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The Morning Report — 12/23/25

Good morning kids. It's Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I'm going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding.

And away we go. I don't claim t be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.

President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels. The America First leader shared the news from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is vacationing over the holidays, joined by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump described the vessels as components of a new “Golden Fleet,” with ambitions to produce up to 25 such battleships. He stated that these would be the “largest we’ve ever built.”“They will have 100 times the force, the power, and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump said. “We envision that these two ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships that will be produced in the years to come.”The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant. This development follows shortly after the Navy abandoned efforts to develop a different, smaller warship due to escalating expenses and extended timelines.

Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"

Will dressing up like Teddy Roosevelt and running up a White House stairway as if it were San Juan Hill (watch Arsenic & Old Lace), while deploying a great white, er Golden, fleet really deter Xi and the Chi-Coms? Will it help get out the vote 11 months from now? Maybe in Newport News or Pascagoula (assuming they still build ships there?).

Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:

Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday.
The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check . . . DePena testified on Castro’s behalf during the commission proceeding, but it was the mayor’s request to use a translator that drew significant attention. . . DePena is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before settling in Lawrence in 1989. Over 80 percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, according to the US Census.

The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English. Forget illegal immigration, this fool is a Legal Immigrant. both my parents' families (my father's side escaping the pogroms of Ukraine at the turn of he last century and my mother's side barely surviving the death camps of the Nazis,) came here to embrace and become fully American. Initially they barely spoke English but quickly learned enough to find work and support families while instilling the ideals and culture of this ountry on their children.

That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.

Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am.

And Mike Pence and George Conway can go pump each other.

And more "Walzing Muh shill dough" this time up in Maine. Funny how these desert dwellers all wind up living here in states that can get about as cold as the Arctic Circle.

But best not talk about it because that can be very unhealthy.

And speaking of health, Bernie Sanders is cancer, so all he's doing here is protecting his own. But you young people go out and pimp socialism as the last best hope for humanity:

Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities.
Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
His complaint: the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, named for a teen cancer patient who died while advocating for its passage, is a pared-down version of a previous package that included other health-care measures as well, including funding for community health centers.
Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
Yet without his vote, it didn’t win unanimous backing, so it’ll now have to make its way through a much more arduous procedural process when Congress reconvenes next year. . .Pray it doesn’t cost the lives of any kids who could’ve benefited. But make no mistake: This is super-villain behavior, as more rational lawmakers pointed out.
Right-wing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also supports funding community health centers, fumed: “To say that you’re not going to give a chance for children to have a cure for cancer if you don’t get what you want” is “selfish” and “tragic.” Amen to that.

Up yours NY Post for describing Bill Cassidy as "Right Wing," which by doing that is essentially saying Nazi/fascist/racist etc, ad nauseum One day, if Bernie and Mamdani take over, you can do like they do in England when you have a toothache. Make like Moe howard did to Curly, and tie one end of a string to your rotten tooth and the other to a doorknob.

Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does as I have seen posted too many times by a bevy of scumbag leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. Yeah, life is such a paradise in Havana and Pyongyang but you insist on staying here in evil and illegitimate America.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Glenn H. Reynolds: Because the DEI fad didn’t just wreck American lives. It went a long way toward wrecking America.
DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise

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

Finally, the multiculturalism cult is dying as the predictably wretched results are becoming painfully clear beyond what the leftist media could hope to hide.
The death of multiculturalism will save America
Race discrimination is illegal and unconstitutional regardless of ‘equitable’ motives.
Why Hasn’t Trump’s CDC Ditched This Rule That Punishes Neighborhoods For Being Too White?
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The small expense is far less than the cost of chasing and deporting migrants — and it comes amid growing economic pressure on migrants who are losing jobs and housing amid President Donald Trump’s enforcement of the nation’s popular migration laws.
DHS Offers Illegal Immigrants a $3,000 ‘Holiday Stipend’ for Self-Deportation
Mayor Brian DePena immigrated to the United States in the 1980s.
Massachusetts Mayor Can’t Understand English, Needs Translator In Court
Two officers and Romero sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital.
Illegal Rams ICE Agents in Walz’s Minnesota, Officer Bitten, Shots Fired.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Letting the jihadis write the histories.
Qatar-Funded Curriculum Materials in NYC Twist the Truth of 9/11
A briefing for federal and state officials and policymakers.
Connecting the Dots from Hamas to CAIR
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
“In other words, James Burnham was wrong. . . The JQ absolves America. . . The JQ begs the GQ. . . There are good arguments for and against continuing Israeli aid.”
The Return of the Jewish Question
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Not only did the Obama and Biden juntas go to great lengths to protect Hillary Clinton, they went to unconstitutional lengths to get Trump.
New Docs Reveal Shocking Lengths Obama And Biden Went To Protect Hillary Clinton, Get Trump
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The allegations highlight concerns over the misuse of taxpayer funds in the Somali community, and raise questions about oversight in Maine’s Medicaid and welfare systems.
Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused of Fraud, Family Allegedly Put Bounty on Reporter.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Many have sought to balance their portfolios with gold and silver as a hedge for future turbulence.
Gold, Silver Prices Reach New Highs to Reemerge as Hedge
South Korea is using “fairness” laws as economic weapons—targeting U.S. firms with raids and threats—turning a key alliance into a test of whether free trade still means fair play.
South Korea’s Betrayal of American Companies
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The 30-year-old transgender man legally changed his name and sex in 2023, about a year before murdering his elderly parents Joseph and Gail Bailey, according to St. George News.
Trans Convict Who Fatally Shot His Parents in the Head Converts to Islam, Requests Death Penalty but Gets 25 to Life
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Though Google already owns a majority stake in the company, the deal will further support the Big Tech company’s build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while keeping Intersect’s operations separate, according to Alphabet. As America’s energy demand climbs while projected AI data center needs skyrocket, Big Tech has been searching for reliable electricity sources — with some companies looking to resurrect nuclear plants.
Tech Behemoth Gobbles Up Power Company In $5 Billion Deal To Juice Data Centers
Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
National security concerns with Virginia Wind have been documented by the Navy for years
Public Interest Groups Applaud the Trump Administration's Order Halting the Virginia Wind Project.. “The CVOW and the other wind facilities at issue are dangerous boondoggles, posing a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, in addition to endangering protected marine mammals. There is no economic justification for CVOW. The power it provides will compromise the electric power grid while causing electric prices to skyrocket.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Many American public schools have become perverse, left-wing failure factories, putting the nation at risk.
“Stupid in America” Turns 20
Students need orderly classrooms to learn.
Why Southern States Are Outperforming Others in Education
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election.
2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed
Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years.
Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections: ‘They Gave Me A Paper To Sign’
In a major win for the integrity of Ohio’s elections, Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation on Friday that requires all mail-in ballots to be received by the end of Election Day.
Ohio Enacts ‘Commonsense’ Law Requiring All Mail Ballots Be Returned By Election Day
‘… Our leaders uncovered an army of Michiganders eager to join our opposition once they learned the truth about Ranked Choice Voting,’ Patrice Johnson said.
Michigan Election Integrity Warriors Stop ‘Disastrous’ Ranked-Choice Voting Drive
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The mass defection comes in the wake of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s video defense of Tucker Carlson
Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’
POLITICS
“The InsiderAdvantage poll shows stronger numbers for the president than those reflected in RealClearPolling’s national average, which shows him with a 44 percent approval rating and a 53 percent disapproval rating as of early Monday afternoon,” Breitbart explained.
Trump Just Got Some Good News About His Approval Numbers
Midterms punish complacency, and without turnout, message discipline, and an affordability agenda, Republicans risk a 2026 defeat that hands Democrats Congress and the future.
How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around
Conway, who lives in Bethesda, Md., an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb, will vie in a crowded Democratic primary to represent a deep-blue Manhattan district to succeed Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. The vocal Trump critic is likely to frame his congressional run around his top attorney credentials and willingness to serve as legal pitbull against Trump in Congress. (RELATED: George Conway Comes Out As Antifa At ‘No Kings’ Rally)
George Conway Officially Running For Congress Months After Coming Out As Antifa
Crossing off train set on my letter to Santa and requesting a meteor shower - jjs
Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In by Bernie Sanders, NY AG Letitia James
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
This marks the second sanctioned oil tanker seizure near Venezuela in recent days, increasing tensions with the Maduro regime.
U.S. Targets Third Oil Tanker Near Venezuela.
The approval increases the number of settlements in the West Bank by nearly 50 percent under the current government.
Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the West Bank.
The final desperate act of a dying regime.
Iran’s Currency Collapse
. . .the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which has been shut down ever since the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Japan Ready to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Reactor 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The announcement signals a significant expansion of the U.S. Navy’s capabilities with plans for up to 25 new battleships.
WATCH: POTUS Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Fleet’ of ‘Trump-Class’ Battleships.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
After Mikaela's death, the House passed the renamed bill unanimously. Every senator but one was ready to do the same.
Bernie Sanders Singlehandedly Kills Pediatric Cancer Bill
(Bernie Sanders IS cancer - jjs)
Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities. Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons
Many reporters have taken KFF’s claim that ‘premium payments will double’ to mean that total ‘premiums will double,’ but that’s just not true.
The Health Care-Industrial Complex Is Lying About Obamacare Premiums Doubling — And They Know It
American health care's 340B drug scandal makes the Somalian grift look like small potatoes.
Enriching hospitals at taxpayer expense
Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.
UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (Image of Moe Howard tying one end of a string to Curly's molar and the other end to a doorknob-jjs)
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
After being asked by Mrs. Erika Kirk to share her advice for young men, Minaj replied, “Don’t be Newscum” — referring to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — eliciting cheers from the AmericaFest audience.
Nicki Minaj Urges Men to Look to ‘Amazing Role Models’ Trump & Vance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest
What the pundits don't understand is that we don't care about their feuds, not really. We have our own lives.
Turning Point's pundit wars and the battle for America's youth
Paramount announced that Ellison — whose son, David Ellison, serves as the company’s chairman and CEO — “had agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee” for the bid in a Monday press release. The elder Ellison’s cash-backing comes days after WBD asked its shareholders to reject a $108 billion Paramount offer to assume control of all of WBD’s assets, Reuters reported.
Pro-Trump Billionaire Larry Ellison Puts $40,000,000,000 On Line In Battle With Netflix
Federal funding for Smithsonian museums is now conditioned on adherence to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order and compliance with the review process.
Trump Admin to Cut Smithsonian Funding for Refusing to Comply with DEI Review.
Christian Toto: New study reveals landscape's shocking, inescapable liberal bias
Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud
Her apology was insufficient, because for an apology to be true, it must be done face-to-face with the injured party. Posting something on line accomplishes nothing. The right way for Ponce to have apologied would be for her to find Beeman, to apologize to her personally and publicly, to shake hands, and then to work to encourage a dialogue between them. If Ponce's employer demanded that from her -- instead of firing her -- we might actually be moving back to a society of good will. And demanding such in the Christmas season would have been wholly appropriate and fitting.
There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too
The NY Times along with this twisted subhuman courveh and everyone who follows her cannot be composted fast enough for the betterment of humanity - jjs
Degenerate Lowlife 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba
The woke Grinches wish you a very equitable Christmas.
Decolonizing Father Christmas
"In particular, we think of the people of 'Palestine,' Ukraine, and Sudan, our own history marked by forced immigration and loss," she said.
Ireland’s New President Fails To Mention Jesus In Christmas Message, Praises ‘Diversity’
HITHER & YON
Will upgrades to safety and air traffic control systems ease concerns?
Americans Still Have A Fear Of Flying, But They’ll Fly Anyway This Holiday Season: I&I/TIPP Poll

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1 Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check
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Coulda been lost in translation. Literally. That isn't an excuse, but it *is* a potential explanation.

Unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:13 AM (avHHk)

2 Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
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If it depends on one vote, it isn't "teed up to pass easily," it's a squeaker.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (avHHk)

3 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)

4 Top 5! yAy!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (lXoJ5)

5 Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does
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It'll be great living in a slave state, comrade!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (avHHk)

6 I don't understand building a bunch of battleships. It is possible that aircraft carriers are obsolete in a world of highly-effective long-range munitions (missiles) on one side and increasingly effective short-range swarm weapons (drones) on the other, but if that's the case then how are battleships not?

Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

7 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

8 That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.

One of my mom's dearest friends moved to CA from Peru with her husband and children with little more than the clothes on their backs. They learned English through immersion and she was a nurse. She went off on one patient who asked for a translator and had been living in the country for 25 years.

Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)

9 Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
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There is an excuse. The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:19 AM (avHHk)

10 The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)

11 And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)
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Oh yes. Quite sinister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (avHHk)

12 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (NwnyJ)

13
*stomps in*

Well! How long has this party been going on?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)

14 The Great White Fleet 2:Cruise Missile Boogaloo...

The new BB's will be loaded with cruise missiles, EW gear and SEAL/Marine Raider types so if one is parked off shore of some tin horn dictator or New York City, some shitheads are gonna die. Sends a message to the fuzzy wuzzies to behave or else.

I like it.

Posted by: Zombie Admiral Robley Evans at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (m8zKa)

15 Well! How long has this party been going on?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

0710 according to JJ.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (lXoJ5)

16 The troll comment modification is on point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (avHHk)

17
And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)

Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)

18 "Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am."

I'll be even more shocked if something happens.

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

19 Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And she still tried. I'm also willing to bet that she could read and write as well even if it wasn't that high level.

But no; my ire is directed at the people who come here and demand we give them everything in their language. No other country in the world is so accommodating.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (lXoJ5)

20 Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)
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Sure. It happened all the time. Language is hard, and English is particularly hard. It's amazing that *anyone* can speak it. Some There have always been immigrants who couldn't make the transition.

But they also didn't run for - or get elected to - office or have that condition act as a ticket to special treatment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (avHHk)

21 Brown University custodian says he reported gunman to officials over a DOZEN times prior to the deadly mass shooting

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (GITLP)

22 A recent investigation by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) found that Milwaukee County’s “Equity Index” is mostly based on a tool promoted by the Trump administration. The tool is called the “Social Vulnerability Index,” or SVI, run by the Centers for Disease Control.

The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues in knots
Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots
Some blame the management, some the employees
And everybody knows it's the industrial disease

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

23 The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English.

DePena certainly can speak English. I know this, as Lawrence is my home town.

He chose not to, in order to show solidarity with the majority-Hispanic Lawrence population. The number of whites left there is miniscule to non-existent.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (ufSfZ)

24 There's something to be said for a floating 16" (or whatever) artillery platform. Missiles have some disadvantages after all.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (vHpoE)

25 The US GDP, when accounting for inflation, was actually higher in 1964 than it is today, and the population then was under 200 million, as opposed to 325 million today. That means the produce per person is down markedly since 1964.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (Da7Vv)

26 POLITICO
@politico
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Dec 21
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation. http://dlvr.it/TPxcHc

… There was an article somewhere that said the failed polygraph test was a fake and that a number of CISA employees were trying to make the director look bad.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (GITLP)

27 DePena certainly can speak English. I know this, as Lawrence is my home town.

He chose not to, in order to show solidarity with the majority-Hispanic Lawrence population. The number of whites left there is miniscule to non-existent.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (ufSfZ)
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Which is worse? A mayor who can't speak English, or a mayor who *pretends* not to as a publicity stunt that will play to his core constituencies or people who can't speak English and hive-mind leftists who will get warm fuzzies over how "diverse" the whole affair is?

I actually don't know. I'm thinking about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (avHHk)

28 This is INSANE 🚨 Mike Benz does through Jeffrey Epstein documents

“Jeffrey Epstein negotiated the f*cking contract to move the CIA’s proprietary airliner, Southern Air Transport, which was busted running drugs and guns during Iran-Contra”

“He (Epstein) personally was the authorized signatory on the deal with Southern Air Transport to move it to a military base in Columbus, Ohio, to service the Limited

Hey, any of you guys got any bright ideas about how you would go about in 1994, convincing the Central Intelligence Agency to move its proprietary CIA airline used for covert operations, based in Miami, to f*cking up and move its entire operation to f*cking Columbus, Ohio, just to service your personal company instead of the CIA?

What do you think he cold called the CIA? You think he just schmoozed the CIA? Or is it because he was handling Khashoggi’s money during Iran-Contra that purchased the guns that Southern Air Transport a decade earlier was moving?

Adnan Khashoggi is the notorious Saudi Arabian billionaire arms dealer and international middleman. He was one of the world’s most prominent arms brokers in the 1970s and 1980s, facilitating massive deals.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (GITLP)

29 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

30 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

31 How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around

Arrests.

Prosecutions.

Jail.

Without those, Trump can horse-fuck, as far as I am concerned. I want revenge.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ufSfZ)

32 The "mayor" is full of refried beans. If he had a winning Powerball ticket and needed to speak Spanglish to collect he would.

Just another 3rd world bullshit artist.

Posted by: A Taco Is A Taco Until It Aint at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (m8zKa)

33 "We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity,” Dustin Bailey told the Court. ”Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. In this case, it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk.”

Uhhh, d'oh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (PFs9e)

34 🎤 MIC DROP in the Senate.

Chris Briggs didn’t hold back:

“This is my first time ever sitting in front of the Senate. So let me ask something simple. If Obamacare has never hurt anyone and it’s supposedly such an amazing plan… why aren’t you all enrolled in it?”

Silence.

Classic Washington move.
Rules for the public.
Exemptions for themselves.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (GITLP)

35 I suspect the “Trump Class Battleship” is designed to be resistant to swarms of lightweight drones, rather than resistant to a big Soviet torpedo under the keel?

My first thought was a great quote from the movie “Southern Comfort”, said in a heavy Cajun accent: “We live here; don’t f—k with us! “

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (1FEc1)

36 BREAKING 🅱️

Hunter Biden reveals that he’s $15 MILLION in debt…

Snorted it all.

… of course, we all knew

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:32 AM (GITLP)

37 "After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election."

It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Brian Kemp at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

38 "Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM"

Actually they're repurposed Coast Guard vessels.
But forget it... he's rolling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

39 > President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels.
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Two thoughts on this:
1. It's ego. He'll never have a carrier named for him, or any other warship. It'll take a decade just to get the design formalized before any steel is cut. There will be no steel cut for a "Trump" class "battleship. Bet on it.

2. There is actually a case to be made for what the Navy has referred to as an "Arsenal Ship." A battleship-like vessel loaded with drones, missiles of every kind, advanced electronic counter measures, etc. It would be extremely useful in high threat environments like China/Taiwan, the Middle East and so on.

For reference on shipbuilding; the Navy's been hemming and hawing over a new Frigate, canceled it and then decided to use a Coast Guard design for it. For a decade.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (NwnyJ)

40 28 Which is worse? A mayor who can't speak English, or a mayor who *pretends* not to as a publicity stunt that will play to his core constituencies or people who can't speak English and hive-mind leftists who will get warm fuzzies over how "diverse" the whole affair is?

I actually don't know. I'm thinking about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (avHHk)

Publicity Stunt? Or a show of conquest?

Posted by: XTC at December 23, 2025 07:33 AM (6Uni8)

41 🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is in talks with former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden for a TOTAL AND COMPLETE PARDON as well as Snowden’s return to The United States. These talks are reportedly being led by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a long time advocate and supporter of clemency for Snowden, who EXPOSED the fact that the NSA has been secretly spying on the communications of American citizens WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE FOR DECADES after the passage of The Patriot Act in the post 9/11 era. Edward Snowden is not a traitor… He is an American hero and a patriot who revealed the treasonous activity that our government has been engaging in against us in blatant violation of our 4th Amendment rights. Tens of millions of us are totally in support of this… This would be perhaps President Trump’s greatest act of clemency of all-time. PARDON SNOWDEN AND BRING HIM HOME NOW!

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (GITLP)

42 I recommend a news category for any Somali related news.

'I want them the hell out of here. NOW!'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (fd80v)

43 Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons

If the GOP weren't composed of a bunch of ass-kissing nickelfuckers, they would be blasting out Sanders' office and (multiple) home telephone numbers, telling parents who have cancer-stricken kids to burn up his phone lines and drive the bastard to suicide.

But that's not who we are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (ufSfZ)

44 31 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

Speak whatever language you want in your home or in a conversation to a fellow countryman, but live and think as an American if you came here and are a citizen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (x0n13)

45 Maybe they should make the Brown custodian the President instead of the leftist woman dope they have now. He sounds like he would be an improvement over her. He sees things, doesn't ignore them and says speaks up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (PFs9e)

46 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:34 AM (RMWOZ)

47 Why Southern States Are Outperforming Others in Education

Department of Education was seen seething over this. I'm sure that they will say that maintaining order in a classroom is a form of child abuse.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (lXoJ5)

48 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (CA6zO)

49 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

50 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)
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This sort of thing just isn't done around here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (CA6zO)

51 I'm fast and I'm lean and gosh darn it all I'm smart too!

Not a big clusterfuck like everyone says, but flexible.

Posted by: Littoral Combat Ship at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (m8zKa)

52 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

53 The only Democrat in the Minnesota House of Representatives that voted against giving free healthcare to illegals was murdered afterwards.

Weird.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (GITLP)

54 Department of Education was seen seething over this. I'm sure that they will say that maintaining order in a classroom is a form of child abuse.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (lXoJ5)
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I am sure. I am sure that Mississippi telling "educators" to drop the official party line crap and grind on phonics the old-fashioned way or else - and the resultant skyrocketing literacy rate - is having the same effect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:38 AM (avHHk)

55 Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused of Fraud, Family Allegedly Put Bounty on Reporter.

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I don't watch any news and haven't for decades. Is it safe to assume none of this massive fraud is being reported on by the nat'l networks, and or state news reporters in MN?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:38 AM (qBdHI)

56 50 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

Though not a battleship, I was thinking USS Cole.

And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)

57 Former CIA Director John Brennan's lawyers have taken the extraordinary step of confirming their client is a "target" of a criminal grand jury investigation in Florida and are asking the chief federal judge in Miami to stop the proceedings on the grounds that the Justice Department is "judge shopping."

Wainstein and Davis revealed they have been informed by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones in Miami that the grand jury is investigating Brennan's role in the 2016-27 Russia collusion probe that has since been discredited, including a CIA assessment that Russian president Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump win the 2016 election.

Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (GITLP)

58 I am sure that Mississippi telling "educators" to drop the official party line crap and grind on phonics the old-fashioned way or else - and the resultant skyrocketing literacy rate - is having the same effect.

Did you happen to see the John Stossel video on this? There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)

59 Video proof that DePena can speak English if he wants to:

https://tinyurl.com/4j3vby2s

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (ufSfZ)

60 53 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

"PFFT!!!"

Star Fleet Commodore Matt Decker and the planet killer!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:41 AM (x0n13)

61 If anybody has commenting privileges at Daily Wire, you might want to forward that video to them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ)

62 Trump's romance with early 20th century weapons of war is quaint, amusing and complete bullshit.

But its Excessmass and the MIC needs some promises of fat bonuses and vectors for grift.

If the US isn't going to pissing away trillions around the globe in kinetic "nation-building" where the elites can easily plunder the US treasury and four generations beyond, then it has to be through this massive industrialization Renaissance where the vast majority of the population is too lazy, stupid, drug addled and entitled to actually push away from the liquor cabinet and game console, slip into work boots and pick up a welding torch.

Maybe Trump had his first egg nog. Who knows?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:42 AM (a4flb)

63 Departments don't seethe.
People do.
Next question.

Posted by: In the spirit of Donald Rumsfeld at December 23, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

64 And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
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Exocet missiles

An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)

65 57 The Navy should just do what it does best, submarines. Looking back at WW2, if you know who would have scrapped the idea of big surface stuff (Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, Graf Zeppelin) and devoted that material and manpower to U boats, Doenitz might have continued the "Happy Days" with bad results for the allies.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)

66 Did you happen to see the John Stossel video on this? There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)
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"identify it as a 'sight word' and you'll just know what it is!"

That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way. Many cannot. Almost everyone will get there eventually, and learning phonics doesn't preclude it - but can enable it.

There's a reason why a slightly tarted up 19th-century teaching methodology was able to make major cash in the 90s courtesy of desperate parents who's kids were failing to learn to read in school - and things were *much* better then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (avHHk)

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

Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord. https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

68 An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)
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What a visual.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:45 AM (avHHk)

69 One of my mom's dearest friends moved to CA from Peru with her husband and children with little more than the clothes on their backs. They learned English through immersion and she was a nurse. She went off on one patient who asked for a translator and had been living in the country for 25 years.

Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM

It is extremely common though. Last year a tornado went through the DFW metroplex and they had a witness on the TV for an interview. She had been in the US for over 30 years and still spoke zero english. We have dozens of illegals commit DUI's in our area every year and without fail the majority of them require a translator in court.

We as a society enable these people and their laziness.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (0N4FZ)

70 That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way.

That's the problem. The Powers That Be™ get it in their head that there is only one true path and any deviation from it has to be punished.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (lXoJ5)

71 65 And those Argentinian Exorcist missiles from the Falklands. And the Chi-Coms are developing all sorts of hypersonic ones now.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
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Exocet missiles

An Exorcist missile is after Linda Blair eats Taco Bell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (CA6zO)

Yes, I know. But that's what I called them. A Linda Blair Missile looks like a Broomstick like from the film where she was in a girl's reformatory, IYKWIM.

The Exorcist Missile spits pea soup

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (x0n13)

72 Jeez talk about visuals.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:47 AM (CA6zO)

73 Checking out of our rental this morning. St. Croix has been amazing. On our way to the airport we are going to stop at the beach where the final scene of Shawshank Redemption was shot.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 23, 2025 07:48 AM (O6icp)

74 68 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord. https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

Big fan of Brubeck. Saw him twice, about two years before he passed. And saw the Stranglers when they first came to the States around 1978. I like that harpsichord!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (x0n13)

75 I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.

I really like that metaphor, but we need to update them to meet the culture of today. It beats "....rented mule" and "...red headed step child".

a couple examples:

• Beat that teacher like a Muslim wife.
• Beat that teacher like I was a crack-head on a bus

I tjhink more people would understand the imagery.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

76 I myself was fooled by posting one of the VDH deepfake videos here in the comments.

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

As many of you know, in the last few weeks a multitude of AI-fake videos of me have appeared on the Internet. Many of them express views that are not mine and often in slightly speeded-up fashion with different vocal intonations.

https://tinyurl.com/pm87bt6f

I asked Grok for some additional info:

https://tinyurl.com/4trbjvjr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 07:49 AM (KgVf3)

77 That's the problem. The Powers That Be™ get it in their head that there is only one true path and any deviation from it has to be punished.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:46 AM (lXoJ5)
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And much if it is based on false empiricism or misplaced causality, but then there is no room to make changes because the Word is the Law as soon as it is uttered.

Bright kids - defined in this case as "kids who are good at reading" - pick up "whole word" reading fairly early. So then the false causality creeps in through the conclusion that if bright kids read whole words rather than letter sounds, then teaching whole words rather than letter sounds will close the gap and improve achievement by using the winning method observed in nature.

That is, essentially, the premise behind whole word instruction methods. Except that it is a false premise. The brighter the kid, the faster he gets there on his own from the common basis of phonics (with the possible exception of spontaneous readers who require no instruction at all). You can't short-cut it. But no amount of failure will make a bureaucracy change course. The masters of the universe in charge must never be wrong about anything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (avHHk)

78 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (qBdHI)

79 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 07:51 AM (qBdHI)
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I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

80 Happy Festivus!

Posted by: For the rest of us at December 23, 2025 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)

81 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)

82
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (tljrc)

83 That's a short-cut. Some kids can learn that way. Many cannot. Almost everyone will get there eventually, and learning phonics doesn't preclude it - but can enable it.

Didn't you make a comment or article at one time where the education cartel, desperate, looked at successful children and decided to mimic their patterns and that is where "look say" came in?

That is, the cartels looked at a finished product and didn't care to see how that student got to the point of being able to use short-cuts for the majority of words?

Still phonics is critical when encountering new words and languages.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

84 You can't lose if you don't play.

Posted by: Stuff your grandfather says at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

85 After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election. Who knows where this will end? Perhaps Pennsylvania will someday admit that it had 121,000 more 2020 ballots than voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

86 Looks like I'm picking up a few lottery tickets.

Disclaimer: I only play when it gets that high. And it's all for fun.

I tjhink more people would understand the imagery.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I think our Latinx brothers and sisters recognize the pinata metaphor though. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (lXoJ5)

87 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

88 A cheerful good morning to all. Late start at the gym today, due to laziness

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (M4ySl)

89 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)
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Snark aside, this *is* one of my pet peeves in modern nomenclature. There is no "health care" or "health insurance." The latter is actually impossible.

There is medicine, and medical insurance to pay for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:56 AM (avHHk)

90 Mornin’, All. Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (77rzZ)

91 I have a real problem with the goings on in Lawrence, MA. See, my mother’s first language was German. So when she went to school she entered a bilingual education program—

Oh, I’m just kidding, the school told her “that’s really too bad, go learn English” and she had to learn it through full brutal immersion.

I can’t imagine wanting to come here and not wanting to learn the customs, language and traditions of this country if you intend to remain here as a legal immigrant. But many Americans ache for America to have its own little Quebec, only in Spanish, not French.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (Wv0GD)

92 What does a Powerball ticket cost these days? Around $5 or so. I think my wife plays (buys a ticket) when it's up around $1B until someone wins.

Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)

93 Hadrian the Seventh

I liked your Roman Emperor entrance to a thread. But it reminded me of Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and the Fractured Fairy Tales intro.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

94 Chris Briggs didn’t hold back:

“This is my first time ever sitting in front of the Senate. So let me ask something simple. If Obamacare has never hurt anyone and it’s supposedly such an amazing plan… why aren’t you all enrolled in it?”
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Ok. He is not going to be invited back.

Posted by: clarence at December 23, 2025 07:58 AM (FVUBu)

95 The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant.

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This is how I imagine the scene in Star Trek: First Contact would go:

Trump: "The defiant, is she safe?"

Picard: "She's the biggest ship ever. No ship is more big and more beautiful!"

Trump: "Come now, Captain Picard, surely you're exaggerating."

Picard: "No, it's true! She so big and so beautiful, not even the Borg want to go against her!"

Trump: "Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for that, Captain Picard. You are the greatest captain in Starfleet, I've always said that."

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (EES2L)

96 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

97 ... That is, the cartels looked at a finished product and didn't care to see how that student got to the point of being able to use short-cuts for the majority of words?

Still phonics is critical when encountering new words and languages.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)
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Ace did, IIRC. But it's been obvious for a long time. The people who come up with the curricula are pretty clear about it. "The brightest kids read whole words, so we'll teach whole words and short-cut boring and tedious instruction and improve results" or "the brightest kids do ten-centric mental arithmetic and come up with accurate results very quickly, so we'll ignore the arithmetic drills and explaining commutative properties and jump right to the end save a bunch of boring and tedious instruction and improve results."

They are very clear about being cargo-cultists, and then their rules become permanent because they're expert public servants who are by definition infallible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (avHHk)

98 It seems no one won? I may now need to invest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (M4ySl)

99 Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

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Ha, I say the same thing to Mr. Black. It's always someone in CA who wins these mega pots.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

100 JJ, why are you questioning the new battleships? Sounds like a good thing to me.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

101 Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’

Translation:
We found better grift.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

102 The mass defection comes in the wake of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s video defense of Tucker Carlson
Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’

Doesn't sound like a smart move to me. Jumping from one idiot to another.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:00 AM (uQesX)

103 Regarding Bernie Sanders deliberately blocking that bill:

More proof that communists aren't people.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (lXoJ5)

104 Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In by Bernie Sanders, NY AG Letitia James

So an Arab, a Jew, and a

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

105 Mike Pence is part of a "movement" to reorganize conservatism. Bless his heart. I think his ship has sailed. We're done with Bush-style GOPe types.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)

106 After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election. Who knows where this will end? Perhaps Pennsylvania will someday admit that it had 121,000 more 2020 ballots than voters.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)
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Despite the Georgia admission of fraud and the obvious fraud in Pennsylvania, Democrats will continue to stubbornly claim there was no fraud at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (M4ySl)

107 Speak whatever language you want in your home or in a conversation to a fellow countryman, but live and think as an American if you came here and are a citizen.

Do you also see a connection in language and thinking?

It isn't just word substitutions and arranging subjects and verbs, and a bit more than idioms, but language has culture and thought patterns built in.

Like they say that the Greeks didn't "see" blue because they didn't have an English word equivalent. What is correct to say is that instead of focusing on hue categories they saw lightness, darkness, texture and emotional qualities.

So Homer would characterize the skies as "of bronze" not because of its hue category, but because it appeared dazzling, bright and polished like a shining shield.

Our language does effect how we think and vice versa.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)

108 I found out yesterday that Ed Meese is still alive. He’s got an org that is taking some of the Heritage folks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

109 Powerball is at $1.7 billion. Yowsa, that's some serious cash.

I would actually underwrite the cost of a Moron Meet-Up if I won.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (ufSfZ)

110 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (lEejK)

111 Good morning Horde. Thx JJ, hope you are well
The district where Conway, Schlossberg and Kasky amongst others according to Cook Report is the most Dem district bin the country at D+33. Combine that with Democrat Socialist Brad Lander taking on incumbent Dan Goldman in his district leads me to believe their isn't enough popcorn in the world to eat whole watching these horror shows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (MoRvC)

112 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (Uajlr)

113 Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.

Posted by: Didja notice? at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

114 I have a real problem with the goings on in Lawrence, MA. See, my mother’s first language was German. So when she went to school she entered a bilingual education program—

Lawrence actually used to have a German school to help immigrant children acclimate to America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:05 AM (ufSfZ)

115 "one" generation? AYFKM?

the first time I was turned down for a job because I was a white male was in fucking 1977.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2025 08:06 AM (Cjt/F)

116 I don't understand building a bunch of battleships. It is possible that aircraft carriers are obsolete in a world of highly-effective long-range munitions (missiles) on one side and increasingly effective short-range swarm weapons (drones) on the other, but if that's the case then how are battleships not?

Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)

Most modern warships are very lightly armored. This allows attacking them with smaller munitions. A more heavily armored ship would have - some - protection from that.

It's also the case that an artillery shore bombardment is both cheaper, and safer (from the standpoint of our personnel) than air assault into unreduced defenses.

Do they make sense? Possibly not, but I don't think the idea is as crazy as people think from the start.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

117 According to OECD data, the U.K. has 49 dentists per 100,000 inhabitants — the lowest rate among G7 countries.

hahahaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

118 The Stooges happened to be working in the office of Dr I. B. Yankum when a desperate patient came in the office in pain. They proceeded to "help" the patient.

Posted by: Dentally Retarded at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (oftw2)

119 I found out yesterday that Ed Meese is still alive. He’s got an org that is taking some of the Heritage folks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

Wow… a member of Reagan’s first cabinet still with us. I didn’t know that…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

120 "Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.
Posted by: Didja notice?"

He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

121 Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
++++
There is an excuse. The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:19 AM (avHHk)

They do not consider themselves to be Americans and have no desire to become one. They want the money. They may be willing to work but they'll happily take whatever we're stupid enough to just hand them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

122 Am I the only one that doesn't think Trump ever intends the Battleships to be built? I think he fabricated a point for concession in a later negotiation. Whether it's Xi or a budget deal, He'll trade that for something down the road.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (pIfcn)

123 After Bernie swears in Mandani he can go to Crown Heights and explain why pogroms are actually good for the great communist future

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (MoRvC)

124 >POTUS Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Fleet’ of ‘Trump-Class’ Battleships.
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He does like to put his name on things

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 08:09 AM (ZxPkt)

125 ... Our language does effect how we think and vice versa.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
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Orwell understood that. For as great and illustrative as "1984" was, the most valuable part of the book was tacked on to the end. After the main story, there is an appendix called "The Principles of Newspeak."

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. ... Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (avHHk)

126 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Universal truth at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

127 There was a clip of a child trying to sound a word out and the teacher said "Stop it! Why are you doing that?"

I really wanted to hit that teacher until candy came out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:40 AM (lXoJ5)
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"identify it as a 'sight word' and you'll just know what it is!"

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Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)

128 Lefties are all atwitter over the 60 Minutes story Bari Weiss criticized as poorly done. Suddenly, they are worried about "censorship!", and its all they are talking about.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (du1Vq)

129 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

https://shorturl.at/OuydS

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

130 Language is hard, and English is particularly hard. It's amazing that *anyone* can speak it. Some There have always been immigrants who couldn't make the transition.

We have entire school districts dedicated to the promise of native born children never learning English.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

131 120 He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM

This doesn’t speak well for his family. They don’t have the generational wealth of the Clintons or the Obamas. Why is that? They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money? Is it because his dad is nothing more than a charecature of a used car salesman and couldn’t even grift right despite getting to be president?

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (OoFl2)

132 31 How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around

Arrests.
Prosecutions.
Jail.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (ufSfZ)

True. I'm not sure he understands this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (WHfpM)

133 Am I the only one that doesn't think Trump ever intends the Battleships to be built? I think he fabricated a point for concession in a later negotiation. Whether it's Xi or a budget deal, He'll trade that for something down the road.

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I look at it this way. At least we are talking about building ships.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (sX1BW)

134 Ed Meese was born in 1931. So he’s 94.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ)

135 I can totally believe you were fished in by the battleship comments. Very on brand.

After all it was Sun Tzu who said: Let you enemies know what your plans are.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (cS1cw)

136 Mommy, will I be getting a present from daddy or PopPop this year?

Posted by: Navy Joan Biden at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)
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Some do. Everyone can learn phonics. The kids who figure out "sight words" more quickly do away with phonics - absent a completely new word, or figuring out a foreign word - more quickly. But the education system has demonstrated for decades that skipping phonics does not work as well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:12 AM (avHHk)

138 >>Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am.

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (viF8m)

139 What does a Powerball ticket cost these days? Around $5 or so. I think my wife plays (buys a ticket) when it's up around $1B until someone wins.

Bet it's some asshole in CA.

It's always some asshole there.

Just remember, for every Powerball winner, there are over 150,000 new cancer cases diagnosed, or 1000 people die in a vehicle crash.

That is, you are 150,000 times more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than win a single lottery, or 1000 times more likely to die in a car crash on the same day they pull a winning powerball.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

140
Don't kids learn both ways?

Sight words are important.

So is learning to sound things out.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:10 AM (sX1BW)

Depends on the kid. But Mississippi jumped up in school ratings by returning to phonics.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (OoFl2)

141 The "Trump" warship is an other chance for the US Navy ship-building force to screw up.

That inner coterie of "experts" (the Engineering Duty Officers) could not even build a frigate with a proven Italian design.

FWIW, calling a warship a Battleship is a noob mistake.

Next, the US lacks the industrial ability to make and build a ship with the armor that was the defining characteristic of true Battleships and Heavy Cruisers of the WWI to WWII era.

A large ship filled with missiles, the Arsenal design, has been studied for decades. Manning that ship is a problem.

There is some utility with a large ship, which makes any drone hit less of an issue. But in an era of autonomous drones and keel-busting torpedoes, a number of smaller ships, like the O.H. Perry design of frigates, or the unbuilt Constitution class frigate, Japaneses AIP designed submarines, or versions of Israeli patrol boats would make more sense.

The inner US Navy culture is for larger ships. In a world filled with ocean, larger ships have more range.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

142 Also, USS Defiant is odd

what are we defying?

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)

143 It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. ...

I forget where I read it - it was in an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwell's writing of it - but one author has speculated that Orwell's use of the past tense when talking about Newspeak in the appendix was a subtle hint to the reader that, after all, the Party was defeated in the end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ufSfZ)

144 "They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money?"

Look up here.

Posted by: Hunter's nose at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)

145 7 Whoa. I got a first AND it was on-topic?

I have the vapors. I need to go lie down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Stop making us look bad.

Posted by: Off-Topic Otto at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (oftw2)

146 128 Lefties are all atwitter over the 60 Minutes story Bari Weiss criticized as poorly done. Suddenly, they are worried about "censorship!", and its all they are talking about.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (du1Vq)

She needs to say it's a sloppily written hit piece that fails the most basic standard of professional journalism and the surpassing responsibility of a major network. She won't.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)

147 119 Wow… a member of Reagan’s first cabinet still with us. I didn’t know that…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:08 AM (YobFY)

Old Yeller Mark Levin is still around. Not a cabinet-level guy but was a Meese underling.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

148 I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)

149 "Funny, but Hunter Biden isn't on any executive boards anymore.
Posted by: Didja notice?"

He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd

Steal billions. Get dementia. Forget where you put it.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (lEejK)

150 J.J. Sefton

Thank you so much for all you do. And Happy Birthday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

151 I’m in favor of more naval power. Is Trump’s “golden fleet” the right approach I have no idea…. But naval superiority is a must-have for the US

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (YobFY)

152 Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud

Well duh!
Pakis fuck thousands of little girls in England because... they can.
Same with Simoleans and their fraud.
The Hispanics probably do 5X more fraud in California.

And DEI is built into every system to cover all of this over with

Diversity.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

153 *Steal billions. Get dementia. Forget where you put it.*

I'm an old man. I was confused.

Posted by: Uncle Leo at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

154 He says his family has no "generational wealth".

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

Why should his family have any generational wealth? They have been "public servants" their entire lives. They have built and created nothing.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (sX1BW)

155 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)
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I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

156 I suspect the “Trump Class Battleship” is designed to be resistant to swarms of lightweight drones, rather than resistant to a big Soviet torpedo under the keel?

My first thought was a great quote from the movie “Southern Comfort”, said in a heavy Cajun accent: “We live here; don’t f—k with us! “
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:31 AM (1FEc1)

Carriers aren't resistant to torpedoes under the keel but no one blinks an eye at building them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

157 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Taking the annuity is the ultimate trust in government.

Sorry. I'm not that trustworthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (lEejK)

158 81 If you have cancer, how do you have health for which to care?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 07:54 AM (Wv0GD)

I've got brain cancer. Diagnosed and treated 2 years this February. Still kicking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

159 Today Is Officially Festivus,

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

160 Holiday party this week, everyone was so proud that they are boycotting the (Trump) Kennedy Center now. Meanwhile the artists and musicians are suffering due to loss in revenues - not Trump. Liberals really are incapable of comprehending cause and effect.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (Hpgos)

161 >>Next, the US lacks the industrial ability to make and build a ship with the armor that was the defining characteristic of true Battleships and Heavy Cruisers of the WWI to WWII era.

I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

Trump has said many times that our steel industry is a matter of national defense. So is the ability to do things with the steel we produce.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (viF8m)

162 rhennigantx

We have about 1.7 million years of evolution to make our DNA unique. Most of the progress was in the last 50,000 years.

Diversity is completely antithetical to our evolutionary path.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

163 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

Have you heard of Dr. Peter Sulak? If you haven't, maybe worth checking out.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (WHfpM)

164 159 Today Is Officially Festivus,
Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM

I've got some real problems with you people...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)

165 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM (53oGX)

166 what are we defying?

What you got?

Posted by: Rebel Without A Clue at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (m8zKa)

167 Why should his family have any generational wealth? They have been "public servants" their entire lives. They have built and created nothing.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:17 AM (sX1BW)
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Astounding numbers of better-managed, less reckless and less stupid Washington crime families have achieved it. It's downright normal, but it depends on not being reckless, stupid and wasteful. "Generational wealth" is a wide band. It can be anything from "the kids will have houses and the grandkids will be comfortably through school and adults before there's a meaningful risk of it running out" to "the next 12 generations can do all of the blow they want in however many mansions they choose to own."

What's Hunter's definition? Because he and his dad lived like the latter, but the former is much more attainable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (avHHk)

168 I'd be willing to bet the Biden clan isn't doing well economically. They stole millions but lived large. Now there access to power to grift off of is gone. Perfect evidence is that no one wants to fund the Biden Presidential Library. The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)

169 One of my earliest memories is walking through a department store with my father and seeing a bright point-of-purchase placard for something 'FREE!' and tugging at his sleeve. He guided me past it as he said "Nothing is free."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:22 AM (WHfpM)

170 >The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed.

But I'm a DOCTOR!!

Posted by: Jill at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

171 JackStraw

Good point.

I can see that, but there needs to be a revolution in the industrial C-suite world to carry it off. We have no Andrew Carnegie of steel to make it happen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

172 'couldn’t even grift right despite getting to be president?
Posted by: Piper "

Well, yeah. He 's an idiot. Hunter blew all his money and is counting on getting whatever is left of the Joe Biden estate, but Jill will hang on much longer and use that up.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

173 I'd be willing to bet the Biden clan isn't doing well economically. They stole millions but lived large. Now there access to power to grift off of is gone. Perfect evidence is that no one wants to fund the Biden Presidential Library. The Bidens are yesterday's news and largely toxic. I'm devastated and crushed
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)
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Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

174 He says his family has no "generational wealth". I don't know what his threshold is for theat. His pop has plenty of money and property. Anybody want to take bets on whether Hunter lives long enough to inherit any of it?
Posted by: fd

And working public service, you're not suppose to.

The original"deal" was along the lines of enough paycheck to raise you're family, good benefits and damn bear invincible job security. Somewhere along the way it became " we got to pay them market rate, lavish benefits and pension or they'll leave.

The decision should have been: let them.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 08:24 AM (ItWcy)

175 More thoughts on Trump's "battleship"...

This is fictional, but has been modeled in some wargames; an Arsenal Ship that is just a modified cargo/container ship. Automated. No crew. Loaded up with 500-1000 or so cruise missiles, drones, etc. Blends in with other commercial traffic, gets close to its intended target, then... releases the weapons.

Variations, small iterations of this concept have been used periodically with mixed results. Mostly because integrating fire control systems, and all that goes with that is difficult to do with a ship not designed for weapons.

But if one was....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:24 AM (NwnyJ)

176 - @128 Huck

Story at top of yahoo home page (didn't click on it) says that 60 Minutes piece got aired on some Canadian network unedited.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (T08Hw)

177 One of my earliest memories is walking through a department store with my father and seeing a bright point-of-purchase placard for something 'FREE!' and tugging at his sleeve. He guided me past it as he said "Nothing is free."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:22 AM (WHfpM)
++++
TANSTAAFL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (avHHk)

178 I think the battleship thing is the usual Trump bluster that makes our enemies fear he is just crazy enough to do it.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)

179 I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

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

The projection of power is not just in the number of aircraft carriers floating in the seas. Its your enemies understanding that you can build more quickly.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:25 AM (sX1BW)

180 “ Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!”

Psalm 66:5

Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 08:26 AM (z0cWr)

181 If you are the only winner of the next Powerball and take the cash payout you will receive $781.3m. Of course you have a better chance of seeing God

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (MoRvC)

182 I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

As usual, the vid doesn't show up again. The guy used a Canadian lotto winner as an example - they don't tax winnings. Used something called "present value of money" to show how lump sum gets you more money. Also had a section about taxed, but I dozed off. It seems annuity is best, but he did make a case for lump. Someone more into finance could probably give an explanation of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (uQesX)

183 It's also...
National Pfeffernusse Day

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

184 UK Dentists refuse to provide free dental care ...

************

London bridges falling down....

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (/iMjX)

185 Sorry President Trump, the day of the battleship ended Dec 7, 1941, when the Japanese proved how vulnerable they were to air attack. What is next? Marching our troops out in Phalanx formation to fight our enemy's drone swarms, while we are using spears and armor? Hey, spears don't have to be reloaded.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:35 AM (Da7Vv)

How many carriers were sunk at Midway by an air attack?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

186 "Story at top of yahoo home page (didn't click on it) says that 60 Minutes piece got aired on some Canadian network unedited.
Posted by: TeeJ"

Oopsie.

Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

187 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

Its just yet another grim case of a woman unable to parallel park her car.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

188 Ad Astra Per Aspera

But as cultural American, we can overcome difficulties. Look at Elon Musk and the Space Industry.

Trump as President makes good things possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

189 As usual, the vid doesn't show up again. The guy used a Canadian lotto winner as an example - they don't tax winnings. Used something called "present value of money" to show how lump sum gets you more money. Also had a section about taxed, but I dozed off. It seems annuity is best, but he did make a case for lump. Someone more into finance could probably give an explanation of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:27 AM (uQesX)
++++
I don't know of a country other than the US with audacity to tax lottery winnings. There probably are some, but that doesn't make it any less absurd. You buy your ticket with post-tax money out of normal earnings and the state takes half the pot upfront, and *then* the state continues to tax it. Preposterous structure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (avHHk)

190 Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.
Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

191 Our problem now is no one can agree on what ships to build, so we do nothing. Maybe it is better to do something and just start building ships - even if they are the wrong ships. Because once you have the shipbuilding capability going, you can pivot when the times dictate the exact ship to build.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (sX1BW)

192 UK Dentists refuse to provide free dental care ...

***********

Socialized medicine leads to undentured servitude...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (/iMjX)

193 "I spent a lot of money on booze, babes, blow and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

Posted by: H. Biden at December 23, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

194 Color me skeptical on the "Golden Fleet". If Trump and Hegseth don't fix the Navy's procurement fiascos first it will become the Golden Fleece. The LCS, the Ford, cost overruns on the subs and that cancelled frigate show the incompetence of procurement.
Not impressed with the ship either. The pic on the website https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/ shows some info. Gas turbine and diesel power which worked so well on LCS. A railgun that hasn't been made to work after 15 years, 12 hypersonic CPS missiles that are in development. Only 28 VLS cells? That may get you through one attack by anti-ship missiles. Seems like a weak punch for a large ship. Maybe call it "Prince of Wales and Repulse" after the Brit ships sunk by the Japanese. I'd rather see more Arleigh Burke hulls which have 96 VLS cells in the current version.

Posted by: George V at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (HUbHH)

195 The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English.

Lawrence? The place is a foreign country. The state of the roads goes to hell when you cross the North Andover/Lawrence town line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (Wnv9h)

196 Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"

The US generally has had a pretty good track record of identifying strategic global threats and adjusting Defense policy in response. We've evolved from the European large scale combat operation (LSCO) model, to a counterinsurgency Middle Eastern posture, and for the last few years have been moving BACK to LSCO, but now in the Pacific. That has meant substantial realignment to air and naval power, with the Navy in particular lagging behind for the last few decades.

Whether it's Taiwan, Japan, Korea, or something else entirely, there is major preparation for a large ground war with China, and that will include massive naval operations to block Chinese trade and protect all the troops and equipment our side needs to ship to the theater.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 23, 2025 08:30 AM (ycI94)

197 The Navy should just do what it does best, submarines. Looking back at WW2, if you know who would have scrapped the idea of big surface stuff (Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, Graf Zeppelin) and devoted that material and manpower to U boats, Doenitz might have continued the "Happy Days" with bad results for the allies.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)

I recall watching an interview with a Japanese admiral after the war and he said that our carriers destroyed their navy but our submarines destroyed their country. They couldn't transport anything by sea.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

198 "The allegations highlight concerns over the misuse of taxpayer funds in the Somali community, and raise questions about oversight in Maine’s Medicaid and welfare systems."

What a complete joke. Migrants ripping off taxpayers all across the U.S.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

199 >>I can see that, but there needs to be a revolution in the industrial C-suite world to carry it off. We have no Andrew Carnegie of steel to make it happen.

I don't know if you heard Trump's speech yesterday, Salty, but he spent a fair amount of time chastising the makers of our jets and ships to get their asses moving and stop doing things like stock buy backs and paying huge executive salaries and build factories. Shockingly, Trump claims to be the best weapons salesman on the planet and everywhere he goes he sells jets, helicopters and hopefully now ships.

Trump sees himself as the jobs president and he is on a mission to get American industry back online after decades of politicians selling us out. In October a deal was made with a South Korean ship building company to reopen a shipyard in Philly. Jobs.

>>David Kim, the Hanwha Defense USA executive who orchestrated the deal and now serves as CEO of Hanwha Philly Shipyard, said that the company plans to expand by “pushing the boundaries of shipbuilding” to fulfill orders for both commercial and government buyers.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (viF8m)

200 Trump denies disaster aid requests for Colorado flooding, wildfires

While a president can tap additional federal assistance with a major disaster under the Stafford Act, the Trump administration has recently denied some states' requests for aid as it works to downsize the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The White House said Monday, "there is no politicization to the president's decisions on disaster relief." White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson explained Trump's decision, adding that the administration sent two firefighting planes to Colorado to help fight the fires.

"The president responds to each request for federal assistance under the Stafford Act with great care and consideration," Jackson said, "ensuring American tax dollars are used appropriately and efficiently by the states to supplement -- not substitute, their obligation to respond to and recover from disasters."

https://tinyurl.com/47xzjdew

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (lEejK)

201
The military wins the battle.
The economy wins the war.

Posted by: Pentagon bathroom stall #3, D Ring at December 23, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

202 I think that's one of the big reasons Trump is doing this. He wants to get our industrial ability back online. Hard to be the most powerful country in the world when you are outsourcing everything.

That is a heavy, if not impossible lift.

Key components missing or severely deprecated:

• workforce
• dispatchable energy and water
• transportation infrastructure (rail, highway, etc.)
• pro industry tax and regulation structure
• pro growth society (instead, we have NIMBY. BANANA, neo-luddites)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:33 AM (a4flb)

203 Happy Holidays JJ and the Horde. CBS employees all bark, TV news industry news jobs are scarce these days. They will not quit

Posted by: Jonah at December 23, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

204 I'd take the annuity and retire immediately.

But I don't play. The odds of winning round comfortably to zero. I'm not above some fantasy, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:52 AM (avHHk)

I'd take the lump sum and have better gains over the annuity period. Give some to each of my kids. Maybe a bit to other family members. Bump my retirement account by a bit. And give the rest away. Maybe Samaritan's Purse or Cajun Navy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

205 I'd take the lump sum and have better gains over the annuity period. Give some to each of my kids. Maybe a bit to other family members. Bump my retirement account by a bit. And give the rest away. Maybe Samaritan's Purse or Cajun Navy.

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If Illinois is financing the payment, definitely take the lump sum.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:35 AM (sX1BW)

206 What "fleet" exactly will oppose the US Navy? Red China? Please, cant even feed their sailors. Russia? With their tire burning aircraft carrier which sails around scaring people with the toxic black smoke? Euro Navy? They don't have one. The Japs? Japs got nothing. Who then? India? Rust buckets.

Posted by: Jane's Fighting Ships at December 23, 2025 08:35 AM (m8zKa)

207 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

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"Ironically, Brits turn to yanks in difficult times..."

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:38 AM (/iMjX)

208 Socialized medicine leads to undentured servitude..."

Sounds like their rules have teeth...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

209 If you can't afford 23&Me DNA Family Tree service, just publicly announce you won the lottery. You'll find all of your relatives.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (lEejK)

210 The record time for building a Liberty ship during WWII was 11 days, start to finish.

Posted by: Henry J. Kaiser at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

211 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

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"Ironically, Brits turn to yanks in difficult times..."

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Jake Paul has found a more lucrative way to remove teeth.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM (sX1BW)

212 I don't know of a country other than the US with audacity to tax lottery winnings.

There is a reason why they call it The Stupid Tax

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

213 Last Thursday my fridge died for the 3rd time. That was enough money out the door for a piece of crap refrigerator so I had to get a new one. Wasn't part of my plan but I'm over it and I like the new so all good.

On Sunday morning I came downstairs and it felt cold. That's because it was cold. My downstairs furnace was not working. I've got a good plumber and he came out Sunday afternoon ... to tell me my furnace was pinning for the fiords. That was definitely not in my plans.

So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

214 The last successful Navy warship design was the Arleigh Burke class, since then it has been a litany of multi-billion dollar foul ups: Zumwalt, Freedom, Independence, Ford, and finally the Constitution class because BuShips kept adding or changing things to make a functional design expensive and non-functional.

BuShips needs to be fumigated first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (2GVsD)

215 >>Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

A sentence I never thought I's see in America.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (NuV6c)

216 Technically, the person helping the mayor in the courtroom would been acting as an interpreter, not a translator. Interpretation deals with spoken language, translation with written language.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (77rzZ)

217 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

218 Not an expert but as I recall one of the Navy's latest class of ships was the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) . They came to be known as Little Crappy Ships. A completely idiotic idea that was pushed by the ship builders and Naval designers as something revolutionary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (MoRvC)

219 We are slightly miffed that the President didn't announce the Battleships a few months ago to boost Christmas/Chanukah sales of our popular board game.

Posted by: Milton Bradley Co. at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (oftw2)

220 that is where "look say" came in?"

Hey, it works for music, man!

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

221 JackStraw, sending you warm hugs

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:42 AM (tcsrY)

222 210 The record time for building a Liberty ship during WWII was 11 days, start to finish.
Posted by: Henry J. Kaiser at December 23, 2025 08:39 AM

What type of engine was under the hood?

Posted by: Hyman G. Rickover at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)

223 I like Sanders. He's a huge grifter, as bad as anyone in ConInc., even Lindsey Graham. And he runs his grift by forever manipulating the credulous base voters with double fistfuls of hopium. He never makes good on any of their Left wing agenda items he promotes, and he takes big bribes from his Party machine to screw them over when needed.

It's like looking at the Democrat version of a Republican, and it's nice to be reminded that they at least have a few of these guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)

224 This doesn’t speak well for his family. They don’t have the generational wealth of the Clintons or the Obamas. Why is that? They grifted just as hard, and in an even dirtier, slimier way. Where is the money?

They got millions. If they don't have "generational wealth", that's on them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

225 Just heard from the wife. Two guests have arrived, bringing up the total dog count to five and one more to be dropped off tomorrow.

What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (lXoJ5)

226 Interesting, if true:
@WallStreetApes
Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts

CIA Officer says it’s “significant amounts of money” being laundered back to Senator Lindsey Graham

“Let me say something about Senator Graham. There will be news coming out in the next couple of months about how he has profited financially off of money that came out of Ukraine, laundered through Latvia and made it way into his bank account. And now we're talking significant amounts of money. Department of justice is looking at it.

Those are serious allegations leveled by CIA officer, former CIA officer Larry Johnson.“

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

227 Shipbuilding is almost a lost art here in the US. During WWII shipyards were churning out an escort class warship every month and transports ("liberty ships") every couple weeks. And there were a lot of yards doing this.

Today... not so much. And the design stage is a huge clusterfuck for not only warships, but any weapons system.

Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

228 Thank you vmom. I'm considering investing in another dog. I can only rob just so much heat from Elvis.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (viF8m)

229 215 >>Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

A sentence I never thought I's see in America.
Posted by: Lizzy

Never change, Commies. Workers should own the fruits of their labor! Businesses paying a wage for the labor to make a profit is theft! But the government taking all of your labor for free is just good sharing, Comrade! Government is all of us, working together!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (ycI94)

230 So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

Sorry for the fridge and furnace issues. At least you'll have new ones to enjoy for the new year...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (tOcjL)

231 DePena can't even speak English after how many decades?

Wow, give me that Chicom spy Alice Guo who is now serving life in a Philippine jail for human trafficking. At least she learned to speak Tagalog and English to fake being a local before getting elected mayor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (2GVsD)

232 Our problem now is no one can agree on what ships to build

There is your problem. No strategy, no philosophical understanding of the role of the surface fleet.

So now you have a ship. How do you incorporate that into whatever the Hell the country feels it needs a ship of that category to accomplish.

How do you train a recruit and train a crew and incorporate that into a grand strategery?

Its why I'm not impressed when China says they are going to build an air craft carrier, unless the US has given them generations of Naval warfare know-how and China can leap-frog all of the missteps and errors and jump to the last scene sequence of Ground Hog Day, having a hull that is supposed to do something is not a threat.

Dittos with Trump's Back To Early 20th Century Naval Warfare Strategery - here is the ship, now what do we do with it?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

233 Navy: Listening to Navy experts and it makes sense that I think the move is to drawing down the Army resources and rebuilding our Navy in support of the Monroe Doctrine. Not sure, yet, where battleships fit, but Trump and Hegseth are not dummies.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (mNOhh)

234 You want to increase outward migration from the USA?
Identify every illegal who fraudulently received money and have the IRS tax the crap out of them. That's how the government fir Capone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (MoRvC)

235 > Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts
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He's not the only one.

He's apparently one of the careless ones. Not that it will matter in the long run.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (NwnyJ)

236 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

https://tinyurl.com/3ty2tesz

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

237 Sanders is an inveterate bum. He bounced around Vermont in a beat-up VW into his 40s promoting socialist pamphlets, never held a serious job. And then he found politics. Now he has three homes. The American Dream.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)

238 Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts.

Well! I never! (Sashays away)

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, closeted homosexual at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (m8zKa)

239 I'm not sure he understands this.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:11 AM (WHfpM)

I suspect that that issue is that a lot of people, particularly here, do not comprehend how difficult it is for him to get the most corrupt federal agency to act against members of the deep state, particularly in the knowledge that a DC grand jury is unlikely to indict or a DC jury convict a member of the deep state.

It's like having every member of the panel of judges at Nuremburg being an original member of the Nazi party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

240 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic
Posted by: redridinghood

Lawrencio, MA?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (lEejK)

241 "Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts."

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

242 Bank account records show Senator Lindsey Graham is laundering money from the Ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts

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Of course. That was obvious from the jump. That twisted old fruit stops just short ofblicking his lips and snuffling like a pig whenever the subject of the war comes up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (BI5O2)

243 move is to drawing down the Army resources"

Capt'n Bearclaw says "nooooo" in Ukranian/whatever

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

244 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth

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The case is being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for litigation...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (/iMjX)

245 203 Happy Holidays JJ and the Horde. CBS employees all bark, TV news industry news jobs are scarce these days. They will not quit
Posted by: Jonah

That's true, but it won't stop the flood of hatchet-faced feminists being gradiated from Journalism skools. We will never run out of Margarets.

Posted by: Who Watches Them? at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (oftw2)

246 You know, Trump ain't stoopid. Something tells me his battleship won't be the battleship proved obsolete in WW2.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (pohLc)

247 Big ships are stupid, expensive monuments to the past. Give me the same amount of money to build drone motherships and I will win every time.

Posted by: p-squared at December 23, 2025 08:47 AM (0prFs)

248 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth

********

I can't decide which side to root for...

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (/iMjX)

249 Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

*white woman teacher "I'm so proud of her"*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

250 231 DePena can't even speak English after how many decades?

Wow, give me that Chicom spy Alice Guo who is now serving life in a Philippine jail for human trafficking. At least she learned to speak Tagalog and English to fake being a local before getting elected mayor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (2GVsD)

My Niece is married to a Hispanic Man whose Mother has been here over 30 years and she doesn't speak English... In California you don't have to...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

251 Those are serious allegations leveled by CIA officer, former CIA officer Larry Johnson.“
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

Don't care for Graham, but until every f'in D is charged for the same blinkin' thing.... Leave Lindsay Alone!!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

252 The case is being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for litigation..."

*groans*

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (XuXeR)

253 The 3 politicians most involved with the Maidan coup are Joe Biden, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

254 - JackStraw

Maybe put some of that optimism to work and be thankful you have the ability to replace the fridge and furnace?
And the roof over your head?
And the food in the fridge?
And....

Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (T08Hw)

255 I'm taking the rest of the week off. Yea!
Today, errands and gaming.
Tomorrow, baking and gaming.
Thursday, eating and gifting.
Friday, gaming and whatever.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (f0sNM)

256 One fun historical tidbit, one day in 1944 a US shipyard commissioned four Fleet submarines. In one day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (2GVsD)

257 What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Good luck!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (tcsrY)

258 That Lawrence mayor must be functionally retarded not to have learned English after all these years.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)

259 I think we all know how a man that doesn't speak English gets elected mayor in Lawrence, MA.

Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic
Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Check out my post at #59. DePena can speak English. He deliberately chose not to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (ufSfZ)

260 I suspect that that issue is that a lot of people, particularly here, do not comprehend how difficult it is for him to get the most corrupt federal agency to act against members of the deep state, particularly in the knowledge that a DC grand jury is unlikely to indict or a DC jury convict a member of the deep state.

It's like having every member of the panel of judges at Nuremburg being an original member of the Nazi party.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Proof positive that Trump isn't a dictator or a king.

Because Stalin or Rocket Man wouldn't hesitate to publicly execute the head of the department and keep going until they started doing their job.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (lEejK)

261 I thought it was the opposite. Total annuity value is usually much greater than lump-sum, though it does depend on how long you live. Maybe tax implications have changed or Powerball works differently from state lotteries.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM (avHHk)

IIRC... the annuity pays ~2x the lump sum but it's over 25 years. So, to beat that you only need to average ~3% returns.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

262
It takes years to build an Army.
It takes decades to build a Navy.

Posted by: The next Pentagon bathroom stall over at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)

263 I can't decide which side to root for..."

It's an amalgam of bad puns...

Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (XuXeR)

264 >>James will be giving the “oath of office” to Mamdani — a Democratic Socialist — at midnight on New Year’s Day, while Sanders will be giving the oath of office “at Mamdani’s public swearing-in ceremony”

Because Bernie Sanders is the godfather of the Justice Democrats. It was started by Bernie bros. He's getting his Socialist dreams completed via this next generation.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (NuV6c)

265 Looks like Jack Straw will be back on the Nebraska Ditch Weed for a while.

Posted by: Rat In A Drain Ditch at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

266 Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.

Putin and Xi don't strike fear in me. Its the 535 Total Piles of Shit we call Congress and the 500 or so Demonic District Judges, and the 200 million communist parasites and the generations of directed destruction of our language, borders, culture, traditions and heritage that make for the greatest threat to the nation's survival.

First, I posit, the US is not a Nation, since a Nation is more of a people with shared language, traditions, culture and identity. The US, like much of the West is not nations. We are barely a country because of the failure of our judicial and monetary functions.

The US is basically a sick and diseased Economic Opportunity Zone.

It doesn't need a military, that is for nations. What the US needs is an enema.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (a4flb)

267 257 What is the strategy for dealing with so many dogs? Babysit lazy ones like greyhounds and have dog beds in every room of the house.
Posted by: NR Pax

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Good luck!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (tcsrY)

Live somewhere warm and dry in the winter, so they can all enjoy your fenced in backyard and outdoor dog houses?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (tOcjL)

268 I can't decide which side to root for...
Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 08:48 AM (/iMjX)

Whichever one still has its wisdom.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:50 AM (WHfpM)

269 Hey leave Miss Lindsay alone. He has a lot of rent boys to support

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (MoRvC)

270 Navy: Listening to Navy experts and it makes sense that I think the move is to drawing down the Army resources and rebuilding our Navy in support of the Monroe Doctrine. Not sure, yet, where battleships fit, but Trump and Hegseth are not dummies.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 08:45 AM (mNOhh)

Taking funds from one branch to give to another is the way to victory!!

Posted by: IJN and IJA at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (uQesX)

271 Somali girI in Minnesota: "We should not be illegal. This is stolen land."

I am starting to have even more contempt for these people and I didn't know that was possible.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (lXoJ5)

272 Another thought on "Trump's battleship" is that it might be a ruse to get one or more of our adversaries to invest time and money into their own battleship design.

China has copied damn near every weapons system we've got. And in some cases exceeded our own designs.

Whether those Chinese weapons systems will perform is debatable. But making them take the time, effort and money to do so might be worthwhile while we get up to speed on hypersonics and directed energy weapons.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (NwnyJ)

273 Trump declares NYT a "Threat to National Security" and "True Enemy of the People"; calls for "Unhinged Behavior" of the press to be "dealt with and stopped"

It feels like forever ago, but there was a time when trump wasn’t allowed on social media because of shit spewing…and the country decided we needed 600% more of it.

Every accusation is a confession with these people. Regardless of what reddit will tell you, it's okay to punch despots. It's so, so overdue.

There goes the first amendment. Damn, they won without a fight. I never want to hear another republican, talk about constitutional originalism again

”Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped,” Trump wrote. How do have a fake opinion?

See the weaponization of double standard hypocrisy by conservatives? They demand tolerance from liberals, but seek Bolshevik-style state media when they get the chance.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (ycI94)

274 Department of justice is looking at it.

Which is all they will ever do.

Otherwise known as, "How To Lose The Midterms In One Easy Step."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ufSfZ)

275 Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

I always said he'd come to no good in the end, your honour
If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied, the bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder, let me hammer him today -- Joe Biden on Hunter

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

276 It may be useful to consider that industrial building capacity can be repurposed, once the staffing and machinery are in place.

Which is to say, it may not be ships Trump intends to build ...

All Terrain Armored Transports, AT-AT, for short, if you will ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (HXT0k)

277 So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying but at least I won't be freezing my ass off in my house.

Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)
++++
On the plus side, you can buy the furnace and get it installed at the last minute. That's very expensive, unexpected, terribly timed and overall bad - especially at this time of year - but it can be remedied. So at least there is that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (avHHk)

278 Oh I'm optimistic enough, Teej. Cold but optimistic.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (viF8m)

279 Good Lord. There is a reason my wife and I refer to reddit as a sewer.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (lXoJ5)

280 >>Video proof that DePena can speak English if he wants to:

https://tinyurl.com/4j3vby2s

So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (NuV6c)

281 This "stolen land" bullshit is gaslighting for the brain dead. This is conquered land, paid for in blood and suffering, just like every other fucking square inch in the world.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (pohLc)

282 253 The 3 politicians most involved with the Maidan coup are Joe Biden, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

Code Name: Larry, Moe, and Curly.

Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (Q+gd/)

283 "It's an amalgam of bad puns..."

A bridge too far.

Posted by: The next Pentagon bathroom stall over at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

284 Merry frigging Christmas to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:40 AM (viF8m)

Sorry about that Jack. But the way you expressed it made me chuckle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (YobFY)

285 The Golden Fleet is all bluff and bluster. He is trying to do a Reagan and get China and Russia to spend money they don't have. He may build one or two vessels, but no more.

Posted by: Gary at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (j3Fsw)

286 President Autopen, 4 years ago.

"We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated – for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (f0sNM)

287 >>On the plus side, you can buy the furnace and get it installed at the last minute. That's very expensive, unexpected, terribly timed and overall bad - especially at this time of year - but it can be remedied. So at least there is that.

I was surprised they could do it so soon. I was making plans to decamp temporarily for the holidays so this was a stroke of good luck.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)

288 Bridge too far...

Posted by: Oops sock fail at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

289 So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:54 AM (NuV6c)

The former is possible - just about every Lawrence mayor since I was a child was an out-and-out crook - but I think it's more signaling to his base that he's still one of the homies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (ufSfZ)

290 ... It feels like forever ago, but there was a time when trump wasn’t allowed on social media because of shit spewing…and the country decided we needed 600% more of it. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 08:52 AM (ycI94)
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These people are hopeless idiots.

"600% more?" What the hell does that even mean? How do you even quantify it? I never once thought about it like that. I just want leftists sobbing and panicked as the gnash their teeth over the unfairness of it all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:56 AM (avHHk)

291 275 Yup. Failing to whip Hunter into shape and put some cash aside for the future is entirely on Joe and Jill, and I shed not a single tear. They stole many, many millions and raked off huge sums selling influence and American interest. If they couldn't be bothered to protect their filthy lucre and not fritter it away on drugs, whores and various other trash, that's on them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

I always said he'd come to no good in the end, your honour
If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied, the bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder, let me hammer him today -- Joe Biden on Hunter
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 08:53 AM (ExV1e)

Wait, I thought he was an accomplished painter with a bright future.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (i0Hi3)

292 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
=====

About 40 hours. Came on again about 7:30 am yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (7nrYO)

293 It's getting close!

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (g47mK)

294 I am starting to have even more contempt for these people and I didn't know that was possible.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:51 AM (lXoJ5)
******
Yeah, I am so sick of these ungrateful people ripping off the US while insisting that we bow down to them and conform to their culture of the country they escaped from.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

295 I was surprised they could do it so soon. I was making plans to decamp temporarily for the holidays so this was a stroke of good luck.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:55 AM (viF8m)
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Yeah, amazing. Someone with the unit in stock and a free day right before Christmas.

Or he was planning to take the day off, and you found a price that got him to forgo his Christmas Eve plans. Either way, a stroke of luck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

296 So why the translator?
Is it that he isn't confident enough in a legal proceeding, or is this just a game for him, all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?
Posted by: Lizzy

If convicted he can claim he didn't understand/ bad interpreter. And Hispanic backing.

See, I'm just like you. Vote for me.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (ItWcy)

297 292 San Franpsycho

How long was your power out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 23, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
=====

About 40 hours. Came on again about 7:30 am yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:57 AM (7nrYO)

Bummer.. We're 60 miles from SF and when it goes out here, and it does, we are lucky enough to have a generator.... Bet that's not an option in SF..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (VE6XX)

298 Lawrence Welk was born and raised in North Dakota, went to German language schools there, went to German language stores, church, lodge, etc. Never learned English until his 20s. Spoke such heavily accented English that it sounded like he was raised in the Alps. I never attended an English church service until I was about 10, only Norwegian language. This was in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Accent-u-ate The Positive at December 23, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

299 all "no habla inglise" dumb act to get out of responsibility?

Had an acquaintance that used to be a security guard at Target. He was Vietnamese and he loved it when those kids tried the "I no speak English!" defense. Broke them pretty quickly when he changed languages.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 08:59 AM (lXoJ5)

300 UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (

***********

♫ ♪ ♫

Fillings
Whoa whoa whoa fillings
Whoa whoa whoa fillings
Again in my flat

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (/iMjX)

301 >So tomorrow while you are dancing around with visions of sugar plums I will be getting a new furnace I didn't plan on buying
----

been there, mon frere. Except for me it was AC. The old unit just couldn't be repaired any more. I said, 'screw it, gimme all new stuff'. $21K later I was cool as a cucumber. Had to be done. No choice. Colorado summer is not to be endured.

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

302 I have met a few people that spoke heavily accented English but were born here. The family spoke the old country exclusively around the house, and the neighborhood was about the same.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 07:30 AM (gm9Sb)

My parents were both 1st generation Americans, mom's side being Hungarian, Dad's side Slovak. They and their siblings spoke perfect English. Their parents immigrated here from around 1901 to 1907. My grandparents spoke broken English, but learned English from their kids. The neighborhoods were Hungarian and Slovak, but only English was taught in the schools back then. No bilingual nonsense. They were forced to learn English to survive. No one catered to them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (5xuJ/)

303 Just saw this, the Delaware Supreme Court has split the baby in the worst way possible.

Remember the DE tyrant in black who stripped Elon Musk of his shareholder approved compensation package?

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Elon on the package but is going to leave standing the actual ruling.

Delaware will remain radioactive to corporations because their judiciary has decided just one irate shareholder can hold an entire company hostage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (2GVsD)

304 Having worked and administrated in several FQHC organizations in the past, and watching one very big one locally go bankrupt (due to poor financial planning and a very distant geographically and philosophically CEO and Board) I can both support the concept and note that the execution and Federal Oversight is spotty at best. If we’re going to hold back on the funding bill for them, I’d suggest some rewriting of current rules and regulations to minimize creation and support of huge non-profit organizations geographically distant from the communities they serve, and make them locally administered and controlled, at least at the county level, with a minimum but essential support and oversight from the Federal level.

Posted by: epador at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (TRnzq)

305 The Trump Class could possibly work, if the ships were built with proven and relatively affordable technologies. But that's not what the MIC does. They will want to stuff them with the latest AI targeting systems, stealth hull plating, secure BLOS quantum encrypted communications, photon torpedoes ... it's the obsession with bleeding edge technology that makes our military both hyperexpensive and not very effective. That bleeding technology takes forever to develop, breaks down frequently, and costs a fortune to maintain. F-35s cost a fortune to fly and spend more time in maintenance than in the air.

Cheaper weapons systems based on proven technology would make the military stronger at less cost.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:00 AM (f0sNM)

306 Posted by: Lizzy at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NuV6c)

While I have no doubt that Lindsey Graham is a war profiteering piece of shit, I hesitate to take the word of "former CIA officer".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

307
While I have no doubt that Lindsey Graham is a war profiteering piece of shit, I hesitate to take the word of "former CIA officer".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

I'm with you.. And I'm no Graham fan

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

308 Shipbuilding is almost a lost art here in the US. During WWII shipyards were churning out an escort class warship every month and transports ("liberty ships") every couple weeks. And there were a lot of yards doing this.

Today... not so much. And the design stage is a huge clusterfuck for not only warships, but any weapons system.

Sad to think that the likely catalyst to change that would be a serious threat to the nation's survival. And I'm not sure even that would have the desired effect.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

AI will solve this issue. Trust us. -- Tech CEOs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

309 ALL THE CRAZY 2020 ELECTION CONSPIRACIES ARE TWUE!

That includes the existence of the secret Dominion data center in Belgrade:

https://tinyurl.com/2ykcyd8m

Also note this:

@DNIGabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report on this matter

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:02 AM (KgVf3)

310 161
'Trump has said many times that our steel industry is a matter of national defense. So is the ability to do things with the steel we produce.'

Yeah. But he should beef up steel production in a way that makes sense.
Building a fleet of Maus tanks would take a bunch of steel but does it help national defense?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (fd80v)

311 As far as language goes, my Dad’s family were from “the hills” and had to learn how to speak city English. They did and they prospered. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have.

Posted by: epador at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (TRnzq)

312 Our ANOTHER Movie Channel buddy has released more ranking and ranting on Youtube. Please Like and Subscribe!

Posted by: Hollywood Babylon at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2)

313 I smile when I think of all the new military tech coming out, and I know there will still be a Ma deuce mounted on anything big enough to carry it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:03 AM (pohLc)

314 A district judge in California I think just gave a summary judgment on parental consent laws barring schools from keeping secrets from kid’s parents. This will probably be important news. Judgment was written yesterday.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:04 AM (3uBP9)

315 You'll know the Biden clan is dead broke when they start writing tell all books about each other. Circular firing squads.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (MoRvC)

316 Yeah. But he should beef up steel production

Wish we would beef up steer production... I had to pay $124.00 for a 16 pound standing rib roast for Christmas .. And that was on sale..

Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

317 >>Yeah, amazing. Someone with the unit in stock and a free day right before Christmas.

I bought this place from the builder when I moved here so everything was new. But it was also builders special quality in some areas including the furnaces and inline (hate) water heater. So I had never needed a plumber or electrician. Until the lockdowns when my inline water heater died.

I called at least a half dozen plumbers and they all said they weren't taking new customers or didn't even bother to return the call. Until I found this company that has both a plumbing and electrical department.

They came out the next day and determined the unit was dead and out of warranty by a few months. The lead tech said watch this. He called the manufacturer and just abused them until they agreed to give me a new unit and all I got charged for was labor. Best tradesmen I've ever found.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (viF8m)

318 m8zKa)

52 USS Defiant? Uh Oh.
In WWII, the Brits tried a (sort-of) fighter plane named the defiant. It was loaded down with a ball turret with machine guns, and was a miserable failure.
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 23, 2025 07:36 AM (1FEc1)

Oh come on! The Defiant laid waste to a Jem Hadar fleet! And kicked a lot of Cardassian ass too!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:06 AM (pLSjm)

319 Today Is Officially Festivus

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 08:18 AM

I've got some real problems with you people...

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 08:20 AM

Kruger, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe... I lost my train of thought...

YouTube: https://bit.ly/44DkMge

Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (P5BPp)

320 Seriously though. It's not like the British were world-renowned for quality dental work before the dentists strike.

Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (/iMjX)

321 Here is more on the parental consent ruling if you want to read:

x.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/
2003262592945373216

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (3uBP9)

322 Wish we would beef up steer production... I had to pay $124.00 for a 16 pound standing rib roast for Christmas .. And that was on sale..
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)
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I'd kill for that price in my area. This year, I am not doing a rib roast for Christmas. I could pay for it, but I can't rationalize it and my family agreed and so we're doing something else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (avHHk)

323 Or he was planning to take the day off, and you found a price that got him to forgo his Christmas Eve plans. Either way, a stroke of luck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

That sounds suspiciously like a free-market economy! I wonder if that would work for Canada's and the UK's medical system?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (xG1o0)

324 When I began my career in the defense industry in the mid-1990s, there was a huge push toward "joint interoperability," i.e. getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.

I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)

325 Human beings have been stealing land from one another since shortly after walking upright. It's what we do.

Hey Og, looks better over there
Yeah, Kag, but there are already some semi-erect proto-humans living there,
Fuck that shit. Everybody! grab a lemur femur and let's go steal us some land.
Hey-oh!

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (ZxPkt)

326 That sounds suspiciously like a free-market economy! I wonder if that would work for Canada's and the UK's medical system?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (xG1o0)
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That's soooooo unfair. That means the "haves" get care at the expense of the "have nots!" It's literally murder!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (avHHk)

327 She needs to say it's a sloppily written hit piece that fails the most basic standard of professional journalism and the surpassing responsibility of a major network. She won't.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (WHfpM)
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I think she said almost exactly that, maybe formulated a little differently.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (M4ySl)

328 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (MoRvC)

329 These people are hopeless idiots.

"600% more?" What the hell does that even mean? How do you even quantify it? I never once thought about it like that. I just want leftists sobbing and panicked as the gnash their teeth over the unfairness of it all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

As Ace has noted, the Left "loves science sexually", so if you deny their made-up statistics, you're oppressing their identity and reality, or something. It's hard to argue reality with people perpetually living in delusion.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (ycI94)

330 I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)
++++
"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many from which to choose!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (avHHk)

331 I am now counting the days toward the end of my career in the defense industry, and the military is still working on getting all the military systems out there to be able to communicate with each other and work together through common communication interfaces.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:08 AM (f0sNM)
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Bad plan.

Posted by: Human attempting to hide from a scanning Cylon eye at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (avHHk)

332 Our Christmas Dinner is going to be all-you-can eat Oriental food at the local Hibachi restaurant. (Yeah, I said Oriental, in the pan-Asian sense. And I meant it.)

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:09 AM (f0sNM)

333 Every accusation is a confession with these people. Regardless of what reddit will tell you, it's okay to punch despots. It's so, so overdue.

I'm your fucking huckleberry.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (lEejK)

334 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Ask the winners of the publisher's clearing house who took the annuity, which stopped when they went bankrupt.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (0U5gm)

335 322 Joe Mannix, you’re Jewish, right? So no Chinese restaurants?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

336 The British knew how to name ships. These were the ships present at the Battle Of Trafalgar.

https://shorturl.at/7woio

goes to wiki

Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 09:12 AM (ZxPkt)

337 Uh oh, they got Trump now!

Headline: Trump Flew on Epstein Jet "Many More Times" than Previously Disclosed.

Repeated each paragraph: Trump flew on Epstein's jet many more times than previously known/disclosed.

Seriously, it's repeated every paragraph; the "many more times."

Until you get to around 10 or 12 ....
Then they reveal it's between 4 and 6 flights in the years of 1993 to 1996.
FFS

You don't hate Thomas Massie and his media whores enough.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 09:12 AM (HXT0k)

338 322 Joe Mannix, you’re Jewish, right? So no Chinese restaurants?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)
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LOL. Yes, I am. The wider family is interfaith, though and we observe Christmas. I usually handle Christmas Eve dinner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (avHHk)

339 USS Gettysburg was in charge of Truman's air defense but that night was poorly briefed, ship was not tied into the task force data network, had IFF problems, and watch officers had been pencil-whipped by the Captain as qualified.

But the Captain was allowed to simply move on though his ship shot down one Super Bug, almost bagged two more and a helicopter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (2GVsD)

340 Those ships should be gold.
As in 24k gold.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (En0c1)

341 Here is more on the parental consent ruling if you want to read:

x.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/
2003262592945373216

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:07 AM (3uBP9)

That is awesome. Thanks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (dK+Kv)

342 Ask the winners of the publisher's clearing house who took the annuity, which stopped when they went bankrupt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I leave the front porch light on in case Ed McMahon shows up with balloons and a GIANT check.

Posted by: Keep Hope Alive! at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)

343 Time and again, in battles of the past, communication and coordination made the difference in crushing the opposition, and getting your ass kicked. Fine example, Kasserine pass, El Guettar, 1943.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (pohLc)

344 > @DNIGabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report on this matter
-----------
Who's preventing this? Her own office? She's the Director of National Intelligence for God's sake.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (NwnyJ)

345 I am also the only early riser in a houseful of layabouts. I've been up and about since 6:30

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (f0sNM)

346 "How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around"

It doesn't help AT ALL that the republican party is openly opposed to those that put them in office. They got rid of the Tea Party and are simply waiting Trump out.

Many will get paid to 'retire' just like 30+ did in 2018 at a time when incumbents won 93% of the time.

I am optimistic and will do anything I can to help because establishment republicans are feckless. Look what they helped foment over Tuca and TPUSA.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 23, 2025 09:14 AM (mNOhh)

347 I am also the only early riser in a houseful of layabouts. I've been up and about since 6:30
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (f0sNM)
++++
Enjoy your peaceful hours!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 09:14 AM (avHHk)

348 Came across a YT vid yesterday that claimed you lose money taking a yearly payout, best to take lump sum. But, it takes math to figure it out, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 08:16 AM (uQesX)
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Depends on your state tax situation and your perception of the discount rate they use to figure out the present (cash) value. Some states do not tax lottery winnings, and other states do. Some people think they can earn more than the discount rate. I would take the annuity myself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 09:15 AM (c/v/O)

349 You been heah four hour! You go now!!

Posted by: The Oriental man in charge at December 23, 2025 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

350 Another crazy animal slams their car into people at a Christmas gathering. This time in the Netherlands. Notice the AP's reporting. "A car" did the ramming. Of course, no details on the car rammer.

Its just yet another grim case of a woman unable to parallel park her car.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

And remember that there are countries that drive on the wrong side of the road.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (g8Ew8)

351 Who's preventing this? Her own office? She's the Director of National Intelligence for God's sake.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 09:13 AM (NwnyJ)
-

I would look higher.

Possibility of keeping the details private until...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (KgVf3)

352 LOL @ cover pic

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (KgVf3)

353 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Blue states including Colorado stand to lose tens of MILLIONS of federal dollars because they are not cooperating with purging illegals from CDLs

SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

"I guarantee you, the taxpayer will NOT fund their roads and bridges and systems when they put illegals on the roads!"

"If you can't speak English...you should NOT be behind the wheel of a big rig. These are 80,000 POUNDS!"

https://tinyurl.com/ub24eeb2

Posted by: redridinghood at December 23, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

355 The hostesses as the Hibachi Place are Chinese, but the servers are Filipino. It's helpful to know a bit of Mandarin and some Spanish.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (f0sNM)

356 Chinee Restaurant give extra MSG to all Jewish patrons on Christmas Day!

Posted by: Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra!! at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (oftw2)

357 More info on the proposed "battleship":

https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (AZDyS)

358 Ok to be serious - the ship building is because the Arleigh Burke Destoyer class, an incredibly successful design, has reached the end of its useful life. The platform is just too small to carry much of the new developments foreseen. Also the Zumwalt class, which was supposed to be the ship of the future, turned out to be a failure and has been canceled. So all our warships are aging out, with no planned replacement.

What Trump is talking about is really a super Destroyer, or what used to be called a cruiser with the ability to mount a lot of new tech and maybe even a VTOL F-35 or two, as well as helicopters.
It will be nothing like the old battleships, but they are ships, and they might do battle, and Trump likes the word a lot, so what the heck let’s call them battleships.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:17 AM (pLSjm)

359 Hey Og, looks better over there
Yeah, Kag, but there are already some semi-erect proto-humans living there,
Fuck that shit.

------

A lot of that, sure.

But, remember, we're humans, so there's a lot of this, too.

OG: look at that place. What a dump. And the women are ugly, and the water will make you sick.

KAG: so what, homo? Hey fellas, look at fancy Og over here, he's TOO GOOD to steal this armpit of a valley with the rest of us troglodytes!

OG: ok, you're right, you're right... I'll get my club.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 09:18 AM (BI5O2)

360 FINALLY!!! We're getting battleships again!! Yayayay! Our Navy won two world wars and countless other skirmishes with BATTLESHIPS!! Not Carriers, not trifling pitiful little LCS, Nay! I say, NAY! We used battleships! Battleships with big fucking guns! They could reach out and touch some motherfucker from far, far away!!

BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:20 AM (2J/Lj)

361 Great. Here comes the snow.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)

362 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Sounds like the DEI IT is working out real well.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (lEejK)

363 SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

Okay, do it. This sanctuary lawlessness has been going on with total abandon way too long Allowing this crime is a crime itself.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (WHfpM)

364 Cali tried a bunch of horrid things in that parental consent case. They tried, “well our lgbtqwerty programs are just too big to remove now without risking total annihilation” and the court answered, “that’s a you problem”. Then they tried the Moot Gambit, “hee hee we switched it off yesterday, it’s off now, so your whole case is MOOOOOOT!!!”, but the defendants showed it was all clearly in the upcoming teacher training. Moot is bullshit, almost always used to help the left.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (3uBP9)

365 Speaking of Target, I don't believe their commercials could get any more queer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (pohLc)

366 Happy Christmas Adam, everyone!!

(Adam preceded Eve, so...)

Posted by: windbag at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (M/xXM)

367 Hey, we've been around since 2008. But we're roughly the size of a frigate. If you want to paint us gray, put a bunch of weapons onboard and call us battleships, fine.
Whatever.

Posted by: The Legend class Coast Guard cutter at December 23, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

368 I just hope that the new battleships aren’t to the old battleships what the Mustang II was to the original Mustang.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:24 AM (pLSjm)

369 And away we go. I don't claim t be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.

Trump likes attention. He loves America. China has been building up their military by leaps and bounds over the US. Is their construction capabilities better than ours? Likely not. But Trump is reminding the world we can still build shit bigger and better than anyone else. This is just another cog in his 'peace through strength' mantra.

I'm fine with it.

We SHOULD be the biggest and baddest EVERYTHING on the block.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

370 I forget where I read it - it was in an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Orwell's writing of it - but one author has speculated that Orwell's use of the past tense when talking about Newspeak in the appendix was a subtle hint to the reader that, after all, the Party was defeated in the end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 08:14 AM (ufSfZ)

More likely the name was changed and they pretended it never existed.

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (oHAzj)

371 >>@EricLDaugh
·

>>🚨 BREAKING: US GDP just DESTROYED expectations, surging +4.3% in Q3

>>"That is a NICE jump! This would be the strongest going back to Q3 2023. THIS IS STRONG!" 🔥🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (viF8m)

372 BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"
Posted by: Madamemayhem
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What? When did this happen? So are we talking 16 or 18 inch guns, or is this just our version of the Kirov class?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 23, 2025 09:25 AM (XvL8K)

373 He called the manufacturer and just abused them until they agreed to give me a new unit and all I got charged for was labor.

That's hilarious. Great to have someone who can get a company to find it in their heart to help out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

374 BRING ON THE MODERN BATTLESHIPS!!!!! Tell the whole damn world "fuck with us and we will rain hell down on you from a big beautiful BATTLESHIP!!!"

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 09:20 AM (2J/Lj)

Pooky was USAF but I agree!

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (Wt5PA)

375 Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:

But, the blue states are the SAFEST states in the country, as ASS keeps reminding us.

Nothing to see here, please disperse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

376 Silver over $70! I'm rich! Might go out to buy my own Battleship.

Posted by: Landlubber Lenny at December 23, 2025 09:26 AM (oftw2)

377 Happy Christmas Adam, everyone!!

(Adam preceded Eve, so...)

Posted by: windbag at December 23, 2025 09:23 AM (M/xXM)

Why did this make me chuckle?

Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (oHAzj)

378 But, the blue states are the SAFEST states in the country, as ASS keeps reminding us.

Nothing to see here, please disperse.

===

never listen to ASS

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

379 SEC. DUFFY: "I can PULL THEIR MONEY."

Okay, do it. This sanctuary lawlessness has been going on with total abandon way too long Allowing this crime is a crime itself.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 23, 2025 09:22 AM (WHfpM)

In before the "nothing will happen" guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

380 Silver over $70! I'm rich! Might go out to buy my own Battleship.

==

Commodity price goes up, everyone runs to sell to realize gains, price fall....

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

381 never listen to ASS

Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

Can't help hearing him, he keeps farting all over the place.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Wt5PA)

382 I'm upset for locals, but happy Target is effing up. The pick up order computers at mid Hudson Target's crashed wiping out all the orders. Hire more IT, less DEI you lug nuts
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Target? Men can use the Ladies room, so you need to shut up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

383 368 I just hope that the new battleships aren’t to the old battleships what the Mustang II was to the original Mustang.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Mustang II-Boredom Zero!

Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea! at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (oftw2)

384 I gotta admit that the idea of a battleship in the modern world is pretty silly when we've been treated to nothing but stories in the past week of Ukrainian underwater autonomous drones taking out Russia subs.

But yeah it'll be f'in cool to see. I wonder where they'll make it. The render kind of looked like a Zumwalt on steroids so I wonder if it will be built here in Maine. Bath Iron Works probably isn't big enough to build it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (2ftGe)

385 Likely not. But Trump is reminding the world we can still build shit bigger and better than anyone else.

Think of the steel industry we'll need, and energy, and trades, and engineering, and transport. I like it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (6LzyB)

386 Pooky was USAF but I agree!
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard
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Wishing you and all the pooky's a Merry and healthy Christmas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:29 AM (Mis34)

387 Witholding highway funds is a proven winner.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (cS1cw)

388 We have way more adversaries than just the CCP . Battleships are just ocean artillery. I don’t think anyone is recommending getting rid of land artillery.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 09:30 AM (KDPiq)

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