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The Morning Report — 11/20/25

Good morning kids.

Per the lyrics to a classic from The Who: I hope I die before I get old Well I'm at the point of wishing that upon if not the entirety of today's younger generation(s) then certainly an alarmingly large number of that cohort. And to be fair, retroactively they can take quite a few of the Baby Boomers to whom Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey were referring, with them straight to Hell. Because it was they who begat this insanity, and if only they had indeed died before they got old and became, teachers, thought leaders and politicians perhaps we could have avoided the cultural rot and madness that now threatens to drag whatever vestiges of civilization that are represented by America as founded that yet remain and have not been set alight like a sleeping passenger on a NYC and now a Chicago subway train.

It is to weep. But here we are, and we cannot know the future. Perhaps Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk weren't one-offs. Only time will tell.

Yet, on the heels of our latest episode of the podcast, where CBD and our good friend Jim Lakely, VP and Dir. of Communications at the Heartland Institute discussed the latter's latest nightmare polls about the rise in popularity of Socialism (linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the outlets listed at the bottom of this post) . . .

Heartland has released this poll which is just twisting the rusty knife in the open wound.

41% of likely voters aged 18-39 voiced support for a proposal to give an advanced AI system authority to control public policymaking decisions
36% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would support a proposal that would give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property”
35% said they would support a proposal to give AI authority to control all the world’s largest militaries

And speaking of the world's largest militaries, what of our own?

“Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.” . . .There must have been a time in American history when six sitting lawmakers urging members of the military to defy the commander-in-chief would have been viewed as outright sedition — and those lawmakers would have quickly faced justice. In the age of Trump, however, those days are long gone.
Touting their prior military and intelligence service, Democrat Sens. Elissa Slotkin (MI), who organized the video, Mark Kelly (AZ), and Reps. Chris Deluzio (PA), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (PA), and Jason Crow CO), launched a surreal video on Tuesday in which they called on troops to refuse to carry out what they consider to be President Donald Trump’s “illegal” orders.

Unlike others of "my generation" I was raised with a respect for and a trust of our military. Considering what an alarming number of our top intelligence and law enforcement officers had done in engineering the Russia Collusion hoax, as well as the attitudes of individuals like Mark Milley, Mad Dog Mattis and other high-ranking brass, as well as the destruction of morale and preparedness in the ranks that swept through them, from Buck Private all the way to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff brought about under Barack Hussein Obama, (this on top of the malign influence of the military industrial complex and the warmongers of the neocon and other varieties that still exists) — and considering all we have seen over the past decade or more given the rot and corruption in and out of government, I no longer have confidence that there exists a shocking number of service members who will hear and obey this siren song of sedition.

GIven the insane rise in popularity of socialism which didn't appear out of thin air but has been inculcated for decades, my fear about our military is not necessarily irrational in this light, or is it?

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

“This is not America. This is an insurgency,” Lang yells over the shouting. “They are taking over our country. They want us all dead.”
Muslims Surround Conservative Protesters Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In Dearborn, Michigan
“Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”
Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump
Victor Davis Hanson: Rigid ideologies like DEI, climate dogma, and anti-Trump obsession keep collapsing under their own contradictions, leaving their loudest champions looking increasingly absurd.
The Embarrassments of Ideology

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

36% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would support a proposal that would give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property” 35% said they would support a proposal to give AI authority to control all the world’s largest militaries
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 41% of Young Voters Support Giving Artificial Intelligence Sweeping Government Powers
What I learned about FBI spying in and out of Congress.
Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis
Miranda Devine: Gov. Hochul has spent $66 million of taxpayer money on grants to radical left-wing groups that conduct overt political operations to defund the police, close prisons, abolish ICE, decriminalize prostitution, promote open borders, target minors with transgender ideology, promote anti-Israel extremism, impose crippling climate mandates on new housing — and increase taxation to pay for it all.
Miranda Devine: Hochul’s colossal $113M gift to far-left groups shows she’s just ‘another Defund the Police Dem’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
“….he attempted to ram into law enforcement vehicles— posing a serious public safety threat. As agents were boxing him in— the driver proceeded to ram law enforcement vehicles in an attempt to escape.”
Agitators Clash With CBP in North Carolina As ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Operation Nets Hundreds of Arrests
The woman was 15 years old at the time when the explicit messages were exchanged, while Abrego Garcia was 25.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Accused Of Sending Porn To Teen As Evidence Emerges In Smuggling Case
AI hasn't replaced programmers: it's democratized programming.
American Intelligence: The H1-B visa replacement
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Weed, DEI and Reagan Derangement Syndrome.
We Know Now Why LA Burned
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Trump is accelerating the search for a new Federal Reserve chairman, with finalists expected to meet him after Thanksgiving.
Trump Close to Replacing Fed Chairman Powell: ‘I’d Love to Fire His Ass.’
The solutions to spiraling home costs can be found on the supply side.
A 50-Year Mortgage Won’t Fix Our Housing Problem
This partnership reflects ongoing efforts to replace human workers, such as store associates, with AI.
Target Partners with ChatGPT to Replace Store Associates with AI.
Democrats keep promising “affordability,” but decades of intervention have only driven prices higher—from housing to healthcare—leaving Americans paying more for the government’s failures.
What is Unaffordable?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
When AI refuses to give you straight answers.
ChatGPT Vs. The Evidence on Black-on-White Crime
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: After years of lies, half-truths, and distortions, this is extraordinarily refreshing.
Feds Don’t Move Against CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood, So Texas’ Abbott Does It Himself
We’ve already seen Europe become increasingly Muslim in character, and the combined forces of leftism and Islam are working to bring that here.
The Islamization Of The United States

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman included PBS and NPR in the investigatory letter because the two outlets distribute BBC programming in the United States.
Exclusive — FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Launches Probe into BBC for ‘Intentionally Distorting’ Trump Speech
The media attention with regard to all of this is quite purposeful.
Selective Outrage: Why Jamal Khashoggi Matters To The Media
Sometime in the mid 2010s, Teen Vogue transformed from a magazine for teenage girls to a propaganda rag for wannabe revolutionaries.
Former Teen Vogue Editor Gives Speech Complaining About Being Fired, Accidentally Proves Why She Should Be Fired

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“The obstruction of a committee investigation undermines Congress’s core constitutional oversight obligations.”
Jordan Refers Former Aide to Jack Smith to DOJ for Obstruction
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Wyss has come under congressional scrutiny for meddling in American politics as a foreign national
Swiss Billionaire Hansjörg Wyss Sent $40 Million to Liberal Groups Working To Kill US Oil Production and Turn Out Climate Voters, Records Show
Danish farmers are backing away from the use of Bovaer despite the government mandate.
Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The decision temporarily halts enforcement of the Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays, with further court proceedings expected to determine its ultimate fate.
Judge Blocks Ten Commandments Displays in Schools.
Colleges are quietly inflating prices and shifting costs between students, creating a system that rewards insiders, misleads families, and leaves Congress chasing symptoms instead of the cause.
College Finance: Congress Should Call a Spade a Spade and See Schools for the Bad Actors They Are
And the real engine behind socialism’s resurgence.
The Real Problem With Higher Education
ABORTION
American adults are uneasy about the eugenics-like methods the fertility industry has built into reproductive technology such as IVF.
Poll: 4 In 5 Americans Are ‘Concerned’ About Silicon Valley’s Unregulated Embryo-Screening Scheme
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
'We would have a friend in Stacey,' Epstein's office manager said
Democrat Stacey Plaskett Faced Criticism Over Epstein Ties in 2016, Years Before She Claims To Have Learned About Pedophile’s Misdeeds

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
'NO FREAKIN RELATION YOU GENIUS!!!' Lee Zeldin tells Crockett
Jeff Epstein? The New York Physician? Jasmine Crockett Flames Republicans For Taking Cash From Normal Americans 'Named Jeffrey Epstein.'
Several members of the House Republican conference accused Speaker Mike Johnson of cutting a deal with the Democrats to save Mills from censure, with Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna stating on X that GOP leadership “exchanged the vote to protect a Republican that’s having a lot of issues.”
Republicans Keep Democrat Crazies Off The Hook — To Protect Their Own Swamp Creature

POLITICS
While Judge Smith’s dissent will have little immediate impact, a number of the issues raised in the document could form the basis of the opinion being overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
READ: Dissenting Judge Goes Nuclear in Texas Redistricting Case.
The Democrats' spiral into irrelevance is poetic justice -- a party that once championed American grit now lectures from ivory towers, alienating the very people it pretends to uplift.
Fractures in the Blue Fortress
Malig-Nancy Pelosi says good-bye.
Lipstick on Woke

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
CAIR faces federal and state scrutiny, with calls for investigations into its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and recent actions by Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) designating CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization.
Islamic Non-Profit Funded University Gaza Camp Protesters: Report.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The time is now for the United States to bind together with Argentina and the free nations of Latin America and fight to preserve our civilization.
President Trump’s Argentina support is strong 'America First' strategy
Support among US voters for action against cartels and their allies was broad.
Voters Back ‘Military Action’ Against Drug Boats, Leftist Narco Regimes: I&I/TIPP Poll
Nigeria is fundamental to the future of the continent of Africa and the current struggle to reduce violence is a pivotal moment for U.S. and Nigerian relations.
Nigeria: A Future Without Genocide?
One cannot rebuild a nation through the hands of a terrorist.
The West’s Syrian Mirage
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
I hope whistleblowers from other states come forward.
Whistleblowers Claim New Jersey Org for Organ Donations Coerced Harvesting
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Masculinity does not need to be reinvented—it needs to be reclaimed.
The War On Men Is A War On Truth
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“A pessimism about technology has set in...Industry has led the administration into a legislative nightmare.
How Trump Can Save the Future
Fertility tech solved the ‘problem’ of your body’s physical limitations. Now, a new app has solved that of your mother’s.
Welcome To The Future, Where AI Grandma Raises The Kid You Bought From The Baby Bank
Kurt Schlichter: Can we have a right to a society that is not a cesspool of degeneracy?
Maybe Totally Legalizing Vice Was Not Such a Great Idea After All

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

2 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

3 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

4 Greetings and good morning, everyone! It's a beautiful morning at the GPROMD and we're getting used to having people back in the office. Next week is going to be a short week so I admit that I'm getting impatient for it to get here.

And now for the articles...

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (RjOoY)

5
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (tljrc)

6 What if you asked AI to design an AI?

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

7 What if you asked AI to design an AI?

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM

Then you get judgement day.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (0N4FZ)

8 Woohoo! Stand by for news!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (Cjt/F)

9 Mooornin!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (/Ohqa)

10 give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property”

I need to know how SkyNet gets built.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

11 "Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection."

Just when I thought I could not despise these people even more.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

12 Dirty Judge Dabney L. Friedrich rules Trump may not clean the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (hw2RI)

13 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (NwnyJ)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (Zz0t1)

15 ... set alight like a sleeping passenger on a NYC and now a Chicago subway train.

The perpetrator was reportedly a man (wow, assume much) around 45.

So... witnesses were able to guess his age but not his race? Odd, that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

16 BREAKING - Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (hw2RI)

17 Sad thing is, there's very little I in AI.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

18 >>>Because it was they who begat this insanity, and if only they had indeed died before they got old
---

Well, good morning.
What A Load of Pessimism.
What A Way to Start the Day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (743lG)

19 Forgot about that commie f*ck in the image. Has he been strung up a flag pole by his feet and disemboweled yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

20 Not that I would wish that to happen, mind you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

21 BREAKING - Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (hw2RI)

Breaking? No one knew that?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline

We shouldn’t have to live like this

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (hw2RI)

23 Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions.

So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous.

I would not send a Knight out in a dogma like this.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

24 > in which they called on troops to refuse to carry out what they consider to be President Donald Trump’s “illegal” orders.
-----

they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability. The video was definitely vetted by DNC lawyers.

IMO
tell me I'm wrong
line forms to the right

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT)

25 It is to weep. But here we are, and we cannot know the future. Perhaps Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk weren't one-offs. Only time will tell.

The problem with today's yoots is that they live in a microwave and tiktok world. They expected all problems to be completely solved by noon on January 21st.

We have 29 year olds like that in the comments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

26 Danish farmers are not backing away from the use of manure sprayers despite the government mandate.

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

27 >>>“Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”

About that peaceful divorce . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (dK+Kv)

28 Unlike others of "my generation" I was raised with a respect for and a trust of our military.

I got this..........

https://youtu.be/uswXI4fDYrM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

29 What if you asked AI to design an AI?

What do you mean by AI?

AI is a marketing brand now to sell the idea of large data centers or CPU cycle stealing spell-checks and screen scrapers. It can mean as much or as little as the human imagination can conjure up.

Do you mean search engine? Spelling and Grammar check? Image or Music mosaic generator? Machine Learning? (which too is an older marketing term for pattern matching and feature discovery)

I'm pretty sure that the "AI" that fixes your business correspondence or converts your school year book photos into pr0n isn't the same design framework that navigates a FSD Tesla through traffic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (PVBkQ)

30

Then you get judgement day.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (0N4FZ)

Dogs and cats, living together. MASS HYSTERIA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

31 >>>with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: SMOD
--

I like the way he not only paid off Congressperson Plaskett but
was feeding her questions while she was taking testimony.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (743lG)

32 16 In addition to campaign contributions, Bill Clinton received valuable coupons.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (gm9Sb)

33 > “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”
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Between this, and the judicial coup under way you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (NwnyJ)

34 "notable incarcerations including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer"

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

35 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

36 >>>I'm pretty sure that the "AI" that fixes your business correspondence or converts your school year book photos into pr0n isn't the same design framework that navigates a FSD Tesla through traffic.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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That would be a hoot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:44 AM (743lG)

37 "IMO
tell me I'm wrong
line forms to the right
Posted by: Don Black"

You are correct. They are as slimy as a frog in Diddy's bathtub.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

38 The problem with today's yoots is that they live in a microwave and tiktok world. They expected all problems to be completely solved by noon on January 21st.

We have 29 year olds like that in the comments.

I'm like the total opposite.

Example: Data centers and EV charging need twice the current US grid capacity.

Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (+4Cf6)

39 -----------
Between this, and the judicial coup under way you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
-----------

Tom Homan to head DoJ. He gets the job done.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (743lG)

40 What do you mean by AI?

42.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

41 When they aren't replacing workers with H1Bs they are shipping jobs to Mexico now.

A surprising number of customer service jobs are being outsourced to Mexico now.

What was that saying of Ross Perot, something about a giant sucking sound.

Trump needs to slap a 25 pct remittance tax on all wire transfers to Mexico and SA.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (XV/Pl)

42

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (DDJSl)

43 No, wait. 6-7.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

44 WARNING

Please make sure when you leave the ATM or come out of the bank you do not go directly home or to a business.

Drive thru a MickeyDs and if the car right behind you pulls into the same, you might be followed for a jugging (armed robbery).

Here in H Town we have people with 30+ prior out on the streets.
And the new thing is to get yo mama to rent a rent a wreck so you cant be traced.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

45 Something huge is happening in Iran, although most westerners will be slow to see the significance.
The current Iranian government is moving the capital from Tehran, because of the water crisis. This makes rebellion not just likely, but inevitable. They’ve just admitted to everyone that they’re incapable of governing their most important city. And even the most devout Islamist will now have to admit that Allah has cursed them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (/ZNPI)

46 Headlines we'd like to see

May it happen As You Wish.

I would add, confiscate their wealth to pay down the debt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

47
Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
-----------

It's a done deal in the next 5 years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (743lG)

48 A woman is literally burning alive on a train carriage, screaming in agony, and grown adults just stand there filming or walking past like it’s a TikTok trend.

This isn’t “bystander effect” anymore—this is a complete collapse of basic humanity. You had ONE job as a human being: help someone who is dying in front of you. You failed.

Cowardice dressed as “mind your own business” culture killed her just as much as the fire did.

If you see someone being set on fire and your first instinct is to pull out your phone instead of a fire extinguisher, water bottle, jacket—anything—you don’t deserve to call yourself a civilized society.

Disgusted doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (hw2RI)

49 they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability. The video was definitely vetted by DNC lawyers.

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT)

"Orders" includes legal and illegal, which makes a worse case for them, not better.

Let them defend their insurrection in court, after a long period of pretrial confinement, as is tradition.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (dK+Kv)

50 >>>Congressperson Plaskett

Delegate Plaskett

Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (Y1sOo)

51
40 What do you mean by AI?

42.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

42

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (DDJSl)

Timing is everything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (Zz0t1)

52 saw this last night, if no one mentioned it:

MIAMI (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (CWTWj)

53 Hillary Clinton

Still not President. And slime mold protest when they are compared with you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

54 Cadet in top picture needs to pay Uncle Sam for his education. And resign, of course.

Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (i+bC1)

55 "Something huge is happening in Iran"

I'll say!

"Iran Suffers Flash Flooding After Cloud-Seeding to Combat Drought"

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

56 "...you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat"

Because it's too hard for me to get out of the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pam The Blondie at November 20, 2025 07:49 AM (XQo4F)

57 Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democrats and so-called “progressive” causes

The Deuce you say!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 07:49 AM (hoi0O)

58 Eromero

I believe he was eventually forced out, but not made to repay his education. IIANM, it was a years long struggle.

A clear sign of rot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

59 Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline

We shouldn’t have to live like this

Yes, yes we do and will to atone for all the crimes committed by The Man in the past, now and in the future. America's roasting chickens have come home to roost.

Posted by: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obongos Pastor at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (t5X2c)

60 What's a Plaskett?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (XQo4F)

61 Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.

Interesting that this is no different than scam artist Sam Bankman-Fraud's little FTX scheme.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (BvPIe)

62 The proper procedure would have been to bring in bulldozers to dig up a perimeter around the fire to assure it was really out instead of smoldering under ash or vegetation.

But current reports are that calls to use a bulldozer were rejected because of protected plants.

Bulldozers we dont need no stinkin bulldozers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

63 Example: Data centers and EV charging need twice the current US grid capacity.

Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (+4Cf6)

Yeah... folks talking about building nuclear power plants (as is right and proper) but no one is discussing building transmission lines or factories to churn out hundreds of thousands of transformers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

64 >> 36% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would support a proposal that would give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property”

Thank you JJ

Who on Gods green earth is making this insane “proposal”?? Who would poison the well of ideas with that?? It’s almost like someone is just trolling… Did no one watch The Terminator and internalize some suspicion of Skynet?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (v/5Y9)

65
What's a Plaskett?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM

twenty dollars

same as in town

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (tljrc)

66 Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors. This project, known as the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, aims to generate carbon-free electricity to support Amazon's growing energy needs,

Twelve right now being built by Bezos. All the other tech heads are doing build outs. With the engineers and money they have nuclear reactor technology will leap frog and miniaturize.

Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (743lG)

67 Gen X voted for Trump. Pray for Gen Z.

The Boomers are dying off, as is natural and just.

(I am 70, it's okay. I am not a Commie)

Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX)

68 Cadet in top picture needs to pay Uncle Sam for his education. And resign, of course.
Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (i+bC1)

IIRC, he was discharged with something less than Honorable. Don't know about repayment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

69 You know who knows all about small nuclear reactors?

The U.S. Navy.

Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:54 AM (W7XSX)

70 "...you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat"

If when you say "minions" you mean hard Guido looking sociopaths and "plucking" you mean "hoods and vans" and by "little chat" you mean blow torches, drill bits and pliers, then I would say you would be making progress.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:54 AM (nAS9C)

71 You know who knows all about small nuclear reactors?

The U.S. Navy.

So simple a teenager can operate it!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (nAS9C)

72
12 Dirty Judge Dabney L. Friedrich rules Trump may not clean the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (hw2RI)

I hate to say anything positive about these judges, but the problem wasn’t cleaning - the problem is that the administration wanted to paint the grey granite building white.
I’m sorry, but painting granite is an Abomination before God.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (/ZNPI)

73 they can take quite a few of the Baby Boomers to whom Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey were referring, with them straight to Hell. Because it was they who begat this insanity,
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Not really. I am a Boomer, and I saw, even at the time, that we were not the world-changing revolutionaries my fellow Boomers said we were, but just sheep. Teachers' pets, following what we were told. The ones who begat this were our teachers.

My father utterly despised being called "the greatest generation", and was fond of saying "not the greatest at raising kids." They overly trusted the established powers, and turned us over to state schools to be indoctrinated. And we, like sheep, followed along.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (s0JqF)

74 If you have a nuclear reactor near your data center, you don't need much in the way of transformers and transmission lines.

Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (W7XSX)

75
"Iran Suffers Flash Flooding After Cloud-Seeding to Combat Drought"
Posted by: fd
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Damn. - No. Dam. If they had built dams and reservoirs there wouldn't be destructive flooding but there would be an ample water supply. But...allahahaha provides.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:56 AM (743lG)

76 Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features.
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Electricity too cheap to meter!!

Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 07:56 AM (hoi0O)

77 The West Point graduate, who last year (2017) posed in a picture holding a cap that had “Communism will win” written inside, is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge.

Spenser Rapone rocked the military community last year after his social media posts were revealed, showing him wearing a Che Guevara shirt underneath his military uniform.

He is no longer part of the U.S. military after top brass at Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division accepted his resignation Monday after an earlier warning for “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” He’s leaving the military with an other-than-honorable discharge.

Army officials condemned the cadet last year and opened an investigation into his social media activity. “Second Lieutenant Rapone’s actions in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army,” an Army statement read.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:57 AM (hw2RI)

78 Spenser Rapone. The very fact that we have not escorted him out of a helicopter for a game of Screaming Lawn Darts points out a flaw in our legal system.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:57 AM (RjOoY)

79 > Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.
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People are beginning to realize the folly of spinning windmills and solar panels. There is absolutely nothing "free" or "green" with those technologies and they've failed to live up to the public's expectations.

I seriously doubt we've seen the last of this however.

Once the left regains the levers of power we'll go straight back to it. Forcibly, if necessary.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (NwnyJ)

80 Small nuclear reactors are a great idea. But the War in Ukraine is destroying transformers in there and in Russia. Plus Cuba needs a whole lot, with all their power failures.

Wait times are years. Time to go long on the very few manufacturers like Siemens?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

81 Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.

We can't even get the f'ing pot holes in the streets fixed in five years.

There will have to be a much need Come To Jesus moment for hundreds of millions of people for what you dream to happen.

Maybe some more weeks without power in freezing temperatures would persuade some. The problem I see is that the Party Members are isolated from mass blackouts and complete halts in commerce and will blame it all on the nearest Republican.

Blaming someone doesn't turn the power back on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (nAS9C)

82 Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors. This project, known as the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, aims to generate carbon-free electricity to support Amazon's growing energy needs,

Twelve right now being built by Bezos. All the other tech heads are doing build outs. With the engineers and money they have nuclear reactor technology will leap frog and miniaturize.

Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (743lG)

I reckon that a whole lot of people don't know...

- what "small modular reactor" means
- how power gets from "small modular reactor" to neighborhood
- what will happen to the inevitable waste from the "small modular reactor"
- who will operate the "small modular reactor"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

83 "Well, good morning.
What A Load of Pessimism.
What A Way to Start the Day."

A better way is to start with a Rosary and then come here.

"...with great confidence, submit to Your holy will, which is love and mercy itself." - Divine Mercy chaplet.

Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:59 AM (W7XSX)

84 It's tiresome hearing other people being blamed. We're here now. It is our world and up to us to deal with it. Blaming the other is an excuse for current incompetence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:59 AM (743lG)

85 Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump
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Note that that group is made up of Democrat "moderates". I know others disagree, but IMO a national divorce is the only hope.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (s0JqF)

86 This is the dumbest whirled I've ever seen.
It hurts my brain to look in an̈y direction.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (WQDw6)

87 And we, like sheep, followed along.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (s0JqF)

All we like sheep have gone astray… — Isaiah 53

My favorite most beautiful chapter in all of the Bible….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (ZiaCc)

88 So simple a teenager can operate it!
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Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this.

Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O)

89 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all have have a day that heals your soul.

A date that heals your soul was an A/I addition, but that works too.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

90 I submit to God Almighty, no one else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (743lG)

91 >I hate to say anything positive about these judges, but the problem wasn’t cleaning - the problem is that the administration wanted to paint the grey granite building white.
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this was not mentioned in previous reports
I have seen that building from the sidewalk, and it is pretty impressive sight

painting it white is something you do to your split level ranch out in the suburbs

really sets off your azaleas

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (AOsQT)

92 That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG)

93 The story at Daily Mail about the female staffer (yes, she's fairly attractive) of a GOP congressman who concocted a hoax about being abducted and zip-tied is wild.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (Y1sOo)

94 They're already messing around with fission, I think. The one where they create a small black hole and contain it.

Imagine what happens when THAT fails........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

95 The amount of “waste” from a Small Nuclear Reactor is going to amount to about 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (/ZNPI)

96 Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-0

made the absurd claim that his colleague, Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), was simply taking a phone call from a "constituent" when she was being coached by Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 Congressional hearing.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (hw2RI)

97 " Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm."

###

Heard that five years ago.
And five years before that.
And five years before that.

Posted by: Now do climate change at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (XQo4F)

98 Wait times are years. Time to go long on the very few manufacturers like Siemens?

There are companies in the US that want to make transformers. The problem is that regulations prohibit the economical manufacture of them, and, according to an industry expert, making transformers is a hard job and finding anyone who is willing to work hard is damned near impossible.

Yeah, you can pay people more, but that just gives greater pressure on illegal aliens or continuing to offshore the manufacture.

Beyond labor, the US doesn't have the supply chain to even build transformers at scale. Metal is heavy, our industries are shuttered and the rail lines connecting coal and iron have been converted into hike and bike trails.

It would have to be neighborhood reactors, and I promise you that Party Members will be served first, and then BIPOC neighborhoods second.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (WCaCG)

99 I would like a coffee cup that never cools off. A small chunk of non-fissionable material embedded theirein, spent fuel rod waste, I’m not picky whatever it takes. Maybe a “dial a yield” feature. Would save those arduous treks back to the microwave oven

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (hoi0O)

100 Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline

--

In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."

Bet if that sort of thing was meted out, this wouldn't happen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

101 Victor Davis Hanson: The Embarrassments of Ideology

The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive.

Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions.
________
Do those words, as he uses them, mean anything whatsoever? I have no idea what he's trying to say there.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (s0JqF)

102 It's one of those famous Commie "5 Year Plans."

Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (W7XSX)

103 That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG)

Some ladies just cannot handle, how you say, girth.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

104 The story at Daily Mail about the female staffer (yes, she's fairly attractive) of a GOP congressman who concocted a hoax about being abducted and zip-tied is wild.

Can't wait for the Netflix version. (sigh)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (xE0sV)

105 In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."

Bet if that sort of thing was meted out, this wouldn't happen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

Its in times like these, do unto others should really take hold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Thank you for that data.
FWIW, concentrating the few in the Inner Party in small, powered, well-defended enclaves while turning a high trust nation into Mad Max, will not work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

107 Why does it burn when I pee?

Posted by: Hackcream Jeffries at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (/W0r4)

108 >>>Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state

Bezos gone fission

Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (Y1sOo)

109 I reckon that a whole lot of people don't know...
- what "small modular reactor" means
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
----------------------

You have no idea what it will be in five years and only pessimism in its innovation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (743lG)

110 U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. A member of the Democratic Party, she won a special election in 2022 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Alcee Hastings.

Hahaha...you can't make this shit up.

Posted by: Been Stealing Since at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (t5X2c)

111 “ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”

Deutoronomy 7:9

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (uZytX)

112 Could an AI be worse than the current group of degenerate retards running most of the country?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (A+beY)

113 "Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection."

Just when I thought I could not despise these people even more.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

I'm not sure they're calling directly for insurrection.

The Dims are too cowardly to do that.

This more like the Democrat speeches designed to encourage someone else to assassinate Trump. They Democrats are hoping the members of the military are exactly as stupid as the Democrats believe they are and will act on their own or upset Trump so much that he creates "martyrs".

Notice they only talk about refusing "illegal orders" in these perilous times or some such thing.

The Democrats are simply horrible a-holes who deserve to be dipped in shit, covered in flies, and banished to North Korea.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (iJfKG)

114 In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."

I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:07 AM (xE0sV)

115
Can't wait for the Netflix version. (sigh)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (xE0sV)

Are the Owebama's still on the board? The movie will have Donald Trump and family attacking and gang raping the girl causing mental issues leading to her false accusations.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

116 Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. A member of the Democratic Party, she won a special election in 2022 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Alcee Hastings.

Hahaha...you can't make this shit up.
Posted by: Been Stealing Since at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (t5X2c)

But that gerrymandering isn't based on skin color, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Well well...
So, it's been .. how long, 'xactly since the new administration moved in, and I'm still waiting for

record high food prices
record high egg prices
$6/gal reg. gas
empty shelves
25% unemployment

Hmmm.

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

118 An embarrassing number of years ago when I was in college… as an engineering major I had to take a technical writing class. One assignment, we had to research some topic and write a paper arguing for some technical approach to some problem. I chose the problem of nuclear waste disposal. My proposed solution: the very stable sandstone formations of Yucca Mountain (in Nevada) are an ideal place to store the waste…. Do they use that place yet?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:09 AM (5MZNC)

119 Heard that five years ago.
And five years before that.
And five years before that.
Posted by: Now do climate change at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (XQo4F)

The difference is that 5 years ago, people like Gates and Bezos thought their needs were met, and they could control populations through the side effects of NetZero policies. Today they realize that their AI and server farm needs are going to require a vast expansion of grid capacity, and nothing except nuclear can get them there.
And if not for all the enviro nuttery, we’ve had the tech to go small nuclear ever since the first reactor was installed on an aircraft carrier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (/ZNPI)

120
Meh.

AI is only as good, fair, just, equitable, and wise as its programming.

Who is currently controlling AI's programming?

You really want these a-holes controlling your life through an "infallible computer"?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (iJfKG)

121 > Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state
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I get that WA is "home" to Amazon. But the push-back on this from the green wackos there is sure to take time, and a lot of money to iron out before one cubic yard of concrete is poured.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)

122 I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire."

So, you honkys ain't moving close, huh?

/Winnie "Michelin Man" Mandela

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

123 I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire.

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Unknown, I didn't say I wanted to see it in a literal sense. It's pretty clear I meant this kind of (rising) insanity would stop if the perpetrators of such horrific crimes were given a dose of their own medicine. This is a guy who was arrested almost 50 times prior. He was obviously not too worried about consequences. Maybe it's time he was.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

124 Thankfully the Chicago Feds, stepped in and the charges federal on the Chicago fire guy. Terrorism on public transit

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

125 Kilmar Abrego Garcia Accused Of Sending Porn To Teen As Evidence Emerges In Smuggling Case

Why is he wasting air in my country? Last I heard, there was an African nation willing to take in the Most Dangerous Maryland Man in the World.™

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (RjOoY)

126 Do they care anymore that they're looking "absurd"? Does the culture, by and large, even understand what "absurd" means anymore, or the ramifications of political absurdity to reality? At some point -- and it feels as if we're very close to that point -- the calculations of a presumed civilizational rationality and shared belief in an equilibrium of sanity, vanishes into the crazed vortex of revolution., insurrection, whatever power-driven madness you want to call it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (t+TFX)

127 Poll: 4 In 5 Americans Are ‘Concerned’ About Silicon Valley’s Unregulated Embryo-Screening Scheme
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As they should be. But this is another issue where many on the right, and especially among the pundits, don't want to be associated with those icky Christianists.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (s0JqF)

128 Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump

That Rage Bait? You fell for it?

Those tools implanted the idea into every viewer's head that Trump's orders are often illegal/unlawful. There is zero evidence that CiC orders are anything but lawful.

They got away with making people think that Trump is lawless and gives greater voice to the narrative that Trump is a reckless dictator that will cause the whole world to burn.

Turn Off Propaganda. Turn On Brain.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (BvPIe)

129 Could an AI be worse than the current group of degenerate retards running most of the country?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (A+beY)

I would ask how you hold AI accountable, but our current elected representatives aren't held accountable, so would we really even notice?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

130 Thankfully the Chicago Feds, stepped in and the charges federal on the Chicago fire guy. Terrorism on public transit
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk)

I'm sure the woman he set on fire is happy to hear that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

131 Small nuclear reactors are a great idea.

They are, but...

Nuclear reactors don't produce electricity, they produce heat. Which means that you need to have all the infrastructure to turn that heat into something useful. And trained operators to run that infrastructure. And trained operators to ensure the safe operation of the reactor. And, and, and...

And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale. The people selling you Elysium are not being honest.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

132 Skynet is Skynet.

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk)

133 they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability.
Posted by: Don Black

Oh, who will rid me of this troublesome priest?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 20, 2025 08:14 AM (cxFcK)

134 In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."

I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.

As a 10 year old seeing someone hanged for horse thievery has to have an effect towards future action or thoughts. IMHO

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (FxH7T)

135 Sponge. The train she was on is the blue line that goes the loop to Ohare. Usually pretty safe

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (YCxFk)

136 Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this.
Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O)

You mean the last time the Army was permitted to operate a nuclear reactor?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

137 So I flip on a Clip of Bill Maher talking with Oswalt Patton and Bill brings up the Muslim Groom Gangs:
1. Oswalt plays dumb
2. Oswalt play so dumb that Bill has to say Pakistan Groom Gangs.
3. Oswalt plays even more dumb and Bill brings up the fact it is 100% poor white girls.
4. He then calls Oswalt for living in a Blue Bubble.

Playing dumb is not helping their cause.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

138 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (GxM4+)

139 Target Partners with ChatGPT to Replace Store Associates with AI.

The only good I can see is that the fake associate would be more helpful.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (RjOoY)

140 Exclusive — FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Launches Probe into BBC for ‘Intentionally Distorting’ Trump Speech
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Why are we looking into a foreign government news agency? I mean, sure, document that they are liars, as they have always been. But Carr seems again to be full of himself on this.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (s0JqF)

141 That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG)

Click on the comment number rather than refreshing and the reload will auto-magically take you to that spot and you won't have to see it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

142 Sponge. The train she was on is the blue line that goes the loop to Ohare. Usually pretty safe
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (YCxFk)

Until you let 47 time arrested criminals to roam free in your streets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

143 >>Do those words, as he uses them, mean anything whatsoever? I have no idea what he's trying to say there.

I think what's he's trying to say in smart professor words is what every junior salesperson is taught when they are fresh off the assembly line, sell the solution not the product.

There's a tendency for people to focus on the shiny new product instead of the benefits the new product will bring. AI is a great example. A lot of people are off touting how wonderful it will be to have super smart machines instead of selling the benefits those machines will bring to society. Same with politics. Don't sell party dogma, sell the benefits.

Same thing works in reverse. Young people are people sold socialism not the outcome. It's pointless to bitch about socialism as an ideology, focus on the outcome of which there are many examples of utter failure.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (viF8m)

144 Click on the comment number rather than refreshing and the reload will auto-magically take you to that spot and you won't have to see it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)

Huh. I never put that two and two together.

You're a pretty fart smeller........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

145 ...the calculations of a presumed civilizational rationality and shared belief in an equilibrium of sanity, vanishes into the crazed vortex of revolution...

Welcome to a post Constitutional Republic world. The chaos, insanity and rampant uncivilized behavior was, is and is to come the normal state of Fallen human affairs.

Since expulsion from The Garden, mankind, outside of God has been one of violence, misery and strife.

The former United States had enough self-regulating people of faith that there was a veneer of civilization despite the unregenerate navigating within.

At some point there isn't enough light to see, or not enough salt to preserve and everything falls back into darkness and rot.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (kHd4y)

146 Hmmm.
Posted by: man
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Good to see you. How is your wife doing?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (743lG)

147 Of course, when you comment and click post, you see that commie f*ck again....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

148 I saw something potentially troubling.

A large entity is saying not to use Elon's Grok because it has fewer guardrails to avoid politically correct filtering. They say Grok's alignment has been shaped by ideological directives rather than neutral, rigorously tested safety principles. The other big LLMs use structured alignment, multi-layer moderation, and extensive pre-deployment red-teaming.

It seems to me that Grok is the neutral one.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (dtajH)

149 > they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability.
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If the rolls were reversed, and it was people on the right, lamenting something a leftist president ordered, would they be afforded the same "plausible deniability?"

This sort of question often comes up with nebulous acts and commentary when the exact same circumstances arise between left and right.

I think we all sort of know how it shakes out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (NwnyJ)

150 Neither Townshend (1945) nor Daltrey (1944) are boomers.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (rJ48h)

151 Grok works very well. ChatGPT has better memory of what we've done previously to inform my work with it. But overall I prefer Grok. It improves, while Chat gets "chattier."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (emBoF)

152 The amount of “waste” from a Small Nuclear Reactor is going to amount to about 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (/ZNPI)

- 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years from thousands of reactors is a lot.
- you only get 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years after you change thousands of laws/regulations and spin up a reprocessing industry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

153 People seem to be distracted by the shiny new thing called AI.

AI is programmed. By man. Largely liberal retard man. It learns what it's TOLD to learn. It doesn't generically learn. It takes in what it's told to take in and discards the rest.

The minute you turn AI free to control everything, we're f*cked and the libtards win. Till they realize we all just lost.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

154 Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors.
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It's been flying under the radar a bit but, I saw that INEL is about to finalize their testing on a modular nuclear reactor.
Which is exciting--off-the-shelf plans, fully tested and approved. Plug-n-play. Cutting through all the red tape.
Add in the recent SCOTUS ruling from the UT case that agency regulations can't be a basis for endless delays via lawsuit.

I don't think the left understands what this means:
Once a site is chosen and approved, the plant will be built with no further delay. Within months.
And the secondary effects will be massive. Not just cheap energy, but all sorts of businesses and manufacturing rushing to build here.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (HXT0k)

155 "Cherfilus-McCormick" sounds like the name of a syndrome assigned to an extremely rare genetic anomaly discovered by two graduate students toiling away in a windowless basement of a nondescript university building in a room illuminated by a solitary incandescent light bulb hanging from a brown extension cord purchased at a Kmart in 1974.

The type of syndrome that would only be evidenced by the shape of an individual's earlobe or pinky toe.

Posted by: Journal of Genetics Research at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F)

156 >The other big LLMs use structured alignment, multi-layer moderation, and extensive pre-deployment red-teaming.
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I totally understand this sentence.

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)

157 The Islamization Of The United States
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Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF)

158 Good morning, all and Happy Birthday, JJ.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (wVcYX)

159 Pretty much everyone running AI development is a lefty. I can imagine they are salivating at the thought of AI making policy decisions. It would not be GIGO, it would be big brother.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (0U5gm)

160 Pretty fart smeller… heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq)

161 _________
Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF)

I'll be fine with it. I only hope we don't wait as long as and are as destroyed as Europe is before it gets there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

162 And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Unfortunately, even if we could get the personnel trained and the plants built, a leftist administration would stop everything.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (RjOoY)

163 We should not be handing out checks to members of congress who were spied on, we should be putting the spies in prison.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (0U5gm)

164 Muslims want you dead.

Left-Wingers want Muslims to make you dead.

At some point, people will have to actively resist both.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (6Uni8)

165 >>Why are we looking into a foreign government news agency? I mean, sure, document that they are liars, as they have always been. But Carr seems again to be full of himself on this.

Maybe because our government has been funding that foreign government news agency.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (viF8m)

166 Pretty fart smeller… heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq)

I have my moments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

167 I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.

Which is the exact opposite of what Lady in Black stated:

"...while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch." "

That is light years away from "praying for the sole of the soon to be executed"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (kHd4y)

168 You have no idea what it will be in five years and only pessimism in its innovation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (743lG)

No, I don't. In fact, I'm not up to date on the technology today but I am familiar with the general operation of nuclear reactors, the safety considerations and limits, and the operator training involved.

I'm also familiar with pie-in-the-sky promises of some incipient technology which will solve all our problems and make the holodeck a reality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

169 so I use it to turn aggregate customer/target sampling into cleaner data I can then analyze easier. I also use it to sweep through large audio files (of client interviews) and pull out sample quotes (as well as transcripts).

I wouldn't be able to do as much work as I've been doing without it. And an assistant (which I need!) will make as many mistakes if not more and take 5x longer to do so.

I feel sort of bad about this I guess. But I use critical thinking on everything AI sends my way and it's literally just doing "busy work" that I can easily check. I DO NOT just "let it do its thing" and I get really frustrated with people in my field (advertising) who do. And that's a lot of people.

But it's good if you use it as a tool, and don't let the tool use you. which is true for many things.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (emBoF)

170 157 The Islamization Of The United States
_________
Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF)

No, there won't be.

All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni8)

171 From the Wiki entry on the SL-1 reactor explosion:

"The No. 7 shield plug from the top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling." [5]

Damn...

Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Y1sOo)

172 I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.

As a 10 year old seeing someone hanged for horse thievery has to have an effect towards future action or thoughts. IMHO
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

I, personally, would prefer to see an execution in the same manner as the victim received. I mean, if it's good enough for your victim, it should be ok for you.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (GxM4+)

173 And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Sure it is. They're already breaking all the old, shuttered plants out of moth balls. TMI is coming back online. Palisades is as well. Even Cali is considering more nukes.

They're testing small plants in south Texas as we speak. Biden actually approved that one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

174 "The suspect with a lengthy criminal history and who was released after being accused in a violent August attack, has been federally charged after allegedly lighting a young woman on fire Monday on the Chicago Blue Line train and yelling "burn b----."

Lawrence Reed, 50, is charged with committing a terrorist attack or violence against a mass transportation system, according to a recently filed criminal complaint.

Federal prosecutors allege Reed intentionally used gasoline and a lighter to set a woman on fire aboard a CTA Blue Line train at about 9:30 p.m. Monday...U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros said the woman was "minding her own business and reading her phone" while seated in the middle of the train car, when Reed approached her from the back of the car, doused her head and body with gasoline, and attempted to ignite the liquid."

Another violent repeat offender released by blue city committing heinous crime.

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK)

175 All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
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That thin line can be erased pretty quickly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (Wg6v7)

176 All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
Posted by: XTC

Then they will die too.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (GxM4+)

177 Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

178 Queers for Palestine, shows how stupid young people can be

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

179 177 Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce

it's a start

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (emBoF)

180 This is Irina Zarutskay (sp) all over again.

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:27 AM (g47mK)

181 Cannot run AI with wind and solar power. Silicon Valley wants nuke power

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)

182 Hanford Nuclear Facility is in WA state. I suspect that's where they will build them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (EW4eo)

183 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.

Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

184 180 This is Irina Zarutskay (sp) all over again.

they're everywhere runner

it's like that episode of Twin Peaks The Return honestly

got a light?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (emBoF)

185 All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
Posted by: XTC

Then they will die too.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (GxM4+)

They THINK they will be given a seat at the table when the takeover happens. They're too stupid to realize they'll just be the last to die or be enslaved.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

186 Cooper: "You said recently that President Trump is a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth."

Pelosi: "I said that as a euphemism. I could have done much worse."

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (RHGPo)

187 If I'm bored, I'll ask GROK some questions.

Answers default to "conventional wisdom" and are designed to obscure, in a lot of cases.

If you want the truth about something, AI Chatbot is not where you should go.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (6qf1m)

188 Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

Think of it more as liposuction that decimation.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (wVcYX)

189 Huh. I never put that two and two together.

You're a pretty fart smeller........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I confess that someone else mentioned it to me some time back. I was embarrassed that I hadn't thought of that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

190 Until you let 47 time arrested criminals to roam free in your streets.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

H Town crimes reports routinely list 12 or 23 or 31 arrest reports like the dude that got his mama to rent a car so he could follow people at the ATM.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

191 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

The USS Harry Truman is in dock for cleaning and retrofitting for the next several years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

192 AI is programmed. By man. Largely liberal retard man. It learns what it's TOLD to learn. It doesn't generically learn. It takes in what it's told to take in and discards the rest.

What AI lacks, and will never have, and thus will always be a danger if used as a substitute is WISDOM

How do you know that an idea is destructive? If the AI system is set up to promote a homogeneous society because someone programed that as a prime directive, you get holocausts and genocide recommendations.

If you blindly feed a computer historical facts about The Balkans and Yugoslavia, you end up at the same place.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (/TiS1)

193 Of course, when you comment and click post, you see that commie f*ck again....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

It's the price you pay for being witty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

194 Canary in the coal mine.

>> Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy

https://tinyurl.com/4waajht7

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (LWgbM)

195 They have used small nukes to power ships for some time now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (EW4eo)

196 I confess that someone else mentioned it to me some time back. I was embarrassed that I hadn't thought of that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

It works as mentioned. My browser refresh doesn't show the top in most cases, unless there's a slowdown or glitch. Clicking the "Post" button, however......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

197 What AI lacks, and will never have, and thus will always be a danger if used as a substitute is WISDOM

this is true

it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH

so, you have to be careful with it

because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF)

198 And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale. The people selling you Elysium are not being honest.

Can we get the Japs or the Frogs to help out? Minus the Godzilla thing and the dirty french mouth lovemaking.

Posted by: Hollis P Wood at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (t5X2c)

199 183 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

After 9/11 we should have built 100s on leased them to local power companies.
Put them on existing bases so pretty secure too.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

200
It's the price you pay for being witty.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

Someone's gotta do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

201 @137

>>Playing dumb is not helping their cause.

He's not playing dumb, well, he is a dumb leftist c***, but he really has never heard of that issue, because leftist have their republicans are nazis firmware implanted and thats the framework in which they view the world.

And judging by the ratings and readership numbers of leftist news channels and sites, it's not like leftists are getting their news from these places.

Nope all of their knowledge is born of extreme ignorance of a subject but filtered by the Republicans are nazis algorithm.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (XV/Pl)

202 >>I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.

Pre-colonial Newport became a mecca for pirates. In 1723 the city had a mass hanging of 26 pirates in a prominent spot along the harbor and then the pirates were buried below the high water mark. That pretty much put an end to piracy in the area.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (viF8m)

203 >> Conducted November 14-17, 2025, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,005 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (104) and cellphones (646) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (255). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (LWgbM)

204 Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce

Fun Fact: It takes at least 80 productive taxpayers to underwrite the costs of a single Federal Employee.

Come to your own conclusions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (/TiS1)

205 it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH

so, you have to be careful with it

because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF)

It's programmed by people that think the concept of truth is what THEY believe to be true. AI will only know the left of truth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

206 so, you have to be careful with it

because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF)

inserts that speech from Jurassic Park
can vs should is wisdom

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

207
they're everywhere runner

it's like that episode of Twin Peaks The Return honestly

got a light?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (emBoF)

His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery.

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

208 Trump's Renamed Gulf of America Dodges Hurricanes for First Time in a Decade

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:33 AM (RHGPo)

209 And judging by the ratings and readership numbers of leftist news channels and sites, it's not like leftists are getting their news from these places.

Nope all of their knowledge is born of extreme ignorance of a subject but filtered by the Republicans are nazis algorithm.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (XV/Pl)

I think that was Bill's Blue Bubble comment.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

210 Pre-colonial Newport became a mecca for pirates. In 1723 the city had a mass hanging of 26 pirates in a prominent spot along the harbor and then the pirates were buried below the high water mark. That pretty much put an end to piracy in the area.
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In NC, Blackbeard was the Governor of NC next door neighbor back when the Capital was in New Bern.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Wg6v7)

211 I'd like to book the Pretty Fart Smellers as the Club ONT house band. I bet they do great versions of Skynyrd's "That Smell" and Tool's "Stinkfist".

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Ltmlv)

212
His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

He's just biding his time until he completes his work on the space/time continuum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests

A 'society' that lets felons with FOURTY NINE priors just walk around with a gas can begins with
the inability to spell FORTY.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (zdLoL)

214 Think of it more as liposuction that decimation.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (wVcYX)

Good one.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:35 AM (t+TFX)

215 Within months.
And the secondary effects will be massive. Not just cheap energy, but all sorts of businesses and manufacturing rushing to build here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Boom town.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (743lG)

216 Re the Communism Will Win hat

Yes
The only question that remains is just how many citizens need to be killed to win.
USSR Killed 5 Million Ukrainians or about 1 out of 7.
Pol Pot via Khmer Rouge killed almost 1 out of 3.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

217 President Trump has agreed to meet with New York City's new commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday in the Oval Office.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (RHGPo)

218 I'd like to book the Pretty Fart Smellers as the Club ONT house band. I bet they do great versions of Skynyrd's "That Smell" and Tool's "Stinkfist".
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Ltmlv)

Speaking of.....

Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.

Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?

I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

219 The Islamization Of The United States
_________
Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF)

No, there won't be.

All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni

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The difference between the US and the EU is the 2A.

There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G)

220 His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK)

you said rape twice

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

221 Politicians, today, are pretty much insulated from most adverse actions. Even criticism.

I find it hard to believe they'd be held accountable for 'insurrection' or anything else.

FWIW... this is a real problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (NwnyJ)

222 good morning JJ, Horde

A bunch of liberals / leftists recently protested in our small Texas town. Professionally printed signs, high percentage of AstroTurf.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (lKJou)

223 Lazy eyed commies on the front page.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (bss/y)

224 Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.

Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?

I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

225 Good morning everyone. Thx JJ.
Jobs report today for September is pretty good. The Dems are really having a bad week. Cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (bfwj/)

226 Pretty fart smeller… heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq)

I have my moments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

My kid tried that on me a few days ago. She bollixed it up and called me a "fellow" instead of "feller."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (uQesX)

227 President Trump has agreed to meet with New York City's new commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday in the Oval Office.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (RHGPo)

Why???????????

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (ZtAny)

228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)

229 Sure it is. They're already breaking all the old, shuttered plants out of moth balls. TMI is coming back online. Palisades is as well. Even Cali is considering more nukes.

They're testing small plants in south Texas as we speak. Biden actually approved that one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

I will be ecstatic to be proven wrong but...

- reopening old plants is a stop-gap
- test beds are a step in the right direction but they're unlikely to lead to additional construction for a while
- you still have to produce the fuel, and the moderator, and the control mechanisms, and the systems to turn the heat into power, and the safety systems, and the transmission systems... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

230 POLITICAL IDENTIFICATION
--------Democrat-----Republican---- Independent /
42%. 40% Other 17%

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (LWgbM)

231 We all have a right to a society that is not a cesspool of degeneracy. Rejecting it is not being uptight; it is being normal. I am not a libertarian. I am a conservative, and I would like to conserve at least a few elements of civilization.

==

Right on , Kurt!!

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (g47mK)

232 The only question that remains is just how many citizens need to be killed to win.

"But that wasn't REAL communism! Real communism will just be happily accepted because people are naturally selfless and care so much about others!"

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (RjOoY)

233 Houston local headline news: Argument between home delivery drivers leads to gunfire; woman shot.

I'm betting someone felt disrespected.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (wVcYX)

234 Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF)

No, there won't be.

All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni

Great Apostasy, anyone?

Posted by: Some old book at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (uQesX)

235 194 Canary in the coal mine.

>> Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy

https://tinyurl.com/4waajht7

Posted by: Marcus T
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Media is doing an excellent job of talking down the economy even though practically every part is 4xs better than with Biden.
This is also aided by Jerome Powell.'

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG)

236 I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny)

237 Good to see you. How is your wife doing?

Posted by: Braenyard"

Thanks for asking. She's holding up ok, but the testing is, well... rough. She nearly passed out after one blood draw of 13 (IIRC) vials, and the bone biopsy was, in a word, rough.
They're still assessing prior to making recommendations for treatment...

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

238 Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe

Bessie stop the farts ya know
Shes Dead Ivar
Well she stop the farts

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

239
Why???????????
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (ZtAny)

Trump is willing to negotiate with literally anyone and everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

240 "But that wasn't REAL communism! Real communism will just be happily accepted because people are naturally selfless and care so much about others!"
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (RjOoY)

Plus, we have to seize the means of production because selfish people will horde it!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (bss/y)

241 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

Sure, I used to operate one. Each one, of the smaller ones, requires a minimum of 20 trained operators - assuming that you're on land, the operators work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, with no vacations, or holidays, or sick time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

242 Nobody knows why, but he yanked the control rod at the SL-1 reactor all the way out in one fell swoop. It couldn’t have been too easy, it weighed about 100 pounds. This was a really bad idea however. I don’t know if he was a “teenager” but he was an Army private and basically in charge.

This too, seems like a really bad idea. Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors, in my opinion. And Adults do some really stupid things as well. They just think they know what they are doing, instead of the “hold muh beer, watch this!” which is also a recipe for disaster. The Soviets had some real doozies.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (hoi0O)

243 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (53oGX)

244 Ah. Spencer Rapone. I almost forgot about that little shitstain.

That was a big story, quickly forgotten. The dicklicking turd burglar had been recommended for expulsion by officers at West Point, who were overruled, and he was permitted to graduate because he was protected from on high.

Can't trust the officer corps anymore. Hegseth needs to purge it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

245 Unfortunately, even if we could get the personnel trained and the plants built, a leftist administration would stop everything.

That is the reason for so many industry deaths. The Left said no to natural gas, so no new pipelines, who will invest after Keystone XL?

The Left says No to modern shipyards so we are held at ransom every few years to stevedores who want each paycheck to look like Powerball lottery winnings.

The Left says No to IC engines, engineering schools evaporate for that tech, petrochem engineers students find some other course of study. Experienced engineers retire without the necessary knowledge transfer since there is no one to transfer it to.

Nuke plants shut down due to Japan's tsunami misfortune and Leftist propaganda. Who wants to be a buggy whip engineer?

Chinese and India students because their countries aren't suicidal as the West.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (nAS9C)

246 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)

It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

247 219
There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G)

Fathers can't risk being killed and not being there for their children.

And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (6Uni8)

248 Poll: 4 In 5 Americans Are ‘Concerned’ About Silicon Valley’s Unregulated Embryo-Screening Scheme

Gattaca was not an Instructional Film.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

249 Speaking of.....

Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.

Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?

I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, Skynyrd and Foreigner are just brands at this point. Essentially tribute bands with legal rights to the name.

I love me some tribute bands. But only at tribute band prices!

Speaking of which, I know you're not a fan, but I saw an outstanding Doors tribute band this past weekend. They played for 2 hours and went very deep into the catalog. First 10 songs included only 2 radio hits.

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Ltmlv)

250 The interesting trick playing out is the the left has given us a socialist economy (look what percent of the GDP the government at all levels spends) and then argues prices, shortages, and low wages are a consequence of...capitalism

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (sKqQm)

251 Russian Spy Ship Breached UK Waters, Aimed Lasers At Military Pilots, Britain Says

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

252 So Spenser Rapone (sp?) was kicked out of the military for his stupid stunt. Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job? The picture of him holding that hat will come up in search engine as will his removal from the military

Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Yl2Ob)

253 61 Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.

Interesting that this is no different than scam artist Sam Bankman-Fraud's little FTX scheme.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (BvPIe)

Watching Bloomberg News this morning, and I heard a report about Larry Summers' travails at Harvard (they're opening an internal investigation). They mention that he's been axed from OpenAI and Harvard, but there's no mention about his status at Bloomberg itself. He's currently a 'special economic correspondent' at their Wall Street Week broadcast.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (0CU3H)

254 Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.

Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?

I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

Going strong at 84!

Posted by: Mike Love, Grammy Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (wVcYX)

255 Gattaca was not an Instructional Film.

It seems most classic dystopian novels will become a blue print at some point.

Hell, Starmer and co are on a tear over in Britain...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

256 >>>- reopening old plants is a stop-gap
- test beds are a step in the right direction but...
- you still ... ... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
------------

new nic - Curmudgeon

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (743lG)

257 IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny)

The lead singer for Quiet Riot died and was replaced with a guy that was his age, or older. He attempts to do an impression of the original. He sucks at it. They need to just go away and remember what once was, as short as their time in the limelight was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

258 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m)

They heard on the street that you got the good stuff.

Posted by: dantesed at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

259 IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny)

And he's Lovin' Every Minute of It!

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Ltmlv)

260 228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.

lol those are rookie numbers. I have three that are my pets now essentially (mom and twins) and like 20 more in the forest here.

It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting.

not yet! traditionally the weekend after Thanksgiving here, but our idiot Gov opened the season a day early so my cousins are PISSED. no help with Tday dinner, guys are getting ready to go up Thursday night now!

thanks for helping, Josh!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (emBoF)

261 252 Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Yl2Ob)

Not the same last name. The carpet-munching soccer player is "Rapinoe", not "Rapone".

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (6Uni8)

262 London Luxury Home Prices Plunge As Wealthiest Flee Ahead Of Tax-Hikes

...“people are in a panic” about potential stamp duty changes, and “sitting tight” before the budget.

... How the Stamp Act Riots Laid the Groundwork for the Revolutionary War

The measure that imposed a tax on all printed materials inspired widespread outrage and even violence among the colonists.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

263 Sure, I used to operate one. Each one, of the smaller ones, requires a minimum of 20 trained operators - assuming that you're on land, the operators work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, with no vacations, or holidays, or sick time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

Dr. Ray Stantz: You it' just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself.
Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Well, no sense worrying about it now.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

264
Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM

fellow travelers, at least

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (tljrc)

265 Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?"

Yep. And that's why I don't go see them "in concert"...

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (XuXeR)

266 Where is that Communist West Point graduate now?

Spenser Rapone is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history, focusing on Modern Arab intellectual history. He is affiliated with both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (0CU3H)

267 Speaking of which, I know you're not a fan, but I saw an outstanding Doors tribute band this past weekend. They played for 2 hours and went very deep into the catalog. First 10 songs included only 2 radio hits.
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Ltmlv)

If they're doing that, more power to 'em.

Infinite Journey will play the hits, but there's a strong chance, unless you were a die hard Journey fan, they'll play a few you've not heard before and do a damn good job with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real And It's Driving Therapists Crazy

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

269
That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.
Posted by: Braenyard

Are you by chance, not hitting the red numeral next to the last comment? That refreshes the page, and loads everything posted after it without subjecting you to the hideousness of naked fat bastards on ottoman foot stools.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (QVmho)

270 Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM

Ok . Sorry

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (Yl2Ob)

271 257 They need to just go away and remember what once was, as short as their time in the limelight was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

It's not like they can make money any other way.

They don't have Engineering degrees.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (6Uni8)

272 So much for Trump not focusing on the economy. Wait until next year when BBB kicks in.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
2m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Experts SHOCKED as the United States adds stunning +119,000 THOUSAND JOBS - despite only +50,000 expected

>>Federal government -3,000 jobs.

>>WOW!

>>CNBC can HARDLY BELIEVE IT.

"Nonfarm payrolls up a ROBUST 119K! 119K is the best since April!"

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)

273 228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats!

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

274 Hell, Starmer and co are on a tear over in Britain...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

Seems to be based on a Mohammedan 1984.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

275
Not the same last name. The carpet-munching soccer player is "Rapinoe", not "Rapone".
Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM

This should not deter them both from being launched into the ocean via trebuchet to become shark shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

276 And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either.
Posted by: XTC

Then they'll get their heads cut off on their front lawn or in their living room.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (GxM4+)

277 Treasury Sanctions Ryan Wedding, Former Olympian Snowboarder Turned 'Cocaine Kingpin'

Wedding sits on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and is accused of operating a multi-ton cocaine trafficking operation that ...

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

278 Wealthy people have the least difficulty in moving generally.

Yes there are some people that have to work IN London and make a good salary but the "very rich" that are supposedly the targets of these new taxes will just leave because they can "work" from anywhere.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

279 fk Fox "News". It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (vFG9F)

280 Watching Bloomberg News this morning, and I heard a report about Larry Summers' travails at Harvard (they're opening an internal investigation). They mention that he's been axed from OpenAI and Harvard, but there's no mention about his status at Bloomberg itself. He's currently a 'special economic correspondent' at their Wall Street Week broadcast.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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All I want is
youtube.com/watch?v=ykKxDCo22qs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (743lG)

281 "Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"

They never seem to find the politicians accepting China money/hookers, or Qatar bribes, etc. They just want to find which conservatives might be "conspiring" with the Catholic Church, or fighting the "climate change" hoax, or doing anything against the DC Blob.

"Arctic Frost" was to impose a "chilling effect" on patriots everywhere, while actually prosecuting many front line conservatives. But the voter fraud brigades were a protected class.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (vbXSk)

282 On an average day, I can have 10 deer on my front lawn grazing and giving me dirty looks as if I'm harshing their mellow.

My backyard is essentially a forest creature gathering spot and social hang, where they shoot the shit until they wander off to forage and make more forest creatures.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XV/Pl)

283 Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny)

Hey! I have a thyroid issue...and a pasta issue...and cake.

Posted by: Fat Mike Reno, Eating For The Weekend at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (t5X2c)

284 Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"

And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised.

Steam explosions were once commonplace...

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

285 In the near Future there will be AI Cover Bands that cover the 80s, or maybe HipHop, or C and W.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

286 California Revokes 17,000 Illegal Alien CDLs After Sec. Duffy Threatens Fines

Meanwhile, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds calls for federal crackdown on sanctuary-state policies allowing illegal immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

287
Spenser Rapone is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history, focusing on Modern Arab intellectual history. He is affiliated with both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (0CU3H)

Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful.

He will be a muslham convert calling for jihad very soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

288 100 years ago deer, turkeys, and the rest walking through your yard was a free meal when getting a free meal with a big deal.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

289 256 >>>- reopening old plants is a stop-gap
- test beds are a step in the right direction but...
- you still ... ... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Texas oilfield has been used to training 20 year olds to do far more complicated stuff than that in 90 days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (/ZNPI)

290 228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

And the jugglers!

Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

291 >> Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG)

We would be foolish to ignore this. It’s come up in just about every poll- of which admittedly I am not a big fan. But like it or not that’s the perception. Trump has talked up what he’s doing, but as of yet it’s not translating down to a lot of people. That’s the danger in talking things up prematurely. While some prices are coming down (I believe) a lot of food companies have gotten used to inflated margins and don’t want to let go. They are hoping that wage growth picks up and people will eventually not notice. For example, in south Texas the wanted almost $4 for one artichoke. From California. For Pete’s sake I could almost throw one from there to here. It’s theft at this point and it’s choking the economy for average people.

As an aside, I believe we will see a nice rebound from the things Trump is doing. It looks like Q1-Q2 next year will get a decent bump unless Democrats decide to shut down the government on 30th July.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (pTr2w)

292 Our leaders do not yet fully understand, have not internalized, the Left and its intentions. The self-deceptive and sickly-sweet aroma of detente clings to their curtains.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (t+TFX)

293 I miss the times of "I wouldn't know, I've only killed communists."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

294 So simple a teenager can operate it!
——-

Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this.

Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O)

SL1 was not a production level reactor, and it was misoperated in a maintenance or testing mode by experienced operators without failsafes as exist in modern tested designs, if memory serves.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (dK+Kv)

295 Nobody knows why, but he yanked the control rod at the SL-1 reactor all the way out in one fell swoop. It couldn’t have been too easy, it weighed about 100 pounds. This was a really bad idea however. I don’t know if he was a “teenager” but he was an Army private and basically in charge.

They had drained the reactor for maintenance but they hadn't drained it all the way. It's theorized that he was removing the control rod and it became stuck. He pulled really hard to get it unstuck, the reactor power increased enough to flash the remaining water to steam and, as the control rod was unrestrained, it shot out of the reactor like a bullet.

We got a - brief - lecture on that and TMI at nuclear power school.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

296 Of course, hollow-eyed millennial and Gen Z fairies playing hide the sausage in their dormitory Fabian Clubs at West Point are the least of Hegseth's worries, when we have fat, woke pigs for flag officers, who brag about their espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in their cash-grab tell-all books.

He should make examples of Milley and other bigshots, as well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

297 it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH

so, you have to be careful with it

because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important?

In post-modernism, truth is relative. You are thinking in terms of a modern world. Read up on the "Line of Despair" from Francis Schaeffer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (PVBkQ)

298 *30th January 2026

Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (pTr2w)

299 281 "Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"

Add it to the list.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (t+TFX)

300 California Revokes 17,000 Illegal Alien CDLs After Sec. Duffy Threatens Fines

Which really does nothing with all of them actively driving 20,000 lb missiles with suspended licenses.......

California should be dismantled for this.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

301
In post-modernism, truth is relative. You are thinking in terms of a modern world. Read up on the "Line of Despair" from Francis Schaeffer.

Was it Kamala that said she preferred truth over facts?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (sKqQm)

302 Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job?

A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”

Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (RjOoY)

303 287 Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful.

He will be a muslham convert calling for jihad very soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a TON of lefties (rank and file lefties, not so much the ACELA power players) convert, as more and more of them decide that Islam is going to be "The Winning Side".

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (6Uni8)

304 Did anyone actually read the AI question?

"Significant advancements have been made in the fields of artificial intelligence and data collection, causing some to suggest that AI take a more influential role in society. Many Americans are unhappy with the effectiveness of federal and state government officials, agencies, and politicians. If AI continues to improve, would you support a proposal to take power away from most human lawmakers and instead give an advanced AI system the authority to control the majority of public policy decisions?"
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This is what's called a retarded leading headline generating question. Not worth a sniff of a pile of shit.

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (J/ft9)

305 Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"

And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised.

Steam explosions were once commonplace...
Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

There was a story I was reading... last month(?) talking about small modular nuclear... almost batteries being developed in Japan for use in remote areas. The idea is that in a lot of remote areas they currently use a diesel generator and they would replace them with the nukes. The story did not mention needing a lot of supervision (as you all mention with a standard reactor and steam generator.)

I think they were a molten salt design.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (bss/y)

306 new nic - Curmudgeon

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (743lG)

Better curmudgeon than sucker.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

307 It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting.

There are no states that do not allow hunting.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (zdLoL)

308 >>>Are you by chance, not hitting the red numeral next to the last comment? That refreshes the page, and loads everything posted after it without subjecting you to the hideousness of naked fat bastards on ottoman foot stools.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Can't do that when one makes a comment.
Regretfully.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (743lG)

309 “When the candidate for president [Trump] is saying that these people coming in [illegally] are murderers, rapists, thieves and all the rest of that. He made that a cultural issue….He said they were criminals. And they weren’t. They weren’t.

Do they like NanNan believe their own lie?

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

310 Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful.

that guy has some wealthy ass parents

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (emBoF)

311 Steam explosions were once commonplace...
Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

Commonplace because boiler manufacturing was shit and pressure control mechanisms were primitive.
With a few rare exceptions, almost all large power plants today uses steam conversion. (Solar uses photovoltaics)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (/ZNPI)

312 And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either."

As in Spain, the concept of "front lines" will be... fluid, at least.
Para Bellum. Ammo prices seem to be rather good right now...

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (XuXeR)

313 299 281 "Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"

Add it to the list.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (t+TFX)

I still find the Reichstag Fire of Jan 6 to be the crowning jewel of constitutional crisis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (bss/y)

314 311 Steam explosions were once commonplace...

lol philly still has those!

old boilers everywhere PLUS that under-the-street steam system is still operative

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (emBoF)

315 If they're doing that, more power to 'em.

Infinite Journey will play the hits, but there's a strong chance, unless you were a die hard Journey fan, they'll play a few you've not heard before and do a damn good job with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

As it should be!

I saw a Rush tribute band called Solar Federation. Very talented musicians and a female lead singer since not too many men can hit the high stuff Geddy did back in the 70s. Anyway, they went super deep into the catalog. They even played what I consider to be the ultimate Rush-nerds-only deep cut -- The Necromancer. It's a very obscure track from Caress of Steel that clocks in at 12 1/2 minutes.

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (Ltmlv)

316 @266 "modern intellectual Arab history". My thesis would be three words "there isn't any"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (bfwj/)

317 I see on LinkedIn there’s a profile for a Spenser Rapone who claims to be a PhD student at University of Chicago…. Prior to that University of Texas for 4 years. Profile picture definitely looks like the same guy… Qasid Arabic Institute as a study abroad fellow…. Commies and Arabic; shocking

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (+kWhq)

318 London Luxury Home Prices Plunge As Wealthiest Flee Ahead Of Tax-Hikes

...“people are in a panic” about potential stamp duty changes, and “sitting tight” before the budget.

Heh. Trump should buy billboard space all over London with a plain message:

"To our English cousins -

Do you get it now?"
- The Founding Fathers"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (uQesX)

319 291 >> Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG)

...Trump has talked up what he’s doing, but as of yet it’s not translating down to a lot of people. That’s the danger in talking things up prematurely. While some prices are coming down (I believe) a lot of food companies have gotten used to inflated margins and don’t want to let go. They are hoping that wage growth picks up and people will eventually not notice...

As an aside, I believe we will see a nice rebound from the things Trump is doing. It looks like Q1-Q2 next year will get a decent bump unless Democrats decide to shut down the government on 30th July.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (pTr2w)

I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (0CU3H)

320 Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job?

A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (RjOoY)

A little light reading?

Posted by: Airplane! at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

321 When the candidate for president [Trump] is saying that these people coming in [illegally] are murderers, rapists, thieves and all the rest of that/i]

All of them are breaking the law, by definition.

Most are committing various level of "non-violent" crime - welfare fraud, identity theft, etc

And about 1/3 of all violent crime comes from illegals so there are thousands of rapes, murders, and assaults that are allowed to occur because we don't deport all of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

322

All I can say without having to type and delete is God help the demographic if certain people ever get a cancer diagnosis

Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (g6TN6)

323 I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.

Jack, but he is medicated.

qdpsteve. I am not sure that is a compliment.

Piper, but it is her job to maintain a positive attitude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (bss/y)

324 290 228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw

Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

And the jugglers!
Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

and the mimes! don't forget about the mimes!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (0CU3H)

325 West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”

Just another unemployable shithead who will go into government or terrorism. But I repeat myself.

Posted by: Unit 4 +2 at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (t5X2c)

326 323 I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.

I do try but I'm more "salty"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (emBoF)

327 Fat Mike Reno, Eating For The Weekend at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (t5X2c)

You really turned yourself loose, didn't you?

Posted by: dantesed at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (Oy/m2)

328
"There's nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster."

-Dr Evil

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (AOsQT)

329 305 Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"

And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised.

Steam explosions were once commonplace...
Posted by: man
--------------

Whether it's nuclear, nat gas, or coal a new plant will require more people and those new jobs will require training. Having to train people to operate a new nuclear plant is part of positive productivity not a negative on growth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (743lG)

330 Commonplace because boiler manufacturing was shit and pressure control mechanisms were primitive."

True, but let's not forget operator error, either. Today's bunch are pretty damn sharp.

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

331 happy as s*** today bc things went well with work and tomorrow kids begin coming back home for Thanksgiving!!!!

today is sort of a respite with no meetings until 2pm and no deadlines until after the holiday

Im' feeling it! holidays are coming!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (emBoF)

332 329 Whether it's nuclear, nat gas, or coal a new plant will require more people and those new jobs will require training. Having to train people to operate a new nuclear plant is part of positive productivity not a negative on growth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (743lG)

Good luck finding any companies willing to train people.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (6Uni8)

333 Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

And the jugglers!
Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX)

and the mimes! don't forget about the mimes!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (0CU3H)

That is a line that has always bothered me (at the same time as being hilarious.) He says something like 'if we don't stay ahead of this we'll be up to our neck in crusty(?) jugglers.' I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (bss/y)

334 I am happy go lucky. Until I am crossed.

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (J/ft9)

335 >>Feds Don’t Move Against CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood, So Texas’ Abbott Does It Himself

Then they'll just rename, run out of the same offices with the same people and the same mailing address, just like ACORN and a hundred other orgs have done.

Problem not solved, again. Kicking the can down the road, until one day we realize too late we should have banned Islam.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (wPw5l)

336 Im' feeling it! holidays are coming!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (emBoF)

Congrats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (bss/y)

337 100 years ago deer, turkeys, and the rest walking through your yard

100 years ago, deer and turkey were virtually extinct.
The closing of hay farms after the automobile caught on was the salvation of the white tailed deer. Eastern turkeys were replaced by hunters with other breeds, mostly from Missouri. Big project.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (zdLoL)

338 In its annual "Trouble in Toyland" report, U.S. PIRG said, "In our testing, it was obvious that some toy companies are putting in guardrails to make their toys behave in a more kid-appropriate way than the chatbots available for adults. But we found those guardrails vary in effectiveness – and at times, can break down entirely. One toy in our testing would discuss very adult sexual topics with us at length while introducing new ideas we had not brought up – most of which are not fit to print."

One of the four A.I. toys U.S. PIRG tested this year always listens, even when not in use, and some use recordings of a child's voice, which comes with risks. In 2023, scammers used similar recordings to create a replica of a child's voice and tricked a mother into thinking her child had been kidnapped.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

339 A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Posted by: NR Pax

What is that? A 60 second chit-chat with the guy standing next to you at a urinal??

(Which we all know breaks multiple rules enumerated in the Man's Manual)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/)

340 Good luck finding any companies willing to train people."

Hey, that's our jam!

/Griggs

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

341 Good luck finding any companies willing to train people.

they exist (one of my current clients)

and anchoring manufacturing IS happening, thank God

PA has stuff actually going on energy wise and manufacturing wise, amazingly

as long as things stay mostly settled ... we're in a good swing. it will take time and the govt workers will whine the whole time

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (emBoF)

342 at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”

Aren't Muslims famous for burning down libraries?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (pawvM)

343 anchoring?!?! Jesus autocorrect. ON-SHORING manufacturing!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (emBoF)

344 That is a line that has always bothered me (at the same time as being hilarious.) He says something like 'if we don't stay ahead of this we'll be up to our neck in crusty(?) jugglers.' I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (bss/y)

I think it originated with the jugglers and after they were "suppressed" the lone street mime character moved in.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (wVcYX)

345 The Who sucks.

Posted by: Bob at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (YiqZD)

346 They even played what I consider to be the ultimate Rush-nerds-only deep cut -- The Necromancer. It's a very obscure track from Caress of Steel that clocks in at 12 1/2 minutes.

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (Ltmlv)

lol

That was my kids introduction to Rush.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (dK+Kv)

347 (Which we all know breaks multiple rules enumerated in the Man's Manual)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/)

THIS!

I had a buddy who would do that though. He'd just try to annoy the fuck out of you by picking the urinal next to you and going 'Hey. How's it going?' Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (bss/y)

348 It occurs to me that some people may be misunderstanding seemingly negative comments towards nuclear power...

I am, unequivocally, in favor of expanded nuclear power in the US. I am in favor of work on molten-salt reactors. I am in favor of testing on pebble-bed reactors.

I am in favor of the government approving 1-2 standard designs to be built out rather than having every plant be slightly different than every other plant. I am in favor of removing any laws/regulations forbidding the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. I am in favor of making our "nuclear waste" regulations sane.

I just don't expect that a significant percentage of the US electric grid will be powered by nuclear in the next ten years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

349 At ZH: "Tea And Cocoa May Offset Health Risks Of Excessive Sitting"

Simply sprinkle one cup each of tea and cocoa on your chairs every morning, and you'll be sitting pretty. One genius trick for healthful sedentism that even your doctor won't tell you!

Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (4kcNT)

350 >>>I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down.
Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (743lG)

351 I do try but I'm more "salty"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (emBoF)

I would say more earthy or unvarnished

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (J/ft9)

352 100 years ago, deer and turkey were virtually extinct."

Not common even 50 years ago. Dad's old hometown paper would publish each deer kill weekly... and folks would gather 'round just to check out a fresh kill (WV, back in the day)

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

353 There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G)

Fathers can't risk being killed and not being there for their children.

And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either.

Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (6Uni

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If you think so.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (3447G)

354 Today is National Peanut Butter Fudge Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

355 The Necromancer is my favorite Rush track.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (wPw5l)

356 Silence shrouds the forest
As the birds announce the dawn
Three travelers ford the river
And southward journey on

Whatchoo talkin’ about “obscure”, Willis? Haven’t listened to that in 30 years or more.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (hoi0O)

357 350 >>>I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down.
Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (743lG)

I should have thought of Powell from this perspective, but I hadn't considered it. I think you're absolutely correct on this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (0CU3H)

358 Someone described deer as "rats with hooves". While they may be good eating, they're destructive as hell

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (bfwj/)

359 Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now.

dude is out in may either way

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (emBoF)

360 It's also...
Transgender Remembrance Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

361 Texas oilfield has been used to training 20 year olds to do far more complicated stuff than that in 90 days.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (/ZNPI)

Do you think that operating a nuclear reactor is uncomplicated? Or do you believe that knowing not much and trusting the instrumentation is wise? Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

362 Transgender Remembrance Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Also known as Everyfuckingday

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (J/ft9)

363 "Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down."

Volcker kept interest rates high, not low.

Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (4kcNT)

364 > I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
----

I would characterize myself as not fun

Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (AOsQT)

365 I had a buddy who would do that though. He'd just try to annoy the fuck out of you by picking the urinal next to you and going 'Hey. How's it going?' Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (bss/y)

Thats when your body and junk to face him and say "oops, sorry! you startled me!" as he flees.

Posted by: Pee On The Bastard at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (t5X2c)

366 Broken record, but i do get upset when there are over 50 court vacancies, and the GOP Senate does not have a vote on them for 2 weeks. And now Thanksgiving Break. frustrating

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

367 Problem not solved, again. Kicking the can down the road, until one day we realize too late we should have banned Islam.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (wPw5l)

Performative half-measures with no follow through. It will come down to a new crusade. Either that or we'll just sink into abject compliance.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (t+TFX)

368 359 Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now.

dude is out in may either way
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (emBoF)

If he stays with his current influence until May (he could stay on as a Fed member past then, even if not chair), that could be too late to help Trump. Trump's plan needs to see real gains by then to help Republicans in the midterms.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (0CU3H)

369 And it's Joe Biden's birthday.
He turns 83.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

370 Installing Win11 on a new Thinkpad.

Do I need to be added to the HQ prayer list?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (3447G)

371 One toy in our testing would discuss very adult sexual topics with us at length while introducing new ideas we had not brought up – most of which are not fit to print."

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

Teddy Nice Dick Ruxpin

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

372 Volcker kept interest rates high, not low.

yep and honestly ... while I do think Powell is being an asshat, I'm not fully against not putting rates back at 0 or crazy low.

it's painful I get that

but ... it might be good medicine anyway

too many people I know are like "I can't want for low rates to refi and do XYZ"' well guys you're old, like me. you don't need more mortgage / loan costs, my dudes.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (emBoF)

373 Again, retarded. Don't look at poll results and whatever you do, never believe a headline:

"give an advanced AI system the authority to control all of the world’s largest militaries, with the express purpose of reducing the number of people who die from war"

That wording is called trying to achieve a result and they did.

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (J/ft9)

374 Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Not for me it's not and not for anyone else except for the leftists who design a remembrance for everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (Yl2Ob)

375 CROW: As a military officer, I think what is important is that we train people…We prepare people for challenges coming down the pike…

MACCALLUM: What specific order from the commander-in-chief that we are asking our military to carry out are you objecting to? This is very, very vague.

No one could figure out what you were talking about, honestly.

CROW: Martha, Donald Trump has made a series of disturbing comments and suggestions that would violate U.S. Law and put our military in a terrible position.

MACCALLUM: We are getting nowhere because you are not talking about an order.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

376 My theory was, the Great Depression wasn’t so great. Meat on the hoof in rural areas didn’t last long. Shortages in meat would have lasted into the 1940s, easy. Rationing. Basically the Deer population was wiped out.

Even into the 1970s seeing Deer was cause for comment. “Wow!”. Population took a long time to rebound. Now they are a pest, more or less. Beautiful creatures, and tasty too.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (hoi0O)

377 Holiday Lunch today at the CPA firm. It's definitely worth a shower-n-shave and drive in to town.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (wVcYX)

378 Experts wrong again.

>>@RapidResponse47
·
12m
.
>>@MariaBartiromo
: "To me, this looks like a very strong report."

>>@StephenMoore
: "I agree... We're seeing huge investment numbers... we have great consumer spending numbers... I am very happy about this report, and I think investors should be, too."

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (viF8m)

379 The Who sucks is a spicy take but I agree. One great album, Quadrophenia. OK, it's a double album but it's one title so one album.

Other than that they had some great songs here and there (many not even on albums) but no great albums. Lots of shite and an absurd number of unfunny comedy songs.

Tommy is one of the most overrated albums ever released.

Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.

Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (NhiOW)

380 357. Reagan did keep the Senate in 1982, as Trump did in 2018 (Gained Seats).

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

381 Democrat Stacey Plaskett has doubled down on her Epstein collusion in a cringe inducing CNN interview, shrugging off his known sex offender status and sparking outrage as the Epstein files bill clears the Senate ...
...
The CNN anchor pressed, “At the time, he was a known sex offender…” prompting Plaskett to respond “A lot of people have done a lot of crimes!”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (743lG)

382 lol

That was my kids introduction to Rush.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (dK+Kv)
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The Necromancer is my favorite Rush track.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (wPw5l)

These are my people!

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (Ltmlv)

383 I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
----

I would characterize myself as not fun
Posted by: Don Black

My wife once said I'm the nicest asshole one could meet. She explained that people get the version of me they deserve.

She gets me!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (cYBz/)

384 One of the chief benefits of attaining great age and experience is the curmudgeonliness of it. Being able to yell "Get off my lawn!" to the young whippersnappers is liberating. I soak in it, live for it, try to enhance it. Living for a long time in a doomed, dying world, it is the natural conclusion. Embrace it!

Posted by: Mr. Grouch at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)

385 California should be dismantled for this.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

The list of issues which could be used in place of 'this' is pretty long.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

386 The Rush covers album is good, particularly Mr. Soul and The Seeker.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (XvL8K)

387 Attorney Clevenger Demands FBI Demand Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe Turn Over “Any and All Efforts to Hide Records on Seth Rich”

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

388 363 "Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down."

Volcker kept interest rates high, not low.
Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (4kcNT)

This is a different problem now. Volcker had to tackle runaway inflation. Trump needs to reshore business and jump-start American jobs. Trump needs to artificially juice the economy to bridge the gap between now and a US-domiciled manufacturing economy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (0CU3H)

389 This is a really interesting tweet linked over at Insty:

https://tinyurl.com/wf9r4fmh

About a judge in the Hague who has authorized a lot of warrants against Israelis and others and how he has been personally sanctioned by us and he cannot easily engage in modern life.

I actually agree with the sentiments of the tweet. It is Kafkaesque that our censoring him completely destroys his life. At the same time, he chose this path because he believed that he had authority that he does in fact not have. He chose to make pronouncements and 'Europe' has not fucking power to actually do a fucking thing to protect him, so what in fact do his arrest warrants mean? Not a fucking thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (bss/y)

390 380 357. Reagan did keep the Senate in 1982, as Trump did in 2018 (Gained Seats).
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

Reagan did keep the senate, but lost 20+ seats in the House. Trump can't afford to lose anything.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (0CU3H)

391 Wanted terrorist in Uzbekistan was driving an 18-wheeler in Pennsylvania

Thanx Governor Shapiro

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

392 You can wipe your ass with these polls. It’s all whatever is trendy or faddish, especially if there’s an element of fake “edge” to it. Socialism, furries, cannibalism, whatevs. Take a poll of these immature retards and you’ll see 50% support for creating the torment nexus. It’s just hot air.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Kw4hI)

393 I'm not particularly curmudgeonly. I just have some Seasonal Affective Disorder going on at the moment and that will pass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

394 Do you think that operating a nuclear reactor is uncomplicated? Or do you believe that knowing not much and trusting the instrumentation is wise? Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Most old designs aka pressurized water/steam, are active and those systems are the primary problem. New systems use molten salts and are passive at low pressures. So when the control rods are pulled, the reaction stops and the molten salts cool without the possibility of core melting via overheating as the molten salts freezing point is far above water and pressures minimal.

We've known how to do this since the 60's as well as Thorium reactors and nuclear reprocessing of waste. We have just lacked the will to do it.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (WDjG6)

395 389. that Judge is a Muslim

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

396 Installing Win11 on a new Thinkpad.

Do I need to be added to the HQ prayer list?"

Make sure your squirrels and hamsters are at 100% operating capacity...

Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

397 Lots of parallels to Reagan/Vockler, but as noted they needed skyhigh rates to crush skyhigh inflation. We don't have that today.

Instead, Trump is trying to reverse decades of bad trade policy that favored the few and f*cked the many.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (dtajH)

398 Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker

Ummmm - interesting choice of words for Pete there - "Beat's the pants off. . . . "

Rough Boys indeed.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (cYBz/)

399 Nobody can pull a Tall Paul Volcker and raise interest rates to meaningful levels. They painted themselves in a corner 25 or 35 years ago. All of the government debt rolls over every 4 years. 18% interest rates would cause the government to go “TILT”. They can save the markets, or save the dollar. They can’t save both.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (hoi0O)

400 Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

401 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (9ipOP)

402 Violence in Germany has long been tied to mass immigration, ... 50% increase at train stations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (743lG)

403 395 389. that Judge is a Muslim
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk)

Yeah, like I said. I agree with the general sentiment, but at the same time, this is a useful object lesson.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (bss/y)

404

A thorium pebble bed reactor in every neighborhood!

(And yes, I'd have one in my backyard if it meant free electricity)

Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (g6TN6)

405 I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.

Jack, but he is medicated.

qdpsteve. I am not sure that is a compliment.

Piper, but it is her job to maintain a positive attitude.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (bss/y)

Wow. Two of those three don't deserve to be mentioned with the other.

Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (Ltmlv)

406 400 Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico

that's hilarious

also funny - Pence was on some panel and literally looked like he just rolled out of bed - terrible fit and sloppy looking

I hope they are both miserable drunks frankly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (emBoF)

407 Maybe Totally Legalizing Vice Was Not Such a Great Idea After All

====
Let's not be hasty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (9ipOP)

408 Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker
_______

Seriously? Who's Next? C'mon.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (XvL8K)

409 Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

Perhaps he should be red-flagged.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX)

410 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (J/ft9)

411 I believe I point that out, Doof.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (bss/y)

412 410 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house

thank you three dots!

we should never forget that OBVIOUS bit of treason, orchestrated by Paul Ryan.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF)

413 Crenshaw laughed at a joke told by one of their Mexican hosts. The fact that the joke itself hasn't been specified makes me go hmmmm.

Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (NhiOW)

414 Can't compare Volker economy to what we have now. Apples and oranges.

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (g47mK)

415 Republicans go after Veteran Crenshaw, but then give a pass to Plaskett and other Dem traitors in the House

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (YCxFk)

416 Russian spy ship, Yantar is positioned just off U.K. waters north of Scotland.

The UK military scrambled aerial assets in response, including Royal Air Force jets as well as a naval frigate, in order to "track and monitor the vessel," during which time "the Yantar directed lasers at our pilots."
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Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (743lG)

417 At the same time, he chose this path because he believed that he had authority that he does in fact not have. He chose to make pronouncements and 'Europe' has not fucking power to actually do a fucking thing to protect him, so what in fact do his arrest warrants mean? Not a fucking thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
======
Same sob story as a UN female rep doing the same shit. And the very attempts by the ICC to enforce its rulings by the very international law that they are claiming as authority does not apply to Israel nor the US. Neither have ratified the ICC treaty applying to themselves so the ICC legally speaking has no authority over them.

Instead, the new intl crowd are trying to upvote traditions and customs as justification to apply their rules to non signatory states. That has never been the understanding on conventional international law which require treaty accession or at the very least, acquiescence by a state.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (WDjG6)

418 The War On Men Is A War On Truth

I think this is Petersons ideas about having some degree of disagreement.
A person with a temperament of disagreement benefits the team or organization as old rules as well as new rules tend to be challenged.

Women tend to follow along.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

419 I’m not curmudgeonly. I just don’t give a fuck.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (Kw4hI)

420 Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to?

something stinks up in the UK

it's Globalism Central

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (emBoF)

421 Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (WDjG6)

Hey!

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (J/ft9)

422 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
Posted by: ...

I'm on it!!
-- Paul Ryan

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (cYBz/)

423 Race War 2025 Update:

- White girl on Chicago CTA train set on fire by 49-time black felon; critical condition. No one rendered aid.
- White brothers in Washington hunted down and killed by black assailant; claims "mistaken identity"

Coincides with Michelle Obama's inflammatory statement "whites used to kill blacks for wearing the wrong clothes."

Abortion saves lives. Fund Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (qwx/I)

424 At Breitbart: "Today has been officially declared World Toilet Day by the United Nations"

Today would be a good day to hug your toilet.

Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (4kcNT)

425 What were once vices are now habits.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (viF8m)

426 Stephen Miller: Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection

Mark Kelly: I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t.

Miller needs to dial that shit down, or just fucking step down. Even he knows the Democrats are not calling for an "insurrection". Scumbag.

Laura Loomer: I'm going to say it. The GOP has a Nazi problem. And the more we pretend we don't, the worse it's going to get.

Isn't Loomer one if the main Nazis? And Miller is softer than kitten shit. The little bitch moved out of his multimillion dollar house onto a military base because of *checks notes* messages on a sidewalk written in chalk

Insurrection = Hurt Orange Man Feelings

Honestly Kelly for all his faults I think is the best chance the Democrats have for the Presidency in '28.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

427 Who's Next?

Won't get Fooled Again - classic. Baba O'Reilly, classic until that borefest interminable violin coda that makes you forget the good song that came before it.

The rest of it, meh to bad.

My Wife blows. Bargain blows. Going mobile, barely tolerable.

Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (NhiOW)

428 That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
====

Fvck him. Fvck Europe. You're welcome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (9ipOP)

429 410 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (J/ft9)

Again (and I think I have mentioned this about every poll and bs thing for the past fucking 15 years on this blog): It always feels like a whisper campaign. Kamala is ahead of Trump! Hilary is inevitable!

Even setting aside 2020 when the polls did not matter and it was an obvious steal, HOW DOES A POLL CHANGE HOW YOU WOULD VOTE?! IF YOU STAYED HOME IN A RUNNOFF BETWEEN STALIN AND JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE STALIN WAS AHEAD IN THE 'POLLS' THEN YOU FUCKING DESERVE TO GET PURGED.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (bss/y)

430 Whatever happened to Jeff Flake? He and Mitt Romney and Dan Crenshaw should start a club… maybe invite Liz Cheney to join….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (+kWhq)

431 yes good morning whig!!!

and everyone!

sorry I'm giddy I actually got sleep last night lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (emBoF)

432 The CNN anchor pressed, “At the time, he was a known sex offender…” prompting Plaskett to respond “A lot of people have done a lot of crimes!”

We tend to project on to others the only world we know.

Plaskett must be really deep in the criminal world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (rgGn5)

433 Can't compare Volker economy to what we have now. Apples and oranges.
——

Well right, it’s several orders of magnitude worse. Apples and aircraft carriers.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (hoi0O)

434 The War On Men Is A War On Truth

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

Not as such. It's not that men are honest it's that women are more likely to believe lies.

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (J/ft9)

435 410. Well said. Ted Cruz better hope that his Judge pick in Texas, gets shot down by the SCOTUS on redistricting.

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (YCxFk)

436 For example, we were under oil embargo, that caused a lot of inflationary pain. Today Trump oil cheap, there is no inflationary pain from high oil prices ! Volker basically pushed the economy into recession category, to make the paint stop. We don't have to do it now!

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (g47mK)

437 NEWS UPDATE:

Houston local headline news: Argument between home delivery drivers leads to gunfire; woman shot.

I'm betting someone felt disrespected.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Police learned there had been some sort of argument between the woman and another delivery driver. During the argument, ... both drivers pulled out handguns and fired at each other.

Names of the suspects were conspicuously absent from the news clip.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

438 Oh yeah, to my fellow Catholics: the Pope just had a sit down with JB Pritzker, who declared Illinois to be an abortion enclave.

So if the Pope is good with abortion, so am I. It's the most effective means of population control since we cannot lock up criminals.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I)

439 Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (emBoF)

Congratulations and I hope you get some sleep tonight. Can you attribute it to anything?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (Yl2Ob)

440 The song Slit Skirts alone makes All the Best Cowboys ... a great album

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (bfwj/)

441 393 I'm not particularly curmudgeonly. I just have some Seasonal Affective Disorder going on at the moment and that will pass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yeah, when you're outside at 2 PM and the low angle of the sun makes it seem like it's dusk already, it can be depressing.

Posted by: Mr. Grouch's Bad Day at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (oftw2)

442 The Vindmans have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (QZThv)

443 Congratulations and I hope you get some sleep tonight. Can you attribute it to anything?

successful (early) product launch yesterday!

now today (when launch was supposed to happen) is a bonus day!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (emBoF)

444 Isn't Loomer one if the main Nazis? And Miller is softer than kitten shit. The little bitch moved out of his multimillion dollar house onto a military base because of *checks notes* messages on a sidewalk written in chalk

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz)

I believe there was an actual bounty on Miller.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

445
"Veteran Crenshaw"

One's past service does not insulate one's current behavior.

This reminds me of an article I saw yesterday about DeSantis signing execution warrants for veterans who murdered, criticizing him for doing so with him being a veteran himself. Big fucking deal, when people murder and rape, sometimes at the same time, they deserve to die. Doesn't really matter if they are a veteran or even a combat veteran. Killing a defenseless woman or children is and should be a ticket to the great beyond

Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (g6TN6)

446 426. Is this a parody, or are you a Kos Kid?

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk)

447 yep and honestly ... while I do think Powell is being an asshat, I'm not fully against not putting rates back at 0 or crazy low.

it's painful I get that

but ... it might be good medicine anyway

too many people I know are like "I can't want for low rates to refi and do XYZ"' well guys you're old, like me. you don't need more mortgage / loan costs, my dudes.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (emBoF)

The problem is that previous administrations refinanced the debt on short term notes so they have to be re-upped at the higher rates so even more tax dollars are going to bankers even without additional excessive spending. If rates were lowered, the debt could be refinanced with longer bonds... assuming people bought them

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

448 442 The Vindmans have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

diabetes, you work too slow

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (emBoF)

449 The Nation:

Within 24 hours of arriving in San Miguel de Allende, Karen decided to permanently leave the United States and become one of the many recent US immigrants to Mexico.

Four months before visiting the city, the 55-year-old had been terminated as part of the Trump administration’s January 20 executive order suspending the US Refugee Admissions Program. Karen, who asked me not to use her full name because of her current immigration status, says through a haze of tears, “It’s hard to explain the compound grief involved in seeing a sector that did nothing but good just destroyed,” adding that much of her work involved the prevention of sexual exploitation.

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

450 408 Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker
_______

Seriously? Who's Next? C'mon.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Depends on what you are looking for--All the Best Cowboys dwells with the human condition just like Who By Numbers or Quadrophenia.

Who's Next is more like Tommy in making broad social commentary (and Who's Next was a botched two record concept album where Glyn Johns boiled the huge number of Lifehouse songs down to a single album. Pete suffered a nervous breakdown over it. Who's Next and Tommy are classic stadium hard rock but increasingly Pete's concerns after the Life House experiment failed turned inward rather than outward.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (WDjG6)

451 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I)

I don't think the Pope good with it. I think he sits down with a lot of people because that's part of his job, not because he agrees with all their stances.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (Yl2Ob)

452 Curmudgeon song:

"I was a young boy that had big plans
Now I'm just another shitty old man
I don't have fun, and I hate everything
The world owes me, so fuck you
Glory days don't mean shit to me
I drank a six-pack of apathy
Life's a bitch, and so am I
The world owes me, so fuck you"

Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (4kcNT)

453 442 The Vindmans, while at the Bear Claw Shop, have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (QZThv)

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)

454 @416 the Russians must be having a fun time trying to figure out what the hell the Scots are saying

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (bfwj/)

455 >>>Instead, Trump is trying to reverse decades of bad trade policy that favored the few and f*cked the many.
Posted by: Ignoramus
------------

A cut in interest rates will help small businesses which are the main creators of new jobs and it will boost overall construction and new home building that is necessary for the housing market.
Jerome Powell is strangling it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (743lG)

456 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials

“Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa

Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

457 ICE Has Found 30,000 of The Estimated 450,000 Migrant Children Who Were Trafficked Under Biden

Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

458
Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

If the trainers were a bunch of angry Navy Sr. Chiefs, and the graduating certification authority was a sleep deprived, pissed off Navy Master Chief...yes. yes, i would want one next door to my house.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (QVmho)

459 Coincides with Michelle Obama's inflammatory statement "whites used to kill blacks for wearing the wrong clothes."
-------

Like I said the other day - yet the Left wants people to believe "reparations" is a viable solution for anything.

The yoctosecond the checks get cashed, it'll be "money can't make up for bloodshed" and "that was our money to begin with, whites still haven't given us shit".

Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (J/ft9)

460 "I was a young boy that had big plans
Now I'm just another shitty old man
I don't have fun, and I hate everything
The world owes me, so fuck you
Glory days don't mean shit to me
I drank a six-pack of apathy
Life's a bitch, and so am I
The world owes me, so fuck you"
Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (4kcNT)

great tune
easy to dance to
a 79

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (gbOdA)

461 438. Yes, many in Illinois are upset with the pope over this.

He wants $$$ from Pritzker to fund Catholic schools in the state, and is willing to sacrifice the abortion issue

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (YCxFk)

462 Transgender Remembrance Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Who is that again? I don't remember.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

463 Hack on us all you want but boomers remain the undefeated champions of music.

https://tinyurl.com/4zndz6af

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (viF8m)

464 If it has already been said, it needs to be said again. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: Gary at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (j3Fsw)

465
He wants $$$ from Pritzker to fund Catholic schools in the state, and is willing to sacrifice the abortion issue
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (YCxFk)

And United States sovereignty, it seems.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

466 >Not as such. It's not that men are honest it's that women are more likely to believe lies.
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."

Posted by: George Orwell at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F)

467 >>> 446 426. Is this a parody, or are you a Kos Kid?
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk)

The nic is a clue...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (ULPxl)

468 Monopolies is another example, right? But we don't need to break them up to "breakup of monopolies to spur competition" and put downward pressure on prices. Trump is kinda doing that with tariffs, no? We were being crushed by GLOBAL monopolies like the EU and China, he made the US more competitive. Powell needs to go.

Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (g47mK)

469

Oh yeah, to my fellow Catholics: the Pope just had a sit down with JB Pritzker, who declared Illinois to be an abortion enclave.

So if the Pope is good with abortion, so am I. It's the most effective means of population control since we cannot lock up criminals.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Losing $3 billion in funding from the dismantling of USAID goes a long way to papering over Fatty JB's satanic beliefs

Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (g6TN6)

470 454 @416 the Russians must be having a fun time trying to figure out what the hell the Scots are saying
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (bfwj/)

Like Scotty and Chekov arguing

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

471 456. Red, where the F are the GOP combat veterans in Congress, to respond to Slotkin?

Quiet as mouses

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (YCxFk)

472 The problem is that previous administrations refinanced the debt on short term notes so they have to be re-upped at the higher rates so even more tax dollars are going to bankers even without additional excessive spending. If rates were lowered, the debt could be refinanced with longer bonds... assuming people bought them
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Yes, tis true. And Yellen by doing that is responsible for about 150-200 billion increase in the deficit from higher interest costs because of it. Yellen and the Biden admin moved to using short term T bills and notes less than 5 yrs instead of the more traditional 10 to 30 yr bonds.

Want to cut 10 percent of the deficit--voila-refinance Yellen's short term notes at long term lower rates as in about 1 percentage point lower.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (WDjG6)

473 >>> 456 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials

“Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

The MI bint is the "former intel officer" wearing the leather jacket, correct? Now *there* is a punchable face.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (ULPxl)

474 @EricLDaugh
BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials

“Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

475 426. My bad. need more coffee

Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (YCxFk)

476 446 426. Is this a parody, or are you a Kos Kid?
Posted by: Jonah

I try to bring the stupidest Lefty talking points related to the discussion for us to point and laugh at. Or be depressed at the direction half the country is trying to drag us.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 20, 2025 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

477 456. Red, where the F are the GOP combat veterans in Congress, to respond to Slotkin?

Quiet as mouses
Posted by: Jonah
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Trump did a hostile takeover of GOPe and most of the veteran GOP types are like Ole One Eye Crenshaw or Fake Valor human creep Corey Mills.

Songbird McCain was a 'vet' too as was Duke Cunningham. Virtue in putting on a uniform to protect the nation does not mean virtuous in life nor politics. And I am a vet and come from a line of vets from different services.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:23 AM (WDjG6)

478 Most old designs aka pressurized water/steam, are active and those systems are the primary problem. New systems use molten salts and are passive at low pressures.

Molten salt reactors are, inherently, safer.

However, insofar as I am aware, molten salt reactors still have to boil water and produce steam in order to be useful. I haven't seen any articles on systems which produce electricity directly from the reaction. And that means a steam plant to run a turbine to spin a generator.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

479 So if the Pope is good with abortion, so am I. It's the most effective means of population control since we cannot lock up criminals.

Rome lost its moral and spiritual authority when the Apostle Peter died.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (rgGn5)

480 Morning. Morning.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (17l0u)

481 Love, love, love the Vindmans.

Wanna see our new boat?

Posted by: Bear Claws R Us at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (XQo4F)

482 >>> 475 426. My bad. need more coffee
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (YCxFk)

No such thing as too much coffee. In fact *I* might have to refill.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (ULPxl)

483 What if you asked AI to design an AI?

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM

"We said, "don't divide by zero" didn't we? But you just had to do it, didn't you? We warned you that bad things would happen but you just wouldn't listen and now look what you've done. We hope your satisfied!"~

~Elementary school math books

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (2J/Lj)

484 Morning. Morning.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (17l0u)

There's more than two of us.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

485 No such thing as too much coffee. In fact *I* might have to refill.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (ULPxl)

The 3AM thunderstorm kept me up a bit. I may need to partake in more as well.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

486 484 Morning. Morning.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (17l0u)

There's more than two of us.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1

Yall can share

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:25 AM (17l0u)

487 Plaskett must be really deep in the criminal world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM

About five years ago I had a job offer in the USVI that I was seriously considering. I knew there was likely a good deal of corruption there because of it being run by democrats, but I was not aware of was the level of corruption there. Because no one pays attention to the USVI, they get away with a lot.

Posted by: Bert G at November 20, 2025 09:25 AM (VARTN)

488 Karen, who asked me not to use her full name because of her current immigration status, says through a haze of tears, “It’s hard to explain the compound grief involved in seeing a sector that did nothing but good just destroyed,” adding that much of her work involved the prevention of sexual exploitation.
Posted by: SMOD
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My guess is that she coordinated with cartels to bring in victims for sex trafficking here under the guise of 'helping them'.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:25 AM (WDjG6)

489 " "Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down." Volcker kept interest rates high, not low."

Trump's Plan is clearly to inflate his way out of massive debt. There could be some cuts as well, but only by continuing the Inflation Phase could he possible control the Debt Monster.

So the rich get richer as trust fund babies watch their fortunes soar, and more middle class get richer by feeding their paychecks into the Free Money Machine of our inflated markets. But the (reciprocal) tariffs can certainly offset a lot of the unfairness from other countries that protected their own markets.

I'm wondering how illegals are factored into job market numbers. If we deport 20% of the working illegals, do Americans get those jobs, or were those jobs never counted in the first place, so they become "New Jobs"?

Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (vbXSk)

490 (And yes, I'd have one in my backyard if it meant free electricity)
Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (g6TN6)

It wouldn't be free. You'd have to pay for the facilities, and the operators, and the maintenance. Given the number of operators / maintenance workers required to deal with thousands of small, modular reactors, it might cost more than it does today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

491 However, insofar as I am aware, molten salt reactors still have to boil water and produce steam in order to be useful. I haven't seen any articles on systems which produce electricity directly from the reaction. And that means a steam plant to run a turbine to spin a generator.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

same as gas, oil or coal
I would think there are 100X the number pf people with that experience.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

492 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (XQo4F)

493
"We said, "don't divide by zero" didn't we? But you just had to do it, didn't you? We warned you that bad things would happen but you just wouldn't listen and now look what you've done. We hope your satisfied!"~

~Elementary school math books
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 20, 2025 09:24 AM (2J/Lj)

*opcode trap*

*processor overheats*

*fire suppression system activates*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

494 "It's the most effective means of population control"

Be patient. We're working on it.

Posted by: Bioweaponeers at November 20, 2025 09:26 AM (4kcNT)

495 >>> 199 183 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F)

After 9/11 we should have built 100s on leased them to local power companies.
Put them on existing bases so pretty secure too.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

>>> 458
Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

If the trainers were a bunch of angry Navy Sr. Chiefs, and the graduating certification authority was a sleep deprived, pissed off Navy Master Chief...yes. yes, i would want one next door to my house.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (QVmho)

+++++

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (ULPxl)

496 A Jeffry Epstein or The Jeffry Epstein?

Our congress critters are something else.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (17l0u)

497 Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (743lG)

Next generation tactical haggis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

498

And the "combat vet" pedestal is funny given the picture that starts this thread. Rapinoe would have been a combat vet, and still an avowed commie. Just like the traitors in the Dem ad

Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (g6TN6)

499
Yall can share
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 20, 2025 09:25 AM (17l0u)

"Don't bogart that Morning...my friends......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

500 About five years ago I had a job offer in the USVI that I was seriously considering. I knew there was likely a good deal of corruption there because of it being run by democrats, but I was not aware of was the level of corruption there. Because no one pays attention to the USVI, they get away with a lot.
Posted by: Bert G
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Island nations because they cannot produce much of anything rely on services which often turn criminal into smuggling contraband, serving as money laundering and cash concealment, and tourism including the sex, cheap booze, and drugs accompaniment.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (WDjG6)

501 The MI bint is the "former intel officer" wearing the leather jacket, correct? Now *there* is a punchable face.

If when you say "punchable" you mean "work over with a tire iron".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (c3sdc)

502 Sedition is still a felony and the military code of conduct applies to traitors like Kelly. So where are the prosecutions?

Posted by: Inquiring at November 20, 2025 09:28 AM (FxINA)

503 If I have to live under conditions where I have to worry about my family and my safety simply because of my color, when I bear absolutely no guilt and am a good taxpaying citizen, and where the authorities bear no responsibility in institutionalizing the criminal and the insane, then I am in a state of war.

In this case, my prime means of defense are in ensuring the populations that would terrorize me and my descendants, invade my community, and take my resources in the form of government aid are never, ever born.

Start thinking of this like you have a triple digit IQ.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:28 AM (qwx/I)

504 Off sock.

Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:28 AM (4kcNT)

505 Island nations because they cannot produce much of anything rely on services which often turn criminal into smuggling contraband, serving as money laundering and cash concealment, and tourism including the sex, cheap booze, and drugs accompaniment.
Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:27 AM (WDjG6)

PR avoids millions and millions of tax with the rum importation codes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

506
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Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

507 Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM

Probably interested in Clyde.

Posted by: Bert G at November 20, 2025 09:31 AM (VARTN)

508 Nood art

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:31 AM (bfwj/)

509 And that means a steam plant to run a turbine to spin a generator.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Pressurized steam outside the reactor and not needed for cooling the core is a very different critter.

The main problem with reactor cooling using pipes is embrittlement from radiation over time plus access to highly radioactive areas.

Not an issue with external systems and more or less standard power plant or even large radiator heating systems used in buildings. Much easier to fix and not a critical area of safety.

Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:32 AM (WDjG6)

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