Paul Sperry: Trump's Seditious Appointees Schemed to Advance the RussiaGate Hoax Alive

When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump's own political appointees would help them undermine Trump's presidency -- and his chances of reelection in 2020.
RCI's review of recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former Trump officials reveals for the first time how key members of Trump's cabinet and other appointees during his first term shrouded the previous administration's machinations and either deliberately or inadvertently misled the public into thinking the fake Russiagate intelligence was real.
Former Special Counsel John Durham, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former CIA Director Gina Haspel dismissed or buried evidence that cast doubt on a foundational document of the Russigate hoax -- the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) prepared in the waning days of the Obama administration.
Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General William Barr, stopped the declassification and release of key exculpatory evidence debunking the ICA on the eve of the 2020 election, which has not been reported previously.
...
While these Trump-appointed officials may not have initiated the weaponization of the CIA against Trump, they facilitated it by hiding evidence that exposed the claims that Russia tried to help Trump as a fraud. By obscuring Joe Biden's own role in perpetrating the hoax, they may have helped Obama's vice president win the close race for the presidency in 2020.
"The Russiagate betrayal continued in plain sight," said former Trump national security adviser J.D. Gordon, with some in Trump's own cabinet letting him twist in the wind instead of daylighting secreted material that would have cleared the clouds of suspicion hanging over his head before the 2020 election.
John Bolton
The suppression can be traced back at least until mid-2018. That's when Fred Fleitz, who was National Security Adviser John Bolton's chief of staff, heard that investigators at his former employer, the House Intelligence Committee, were probing the raw intelligence in the ICA supporting the assessment's key judgments.
A one-time CIA analyst himself, Fleitz was curious to learn what they had found during the previous year, interviewing CIA analysts and reviewing secret documents at Langley. So, he traveled to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and read a draft of the highly classified report in a secure room of the U.S. Capitol.
Fleitz told RealClearInvestigations that he was startled to learn that the investigators discovered numerous intelligence documents showing the ICA's key conclusion -- that Russia "developed a clear preference" for Trump and "aspired to help" him win the election -- was based on shoddy and fabricated intelligence. House investigators found those assessments were supported in part by the Steele dossier, a series of Clinton campaign-funded reports containing baseless accusations linking Trump to the Kremlin compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
"The ICA misrepresented both the significance and credibility of the dossier reports," which were "either proven false or unsubstantiated," the top-secret congressional analysis noted. "The ICA referred to the dossier as 'Russian plans and intentions,' falsely implying that the dossier had intelligence value for understanding Moscow's influence operations."
Fleitz thought Bolton should be briefed on the unpublished House report, which undermined the prevailing narrative that Trump and Moscow had colluded during the 2016 election campaign. When he returned to his West Wing office, Fleitz sat down at his classified computer and wrote a synopsis of the review and gave it to his boss.

But Bolton did not, in turn, brief the president. "He didn't do anything with it. He never told Trump, and I never heard anything about it again," Fleitz told RCI.
If Trump had known about the shocking revelations from the classified report, Fleitz said, he could have used them to remove the cloud of suspicion hanging over his presidency concerning Russia.
...
Gina Haspel
Pompeo's deputy at the time was Gina Haspel, who appears to have played a much more active role in drawing a veil over the information. A veteran CIA official whom Pompeo had put in charge of most of the day-to-day operations of the agency, she apparently didn't appreciate congressional staffers investigating the agency's spycraft that went into the highly classified and restricted version of the ICA.
Sources told RCI she made sure the investigators' on-site examination, which spanned from 2017 to 2020, was closely monitored and tightly controlled. The House investigators had to be cleared into a "read room" at Langley each day to examine the records the CIA used to support the ICA. And they were forced to lock up their laptops and materials there when they left at night.
"Haspel didn't allow them to take even their notes out of their workspace there," Harvey said. "They couldn't take anything out of the building."
Another House Intelligence Committee source familiar with the operation said the investigators suspected the CIA "was spying on [committee] computers" back on Capitol Hill. They reported back to then-committee chairman Devin Nunes that the CIA had tampered with the computers the agency forced them to use to draft their report inside headquarters -- and this was only after they were denied access to any computers in the first four months of their oversight investigation.
"Deliberate technical modifications to the [CIA-issued] computers made the machines unstable and unreliable," which slowed down investigators' work, according to a committee report documenting the CIA's efforts to "obstruct" their probe.
The report, which was obtained by RCI, added: "Peculiar machine glitches caused lines of text to appear fuzzy, forcing restarts to correct and sometimes resulting in lost text or footnotes."
The investigators repeatedly requested "proper computers" to support the review, but were never provided with them. They were also denied software tools that would have allowed them to efficiently search large volumes of classified and unclassified reporting at the agency. Thousands of pages of intelligence reports relevant to the ICA were available only in paper form. The staffers had to comb through thick binders with broken rings and missing tab dividers, further hamstringing their audit.
Pompeo and Haspel also placed restrictions on their access to Brennan's five hand-picked authors of the ICA, who initially were kept at arm's length.
"It took nearly five months for committee staff to be allowed to in
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After she took over the CIA, she locked up all drafts of the House Intelligence Committee report in a gun safe inside a vault in a highly secure room at CIA headquarters until she left office in January 2021. She also impounded all the examiners' notes and other work materials.
"Gina Haspel buried the report," Harvey said.
Knowledgeable sources say that before Haspel left, she demanded that both Barr and Durham keep the report classified and not release any part of it before the 2020 election.
"In 2020, Gina Haspel was running around with her hair on fire saying it should never see the light of day," a former senior official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said. "I still cannot believe that she was President Trump's CIA director. It's totally insane."

Read the whole thing.

Related: Obama's and Biden's henchmen in the FBI spied on GOP House leader Jim Jordan's phones and emails for... two years.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed his phone records for a two-year period as part of the Arctic Frost investigation, making his records more expansive than other lawmakers.
The announcement comes after recent revelations claimed the Biden FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress, including eight senators, during its January 6 investigation.
Jordan said his phone records were requested by Justice Department prosecutor Timothy Duree, who worked with Thomas Windom, one of Jack Smith's top prosecutors, in April 2022. The request sought his phone records from Jan. 1, 2020, through April 2022.
The toll records did not include the contents of Jordan's phone calls or messages but did include details about inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct-connect communications and voicemail messages.
The subpoena was also accompanied by a nondisclosure order that claimed notifying Jordan of the subpoena could "result in flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation."

Somewhat related, sort of?

Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building.

Where the suspect... kneeled.

The footage contains a previously nonpublic segment showing the alleged pipe bomber approaching the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building near Capitol Hill and kneeling down near a bush on the property, Loudermilk told Just the News.
Just the News reviewed the footage and confirmed the lawmaker's description.
"We've tracked that path with security camera footage that we have access to, but they missed one key aspect...they made a stop as they walked past the Congressional Black Caucus, turned, and went on to the property and knelt down by a bush. Now this is the first real stop that the pipe bomber made," Loudermilk told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Thursday.
"Now this is before they actually placed the bomb at the DNC. So, what were they doing there at the Congressional Black Caucus? No bomb was found there," Loudermilk said.

The clue is in the bamboo.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 hola

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:20 PM (van9r)

2 aloha

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (van9r)

3 sayonara

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (van9r)

4 Linky!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (DRSnL)

5 Read the content.

/hangs head in shame.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (N1tpc)

6 >>The clue is in the bamboo.
__
I'm missing something here.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (bNf8H)

7 So... what's the status on Bolton's indictment? Any trial dates? Mug shots? He and his legal issues sort of fell off the radar.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (NwnyJ)

8 It's always the Bamboo...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

10 "Tanned, rested and READY!"

- - - Lamont THE Big Dummy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

11 "The clue is in the bamboo."

"Is this about those fucking pandas, again? Have you forgotten about us?"

-- Penguins

[I never got the penguin fixation, TBH. Maybe a joke I missed or something.]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

12 It's important to remember that our enemy is the ruling class.

It's MAINLY the Democrats, but the "Republican" side of the ruling class hates us, too.

Remember how much that hateful, crippled, worn out husk of a malignant bald dwarf McCain hated the Tea Party.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (N1tpc)

13 Not surprising EVERYONE seemed to be on the take in the first admin. Like Gotham city and Trump is Bruce Wayne.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Gwcfo)

14 All your links are belong to Ace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Deep State - 100
American Citizen - 0

Over/under on when the American Citizen has had enough?

Also, bamboo under the fingernails works.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (abIsI)

16 So, again, it's a big club and I'm not in it and they never thought they'd get caught and what other crimes have they committed?

This can't be the first time and I think Nixon was the first.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (jPh2t)

17 Ok. Fess up. Who fixed it.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Trump fucked up bigly doing his first term when it came to personnel. The good news is he learned from that and Trump 2.0 has been, for the most part, solid on that front.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (/AUU2)

19 Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building.

Where the suspect... kneeled.

She was there the day before, too?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

20 This is going to be a close run thing.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

21 We've tracked that path with security camera footage that we have access to, but they missed one key aspect...they made a stop as they walked past the Congressional Black Caucus, turned, and went on to the property and knelt down by a bush. Now this is the first real stop that the pipe bomber made," Loudermilk told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Thursday.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

The leftists don't hate religion. They hate God and Christianity.

They are all zealous religious fanatics, rivalled only by the mohammedans.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (N1tpc)

22 Not surprising EVERYONE seemed to be on the take in the first admin. Like Gotham city and Trump is Bruce Wayne.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Gwcfo)

Geez.....now Bruce Wayne is going to think you compared him to Trump. We won't be able to fit in her when his head expands.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+mTgD)

24 *here

Damn....fingers suck today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

25 None of those names are a surprise.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (YwEeS)

26 Deep State is deep

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+qU29)

27 Weren't we supposed to be told the pipe-shit's identity by now? The longer this goes on, the more it smells like bullshit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

28
The call is coming from INSIDE the house.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (IifOV)

29 I think Nixon was the first.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Bill Murray read Bob Woodward's book Wired about his friend John Belushi. Murray has stated
So when I read Wired by whatshisname, Bob Woodward, about John Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired and I went, “Oh my God, they framed Nixon.” If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (gKWVE)

30 here

Damn....fingers suck today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

He probably would get a kick out of the compliment- as would his wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

31 20 years in the clink for any and all seditionists

Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)

32 He probably would get a kick out of the compliment- as would his wife.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

He's not married.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

33 Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building.

Where the suspect... kneeled.

-------

He had to stop and pray at the alter of his liberal race based religion.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (IifOV)

34 31 20 years in the clink for any and all seditionists
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot

Trump said he wants action on the six. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (abIsI)

35 It was always Bill Barr.

And my bamboo steelie is cuttin diamonds right now

Posted by: Spartacus Booker at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (W+TLY)

36 I remember how much we argued at the time about whether Durham was actually doing something, or whether his entire job was just to pretend to be doing something while he actually killed any serious look into what was happening.

Well I guess that argument is finally settled.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uWKK8)

37
brb, snatchin' all the mutha fucka bamboo birthdays

Posted by: Steven Seagal at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (01gtA)

38 My favorite was Hur..... He investigates Joe and says "Yeah, he's guilty as hell for taking those files but he's a confused old man and no jury would convict him but he's fine to run for a second term." He didn't say the last part but he also didn't say Joe shouldn't

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (VE6XX)

39 Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building.

Where the suspect... kneeled.

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

Where was Kommie-la at the time and what did she know?

["I'll take 'Questions that Patel and Bongino aren't asking and investigating' for $64 trillion, Alex!"]

/There likely was a statue of St. George Floyd there that needed to be blessed & praised ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (+mTgD)

40
He had to stop and pray at the alter of his liberal race based religion.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (IifOV)

"Blacks forgive me because I'm about to sin......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

41 Yup, I remember Trump stating that he was going to declassify all that nonsense, but made the mistake of giving Barr discretion on that act. Barr, of course, ran interference on that declassification and passed it off to Durham for plausible deniability.

The important take away from this is that Trump learns from his mistakes (at least in the declassification arena, and personnel recommendations). If I was Bill Barr's neighbor, I'd flip him off every time he went out to get the mail.

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (dIske)

42 And the left screams about how horrible it is for Trump to appoint loyalists. Doncha know that Trump is supposed to do his job with EVERYONE trying to sabotage his every effort?

Posted by: Emmie at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (9b91n)

43 The clue is in the bamboo.
Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM
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She tried to win him back with a handwritten love letter that got lost in the bamboo forest? Was that what happened?

Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (2bFN5)

44 How else and in what other matters have these malefactors shaped public policy to their own preferences and to their own benefit?

I suspect many, since at least 2001.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (9ipOP)

45 they had no idea Trump's own political appointees would help them undermine Trump's presidency -- and his chances of reelection in 2020.
==
Gotta call bullshit on this. They absolutely knew they wouĺd. THERE IS ONLY ONE PARTY.

Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (b2UQ7)

46 I think Nixon was the first.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Bill Murray read Bob Woodward's book Wired about his friend John Belushi. Murray has stated
So when I read Wired by whatshisname, Bob Woodward, about John Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired and I went, “Oh my God, they framed Nixon.” If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (gKWVE)
_____

What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

47 “Read the whole thing.“

Make me.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (6KcYW)

48 Bamboo is really good for caning, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

49 Bamboo Bimbo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (pkeXY)

50 The clue is in the bamboo.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

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"John (Bolton) has a long mustache ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (+mTgD)

51 ...the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building near Capitol Hill.

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The what now?? ffs

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (9ipOP)

52 “Read the whole thing.“

Make me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (6KcYW)

*grabs dog*

*unholsters weapon*

READ THAT ARTICLE OR I'LL SHOOT THIS DOG!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

53 Remember me?

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (abIsI)

54 I'm having a harder and harder time believing "regular order" can possibly function well enough to purge these walking cancer cells from the body politic.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (OUMaO)

55 Deep State is deep
Posted by: Skip

Amazing how you can make something so deep out of people so shallow.

Posted by: mikeski at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (nhCoE)

56 Bam Boo was Barney and Betty Rubble's last son, whom the family doesn't talk about anymore.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

57 56 Bam Boo was Barney and Betty Rubble's last son, whom the family doesn't talk about anymore.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Heh.

Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (2bFN5)

58 Always thought Durham was a uniparty gun for hire.

Posted by: night lifted at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (/YboP)

59 Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building.

Where the suspect... kneeled.

For the record who among us hasn't kneeled before a sexy sexy black man?

Posted by: Jussie Smollet at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

60 Bam Boo was Barney and Betty Rubble's last son, whom the family doesn't talk about anymore.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

Played against him in football in high school. We nicknamed him Yuk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

61 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

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I saw that interview clip with Bill Murray; he knew Belushi closely, obviously, and basically accused Woodward of pulling shit out of his ass.

Hence, zero credibility about his "reporting" on Nixon ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (+mTgD)

62 I'm sure all these traitors think they did it for the good of the Country...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (VE6XX)

63 Once you plant bamboo it takes a nuklear device to get rid of it. Kind of like the deep state.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (abIsI)

64 56 Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

He had unlawful carnal knowledge of the cattle-saurus...I understand their shame.

Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)

65 We all know about the Deep State.
But what about the Deeper State?

Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (5Je/N)

66 > Trump fucked up bigly doing his first term when it came to personnel.
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A lot, the majority actually, of Trump's appointees and staff were suggested to him by D.C. insiders. He did not pick many of them personally. This is something he's mentioned... not being familiar with who's who in the capitol city and leaving many of the slots to be filled with people he hardly even knew.

Plus, the shitty vetting of some of them. An issue that still plagues Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (NwnyJ)

67 20 years in the clink for any and all seditionists
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)

Good one.
- DC Juries

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (/AUU2)

68 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

Murray's beef with the book was that he had been an eyewitness to many of the scenes and incidents reported on by Woodward, and upon looking through it he realized that most of what Woodward had written was a total fabrication and nothing to do with what actually had happened.

Belushi was a blast of manic, comic energy in the mid 70's. He showed up when most comedy was still just Henny Youngman telling old vaudville jokes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK8)

69 accused Woodward of pulling shit out of his ass.

Hence, zero credibility about his "reporting" on Nixon ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (+mTgD)

Forgive me, but from where else would you pull it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

70 Man for the third time let's see what happens.

Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)

71
I reckon it'll be a month before Ace gets this bamboo thing out of his system.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (01gtA)

72 Well I guess that argument is finally settled.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uWKK

====

#twoweeks
/boring yes but still obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (9ipOP)

73 Played against him in football in high school. We nicknamed him Yuk.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Jeez, you're older than I thought.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

74
What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

I thought he was really funny. His homage to Joe Cocker is still great.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)

75 69 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Well in the case of Chevy Chase his mouth I think....

Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (MUJd1)

76 Don't f*cking blame me.

Posted by: Reince Priebus at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (abIsI)

77
Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Younger than you.

*ducks*

*covers*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

78 The pictures of yesterday's Cheney funeral told a story. The pictures of the first several rows with the Bush's, Obama's, Clinton's, Gore, Kamala, Pence, Biden's, Mc Connell, and sitting in another section there was Fauci, Maddow, Carville and a host of other weirdos.

Strange bedfellows indeed and the press trying to make a big deal out of Trump and Vance not being invited is actually a compliment. I remember a time when half of those people were called the worst people in the world and massive protests were held against them complete with paper mache heads with devil horns and fangs with dripping blood.

Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)

79 Belushi was a blast of manic, comic energy in the mid 70's. He showed up when most comedy was still just Henny Youngman telling old vaudville jokes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK

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Singing with Joe Cocker

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (9ipOP)

80 77
Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Younger than you.

*ducks*

*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

You can both get off my lawn

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (VE6XX)

81 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

.... not funny?

Watch his impression of Joe Crocker singing "With a Little Help from My Friends."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (N1tpc)

82
Anyone notice how Tulsi Gabbard has kinda disappeared from public view?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (01gtA)

83 I remember there was an odd moment around Haspel where some Qanon types were claiming she had been killed in an operation around a server in Europe.

And not that it seemed particularly likely of course but it seemed to me it was odd she didn't have some sort of public check in back in DC to put any such claims to rest...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

84 Every wonder why GOP leadership are all pussies? Because they know they're still being spied on, and being repeatedly violated is part of the kink.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (3uBP9)

85 Younger than you.

*ducks*

*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Your insults, they will not be forgotten.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

86 His homage to Joe Cocker is still great.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (9ipOP)

87 82
Anyone notice how Tulsi Gabbard has kinda disappeared from public view?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (01gtA)

Isn't she one of the ones who had to moved to military housing for protection ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (VE6XX)

88 Cheney then: He's Chimpy McBushHitler's War Crimes Expert

Cheney now: An honored moderate speaker of wisdom

Posted by: The FNM at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

89 Do we still believe conspiracies can't happen because too many people need to keep it a secret?

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (iKD4f)

90 Shallow, back handed but ranks deep to ferret out of government

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (+qU29)

91 Your insults, they will not be forgotten.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

Dibs on Sponge's bacon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (dK+Kv)

92
Your insults, they will not be forgotten.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

As the scar I inflicted disappeared, so will this memory.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

93 Leftists love no Republican more than a dead one.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (iKD4f)

94 *reads post*

Golly! Gee willikers, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (wVcYX)

95 BREAKING NEWS:

In a sudden development that is utterly roilling the political world's waters, while former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared herself an 'independent', and wrote an entire book about it, it appears she is still listed as a Democrat.

"In a voter profile report obtained from the Maryland State Board of Elections by the Daily Mail, Jean-Pierre's registration is listed as 'active' and her party is listed as 'Democratic.'"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (0sNs1)

96 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

His point was basically in those 5 pages was all sorts of things I know are not true. So how can I take anything for him as truth now?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/AUU2)

97 Bam Boo was Barney and Betty Rubble's last son, whom the family doesn't talk about anymore.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

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

The inspiration for the "To Kill A Mockingbird" character Boo Radley written by ~~Harper Lee~~ ('s close childhood friend) Truman Capote, upon whom the character Dill Harris (considered an imaginary friend?) was based.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (+mTgD)

98
Holy shit!

Does anyone remember that Christopher Walken was once a....

Bond Villain?!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (01gtA)

99 Do we still believe conspiracies can't happen because too many people need to keep it a secret?

You mean like, "COVID was created in a Chinese lab using Fauci's government money?"

Turns out you just need to have all the right people play pretend and it works

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

100 I thought he was really funny. His homage to Joe Cocker is still great.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)

Singing with Joe Cocker
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (9ipOP)

Watch his impression of Joe Crocker singing "With a Little Help from My Friends."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (N1tpc)

Wow

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (N1tpc)

101 Nixon was impeached over Watergate.

These MOFOs need to be arrested, tried for treason and incarcerated for life or executed.

Posted by: Czech Chick at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (vK/Ja)

102 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
===
Woodward lied about Belusi. Made up things. Murray interview on Rogan. He was pretty incensed still.

Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (b2UQ7)

103 The first stop was probably a pick up.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (sDNVV)

104 Holy shit!

Does anyone remember that Christopher Walken was once a....

Bond Villain?!
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (01gtA)

Yes. That was a particularly bad Bond...

But I'd still take it over any of the Daniel Craig ones.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (N1tpc)

105 Nothing Nixon did was worse then what Obama...or JFK for that matter...also did.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

106 John Belushi is Joe Cocker

https://youtu.be/
VmjWO7oY8LU?si=InsY91Zhx6UmBbwB

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (jPh2t)

107 The clue is in the bamboo.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

It always is.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

108 Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Remember when you insisted I was like 70? Because "that's what you sound like"?

Bitch.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (iKD4f)

109 "In a voter profile report obtained from the Maryland State Board of Elections by the Daily Mail, Jean-Pierre's registration is listed as 'active' and her party is listed as 'Democratic.'"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (0sNs1)

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[Unexpected BREAKING NEWS:] "Democrat Lies; Film at 11:00."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (+mTgD)

110 Strange bedfellows indeed and the press trying to make a big deal out of Trump and Vance not being invited is actually a compliment. I remember a time when half of those people were called the worst people in the world and massive protests were held against them complete with paper mache heads with devil horns and fangs with dripping blood.
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)

In an odd way it reminded me of the old photos of Edward VII's funeral in 1910. The grandest funeral ever staged in London, all the Royalty from around the world was there, it was the most dazzling and glittering display of privilege England had ever seen, surpassing even Victoria's. All the Family's that Ran the World were there, even today the photos of who was gathered together are amazing.

Within 4 years, their world was in flames, and within 8, almost all of them were wiped from history completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (uWKK8)

111 The clue is in the bamboo.

Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM

Again with the bamboo....?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (QGaXH)

112 Your insults, they will not be forgotten.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

Unlikely at your age.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

113 I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
====

This is why we can't have nice things.

Suggest you see Animal House followed by two viewings of Blues Brothers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (9ipOP)

114 Cheney then: He's Chimpy McBushHitler's War Crimes Expert

Cheney now: An honored moderate speaker of wisdom
Posted by: The FNM at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

When Trump dies it will be the same. Because by the. JD Vance or whomever, will be the worst person sic Hitler. And Trump will be sen as a moderate.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (/AUU2)

115 82
Anyone notice how Tulsi Gabbard has kinda disappeared from public view?

Posted by: Soothsayer

Ratcliffe's boys have her held naked in a chair with her eyelids propped open watching Reds.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (abIsI)

116 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

His point was basically in those 5 pages was all sorts of things I know are not true. So how can I take anything for him as truth now?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/AUU2)
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I get that. My question was more about "what specifically does he claim is not true?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)

117 Remember when you insisted I was like 70? Because "that's what you sound like"?

Bitch.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (iKD4f)

=====

I beg your pardon, I never ever said that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

118 Old Bond: I'm here to make wise cracks and bang broads, and sorry Ms Octopussy but I'm all out of wise cracks

New Bond: You can touch my balls if you want. Hands, rope, whatever, make me beg. Uh, I mean I'll never break Mr Badguy!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

119 So my wife sent me to the store to get bogo pies for Thanksgiving, saying, in response to my query, to get whatever variety I wanted. So I got a pecan and a cheesecake. When I came home she complained about the cheesecake.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

120 All I needed to know about the late Belushi is codified in the Anthrax song “NFL”

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (6KcYW)

121 [snip]

Within 4 years, their world was in flames, and within 8, almost all of them were wiped from history completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (uWKK

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Great historical info, Tom.

"Slowly at first ... and then all at once."

History rhymes, yo!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (+mTgD)

122 Well All the Presidents Men was also a load of bullshit so....

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (YwEeS)

123 Black Caucus ?

That thing is huge

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (NtVYv)

124 but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
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Have never seen the Blues Brothers movie???? Holy smokes that is a damn good movie. He can sing and dance.

Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (b2UQ7)

125
I just watched siskel & ebert's 1985 review of A View To A Kill, and those two shitheads actually made some good points.

One point they made was a major flaw in the Villain's (Walken) premise: He wanted control of Silicon Valley's chip-making industry. But Silicon Valley does not produce chips, they install them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (01gtA)

126 Federal authorities with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service have arrested a top official with the Arizona Attorney General’s office on felony charges of controlling and trafficking stolen property. This comes as Attorney General Kris Mayes faces scrutiny and a potential federal investigation for weaponizing her office and apparently accepting bribes to grant unprecedented prosecutorial authority to an outside nonprofit group in her case against alternative 2020 electors in Arizona.

Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

127 I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
====

This is why we can't have nice things.

Suggest you see Animal House followed by two viewings of Blues Brothers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (9ipOP)
_______

Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

128 Out: BBC

In: Big Black Caucus

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

129 20 years in the clink for any and all seditionists
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)

Please, use the term the cooler.

Posted by: Col. Wilhelm Klink at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (wVcYX)

130 I beg your pardon, I never ever said that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

Who the hell was that then? All you damn kids sound the same.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (iKD4f)

131 Amazing what we all suspected and knew just from sitting at a computer.

Everyone in DC knew Russiagate was BS from the start.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (Vh9CX)

132 118 To be fair the ball beating is in Ian Fleming's book.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (YwEeS)

133 When I came home she complained about the cheesecake.
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Pie

Not cake.

Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (b2UQ7)

134 ne point they made was a major flaw in the Villain's (Walken) premise: He wanted control of Silicon Valley's chip-making industry. But Silicon Valley does not produce chips, they install them.

Sounds better then a plot to steal Bolivia's water rights

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

135 All of this, from Obama on down, was a conspiracy to Overthrow the duly elected government of the United States. Why in the fuck is this not being screamed from the rooftops and how in all of Holy Fuckdom is there a statute of limitations on it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (gXGCk)

136 Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)

Younger than you.

*ducks*

*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, to be fair she is a lot cuter than you.lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)

137 Aaahhhctchually Belushi has very few lines in Animal House. People think of it as a “Belushi Movie” but he played a minor character.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (/AUU2)

138 I recall Gina going to meet Mitch in the last days of Trump I. But the GOPe said she was dreamy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (bfwj/)

139 Here's what he thought was not true in Woodward's book about Belushi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BzSTQCl_c&t=11s
(substitute "thing" for "one")

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (uWKK8)

140 The only black man I might kneel to ( and he'd be horrified at any homage ) and ask for a blessing would be Augustus Tolton, first ordained black priest in America if I lived at that time . Anyone who's kneeling for BLM is an idiot . No wonder it's become known as Big Large Mansions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (Yl2Ob)

141 Were any of these individuals not votes to attend Dick Cheney's funeral?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (5yDGQ)

142 My only complaint about Animal House is that Belushi did not get enough screen time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (PSEDc)

143 So my wife sent me to the store to get bogo pies for Thanksgiving, saying, in response to my query, to get whatever variety I wanted. So I got a pecan and a cheesecake. When I came home she complained about the cheesecake.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

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

[From Brave "AI:"]

"Cheesecake is widely debated in culinary classification, but it is most accurately described as a custard pie or tart due to its structure and preparation, despite its name suggesting a cake."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (+mTgD)

144 Who the hell was that then? All you damn kids sound the same.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (iKD4f)

=====

Might've been Jewells45 (RIP). People got us mixed up all the time.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (DRSnL)

145 Remember, protesting in the People's House is an insurrection, but conspiring to take down the President with CIA assets...or hell just asking the military to take him out...is uh...free speech

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

146 Aaahhhctchually Belushi has very few lines in Animal House. People think of it as a “Belushi Movie” but he played a minor character.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (/AUU2)

"they took the bar..the whole fucking bar"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (snZF9)

147 138 I recall Gina going to meet Mitch in the last days of Trump I. But the GOPe said she was dreamy
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Plotting.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (abIsI)

148 Cheesecake IDENTIFIES as a cake bigot.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (YwEeS)

149 I couldn't sit through BB.
==
Oh that explains it. The concert scenes including cab calloway are towards the end. Worth watching.

Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (b2UQ7)

150 It was a coup-coup.

They fucked up the last step -
- while the capitol was under military lock down extremest failed to round up and execute the Romanov family.

The blob was quite effective in acting independent while still collective, like a flock of birds, but for that step...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (oQt4L)

151
Well, to be fair she is a lot cuter than you.lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)

Fact, albeit a very low bar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

152 My wife's complaint about the cheese cake is that, while she likes cream cheese immensely, the cheese cake just tastes sweet to her, no subtlety, as it were. Like a tofu based dish. It only takes on the flavor you put on top of it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

153 Blade,

Was the love of animal house dependent on having been in a fraternity? I was in one and loved it. Even though it was over the top, does have several kernels of truth to it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (/AUU2)

154 Don't you know Get what you want means Get what I like?

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (+qU29)

155 Might've been Jewells45 (RIP). People got us mixed up all the time.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (DRSnL)

No, me and Jewells weren't really like that. I swear you told me last year you thought I was old. In the meantime - I humbly apologize for calling you a bitch as a term of endearment.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (iKD4f)

156 My only complaint about Animal House is that Belushi did not get enough screen time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (PSEDc)

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+1

To this day, I still do the "Belushi mid-air 180-degree jumping around looking for eyewitnesses" thing he does prior to the dead horse scene.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (+mTgD)

157 Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
====

I weep for the future.

If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)

158 pies for Thanksgiving, saying, in response to my query, to get whatever variety I wanted. So I got a pecan and a cheesecake. When I came home she complained about the cheesecake
==
You were supposed to get pumpkin. It still gourd season.

Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (b2UQ7)

159 Well, to be fair she is a lot cuter than you.lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)

Fact, albeit a very low bar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

Damn, you're just begging for the bacon wench to upgrade to sword maiden. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (snZF9)

160 Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (/AUU2)

161 So far it's been kind of a love fest with Trump and Mamdani.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC)

162 Trick to dealing with women when they tell you they don't care...

Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.

Whatever they say go there.

Easy peasy

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

163 You were supposed to get pumpkin. It still gourd season.
Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM

Indeed. My clairvoyance failed me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)

164 Ever since that Commie Obama was in office all this crap started and gets worse everyday.....

Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (J9q9v)

165 My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (y9ksN)

166 No, me and Jewells weren't really like that. I swear you told me last year you thought I was old. In the meantime - I humbly apologize for calling you a bitch as a term of endearment.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (iKD4f)

=====

Apology accepted. And if anything, I thought you were younger than me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

167 Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)

When they say it doesn't matter, it matters.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iKD4f)

168 146 "they took the bar..the whole fucking bar"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (snZF9)

"I'm a zit"

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (QGaXH)

169
Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

Dude, you're killing me here, first deviled eggs and now Belushi?

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (jPh2t)

170 Remember, protesting in the People's House is an insurrection, but conspiring to take down the President with CIA assets...or hell just asking the military to take him out...is uh...free speech

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

And also remember that it was an "insurrection" where they forgot to bring any guns. Unlike when the Left actually shoots at ICE facilities and officers who are perforing their duly appointed duties. FFS.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (gXGCk)

171 Damn, you're just begging for the bacon wench to upgrade to sword maiden. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (snZF9)

=====

And don't think I won't!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

172 Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
====

I weep for the future.

If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)
_____

Don't like them either. I think Sandler has his moments, but overall I don't find him funny. Happy Gilmore 2 was terrible.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

173
haha, in the same episode, siskel & fatbert reviews 1985's Perfect, starring John Travolta as a, lol, journalist for, lol, Rolling Stone, and Jamie Lee Curtis as a, lol, aerobics, lol, instructor.

LOTS of Jamie Lee bending, bending this way, and bending that way.

The premise of the "Perfect" was a journalist getting the "story" on the "latest" "fitness craze."

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (01gtA)

174 Blade,

Was the love of animal house dependent on having been in a fraternity? I was in one and loved it. Even though it was over the top, does have several kernels of truth to it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (/AUU2)

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

Ironically (again), I HATED fraternities; was never in one, and almost got into a fistfight both times I entered one for a party -- they were all drunken assholes.

HOWEVER, I LOVED "Animal House" (perhaps for different reasons) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (+mTgD)

175 On the bright side, I am going to eat the hell out of that cheese cake if she doesn't like it, so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

176

Bill, Hillary Clinton told to appear for depositions in Jeffrey Epstein probe

https://t.ly/DvgBS

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (pkeXY)

177 No words needed when Belushi emerges from the trunk of the Eat Me car attired in pirate togs.

No words needed to enjoy Belushi cruising down the cafeteria line.

No words needed to enjoy Belushi on the ladder outside Mandy Pepperidge's window.

Etc . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (wVcYX)

178 I weep for the future.

If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)

Or…

Maybe they’re all funny?

Why do people need to do this “my era of stuff was great but your era is shit”. It’s possible some stuff from the 70s was funny, and - get this - stuff from the 90s and 2000s was also funny. And things today are funny.

Wild huh?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)

179 Don't like them either. I think Sandler has his moments, but overall I don't find him funny. Happy Gilmore 2 was terrible.

Saw him in Spaceman.

He can be really good in a more serious role...if he wants to be.

Most of his recent comedic work he is mostly mailing it in.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

180 Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (9ipOP)

181 Apology accepted. And if anything, I thought you were younger than me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)

That is bizarre. I mean not that you thought that, but that I have that wrong. So weird.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (iKD4f)

182 Trump and Mamdani are giving a press conference. Definitely different

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (bfwj/)

183 On the bright side, I am going to eat the hell out of that cheese cake if she doesn't like it, so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

Pro tip: It freezes/defrosts well, so you can feed off that for at least two sittings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (dK+Kv)

184 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (pkeXY)

They will just refuse to go.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (Yl2Ob)

185 LOTS of Jamie Lee bending, bending this way, and bending that way.

Are we sure she's 100% XX?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

186
btw, lol @ all the poor saps saddled with the name "epstein," today

Democrats put a target on all-y'alls backs, yo, as jazz ratchet would say.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (01gtA)

187 Why do people need to do this “my era of stuff was great but your era is shit”. It’s possible some stuff from the 70s was funny, and - get this - stuff from the 90s and 2000s was also funny. And things today are funny.

Wild huh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)
====

*lights hair on fire*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (9ipOP)

188 Gina was hot when she was 12.

Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

189 "Now this is before they actually placed the bomb at the DNC. So, what were they doing there at the Congressional Black Caucus?"

Genuflecting?

Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (Y1sOo)

190 My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (y9ksN)

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NOW you tell me!

Where were you five years ago?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (+mTgD)

191 175 On the bright side, I am going to eat the hell out of that cheese cake if she doesn't like it, so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

I love cheesecake and it's delicious, enjoy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (jPh2t)

192 157 If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)

While I enjoyed 50 First Dates, I find Adam Sandler a little too Jerry Lewisey (RIP) for me.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (QGaXH)

193 so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.
===
Dad, is that you?????

Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (b2UQ7)

194
Which begs the question: What happened to all the people with the last name "hitler."

And how many "charles mansons" are there out there? And did any donate to a Democrat?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (01gtA)

195 Will Ferrell can be funny. He needs strong direction and a good script.

If you let him wing it he sucks.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

196 Blutarski.

Zero.
Point.
Zero.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (/AUU2)

197 182 Trump and Mamdani are giving a press conference. Definitely different
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (bfwj/)
*******
It's weird. Trump is being too nice.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (NpAcC)

198 Will Ferrell can be funny. He needs strong direction and a good script.

If you let him wing it he sucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM

Do you think he was funny in Elf?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)

199 FWIW I find Sofia Vergara funny.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (kTd/k)

200 btw, lol @ all the poor saps saddled with the name "epstein," today

Democrats put a target on all-y'alls backs, yo, as jazz ratchet would say.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (01gtA)

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And 98% of them will vote again for the next Anti-Semitic Islamist Democrat-Communist.

/It is was it is ... sadly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (+mTgD)

201 After watching the 2017-2020 shitshow run its course, how awkwardly Trump handled his staffing from day one on, and then everything that has surfaced since has made it patently clear - Trump had NO plan for a post-win cabinet in 2016 ie, the who and what he needed around him to be effective president. That to me is just absolutely insane and inexcusable. So no one on his "team" mentioned the need for that BEFORE taking office? Was that by design, as in those still around him today? W. T. F. I voted for him twice and would again with the same choices but good grief, we are truly living Idiocracy.

Posted by: Mike Post at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (G7X1C)

202 When they say it doesn't matter, it matters.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iKD4f)

=====

Smart man.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

203 I'm going to title my new book, The Problem With Young People Today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)

204 Freakin Animal House got the annual Halloween Parade in the small town I grew up in permanently cancelled. It's just a small scene in the movie, but when the ROTC is chasing them, they threw a bunch of bags of marbles on the ground.

Well, I grew up in a college town, and after that movie came out, it became a thing for some idiot students to roll marbles down Main Street after the parade started.

The town cancelled the parade (which had been going on for over 50 years) and never held another one.

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (dIske)

205 If you watch the cowbell skit and tell me Will Farrell isn’t funny I can’t help you. 😃

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (/AUU2)

206
Trick to dealing with women when they tell you they don't care...
Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.
Whatever they say go there.
Easy peasy
Posted by: 18-1

"You'll just go where you want to anyway, we always eat where you want."

"BECAUSE YOU WON'T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT!!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (QVmho)

207 195 Will Ferrell can be funny. He needs strong direction and a good script.

If you let him wing it he sucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

I still laugh at and there's so much room for activities. My husband doesn't think it's funny though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (jPh2t)

208 When they say it doesn't matter, it matters.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM

So when they say Get what you want, they mean Get what I want.

It is a test of my previous observational skills.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (jc0TO)

209 I take it most of you will not agree, but this was my old NF review of Animal House:

"Animal Louse. I remember this being much funnier when I saw it on VHS as a kid. The movie was certainly something new and different at the time, and spawned the entire "raunchy sexx comedy" genre. But that doesn't mean that its good. Decades later, while there some funny moments and quotable lines, I find the movie tedious, creepy, and like I needed a tetanus shot after watching. There is nobody appealing to root for. Bluto is ostensibly the star, but he's a stupid drunken pig who dresses in stained, tattered clothes like a homeless bum. I wouldn't want him anywhere near me. The rest of the characters are all unappealing in their own ways. Their antics weren't silly or funny as much as dangerous, misogynistic, dishonest, and destructive. A 13-year-old girl? Really? The Delta house itself is dilapidated and disgusting and everyone throws bottles and beer at each other. I wouldn't step foot in it. I began to see that the Dean was right all along, that the Delta House and its members were a blight on campus and should be kicked out. I'm giving it three stars mostly for nostalgia."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

210 So far it's been kind of a love fest with Trump and Mamdani.
Posted by: redridinghood
.......

until Zohran asks for his allowance.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (v0R5T)

211 SanFranpsycho, reading your substance and you are a very good writer.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)

212 Do you think he was funny in Elf?

Honestly? Yes. The draw for that movie was really Zooey Deschanel being cute but...he made me chuckle.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

213 Substack

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)

214 I'm going to title my new book, The Problem With Young People Today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)

A perennial favorite!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (wVcYX)

215 So, are these the same intelligence people we're supposed to be so supportive of?

Yeah.

Pull the other one.

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (cGjQu)

216 Tell me again why we can't fire\convict them all, flatten that den of snakes to the ground, and salt it heavily so that nothing ever grows there again????

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (zL/eJ)

217 Trick to dealing with women when they tell you they don't care...
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Take em to golden Corral. When you pull in the parking lot she ll start to get a lot of ideas on acceptable options.

Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (b2UQ7)

218 FWIW I find Sofia Vergara funny.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much
.......

She makes my pants feel funny.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

219 Blades of Glory, Elf, Taladega Nights some of his SNL work. It's not only that he became a TDS loon he just stopped being funny.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (YwEeS)

220 This is very strange to me. If I say "I don't care" about which you dessert to get I don't care. If my husband asks me where I want to go to eat I give him my choice. It's usually one of two places. No mystery. And I love cheesecake 🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (Yl2Ob)

221
so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.
===
Dad, is that you?????
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school

This is the way.

The women do it back though... how many of you trust the wife to change the oil in her car by herself?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (QVmho)

222 Saw him in Spaceman.

He can be really good in a more serious role...if he wants to be.

Most of his recent comedic work he is mostly mailing it in.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

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Although I've missed most of his "comedy" films, he was good in a dramatic role in "Uncut Gems."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (+mTgD)

223 Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)
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Thank you dear

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (9ipOP)

224 Been busy with work. All you need to know about the ruling class is they all showed up for Darth Vaders funeral the other day.

Rachel maddow shedding a tear for dick Cheney. It was fricking bizzaro world.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (i0Hi3)

225 FWIW I find Sofia Vergara funny.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (kTd/k)
________

She is quite funny -- and not a bad actress either -- in the early Tyler Perry movies. She was unknown then.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

226 Anchorman is funny. It’s dumb funny but funny. Old School too.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (/AUU2)

227 Yeah Anchorman is also funny. He has done some good work.

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:00 PM (YwEeS)

228 Gotta separate the art from the artist.

Yes Will Ferrell is a leftist douche. And he’s also been in some hilarious movies and SNL skits.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:00 PM (/AUU2)

229 I'm going to title my new book, The Problem With Young People Today.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)

A perennial favorite!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (wVcYX)

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* snort *

Same as it ever was ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (+mTgD)

230 Someone help me. I'm still alive only I'm very badly burned.....

Posted by: Mustafa at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

231 Here's my question: why did tying Trump to Putin in 2016 seem plausible or believable to the hoaxers? I would think Putin would prefer the venal and corrupt/corruptible Hillary over an America-firster like Trump.

Anyway, may the plotters all drown in lakes of blood. May they come to fear the night.

Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (AOsQT)

232 The clue is in the bamboo.

It can snow so heavy in DC that it folds bamboo over like grass.

Posted by: DaveA at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (PMJuY)

233 He's not married.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Go with the joke man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (zZu0s)

234 I smell almonds

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (YwEeS)

235 “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville. I hate it."

Posted by: Aftyn Behn at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (RHGPo)

236
Cripes sakes...

WTF is it with SNEEZING & Getting Older?

Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)

237 I guess we can figure out why Pompeo fell out of favor with Trump.

Posted by: Random PJ at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (RRCAT)

238 Rotten people rotten to the core. As the saying goes:
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

Bolton, Durham, Haspel and company wanted to hurt Trump, even if that meant hurting the country; they failed in their treason.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)

239 This is the way.

The women do it back though... how many of you trust the wife to change the oil in her car by herself?
==
Which is okay. Because it makes you stay in your lane. She goes to the grocery, you do mechanicals. Bliss.

Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (b2UQ7)

240 Trick to dealing with women when they tell you they don't care...
Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.
Whatever they say go there.
Easy peasy
Posted by: 18-1

"You'll just go where you want to anyway, we always eat where you want."

"BECAUSE YOU WON'T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT!!!!!!!!!"
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November

Doesn't matter what I pick my wife says no to the first three things I pick. I quit picking.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (i0Hi3)

241 In Anchorman, Ferrell actually has a pretty good comedic team with him. Applegate and Carrel are both quite funny in their own rights...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

242 224 Been busy with work. All you need to know about the ruling class is they all showed up for Darth Vaders funeral the other day.

Rachel maddow shedding a tear for dick Cheney. It was fricking bizzaro world.
+ + + + +

Randy sure looked out of place, sitting there in that odd ceremony. Plus, the Daughter-de-jure's screed over her dead dad was touching - demented, but touching...

No love for Darth Cheney - he was always a snake with a bad ticker...

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (zL/eJ)

243 Go with the joke man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (zZu0s)

=====

He's in a mood today.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (DRSnL)

244 Never been a big Will Farrell fan. He was funny in Zoolander however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (bfwj/)

245 FWIW I find Sofia Vergara funny.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much
.......

She makes my pants feel funny.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

First time I saw her was in Big Trouble, and I actually said out loud "Gawdam she's hot!"

Good thing my wife wasn't in the room just then.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (PSEDc)

246 Yesterday I sneezed out some Nacho Doritos.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

247

I smell almonds
Posted by: steevy

Are you, by chance, having a myocardial infraction?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)

248
infarction

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)

249 SanFranpsycho, reading your substance and you are a very good writer.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)

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A wonderful (if unintentional turn of phrase.

What's that SubStack name or link, anybody?

[The most impressive thing about this place is the quality -- and often creativity -- of writing by the bloggers AND commenters!]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+mTgD)

250 Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)

I've noticed my sinuses get a lot more fucked up than they used to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)

251 The Washington Post now classified as a hate symbol.

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (RHGPo)

252
==
Which is okay. Because it makes you stay in your lane. She goes to the grocery, you do mechanicals. Bliss.

Posted by: Theres no school like the old school

Bif? Can you stop at the grocery store and pick up a gallon of milk on your way home?

Sure thing, babe.

*comes home with beer, beef jerkey, and doritoes*

Never got asked again. But I go with and open carry now, and have for maybe the last twenty years.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (QVmho)

253 Smart man.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

😁

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (iKD4f)

254 DENY THEM YOUR SUBSTANCE SAN FRAN!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)

255
Well, it's not uncommon for allergies to get worse with age.

Conversely, allergies can lessen with age.

The human body is a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (01gtA)

256 254 DENY THEM YOUR SUBSTANCE SAN FRAN!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM

Purity Of Substance

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

257 Are you, by chance, having a myocardial infraction?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)

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

Another great (if unintentional) turn of phrase.

This is why "AI" will never replace the comments here ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (+mTgD)

258 250 Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)

I've noticed my sinuses get a lot more fucked up than they used to.
+ + + + + +
I chalk it up to all the pro-mask wearing and NBC\ABC training we had to take.

You think life sucks? Try it wearing a M7 chem mask, MOPP4, in a cold rainstorm...

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (zL/eJ)

259 SanFranpsycho, a man of substance with a substack

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (sDNVV)

260 Vergara presents as based

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (iKD4f)

261 I think I am going to eat some cheesecake.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

262 I smell almonds
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM

Are you baking or using cyanide?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (Wnv9h)

263 234 I smell almonds
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (YwEeS)
_______________

Obviously cyanide. I wouldn't drink the coffee.

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (dIske)

264 jinx

Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (dIske)

265 Will Farrell was in 2 movies where he played a dramatic role and was good in both. Everything Must Go and Stranger Than Fiction.

Also Downhill was a black comedy but he played it straight for the most part. Underrated movie IMO.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (/AUU2)

266 Cripes sakes...

WTF is it with SNEEZING & Getting Older?

Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)

The sneeze is a violent muscle spasm that affects a ton of the muscles in the body. Old muscles have less tolerance.

Just be glad that its probably the least bad of the ways to learn that.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (8avO+)

267 'Slight circulatory problem of the head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (zZu0s)

268 When I sneeze it sounds like a freight train

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

269 I think I am going to eat some cheesecake.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

unlike the lady above, I get plain cheesecake because the toppings ruin the dish.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)

270 What's that SubStack name or link, anybody?
====

You can get it or my email from Ben Had if she is willing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (9ipOP)

271 Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)

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I have to warn my poor wifey so she can cover her ears as mine have become so loud.

I also had lots of bloody noses & snot after having moved to a drier climate; however, collagen appear to have helped and healed the bloody nasal mucus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (+mTgD)

272 Yesterday I sneezed out some Nacho Doritos
==
One of the finest moments in my life was when, at a business lunch of five men and one woman, i dropped an extremely well timed one liner causing the woman, who was eating and readying to swallow at that moment, to fire a cajun spiced french frie out of her nose onto her plate so hard it made the plate ding.

She said the cajun spice burned for like half an hour afterwards.

Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (b2UQ7)

273 surreal meeting between Trump and Madmani.
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.

Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)

274
Did you hear this? Shitbum ratchet crockett had to flee for cover yesterday and hide behind the race card.

She goes online to do an Extreme Close-Up ghetto bitch livestream and claims "a white supremacist" "came to my office" and "flashed" "white supremacist" "hand signs" "at me."

No evidence of this ever happening, of course, because it didn't. But she pretended to "thank" the Capitol Police "for all what you do."

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (01gtA)

275 You can get it or my email from Ben Had if she is willing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (9ipOP)

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Gotcha, thanks!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (+mTgD)

276 >>> Smart man.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

😁
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (iKD4f)

I didn't know Aftyn Behn had her own emoji

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (3uBP9)

277 What is NF?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)

278 Is the OK sign back to being a white supremacist sign? 🤭

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (/AUU2)

279 I made oreo cheesecake last week. A legal cheesecake flavor.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (iKD4f)

280 Why do people need to do this “my era of stuff was great but your era is shit”. It’s possible some stuff from the 70s was funny, and - get this - stuff from the 90s and 2000s was also funny. And things today are funny.

Wild huh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)

There's always been a lot of crap and generally only the good stuff gets remembers.

NEVERTHELESS, there's so much more stuff now, there's an absolutely larger amount of crap. I'd further bet that it's a a much higher percentage of crap as well.

For example, there are a lot of funny things now. Very little of it is on SNL. In the 70s-90s, there was a lot of funny stuff on SNL.

But talentless Fallon cracking up in every sketch really ruined SNL for me and it's only gotten worse since.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (N1tpc)

281 Maybe the J6 pipe bomber was making obeisance at the CBC building?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (npFr7)

282 She goes online to do an Extreme Close-Up ghetto bitch livestream and claims "a white supremacist" "came to my office" and "flashed" "white supremacist" "hand signs" "at me."

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Isn't it time for common-sense wypipo hand control and confiscation?

The right to bear arms does NOT include hands, h8rs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (+mTgD)

283 ShainS, I'll email you the address.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (sDNVV)

284 Topped with white chocolate ganache

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (iKD4f)

285 One of these days I will have to figure out what a substack is.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

286 What is NF?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM

Night Force?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (Wnv9h)

287 The I smell almonds line is from this 3:42 mark

https://youtu.be/r51J1h83VH8?si=0RoLhWJB2NuCgYu6

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (YwEeS)

288 or example, there are a lot of funny things now. Very little of it is on SNL. In the 70s-90s, there was a lot of funny stuff

—

Best SNL seasons are the ones where you’re 15-20 years old.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (/AUU2)

289
I chalk it up to all the pro-mask wearing and NBC\ABC training we had to take.
You think life sucks? Try it wearing a M7 chem mask, MOPP4, in a cold rainstorm...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant

ptsd flashback - August, in the Westerwald somewhere. Unit had a two week nuclear surety certification tactical evaluation. Bitches put us in mopp4, then made us do an emergency self destruction - 80lb shape charges get run around the site, det cord strung, and ignighters/time fuse installed. I'm sweating bulllets, and got picked for a real warhead mate/demate (in mopp4).

Get to the part where we have to remove the warhead cable, and I stand up, look chief Foreman in the eye and pull off my mask. Remove the cable, then go over in the corner and laydown flopping a little, and took a nap.

They tried to decert the unit over that, but Chief said, "No, Sgt Bif sacrificed himself for the unit by removing his mask to safely kill the warhead arming circuits. Didn't you see him go over to the corner out of the way and die while we secured the warhead?"

I got an ARCOM for thinking out of the box, and keeping the warhead safe at the same time.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (QVmho)

290 Trump was gracious and statesmanlike in that press conference.

Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (zp4/T)

291 285 One of these days I will have to figure out what a substack is.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)
+ + +

Think paid personal blog, and you're not far off...

Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zL/eJ)

292 Best SNL seasons are the ones where you’re 15-20 years old.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM

It is known.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

293 One of these days I will have to figure out what a substack is.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

As far as I can tell, it is a blog with a subscription.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zZu0s)

294 surreal meeting between Trump and Madmani.
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.

Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)

Only the Tzar Bomba could make NYC great again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)

295 I've had a baklava cheesecake before at the Marietta Diner. Stretching the definition of a cheese cake a bit but it was very good.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:15 PM (3uBP9)

296 One of these days I will have to figure out what a substack is.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM

So it's not the exhaust manifold of a diesel boat?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:15 PM (Wnv9h)

297 Best SNL seasons are the ones where you’re 15-20 years old.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (/AUU2)

Coincidentally that's also when communism sounds the best. Present company excluded.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (iKD4f)

298 194
Which begs the question: What happened to all the people with the last name "hitler."

And how many "charles mansons" are there out there?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (01gtA)

For a week or two decades ago I lived on the edge of that particular hell, sharing a name with some jerk who was briefly nationally notorious for some stupid assholery...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (QGaXH)

299 i dropped an extremely well timed one liner causing the woman, who was eating and readying to swallow at that moment, to fire a cajun spiced french frie out of her nose onto her plate so hard it made the plate ding.

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Funny. As a young teenager was out at a pizza restaurant as part of an All-Star baseball team in a different state (Utah) we were visiting.

The cheese was so thick on the pizza, that I began choking on it after trying to swallow some of the pizza.

In a panic, I reached down my throat and grabbed the long string of thick cheese -- and violently ejected it from my throat like a trebuchet.

The cheese stuck to the wooden wall, giving all of my teammates a hearty laugh ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+mTgD)

300 The Martin Short, Norm Macdonald,Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz SNL years were great. I think those people all overlap at least...

Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (YwEeS)

301 NOOD British Covid PsyOps

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (+mTgD)

302 As far as I can tell, it is a blog with a subscription.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zZu0s)

It's like a Geocities journal. But for professionals, ostensibly, instead of teenage girls. Though the content is often indistinguishable.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (g00SI)

303 Which begs the question: What happened to all the people with the last name "hitler."

And how many "charles mansons" are there out there?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM

We used to have a Dr. Mengele at the hospital. It was always freaky to hear him called over the intercom. Dr. Mengele to surgery, Dr. Megele to ER.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (jc0TO)

304 The cheese was so thick on the pizza, that I began choking on it after trying to swallow some of the pizza.

In a panic, I reached down my throat and grabbed the long string of thick cheese -- and violently ejected it from my throat like a trebuchet.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+mTgD)

I had that happen when I was younger. I might have been a tad bit calmer about it though. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:18 PM (snZF9)

305 surreal meeting between Trump and Madmani.
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.

Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)

Only the Tzar Bomba could make NYC great again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)
*******
It was a Bromance today.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

306 Only the Tzar Bomba could make NYC great again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
......

lol
My favorite nuke of all time. Proves the Russkies have a sense of humor.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

307 I get it now! Spying on the republican congressmen were the “unlawful orders” the Seditious Six were telling to disobey!

(Wink)

Posted by: Cray Cray at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (pAKdF)

308 Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (3uBP9)

Best laugh of the week thank you

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:20 PM (iKD4f)

309 Honestly, I think the pipe bomb thing is a security test that went horrible wrong.

They had someone roam around and plant fake bombs here or there to see when and how security found them, much like a phishing test on our e-mail. Then Secret service found one, and for whatever reason whoever planted the bombs didn't immediately fess up and got scared. Prob due to this being tied into J6. Hence multiple attempts to bury this investigation, since it makes them, all look like idiots, and undermines the J6 investigation.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 04:20 PM (C3IAS)

310 277 What is NF?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)

Bad news. Now you have to explain to your parents why you have to take the course over...

Not that that happened to me....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 04:21 PM (QGaXH)

311 The pictures of yesterday's Cheney funeral told a story. The pictures of the first several rows with the Bush's, Obama's, Clinton's, Gore, Kamala, Pence, Biden's, Mc Connell, and sitting in another section there was Fauci, Maddow, Carville and a host of other weirdos.

Strange bedfellows indeed and the press trying to make a big deal out of Trump and Vance not being invited is actually a compliment. I remember a time when half of those people were called the worst people in the world and massive protests were held against them complete with paper mache heads with devil horns and fangs with dripping blood.
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)

A greater hive of scum and villainy...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (npFr7)

312 What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
==
Different tastes. He, Ackroyd, Murray.... really funny. Their box office runs proved that out.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (GZYu7)

313 What is NF?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)

Apparently, it is a sad place where people with no sense of humor or taste in movies hang out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)

314 Doesn't matter what I pick my wife says no to the first three things I pick. I quit picking.

Our rule is that whoever vetoes the first suggestion has to make the next one.

With a larger group, say of co-workers going to lunch, the only real workable solution is that the driver is not allowed to ask. He must choose by himself and no one is allowed to object.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (3nLb4)

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