In Wake of Maduro Masterstroke, American Approval of Ousting Him Surges

Ousting Maduro had been unpopular -- up until the point that Delta Force conducted a miraculously successful armed extradition operation.

Scott Jennings:

"A recent Washington Post poll finds Americans pretty evenly split on the operation over the weekend, 40 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove, 18 percent are unsure," a CNN host read. "When it comes to who should decide the future leadership of Venezuela, 94 percent say the Venezuelan people, six percent say the United States. One thing I have to say is like, this was a very successful military operation. The idea that 42 percent disapprove is a higher number than I would think, it says to be me that the American people are thinking not just about this operation, but also maybe more about well, what comes next."
"Well, also, it's Trump," Jennings replied. "I mean, 42 percent of the American people would oppose it if he cured cancer, personally, in the Oval Office, tonight. I mean, there's a reflexive opposition to Trump. It is the entire platform of the Democratic Party to the extent that that's how their leadership tells them to act. That's how the Democratic grassroots are going to see it."

Below: The poll numbers change completely, and Harry Enten has more bad news for butthurt mentally-ill anti-Trump obsessives: There is no "rift" in the Republican Party. Trump continues to have 85% support from his fellow Republicans.

🚨 NEW: CNN reports SURGE in support for what President Trump did to Maduro +25 POINTS among the American public

"After the ousting, look! Support went THROUGH THE ROOF!" says pollster Harry Enten.

"It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful operations!" pic.twitter.com/SCHCcPc9TY
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) January 6, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: CNN just SHOCKED the Left by confirming MAGA is not divided at all - not even a LITTLE BIT!

His GOP approval rating *WENT UP* in the last 6 months

"Let me be very clear: NO RIFT in the Republican Party!"

"Trump has an IRON GRIP on the Republican base...85%!"… pic.twitter.com/6oqaGALLht
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 6, 2026

Tom Massie is now denying that Venezuela nationalized the oil companies and stole oil that was contractually granted to US oil companies. And they stole all the drilling equipment -- rigs, pipes, trucks, all of it -- when they did so.

But when you're an anti-American Blame America Firster -- when you're a Ron Paul peace-at-any-price pacifag -- you have to lie to make your case.

And then there's Maude.

Me-Again Kelly, whom Dave Rubin calls "Grandma Groyper" for her late-in-life turn towards Naziism to remain relevant, continues hosting a parade of hard-left communists and anti-American pacifists to attack America for acting in her interests.

I guess her days of LARPing as Ultimate Trump Super-Fan #1 are over.

Below, she admits that Roger Ailes used to tell her to rah-rah every American military action to pander to the pro-Bush conservative base, and she dutifully put on her pom-poms.

But now, you see, she's an "Independent Journalist," and she no longer does what Roger Ailes tells her to do. Now she does what Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Glenn Greenwald tell her to do, and she panders to the hard left pacifag part of the audience.

So you see: She's Brave Now!!!

What the hell is wrong with Megyn Kelly? pic.twitter.com/gBL5lFJ40v
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) January 5, 2026

Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, continues losing what's left of his support.

He’s lost his mind. But we knew that even before this bit of lunacy. https://t.co/jx7sOByUps
— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) January 5, 2026

Dan Bongino reads the riot act to the "black-pillers" and "grifters," announcing that, while he was required to remain silent on them Deputy Director of the FBI, he is now free to blast them as a private citizen podcaster.

Dan Bongino
@dbongino
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4h
Three million views on the post below this one.
Here's why:
The support for the Trump administration in the working world is strong. And people are tired of the endless bullshit from the black-piller, chicken-little grifters. Watch their tactics, and once you see them, you'll never unsee them. They use a couple of different tactics to bullshit you.
-First, they overload you with information but they underwhelm you with evidence. Here's an example of what I mean - they'll try to convince you that John Smith robbed a bank, so they'll data download on you and lose you in the chaos. They'll tell you things that might be true, but aren't evidence of anything. They'll tell you John was in the bank that day. That John knew someone who worked there. That John was arrested ten years ago for a misdemeanor. But they won't tell you that the fingerprints, video and DNA of the thief matches someone else. Solid investigators sift through chaotic information and mine the evidence gems. Charlatans and morons do the opposite.

He means Candace Owens.

-Second, black-pillers will rarely take on the President directly. They know they'll get destroyed by the boss, and wind up in the political graveyard of egomaniacs who thought they could take the President on with bullshit. As a proxy fight, they try to pick off his allies, knowing many of them are limited in the ways they can fight back. Well, I'm back now, and I'm putting this bullshit to a stop.

He means Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, who infamously DMd someone about "hating" Trump with a passion and longing for the day he lost his re-election so that he was banished from American politics, still attempts to pretend to be a Trump supporter, to appease his falling fan base of Trump-Tucker crossover supporters.

But Tucker Carlson plainly loathes Trump and embraces a leftwing, Ron Paul style of antisemitic, conspiratorial pacifism-at-any-cost. Which Trump does not -- Trump says we will act only in America's interest, not that we will let communist shitbags send drugs and gangsters to our country and we can never touch a hair on their heads because we're so devoted to "peace."

So Tucker Carlson pretends his arguments aren't with Trump himself, but with Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, who he pretends are the people directing Trump's foreign policy. He's too cowardly to name Trump as his enemy, so he pretends Trump is an empty-headed demented clown like Biden was, and that all decisions are being made by his "neocon," Jew-loving underlings.

Bongino calls this out above, though he does not name Tucker Carlson.

Yet.

Everyone inside the administration I crossed paths with is busting their asses to move the needle on real change. You can do things fast, or you can do things correctly. You can rarely do both in government. Even with those constraints, the administration's accomplishments are breathtaking. I want to be clear on this point, intra-party/movement policy disagreements are healthy and natural. But endless pessimism meant to strategically attack a movement from the inside, is not about policy, it's political cannibalism. And many of these grifters are hiding their real agendas from you. And that leads me to my next point.
-Third, the black-pillers are infamous for telling you an administration policy or action is going to lead to the end of the world, before the policy has even been given time to demonstrate results. You're seeing it now with regard to Venezuela. Will it work out? Maybe. We will all see. But maybe give it a minute before you attack from inside the tent while pretending you're an ally.

That's another shot at Tucker Carlson, who has predicted five of the last zero "WORLD WAR III's," always proclaiming that Trump -- I mean, Marco Rubio -- is going to send "our boys" in to conquer and occupy Iran, Gaza, wherever in the next forever war.

His (insincere) predictions of doom keep not coming to pass, but that doesn't bother his left-wing pacifag fanbase.

Black-pillers and grifters asked for this fight, not us. But I'm absolutely down to fight it. ABSOLUTELY down.

Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge.

And I think I'm going to get one. People are sick of the Nazis and pacifags. I didn't join the GOP so that I could carry placards for ANSWER, Code Pink, and Iran.

Posted by: Ace at 03:28 PM

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1 That bastard. Doing what the people want.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:29 PM (ExV1e)

2 Damn neocons

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:29 PM (YwEeS)

3 Prior thread informed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:29 PM (ExV1e)

4 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2026 03:30 PM (Cjt/F)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 06, 2026 03:31 PM (LdBR/)

6 You know what makes ousting him popular?

When Venezuelans tell people, "if you've never lived under communist rule, STFU & STFD!"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:32 PM (sWTsQ)

7 Tucker actually looks like he would be in a gay marriage.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

8 If Me-Again Kelly and Cucker had a child, would it be born with a little Hitler moustache?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 06, 2026 03:33 PM (abIsI)

9 >>>7 Tucker actually looks like he would be in a gay marriage.

lol

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:33 PM (1wjle)

10 I'm more and more an isolationist, but even I found myself thinking was a masterstroke. I had no idea our military could even pull this off.

I will say, Trump is a gambler. And Venezuela has a FAR bigger impact on American security than "east" Ukraine.

If I'm going to be concerned, its the nation building part that might come next. Trump loves the idea of America owning things like oil and mineral rights. I just don't want to throw a few hundred billion down there and the next tinpot tells us "Go home, Yankee!"

Posted by: Leupold at January 06, 2026 03:33 PM (eIzlH)

11 her late-in-life turn towards Naziism

You know who else turned toward Naziism.

Posted by: zombie Neville Chamberlin at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

12 7 Tucker actually looks like he would be in a gay marriage.
Posted by: Bulg

Keep going.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (abIsI)

13 All I know is that Marco Rubio is going to be very busy running Venezuela and Cuba, in addition to his other job responsibilities.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (Hkcdp)

14 It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful operations!

It's also possible that a number of Americans saw all the Venezuelans cheering his ouster and thought, "Say, perhaps they weren't keen on this guy who lost the most recent election but decided to stay in power."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (ExV1e)

15 "'Well, also, it's Trump,"' Jennings replied. 'I mean, 42 percent of the American people would oppose it if he cured cancer.'"

Think of all the poor union oncology workers maliciously put out of work by that dastardly Drump!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

16 And then there's Maude.

Stroke of comedy genius, right here.

I get the image of Megyn Kellly's appearance being a hallucination, sort of a magic spell she put on the world to see her as a reasonably attractive bleach blonde MILF.

But in reality, she looks like Bea Arthur on her way to the hairdresser and day spa for major reconstructive attention.

So the only way she can keep the spell active is that she has to do crazy self-destructive things like cozy up to Basic Grifter Candace Owens and Deep State Asset Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (dCxaZ)

17 >>>13 All I know is that Marco Rubio is going to be very busy running Venezuela and Cuba, in addition to his other job responsibilities.

there are funny memes about that. I'll try to remember to post them later.

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (1wjle)

18 Show me on the doll where Tucker Carlson touched you...

Posted by: jwest at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (lnMN4)

19 If you or your partner are bothered by a Harry Enten, see your doctor.

Posted by: Big Healthcare at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (cBYeQ)

20 "Nothing Succeeds Like Success"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (RIvkX)

21 >>>But in reality, she looks like Bea Arthur on her way to the hairdresser and day spa for major reconstructive attention.

I did call her "Maude."

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (1wjle)

22 Maybe one day we’ll find out what tf happened to Tucker.

Sad!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2026 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)

23 Tom Massie is now denying that Venezuela nationalized the oil companies and stole oil that was contractually granted to US oil companies. And they stole all the drilling equipment -- rigs, pipes, trucks, all of it -- when they did so.
++++
Which is why *all* oil flowing out of Venezuela as of today is being hauled by Chevron, and moved *here*. None of it is going to the Orient.

Restitution begins today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:36 PM (avHHk)

24 Are lefties completely ignoring the joy of actual Venezuelans?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 06, 2026 03:36 PM (8CIFn)

25 "It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful operations!"

I think this is really what this is. Americans like winners. So much so, that Americans will like winners in games they don't like over losers in games they do like.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 06, 2026 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

26 "And then there's Maude."

Steve Rogers: "I get that reference."

Posted by: Scott1M at January 06, 2026 03:36 PM (snrH4)

27 I'm thinking Tucker could be quite the draw if featured on the afternoon discussion panel on the Lido Deck on our next cruise.

Posted by: Cap'n Bill at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM (0sNs1)

28 Marco Rubio, learning that he now has to run three foreign countries and also Minnesota

https://x.com/amuse/status/2008388115346395306

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

29 Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge.
______________________

In that case, I gladly share my one and only New Year's Resolution for 2026 with you.

"No more Mr. Nice Guy"

(Note: Being rude to anti-gun protestors outside my local Cabela's was kind of liberating and cathartic. But, I was subtle. Asked them what they recommended for a particularly troublesome ground hog.)

Posted by: Orson at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM (dIske)

30
The approval/disapproval on the Maduro raid is 40/42? That's kind of blackpilling me on my fellow Americans right there. Srsly, keep that torturing druglord who offered a Western Hemisphere launch pad to China and Russia in power?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM (px81g)

31 I love the Rubio memes!
I am loving all these memes, as well as the various administration X feeds. Amazing what good PR accomplishes.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (Hkcdp)

32 Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge.

And I think I'm going to get one. People are sick of the Nazis and pacifags. I didn't join the GOP so that I could carry placards for ANSWER, Code Pink, and Iran.

Posted by: Ace
========
I feel sorry for you Ace having to respond to media types over the years. There is no truth in them.

These are people that do not look good enough to be in show business so they took the retard theater kid route for fame and fortune. Drama queens without real achievements other than some people like to watch them dance and consider themselves to be informed.

Making people feel 'clever' is their particular con. As you noted above, put a lot of chum in the water and watch the manipulated boob be programmed to come to the conclusion that the news reader wants. Lot harder to do in print because print is forever and easier to fact check than watching a damn video.

I used to get transcripts when I dealt with the media in research from Vanderbilt U. or from Lexis/Nexis because of just that point. I also read faster than I listen and rhetorical theatrical tricks leave me cold. I had to use them to keep classes awake myself during lectures.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

33 You're soaking in it.

Posted by: Madge at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (cBYeQ)

34 Don’t forget that a lot of this is purposefully meant to create division and dissent. It’s not only the black pillers and pacifags. Nor is it just Democrat Party ops. It’s also sovereign nations like China and Russia who are demonstrably running asymmetric ops against our country and using both the Democrats and these phony black pillers as force multipliers.

It’s all ultimately meant to subvert our country, with the reasons for that destruction defined by different motives.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (cn09p)

35 A new thread already? I'm barely half-way through the comments on the old one....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (QGaXH)

36 "And then there's Maude."

Steve Rogers: "I get that reference."
Posted by: Scott1M

You have to sing it for real authenticity ...

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Monday . . . on Tuesday . . . at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

37 " that's how their leadership tells them to act. That's how the Democratic grassroots are going to see it."

tells the grass roots how to act? Centrally planned grassroots?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (pIfcn)

38 From the Bee:

Awkward: Buden Forced to Pay Trump the $25 Million Bounty for Capturing Maduro.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (cXHM+)

39 Nothing exceeds like excess.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (Kt19C)

40 -Third, the black-pillers are infamous for telling you an administration policy or action is going to lead to the end of the world, before the policy has even been given time to demonstrate results. You're seeing it now with regard to Venezuela. Will it work out? Maybe. We will all see. But maybe give it a minute before you attack from inside the tent while pretending you're an ally.
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Odd definition of "black pill" there.

I usually see it applied to people who think that none of it can "move the needle" because the entire system is predicated on fraud, abuse, theft and violation of the people. That's the "black pill" - that progress is impossible because it's all too broken and dishonest to fix - I am familiar with.

"It's all necessarily disastrous because it must be because they're bad guys" is a new definition to me. That's just run of the mill leftism, not "black pill."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (avHHk)

41 Massie and Rand are so misguided on Trump that it makes me doubt any of their opinions. Maybe the Fed and fiat currency are what holds civilization together.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (GPa4z)

42 OMG.

Imagine Maduro in carbonite behind Trump at the Resolute Desk. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (sWTsQ)

43 >>>34 Don’t forget that a lot of this is purposefully meant to create division and dissent. It’s not only the black pillers and pacifags. Nor is it just Democrat Party ops. It’s also sovereign nations like China and Russia who are demonstrably running asymmetric ops against our country and using both the Democrats and these phony black pillers as force multipliers.

yup.

A friend is reading Lee Smith's new book about China and is telling me about China's payments to left-wing groups to fracture America along racial lines.

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle)

44 You know what makes ousting him popular?

When Venezuelans tell people, "if you've never lived under communist rule, STFU & STFD!"

Watching Venezuelans dunk on hapless white liberals has been so entertaining I might bump my X account to Premium+ to show my appreciation.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)

45 Northernlurker, white Leftists know what’s best for the Venezuelan people! They are mistaken in thinking this is a good thing, just need it explained to them.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (Hkcdp)

46 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

47 I believe El Rushbo commented on his radio show that he stopped hanging around losers, and hung out with winners. Sure, they may have failed, but they got back up, tried again, tried something different, until they succeeded. You stick with losers, they rub off their outlook on you. Especially the thoughts and ideas that you cannot win, the world is against you. Or even overtly sabotaging your attempts to rise up and be a winner.

Much like the Strong Horse, folks like a winner. Look at the difference in fans between a sportsball team that has a winning season, versus one that is failing year after year.

Some folks got tired of all the winning. The Biden adminstration made sure not to win anymore. Even previous admins seemed to have eliminated win conditions - see: war on terror.

But now folks have had the taste of a win again, from a military op that was surgical in design and execution. They want more from Team America.

The ones against it are the die-hards that always stick to their 0-16 losing team.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (4h45B)

48 Delta should split the $25 million.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (YwEeS)

49 The "rift" in the Republican party is between

The voters and Trump

and

The GOPe and the media.

Posted by: mikeski at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (nhCoE)

50 Restitution begins today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
======
You notice that you never see ASSie and mASSie at the same time. That they share talking points, I rest my case--ASSie is mASSie. He is our drive by troll. Ace should feel honored that a Congress critter comes by to leave dropping on the floor here.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (WDjG6)

51 Marco Rubio, learning that he now has to run three foreign countries and also Minnesota

https://x.com/amuse/status/2008388115346395306
Posted by: ace

Now's the time I wish we could post pictures. I've run across some humdingers on Facebook.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (sWTsQ)

52 Asked them what they recommended for a particularly troublesome ground hog.)
Posted by: Orson at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM

We learned in last night's Café that the best way to deal with troublesome grubs in your lawn was to get some armadillos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (0sNs1)

53 I love that Trump's response to the media-generated CHUD chorus of "but but but ... this was all for oil" is ... "You're goddamn right it's about oil!"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

54 >>>46 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?

MTM, right?

Or was it a spin-off of the spin-off Rhoda?

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (1wjle)

55 Massie and Rand are so misguided on Trump that it makes me ~~doubt any of their opinions~~ wonder what kinds of underhanded shit they're involved in that Trump is interfering with.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)

56 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)

57 If Venezuela, and Iran turnover, move to be more friendly towards the US and then get their oil back on the market, both China and Russia are screwed. The Chinese who said the would protect and support Maduro were in Caracas to watch SFOD-D grab him and his wife in his pajamas. Don’t think for one second they aren’t worried about that and pushing as much propaganda as possible.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (cn09p)

58 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?
Posted by: Bulg

All In The Family.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (sWTsQ)

59 The Jeffersons was a good show btw kind of underrated these days.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)

60 Are lefties completely ignoring the joy of actual Venezuelans?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

The Hispanic face of White Supremacy ??? Of course we are !!!

Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (3ZUWJ)

61 Oh gosh, where to start? Meghan Kelly is angling to be right after the fact and thinks by being negative is the way to go. It is if you are engineering it to go negative. We already have the MSM for that, we don't need her.

Posted by: Decaf at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (Z8jzG)

62 > If I'm going to be concerned, its the nation building part that might come next.

This is basically the objection Megan K raises. She sticks her foot in her mouth by starting off with an anti-Fox, "I was told what to do at Fox and that's to be a cheerleader. Now I'm independent and I can follow my north star," rant. But she basically says that we've been bad in the middle east for decades by getting stuck in nation building.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (Yp6az)

63 There's been zero accountability from Tucker for his false claims about the June actions in Iran. Blithe idiocy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX)

64 The MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Sycophantic Islamunist -- praying and sacrificing children in the hopes of at least one dead American soldier -- hardest hit.

Trump 2028 -- Finally A President With Ballzzzz!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (TAiCw)

65 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.
Posted by: steevy

Yes. She went off on Archie more than once.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (sWTsQ)

66 In other news, I just discovered you can get ChatGPT to make you any sprite sheet you want for any characters you want.

I just had it create a Star Trek sprite sheet of Kirk, Spock, McKoy, Mudd, Tribbles, and Nurse Chappel.

I'm going to make a simple game.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)

67 10 If I'm going to be concerned, its the nation building part that might come next. Trump loves the idea of America owning things like oil and mineral rights. I just don't want to throw a few hundred billion down there and the next tinpot tells us "Go home, Yankee!"
Posted by: Leupold at January 06, 2026 03:33 PM (eIzlH)

I agree we don't want an expensive quagmire. But but but - Donald Trump has a reputation as a builder of quality things that last. I don't think he'll settle for a shoddy job. Plus, as a refurb, Venezuela has good 'bones' as they say.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (QGaXH)

68 Maude had nice elbows.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (cn09p)

69 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.
Posted by: steevy

Yep. She was Edith's cousin, and showed up in a couple of eps to argue with Archie.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

70 How To Succeed In World Domination Without Really Trying

Posted by: Marco Rubio at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (wVcYX)

71 *Islamunist WHORES ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (TAiCw)

72 This is basically the objection Megan K raises. She sticks her foot in her mouth by starting off with an anti-Fox, "I was told what to do at Fox and that's to be a cheerleader. Now I'm independent and I can follow my north star," rant. But she basically says that we've been bad in the middle east for decades by getting stuck in nation building.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (Yp6az)
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It's my only question mark. Nothing left to do now but hope Trump doesn't do it, and that he can prevent the slavering agencies from doing it anyway.

Install a new government to kick out Red China and send that black gold north and otherwise STFU.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (avHHk)

73 Maude had nice elbows.
Posted by: Vengeance

Don't you mean her daughter, played by Adrienne Barbeau?

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

74 Yeah, I really don't know what's happening with elements of the right, it's like a form of madness has gripped certain people.

It has to be either drug induced or Satan working his will.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (XV/Pl)

75 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.
Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)

She was Edith's cousin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (ExV1e)

76 Tucker Carlson is a nasty piece of work and at some point Trump will have to disown him. Furthermore, JD Vance will never be elected again as long as he stays Tucker's friend. The sane voters have moved on.

Posted by: Decaf at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (Z8jzG)

77 I just had it create a Star Trek sprite sheet of Kirk, Spock, McKoy, Mudd, Tribbles, and Nurse Chappel.

I'm going to make a simple game.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM

Mudd's women >>>>>>> Mudd

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 06, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)

78 13 All I know is that Marco Rubio is going to be very busy running Venezuela and Cuba, in addition to his other job responsibilities.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2026 03:34 PM (Hkcdp)

What's he got now - 8 jobs?

In all seriousness, 'little' Marco has come into his own and has come a long way from his 'pausing for a drink of water' days....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (QGaXH)

79 Funny Rubio memes !Poor guy really does look exhausted, even before he found out that he has all those jobs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (8Xy/A)

80 Once upon a time, "Black pilled" was what they were calling "woke" before woke was a thing.

Didn't last very long. But for two weeks, in 2015, when the wind was coming in from the northwest....

Posted by: pills are overprescribed anyways at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (06Hmj)

81 69 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.
Posted by: steevy

Yep. She was Edith's cousin, and showed up in a couple of eps to argue with Archie.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

+++++

Right on, Maude!

Posted by: Meathead at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (uZrLc)

82 "It's all necessarily disastrous because it must be because they're bad guys" is a new definition to me. That's just run of the mill leftism, not "black pill."
Posted by: Joe Mannix
======
Sorry to disagree but black pill types run FUD--fear, uncertainty, and doubt ops over and over again. Some do it because they are depressives, some do it for money, some do it for ideology (the muh principles type).

The end result is the same and those same sorts do not understand Ecclesiastes either. The point is without faith and hope, nothing much is possible. With faith and hope, all things are possible.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (WDjG6)

83 I was right about Megan and right about Tucker. If you want to know my opinion on anyone else just assume they're a traitorous bought and sold asshole too.

Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (qsEXy)

84 "And they stole all the drilling equipment -- rigs, pipes, trucks, all of it -- when they did so."

Unfortunately it's probably been sold for pennies on the dollar as scrap. Like the urban miners that rip out copper plumbing to buy some crack.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (GUOwU)

85 The Jeffersons was a good show btw kind of underrated these days.
Posted by: steevy

Yeah, it was pretty good. I think my favorite character was Mother Jefferson.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

86 "It turns out, Americans like what they deem to be successful operations!"

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

Zombie Jimmy Carter hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (TAiCw)

87 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?
Posted by: Bulg

All In The Family.
Posted by: rickb223

Maude was Edith's cousin ...

Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (3ZUWJ)

88 Are lefties completely ignoring the joy of actual Venezuelans?

==

I've seen some of them doing their TikTok Hot Takes saying the clips of cheering Venezuelans are from sports games and not, I repeat, not because Maduro was ousted in shame. No, TikTok Hot Takes lefties say the people there are frightened by his arrest, not jubilant.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (qBdHI)

89 No we are not playing the " you must denounce so and so game" .

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (YwEeS)

90 Careful there Ace.

You're giving politiboners to meanies like me.

And why did Megyn have to revert back to Me-Agin?

I has sad.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (aTgV0)

91 oh, all in the family. That was my third guess.

Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (1wjle)

92 Maude was Edith's cousin ...

--

Heh, I clearly remember Archie ragging on her about how terrible FDR was and her losing her mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

93
If I'm going to be concerned, its the nation building part that might come next. Trump loves the idea of America owning things like oil and mineral rights. I just don't want to throw a few hundred billion down there and the next tinpot tells us "Go home, Yankee!"
Posted by: Leupold

============

1 - Instruct Delcy that she'll oversee free and fair elections within 30 days or she'll get the Maduro treatment.

2 - That's it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (px81g)

94 Sorry to disagree but black pill types run FUD--fear, uncertainty, and doubt ops over and over again. Some do it because they are depressives, some do it for money, some do it for ideology (the muh principles type).

The end result is the same and those same sorts do not understand Ecclesiastes either. The point is without faith and hope, nothing much is possible. With faith and hope, all things are possible.
Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (WDjG6)
++++
It just strikes me as a weird definition of it. These are provocateurs. Black-pillers are not, they just firmly believe there is no hope of improvement. These provocateurs pitch that improvement is possible, just not until the reformers are all destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (avHHk)

95 NEODON more like.

amirite.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (aTgV0)

96
I agree we don't want an expensive quagmire. But but but - Donald Trump has a reputation as a builder of quality things that last. I don't think he'll settle for a shoddy job. Plus, as a refurb, Venezuela has good 'bones' as they say.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

==

Trump is like the only guy I trust to not throw stupid money at this. maybe even make money.

If say some Bush Neocon type was in charge , something like this would us trillions and he'd happily spend it.

But when I saw Trump talking about security guarantees in Ukraine for "rare earth minerals", it just concerned me that he was getting hoodwinked.

Posted by: Leupold at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (eIzlH)

97 And why did Megyn have to revert back to Me-Agin?

I has sad.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 03:45 PM (aTgV0)

She and Tucker were all on the Trump election bandwagon... What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (VE6XX)

98 Unfortunately it's probably been sold for pennies on the dollar as scrap. Like the urban miners that rip out copper plumbing to buy some crack.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (GUOwU)

So American oil equipment companies are going to sell about $10,000,000,000 worth of equipment to the Venezuelans.

Cool.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (n9ltV)

99 Harry Enten is fun to watch.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (GPa4z)

100 Oh and don't get too excited about Rubio. He's this round's Nikki.

*Never* forget we have been down this road with Rubio before. Kind of like where we were with Megyn and her miraculous turnaround.

It's just now the political wind is making it easier for the political animal to ride the rails toward success, hence Big Marco.

Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (qsEXy)

101 I was reading how Sherman Hemsley was supposed to call Willis honkey in a script and he told them no, the characters had become friends and he would not insult him anymore.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (YwEeS)

102 And why did Megyn have to revert back to Me-Agin?

I would say that whores put out for whoever pays their price but I won't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (ExV1e)

103 63 There's been zero accountability from Tucker for his false claims about the June actions in Iran. Blithe idiocy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I was assured that mocking Cucker Tarlson was akin to deplatforming him and putting him into prison as a martyr.

I never liked the smarmy bastard dating back to Crossfire days. Ditto for Me Again Kelly. Media whores including most Conservative TM types are kids that failed to get into show business and it is all about them, not those unfortunate enough to be in their audience.

They are like in Animal House where they knock out the drum major and take the baton to lead the band into a blind alley. Purely destructive.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (WDjG6)

104 Go back and watch the show. Maude had nice elbows and always wore a flimsy bra which let those suckers sway in the wind like a Honda Civic on the San Francisco Bridge during an earthquake.

You won’t be able to keep your hands off the Wiener schnitzel.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (cn09p)

105 She and Tucker were all on the Trump election bandwagon... What happened ?

--

They're all a bunch of Sybils.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (qBdHI)

106 It just strikes me as a weird definition of it. These are provocateurs. Black-pillers are not, they just firmly believe there is no hope of improvement. These provocateurs pitch that improvement is possible, just not until the reformers are all destroyed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (avHHk)

They're the same fudgepackers who started calling the "Brotherly Shove" the "Tush Push" instead, and then that stuck.

Posted by: "Tush Push" my tush at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (06Hmj)

107 This is an urgent call to help poor Gay and Transgender Somalis in my corrupt state of Minnesota-Stan.

Just donate $10,00 a month to help a poor Somali Raghead Terrorists suffering from Donald "666" Trump's inhumane policies and receive the following symbolic gift of a Model of a Destroyed Blackhawk Helio hit by an RPG.

Please donate now before it is too late and these Rag Head Terrorists are exterminated by Donny "666" Trump.

Call now to 1-(800) New-Scam and give them your Credit Card Number Now....

Posted by: Tim Walz Society for the Clueless at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (tFggl)

108 So American oil equipment companies are going to sell about $10,000,000,000 worth of equipment to the Venezuelans.

Cool.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (n9ltV)
++++
Doubt it. They'll buy it for themselves, more likely.

I strongly suspect the Venezuelan oil extraction game will change fundamentally. It will be back to what it was at the beginning: American companies with American equipment extracting oil and selling it abroad as it sees fit, kicking a percentage upstairs to the Venezuelan government to do with it whatever it pleases. The government of Venezuela as a silent partner in exchange for a percentage and some amount of job-creation for Venezuelans.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (avHHk)

109 Imagine Maduro in carbonite ...
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:39 PM (sWTsQ)
====

Literally a world of possibilities there.
1. President Nazerbayev of Tajikistan
2. Rocket Man
3. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (RIvkX)

110 She and Tucker were all on the Trump election bandwagon... What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (VE6XX)

Same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks. That's where the money (and attention) was.

Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (qsEXy)

111 I love that Trump's response to the media-generated CHUD chorus of "but but but ... this was all for oil" is ... "You're goddamn right it's about oil!"

And that when liberals complain you can hit them with "lower oil prices hurt Putin and help Zelensky", at which point they go all HARCOURT FENTON MUDD.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

112 *You won’t be able to keep your hands off the Wiener schnitzel.*

Lol

Posted by: This place at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (cBYeQ)

113 Look on the bright side - they simply oppose whatever is winning the game. If DEI and leftism are winning, they oppose that. Now they oppose Trump. Because he is winning.

I have no clue what is next for Venezuela. I wish them well. But fuck it, if they want a civil war, I don't care one tiny bit. Whatever happens now is still THIER fault, not ours. THEY elected a communist asshole, who squandered all their money. They allowed it to continue. Maduro crossed us, now he's gone. Let that be a lesson to the next asshole running Venezuela. We have no obligation, none, to run their country or set things right. We should have done the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tell them what's what, then carpet bomb the place. And if we can, snatch the leader and put a bullet in his head. And...that's it.

We went into Libya twice. Reagan went in, dropped a few bombs. Then sent Quaddaffi a gun camera video of us targeting his tent. He figured it out and got real quiet for the next 10 years. Obama and Hillary fucked around, supporting this group and that group, trying to overthrow the guy. And it is a fucked-up mess today.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (s/0Zp)

114 29 Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge.
______________________

In that case, I gladly share my one and only New Year's Resolution for 2026 with you.

"No more Mr. Nice Guy"

(Note: Being rude to anti-gun protestors outside my local Cabela's was kind of liberating and cathartic. But, I was subtle. Asked them what they recommended for a particularly troublesome ground hog.)
Posted by: Orson at January 06, 2026 03:37 PM (dIske)

Lately it seems every time I go to the local grocery store there's someone who wants me to donate, or sign or buy....I'm so tempted to just tell them I'm sick of not being able to just go about my business without someone with their hand out interrupting me...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (QGaXH)

115 Is the left using floating integers in their polling calculations?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (iMotb)

116 Megan Kelly has always been a poor man’s Deep Throat.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (cn09p)

117 The dichodomy between what I read about Tucker here and hear on his YouTube podcasts makes me think I am being gas-lit.

Is it the new neocon?

I seem to recall Scott Adams being ridiculed here also, until he was stricken with terminal cancer.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (wBaIH)

118 But when I saw Trump talking about security guarantees in Ukraine for "rare earth minerals", it just concerned me that he was getting hoodwinked.
Posted by: Leupold
======
I think Trump was testing Zelinsky to see if he was a man of his word. Since then, Zelinsky has gotten the cold shoulder from the Don when Zelinsky showed he was a little lying shitass that played the piano with his dick. No different than the animals in Hollywood.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (WDjG6)

119 Ousting Maduro had been unpopular -- up until the point that Delta Force conducted a miraculously successful armed extradition operation.
----

That's because removing a leader in the past has meant American forces are on the ground for years, not weeks or months.
Trump has broken the mold, showing the world how to do it properly.
It still amazes me that the side that opposed the extraction are the Chinese, the Russians, the Cubans, the Iranians, and the Democrat Party.
On the other side are the Venezuelan people, both in country and around the world, Trump, and his supporters, like me.
I have to shake my head.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (4nEGa)

120 Maude appeared on All in the Family didn't she? Like The Jeffersons.
Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:41 PM (YwEeS)
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Maude was Edith's cousin

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (RIvkX)

121 Maude was a spinoff of "Alice" if I remember right.

And the "Golden Girls"

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (aTgV0)

122 I was reading how Sherman Hemsley was supposed to call Willis honkey in a script and he told them no, the characters had become friends and he would not insult him anymore.
Posted by: steevy

From what I've heard, Hemsley was a decent guy who was well-liked in the industry.

He had a later sitcom in which he played a pastor. My folks liked that one.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

123 Trump is no neocon, he is something unique to himself. He will use carrot and stick, soft power or hard power in US interests.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (YwEeS)

124 It's just now the political wind is making it easier for the political animal to ride the rails toward success, hence Big Marco.
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 03:47 PM (qsEXy)

I thought we weren't "doing" Milton Friedman anymore?

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 06, 2026 03:50 PM (06Hmj)

125 Didn’t Maude and Alice have a spanking session?

Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (cn09p)

126 Maude was Edith's cousin ...
Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee

I didn't remember the family angle. I just remember her going off on Archie.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (sWTsQ)

127 They're all a bunch of Sybils.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:48 PM (qBdHI)

More like the proverbial hooker when you ask what her name is.

"What do you want it to be?"

Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (qsEXy)

128 I strongly suspect the Venezuelan oil extraction game will change fundamentally. It will be back to what it was at the beginning: American companies with American equipment extracting oil and selling it abroad as it sees fit, kicking a percentage upstairs to the Venezuelan government to do with it whatever it pleases. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (avHHk)

Not all oil is worth the same - Venezuela has thick sour crude. Only America is good at getting this stuff out and refining it.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (s/0Zp)

129 Maude was a spinoff of "Alice" if I remember right.

--

That was "Flo." She got her own show after Linda Lavin ran her off for being such a popular character.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (qBdHI)

130 "99 Harry Enten is fun to watch."

$20. Same as at the Bijou.

Posted by: Nothing is free at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (cBYeQ)

131 Unfortunately it's probably been sold for pennies on the dollar as scrap. Like the urban miners that rip out copper plumbing to buy some crack.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (GUOwU)

And if it was not properly maintained, it's all gone to shit, anyway. So the new operators in VZ will have to buy new rigs, and new pipe, and new service equipment. Big opportunity for manufacturers in Texas. And in Alberta, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (8zz6B)

132 Not all oil is worth the same - Venezuela has thick sour crude. Only America is good at getting this stuff out and refining it.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (s/0Zp)
++++
China refines it quite well. They get an awful lot of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (avHHk)

133 Since then, Zelinsky has gotten the cold shoulder from the Don when Zelinsky showed he was a little lying shitass that played the piano with his dick.

Flexibility with one's dick is important. Especially when your wife's is bigger.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Man's Country Lifetime Member at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (2ocoG)

134 "Tush push?"

So we're back to the butt-grabbing talk?

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

135 The problem with nation-building isn't the nation-building itself. It's who is doing the building.

The government will absolutely fuck it up. But private enterprise, using their own money and having to answer to shareholders, will do a much better job.

If there was the will, the entire Gaza strip would look like SoBe in 24 months. There would be ski resorts in Afghanistan. The Congo would be one of the most popular destinations in Africa, and the hot tickets for all the THOTs and influencers.

Rebuilding Vene would be even easier, as American companies already built their entire petro industry.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

136 China refines it quite well. They get an awful lot of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (avHHk)

Got an awful lot

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (VE6XX)

137 Trump and Rubio are going to get criticism for allowing parts of the old regime to continue to run Venezuela; but it's absolutely necessary unless we want to be forced into putting 100,000 troops in Caracas, which we most certainly do not want to do. Some have thought that Trump was dissing Machado when he said that she didn't have enough respect inside Venezuela to take over at this point; but he was absolutely correct. Harsh but correct. She would have been assassinated in 2 days, 3 days tops, by members of the military or the collectivos, and where would we be? Back having to stick 100,000 ground troops in.

So we've got to control the current government by controlling who they can and can't ship oil to; make sure they kick the Cubans, the Russians, and the Chinese out; control everything going in and out of the country with our task force sitting just off shore, and gradually stabilize them where they're actually able to hold fair elections. At that point, Machado can make an entrance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2026 03:52 PM (uWKK8)

138 Maude was Edith's cousin

Posted by: barbarausa at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (enw9G)

139 Woo get your ~~pants~~ boots off the ground
Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin' like a fool with your ~~pants~~ boots on the ground

Posted by: Me Again at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

140 Maude gave us Adrienne Barbeau.

So you knew I had to take this there.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (aTgV0)

141 46 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?
Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

Archie Bunker (aka All In the Family). Wasn't she originally Edith's sister? An early prototype of a 'girl boss'?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (QGaXH)

142 Stifle der Edith.

Posted by: Archie at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (cBYeQ)

143
So what now in Venezuela? There are armed factions that were in place during the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship, and they're still in place. Their revenue, and support from other countries has been cut. Their own people hate them. Make a deal?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (VWtfl)

144 Funny the moron obsessed with telling me I'm obsessed with Tucker is curiously silent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (RIvkX)

145 >Yep. She was Edith's cousin, and showed up in a couple of eps to argue with Archie.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

All In the Family spun off Maude and The Jeffersons;
Maude spun off Good Times. (Dy-no-mite!)

Posted by: J. Luc Picard at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (NgqoH)

146 I need to read faster, and stop following links, lol

Posted by: barbarausa at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (enw9G)

147 Furthermore, JD Vance will never be elected again as long as he stays Tucker's friend. The sane voters have moved on.
Posted by: Decaf

Speaking of efforts to fracture the Right...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (a+4eV)

148 The end result is the same and those same sorts do not understand Ecclesiastes either. The point is without faith and hope, nothing much is possible.*** With faith and hope, all things are possible. ***
Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:44 PM (WDjG6)

I should make this part of my daily affirmations ...

Way too easy to stew in the darkness of the idiots that surround us.

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 03:55 PM (3sXRv)

149 We're moving on up!

Posted by: Weezy at January 06, 2026 03:55 PM (cBYeQ)

150 Archie Bunker (aka All In the Family). Wasn't she originally Edith's sister?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

No, her cousin.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

151 The Blocked and Reported Podcast is hosted by two liberal journalists who were canceled by the left for not toeing the party line on one or two major issues. (They both are willing to speak out against the transing kids stuff. With data and facts. So canceled.) So now they host a podcast covering news about seeing news that might get people canceled, and giving canceled people voices.

There was a recent podcast, though, where they did a rundown of the Turning Point stuff and the meltdown with conservative infighting. It was cringe how gleeful the hostess was over this! I like them because they are usually cordial. But the glee...not a good look.

I think purging the groypers is painful but valuable. Trump won't be in office forever. Better to see now who is actually on the side of America, and who just wants to fleece the right for clicks and shady money deals.

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (Eng1Z)

152 117 The dichodomy between what I read about Tucker here and hear on his YouTube podcasts makes me think I am being gas-lit.

Is it the new neocon?

I seem to recall Scott Adams being ridiculed here also, until he was stricken with terminal cancer.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
=========
How long have you been aware of Cucker?. Because of my background in politics and later study of such, he has been around the block in media for a long time. Started at CNN, went to MSNBC, thence to create his own media corp modeled after the Daily Wire, remember the Daily Caller? Then to Fox, now to a podcast.

Cucker has no principles other than shucking and jiving to whatever makes him a buck. None. You can go back through time and see what he argued and where he suddenly pivoted because he thought the wind was changing.

MeAgain is another such creature. The real dedicated reporters are people like Catherine Herridge or Sheryl Atkinson. They pick a furrow and deepen it rather than chase what is now.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (WDjG6)

153 Not all oil is worth the same - Venezuela has thick sour crude. Only America is good at getting this stuff out and refining it.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

++++

China refines it quite well. They get an awful lot of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Did.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (sWTsQ)

154 The U.S. can wildly improve the Venezuelan economy overnight - remove sanctions and buy their oil. A low tariff free trade agreement would also help enormously.

We use that leverage to
a) get rid of the narcos
b) get rid of the communists.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (s/0Zp)

155 143
So what now in Venezuela? There are armed factions that were in place during the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship, and they're still in place. Their revenue, and support from other countries has been cut. Their own people hate them. Make a deal?

Send Harris there and make them listen to her Cackling 24/7 and they will surrender in 1 hour...

Posted by: Jackson at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (tFggl)

156 But not with out Marxists Representatives and Antifa

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)

157 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 06, 2026 03:58 PM (SRRAx)

158 But when I saw Trump talking about security guarantees in Ukraine for "rare earth minerals"
.....

Again, fuck Ukraine.

Posted by: wth at January 06, 2026 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

159 I could take or leave Israel, they're a cool people in an exceptional nation run by a government just as corrupt and nasty and inbred as America's. But if everything the groypers say about the Zionists is actually true and they're not just baiting the world's oldest bigotry for clicks....

I think I'd go get circumcised.

Posted by: Basement Zionist at January 06, 2026 03:58 PM (06Hmj)

160 141 46 Anybody remember what Maude was a spinoff of?
Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

Archie Bunker (aka All In the Family). Wasn't she originally Edith's sister? An early prototype of a 'girl boss'?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:53 PM (QGaXH)

Cousin - that's right! I remember Archie dreading 'Cousin Maude'

And Adrienne Barbou (sp)...Mmm Mmm Mmm

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (QGaXH)

161 Did.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (sWTsQ)
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Yup. This is going to cause a pretty big shakeup. Venezuela is (or was - we're in the process of finding out) in the middle of some pretty big stuff. Not a big player itself, but an important part of what big players are doing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (avHHk)

162 I think purging the groypers is painful but valuable. Trump won't be in office forever. Better to see now who is actually on the side of America, and who just wants to fleece the right for clicks and shady money deals.
Posted by: LizLem
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Eh, the groypers are largely a media op creation and fueled by foreign paid mills. Remind me of the old KKK crap, white christian nationalism (which is what the groypers are supposedly all about when their main dude likes doing manly things with Destiny) and so on.

About as tiresome as the fake Stormfront types that used to show up.

These types are essentially mercenary and/or leftist assholes that get something under the table like David Duke or the twat that arranged Charlottesburg crap, and are designed to fit media narratives as villains.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (WDjG6)

163 Bea Arthur played Yenta the Matchmaker in the original Broadway version of Fiddler on the Roof. She's on the cast album.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

164 AMERICA LOVES WINNING AND WINNERS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 06, 2026 04:00 PM (xvV+O)

165 Not all oil is worth the same - Venezuela has thick sour crude. Only America is good at getting this stuff out and refining it.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

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I see this being discussed a lot, even if oil goes down to like $45 a barrel, venezuela would still love to double or triple the amount of $45 barrels they pull out of the ground.

Whether the oil majors do is another matter. They would be happier with less volume at a higher price.

But if you own the oil resources, it's about pulling more out of the ground. You're leaving money on the table.

Posted by: Leupold at January 06, 2026 04:00 PM (eIzlH)

166 So what now in Venezuela? There are armed factions that were in place during the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship, and they're still in place. Their revenue, and support from other countries has been cut. Their own people hate them. Make a deal?

Surrender and we won't let them kill you.

Refuse to surrender and we'll put a $1k bounty on your ass, dead or slive.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:01 PM (sWTsQ)

167 I think I'd go get circumcised.
Posted by: Basement Zionist at January 06, 2026 03:58 PM (06Hmj)
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You just want the keys to the space laser.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

168 Bea Arthur played Yenta the Matchmaker in the original Broadway version of Fiddler on the Roof. She's on the cast album.
Posted by: Bulg

She played the Unemployment Benefits Official in History of the World Pt 1

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (sWTsQ)

169 Ukraine is Europe's problem.

Let them fix that shit. I want nothing to do with it.

If Putin wants to kill every Russian man for no reason, that's no problem of mine.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (aTgV0)

170 All this Bea Arthur talk makes me ask the question - Was Golden Girls as spinoff of Maude or completely separate show? I think there were some common characters?

Never watcher either show very much.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (QGaXH)

171 You just want the keys to the space laser.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

Feckin' hell, you people really are brutal.

I would have just settled for a regular old mohel.

Posted by: Basement Zionist at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (06Hmj)

172 You mean grifter podcasters may not know anything about statecraft and war? That they only know how to grift and pander? Buh-bye losers.

Posted by: mspatriot at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (yv+EB)

173 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

TiFW, hello!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (sWTsQ)

174 OMG. Bea Arthur was a staff sergeant in the US Marine Corps Women's Reserve.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)

175 >163 Bea Arthur played Yenta the Matchmaker in the original Broadway version of Fiddler on the Roof. She's on the cast album.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

Speaking of...Bea Arthur's Dick hasn't posted in a while. That's a great nic; always elicits a chuckle.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (NgqoH)

176 111 I love that Trump's response to the media-generated CHUD chorus of "but but but ... this was all for oil" is ... "You're goddamn right it's about oil!"

And that when liberals complain you can hit them with "lower oil prices hurt Putin and help Zelensky", at which point they go all HARCOURT FENTON MUDD.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)

I was thinking more 'Norman, coordinate....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (QGaXH)

177 Candace Ovens and Quatarelson are nuts, crooked or both. Theres no there, there. Its all piffle, psychodrama, and more piffle. Its not for serious people. Its the view, basically. Me again Kelly is all about me again. Stands for nothing but maintaining her lifestyle.

Posted by: Emo pigs, the lot of them at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (1VfZY)

178 >>> -First, they overload you with information but they underwhelm you with evidence. Here's an example of what I mean - they'll try to convince you that John Smith robbed a bank, so they'll data download on you and lose you in the chaos.

I haven't listened to the full Patrick Bet David interview of Nik Shirley yet... that's on today's to-do list. But I loved the clip of where the kid is basically like, look I'm Mormon. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, I'm a virgin I don't sleep around...how can you come at me that way? It's not possible.

They will try to take Nick out, but they can't come at him that way. (Unless they hire a girl to lie, of course. But good luck with that!)

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (Eng1Z)

179 Don’t forget that a lot of this is purposefully meant to create division and dissent. It’s not only the black pillers and pacifags. Nor is it just Democrat Party ops. It’s also sovereign nations like China and Russia who are demonstrably running asymmetric ops against our country and using both the Democrats and these phony black pillers as force multipliers.

It’s all ultimately meant to subvert our country, with the reasons for that destruction defined by different motives.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 06, 2026 03:38 PM (cn09p)

They wish they could attract Russian or China govt money. These bottom feeders are looking for Kuwait or Bahrein money backers.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:04 PM (8avO+)

180 Bea Arthur / Elaine Stritch

Same character?

Siblings separated at birth?

Both unlikkable.

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 04:05 PM (3sXRv)

181 All this Bea Arthur talk makes me ask the question - Was Golden Girls as spinoff of Maude or completely separate show? I think there were some common characters?

Never watcher either show very much.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Separate shows, I believe, but they both had Bea Arthur and Rhue McClanahan.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

182 143 So what now in Venezuela? There are armed factions that were in place during the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship, and they're still in place. Their revenue, and support from other countries has been cut. Their own people hate them. Make a deal?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (VWtfl)

I've seen a couple of good explanations from some in the know today on the difficulties now. There appear to be 3 primary power centers in Venezuela (the cartels may be a fourth) that tolerate each other but which do not necessarily support each other.
First is the Rodriguez faction, Delcy and her brother - they control the Executive and Judicial branches, and most of the official economy. That's who we're supporting for now. Next is the military run by Defense Minister Vladimir Lopez; he supposedly tolerates the Civilian government of Rodriguez, but could overthrow it at any time. He certainly does not take orders from her.

and then there's the guy who controls the Security/Secret Police/armed gangs that run the streets. He might seem to be less powerful than the other two, but if he isn't dealt with he can create chaos across the country instantly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2026 04:05 PM (uWKK8)

183 From what I've heard, Hemsley was a decent guy who was well-liked in the industry.

He had a later sitcom in which he played a pastor. My folks liked that one.
Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026

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The only other thing I can recall Sherman Hemsley being in was playing a shouting revival-style preacher in the Love at First Bite Dracula comedy with George Hamilton. And without looking that up I'm not sure about that.

But he made George Jefferson into quite the vivid character.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)

184 175 >163 Bea Arthur played Yenta the Matchmaker in the original Broadway version of Fiddler on the Roof. She's on the cast album.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

Speaking of...Bea Arthur's Dick hasn't posted in a while. That's a great nic; always elicits a chuckle.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 06, 2026 04:03 PM (NgqoH)

Maybe somebody got a letter from the 'Bea Arthur Estate'? (she's dead now - right?)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (QGaXH)

185 Oh FFS Bongino, name him. What was it all for if not to be freed of those constraints and name names?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (WHfpM)

186 All this Bea Arthur talk makes me ask the question - Was Golden Girls as spinoff of Maude or completely separate show? I think there were some common characters?

Never watcher either show very much.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (QGaXH)

Golden Girls was post Maude and spinoffs. It was an entirely different sitcom.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (8avO+)

187 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)

188 I've watched a few episodes of Maude recently. I think the horde would like it. She's a smart ass and her husband doesn't take it seriously and gives back pretty good. Some good one liners even for the 70's.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (KDPiq)

189 I should make this part of my daily affirmations ...

Way too easy to stew in the darkness of the idiots that surround us.

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies

It is very easy to slip into that mode and people in media or even here often push people's buttons in order to make them miserable. Truth faith in the Holy Trinity brings peace and the idea of living for the Way today and tomorrow will sort itself out.

Paul is particularly inspiring. He gets beat up, chased out of town, stoned until the locals think he is dead. Dusts himself off and goes forth to found another church, fix a previously established one, and write letters of faith and encouragement even in a prison cell awaiting death.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (WDjG6)

190 186 All this Bea Arthur talk makes me ask the question - Was Golden Girls as spinoff of Maude or completely separate show? I think there were some common characters?

Never watcher either show very much.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:02 PM (QGaXH)

Golden Girls was post Maude and spinoffs. It was an entirely different sitcom.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (8avO+)

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Yeah, but where does the Star Wars Holiday Special fall in the Golden Girls canon?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

191 Bea Arthur played Yenta the Matchmaker in the original Broadway version of Fiddler on the Roof. She's on the cast album.
Posted by: Bulg
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She played the Unemployment Benefits Official in History of the World Pt 1
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026

***
She asks the unemployed gladiator, "Did you kill this week? Did you *try* to kill this week?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (wzUl9)

192 185 Oh FFS Bongino, name him. What was it all for if not to be freed of those constraints and name names?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (WHfpM)

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Tune into his show to hear him talk about naming names for three hours straight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

193 LOL my hate feed was all on about "impeachment calls are heating up."

It was the same rouges gallery of losers, dick chuggers and sad sack Dems.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (HXT0k)

194 And if/when things to sideways, the smart mil-blog will be like, "How did this happen?!"

Posted by: Harlock at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (zWq2c)

195 191 She asks the unemployed gladiator, "Did you kill this week? Did you *try* to kill this week?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (wzUl9)

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I filled out a questionnaire for unemployment a bit ago.

Yes, I did try to bullshit this week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

196 I've watched a few episodes of Maude recently. I think the horde would like it. She's a smart ass and her husband doesn't take it seriously and gives back pretty good. Some good one liners even for the 70's.
Posted by: Opinion fact

My favorite character was her conservative neighbor played by Conrad Bain. I could give it back pretty good, too.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

197 I've watched a few episodes of Maude recently. I think the horde would like it. She's a smart ass and her husband doesn't take it seriously and gives back pretty good. Some good one liners even for the 70's.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026

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I seem to recall her husband, played by Bill Macy (not the William Macy of Fargo, would thunder, "MAUDE!" and she would desist from whatever she was saying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9)

198 I always suspected Carlson despised Trump and was putting on an act. It's the old, indelible snobbery hatred.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (WHfpM)

199 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)
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Something weird going on in the stomach and crotch area. Too risky that a dick might pop out somewhere. TBWNB.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

200 "But Tucker Carlson plainly loathes Trump and embraces a leftwing, Ron Paul style of antisemitic, conspiratorial pacifism-at-any-cost"

Well, what else would one expect from somebody who worked at CNN and wore a bow tie? Somehow that sort of explains the source of his Venezuelan gay-boat diplomacy commentary.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (HTCU3)

201 Pondering.

Did UK know about this months ago, and is that why they made a statement (Nov? Dec?) saying they would no longer share intelligence with the USA in the Carribean?

IE, was keir starmer positioning the UK to disclaim any responsibility for this? Because he is a weak fag who thought it would fail.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (3BEDb)

202 Fck nation building. Theres no need for it. Let the rats scramble for position, then tell the top rat to play ball or else the cycle repeats. Eventually you get a rat smart enough to play along.

Posted by: Need more shortstops at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (1VfZY)

203 "Grandma Groyper."

I'd still hit it.

Hard.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (A/tlT)

204 I've watched a few episodes of Maude recently. I think the horde would like it. She's a smart ass and her husband doesn't take it seriously and gives back pretty good. Some good one liners even for the 70's.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (KDPiq)

Maude was a All in the Family spinoff, she was on as a liberal that Carol O'Connor couldn't chew up and spit out. Same thing as George Jefferson.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)

205 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Wow.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

206 >>>her late-in-life turn towards Naziism to remain relevant,
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Wake up Dave, she's always been an antagonist bitch. For a brief period you liked what she said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (xjSrh)

207 193 LOL my hate feed was all on about "impeachment calls are heating up."

It was the same rouges gallery of losers, dick chuggers and sad sack Dems.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 04:08 PM (HXT0k)

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2027:

Democrats have taken the House by 5 seats. They immediately set up an impeachment subcommittee.

It "works" for 6 months. It leads to a recommendation for impeachment.

Jeffries dithers for a couple of months, needs to see how things play out in some special election. The special election goes badly for Democrats. He says it's not time, and that Trump will be gone anyway soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

208 @192

>>Tune into his show to hear him talk about naming names for three hours straight.

Which he won't do, then he will start telling people what he would do if he were in charge.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 04:10 PM (XV/Pl)

209 Any guy who ever wore a freaking bowtie must hate Trump.

I think it's genetic.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:10 PM (aTgV0)

210 I read that as ousting Mamdani. Which would be a good idea.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (XMwZJ)

211 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

I'm glad that she's glad.
But does she have an ice cream headache?

Posted by: wth at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

212 I seem to recall her husband, played by Bill Macy (not the William Macy of Fargo, would thunder, "MAUDE!" and she would desist from whatever she was saying.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Bill Macy was also the jury foreman in The Producers.

"We find the defendants incredibly guilty."

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

213 208 @192

>>Tune into his show to hear him talk about naming names for three hours straight.

Which he won't do, then he will start telling people what he would do if he were in charge.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 04:10 PM (XV/Pl)

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I'm just glad I don't listen to any of them.

Now, like and subscribe my YouTube channel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

214 >>> I seem to recall Scott Adams being ridiculed here also, until he was stricken with terminal cancer.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

He has an ego, understandably so (one of the few in 2016 to predict Trump would handily win), but he was a huge proponent of the jab. And ridiculed anyone that was skeptical of the narrative we were fed as stupid. He effed up, he trusted the medical industry too much. He realized the error of his ways, and has apologized for it, profusely. So I'd forgiven him for that long before his cancer diagnosis.

It's very hard for people with egos to see when they are being conned. Especially someone who has made a name for himself on how to read through the cons. And after they see, even harder for them to admit if they are wrong. Kudos for him for doing both.

Eff cancer with a rusty chainsaw. Prying for him and all the others who suffer in its horrible shadow.

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (Eng1Z)

215 I think I recall that Bea Arthur was in the US Military during WW2, and she was a truck driver. But she was sensitive about it and didn't mention it much, I suppose she didn't think it was a very glamorous background. (actually makes me respect her a bit more)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (uWKK8)

216 I enjoy both Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly. Carlson interviews people you don't find on other podcasts and he lets them speak without interruption. Kelly brings a refreshing energy to the subject of the day and is never boring. I believe a lot of the haters never actually watch the podcasts they're most upset about. Bottom line is I'm confident enough in my own ability to process information that I don't need to purge every host who doesn't censor guests to the party line.

Posted by: jwest at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (lnMN4)

217 Pondering.

Did UK know about this months ago, and is that why they made a statement (Nov? Dec?) saying they would no longer share intelligence with the USA in the Carribean?

IE, was keir starmer positioning the UK to disclaim any responsibility for this? Because he is a weak fag who thought it would fail.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (3BEDb)

I just took that as posturing. I'd hoped we cut Five Eyes out of all intelligence sharing already. And Trump/Vance were already slamming him and the EU for their anti-democracy and election fraud.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (8avO+)

218 Even though older people are most familiar with Bea Arthur in "All In the Family" or "Maude" or "Golden Girls" she had a successful stage career and performed in the musicals "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mame". It's similar to Patricia Routledge." If they know her, it's from "Keeping Up Appearances" but she was also a trained singer who was in a number of musicals including "The Pirates of Penzance"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (IeCgc)

219 My desk light just dimmed and went out. I was afraid I'd just had a power outage. But my computer and other lights are okay. I guess it's the bulb in my desk light.

I hate to break into my little stash of non-LED lightbulbs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (wzUl9)

220 thought I remembered, so looked it up: Bea Arthur enlisted in the women's reserve of the Marines in WW ii, served as a typist then transferred to motor transport at Camp Lejeune. Drove trucks, honorably discharged post war as staff sergeant.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (enw9G)

221 Tune into his show to hear him talk about naming names for three hours straight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

You mean 2h 47' of hucking freeze dried beets at me and 13' of naming names. Feed your dog beets. Feed your cat beets. Feed the beets to the beets in your garden and get beets squared. BEETS!!!!

Posted by: Oh, just beet it. at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (06Hmj)

222 She asks the unemployed gladiator, "Did you kill this week? Did you *try* to kill this week?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She tells Mel Brooks, "Oh, a bullshitter"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (sWTsQ)

223 I think people are a bit more understanding when they know why we do things and why it's actually to help America.
It won't stop grifters from trying to muddle the margins, but honestly jumping into caracas to nab a dude begging to find out isn't a big deal.
Even bombing Iran, one night op to take care of business, while it upsets Tucker I don't think most people mind.
It's the 10-20 year ops, with no specific goals in mind and no measurement of success... those are a problem. Certain influencers are trying to make everything into that...

Posted by: Inogame at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (53oGX)

224 .
.
When CNN says that President Trumps NET approval rating is 85%, does that mean that his RAW approval rating is 92.5% and that his RAW disapproval rating is 7.5%. Just asking for a math nerd friend.

Posted by: Marooned at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (kt8QE)

225 Wake up Dave, she's always been an antagonist bitch
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Yeah. Bleeding out of her eyes, or wherever.

Posted by: Donnie two scoops at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (1VfZY)

226 $5 says that Scott Adams doesn't have cancer and the whole affair is a long troll on his part where he will reveal that it was all a ploy to prove his ability to persuade, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

227 Furthermore, JD Vance will never be elected again as long as he stays Tucker's friend. The sane voters have moved on.
Posted by: Decaf

Speaking of efforts to fracture the Right...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 06, 2026 03:54 PM (a+4eV)

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Tucker is the one who is fracturing the right.

Posted by: Decaf at January 06, 2026 04:13 PM (Z8jzG)

228 Tucker already had plenty of money.
They either have something on him
or he's lost his mind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:13 PM (xjSrh)

229 I think I recall that Bea Arthur was in the US Military during WW2, and she was a truck driver. But she was sensitive about it and didn't mention it much, I suppose she didn't think it was a very glamorous background. (actually makes me respect her a bit more)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2026 04:11 PM (uWKK

She might have thought it was taking credit from the combat forces, though logistics is important stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:13 PM (8avO+)

230 "Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge."

Mister, we can use a man like William Buckley again.

wait, wut?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:13 PM (0CU3H)

231 If billions were stolen, people need to be hung. peacefully.

No two ways about it.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (EyfuW)

232 Even though older people are most familiar with Bea Arthur in "All In the Family" or "Maude" or "Golden Girls" she had a successful stage career and performed in the musicals "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mame".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes, and I as I mentioned upthread, she was also in the original Fiddler on the Rood.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

233
I think I recall that Bea Arthur was in the US Military during WW2, and she was a truck driver. But she was sensitive about it and didn't mention it much, I suppose she didn't think it was a very glamorous background. (actually makes me respect her a bit more)
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Also, her medical record contained some rather embarrassing info, which came out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (px81g)

234 "I enjoy both Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly. Carlson interviews people you don't find on other podcasts and he lets them speak without interruption. Kelly brings a refreshing energy to the subject of the day and is never boring. I believe a lot of the haters never actually watch the podcasts they're most upset about. Bottom line is I'm confident enough in my own ability to process information that I don't need to purge every host who doesn't censor guests to the party line.
Posted by: jwest "

Accepted.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (aTgV0)

235 These are provocateurs. Black-pillers are not, they just firmly believe there is no hope of improvement. These provocateurs pitch that improvement is possible, just not until the reformers are all destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (avHHk)

Yes! And it has an additional malign effect of drowning out people who are generally supportive of the administration but have rational disagreements with some of its policies and actions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (n9ltV)

236 I recall reading that Bea Arthur was actually fairly conservative in real life, nothing like Maude. Bill Macy however was a raging lefty.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (1Gw7+)

237 $5 says that Scott Adams doesn't have cancer and the whole affair is a long troll on his part where he will reveal that it was all a ploy to prove his ability to persuade, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

Speaking of non cancers, Bidens stage 90 cancer is having a tough time taking him out, amirite?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

238 .
.
President Trump could make life MOAR blissful for me if he would declare January 6 a federal holiday.

Posted by: Marooned at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (kt8QE)

239 Local restaurant has great signs

https://tinyurl.com/3j25fut4

Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (Mjjx+)

240 224 .
.
When CNN says that President Trumps NET approval rating is 85%, does that mean that his RAW approval rating is 92.5% and that his RAW disapproval rating is 7.5%. Just asking for a math nerd friend.

Posted by: Marooned at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (kt8QE)

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Probably.

Trump having 90%+ approval from Republicans is kind of just standard response rates.

A Republican president has to fuck up really badly to get into the 80s outside of weird outliers. The last president to do that for the GOP was W post 2006.

Partisanship just leads to partisans supporting the leader until any defense becomes both pointless and untenable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

241 I'm just glad I don't listen to any of them.

Now, like and subscribe my YouTube channel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You need better mascara. Do that and have a weekly episode about Roger Corman and i will consider it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (HTCU3)

242 Also, her medical record contained some rather embarrassing info, which came out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (px81g)

She was a dude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (n9ltV)

243 Bea Arthur was a Marine truck driver during WW2. Somebody leaked her records that she was treated for STDs while in the service iirc.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (YwEeS)

244 Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

Yes, you did. Thanks. It amuses me that Patricia Routledge was such a terrible singer at Hyacinth when it reality she was quite an accomplished singer

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (IeCgc)

245 192 185 Oh FFS Bongino, name him. What was it all for if not to be freed of those constraints and name names?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (WHfpM)

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Tune into his show to hear him talk about naming names for three hours straight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

THIS. And this is why I don't trust anyone but AoSHQ.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (0CU3H)

246 241 I'm just glad I don't listen to any of them.

Now, like and subscribe my YouTube channel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You need better mascara. Do that and have a weekly episode about Roger Corman and i will consider it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (HTCU3)

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Do my baby blue eyes need to pop even more?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

247 Oops. Fiddler on the Roof.

"Fiddler on the Rood" would take it into Christian territory.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

248 When one leaps over the edge, as Tucker has, even the midlings recognize that his observations aren't rational.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (xjSrh)

249
I saw the Peace-At-Any-Price Pacifags open for the ChamberlainMaids at the Cow Palace in '79.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (Px5Fl)

250 "Good. I'm tired of being polite. I want a purge."

Mister, we can use a man like William Buckley again.

wait, wut?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:13 PM (0CU3H)

To my mind there was plenty of Bulwark in Buckley.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (8avO+)

251 I don't know if Arthur didn't talk about her service because she was embarrassed about it, or just didn't talk about it as many people didn't.
David Niven famously didn't talk about his service, because in his words the real heroes were the people who didn't come back.
Not that she served at his level, but lots of people served as they could, because that's what needed to be done.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (enw9G)

252 Is it just me or is Walz' daughter more based (from the left-wing FWIW) and more physically appealing than Chelsea Clinton?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (Dv3i1)

253 Speaking of non cancers, Bidens stage 90 cancer is having a tough time taking him out, amirite?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

Prostate cancers are often slow growing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (n9ltV)

254 LOL the Canadians should be concerned that Trump will take military action against them

https://instapundit.com/767434/

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (YwEeS)

255 I think Megyn Kelly sound rather reasonable to me. From past experience, these things can turn out rather poorly for US servicemen and our national interest. But Trump isn't Biden, Obama, or Bush, so expect it will work out much better. But I'm not bashing Kelly over her remarks, which seem prudent (paraphrasing GHWB).

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (XMwZJ)

256 218 Even though older people are most familiar with Bea Arthur in "All In the Family" or "Maude" or "Golden Girls" she had a successful stage career and performed in the musicals "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mame". It's similar to Patricia Routledge." If they know her, it's from "Keeping Up Appearances" but she was also a trained singer who was in a number of musicals including "The Pirates of Penzance"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (IeCgc)

There are two, and only two Auntie Mame's:
Rosalind Russell
Angela Lansbury

Fucking Bea Arthur ***shakes head***

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (3sXRv)

257 Holy smokes that's weird by TC. The people of Venezuela may be conservative, but a fucking communist narco government is not!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (n5tGW)

258 Only see one eye.
That's shady.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (xjSrh)

259 I think I recall that Bea Arthur was in the US Military during WW2, and she was a truck driver. But she was sensitive about it and didn't mention it much, I suppose she didn't think it was a very glamorous background. (actually makes me respect her a bit more)

The Queen of England served in the motor pool. It's a badge of honor.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

260 253 Speaking of non cancers, Bidens stage 90 cancer is having a tough time taking him out, amirite?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

Prostate cancers are often slow growing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (n9ltV)

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The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

261 President Trump Support by Country:
Costa Rica 87%
Chile 78%
Colombia 77%
Panama 76%
Peru 74%
Argentina 61%
Ecuador 60%
Uruguay 52%

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (sWTsQ)

262 252 Is it just me or is Walz' daughter more based (from the left-wing FWIW) and more physically appealing than Chelsea Clinton?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (Dv3i1

Not a very high bar there....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (VE6XX)

263
He has an ego, understandably so (one of the few in 2016 to predict Trump would handily win), but he was a huge proponent of the jab. And ridiculed anyone that was skeptical of the narrative we were fed as stupid.

Eff cancer with a rusty chainsaw. Prying for him and all the others who suffer in its horrible shadow.
Posted by: LizLem

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He keeps denying that he ever defended masks, which he did rigorously. Also claims he was always a skeptic about climate change, which also ain't true.

But as you say, Eff cancer with a rusty chainsaw. He's been incredibly humble and persistent in that battle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (px81g)

264 I said it at the time but I'll say it again:

Trump's Christmas Bonus speech--that all the respectable Republicans panned as too angry, too fast, too campaign--was not for them.
1) it was an announcement to the troops
2) it was a battle plan.

He laid out not just what he had done, but what he was going to do over the next year--the broad issues that he's going to force 2026 to be about.
As Rubio said, "when Trump says he's going do something, he's going to do it."
Why do people keep doubting him?
Go back and read the speech.
He's going to roll out wins and policies at a steady pace over the next 10 months.
Look at 2024, how he rolled out steady announcements and deft counters to keep the focus and energy on his side.
He is now even more powerful and more focused.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (HXT0k)

265 You mean 2h 47' of hucking freeze dried beets at me and 13' of naming names. Feed your dog beets. Feed your cat beets. Feed the beets to the beets in your garden and get beets squared. BEETS!!!!
Posted by: Oh, just beet it.
......

Don't forget Ozempic and Descovy.

Posted by: wth at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

266 I enjoy both Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly. Carlson interviews people you don't find on other podcasts and he lets them speak without interruption. Kelly brings a refreshing energy to the subject of the day and is never boring. I believe a lot of the haters never actually watch the podcasts they're most upset about. Bottom line is I'm confident enough in my own ability to process information that I don't need
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Ponders Jews and Gay Marriage.... Naw im confident enough in my own ability to find reasonable, intelligent sources of information without contributing to the generational wealth of grifters/nuts.

Posted by: Donnie two scoops at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (1VfZY)

267 155 143
So what now in Venezuela? There are armed factions that were in place during the Chavez-Maduro dictatorship, and they're still in place. Their revenue, and support from other countries has been cut. Their own people hate them. Make a deal?

Send Harris there and make them listen to her Cackling 24/7 and they will surrender in 1 hour...
Posted by: Jackson at January 06, 2026 03:56 PM (tFggl)

Genius move!

either the in-place regime cooperates or they get 'Governor Harris' administering the territory.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (QGaXH)

268
I see this being discussed a lot, even if oil goes down to like $45 a barrel, venezuela would still love to double or triple the amount of $45 barrels they pull out of the ground.

Posted by: Leupold

No. (not an expert but here is the history)

Back years ago, Venezuela was not considered a big player with big reserves because it cost too much to extract. I think it was Chavez that bitched about this, and said that his reserves were underreported because officially OPEC would not count them if they cost more than $50 a barrel to extract, and that was what Venezuela oil cost. (SIze of reserves was important for setting quotas in OPEC) When prices went up, suddenly Canada oil sand and Venezuela oil was worth extracting and suddenly they had massive reserves.

So at a low price, the oil is not worth even taking out of the ground. Now that changes over time with technology, capital costs, etc.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (3BEDb)

269 Yes, you did. Thanks. It amuses me that Patricia Routledge was such a terrible singer at Hyacinth when it reality she was quite an accomplished singer
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

"She'll sing at me!" LOL

Yes, she was. She was in some musical about the US Presidents where she played the role of every first lady.

Another accomplished singer was Mollie Sugden, Mrs. Slocumbe on Are You Being Served. She actually appeared in operas.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

270 Holy smokes that's weird by TC. The people of Venezuela may be conservative, but a fucking communist narco government is not!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

That's what happens when only one side has the guns.

PAY ATTENTION AMERICA!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (sWTsQ)

271 264 He is now even more powerful and more focused.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (HXT0k)

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False. He is a dumb doo-doo head who doesn't know anything and just gets lucky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

272 Heh, I clearly remember Archie ragging on her about how terrible FDR was and her losing her mind.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2026 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

But FDR was terrible, and, along with Wilson, was responsible for a lot of the real mistakes we’re still trying to unwind and repair. But try getting a Democrat to admit any of that, then or now, you might as well wait for a visit from the Blue Fairy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:19 PM (to48P)

273 " President Trump Support by Country:
Costa Rica 87%
Chile 78%
Colombia 77%
Panama 76%
Peru 74%
Argentina 61%
Ecuador 60%
Uruguay 52%
Posted by: rickb223 "

FUCK URUGUAY!!

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:19 PM (aTgV0)

274
By the way, is this news?

Corporation for Public Broadcasting SHUTS DOWN!

Formally dissolved now.

Will NPR and PBS survive the year?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (px81g)

275 Ace, please tell me you were NEVER a Democrat! But if you were, converts make the best foot soldiers.

Posted by: Kurtz at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (s8yAj)

276 I will say this...I enjoy that Megyn Kelly has started her own little media empire, signing on young gen z voices to have their own shows. Some of them are refreshing.

I enjoy Link Lauren, one of the people she signed. A gay conservative Draco Malfoy. He has Melania fashion updates, and after reading the whole description of her outfit (christian louboutin pumps to go with her NYE silver dress, I think he said on a recent ep), he'll joke that just saying that made him gayer. Very self deprecating. And I'm loving Maureen Callahan's deep dives into the psychology behind difficult parents, golden child vs scapegoat, othering family and how to survive the holidays with woke family, etc. And Kinsey's podcast too. Good hires!

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (Eng1Z)

277 256 218 Even though older people are most familiar with Bea Arthur in "All In the Family" or "Maude" or "Golden Girls" she had a successful stage career and performed in the musicals "The Threepenny Opera" and "Mame". It's similar to Patricia Routledge." If they know her, it's from "Keeping Up Appearances" but she was also a trained singer who was in a number of musicals including "The Pirates of Penzance"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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She was a very good singer. In a Golden Girls episode, a cocktail lounge scene, she sang What'll I do', surprised me.

A Marine too, I believe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (xjSrh)

278 There are two, and only two Auntie Mame's:
Rosalind Russell
Angela Lansbury

Fucking Bea Arthur ***shakes head***

Posted by: browndog

The worst Auntie Mame by far was Lucille Ball.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

279 Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (3sXRv)

Rosalind Russell was one of my favorite actresses. Every year we watch "The Trouble With Angels" because he comic timing is just great.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (IeCgc)

280 Doesn't Colombia have a commie president who just taunted Trump to come get him?

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (YwEeS)

281 TJM Scott is going down hill real fast as far as I read and see

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (Ia/+0)

282 275 Ace, please tell me you were NEVER a Democrat! But if you were, converts make the best foot soldiers.

Posted by: Kurtz at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (s8yAj)

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I was an Objectivist in high school.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

283 Bea Arthur was a Marine truck driver during WW2. Somebody leaked her records that she was treated for STDs while in the service iirc.
Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:15 PM (YwEeS)

Did she carry out the dead, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (8zz6B)

284 Why do people keep doubting him?
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Because they are still thinking about what politicians do. They forget im a CEO. We have a plan, a schedule, we finance it, staff it, and do it.

Posted by: Donnie two scoops at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (1VfZY)

285 LOL the Canadians should be concerned that Trump will take military action against them

https://instapundit.com/767434/
Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:16 PM (YwEeS)
++++
LOL K

Whatever. Even the people saying this know it's insane and stupid.

Now if Alberta secedes and the US recognizes the new republic and Ottawa sends the military? Maybe potential involvement then. Otherwise, nah. This is 'tarded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (avHHk)

286 I have yet to see Tucker, at least in his latest incarnation, interview someone who disagreed with him or challenged him. Let me know if I'm wrong. At least Piers Morgan does this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (WHfpM)

287 Tucker Carlson believes it’s a “distinct possibility” that the U.S. captured Maduro to *checks notes* “bring gay marriage to Venezuela.”

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BREAKING: Trump Packs Venezuelan Supreme Court With Former Justice Anthony Kennedy and His Eight Gay Lover Pool Boys. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (Px5Fl)

288 FDR actually did what the left imagines Trump will do, made himself president for life.

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (YwEeS)

289 Now if Alberta secedes and the US recognizes the new republic and Ottawa sends the military? Maybe potential involvement then. Otherwise, nah. This is 'tarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (avHHk)

What military?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (8avO+)

290
The worst Auntie Mame by far was Lucille Ball.
Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Yes.. Rosiland is Mame to me.. The others are pretenders ..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (VE6XX)

291 only podcast i've seen in months is Foxu News

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (Cjt/F)

292 There was another character actress from the '40s onward named Hope Emerson. Taller and more masculine than a lot of male actors, and yet funny as hell. She made any scene she was in take off. You can see her as Audie Murphy's "second-in-command" in his 1957 Western The Guns of Fort Petticoat, in which he trains a ragtag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (wzUl9)

293 "Will NPR and PBS survive the year?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia "

They can always run commercials for Carshield and St Jude. The Ad Council might throw some PSAs their way too.

Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (vFG9F)

294 264 I said it at the time but I'll say it again:

Trump's Christmas Bonus speech--that all the respectable Republicans panned as too angry, too fast, too campaign--was not for them.
1) it was an announcement to the troops
2) it was a battle plan.

He laid out not just what he had done, but what he was going to do over the next year--the broad issues that he's going to force 2026 to be about.
As Rubio said, "when Trump says he's going do something, he's going to do it."
Why do people keep doubting him?
Go back and read the speech.
He's going to roll out wins and policies at a steady pace over the next 10 months.
Look at 2024, how he rolled out steady announcements and deft counters to keep the focus and energy on his side.
He is now even more powerful and more focused.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (HXT0k)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I didn't have even a quantum of concern about the 2024 election. I might have even less concern than that about this one. The man has a plan, and he's executing on it. The other side has nothing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (0CU3H)

295 285 LOL K

Whatever. Even the people saying this know it's insane and stupid.

Now if Alberta secedes and the US recognizes the new republic and Ottawa sends the military? Maybe potential involvement then. Otherwise, nah. This is 'tarded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (avHHk)

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Unless their PM was not actually elected and is the head of an organization illegally smuggling illicit substances into the US.

Don't rush to say that it's impossible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

296 He's Goldfinger backwards.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (EyfuW)

297 By the way, is this news?

Corporation for Public Broadcasting SHUTS DOWN!

Formally dissolved now.

Will NPR and PBS survive the year?

Amazing, isn't it. We were told for decades that the NPR?PBS/CPB conglomerate only got a very small amount of its money from taxpayers, yet 6 months after they're cut off, they go away. A cynic might start to question their veracity.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

298 "Rosalind Russell was one of my favorite actresses. Every year we watch "The Trouble With Angels" because he comic timing is just great.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

She was "My Girl Friday"? I like that one.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (aTgV0)

299 Doesn't Colombia have a commie president who just taunted Trump to come get him?
Posted by: steevy

Problem is, AFAIK, he IS a legitimately elected leader.

Way dicier to go after him.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (sWTsQ)

300 What military?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (8avO+)
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Canada has armed forces. They've fought alongside us for over a century, often valiantly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (avHHk)

301 He keeps denying that he ever defended masks, which he did rigorously. Also claims he was always a skeptic about climate change, which also ain't true.

But as you say, Eff cancer with a rusty chainsaw. He's been incredibly humble and persistent in that battle.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 04:18 PM (px81g)

... and now converting to Christianity is Scott

***Spock eyebrow***

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (3sXRv)

302 Ousting Maduro had been unpopular -- up until the point that Delta Force conducted a miraculously successful armed extradition operation.

Strong Horse.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (jc0TO)

303 And Kinsey's podcast too. Good hires!
Posted by: LizLem
---

Please, don't let the Sirens pull you too far away.
Stay close.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (xjSrh)

304 254 LOL the Canadians should be concerned that Trump will take military action against them
_____

I saw a map of Canada from US Civil War era. Most of it between Ontario and BC was called "Rupert's Land". I did not know that. Let's retake that land and give it back to Rupert.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (Dv3i1)

305 Never be confident in your own cognitive processes.

Any talking format is by definition less dense in information than the written word. If you took an hour long program on tv, podcast, radio, etc, it would amount to about the front page of the New York Times in the number of words.

If you are not experienced in rhetoric, it is very easy for 'guests' to slip one by a person and even the host can subtly lead people to the desired result.

These programs are designed to make people think they are clever (see the Dr. Fox effect for example) and by chumming a few facts without much context, the listener makes the conclusion that the host want you to make and voila--easy to form an initial impression that is hard to rebut later.

I spent a fair amount of time around trial lawyers and training yutes in the dark arts because of what I taught. And the oral tradition in the English legal world, is narrative setting of putting facts in such a frame via witnesses and evidence so that the jury is led to the conclusions you want them to make.

The only fly in the ointment is that the opposing side gets their licks in too. Few media programs allow such to be presented.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (WDjG6)

306 187 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)

Thank You Mr Mannix!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (QGaXH)

307 297 Amazing, isn't it. We were told for decades that the NPR?PBS/CPB conglomerate only got a very small amount of its money from taxpayers, yet 6 months after they're cut off, they go away. A cynic might start to question their veracity.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

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As long as you still believe that waste and fraud in Medicaid spending is no more than 5%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

308 Arthur was Vera in the Lucille Ball Mame.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (enw9G)

309 After we clean up the Somali scams in various states, Trump needs to take a look at the fraud being perpetrated by our veterans. 30% of veterans are on disability and that number goes to 40% with younger veterans. I'm all for disability pay for those actually injured, but this is ridiculous.

Posted by: jwest at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (lnMN4)

310 187 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)

Follow on thought - AoS - come for the cruelty, stay for the bewbs....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (QGaXH)

311 The best Professor Higgins was Leslie Howard.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (aTgV0)

312 Unless their PM was not actually elected and is the head of an organization illegally smuggling illicit substances into the US.

Don't rush to say that it's impossible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

He is half Cuban.

Posted by: Cuba Libr-eh? at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (06Hmj)

313 Oh, Bongino is going to 'blast' Black Pilled peeps?
Yeah, that sounds effective. Much more so than being a high ranking executive in the FBI.

Pound sand, weak sister.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

314 201 Pondering.

Did UK know about this months ago, and is that why they made a statement (Nov? Dec?) saying they would no longer share intelligence with the USA in the Carribean?

IE, was keir starmer positioning the UK to disclaim any responsibility for this? Because he is a weak fag who thought it would fail.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026 04:09 PM (3BEDb)
___________________________________

The whole "refusal to share intelligence was an effort to curb Trump's focus there (Venezuela). The EU and the UK have been courting Canada to diversify away from the US (especially with Heavy Crude). Venezuela's Heavy crude is remarkably similar to Canadas, and opening that market shoots down the UK/EU efforts if it floods the market and lowers the price. It was an empty threat.

Additionally, the UK and the EU are falling all over themselves trying to become relevant in the Russia/Ukraine peace deal. Trump cut them out of the process unequivocally, and since they have been trying to sabotage the process by influencing Zelenskyy. The US just circumvented Russia's Energy deal with Venezuela... and now Trump has negotiation ammo with Russia.

Posted by: Orson at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (dIske)

315 What military?
Posted by: Oldcat

Well, they might start with the 401 Maple Syrup Brigade followed by the 7D of the Backbaconeers. Though they might mix in some of the offensive lineup of the 'Leafs.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (mlg/3)

316 Not all oil is worth the same - Venezuela has thick sour crude. Only America is good at getting this stuff out and refining it.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 06, 2026 03:51 PM (s/0Zp)
++++
China refines it quite well. They get an awful lot of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (0U5gm)

317 Rosalind Russell was one of my favorite actresses. Every year we watch "The Trouble With Angels" because he comic timing is just great.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Her best role, I think, was as the mother in Gypsy.

But I've read that she was really jealous of the younger and more beautiful Natalie Wood.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

318 Hmmm. Wouldn't Neville Chamberlain be a more noted and historic pacifag?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (zZu0s)

319 The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (n9ltV)

320 One of Bongino's first targets was Matt Gaetz and he was not pulling punches. Brutal.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (viF8m)

321 Prince Rupert's Land.

A gift from the King of England to some Prussian fop.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (aTgV0)

322 319 The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (n9ltV)

======

Will they be able to use his death as an excuse to shit on Trump for a week?

They did it with Cheney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

323 319 The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (n9ltV)

They're going to make him a literal scapegoat and try to bury their sins with him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

324 Oh, right, that little bastard Castreaux got replaced by some other pud. Little pasty interchangeable-part apparatchik sort. What's his name.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (06Hmj)

325 I saw a map of Canada from US Civil War era. Most of it between Ontario and BC was called "Rupert's Land". I did not know that. Let's retake that land and give it back to Rupert.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (Dv3i1)
++++
We had an invasion plan for Canada, in case we ended up at war with Britain and had to conquer Canada - and do it fast - to both prevent it from supplying the British enemy and acting as an invasion route for the British enemy.

It was "War Plan Red" and at the time, it was hyper-detailed, like "which roads will we take on our invasion route" detailed. Not because we wanted to conquer Canada as such, but because Canada *must* be taken from the British and removed from her empire if we were fighting Britain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (avHHk)

326 >>> Ace, please tell me you were NEVER a Democrat! But if you were, converts make the best foot soldiers.

Those are honestly some of my favorite conservative podcasts, ex libs. The real deals are very happy converts to the conservative side, and are able to understand the liberal Borg hivemind they escaped from, and interpret news from both lenses. But it's hard to tell who is authentic and who is grifting on conservative inc. sometimes.

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (Eng1Z)

327 320 One of Bongino's first targets was Matt Gaetz and he was not pulling punches. Brutal.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (viF8m)

======

Two influencers bitching at each other.

Don't care.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

328 The U.S. Postal Service has 42,000 employees. 41,800 of these employees self identify as having a disability.

Posted by: jwest at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (lnMN4)

329 115 Is the left using floating integers in their polling calculations?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 06, 2026 03:49 PM (iMotb)

Black integers can't float because of white people's expectations!

Posted by: Michelle Obama at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (2Axwl)

330 Carney I think

Posted by: steevy at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (YwEeS)

331 Arthur was Vera in the Lucille Ball Mame.
Posted by: barbarausa

I had forgotten that. And Robert Preston was the oilman husband.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

332 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)

Face obscured again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (qDCnE)

333 Now if Alberta secedes and the US recognizes the new republic and Ottawa sends the military? Maybe potential involvement then. Otherwise, nah. This is 'tarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (avHHk)

What military?
Posted by: Oldcat

Canadian Military
68,000 active personnel
27 000 reservists

604,005 hunting licenses sold in Michigan alone.

Dear Michiganders, we've opened up more hunting land north.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (sWTsQ)

334 What military?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:21 PM (8avO+)
++++
Canada has armed forces. They've fought alongside us for over a century, often valiantly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:22 PM (avHHk)

I think you mean 'had' there. And the US took responsibility for defending Canada even before it entered WWII. Canada has since gutted its military.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (8avO+)

335 ++++
Canada has armed forces. They've fought alongside us for over a century, often valiantly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
----

Their snipers, in the sand box, were so successful the faggot bureaucrats brought
them home. Canada's military personnel are
good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (xjSrh)

336 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (0U5gm)
++++
"Underutilized" might be putting it mildly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (avHHk)

337 Also, I think we are making Tucker and candy ... hate objects. I am not saying g they have not earned it, but there is an edge here which isn't present with peeps like Jonah or David French. We can do our cuck routines on them, have a good laugh and be done. Maybe the sting of betrayal is too fresh, but we need to get to mocking them rather than giving them the two minute hate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

338 Wait is the PBS newshour dead? All things considered? Where will i go for pomposity, smugness and propaganda???

Oh, wait, Quatarelson....

Posted by: Donnie two scoops at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (1VfZY)

339 Heh. I just saw Michelle Bachmann hawking Carshield on MeTV. What a loser.

Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (vFG9F)

340 If Carlson isn't trolling with this latest babbling, than he's lost his marbles.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (ScJGb)

341 Canadian Military
68,000 active personnel
27 000 reservists

604,005 hunting licenses sold in Michigan alone.

Dear Michiganders, we've opened up more hunting land north.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:26 PM (sWTsQ)

How many of those are enlisted men and not rear area admirals and generals?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (8avO+)

342 The best Professor Higgins was Leslie Howard.
Posted by: eleven

For the Shaw play, yes.

No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)

343 319 The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:25 PM (n9ltV)

You don't have to wait that long. The Biden Presidential Library is projected to raise $19 million by 2027. There will never be a standalone library for that Resident. Biden would be lucky to have UPenn or UDelaware cordon off a couple of floors in a building for it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (0CU3H)

344 In re Trump laying out a battle plan: check out this link I got from daybydaycartoon.com:

http://alturl.com/B7HGY

Go read that and see if you think Trump isn’t ready for some major power moves to rescue the Republic.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (to48P)

345 311 The best Professor Higgins was Leslie Howard.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (aTgV0)

Dame Wendy as Eliza ... quirky but compelling

Posted by: browndog with the zooomies at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (3sXRv)

346 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (0U5gm)

That makes me smile.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (n9ltV)

347 310 187 This busty bikini brunette is glad that the beach vendors sell ice cream and hot dogs instead of black pills:
http://tiny.cc/x8ax001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:06 PM (avHHk)

Follow on thought - AoS - come for the cruelty, stay for the bewbs....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (QGaXH)

This is the way.
And those are big boobs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

348 I'd rather listen to two hours of Matt Taibi on America This Week than 2 minutes of Tucker or Megan Kelly, not because I'm aligned to his positions, but because his positions are based on his honest beliefs.
I've grown to despise a good portion of the "Influencers" on the notional Right that weirdly really went off the rails after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Was he some kind of craziness/fraud control rod that was keeping it all from melting down?

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (xaNfJ)

349 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (0U5gm)
++++
"Underutilized" might be putting it mildly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (avHHk)

We can rent them if the rates are right.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (8avO+)

350 Also, I think we are making Tucker and candy ... hate objects.
----------
To me, they're more indifference objects than hate objects.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (qbLEp)

351 When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.

If fundraising for his "library" is any indication, they've already forgotten him. As was said above, they'll resurrect him as a scapegoat when they need one.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

352 343 You don't have to wait that long. The Biden Presidential Library is projected to raise $19 million by 2027. There will never be a standalone library for that Resident. Biden would be lucky to have UPenn or UDelaware cordon off a couple of floors in a building for it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (0CU3H)

========

I think Trump should claim the $50 million reward for Maduro's capture and then donate it to the Biden Presidential library with the understanding that they call it the Autopen Presidential Library.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

353 I think both PBS and NPR will survive, which will be the part most irksome, they always could without tax dollars but they were just suckers off the govt teat just like all lefties.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (n5tGW)

354 >>China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.

Not necessarily. Trump said he would be happy to sell China oil. On our terms.

Guess who is going to control the Panama Canal going forward?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (viF8m)

355 Dame Wendy as Eliza ... quirky but compelling
Posted by: browndog

Oh, Wendy Hiller was enchanting AND hawt in that. BWB.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

356 292 There was another character actress from the '40s onward named Hope Emerson. Taller and more masculine than a lot of male actors, and yet funny as hell. She made any scene she was in take off. You can see her as Audie Murphy's "second-in-command" in his 1957 Western The Guns of Fort Petticoat, in which he trains a ragtag band of all-female homesteaders to defend themselves against a Comanche tribe on the warpath.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THis !!!! She is one of my favs but no one seem to know her.
My favorite is her role as the nurse in Cry of the City. That is a great movie, and that scene with the doors is so great.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (3BEDb)

357 No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.

He was very good for a man in a musical who can’t sing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (to48P)

358 I've grown to despise a good portion of the "Influencers" on the notional Right that weirdly really went off the rails after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Was he some kind of craziness/fraud control rod that was keeping it all from melting down?
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (xaNfJ)

Just jockeying for position in a world where being an honest right wing fellow is fatal.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:30 PM (8avO+)

359 Also, I think we are making Tucker and candy ... hate objects. I am not saying g they have not earned it, but there is an edge here which isn't present with peeps like Jonah or David French. We can do our cuck routines on them, have a good laugh and be done. Maybe the sting of betrayal is too fresh, but we need to get to mocking them rather than giving them the two minute hate.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The betrayal by both is old news and scar tissue is there. Me Again and Cucker have turned rather recently. If others want to watch them, go ahead, if people like me want to mock them, we will.

I don't care who watches, their podcast sponsors, or their hot takes. I've seen enough of both over time to know that I don't care what they think much, they aren't great thinkers, and they will turn on a dime to backstab the positions they just held if the wind changes.

Opportunists, I have no use for.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:30 PM (WDjG6)

360 Ace has been on fire today. What posts! Happy Jan 6 to the horde.

Truth of the year so far: "Leftwingers routinely kill their children and the ones they don't kill they derange into monsters."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2026 04:30 PM (IGqCS)

361 339 Heh. I just saw Michelle Bachmann hawking Carshield on MeTV. What a loser.
Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (vFG9F)

Michelle Obama married Randy Bachmann?

Posted by: Boy, these edibles are good at January 06, 2026 04:30 PM (2Axwl)

362 I don't have the patience for podcasts and don't watch any. That said, I watched about 2 seconds of Megyn and Cucker, Ace, my love.

My messages to them:
1) Megyn, do something else with your hair. It looks weird and is not flattering at all.Sort of a slicked down almost layered mullet? I don't know what to call it! Plus, I don't like you...again. I had gotten over this after the debate in 2016, but here we are again!

2)Cucker: I barely heard a word in the 2 seconds as I stared at your frown. Scowl eyes under furrowed brow. You just look stupid and there is no cure for this. Also, not being a shrink, I am betting you have latent homo tendencies to be so laser focused on the issue. Go ahead and wear your bowtie again as it is obvious you bat for the other side.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (WONhk)

363 The slow blade penetrates the shield.

The chair is against the wall.
Snoopy loves his doghouse.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (sWTsQ)

364 >>> Please, don't let the Sirens pull you too far away.
Stay close. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:23 PM (xjSrh)

Never! I have to do them all on rotation, they each have their own schtick or verbal tics, and I can't do it constantly.

The only two media places I always trust to tell it to me straight and who I never tire of are Ace, and the late great Rush (AM not FM.) Everyone else is peripheral.

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (Eng1Z)

365 Not necessarily. Trump said he would be happy to sell China oil. On our terms. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (viF8m)
++++
Which in all likelihood simply means "at market rate."

China wasn't counting on market rate, she was counting on dirt cheap, or free (dirt cheap if everything works, free if Venezuela defaulted and China demanded oil as security in lieu of payment).

China can keep her heavy refineries full, but the economics might not make sense absent the imperial play.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (avHHk)

366 Rex Harrison had Audrey Hepburn tho.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (aTgV0)

367 For a brief moment in time, Ace was on Team Hillary.

It was a cute little tantrum. Nothing serious.

Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (ddphe)

368 He was very good for a man in a musical who can’t sing.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacess

But his sense of rhythm was great. And his performance inspired Burton to take the role of Arthur in Camelot.

Rex' non-singing was the perfect counterpoint to Julie's coloratura soprano.

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (77rzZ)

369 357 No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.

He was very good for a man in a musical who can’t sing.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (to48P)

Piker

Posted by: Richard "King Arthur" Burton at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (3sXRv)

370 thx, Nemo, I've been meaning to check that out.

plausible. we can only hope!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2026 04:32 PM (Cjt/F)

371 No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.
Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)
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In his autobiography, Harrison wrote that Fritz Loewe told him he had a range of one and a half notes, but they would work with that. By opening night, Harrison opined that his range had expanded to three notes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 06, 2026 04:32 PM (qbLEp)

372 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
-------

There are six in the US. They are all on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (xjSrh)

373 When Biden dies, we will discover just how loved by the Dems he was.

My prediction is that they will forget him five minutes after the first shovelful of dirt hits his coffin.

-----------

If he died chained to a basement radiator and was missing for a year, would anybody make a sound?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (Px5Fl)

374 Rex Harrison had Audrey Hepburn tho.
Posted by: eleven

What do you mean by "had?" Is this a reference to "Sexy Rexy?"

Posted by: Bulg at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

375 $5 says that Scott Adams doesn't have cancer and the whole affair is a long troll on his part where he will reveal that it was all a ploy to prove his ability to persuade, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 06, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

Speaking of non cancers, Bidens stage 90 cancer is having a tough time taking him out, amirite?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Andy Kaufman at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (iJfKG)

376 346 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 04:24 PM (0U5gm)

That makes me smile.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2026 04:28 PM (n9ltV)

Taiwan can actually sleep a little more soundly with that news. If the CCP were to invade Taiwan, they would have had to contend with an oil boycott that a relationship with VZ would have weakened to a very large extent.

Trump could be pulling off the foreign policy equivalent of the "Greek Church" 4-6-7-9-10 split in bowling.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (0CU3H)

377 >>> 354 China built refineries specifically for Venezuelan crude, that are going to be underutilized now.
==
Not necessarily. Trump said he would be happy to sell China oil. On our terms.

Guess who is going to control the Panama Canal going forward?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (viF8m)

https://shorturl.at/6caME

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (ULPxl)

378 Nood. Germany.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

379 We’re celebrating 38% approval?
Errrr what?

Posted by: Really?? at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (Q/qJ3)

380 All our allies have elite troops comparable to our own, well, I don't know about Germany but, all the other's do.

What they don't have are armies.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (jc0TO)

381 I think both PBS and NPR will survive

Fine by me, as long as they aren't getting any of my money without my permission.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

382 For a brief moment in time, Ace was on Team Hillary.

It was a cute little tantrum. Nothing serious.
Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (ddphe)
=================
She offered him a room full of pre-built shelves, and everyone has a price.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (IGqCS)

383 Also, I think we are making Tucker and candy ... hate objects.

I don’t know about Tucker, but I love candy, all kinds! I’ve always had a sweet tooth.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (to48P)

384 For a brief moment in time, Ace was on Team Hillary.

It was a cute little tantrum. Nothing serious.
Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (ddphe

The sex was not THAT good.

She used him. He woke up in shame and confusion. Carrying his sandals in his hand as he walked home...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (zZu0s)

385 Maybe the sting of betrayal is too fresh, but we need to get to mocking them rather than giving them the two minute hate.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

People get paid to be attention-gatheringly wrong on purpose all the time.

When they do it to try and make *me* look bad by association, and discredit the movement that I support which is finally getting some actual momentum for the first time in my own living memory, I get a little tetchy about it.

If they quit Just Asking Questions and started Saying Shit That Has Actually Happened, maybe I'd consider them the same way I do every other babbling jackass newsface on the internet.

But this sick op to keep cramming the "Trump's an antisemite" thing into our timeline is getting tiresome, and the lengths they're going to now to get there is just plain unseemly.

I make no apologies. That's just my feelings on the subject.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (06Hmj)

386 369 357 No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.

He was very good for a man in a musical who can’t sing.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (to48P)

Piker
Posted by: Richard "King Arthur" Burton at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (3sXRv)

Heh!

Posted by: David Lee Roth at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (0CU3H)

387 357 No one can top Rex Harrison in the musical version.

He was very good for a man in a musical who can’t sing.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 04:29 PM (to48P)

Piker
Posted by: Richard "King Arthur" Burton at January 06, 2026 04:31 PM (3sXRv)

What, no Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin in "Paint your Wagon"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:34 PM (8avO+)

388 358 I've grown to despise a good portion of the "Influencers" on the notional Right that weirdly really went off the rails after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Was he some kind of craziness/fraud control rod that was keeping it all from melting down?
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers

Just jockeying for position in a world where being an honest right wing fellow is fatal.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Good points. It is also that outrage is always fresh because you can aim at new targets every day including your putative side because they lack principles, lack motivation, lack implementation.

Sidewalk supervisors is the correct term. They build nothing, risk nothing, but sure talk a lot just axing questions.

That is the reason I prefer print over video/listening podcasts.

Worst research assistant assignment I ever had for a prof was transcribing his recorded interviews with CIA directors.

I wanted to scream at them on the tape just for them to get to the frigging point and do it fast so I could write it down.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:35 PM (WDjG6)

389 BREAKING: The adopted son of Ronald Reagan -- conservative talk radio show host Michael Reagan -- has passed away at the age of 80.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 04:35 PM (Px5Fl)

390 >>Which in all likelihood simply means "at market rate."

Doubt it. Trump has been clear since the campaign that he wants to reinstitute the Monroe Doctrine and he wants China and other bad players out of the Western Hemisphere and no place has he been more clear about that than the Panama Canal.

China has been slowly taking control of the Canal which is crazy. The oil might be priced at market rates but there will be long strings attached.

Might even attach some Fentanyl strings as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2026 04:35 PM (viF8m)

391 Cancer can be funny if your approach is the right one...

Posted by: Norm Mcdonald at January 06, 2026 04:35 PM (Bo9Yf)

392 Rex Harrison - Prof Henry Higgins

Yul Bryner - King Of Siam

Who owned / owns the role?

Posted by: browndog on Broadway at January 06, 2026 04:35 PM (3sXRv)

393 Speaking of non cancers, Bidens stage 90 cancer is having a tough time taking him out, amirite?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Andy Kaufman
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I had a sister that faked brain tumor with 6 months to live.
I sill am in awe at how short sighted that is.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 06, 2026 04:36 PM (3BEDb)

394 If Trump is going to use VZ oil as a play it will be to separate Russia and China primarily and India on the tertiary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 06, 2026 04:36 PM (xjSrh)

395 NOOD

klantifa in krautland

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 06, 2026 04:36 PM (ULPxl)

396 382 For a brief moment in time, Ace was on Team Hillary.

It was a cute little tantrum. Nothing serious.
Posted by: garrett
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No man sees the Venus flytrap of Killary and does not commit suicide like Vince Foster. Only a committed jihadi has the stomach for it like Huma.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:36 PM (WDjG6)

397 Demons rage because Jesus isn't a democrat.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 06, 2026 04:37 PM (EyfuW)

398 BREAKING: The adopted son of Ronald Reagan -- conservative talk radio show host Michael Reagan -- has passed away at the age of 80.

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R.I.P.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 06, 2026 04:37 PM (Px5Fl)

399 BREAKING: The adopted son of Ronald Reagan -- conservative talk radio show host Michael Reagan -- has passed away at the age of 80.
Posted by: ShainS
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Back in the day, I liked Mike Reagan who was refreshingly open and honest compared with his sullen siblings. But he was adopted I think.

Posted by: whig at January 06, 2026 04:38 PM (WDjG6)

400 >>> Taiwan can actually sleep a little more soundly with that news.

My retired navy husband thinks Trump is using the Venezuela news to distract the world (and especially China) from the fact that we are loading Taiwan up with defenses in case China invades them. Lots of war games and tests being performed in the Pacific. It's like diverting the eye of Sauron so that Frodo and Sam can get the ring to Mordor.

Like the left champions...never let a crisis go to waste! Nice to think it's out side for once with the advantage.

Posted by: LizLem at January 06, 2026 04:39 PM (Eng1Z)

401 356 292 There was another character actress from the '40s onward named Hope Emerson. Taller and more masculine than a lot of male actors, and yet funny as hell. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THis !!!! She is one of my favs but no one seem to know her.
My favorite is her role as the nurse in Cry of the City. That is a great movie, and that scene with the doors is so great.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at January 06, 2026

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She's striking in any role I've seen her in. I'll have to look for Cry of the City.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:42 PM (wzUl9)

402 And Cry of the City is on YooToob!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

403 Noodus: antifa in Germany

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)

404 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

It's a short role, so I don't want to oversell it, but she made the movie.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 06, 2026 04:46 PM (3BEDb)

405 Yeah, Rosalind Russell was the quintessential Auntie Mame. That was a great movie.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 06, 2026 04:47 PM (XMwZJ)

406 Has anyone ever asked Megyn Kelly about her on-air fellating of James "Comet Ping Pong" Alefantis back in 2016?

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2026 04:47 PM (CIngQ)

407 I just researched this Berlin sabotage story. The facility that was attacked is a "power and heat" facility but the saboteurs claim they only sabotaged the power portion.

The "heat" here means a "district heating" system, where a central facility supplies heat (by pumping heated water, or in older systems by sending steam). Say you have a giant coal power plant to make electricity: it's a double win if you collect heat from that and people can heat their homes with the heat, instead of using electricity for the heat.

District heating is rare in the US but does exist in places like New York City.

I learned about district heating when I saw news stories about new "sand batteries" which store heat rather than electricity. Make a big insulated container, put heating elements into it, and fill it with sand. When the wind is blowing and power is really cheap, run the heating elements. Then when it's cold use this as a heat source for district heating.

Posted by: mr_jack at January 06, 2026 06:41 PM (LNPSJ)

408 I'm not so harsh on Kelly. I'm OK with her not immediately climbing on the bandwagon, and saying essentially "This smells like regime change, and that's turned out to be a fiasco most of the time." I actually kind of respect it.

My criticism is that it sounds like she wants to see whether it goes well before she says she's OK with it. Why even voice an opinion if it's going to be so far after the fact? She's just essentially taking both sides, so she can say "I was right", no matter what happens.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 06, 2026 06:50 PM (hOOi9)

409 Looks like the resident retard needs some fact checking. I'll start it:
Massie's Position
Massie explicitly acknowledges the nationalization/expropriation in recent posts amid U.S. actions against Venezuela (e.g., strikes, Maduro's capture, and oil access discussions):
He states: "Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government."
He refers to "projects by Oil Companies that were nationalized by the government of Venezuela two decades ago" (pointing to the 2007 events).
In response to claims of "stolen" oil property, he argues: "It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil," emphasizing that the underlying resource belongs to Venezuela, and U.S. military involvement risks soldiers' lives primarily to benefit private oil companies seeking compensation or new deals—not the American public.
Massie criticizes U.S. intervention as prioritizing oil company profits and regime change over "America First" principles, but he does not dispute the historical seizures of U.S.-invested assets and equipment. His focus is on opposing military action to "make those oil companies whole again."

Posted by: MikeN at January 06, 2026 06:56 PM (so11O)

410 Don't listen to the resident retard.Watch Carlson's interview of Certivich.
https://youtu.be/2ZpFleCCTew?si=eMr49cFxlw9ZTAOl

Ace is so out of step it's hilarious. Sort of like back in 2025-16 when he was banning Trump supporters with his limp dick "ban hammer".

Posted by: MikeN at January 06, 2026 07:02 PM (so11O)

411 You know, I just don't read things the same way, Ace and that is okay. This infighting between all the 'powers' needs to stop because... it isn't working. Tuca and Megyn - we don't always agree - but they are forwarding a good America First message. Candace? God bless her for her 1st amendment rights we defended. Doesn't mean we agree with her. Same with all of them.

The whole point of all of you, I, and all this shit is to fracture populism; it has been the game since the CIA's inception. All the folks you might be tight with in Sodom on Potomac are prolly compromised.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 06, 2026 08:32 PM (iXm17)

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