The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/9/25

Good morning kids. Before diving into the top story I'm afraid I have to hit you with this before or perhaps as you are having your breakfast, so apologies in advance. (Meh, if that's not emetic enough, just peruse the links.)

Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”

Stories like this remind me of that line from Apocalypse Now that charging someone for murder out here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500
The underlying rationale of this vile tract and its purveyors, ipso facto turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds, and 1-100 year-olds.

Still, the act of abortion itself along with the concomitant devaluing of human life and the reduction of the individual to insignificance, and merely as part of some mass that is to be shaped and molded at the whim of who or whatever sits at the top of that mass, is the sine qua non of the Left as well as its current partner in the Axis of Evil, ISLAM.

We are dealing with people in our midst, be they imported foreigners or worse native born citizens, who see themselves as on a mission from God, or Karl Marx, and given the SUPER DUPER POWER of moral superiority to Lord over and therefore weed out all of us who do not submit to their will to perfect Humanity in their image. Because they are Super Duper Supermen as the late great Spike Jones once crooned (about "Der Furher's Face")

Moving right along to what is a very significant story out of the Supreme Court yesterday, which Ace covered yesterday afternoon and could have far-reaching implications for both President Trump and please God future chief executives of the America-as-founded bent.

Trump v. Slaughter, about the removal of an FCC commissioner with the unfortunate ‘slaughter’ name, looks set to roll back more of the bureaucratic state.
“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained.
Well yes. Destroying the structure of a gargantuan government with unlimited powers and no constitutional basis is an essentially conservative project.
Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be more limitations on executive power. There should. And Congress should exercise more oversight over the monstrous size and power of the government. But the solution isn’t a fake independence, it’s direct engagement, and the ability of the public to also litigate when its interests are legitimately threatened.

Bingo to the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While the wide-ass Wiseass Latina was at least accidentally honest in proclaiming the existence of "independent agencies" that essentially form an unelected and virtually unaccountable fourth branch of govvernment that via its abilities to issue regulations that carry with them the force of law if they are disobeyed, completely contrary to the founding of this nation and the reason why this nation declared its independence in the first place by breaking away from a totalitarian overbearing tyrannical monarchy.

We go from her idiocy to that of this inept DEI hire Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson whose knee-jerk remonstrations were predictable.

During an exchange with U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Jackson expressed confusion about the Trump administration’s argument that, as she summarized, these independent agencies “aren’t answering to Congress.” Under the current constitutional framework, she reasoned, “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them and can stop.”
. . .“So,” Jackson continued, “having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States. This is what I think Congress’s policy decision is when it says that ‘these certain agencies we’re not going to make directly accountable to the president.’ So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”

She's not only a clueless, rude imbecile, but utterly ignorant of the Constitution that she allegedly studied, which forms or is supposed to form the basis of our entire legal and governmental system. Or is she really clueless? No, it's more nefarious. To the extent that Leftists study American law and our traditions and precedents, they do so to more effectively use them as weapons to enslave us and wrest absolute power.
It's why Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew, So as to better be able to ultimately destroy Europe's and ultimately the world's Jews.

Psaki-Psircling back to my remarks on that abortion story. Sotomayor and Jackson are part of that group that view themselves as intellectually, morally and perhaps evolutionarily superior to the rest of us, and therefore do what they do with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God.

And one way or another, God has a way of dealing with apostates. Soon enough we are all going to find out which one is which.

Of course there's this bit of cheery news to buck you up. Or Buck with an "F" — —

In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct.
NBC Philadelphia reportedTuesday that the drama began at 11:47 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, when “police initiated a traffic stop after Khan was, allegedly found operating a white Toyota Tacoma in Canby Park West after hours.” When the cops stopped him, Khan was “visibly nervous.” Police ordered Khan to step out of his car, but he refused and resisted arrest.
Once police searched his car, they could see why Khan was so uncooperative: “In an investigation into the vehicle, police said, officers discovered a loaded .357 Glock handgun with 27 rounds of ammunition, along with three additional fully loaded 27-round magazines. Police also found ammunition for a 9mm handgun along with an armored ballistic plate in the vehicle.”
Along with that, the cops found “a notebook in the vehicle that included handwritten details of additional weapons and ammunition and how they could be used in an attack.” This notebook was filled with “information on how someone could hide from law enforcement following such an attack.” It also “referenced a member of the University of Delaware Police Department by name and included a layout of a building with entry and exit points marked.” That map bore the label “UD Police Station.”

As Captain Kirk might say KHAAAAAAN!!!!"

We're at the point of a Khan almost every other day of the week now.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Daniel Greenfield: There are no such things as 'independent' agencies.
“You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor
But you’ll hear nothing about it.
Delaware Undergrad Had Machine Gun and Manifesto Targeting Cops

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

In essence, Chauvin – sacrificed on the altar of economic and racial “justice” to appease BLM-inflamed mobs – will remain the victim not of a heckler’s but a hooligans’ veto.
Read Derek Chauvin’s New Petition … And Weep For American Justice
The attacks on Pete Hegseth are not just the usual insanity, but a progression of the left’s color revolution.
The Ops Against Pete Hegseth Are Designed To Further A Color Revolution (So long as it runs RED with the blood of the traitors among us - jjs)
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The news comes after a campaign in which the New York City mayor-elect vowed to prevent ICE from carrying out deportations
Mamdani Transition Adviser’s Nonprofit Under Congressional Investigation for Allegedly Teaching Illegal Aliens How To Evade ICE
If successful, the lawsuit could see ICEBlock, used to evade and potentially ambush ICE agents, returned to Apple’s app store. (Arrest the owners of the site and imprison them - jjs)
ICEBlock App Files Lawsuit Against Trump Admin for ‘Censorship.’
America must defend its borders, culture, and citizens—mass immigration isn’t charity; it’s a threat we can no longer ignore.
Ending Illegal and Mass Immigration Is Trump’s Signature Issue
“Some of these children are in sex trafficking. We found some were in forced labor. Some were being mistreated.”
Homan: 62,000 Migrant Kids Rescued Under Trump Admin
The deleterious effects of excessive immigration are painfully apparent in our own history.
America should REJECT immigrants from many countries
In the history of American governance, few chapters will stain the pages as darkly as the utter failure of the Biden-Harris junta to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children.
They Called It ‘Compassion’ -- But it was Child Trafficking
While Americans back deportation of illegal aliens, they also support citizenship for illegals' children born here? (this makes zero sense; I smell a crock of shit from TIPP - jjs)
Voters Back Birthright Citizenship, But Will The U.S. Supreme Court Do The Same? I&I/TIPP Poll
The deportations align with the Trump administration’s intensified focus on enforcing immigration laws and reversing illegal immigration. They come despite heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with President Donald J. Trump having ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
Trump Increases Deportations of Iranians.
For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
If Monday’s Supreme Court argument is any indication, the days of “independent” agencies acting as a fourth branch of government are numbered. In Trump v. Slaughter, a solid majority of the justices seemed ready to confirm what the Constitution already implies: If an official is exercising executive power, the elected president has to be able to say, “You’re fired.”
Supreme Court win for Trump in FTC case would restore the Founders’ design
“The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth.”
Dr. Oz to Walz: Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding (Fuck that noise, just cut the funding and twist his arm! - jjs)
Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” at Gateway Community Services, said that the company falsified documents to obtain payment from Maine’s Medicaid program for services to low-income and disabled clients, NewsNation reported. Abdullahi Ali, the owner of the company, reportedly ran for office in Jubaland, a region of Somalia, and boasted about funding a militia there, according to The Maine Wire. (RELATED: Minnesota Democrats Attempted To Derail GOP Lawmaker Discussing Somali Scandal Months Before Story Blew Up)
Whistleblower Claims Somalians Committed Mass Medicaid Fraud In Maine
Where in the Constitution do you find the idea of independent regulators? It does not exist.
Supreme Court Poised To Rein In ‘Fourth Branch,’ Restore Unitary Executive
Jackson also fearmongered about ‘having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything.’ (like her, an inept zombie fekete - jjs)
Justice (Brown-25) Jackson Downplays Unelected ‘Experts’ Running The Executive Without Presidential Oversight
"But do not mistake compliance for surrender."
Alina Habba Steps Down From Role After Heated Legal Battle: ‘Politicized Judges’
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“The national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and is 7.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 5.1 cents in the last week and stands at $3.671 per gallon,” according to the update, which noted that it gleaned its data from “12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.”
Winning: U.S. Average Gas Price Dips Again, Under $3 a Gallon
Mean unemployment expectations—the average probability that the U.S. unemployment rate will be higher one year from now—improved slightly, decreasing 0.4 percentage points to 42.1 percent.
Consumer Inflation Expectations Hold Steady as Job Security Improves
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Many members of the mayor-elect’s Committee on Community Safety have long histories of anti-law-enforcement radicalism.
Meet the Anti-Cop Activists Who Will Advise Mamdani on Criminal Justice
Multnomah County prosecutors charged Gary Edwards, 43, with second-degree assault for the July 7 knife attack on Gregory Howard Jr. near the Union Station MAX stop, according to Oregon Live. Edwards faced five years and 10 months in state prison under Oregon’s Measure 11 sentencing law. Edwards testified he acted in self-defense after Howard yelled the slur at him. Howard denied using the word before the stabbing.
Portland Jury Decides Stabbing White People Is Okay If They Use A Racial Slur
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
A probe from two watchdog groups says the group may be guilty of 'wire fraud,' 'deceptive solicitation,' and 'false statements to the IRS'
CAIR's Political Arm Has Operated Without Legal Authority Across US, Watchdog Report Finds
An historic global phenomenon - and baneful influence. . . The one aspect of the story that is getting no attention anywhere is the fact that the perpetrator in this case is a Muslim.
NYPD Recruit Gets Arrested, Shining Light on an Evil No One Dares to Discuss
One more Muslim migrant brings mayhem and murder to Europe.
Saudi Terror Suspect Rants at Victims in Court
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Carlson’s comments draw attention to his relationship with Qatar and sparked discussion on U.S. perceptions of the Islamic emirate.
Tucker Carlson Says He Will Buy a Home in Qatar to Prove ‘I’m an American and a Free Man.’
MSNSDAP's ousted DEI host, Joy Reid has the audacity to call America's founding fathers "leeches" after bragging that she got into every Ivy league, because of their race-based Affirmative Action quotas.
Joyless Reid Calls America’s Founders Leeches
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The end of the technocratic illusion and its eco-socialist command system arrives the moment the first domino in the debt chain falls.
The Eco-Socialist Dream Is Going to End Ugly
Christians at COP30 risk preaching climate panic over the gospel, confusing God’s providence with manmade weather salvation.
Religious COP Out 2025
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
A woke Vermont school district hoisted a Somali flag on Friday, as Democrats around the country defend Somali migrants amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota’s Somali community.
Left-Wing Vermont School District Raises Somali Flag Next to American Flag
Elite schools like Columbia and Yale maintain joint institutes, dual-degrees, and exchange programs with Shanghai Jiao Tong University
University of Michigan’s Partnership With CCP-Linked Shanghai School Brought Chinese Spies to Campus—And Dozens of US Universities Have Similar Arrangements
ABORTION
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’ (Logic that turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
Jay Jones, the man who fantasized about shooting a conservative lawmaker and his family, isn’t even sworn-in yet, but he’s already on a crusade against the citizenry and their right to firearm ownership.
A question for Virginia AG-elect Jay Jones

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Communists don’t solve problems, they create them.
GOPers Who Praise Mamdani Don’t Understand Communism or Affordability
POLITICS
“This is such a great time for him to be in office,” Wiles said. “He’s such a patriot. He loves it so much. He’s going to have a fun next year, but, we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too. Typically — just a little bit of campaign speak, if I may.”
Susie Wiles: Trump Will Campaign for 2026 Midterms ‘Like It’s 2024 Again’
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. I wonder if she even makes it out of the Democrat primary.
Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crock (o'sh-)ett Files to Run for Senate From Texas
An exceptionally worthy politician.
Rep. Jasmine Crock(o'sh)ett Wins 2025 Turkey of the Year Award
Politics ought to be done by politicians who are elected because of their policies, not by unelected judges.
Partisan Gerrymandering? Not a Problem

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
The official Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has relied on the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations' work
Soros, Ford Foundation Fund European Nonprofit Targeting US Companies for Doing Business in Israel (Dear Mossad, you better start looking beyond Iranian nuclear scientists- JJS)
Credit where credit is due.
Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
While radiation levels have not increased, the site requires comprehensive restoration to ensure long-term nuclear safety, the IAEA stated.
IAEA: Chernobyl Shield Loses Ability to Contain Radiation After Drone Strike.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
President Trump had formalized an agreement between the two nations this fall, after weeks of conflict that threatened to lead to war this summer.
Trump’s Peace Deal in Peril as Thailand Bombards Cambodian Border Targets
Maduro’s announcement on Friday came hours before one of Maduro’s political prisoners, former Nueva Esparta governor Alfredo Díaz, died of a heart attack while unjustly imprisoned at the Helicoide.
Venezuela’s Maduro Launches ‘Maternity’ Clinic Inside Infamous Torture Complex
"Europe is going in some bad directions."
‘Europe Has To Be Very Careful’: Trump Issues Stern Warning After EU Fines Elon Musk’s X
In a recent October meeting, Trump and Xi held a high-stakes talk on, among other things, the export of rare earth metals, all without Europeans in the room. The United States agreed to lower some tariffs on Chinese products, and in return, China committed to removing its export limits on rare earth minerals and restarting its importation of American soybeans. (RELATED: China Brushes Off Trump Tariffs With Jaw-Dropping $1 Trillion Surplus)
Trump Proves How Feckless Europe Is As Continent Caught In Limbo, World Leader Cries For Help
. . after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. (How do you say "Mother What Have You Done?!" in Bantu? Axing for a fiend named Bates - jjs)
Nigeria Investigates Organ-Harvesting Ring After Discovering Mutilated Corpses

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The mission highlights China’s growing influence in the Caribbean as the U.S. also strengthens its military posture in the region.
Chinese Navy Ship Docks Near U.S., Raising Strategic Concerns.
"Killing two people who are shipwrecked at sea is also morally repugnant," he said. (Of all people to use the phrase "morally repugnant" RUFKM?! - jjs)
Adam Schiff-for-brains Defends Narcoterrorists, Claims They Were ‘Shipwrecked Survivors
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
NYC Health + Hospital’s new kidney-function formula will yield worse outcomes for all patients.
Medical Reparations Come to New York City
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Meanwhile, a racoon drinks its way through a Virginia liquor store and passes out in the bathroom.
New Study Suggests Racoons are Showing First Signs of Domestication
SpaceX. . . sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry
SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry
The GRB’s long length means that none of the known theories for its origin work. . .What is known is that this GRB was unique in all ways, defying all theoretical expectations.
Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
While it sounds like you can't say the C-word, here's what you can do: celebrate "Transgender Awareness Week." I'm dead serious.
Schools Can't Say Christmas, But They Can Celebrate This?
In Iran, as in many Islamic nations, homosexuality is illegal and can be punishable by death. A ton of LGBTQ+ Iranians have fled persecution, seeking asylum in countries such as the U.S. or elsewhere in the Middle East. Although Egypt does not explicitly criminalize homosexuality, LGBTQ+ individuals routinely face violence, harassment and discrimination under morality laws.
Two Muslim Nations Forced To Play In World Cup ‘Pride’ Game, And Boy Oh Boy, This Couldn’t Be More Hilarious
Christian Toto: Far-Left propagandist, Disney know late-night future is cloudy at best
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Extension Ultimate Sign of No Confidence
No doubt, if the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were to start claiming they were women, leftists would regard them more favorably. If America is unfortunate and unwise enough to elect another Democrat president, coal miners would be well advised to start wearing dresses. Then they will not only avoid losing their livelihoods; they’ll be celebrated as heroes in the next Netflix blockbuster. Yet again, the heroic and much-lauded Carla Antonella Rodríguez demonstrates that he is a hero indeed, the veritable King of Coal.
Netflix’s New Movie Is Its Wokest and Craziest Yet
HITHER & YON
A team of Chinese scientists has used CRISPR gene-editing tools to modify a species of fungus that can supposedly replace the protein provided by chicken, and purportedly even tastes like meat. (I like CRISPIER Chicken, or Soylent HOP SING!!!! - jjs)
Chinese Genetics Lab Modifies Fungus Protein to Replace Chicken
Robert Zimmerman: "This is the nature of almost all wars. They are started by power-hungry political leaders for their own gain, with a remarkably detached and disinterested view of the harm that ambition imposes on innocent third parties. On one side the cry was “I want to unify England and Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” while on the other side the chant was “I want a free and independent Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” In neither case is this effort productive for either nation, in any way. Instead, it caused death and destruction in both Scotland and England, for decades."
The war-mongers are always those in power

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1 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

3 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

4 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (pd4dZ)

5 “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained.

AKA Your asking us to return to a 3 powers system.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 07:31 AM (NwnyJ)

7 So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”

Legislate create laws
Magistrate decide if laws are legal
Execute enforce create, legal laws

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

8 I've invented a new color. Offal White.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

9 “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,”

It's about the graft.

Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (Q+gd/)

10
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (tljrc)

11 There are people out there that oppose abortion but vote democrat for freebies and handouts.

People are retarded.

Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt)

12 “ Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”

Psalm 146:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk)

13 Executive agencies cannot be out of the control, guidance and authority of the executive.

Otherwise the executive is executive in name only.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)

14 Regime Change

#3
Coopt crucial officers in its military, so that they refuse legitimate orders of the civilian government.

Paging Sen Kelly

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

15 Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties.

aka District Judge

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (a4flb)

16 with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God.

Or, alternatively, the slogan on SS daggers, My Honor Is Loyalty (to the Democrat Party).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:38 AM (ufSfZ)

17 13 Executive agencies cannot be out of the control, guidance and authority of the executive.

Otherwise the executive is executive in name only.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)

"You got that right!!!"

- - HRH King Otto Penn

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)

18 Abortion is the Sacrament to the demon Moloch.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:40 AM (W7XSX)

19 11 There are people out there that oppose abortion but vote democrat for freebies and handouts.

People are retarded.
Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt)

Nah, they are the "In Name Only" supporters...The issue matters to them as much as the score of the Australian rugby team...in a "that's nice/not good" way. But they actually support their gimmedats.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tOcjL)

20
Aborticomaniacs hide behind a 13-year-old who got raped to promote the Tish Jameses who get abortions because a baby will interfere with their girlboss ambitions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tgvbd)

21 Stephen Miller framed it perfectly: "You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands."

Them Here
There Here

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

22 Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE

In Massachusetts, of course.

And the Archdiocese isn't going to do jack shit about it, unless they see empty offertory envelopes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ)

23 For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE
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It's not a great idea to use Robert Spencer as a source on the Catholic Church. He is very hostile.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (s0JqF)

24 I was surprised, but not terribly to find out the "independent agencies" thing goes back 90 years to FDR.

Ay Carumba.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (W7XSX)

25 That article about the whack job claimed he had a Glock .357, with a full mag. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t .357 a revolver round? I don’t think Glock makes one.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (1BpWS)

26 Dr. Oz to Walz: Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding

And this is exactly the kind of kayfabe bullshit I mentioned in the previous thread. Fucking snake-oil POS.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (ufSfZ)

27 “ Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”

Psalm 146:1-2
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk)

Bears repeating.

Good morning!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (wVcYX)

28 Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support
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Rapaport has been sane for some time. IIRC, he was converted after hearing the Charlottesville speech in context and in full. Realized he'd been lied to.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (s0JqF)

29 Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States

I have been doing some reading on drone warfare and how $800 is all you need to wipe out multimillion dollar weapons.

Also noted that the US wants to gift the MIC with nearly a trillion dollar budget to mostly squander, but to build half billion dollar things that can be totally destroyed for $800s

Then we read of the millions of "garbage" people in this country who can easily deploy any number of drones targeted at people, places and things.

But lets build another air craft carrier.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (a4flb)

30 It was a fully automatic Glock revolver.

Posted by: A jernalist at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

31 Dr. Oz would have probably made a decent Senator.

Certainly better than John Cornyn.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)

32 Voters Back Birthright Citizenship, But Will The U.S. Supreme Court Do The Same? I&I/TIPP Poll

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I'm truly curious, knowing how shockingly uninformed most Americans are, if they know just how abused this claim of birthright citizenship is. When there are boutique industries worldwide to get your pregnant self here on vacation just to spit your baby out on American soil and claim citizenship, there's a problem. It's been a free, unearned ticket and has been abused to the nth degree. Just how many people know that? And as few as that number likely is, even fewer know the actual intention of, and language of, the 14th amendment.

I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

33 Trump v Slaughter will be one of the most consequential decisions in our lifetime. It will ultimately decide if our constitutional structure will be adhered to. It will either eliminate or maintain the permanent bureaucracy infested with Democrats, who wield unconstitutional power no. matter which party is in control of Congress or the White House. It’s also going to finally uncover which justices on the court are engaged in subversion of our republic, and which are actually faithful to the constitution and their duties. Decide wisely.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XFXIk)

34 That article about the whack job claimed he had a Glock .357, with a full mag. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t .357 a revolver round? I don’t think Glock makes one.

Glock 31

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb)

35 The world can be crudité sometimes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

36 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

The Soros prosecutors are a deflection.

The corrupt judiciary works hand-in-glove with them to be sure protected classes remain protected.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (A0sqA)

37 Jasmine Crockett WILL be the Dem nominee for John Cornyn's Senate seat. I've been saying this for some time, and yesterday it became official. Not only did Jasmine formally announce her candidacy,, but the man who was supposed to be the Dem frontrunner - Colin Allred - immediately dropped out of the race and announced his support for her.

Jasmine Crockett is the perfect avatar for the Dem party today. She is what they all aspire to be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (ASmqz)

38 25 357 Sig, autoloading round.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)

39 Thank you JJ

The Wrath of Khan was the best of the ST movies but I also liked the one with the whales

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:51 AM (YobFY)

40 Ps. 146 is my very favorite

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (A0sqA)

41 And when John Cornyn loses the primary, look for the remnants of the Bush clan to do what they can to sabotage the gop candidate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (XV/Pl)

42 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (Cjt/F)

43 The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.

The enemy continues to run full speed ahead.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX)

44

#31 - Fungus Chicken

Posted by: Seen on a Chinese restaurant menu at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

45 Good morning again everyone. Thx JJ.
How long until the Dems start pushing for raccoon voting rights?
Trash Panda Liberation Front !

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (D+mpw)

46 I’m glad Jasmine Crockett will be the dem senate candidate in 26…. She is so grating and obnoxious I can’t believe she stands a snowballs chance in hell of winning…. Hello Senator Paxton!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (YobFY)

47 And when John Cornyn loses the primary, look for the remnants of the Bush clan to do what they can to sabotage the gop candidate.

What do you expect a loyal Uniparty Member to do?

I wish the non GOP-e faction of the Republican Party had the loyalty and the desire to support their own.

(we can forget totally about any Congress Critter representing anything other than monied interests and foreign benefactors)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)

48 I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM

I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz)

49 the round is technically .357 SIG, but glock makes a pistol that fires it too.

I remember it from one of those foiled-by-an-armed-churchgoer attempted mass murders a few years ago. guy made a really impressive shot.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (Cjt/F)

50 The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.

The enemy continues to run full speed ahead.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX)
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Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA)

51 "She is so grating and obnoxious I can’t believe she stands a snowballs chance in hell of winning"

I believe you may be underestimating today's voting populace.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

52 Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care.
Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (cqWXI)

53 You could not make me believe, under any circumstance, that people from generations ago, could ever imagine a young children's book about the glorification of abortion would be written, printed, published and bought by any living soul. No wonder I want to jump into old movies and shows I see on TV and just stay there...never to return to this putrid time in human history.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

54 "Abortion is Everything."

We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (WHfpM)

55 > The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough.
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The only guy in the capitol city who's not 'on the take' is also the only guy in the capitol city who wants to clean it up.

Trump's staff is only motivated if they're spared recriminations once he's gone. That is not going to happen with the Democrats hanging around. And the GOP is fully compromised as well. They're all crooks. Everyone's got the goods on everyone else. It's a form of self preservation.

This is why nothing will happen. We will have to be satisfied with the knowledge that we were right all along. Because that's about all I expect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (NwnyJ)

56 "Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries"

Postnatal live burying of female offspring is just fine though.

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

57 ~~Abortion~~Christian prayer is illegal in all Muslim countries
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FiFY Chinese troll

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (A0sqA)

58 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (bvUs5)

59 Abortion is illegal in all Muslim countries
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care.
Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ?

Fine with me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (ufSfZ)

60 Catherine Hicks.

Yummy.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (W7XSX)

61 Is abortion illegal in Sudan? Why?

Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

62 I believe you may be underestimating today's voting populace.

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My eyes opened Grand Canyon wide to that fact when Barky the Marxist Dog Eater was elected, then reelected. It was a sobering moment. Just directing one's eyes to NYC is proof enough.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

63 [iu]even fewer know the actual intention of, and language of, the 14th amendment.

or the phrase "...subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."

As I recall, not a single illegal alien has registered for the draft. Has the new mayor of NYC filed his paperwork?

Tell me about the mRNA clot shots that were mandated to all of the forty or fifty million people brought in by the Biden junta. They were not under mandate because they were not subject to the jurisdiction?

Illegal aliens seem not to be subject to any citizenship laws, insurance requirements, any regulation that American citizens are subject to. In fact, children of illegals get preferential treatment in our schools by getting in-state tuition!

The empirical evidence screams that those whose parents came here illegally and pumped out an anchor baby or dragged in as a child are not subject to the same laws citizens are under.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

64

Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA)

Look at how successful the Judges have been at stopping Trump from appointing Prosecutors. And the Senate Republicans are part of that game as well.

Bukele said a harsh truth that we're not ready to face yet; if you truly wish to reform a country, the first thing you have to do is throw out every sitting judge, and then replace all of them with your own people. Otherwise they'll wreck everything you try to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:04 AM (ASmqz)

65 63, bloody well spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (Cjt/F)

66 FWIW - yesterday I looked up the User Manual for the old GE Nautilus dishwasher. Learned a few things about the controls and operations and how-to-load. Am doing the old "run empty and toss in a cuppa distilled white vinegar" thing the manual suggests as periodic maintenance.

RTFM!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)

67 We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.

Owning slaves is expensive, time consuming and they need this or that constantly while trying to get them to work and behave. I don't need none of that.

Posted by: democrat former slave owner at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (FGMmt)

68 64, there it is, whoomp.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (Cjt/F)

69 Justice Jackson is a horror show. Absolute affirmative action/DEI hire. I listened to the arguments and she was an embarrassment with the "government by experts "crap, which is the scientific socialist BS. Sotomayor wasn't much better. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh stood out. Humphrey's Executor is done, but a prediction: When the Fed issue arrives they will carve out an exception

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (D+mpw)

70 48 I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM

I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz)

Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (tOcjL)

71 "The Trump admin isn't doing what's needed to be done ruthlessly enough."

Unfortunately. A lot of compensation with tough talk. Ruthlessness has always been in short supply on our side, despite the popular mythology of the "heartless conservative."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:07 AM (WHfpM)

72 The House Republicans are very uninterested in acting against obvious judicial corruption.

Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA)

73 Catherine Hicks.

Yummy.

==

She epitomized the beautiful girl next door, imo. I remember her in this movie with Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and Paul LeMat. Some slasher movie that wasn't too bad.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (qBdHI)

74 I'll have to watch for that book to appear in local libraries ...

(loosely) related: Kurt Schlichter's new Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red, dropped today; about 1/3 through ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (Cjt/F)

75 Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.

Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)

76 The Federal Reserve is a independent cabal of big banks.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (W7XSX)

77

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (DDJSl)

78 72 The House Republicans are very uninterested in acting against obvious judicial corruption.

Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA)

B/c Johnson has 218 votes tops (with MTG and Massie against Trump)...it's amazing he can get 218 to vote for anything R as is...since 100 of them are Uniparty but don't want us to know...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (tOcjL)

79 The empirical evidence screams that those whose parents came here illegally and pumped out an anchor baby or dragged in as a child are not subject to the same laws citizens are under.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

The problem is that you are taking a common sense and rational view of the problem, not a legal one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:10 AM (ASmqz)

80 Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
__________

Boasberg probably issued an injunction against proceeding.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (XvL8K)

81 66 Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)

I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.

GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

82 Rand Paul is babbling about "arresting people" on the high seas instead of killing them. In a perfect world, sure Rand.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (D+mpw)

83 well the eagles murdered me last night

WHAT WAS THAT?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)

84 useless even compared to his father ... lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ)

86 82 Rand Paul is babbling about "arresting people" on the high seas instead of killing them. In a perfect world, sure Rand.

Im assuming Rand reallllllly likes coke

he's shown his true face, like most libertarians, he just really likes drugs

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (emBoF)

87 85 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

lol NOT HAPPY

tired and I hate football

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (emBoF)

88
The Big Dummy is getting a bath this morning before he goes into the ring this afternoon to start the Orlando show week. He's currently the #7 Borzoi and he's going up against the #1, #2, #4 and #6 Borzoi. But you never know.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (tgvbd)

89 The left is full-on for the most asinine statement ever uttered, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I'd hate to break it to them, but I'm pretty sure moslems are opposed to abortion.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (WPL6O)

90 Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)

Luap Nor...good times, good times.

Posted by: Ron Paul Is A Fraud at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (FGMmt)

91 83 well the eagles murdered me last night

WHAT WAS THAT?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)

Tippi Hedren and Angela Cartwright agrees

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (x0n13)

92 @87 Eagles fan?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (D+mpw)

93 83 well the eagles murdered me last night

WHAT WAS THAT?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)

That was why we've played high school offense all year. When it gets more complicated, it becomes that.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

94 Speaking of SCOTUS, I've been wondering if Thomas, whom I shudder to think not being on the court, will retire before Trump's term is over.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (qBdHI)

95 > We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.
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Step one is to make your life so miserable that you leave.

Step two is the other thing.

We're at step one. The administration's trying to "walk it back" so we don't leave. Figuratively or literally. Because if they fail it's highly unlikely we will want to, or be permitted to remain here on anything like our own terms.

Then that other thing nobody likes to talk about is in play.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (NwnyJ)

96 Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.

Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)

Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY)

97
Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)

98 The Big Dummy is getting a bath this morning before he goes into the ring this afternoon to start the Orlando show week. He's currently the #7 Borzoi and he's going up against the #1, #2, #4 and #6 Borzoi. But you never know.

good luck out there today!

92 @87 Eagles fan?

well, yes

back when I was living. now I'm a zombie, I think. they done kilt me!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (emBoF)

99 Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.

Investigate Rand Paul and see how much in kick-backs he is receiving from the narcotics trade.

Ask Rand Paul if the boats were hauling in VX or mustard gas to deploy if it would be OK then to attack drug boats.

Also, I want to know the Legal Authority he is citing for these claims that drug traffickers are off limits to intervention.

Then disband the military, because clearly targeting people, places and things that are killing Americans real-time is "unlawful". So what is the point of a kinetic miltiary?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb)

100 Muslims oppose aborting the unborn , but if you're an infidel and have been born , open season

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (D+mpw)

101 “You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor

Finally! She understands what the people want!

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (EES2L)

102 Erika Kirk about to appear on F&F to talk about the importance of observing shabbat. I think it is from a book Charlie wrote that will be published posthumously.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (A0sqA)

103 yeah Nova a Commanders fan is no fun this year either

although you guys can probably beat us rn

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF)

104 Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?

There is something in the KY water supply, those hill scoggin are crazy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

105 WHAT WAS THAT?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)

Jalen Hurts turnover machine. He was so good last year… why does it always look like he doesn’t care? Is he too calm?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (YobFY)

106 Shabbat?

Did Charlie become a 7th day adventist?

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX)

107 "101 “You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor

Finally! She understands what the people want!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (Cjt/F)

108 Jalen Hurts turnover machine. He was so good last year… why does it always look like he doesn’t care? Is he too calm?

he is usually stone faced

last night, he seemed scared. also he seemed like he didn't even want to go out there. he's a mess.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (emBoF)

109 I wished someone loved me as much as democrats love international drug smugglers.

(sadly looks down, hands in pockets, kicks a rock)

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (EES2L)

110 Today Is National Llama Day.

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

111 Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY)

Don't forget, he was also almost killed at a softball game and attacked on the street. He just doesn't get it. Some people never do.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (WHfpM)

112 if anyone didn't see it, our QB Jalen Hurts made a first-ever play - in one play he managed to turn the ball over TWICE.

there's a Monsters Inc version of this horror that is pretty funny in retrospect (it was the Monsters Inc MNF game)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (emBoF)

113 @98 BlackOrchid, could be worse. You could , like me , be a Giants fan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (D+mpw)

114 Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM

Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize)

Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz)

115 113 @98 BlackOrchid, could be worse. You could , like me , be a Giants fan

dude

lol

or Jets!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (emBoF)

116 103 yeah Nova a Commanders fan is no fun this year either

although you guys can probably beat us rn
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF)

Oh, I'm an Eagles fan through and through...grew up in NJ, remember.

And my kid is a Ravens fan, b/c even he knew, no one cheers for the Commanders.

Without Jayden probably for the rest of the year, they'll be horrid. And Eagles do play the Raiders and then them, so if they don't win twice, pack the year in.

Lane Johnson is the league MVP, b/c Eagles now 0-3 without him in this stretch. The man must be the "keep everyone's heads in the game" guy...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL)

117 I'm a proponent of a strong national defense, but if someone on my side of that issue put out a book entitled, "War is Everything," aimed at 5–8-year-olds, that glorifies war, I'd be having some serious words with that person or organization.

Posted by: p-squared at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (0prFs)

118 The left is full-on for the most asinine statement ever uttered, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I'd hate to break it to them, but I'm pretty sure moslems are opposed to abortion.

But they are unified in killing Christians and stomping out all the advances that Christians brought.†

† in terms of what a high trust society brought to the planet.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)

119 Did Charlie become a 7th day adventist?
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX)
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Pick a day any day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)

120 Reggie White, the minister of defense…. After his playing career was over he veered into a very peculiar brand of Christianity… I’ve forgotten the details but it was kinda out there…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (YobFY)

121 well the eagles murdered me last night

WHAT WAS THAT?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025

***
Were you a New Kid in Town?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (wzUl9)

122 Interesting story about the raccoons.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (77rzZ)

123 Lane Johnson is the league MVP, b/c Eagles now 0-3 without him in this stretch. The man must be the "keep everyone's heads in the game" guy...

so yeah an OL needs a leader, and Lane was a little hesitant to step into Kelce's shoes, he's a very quiet guy.

so MAILATA did instead. and he's a hippy flake - he's like my younger son, loads of fun and very popular with everybody! but not really an OL leader type.

sigh.

OL is a mess Lane or no. Lane does help tho.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (emBoF)

124 122 Interesting story about the raccoons.

they can try all they want

no freaking way

I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (emBoF)

125 > Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.
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Well, it's apparent where some of his money is coming from. Someone should make him deny it with proof. Or tell him to shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (NwnyJ)

126
97
Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)

Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)

127 GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

Thanks, JJ. I'll look it up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (wVcYX)

128 Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

129 Did Charlie become a 7th day adventist?

He married a Roman Catholic, attended a Big Box evangelical "Church" and was discipled by a hodge podge of American Religion influencers.

Who knows what settled in?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb)

130
Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)

131 I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw)

132 if the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were to start claiming they were women"

Nothing new... after all, there was this flick w/a Penna welder/dancer chick.

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (XuXeR)

133 Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,”

Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (NR6c1)

134 131 I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night

no one's found a play like that as of yet

wonderful stat for Jalen's career

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (emBoF)

135 ok groomers

The video even even tells the kids what to do if someone calls them the wrong pronouns and teaches "trans" females how to bind their breasts. At the end of the slide show, kids are encouraged to join Westland’s LGBTQ+ and/or Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA) clubs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

136 While Americans back deportation of illegal aliens, they also support citizenship for illegals' children born here? (this makes zero sense; I smell a crock of shit from TIPP - jjs)

I would guess that the poll is accurate because the people polled are ignorant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

137
Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)

Yup. I'm sure if we were to look at how many congresscritters and senators went from stony broke to wealthy while in office, we'd find out some very interesting things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (tgvbd)

138 114 Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM

Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize)

Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz)

So, then like Dred Scott, totally overturnable. Okay, if this is all it is, I can see the Court reversing it. Right now, there are probably 3 definite votes to do that and 3 definite against. So read the middle 3.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (tOcjL)

139 Charlie Brown Christmas will forever be known for Linus' statement on stage and for Charles Schultz for fighting to keep it from being cut.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (D+mpw)

140 Abortion is Everything"

It is. For quite a few. It's odd, and I have no idea about from where it comes, but it's there, and it's a vote getting issue.

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

141 I wonder how many NFL stat heads are looking to see if anyone has ever turned the ball over twice on the same play. I've been watching football since the late sixties and I've never seen what Hurts did last night
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw)

It’d be funny to show the replay with yakkity sax playing in the background…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (YobFY)

142 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide. How can he not see them for what they are? By their own words and actions, it's all laid bare. It's so obvious, but he's blind. So many things in this world I don't get.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

143 If you live in Miami don't forget to VOTE today.

Fox- "Voters in Miami, Florida, cast ballots Tuesday in a runoff election for mayor in a race that's grabbed plenty of national attention in recent weeks as Democrats aim to end a decades-long losing streak in red-leaning Florida."

"Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, is facing off against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager backed by President Donald Trump"

So far the Democrat is up by a few thousand votes in early voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

144 Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)

I'm with you. I can take or leave Christmas, but none of the others appeal to me in the least. I also think Peanuts should have stopped after the first 10 years.

I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ)

145 122 Interesting story about the raccoons.
*
they can try all they want

no freaking way

I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025

***
The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (wzUl9)

146 lol I agree I don't like the Peanuts stuff. actually none of it.

my dad was super into it so I still have all these old books I should just get rid of. but his little drawings in them are cute.

he also loved Pogo. Pogo was great!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF)

147 IAEA: Chernobyl Shield Loses Ability to Contain Radiation After Drone Strike.

This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

148 Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)

Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)
-

It's not just money. DataRepublican a few weeks ago:

https://tinyurl.com/zw33434u

To search DataRepublican's X posts containing the word "Venezuela", type "from:datarepublican venezuela" in the X search box. There's lots more.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (Yz4gh)

149 The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.

exactly!

or a Bengal cat lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)

150 This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.

correct

should be ignored

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)

151 Washington wanted the free sovereign citizens of America to divorce themselves from these factional wars brought on by power-hungry leaders. He wanted us to view these leaders as nothing more than a necessary evil, that we should all view at all times with great skepticism. No matter what they claim or promise or demand, we must question them and repeatedly reject them, so that we don’t end up their pawns used to make them powerful.

Look at Pelosi, McStain, Grahamesty, et al for a perfect living description of this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

152 So many things in this world I don't get."

Same. Odd, no?

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

153 Does anyone really believe Trump fired an obscure member of the FTC, someone 99.999999% of the country has never heard of and don't even know what the FTC does, and forced the Supreme Court to revisit a stupid decision from nearly 100 years ago that altered the structure of power in the federal government by chance?

Seems unlikely to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)

154 Mengele is right JJ. Morning. Marxists took over the American Public School System, as we slept

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

155 150 This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.

correct

should be ignored
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)

See my comment above. It is the #3 tactic to start a revolution.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

156 Couple inches of snow this AM in Coastal NC. Welcome here, as it's the only time my yard looks as good as the neighbors.

Posted by: Junkyard Dog at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (oftw2)

157 Good morning good people. Thank you J.J. - Happy Birthday!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (cYBz/)

158 Raccoons are also among the biggest carriers of rabies.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

159 Red, Miami is a city in the end. Sadly

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

160 Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (rJ48h)

161 157. Morning Tony

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

162 Rand Paul is on TV braying that attacking drug boats in international waters is illegal.

Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM

I don't recall him saying anything about attacking peaceful somali pirate boats and sinking them in international waters.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (0N4FZ)

163 So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”

Legislate create laws
Magistrate decide if laws are legal
Execute enforce create, legal laws
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

If'n the execution of some government function should not be under the control of the current President, then it should neither be controlled, nor funded, by the federal government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

164 160 Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?

lol

I heard this morning that if Jalen had just spiked the ball every play he'd have had a better rating

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (emBoF)

165
I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ)

I'd put it at when Woodstock, Peppermint Patty and Marcie became regular characters. And Snoopy's siblings.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (tgvbd)

166 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide. How can he not see them for what they are? By their own words and actions, it's all laid bare. It's so obvious, but he's blind. So many things in this world I don't get.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'

As well, it wouldn't surprise me that, to paraphrase Ann Barnhardt, he thinks there are 'many roads to God' or, more likely, doesn't actually believe at all.

The days of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus are long gone.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ)

167 Jalen Hurtz was good for .40 fantasy points last night.

He single-handedly robbed me of a scoring title and a first-round bye in my fantasy league playoffs.

I felt like Kramer getting slo-mo hit with a barrage of tennis balls.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (6qf1m)

168 Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'

just think of him as a midwestern college sociology professor and everything becomes clear.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (emBoF)

169 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)
-

Like many others, he's a WEF in sheep's clothing.

At a minimum, birds of a feather.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (Yz4gh)

170 sorry Bad Andrew.

that was brutal

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (emBoF)

171 Hurts is a punk. Would not go the White House

Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)

172 If'n the execution of some government function should not be under the control of the current President, then it should neither be controlled, nor funded, by the federal government.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

We have Judges with Administrations with Agencies.
Congress funds an Admin, it creates agencies under that umbrella, and then TA FUCKN DA they need their own courts system.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

173 The Left are all for "independent agencies" unless those independent agencies are conservative or right leaning in which case they are a "threat to Democracy".

It's not worth arguing with them.

In fact the only rational answer is to fight for the same thing but for our own side. But unfortunately muh principuhls so we have to stay consistent while they walk all over us.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (U6Usv)

174 I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)

175 Marxists took over the American Public School System, as we slept
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

Bella Dodd, a teacher and one-time Communist, was witness to this, and relates the history in her book "School of Darkness."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)

176 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (ESVrU)

177 171 Hurts is a punk. Would not go the White House

his wife is a nasty Karen and wouldn't let him

she may be part of the problems this year

she claimed her "wedding celebration" was why he couldn't go to the WH (but it wasn't their actual wedding??)

she's a problem. he's a mensch.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (emBoF)

178 KBJ doesn't know what a woman is. Which qualifies her for the Supreme Court, apparently.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1)

179 We are seeing even more damage from the touch of the Chicago Thug in Chief, the "calmer of the oceans," the Manchurian 'transformer' of this divine nation, . . . the Odildo. . . . . everything the Kenyan touches turns to shit, all the way up to the freshman SCOTUS flea bags

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (e45L/)

180 I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”
Posted by: Bulg

Yeah - the younger brother of Lucy and Linus.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (cYBz/)

181 We, (wife and I) pick a day, every week, to have a Sabbath together. It is not Sunday, because we are both so busy at church. It involves taking time, at least 5 hours minimum, for scripture study and prayer followed by a meal together that we do not make, and then quiet time spent together. Very important to us.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)

182 The video even even tells the kids what to do if someone calls them the wrong pronouns and teaches "trans" females how to bind their breasts.

Me a few years later, standing before Saint Peter:

"OK, yes; I bought the millstones and started applying justice to these people. I admit it."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (NR6c1)

183 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back.

Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (84Uz9)

184 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.

Posted by: Lady in Black

He's either ignorant or dishonest. I can't believe he doesn't know about Islam's goals and satanic methods to achieve those goals. So I have to go with dishonest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

185 he also loved Pogo. Pogo was great!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF)

Pogo is another strip that I think went on too long, though Kelly did sabotage the strip whenever he brought in animal versions of people like Castro, Khruschev, Agnew, Hoover, &c. I think the whole 'bravery' accolades concerning his Joe McCarthy character (a wildcat named "Simple J Malarkey") went to his head.

And that jejune "we have met the enemy and he is us" crap always annoyed the hell out of me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (ufSfZ)

186 Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,”

Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient.
Posted by: NR Pax

Notice how those in favor of abortion already won the Birth Canal Bingo?
And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5)

187 Brad Van Pelt>>Lucy Van Pelt

Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (oftw2)

188 183 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back.
Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy

*hands dollar to Johnny*

Any chance US tax dollars are funding this research?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)

189 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x

Thats great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (IEV/x)

190 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)
=====

Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse.

Subversive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)

191 I think Schulz even had a third Van Pelt kid in the late strips, who was called “Rerun.”

Correct. And I think - though I can't be bothered to look - Rerun was the only 'baby' character who never grew up. Schroeder, Lucy, Linus and Sally all started out as babies, but grew up in 'comic time' so that the first three, within about five years, could appear to be Charlie Brown's contemporaries.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (ufSfZ)

192 >>He's either ignorant or dishonest.

He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him.

The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)

193 One of the Left Bloc was whining that, if the majority overturns Humphrey's, then they will face a mountain of litigation over the other, lesser officers.
And even regular employees.

And, at first, I took it as saying, "we must keep the status quo unless we can craft a perfect rule that covers all potential cases."

But now I realize that's not what she was saying:
She was revealing the left's biggest fear.

Because, if Senate-approved officers can be removed without cause--even those dressed up in all the academic finery of credentials, qualifications and expertise, with the holy blessings of protections from Congress--what is the basis for civil service protections?

And that is the end of the Deep state right there:
Whatever justification is offered for overruling Humphrey's, it goes 10 times more for employees.

The federal government is about to become an at-will employer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (HXT0k)

194 Unfortunately Rapaport still thinks the Central Park Five are innocent.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (U6Usv)

195 Morn' all.. As bad as SCOTUS is now with the three witches imagine how bad it would be with 10 more added like them if the Dems take over again....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (VE6XX)

196 I just love Peanuts… I have a bunch of old paperbacks from my youth which are collections of the comic strip. They make me laugh and laugh…. Just the other day I was reading a series of strips how Lucy threw Shroeder’s piano into the sewer because (of course) he was more interested in piano than her… her theory of romance: eliminate the competition. Hilarious…. Linus and the great pumpkin… Charlie Brown and his unrequited love of the little red haired girl… I think it’s all brilliant

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (5MZNC)

197 169 I simply do not understand Pope Leo and his weak, supine position on Islam. I'm not Catholic, so please, no offense intended. I just don't get how he doesn't see them for the danger they are to Christianity worldwide.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)

He's just taking the position that the majority of Catholics have. Catholicism is mostly leftism.

Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.

It's why I'm not religious.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (g8Ew8)

198 190 Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)
=====

Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse.

Subversive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)

Yeeeeahh, you got me, San Fran. I actually like her, weird huh??

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x)

199 186 Notice how those in favor of abortion already won the Birth Canal Bingo?
And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5)

>>>
I believe in the concept of retroactive abortion. . . and I know who should be on the list

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (e45L/)

200 What I find fascinating is the left's unshakeable belief that a government agency has the best interests of everyone at heart. They cannot fathom that politics are inferior to capitalism.

In fact, the capitalist system, where a product must compete in a voluntary transaction is far better than a system where a political appointee makes the decision based on whatever floats their boat, or more likely, defers to the people who put them there. The left claims that they are for the people, but they don't trust them to make decisions.

Leftists just can't believe that common people will make the best decisions available independently of an appointed expert.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)

201 192 >>He's either ignorant or dishonest.

He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him.

The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one.
Posted by: JackStraw

Hey, that was my conclusion too!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)

202 142 Leo 14 is committed to Francis' demolition of all things Catholic and Western. He just isn't a brutal thug about it, like Francis was.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (pd4dZ)

203 Kung Pao Fungal Chikken very good. Add Soya Dumpling and MSG, Americans will buy!

Posted by: Wokking Your Dog at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

204 I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenship question, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been legislation instituting birthright citizenship, it's just been treated as though that's the thing.

Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

205 Yeeeeahh, you got me, San Fran. I actually like her, weird huh??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x)
=====

My advice: start drinking heavily.
-Senator John Blutarskey

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (A0sqA)

206 Don't get me wrong, I do like Peanuts, at least for the first 10-15 years of the strip, and I might even stretch the liking to the first 20 years. But after that, it just doesn't interest me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (ufSfZ)

207 The powers of the presidency that the Left is now railing against in the courts and media and on social media they will turn on a dime over and seize and expand and exploit as soon as they hold the office.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (WHfpM)

208 197 Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.
>>>

The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash.

Bring back the Missouri Synod.

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/)

209 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

Elon Musk sharply criticizes SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after she claimed President Trump should not have the authority to remove “experts” from executive agencies.

MUSK: “She is openly advocating for the destruction of democracy.”

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

210 191 MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

211 Lady in Black,

Indeed. Islam is completely incompatible and anathema to Christianity.

Rape and murder are their sacraments.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (W7XSX)

212 Vic Dibitetto is ticked off about having too much of the good things in life -

https://youtu.be/brFAmCjGvso

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (wVcYX)

213 Rappaport was haf-way red pilled by the left's celebratory response to October 7. He's a non-self-loathing liberal Jew.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT)

214 208 197 Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.
>>>

The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash.

Bring back the Missouri Synod.
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/)

Still going strong here. Have family who are Lutheran, Missouri Synod. Kids go to Lutheran school, they have a K-12.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (pDt9x)

215 Birthright citizenship for illegals is a misreading of the plain language of the 14th amendment ("subject to jurisdiction"), therefore it is unconstitutional. This is the correct and most straightforward way to decide this case. Roberts will screw it up somehow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

216 Peanuts was okay. But I really loved Andy Capp. As a kid, that comic strip always cracked me up.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM)

217 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (53oGX)

218 204 To the best of my knowledge, there has never been legislation instituting birthright citizenship, it's just been treated as though that's the thing.

Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

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Precedent requires legal residency first. That's what Wong Kim Ark actually said.

If SCOTUS just keeps to precedent, Trump has every right to deny birthright citizenship to people here illegally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

219 -------
With accessible, inclusive language, Abortion is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision. Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us. Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)

220 215 Birthright citizenship for illegals is a misreading of the plain language of the 14th amendment ("subject to jurisdiction"), therefore it is unconstitutional. This is the correct and most straightforward way to decide this case. Roberts will screw it up somehow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)

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And of Wong Kim Ark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

221 My two favorites are Dilbert and The Far Side.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)

222 210 191 MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.
Posted by: Bulg

We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.

Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (oftw2)

223 166 It's way worse than that, MP4. One of Leo 14's guiding lights is the monstrous Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.

Wolf, sheep's clothing, some assembly required

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (pd4dZ)

224 Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)

Five year olds ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)

225 Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'

TBF, the American Religion (which has bled on to Rome) when reading Galatians 5, they tend to conflate "long suffering" with "kind".

And kind means supportive, so therefore we are supposed to be kind and supportive to drug boat operators, fraudsters, terrorists, abortionists and assassins.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (WCaCG)

226 Frame 1: Charlie Brown and Linus are walking and each is carrying a hot dog.

Frame 2: The two are seated at a curb and Linus says "Pretty good hot dogs, huh, Charlie Brown?

Frame 3: Charlie Brown says "Fair, I guess."

Frame 4: Charlie Brown closes the strip with "A hot dog just doesn't taste right without a baseball game in front of it."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

227 Abortion is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision.
____

Abstinence is a superpower.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (Dv3i1)

228 My favorite Peanuts strip was Lucy going to see Schroder and Frieda was already leaning against the piano. She walks out in a daze and sits next to Snoopy. She tells him what happens, he suggests pouncing on Frieda.

A moment later, she follows his advice and she and Snoopy are shaking hands. And not one word of dialogue at all.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (NR6c1)

229 MP4, I always thought that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age, with Linus and Sally as their respective younger siblings. Never knew that Schroeder started out as a baby, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

The original characters were Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy came in within the first two weeks, IIRC, and then in a few months Violet and Schroeder. I believe Lucy, Linus and Pig-Pen didn't come along until the second or third year.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (ufSfZ)

230 Bill Watterson was right to end C&H when he did. That strip never bounded over the chondrichthyan (as Calvin might have put it).

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

231 >>I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenship question, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.

And yet SCOTUS is likely to side with Trump on his ability to fire political appointees in the Executive Branch, a decision Trump made on his own.

Anyone who actually reads the 14th Amendment, and I'll go way out on a limb and assume members of the Supreme Court actually read it at some point, knows that it was never intended to grant citizenship to anyone who managed to be born here. That is a decision that was reached by subversives on their own with no basis in constitutional law.

The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)

232 Peanuts was okay. But I really loved Andy Capp. As a kid, that comic strip always cracked me up.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM)

I have always loved Andy Capp. I have so many of the small paperback collections of the strip that you can see where Smythe repeats jokes, just with different characters.

The modern ghost strip version is an abomination and ought to be put out of its misery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (ufSfZ)

233 I don't know Pope Leo, but I doubt he's either ignorant or evil, because I think when he's reported on ,things are taken out of context by the media and not fully reported or reported incorrectly ( Sort of like with President Trump) I also don't know what else he's saying behind the scenes. However, people who are Catholic can write to him and express their concerns:

https://tinyurl.com/4pmj6u6z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (PFs9e)

234 Rappaport was haf-way red pilled by the left's celebratory response to October 7. He's a non-self-loathing liberal Jew.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT)
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Some of the most articulate righties today are red-pilled liberals

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (O5TZR)

235 Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)

I have been shielding my kids from such horrors. Who are these people that get off on terrifying kids?

Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (Wt5PA)

236 Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09

Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)

237 I've recently learned my grandson who is in third grade has developed a keen interest in Calvin and Hobbes.

Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

238 Is Blondie still around?

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

239 The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.
*
exactly!

or a Bengal cat lol
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025

***
Reasons Cats Are Better Than Somalis

* Cats are better looking (subjective, I admit, but a popular view) and certainly cuter

* Cats will not give fast food workers a hard time, take video of the incident, and then complain they are victims of anti-catism

* Cats do not immigrate, then complain about their new environment being anti-cat while living on the bounty of their benefactors (arguable). At least they look cute while doing it; see Point One

* Cats may actually earn their keep by hunting vermin

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (wzUl9)

240 two favorites are Dilbert and The Far Side.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)

Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (Oy/m2)

241 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (PFs9e)
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We differ on this one Fen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (O5TZR)

242 Fen the nice thing about the current Pope is he speaks English so I can just listen to his nonsense instead of having some cope fed to me about how "something was lost in translation."

I've heard more than enough from him.

Leftist professor. That's it. That's the thing.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (emBoF)

243 236 Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)

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Which would mean that another president could undo those regulations since they're not required by Congress and statute.

I wouldn't put money on this, but I suspect that we could end up with, "Trump has the authority to do it, and if Congress doesn't like it, they should pass a law."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

244 236 Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09

Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)

Admin regs are what each presidency can change pretty much at will...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (tOcjL)

245 The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)

I only worry about the tariff ruling. I've always felt that Roberts keeps a scorecard and doesn't want to give Trump too many wins. He may see ruling against Trump's tariff authority as the great equalizer. At this point he also must realize the terrible blow it would be to Trump's vision and his economic grand strategy -- not to mention the country.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)

246 We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025

***
Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (wzUl9)

247 Who are these people that get off on terrifying kids?"

Mostly women without kids...
(See former Nashville candidate)

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

248 238 Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg

Kinda. Clem Burke died this year and Debbie Harry turned 80, though.

Posted by: Pretty Baby at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2)

249 Morons jonesing for a comics-related post from the Boss. It has been a blessed while since the ewok has posted about Disney, Marvel, or trash-culture in general.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA)

250 We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025

***
Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025

***
Let us not forget John Hoyt, either

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

251 Given the strong argument against "birthright citizenship", SCOTUS may surprise, and reach the right conclusion. I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (O5TZR)

252 249 Morons jonesing for a comics-related post from the Boss. It has been a blessed while since the ewok has posted about Disney, Marvel, or trash-culture in general.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA)

No Disney...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)

253 I have doubts that Roberts has any core ideological beliefs. He’s just a part of The System.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (pDt9x)

254 237 I've recently learned my grandson who is in third grade has developed a keen interest in Calvin and Hobbes.

Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest.

Excellent idea. We must teach the younger generation about the good stuff!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1)

255 We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy

And Keith Richards.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1)

256 Time I hit the road for my errands. Later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (wzUl9)

257 >>Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.

Would that be the same bureaucracy the SC is finally about to decide works for the president?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (viF8m)

258 Pope Leo was elected because he wasn't controversial to the leftist power structure in the church and because he's American. That was important for the $. His statements show he's in the same mold as Pope Frankie, just not as annoying

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (D+mpw)

259 it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it.

Actually, it will have everything to do with that. Reinterpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is the Supreme Court's job. The executive order is overstepping executive authority. It hurts the case. He should have found a way to frame the case in the context of judicial review.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (R86kT)

260 I remember The Wizard of Id and Haggar the Horrible.

Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)

261 The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)

I think you're correct; mainly because they're not going to decide based on the right or wrong of the issue. They're going to make this a Separation of Powers / Executive Branch Authority case. I wouldn't be surprised if Roberts used it to say "Sure, we gave him Humphries Executor, but we didn't go all the way; we didn't give him this."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (moK1X)

262 Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (emBoF)

I see your point, but leftist professors-are generally not Religious or rather their religion is leftism. Even though he speaks English I wouldn't know what his actual complete views are on
all kinds of subjects.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (PFs9e)

263 238 Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg
___

Not sure. I was napping on the couch.

Posted by: Dagwood at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

264 Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born"

/Keith Richards laughs

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

265 Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)
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Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR)

266 Beetle Bailey.. is that one still alive?

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (pDt9x)

267 I see your point, but leftist professors-are generally not Religious or rather their religion is leftism. Even though he speaks English I wouldn't know what his actual complete views are on
all kinds of subjects.

ah ok well you probably don't know many professors of phillosophy, history, and theology.

because they are all Leftists.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)

268 People keep forgetting the poison pill half of birthright citizenship that is chain migration.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)

269 CAIR is butthurt!

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (g47mK)

270 Morning Horde. First chance to post at length since returning from visiting the hubby's family for Thanksgiving. My absurd story from that visit. SIL has a friend that adopted a child from Nepal. The adult child now lives in Chicago and has a high profile job. SIL was lamenting that the woman goes in fear and is close to hiring security when she leaves her home. The kicker, it's not because she could be robbed or murdered in peaceful Chicago, nope it's from fear of being picked up by ICE. She carries her passport and adoption papers with her at all times so she's not arrested and deported. You cannot make this crap up.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (2NHgQ)

271 Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.

Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq)

272 Haggar"

Sansabelt?

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

273 I enjoy A Charlie Brown Christmas because of Linus' Bible recitation and the incomparable Vince Guaraldi music.

The other Peanuts specials are meh.

Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (1Au9i)

274 The king is a fink!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:08 AM (bvUs5)

275 265 Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)
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Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR)

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It's much more likely that the court tells the lower courts to treat each tariff individually instead of as a group, remanding for further review, than striking anything down.

The lower court did err when it came to how it reviewed the tariffs.

And yes, most of the tariffs can be reimplemented without interruption under different authorities, though I think 50% is the ceiling of the tariff on that.

And no, SCOTUS is not going to demand the admin pay back the tariffs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)

276 has a high profile job. SIL was lamenting that the woman goes in fear and is close to hiring security when she leaves her home. The kicker, it's not because she could be robbed or murdered in peaceful Chicago, nope it's from fear of being picked up by ICE"

She's that stupid but somehow got a good job? We're screwed.

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

277 Would that be the same bureaucracy the SC is finally about to decide works for the president?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM

They might even get around to doing it after JD Vance's reelection in '32.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (moK1X)

278 President Donald Trump warned European countries on Monday after the European Commission fined X, Elon Musk’s social media company, $140 million.

In an ideal world this would be the announcement: "X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to lesser countries making unreasonable demands."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (NR6c1)

279 Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)

Not Catholic ones- no. But I would think there are conservative ones at places like Francisian University of Steubenville

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (PFs9e)

280 She's that stupid but somehow got a good job? We're screwed.

but she's so EXOTIC looking! of course you hire her

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (emBoF)

281 Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)

In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

282 Mostly women without kids...
(See former Nashville candidate)

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

I have been an aunt since I was 12. I have five nephews that I've helped raise, two children that are my own, and one in utero.

To say that I fundamentally don't understand these people is an understatement.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)

283 >>Actually, it will have everything to do with that. Reinterpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is the Supreme Court's job. The executive order is overstepping executive authority. It hurts the case. He should have found a way to frame the case in the context of judicial review.

Nonsense. You could make the same case about Trump overstepping his executive authority and firing a member of the FTC. And you'd be wrong.

This is how cases get to the Supreme Court. When someone finally has the stones to challenge the actual meaning of the Constitution and not "settled law" created by some bureaucrat or politician.

Th 14th Amendment was created to protect the rights of slaves in America. The writer even specifically said it had nothing to do with immigrants. Trump is fully within his rights to force the court to decide if the Constitution means what it says or it up to interpretation by every whack job politician with an agenda.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (viF8m)

284 Accomack, Nope. Allred was going to beat Cruz too, remember.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)

285 What's fascinating to me is these people incorporate the idea that humans are "unique", yet they specifically do not value human life.

They HAVE to use the language of God and the Bible even in their deranged sickness.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (U6Usv)

286 We have an excellent successor to Trump, in Vance. Cards need to be played correctly, concerning him.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (pDt9x)

287 The Born Loser.

Funny stuff

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

288 Not Catholic ones- no. But I would think there are conservative ones at places like Francisian University of Steubenville

hmm is that where he taught tho?

regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors.

and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF)

289 284 Accomack, Nope. Allred was going to beat Cruz too, remember.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)

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Beto raised $100 million and still lost to Cruz in what was most likely a more Democrat environment than 2026 will be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

290 Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.

Posted by: Accomack

You don't understand Texas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm)

291 Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)

Is there gonna be another Pooky offspring ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX)

292 Is Blondie still around?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

Yes, and written by creator Chic Young's son or grandson, I believe. Like most strips from that era, it started off as a continuity (as did Nancy), but later turned into its current incarnation as a gag-a-day strip.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ufSfZ)

293 I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.

GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

We have a GE electric range with double oven that we installed in 1976. A couple of years ago I replaced all the controls, burner elements and associated sockets. All still available. And, yes, it IS Harvest Gold. I even saved the original ad for the stove. My cost, as a dealer, was $775.00, $980,00 list price. Big bucks back then for a new home owner, 1974, but it's lasted all these years. And, I can keep it running.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (5xuJ/)

294 281

In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

That makes an awful lot of sense to be considered.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x)

295 Calvin and Hobbs is the GOAT.

But my favorite comic "episode" was in Sherman's Lagoon, when a fish "couldn't tell a joke to save his life" as he was served to Sherman and his wife when at a restaurant. Dad and I related to that strip very well.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (EES2L)

296 “Look, Europe has to be very careful,” the president continued. “They’re doing a lot of things. … Europe is going in some bad directions. It’s very bad for the people.”
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What positives does Europe bring to America?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (Xle0l)

297 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

If your gamma ray burst last longer than 7 hours, contact your astronomer.

Posted by: muldoon at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (/iMjX)

298 hmm is that where he taught tho?

regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors.

and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF)

Not in Mid Atlantic dioceses...come south or west...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (tOcjL)

299 290 Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.

Posted by: Accomack

You don't understand Texas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm)

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Hispanic men seem to be majority Republican now. Joe Biden did that.

And sassy black woman who plays well to AWFLs in Houston probably won't play well outside of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

300 Shoe, Hagar the Horrible, C&H, Blondie. The hidden gem lessons in these strips were gold. Everything else pales, but there are several honorable mentions, like Baby Blues and Pickles. And time to be honest: it's a generational thing.

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (e45L/)

301 People keep forgetting the poison pill half of birthright citizenship that is chain migration.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)

And taxpayer funded benefits. Fine when they go to people temporarily down on their luck or incapable of work through no fault of their own. Bad when they go to actual citizens who're just too lazy to get off their ass. Worse when they go to people who shouldn't even be here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

302 The Family Circus is the pinnacle of comic perfection, beloved by millions.

Posted by: Bil Keane at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)

303 “Franciscan University of Steubenville” sounds a little like “Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.”

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

304 And screw Benson from the Arizona Republic

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (e45L/)

305 Beto raised $100 million and still lost to Cruz in what was most likely a more Democrat environment than 2026 will be."

I have no idea who will win, but I note that the Bush "machine" no longer seems to have much influence (which is also a hopeful thing for Houston/ Harris county)

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (XuXeR)

306 294 That makes an awful lot of sense to be considered.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x)

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SCOTUS since about late 2021 has made a lot of sense.

Roberts' promise that everything would return to normal if they didn't take up TX v PA seems to have soured the conservative majority on the whole, "friends across the aisle" mentality.

And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

307 >>Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”

Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c)

308 Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over

********

Mad props!

Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (/iMjX)

309 One last comic strip I loved before the Art Thread shows up. Herman.

A favorite from that was a guy walking down the street puffing on a pipe. An Indian walks past him, looks at the smoke and says "Same to you, pal!"

Just can't make jokes like that any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NR6c1)

310
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.

The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.

Investigate them.

https://tinyurl.com/zk73apzk

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

311 Is there gonna be another Pooky offspring ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX)

IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)

312 I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.

GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I have a similarly aged washer and dryer, and replaced the dryer heating element last weekend. If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm)

313 And Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois, The Wizard of Id, B.C. and Hagar the Horrible still run, but none with the original creators.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)

314 At least we can all agree that the idea Nick Fuentes was some kind of influencer that could damage Trump is complete bullshit.

>>@rich_goldberg
·
55m
>>“New report documents foreign engagement driving online antisemitic activity”

>>“The Network Contagion Research Institute found that engagement with Nick Fuentes’ posts in the first 30 minutes came largely from anonymous foreign users”

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)

315
IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)

Congrats...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)

316 What positives does Europe bring to America?"

I need my Irish butter! And chocolate!

/white women with rosé

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

317 >>And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.

It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is, and here it leads, that they must clearly reject it or look like just a fool as she is.
Justice Kinsley Gaffe!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (NuV6c)

318
I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Bloom County at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)

319 Jumanji Brown “ could” be seen as that gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x)

320 Crockett will win. The GOPe hates Paxson and the Dems will vote for any D.
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq)

The GOPe hated Paxton when he was last elected. They hated him when the three judges who ruled against him were up for re-election. Thus far, the GOPe has not been successful in stopping him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

321 SCOTUS is not going to demand the admin pay back the tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)
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I agree no refunds will be made, but I was referring to unwinding the statecraft involved, not the money. Trump uses tariffs as a key negotiation tool, and forcing the unwinding the foreign agreements would be a massively difficult thing for our country and foreign policy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ)

322 Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)

323 If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM

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You're lucky to get 10 years out of today's crap appliances. By design.

Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i)

324 >>>>“The Network Contagion Research Institute found that engagement with Nick Fuentes’ posts in the first 30 minutes came largely from anonymous foreign users”

Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (NuV6c)

325 Late-posting 'rons are right: Herman, Family Circus, many others. . . . .all good in some relevant way. We have our favorites for a reason relevant to our times and lives--even the Born Loser (remember that?)

Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (e45L/)

326 Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa"

Wow. Authentic Cajun names there...

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

327 >>I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Bloom County

"Aaaaaaackpthfffffff!"
-- Bill the Cat

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (NuV6c)

328 319 Jumanji Brown “ could” be seen as that gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x)

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I think her presence destroyed all effort Kagan was making in softening ACB, though that was always a bit oversold.

Kentaji is so antagonistic in the open, actively stupid, and grating that she just turns off those not tuned to her arguments.

Hell, Sotomayor wrote her own dissent to tell Kentaji that, no, that's not how this works. And Kentaji still published her dissent that Sotomayor said was stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

329 Congratulations, Pookysgirl. May God bless you and your pregnancy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (PFs9e)

330 I have a similarly aged washer and dryer, and replaced the dryer heating element last weekend. If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm)

1988 Amana refrigerator?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (wVcYX)

331 Congrats...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)

Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)

Awww, thank you! It doesn't quite feel real yet, but I'm sure it will once we get that first ultrasound!

Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (Wt5PA)

332 Mazeltov, Pookysgirl!

You can go with Pookette II, with the elder Pookette being Pookette I. Like the way the ancient Romans named their daughters.

Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

333 IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)

Congrats! Many blessings.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX)

334 >>Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?

I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)

335 >>Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.

The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.

Bet they got a sweet small business loan from our government, and use food stamps to stock their shelves.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NuV6c)

336 I have some ideas on naming your kids.

Posted by: George Foreman at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (wVcYX)

337 Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)
******
Ditto!!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

338 335 >>Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.

The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.

Seems dumb to call attention to yourselves...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (VE6XX)

339 334 >>Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?

I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)

======

"Sure, he proved he was powerless last September when he said he was going to Michigan to ensure Trump lost and then Trump won Michigan, but everything has changed since. I only have podcast numbers, but it's obvious that he drives the younger generations. I mean...you saw was majority Democrat NYC did in its mayoral race, right?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

340 The SC may split the conclusion on the tariffs. They could find the Pres has the power to issue them in response to the drug emergency, but send the case back to lower courts to determine which nations are properly tariffed. For example why is France being tariffed in this emergency situation. Venezuela, China, Mexico are obvious

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (D+mpw)

341 Anybody have Jalen Hurts on their fantasy team last night?
Posted by: mr tmz

ME!!! Fortunately, I also had Devanta Smith who garnered a whopping 7 points, but it was enough to overcome much of Hurts' generosity. Im' in the playoffs!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (cxFcK)

342 I agree no refunds will be made, but I was referring to unwinding the statecraft involved, not the money. Trump uses tariffs as a key negotiation tool, and forcing the unwinding the foreign agreements would be a massively difficult thing for our country and foreign policy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ)

I guess we'll either have to threaten to bomb people or let the American citizens go back to being fucked in the ass by the rest of the world. -- Congress, rubbing their hands together in anticipation

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

343 318 I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Bloom County

One of the many things I liked about the strip was that Breathed is a liberal but he skewered both sides.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (NR6c1)

344 "The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls."

They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, without needing to overrule prior rulings. Then punt to Congress. Weasely, but it's a step forward.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (dtajH)

345 Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”

Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c)

"See, Little Priscilla? I came thiiiiissss close to throwing you outta my womb and into the garbage can.

But, I didn't. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice!"

Posted by: Aborto-Mom 2025 at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (iJfKG)

346 1988 Amana refrigerator?

Posted by: Count de Monet

1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

347 314 Only question is which intel agency / agencies are pushing Fuentes. The astroturfing behind the newest wave of antisemitism is an obvious tell of a psyop.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (pd4dZ)

348 It's not "peace, goodwill toward men."

It's "peace to men of goodwill."

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX)

349
1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

We have a Viking refrigerator we purchased in 2006....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (VE6XX)

350 I guess if they're not doing it already, RC's could consider asking for the intercession of St John Paul ll so that this Pope Leo could see the light on Islam .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e)

351 1988 Amana refrigerator?

Posted by: Count de Monet

1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

About 2 years ago I looked for replacement door seals. Not available then. The failing seals are causing problems with maintaining temps and with frost buildup.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (wVcYX)

352 Yahoo News:

Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

353 Fen,

We pray that every day.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (W7XSX)

354 >>Only question is which intel agency / agencies are pushing Fuentes. The astroturfing behind the newest wave of antisemitism is an obvious tell of a psyop.

There's been video online of him outside the Capitol on J6, yelling to people to break into it, 'it's ours!' etc.. yet he was never arrested. Now THAT's the tell.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)

355
"X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to ~~lesser~~ loser countries making unreasonable demands."

Fix'd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (tgvbd)

356 Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo).

And rich.. That's some expensive real estate...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (VE6XX)

357 Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (W7XSX)

Good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (PFs9e)

358 Time For Ukraine To Have Elections As It's 'Not A Democracy Anymore': Trump

Zelensky is "going to have to get on the ball & start accepting things."

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

359 >>Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’

*slaps forehead*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (NuV6c)

360 Re: birthright citizenship, will anyone on SCOTUS have the balls to cite Justice Jackson: "the Consitution is not a suicide pact."

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (dtajH)

361 >>They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, without needing to overrule prior rulings. Then punt to Congress. Weasely, but it's a step forward.

One of the unsung heroes of the Trump administration is Solicitor General John Sauer. He's brilliant and tough.

Trump's team has a great record at the SC. Who knows what they will do about birthright citizenship, few predicted they would gut the idiotic rule that presidents don't control the bureaucracy. But they lose it won't be because they weren't prepared.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (viF8m)

362 looked for replacement door seals"

*insert blew the seals joke here*

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (XuXeR)

363 Yahoo News:

Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

But other than that, he ain't nothing but a good old boy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

364 Ah, Bloom County. Came this close to hanging on too long (Outland never had any appeal for me).

I still like the episode where Trump is crushed by a falling girder and his brain is put into the body of Bill the Cat., who tries to convince Ivana that it's really him.

"Who's my little Miss Goldiknockers?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)

365 >>>And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.

It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is
-----

like so many progressives, she is completely certain of her brilliance

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ZxPkt)

366 the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us,

A bit of trivia: the Totenkopf belt buckles say this. The regular Waffen SS belt buckles say, "Meine Ehre Heisst Treue". "My Honor is Loyalty".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (/HDaX)

367 >>They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, ...

That's what she said!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

368 >>like so many progressives, she is completely certain of her brilliance

. . . and apparently, will not shut up.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (NuV6c)

369 You're lucky to get 10 years out of today's crap appliances. By design.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i)

On the other hand, if they made appliances that lasted more than a few years in service, you'd need a 30-year mortgage on them to be able to afford it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Vq1pX)

370 he ain't nothing but a good old boy."

Never doing no harm?

/yesterday, right?

Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR)

371 I guess if they're not doing it already, RC's could consider asking for the intercession of St John Paul ll so that this Pope Leo could see the light on Islam .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e)

JP2 entered a mosque, put on their pagan slippers and prayed. Catholics would be better off asking Urban II to give Leo a dope slap.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ufSfZ)

372 BTW - ART is up

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)

373 >>The original characters were Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy came in within the first two weeks, IIRC, and then in a few months Violet and Schroeder. I believe Lucy, Linus and Pig-Pen didn't come along until the second or third year.

I'm sure this is already willowed, but there's a collection of Saturday Evening Post cartoons from the late '40s that include 2 Schultz single-panel cartoons, with proto-Peanuts characters, including Snoopy.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (NcvvS)

374 340 The SC may split the conclusion on the tariffs. They could find the Pres has the power to issue them in response to the drug emergency,
____

I thought the emergency was that we're $32 trillion in debt. My bad, carry on.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

375 Pope Leo, King John III Sobieski would like a word with you.

Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (W7XSX)

376 The Gentle Giant was going to go to kollege in the Fall before he tried to kill that police officer!

Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (1pB37)

377 I agree with Tucker Carlson that he should move to Qatar...and leave us be. C ya

Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (1pB37)

378 Zelensky Definitively Shuts Door On Trump Peace Plan, Won't Cede Territory

European leaders pushing forward maximalist counter-demands...

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

379 Democratic Rep. Jasmine Cockroach announces US Senate bid in Texas, tells Trump 'I'm coming for you'

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

380 Trump greenlights Nvidia AI chip exports to China, touts 25% US share

China To Limit Nvidia's H200 Chip Access After Trump Greenlights Exports

"Buyers would probably be required to go through an approval process, the people said, submitting requests..."

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

381 Gas Prices Drop To Lowest Level In Nearly 5 Years Across US

The most common gas price seen by drivers was $2.79 per gallon nationwide

... not in Pennsylvania where they have the 3rd highest gas tax

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (RHGPo)

382 Musk Claims EU Commissars Are 'Responsible For Murder Of Europe'

Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with Brussels... seeing “record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe”

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

383 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ufSfZ)

Is Urban a Saint?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (DsbQ3)

384 Good morning, all, thanks, J.J. 🙏

Geez. What a genuinely awful book "for children."

Last evening, watched a generally good show with one subplot where a teen was either a day under or or a day over the limit of weeks of her pregnancy (via ultrasound testing & 'skill' of the operator) in order to obtain "abortion pills." It also dealt with parental & non-parental involvement in such matters.

Looking forwarded to the ruling on "independent agencies." While some agencies do have hybrid models, they are distinct from genuinely private sector entities.

Locally reported, Luqmaan Khan was an Afghan national who immigrated to the US years prior and later became a US citizen. "Pakistan's Foreign Office explicitly stated that Luqmaan Khan is an Afghan national, not Pakistani, who lived as a refugee in Pakistan for a few years before moving to the US with his family." He didn't come to the US in 2021 as part of the US evacuation from Afghanistan.

OTOH, I don't think his name is uncommon among Afghans.

How can someone attack police (authority) in a country that welcomed him & his family? Why such failings of immigrant assimilation? (F those intersectionality excuses.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)

385 I'm going to have 4 daughters, and if any of them ever were given that abortion book to read I'd be excommunicato forever to the person that gave it to them. These people are crazy.

Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (53oGX)

386 From above, ". . after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. (How do you say "Mother What Have You Done?!" in Bantu? Axing for a fiend named Bates - jjs)
Nigeria Investigates Organ-Harvesting Ring After Discovering Mutilated Corpses"

When you think it can't get much worse. So very sad and, apparently, OK by "civil society" as it debates issues of national sovereignty, the complexity of the conflicts, and a lack of consensus on the nature of the crisis.

"Follow the money." Always. (And to think that's simply a line from a screenplay.)
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Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence'
Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers.

NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.'
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

387 Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’

No, it's an Emperor-like power of life and death, like in the Roman Colosseum; Mum gives the thumbs up or down.

Also, "Shout Your Abortion" is not possible for the babies that were aborted...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (ynpvh)

388 386
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Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence'
Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers.

NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.'
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

Ignore the piles of Christian bodies and all the Christian girls raped by the Muzzies like you always do, MSM; I guess you don't feel like it's murder-murder and rape-rape.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (ynpvh)

389 The local BS is restarting over the ACA, Medicare/Medicaid (vaccinations, abortion access..)🤬

Medicare (Parts A and B) is administered directly by the federal government.

Medicare pays a fixed amount for care every month to the companies offering Medicare Advantage Plans & those companies are to follow rules set by Medicare. However, Medicare Advantage Plans can charge different out-of-pocket costs & have different rules for how to get services (referrals to specialists; see only doctors, facilities, or suppliers that belong to the plan for non‑emergency or non-urgent care, etc.). The rules can change annually.

Private healthcare systems are also involved in Medicaid, primarily through Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). States contract with private insurers to manage care, sometimes through supplemental coverage where private plans cover gaps or specific benefits, with Medicaid paying for the rest or offering premium assistance.

So, Medicare/Medicaid is basically a shell corporation operating as public-private partnership w/ a good amount of administration & coverage decisions handled by private companies under "government oversight?"

The ACA is a sham! No more time!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (NFX2v)

390 So in the ideas of the Eco-Freaks If some Child opposes Abortion their a Religious Fanatic but of some kid sits in a tree to keep it from being chopped Down their Hero of the Planet in the minds of the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (wGqjj)

391 My last salary was $8750, ecom only worked 12 hours a week. My longtime neighbor yr estimated $15,000 and works about 20 hours for seven days. I can't believe how blunt he was when I looked up his information,

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