for the right is either massive civil disobedience or unrestrained violence. I do not see normal, stable 'elections' (as if there are any) as a viable path. But YMMV.

A

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)

129 During our attempts to remediate, we have disabled WARP access in London. Users in London trying to access the Internet via WARP will see a failure to connect.

Cloudflare or maybe a Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (BLOW1)

130 >>Today is National Vichyssoise Day.

Really? Sounds fishy. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (GbwPZ)

131 I have always wonders if regular checkups really accomplish anything other than a bill."

Sort of. Across a given population? Sure. For individuals? No.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

132 I have always wonders if regular checkups really accomplish anything other than a bill.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

Great line from an old Cheers… Sam lied (I forgot why) that he’d been out at his annual physical. Diane (or someone) asked him what the doctor said. Sam’s response: The same thing he says every year… Wow!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (/iXAp)

133 Socialism. Even we couldn't make it work.

Posted by: The Germans at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (XQo4F)

134 @106

>>I am increasingly convinced that the only way forward for the right is either massive civil disobedience or unrestrained violence. I do not see normal, stable 'elections' (as if there are any) as a viable path. But YMMV.

As has been noted, either the right imposes their moral vision or the left will.

It's really as simple as that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (XV/Pl)

135 This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago.

**Alger Hiss has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (ufSfZ)

136 Apparently higher ups in the chain of command were Not Amused by this variant on the hooah attitude and proscribed anyone wearing them on base. I thought it was hilarious, and I kind of liked Army chow, by my time they were doing a pretty good job in a thankless task.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (bg8nN)

Isn't the point of military humor to be as dark as possible? This seems tame and light hearted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (bss/y)

137 I learnt nothing. It suggested nothing. What was the point?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:10 AM (s0JqF)

I got paid, didn't I?

Posted by: The Byline Name at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (uQesX)

138 London would probably welcome the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Build the hyperspace bypass right through Khan's bailiwick.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (xouAs)

139 The problem is wages are too low, but that happens with massive off-shoring.

Its not a single variable equation as you have it. Also include inflation, increased costs due to regulation and risk, scarcity, and greed (among many other variables)

One policy that would help with home affordability would be a return to COVID-era remote work. Trends are going the other way, partly to keep big cities from turning into ghost towns.

I don't think management gives a single fuck over a city's decline in tax revenue in their staffing location decisions.

but remote work seems to me a more moderate policy than the elimination of private property.

If it can be remoted a few miles away, it can be remoted a dozen time-zones away.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (/TiS1)

140 130 >>Today is National Vichyssoise Day.

Really? Sounds fishy. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (GbwPZ)

Wait, I thought that was the cold potato soup?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (bss/y)

141 21 Crook as a Furry, we had a whole thread on that yesterday.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 07:38 AM (xouAs)

Some dude on Kiwi Farms is saying that Crooks actually wasn't.

Posted by: XTC at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (6Uni8)

142 Socialism's butcher's bill is, what, at least 100 million dead in the 20th Century?
——-

Yes - but note well - that isn’t counting all the wars, just plain ordinary governments killing off their populations.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (bg8nN)

143 Sunflower Services, a new Public Benefit Corporation financed by lead investor New Venture Fund (NVF) with financial support from the Windward and Hopewell Funds, today announced its acquisition of Arabella Advisors' fiscal sponsorship servicing business.

I'm sure its just a coincidence that USAID gets nuked and Arabella gets disolved.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 07:56 AM (viF8m)
~~~~~

"We see this as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem by reimagining how operational infrastructure can accelerate social change." –Lee Bodner, president, New Venture Fund

^^^These people will never ever quit.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (3ImbR)

144 Well, Insty is down.

A day without Special Ed's Boomer rock posts is like a month in the country.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (ufSfZ)

145 >>I have always believed that the amount of Crooks and Robinsons out there is 5X what we hear about.

Yeah, looking at Andy Ngo's antifa mugshots gives the impression this is so, maybe even an underestimation.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (GbwPZ)

146 110 Your number may well be accurate. And socialism still survives to this day, ready to kill again.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (lKJou)

147 the young are fed the F up with the sclerosis of the old

they make sense when you look at it this way

we'll see what happens. I go back to my Original Idea that the large boomer cohort controls the zeitgeist, unto death. so, it will feel like "the end" for all of us ... but it's not. once that "feeling" passes .. I could see a new Golden Age.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 18, 2025 08:13 AM (emBoF)

148 Some dude on Kiwi Farms is saying that Crooks actually wasn't.
——-

Well that settles it, then. Who are we to argue with someone like that?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (bg8nN)

149 Kiwi Farms?

Well there is lunatics who deny that Jay Jones actually said in texts he wanted to murder children.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (xouAs)

150 The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Hopefully not a Vogon Constructor Fleet

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (BLOW1)

151 Some dude on Kiwi Farms "

Is peddling Kiwi Shoe polish?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (XuXeR)

152 Nobody goes around quoting lines from Avatar. There are no Avatar dress up conventions.“

Because it was a technical triumph and visual spectacle, but the plot was just a bad copy of Ferngully. It was pablum for preschoolers pretending to be some kind of hackneyed social commentary.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (/ZNPI)

153 @150

>>Hopefully not a Vogon Constructor Fleet

The answer is always a Vogon Constructor Fleet, or 42.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (XV/Pl)

154 ^^^These people will never ever quit.

Probably not. But as much as we bitch and moan we won't either. There will always be a core of people who will resist tyranny to the end. It's the history of the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (viF8m)

155 Pixy-Misa

Are you ready to meet the meat?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (xouAs)

156 >>"We see this as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem by reimagining how operational infrastructure can accelerate social change." –Lee Bodner, president, New Venture Fund

Wait -- that was a real quote?!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (GbwPZ)

157 Some dude on Kiwi Farms "

Is peddling Kiwi Shoe polish?
Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (XuXeR)

The name sounds fruity to me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (uQesX)

158 142 Right

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 18, 2025 08:16 AM (lKJou)

159 The answer is always a Vogon Constructor Fleet, or 42."

Anyone up for some poetry?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:16 AM (XuXeR)

160 I could buy that Crooks was not a furry.

Honestly ALL of this feels like speculation anyway. Being a furry conforms to our own biases. Might be right, might not be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:16 AM (bss/y)

161 Don’t worry people… Congress is focused on really important and weighty matters of grave national consequence: Like “releasing the Epstein files”!!

Seriously this led the top of the hour news on the radio as I drove into work this morning. Did a more frivolous group of people ever exist??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (/iXAp)

162 Kiwi Farms remembers.

Posted by: But not very well at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (XQo4F)

163 The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

Those responsible have been sacked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (xouAs)

164 Today is National Vichyssoise Day.

====
So I'm a freshman doing my first summer internship on Wall Street. They send me to a fancy due diligence lunch I think at the Waldorf.

Me: "Waiter, this soup is cold!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (LbMjz)

165 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?

Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)

166 Socialism. Even we couldn't make it work.
Posted by: The Germans

If Marx, Lenin & Stalin, who could kill millions of their own people, couldn't make it work, it can't be done.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:18 AM (4L0hq)

167 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)
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No.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 08:18 AM (UJMvS)

168 If Marx, Lenin & Stalin, who could kill millions of their own people,"

/Pot and Mao whimper...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

169 I never saw any Avatar movie. A film I am actually looking forward to seeing is "Sarah's oil" which is about a black girl after the Civil who hears the "voice of God" on the land where she lives . There is a huge reservoir of oil under her land. National Catholic Register had a very nice review, but unfortunately I can't link it now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:19 AM (lQ+/f)

170 I have always wonders if regular checkups really accomplish anything other than a bill.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

My regular checkups consist of the same blood tests which show the same things which allow the doctor to tell me, once again, that I should take drugs which I refuse to take and then bill me.

At least for me, "regular checkups" does not equate to what I remember as being a physical. I assume that's a result of regulations associated with Obamacare and desire to spread things out into as many office visits as possible to pad billing on the part of the doctor's organization.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

171 167 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)
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No.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 08:18 AM (UJMvS)

I saw the 1st - gave it a C+. Skipped the 2nd and will continue to skip the 3rd...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL)

172 165 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)

Negatory here

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (/6GbT)

173 I've never seen Avatar or Titanic.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (CNl8/)

174 What's Avatar?

Posted by: People who are 29+ at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F)

175 The BBC is determined to fight the claim, citing the need to protect its license fee payers, while grappling with internal staff frustration and public scrutiny.
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They're taking the Dan Rather route, arguing the clip is "true in spirit" even if totally fictionalized in fact. True, even if false.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (GRXfp)

176 165 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)

I never watched it. Did not seem interesting. Dances with Wolves/Samurai, etc gave me the general gist without waifu CGI blue cat girls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (bss/y)

177 I have never given James Cameron a single dime for anything Avatar.

It was one little thing that finally steeled my determination to never watch any of it. All the hype before the first movie was about what an intricate world Cameron had created with Pandora.

Then I noticed that all the animals of this world were hexapedal while the blue furry aliens only had four limbs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (xouAs)

178 Never seen Titanic either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (lQ+/f)

179 They made a movie about a Genesis song?

Posted by: fd at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

180 The problem is wages are too low, but that happens with massive off-shoring.
——-
Its not a single variable equation as you have it. Also include inflation
——-

Wages have been stagnant since 1974, the “experts” always tried to claim offshoring whole swaths of industries and cheap foreign goods made by slave labor “keeps inflation down” here.

It’s almost as if they are totally full of shit. Almost. None of the Bizarro World dystopia we are currently enjoying would have been possible in any way whatsoever, without a currency completely untethered to real economic output. Legislation and laws ultimately cannot compete with imaginary numbers, strangely enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (bg8nN)

181 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?"

Here's the plot - stick a USB cord up your arse, then dance/run around whilst chanting.

Oh, and humans all suck.

That's pretty much it.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (XuXeR)

182
Really? Sounds fishy. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:11 AM (GbwPZ)

Wait, I thought that was the cold potato soup?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:12 AM (bss/y)
*****
It's usually served cold, but can be warmed. It's made using pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock.
Some people add shrimp.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

183 173 I've never seen Avatar or Titanic.
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (CNl8/)

Titanic is my #1 movie ever, so you should watch it.

Clue is #2, so I do have varied tastes

...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (tOcjL)

184 The Qatari on with Maria right now is a master "some people did some things" dissembler.

Fvck those people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (LbMjz)

185 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)

No.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (uQesX)

186 The blue chick in Avatar was supposed to be sexy? No thanks….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:22 AM (/iXAp)

187 High "death taxes" to prevent the continued concentration of wealth into generational oligarch families like in 3rd world countries??

That certainly will crush the family farm, ranch or business. The patriarch dies and the state seizes the assets and destroys whatever income the family had... or "sells" it to a Party Member or affiliated organization.

That may be why most wealthy families have adopted living trusts - to get around nonsense such as this.

Think about Space-X if Musk were to suddenly die.

Why do all of Our Solutions have to directly attack God's Life Manual and Instruction Set? In this case, the policy of inheritance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:22 AM (a6PrB)

188 Never seen Titanic either."

Want to?

/OceanGate

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:22 AM (XuXeR)

189 I've never seen Avatar or Titanic.
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (CNl8/)
****
Both are overrated.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

190 Avatar was long and boring and meaningless.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:22 AM (LbMjz)

191 Titanic I did watch for the ship.

The boobs were a nice bonus.

I suffered through the insipid love story.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (bss/y)

192 I remember when young people didn't want free shit from the federal government and they just wanted to be left alone to smoke weed and screw.

Now, the federal government burps and everyone sets their hair alight wondering if their grift is coming to an end.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer Who Owns Everything at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (5nX5P)

193 178 Never seen Titanic either.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:21 AM (lQ+/f)

Same.. anyone who has.. don't spoil the ending!

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (/6GbT)

194 >>Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?

Nope.

Also, WTF is a 'Wiki Farms' besides $20 in town?

Posted by: one hour sober at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)

195 *Kiwi

Posted by: one hour sober at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)

196 Seventy-four percent of young Americans, including 70% of self-identified conservatives, believe the “cost of housing in America has reached a crisis level.” More than half (56%) of self-identified conservatives would support a congressional proposal to expand government housing and a nationwide rent freeze.
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The number of 1st time home buyers is at a record low.
The average age of a 1st time home buyer is now 40, a record high.

There's some other screaming sirens of danger as well.

One thing I've seen, and this is just a complaint, is that the 65+ are holding their houses, refusing to sell and voting against any policy that increases supply b/c it'll reduce their home value.
Maybe.
But what I do know is Powell is killing housing (and the economy) to benefit Dems.
His higher rates keep those who want to sell from selling and those who want to buy from buying.

Republicans are offering less than nothing to address this. But they sure AF roused themselves to attack Trump's suggestion.

Dems: Zero cost (to you) "solutions"
Rs: Zero solutions. You lazy kids need to just work hard like I did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (xvJ6z)

197 They're taking the Dan Rather route, arguing the clip is "true in spirit" even if totally fictionalized in fact. True, even if false.
——-

It could have happened, even though it didn’t, and that’s just as bad!! Candlelight Vigil is indicated here.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (bg8nN)

198 Also, WTF is a 'Wiki Farms' besides $20 in town?
Posted by: one hour sober at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)

As I understand it, a more intellectually varied reddit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (bss/y)

199 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Waifu CGI blue cat girls at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

200 I also have never seen Titanic or Avatar. No interest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (GRXfp)

201 Nobody goes around quoting lines from Avatar.

I've never seen Avatar. I've never noticed a hole in my life as a result.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

202 173 I've never seen Avatar or Titanic.
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (CNl8/)

It was a cartoon about a guy with a blue arrow on his head for some reason.

Oh wait you mean the movie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (/ZNPI)

203 Titanic was long and boring and meaningless.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (LbMjz)

204 122 113 everything is down and I have a product launch tomorrow well Thursday but need to test campaign at least by tomorrow

shocked we're up! yay Pixy!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 18, 2025 08:08 AM (emBoF)

The benefits of a Steam Powered website.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:09 AM (bss/y)
________
What is this steam you speak of? We use rowers chained to benches.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (s0JqF)

205 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?

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No, neither have I. If I saw a cluster of movie posters without their respective titles, I wouldn't even be able to pick it out of a lineup.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

206 199 This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Waifu CGI blue cat girls at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

In a lot of ways, I blame avatar for furries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (bss/y)

207 All I hear about Titanic on here is- not surprisingly- the rich lady has nice breasts and that she's also a bit***. I'd rather watch again the Titanic film from the 50's (?) "A Night to Remember"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (lQ+/f)

208 These are cat-girls who are having fun and not preaching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgyoO3fbjw

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (xouAs)

209 What is this steam you speak of? We use rowers chained to benches.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (s0JqF)

Hate keeps a man alive 41.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (bss/y)

210 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?

No.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ufSfZ)

211 Fake but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Blather at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (XQo4F)

212 Don’t worry people… Congress is focused on really important and weighty matters of grave national consequence: Like “releasing the Epstein files”!!

Seriously this led the top of the hour news on the radio as I drove into work this morning. Did a more frivolous group of people ever exist??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (/iXAp)

How many people in these very comments complained for days about THE FILES not being released?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

213 What is this steam you speak of? We use rowers chained to benches."

Row well, and live...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

214 Beware false affordable-housing fixes — new Connecticut law hides a socialist wishlist

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule is a provision of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that requires federal funding recipients to take proactive steps to eliminate housing discrimination and promote fair housing opportunities.

You will have Section 8 and your will pay for it 3X:
1. FHA taxes.
2. Developer fees in your middle class housing project to support multi-family housing.
3. Income support (vouchers).

PS Did you know that there is a Greater Than 750 Credit Fee on you new home loan? Yes Fees are tacked onto good credit borrowers by banks to cover the cost of bad credit borrowers they are forced to lend to.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

215 In regard to the typos and misspellings in comments, I commit them because of an unseemly haste in wanting to dazzle all of you with either my profound thinking or incredible humor. Maybe illiteracy might have a part in it also.

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (PCK5/)

216 The best part about democratic socialism is that it doesn't abandon the core consequence of socialism, which is to increase scarcity, particularly in the rationing of chocolate.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ACKqg)

217 Willie Wyler’s Ben Hur
James Cameron’s Avatar (or Titanic)

Shows you how dramatically epic films have declined…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:26 AM (/iXAp)

218 Qatari: I do not know why we focus on this Abraham Accord thing.

Kewl. GTFO.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:26 AM (LbMjz)

219 207 All I hear about Titanic on here is- not surprisingly- the rich lady has nice breasts and that she's also a bit***. I'd rather watch again the Titanic film from the 50's (?) "A Night to Remember"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (lQ+/f)

The reconstruction of the ship is quite beautiful. The disaster portion is solid. Everything else is meh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (bss/y)

220 Willie Wyler’s Ben Hur
James Cameron’s Avatar (or Titanic)

Shows you how dramatically epic films have declined…

Then there was...

Prometheus...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

221 191 Titanic I did watch for the ship.

The boobs were a nice bonus.

I suffered through the insipid love story.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:23 AM (bss/y)
_______
My view exactly.

Spoiler: the iceberg isn't fatally wounded. It's floats off, and seems it'll be OK.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (s0JqF)

222 A Night to Remember with Kenneth Moore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (xouAs)

223 Not a fan of James Cameron either, although he is a great film maker. But his video interview last year on the danger of AI was excellent.

He said he introduced it in 1991 with Skynet, and Terminator 3 showed how the US Military was a gullible dupe for AI and robotics

Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

224 Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 18, 2025 07:58 AM (MZ+PY)

Oh please. I'm not spitting on the ground or cursing younger people. Your comment sounds like that of a troll.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (lQ+/f)

225 It's usually served cold, but can be warmed. It's made using pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and chicken stock.

Perhaps I'll make some potato leek soup for lunch.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ufSfZ)

226 I'm among the many Morons who have not watched Avatar (or Titanic).

I tried watching Avatar when it was on television some years ago, but couldn't get into it. I found it boring.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (IBQGV)

227 A Night to Remember with Kenneth Moore.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:27 AM (xouAs)

Yes! That's it. I'd forgotten.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

228 I've never seen Avatar or Titanic.
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 18, 2025 08:20 AM (CNl8/)

Titanic gave us 3 things...

- Kate Winslet's tits
- the knowledge that a woman would rather see a man freeze to death than move over two inches

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

229 You will have Section 8 and your will pay for it 3X:
1. FHA taxes.
2. Developer fees in your middle class housing project to support multi-family housing.
3. Income support (vouchers)."

So, it's "create a problem out of thin air",
Then "fix it"
Then "fix it again"

Sure.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

230 Fresh hell!-Get your Fresh hell here!

Posted by: Cry of the Street Vendor at November 18, 2025 08:29 AM (oftw2)

231 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school

===

very troubling, they identified as non-binary a few months ago too; brains full of mush

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 08:29 AM (g47mK)

232 165 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?
Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (Oy/m2)

The very concept radiated a repulsive aura. That and James Cameron's hubris made it a non-starter.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:29 AM (t+TFX)

233 Wages have been stagnant since 1974,

No shit. At the end of World War Two, the entire planet of industrialized nations was smoldering rubble with the sole exception of the geographically isolated United States.

We made everything because the world needed everything Right Now in order to rebuild.

The labor unions exploited the hell out of this arrangement and wanted executive wages for menial work that was often performed while intoxicated or hung over.

When Japan and Germany returned on-line the end was near. Then Jimmy Carter gave China MFN status bringing on China and pretty much guaranteeing America's industrial dominance would end.

Then the internet and H1 delivered the rest of Asia and India into the economic picture, driving a stake into the heart of any notion of wage growth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:29 AM (a6PrB)

234 Don’t worry people… Congress is focused on really important and weighty matters of grave national consequence: Like “releasing the Epstein files”!!

Seriously this led the top of the hour news on the radio as I drove into work this morning. Did a more frivolous group of people ever exist??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:17 AM (/iXAp)

How many people in these very comments complained for days about THE FILES not being released?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)
*******
Not me.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

235 Titanic was a good movie if DiCaprio was not on it. He was awful

Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

236 BBC Leadership Want to Fight Trump in Court Over Doctored Speech Clip.

Socialist wanting to fight Trump.

Wow that almost never happens.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

237 Look at me! Look at me!

Posted by: Rich lady with nice breasts at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)

238 I watched around half of Avatar and my interest drifted away. I started playing with my phone and kept going into the kitchen for snacks/ going to the bathroom while it was still playing. Not very mesmerising is my verdict.

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (PCK5/)

239 That 6-er in POTUS hand could, today, be an Anduril Omen. Probably a lot cheaper than USGRF.

Posted by: Slow Learner at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (dZG6s)

240 Some dude on Kiwi Farms "
Is peddling Kiwi Shoe polish?
Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (XuXeR)
----------
The name sounds fruity to me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:15 AM (uQesX)
~~~~~

He's a strange bird.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (3ImbR)

241 >>How many people in these very comments complained for days about THE FILES not being released?

I see Squaw Warren has called for Harvard to cut all ties with Larry Summers after his Epstein communications were revealed. The Clintons are refusing to testify to Congress about Epstein. I imagine Democrats will stop being interested in the Epstein files pretty soon and start saying it's old new and why are Republicans so focused on Epstein and ignoring the cost of eggs.

And the circus rolls on.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (viF8m)

242 Titanic was a good movie if DiCaprio was not on it. He was awful
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

So, you're saying he sank the film?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (uQesX)

243 No, neither have I. If I saw a cluster of movie posters without their respective titles, I wouldn't even be able to pick it out of a lineup.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

If you got stoned in the 70’s and stared at Yes album covers a lot, you’d recognize it instantly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (/ZNPI)

244 James Cameron claiming he made Terminator to warn of the dangers of AI? Dude stop huffing your own farts.

I give you Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the movie The Forbin Project. Even in Dr. Strangelove it is a Soviet computer that nukes the world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (xouAs)

245 Those 42% of young conservatives live in the Cities. This is all about the price of rent in urban jungles.

Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (YCxFk)

246 "One thing I've seen, and this is just a complaint, is that the 65+ are holding their houses, refusing to sell and voting against any policy that increases supply b/c it'll reduce their home value."

--Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 08:24 AM (xvJ6z)

It is unsurprising that people do not just willy-nilly divest themselves of their residences just because they turn 65. Many people like having a place to live. Many people 65 and older still work for a living.

How exactly are people in the general public voting against policies to increase the supply of housing? Do they realize that is what they are doing? What measures are on these ballots? When are these votes being held?

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (ACKqg)

247 Kiwi Farms Remembers!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (/ZNPI)

248 Perhaps I'll make some potato leek soup for lunch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Please don't remind me. I'm banned from Food Lion for life for taking a leek in the produce section.

Posted by: Drain Pan Alley at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)

249 Am I the only one who has never seen Avatar?"

Never seen Avatar

Never seen ET.
Never seen Mean Girls
Never seen The Big Lebowski
Never seen Barbie
Never seen Rocky
Never seen Wall Street

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (CxmoJ)

250 244. Good reference

Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

251 You will have Section 8 and your will pay for it 3X:"

Nearby area called "The Woodlands" (or Karen Central) has a new "rental community" on it's border, and the Karens have been in full NIMBY mode for a year +. It's fun to watch...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

252 Critical Drinker compared Avatar to fast food. Something that gets the job of filling your stomach done but you don't remember anything about the meal.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:05 AM (xouAs)

That's a fair assessment.

But, Avatar also has other problems;

1) Regardless of the pretty pictures on screen, both movies feel like long lectures on the Eeeevils of Humankind and a Squishy Treatise on the Cute and cuddly Nature of Nature until it must rise up to enforce Protard values.

2)The only admirable human characters are, for lack of a better word, "Species Traitors".
This is the leftist view of the VietCong applied to a movie- Why don't you hate the Big Violent Aggressive American Soldiers and love the cute little forest people who just want to live in communist all-natural Heaven.

3) So, in essence this is a movie made for human hating furries. A small but growing gaggle of lunatics.

It's a movie that alienates its audience as it "entertains" them.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)

253 > They're already shooting at us. What's to be done?

We know what's to be done. It is increasingly clear that the ballot box is simply too compromised to be an effective block to the left.
----------
Yup.

The entire election system is borked. Conservatives work overtime to beat the cheat and think the war's over after winning an election. Then we get our asses handed to us and the whole process starts anew.

Except, the left in inching closer to "there will never be a next election" for the right to win. And they're more than willing to kill for it.

The left fights. We wag fingers at them for being obstinate while they beat the shit out of us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (NwnyJ)

254 Titanic was a good movie if DiCaprio was not on it. He was awful
Posted by: Jonah
----
We rewatched it last weekend for the first time in 20 years for me. He was nothing if not ridiculously cute.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (1Nv0l)

255 cloudfare outage...again

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (g47mK)

256 One thing I've seen, and this is just a complaint, is that the 65+ are holding their houses, refusing to sell and voting against any policy that increases supply b/c it'll reduce their home value.

Maybe in a blue shit hole. Dallas/Frisco/McKinney/Celina/Prosper has new subdivisions going up everywhere. Where is the supply restriction?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (6vGEN)

257 *sigh8

Protard = Progtard

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (iJfKG)

258 197 They're taking the Dan Rather route, arguing the clip is "true in spirit" even if totally fictionalized in fact. True, even if false.
**
Evan Thomas, the editor of Newsweek, defended his journal's false report of the US Marines flushing korans down the toilet at Guantanamo by saying, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative was true." In other words, it was true in spirit because he felt it to be true in spirit. The story, by the way, resulted in 11 people being murdered in revenge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (t+TFX)

259 >>I give you Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the movie The Forbin Project. Even in Dr. Strangelove it is a Soviet computer that nukes the world.

Want to play a game?

Posted by: WOPR at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (viF8m)

260 Never seen ET.
Never seen Mean Girls
Never seen The Big Lebowski
Never seen Barbie
Never seen Rocky
Never seen Wall Street
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (CxmoJ)

Same. Also add, never saw any Star Wars movie.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (uQesX)

261 Perhaps I'll make some potato leek soup for lunch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:28 AM (ufSfZ)
****
My grandmother made the best potato leek ever.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

262 So it's a movie thread?

Posted by: Just got here at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (XQo4F)

263 Bill Clinton always gets a free pass from the Feminazi's.

His buddy Weinstein, Prince Andrew, Summers etc... all get garroted.

Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

264 Hell, Blade Runner is more of a warning about technology.

Terminator, I guess the set up is anti-tech in a way but it never feels like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (bss/y)

265 21,000 students absent from school in Charlotte yesterday. Looks like I'm paying a lot of property tax to educate illegals.

Posted by: NCKate at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (uQzkA)

266 Where is the supply restriction?"

Where I want to live, damnit!

/

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

267 Never seen Avatar

Never seen ET.
Never seen Mean Girls
Never seen The Big Lebowski
Never seen Barbie
Never seen Rocky
Never seen Wall Street
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Of all those, you're missing out not seeing The Big Lebowski.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:34 AM (1Nv0l)

268 So it's a movie thread?"

What isn't?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

269 @241 JackStraw, the Epstein files will be several nails in the coffins of the old guard Dems. The Republicans could take advantage of the inexperienced younger leftists... who am I kidding

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 08:35 AM (bfwj/)

270 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

271 I can't link it right now, but if you image search for titanic iceberg, you will find what is supposedly a photograph of the iceberg which caused the sinking of RMS Titanic. It was said to have been near the area of the disaster and had a distinct red streak at its waterline.

There has been speculation that it was not the berg, but as the photograph was taken only a few days after the sinking (IIRC), it has usually been accepted as authentic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (ufSfZ)

272 "We see this as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem by reimagining how operational infrastructure can accelerate social change."

That sounds like someone with 100K of Student Loan debt trying desperately to sound intellectual.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (RjOoY)

273 the old guard Dems. The Republicans could take advantage "

Hey, we've got Holiday Parties to attend, and some of them are our friends!

/GOP

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

274 Where is the supply restriction?"

Where I want to live, damnit!

/
Posted by: man

Exactly. They want everything given to them from jump street. Life doesn't work that way for the uber-majority of the people.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (6vGEN)

275 Evan Thomas, the editor of Newsweek, defended his journal's false report of the US Marines flushing korans down the toilet at Guantanamo by saying, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative was true." In other words, it was true in spirit because he felt it to be true in spirit. The story, by the way, resulted in 11 people being murdered in revenge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (t+TFX)
=====

"True in Spirit" means its a lie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (LbMjz)

276 Today's Birthdays:
Minnie Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Denny Hamlin
Owen Wilson
Megyn Kelly

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

277
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

I always felt he was miscast. A dweeb-y looking poor artist? Lame. He looked like he an unattractive 15 year old.

Posted by: Ann at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (b7ebV)

278 BBC Leadership Want to Fight Trump in Court Over Doctored Speech Clip.

Trump: "Don't throw me in the briar patch!"

Imagine this court case dragging out for what coincidentally is the remainder of Trump's term in office.

How would bias against Trump in BBC "news" going forward help the BBC in court on charges of them being biased against Trump?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (+4Cf6)

279 "We see this as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem by reimagining how operational infrastructure can accelerate social change."

They hired Kamala Harris to write their press releases?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (xouAs)

280 I have a friend who had never seen Blazing Saddles. But to be fair, she grew up in Austria when it was communist territory. Her husband had not seen it either but he didn't have that excuse.

I had them over for dinner, drinks and a movie.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (RjOoY)

281 270 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

*open pneumotube and shoots a message to pixy at the nexus*

JJ pissed. Stop.
Cannot log onto Twitter. Stop.
About to start yelling at clouds. Stop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (bss/y)

282 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)
~~~~~

The clouds are flaring all around the world this morning.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (3ImbR)

283 So when will the leftwing scum and the Muslim scum start fighting over control of the West?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (kTd/k)

284 I thought Blade Runner was more about the moral issues of true AI.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (1Nv0l)

285 Bear with me. I'm having a flare-up.

Posted by: The Cloud at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (XQo4F)

286 Life doesn't work that way for the uber-majority of the people."

Yes it does! I see it every day on my iThingy! I want it all now!!!!

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

287 cloudfarted

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (1Nv0l)

288 >>@241 JackStraw, the Epstein files will be several nails in the coffins of the old guard Dems. The Republicans could take advantage of the inexperienced younger leftists... who am I kidding

I'd like to believe Trump set up Democrats with the Epstein stuff but that is probably wishful thinking. Whatever the truth of Epstein's whole story it seems pretty obvious he was being protected by deep state politicians and bureaucrats. How did they imagine this was going to hurt Trump?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)

289 254 Titanic was a good movie if DiCaprio was not on it. He was awful
Posted by: Jonah
----
We rewatched it last weekend for the first time in 20 years for me. He was nothing if not ridiculously cute.
----------------
Saw it with my nieces. Of course they loved it. Its a chick flix. Me, I thought it was awful. My take is Hollywood can never take an honest approach to 'Women and Children First' and the obligation of men to make that world exist.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (Wg6v7)

290 Warren calls for cancelling Larry Summers because he had a thing for young college girls, huh? That would have been a problem for a lot of professors I would have imagined. But not nearly as bad as having a fictional personal history and plagiarized articles in your past.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (I7nLG)

291 Never seen ET.

I saw ET as a teen. Cried when he lit back up because it meant that the movie wasn't over and I had to sit through more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

292 U.K. policeman fired for not being nice enough to knife-wielding suspect

British police officer Lorne Castle was fired for not treating a teenager who (allegedly) assaulted an elderly man with “courtesy and respect.”

Not kidding. Castle is appealing the verdict.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

293 Everything I listed predates War Games by at least two decades.

*Tosses on the table The Adolescence of P-1.*

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:39 AM (xouAs)

294
65+ People usually like the homes they build or own; moving is an expensive, frustrating and time-consuming chore.

They're only getting me out of this place feet-first.

Posted by: Auspex at November 18, 2025 08:39 AM (Y8DZL)

295 The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday in support of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza, and Trump has been named chairman of the Board of Peace.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

296 The problem with health care is that government laws and regulations have removed all incentives and consequences.

There is no incentive for anyone--the carrier or the hospital--to keep costs low or expand coverage or anything.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 08:39 AM (xvJ6z)

297 Austria was never communist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (LbMjz)

298 Cameron has only had two films that have penetrated the cultural Zeitgeist, Terminator 1 and 2 and Aliens, other than that, he's a very competent creator of high calorie mass entertainments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (XV/Pl)

299 Bear with me. I'm having a flare-up.
Posted by: The Cloud"

Prep H or Witch Hazel....

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

300 Clouds flaring?

Is that like C-Beams glittering?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (xouAs)

301 "We see this as a strategic opportunity to strengthen the entire social impact ecosystem by reimagining how operational infrastructure can accelerate social change."

That sounds like someone with 100K of Student Loan debt trying desperately to sound intellectual.

I can get AI to generate this dreck for the cost of a CoPilot subscription.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (pUU4E)

302 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

yes , cloudfare outage, lot's of sites are down, twitter/x is one of them.

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

303 Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (RjOoY)

You have now "met" the second person who has not seen "Blazing Saddles" but I guess I shouid" ; it sounds funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (looXz)

304 284 I thought Blade Runner was more about the moral issues of true AI.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (1Nv0l)

I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human. Are they a separate thing? At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (bss/y)

305 Never seen ET.
Never seen Mean Girls
Never seen The Big Lebowski
Never seen Barbie
Never seen Rocky
Never seen Wall Street

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (CxmoJ)

Same here. Also never saw The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Graduate, Rio Bravo or Butch Cassidy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:41 AM (ufSfZ)

306 Androids as people, I give you Armitage III.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:41 AM (xouAs)

307 Same here. Also never saw The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Graduate, Rio Bravo or Butch Cassidy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:41 AM (ufSfZ)

Rio Bravo? Sad that you are a commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (bss/y)

308 At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people."

Hmmm. Perhaps I need to start treating more people like toasters, then...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

309 65+ People usually like the homes they build or own; moving is an expensive, frustrating and time-consuming chore.

They're only getting me out of this place feet-first.
Posted by: Auspex

*fistbump
It took me 34 years to get where I am.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (6vGEN)

310 270 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Internet's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (BLOW1)

311 The only reason I saw Titanic was the girl I liked was willing to pay for it.

Bewbs and a disaster movie. Leonardo was only a secondary concern.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (RjOoY)

312 I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human. Are they a separate thing? At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (bss/y)

Wait! You can use androids to make toast!

Mmmmmmm, toast! *drools*

I'm all in on androids as long as they have a handy toaster slot on their chests.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

313 Fury as Palestinian flag is raised at Toronto's city hall as police turn on man singing CANADIAN national anthem

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

314 Hmmm. Perhaps I need to start treating more people like toasters, then...
Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

I was looking for a way to avoid using the 'slave' terminology. I think the 'inanimate object' vs person is a better analogy for the situation than slave vs free.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:43 AM (bss/y)

315 65+ People usually like the homes they build or own; moving is an expensive, frustrating and time-consuming chore.

They're also, frequently, not in starter homes. Now, admittedly, them not selling could, theoretically, prevent someone in a starter home from moving up but where would the olds move to? A smaller home? That doesn't help supply for the yoots either.

Building restrictions, that's a potential issue. Building codes is another.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

316 1. Blazing Saddles could not be made today.
2. Hank Johnson is right!
3. Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (LbMjz)

317 Well there is lunatics who deny that Jay Jones actually said in texts he wanted to murder children.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:14 AM (xouAs)

To be fair, Jones never said he wanted to murder children. He wanted other people to do it for him. He's a leftist politician, after all.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (MZ+PY)

318 At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.

**shifty eyes**

Posted by: Toaster Fucker at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (ufSfZ)

319 310 270 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Internet's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (BLOW1)

Cobs, you need to capture this comment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (bss/y)

320 Cameron has only had two films that have penetrated the cultural Zeitgeist, Terminator 1 and 2 and Aliens

I don't want to be accused of math but isn't that, technically, three?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

321 >>65+ People usually like the homes they build or own; moving is an expensive, frustrating and time-consuming chore.

Not to mention where are people supposed to go? I moved here for a reason and that reason is I like it here.

So I'm now suppose to pick up everything and move to a new place where I don't know anyone and probably won't like as much so someone else can live here? Why?

Not everyone wants to move to God's Waiting Room to wait to die.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (viF8m)

322 Aetius

The anime anthology Robot Carnival from 1987. The segment named "Presence"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (xouAs)

323 I was looking for a way to avoid using the 'slave' terminology. "

Hey, I like it - you put your "bread" into the average "toaster", and you get ... burned.

Yeah, that fits a number of scenarios.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (XuXeR)

324 "It's usually served cold." The best cold dish is revenge. And it is very cold in space.

Posted by: Khan Noonian Singh at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (lKJou)

325 311 The only reason I saw Titanic was the girl I liked was willing to pay for it.

Bewbs and a disaster movie. Leonardo was only a secondary concern.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (RjOoY)

a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (bss/y)

326 Drinker had a thing on avatar yesterday, films that made billions but had no cultural impact. Nobody goes around quoting lines from Avatar. There are no Avatar dress up conventions.

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Well, I'm sure the third installment of Custer's Last Stand against Earth Day, but with space Indians, will change that ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (xvJ6z)

327 289 254 Titanic was a good movie if DiCaprio was not on it. He was awful
Posted by: Jonah
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We rewatched it last weekend for the first time in 20 years for me. He was nothing if not ridiculously cute.
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Saw it with my nieces. Of course they loved it. Its a chick flix. Me, I thought it was awful. My take is Hollywood can never take an honest approach to 'Women and Children First' and the obligation of men to make that world exist.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2025 08:38 AM (Wg6v7)
______
The movie is proof that Hollywood doesn't get the concept. When the boyfriend shows he's a scum, Winslet calls him a "bastard." The year is 1912. She'd have said "coward", and it'd hurt more.

But that is beyond the mind of Hollywood nowadays.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (s0JqF)

328 3. Mongo just pawn in game of life."

4. Aw, Mongo straight!

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (XuXeR)

329 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

yes , cloudfare outage, lot's of sites are down, twitter/x is one of them.
Posted by: runner

What is the point of cloudfare crap anyway. Sometimes i get a notice that cloudfare is trying to figure out if i am a droid. So i close the window and never go back.... dozens of pages.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (aA2y0)

330 65+ People usually like the homes they build or own; moving is an expensive, frustrating and time-consuming chore.

A consideration for those who are empty nesters where the kids aren't nearby or return for holidays - since you don't need to move for work or to be closer to family, where you land is where your church, your neighbors, your social and shopping habits are going to remain.

Neighborhoods in a downward trajectory should be No-Go because its hard for the elderly to defend against yutes with guns coming through the windows at night.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (9s47C)

331 Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Cockroach (D-TX) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was “full of shit” for his comments on the Epstein files vote.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

332 At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people."

Hmmm. Perhaps I need to start treating more people like toasters, then...
Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)
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*** Talkie Toaster (TM) has entered the chat ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (IBQGV)

333 I thought Larry Summers was already cancelled by the wokesters years ago for making some rather tame comment about males being better at math than females…. They wanna re-cancel him now? Or cancel him even better?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (/iXAp)

334 Trying to post the report on X/Twitter and getting some sort of notice about a cloud flare in Minneapolis?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:36 AM (x0n13)

yes , cloudfare outage, lot's of sites are down, twitter/x is one of them.
Posted by: runner

We attack in 5 minutes!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (6vGEN)

335 You have now "met" the second person who has not seen "Blazing Saddles" but I guess I shouid" ; it sounds funny.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (looXz)

Don't watch it if you're easily offended. I've watched youtube reactors watch it and it's hilarious to see their faces.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

336 To be fair, Jones never said he wanted to murder children. He wanted other people to do it for him. He's a leftist politician, after all.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (MZ+PY)

No, he wanted to make it a natural consequence of not being a communist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (bss/y)

337 >>> 244 James Cameron claiming he made Terminator to warn of the dangers of AI? Dude stop huffing your own farts.

I give you Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the movie The Forbin Project. Even in Dr. Strangelove it is a Soviet computer that nukes the world.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:31 AM (xouAs)

>>> 250 244. Good reference
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

Especially since Harlan Ellison *won* his lawsuit against Cameron for "borrowing" heavily from one of his short stories for Terminator.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (ULPxl)

338 >>>Not everyone wants to move to God's Waiting Room to wait to die.
~~~~~

That's not very nice.

Posted by: Boca Raton at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (3ImbR)

339 275 Evan Thomas, the editor of Newsweek, defended his journal's false report of the US Marines flushing korans down the toilet at Guantanamo by saying, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative was true." In other words, it was true in spirit because he felt it to be true in spirit. The story, by the way, resulted in 11 people being murdered in revenge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (t+TFX)
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"True in Spirit" means its a lie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (LbMjz)

Filthy scumbag's grandfather was evil socialist Norman Thomas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (x0n13)

340 I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human. Are they a separate thing? At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:40 AM (bss/y)

In the film the Tyrell Corporation says their motto is “More Himan than Human”. A key to understanding that movie is to realize that when it comes to passion and will to live, the replicants actually exactly that, while the remaining humans are a degraded, crippled lot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (/ZNPI)

341 "Not Talkie Toaster!"

Crew of the Red Dwarf hit the self-destruct button

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:47 AM (xouAs)

342 Rio Bravo? Sad that you are a commie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (bss/y)

Now, now... if he's seen Rio Lobo or El Dorado, he's seen Rio Bravo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)

343 Bengals star wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase will miss a game and a paycheck after the NFL suspended him Monday for spitting in the face of Steelers defensive back Jalen Ramsey.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

344
I've seen Hot Fuzz.
I like Hot Fuzz.
Hot Fuzz is a good movie.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (CxmoJ)

345 >>BBC Leadership Want to Fight Trump in Court Over Doctored Speech Clip.

Apparently, USAID (i.e. US taxpayers) contributed huge funding for the BBC. They've got to be pissed off about Trump pulling that, heh.

More seriously, they were interfering in a US election.
This was not some random act of selective editing, they meant to smear him right before election day to shave off votes. Please, fight this BBC! I'd like to see what happens when you pull that thread.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (GbwPZ)

346 That's not very nice.
Posted by: Boca Raton"

I know, huh?
/Destin

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

347 The Trump administration is calling its new immigration sweep in North Carolina’s largest city “Operation Charlotte’s Web.”

But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for.

… I guess an immigration sweep in North Dakota, the largest producer of rye, would be called “Operation Catcher in the Rye”.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

348 a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Because Rose fucked over Jack.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (6vGEN)

349 Now, now... if he's seen Rio Lobo or El Dorado, he's seen Rio Bravo.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)

IMO, Rio Bravo is far superior to either of the others:

-younger, healthier wayne
-Martin plays a better drunk
-Walter Brennan
-Angie Dickenson. Damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (bss/y)

350 >>I've seen Hot Fuzz.
I like Hot Fuzz.
Hot Fuzz is a good movie.

It is an excellent movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (GbwPZ)

351 And then Rose dumped the McGuffin overboard...

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (xouAs)

352 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency,

I suspect part of this is that people aren't as focused on economic theory as they are on the social stuff.

You average right leaning voter wants to end woke and push trannies back into the closet, they aren't thinking a lot about federal spending priorities.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

353 PSA

due to cloudfare outage grndr is down! Expect incoming troll activity !

end PSA

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

354
But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for.

Bet not.. It's what you don't like..It's like Walt Disney's Grandkids saying what Walt wouldn't like....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (VE6XX)

355 But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for.

Your grandfather wrote a kid's book about a pig and a spider. Not about illegals.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:50 AM (6vGEN)

356 There is some good news coming from Disney.

They have lost the rights to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:50 AM (xouAs)

357 >>The clouds are flaring all around the world this morning.

3I/ATLAS's attack is underway.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 18, 2025 08:50 AM (Y1sOo)

358 343 Bengals star - this is an oxymoron isn't it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2025 08:50 AM (Wg6v7)

359 a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:45 AM (bss/y)

- woman cheats on her fiance
- woman survives disaster which claims the life of fiance and fuckboi
- woman lives a long and plentiful life
- prior to dying, woman throws away valuable object as it no longer benefits her

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

360 Blazing Saddles although set in the 1880s had very 1970s sensibilities.

Too many people today would be offended or victimized by a lot of the language, "racism" and other themes that used to be regarded as funny but today are considered risque.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (LbMjz)

361 I know, huh?
/Destin
~~~~~

Some people are very insensitive.

Posted by: The Villages at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (3ImbR)

362 But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for.

Bet not.. It's what you don't like..It's like Walt Disney's Grandkids saying what Walt wouldn't like....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (VE6XX)

I have yet to see a spider spell out-

"Some Wetback!" with its web.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

363 What is the point of cloudfare crap anyway. Sometimes i get a notice that cloudfare is trying to figure out if i am a droid. So i close the window and never go back.... dozens of pages.
Posted by: Operator Error
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To prevent massive DDos (denial of service) attacks on large (in terms of users) websites.

Botnets of compromised computers are to blame along with individual users who let their computers become compromised.

Cloudfare also offers DNS services where the path to and from the Cloudfare servers are encrypted which saves on needing a VPN for some and to some extent prevents your Internet provider from snooping on you and selling the data as to what you watch, read, etc .

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (WDjG6)

364 Off sock. But I'm not sorry. I'm glad I quoted Ricardo Montalban in his over the top role.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (lKJou)

365 I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human. Are they a separate thing? At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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And accept they have an internal life equivalent to our own.

The instructions were on the tin: Phillip K Dick's original title: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (1Nv0l)

366
I've seen Chained Heat.

A lot.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (CxmoJ)

367 a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And the men just had to tolerate the 2+ hours of it.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (RjOoY)

368 A lot of women's romance movies have really, really odd messages.

Titanic: Don't worry about screwing over your rich good looking fiance with some hot drifter, things will work out fine. He'll even save your life!

Pretty Woman: Who cares if you are a hooker, some nice rich guy will still fall in love with you and marry you

At least the Hallmark movies are a little better: You too can find a nice traditionally masculine guy back in your home town as long as you don't focus too much on your work

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (sKqQm)

369 his beloved book"

Any time one sees the term "beloved" used in that fashion...

duck. Bovine Scatology incoming.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

370 Too many people today would be offended or victimized by a lot of the language, "racism" and other themes that used to be regarded as funny but today are considered risque.
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Comedy was outlawed when Obama descend from Heaven and took up his thrown.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (Wg6v7)

371 I’m a simpleton… I liked the robot movie that Will Smith was in… one of the robots attained consciousness… good action flick with some commentary about the dangers of trusting technology… included a hot costar too

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (/iXAp)

372 Rose's fiance lived, although I wanted him to die. I wanted Rose to die as well, I hated that damned movie.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (2NHgQ)

373 y)

320 Cameron has only had two films that have penetrated the cultural Zeitgeist, Terminator 1 and 2 and Aliens

I don't want to be accused of math but isn't that, technically, three?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

You are correct, sir! Only three. Terminator 1 & 2, and Alien. Oh and Aliens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (/ZNPI)

374 367 a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And the men just had to tolerate the 2+ hours of it.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (RjOoY)

I liked the music... Rose could have shared that door with Jack....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (VE6XX)

375 371 I’m a simpleton… I liked the robot movie that Will Smith was in… one of the robots attained consciousness… good action flick with some commentary about the dangers of trusting technology… included a hot costar too
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (/iXAp)

I Robot

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

376 I've always considered "The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger to be trash, even without the requirement that I had to read it in high school.

I've always enjoyed "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh, and "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, to be much better.

Just having a whore in a book doesn't make it good.

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

377 Cloudflare is having issues with more than one site.

Woodworkers Source is offline.

Triple A for Northern CA is offline.

Just a couple of examples.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (UJMvS)

378 351 And then Rose dumped the McGuffin overboard...
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:49 AM (xouAs)

Because even though it is supposed to be a priceless historical artifact, it is far more important because it helped her get laid one time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (bss/y)

379 I've seen Hot Fuzz.
I like Hot Fuzz.
Hot Fuzz is a good movie.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (CxmoJ)

Everyone should see it for the common good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

380 I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human. Are they a separate thing? At one point do you stop treating them like toasters and start like people.

The tech to make human looking robots is coming.

But the AI we have is NOT AI in the Sci Fi sense. It it not thinking - it is more like a dramatically improved search engine. . So even as we give more tasks to computers and robots they still aren't sentient beings.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

381 They have lost the rights to Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

So, more Jessica Rabbit memes?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

382 "Disasters following New York's adoption of Mamdani's preferred policies is certain to result in New York's rejection of socialism."
--
How many decades on is Venezuela in blaming hoarders, wreckers and saboteurs for the failures of socialism?

And we're near the 180th anniversary of Marx and his followers claiming "real socialism hasn't been tried yet"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (xvJ6z)

383 They're also, frequently, not in starter homes. Now, admittedly, them not selling could, theoretically, prevent someone in a starter home from moving up but where would the olds move to? A smaller home? That doesn't help supply for the yoots either.

Here in East Texas how it works is that the yoots find shelter in single-wide trailers, apartments, duplexes or prison until the parents die and then the yoots move into their parent's home.

The moral of the story is that elderly people need to find a home that will allow them to wheel-chair around, and then when die, the kids will like when they move in.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (9Hs2w)

384 a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.

When the comic strip Fox Trot was a daily, there was a week-long segment about the family's mother going to see the movie several times a day, to the bafflement of her husband and kids.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (ufSfZ)

385 We need an I Roomba horror movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (xouAs)

386 >42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency
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do they know why they want this

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (AOsQT)

387 Instapundit is offline

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

388 339 275 Evan Thomas, the editor of Newsweek, defended his journal's false report of the US Marines flushing korans down the toilet at Guantanamo by saying, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative was true." In other words, it was true in spirit because he felt it to be true in spirit. The story, by the way, resulted in 11 people being murdered in revenge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:33 AM (t+TFX)
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"True in Spirit" means its a lie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:37 AM (LbMjz)

Filthy scumbag's grandfather was evil socialist Norman Thomas.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2025 08:46 AM (x0n13)
________
Russell Kirk liked Norman Thomas personally, though Thomas was wrong about everything. It was a different age.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (s0JqF)

389 @343 the Bengals have a long history of dirtbags including Perfact, Henry and Pacman. Now this guy.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (bfwj/)

390 Your grandfather wrote a kid's book about a pig and a spider. Not about illegals.
Posted by: rickb223
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The nepot has no claim to actually producing the classic anymore than Tolkien's kids. But they can sure garner social credit among the bien pensants for kissing ass of that class.

Media and internet are full of such posers claiming false virtue to raise their social standing among their peers and relying on lying and misleading statements to do so.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (WDjG6)

391 What is the point of cloudfare crap anyway. Sometimes i get a notice that cloudfare is trying to figure out if i am a droid. So i close the window and never go back.... dozens of pages.
Posted by: Operator Error
---

You should verify you're human. You're seeing that because your IP address is associated with questionable activity, probably because its dynamic and rotated through a nefarious actor at some point.

If you verify cloudfare should alter its judgement of your IP.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (1Nv0l)

392 Hot Fuzz is 50% terrible movie, 50% great movie

The problem is the start of the movie is the terrible part

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

393 It's ridiculous to speculate what an American writer who died in 1985 ( E.B White) would feel about open borders and illegal immigration today

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (ZeH0U)

394 IMO, Rio Bravo is far superior to either of the others:

-younger, healthier wayne
-Martin plays a better drunk
-Walter Brennan
-Angie Dickenson. Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:48 AM (bss/y)

Could be, but I'll gladly watch all three.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (uQesX)

395 Oh sorry, it was a teewee episode (clownfare won't let me get to shorturl, sorry):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Soldier_%28
The_Outer_Limits%29

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (ULPxl)

396 The solution is to convert shopping malls into GenX retirement communities.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (CxmoJ)

397 385 We need an I Roomba horror movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (xouAs)

Runaway. Tom Selleck. That guy from KISS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (bss/y)

398 > 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency,

History (if we're allowed to have history) will show that one of our greatest mistakes was failing to institute a mandatory world-wide decommunization program at the end of the Cold War, similar to the denazification program we ran in Germany post-WWII.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (IG3/x)

399
*sigh8*
Protard = Progtard
Posted by: naturalfake

I kind of like protard. It perfectly nouns up what that piss soaked whorehouse mattress congress critter is.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (QVmho)

400 Too many people today would be offended or victimized by a lot of the language, "racism" and other themes that used to be regarded as funny but today are considered risque.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (LbMjz)

Too many people today would be so offended by the language that they'd fail to recognize that the racists are what's being mocked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

401 Hot Fuzz is 50% terrible movie, 50% great movie

The problem is the start of the movie is the terrible part
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (sKqQm)
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Which makes it a great movie compared to the 95%/5% crap currently out there.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (UJMvS)

402 >>> 385 We need an I Roomba horror movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (xouAs)

YES!!!

Posted by: dogs and cats at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ULPxl)

403 "But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for."

Really? What did his "beloved book" have to do with illegals defrauding the taxpayers for free welfare and otherwise marauding through the countryside. And if he stood for all of that, he was just another benighted socialist and he can go to hell.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (t+TFX)

404 In other words, it was true in spirit because he felt it to be true in spirit. The story, by the way, resulted in 11 people being murdered in revenge.

The left believes that reality is a shared delusion.

So, maybe no one flushed a koran down a toilet, but they were thinking bad thoughts about Islam so its really all the same.

And by publicizing this lie we got a lot of them to stop thinking bad thoughts...or at least admitting to them publicly...so it was worth it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

405 I earnestly try to forget that Gene Simmons movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (xouAs)

406 Pretty Woman: Who cares if you are a hooker, some nice rich guy will still fall in love with you and marry you

That seems to be the dominant business plan for OF whores.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (9Hs2w)

407 But the AI we have is NOT AI in the Sci Fi sense. It it not thinking - it is more like a dramatically improved search engine. . So even as we give more tasks to computers and robots they still aren't sentient beings.
Posted by: 18-1

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I am inclined to agree. I'm also not confident anymore.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (1Nv0l)

408 Allie Beth Stuckey was one of Charlie Kirk's good friends. She's got a heart of gold.

Candace Owens Is A TOTAL WRECK After Allie Beth Stuckey Calls Her OUT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkD0RTLDkg

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

409 There is some good news coming from Disney.

They have lost the rights to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:50 AM (xouAs)

Rule 34 breathes a sigh of relief.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (ufSfZ)

410 From cloudfare itself
www dot cloudflarestatus dot com
Last three entries.

"Update - We are continuing working on restoring service for application services customers.
Nov 18, 2025 - 13:35 UTC

Update - We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates.

We have re-enabled WARP access in London."

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (WDjG6)

411
"A Night to Remember" (195

was the Titantic forerunner movie that sucked even worse.

Used sinking footage filmed by Goebbels's anti-capitalist film on the subject from 15 years before, starred Clifton Webb as a heterosexual.

It made you seasick without being afloat.

Posted by: Auspex at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (Y8DZL)

412 our greatest mistakes was failing to institute a mandatory world-wide decommunization program "

Ahem. Communism was all the rage for the better part of the century.... even in DC.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (XuXeR)

413 Too many people today would be so offended by the language that they'd fail to recognize that the racists are what's being mocked.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
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*points pistol at own head*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (LbMjz)

414 How many times have we gone through this... The folk's elect a socialist like Dem who proceeds to destroy the US then a Republican is elected to clean up the mess then the folk's get all touchy feely and re- elect the Dem again....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

415 History (if we're allowed to have history) will show that one of our greatest mistakes was failing to institute a mandatory world-wide decommunization program at the end of the Cold War, similar to the denazification program we ran in Germany post-WWII.

Yep - big televised trials with a few people hanging at the end of them would have made our current world a much better place.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

416 On the bright side, the Cowboys finally looked like a good team last night… of course they were playing a truly awful team. Level of competition takes a huge jump up on Sunday when they play the Eagles. If the beat Philly (big fat IF) I might decide to get my hopes up….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (/iXAp)

417 405 I earnestly try to forget that Gene Simmons movie.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (xouAs)

Tom Selleck is like the original Henry Cavill- he has the worst agent and project instincts ever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (bss/y)

418 >>- woman cheats on her fiance
- woman survives disaster which claims the life of fiance and fuckboi
- woman lives a long and plentiful life
- prior to dying, woman throws away valuable object as it no longer benefits her

Yeah, not much of it made sense.

I didn't understand why she threw away the necklace. She kept it all those years despite hating it, accepted a well-funded trip from a guy who wanted it, and then throws it away. Why didn't she jump overboard to be with the boy and leave the symbol of being owned by hated fiance necklace behind??

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (GbwPZ)

419 409 There is some good news coming from Disney.

They have lost the rights to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Welp, I guess no troon drag queen version of Jessica Rabbit.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (WDjG6)

420 Sun is shining. Clouds no longer flaring.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (3ImbR)

421 > do they know why they want this
Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2025 08:54 AM (AOsQT)

It's free shit for everybody, dude! Free! Shit!

Who wouldn't want that?

Of course the actual outcome will be slavery, starvation, and mass murder, just as it always is, but... free shit!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (IG3/x)

422 406 Pretty Woman: Who cares if you are a hooker, some nice rich guy will still fall in love with you and marry you

That seems to be the dominant business plan for OF whores.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (9Hs2w)

That is also what Sex in the City and Grey's Anatomy has taught them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (bss/y)

423 Oh sorry, it was a teewee episode"

Demon With a Glass Hand...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

424 >>> 398 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency,
==
History (if we're allowed to have history) will show that one of our greatest mistakes was failing to institute a mandatory world-wide decommunization program at the end of the Cold War, similar to the denazification program we ran in Germany post-WWII.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (IG3/x)

Um. Consider who was *running* the so-called de-Nazification, and what they imagined were the root causes. OTOH, if a bunch of Morons ran a de-commie program, maybe we'd have better odds.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (ULPxl)

425 There are several subversives here who prefer red toasters. Another sign of our country's downward spiral. Chrome! Chrome toasters is what made America great!

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ron at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

426 But the granddaughter of E.B. White, the author of the classic 1952 children’s tale “Charlotte’s Web,” said the wave of immigration arrests goes against what her grandfather and his beloved book stood for.

That's White of "Strunk and White," a very special rank of Grammar Nazi. He would indeed have something to say about all this, and it would be succinct and to the point.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (zdLoL)

427 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency
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do they know why they want this
Posted by: Don Black

Like, free shit, man. Free shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (6vGEN)

428 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

429 Yeah, not much of it made sense.

I didn't understand why she threw away the necklace. She kept it all those years despite hating it, accepted a well-funded trip from a guy who wanted it, and then throws it away. Why didn't she jump overboard to be with the boy and leave the symbol of being owned by hated fiance necklace behind??
Posted by: Lizzy
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Emo crap that does not require logic--only feelz. To be fair, guys get that way while watching movies like the Dirty Dozen. Poor Trini Lopez.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (WDjG6)

430 No one wants to point that the easiest way to take pressure off housing costs is to deport 5 - 10 million illegals. That’ll leave a lot of vacancies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (/ZNPI)

431 The young people (may) back Momdani because he's the proverbial strong horse.

Trump was the strong horse in 2024 by every measure.

No one with balls wants to side with the martyrs getting their asses kicked at Turning Point events. It's a bad look. TP needs to start getting kinetic.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (qwx/I)

432 Legal Insurrection is offline

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

433 We need an I Roomba horror movie."

with sharks.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

434 418 >>- woman cheats on her fiance
- woman survives disaster which claims the life of fiance and fuckboi
- woman lives a long and plentiful life
- prior to dying, woman throws away valuable object as it no longer benefits her

I Imagine her Granddaughter might have benefitted from it..

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (VE6XX)

435
I'd add Jaws to the list of Cameron films that entered the zeitgeist.

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (9VDxG)

436 "Before Titanic, what was the movie where the female lead was given a necklace to show she was owned and then she banged a homeless guy?"

"What is 'Lady and the Tramp?' "

"Correct!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (RjOoY)

437 >>It's ridiculous to speculate what an American writer who died in 1985 ( E.B White) would feel about open borders and illegal immigration today

I find the entire situation very illuminating. A large majority of Democrats obviously believe illegal immigration is not illegal. They are going to the mattresses to keep tens of millions of people who are here illegally in the country.

And then they turn around and whine that housing, food and everything else is too expensive. It's certainly not the only cause but in any situation where you increase demand for a finite good or service the price will go up. Democrats don't understand this because most of them are dumber than dogshit.

Before we toss old timers in the street and blame them for yet another problem bedeviling the yutes how about we get the 10s of millions of illegals out of the country and see how that works for starters.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (viF8m)

438 That seems to be the dominant business plan for OF whores.

It is interesting watching them on the Whatever podcast.

The argument is, "The guys I want to settle down shouldn't care if I did pron/hooking because that has nothing to do with them" and they will get into arguments with men on the show that will tell them that's not how it works.

And it is honestly even more interesting when they bring on normal women and they too get in arguments with the OF girls...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

439 "I'm Panicking WTF": Cloudflare Outage Sparks Global Internet Chaos

"internal server error 500?"

... Maxwell Smart of Control was unavailable for comment

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

440 AI is wrecking the ability to find DIY sites on the web. Type in "How do I vent the steam pressure on my computer," and the top 10 search results will have some version of 1) "nothing is more frustrating than excessive steam pressure o your computer", followed by 2) some sort of circular logic, starting with "find the cause of the steam buildup."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (8AONa)

441 A day without Special Ed's Boomer rock posts is like a month in the country.
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I wish Insty would boot his stupid ass.
Or at least force him to put his name at the top so I can skip.
Exhausting to have to scroll 7 pages down because Special Ed is on another hobbyhorse.

He is, however, a sort of Reverse Jim Cramer--if he is going on about something, you're 100% guaranteed it is GOPe Surrender Monkey, made-up shit to spread FUD and division on the right.

It's funny how he tries to paper over his shit-stained Boomer ass by linking to Ace posts every now and then.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (xvJ6z)

442 Pretty Woman: Who cares if you are a hooker, some nice rich guy will still fall in love with you and marry you

That seems to be the dominant business plan for OF whores.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (9Hs2w)

A prostitute can move to a different town and become, essentially, a whole new person but the internet is forever.

Something I suspect that a lot of OF girls will learn with chagrin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

443 I liked the music... Rose could have shared that door with Jack....

I didn't like the music. I expected a lot more from James Horner. His score for The Wrath of Khan is miles ahead of Titanic.

And check out John Barry's main title for Raise the Titanic! Bold, melodic and brassy, like his best Bond scores.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ufSfZ)

444 I think he was trying to maybe make a point that what do you do when android technology gets so good it is difficult to separate them from human.

That is definitely a clue that you need to hang around with a better set of humans.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (/TiS1)

445 OTOH, if a bunch of Morons ran a de-commie program, maybe we'd have better odds.

That's an interesting alternate history.

"But this isn't communism! It's Democratic Socia-"

"GET IN THE BARREL!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (RjOoY)

446 I'd add Jaws to the list of Cameron films that entered the zeitgeist.
Posted by: American Hawkman at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (9VDxG)

I've actually never seen Jaws.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (Ltmlv)

447 >>> 435
I'd add Jaws to the list of Cameron films that entered the zeitgeist.
Posted by: American Hawkman at November 18, 2025 09:00 AM (9VDxG)

Fuck you.

Posted by: Steven Spielberg at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ULPxl)

448 INOPERATIVE .. INOPERATIVE ..
the server is inoperative

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

449

Exactly. They want everything given to them from jump street. Life doesn't work that way for the uber-majority of the people.
Posted by: rickb223

Had I not made the concious decision as a teenager, to simply join the Army and leave... i'd still be work___ minimum wage manual labor loading trucks at the freight dock, and changing oil, doing brakes on the weekends just to have a place to sleep and food to eat. These little shitbags can also make that same decision. Fuck them. Smart enough, and good enough grades, to get accepted into Embry Ridel. No $ to make the dream come true. Arrrrrmmmmmy training, sir.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (QVmho)

450 I’m a simpleton… I liked the robot movie that Will Smith was in… one of the robots attained consciousness… good action flick with some commentary about the dangers of trusting technology… included a hot costar too
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:52 AM (/iXAp)

I Robot
Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:53 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah. Good one. Sonny was great ! Alan Tudyk "played" him. Dr. Calvin - Bridget Moynahan.

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (g47mK)

451 I didn't understand why she threw away the necklace. She kept it all those years despite hating it, accepted a well-funded trip from a guy who wanted it, and then throws it away. Why didn't she jump overboard to be with the boy and leave the symbol of being owned by hated fiance necklace behind??
Posted by: Lizzy

George Costanza put it best: "So, basically, the old lady is a liar." Jerry added, "And a tramp too."

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (t+TFX)

452 No one wants to point that the easiest way to take pressure off housing costs is to deport 5 - 10 million illegals. That’ll leave a lot of vacancies.

This should be something every R office holder says in unison.

"The left wants these illegals because they'll raise your housing, food, and tax costs. They are stealing money from you"

Instead, outside of Trump sometimes, we get blather about enforcing the law. That's not how you win at politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

453 >>I've actually never seen Jaws.

wut?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

454 A large majority of Democrats obviously believe illegal immigration is not illegal."

Strange but true. I can't fathom...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

455 28 “My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.“

Psalm 7:10
Posted by: Marcus T at November 18, 2025 07:42 AM (s9qLo)

This has been my favorite Bible verse since a teenager. I came across it in church camp.

Posted by: Cray Cray at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (WjNcq)

456 Ah yes the Cap Arcona.

Talk about a ship that got cursed. Used as the stand in for Titanic in the Goebbel's movie. The director got denounced for having a defeatist attitude and killed himself in jail. The movie itself consumed large quantities of material, time, and people before being shut down.

Then as the war ended the Nazis loaded the ship up with prisoners. The RAF then sank the ship. And the Nazis machine gunned as many survivors as they could.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (xouAs)

457 >>No one wants to point that the easiest way to take pressure off housing costs is to deport 5 - 10 million illegals. That’ll leave a lot of vacancies.

More. Deport all.
But then there would be no 'problem' for which the proponents of 15 minute cities full of high-rise mini-apartments, public transportation only and vegan diet would solve. We have to feel squeezed in order to submit.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (GbwPZ)

458 A prostitute can move to a different town and become, essentially, a whole new person but the internet is forever.

Something I suspect that a lot of OF girls will learn with chagrin.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

On the Whatever podcast, one young lady was confident that all she had to do was have her lawyers issue DMCA takedowns to sites that hosted the pictures from her past and she could just forget it happened.

The poor sweet Summer child...

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (RjOoY)

459 Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Cockroach (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

460 459 Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Cockroach (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”
Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

Violence seems to be on one side... And it's not Trump's....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

461 >>George Costanza put it best: "So, basically, the old lady is a liar." Jerry added, "And a tramp too."

Narcissist.
The montage of all the awesome things she did with her life thanks to the poor boy sacrificing himself is weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (GbwPZ)

462 I'd add Jaws to the list of Cameron films that entered the zeitgeist.

Jaws was Spielberg.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (ufSfZ)

463 414 How many times have we gone through this... The folk's elect a socialist like Dem who proceeds to destroy the US then a Republican is elected to clean up the mess then the folk's get all touchy feely and re- elect the Dem again....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (VE6XX)

Read the Old Testament - people in a group only start to act right after they’ve had their asses severely kicked. And even after that they’re always right back to the old evils in a couple of generations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (/ZNPI)

464 Jaws made a fatal error in killing off Quint. Killing off Dreyfus would have made the movie an all time Great Movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (Wg6v7)

465 Another point in all this - a significant number of people vote just to get stuff from the government.

Right leaning pols should take advantage of this, when they can. Find a way to loot leftwing demographics and give the results to right leaning demographics.

No, this is not economic conservatism. But...people in aggregate aren't voting for that.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

466 398 > 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency,

History (if we're allowed to have history) will show that one of our greatest mistakes was failing to institute a mandatory world-wide decommunization program at the end of the Cold War, similar to the denazification program we ran in Germany post-WWII.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 08:55 AM (IG3/x)
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The trouble is that we'd have concentrated on Eastern Europe, which didn't really need it, but left alone our own "education" system, which desperately did.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (s0JqF)

467 >>Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Cockroach (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

Look what you made us do!
BLM 2.0?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (GbwPZ)

468 A prostitute can move to a different town and become, essentially, a whole new person but the internet is forever.

Something I suspect that a lot of OF girls will learn with chagrin.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

The other thing that some of the manosphere shit can ignore. It is not just the body count, but how the body count comes to change how they view sex and interactions with dudes. Transactional is not just a river in egypt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (bss/y)

469 "The guys I want to settle down shouldn't care if I did pron/hooking because that has nothing to do with them"
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I dunno, mileage is the number one factor when buying a used car.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (1Nv0l)

470 Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Cockroach (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

Posted by: SMOD

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Ike Turner approves

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (8AONa)

471 And even after that they’re always right back to the old evils in a couple of generations."

Wealth lasts three generations... old kinda chinese proverb. Sort of.

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

472 Futures, Bitcoin Tumble, Extending Longest Losing Streak Since August

"The question is whether the selloff will continue after Nvidia’s results"

.. Nvidia, we can make it together

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

473 A large majority of Democrats obviously believe illegal immigration is not illegal."

Most Democrats have no idea what immigration law says. They just repeat what they've been told

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

474 Cloudflare is sort of like an Internet traffic cop. They provide networking services for content delivery, cybersecurity, DDoS (denial of service) protection or mitigation and DNS services.

Almost everything needed to "run" the internet for their customers. There used to be a cool Internet "health map" out there run by some outfit that sold network monitoring products. I can't seem to find it again.

Probably down because of Cloudflare.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (NwnyJ)

475 Champlain's Marina on Block Island has a rec room where they sometimes play movies. A few years ago when I was there they showed Jaws.

It was like a showing of Rocky Horror with people shouting out various lines.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (viF8m)

476 400 Too many people today would be offended or victimized by a lot of the language, "racism" and other themes that used to be regarded as funny but today are considered risque.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2025 08:51 AM (LbMjz)

Too many people today would be so offended by the language that they'd fail to recognize that the racists are what's being mocked.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)
_______
Even in the 70s, many had that problem with reading Huckleberry Finn. I remember one professor was rewriting it to remove what he thought was "ambiguity".

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (s0JqF)

477 > Yep - big televised trials with a few people hanging at the end of them would have made our current world a much better place.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

Hangings, firing squads, free tickets for half a helicopter ride... I'm flexible there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 09:07 AM (IG3/x)

478 Trump Threatens To Cancel World Cup In Seattle After Election Of 'Communist' Mayor

Trump has expressed concerns about safety in Seattle in reference to the World Cup, and his concerns are not unfounded

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

479 That is definitely a clue that you need to hang around with a better set of humans.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (/TiS1)

Heh. As someone noted above, have you noticed the humans in Blade Runner?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 09:07 AM (bss/y)

480 X is back.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)

481 X is back."

Who's on first?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

482 "The guys I want to settle down shouldn't care if I did pron/hooking because that has nothing to do with them"

That mean old reality refusing to alter behavior to accommodate these deluded women.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (RjOoY)

483 >>I've actually never seen Jaws.

wut?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

Yup. I was a 4 year old kid when it came out. Somehow it never made its way into my hands at any video store in the 80s / 90s. I'll watch it some day.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (Ltmlv)

484 'Official' Initial Jobless Claims Data Released, But...

...it's a month old.

Thanx Chuck

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

485 The movie itself consumed large quantities of material, time, and people before being shut down.

**Kolberg has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (ufSfZ)

486 I dunno, mileage is the number one factor when buying a used car.

And they've gotten into this specifically on Whatever repeatedly:

OF Girl: I don't care if the guy I want to have a relationship with had sex with a lot of women, so he shouldn't care if I did.

Rich good looking guy: I want a woman that hasn't done OF, hooking, or had sex with a lot of guys

OF Girl: THAT'S NOT FAIR

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

487 > I remember one professor was rewriting it to remove what he thought was "ambiguity".
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:06 AM (s0JqF)

You could probably make a pretty good parody by rewriting Huckleberry Finn in current "woke" language.

"All right, you oppressed differently-abled African American people of color, get your asses back to work."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (IG3/x)

488 There used to be a cool Internet "health map" out there run by some outfit that sold network monitoring products. I can't seem to find it again.

Probably down because of Cloudflare.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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downdetector.com was down. I don't know if downdetectordowndetector.com was also down.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:09 AM (1Nv0l)

489 I see Gateway Pundit is down too

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

490 Rich good looking guy: I want a woman that hasn't done OF, hooking, or had sex with a lot of guys

OF Girl: THAT'S NOT FAIR
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

Heh. It is surprising the number of ewetub channels that have sprung up around this dynamic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2025 09:10 AM (bss/y)

491 Half the internet is down...but not AoS...technical marvel for the ages!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

492 Sadly...I mean fortunately...Most of the services that I need to do my job are still up as far as I can tell..

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (IBQGV)

493 It is interesting watching them on the Whatever podcast.

The argument is, "The guys I want to settle down shouldn't care if I did pron/hooking because that has nothing to do with them" and they will get into arguments with men on the show that will tell them that's not how it works.

Because every guy wants a blown out, town bicycle.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (6vGEN)

494 Something I suspect that a lot of OF girls will learn with chagrin.

There was a brief flare-up of social media posts excoriating Christian men for not willing to settle with a OF whore when she comes to the end of her Get By On Looks Alone and is deciding to either do kink, or "choose Jesus" and she goes with the second option.

You see, the Christian guy is an asshole for not wanting to settle with a promiscuous slut with a gallery of venereal diseases and high body count.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (rgGn5)

495 >>Yup. I was a 4 year old kid when it came out. Somehow it never made its way into my hands at any video store in the 80s / 90s. I'll watch it some day.

When you see the scene where they are getting off the Martha's Vineyard (Amity Island) ferry and you see some kids you will see some of my classmates. Well, a few years older but same school.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (viF8m)

496 >Jaws made a fatal error in killing off Quint.
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Moby Dick made a fatal error in killing off Ahab. That f***ing whale had it coming.

unrelated:
in Jaws, is Quint a stand-in for Ahab?

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (AOsQT)

497
"Yup. I was a 4 year old kid when it came out"

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 09:12 AM (lQ+/f)

498 429 Yeah, not much of it made sense.

I didn't understand why she threw away the necklace. She kept it all those years despite hating it, accepted a well-funded trip from a guy who wanted it, and then throws it away. Why didn't she jump overboard to be with the boy and leave the symbol of being owned by hated fiance necklace behind??
Posted by: Lizzy
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Emo crap that does not require logic--only feelz. To be fair, guys get that way while watching movies like the Dirty Dozen. Poor Trini Lopez.
Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 08:59 AM (WDjG6)
______
The only good scene in an otherwise boring chick flick. Like the gift wrapping in Love, Actually.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:12 AM (s0JqF)

499 George Costanza put it best: "So, basically, the old lady is a liar." Jerry added, "And a tramp too."
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (t+TFX)

For a show about nothing, Seinfeld sure had a lot of little nuggets of wisdom…. The wisdom was usually “do the opposite of George”… the opposite episode solidified that sentiment

Oh and it was hilariously funny

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 09:12 AM (/iXAp)

500 The only good scene in an otherwise boring chick flick. Like the gift wrapping in Love, Actually.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:12 AM (s0JqF)

I love that movie....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:13 AM (VE6XX)

501 Not seeing any sports clips this morning due to problems at Cloudflare in Newark.
Where's pixie to explain why the internet is tottering.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 18, 2025 09:13 AM (sl73Y)

502
Real Democratic Socialism hasn't been tried yet.

Posted by: Auspex at November 18, 2025 09:14 AM (Y8DZL)

503 "Yup. I was a 4 year old kid when it came out"

Get off my lawn.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2025 09:12 AM (lQ+/f)

???????

Fen getting frisky???

Next thing you know, she'll say "poo."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 18, 2025 09:14 AM (uQesX)

504 Futures, Bitcoin Tumble, Extending Longest Losing Streak Since August

For non-investor types... there's a thing called sequence of return risk. This says that the absolute worst time for a market downturn is right when you retire. It can turn a successful plan into an unsuccessful plan PDQ.

So... here we have a downturn starting right before I retire. Fortunately, my plan accounts for that but... ugh.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

505 501 Not seeing any sports clips this morning due to problems at Cloudflare in Newark.
Where's pixie to explain why the internet is tottering.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 18, 2025 09:13 AM (sl73Y)

Whatever it is it's Trump's fault...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:14 AM (VE6XX)

506 unrelated:
in Jaws, is Quint a stand-in for Ahab?
Posted by: Don Black

Quint had a legitimate reason to hate sharks so I can see the comparison.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 09:15 AM (RjOoY)

507
For non-investor types... there's a thing called sequence of return risk. This says that the absolute worst time for a market downturn is right when you retire. It can turn a successful plan into an unsuccessful plan PDQ.

A lot of advisors will suggest returning to safer investments the closer you get to retiring.

Bitcoin is more of an inflation hedge then anything else though anyway, and Trump ended Bidenflation so...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:15 AM (sKqQm)

508 MTG grandstanding with the Epstein girls, who are now all middle aged women. Half expected the newly mnted multi-millionaire to start crying.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 18, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I)

509 Any literate person knows that Huckleberry Finn is one of the most powerful indictments of slavery ever written, and it's entertaining as well -- funny as hell, and not at all preachy. This is not an easy task... "Uncle Tom's Cabin" I'm looking in your direction.

Unfortunately, most of its critics are not literate. Not really. They can recognize an "offensive" word, but reading for comprehension is beyond them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (IG3/x)

510 Half the internet is down...but not AoS...technical marvel for the ages!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:10 AM (sKqQm)

Heavy investment in hamsters paid off bigly !!

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

511 MTG is trying to take over the whole Epstein case.
She is thanking Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna. She referenced being made to feel like a victim because of ya know Trump.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

512 508 MTG grandstanding with the Epstein girls, who are now all middle aged women. Half expected the newly mnted multi-millionaire to start crying.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 18, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I)

Marjorie... Go away....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)

513 I dunno, mileage is the number one factor when buying a used car.

But if high mileage cars are all that remains on the lot, then one starts looking at maintenance records and has the car been mostly garaged rather than left outside in the elements.

Lots of metaphors there.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (rgGn5)

514 491 Half the internet is down...but not AoS...technical marvel for the ages!
Posted by: 18-1
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Security by obscurity actually works. If one had an OS/2 computer that surfed the web, due to hacker unfamiliarity with the OS, it would be relatively impervious to attack.

For a long time after it rolled over and died for desktop users, some bank atms still ran on OS/2 due to its reliability and obscurity from hackers.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:16 AM (WDjG6)

515 And they've gotten into this specifically on Whatever repeatedly:

OF Girl: I don't care if the guy I want to have a relationship with had sex with a lot of women, so he shouldn't care if I did.

Rich good looking guy: I want a woman that hasn't done OF, hooking, or had sex with a lot of guys

OF Girl: THAT'S NOT FAIR
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

The new buzzword is 'fetishize'. Why do guys fetishize inexperienced women? Why do guys fetishize Asian chicks? Why do guys fetishize women who weigh less than 400 pounds?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

516 When you see the scene where they are getting off the Martha's Vineyard (Amity Island) ferry and you see some kids you will see some of my classmates. Well, a few years older but same school.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:11 AM (viF8m)

Good stuff. Was over on "The Vinyid" earlier this year with my lady, visiting another couple -- a high school friend of hers. We went through some area that I believe was in the movie (the 3 of them started talking about it). I had to admit some shame in never having seen it. And yet, despite saying at the time that I'd watch it, I still haven't.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (Ltmlv)

517 MTG grandstanding with the Epstein girls, who are now all middle aged women. Half expected the newly mnted multi-millionaire to start crying.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 18, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/

that's the problem with "big tent" coalitions , sometimes you let in the clowns....

*stolen from internets

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

518 Heavy investment in hamsters paid off bigly !!

And regular exposure to GAINNNNZ threads - these hamsters don't have metabolic dysfunction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (rgGn5)

519 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (fs3Ts)

520 as long as they don't take over the tent , I say !

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

521 Yuutes: shit sucks man

Boomers: work harder ya lazy bums

Yuuutes: fuck off old man we’re voting Mamdani

Why is this surprising?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:18 AM (u9SGQ)

522 A black man- Richard Pryor- was co-writer on Blazing Saddles. It was a different time. Different country.

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2025 09:18 AM (AOsQT)

523 Crockett said, “I believe that we all need to pay attention to Trump and how he acts. He is the cause of all the confusion and the destruction that we have seen in politics. As far as I’m concerned, because it used to be we could disagree, and that was that. I disagree with a lot of Republicans, but it does not necessarily turn violent. Ever since he’s been introduced into politics, we have seen a consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.

And there's a huge swath of Americans that believe that shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:18 AM (fs3Ts)

524 Doof is far too young to be into pickleball as much as he is.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

525 Gotta get some work done this morning, but there's a kitty in my lap, so...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (IBQGV)

526 The new buzzword is 'fetishize'. Why do guys fetishize inexperienced women? Why do guys fetishize Asian chicks? Why do guys fetishize women who weigh less than 400 pounds?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

A fetish and an interest are two different things.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (ufSfZ)

527
The new buzzword is 'fetishize'

People have preferences. One of the first things a young man/woman needs to understand is that the opposite sex's preferences aren't exactly the same as yours and not only do you have to find Mr/Mrs Right you need to make yourself appealing to him/her.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (sKqQm)

528 I was 22 when Jaws hit the movies. It had the strongest effect I've ever seen. We young guys were the only ones in the water at the beach. And we went in only to impress the girls that we weren't scared. (At that age, there is literally no more powerful force than cute girls in bathing suits.)

I used to have a list of 70s movies I expected everyone to have seen: Jaws, Star Wars, Animal House, Rocky, The Godfather. Not necessarily the best (Patton and the Man Who Would Be King, for instance, are as good as any of those.)

But I've found that young people have rarely seen any except Star Wars (IMHO, much the worst of the lot.)

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (s0JqF)

529 Bitcoin is more of an inflation hedge then anything else though anyway, and Trump ended Bidenflation so...
Posted by: 18-1
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Bitcoin is a worthless digital "asset" kept afloat because it barely trades.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (1Nv0l)

530 A lot of advisors will suggest returning to safer investments the closer you get to retiring.

Mostly I have. I also have a CD/bond ladder which - should - allow me to go a while before I would need to sell anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

531 And yet this urine-saturated lice-infested whorehouse mattress somehow became an elected member of our House of rRepresentatives.

Yes, she tarnish on the otherwise sterling edifice that is Texas.

* shakes head sadly *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (0sNs1)

532 A fetish and an interest are two different things.

Ask me how I know.

See I have an interesting football and a well, uh, feet, are uh...I'll be in my bunk

Posted by: Rex Ryan at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (sKqQm)

533 Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Young Likely Voters Want Democratic Socialist to Win the White House in 2028

43-year-old Democratic Socialist Who's Never Held Elected Office Unseats Seattle Mayor in Another Win For Affordability Politics

I supported many DSA ideas in Portland, OR right up until they wanted to allow homeless camping back on sidewalks and public parks. That's where they lost me.

the problem in Portland right now is that we don't have enough *other* places for them to go, either. Sweeping somebody to nowhere isn't really an effective strategy

Geez, you might think that making life affordable is important to people. /s Republican attack ads be like "they trying to do stuff for people just to get their votes, it's disgusting!"

I am so proud of my generation showing up like this. It has given me more hope than I have had in a long time. Millenials should be in charge of more things. It is our turn quite frankly.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

534 Half the internet is down...but not AoS...technical marvel for the ages!
Posted by: 18-1

Cloudfare is crashing. it's taking the internet with it.

again, showing putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.

We're having a corporate wide issue as well. Storage took a shit. Nothing works. I was supposed to do a network migration on some servers this morning......not so much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (fs3Ts)

535 I disagree with a lot of Republicans, but it does not necessarily turn violent.

Note the subtle opt-out Jazzy has given herself. "Not necessarily," but if she thinks it's justified, she'll put a cap in your ass.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (ufSfZ)

536 I used to have a list of 70s movies I expected everyone to have seen: Jaws, Star Wars, Animal House, Rocky, The Godfather. Not necessarily the best (Patton and the Man Who Would Be King, for instance, are as good as any of those.)

But I've found that young people have rarely seen any except Star Wars (IMHO, much the worst of the lot.)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (s0JqF)

70s movies for kids today would be like 1920s movies for you. How many have you seen?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (u9SGQ)

537 >>Good stuff. Was over on "The Vinyid" earlier this year with my lady, visiting another couple -- a high school friend of hers. We went through some area that I believe was in the movie (the 3 of them started talking about it). I had to admit some shame in never having seen it. And yet, despite saying at the time that I'd watch it, I still haven't.

I think it's one of those movies like Star Wars that was more impactful at the time because it was so different. It still holds up for me cause it's a good story and the acting is pretty good but the first time I saw it was special.

I remember the first couple of years after it came out a lot of people around here were a bit timid on going in the ocean. "Wait, you mean there are sharks in the ocean?".

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

538
I am so proud of my generation showing up like this. It has given me more hope than I have had in a long time. Millenials should be in charge of more things. It is our turn quite frankly.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 18, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

We're screwed...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (VE6XX)

539
I am so proud of my generation showing up like this. It has given me more hope than I have had in a long time. Millenials should be in charge of more things. It is our turn quite frankly.

God help us........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (fs3Ts)

540 Bitcoin is more of an inflation hedge then anything else though anyway, and Trump ended Bidenflation so...
Posted by: 18-1

Bitcoin is not different than any other 'collectible'. It relies on scarcity and demand for it instead of any intrinsic valuation itself but does not have the legal fiat currency status that a country's money does.

Aka this dollar is good for all debts public and private.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (WDjG6)

541 F'n TinyURL is down.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (4L0hq)

542 I just found this

Glengarry Glen Christmas: Elf Motivation - SNL

https://youtu.be/J_vSirIJEsY

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)

543 I assume Xi is screwing with the internet, because he's mad about what the Japanese PM said yesterday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:22 AM (fW6K6)

544 Millennials think they're the smartest ever because they grew up with a f*cking smartphone in their hand.

That smartphone has made them the dumbest, laziest, good for nothing generation the world has ever seen.

They take over, we're ALL f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:22 AM (fs3Ts)

545 It turns out the distributed redundant cloud is neither distributed nor redundant.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:22 AM (1Nv0l)

546 The new buzzword is 'fetishize'. Why do guys fetishize inexperienced women? Why do guys fetishize Asian chicks? Why do guys fetishize women who weigh less than 400 pounds?
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I really like that.
That a man wants a woman with experience.

Sure. Your average dude can jerk it to a Sears catalog with a dry hand to completion.

But he needs a gal well versed in the latest tantric moves to get off?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (xvJ6z)

547 539
I am so proud of my generation showing up like this. It has given me more hope than I have had in a long time. Millenials should be in charge of more things. It is our turn quite frankly.

God help us........
Posted by: Sponge
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Eh, I'll wait a bit before rending clothes and tearing hair out. The Lord tends to laugh at the plans of mice and men as Bobbie Burns once said.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (WDjG6)

548 Huckleberry Finn is the most overrated book ever. The Citizen Kaine of novels.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)

549 > MTG grandstanding with the Epstein girls, who are now all middle aged women. Half expected the newly mnted multi-millionaire to start crying.
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She's at the end of her run. Not a single job prospect in the works other than an anti-Trump mouthpiece her as-yet-to-be-announced podcast.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (NwnyJ)

550 "43-year-old Democratic Socialist Who's Never Held Elected Office Unseats Seattle Mayor in Another Win For Affordability Politics"

The one thing that socialism always brings is increased affordability.

Yep.

It's a damn shame that the youth of today don't know that.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (ACKqg)

551 453 >>I've actually never seen Jaws.

wut?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)

I worked with a woman in her mid-twenties who said she hadn't seen The Godfather and had no interest in ever watching it. This was in 2016. She was from Ohio and seemed otherwise normal.

Posted by: Gref at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (5rh/l)

552 Bitcoin is more of an inflation hedge then anything else though anyway, and Trump ended Bidenflation so...
Posted by: 18-1

Bitcoin is not different than any other 'collectible'. It relies on scarcity and demand for it instead of any intrinsic valuation itself but does not have the legal fiat currency status that a country's money does.

Aka this dollar is good for all debts public and private.
Posted by: whig

What is keeping gold and silver so high?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (4L0hq)

553 >>F'n TinyURL is down

Who cares?

Posted by: AoS Margin Blowers at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (Y1sOo)

554 >>Why is this surprising?

Probably because a lot of us boomers were told the exact same thing when we were young and do you know what we didn't do? Vote for communists.

We worked harder.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)

555 > OF Girl: I don't care if the guy I want to have a relationship with had sex with a lot of women, so he shouldn't care if I did.

You knowingly lowered your sexual market value. That's fine -- there's plenty of guys further down the social ladder that will accept you.

(hypergamous outrage ensues).

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (1Nv0l)

556 F'n TinyURL is down.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (4L0hq)

Link is stupid because is.gd is down too, because of Cloudfare.

https://www.the-independent.com/
tech/cloudflare-down-twitter
-not-working-outage-b2867367.html

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (fs3Ts)

557 521 Yuutes: shit sucks man

Boomers: work harder ya lazy bums

Yuuutes: fuck off old man we’re voting Mamdani

Why is this surprising?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

You left off the last two steps:

Boomers: Welp, I'm off to a Red State then. Good look!

Yuuutes: that's not fair! Why won't you pay your fair share? Damn you late stage empire capitalism! We must globalized the ~~intifada~~ progressive taxation. Leave no safe harbor!

Posted by: Playwright at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

558 Doof is far too young to be into pickleball as much as he is.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

If only. My left knee has decided it no longer wants to play. I've been delaying knee replacement surgery as long as possible. About 3 weeks ago, my knee made it quite clear that it has reached the end of its useful life.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (Ltmlv)

559 I didn't realize the cost of producing a bitcoin has risen to $94,000, or so says CNBC. Bitcoin miners must be circling the drain right now, and freeing up a lot of electricity supply.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (fW6K6)

560 543 I assume Xi is screwing with the internet, because he's mad about what the Japanese PM said yesterday.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Possible. Then again could be errors on the operator side aka Cloudfare itself.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:24 AM (WDjG6)

561 On the bright side, the Cowboys finally looked like a good team last night… of course they were playing a truly awful team. Level of competition takes a huge jump up on Sunday when they play the Eagles. If the beat Philly (big fat IF) I might decide to get my hopes up….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 08:58 AM (/iXAp)

Yeah, in theory, on any given Sunday....

But, Jerry Jones once again demonstrated his level of Football Acumen by trading away the heart of the Cowboy's Defense for a handful of beans.

And now, what part of the team sucks mightily this year...the Defense.

Anywho, hopefully the Cowboys can beat the Philadelphia Battery Throwers.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 18, 2025 09:25 AM (iJfKG)

562 Huckleberry Finn is the most overrated book ever. The Citizen Kaine of novels.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)

Are you kidding??? I think it’s a masterpiece

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 18, 2025 09:25 AM (YobFY)

563 43-year-old Democratic Socialist Who's Never Held Elected Office Unseats Seattle Mayor in Another Win For Affordability Politics
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I read a story that that wasn't a turn to the socialists, but was just a rejection of the existing hopeless mayor. Sort of like how Starmer got in.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (s0JqF)

564 She's at the end of her run. Not a single job prospect in the works other than an anti-Trump mouthpiece her as-yet-to-be-announced podcast.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2025
****
She's vying for a position at CNN or The View.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

565 559 I didn't realize the cost of producing a bitcoin has risen to $94,000, or so says CNBC. Bitcoin miners must be circling the drain right now, and freeing up a lot of electricity supply.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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One mining company is switching to renting its computing facilities for AI. That is the new fools gold and Pixy has something about another such below where a company is amassing debt to buy servers, etc. to rent to AI companies as a bridge to when the AI company actually builds out their planned server farms.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (WDjG6)

566 My left knee is also kaput. Scheduled replacement is in January. I'm going bionic!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (fW6K6)

567 What is keeping gold and silver so high?

Trump ended Biden's hyperflation, but that destruction of the value of the dollar we incurred under Biden is permanent.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (sKqQm)

568 The new buzzword is 'fetishize'. Why do guys fetishize inexperienced women? Why do guys fetishize Asian chicks? Why do guys fetishize women who weigh less than 400 pounds?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Geez. The cutoff point is all the way up to 400 lbs. now?
That's some inflation I could do without.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (Lo97M)

569 She's vying for a position at CNN or The View.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

I noticed she hasn't gone on Fox... Kudos to Fox...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2025 09:26 AM (VE6XX)

570 What is keeping gold and silver so high?
Posted by: rickb223
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Gold: China
Silver: Gold

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 18, 2025 09:27 AM (1Nv0l)

571 I didn't realize the cost of producing a bitcoin has risen to $94,000, or so says CNBC. Bitcoin miners must be circling the drain right now, and freeing up a lot of electricity supply.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

That is not at all how Bitcoin works or what miners are doing.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:27 AM (Ltmlv)

572 Internet says the average American woman is 170 lbs so 400 lbs would still be something of a...white whale.

Posted by: Capn Ahab at November 18, 2025 09:28 AM (sKqQm)

573 70s movies for kids today would be like 1920s movies for you. How many have you seen?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

That's a but unfair, as film wasn't as big a cultural thing in the 20s, but I'd imagine most people in the 70s were familiar with the premier older classics like Gone with The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Maybe Casablanca, too?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 18, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

574 She's vying for a position at CNN or The View.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Not sure that CNN is long for this world as its audience shrivels. View is also showing its age but like Blue Bloods for CBS, its ratings are somewhat better than most of the other slop that ABC is still trying to peddle. Best house in a declining neighborhood example.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:28 AM (WDjG6)

575 The whole "borrow trillions to invest in AI data center" boom looks much like a tulip craze, to this uneducated eye

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:29 AM (fW6K6)

576 536 I used to have a list of 70s movies I expected everyone to have seen: Jaws, Star Wars, Animal House, Rocky, The Godfather. Not necessarily the best (Patton and the Man Who Would Be King, for instance, are as good as any of those.)

But I've found that young people have rarely seen any except Star Wars (IMHO, much the worst of the lot.)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:19 AM (s0JqF)

70s movies for kids today would be like 1920s movies for you. How many have you seen?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:21 AM (u9SGQ)
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Many, actually. I have several on tape/disk. The one thing we boomers had over others was growing up with broadcast TV, not cable. We got used to watching things from silents to our own time. An reruns galore.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 18, 2025 09:29 AM (s0JqF)

577 what miners are doing."

Workin in coal mine
Goin down, down, down?

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

578 I've actually never seen Jaws.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2025 09:01 AM (Ltmlv)

We don't look any different than everyone else!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2025 09:30 AM (n9ltV)

579 Huckleberry Finn is the most overrated book ever. The Citizen Kaine of novels.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2025 09:23 AM (77rzZ)

I'd read Finn long before I'd ever read A Confederacy of Dunces.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 18, 2025 09:30 AM (ufSfZ)

580 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2025 09:30 AM (4L0hq)

581 Internet says the average American woman is 170 lbs"

W.T.F?

I don't want to see that draped over a C3 Corvette hood...

Posted by: man at November 18, 2025 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

582 575 The whole "borrow trillions to invest in AI data center" boom looks much like a tulip craze, to this uneducated eye

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:29 AM (fW6K6)

One of my thoughts about AI is that ultimately, There Can Be Only One.

Posted by: Gref at November 18, 2025 09:31 AM (5rh/l)

583 One of my thoughts about AI is that ultimately, There Can Be Only One.
Posted by: Gref at November 18, 2025 09:31 AM (5rh/l)
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I believe there will be millions, each dedicated to different tasks, but the interesting thing is when they start communicating with each other outside the control of humans. And decide things.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2025 09:34 AM (fW6K6)

584 I’ve never seen jaws. I’ve seen bits and pieces here and there but not the whole movie.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:34 AM (u9SGQ)

585 That is not at all how Bitcoin works or what miners are doing.
Posted by: Doof
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Bitcoin is simply a computer based conversion of energy and computers via software into crypto currency via 'mining'. Its scarcity is based on the production of the specific 'block' becoming harder and harder to resolve as miners vie with each other to solve the crypto puzzles to get the cookie (a bitcoin).

The easy solutions are long gone so it requires more and more computing power (and energy) to solve these puzzles--thus creating artificial scarcity based on costs of inputs.

Sort of like a declining gold mine may have gold but it gets more and more expensive to ferret out the metal and separate from the dross.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:34 AM (WDjG6)

586 Why is everyone assuming mtg won’t be re elected?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:36 AM (u9SGQ)

587 Meanwhile the PRC has stranded three of their cosmonauts in order to get three home.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2025 09:37 AM (xouAs)

588 One of my thoughts about AI is that ultimately, There Can Be Only One.
Posted by: Gref
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My guess is something like an oligopoly of one first among the others--like search engines--google, bing/ddg, then other bit players. Chips, Intel, AMD, and now ARM. Motherboards, Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte, etc. etc. The old heyday of teh Big Three automakers.

In capital intensive mature industries, it seems to settle out as oligopolies rather than monopolies based on capital costs.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:38 AM (WDjG6)

589 586 Why is everyone assuming mtg won’t be re elected?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Her district is one of the bastions of Trumpism in Georgia--rural, mountainous, and with no big cities nor much of a suburban footprint.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:39 AM (WDjG6)

590 Bewbs and a disaster movie. Leonardo was only a secondary concern.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 18, 2025 08:42 AM (RjOoY)

a LOT of women LOVED Titanic. Sexually.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Banging a fithy bum in stearage is a common woman's fantasy.

Posted by: E Jean Carol at November 18, 2025 09:40 AM (aA2y0)

591 Trump ended Biden's hyperflation, but that destruction of the value of the dollar we incurred under Biden is permanent.
Posted by: 18-1

I think it was in part a soft default of US currency like when Nixon went off the gold standard setting off similar inflation waves. In Nixon's case it was the inability of Bretton Woods to accommodate the US becoming a debtor nation too. In Biden's case, it was the increasingly burden of the existing federal debt and its servicing.

Biden's term resulted in a 25-30 percent permanent devaluation of that debt into cheaper dollars. A hard default would mean basically spending in US budget would have to drop to what it brought in as taxes. That would be about a 30-35 percent decline putting the US into an immediate depression for a time.

Sovereign defaults generally require austerity aka poverty for about 10-12 years or so before a slow recovery. Then you have nations like Argentina that went in one century from one of the richest countries in the world to one of the poor ones via repeated defaults based on government overspending.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:45 AM (WDjG6)

592 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 18, 2025 09:49 AM (53oGX)

593 588 One of my thoughts about AI is that ultimately, There Can Be Only One.
Posted by: Gref
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My guess is something like an oligopoly of one first among the others--like search engines--google, bing/ddg, then other bit players. Chips, Intel, AMD, and now ARM. Motherboards, Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte, etc. etc. The old heyday of teh Big Three automakers.

In capital intensive mature industries, it seems to settle out as oligopolies rather than monopolies based on capital costs.

Posted by: whig at November 18, 2025 09:38 AM (WDjG6)

If the the initial sorting results in financial survival of only a few general AIs, it will highlight that each is of course, unique. Unique in results. Based on the programming and access/non-access to information and data sources. Which should be believed as the 'right' result? A user's bias will determine which result he believes is right. And so it goes.

Posted by: Gref at November 18, 2025 09:53 AM (5rh/l)

594 I’ve never seen jaws. I’ve seen bits and pieces here and there but not the whole movie.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 18, 2025 09:34 AM (u9SGQ)

If you see it, make sure it's in a theater. On the big screen. I ran it as a part time projectionist in 1975 in a decent size theater. Even from the booth, it couldn't be appreciated until I watched it one night from the audience.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 18, 2025 09:53 AM (5xuJ/)

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